Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Which Famous Person Have You Sat Next To?

Episode Date: September 24, 2021

Kia ora e te whānau! A lucky TV host from the Today show in America coincidentally sat next to Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper at the US open, so we threw it out there to see if any of you guys had sat next to a celebrity. Whether it was on a plane, at an event, or anywhere else! And we had Dani Robinson on who has maaaany tales of sitting next to celebrities! As well as this, we talked about talented dogs and were joined by dog trainer Mark Vette, who has taught dogs to fly a plane and drive a car. Legit! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora Friday the 24th of September, Benjamin Boyce, come on down. Good morning, welcome to the podcast, it's good to be here. How you going? I notice your hair's getting a bit hipp to the podcast. It's good to be here. I notice your hair's getting a bit hippie-ish.

It's been quite long. It's the longest I've ever seen your hair. It's probably the longest I've had my hair in a long time. Because, yeah, I haven't been able to cut my hair because of lockdown. You look like a cast member from Beverly Hills 90210 in the 90s. It looks good. It suits you. You should grow it long.

Grow it long. You know, the thing is with growing your hair long, you've got to go through an awkward stage. Don't get awkward about me. He's always sensitive to my... No, because I know that it's a go-to for me, and I'm sorry. I'm sorry it is. It's a fallback option. I give you grief about it. It's a safe option, though.

You know you're guaranteed a smile or a chuckle if you mock my workplace bully in my bald head. Yeah, but that's not the intention of this right now. I brought it up. I front-footed, you know. Phil, if you mock my workplace, bully my bald head. Yeah, but that's not the intention of this right now. I brought it up. I front footed, you know. Yeah, but I started talking about, you know when you want to grow your hair long and then I looked at you and I was like, oh. Yeah, but you're like, oh, no, I don't want to make a thing. But now you've made it a thing.

I've made it a thing. You know, now I am awkward. No, but so I reckon you keep growing it. Yeah, well, I'm probably getting through that awkward stage at the moment, just, you know, fighting through it. But I don't know what, I need to grow it with something in mind. Grow it long like a rock star. at the moment. Just getting my foot in through it. But I don't know what, I need to grow up with something in mind. Grow long like a rock star.

Yeah, like Dave Grohl is sort of in his 50s now but he still looks cool because he's got long hair. Be one of those guys. Do you reckon I'm going to be? I don't know if I am or not. Give us the cred we need.

Yeah, is that what we need? We do need the cred. We need long hair, Ben. Do it for the team. Do it for the brand. If the team need it. Be like,

who's the ball going? Who's that mysterious long haired guy? The luscious locks. You could be like an advertising exec or something. Yeah, like a... Because you can ponytail it. Grow it long, please.

I need something in mind. I'll try and see whatever I've got left and I'll try and grow those few strands out as well. It's been a while now because almost six weeks it will be next week right, in lockdown for Auckland and then before that because I go on a sort of three-week, four-week cycle. That's your rotation. And I was just booked in before lockdown.

So it'll be like close to 10 weeks. So you're right, a long time. You know, because the barbers, hairdressers, are going to be severely under the pump as soon as we drop to. When can they operate? Level one? I think they can do level two. Level two with masks and stuff.

Yeah, right. And they are just going to be inundated, aren't they? Yeah. And I remember last time, the barbers, I'd drive past and be like, this is why I'm bald. I'd drive past a barber, there'd be a line five kilometres long outside the door.

Do you cut it yourself, your hair? I do, yeah. You know I do, because I always miss the back of my head, the patches. But no one in your house does it? I just i do yeah yeah you know i do because i always miss the backs of the back of my head the patches yeah but no one in your house does it you just you i just do it yeah i just do it all i feel and uh that's a huge mistake many times because i end up with clumps of hair around the bed what number blade are you using i've gone yeah i've got a number uh one oh yeah yeah i got a number one i did a zero once and i turned up It was actually the very first television show we hosted together. That was a zero, right? Yeah, it was.

I was like, I'm going to go home, have a little shower, you know, freshen up for the program. Yeah, we were all quite nervous about the TV show, John O'Bend. It was like starting tonight. You're like, all right, you go home. We'll meet back here later on. We're all good to go. We're all prepared. Don't go changing.

I turned, and I went home, and I shaved my head to a zero I felt like you'd Raised it Full egghead And there's still a photo that Circulates around on your phone We should put it on our social media I look disturbing

It's almost like a Have you seen this man situation He's wanted and associated for. Makeup under the lights. But then they just kept makeup over your whole heads. I remember that movie, The Coneheads. I look like the cousin of the Coneheads. It was full skin, wasn't it?

I remember you turned around and everyone went, oh, okay. He's gone, is that a cap he's put on over his no that's oh okay but no one said anything to my face now years later years later Jordan who's Hal's dad

who used to work on our show when it first started he actually had the photo he had taken the photo he loves that photo he gets every six months he'll text it to me

he'll be like remember this and it is well no one said anything we were going to knock your confidence hours before the show started. But everyone whispered like, you're back. We have to get that photo now for the podcast audience.

We'll put it on. Have you still got it? You'll still have it for comedic purposes, won't you? And I'm in like a t-shirt and a black blazer as well. I look like a t-shirt blazer, and a big shaved bald noggin, ready to develop the snot out of some properties, rip off some elderly. So good. Hey, today on the podcast, really interesting, we spoke to someone who had sat next to some

really famous people, James Brown, Victoria Beckham, and had a quite awkward interaction with Lindsay Lohan. Yes, you confused Lindsay Lohan for someone she went to school with. Doesn't get more awkward when you do that with someone, does it? So, yeah, that's on the podcast. Fun show today. Enjoy it. Have a great weekend.

We'll catch you Monday. Now, the US Open tennis final in New York was happening last week, and there was a whole lot of wonderful, sorry to interrupt, that 18-year-old Emma. She was crazy. Anyway, I don't know why I interrupted for-old Emma. She was crazy. Anyway, I don't know why I interrupted for that. No, it was awesome. And there's a whole lot of famous people that went and saw the men's and women's finals at the US Open.

And one of the hosts of the Today Show in America, which I guess is kind of like the equivalent of breakfast TV here in New Zealand. So she went along. She went along to the final, and she found out that her seats, when she went to sit down, were next to, get this, Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper. Oh, now that's a Brad sandwich you'd want to be in between, isn't it? You always want not next to them, you want to be sitting in between them, don't you? Yeah, so her and her friend.

Awkwardly, were they like, hey, I think that might be a. Oh, sorry, I thought it was. Check the tickets. Oh, no, I went over. Oh, sorry, my bad. Yeah, so Check the tickets. Oh, no. I went over. Sorry. My bad. Yeah, so her and her friend were sitting next to them,

and they've gone all over the internet because they're sitting next to Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper, and she talked about it on the Today Show. This isn't even a real picture. I just photoshopped myself in. There was a trophy for good seats. We had them, don't you think? You guys definitely did. And three M&Ms.

They had? I like it. See, you're trying to play it cool with Brad. I could tell you. I wasn't very cool. I was. I was trying to give him space. Although, hold it.

I mean, Jenna made you switch so she could sit next to you. Of course she did. Oh, Jenna horned in on my seat later. Yeah, she did. Of course she had to. So apparently her mate, when they went to the bathroom at some stage, when she came back, she sort of went, you know how you walk back and go, oh, no, that was my seat next to Brad Pitt.

So she horned in on her seat? I've never heard that terminology before. Oh, she horn of went, you know how you walk back and go, oh no, that was my seat next to Brad Pitt. So she horned in on her seat. I've never heard that terminology before. Oh, she horned in on it. I bet she did. But I'm looking at the photo now, I've just Googled it, and Brad Pitt, he's in like a big white bucket hat with some sunglasses, trying to look like a, you know, whenever you're in a big white bucket hat with sunglasses, you're trying to be incognito, but you look anything but.

Yeah. And next to him is Bradley Cooper, but they both look miserable oh there's some other photos around there look like having a much better time angry to be sitting next to each other yeah i'm sure that's like why'd you take me to the dentist i didn't want to go to the tennis it was a snapshot in time but apparently uh brad pitt is uh uh gives a lot of love and respect to bradley cooper because he helped him through he had a few issues with with alcohol, and Bradley Cooper's apparently had the same thing. So he's really helped him out as a friend and as a mate. So they're really good mates.

Oh, so they're not drinking. That's why they look miserable. Oh, stop it. So we want to know this more. If you go to the tennis, you don't have a couple of cheekies, do you? No, you don't need that. You're at the tennis. Jeez.

So we wanted to know, because this lady got to sit next to Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, have you ever sat next to anyone famous, whether it be at a tennis, whether it be a sports game, on a flight, wherever? Have you ever sat down and gone, oh, my goodness, this is a famous person? No, I haven't, no. Are you looking at me for an example? Well, I guess technically, and in some ways, we've sat next to people,

like Justin Bieber sat kind of next to us. Yeah, but it was forced. It was accidental. Yeah, true. I've sat next to Jono fromin beaver sat kind of next to us but it was forced to yeah yeah yeah i've sat next to jonno from jonno and ben on plenty of flights scratch that one up baby and that's a miserable experience i look like brad but i try to put a bucket out on just to hide myself you had to start drinking people's like i wasn't gonna drink it but uh that's the only thing that got me through that flight I don't trust myself I wouldn't trust myself

oh you would punish the person oh you would I would punish them I'd be talking away and I'd be looking at what they were looking at on their screen and on their phone

because you are the talker in any situation non-stop it's like I put headphones on you're still talking I'm like what's that mate oh yeah

put them back on what's that actually I take it back I once sat next to just uh you remember me reminded me of punishing people i sat next to deputy prime minister grant robertson one time on a flight did you punish oh did i what and i could tell he's like yeah i've kind of got important work you know when you can tell he's got his laptop out he's wanting to do so did you not pick up that vibe no 45 minutes into the flight i did i was like oh clearly he's not because he was kind of doing that thing where he was typing but like oh yeah yeah yep but still typing social use what are you doing just so what do you do when you get

home he's like yep okay yeah cool he's like doing the looking at me but then looking back at his screen and i picked it up after it took 45 minutes but i was like oh yeah no he must have other things on his mind i could tell he wasn't fully engaged in the conversation. You know when people are like, you're not here, you're not present. You're running the country or something. We want to know, Andrew, that's 4487. Have you ever sat next to anyone famous? We'd love to hear your stories.

Can we beat, I don't think we could get anywhere near Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper. We'll find out next, it is that. Sons of Zion, Love on a Run. What a tune that one is. We want to know have you ever sat next to a famous person after a lady in America from a TV show ended up sitting next to Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper at the tennis. Did they talk

to Brad Pitt and Bradley Cooper? Just sort of awkwardly sit there like a New Zealander would and just try to take sneaky little selfies from your knee. She did take some sneaky selfies. There's a photo of someone, the person next to her or whatever, and they've put arrows like me, Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper. That one where you're like, oh, let's get a selfie,

but you're not actually taking a selfie of you. It's just half of your face. Yeah, right. And when they leave, you always say that people go, Rupert, Rupert, Rupert. Yeah, don't say anything the whole time. Just cough their name so they'll turn around. A friend of mine was in Whanganui for work

and sat next to Kiefer Sutherland, the actor. Oh, wow. He was basically, I think he was filming River Queen there. River Queen, yeah. For a while. And he told me, and I was working on the radio at the time, and I was like, well, I've got to get a hold of Kiefer Sutherland. So you went through his agent, went through the proper channels?

No, what I did is I went through the Yellow Pages and phoned every motel and hotel in Whanganui, and there's not that many of them, and eventually I got this sweet, sweet old lady who answered the phone in a motel. I was like, hi, it's Gary here from America. It's Kiefer Sutherland, and she put me through to it. Very trusting, and so it's Gary here from America. It's Kiefer Southerland. And she put me through to it.

Very trusted. And so it went through to his room. The phone rang twice. He says, hello. And I was like, Kiefer Southerland? He's like, yeah. I was like, it's Jono from the radio. He's like, you phoned my room.

I was like, yep. And I had not prepared any questions and uh he just hung up on me fair enough i added the hits you want to know uh have you ever sat next to a famous person hey joining us on the phone right now uh danny robertson who's a business person uh he works for all techs they are they own the warriors and also you're a member from the bachelor new zealand danny how's it going? Good, good. That was quite the introduction. Quite the introduction.

Yeah. I love the name, Ortex. It sounds like some sort of super company from a movie. Yeah, well, it basically is. And you own the Warriors? Yes, yes. So, yeah, that happened about three or so seasons ago, so that's pretty exciting. My whole family are big league-y, so it was a dream come true, really. Oh, nice, mate. No, well, Danny, you've joined us here. You've sat next to not one, but multiple

celebrities on planes. Yes, yes. It's weird how that happens, but yes, I have. So who have you sat next to? So, at first, I sat next to James Brown, who we all know as a very famous singer. Yeah.

So what is this, a flight from where? Yeah, this is a flight from Melbourne to Auckland. Wow. And it wasn't anything special. It was just an economy, and he was sitting there with his assistant, and I had to work myself up the whole flight to ask him a question. And I finally said, excuse me, Mr. Brown, do you mind if I have your autograph? And he said to me, he turned around and he goes, call me James, baby. We're all friends around here.

Call me James, baby. You would hope that James Brown would say, call me James, baby. That's awesome. I love that. That's so good. Was he getting on up and getting on down through the whole flight? Yeah, he actually looked at my iPod. I had an iPod at night.

And I wanted to show him that I had some of his songs on my iPod. He's very impressed. Show me your iPod, baby. Okay, so James Brown. And then I understand Victoria Beckham. Is that correct? Yes. So this was when I was a bit older.

We got upgraded to business class on Air New Zealand, and it was from LA to London. So you would expect to see someone famous on that flight. Yeah. And she was, she's so small. She was wearing these huge heels, and I kept trying to catch her eye because I was on the aisle opposite. And I was trying to catch her eye the whole time

and she wasn't really having a bar of it, but I finally got to say hi to her. How did you approach it? I just kind of got in her eye line. Yeah, because she definitely would have known there's some lady who's just eyeballing me non-stop from LA to London right now. And I wasn't even a lady.

I was like an annoying teenager at the time. She was probably like, how did this happen? Did it get to the stage and you were like, psst, psst? Yeah, I just kind of was like, hello. Posh, posh. And then, yeah, she quickly got changed into her pyjamas after takeoff and then I didn't see her for the rest of the flight. Oh, really?

In the cabin? Yeah, she got changed into her pyjamas. Oh, really? Was she over the top of her current clothes or? No, she got changed into her pyjamas. Oh, really? What, did she get over the top of her current clothes? No, she went to the bathroom. Oh, yeah. John knows the logistics of that. Yeah, I was just like, is that a thing?

Oh, that's incredible, Danny. You ran into Lindsay Lohan, is that correct, when you were on your travels as well? Yeah, this is an embarrassing one. So I was in, it was in LA again. I was actually an adult, so no excuses, fine. I saw this person walking towards me and I was like, oh, I know her.

I'm pretty sure I went to school with her. I went running up to her and I grabbed her and I was like, hey, how have you been? And she's like, yeah, good. Good. As soon as she said it and I grabbed her and I was like, hey, how have you been? And she's like, yeah, good. Good. As soon as she said it and I heard her accent and I looked in her eyes I was like, oh my god. Lindsay Lohan, this is not my friend

from school. So I just tried to play it cool and I was like okay, well, that's good. I'll see you around. Completely embarrassed. The thing is with Lindsay Lohan, she was probably like, I think I went to school with this lady as well.

Maybe I did. She looks really like, she looks like really normal and she was wearing like a real cool outfit and I was like, she didn't look like she was a

celebrity. She looks like someone you would have gone to school with. Yeah. Yeah, she really did. Well, Jenny, thank you so much for sharing

those amazing stories with us this morning. We really appreciate it. Oh, that's all right. You take care of yourself. No worries. Talk soon. Thanks.

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Cool. You too, Jackie. Cool. You too, guys. And if you want to punish yourself like Jackie, you can watch them all on demand. TVNZ on demand. They're on there as well. Now, Ben Boyce, you brought in an instrument from last night's show. Yeah, I don't know if I can still... Oh, nice.

The dog whistle. The dog whistle that I had to use. All I can imagine now if there's dogs listening to the show is that you're driving them bonkers on the farm running around uh we did dog trials last night and you became you know your mouth became very familiar with uh one thing uh it was that whistle yeah the dog that i had to uh try and control uh trump um they're so smart no relation dogs no yeah it wasn't named after donald trump or anything um but yeah it was so intelligent. He would know commands just by a whistle.

He would know that a specific whistle would make him go left, right, stop. It's incredible, eh? Have you tried taking that home and introducing that to your shambles of a dog, Beau? Yeah, well, he definitely notices the whistle. But he doesn't do anything. He doesn't do anything. He's like, that's annoying. Can you shut that thing up?

Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, so I probably don't. I mean, I love my dog, Bo, but I definitely don't have a talented dog like the dogs on the TV show last night. I mean, Bo's greatest achievement is just putting one foot in front of the other and just getting from one location to the other. Sometimes we've got wooden floors and, geez, he just slides around those things. That's why it's an achievement.

Even doing walking, I'm like, well like well done mate you pulled it off you made it to the kitchen so oh 800 that's we wanted to chuck this open can we find a new zealand's most talented dog right now okay you can give us a call text 24487 uh maybe your dog can uh yeah sing the bark the national anthem of papa new guinea yeah i don't know, but maybe that's a very specific thing that your dog can do. Yeah, what have you trained your dog to do? Maybe your dog does your tax returns. Yeah, we'll find out in a few moments. Jono and Ben, the hits. Last night our TV show was on Jono and Ben, Good Sports,

and as part of it we learnt about sheepdog trials and we were just saying how incredible the dogs were, how well trained and how they just knew commands whether verbally or by whistle and they could do amazing things and if only you were as obedient well yeah true if only if i could control you via whistle we kind of let the team down you can tell the dogs like we've got it we know what to do but we would kind of confuse them yeah the commentator when i was doing my sheepdog trials like he looks like a demented scarecrow. I was like, what's a demented scarecrow? Scarecrows already look a bit shabby,

but I'm a demented looking one. Now, we've got joined on the show right now by celebrity animal trainer, Mark Vitti. It's great to have you on the program. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Yeah, g'day, John. How are you, brother? Lovely to hear your dogs at times.

You've trained dogs to do some incredible things in the past, like drive cars and fly planes amongst many other things. What was the toughest thing you've ever trained a dog to do? It might have been sheepdog trials actually. Really? I did my Masters

on sheepdog behaviour and genetics so I spent many years studying and working sheepdogs And I knew guys were Masters Well done last night Oh, thank you Great camera work there Yeah, it was good camera work Good editing too

Yeah, wonderful Made us look half decent But the sheep are just going They're always looking panicked And they're just going to do what they're going to do. One goes away, then the others follow. Yeah, I know. You're relying on the fact that they're a flocking animal, that's for sure.

And, of course, the dogs can do it anyway without you. But anyway, that's another story. Oh, so you're saying we did nothing last night? Just saying that the dogs could have done it without you? I'm sure they showed you that if you walk ahead of them, the dog will pull them towards you. Hey, Mark. Now, too much information, mate.

Too much. Hang up on Mark, Vinnie. Now, when you taught a dog to fly a plane, were you a little bit anxious when you handed over the controls to the animal? Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, we had to have a pilot in the other seat and it was a Scottish guy and it got called Mark too but he was, yeah his eyes were popping out and he was pretty

unsure when we handed over to the dog to fly but they flew about 20 minutes at a time to the figure 8 in the sky and all by themselves. So it was pretty amazing by the time we got to that point. A figure eight! That's incredible! Did they learn this in a flight simulator? Yeah, we started in... We built very simple simulators just to start,

and then we went through a series of about 10 different levels of simulators until we finally got into a real simulator and then into the plane, and then... Yeah, it took, I mean, the show we filmed over eight months. But it was the last two months we were focusing on, we managed to cut it from 12 rescue dogs down to three hero dogs that ended up in the plane flying. And, yeah, we taught them all to fly in the end.

Incredible. And now they are full-time working for Air New Zealand as pilots, domestic planes. Now, teaching a dog to drive a car as well, I imagine the same sort of process leading up to it. But how long does it take? Yeah, well, it took us for the driving dogs probably about two and a half months. Yeah, three months.

And it was, yeah, they're learning. I think he had to learn, Monty had to learn 80-odd behaviours, you know, in the plane, about 120 behaviours. So, you know, it's not just behaviours, it's the biggest thing for the plane, for example, was... Not crashing it. And, you know, getting a dog used to turbulence was the big deal. Oh, yeah.

In the car, it was, yeah, I mean, Monty, the biggest problem was, you know, he was a lead foot. He just had to be careful he didn't run the cameraman over, that was all. Oh, he was ready to go, was he? Vin Diesel in Fast and Furious. So you talk of this dog Monty, does the same dog fly planes and drive cars?

No, no, Monty's a Kiwi dog, so we shot, you know, that was all done here. That was World's first in 2012 we did that. I think he got 100 million tweets on that, so he's quite a famous dog. And the flying dog was in England. We did a series over there called Dogs Might Fly for Sky TV. And it was about dog cognition, how dogs learn and how they, and all of the current

cognitive science research in dogs. So it was a guy called Adam McClosey and a number of other people. And, yeah, so we led the show and did the training and led a number of trainers. And, yeah, it was a great show. But both were pretty huge achievements, really, because they certainly weren't something that I would have thought we could do. Mark Ferry, he's got a website, markvettie.com.

Just before we go, Mark, I know it's probably a question you could take all day answering, but one tip for people like myself that have dogs and could try and make their dogs work a little better. We love them, but is there one tip you could sort of pass on? Yeah, well, I think, I mean, we've started a virtual puppy school and dog school. And I think the most important thing is to start your dog in the formative period if you can. Two to four months. That's the time when 80% of the brain wires up. Okay. So if you do the right thing in that time, and the most important thing is socialisation,

then you're going to go a long way. The rest of it's just training, and it's a lot easier. Unfortunately, for Ben, that horse or that dog in that case is bolted. His dog's well gone. It's sliding all over the floor. Well, Mark, we've been letting you go. You've probably got to go and teach your dog how to do open-heart surgery or something. You go and have a wonderful weekend.

Mark Vitti, thank you. Yeah, I'll leave you to herding your sheep down there. Thank you, Mark. She's incredible. How amazing is that? Mark Vitti, yeah, you can catch him at markvitti.com. Can train a dog to fly a plane and drive a car. Unbelievable.

You can't even train your dog to eat. No, no, it is the hats. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads Do a Half-Assed Job. Official title, Tuna and Bean. Newsealand's Breakfast. Friday. Now, we're a little bit late, though, getting to Ursula Carlson. We always catch up with her this morning.

Sorry about that, Urs. I fell out of your diary, eh? Fell out of the diary. Oh, yeah. I think I screwed it up for everyone. Not the dog. It's my homework. It fell out of the diary.

What happened is I deleted the event, the recurring event in our diary, because it was one week that we weren't doing it because of lockdown. The show wasn't on. And then I deleted it from everyone's diary. So it's all on me. It's all on me. Honestly, I mean I was blaming you the whole time. I caught that. We were all blaming you. I refuse to take part in

this event because it's not on my diary so it's over to you. Dear Fred, Ursula Carlson with International News. From across the world. From across the globe. This is an international news update with Ursula Carlson. Now I'm going to list off my three favourite South Africans of all time. Okay.

Okay. Nelson Mandela. Oh, yeah? You have to. Yeah, he's amazing. Charlize Theron. I mean, honestly, why not? Ursula Carlson.

That's in no particular order either. I actually had you above Mandela. Oh, you know Irene Van Dijk is sitting somewhere in her house going, come on, who's the last one? Oh, damn it. She's lovely too. She's awesome. She is awesome.

I haven't made Jono's hotly contested Top three favourite South African list Of 2021 Yeah she's like I'm still contributing To Netball New Zealand Putting New Zealand On the map

I'm just an amazing person I've never had a bad word For anyone And now this Bark Is on the list I've got a bug For that bitch

Theron Yeah yeah Oh Ursula How you been mate? Yeah no I'm really good, mate. We're level three, you know, and I mean, if level three Auckland doesn't say to you, I'm better than other people who are queuing for hours at a takeaway, nothing will make you feel better about yourself.

I know. Did you get swept up in takeaway madness? No. No. No, mate. I can cook. Do you prefer, are you not a takeaway person? You prefer a home cook? Yeah, No, mate. I can cook. Do you prefer, are you not a takeaway person?

You prefer a home cook? Yeah, I prefer a good old home cook. Even when, like, you know, if you go, we should go out for a meal or you go,

maybe I should cook for us. Like, come over to the house, bring the kids. I prefer that kind of thing. Equitable host, okay. That's not bad, isn't it? Yeah. I always think, too,

we need to just step back and go, it's only been four weeks I love it on the community page There's nothing better than on the Facebook page Where everyone in the community is And now remember Don't support the big international company

Only buy local I'm not hating that four day old scone In your cafe But There's nothing like the hot chip to get the engine going. It always disturbs you when you look at a cabinet and you're like, I'm pretty sure I saw that last week. You're looking at it, it's looking at you going, do you want a piece of meat?

Not really. When the custard slice starts fanning up like a bat. That's not good. Sheila, we like to look at international news with you, which ends up being more local news. What's been grabbing your attention this week? This week we're going proper international. We're going Salt Lake City in Utah. And there's a woman, I actually saw the clip a week or so ago,

an animal handler got attacked by an alligator. But this thing is, was that a kid's party? Like all the elements that was nightmarish,, ingredients that you don't want to put together. But then when you read into the actual article, it says this woman found this crocodile. It's a rescued crocodile. She just found it, and then she decided to keep it, and now she does kid's parties with it. And I'm like, you can't just keep a wild animal. I'm just looking at the article here.

The gator's known as Darth Gator. Oh, good name. It's eight foot long. So she's just taken it from the wild and gone, I'll put it around children at children's birthdays. Yeah, yeah, separated by a little window and just ruin your kid's first birthday. Like, if you've seen a frog,

they roll them until they don't fight anymore and then swallow them. And that frog was ready to swallow. Ready to go. And then she's come out and she says she still loves him. He's like a member of the family. Yeah, and she doesn't want him put down. I'm like, yeah, he needs to be released.

I love it. She's like, he's like a member of the family, a member of family who death rolls your arm. Yeah, didn't he say? We've all got one of those in the family, don't we? It's called the mother-in-law. Ursula Kallsen, we are back tonight. Have you been paying

attention on TVNZ2? 8.30, who's on the show tonight? Well, tonight we've got two amazing guest quizmasters. Now, sometimes they're not amazing, I'm going to be honest with you. Sometimes you're like, whew, that one's over. Sometimes you have Jono and Ben in your life. Oh God, that's over. Let Sometimes you have Jono and Ben and you're like, oh, God. That's over.

Let the time go. But tonight we've got Sean Johnson who's back. And let me tell you, he's got a hot take. He's back with the Warriors. And he just let us in on a little secret that this year is the Warriors' year. So that's pretty good. I've been waiting. I've been marking it in my calendar.

It's finally here, mate. It's come. I mean, Ben's been, honestly, he's a huge Warriors fan. He's been saying it to my calendar. It's finally here, mate. It's come. I mean, Benjamin, honestly, he's a huge warrior. He's been saying it to me for about eight years. Oh, is he the other one? Yeah. It's me. Oh, there we go.

Tonight, it's have you been paying attention? Ursula Carlson, always love catching up with you. Have a great weekend. Thanks, Tim. You too. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, good morning.

Welcome along to the show. It's a Friday morning. Well done, we got here, New Zealand. We did. You congratulate us every week when we're making it to Friday. Thank you. I feel like it's an achievement, you know, especially at the moment. Yeah, so we got here. Yeah, Monday. When your Monday rolls around, you're like, we've got a mountain to climb. Strap yourselves in Sherpa Tenzing. I'm going to need my fluids. How are you, Jill? All right? I'm good.

I'm very happy it's Friday. I'm ready for some more sleep. Well, congratulations. You got to Friday. Isn't it nice to congratulate everyone for getting to Friday? It is, yeah. It's the small wins in life, isn't it? Well done.

You managed to make it through a week that was going to move through anyway. Yeah, it's true. Okay. It felt like an achievement to me, but maybe not. Hey, a really exciting show today. $1,000 at 8 o'clock this morning. Thanks to our TV show. We've got that to give away.

Yes, and also $5,000 too at 7.45. So in total, $6,000 up for grabs right now on this radio show. Any other radio shows giving away $6,000 today? Not that specifically. I don't imagine. Seems like an unusual figure. But we have $6,000 to give away this morning. The $6,000 radio program. Great to have you with us at 604 on your Friday.

Congratulations. It's Justin Timberlake. He said, I'll have you naked by the end of the song, and I can vouch looking at Ben, he was right. Yeah, he was. Making it awkward. Isn't it, Jew? Yeah, a little bit.

Justin Timberlake does things to me, so that's good. So, had our first takeaways last night. Oh, did you? Yeah, supported local, you know. Nice. Went to, it was kind of like a little restaurant, which is just down the road from us. But my issue was, I just got a hamburger.

Right. Deconstructed food. Oh, really? It came deconstructed. Did you know, was that your fault on the way home? Things got moved around? They were spilled around in the back seat. No, it was intentionally deconstructed.

So the construction of the meal was placed upon me. Now, why am I, why am I having to construct it? Surely that's your job to construct the ingredient. I'm doing 30% of the heavy lifting here. Yeah. Well, yeah. Isn't it meant to be put back together, or is that just the way they have it? It's a whole trend, isn't it?

Oh, this is deconstructed, which means we're too lazy to construct it. It's over to you now, pal. Yeah, I did the other day the other day i tried to cook apple pie when it came out of the thing it was all over it's deconstructed guys you put it together when you scraped it out it's have you heard of deconstructed food yeah so it felt it wasn't an excuse for me i used it you're like yeah i have heard of deconstructed food this was like a mushy mess of apple crumble yeah pretty much together yeah heard of deconstructed food. This looks like a mushy mess of apple crumble. Put it together. Can you find that with deconstructed things?

I quite like deconstructed things, but it's playing into my millennial, you know. It really goes for people like that. Well, you put it together, mate. It's your job. You're the chef. It's like a builder turning up and going, well, here's all the supplies. You can do the rest. I find the same thing when I go to a concert.

You go to see Ed Sheeran. He's like, all right, everyone sing along to this one. And he holds the mic out. But I didn't come to Ed Sheeran to hear me sing. Hey, it's your song. You know the words. I'm a terrible singer. It's like, come on, everybody.

It's like, yeah. They just do bits where they don't sing. And they hold out the mic to the crowd. I'm like, not what I've come here for. What you should do is you should break down the cost per song of your ticket and go, well I'd like that $25 back. I sang the verse of that song, you didn't do anything

none of the heavy lifting, Sharon you're dead right. So I think it's just a great way for hospitality to check out. Deconstructed food. Some genius came up with it everyone started rolling with it. Juliet's generation, they're like, oh, this is great. I'm using it as an excuse,

so there you go. That's a little something for your Friday morning. Don't think you're fooling us with your deconstruction, okay? Doesn't make it fancier. Tested safe for listening from home. Keep safe. And that's all I have to say. Thanks, Dr. Ashley. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Now Zealand's breakfast. You're on the hits. Jono and Ben. Now the T20 Black Clash has been running for a few years. Team cricket take on team rugby. And it's really, really an awesome time. Some of the players that used to play international cricket and both international rugby for New Zealand take each other on in a game of T20 cricket.

And it's coming to Tauranga this year. The two teams are coached by, the cricket team's coached by ex-international cricketer Stephen Fleming and the rugby team by Sir Graham Henry and Sir Graham joins us right now. Good morning Sir Graham, how you doing? Yeah, good to talk to you. Very excited about the Hot Springs

Spas T20 Cross Church Black, oh sorry, the Cricket Black Clash in association with Heartland. It's quite a mouthful but I got it all in there. Sir Graham, you've seen some performances over your time. Was that one of the sloppiest displays of interviewing you've ever heard? Well, I hear it's just a trial, so you can correct it. You haven't had a lot of practice yet, guys.

No, we're not so good at that. Hey, the last time that we saw you, you were selling raffle tickets, Sir Graeme. I was selling lottery for a flunket, which we're right in the middle of. We bought some tickets. When are we getting our spa pool? We're up for a spa pool. No, you get your hot spring spa pool. You just have to be patient.

You might not get it before Christmas. Just before Christmas. It'll be a Christmas present. Oh, nice. That'll help the disadvantaged kids of this country. It's awesome. Well, something else that you won't have trouble selling as well is tickets to the Black Clash as well.

Last year, the last couple of years, they've sold out pretty quickly. Yeah, well, it's been the most viewed cricket game in the history of cricket in this country. Over a million people watched the game last year. What does that say about normal cricket? Well, you know, it's just a fun thing, I guess. People are looking at their heroes from yesterday and some of their heroes from the day, of course.

Bodie and Geordie Barrett, for example, and Will Jordan are still playing. So they're still playing rugby. And they used to play a bit of cricket, apparently. The cricket team took it out last year. They stacked their team last year. Yeah, well, I noticed it was all sort of fun and games. They were sharing around the bowling,

and then all of a sudden it got tight and then Stephen Fleming, Daniel Vittori, four overs in a row. We've got a few players up our sleeve. I hear Shane Warne's pretty keen to play. So this is fantastic, this game. All the kids come and parents and have a great day

and you're full house like last year. Yeah, we moved to Mount Maunganui this year, which is awesome, so it'll be great. I suggest that people get their last year. Yeah, we'll move to Mount Maunganui this year, which is awesome, so it'll be great. I suggest that people get their tickets early. Yeah, so it looks like a really fun night out, fun afternoon and night out. And, hey, let's be honest, one big old weekend bender for the gang. Oh, for sure, for sure.

We have a bit of enjoyment as well. Hey, now, just lockdown with you both. Graham, you're in a bubble with Raiwin? We are. We're on Waiheke. We've got plenty of things to do over here so that keeps us out of trouble. Yeah, right. Have there been any locations of interest in Waiheke or could you form your own

republic and break away from New Zealand? No, there's no places of interest or anybody with COVID over here as far as we know. We could start our own little country. The economy would be strong. Sir Graham Henry, thank you so much for your time.

If you want to go along and see the Hot Springs Spas T20 Black Clash in association with Heartland, Saturday 22nd of Jan at the Bay Oval in Tauranga. The tickets are on sale now. Head to blackclash.co.nz. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on New Salted B. In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben.

The Heads. See, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in yesterday's 1pm press conference outlined a bit of a plan, a bit of a vaccination plan for New Zealand. What is it? Because I've stopped watching those. I get all my 1pm press conference updates through Ben the next day. What's been happening, mate? Well, they sort of went, they had Sean Hendy, who's an epidemiologist, sort of looked through, I get all my 1pm press conference updates through Ben the next day. What's been happening, mate?

Well, they sort of went, they had Sean Hendy, who's an epidemiologist, sort of look through. Well, maybe I've given him a title, he's not, but he's very involved in that. I thought he was a plumber. He sort of outlines, you know, what happens if New Zealand gets to a certain amount of vaccinations. They've done some sort of scientific research thinking how many deaths, how many hospitalizations that could happen.

Are they disturbing facts? Yeah, well, obviously it is. So really we're trying to get to 90% now because I reckon more like 70, 80% could be thousands and thousands of people dying per year. Oh, jeez. Even at 70% was a lot more. And obviously it decreases the higher the vaccination.

So that was the big thing. What was 90%? How many deaths at 90? 90% I'll look into that very shortly but a basic will prove it. You're like you son of a bitch. Thanks for asking. Did you ask me a follow up question?

I looked rock solid up until then. I did. Sorry Ben I shouldn't have done that. You were doing well. I'll get back to you on that one, back next How's that sound? He's here to ask the hard questions Like, how do I log into my computer

And what is the wifi password Those are actual questions he asks We were just talking before about Auckland The University Professor Sean Hendy Yesterday at the 1pm press conference Outlined some research, some predictions If a certain amount of the population don't get vaccinated.

And as I said before, even at 70% to 80% of the population, we're still looking, according to their research and estimations, still looking like thousands of deaths a year. 7,000? Yeah. But if you go to 90% of the population, it drops down to only, I mean, still talking of a few hundred people, which is still horrible to think, but it is a lot less. So 90% seems like the new goal.

And Jacinda Ardern has said yesterday, if we get to 90%, we should be able to eliminate level four lockdowns. Yes. Is kind of the thing. They'll never return. That's what she's saying. So I guess that's a little bit of an incentive right yeah what was it what's her good line that kind of buys her insurance that she says you know and i forget oh why did i even bring that i don't know

i don't know she's like i'm cautiously optimistic yeah that's yeah that's a good that's the good insurance line yeah i'm cautiously optimistic we could eliminate level four lockdown and then you're like you said you eliminate i know i said i was cautiously optimistic we could eliminate level 4 lockdown. You said you'd eliminate it. No, I said I was cautiously optimistic. That was the same thing with how long the thing was going to be. Of course we'll get to level 4 short and sharp. It'll be short and sharp. It's like taking a 12 month insurance policy

out when you say cautiously optimistic. Yesterday we talked on the show about the big news about a couple of people trying to cross the border with some contraband. Remember that? The KFC that was laid out in the police car when they got busted. And nothing has been, we even asked Detective Rob Lomoto yesterday from Police 107, what happened to the KFC?

What would have happened to the KFC? He wouldn't answer questions. No one knows what happened to it afterwards. No. I hope it didn't go to waste. Now, we had Jimmy Fallon, who has a talk show in America. Now, he was talking about it yesterday and we got quite upset because he credited

it to a neighbour of ours. And finally two men in Australia were arrested after they were caught crossing the border with $100,000 and a trunk full of KFC. Say what you want but that cash will never not smell like fried chicken. Australia.

Fallon dead to us now. He was probably dead to us already. I've never had a relationship with the guy. But Stephen Colbert, who has come to New Zealand, also does a big US talk show last night. Don't say he confused us for Australia as well. No, he got it right. No, he wouldn't do it.

He got it right. He gave New Zealand a big shout out and here's what he had to say about the KFC. Auckland, New Zealand is currently under lockdown with fast food restaurants closed and yet New Zealand cops have arrested men entering the lockdown city with large amounts of illicit KFC.

Oh, New Zealand. These Kentucky Fried Bandits were attempting to smuggle in three buckets of chicken, a big stash of fries and ten tubs of coleslaw. Ten tubs of coleslaw? Arrest them for that. Who looks at mac and cheese and mashed potatoes and says,

you know what I could go for? Wet cabbage. They must have mac and cheese over there. Oh, at KFC? Yeah. I don't know, but the coleslaw kind of is collateral at KFC. It's like just chucked in there. No one asked for it. No one really wants it, but it's forced upon you. I but the coleslaw kind of is collateral at KFC. It's like just chucked in there. No one asked for it. No one really wants it, but it's forced upon you. I enjoy the coleslaw. Of course you enjoy the coleslaw. If anyone was to enjoy the KFC coleslaw, who would you pick?

Yeah. Yeah. He's like, if anything, they should have a hummus range. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know. What I love about New Zealand is we are a wonderful punchline to the world's jokes, aren't we? Yeah.

You know, that's our happy place. We're in here, we're just happy to be mentioned and not forgotten about down here. That is what's making big news from New Zealand. It's going around the world, it has the hits. You've got John, I'm Ben. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B***h News. Yes, if a man is married as toaster or a lady has eaten her toaster, it'll be featured on the news and beeps,

the lighter side of news, as they would say at the end of the 6pm news bulletin, Julie. Yeah, that's a good comparison. So I've beeped out a couple of words from these headlines. You guys have to guess what they are. Your first headline is... People baffled after discovering Americans don't have b**** in their kitchens.

I'm going to say Americans don't have a place to store their guns in their kitchens. You need a kitchen gun holster, don't you? I'm actually going to try and get the answer, because people are baffled why they don't have something in their kitchen. So they haven't got ovens or something like that? Okay. People baffled after discovering Americans don't have kettles in their kitchens. Okay, so is this known? Did you guys know this?

Because I was speaking to our lovely newsreader. What? They don't just put the jug on? They don't do that? So, yeah, so basically, Rachel Jackson-Lees, our newsreader, was like, I feel like this is widely known, but I didn't know about this. Basically, Love Island Australia host Sophie Monk, she lived in America for 10 years, and she recently told a story about how she went into a sort of kitchen shop and asked for a kettle, and they had no idea what she was talking about. And so in America, they heat their water on the stove.

It's like a kettle, but it's on the stove, and they don't call it a kettle. They probably call it a jug as well. And so in New Zealand and in Britain, we have the one that plugs in. And so when Americans see that they're like, what? You plug yours in? After the show we are flying to America and we are starting a plug-in kettle business. We're going to kill

it over there, guys. John, who listens to the show in Portland, and probably I'll be listening now or on the podcast, Johnny Lovegrove, get in touch with us and tell us if this is true or not. That'd be awesome. Alright on the podcast. Johnny Lovegrove. Yeah, get in touch with us and tell us if this is true or not. Yeah, very interesting, isn't it? All right, the next news story.

Could be the scariest costume this Halloween. I'm going to go the Judith Collins clinging on to her job costume. Could be the scariest costume this Halloween. I'm thinking along the same lines, but I'm thinking the leg-spreading Chris Hipkins costume. Him spreading his actual legs. Sexy Bernie Sanders outfit could be the scariest costume this Halloween. So remember when Bernie Sanders went viral for sitting on that chair looking cold and wearing those mittens? He did look miserable, didn't he?

That was at the inauguration of Joe Biden. Joe Biden, yeah. So that's been turned into a what they call a sexy outfit it's basically just like a dress to be fair if you google it you know it's just a dress version of what he wore it's not particularly sexy um it covers up everything pretty much but uh if you want to go as a sexy bernie sanders for halloween then you can but it was one of those events that you know for 24 hours it really stormed the internet yeah then you'd be like who have you come as oh you remember yeah over a year ago when uh joe biden was one of those events that, you know, for 24 hours it really stormed the internet. Then you'd be like, who have you come as? Oh, you remember over a year ago when Joe Biden was the president of Bernie Sanders,

he was kind of sitting there, he was a bit cold. Oh, vaguely. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, oh, you've come as that? Okay. You just look like you're snug and warm. Yeah, true. And the final news story.

Elon Musk wants **** on next SpaceX flight after civilian crew returns. Yeah, now he obviously sent up a load of amateurs to space and so I'm going to say Elon Musk wants at least one person with some level of space experience on the next SpaceX flight. True, I think that he's

ready to go now after sending some people wildly sending some people up into space without even going himself. I know. Surely he's now, okay, they came back, they're alive, I can do it. Elon Musk wants oven and Wi-Fi on next SpaceX flight after civilian crew returns. Oh, so he's not even going himself yet?

No. So he met with the four people who went to space afterwards and kind of got a bit of a debrief from them. And then some people sort of tweeted Elon Musk after he sort of talked to him. He was like, I've spoken to them. They had a great time. People were asking him questions on Twitter and he was responding. And he said, yep, he wants to add an oven.

He wants to add Wi-Fi. He needs to make some changes to the toilets because apparently they had some issues up in space with the toilets. He didn't disclose what exactly. But yeah, work in progress for his spaceship. Did they come back and they filled out a survey form? What could you have done with? toilets. He didn't disclose what exactly. But yeah, work in progress for his spaceship. Did they come back and they filled out a survey form? What could you have done with? Probably. Classic humans. Oh, could have been looking at

YouTube up there or something. You're in space! What do you need Wi-Fi for? You've got to just look out the window. Isn't that the... And I tell you what, all these billionaires who are just recklessly sending humans up to space like lab rats it's gonna go bad you know you know something's coming it's like that milk crate challenge you're

like something bad's gonna happen yeah it's true yeah and that is the news and beats for you this morning spy the what's up by doco.nz back of the skids are scraping along the road all right she's got her finger on the pulse she actually had a finger on my pulse at the moment there's no sign of life in there at the moment, is there, Juliet? No. Dead inside. But what have we got in spy, mate? Actually, speaking of Orlando Bloom,

I did see he posted a video on Instagram recently of him paddleboarding. He did have clothes on this time. But he was surrounded by a bunch of sharks. It was like a drone footage of him paddleboarding, and there were just sharks in the water you could see below him. Terrifying. Did he know the sharks were there? Yeah, I think he did.

Because you can fall off a paddle. Yeah, you can. I don't know what type of sharks they were. If they were great whites, I feel like that would be a very bad decision to make. But they might have just been some pretty chilled sharks. Maybe they saw what was attached to them and they're like, oh, it's a seal. Go seal hunting. Oh dear.

Okay, so Netflix has confirmed that Tiger King number two is in the works and they're going to be releasing it later this year. So they haven't said what day they're going to be releasing it, but I mean, we've only got a few months left of this year, so it'll be pretty soon. What more is there to tell of that story? Well, I don't know. I guess Joe Exotic's in jail, right?

So would they be following that? And the zoo is now closed. And apparently there's also a bunch of unseen footage from season one that they didn't include that they could put in season two. So there's heaps more sort of content there. Might be like a part two. Yeah, like as soon as you said Joe Exotic's in jail, the zoo's been closed, I'm like, well, that's pretty much the end of the story, isn't it?

I know, I know. Do you know what I'm watching on Netflix at the moment? I got hooked on Clickbait. Oh, it's good. It's really good with the wonderful gentleman from Entourage who's in an Air New Zealand video. Adrian Green, I think? Adrian, yeah.

I've heard that's really good. It's really good. It's quite like it's only a few episodes, isn't it? Yeah, well, I'm allowed to episode two, but yeah, basically he's been sort of kidnapped, but't it? I'm allowed to episode two, but basically he's been kidnapped, but he's online holding up these signs, and if the video gets to five million, he's killed. Yeah.

That's so scary. And it's going viral, but you don't want it to go viral. Yeah, they're like, top click here on the video. Oh, but it's good for the insights. Five mil. Oh, dear. Yeah, so it's a really good series. Yeah. I was actually reading.

This is bloody crazy. Season one of Tiger King attracted 64 million households in its first four weeks. And it's also been streamed currently over 5.3 billion minutes of the show. 5.3 billion has been streamed. Geez. Yes, on Netflix, they really judged apparently the success of a series on how quick it's watched, how quickly it's binged. Oh, like by the time from start to finish.

Yeah, that's how they do it. And they pretty much know apparently by the end of posting the first episode of how successful the whole series is going to be. Wow. I talked about those emails you start getting on from Netflix too, midway through shows going, are you enjoying this? Oh yeah, because you only half watched one movie. It's a true movie show and they're like, hey. Did you not like it? Yeah, let us know.

Either way, let us know. And isn't your name on Netflix Daddy? Yeah, because the kids changed it to Daddy. Hey Daddy. Let us know why you pulled out of the Truman Show, Daddy. And Harry and Megan have returned to the spotlight for the first public outing since baby Lily was born. They visited the

9-11 memorial in New York a couple weeks after, obviously, the 20th anniversary. They look gorgeous as always. Harry's also spoken a little bit about, because the documentary was released on Prince Philip's life. This is unrelated to their visit to the war memorial,

the memorial, but he spoke about the Queen and Prince Philip's relationship, and that she'll be okay without him, but he labelled them the cutest couple. Oh, they would have been. And they looked like the cutest couple, didn't they? Just the world's best grandparents. Now, I have a question in regards to Meghan and Harry. Of course.

Do they wander around America with a security detail? Because if so, it wouldn't be paid for by the palace, you wouldn't imagine. They'd have to foot that bill themselves. Yeah, so they do have security that kind of wander with them, you wouldn't imagine. They'd have to foot that bill themselves. Yeah, so they do have security that kind of wander with them, but they seem to be sort of more low-key. Like, you don't really look at them and you're like, oh, that's obviously security.

They're kind of just more sort of in the background but keeping an eye on them. That'd be a costly thing, wouldn't it? Yeah, that is one of the things they talked about, I think, in the Oprah interview, that they were like, well, the risk is still there. The public attention is still there. So I feel like we should be funded for security, but they probably... But you ditched your family. I know. That's the argument, eh?

Yeah, I don't get security. I left my family. Mum and Dad don't pay for my security anymore. I don't know if he needs... Ben has to do it. What's that, sorry, Ju? No, nothing. Should I do a sly comment there? Yeah.

I'll wrap up Spy, and that is Spy for more, you can head to the hits.co.nz Thank you very much producer Juliet Don't forget we've got $5,000 up for grabs at 7.45 this morning with our game 5 words for 5k and a grand if you watched our TV show last night that's at 8 o'clock, it is the hits Coming to New Zealand in November next year

it is the hits. You've got Chano and Ben, Dua Lipa. You know, Poppy, my daughter, big fan of Dua Lipa. And when that song first came out, I've passed on a shocking gene to her and probably Oscar to my son that I've got many questionable personality traits, Ben, but one of them is when a song comes out that I like, I will just play it over and over and over and over, to the point where the song gets

sick of hearing itself. Yeah, right. And you don't want to hear the song anymore. Yeah. Do you do that with songs? I do, yeah, a little bit, not to the, probably the point of just directly straight after the other playing it again. I'm relentless. I can't stop it. I don't know what it is. I'm always chasing that first high of hearing

that song. It's like a gambling addict. It's coming through. But your poppy's got the same trait and so she did that with that Dua Lipa song but at the moment there's a song by Olivia Rodrigo, Good For You. Great song. That's a really good song.

And it's actually kind of cool to hear a pop song with quite a rocky sort of... Yeah. You don't hear that too often these days. But the song Good For You is starting to become bad for me. I thought you'd like it. It's quite rocky. It's nice.

Paramore helped make it. Yeah. I mean, it's great, but it's on repeat. It's just on constant repeat in my household. And so I thought it was like I needed to to get psychological help for for my family on this issue but it's apparently a thing listen people listen to songs over and over again because it releases dopamine in your system which makes you feel good so there's a song that makes you feel good but eventually much like an addict it starts to wear off and you get sick of the bit and you never want to hear it again even when you hear it two years down the track

you're like ah it's not the same it's not the same as it was it's really interesting after 7 o'clock we're going to talk about a lady who sat next to two of the most famous people in the world it's a crazy story we'll get to that after 7 the show that wants to be known for live maths

we're going to be known for it's bad maths aren't we? Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. Of course, there's some in New Zealand still in level three, some form of lockdown. And do you remember last year when we had the first lockdown? Sourdough was the big thing. Everyone seemed to be baking sourdough. Well, there's a new bread in town apparently this year.

People are not quite as optimistic about lockdowns. They haven't got quite the time. So now there's a quicker, easier bread to bake. Has it got banana bread and sourdough shaking in their boots? Yeah, well, basically it's called the four-ingredient bread. You just need flour, water, salt, and yeast. And rather than knead the bread, you just mix it all in a bowl. You leave it for eight to 24 hours, roll into a ball, put it in a casserole dish,

bake it for half an hour, pretty much, and then it's good to go. He's trying to list them off as if it's easy but the longer the directions go on, you just put it in so you do that and you wait for

you go outside you do some gardening you come back in you do some more kneading you put it in the thing and it's done. It's done. Then half a day's gone.

It's four ingredients. There you go. You don't even have to knead it. You just put it in a bowl and that's it. Mate, give me super thick super white super thick I've gone, give me super thick, super white. Super thick.

I've gone super thick now. Super thick cup. Super thick. Oh, loving it. Loving a super thick. Do you go pure white bread? Just pure white, baby. Do you?

No grains. Yeah, no grains. Super thick, super white. That's definitely Jono. You can't get anything more Jono than that. And doughy. Next on the show, we want to try and give away, give you guys some money.

So we've got a wee bit of a plan. We've hatched a plan. Yeah, it's a bit of a stitch-up, let's be honest. Call it what it is. But we'll play you how we hope to guarantee $5,000 next week. Yes, right. Stick around and we'll tell you how you can win $5,000. It is the hits.

It is the hits. It is the hits. Pink just like a pill. It's now 7.45 each morning on the show we play a game called Five Words for $5,000. A really fun game, an easy game to play and you can win $5,000 just by matching all five words with us. We're going to play it very shortly. And we wanted to have a guaranteed winner. We wanted to give

away another $5,000 by the end of the the month so we hatched a bit of a plan to see if we could get boss todd to agree to giving away five thousand dollars by the end of the month yeah now he wasn't just going to do it uh so yeah you it was a bit of a wild plan on your part and i didn't think it would come off but we got producer b humps to get Todd on the phone just before 7 o'clock. So this is previously pre-recorded with boss Todd. Todd. G'day, mate. How are you? What's happening? Good. Did you remember the meeting that we had? Oh, we have a few. Which one?

The one the other day when you said we had to have a guaranteed winner for five words for $5,000 by the end of September. You remember that one when you said that? I never said that. Come on. What's this about? What's going on? No, I was pretty sure you said, you're like, guys, we've got to have a guaranteed winner by the end of the month.

That would be bloody against competition rules or something. But I never said that. Come on. What's the play here? I'm so sure. By the way, can I get notice from Ben before he puts me directly to air? I thought someone just wanted to have a chat between song.

We just wanted to clarify, clarify what the conversation, we all remember it. Let me clarify. Five words for 5K. There are no guaranteed winners, okay? Okay, all right. Hang on.

Let me just put that in legal terms. There are no, it has to go off By a certain day, so you know, I'm not saying It's got to go off by a certain day But are you sure, I'm pretty sure You said by the end of September I was there too, but anyway, maybe we heard wrong You've accused me of many

Illnesses, dementia Cronism, alcoholism But I am not I've still got a good bullshit right now. Okay. So no. We're just, we're just hoping your dementia had kicked in and,

uh, all right. Well, I guess we, we had to be, that's right. We just, the glad we clarified that.

Appreciate it. Sorry to bug you. Thank you. Clarified as clarified butter. So that was previously. Uh, now we walked away from that and we're like, Hmm,

happy. We were happy. It doesn't sound like we would be happy on the surface. No, we wanted a guaranteed $5,000 to give away before the end of September. And we have the power of editing, don don't know if you can recall our conversation with Boss Todd, but when we asked him, you know, is there a guaranteed winner before the end of September, here's what he said. Let me clarify. I said that. Five words for 5K, there are guaranteed winners, okay?

It has to go off by a certain day. So, you know, I'm saying it's got to go off by a certain day. Thank you, Boss Todd. He's saying it aggressively too. He wants it to happen. He's like, I am saying it's got to go off. We have to have a guaranteed winner. And he's doing that thing like you're doing now,

pointing his finger on the table. He's like, if this isn't done, heads will roll. That's what Boss Todd wants. We need to make that happen. I'm pretty sure it's what we'll just listen again. I don't want to, you know, betray him. I don't put words in his mouth, do him. I have four words in his mouth. I mean, this is him speaking right now, right?

This is Todd saying these things. Let me clarify. I said that. Five words for 5K, they're unguaranteed winners, okay? It has to go off by a certain day. So, you know, I'm saying it's got to go off by a certain day. Here we go. Okay.

So we have, what are we, September 24. So we've got to the end of the month. To have a guaranteed winner. Here we go. Okay, so we have, what are we, September 24, so we've got to the end of the month. To have a guaranteed winner. Yeah. Well, let's, yeah, if we don't do it by the end of the month, then we'll just spend all day doing it as we have done before, trying to give away the $5,000. Yeah, so you could win. It's guaranteed by Boss Todd.

Isn't it wonderful? Isn't it wonderful? The joys of working in radio, you know, what would be frowned upon by many industries. You know, you'd probably get hauled over the coast. We just, it's part of our job. This is content. You couldn't be listening to police or something like that. No, you couldn't. It's what they label a stitch-up

in this industry, but in other industries it's probably called fraud. The joys of working in commercial radio, eh? Guaranteed winner could be you next in our game 5 Words for 5K. It is the hits. 5 Words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Really, really fun game to play.

You might have seen the ads on TV for this. Five words for $5,000. We do it every morning at 7.45. It's really simple. We just tell you five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head after those words. And if they all match with one of ours, you win $5,000. Now, just moments ago, Boss Todd was on the phone things that pop into your head after those words. And if they all match with one of ours, you win $5,000.

Now, just moments ago, Boss Todd was on the phone and has demanded that we give away the $5,000 before the end of the month. Here were his words before, and definitely words out of his mouth. This could be, Juliet, you're looking a bit nervous and panicked. She's got her head close to the screen trying to find the audio, are you? Yes. Here we go, I found it. Let me clarify. I said that.

Five words for 5K, they're unguaranteed winners, okay? It has to go off by a certain day. So, you know, I'm saying it's got to go off by a certain day. There we go, that's what he's demanded. And a stitch up in no way from us. His inflection was a little odd. But he's got a quirky way about it, Boss Todd, doesn't he? He does. That's what we love about Boss Todd.

So $5,000 has got to be won before the end of September. Don't have many days to give it away. We'll head to Tauranga. Dean, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Thank you, guys. Thank you for having me. Lovely to have you on.

Mental health support worker, Dean, doing great work. Yeah, mate. Yeah. Good on you. I imagine been busy in testing times for you over the last month or so? Oh, very much so, mate. Yeah. Oh, good on you. I imagine being busy and testing times for you over the last month or so? Oh, very much so, but enjoy it. Oh, good on you. I imagine it's rewarding work. It's very, yeah.

Yeah, it is. Oh, good on you, mate. Well, we do our part every day by turning up here at quarter to eight, trying to give you $5,000. Now, you've just got to do your part and come up with five words that match with ours. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? I'll send John Owen today,000. Now you've just got to do your part and come up with five words that match with ours. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? I'll send Jono in today, please. All right, good luck, Jono. Good luck. That's from Dean. All right, Dean, he is now inside the soundproof booth. I'm going to say the first word to you. What pops into your head when I say meow, meow, M-E-O-W, do you say cat? Yeah, cat, that's what was in my head as well,

producer Juliet is nodding away, sorrow is the second word, S-O-R-R-O-W, sorrow. Oh, that's a hard one. Yeah. Sorrow. Can I come back to that one? hard one. Yeah. Sorry. Can I come back to that one? Yeah, no worries. Okay. Casserole is the third word this morning. Casserole. Casserole dinner.

Dinner, yeah, nice. Fridge is number four. Fridge. Fridge, yeah. Fridge. Fridge. Hard, eh? There's options too.

Lots of options for that one. There's so many options. Yeah. Fridge. Fridge. Magnet. Fridge and magnet. Fridge and magnet.

Oh, yeah, nice. That's very good. Alarm is the final one. Of course, we'll come back to sorrow, but alarm? Alarm clock. Alarm clock. Oh, yeah. Topical with daylight saving this weekend.

And now anything pops into your head for sorrow? Sorrow, probably, I've got two. Yeah? Um, sorry... Feeling? Feeling? Yeah, yeah. You going to lock in feeling?

Yeah. All right, yeah. Yep, feeling, okay. All right, Dean, I know that was tricky. Number two was really tricky for you this morning. I'm sorry about that. I'm going to blame Producer Behemoth. Jono's back out of the soundproof booth.

What are you blaming Producer Behemoth for? Oh, one of the words. It was tricky. It was a tricky word. It's good to blame Producer Behemoth because he can't talk back. Yeah. You know, he's just in a room, an airtight room. He's shaking his head at me going, what?

No one can see you shaking your head, mate. We can blame him for anything. I heard Delta was his fault. All right, here we go, Dean. Let's try and win you 5K, mate. We're going to start this morning with Meow. Jono, Meow? Cat.

Nice. Quick game's a good game. I'm going to jump around. I'm going to go Alarm. Clock. Oh, nice. Fridge. Door.

Oh, nice. Fridge. Door. Oh, magnet. I thought we were on a roll there, mixing it up. Magnet is what Dean went. Oh, no. I take full responsibility for this, Dean. Casserole was the next word. Dish. Oh, casserole dish.

Dinner was very close. And sorrow was the one we struggled a wee bit with. Sorrow. Sadness. Sadness? Sad? Yeah, we went feeling. Feeling, yeah. Yeah, I was going to put sad.

Oh, Dino, I've let you down. I've let Tauranga down. No, that's no problem. I've let my parents down again. I know. And I'm sorry, I've let the show down. Hey, thank you, Dean, for listening. You go and have a wonderful weekend, okay?

No problem. Thank you, you two guys. Thank you for and have a wonderful weekend, okay? No problem, thank you you two guys A guaranteed winner That's what we're saying It's got to be won by the end of the month But we're not saying it, Boss Todd is demanding it You heard him Let me clarify I said that, five words for 5k

There aren't guaranteed winners, okay? It has to go off by a certain day So, you know, I'm saying it's got to go off by a certain day. All right. Could be you next week. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. It's Justin Bieber, Peaches.

You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. Good morning. I've just seen Juliet pop out to the work kitchen and grab the tea towel. She's getting ready to rag on the celebrities. Let's do it, Juliet and Spy. So we all know now that Rihanna is a billionaire. Her net worth is $1.7 billion.

Majority of it from her brand Fenty. I didn't know she was a billionaire. That's phenomenal. Yeah, it's really cool. Obviously, she started out as a singer, but it seems like starting a business, if you're already a famous person is the way to go. I remember someone phoned us a few months ago and she was like, oh, my daughter was listening to the song and the announcer said, oh, it's Rihanna. And she was like, is that the lady with the makeup?

Oh, really? She's known as the makeup lady, like Stephen Fleming's known as the heat pump guy. Yeah, changes how they're known. But she's spoken about what it was kind of like becoming a billionaire and kind of adjusting to that and what was weird about getting used to it. You know, it was real weird getting congratulations texts from people for money. You know, I was just like, wait, how does... I never got congratulated for money before. Like, I was just like, wait, how does, I never got congratulated for money before, like that shit is crazy. But it made sense when I realized that it was inspiring to people that

they felt like this is something that they could achieve. So, and she also said that like, it's weird when people continuously put her on a pedestal for being a billionaire. She's like, I don't really like, I just want to be on the ground. Like, you know, I just want to be like my normal self. It's weird when people come up and congratulate her for her money. If I'm ever a billionaire, rest assured, I will completely change. Okay? Do not contact me.

Don't pretend to be friends with me. I'm going to be a better class of person, okay? I just want to go on record now and say that. I understand. I understand. Thank you. That's the sort of person you are. Oh, that's wonderful she stayed grounded.

She seems like one of those celebrities that's a genuinely good person. Yeah, I reckon she does. That's why I love her. I don't know what I'm basing that off. No, but she does. You're right. She seems like she's a really hard worker

is something that I sort of pick up from her, which is awesome. And in other news, there's going to be another documentary on Britney Spears' conservatorship. This one's by Netflix and it's going to be out on September 28th.

Sorry, I was just finding that. It doesn't say whether Britney Spears participated in this documentary, but it's going to be exploring the legal and ethical issues of her conservatorship. There's some audio that's been released of her conservatorship and there's some like there's like some um audio that's been released of her saying i just want my life back and so they've

obviously obtained some stuff whether or not she was part of it interesting because i know the last one was hugely popular and it was meant to be out there helping britney you know it was from the side of sympathy towards britney and obviously saying this is horrible the media and everything but britney didn't really seem to appreciate having that in the world, right? It brought back a lot of horrible feelings and times for her. She did. She posted it on Instagram. She was like, oh, I don't like everybody talking about the documentary.

Yeah, like you say, it probably... It came from a good place, the doco, but obviously she didn't find it as helpful as maybe they intended, so it's interesting Netflix are going to do another one. What I love about those docos is they have these people, these tenuous tie-ins, relationship tie-ins to the person. Like, one saw them paying for a parking ticket in the street, and then these people, oh yeah, Brittany wouldn't be happy with this.

You're like, how do you know? How do you know? So guys, again, when I'm a billionaire, and there's a documentary on me, I don't even want you being one of those people. Okay, well, they're way too close to to you it needs to be more tenuous yeah i once saw him washing his hands in the bathroom and that is your spy update for this hour for more you can head to the hits.co.nz it is a hits john and ben 8 30 now jacinda Ardern yesterday was talking about New Zealand trying to get to around 90%. It kind of seemed to be the aim of that press conference, to stop lockdowns.

But overseas, the leaders seem to be spending their time watching a lot of kids' programs. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he was talking about climate change yesterday to the United Nations. And this is what he had to say and when kermit the frog kermit the frog sang it's not easy being green i want you to know that he was wrong it is easy it's not any easy it's lucrative and it's right to be green even though he's also unnecessarily rude to Miss Piggy, I thought. Boris Johnson's recount of the Muppets. The speechwriter. Find me a song that's got greeners. Okay, you come back with Kermit, all right.

And he was unnecessarily mean to Miss Piggy, right. He sort of adopted a treated mean policy, didn't he, Kermit? Yeah. But it reminds me of Scott Morrison. Aussie Prime Minister, yeah. Yeah, he referenced a wonderful cartoon as well when he was talking about New Zealand. That's right, he was talking about New Zealand going into lockdowns

and being like it was in a cave and he referenced another children's program. It's like that movie in the Croods. People wanted to stay in the cave. Some wanted to stay in the cave and that young girl, she wanted to go out and live again and deal with the challenges of living in a different world. Well, COVID is a new different world and we need to get out there and live in it.

We can't stay in the cave and we can get out of it safely. That's what the plan does. Yeah, Croods is a good movie. It's a good movie. I just love those rivers. It's like the Smurfs. They're all there. They're all blue.

There's only one girl there. They're all, how's it working? She wants to get out. It's all there. It's like Dora the Explorer not being allowed to go out and explore. I know, it's so good. We need to ask Jacinda Ardern next time what her

favourite kids movie or TV programme is. See if she can segue that into a reference about international political issues. That's her challenge. Alright, next on the show, something New Zealand pretty much invented. It's happening this weekend. I didn't know this until I found out this morning. I want to share it with you next. It is the hits.

It is the hits, Jono and Ben. Don't forget on Sunday it is Daylight Savings. It starts at 2 o'clock. They were going to put it at 2 o'clock because by that stage a lot of shift workers will be home. Most restaurants are shut so that's why they make it 2 o'clock because by that stage, a lot of shift workers will be home, most restaurants are shut, so that's why they make it 2 o'clock.

Oh, that's specific. Now, all morning, Ben came in at 5 o'clock. He's like, geez, I've got some daylight savings gear. That'll blow your mind. He's like. I didn't say blow your mind. Yeah, he did. I thought I heard blow your mind, Jew.

Yeah, I think I did too. Yeah, he's like, I don't want to do it before 7 because it's not prime time enough. He's like, I want to do it after 8. So he's like, designate the 8.35 slot for me for these daylight savings days. I just found it interesting. I didn't know too much about the history of daylight savings. So obviously on Sunday, the clocks are going to go forward one hour. But it was a Kiwi that invented daylight savings.

George Hudson is credited with coming up with the idea for daylight savings time. He originally from Britain, lived in New Zealand for the rest of his life. He was working in the post office by day and doing bug hunting at night. Nerd. He was frustrated by how early the sun set in the summer months. So he proposed the idea of Daylight Savings.

Now he's got heaps of his bug collections are actually into Papa at the moment as well. Like, yeah, so he proposed it. Took a while for it to sort of come about. And 1927, we gave it a crack in New Zealand as a country, and then it wasn't very popular. And so the next year we were like, hey, well, why don't we make it half an hour?

So they changed it to half an hour, and then they stopped it. They stopped it after that for many, many years after that, and then it popped back in in 1974. So that's almost 50 years later. It didn't happen. And then it popped back in in 1974. So that's almost 50 years later. It didn't happen. And then it came back in from the 1970s. I was just looking that not every country does daylight savings. No, and there's places within countries like Arizona and America

that don't do it while other parts will. There was even a northern town, Araroa, that pushed back in the 70s and went, no, we're not going to do it. We're going to stay. Much like they were talking about Te Ana. Te Ana, which is apparently wanting to stick to a different time zone. But then we thought it was just a big publicity stunt. So we're a bit confused by that one.

And then that would just mean they're an hour behind the rest of New Zealand, just this very specific area. And did this, was it Aranui, did you say? Araroa. Araroa. Did they stick with their daylight savings no they're caved they're all part of it right now but yeah there's also studies that show that an extra hour of sleep we lose um can affect us really badly as well uh things like heart attack

stroke illness seasonal depression have all been linked to daylight savings and that all links back to this bug man those those deaths that blood's on his hands yeah but the but one good thing though is a decrease in crime apparently around daylight savings as well they're too tired yeah so it was really interesting okay maybe it wasn't after eight o'clock interesting but i thought we're all doing it this weekend and why are we doing it well it's all came back from something in new zealand oh yeah i didn't know the history behind it and benjamin franklin also um came up with an idea for it but in a sort of a joke article many years he was sort of writing a satirical article about it and he was like he was kind of going we should fire cannons and you know it was kind of like a mocking article and yeah so he's kind of been credited as well but

franklin was a busy guy and he still had time to write satire. A satire article about it. Yeah. About potentially changing the hours of the clock. It's not that amusing, is it? No. Franklin's tickets stay in your lane, Franklin. You've done some great stuff, but hey, maybe comedy writing's not your thing. So this weekend, all the clocks need to go back,

but we get extra daylight in the afternoon, which is good for summer, right? Makes it tough to getting up on Monday morning. Yeah, the good thing for us is we're just permanently tired. Getting up at three o'clock, you just permanently sit at a level of tiredness where I could go to sleep right, if I wanted to right now, I could lie on this floor and sleep. It's like the worst magician trick ever. Watch this man instantly fall asleep.

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