Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - January 22 - Friday Thought Starters, Oscar Kightely, The Most Amount Of Damage You Did At Work...
Episode Date: January 22, 2021Happy Friday, e te whānau! On today's show, we catch up with legendary Kiwi actor Oscar Kightley who spoke to us about his film Dawn Raid, which he directed, and is out now. We also chat about the fa...llout following President Joe Biden's inauguration and it's concert, featuring a stellar cast. Plus, we play Jono & Ben's 5 Words for $5,000, where Katrina gets the closest we've got yet to winning $5,000! Have a great weekend team!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast.
Welcome to the podcast, the final podcast of our first week back on radio.
It's been a fun week.
Feels like September.
I feel the holiday is a distant memory.
It's funny, it's only five days back.
You just get back into routine
so quickly, don't you?
Oh my god.
When's Christmas coming again? It's a long way
off. It's been a fun week. We introduced a
brand new game. Five words for $5,000.
We got four out of five
again today. We were so close.
It's so fun hosting a game show, isn't it?
We both really enjoy this game.
And sometimes the tension it creates is too much for me.
Yeah, I get quite nervous leading up to it and around it.
I'm like, oh, God.
Because you want to win these people the money, but you just don't know.
Honestly, we don't know what the words are.
And the person who's doing the word association.
You're always like, it's the easiest game to play, but.
It's going to be like a tough game to win,
but I think it's possible now we've got four out of five.
So that's on the podcast again today.
Do you know what, Ben Boyce?
Yeah.
You were telling a story during the show today
about sitting down with your mum and watching some softcore.
Oh, no, it's the new show that everyone's talking about on Netflix.
It's about the 1800s English society.
You're so good at watching Netflix shows.
You watch all the ones.
You're across all those shows.
Well, my mum was watching it.
She was ahead in the series.
She was like, I'm watching some of this.
Have you seen it?
And I was like, oh, no, I haven't.
But it was just me and her at her house.
So I was like, I'll have a cup of tea at night before I go to bed
and watch a little bit.
But the scene was a little bit racy that we got to.
It's a little bit awkward.
How racy? What are they doing?
They went on for a while.
It's not like you sit...
Those are long seconds when you're sitting
with your family watching saucy scenes
aren't they? Because then you're like
what's mum... you're like what's she thinking?
She's probably like
what's he thinking?
You're like oh yeah.
We've both done this because we've both made children,
so we know what this is.
I was the result of this.
You were the result.
Did you do this, Jenny?
Were you doing what they're doing on the screen?
You know, it just makes it so.
And see, I find it even when your parents are bad enough.
Chuck and the in-laws.
Have you ever done it with the in-laws?
Oh, my God.
Now, that should be a TV show.
Watching.
Well, let's see how long you can watch.
This could be our new game show.
We host a game show.
You get more money the longer that you watch with the in-laws.
A saucy scene.
You never see, the people at home never see what they're watching.
You just see the people uncomfortable on their couch going.
But you just put, what you do is you put the most awkward people next to them.
So one night it could be your in-laws.
It could be a priest.
Yeah, you just keep adding people.
Your boss is now...
It's like the whole lounge.
The whole lounge.
Your ex-girlfriend.
Your ex-boyfriend.
Yeah, they're all watching.
You know, and just your neighbour.
Yeah, they're all...
Chuck them all in until the whole lounge is just filled up with people
you'd never want to watch a saucy scene with.
Great show.
Yeah, it's a show.
I'd watch that.
There we go.
So after we do five words for $5,000, we'll do how much.
Jono and Ben's saucy sessions.
Yeah, there we go.
How much can you watch?
Enjoy the podcast.
Have a great weekend.
We'll catch you Monday from 6 o'clock.
Two dads just trying to fill some airtime.
Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us.
That is the main thing.
Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.
Now, the Prada Cup are going on over the weekend,
and American Magic, one of the boats,
are racing to compete for the America's Cup.
We all would have seen it the other day
where the boat capsized, and the commentators were like,
finally, something exciting is going on.
Have a listen.
Well, a lot of breeze on.
A lot of breeze on as they go.
Is she going to go?
And a full flight. My word.
Wonderful audio.
My biggest, can I have a bugbear with American magic?
Sure.
Not once for this whole regatta have I seen them do a card trick.
Have I seen them pull a rabbit out of a hat?
They almost made a boat magically disappear.
Maybe that's their trick as well.
Fortunately, everyone's okay and they're racing around the clock
to get back into the Prada Cup
but they're not racing this weekend
and we
we mentioned this yesterday
that the other competitors
that are racing against them
still have to go to the start line
to be awarded the victory
it's called a ghost race
and then they were like
are you ready to go
and they're like
we're ready
no one else here
oh well you win the race
they just have to go over the line
don't they
yeah pretty much
and then the race is called off
seems like an enormous
waste of time and resource but anyway they're doing it good on them we've all got to fill in time before we, don't they? Yeah, pretty much. And then the race is called off. Seems like an enormous waste of time and resource.
But anyway, they're doing it.
Good on them.
We've all got to fill in time before we die, don't we?
We do.
And we were thinking about the American magic
and obviously that capsizing.
And Dean Barker on the helm,
a legendary New Zealand yachtsman.
But, you know, he pretty much essentially
crashed the boss's car.
Yeah, a lot of...
Or the vehicle.
It's an expensive car.
I don't know how much they're worth.
We were just researching, you know,
the Team New Zealand boat design was $3 million alone.
So I don't know what it cost to actually build it.
Let's say $5, $6 million a boat.
Yeah.
You know, it's crashed.
Well, they've crashed.
Let's not put it all on 14.
No, no, no.
They've crashed the boss's expensive car, haven't they?
Well, yeah, it's pretty much the equivalent of.
You'd be coming back and going,
oh, sorry, boss, we took it a bit fast.
And I imagine that's happened to other people in their line of work over the years.
So we wanted to throw it out there this morning.
Not just a car, though.
What's the most amount of damage they've accidentally done at work?
Yeah, give us a text, 24487.
We'll take all calls.
Jono, on our TV show a few years ago, everyone always brings this up with me.
You were going to dig me a pool in my backyard
when I wasn't home.
You were on a digger.
It was almost summertime.
And might I just say for the record,
I had no prior pool digging experience.
No, no, I don't know who let you on the digger.
But anyway, you were going around and around on the digger
and this happened.
We got the audio, Millennial Max?
I'm driving a digger.
My name is John O.
Having fun driving a digger. My name is John O. Having fun driving a digger.
Ah, digger donuts.
You spin me right round,
spin me right round.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, dude.
I'm sorry.
Oh.
Holy.
Yeah.
It makes it sound worse because they stopped the fun music when the crash.
So it actually wasn't as bad as it sounds.
It was not as bad.
It wasn't really bad.
It was not as bad.
I turned up later and I was just so confused.
I was like, what?
Did you mean to?
What?
No?
Okay, why?
Listen, thankfully, you know, MediaWorks had wonderful insurance.
Yeah, renovations were done on my house.
And it was all good.
And it was all sorted out.
I dug myself a hole and I dug myself out of that hole.
Thanks to the digger.
So that's a lot of damage that Jono caused at work.
What was the damage that you caused?
I'd love to hear from you today on 0800 THE HITS
or you can text us as well, 4487.
Morena Clare, welcome to the program.
How are you?
Good, mate, good.
How much damage did you cause?
So I just got a new job and I got a car park,
which is actually right next to the CEO.
And so as I was driving in one morning,
this is just like in my cheap $3,000 car,
may have taken the turn a little too fast
and accidentally swiped the side mirror of the boss's Mercedes.
Oh, dear God.
Oh, my goodness.
Where did you just start?
Who parks the intern next to the boss?
Hey, I never said I was an intern, but...
Oh, sorry.
I thought that's how everyone got jobs,
starting out at the bottom.
So didn't Drake say we all start at the bottom,
now we're here?
Yeah, now we're back at the bottom.
Back to the bottom.
Oh, that's so good.
I love your work, Claire.
Have a great weekend.
You too, guys. Oh too guys actually I want to know
how did you tell the boss
oh
well he kind of
found out
I put it off for a while
and then he
sent like a big
hashtag email
to everyone
and I just had to
come forward
oh
hey
even worse too
you didn't tell him
yeah
it was very scary.
Good on you, Cleo.
Have a great day.
Appreciate it.
We'll go to Dean in Auckland.
How much damage did you cause at work, Dean?
Yeah, we sung a digger, mate.
They had to go across the swamp to lift a tree up for some guys to cut a tree down.
I said, I'll go across, but I don't think I'll get back, and I didn't.
They dug a big hole in front of me, and then they got another digger in to put logs out,
and that didn't work, and then the pumps failed,
and then, yeah, the whole thing got submerged,
and we had to get a big bulldozer in to pull the bloody thing out.
So you sunk a digger?
Yeah.
I love how you even prefaced it with,
I'll go over, but I'm probably not going to be able to come back,
but you went anyway.
I told them that. I knew we wouldn't get over, but I'm probably not going to be able to come back. But you went anyway. I told them that.
I knew we wouldn't get back.
The ground was soft, but yeah, there was a creek running through it.
That's the Kiwi Can Do attitude.
I'm probably not going to make it back, but I'll go anyway.
Thank you very much.
I've got a double deck of buses now.
It's all good.
Only had four of those stuck under bridges.
Hopefully you do make it back with us.
Take one more call.
You too.
Thank you so much for listening.
Remember our dear friend Dan,
who used to work at Westpac,
and he accidentally,
he was a bank teller,
and someone came in to get $100 out,
and he accidentally gave them $10,000,
not knowing.
I don't know how you do that,
but he did that,
and he added up his station at the end of the day,
and he was like,
oh, I'm out by 10 grand.
I'm no banking expert, but I'm
not sure that's how the banking structure's meant
to work. I think they deposited him
from their staff after that.
We'll go to Renee. Welcome. Renee, you're
on the air. Good to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast.
How much damage did you cause?
Well, I started a new job
and I had
an old building, and I went to the bathroom, and I went to the bathroom and I did number two and I was so embarrassed.
I was like, okay, I've got to let some air out.
The window was like one of those old windows that are like a blind.
So it's like flat and I pulled it and I don't think it'd been open for a while because I pulled it so hard the whole window smashed and cut my wrist
so I had to come out
one and say
I've just broken the window
and then I was bleeding
and I had to get stitches
and someone had to take me
to the doctor.
Oh my God.
It's so embarrassing.
Oh, you poor thing.
Thank you.
It's like a scene from a movie
but then inevitably
everyone had to end up
going in the room anyway.
Yeah.
And I've now become scarred
so I remember it forever.
Oh, you poor thing.
Thank you so much for sharing.
That's an amazing story.
Hold the line.
We want to send you out something.
That's such a good story.
My experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information.
Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct.
Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
It is a Friday, and we wanted to start something called Friday Thoughts.
You know, give an opportunity for you and myself to get something off our chest.
Yeah, well, you raised something in the office yesterday that I thought could be brought to the airwaves
and just let people, the fine people of Aotearoa ponder over the weekend.
Ben Boyce, take it away.
Well, something that's been sort of, I've been thinking a lot about lately.
A mate brought this up the other day saying, you know, when rich people, you know, people with a lot of money,
wealthy people, wear
unusual clothing, what would be described as unusual
clothing, they're called eccentric.
They're always the eccentric billionaire
or the rock stars or the Hollywood
movie stars. They can get away with that. But if I
wore, you know, your average
Joe, sworn out there with their clothing,
you'd be like, oh, he's dressing like a bit of a
bit wet, you know?
Yeah, I mean, you constantly shame me.
If I was wealthy, I'd be eccentric.
You're like, you got dressed from a, you put a blindfold on
and picked clothes out of a clothing bin today.
That's what you say to me.
But if you were rich, you'd be like, oh, he's eccentric.
Yeah.
But, you know, if you came to work in leather pants or a scarf
or, you know, lots of jewellery or, you know, things like that.
I mean, well, Johnny Depp's dressed,
constantly dressed like he's heading off to a pirate party.
He does.
Isn't he?
Slash from Guns N' Roses, leather pants.
Yeah, no one questions Johnny Depp
apart from the judge at his court cases.
Hey, no one's questioning.
So that's a very good thought starter.
If you're rich, you can get away with dressing like a vagrant.
Like just whatever you want.
And they're like, oh, he's eccentric.
It's eccentric.
But eccentric clothing never looks comfortable.
Does Johnny Depp ever look comfortable?
Does Slash with his leather pants on ever look comfortable?
And a top hat.
Yeah.
Impractical top hat.
Driving?
You can't wear a top hat while you're driving.
No.
What happens in that situation?
Well, you have to remove the top hat.
Otherwise the top hat just slowly pushes down over your forehead as you're driving.
Well, I've got a Friday thought
I've committed a crime
Okay
I'm guilty
And I get a defence lawyer
Oh this is a hypothetical
Yeah I haven't
I never admit my crimes on here
And I get a defence lawyer
Do I tell my defence lawyer
That I've committed the crime
or do I just keep up the facade
of that I'm innocent?
Or does the defence lawyer not want to know
and just forms a defence for me?
I imagine they wouldn't want to know, would they?
I don't...
Don't tell me.
I mean, defence lawyers,
it's a job where you'd have to leave your morals at the door
it's like a breakfast radio announcer
I don't want to
cattle prod my nipples today
but I'll do it
I'll do it in the name of entertainment
it's the same sort of gig
yeah right we are
do you think if you were
a defence lawyer
you'd want to know
if the person you were defending
had actually committed the crime
well
and if you're trying to defend them
you probably
oh
it's so hard
the morals
the morals of that one is...
You could never be a defence lawyer.
No.
Yeah, sure, I'd be a good one.
I'd be a good one.
Yeah, well, you could say a whole lot of stuff.
I'm like, he's clearly lying.
But you're very good at it.
So those are the Friday Thought Starters.
Have a think.
If you commit a crime this weekend,
will you have to admit it to your defence lawyer?
Okay, that's really taken...
Lighthearted stuff.
Yeah, for a Friday.
You're talking about tax evasion, things like that.
Yeah, I'm talking like, you know, maybe
hypothetically, say I go to
a countdown, self-service checkout,
got some avocados,
and I weigh them through as onions.
You know, that sort of stuff. Do I have to admit that
to my defence lawyer? From stealing Mike Hosking's
car to stealing the hearts of
New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Actual hearts being not bestowed.
Of course, the whole world's still talking about the new president of the United States of America, Joe Biden, as sworn in yesterday.
I don't know if the whole world are, but we certainly are.
We're still banging on about it.
Amazing ceremony.
But all the artists that played, everyone from Lady Gaga, Katy Perry.
Katy Perry, we'll talk more about her amazing performance later.
The fireworks.
Oh, shivers up your spine.
Yeah.
It was incredible.
The fireworks, anyway, we'll get it.
Not now, not now, gentlemen.
Back off.
We're focusing on another thing.
One thing, one break.
Until we try to listen to our bosses.
But Chrissy Teigen, we just mentioned this before.
She was there along to support her just mentioned this before, she was there
along to support her husband John Legend
who was playing at the inauguration
but afterwards she was eating a
fruit roll-up and she broke a tooth.
Here's her on Instagram.
My tooth in a fruit roll-up.
There's some up here on Instagram.
It's lost.
My tooth. She fruit roll-up. Okay, the summer pair on Instagram. I just lost my tooth.
She's very slow.
Yeah, I just lost a tooth in my fruit roll-up. Well, you would be slow if you just lost a tooth in a fruit roll-up.
Hard pumping music behind her.
She looks like she's in a hotel, but there's a lot of music going on, right?
She's also not wearing a lot.
Fruit roll-ups at the presidential inauguration party.
A bowl of Cheerios as well. It's like the cuisine
of a seven-year-old's birthday party.
I feel like, because they had their
daughter with them, so maybe that was
a snack. You know, as a good
mum or dad. Bring a lunchbox.
Yeah, bring some snacks to keep the kids
going, right? Have you ever lost a tooth
in a comical fashion? No, but my
Not just from decay and lack of
oral hygiene.
My daughter,
Sienna,
when she first cottoned on
to, you know,
wiggly tooth
equated to money,
as soon as she'd get
a wiggly tooth,
she'd just go to the bathroom.
Just rip it out.
She'd be there
for like 20 minutes
just pulling it and prodding it.
There'd be tissue papers
with all sorts of like...
You'd walk in there
and go,
what?
The horrible thing
has taken place.
Gone on to the bathroom,
come out all gummy and bleeding.
Go, I got another one. This is going to be
money for the tooth fairy. There was a period there
when she was about seven or eight. She just had no teeth.
Just a gummy old smile
like an elderly retired person.
But she was rich, goddammit, thanks to that
tooth fairy. So what we want to open up right now,
0800 the hits, 4487.
How have you lost a tooth?
I imagine a lot of parents being, like you say, eating food, eating children's food.
Ginger nuts, for example.
Ginger nuts is like biting on a rock from a quarry.
I see why people tip them in cups of tea, because you kind of have to right before you eat them.
So we want to know the most unusual way that you lost a tooth.
We've got some prizes up for grabs on this Friday morning.
We'll say morena to Amber.
How's Hamilton this morning, Amber?
Good morning. How are you?
We're doing really well. You lost a tooth.
What happened? I did. So I was getting out
of a concrete swimming pool, put my hands over
the side to lift myself up and
whack my front teeth.
Oh, God. It's a new regret.
I took out half of the tooth and then the nerve was exposed.
Oh, how do we do this? I took the nerve out without any anaesthetic. Oh, God. It's a new regret. Took out half of the tooth, and then the nerve was exposed. Oh, how do we do this?
And then it took the nerve out without any anesthetic.
Oh.
What?
Good times.
And then I tend to lose that now every so many years.
I bit down to a piece of pork crackling, and it snapped.
I ate a minty, and it snapped.
So, yeah, good times.
Good times.
Great times.
We're all holding our bodies, isn't it?
I know.
You're all making us wince.
We're going to send you out something, all right? Awesome, guys. Have a great day. We're all holding our bodies, isn't it? I know. You're all making us wince. We're going to send you out something, all right?
Awesome, guys.
Have a great day.
Okay.
Yeah, you too.
Geez, I regret doing this phone conversation now.
We're going to send out Amber some rock-solid food.
A mouth guard.
A health pizza.
A health pizza.
Let's go to Gemma.
Welcome.
How are you?
Hi there.
We've got two Gemmas.
We've got Gemma from the Coromandel and Gemma from Wellington.
Which Gemma is this?
I'm currently on the Coromandel.
Oh, that's a great place.
That's a great Gemma.
Great place.
What have you got?
You lost a tooth?
No, it wasn't actually me.
I had just gone on,
I think it was at my second date,
to watch a guy play rugby.
And about halfway through the game,
his physiotherapist ran over to me
and said,
can you just hold these for a minute
and I was handed his
two front teeth which I found out later
was obviously his bridge which he'd lost when he was a little
boy on a bike ride but that was
a pretty interesting way to
have a date. Where did you put the
teeth? Do you sort of weirdly hold them in a cup
in your hands like cup your hands
put them in your pocket? What do you do?
He just literally handed them to me,
drool and all,
and I just stood there with them for a while,
but it turns out he was okay
because he's now my husband.
Oh, you married that toothless son of a gun.
I did.
That was as bad as it got, I guess.
I love your work, Gemma.
You look after the Coromandel, okay?
We'll send you out something as well, all right?
Thank you very much.
I love how I put the responsibility
of Gemma looking after the entire Coromandel. That's a big job. Dean, welcome. How are you? You lost a tooth, okay? We'll send you out something as well, all right? Thank you very much. I love how he put the responsibility of Gemma looking after the entire Coromandel.
That's a big job.
Dean, welcome.
How are you?
You lost a tooth, how?
Yes, it wasn't actually me.
It was my best mate when we were kids.
So we were doing an overnight camping trip
by the river, fishing in the middle of the night,
and he got this line which had a lead sinker
caught in the reeds,
and he was just ripping on it,
ripping on it to try to break it free.
Eventually it broke loose.
It came shooting back, hit him in the lip, and on it to try and break it free. Eventually it broke loose. It came shooting back,
hit him in the lip
and knocked his tooth
root and all clean out.
It literally shot
out of his mouth.
Root and all.
Root and all.
Clean out of his mouth.
Oh, jeez.
And he was,
because he,
you know,
he was obviously
on his second teeth.
He wasn't a little kid
so that had to be paid
to be replaced
and that cost him a fortune
at the age of 11. I think it was. Although you would love to see that on YouTube. second teeth. He wasn't a little kid, so that had to be paid to be replaced, and that cost him a fortune.
Although you would love to see that on YouTube,
don't you? I've actually got the video,
because during that stage, it was like the jackass
thing was really, you know, and kids were videoing
themselves doing silly stuff, so we had a camera.
I must actually dig it up, really. Yeah, dig it up.
Get us the footage. We'll put it on Insta, mate, and get some hits.
Get some hits. Hey, thank you.
We'll go on. We'll end on an artist. Our second Gemma,
Wellington-based Gemma,
welcome to the show.
Hey guys, how's it
going?
Oh, lovely to hear from
you Gemma.
What happened?
How'd you lose your
tooth?
So a few years ago I
was working at a bar
restaurant and it was a
couple of days before
Christmas and one of the
chefs gave me some
hokey pokey, bit down
and completely broke
one of my back teeth.
Hokey pokey in the same category as a ginger nut, isn't it?
When you're having Hokey Pokey ice cream,
there's like little rocks that you sort of have to navigate your way through.
They're great when you digest them properly.
Don't get me wrong.
Yeah, it was so good I even swallowed the toothpaste.
You're like, oh, this Hokey Pokey is a little bit more crunchy than usual.
Oh, so good.
All right, we're going to send you out something as well.
Appreciate your calls, all right?
Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben.
Breakfast on the hips.
The hips.
Now, a seven-year-old in Christchurch, we're just talking about this,
a young boy found $5 in the ocean.
And as a seven-year-old, that'd be the coolest thing to find.
And now they've put it on trade.
It's amazing how far you can make $5 stretch when you're that age.
Yeah.
You can last you three days. Well, it's going to last a on Trade Me. So, Manny, how far you can make $5 stretch when you're that age? Yeah. How long can it last you?
Three days?
Well, it's going to last a lot longer because as a weird experiment,
as Dad said, why don't we chuck it on Trade Me,
see if anyone will bid for this $5 note,
the lucky $5 note that he's found in the ocean.
And so far it's got up to about $530 on Trade Me,
which is incredible.
And then it's going to be a responsible purchase
for the winner of that auction.
So we want to know this morning
what's the most impressive thing you've ever
found. And on the phone right now, we've got a Nelson
jeweller. Now he looks for gold in
the rivers of Nelson and he's just discovered
a rare
1870, so almost
like 150 years old, a New Zealand
coin. There's a news article we're just reading
about it. One and only Glen James.
I imagine there's probably, when I say
the one and only Glen James, I imagine there's multiple
Glen Jameses around New Zealand.
I have Googled it and there's a couple more
in America, but yes.
I'm glad. I'll say one of the Glen Jameses
joins us on the big news.
Hopefully he's the one we want to talk to.
You're the guy that found the coin.
Yeah, you got the right Glen James. Yeah, that's it.
That's me. Now tell us, this coin looks very expensive.
I don't know.
Yeah, it's unique.
That's all I can say.
It's different.
So you go out there and you're sort of sifting through the river.
What do you call it?
How do you describe what you do?
Yeah, so we've got our own gold claim
because to find gold in the country,
it's got to be claimed.
You've got to have the rights to it in certain areas.
We've got a claim on a certain area and we go out with a dredge
which is basically you are underwater vacuuming.
So if you imagine laying on the carpet and
just with the nozzle of the vacuum cleaner and you're just crawling
along slowly down the hallway cleaner, and you're just crawling along slowly down the hallway vacuuming,
and you're watching all the dirt and everything go up the nozzle.
That's exactly what you're doing.
But you're underwater, and you're vacuuming up the river.
It's an unorthodox style of vacuuming.
If I walked in on Ben vacuuming his lounge like that, I'd be like, what?
But how do you know if there's gold on the piece of land that you've claimed?
It's a tricky one.
A lot of history.
If you go back into New Zealand's history and look up historical gold fields
and everything like that, then you can find out where places in the past
did have gold, didn't have gold, and go from there.
But before you can even go prospecting, you've got to apply for permits
and have a permit to do that.
Oh, so you're going off our ancestors
who had some luck in this particular part of New Zealand.
Now, have you found gold?
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We are a little bit unorthodox, I suppose.
We're the only jewellers that find their own gold
to use in their own shop.
Right, so you make all your jewellery off gold that you've discovered.
That's incredible.
Yeah, yeah.
Good on you.
Well, listen, can I be honest with you, Glenys?
I prefer my blood diamonds that I get from the shop in the mall.
No, well, you need to go see someone like Glen.
That's the thing.
I mean, people do say, I know we're going off topic,
but I mean, people do say, where do you
get this from? Where do you get that from? You're only going
by what you actually are told
and you can make up a bullshit
story. But I mean,
we are doing what we do
and we've got photos and videos and everything. So, yeah,
we get gold and we get
enough. And what about things
like the coin that you found that was like
146 years old? Do you find unusual things like that from time to time?
You know what?
That is better than gold.
I don't know.
It's just like treasure hunting, really.
It's like you don't know what you're going to find.
And you don't often find anything of any, you kind of never find anything of any value.
Just some old tools.
Over Christmas, my son was given as a Christmas present a metal detector.
And so I spent one morning over New Year's going around with a metal detector
and I looked like a crazy person.
You know, I felt like people were judging me and I was trying to find...
Is that the first time you've felt that way?
Well, probably not, to be honest.
I had no trousers on at the time, too.
Maybe that's where the judge...
That's a bit unusual.
Listen, lovely to talk to you.
Congratulations on your find.
Are you going to get this thing valued?
What are your plans with the coin?
Are you going to sell it?
No, no, no, no, no.
I mean, I don't know.
To me, it's got no financial value.
It's like when we go out looking for gold,
we don't go out looking to strike it rich.
We go out because we enjoy it
and we know the honest truth behind it and we use it.
The coin was just like a super added bonus.
I'm just going to leave it in the shop.
What price do you put on a coin?
Well, you can probably actually check.
The coins also have a price of like 50 cents
worth of cents too.
But anyway.
You're right.
Someone asked me that before
and I said, look,
if someone offered me $1,000,
I wouldn't sell it.
Money doesn't buy happiness. To coin sell it. Money doesn't buy happiness.
To coin a phrase, money doesn't buy happiness.
Oh yeah, literally coin a phrase.
It buys things, yes, but it's not my
story, it's the person that lost it.
That would be awesome to find out.
How did it come to get to the river in the first place?
It's always lovely talking to someone who's so
passionate about what they do. Can you look after yourself,
okay? You too. Love you guys.
Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up you guys. Show. Want more Jono and Ben?
You can catch up with the boys anytime.
Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook.
I'm getting a little bit nervous
because hopefully we can give away $5,000.
Five words for 5K on the hit.
You're only five words away from a massive payday.
Simple game to play.
Everyone's playing along in the car or at home
as they listen to this one.
It's a game of word association.
We give you five words.
You say the first thing that pops into your head.
If those five words match up with our five words, then you win $5,000.
Looking at the game yesterday, it's doable.
It's achievable.
Ben spent the first three days moping around.
No one's going to win.
No one's going to win.
That's what you keep saying to me.
Yeah, I'd say It's too hard.
But yesterday gave me so much hope because we are one word away from $5,000.
That's right.
And I'd love to welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, well, the big hug, big open arms, as we always
welcome everyone onto the show.
Never welcome them with closed arms.
Katrina, welcome from Christchurch.
Oh, welcome, guys.
How are you?
Big audio hug for you.
Yeah, nice to have you here.
Straight back at you.
Have you been playing along to this game as we've played it this week?
Absolutely.
Yesterday was heartbreaking.
I thought she was going to get it.
I know.
Well, hopefully today one of us can get in sync with your thoughts
and hopefully get $5,000.
Which one do you want to choose, Jono or me?
I'm going to go Ben.
Oh, you're going to go me again?
Come on, Ben.
No pressure.
You're a safe pair of hands.
I'm a shaky pair of hands.
My hands are all up.
My hands.
Don't make this all about me.
I can't take the pressure on this.
My hands are like one of those blow-up things outside Godfrey's.
You know?
The wacky way.
Yeah, those are my hands.
They're not safe.
So you get into the soundproof booth.
Ben can't hear anything inside the minimal oxygenised soundproof booth.
We wanted to do a competition to see how long someone would stay conscious in the soundproof
booth, but Katrina, he cannot hear you now.
You've heard the game for a few days.
Absolutely.
You know how it's played.
And listen, you don't have to rush your answers.
Okay, Katrina.
Have a good think about the words and what you would like to lock in.
Righto.
The first word.
Up.
Down.
Sensible. That's good. Down's good.
Teddy.
Beer.
Remote. Remote Control
Control or television?
We'll go control
You want to go control?
Lock and control
So you've gone up, down, teddy bear, remote control
Yep
Happy so far?
Absolutely, yes.
Petrol.
Station or car?
We will go...
We'll go station.
And the fifth and final word
that you need to sync up with Benjamin Ross Boyce,
the Whitedupper's 19th favourite son.
Bark.
Bark.
Bark.
B-A-R-K.
Dog.
Dog.
Those are pretty solid words, Katrina.
There's a couple there.
Yeah, I contemplated a couple, but yeah, they could go either way.
So I hope Ben's going to go my way.
Out of up, teddy, remote, petrol and bark, what word do you think you could slip up on?
What word are you most nervous about?
Maybe the remote for television.
Yeah, okay.
Let's bring him back in, Producer Humphrey.
Open up out of the soundproof booth.
It's getting all steamy in that soundproof booth.
The glass door's steamed up.
What the hell were you doing in there?
Don't ask.
I was thinking about it in anticipation.
He's sweating nervously.
I don't even know what the words are,
so you only use the words.
Listen, I don't want to put...
Even the words to start off with the association.
I don't want to put any pressure on you,
but Katrina needs to buy her grandmother some new false teeth.
Oh, don't do this.
They are $5,000.
If she doesn't get these false teeth,
she's going to have to have all her food blended up in a blender
and drink through a straw for the remainder of her life.
Can I stand? Is that okay?
You can stand.
And I also don't want to put any more pressure on.
I feel more confident about the answers today than I even did yesterday.
Oh, don't do this.
So if you don't win, if you don't win, you're a monster.
Oh, no.
I will try my best to try and think what.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Any parting words, Katrina, that you'd like to give Ben before he embarks on this journey?
Just go with it, mate.
No pressure.
No pressure.
Don't forget my grandmother.
Toothless grandmother.
Yeah.
All right, hit the music, Millennial Max.
The first word you need to sync up with Katrina.
Up.
Down.
There's one from one, Katrina!
Yeah. Keep it up, my friend. Okay, I'm one, Katrina. Yeah.
Keep it up, my friend.
Okay, I'm trying to focus on it.
I felt that was probably a pretty easy one.
Teddy.
Did you say teddy?
Mm-hmm.
Beer.
Is he right, Katrina?
Are you sure?
Oh, yes.
Yes, okay.
Three away from $5,000 and our first winner for Five Words 5K.
Remote.
Control.
Yeah.
Oh.
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, God.
I don't know what you're doing to steam up that soundproof booth, but it is working,
my friend.
Oh, jeez.
I'm trying to think in my head if there's any other
options. That was the one
that Katrina was most nervous about. Oh, really?
Petrol.
Oh, see, now I'm getting
a couple of options
in my head for this one. Talk it through, baby.
Talk it through. I don't want to say them out loud because I'm going to...
I'm an open book. What do you want to lock in?
What's going through that skinny head of yours?
You're not the bald one.
I'm the bald one.
I'm thinking things like car.
I'm thinking prices.
I'm thinking station.
I'm thinking prices.
Petrol prices.
What was it, Katrina?
Station.
Station. Station.
Two days in a row.
I'm so sorry. So close.
He's almost Dean Barkery, isn't he?
He's so close.
What was the last one?
The last one, Bark.
Dog?
Oh, he would have got it.
He would have got it if you had just got petrol station.
Katrina, I'm so sorry.
Hey, nice to meet you.
It was lovely playing with you.
Wonderful contestant.
Wait till we do this again.
Katrina, you need to call back.
We need to do this again.
Give our condolences.
Appreciate your time.
Have a great Friday.
You too.
Give our condolences to your grandma's dentist
and you go and have a great weekend.
That was Five Words 5K.
We are proud of New Zealand.
Go New Zealand.
If only New Zealand was proud of that.
Jono and Ben.
New Zealand's breakfast.
On the hits.
There's a movie out today in New Zealand cinemas
about the untold story of the legendary New Zealand music label Dawn Raid.
Dawn Raid was the first New Zealand hip hop label.
We were Polynesians.
We had the American stuff on radio,
but we had our own voice.
When people hear South Auckland,
they think nothing good
comes from there.
My brother John
did life in prison.
That's where my change happened.
That looks awesome.
Dawn Raid, of course,
produced hit songs
like Savage Swing.
Adi,
How Deep Is Your Love?
As well, Adi.
Great song.
And obviously Stop, Drop and Roll, we just heard before on the movie trailer.
Not just a great song, but also great fire safety advice as well.
And joining us in the studio right now is the director of the movie, Oscar Kightley.
Great to have you here.
How are you going?
Yes, talofa lava, brothers.
Talofa lava to you, Oscar.
Thanks for having me on the show.
It's lovely to have you here, mate.
It's always great catching up with you.
Now, Ben was just telling me before you walked in,
he saw an interview with you
and it was a dream of yours to direct a movie
when you were age 24.
23, yeah.
That was my five-year plan.
You know how you do five years?
It was a thing back then.
Yeah.
And then I had to keep adjusting it,
going, fire up, this five-year plan's really going at the moment i always got closer and closer so i'm grateful to gfc films for giving me this
shot and yeah i love that i i love these guys and love these story and they were part of a
an awesome period of new zealand flowering of arts and culture and you guys remember because you were
part of it yeah it was such an iconic you know it was the TV at the time
stuff like C4
it was the sports television
we were able to do
it was introducing humour
into Sacred Cows
and Dawn Raid
was all part of that
so if you were around
at that time
it felt like such a special
moment for
New Zealand
at the time
because even
you know the hip hop
you had Scribe going well
all the Dawn Raid guys
yeah
Mijin Mystic
yeah
Savage Rock Band D4 overseas the Datsuns yep the Mint Chicks You know, the hip-hop, you had Scribe going well, all the Dawn Raid guys. Yeah, Mijin Mystic. Yeah. Savage.
Rock bands, D4, overseas, the Datsuns.
Yep, the Mint Chicks were fur patrol.
Yeah.
You know, all those bands that came up.
And, of course, in the 90s, there was a fight
to get New Zealand music on the radio as a quota.
By that point, they didn't need that anymore
because radio accepted that,
oh, New Zealanders love hearing New Zealand music.
Who knew? Who knew that we Zealanders love hearing New Zealand music. Who knew?
Who knew that we were going to enjoy New Zealand music?
And I know all bands have special
stories, but the story about
Dawn Raid's inception is especially
special, isn't it? Yeah, it is.
It is because, you know, just as
a Pacific person growing up here,
we were used to the odd hit breaking through.
OMC was huge.
That's what, you know, every now and then there would be an Adi Ja song.
But what Dawn Rae did was show that it's not a phase, it's not a fad,
that the way they strung their artists together really created something.
And they did become the biggest music stars of the country,
which for a group of youngsters from South Auckland, Wellington,
and Tokoroa, Hamilton, you know, it was unusual.
It started out from business school and Polytech and also selling T-shirts at markets.
See, it's useful, those business courses.
Yeah, they screw into something worldwide.
It was amazing.
I thought it was just something to do for a couple of years.
Polytech, it was just if you couldn't get into university.
I went to Polytech.
That was the attraction of Polytech.
It was a six-month course.
It wasn't the whole three, four years of being poor.
We've got Oscar Kiley with us,
director of a brand-new movie,
which is out now, the Dawn Raider documentary,
Go and See It.
It's an important part of New Zealand history.
And any small to medium business enterprise,
even individual contractors, should see this.
I know you're probably not going to give away the spoilers, but there's a
moment in the trailer where they're like
and it all turned to custard.
We dropped the ball, we took our eye off the ball,
it all went bad. What happened?
Yeah, I can't give away the ball. You've got to go see it.
You've got to go see it. I was trying to save on a
movie ticket.
You'd love it, bro. It'll take you back.
It'll take you back. Now, before you go, you've been in
so many great projects over the years.
We play a Wii game, Character Assassination,
where you've got to remember the character's name
of the thing that you were in.
Okay.
Okay, so Bro Town, a great animated series you helped create.
What was the other character, the main character you voiced?
Vale.
Yeah, well done.
Well done, one for one.
Sione's Wedding, and of course the sequel a few years later.
What was your character's name?
Albert
because people still call me
that in the street
Oh do that Albert
and I'm like
that was the character I played
Do you remember when
the Sione's Wedding
and it was being sold
in the flea markets
wasn't it?
I know
I was in Otara Market
in December
and this guy was like
hey Oscar good film
and I'm like
it comes out in April
I was like
what the?
Someone had burned it onto discs
and they were selling it at the flea market.
Well, someone in the post-production house
had stolen a copy, taken it home,
burnt it, given it to their brother or something
and then that was it.
It was in the hood.
But I don't mind bootlegs
where someone gets up in the middle
and you see their head walking.
That's part of the landscape.
That's life.
You get that.
Stuff stolen from the edit suite. Stuff stolen from the edit suite.
Stuff stolen from the edit suite.
It wasn't even finished.
That cut me.
2013,
you starred alongside
Sam Neill
as a cop
in a TV drama
called Harry.
Your character's name?
Harry.
That's an easy one.
Okay.
Taika Waititi's
Hunt for the Wilderpeople,
2016.
Another cop you played.
What was the cop's name?
Andy.
Oh, you're good at this.
You've got a good memory.
Well, I haven't done that much acting.
You're pretty much listing my CV.
2016, you voiced a character in Disney's Moana,
which of course starred alongside The Rock.
What was your character's name?
The Fisherman.
The Fisherman.
There we go.
100% well done.
Well, that was a crucial scene
because that's what made Moana go off to search for Te Fiti
because all the fish had died.
So pivotal, pivotal what made Moana go off to search for Te Fiti because all the fish had died. So pivotal,
pivotal moment in Moana.
Pivotal moment in the movie.
Did you voice that
in a studio here
or do you go over there
and voice it with
Dwayne The Rock Johnson?
I was so excited thinking,
yeah, yeah, LA, here I come.
And then they're like,
no, there's a little studio
just down the bottom
of Key Street
and you're going to be there.
But it was crazy
because I was there
for an hour
and you've got like
five directors from LA
in the studio on the other side
watching you for that whole time
and getting you to do five versions
of your like 10 lines.
So they flew here especially for your voice session?
No, no, it was all zoomed.
Oh, right.
Where's the rock?
Is he in the room with you?
You brought the rock down here.
Oh, I'm...
Well, so good to have this in
the world right now.
Dawn Raid, the movie,
the documentary, go
see it, New Zealand.
And thanks for your
time this morning,
Oscar.
Thank you, brothers.
Love you lots.
Yeah, please go see
the film.
Paid to talk words
and stuff into a
microphone.
It's New Zealand's
Breakfast.
Jono and Ben on
the hits.
Scrolling through
your page.
Listen, whether he's
breaking news or
faking news, who cares?
He's doing some heavy lifting at this time of the morning
that I don't have to worry about.
He's Ben Boyce with the news from overnight.
Now, Joe Biden, of course, was president yesterday,
announced as president yesterday at his inauguration, sworn in,
and amazing performances, obviously Lady Gaga, Katy Perry,
and this song from the New Radicals.
They got together and they haven't been together for about 20 years.
We were like, why are the New Radicals forming?
Yeah, we thought it was an unusual act to ask to come back from the doldrums.
And we said, well, they've probably got all other professions now.
One's probably a sensible economics teacher at school.
Another one, I think, has evolved into Ponzi schemes online.
But there's a lovely story behind why Biden wanted that song.
Now, Joe Biden's son, Beau, unfortunately died a few years ago with cancer.
And this was kind of the song that he would play every morning.
Joe Biden thought it was kind of like his theme song.
So every morning around breakfast, he would play this song to kind of motivate himself for the day.
And they used this song at his funeral and his eulogy as well.
So, yeah, so Joe Biden had a real strong meaning behind this song and why he wanted it there.
So it's pretty cool.
Oh, that is a lovely message.
Joe Biden's had a really rough run of it, personally.
I thought his wife, his first wife died in a car crash with one of his kids.
And then, as you just mentioned, his son, I think he was nearly 50.
He was a great politician as well
Biden said he was even better at politics than he was
he's saying he should have been president
not me
very touching reason
the new radicals would have been monsters to say no to that
sorry mate
we don't play anymore
nothing's pulling us back
the Simpsons predicted many things over the years,
and yesterday they predicted the future once again
because in an episode that aired in 2000 for The Simpsons,
Lisa Simpson ran for president.
She was president, I think, of America,
and she was wearing like a purple pantsuit with a necklace,
and it was very similar to the one that the vice president was wearing yesterday.
The picture's uncanny.
I mean, the only difference is Lisa's wearing a skivvy.
I'm a big fan of a skivvy.
Annie Pryor donned me in skinnies for a lot of my childhood.
Caused me a lot of trauma.
Caused my neck a lot of trauma.
But that's the only difference.
The suit is almost identical.
Many times the Simpsons have predicted the future over the years.
They've predicted Nobel Peace Prize winners.
They've predicted voting scandals and elections. They've predicted Nobel Peace Prize winners. They've predicted voting scandals and elections.
They've predicted a tomato tobacco plant.
Remember that episode?
Oh, yeah.
That actually became a thing.
They predicted Apple Smart, well, not Apple Smartwatches, but Smartwatches.
Wow.
Like years in advance.
You know, the thing's been running for 27 years.
Well, they've had so many episodes, that's surely some of it.
And you're going to have some hits and misses over the years, aren't you?
Yeah.
I mean, we're probably saying
some crap on
this program
that might come
to fruition
in a few years
time.
No one's giving
us any credit
for it.
Yeah but it
was very similar
to what Camilla
Harris and
Lisa Simpson
was wearing.
It was so
similar right?
Yeah.
It was identical.
Yeah.
I've got nothing
more on that.
And no real
predictions from
you?
Nothing?
Well we made some
wild predictions
for 2021
earlier in the week
too
and I made
I don't know
if this will eventuate
I reckon
August, June, July
even September, October
it might be a bit cooler
this year
than other months
alright I'm wrapping you up
that's my prediction
and that is scrolling
for your feed
when that comes to fruition
you give me that credit
real kiwi blokes with soy lattes.
Mmm.
Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.
The A to Z of New Zealand.
This is something we do every day on the show.
We call a different town or city in New Zealand.
We call one a day to learn about that town,
and we do it alphabetically.
It's going to take us over two years to call every town and city.
We're deep in the K-hole at the moment.
Kingston we're heading to today,
which is located just next to Queenstown there.
You could say Kingston is the king to Queenstown.
You could say that.
I don't know if many people would say that,
but isn't that interesting?
I wonder if that's why it happens.
King and queen, yeah.
Well, listen, I did no further research into that,
so I don't have any answers for you.
But looking at Kingston, you know, look at this place.
Slap it on a postcard and set up a $3.95 at your local petrol station.
It's the type of sort of picturesque image that we peddle off to people overseas
to con them to come and visit our country.
Not many people reside in this lakeside woodland location.
It's the type of setting where you'd find an ex-marine
chopping wood all lonely at the beginning
of a movie where he's asked to come back out of retirement
to save the present. That's what I
imagine this place is like.
But we're going to go through to Kingston now
to a very special lady who I understand
Millennial Max has teed up named Laura.
Very special lady in the community. We'll call her now.
Morning, Laura speaking.
Morning, Laura speaking. This is Jono and or Ben speaking.
You may not be familiar with either of us,
but we're bombarding you with an
unnecessary phone call. What kind of
Kiwi would live under a rock who didn't know
who the both of you were? Really, guys.
Come on. Whether they like to our fragile egos.
I like it.
Whether they like us or not is a whole other conversation.
Yeah.
Those annoying guys.
Now, you're in Kingston.
Mighty, mighty Kingston.
I'm 45 minutes south of Queenstown, around the lake.
We are the quieter, lesser populated Queenstown, and the more beautiful, if I must say.
Oh, stop trying to say you're the same as Queenstown. No, no. I said we're better than Queenstown. Oh, better than Queenstown and the more beautiful, if I must say. Oh, stop trying to say you're the same as Queenstown.
No, no.
I said we're better than Queenstown.
Oh, better than Queenstown.
I'm sorry.
Now, Laura, what do you do in Kingston?
I do a couple of things.
I've started an agritourism business called Real Country
that COVID pretty much wiped out.
So now I just teach groups of people farm skills
and how to shoot guns. So that's
a bit of a laugh.
So you're quite the handier. You can milk a cow, you can shear a sheep.
I actually shored my first sheep on Country Calendar, which aired a couple of months ago.
So I wouldn't say I'm good at it, but I'll give anything a go.
You're on Country Calendar? That's the pinnacle of New Zealand TV shows. That's the biggest
rating show. I'm not joking here, right? This is the biggest thing in the country.
It's definitely the biggest thing in the country.
I'm not lying.
Oh, listen to it.
Listen to that music.
Doesn't that warm the cockles of your cold, cold, cold heart?
Country calendar.
We were talking to someone at TVNZ.
They're like, we're not kidding.
This has been the highest rating program for decades.
Yeah.
Decades.
And what is it about?
They just turn up with a camera at a farm.
That's country stories, mate.
I watch this.
I sit down with my mum, Jenny.
She loves it.
We sit down with a cup of tea and we watch it.
And it's always great, great, wholesome entertainment.
I tell you what, for any rural folk, and you might be able to confirm this, Laura, for
any rural folk, getting the call from the Country Calendar producer must be a happy
day.
It's definitely a happy day, but it's also very nerve-wracking.
You couldn't even share a sheep
and you agreed to it, right?
I know.
I'll do anything to get on Country Calendar.
I'll share myself.
Do you want me to share you?
That's basically how I got them.
That's right.
Yeah, I'll do anything.
And that camera crew left freshly shaved that day.
I'm looking at photos of Kingston.
It looks incredible.
Amazing views of the lake and scenery.
It's awesome.
Yeah, no, we are very lucky.
We've got an epic golf course,
which must be one of the few great courses left in the country
where the green fees are only $10.
Oh, I love it.
We've got the pub, the Kingston Fire Pub,
which does the best hot chips in the country.
And they let me tie up my horse
for lengths of time while I'm in there
drinking ciders just outside.
It's always very handy. Do you commute via
horseback? You don't get done for drink driving
that way.
I don't know if there may be some
anyway.
And so, the Kingston
Flyer, the train.
They bring it out for special occasions,
and they are trying to get it going again,
which would be epic if they did,
because for train lovers, it's a beautiful piece of kit.
It's the kind of Harry Potter-esque, isn't it?
Like the Harry Potter train.
Very much the Harry Potter train.
And I remember growing up, I grew up in the area,
we had a school visit to the train,
and we had like these robbers on horseback galloping alongside
and they held us up at gunpoint and took my $5 note
and it was really exciting.
Oh, right.
You still got held up in an armed robbery as a child.
Yes.
But all part of a show, right?
Yeah.
They don't give the money back though.
Broadcasting live and mostly awake.
Jono and Ben Ben New Zealand's breakfast
On the hits
Wellington anniversary weekend
This weekend
So a long weekend
For Wellington
So around that region
So that's awesome
It's a city that you can't beat
On a good day
That's what we're constantly
That's the propaganda
We're constantly fed
From Wellington
Ben I was in the
Supermarket yesterday
And do you know
One of my
Little dirty secrets
Is I love having a rifle
Through the magazine aisle Are you one of those people That read it Is I love having a rifle through the magazine aisle.
Are you one of those people that read it by the checkouts and then just put it back?
Yeah.
Is that your thing?
I just love catching up with the goss.
Have a flick through Home and Garden.
I've never actually read Home and Garden, but I do read like New Weekly and stuff, all the trashy ones.
I love them.
It used to be a thing at the doctor's surgery, but they'd always be so outdated.
You'd be like,
oh, Jennifer Aniston
and Brad Pitt are together.
Princess died?
Died in a car accident?
I know, you find out a lot of stuff
if you don't have the internet.
But they do say that, you know,
the internet killed the magazine industry.
They also said video
would kill the radio star.
Look at the radio star.
Should probably be dead,
to be honest,
but we're still here.
No. Batt battling away.
But what I do like about the magazines going through,
at the back, they always have, like,
sort of paparazzi-style shots of celebrities
just going about mundane activities, you know,
pushing a supermarket trolley out of the supermarket
or, you know, doing gardening or things like that.
But they've got an obsession with
listing their age.
Oh, right.
Katy Perry, 36. Walking with Orlando Bloom,
41.
I don't know what the obsession is with
like it's necessary to go, oh, you should be
walking at that age. Ben Boyce, 37.
John O'Prior, 39. Talking
absolute rubbish and getting up to usual
shenanigans here.
So I don't know why they're all about age shaming, but
I enjoy it when I see their age.
It's an interesting thing,
isn't it? You're right. It's got
to a stage now where the magazine industry,
and great as well, has had a bit of a
revival, hasn't it? Still kicking
on and there's some very specific
titles of magazines.
And so I'd love to play a game with you called
Is This A Magazine or Is This Not
A Magazine? In the past
you've played these games before and they've all
not been the things
you've just made up. Yeah there's been
a huge... It's been 100% not
what it is. It's been a
huge flaw in my format. Is this a candle or
a candle scent or not?
None of them were actual candle scents.
And then I said, is this a body wash or is this not a body wash?
Another one of my favourite game shows.
But anyway, I'll play.
No, but I knew this conversation would happen.
That's why I actually went to the lengths of researching some unusual...
I've even got photographic evidence of them if you need it.
Oh, good.
I like this.
This is great.
Okay, the first one.
Can we get some game show music, Maxi? We'll check some game show music on. Okay, here's the first one. Oh, good. I like this. This is great. Okay, the first one. Can we get some game show music?
Maxi, we'll chuck some game show music on.
Okay, here's the first one, Benjamin, boys.
Portaloo Weekly.
Now, I'll give you a bit of a background on the magazine.
An industry-style magazine for those working in the Portaloo delivery industry.
I don't know what technological advancements have happened with Portaloos
that it requires a weekly edition.
Yeah, I'm going to say no, not a magazine.
It's a magazine in America.
No.
It's a magazine for the...
It is.
Without a doubt.
I will show you the photo of the magazine after this.
Wow.
Okay.
Boats and bangers.
And a magazine dedicated to aficionados of boats and or sausages.
Is that a magazine or not a magazine?
No, I'm going to say not a magazine.
Jeez, you're on fire.
You're so good at this game. I'm 50-50 so far.
Okay. Glasses and Arses.
A six-monthly
magazine catering for a
demographic that combines a love of
spectacles and donkeys. Glasses
and Arses. Oh, look, I'm going and donkeys. Glasses and arses.
I'm going to throw out. Let's go actual magazine. No. Okay.
None from three so far. I've got one.
I've got one. Drunkard
magazine. Written for
alcohol aficionados, including
articles on how to smuggle booze
into a funeral, how to never lose
a bar argument, and convincingly
pretending you're sober. I'm going to say no. Not a magazine. Is it a magazine? Drunkard magazine's a funeral. How to never lose a bar argument and convincingly pretending you're sober.
I'm going to say no.
Not a magazine.
Is it a magazine?
Drunken Magazine's a magazine.
Wow.
We're playing
Is it a magazine or not?
Sounds like your sort of magazine.
I'm the editor.
We always forget to,
we always get on it
and forget to put out
the publication.
iPads and Libra pads.
Released monthly
in the Ukraine reviewing the latest iPad and Libra pads Released monthly in the Ukraine
Reviewing the latest iPad and Libra pads
No, well done, you were good there
And finally, Gardens and Grannies
A self-explanatory weekly UK publication
Servicing garden enthusiasts in grandma-style fashion
That could be a magazine
And you're right, it's a magazine
And that was Is It A Magazine or Not A Magazine
With Jono Pryor
We'll be back tomorrow Will we? Probably not And you're right, it's a magazine. And that was Is It A Magazine or Not A Magazine with Jono Pryor.
We'll be back tomorrow.
Will we?
Probably not.
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This is a segment based all around your weekly shockers.
It's Jono's Worst of the Week.
Ben Boyce Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Pryor's Worst Moments of the week. Ben Boyce Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's worst
moments of the week. And here
is my dear, dear friend, Ben
Boyce, giving it a good honest crack
to make me unemployed.
He does it once a week, don't you? We did it every
week last year. At the end of the week,
we look back at some of Jono's worst moments
over the week, and we were talking about the lovable
Sir Tom Moore in the
UK. He, of course, he raised a lot of money,
but he's pretty much 100 years old,
and he walked around and around his property,
raised a lot of money, and he also got knighted.
I remember that.
And this was off the news that Liam Neeson
was going to retire from action movies.
Yes, the star of action movies like Taken,
and this is what you had to say about the lovable Sir Tom Moore.
I'll put my money on it now that in three days
there'll be a news story going,
Captain Tom Moore
wants to fill in
for Liam Neeson now.
Sir Captain Moore.
Sir Captain Tom Moore
taken to the funeral home
of Tom Moore.
Taken to the Lawn Bowls Club
for morning tea.
And just on Action Movie Heroes,
Bruce Willis,
you know him from
the Die Hard movies.
Well, he's responded up.
Tell you who Die Hard, Tom. I from the Die Hard movies. Well, he's responded Tell you'll die hard, Tom.
I'm sorry, Tom.
Yeah, unnecessary. Why do I keep going in on the
lovable? How old's Tom?
120?
Tell you're unnecessary.
Back off. Stick with McCormick.
Yeah.
That's right.
Keep it local.
Right. Now, Leonardo DiCaprio, you went in on him as well,
the Hollywood actor, because we found out this week
that he'd helped out some native New Zealand birds
that were almost extinct, and he helped them out,
and this is what the conversation had to say.
Leonardo DiCaprio, I didn't know this,
he helped save some New Zealand, rare New Zealand birds.
The kaki, or the black stilt bird,
has been saved from extinction
thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio
and a donation he made.
Usually the birds he saves
are around 19 years old.
That's what I mean.
He'd be like,
yeah, he helped save some young chicks
in this article,
and I'm like,
oh, they really signed him up
on something he didn't know.
You like young chicks?
He's like, yeah.
Do I what?
I keep getting older.
They stay the same age.
You want to save some birds in New Zealand? He's like, yeah, birds
from all over the world. I've used all the birds in America.
You said I went out on them.
That was
probably about a 55-45
spread there, my friend. So if we
ever meet Leo, we're both guilty.
Yeah, okay. Fair enough.
The Australian Tennis Open is due
to happen very shortly. A lot of the
players are quarantining in hotels.
And we had some exclusive audio of some of the players
practising tennis in their hotel rooms.
And in John O'Ban exclusive, we've actually obtained some audio
from someone who has actually resided next door.
I think to Novak Djokovic.
He's not wanting to drop any training time.
And this is the exclusive audio we have for you.
Oh. Oh. Oh. who's not wanting to drop any training time. And this is the exclusive audio we have for you.
It's the summers hitting a tennis,
like the grunt of a tennis.
So the tennis ball's against the wall. Yeah, it's a shot hitting the wall.
Yeah, it's a set list.
And he's giving it his all there.
Sure, that's right, but anyway.
Pretty sure it was the tennis audio.
I don't know, producer Humphrey loaded it in.
Was it the tennis audio?
Something from a hotel room, anyway. Do you know, Producer Humphrey loaded it in. Was it the tennis audio? Something from a hotel room anyway.
Do you know, can we pull that curtain?
That wasn't an effect.
That wasn't a professional tennis player.
That was our Producer Humphrey making those noises.
To try and be, pretend to be a tennis player.
It was disturbing to know that you know how to make that.
I just don't even want to think about Producer Humphrey.
We were just like, can we get some noise of a tennis ball
hitting the wall?
He was like,
yeah,
I added in the hitting sound
and we were like,
oh, okay.
Of the grunt.
He was like,
okay,
that was all him.
Really took it to a
family friendly place there.
Now we've got a new
newsreader doing a wonderful
job here at The Hits.
Rachel Jackson-Lees
reads news for us
every morning
right around the country
and she came in yesterday
and John,
I had taken the time to learn her name.
First of all, we want to welcome Rachel.
Rachel.
Rachel.
Is that what we're calling her now?
Rachel.
Rachel, our new newsreader.
Jono hasn't taken time to learn your name.
No.
But he'll get there.
Maybe by tomorrow.
And Rachel's resigned today due to workplace bullying.
You could just tell that she's like, oh, that's going to be my name now.
That's going to be, yeah.
I'm sorry, Rachel.
No, she's doing a bloody good job.
It's wonderful to have Rachel on board.
And finally, yeah, you came back from holidays
and you had a bit of a tog incident that you reflected on at the beach.
Last year, I was embroiled in a see-through tog incident that you reflected on at the beach. Last year, I was embroiled
in a see-through tog scandal.
Yes, yes, I remember that.
For five days.
None of my loved ones told me
that my togs were see-through.
And you could see my sandbags
through my togs
until a friend alerted me of it.
Five days later, I was like,
Gen, you're my wife.
You've been to my back.
My backside, you can see it. Clearly, you can see this. you're my wife. You've been to my back. My backside. You can see it.
Clearly you can see this. So no one
said anything. No. There we go.
That was Jono's worst moments of the week.
Can I apologise to any of the New Zealand
community who may have seen that
incident as well. I know there was some
incidents on the beach with sunburn
during the year.
But that was probably the worst one.
Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal dad.
The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast.
Spy.
No WhatsApp.
Spy.co.nz.
Producer Juliet's away at Outward Bound,
and here he is with Spy, because coincidentally,
I spied him stealing someone's lunch
from the communal work fridge yesterday.
Ben Boyce, anything you want to say about that?
Let's not talk about that right now,
because I need to talk about Chrissy Teigen,
American celebrity who's awesome.
Went to the inauguration yesterday
to watch husband John Legend perform
and had a little bit of an accident.
She lost a tooth while eating a fruit
roll-up. Which,
you know, you can understand those things can be
quite hard, those sort of dried fruits that are rolled
up. Are you talking about your
traditional, how they've all been flattened down
and pressed, you know, the roll-ups, and then
you'd have them in your lunchbox at school?
Yeah, that's what I think it is. I don't know.
I mean, being in America, they might be slightly different.
I thought they were quite soft in nature.
Who's ever lost a tooth on a
fruit roller? Well, Chrissy Teigen.
How shocking is her oral health?
She's got teeth just hanging in there by a thread on her
gums. Oh, it's going to go any minute now.
And she's finally been followed
by the President on social media.
She's awesome on social media, but
she's been sort of sparring with Donald Trump
over the last four years, and he's blocked her.
He doesn't follow her, obviously.
But now there's a new President.
She tweeted during the week, she's like, hey,
Joe Biden, can I get a follow now?
And she's one of the first 12 people to be followed on the official president account.
And the other 11 are all politicians.
She's the only person that's not a politician to be followed so far by Joe Biden's presidential account.
So that's pretty cool, eh?
And great.
She sent a selfie back to him of a toothless smile.
Thumbs up and a toothless smile.
That's good.
I always wonder why she didn't go with Chrissy Legend.
If I married someone called Legend, I'd be like, I am definitely taking your last name.
Yes.
Anything's better than Jonathan Pryor.
Jonathan Legend.
I know.
Johnny Legend.
Oh, Johnny Legend.
Change my name to Johnny Legend.
I've got a rebrand happening.
Starting Monday, I will become Johnny Legend.
And I thought this was pretty cool.
Country music star Garth Brooks.
Now, country music is massive in America,
and it was pretty awesome to see him performing there yesterday
at the inauguration.
He was one of the many artists that performed.
He came out in an enormous cowboy hat.
He took it off, and everyone's like,
he's got hair plugs.
That's what the internet was going.
Is Garth Brooks bald?
I don't know.
Well, everyone was talking about that yesterday.
I don't know the history of Garth Brooks' hair.
But he joked he might be the only
Republican there at
Joe Biden's inauguration.
When he came out, I know we all mentioned
because we saw him on the screen and we were like, oh, that's unusual
for a country artist,
traditionally a Republican fan
base, that would be performing at the inauguration
of a Democratic president. But I thought it was awesome
that he did that because it helps, you know, hopefully unify
America.
They're going to go, oh, so there's a country music star that's, you know, loved by many
people all over America.
Is that why he did it?
I think so.
Yeah.
He's been really, really quite vocal against some things that wouldn't traditionally be,
you know, vocal with country music over the years.
So that's awesome.
But then afterwards, a couple of people also gave him grief because he went, he's obviously
all, you know, he did his song,
he's quite happy, and went and hugged a lot of the presidents afterwards
without wearing a mask.
And everyone's like, oh, mate.
Well, if he's a Trump supporter, he doesn't believe in COVID.
I get it.
Yeah.
I get it.
I'm going to go Garth Brooks hair plugs.
I just want to see.
Yeah, where are you?
Oh, you know he's got hair plugs.
Okay, that is scrolling.
I need to get hold of his hair plug, Doctor.
Johnny Legend back on Monday with hair plugs and a new name. Yeah, that is scrolling therapy. I need to get hold of his hair plug doctor. Johnny Legend back on Monday
with hair plugs
and a new name.
Yeah, yeah, no.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no.
The home of
yeah, no.
She'll be right
and at the end of the day
Jono and Ben
breakfast on the hits.
The 660 vibes
of course they're playing
on their 660
Saturdays
in Hastings
this weekend.
Doing five words
5k, 7.45
every morning
and agonisingly close this morning with Katrina, Ben.
Petrol.
I'm thinking things like car, I'm thinking prices,
I'm thinking station, I'm thinking prices.
Petrol prices.
Oh!
Katrina went petrol station.
It was the only one you got wrong.
She nearly had 5K.
It'll be all yours on Monday.
Have a great weekend.
We'll catch you Monday from 6.
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