Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Will Valerie Adams Pick Up Our Unsolicited Phone Call?

Episode Date: March 1, 2022

Dame Val has announced her retirement and we managed to find her mobile number. No interview was planned, and Jono thought it would be a good idea to call her out of the blue. AND SHE PICKED UP! From a blocked number even! And it was awkward as hell! We also played Liar Liar where we speak to two people but only one is telling a truthful story. Jemma allegedly found a suitcase with $50K in it, and Taylor claims that her dad is the most watched TV star in history. Who is lying and who is telling the truth? Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Good Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome along to the podcast. Jono and Ben here, 2nd of March. Ben Boyce, great to see you via the technology of Zoom today. I know. Got a full camera staring at you all morning. Did you know you got a camera on you the whole time? Yes, I do.

I can see in Juliet's screen. There's a camera on me, but I can't see you unless I look at Juliet's screen. She likes to keep an eye on both of us. Very voyeuristic. I've been watching you this entire time. Three hours straight of just watching every move you make. Sort of like stinging when you're singing that song. I'll be watching

you, yeah. Yeah, I'll be watching you. It was a little creepy that song, wasn't it, when you think about it? Yeah. It was, yeah. I mean there's a lot of those nice songs that do have sinister undertones. What was that one? Oh, they are the people with the pump. Oh, that's a happy song for a very

tragic sort of... Like a school shooting. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. When you actually look at the lyrics, you're like, oh my goodness, this is horrible. But the song is... Such a good song, tune-wise. And you're like, oh jeez, this is, yeah. But it's a good reminder that you just blindly sing along to words,

don't you, not actually knowing. I mean, 90% of the songs I sing, I wouldn't even know what the meaning was behind them. No, true. You don't think about that too much. It's often the thing I imagine with TikTok as well. You know what songs are used and different things, you know? Sometimes you don't always know what you're twerking along to. Well, if it's WAP, you've got a fair idea.

That's true. Now, here we go. Here's 16 songs that don't mean what you think they mean. Okay. Okay, Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind. Have you got that one, Julie? Yeah, let me find it. The upbeat nature of the song and heavily edited radio cut

made many people miss out on the sneaky hidden message, namely all of the hidden drug references. Oh, really? Yeah, it's sort of... So apparently it's about crystal meth addiction there you go

okay there you go I want something every breath you take we just discussed the police about a stalker isn't it

yeah well the police were the right people to be associated with that that's for sure closing time that's a real turn the lights on at you know

at a bar play closing time but it's about the real meaning is, oh, it was actually about the singer becoming a dad. Oh, really? And he was like, it was closing time on his life, all the fun things in his life. That's so sad.

Oh, sad to his kids. You're like, what did you think when I came into the world, Dad? Oh, yeah, life is over. Yeah. Closing time. Lady Gaga, poke her face. Yeah world, Dad? Oh, yeah, life is over. Yeah. Closing time. Lady Gaga, poke her face. Yeah. Oh, that's, yeah, no.

I think we all kind of. Did we discover that one? We've heard. Well, I think you actually. Yeah. You did bring it up once, and then there was not long after that, it was articles in relation to that. Yeah, I know.

If you're interested, just Google it yourself. Well, apparently it was about her experience with bisexuality. Okay. That was, but yeah, you might want to Google that one

because we won't say that. It's more like a hidden lyric that you don't realise is a lyric because you think you're singing something else but you're actually singing something terribly rude.

Yeah. Yeah, you do that. Kids do that as well. I remember there was, oh, what's that Derulo song? Swa-la-la-la. And all of the

kids in my son's primary school class were singing it and the teacher was like hey guys, maybe we should sing it. I mean it's a catchy song. It is. Swa-la-la-la. The hidden connotations behind Swa-la-la-la. You know the song Jason Derulo's Trumpets?

Oh, you've told me that that's not to do with musical bass. No. You don't actually like trumpets. I like trumpets. What I didn't know was about the instrument. I thought it was about the instrument, not his instrument. Yeah, the drums, they swing low, and the trumpets, they go. Yeah, I know.

We love trumpets. We're lovers of trumpets, people. That's right. And tromboning. All of the instruments. All right. Enjoy whatever this is. It's 6.08.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben and Justin Bieber there for you. It was his birthday yesterday. Well, technically is the hits You got Jono and Ben and Justin Bieber there for you It was his birthday yesterday Well, technically yesterday, the 1st of March But he'll be celebrating today in America How old's the Biebs today? 28 28 years old

Yeah Jeez, he's still young, isn't he? Juliette, if you don't know the Complex Backstory Juliette spent a large part of her formative years Obsessing, stalking And fascinating over Justin Bieber. Give us a fact about Bieber, apart from his birthday. Gosh.

You learnt the drums, which I always find awesome, that you learnt the drums to try and be more like Justin Bieber because if you ever met up with him, you'd have something in common. Yeah, because I actually knew. I was like, well, he's a big star and I've got nothing in common with him. So if I need to marry him, we've got to have something in common. So then I took up drum lessons. How many drum lessons did you end up doing?

I probably did them for like a year and a half. She must be quite good. No, I was terrible. I had no motivation to practice. Like every time I'd go, it was a huge... Your motivation's Justin Bieber. That's what more motivation do you need? I know, but I played it and then I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.

I can do a basic beat, but that's as far as I can go. There's a quiz online, actually. How much of a Belieber are you? Oh, God. So I'll just fire you a couple of questions. What's Justin Bieber's middle name? Do you want the options? No, Drew. Oh, is that why he's got the Drew clothing? Yeah. Correct.

That makes sense. You'd hope so. That makes sense. His first ever single from 2009 was called? One Time. Well done, well done. What's his mum's name? Paddy. What's his brother's name?

Jackson. What was the name of the lead officer in the investigation against your stalking case of him? Mum and Dad. What did your parents think about this Bieber obsession? Did they try and tone it back? They tried to a little bit. And then, do you know what was actually the turning point for me was i was probably year nine or maybe year 10 and i formed my first group of guy friends as a tween and they were all coming around to my house for a swim and at this stage i had all these posters in my room

and i was like oh my gosh like they have no idea that I'm like this and I can't embarrass myself. So I ripped all the posters down. Oh, you wrote the posters down. No, not ripped. I like carefully folded them and like packed them away. I've still got them in my wardrobe. And then I never put them back up again because I was like, I'm officially friends with guys and I can't look like a weirdo. That was the end of it. Cause you did, you waited outside his hotel room. He has touched you before. Yeah. Wonderful, wonderful touch.

You've touched some really good, you've touched a lot of famous people. You held Meghan Markle's hand. Yeah, I did. That's right. No, I didn't touch Robbie Williams, no. But I was in the same room as him, which was a great, great moment in my life. That's a good couple of touches though, isn't it? You've touched our hearts.

Yep. Yes, I have. We should do this on the radio one time. Who have you touched? But that's on X-Tones. But we're here to do that. For dangerous running through. I mean, celebrity-wise.

Maybe we'll refrain it. We'll revise it. Do another. Yeah, that's a good idea. I've got an R. Kelly online too. Yes, all right. Okay. Okay.

Now I've made him not want to do it. I'm going to go there. No, we've got to do it. I'll tone back. I'll tone back. Hang on. It started in such a wholesome place, but now I've really gone to. Hold on.

A text here from M. Jackson. Oh, my God. All right. 4487 on the text. If you have touched a celebrity, maybe shaking their hand, giving them a high-five, something like that. But I don't know if anyone's got a text after that from Jono. 4487, it's Kasia. It's Walker Hayes.

Fancy like, you're on the hits. My girl is banging. She's so domain. Scrolling through your feed. Over to Ben. breaking news boys. What's been happening overnight? Well, it seems like rats tests. The new toilet paper, panic purchasing is going on for them already.

They're now available, it seems like pretty much in Chemist, Chemist Warehouse, supermarkets, the warehouse, but they're in pretty hot demand. I noticed they've got millions and millions of them in and then they're saying, the government are saying they should be between $8 to $10 but then some people are selling them for $15, Ben. Are they? Yeah, I think.

Didn't you buy some off the back of some truck the other day? I bought some off bloody Tony Street of all people. The nicest lady in the world is selling black market rat tests. She doesn't need to anymore. They're in the warehouse in the supermarkets. I still like the danger and the thrill of meeting Tony in an alleyway. She's got

a trench coat full of them. Dr. Ashley Bloomfield of course yesterday was on television. He apologised for the testing. Things got a bit overwhelming for a while there. It confuses me that because for months, even

since December they were going, strap down, guys, it's going to be 50,000 cases a day. So we were all prepared. I felt prepared. Did you feel prepared? Yeah, right. We haven't even reached the peak yet, have we? Where it's meant to be.

But they're like, oh, things got a bit busy. Sorry about that. We didn't get results back in time. Did no one send an email going, hey, guys, should we get some more testing? Nothing. You get wound up because they took a holiday, eh? Oh yeah, I did. I was like, yeah, there was a whole lot

going on over that four weeks that I was like, oh, we're going to have a simple holiday. And I'm like, everyone knew Omicron was coming. We could have started vaccinating the kids and all sorts, getting boosters done. Maybe you could have gone to Hyerpool, got some more marquees for the testing. It's like some reason New Zealand just checks out over December

January, you know? It's like the rest of the world just carry on, they have a few days off and they get back into it. Yeah, no, we do shut down. It's a wonderful period in New Zealand. You want anything done? Well, you're going to have to wait until February, mate. That's right, that's pretty much it. Want a meeting? Yeah, I'll catch up with you on the 10th of February.

Yeah, and a woman has fallen pregnant in the USA with a second baby while already pregnant. Now, it's a pretty rare thing for this to happen, but she revealed online she was expecting a baby, and she has now conceived her two daughters five days apart. So she was pretty happy. Her and her partner were pretty happy when they found out they were pregnant. But then when they went to the doctors to test out everything um they found out they were expecting and it weren't twins it's a very rare phenomenon that can happen uh so sorry that were they born five days apart yeah

and they're not actually two twins so she got pregnant while actually pregnant that is crazy and she's given birth they look almost identical and she's like well it's easier just to say they're twins because once you start explaining, I got pregnant and then I got pregnant again a few days later, you know. Wow. But very, very rare phenomenon that not many people knew could happen. And a real quick turnaround, which I admire, from obviously discovering the pregnancy to getting back in there again early.

Yeah, right. Active couple bed. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Nearly as active as you and me. Your chance to win with the Google Games coming up very shortly on The Hits. Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben.

Wednesday morning, Jono and Ben. The Google Game. It is the Google Game where we take your questions on 0800 The Hits. The beautiful thing about this is you don't even have to know the answer to the question. You just have to put us on the spot. We have 10 seconds to Google it.

If we can't find out the answer, you win a prize. It's a really fun game. And, Juliet, speaking of Google, I know you mentioned Bieber's birthday yesterday. I'm just in a wonderful montage, a collage, of 50 shirtless photos of Justin Bieber. I'm up to number 36. He's shirtless on a plane.

Wow, on a plane. The places that man has been shirtless will amaze you. Oh, my gosh. If you want to do anything today, you can Google Justin Bieber, 50 shirtless photos. But let's go to the phones right now. 0800, that hits the telephone number. The Google Games is on. We'll kick it off with you, Isaac in Auckland.

Morena. You there, Isaac? Morning. Hey, how's it going, mate? What is your question for... I'll Google this this morning. What's your question for me to try and get in 10 seconds?

What is a filament? What is a filament? Filament. I'm handing it over to Ben Boyce, the Vin Diesel of typing. He's fast and furious. What is a filament? Oh, jeez. First, I struggled to spell filament. the Vin Diesel of typing. He's fast and furious. What is a filament?

Oh, jeez. First, I struggled to spell filament, so that was a great play. Do you know what a filament is, Isaac? Oh, it's a high-quality 3D printer. My understanding is that it's the inside of a light bulb that heats up and creates light. Oh, you're completely wrong. Okay.

A thread-like object found in animal plants. Hey, there's a lot going on for filament, but I didn't get there. So, Isaac, you win. You get some Hell Pizza and Will Smith's book, all right? Oh, wicked. Thanks, boys. No worries, mate. Isaac, can I just ask you, what's your background in filament?

All my brothers are electricians by trade, so, yeah. Ah, he came in with a good stitch-up question. It was well played from Isaac. You put that pizza in that book in your mouth, okay? Let's go to Laura in Taranaki. Welcome, Loz. Hi. Yep.

All right, Loz, you've got a question. We're going to throw this one to you, Jono. See how we go through the Zoom technology. 10 seconds to answer this question from Laura. Okay. What is a male and a female donkey called? Male and female donkey. They are

called, Laura, they're called Jacks and they are called Jennets. Jacks and Jennets. Oh, did you get there? Is he correct? Yeah. Oh, well done. That's a very good question. I'd never heard that before in my life. Neither had I. Now, Laura, I

am not going to give you a prize, okay? Ben's voice is one. I can see him on Zoom. I'm trapped at home. I have no power. I get that. I get that. But Ben, you are not sending her a prize. She did not win. Okay. Okay, she did not win. We definitely won't put her on hold and give her a prize. Look me in the eyes through that camera. We definitely won't put her on hold and give

her a prize off air, Jonah. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. Okay, Jono. Laura. Laura. Laura, is she still there? Yes. Hang up now. Hang up now.

I want to hear you hang up. I just want to have a chat to Laura about her day, all right? Hang up. To see what she's up to later and stuff. No, that's not weird, actually. No. No, I've made it weird. Maybe it will hang up on Laura.

There's no losers on this show apart from Ben and me. That's our ethos. Tested safe for listing from home. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, good morning. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. Really do appreciate it. Ben, I'm still trapped in my broadcasting bedroom here.

You are? Yeah, still over Zoom for us? Yeah, it's a lonely time, isn't it? The internet gets a bit fumbly after 7 o'clock, I noticed. The neighborhood must jump on, jump onto the Wi-Fi. And I got angry at it yesterday. And then I had to, after the show, I was like, why am I getting so frustrated?

Like, this is amazing that we can do this. Well, true. You know, we get so angry at technology. But there are bigger problems in the world going on, aren't there? You know, like if you're told 1998, Jono, guess what you're going to be doing in 2022? Well, firstly, you're not going to have that hair on your head. And secondly, you're going to be sitting in a bedroom,

prank calling and having a laugh by yourself on the radio. But I had a meeting yesterday after the show, and it was one of those group zooms you know your uh mother Jenny she fell into a bit of a trap with a group zoom uh at a school meeting wasn't it yeah it was um my daughter Sienna was doing a school speech at the time we're in lockdown so no one could watch to come in to watch in person so they were like hey here's a zoom link anyone could watch but there's a whole lot of people obviously watching their kids, uh, do speeches. And so my mom, uh, joined in and that she also saw Amanda, my wife's mom on there as well. One of the many people. And then she decided

to have a conversation with, Oh, hi Joyce. How's it going? Everyone over the zoom till the teacher had to go, uh, ladies, uh, we're all hearing that. I love it so much because in real life, the comparison would be Jenny jumping on stage, grabbing the microphone and having a one-on-one chat with Joyce in front of the entire audience. My mum actually placed third in the speech competition though, so that was good. She did well.

But yesterday, so it was a big group meeting situation. You know, the person holding the meeting was like, hey, everyone just go on mute because it's going to get too noisy. So then there was two latecomers to the Zoom meeting. Okay, there's probably 30, 40 people on the Zoom meeting. And the person who was holding the Zoom was talking and they were doing their speech. And the newcomer hadn't put their microphone on mute

and they were reacting in real time to the speech going yeah right and things like this and responding and sort of critiquing as the speech was going on until I imagine they realized that they weren't on mute. So it's almost like kind of sarcastically, just kind of like, oh, this is it. Yeah, sort of second-guessing calls that were being made in the speech, and sort of commenting to someone off the side, going like, that's never going to happen.

Right. But then they got on mute. And then the best part was, and I don't want to throw stones, I've had a check in history with Zoom and technology. I haven't quite figured out the intricacies. But then they started up a chat. And from what I gather, I think they thought they were just chatting to one other person in the Zoom.

But their comments were going all through the main chat. It was popping up on the screen. What does she think she's doing? This is completely the wrong direction to head in. Full feedback. And then the person who was holding the speech was like, well, if there's any questions, we'll go to the comments. And I was like, dear God, please go to the comments, please.

I was sitting on the sidelines doing that thing that's mean when you're eating popcorn, you know? Oh, no. Oh, that's incredible. Did the person realise? Oh, they must have realised, but not said anything. I think they must have been getting texts off the side. You know how people send texts going, hey, mate.

That is so embarrassing. Nothing quite like a mass Zoom blowout is there to make you feel better about your life. It is the world we live in. You've got the hits. It is John Owen Behan. Now, of course, yesterday, almost 20,000 COVID-19 cases recorded in New Zealand.

We're not quite at the peak yet, apparently. Dr Ashley Bloomfield, again, as we were talking about earlier, had to come out and sort of, he sort of took the hit again, apologising for a few things that were going on. No sort of Labour Party insight. Yeah, no, I love it when they roll out, hey, Ashley, you take this one, big guy. Hey, but this is just bad news.

How come I only get sent out to do the bad news? Oh, it's better. You've got a nicer face. Better coming from you, mate. Sounds better, you know. Yeah, yeah. You've got a good delivery. Stuff like that. That's why Ben better, you know. Yeah, yeah. You've got good delivery. Yeah.

Stuff like that. That's why Ben always gets sent out to do the bad news about us, don't you? That's right. You can take it better. It feels like the journalists might take it a bit easier on Ashley. Now, speaking of all things COVID, you heard a wonderful story yesterday.

Random pashing. It's really taken a hit over the last couple of years, you would imagine. Handshaking and pashing have probably taken... Oh, you mean like if people were out in a club or a bar, that sort of thing? Yeah, I mean, I can't remember the last time I randomly pashed someone.

That's mainly due to marriage-based reasons. But I was talking to someone yesterday who their best friend randomly pashed someone on Saturdayurday night which seems like a huge game of russian roulette yeah and the next morning got a message on facebook going hey just so you know i just tested positive and now they have contracted it no way from the random pash it's been a bad period for phing It really has And it feels like You're a brave person to go for a random

Pash these days I would have thought Well it's probably changed the game a lot As far as you know meeting people In places as well Gotta be a bit more careful Suss them out first When was your last random pash Jude? Gosh probably a couple of years ago

That makes sense Do you mean like of someone I didn't know? When was your last random past, Drew? Oh, gosh. Probably a couple of years ago. Oh. That makes sense. Do you mean like of someone I didn't know? Yeah, someone you didn't know. Yeah, probably a couple of years ago, like in a nightclub or something. That's good. Pre-COVID, BC, before COVID. Do you think that's going to get to the stage where you're in a club, that sort of thing, you're like, hey, maybe there's something here.

Then you're like, let's take a rat's test. Show me a negative rat test. And then you go off, take a rat's test. You're like, I'm negative, I'm negative. Great. And then you're like let's take a rat's test and then you go off take a rat's test you're like i'm negative i'm negative great and then you're in this start hooking up do you think that's gonna happen maybe you know or the saliva test as well yeah well that's that's a random patch test isn't it that's a saliva test i had an idea too that we can do around this hash for cash so it's a competition where you line someone up at the start line of a 100-meter sprinting track, but every 10 meters there's someone they have to pash.

So you start with someone from the inner circle, maybe 10 meters in, it's their partner. He's been pitching this one for years. Has he? I haven't heard this before. I keep saying no to this but keep going 10 metres on it's the local courier driver Right

Beyond that it's maybe one of Juliet's friends she goes partying with Then at the 90 metre mark it's a protester from outside Parliament Oh god And the further down the line you get the more cash you get Oh I thought you were going to say I thought this was going to be like a Covid game Like the more people you pash The higher the risk of Covid the more cash you get. I thought you were going to say, I thought this was going to be like a COVID game, like the more people you pash, the higher the risk

of COVID, the more money you make. You know what I mean? If you're getting to the 90 metre mark with a protester, chances are you're catching it. That is true. Interesting. We'll put that one, hey, it's in the idea. It's in there.

When I first pitched it to Ben, it was like, cash for cash, start with your boyfriend, then you go to your boss. Oh, God. Then you go to your auntie, then you go to your uncle, and then the last one's your father. And he's like, it's too insensitive. That's a bit weird.

Like, it works well where I'm from in Masterton, but I think outside that, it's probably not going to work. If anything, that's a great night out. Hey, we got big news on the Queen coming up before 7 o'clock. She has been sick with COVID. How is she? We'll find out very shortly on the Hits. All right, Juliet, tell us

how the celebs have screwed up over the last 24 hours, matey. No one's screwed up hugely, but I do have an update on the Queen. So there was a little bit of speculation about whether Buckingham Palace was sort of covering up her death. We added to that speculation. We also did. With a salacious boomer rumour that we got from our boomer that likes to pass on rumours that said that she was dead.

Yeah. Although we talked to Gavin Gray, a UK royal correspondent, and he said, well, he couldn't prove she's not dead, which led us to fan those flames even further. Yeah. So we hadn't seen her in about nine days since her COVID diagnosis, but she is alive. She is well, and she is sort of recovering from COVID. She has returned to doing a Zoom sort of virtual duty,

I guess you could call it. And Prince Charles has also said today that the Queen is a lot better now as her COVID, her case of COVID was quite mild. But obviously at her age, she has to take it easy anyway. And I think that's the thing about COVID. I mean, it's obviously good news that the Queen's fine, firstly, but it's the thing that you talk to people

and some people are like, oh, I just had a sniffle, I had whatever, I was double vaccinated, I was fine. And the other people were like, one mate had to get an ambulance. I was talking to, I was double vaccinated, I was fine. And other people were like, one mate had to get an ambulance. I was talking, he was like, it was the sickest I've ever been in my life. He was like, it was brutal, you know. Yeah, there are varying degrees. And you know, you're locked down and you stick to the rules and it might not

necessarily be for you. It's for the community. Yeah, true. There's vulnerable people out there in the community who they can't afford to get it. Yeah. I'm sitting here at home. A picture of perfect health, aren't I, Ben Boyd?

That's right. You know? The Jason Statham of New Zealand, they call me. He panicked and had some Heineken before going into lockdown and he's good. I think that's what's killed all the virus, to be honest. But yeah, you're doing it for the wider community. Yeah, totally. And it's easy to be honest. But yeah, you're actually, you're doing it for the wider community. Yeah, totally. And it's easy to be selfish at this period in time.

I mean, I love nothing more than being in the room with my friend Ben and my friend Juliet, rubbing your faces, dancing around in circles. But you just can't do it, you know? Yeah, I know, I know. And Courtney Cox, she's got a 17-year-old daughter, Coco. And if you follow Courtney on Instagram, she often posts things with her daughter on the gram.

And she's posted videos of her and her daughter playing piano and stuff. But she says that she has to bribe her daughter to A, join her for these things on Instagram, and B, help her post on Instagram and keep up with all of the new Instagram features. And as a 17-year-old daughter, she basically has to bribe her by saying, you know, you can stay out later. You can eat dinner in your room with all sorts of things that 17-year-olds want. It's pretty much like us with you. Yeah, that's what I thought.

She is to Courtney Cox what you are to us. Yeah. Julia, how do I do this? I don't know where we'd be on social media without Julia, Ben. Yeah. Probably still on MySpace. Yeah, true. social media without Julie and Ben. Yeah. Probably still on MySpace. Bebo, you're right. Yeah.

Well, I'm glad I can be of some use. And that is your Spy Entertainment update for this hour. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock on the show, we want to find out, is Jono New Zealand's worst driver? Are there anyone out there that's worse than Jono? We'll find out in a few moments on the Hats. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history.

Jono and Ben on the Hats. Now, Jono, you're working out of home at the moment, but at the end of last week, you were in at work, and I told a story how I ran into someone who's doing some maintenance work here at work, and how that you almost ran that person over. Yeah, well, I didn't see them. So I don't know if this is true or not.

You've only heard one side of the story. Apparently he was in a high-vis vest. He couldn't have been more visible, had a high-vis hard hat on. And I just kept reversing my car to the point where, allegedly, again, I didn't see any of this, he was pressed up against the wall with his hands in the air saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, apparently. Yeah, that's what he said.

He seemed a little, even two or three days later, he seemed a little shaken up by it. But anyway. Well, if this happened or if this is an assassination on my driving and my character, then I will apologize. I want to say sorry. I asked if you knew who he was and you don't know. So when I get back, I'm just going to apologise

to everyone in a high-vis vest. And chances are I'll probably have nearly run them all over. Yeah. Well, there was an email that just came out yesterday saying don't park at the garage anymore and also watch out for people in the garage. And I was like, well, this could have been more directed at you. It was sent to the whole company, but I was like,

this is definitely an email just for Jono, but we've made sure the whole company know about it. Yeah, Jono, can you stop running over workers in the garage? And I understand that. I'm not the greatest driver, but I'm not aggressive. I'm not aggressive on the roads, but I won't have a confrontation, but I'm assertive. Okay.

Well, you're frenetic. You're all, you know, he's all over the place. He doesn't like to be in one lane. He's like, or, you know, he'll go through. We've talked about this before. He knows that a ways through the countdown and a car park and the fruit shop and the car wash to avoid lights and avoid traffic. You know, you don't like to sit still even for a second.

Yeah, I treat the roads like a sinking cruise ship, like the Titanic. It's every man, woman, and child for himself. And you do what you've got to do to get to where you need to go. And that's my theory. I mean, I got a text one day from producer Bee Humps. One afternoon, he's like, ha, ha, ha, I think you just cut me off. And I said back, chances are if you were cut off by anyone, it was definitely probably me.

And that could be said for probably a lot of people on the roads. So I have a theory you're New Zealand's worst driver. That's my theory. That you're the worst. I'm friendly at the same time though. Friendly doesn't mean good No I pick up hitchhikers Do you? Remember those two radio school kids I had to pick up and drop off at the radio school? Yeah but they were traumatised the time they got there because you were driving, erratic driving

In the car, I was traumatised, they're like can you get us a job? And I'm too kind and polite to say no so I was like yeah you're sure Because I think I gave the mike hoskings so yeah i wouldn't say it's aggressive i'm not going to yell out the window at you uh but i'm also probably going to cut you off you're the one that everyone's going to be yelling out the window at you that's what's going to happen yeah and then i'll and then i'll do that thing where you're like oh sorry sorry you put your hand out and then you feel bad for yelling at me. That's my theory. Oh, 100 of the hits I want to know this morning.

4487, are you New Zealand's worst driver? Have you had an incident that could maybe make Jono feel slightly better about almost running over a poor person with an Ivers vest in the garage? How do we know? He was poor. No one knows. No one else was there. If there's footage of it, then I'll admit to it. We'll find out after LAB.

It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Good morning. Jono Pryor, I have a theory, New Zealand's worst driver. In fact, we've been talking about you, Jono. I'm wondering if we should make him reset his driver's license test at some stage of the next couple of weeks. I'll do that. Oh, okay. I'm wondering if we should make him reset his driver's license test at some stage of the next couple of weeks.

I'll do that. Oh, okay. I'll put my good note down. This is not like a punishment or a prank. I'll happily do it, and I'll happily pass. The practical and, of course, the written, you know. Now, do I have to behave like I behave when there's no driving instructor in the car, or do I behave like a teenager who just wants

to get there restricted? Well, that's true. Obeying all the rules. I do admit though, remember I had an old car from 1976. It was an old Holden Kingswood. And the doors, the door would just fly open. What? When you're driving? When you turn the corner, sometimes the passenger door would fly open oh my god that is so one time i was going over the harbour bridge and the door flew open the passenger door so i'm on the driver's side picture this on the inside lane of the harbour bridge the door's flung open there's wind blowing

in it's kind of like vin diesel and fast and furious and i'm having to lean over and try and pull the door i couldn't reach the door oh my god then. Oh my goodness. You know how you swerve to try and get momentum to shut the door? So if you saw me that day, question marks would have been hanging over. And I'll admit that was a black mark on my driving career, Ben. The distinguished driving career

that you have. I feel like I'm Lewis Hamilton out there. Or maybe Lewis the Bogan from Hamilton. Now Jill's on the phone. She wants to make you feel better about her driving. Jill, good morning. What happened to you? I was driving up to the snow farm up in Kadrona.

Yeah. You know, the cross-country ski area. And my husband was working up there, and he rang and said, go real careful. There's a lot of black ice around the pines, which is where there's some trees on the wee bends there. And to be fair, I do drive quite slow. And I was quite slow.

And the kid said, Mum, there's a police car. And he's doing his thing. So, yeah, so I was pulled over. And he told off for going too slow. Oh, going too slow? Oh, you got a ticket for driving too slow. Wow, okay. I didn't get a ticket.

I got a proper telling off. So compare yourself to, say, a nana on her way to lawn bowls, 10.30 in the morning. How slow were you going? Probably about that. Oh, that is slow. There's some ripper nanas out there, isn't there? You know?

And then I went up and did my thing, and then I came back, and I thought, right, I'm not having that. So I went back to the police station, and I said, oh, look, I don't think I was doing the wrong thing. I think I was doing the right thing. I said, I think I was doing the right thing. And the policeman gave the kids some stickers and said, your mum's all right.

Oh. Yeah, mum's all right. Oh. Yeah, I'm all right. So you demanded an apology after the telegraph. Yeah, kind of. Because I kind of, you know, it was really ropey conditions. It gets like that. And, yeah, so at the time I kind of thought I was doing the right thing. So I went and demanded my stickers.

I love that. You drive away and you're like, you know what? I'm going to go. I'm going to drive back to the police station slowly, but not too slowly, and tell them I was doing the right thing. Did you talk to the actual officer that gave you the warning or not? Yeah, yeah. Oh, you did?

Yeah, yeah. It's kind of a small town, so you kind of know. I kind of knew of him. We weren't friendly, but I knew that, you know. You knew where to get an apology from. Yeah, basically, yeah. Yeah, good on you. There we go.

Told off by the police for driving too slow. Thanks very much for your call, Jill. We appreciate it. On the text machine, Jono. 4487, someone's mother who has had a record 19 car insurance claims through various dings and dents and accidents over the years 19 and might i remind you ben boys uh i'm getting harangued by a gentleman who's written off two cars in his own driveway yeah okay it's not about me right now it's about you and it's about all i did was nearly hit a guy in high

vision the garage to see if you can pass your driver's license test we'll be making him do that within the next week it is the hits you got john the annoying ones talking between the songs john and ben on the hits close contacts is a game that we play it's got nothing to do with the omicron outbreak it's just to do do with close contacts that we have in our phones. It's very awkward. Well, it would be less awkward, I reckon, having to call someone and telling them that you had COVID and you'd been in contact. It would be less awkward than what we're about to do. Oh, it's been pretty awkward.

We give each other our phone contact lists, and then we call someone. We don't know who the other person has called, And then we have to work out who the person is. Last week, well, I finally got there. Here's a wee cut down. It was a very big star. But it took me a while to work it out. In voice? Yes, it is.

How are you, my man? Good. How are you? Good. What else has been happening with you? Not too much, really. We've just been really enjoying summer. When you say we, what do you mean we?

My wife, Maddie, and I. Oh, it's a heart green. It's a heart green. Yeah, it's that feeling of going into a conversation completely blind, like when you engage with someone and you're spending the majority of the time trying to remember their name and figure out where you know them from. It's exactly that scenario, but on the phone.

And a lot of these numbers that we call, I think, why on earth do I have that person's number? I have no right having those contact details on my phone. I don't know how I got them. You're right. Well, this particular person, because we've gone through the phone today. I don't know if this person will answer. This has gone through your phone contacts.

But also, we're like, why do you have this person's number? I don't know if this person will answer. This has gone through your phone contacts, but also we're like, why do you have this person's number? I don't think you've ever called them before. No. To be honest, knowing me, it's probably just showing off. Look whose number I've got. It's definitely for work purposes, but let's give them a call and let's see if you can work out who this person is. Oh God.

It's exciting. Hello? It's exciting. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hi. How are you? Hello.

I'm good, thank you. Who's this? It's Jono. How are you going? Pardon? Radio Jono. Radio Jono. how are you going pardon radio jono radio jono yeah radio jono how are you yeah sorry uh how's the family yeah well jono how's your family darling good no they're good they're good we're actually in a isolation at the moment we've got COVID in the house. Oh, you poor thing.

That's fine. Are they feeling all right? They're not doing too badly with the lipstick cover? No, they're doing all right. Is this Hillary Berry? Yes. It's Hillary Berry. Now, Hillary,

you're part of a sick radio game that Ben invented called Close Contact. And he's picked a number out of my phone and dialed you. And I didn't know who he was calling. He had to work out who he was talking to, Hilary. And, geez, that was awkward. Hilary, you're so. You're pausing. So as I'm going, is that radio?

Yeah. And he's like. Well, who the hell are you? Why are you taking a that radio? He's like, well, who the hell are you? Why are you kicking your buggers? He's like, radio. Radio Jono. You shouldn't have answered the number, Hilary. That's your first mistake.

I know. And so many times I don't. And you're so good with our vague conversation. You're very concerned about my family's health and well-being, Hilary. Can I just ask, are they in isolation and are they okay? They are in isolation. And I'm just sitting in a room doing prank calls to Hilary Barry.

You took a while to work it out. I'm glad everybody's all right. I thought you would have recognized the voice a bit quicker, Jono. So Hilary, listen, you didn't need to be dragged down to this level. No.

No, I'm so glad I answered, because honestly, I love you guys. So, had I known it was you on the phone, I would have answered it. Oh, Hilary. We love you too, Hilary. The nicest lady in New Zealand. We'll even talk to a guy who's sort of fumbling his way through a conversation.

Hilary, were you kind of like, why is he calling me? What is the point of this? Well, the other thing too is he sounded quite serious. So I genuinely thought that something terrible might have happened or that we knew someone in common who might... Anyway, my mind started racing thinking something awful's happened. He's about to break some terrible news to me. Or is he about to ask me for money or something?

Hilary Barry, love your work. You keep well. You too. Bye, darling. Bye. So good. Today's close contact, Hilary Barry. Hey, next on the show, I found out the term.

If that I say to my wife, that really gets her quite upset. But if it's the same for you, we'll find out after this on the hits I'm waiting on It's Jono and Ben but FYI, Ben is open to other options. Jono and Ben on the hits Lewis Capaldi, 722 it is the hits, you got Jono and Ben

now I say something to my wife that I feel like it's a term of endearment and she feels like it's a term of endearment and she feels like it's a little bit sounding patronising. Is it sugar cheeks? No, no, it's not. Hey, sugar cheeks.

It's not the 1950s. I imagine there are words for everyone that sort of get them a little bit like, I guess a little bit rolled up. You go like oh, like when someone calls me champ. Oh, yeah. You don't like champs. You think it's so condescending.

Yeah. I'm not a champ. And so for my wife, it's when I call her mate. Oh, yeah. Is that the trigger word? It's like, but I do and sometimes go, oh, all right, mate. Or, yeah, okay, mate. You know, like that.

When you say it, is it like in a sarcastic, oh, thanks, mate. Oh, yeah, mate. Like kind of like that? Or is it like an accidental fully, oh, mate, you know, like that. When you say it, is it like in a sarcastic, oh, thanks, mate, oh, yeah, mate, like kind of like that, or is it like an accidental fully, oh, shoot, I'm sorry, I accidentally called you mate? No, it's probably like the first way, is it? A little sarcastic. Maybe a touch of sarcasm, but also mate is a nice thing, right? He's throwing a Molotov cocktail on a fire.

He knows what's happening. And it always, no matter what relationship, it always gets the same response. Mate? You couldn't? Mate? Always, but you can cover it if it is an accidental one and not one to inflame the situation.

You can cover it with like, oh, no, I was saying babe. You just misheard mate. But then sometimes you get, well, I've never heard babe spelt M-A-T-E. Yeah. All rightheard mate. But then sometimes you get, well, I've never heard babe spelt M-A-T-E. Yeah. All right, mate. You know, like, get out, mate. You know, like that sort of thing.

Mate just feels like a nice thing to do. But there is a word that everyone seems to get a little miffed by if you get called by someone else. Yeah. Do you get upset when I call you mate Juliet? Nah, nah, that's fine. That's fine. Because that's what it is, you know? Do you get upset when Ben calls you sweet cheeks?

No, I don't call anyone sweet cheeks. I don't. All right, mate. All right, mate. Hey, sweet cheeks, go get Dad a coffee, would you? Wrap him up, mate. All right, wrap him up. Coming up, we've got your chance to win $5,000

with 5 Words for $5,000. And don't forget if you hear Justin Bieber ghost before 8 o'clock, owe $800 the hits to win your rent or mortgage paid for an entire year. 5 Words for $5,000. You're just 5 words away from $5,000. It is our Game of Word Association. We play

every morning around about this time on the hits. Match all 5 words. With five words, you win five grand. And we've got Mitch on the phone from Wellington. Welcome to 0800 The Hits, Mitch Morena. Hello. Great to have you on, Mitch. We're giving away a lot of cash. We're giving away more cash in this than I've had invasive rods up my nose. And thankfully, because we're giving away 60,000. In fact, Mitch, how many

tests have you had? What's that, sorry? How many tests have you had? Rat tests. I actually had one this morning. How are you feeling? Bloody good. Bloody good. That's good. Well, hopefully we can make you feel even better with $5,000. I'm going to head off to the soundproof

booth because I'm in the studio. Hand it over to you, Jono. Alright, Mitch. Let's do it. $5,000. What would you spend this money on, mate? Oh, probably just sort of save it, eh? Okay. Sensible with his finances. We've locked Ben into the chamber, the chamber of secrets, which is the soundproof booth. It's like the workplace confessional, that thing. And you know what you need to do, Mitch. You need to match five words with him. The first word that comes into Mitch's sweet noggin when I say frock. What was the word, sorry?

Frock. Frock? F-R-O-C-K. Ooh. It's a 70% swear word. You want to come back to frock? No worries. Suds was word number two for you, Mitch.

What was that? Sorry? Suds. S-U-D-S. S-U-D-S. Um. Ooh. I don't want to put words in your mouth.

I'd maybe go soapy. Soap. Yeah, we'll go soapy then. Okay, soap suds. Porch was word number three for you, Mitch. Porch. That's the one. I'll go deck.

Deck. The fourth word for Mitch as he embarks on this $5,000 journey of discovery. Winter. Cold. And sport. What's word number five this morning, Mitch? We'll go rugby. All righty, and you want to just get back to word number one?

A frocking hard word to crack is frock. What do you reckon? Oh, what word do you reckon you're throwing in my mouth there? You want me to put words in your mouth? It's not really the environment to chuck words in other people's mouths, is it, nowadays with COVID? No, that's true. Frock, Juliet, come in here as well.

Are we sort of in the realm of a blouse? I wouldn't say that. It's something that probably a woman would probably more likely wear. I'm Googling it. What was that? Sorry? What about dress? How do you reckon that would go?

Yeah, I reckon that's a good answer. Yeah, good. It's been 10. All right, dress it is. Can I just quickly double check something? Did you say soapy or soap for suds? We went soap. Soap, cool, perfect.

I love it how Mitch, we're playing a team game here today, isn't it? It's a collective effort. We went, we went, and we will release Ben from the soundproof booth as he comes out to match five words with you, Mitch. Welcome back, Ben Boyce. Good to be back. All I could see was producer Bee Humps through the window that I could see just smiling away through that.

It sounds like you guys had a lot of fun with what was going on there. Yeah, did you confess anything in the booth? Me? No. Yeah. No, not at all. You didn't confess that you stole Juliet's vogels out of the work fridge last week? That was good vogels. Did you actually? Yeah, it was nice. I was hungry. Oh my god! That's okay, I forgive you.

It's alright. Okay, let's do it. Match five words with Mitch's, and Ben, I won't lie, it was a team effort this morning. Okay, alright. Okay, so's do it. Match five words with Mitch's. And Ben, I won't lie, it was a team effort this morning. Okay. All right. So it was Mitch, Juliet and me. Okay. We all helped each other out.

We'll split the money three ways if you win, all right? Okay, the first word was frock. Frock. There was a lot of debate over frock and a lot of wondering what a frock was. Do you know what a frock is? Yeah, dress. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, cool.

One from one. Second word was suds. Suds. Soap. Soap suds. Nice. Word number three, porch. Oh, dick.

Oh, my God, Mitch. Not bad. What was the arrangement if he does match? Are we splitting three ways? I think we are, yeah. Okay, all right. We'll go on to word number four, winter. Cold?

Oh, my God. Oh my god. Oh, you guys have played a really good team effort then. Okay, I'm going to put Mitch on hold because it's the last one. And the careless whisper rule, which has come into play a couple of times. We don't want to eject Mitch from the game brutally. Okay, the fifth. The fifth has got a cannon pointed at my face just in case I get this. It's making me nervous.

That's nothing to do with the game. It's a confetti cannon. All right. That's nothing to do with the game. It's a confetti cannon. All right. That's just to keep you on edge. The fifth and final word to win Mitch $5,000. Sport. There's lots of options for sport. Game? Game?

Mitch! Oh Mitch, we're close! What did Mitch say? Rugby. Oh yeah, great sport. Listen, Mitch, this isn't your loss, this is our loss. Oh bugger. We're so close Mitch, I'm so sorry about that. No, you played well.

Oh, you played well, too. It was a good team effort by the sound of it. We almost got there. Yeah, all of it together. All right, we'll meet you in the showers after the game, Mitch. Yeah. Have yourself a great day, Mitch. We really appreciate you listening to the show, buddy.

Awesome. Thank you very much. See you later. We're so close. It can be done. Your chance to win tomorrow. Coming up, a big news story that Johno Pryor needs to stick around for. Who was this song?

Oh, it's Justin Bieber. Ghost. What does that mean? It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. One year, no rent, no mortgage. The hits. Live free. With onits, live free.

With oneroof.co.nz. I keep saying this, but it is an amazing prize. You can get your rent or mortgage paid for an entire year thanks to oneroof.co.nz. Just listen out for the songs throughout the day when you hear it, 0800 THE HITS, and you're in the draw. Yeah, and a lot of very happy bank managers in pinstripe suits listening to this competition.

Because, Tanya, you could be living rent-free or mortgage-free for a whole year. That would be awesome. That would be amazing. We always ask what you would do with the money, the extra money. But you probably haven't had a lot of time to think about it. But do you have any ideas what you'd do? Oh, yeah, I've been thinking about this a lot. A couple of years ago, about February 2020,

we were about to book a nice trip overseas for a significant birthday, and then COVID happened. So we didn't book it. But now we can again, because we can travel. You could be tanning those sweet, sweet cheeks in Rarotonga. All on the hits. Now, while you're there, Tanya, I'm also pitching another competition. We're doing Live Free at the moment.

But the next one I want to do, and Ben's a bit, you're apprehensive, Live Clothes Free for a year. Live Clothes Free. No, we're not doing Live Clothes Free. Okay. God bless. That's just an excuse. Would you be interested in that?

Sure. There you go. See, it's a good idea, no. God, that's... That's just an excuse. Would you be interested in that? Okay. Oh, sure. There you go. See, it's a good idea, Ben. He doesn't want to... He keeps wiping it off the brainstorming board. Tanya, you are in the draw for living free, thanks to One Roof. You hold the line, all right?

Thank you. You're also in the draw for the clothes free. I know. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz All right, she has her fingers in spies. It's the one and only Julie.

I'm not talking like James Bond or anything. I was just trying to tie in the title of your segment there, Julie. What's happening in entertainment news? So Benny is another person to contract COVID. She announced on Instagram she's isolating because of it. Luckily, though, she'll have plenty of time to recover before she goes on tour. She's due to tour Europe and the US in May and June this year. So relatively soon, but yeah, enough time to recover.

And then she's returning to New Zealand to play shows later on in the year. But another person with the crown. Hey, this next story, Jono, this is nothing. I know you're going to hear this from Juliet and you'll be like, oh, no, this is an entertainment story because it's there for entertainment. Can I take a stab in the dark? Does it have to do with hair follicles? Oh, it does, but I knew that you'd make it all about yourself. Right now it's about Matthew McConaughey, okay,

and let him have his moment and don't make this about you because it's not. It's only in there because this is an entertainment big story. Shall I go into the big story? So Matthew McConaughey has said that a doctor slash surgeon claimed credit for giving him a hair transplant in the late 90s. But he never actually got a hair transplant. Instead, Matthew McConaughey, to grow his hair back, he uses an ointment every day for regrowth and said he did it all by himself and that no, no

surgeon gave him a hair transplant even if photos look like he did get one. So if a friend of mine wanted that ointment this miracle ointment, did he say any place he could get the ointment from? I'll do some research and I can pass it on to you and you can pass it

on to your friends. So far Ben has tried everything. He's rubbed mayonnaise into my head, sriracha, trident sweet chilli. He's tried them all. I'm looking at a list here as I zoned out of you talking about another bald man having a passive-aggressive He's not bald, mate. He's not bald.

Zoned in 39 celebrities who you never knew had hair transplants. Elon Musk. Oh, yeah. Well, he's got the money to do it, you imagine? Yeah. Gordon Ramsay.

No, I didn't know that. Did you know Jamie Foxx? Really? LeBron James. If you got one, the whole world would know. Ben Affleck. Really? Oh, you wouldn't even know, would you?

No. Most of the time you wouldn't. You're right. But you definitely know. If I turn up on, when I get out of this lockdown in my house, and you're like, how was lockdown? And I turn up with a luscious head of hair, you'll think that I've shot it off to Bangkok or something to get a cheap hair transplant.

You know, I can't do it. You can't go from bald to hair. Yeah, I know what you mean. It needs to be like if you're slowly, slowly losing your hair, you can't do it. You can't go from bald to hair. Yeah, I know what you mean. It needs to be like if you're slowly, slowly losing your hair, you need to, you can't let it go, you know? Yeah, jump on it early. Exactly. Jump on it early.

That train departed to Hairville a long time ago, the hair loss train for me. And that is your Spy Entertainment update for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Hey, after eight o'clock, we do something called Liar Liar. We get two people on. One is telling the truth and one is telling a lie. Today, I can't wait for this. One is claiming they found a briefcase with $50,000 in it.

The other is claiming her dad was the biggest TV star in the world. We'll find out who's lying after 8 in the hits. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. On the hits. Liar Liar. We get two people on on one is telling the truth one is telling a lie and all together we need to work it out on four four eight seven who's telling the truth and who's telling a lie it's kind of like labor and national one of them's

lying one of them's telling the truth you never know who yeah you're right never figure it out in the game of politics and joining us on 0800 The Hitch this morning is Gemma. Now, what is your statement for Liar Liar, Gemma? So I have found a suitcase when I was living in Canada. And in the suitcase, I found $50,000. Oh. Did you take the briefcase or did you return it to the police? With this $50,000, I looked for the owner.

I tried to find. I contacted police. So did you get any of the money? Was there a reward? So I kept waiting for them to call me back. And I said, you know, I called them regularly. You know, after the time they called me and said, hey, here's the reward. You can keep the $50,000 in the suitcase.

So you got to keep the $50,000? Yeah, I did. $50,000 in a suitcase. Wow. It seems unbelievable to me, but maybe telling the truth is Gemma there. It seems like some unsavory people would want that suitcase back, but who am I to say? Okay, Gemma. And we've got Taylor online too.

What's your statement, Taylor? Hey, guys. So my dad actually holds the record for the most watched TV star in the world. Your dad is the most watched TV star. Now, the good thing that producer Humphrey does is he gets international voices on to sometimes stumble us. Are you an actor with an American voice? No, I am not.

What's your dad's name? My dad's name is David. David? You're not giving us any more than that. Okay, so David... Duchovny? That's all I'm going to give you.

Is it David Hasselhoff? That's it, guys. That's all I'm going to give you. Hasselhoff? Is it David Hasselhoff? I think you're right. David Hasselhoff's daughter on the phone? I don't know. David Hasselhoff's daughter? Okay. Okay, wow.

All right. This is really throwing us this morning. So I'll enter the hits. 4, 4, 8, 7. Who's lying? Who's telling the truth? We'll be back with part two next. Every time you come around

you know i can't say no rated m for mildly amusing jonah and ben on the hits jonah and ben we're in the middle of liar liar two statements both outrageous one is telling the truth and one is telling a lie let's recap quickly jemma, what was your statement? That I found $50,000 in a suitcase, kept it for three years, and I was allowed to keep it. Okay. And Taylor is joining us too. Your statement, Taylor? My dad holds the record for the most watched TV star in the entire world. She's saying her dad is David Hasselhoff.

Oh, I wish my dad was David Hasselhoff. No offense, Kevin. No offense, Kevin Boyce. But he wishes you were David Hasselhoff. Oh, I wish my dad was David Hasselhoff. No offence, Kevin. No offence, Kevin Boyce, but he wishes you were David Hasselhoff. Yeah. Now, there's text coming in on 4487, a lot of feedback, and they're just going on logistics. They're going on the fact that Taylor sounds like she's further away than Gemma. Okay.

Therefore making her more believable with the international sounding phone line. So Gemma, are you lying about the $50,000? I am lying. You are lying. Get the hell out of here. Get out of here, Gemma. What a waste of our time.

Well done. You almost fooled us. Great story. Some good details too there. So that means Taylor, you are Taylor Hasselhoff, I'm guessing? Yes, I am. My name is Taylor Hasselhoff.

My dad is David. Your dad is David Hasselhoff and you are Taylor Hasselhoff. Wow, so nice to meet you. Taylor Ann Hasselhoff, Google's telling me. Yes, that's me, guys. Did you know you're 1.73 metres tall?

Am I? Yeah. Am I? Your mum's name's Pamela. Yeah, and you're reflecting recently on artificially inseminating a cow. That's the first thing that popped up. Where did that happen?

We ought to love that, yeah. That happened a couple weeks ago. That was fun. Right, you put your hand inside a cow. How deep do you go? Yeah, I mean you go pretty deep. I would say a couple inches past your hand inside a cow. How deep do you go? I mean, you go pretty deep. I would say a couple of inches past your hand. But I've never done that before,

but artificial insemination is definitely a way of life on a ranch, so we had to get our hands dirty. Well, we're just being panic-handed some information here from our producer so we know what we're actually talking to you about, Taylor. Producer Humphrey's pointing at the screen. Ben's looking bamboozled. our producer so we know what we're actually talking to you about taylor uh producer humphries pointing at the screen ben's looking bamboozled so relatively famous uh a new show uh tell us about it because obviously we were very under prepared because we didn't realize we were talking to someone as cool as you all good um yeah so um i went with seven other um celebrities kids

um on a ranch it was an eight thousand acre ranch so who else was on a ranch. It was an 8,000-acre ranch. So who else was on the ranch with you? So there were seven other bunkmates. You have comedian Martin Lawrence's daughter. You had EVE's daughter. Tequila Neal's son was on it. Billy Bob Sorten's son. Oh, it sounds awesome.

It's going to be on E. We understand in New Zealand you can check it out, relatively famous ranch rules. What was it like growing up as David Hasselhoff's child? Oh, it sounds awesome. It's going to be on E! We Understand in New Zealand. You can check it out, Relatively Famous Ranch Rules. What was it like growing up as David Hasselhoff's child? Because, I mean, Baywatch was such a huge show worldwide. You know, for me, it was actually pretty cool because I went to school not too far away from the set of Baywatch. And I was about two years old when my dad started. And it lasted 11 years.

So I kind of grew up on that set every day when i would finish school my mom would take us to the set and we would just you know hang out and did your dad learn any actual lifeguarding skills so if you were drowning could he save you actually 100 um in order to be on the show you really did have to learn cpr and how to rescue somebody really you never knew when you were on set what could happen, and it was a liability. So he is a water fish. I mean, he's the type of guy that will just go in the middle of the ocean.

There'll be great white sharks. He'll jump in the water with them. He loves the thrill. He'll do anything he can to get in the water. Wow. So your dad, of course, as you say, Mitch Buchanan, famous character. He was Knight Rider as well, a singer. You didn't want to follow in his footsteps, I understand.

I'm just reading here you got into real estate. Yeah, you know, when I was younger, I was around, obviously, the entertainment business a lot. My sister, she was an actress. My mom met my dad on the set of Knight Rider. She was an actress. I kind of wanted to get into something that could be really cool to people, and that was real estate. And I got my crack at it and um haven't looked back since how's the indoor outdoor flow going the indoor outdoor flow it's

always like a real estate thing you read on every no not your indoor outdoor flow it's either an entertainer's delight or indoor outdoor flow sorry that was a weird question it was yeah i haven't heard that one. Well, put that on your next home. I saw you sold one in Venice a few weeks ago. Maybe you should put a lovely indoor-outdoor flow because it's got a pool and then you open, you can open up the ranch sliders and there you go. So, you know, you can put that on your next real estate ad.

There you go. Yeah, I just want to clarify, that is a term we use here in New Zealand, indoor-outdoor flow. It must have been at times where, as a child, it was a bit of a pain in the ass having famous parents, I imagine. You know, I think it comes with the territory. I grew up not knowing anything else. When I was in my mom's stomach, my dad was singing on the Berlin Wall in 1989. When I was born, it was like he was kind of the height of his his career and his fame and so I

didn't really know anything but that um but yeah I mean there are times sometimes when it can get a little crazy and you'll be you know going out to dinner and you just kind of want to spend time with your dad you haven't seen him in a while because he's been working a lot and there's always a hysteria around it but I feel like because I grew up like that, if no one's recognizing him, I'm like, something is weird, something is off. He's just going to get raised that way. You're just used to eating dinner with 20 paparazzi with their faces pressed against

a window. Kind of. Hey, listen, Taylor, lovely meeting you, wonderful chat, and you keep safe over there, and don't forget that indoor-outdoor flow. Okay, guys, I'll use it on my next real estate discussion. Thank you, guys. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion.

Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. There's the hits, Jono and Ben, this morning in Parliament, just outside Parliament. The protesters seem to be met by a whole lot of police, many in riot gear. And we're joined right now by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern. Good morning.

Good morning. How are you? We're doing all right. It's all going Parliament today. Are you there? No, no, no. I'm not in the building at the moment. But thankfully, we've all got the ability to work remotely at the moment. Finally, we can get rid of those pesky protesters off the front lawn. Well, I think the biggest thing for us has been that, you know, we've still been able to access the building and do what we need to do. But, you know, it's really affected.

There's a couple of schools nearby and it's really affected them. It's really affected businesses. People coming and going have been abused for wearing masks. You know, it has had a huge impact. Is the plan today just that they're going? Well, obviously, all of those decisions, the way that the protest has been managed all the way through is up to the police. We have a really important separation that's long existed between politicians and the police.

We can't direct them on how to execute an operation or how to enforce the law, which is a really important separation of powers. You wouldn't want politicians being able to do that. So that does mean that all the decisions about when they would move the protesters or how they would move the protesters all sits with them at the moment. They've obviously decided it's time to move everyone on. They've obviously issued trespass notices have been issued and you can hear people being warned that they need to move on

or run the risk of arrest. Now it is sort of an unusual time for the country. We've gone from sort of trying to keep COVID out to sort of living with it. Are you personally, do you get worried about catching COVID? You travel around, you're on planes, I imagine quite a lot.

Do you think about that a bit? Look, I think every New Zealander would be on their mind. But I mean, the reason that we've been able to shift the way we do things is, you know, two years ago and on the 28th of February, it was two years to the day that we had our first COVID case. We want people to be vigilant because actually if everyone gets Omicron at once, it places a huge burden on our health system and our health workers. But we know that as an illness for most people, particularly if you're vaccinated, it's a mild to moderate illness. So we don't have to be as fearful, but we do still want people to be careful and just try to keep themselves and their family well. Does it feel like we're a little underprepared for Omicron?

No, not at all. As I say, I can't think of, in fact, there's no country that I know of that has managed to get as much of its population boosted before we've had a large-scale outbreak. And we managed to do that. The measures we took at the border gave us that extra time. Now, of course, it doesn't mean it's going to be perfect because we've had to scale up to a large number of cases quite quickly. There will be bumps and we've seen that, but otherwise really important stuff like vaccines were in place. Now, Jacinda Ardern, every now and again, we run into someone who's like, oh, you guys, you're not tough enough on the prime minister. I hear you. You asked softball questions. So right

now I want to put a couple of tough questions to you, Jacinda, right? You say that every time. Okay. We say that every time and then they're never tough. These are tough questions. We'll give you a hard time

every time. I'm sorry about that. Jacinda Ardern, no, he's a tough... Stop, stop. Right now, he's a tough question. Talk over,

all talk over each other. It sounds like we're arguing. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, socks, where do they go missing when you wash clothes, you end up with one sock? Where do they go?

Oh, honestly, when I had my first national security briefing, I thought that would be the top line of the briefing. But as yet, I'm still, I still am completely unaware. Before we get to these protesters, let's find this missing sock.

Straws to Cinda Ardern. One hole or two holes at either end? I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. A straw, like you drink from a straw. Yeah. Try not to avoid their question. Answer the question, Jacinda. You've heard it.

Don't stall. So you've got a straw, either side. Is it one continuous hole or two holes, one at either end? Oh, I would have said two, but now you've pointed out it probably is one continuous. I would have instinctively probably said two. I can see Crack's starting to appear in her leadership, Ben Boyce. Here's another one. Sock, shoe, sock, shoe, or sock, sock, shoe, shoe?

Sock, sock, shoe, shoe. Sock, sock, shoe, shoe. And your final tough, shoe, shoe. Sock, sock, shoe, shoe. And your final tough question, Jacinda Ardern, which one is Jono and which one is Ben? Yeah, you do this every time. No one knows. No one knows. Keep the mystery alive, guys.

Jacinda Ardern, I can imagine it's a very, very full-on time at the moment. Do you find with everything that you have to remember, you forget about some stuff in your life um uh yes um i forgot our anniversary oh oh really you forgot okay i did yep i did um at what moment during the day did you realize was it when clark handed you over a box of roses and you were like, dear God. He sent me a message just as I was going into a cabinet committee. Do you have people to sort of like deploy in that

situation? To go out there and whip past a petrol station or something? No, I just had to own it. There was no wriggling out of it. There was no backup. No, it was all on me. You need a panic present committee. Jacinda Ardern,

thank you so much for your time. We really do appreciate it and all the best for the next few weeks, the challenging few weeks. Thank you guys. Look after yourselves too. That is a little bit of a love for you now, Tom Grennan. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of.

Jono and Ben on the hits. I love Tom Grennan. Talked a lot about him this week. We had a meeting about Tom. Did we have a meeting about Tom Grennan? You were like, no disrespect to the Grennan household. Yeah, yeah. That's right.

I just wasn't aware. It's one of those songs you know and you love, but you're like, I wouldn't have known it was Tom Grennan. But now I do. So we're never going to forget that name, all right? Yeah, and I and you love, but you're like, I wouldn't have known it was Tom Grennan, but now I do. So we're never going to forget that name, all right? Yeah, and I tell you what, Tom Grennan has never been mentioned so much on Run Radio Show as right now. Now, Ben, I'm broadcasting from home. You mentioned it a few times. There's COVID in the family. We're strapped down, bunkered down, and spoken at length about

his pros of isolation. Dream scenario for you, I'd imagine. It is, you know, free pass out of any unwanted events. People drop off supermarket shopping. And I found another great pro yesterday. So, as you know, charity. I'm a charitable guy. I donate to a lot of charity, Red Nose Day, Daffodil Day,

the annual Wikipedia drive, all the big charities. And I was on the front lawn, and a guy comes up to me. He comes up to the fence, and he starts talking like he knows you. And it's a great play from the charity worker, where you think you're talking maybe as someone you went to school with, as someone that you've met through work, but then you see them holding a clipboard into the conversation. Maybe is it someone you went to school with? Is it someone that you've met through work? But then you see them holding a clipboard into the conversation.

And you know that's going to be a ball like 100% of the time when you see a clipboard. So this has been, I imagine, quite a social distance chat. So even if you're quite far away, you're like, do I actually know this person or not? Yeah, he befriended. And you go through all the stages of confusion thinking uh maybe i worked with them maybe uh they're an extended family member you try and figure it out until you do see that clipboard and then you know the motivation

okay and it was at that moment uh the person who has covid in the family came out and i said oh listen we can't because they've tested positive and at that moment i realized this is the greatest deterrent once you drop the omicron bomb for any pesky door knocker collector charity worker je worker, Jehovah's Witness. It's the ultimate get out of jail free card. Yeah, I mean, no one wishes COVID upon their family. Or is that what you're wishing? I mean, he's not going to pull out a rod and shove it up your nose and do a rat test.

He or she is not going to know if you have or haven't got it. All I'm saying is it's an option now. It's an excuse. So, Ben, I know you sometimes avoid supermarkets because there's people lingering out the front door. Sometimes you'll drive into a car park, you'll see a charity worker and keep driving. Oh, yeah, I have done that.

I don't have time. You know, when you're in a thing, you're like, I don't have time for that right now, but I do, you know, I respect what they're doing. I respect what you're doing. My brother is one of these people. Good on them. And Ben respects them.

I do respect what they're doing. But sometimes I'm like, I don't have time in my day for this right now. Yeah, well, respect isn't going to put food in mouths, Ben. No, they're doing great work. They're doing better work than me. All I'm saying is now you can go to the supermarket. They come up to you. Sorry, mate, Omicron. Yeah, but you wouldn't be out in the community, would you?

Well, you're not meant to be, that's for sure. Well, then they're definitely going to keep away from you. I like to put out options, okay? Whether you use this or not, it's over to you. Oh, no, God. It is a hit. She got Jono and Ben. They're not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, She got Jono and Ben. And not afraid to use the F word.

Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. It is a hit. Jono and Ben, Cake by the Ocean, almost the end of our show. Obviously, outside Wellington right now, there's a whole lot going on with the protesters being met by our right police. Things look pretty scary outside there. But with other news, here's Scrolling Through Your Feed. Scrolling Through Your Feed. Scrolling Through Your Feed.

With news we're not afraid to tackle. Here's Ben Boyce with Scrolling Through Your Feed. Well, Dame Valerie Adams retired yesterday with an amazing, amazing career. I mean, she won gold in Beijing Olympics and also London Olympics. She got a silver medal in Rio. She got a bronze in Tokyo. Four-time world champion three-time commonwealth games champion she is incredible what an amazing career born 6th of

october 1984 193 centimeters tall okay some great stats great great stats now um we've managed to acquire her phone number last week we tried to live call lisa carrington after she won the hellberg uh and so this morning i've pitched that we we live call Dame Val to congratulate her on a distinguished and illustrious career. We need to organize these interviews. She was on Laura, you know, Brad and Laura's show yesterday. They organized an interview. She talked to them. You know, we could have done that.

Well, we didn't. We're not as organized as them. And we've never claimed to be the most organized show in the market, but we're a show, and we're going to call her now. And we are in the market. Oh, it's ringing. Oh, here we go. I reckon she's going to answer.

Oh. Hello? Is it Zane Valerie? Yep. It's Jono. Oh, geez, you answered. It's Jono and Ben calling. I'm sorry to interrupt. Oh, geez, you answered. It's Jono and Ben calling. I'm sorry to interrupt.

Oh, okay. Hey. Hey. We didn't expect you to answer. Sorry, we caught you off guard there. Maybe you thought it was another interview. We just wanted to say congratulations on such an amazing career. You're awesome.

Thank you. Thank you very much. And I wish I could... You're dropping kids off, are you? I am sorry we've caught you at probably the worst time in the morning

yes yes there you have okay and I wish I prepared more questions but we honestly didn't think you'd answer so yeah

I just want to say you're awesome we think you're awesome and you've had an amazing career and I wish I could say more than that thank you so much I appreciate it

that's fine and we noticed that you haven't congratulated us on our distinguished career an amazing career and I wish I could say more than that. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. That's fine. And we noticed that you haven't congratulated us on our distinguished career. Oh, congratulations for your up-and-coming retirement. I think a lot of people want us retired. Have you been talking to management? Take care. All right, Dave, Valerie, we'll let you get back to it.

Yeah, OK, bye.