Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: You don't want to miss our chat with Andy Samberg

Episode Date: May 19, 2022

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Good day there. It's the 20th of May. I kind of was going to say good day and then I hear good day. It started really weird. I was like, did you have a stroke midway through that or what? My head was saying two different greetings and I morphed them into one. How are you? I'm doing all right. We've got a cool podcast for you guys to check out today. We catch up with Andy Sandberg. You may know him from a little show called Brooklyn Nine-Nine, of course, and The Lonely Island as well. And two of them have teamed up to be part of the new Disney Plus movie,

Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. And we caught up with them over Zoom. And Andy Samberg and Keevy Schaefer. Yeah, it was a fumbly start for us. And also because we had our own voices replaying back to us in our headphones. And that's very distracting. It is. So you talk and I'll pretend

how it would be to the audience so I'm talking about Andy Samberg and Keir Shea so that's what it was like so that's what it was so it was very fun the thing is they can't hear that

they're like this guy is he having an aneurysm or something because they can't hear that. They're like, this guy, is he having an aneurysm or something? Because they can't hear what's hearing in their headphones. But we're going, how's it going? Because you feel like you're a little drunk and you kind of pause

and try to catch up. And they're like, what is going on? It's okay, we're going to pull pin on this interview. These guys are weird. Don't know where this is going. So that's all the podcast today.

We also talk about thieving animals, and we catch up with two cats that are working together. We didn't talk to the cats. We talked to the owners. We talked to the two owners. Got the owners together who had never even met each other, but their two cats are out working together as a bit of a pack of cat burglars

stealing stuff from the neighbourhood. Yes, phenomenal. Phenomenal stuff. Thousands of dollars worth of clothing missing from Tauranga. What else was I going to say? This weekend, very special weekend, isn't it? Why? What's that?

I was just hoping it was. Oh, is it? I was throwing it back to you. Warriors, always the Warriors. May always be the Warriors I look forward to. You're going to watch the Warriors, Bell Crawford. My boyfriend loves the Warriors. That's how I know.

I have bants with Ben about the Warriors now. I like how you do that, Bell. I enjoy that because Bell knows. Jono never knows when the Warriors are on. When's the Warriors on,'s how I know. I have bants with Ben about the Warriors now. I like how you do that, Belle. I enjoy that because Belle knows, Jono never knows when the Warriors are on. When's the Warriors on, Jono?

Sunday. No. Saturday, 4.45, mate. We're going to go and watch it at a pub. Yeah, see Belle. I'm keen for, if there's food and drinks,

I'll come. Yeah. So do you watch the game? No. But you're there, you know what time it starts. Yeah, well I don't even think Ben or anyone who watches the game enjoys it.

You all just seem so stressed out. It was a rollercoaster last weekend. Yeah, it was a rollercoaster. And it probably will be again. I found in the garage, you know, I've got a lot of stuff in the garage. My original top, it was the away jersey from 1995 of the Warriors. With the DB Bitter on the front. It's got DB Bitter, which I don't think exists.

No, I don't think DB Bitter made it through past the YouTube. It's got DB Bitter, which I don't think exists. No, I don't think. DB Bitter made it through past the year 2000. It's got Ansett. Ansett, New Zealand. There's a sponsor on this. I was going through going, none of this stuff still exists.

Lenco is the brand who made it. That's not it. I don't know. Maybe they are, maybe they're not. There's some messages of Lenco still out there making tops.

Isn't that incredible? None of the sponsors are still going today. Yeah, and the Warriors, I mean, it says the Australian rugby, not the NRL, not Rugby League, and the Warriors, well, they're still hanging in there.

They are. Then they had those wild couple of years where they had sort of a breakaway competition, didn't they? The Super League. Yeah. That was in the... Well, Linko do a lot of school uniforms.

There you go, sports stuff. Linko, mate, go strong. Don't you worry about them. So Linko is the only sponsor on the Warriors jersey in 1995 still in operation. Custom uniforms designed in-house for school and provided to school shop for school wear needs. Now, what's their number? Let's call them. Let's call Linko and say congratulations.

Okay. Okay. Linko Sport. You can call this number here. Yep. We'll go through. Because I think that deserves a congratulations. To be the only surviving 1995

Warriors sponsor. What did Ansett become? Did that become something else? Did it just go? Was it Origin? Was it Origin Airline? I don't know. Jetstar is now in the Ansett's part of the airport.

I don't know if they bought Ansett in Australia. Hiya, this is the Linko School Workshop. Oh, hello. It's John or Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hello. How are you? Congratulations. Congratulations.

Congratulations. We've got some big news for you. How old are you? I'm 21. Too young to understand this. You won't remember. The Warriors, obviously the league team. Now, I have found my old top from 1995 in the garage, and it has Linko.

Linko made the Warriors top. Now, I don't know if it's the same Linko. I'm presuming it is because you still make stuff. Yes. We don't do NRL anymore. No, but you did the original. But do you know, out of all the sponsors on that jersey, Ansett New Zealand.

It was an airline. That's gone. That's gone. What else was on there? DB Bitter. DB Bitter's gone. And also the Australian Rugby League is gone. It's now the National Rugby League.

Lenco is the only surviving business. From the 1995 Warriors jersey. Woo-hoo. There you go. So you see why we were congratulating you. Yeah, well done. Well done, Lenko. Thank you, thank you.

Lovely to talk to you. You have a great weekend, all right? Yeah, you too. See you later. Go the Warriors. Go the Warriors. Yeah, yeah, there we go. Go the Warriors.

It's Jono and Ben, but FYI, Ben is open to other options. Jono and Ben on the hits. This morning, though, Belle, on the show, it's just you and me at the moment. That's a bit weird. I don't know where Jono is. I'll put a call through to him soon. Yeah, because we've got a bit of a theory. Now, all week, Jono has been banging on about businesses that have a four-day working week,

and we've got some audio from Jono talking about it throughout the week. So I'm not planning to come in on Friday. I'm now abiding by the four-day working week. Four-day working week, that's where I'm at. Don't expect me here on Friday. So it's Friday. Is this what's happened? Well, I haven't seen him.

He's not in the car park. He hasn't made a coffee. Should we give him a call? Let's give him a call right now and see if he's actually coming in at all. Maybe he's just, yeah, four days is all he's doing right now. He did say he was going to record some audio of himself reacting to me to play, but he hasn't provided that, so let's actually give him a call. Hopefully he answers.

Jonathan Pryor speaking. Jonathan Pryor. It's Benjamin Boyce and Annabelle Crawford here. Good morning. Top of the morning. Now, I don't know if you know what time it is, but it's time for a radio show. 6.08. Yeah, thank you.

I just said that. But we're doing our radio show right now. It's just me and Bell in the studio, and you're not here, and we're wondering what the heck's going on. Well, I've been clearly stating all week that I even left a montage, didn't I? Yeah, we got a montage.

We played some of the montage, yeah. So that wasn't, I don't know what messaging was getting confused in that montage. Well, yeah, you did say you weren't going to be here on Friday because you work in a four-day week. So you're actually not going to be here today. Yeah, no, I've left you some little bits you can interact with there, Ben. You can just have free flow.

I'll step back now on the phone and you can just see how this will play out. Have we actually got some bits? Have we got some? Yeah. Oh, Ben, that's why I love working with you. Okay, yeah, that's good. Anything else? Thanks, Ben.

You're the best. Right, thanks, Jono. Coming up very shortly, we're going to be doing some spy. We'll be docking Jono's pay for this, I think. Yeah, is that actually? That was kind of weird. It was like. There's more in there.

It's free flow. I thought Ben was moving on. Okay, no, no, I was just saying. That's right, you call 0800 THE HITS right now, 4487 on the text. Call up about our fun topic that we're talking about right now. It's all very generic stuff. Do another one.

It certainly is big news today, Ben. We can do that. We'll use that last one. The budget was all over the place yesterday. We can talk more about that. It certainly is big news today, Ben. It does kind of work, doesn't it?

You can't tell I'm not there. No, I'm just joking. I'm here. I'm out in the office. Are you? Yeah, I've been here the whole time. Oh, okay. I'm not high enough up the ladder to make a call like that.

All right. That's a Hosking-style approach. Oh, okay. Well, Jono, we'll be back for Spy next. But until then, Jono, you can pretend Jono interacting. Can he interact with some Spy? Looking forward to Spy, Jono, you can pretend Jono interacting. Can he interact with some spy? Looking forward to spy, Jono? Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Oh, Ben, that's why I love working with you. Ha ha ha ha. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Now, I don't know if these stories are factual, but we'll pretend like they are anyway. Belle, what's happening, matey? They definitely are. Now, Rihanna, sighting news came through this morning, she has had her baby boy. Oh, awesome. No name yet, and it looks like she actually had it to him a few days ago on May 13th in LA.

The last time we saw her out was when they were out in LA for a Mother's Day weekend. Oh, yeah. They had dinner, but apart from that, she's been laying low, and now she's got the baby. The lace-up baby. Yeah. That's adorable. She was doing a wonderful job of getting her belly out through that whole pregnancy, and I appreciate it. She made it look fantastic. It looked very fashionable, didn't it?

It did. She refused to wear maternity clothes, and she was wearing heaps of designer looks and getting her belly out the whole time. Even when the weather Was quite cold Over in the US So Yeah even the snow She'd have her jacket

In the belly And be poking I get my belly out Around here Nowhere near as adorable The crop tops don't Yeah anyway They're quite weird

It's not even meant To be a crop top It's just a normal Size t-shirt Yeah And on last night's Episode of the Kardashians We got to see Kim

Find out that she had Pass passed the baby bar exam. It is one of the hardest tests with one of the lowest pass rates. Have a listen to this. I passed! I'm so happy. Like, I literally didn't think I did. That's awesome because I know she's tried it a couple of times, right? Yeah.

But as you say, it's extremely hard. So it's awesome that she's got it. Yeah, so she's passed it. It was her last chance to pass. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to do it. And it means essentially, I've looked into what it means. She's not a lawyer yet, obviously. You've got to do a lot more study than that.

But it means she has passed her first year in becoming a lawyer. And she's already helping. There was one case that was successful, getting someone off death row. Yeah, she's a big campaigner, isn't it, for wrongfully convicted inmates in America. I know she went into the Oval Office, had a meeting with Trump.

Don't know how that panned out. Oh, they got the guy out. Yeah, they got one out. Trump pardoned him. Yeah. Yeah, well, good on her for using that fame for good. How does she juggle Studying law And also posting photos

And g-strips She works so hard Honestly She is always working She studied so much For that exam Well her dad was a lawyer Wasn't he

Her father was a lawyer Got OJ off Well yeah He was part of OJ's legal team Right He had good mates with OJ as well He never felt good About doing that in the end

Didn't he It was one of his regrets He didn't feel good about it because he ended up thinking that. He definitely did it. Well, he had some issues with the evidence. Anyway, that is Spike. You can get more now at thehits.co.nz. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion.

Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. The budget was announced yesterday from the government. A lot to get your head around. We'll be talking more about it and scrolling through your feed before 7 o'clock. Yeah, we'll get into that. I'm trying to pinpoint things universally. I know, because they obviously allocate money to everything.

And so what do you see? I tried to get my head around it last night and I was like, well, I'll just leave that to Ben. And as you can just hear, I haven't quite got my head around it yet. We'll get into it shortly. But I've got 15 minutes to do that. But speaking of money. Yeah, I got lost halfway through a budget article, and I was like, well, maybe I'll just go on to some money facts. And that'll be my contribution.

Yeah, no, fair enough. It's in the realm of what we're all talking about in New Zealand today. They say money makes the world go round, not rotational energy, Ben. And you just, isn't it crazy? I was driving to work going, how much importance we place on a piece of paper with the Queen's face on it? You know? Yeah, well, it's true. It's so much.

And to think you could just, you could technically just print more. You could. I mean, they obviously don't. They cap it and stuff. But you could just technically just print more. You could. I mean, they obviously don't. They cap it and stuff. But you could just print more. I've got a printer here at work. We'll get there going. What happens when the Queen passes?

Do we get a new face on our money? Again, you probably would, wouldn't you? You do. We'll be getting some new cash. I imagine it would be phased out over a period of time, right? What do you do? What do we do? Do we have the option to just chuck anything on,

or we've still got to chuck Charles on if he becomes king? What happens there? I imagine being part of the Commonwealth, maybe there's some sort of obligation where maybe we, I don't know. We could have like a Kiwi bird vaping on there or something, doing a burnout in an electric vehicle. You know, they're the new things. But anyway, this is facts about money that I got lost on.

$2 notes. You don't see them around too much, do you? No, I know. Does any country have $2 notes. You don't see them around too much, do you? No, I know. Does any country have $2 notes? No, because they're considered unlucky. In many countries, some countries might have it, but for the most part, they don't. It's considered unlucky for some reason.

The US banned them, and I guess it looks better handing over two $1 notes. You look like you're handing over more money than a $2 transaction. I like that when we would, the few times we'd go for work in the States and you'd give someone $5, but you'd give it to them in $1. It looks like I'm handing over heaps of cash. They'll be like, $1, $2.

You've got to buy yourself something nice, eh? The New Zealand dollar was only introduced in 1967. Up until then, we were using British currency, the pound. Oh, really? So it's not that old. It's not that old, but it has been saved.

Sorry, changed the dollar, the design of it, seven times. Well, now we have coins, right? We had notes back in the day. 27 million banknotes were printed in 1967, and 165 million coins going into transaction into the New Zealand economy. Did you know that 85% to 95% of money paper in circulation contains traces of cocaine? Done a study on it. Now, I don't know why that would be, Ben.

Could you explain? Why would there be traces of it on the notes? Why do you do that? In some cities in America, this is wild. Los Angeles, 100% of the notes have traces of cocaine. No way. And Miami, 100%. That is 100%.

Every banknote that every man, woman, and child touches has traces of cocaine on it. Wow, that's wild. And finally, the New Zealand dollar, you probably won't know this, is the official currency of not only Aotearoa, but also the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and the Pitcairns. You go to any one of those wonderful locations, you go buy them something nice.

Your money is good there, but your money's no good here. And there is some really interesting money facts. And New Zealand, apparently the New Zealand dollar, one of the top 10 currencies in trade worldwide. Top 10, which means we're number ten We've had this discussion When you say we're in the top ten, you're number ten If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history Jono and Ben, on the hits

What's gone on Dancing with the Stars We're bringing up to speed before seven o'clock Another couple eliminated without even a show going on yesterday Another one? Another one, so two couples have gone. So two new ones are coming back? The ones who have already been, oh, really? Who?

There's a whole lot going on. And someone else is coming back? Yeah, well, we'll be in before 7 o'clock this morning. But something I wanted to bring up is I noticed about you, John, working, as we do, you know, we've been working together for many, many, many years now, is your inconsistent laptop use. Now, you take a laptop everywhere, as do I, because that's kind of how we do some work,

whether it's at home or in the office or stuff like that, but very inconsistent with your laptop. Where are the inconsistencies? One of my favourite things is when we get to the end of the show on radio, you like to close your laptop, as that's what happens, and then once it's closed, it won't open again. No, that's right. It's my visual representation of I'm shut down for the day.

It's like if I owned a shop, I would go closed on the front door. Yeah, it's like when you're closed. Because someone will sometimes come in just quickly after you've closed your laptop. And they'll go, oh, what about that thing? And you'll go, oh, it's on my laptop. And then we'll all wait for you to open it back up. But you never will. It's like once it's closed, you'll never open it's on my laptop and then we'll all wait for you to open it back up but you never will it's like once it's closed you'll never open it back up you know the laptop will start i'm done with it i'm done with it for the day i love that it's like and i'm done and it's like okay he's

not gonna he's not gonna open his okay and then sometimes i'll keep mine out of my back up you're like you're done and then when we go out and about to me it's like it doesn't it only exists within the radio studio and at home when we go to a about, it only exists within the radio studio and at home. When we go to a meeting or something, I'll have his laptop. He stays in the car in the boot in that situation. Can I be honest? That's one of the joys of having an and in between our names. Because I'm like, well, we don't need to take two laptops.

I know he'll take some notes. I'll pretend to remember them. But he'll have it all covered. I know, he'll take some notes. I'll pretend to remember them, but he'll have it all covered. I do love that. It's like, oh, my laptop's in the car, it's in the boot.

Yeah, no, it's very cool. you go, oh, my laptop's in the boot. Yeah. But no,

but it's like, yeah, like, I've only ever seen you use it at your home and at work. It doesn't go out in public. It's like,

we can have a desktop computer for you at work and one at home and it would probably be the same. in public. It's like we can have a desktop computer for you at work and one at home, and it would probably be the same. But it makes a statement. Everyone knows, oh, he's clearly out of it. He's out of the meeting.

Halfway through the meeting, that comes down, it's like, we've got nothing more out of him. He is tough for the day. He's a rude twerp who shut his laptop midway through the meeting. Scrolling through your feed.

Well, we cross live now to the hits news bureau aka the work kitchen where ben boyce is standing by next to an expired bottle of milk come on in now the budget was yesterday a lot to get your head around and to be 100 honest i haven't quite got my head around well listen i don't think people are coming to jonah and ben for budget information so listen don't put too much pressure on yourself uh finance minister grant Robertson revealed a $1 billion cost of living package. Seems to be getting a lot of talk, which means around 2 million New Zealanders will get about $27 a week for three months. Opposition parties are saying it's not enough, but they were always going to say it's not enough, no matter what was done. I can't even remember one budget where the opposition's gone, you know what, guys, it's pretty good.

It works. Solidly fit out there. Keep it up. where the opposition's gone, you know what, guys, that's pretty good work. Solid effort out there. Keep it up. Health was the big winner, and half price, public transport, and the tax cut at the petrol pub are being extended, but only for two months. So that's some of the highlights.

Let's not go into too much more detail. Mainly because we can't. The thing is, they're kind of in a position where they're damned if they do, they're damned if they don't, the government on this one, because obviously cost of living is wild at the moment. But how much do you put towards that? And at what cost?

Like, you have to get that money from somewhere. Exactly. Jacinda Ardern, she couldn't be there. She's getting over COVID. But she was on a FaceTime yesterday with Grant Robertson before the budget started. And they were talking about their traditions they have before the budget. One is that I give the minister of finance a tie and the other is that we have a quick cheese roll together before the day kicks off and so here we are are you not prepared to show us

what you've done to the cheese rolls they're a little on the beige side gonna taste just as good would you know what i'm not gonna know because I've lost all my taste. So just like the budget, a lot to unpack there. So she gives a tie to Grant Robertson before this tradition. Why were we hearing that? What was that? Was that their meeting? It was like a live FaceTime.

Oh, I see. They found social media. I didn't understand why we had access to the Zoom meeting. So this is what happened. They put it on and then they always have cheese rolls before the budget as well. Bill English, he used to have a pie, apparently, back in the day before budget. That was one of his traditions. So they have cheese rolls. So Grant Robinson had made his own, and Jacinda had made her own, but she hadn't toasted hers.

And everyone now, this morning, Belle, you were saying before, cheese is expensive. How much cheese has she got? Yeah, they're getting slammed about, like, would the average person be able to buy the ingredients to make cheese rolls? What sort of cheese are you using in your cheese rolls? Yeah, this payment, you wouldn't be able to afford to buy cheese at this payment. I bet that looks

like mainland tasty to me. Nice for some, isn't it? And just quickly, Dancing with the Stars, I mentioned before, it's wild at the moment. So unfortunately, Eric Murray, Roa, and his dance partner, they were out yesterday due to COVID. So that means Vaz and his dance partner are back because they were the last eliminated.

But then last night, comedian Rhys Matheson and his dance partner, they tested positive for COVID as well. So Kerry Woodham and her dance partner are back. It's going to get to the stage where on Sunday it's just going to be a camera guy dancing.

Come on, Bill. Get out there. There's no one left to dance. Yeah, so really, really wild. Jokingly, and we have to give him credit, producer Bee Hump said this could work its way

all the way back to Sonia Gray, the first eliminated contestant. Shock elimination. She could wander out there. Well, she's back this week. I noticed Eli's back because they're doing that weird, you know, trio week.

Oh, I love this. Where they get the three-person awkward dance. Like, as if dancing isn't awkward enough sometimes. Let's chuck a third party in. And the third party never quite knows, do I jump in? What is this? What is this situation here?

Yeah, why trio week? I don't know. Pan it out, eh? That's this week, the semifinals of Dancing with the Stars. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals.

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Are you kidding me? Come on. You know what? I'm so sorry I got you guys in trouble last week. Look, I've been on the air in New Zealand like three weeks, and they're already trying to shut you down. Oh, listen. Yeah, I mean, you said some slanderous stuff about Elon Musk.

Stuff we couldn't even put to air. I loved it. I loved it. But, I mean, the stuff that you were saying about Musk, I can't even repeat right now. It made our lawyers very sweaty. Yeah. I don't want to make your lawyers nervous,

so I will refrain from telling any more alleged truths about Elon Musk. It's such an interesting lifestyle over there, you know, the fame game, I imagine. And keeping up appearances is a big one. We're looking at Tom Cruise. The guy is nearly 60. He looks 10 years younger than me, and I'm 40. I'll have to send you a picture of me, Auntie. It's not a pretty look.

But how much are these people spending on plastic surgery a year? On average, it depends. Somebody just over this weekend, actually, they were explaining to me one that I didn't even really understand. It was kind of like, not really a facelift, but they almost like peel off your face and then stretch it up more. And it's a very complicated, very, you have to stay hidden away for quite a while.

And just the one procedure is 20 grand. You know, they said that a lot of people get it, but at the same time, you have to be hidden away. So that's kind of the problem. You know, you can spend a lot of money, but can you be out of the spotlight long enough? And what happens if you have to come back? Say your friend Tom Cruise there, who allegedly has had multiple plastic surgeries, allegedly has had multiple procedures done, but then has to come back into the spotlight before he's really ready.

And then everybody's going, oh, my gosh, look, it looks like he's had a bunch of plastic surgery. It looks like he's had a bunch of work done. He looks completely different. His face is completely swollen. And that's what you don't want, right? You don't want people to know that you've had this. You just want to say, oh, look how youthful he is. He looks 20 years younger or she looks 20 years younger. Then we have people who deny that they've had any plastic surgery whatsoever. Say somebody like the Kardashians who will say that maybe they had a nose job. One person will say that. Or maybe they had a tiny little lip filler or whatever.

But allegedly, they've had a boatload of plastic surgeries each, and there's no way on this earth that if you look at a picture of Khloe Kardashian from 15 years ago and look at her now, that she hasn't had a lot of alleged plastic surgery. Now, I guess, is there a level of embarrassment about saying you've had it? I think that the reason that it's not so much embarrassment, but think about you want to say, oh, you know, look, all I've done is I worked hard.

And then you have interviews saying how hard you worked and this is why you look this way, rather than a shortcut, oh, I had surgery. And I really appreciate the people that do come forth and say, well, I had some surgery, that's why I look like this. And it's the same thing with losing weight. If you look at somebody like Adele, and allegedly how she lost her weight was a lot of exercise and working out and things like that,

but allegedly she also had a little nip and tuck inside the body, a little lap band surgery, allegedly, which is how she lost it. That's not as good of a story, is it? Good point. And hey, just quickly before you go, Courtney, Travis, they're married. It feels like that's going to last for the ages.

Let's hope so. Let's hope so. Hey, what was that? That's sassy, Jono. I would give that much longer than Adele. I would give that a longer relationship than Adele and Rich. It's this, I mean, think about it. If you've ever been in a relationship where it's just so intense, right? You know, making out on red carpet and you're not even being discreet about it.

You're sticking out tongues in this just high intensity kind of way. Oh, I've been there. You know, at some point that kind of, does it burn out as fast as it lit up? Ben no longer sucks my tongue on the red carpet. He refuses to. You know, that's a choice that the two of you have made. I wish that you still would. It's fizzling out, mate.

Andy, well, we love chatting to you. Our lawyers are very nervous, but we enjoy it. Thank you so much for your time. We'll catch up with you again next week. All right, bye-bye. Rise and shine. Time to start the... Who are we kidding?

We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, so Taylor Swift, she's been named an honorary doctorate. Now, Bell Crawford, do you know exactly how this works? It just feels like they do this for famous people from time to time. Yeah, they just gave her an honorary doctorate, and she did the speech at the New York University graduation. I think they did that to Dr. Dre.

I was always questioning his medical credentials, but I think he actually is a doctor at a university, so he can say, well, guys, I can put that doctor with no qualms on a piece of paper. Now, we're having a listen to Taylor Swift's speech that she made, and it was a really, really awesome, inspiring speech, and she said something about cringe, and I think this will resonate with everyone. having a listen to Taylor Swift's speech that she made. And it was a really, really awesome, inspiring speech. And she said something about cringe.

And I think this will resonate with everyone. Have a listen. No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. I promise you, you're probably doing or wearing something right now that you will look back on later and find revolting and hilarious.

It's a very good point. Like, no matter who you are in your life, you always have a moment or something you did, you know, whether it's fashion, whether it's a haircut or whether it's things you used to do that you're like,

oh my God. Oh, absolutely. I can look back on the last 60 minutes. I can cringe at four things. Four things since we started this radio program. I remember like

having a long fringe during my teenage years for a bit. Yeah, my mom would always get annoyed because they have it down over my face in the photos.

She's like, oh mom, it's cool. I'm going to have a fringe and I'm like, how far would it come down to? Oh, it was like a long, but one side, you know,

like when it was like it was an emo before emo was a thing but sure yeah short around the sides and shorter on top of the fringe you flick it down and mum would be like oh your fringe i'll be like mum it's cool and i'm like oh god that's cringy i had one but i didn't have an attitude with it again cringy well no mum used to tell me to get off my face during photos i was like it's I had one, but I didn't have an attitude with it. Where did the attitude come from? Again, cringy. No, Mum used to tell me to get off my face during photos. I was like, it's cool.

It wasn't covering my whole face. Yeah. You really do find that life is just one long journey of doing stuff. And in between doing your stuff, you do stuff that is more embarrassing than the normal stuff you do. There's just peaks of that happening. I remember I wore leather pants into an office environment. Leather goddamn pants, Bill.

You did work at The Rock. I know. But, you know, an office is not ideal leather pant wearing conditions. You'd be like, what's all leather pants doing? What's it? Wait. If you're a wrongster, some people can pull it off. I've mates that can wear it I don't have legs

That can pull off leather pants Tight Leather I'm a baggy Clothes guy It's a confidence game That's what I told my friend And he said

It's confidence You just gotta do it Took me two and a half years To work those pants off my legs What about you? Surgically remove them Belle what are you cringing at? A lot of messing with the hair

Just don't touch the hair But also like Facebook statuses. You know how you get Facebook memories and you look at it. That's so embarrassing. You know, there are things you would write and you feel like uppercutting yourself, honestly, when you read some of the things that you used to write. Thankfully, a large part of our cringe is also on YouTube as well.

We can go back and relive those wonderful moments whenever we want. Some of them don't stack up in 2022. So what do you cringe at? I would love to hear from you this morning. Maybe haircuts. Maybe it was fashion. Maybe it was something else that you cringe at looking back. The annoying ones talking between the songs.

Jono and Ben on the hits. We're talking cringe this morning. What are the things you look back on in cringe? Relationships, fashion, hairstyles, so many things, so many options you can cringe at. Yeah, but you can look back and cringe and worry about what people think, but it doesn't change the outcome, you know?

Doesn't matter, doesn't it, at the end of the day? Just trying to chuck something sensible in there. Okay. Yeah. But Ben, there's a great text coming through here, 4487. I cringe at my ex-boyfriend. And then there's an emoji who looks like it's got food poisoning going. Scratching fingernails down a... No, that's a whole other topic.

What's that to do with? We've got our mate Ashley in Invercargill on 800 The Hits. How are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you guys? Good. It's lovely to hear your voice again. It seems like a weekly catch-up we have with you.

Am I the new Stephen from Dunedin kind of radio person? Maybe you are. He was a legend of many shows and now we've got you. That's great. Ashley from Invercargill. We had the same ring, but maybe we could make it better. Isabel from Invercargill or something, but you're lovely

nonetheless, Ashley. Now, we're just talking about the cringe moments that you look back on. What was it for you? I was obsessed with Mary-Kate and Ashley Osmond to the point people were posting stuff from Australia. I was that obsessed with it. My parents were too kind

and enabled it. I literally had everything. Obviously, you know, massive stars in Full House, but what did they have in the merch game? What did you have? They had everything. They had towels.

They had clothes. They had lip gloss. They had CDs. They had books. They had video games. They had posters. You name it, they had everything. Jeez, they covered the market well with the merch, didn't they?

They really did. And being twins, did you have to get two of everything from Mary-Kate and Ashley? They did have two dolls and things like that. So, yeah, pretty much. It was a, like, buy one, get one, you have to situation. Not three. But, yeah, my parents were too kind. I don't want to say it was, you know, a cringe thing,

but I'm just saying it's a very specific fascination. Yeah, I did a speech on them when I was, like, year nine. I was definitely in love with them. Where did it all start for you with the Olsen twins? Had to be Full House, come on. 90s kid. That was the gateway though. I saw a good one that had

old bloody Kirstie Alley hooking up with the camp guy and they were there and they were swapping places and getting up to all sorts of nonsense. You might be right. Oh yes yes, no, you're right. Steve, It Takes Two is the name of the movie. It Takes Two. Yeah, It Takes Two.

It Takes Two, you're right. Steve Goodenberg was there. It's probably my fave movie. Yeah, yeah. Steve Goodenberg was there. He was from Police Academy. He was in there as well. Okay.

Yeah, no, I could see you questioning it. I was thinking maybe you got mixed up with the Lindsay Lohan model for a moment. Parent Trap. Parent Trap for a minute. And then I was like, oh, no, Kirstie Elliott. No, he's got it. They've had an illustrious career, the Olsen Twins.

What on earth are they doing now? Remember they're making the fashion line. They keep mentioning it in the reboot. They do mention it. They refuse to come back and film it. Because there's Fuller House now, obviously, on Netflix. And they're the only ones not there from Full House. And they do, yes, a lovely nod to it.

And they're like, where are they? Oh, they're off doing their fashion line. And then everyone looks at the camera. Yeah, and makes a noise. And then they go back and, yeah. So a little nod to the fact that maybe they weren't keen to be part of the reboot. They definitely were too cool. Well, Ashley, really appreciate it.

So you look after Invercargill for us. It's all on you, okay? Okay, I could run from there. Maybe that could be our new campfire. Good on you, Ashley. You have a good one. See you later. G'day, Claire from the Hawke's Bay.

Yeah. Love it. Love it, mate. Bloody love it. Good to have you on. Thank you. It's very sunny here today, so you're missing out. Oh, yeah, missing out.

Well, we're talking cringe, and what's the moment for you looking back that you cringe about? I was a bridesmaid for one of my best friends, and we were very excited to be getting our hair done at a fancy Tauranga salon. Yeah. But things just didn't go quite to plan. Everyone else ended up with super sleek hairdos,

and I looked like I had a bad 80s perm, and then put my finger in an electric socket. How did you end up putting your finger in a socket? Well, no, that's what her hair looked like. Oh, right. I have to explain hair things to him. He doesn't quite understand. Apparently, you could see my hair coming down the aisle

before you could see the rest of me. And I'm not even kidding. That's what someone said. But, yeah, needless to say, my photo is not on her lounge wall. And we do still cringe about it 13 years later. Where did it all go so wrong? Did you not pipe up? Yeah, I think that it was an apprentice kind of person, I think, that started it.

But then the actual owner of the salon came over. To be fair, I think he juiced it up a bit more and it looked worse. It was crazy. How many cans of hairspray are we talking to hold this thing in place, Claire? I have a lot of hair. They probably used about a can or two. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Wild, wild stuff going on at Dancing with the Stars. You tell me about that wild stuff going on, Ben. A couple, unfortunately unfortunately had to leave. Reese, comedian Reese Matheson, had to go with his dance partner because of COVID, the second couple in two days. So Kerry Woodham, if you missed it, she is back in the competition as well as reality star Vaz. And we're going to catch up with Kerry after 8.30 this morning.

Maybe the winner of Dancing with the Stars is they have them all lined up, the ones that have survived the vid, and they'll have to take a rat test. We wait 15 minutes, 15 tense minutes, live television. And the winner is... And then they announce it. The one who's clear of COVID. Jazz, well done. Let's do some Spy.

Here is all the celebrity news you'll need in your day. In fact, there's probably too much celebrity news in your day. What's happening, Belle? I'll keep it brief for you. Now, Prince Harry and Meghan have been given and signed a $180 million deal with Netflix. Yeah, they got stiffed on that deal, Harry and Meghan. $180 million?

No, well, maybe Netflix did, because two years since they signed it, what have they made? Have they made any shows? No. And now they are finally delivering. Netflix has put the serious pressure on them. They wanted them to film something, perhaps around the Jubilee, but they have an at-home

docu-series coming to Netflix, and Netflix are like, right, we want it this year. And they're like, we'd prefer to do it next year. That's three years after signing a deal. That's ridiculous. I mean, Harry could be a writer on The Crown. I mean, if anyone knows what's going on, he could be a writer. Head writer.

You know, Meghan could do another series of suits, you know, just on Netflix. She and him, have they been given the money? So sitting there in their account, they just haven't done... Well, they've signed a deal, which essentially means you will be paid this money. Surely you need to deliver. But they've signed a deal that they will be paid that money.

And same with Spotify. They didn't even do a podcast. Did they just sign a deal and there was no discussion of what format the show would be? Or would you just make some stuff? Just like that? That's all they had to do? Well, no, probably more than that, I'd imagine. No one's going to do that for us, unfortunately.

Yeah, I was going to say, why don't we just do some stuff? Alright. Yeah, we'll get some stuff done. Netflix really want it to come out around the same time as Harry's highly anticipated memoir, so that it'll tie in well. That'd be a good time for it, you know? Well, the Home Diary sounds exciting.

Just what, Harry wandering around with a cell phone? Well, they followed them around the Netherlands at the Invictus Games. So it won't just be at home. It'll be while they're doing things. I'm hoping that potentially around the Jubilee, they'll be following them too. And you said the producers of Netflix were filthy then because he did an interview with CBS and unloaded everything on this interview.

And the Netflix people are there like, save it for us, mate. We've paid you $150. Don't just give it away for free on some morning TV show. So, tense times there. And the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial continues. Yesterday Amber's sister was on the stand. But the biggest thing that's come out

of the last 24 hours is everyone's wondering, is Johnny dating his lawyer Camille who is a very good lawyer by the way. And she was asked as she came out of the courtroom. Hi Camille do people want to know are you dating Johnny Depp?

It's all over the internet can you set the record straight? She didn't say no but I don't think she is. I think she's in a relationship that are looking a bit more already and the people are like because they're quite a bit more affectionate than Amber. There's a lot of hugging and arm rubbing and things like that. And your stuff that Ben and me do.

You're just running the middle office banter, isn't it? I don't, yeah, definitely not dating. I don't think anything's happening. No. She's obviously just a very good lawyer. And Johnny Depp's probably hugging her going, thank God you've got me $15 million. I'd be hugging the lady as well.

If the case is won. And that is Spike. You can get more now at thehats.co.nz five words for 5k you're just five words away from five thousand dollars your chance to win five thousand dollars happens every morning at 7 45 on the show five words for 5k a simple game of word association trying to match up five words with your five words this is where puppies become dogs been kittens become Kittens become cats. I don't know.

What am I describing there? Like puberty or something? I'm not sure. Mike, you're on. Welcome from Taupo. Morning. How are you guys? Great to have you on, Mike.

$5,000. If Ben and I were in any financial strife in the future, would you help us out with this $5,000? Yes, I would. I'd help anybody out there to need,000? Yes, I would. I'd help anybody out there to need to be honest. Okay, so Ben's done some more shady investments. He's in a

hole. If we give Mike the money and then we're asking for it back now, are we? Part of it. Not all of it. So $1,500, he's in the hole. Are you helping him, Mike? We'll go up to maybe 10%. He's there for you, Ben.

Alright, on that note, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth this morning, Mike? I'll go Ben today, please. I'll get you more than 10% that you were going to give me. Mike, you're in Taupo. What do you do? I'm a beef farmer. A beef farmer, and there's

a dog in the background, got the farm dog. Yeah, so I'm the neighbour turning up. Mike, you guys do have a wonderful knack, farmers, of just saying noises, but everyone understands what they are on the farm. That's correct. There's the joy. But what would you do with $5,000, honestly? We're actually in the process of putting a house on the property,

so some furniture would be quite nice. Oh, awesome. You'd put it towards new furniture. Well, let's get into it. The first word that comes into your head that you need to match with Ben Boyce. When I say bulb. Light. Light, bulb.

The second word is top. Top. Tank top. Tank top, yep. Commonwealth coming in at number three for you this morning, Mike. Games. Keep. Keep.

Keep. Shake. Keep shake. Keep shake. And the fifth and final word for Mike in Taupo, the dairy farmer, fridge. Fridge. Fridge Freezer? Fridge Freezer.

Good game, Mike. Great game. We'll get Ben out of the soundproof booth. Have you matched five words when you've just been playing along farming cows? Yes, I have. A couple of times, to be honest. He's done it in the rehearsal. He's matched a couple of times in the rehearsal.

All right. And now is the time for him to match and buy himself some new furniture. Let's get into it. Ben, the first word that comes into that sweet little bony head of yours when I say bulb. Light. That's what Mike said. Yes. Second word is top.

Gun. Oh, my God. I didn't even think of that one. Sorry. I just said they made a big Top Gun thing I had before. I just said, sorry. Tank, top, top, tank. Mike went to Commonwealth was the third one.

Games? Yes. Keep. Cup. Mike went sake. Oh, yes. And the fifth one was fridge. Freezer.

Oh, not bad. three out of five Mikey awesome good try sorry didn't quite get it for you today but another chance Monday morning give us a call then you're a good man perfect thanks guys

have a good day I appreciate it bud so there you go you don't have to go and ask Mike for money there Ben no obligation one of the things I've really enjoyed

spending time with you over the years sounds like a loaded like like a loaded thing. Not on bullying, Davey. No, it's not. What? I'm not going to do it. It's not loaded.

No, no, I feel like you're like, anyway, go, carry on. Where are you going? As a genuine compliment, is my years working with you, you have taught me to learn a whole other language. I have learned a whole,'m bilingual now and i am fluent and can fully understand uh the language of mumbling uh bm boys new zealand's premium mumbler if he was to start a dating app it'd be called mumble where uh people like-minded mumblers could meet each other and barely understand one another over a date. Well, I do notice that, you know, when you talk on the radio or you talk on the phone,

you feel like you need to speak at a level, a higher level, a little, you know, a level of clarity. A bit more energy. Louder. And, you know, even when I'm on the phone, I'm self-conscious because my wife's always like, you're talking so loud, everyone can hear you. Like, you're not broadcasting to everyone right now. So when I do talk outside of that, I'm probably a bit quieter. And even with you, there's so much stuff I'm just kind of like, you know, like I just know we're probably on the same wavelength with a lot of stuff, and you know what I mean.

When you first started doing it, I was like, how on earth did this man get a job in the communications industry? He can't even wrap his lips around words. Now, a prime example is before the show We were just recording an ad And our brand is we were messing it up So we had to do another take And Ben wanted to get some information to me

To just change our roles And the voicing of the commercial And here's what he said I'll just talk about it Are those a pro or a don't I? All good? Okay We knew exactly what I meant

We need that again I reckon That's our communication Let's hear it one more time I'll just talk about it Are those a pro or a don't I? All good? Okay. You knew exactly what I meant. You need that again, Eric. That's our communication. Let's hear it one more time. I'm sorry about that. Are those pro-dominant? All good? Okay. But you knew.

Like, you knew exactly what I meant. Yeah. And I knew. You talk at me like you're a dehydrated marathon runner, 30 k's into the race. He's got nothing left. You know, it's an effort. It's an effort.

Sometimes talking words can be an effort. But you always complain about when you go overseas and people call you bin. And I'm starting to think it's because you're just a mumbler. You're a prolific mumbler. But yeah, like I say, thank you very much for teaching me another language. Let's have a listen to it one more time and maybe

it'll explain what's happening after 8 o'clock. Are those probably done there yet? No, it doesn't. What? It doesn't. What? I wouldn't even tell you what it means now, but for some reason I understood it in the moment.

You're saying, I don't know what I'm saying. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. All right, let's try and give away cash and car. Let's do it. Cash and car. Guess how much cash we've stashed in the Škoda's boot and drive it home along with all that money. It feels like it could go at any stage.

The Škoda Kamek Monte Carlo worth under $46,000, just under $46,000, plus thousands and thousands of dollars in the back of the car. Just guess how much cash exactly is in the boot and you can drive home both and people are narrowing it down and also all the incorrect guesses can be found at the hitstockcode.nz if you want to play along. So where could we go today? That's right. It could be going today.

You could be driving off in the brand-new Škoda today. Well, probably not today. There's probably a little bit of paperwork we need to fill out, but probably at some stage next week. It could happen. You could be driving off. That's you, Deborah and Whangarei. Welcome.

Yeah, morning. Imagine that, babes, driving off in a sweet you, Deborah and Fungale. Welcome. Yeah, morning. Imagine that, babes. Driving off in a sweet new car with a bootload of cash. Yeah, it's a bit of a dream. How deep have you gone on this whole thing? We're hearing about spreadsheets. We're hearing about secret codes, some websites on the dark web following the whole thing.

What's happening with you? I love a good spreadsheet. That's the kind of thing I enjoy. So yeah, I've got a spreadsheet. That's like the kind of thing I enjoy. So yeah, I've got a spreadsheet. She's got a spreadsheet. She means business. She has a spreadsheet with all of the incorrect guesses. If you just want to go and have a look,

you can head to the HITS website to all of the incorrect guesses are up there. All right, Deborah, we're going to hand you over to cashkeeper Alex so you can have your guess. Good luck. Deborah, please tell me how much cash you think is in that boat.

$18,570.00. Okay. Deborah from Whangarei with a guess of $18,570.00. It is lower. Oh. Oh, okay. Now, we're not going to specify, you know, what the value is sitting in between.

I think you can work it out, though, if you head to the Hits breakfast. We can't do it all for you. It's a bloody car full of cash. Yeah, if you go to the Hits. You've got to work some hard. The Hits NZ on Instagram, actually. Yeah, you go to the story there.

I think you can work that out. Are you right, Jono? We're getting close. Yeah, we are really getting close. Debra, okay? You've got to look after yourself, and you're going to do us one favour. Have a magnificent weekend, Debra. Choice.

You too. Jono and Ben. Now, we got to catch up with comedian Andy Samberg. You'll know him from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Very funny show. Oh, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. He's part of the comedy trio The Lonely Island, who sung this song, I'm on a boat.

I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. That's probably all we can play of that song because it's a little bit sweary. And two of The Lonely Island have teamed up to make a new Disney Plus movie. It's out today on the streaming service. It's called Chippendale Rescue Rangers.

Of course, about the lovable Disney chipmunks, kids and adults are really going to love it. Chippendale Rescue Rangers, the show that defined the generation and turned two unknown chipmunks into international superstars. But his success took Chippendale to new heights. To many more seasons of the Rescue Rangers. No one ever imagined it could all come crashing down. Oh, from a TV show to come crashing down.

And we caught up with Andy Samberg and director Akiva Schaefer. And it was a fumbly start from us over Zoom when we caught up with them. You're muted. You're muted. Oh. When you turn the thing on. Oh, go ahead. It should work now.

Can you hear us? Yeah, I can hear you. You can hear us now, yeah. Now, we don't want to get the interview off to a sound note, but we are Jono and Ben. We're from New Zealand. We're a duo. Chip and Dale are a duo. We had a TV show Jono and Ben. We're from New Zealand. We're a duo. Chip and Dale are a duo.

We had a TV show. It got cancelled. We're at rock bottom. That's pretty much the story to this movie. It's a biopic. Yeah. This is you at rock bottom. We're seeing rock bottom right now.

This is rock bottom for us. Yeah. Just standing in front of an ambiguous green screen. But you're still doing a show. I mean, it'd be crazy if you swung the camera around and you were just out on the street. Yeah. I don't know if anyone's listening to it, but you're still doing a show i mean it'd be crazy if you swung the camera around and you were just out on the street yeah yeah i don't know if anyone's listening to it but we're here no one knows the difference between the two of us jonah and ben uh and chip and dal i imagine have the same problems yeah i told akiva uh i did not know which character i was playing in

until about a week before the movie was done we have a lot of text threads of me being like so i'm chip and him being like no because i've been playing both roles yeah i did when i played the movie for uh some of the people at pixar for the first time that was their first comment right off the bat was like you finally solved i would have tell them apart by making one 3d and one 2d i can finally know which one's which you know what was a was a major coup as well is getting Post Malone to sing the song. He doesn't look like a Chippendale guy. No.

Posty loves it. Yeah, he's a child of the 90s for sure, or not really because he's like 22 years old, but to him it's like the 70s were to us. It's an awesome movie for young and old, but it's wild i mean you've got real actors you've got cgi you've got cartoons you've got paula abdul paul rudd you've got it all thrown in there with disney like what the heck are you guys thinking yeah don't remind me it was a

lot of work i'm getting tired hearing you talk about i mean i read the first script in late 2018 and all the groundwork for everything you just mentioned was in there and so right away i was like if they'd let us do this this would be pretty exciting to to try to wrangle all that stuff and the experimental nature of what will it look like and how will it feel and what can we get away with all that stuff now uh chippendale obviously also uh very muscular hairy 80s uh dancers, strip dancers as well, which you give a wonderful nod to in the film. Out of the two of you, who would be the better stripper? Andy's got the better moves by far.

I'm not a good dancer, and Andy's got a good sense of body rhythm, if you will. I'm more comfortable disrobed also. An exhibitionist, if you will. Yeah, borderline exhibitionist. Now, boys, you're obviously responsible for The Lonely Island as well, which we were huge fans of here in New Zealand.

And I wanted to add nothing more to that other than the fact that you're from The Lonely Island and we've done a mild bit of research. Oh, nice. Very nice. Are you impressed? Yeah, really well done. Very accurate. Now, we're from New Zealand.

It's a very insecure nation. We love nothing more than famous people saying nice things about us. It'll make headlines. So, you know, obviously you guys, Lonely Island. New Zealand's a lonely island. Sometimes they even leave us off the world map.

Yeah, and I'm on a boat. One of your big songs. We love boats in New Zealand. So a couple of reasons why you should love big songs. We love boats in New Zealand. So a couple of reasons why you should love New Zealand. Go. We love New Zealand, not just because of the things you said,

but because it's one of the comedy epicenters of the world. Five of the Concords. Yeah, Five of the Concords. I mean, you have many incredible comedy exports, but also the fandom of comedy there is unparalleled.

It's up there amongst the best on earth. Also, Andy watches Lord of the Rings once a year. That's true. Once a year. Oh, yeah. My wife and I watch the trilogy pretty much once a year, yeah. Jeez, you have to book a couple of months out for that, wouldn't you? I know.

I've got to come out there. I've got to do the Shire tour. I've got like a prancing pony mug that I drink my coffee out of. Chip and Dale was awesome. My kids loved it we loved it it's so nice to talk to you we're getting told to wrap up we'd love to chat to you all day

because we are big fans as John I said we're aware of your work and that's a big thing we'll have to do it again sometime good on you boys that was so cool catching up with them

and if you want to see Chip and Dale the new movie Rescue Rangers is on Disney Plus today it's going to be an old weekend very cold so the perfect movie for a weekend i'm not afraid to use the f word be family friendly fun jono and ben on the hits the budget was yesterday a lot to get your

head around uh do you know what ben's just been saying all morning he's like the budget was just a lot to get your head around and then he doesn't elaborate any further a billion dollars going towards the cost of living package which means around two million new zealanders will get about 27 a week for uh three months of the year you got your head around oh well that's that's the top line thing i've really got a lot of detail but it's not just in new zealand around the world obviously the cost of living is very high and i think it's even got to the animal community because there is a seagull in the UK that's believed to have stolen around 300 pounds worth of stuff.

300 pounds, which is probably about 3 million New Zealand dollars. Yeah, I think it's 3.5 current exchange rate. So stealing it from like a supermarket, there's automatic doors out the front and the seagull will walk up to the automatic doors. The doors will open. It'll go inside.

It'll grab items. It'll come out. Have a listen to this. A guy in the UK filmed the seagull going walk up to the automatic doors. The doors will open. It'll go inside. It'll grab items. It'll come out. Have a listen to this. A guy in the UK filmed the seagull going into the supermarket and coming out. Seagull in task. Go on, lad. Ready, go. Oh, he's...

No way. Oh, my God. It sounds like something we'd do. This isn't one of our videos. But he's filming the seagull Goes in and comes out with a pack of like Chips With the chips, yeah

Chips Here's my issue with seagulls in general They have lost all respect for us Seagulls just don't hold us in any regard whatsoever I remember I was being stalked over New Year's Being in Coromandel By a mob of seagulls they followed me for like four or five kilometers swooping down and you know if this it was another situation they'd be on police 10-7 you know it'd be a reenactment on police 10-7 on these bullying

see on bully day of all days yeah the seagull in the uk school they called him steven seagull i kind of like steven which i you which the name works almost like a pun. And he'll get three times a day. He'll go into not just that supermarket, other supermarkets around the town. And he's sold about 17 kgs worth of food across the year. He's prolific. He's a prolific thief, an animal thief. How can they not sell him?

Surely he's just waddling in and waddling out. I guess he doesn't when no one's looking. He's very good. The store staff could be a bit more on their game. He goes to another one, though. He goes to multiple supermarkets around the town just to steal stuff. He's on a great wicket. So we thought this morning, on our 800 The Hits,

have you got a thieving pet in your household? I know your dog, Bo, in the past has been responsible. This is what you go with anyway for taking... Took an undergarment from a neighbour of a friend we were visiting, came back within the mouth, and I did the thing of knocking on the door to return it, and nothing makes you feel more like a pest. Do you want your slobbery underpants back?

They're like, oh, my dog, they didn't have the dog with me too. I was like, oh, my dog just took this from the thing, and they're looking at me like, yeah, whatever, buddy. Out of everything in that yard, why the underpants bug? Exactly. You know, anything you could have taken. We're talking about thieving animals after there's a seagull in the UK. Stephen Seagull goes into all the supermarkets and just steals stuff.

Prolific stealer. Wonderful, and he wouldn't want that getting out to the other seagulls as well. So seagulls are carrying a lot of anger, aren't they? They're all angry towards us, angry towards each other. So good on you, Stephen. Long may it continue. So we wanted to know this morning on 0800 The Hits about thieving pets in your life. Camille, you're on the radio.

I am. Hello. Good morning. Now, we're talking thieving animals. What have you got? Just my cat, Snow. It's basically gone on since she was a kitten. But in the last probably four years, just extreme.

Basically nearly every night. Nearly every night? What, taking stuff from around the neighbourhood? Yeah, so it used to be just my close neighbours, but now she doesn't really touch their stuff. I don't actually know where she's going or how far. And what's she bringing back? Anything from kids' socks and shoes and stuff like that

to people's underwear, people's shirts, KFC work uniform. Her mop was her latest. A mop? Yeah, she couldn't get it through the cat door, though. So she had a mop with a giant stick handle on it that she managed to pull back to your house? Well, it's got half the bottom part of the handle, so I don't know where it came from.

Do you feel the guilt of these overnight thievings? I feel bad for the kids, because I'm the mum that yells at her son when he loses his socks. So I can only imagine how these parents feel when their kids don't have their socks or their hat. Yeah, you know that conversation's going on and your cat's responsible. Yeah, exactly. But the parents, you're right, don't know that.

They're like, Billy, where's your hat? He's like, I don't know. And I actually feel quite bad because I am the type to be, you're grounded for that or whatever. But no, it's probably my cat or maybe the other one that's down the road. Oh, there's another cat. Yeah, so the cat, Gary, he used to live not far down the road from us as well. I read about this.

It was on stuff.co.nz a couple of days. Yeah. About the kleptomaniac cats working together. Yeah. So I'm wondering, like, I mean, I don't know if they were hitting the same houses, but it was real similar stuff that they were grabbing. Oh, so they're going in as a cat burglar duo.

Wouldn't have a clue, but it just comes across that way. Maybe one's on lookout. Do you have to return the stuff to anyone? Do you ever get to that stage where you return it, and then I imagine the people would think you'd stolen it. No one's actually come and claimed anything. Do you leave it out front or something? No.

So on our community pages, I usually post up if she's done a real big haul, like when she did her 30 pairs of socks. 30? 30 in a week. In a week? Yes. She'll bring one, and then later on you'll find another one. Prolific.

Yeah, so I thought, because a lot of them were guys' work socks, I'm like, surely someone's missing their socks. Candice, you wouldn't believe it. In a radio moment that only the radio gods could dream of, we have Gary the cat's owner. The other cat. The other cat in the thieving could dream of. We have Gary, the cat's owner. The other cat. The other cat in the thieving duo joining us. Is this Marcia?

Yes, it is. Marcia, you own Gary the cat, the other thief. Yes, he's been a thief for a long time. The cat burglars. We're really hanging these cats out to dry. Yeah. And so have you met Candice, who owns Snow the cat? No, I haven't.

Oh, well, welcome, Candice. This is Snow, and Marcia, this is Gary. Who's the bad influence on who? Is Gary putting bad vibes out on Snow, or the other way around? Well, it'd have to be Gary, I guess, because he's been here a long time. Yeah, he seems to be a little bit older, and funny story,

my brother actually used to live down the road from you, and Gary used to steal his socks and their baby's clothes. Gary's been, Gary's a veteran thief, long time thief. What's Gary been stealing over the years? Shoes and undies and socks

and towels and gloves. Gardening gloves are his favourite at the moment. It saves you having to go down to the warehouse and buy those things for yourself. Oh, yeah. Well, the undies quietly just go into the bin. Yeah.

I don't want to be... You never want to put undies into a bin loudly. It's embarrassing when it's always lacy ones, too. He's got his toy. I know. I've had a G-string and they're generally men's undies which you know you can't go around

saying to someone are these yours yeah it's highly embarrassing so there's nothing really you can do the cats are just doing it you know

so yeah I guess you just have to have the stuff being brought back to you all the time from your cats your thieving cats yeah

I got a bit much when it was Nike shoes and slippers and men's work boots and things like that. I don't want to accuse you both of anything, but have you trained your cats to go and steal items for yourself? Yeah, bring a wallet full of money at least. Yeah, something decent. Well, thank you so much for talking to us today.

What a fascinating story about your cats. Oh, that's all right. No, you're both lovely people. Lovely people who own terrible cats. Have a great day. Tested safe for listing from home. John Owen Bean on the hits. Dancing with the stars.

Jeez, there's a lot going on. And the show's not even on air at the moment. Yeah, so Eric Murray, Rower, he unfortunately got COVID, so he's out of the show's not even on air at the moment. Yeah, so Eric Murray, he unfortunately got COVID, so he's out of the show. He's been replaced, their couple. And then last night, Reith Matheson, comedian, he also got COVID as well. So that means Kerry Woodham is back on the show.

She's back off the benches, Kerry WTF. Tell me about it. You're back in the competition. Peric victory, though. It's kind of like, you know, last woman standing. Really. I feel no joy in taking the place of recent Phoebe. Oh, I know.

I've seen you around work because you work upstairs and you had joy. You had joy in your heart that it was over. I really enjoyed it. You had joy. You had joy in your heart that it was over. I did. I did. I really enjoyed it. And then it turns out, you know, I'm a bit shit at dancing, and that's okay. You know, normally if you're a bit rubbish at something, you stop doing it. You don't keep doing it in front of a million people and three judgy judges. But, you know, I mean, I was just so mad.

I got a phone call at 11 o'clock while I was on air saying, can you come in? According to the rules, you're next cab off the rank, and we need you to make a television show. So I was like, sure. Now, where does the contract extend to? Did you just sign one contract that said you could be called back at any moment? Well, I didn't realize that.

I suppose I should have with the COVID kind of thing. Wow. Because I saw on your Instagram that you'd thrown out your dancing shoes. Like you'd got rid of them and put them in the bin. I did and I had to get them out of the bin. No one would have blamed you either.

You would have thought it was done. I'm done with dancing. The problem is, and we were having this discussion yesterday, could COVID just rip through the entire cast and it ends up with Sonia Gray? The first one voted out. Winning. Look, honestly, we had the exiles group.

I called us the rejects and Eli insisted that we change it to the exiles. So we had, you know, round at my partner Jared's house with his partner. So we had a viewing party with Aaron and Sonia and Eli and Johnny and me and Jared and Xander and we were having a ball watching the show like everybody else does. We were really enjoying watching it. And then on

Monday I said to the guys, I said we were in our own little group and I said maybe we better get off the couch and start warming up just in case anybody falls over. And it's like, you know, my lips, God's ear. All of a sudden, people are falling over. And, you know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the final was me, Sonia, Eli, and the last woman standing.

Well, you are. You're in the semi-finals. You've got, like, pretty much two days to turn around. How are you going to get some dancers together? Don't? I won't. I won't even. Oh, my god.

Yesterday I left work at 1 and I got home at 10. Yeah, I thought I was doing the tango, which I would have really enjoyed and the cha-cha, but I'm not. I'm doing the quick step and it's the 70s, which I hated when I lived through it. Why don't they just line everyone up on telly this week,

give you all a rats test, whoever passes it gets through to the next round. That's great. That way I would win. Yeah. You know, I might be old, I might be flimmin' round in places where I shouldn't be round, but I have always backed myself to be the last one standing

should a cataclysmic event occur. Me and the cockroaches will survive. Kerry, we love you. You're awesome. Well done on getting back in and doing it again. We didn't do anything except not kick home. We didn't do anything. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here.

Jono and Ben on the hits. That's pretty much our show heading into a weekend where the temperatures are set to drop. A bit of a polar blast around the country. So stay warm and stay inside and you can watch Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers. I interviewed you this morning with Andy Sandberg. You can catch that on the Hits Breakfast social media later in the day. You guys have a wonderful weekend.

Keep safe. Stay sanitized. We'll catch you on Monday. See you then. The Hits. For more podcasts from the Hits Network, check out iHeartRadio.co.nz.