Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - January 29 - A Champagne Shortage, Elemeno P, What Has Your Partner Never Done?

Episode Date: January 31, 2021

Happy Friday! We've got some new parody songs... Yes, sorry if they hurt your ears. Ben presented one called "Moley" from Justin Bieber's song "Holy", and Jono presented "Procrastinating" from Dua Lipa's "Levitating". You be the judge as to whether they're any good! Also, during the school holidays, Ben's daughters have been experimenting with their potential future careers; specifically, newsreaders. And Ben had a very important job in helping them practise! It is also Laura McGoldrick's (from the 3PM Pick Up) last day at The Hits for the next wee while, she's off to have her second baby! So we sent Millennial Max to her house to give her some gifts from us. Not sure she was too impressed with our gifts... whoops! Finally, we had classic Kiwi band Elemeno P in the studio to chat about their upcoming summer tour.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings, friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome along to the podcast on your Friday. Second week back for us at the, it's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun getting back into radio again. Yeah, you get back on the treadmill, don't you?

This treadmill we call life. And Ben Boyce, I had to get a criminal record check. Did I say it was only you that had to get that? Everyone was like, well, maybe you... Did you not do a criminal record check?

I did. I just wanted to make you feel like you were like, what was I the only one? Like the person at the airport, they're like, excuse me, sir, you've got to come over here. A random answer. I was like, this is a random... I was like, this is not random. No, it was like, what? Was I the only one? Like the person at the airport, they're like, excuse me, sir. You've got to come with me.

A random? And so I was like, this is a random. I was like, this is not random. No. My wife's standing right next to me. Could you be the random person? Scan them. Scan the kids.

I could have stuff hidden on the kids. You picked me. Yeah. But, you know, anyway, we were going to emcee something, and it required us to get a criminal history check. Well, I thought it was all of us, but anyway, Ben tells me, might just be me. And you send it off, and you fill out this form

and you wait anxiously, don't you, for seven days. You're like, oh God, have I forgotten about some crimes I've committed? I hope not.

Well, me too. The tax evasion stuff will be coming up at some stage. They haven't got onto you for that. They haven't yet. I mean, crimes against comedy, guilty as charged,

you know, but whether they show up on my criminal record or not. And I haven't opened it yet. Very nervous for some reason about opening this. Even though I think I've done nothing wrong. Shall I read it out? Yeah.

I'll open it up now. Yeah. I wonder if it says the same as what mine said. What did yours say? Well, it probably won't say the same as what mine said because mine was addressed to me. But it says, what I found was interesting. It said, based on what you have provided us. Something along those lines. You have no criminal record. And it says, what I found was interesting, it said, based on what you have provided us,

something along those lines, you have no criminal record. So it was kind of almost like, well, from what you've told us, it's kind of like, it's all on me. It's like I've lied to you to get a clean criminal record check. Yeah, which, yeah, like as far as I know, I've got a clean record. No, that's just them covering their, you know, they can't go, you're clear, and then find out you've been a rampant online fraudster. Yes, true. I see why the Ministry of Justice is.

So I've opened the letter, and we're all good. They're good. Does it say based on the information or something you've provided? It says, Dear Jonathan Pryor, a request for a conviction check. Yeah. For Jonathan Pryor, thank you for your request. Pryor conviction? No Pryor convictions. They could have Pryor conviction no Pryor conviction

they could have at least chucked a pun in there no Pryor Mr Pryor you have no Pryor conviction in little speech marks

chuck some comedy in there they're going to be like oh that would be if you said that email they're going to be like date my date's not going to be shall I reply to them and go

so you could say I have no Pryor conviction yes I'm going to reply back i don't know what you can but i don't know if they're gonna be the sort of department that would be like reply back lol smiley face emoji they might not be up for banter all right all right uh today on the show though uh it was a really fun show five words for five thousand dollars did we give away five grand today it's our new game

everyone's playing it along in the cars at home when they're listening friends of ours came over the other night and my friend Jo she was like

I was playing in the car the other day and I was guessing and she's like Ben say shut say shut you know

because I was and I ended up saying closed you know does Jo realise you couldn't hear her yelling at the radio I had to explain that she should call you

no if she wants to pass on the message but it's the sort of game that you get swept up in it even if you're not actually playing you are still playing along

as the person plays it that's right that's coming up and also the games that Ben's children have been playing to fill in time very adult

adult games yeah unusual game for kids to be doing in their school holidays. Yeah, it's like almost the game that they did play is almost one step away from going, let's play stockbrokers. Yeah.

That's right. Maybe they were the people doing your criminal conviction recorded in the school holidays. Enjoy the podcast. Have a great weekend. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

Thank you for hanging out with us, guys. Love, love spending time with you in the morning. Now, yesterday we gave ourselves what I believe is probably a giant waste of time, this task, an unnecessary waste of your time and ours, but we're here now. We're in deep, so we're going to commit to it. It was a parody battle. We like a parody song, don't we?

Yeah, it's just like a rap battle except 80% less cool. A parody song battle. We like a parody song don't we? Yeah, it's just like a rap battle except 80% less cool. A parody song battle. So we gave ourselves a bit of a task yesterday we're like 24 hours, let's see if we both come up with a little parody based around sort of summer time, anything to do with and look at the hit songs that we're playing right now on the hits as

inspiration I guess. Yeah, so this is Jono and Ben, ruin your favourite songs at the moment with parody. So what we had to do is we had to write it ourselves, we had to sing it ourselves, and then neither of us have heard what the other's done, and we'll judge. We'll give honest feedback. Now,

we've got a rich history of singing, don't we? Well, yeah, you in particular. I loved your singing last year on the hits. You remember that? The Christmas song? Remember the Christmas song that the- Oh, Christmas has been and gone. We don't need to repeat it. The afternoon show did, and it started so well.

I don't know if you remember this. I want to play this again. It started with some wonderful singers that we have at the hits, like Anika Moore, Stacey Morrison as well, Laura McGoldrick. They were all singing brilliantly at the start, and then you- Then I had to come in. I don't know why this had to be a team event. I was like, don't put us in there.

Everyone's holding this song beautifully. Have a listen. Have we got it? I don't want a lot for Christmas. Pull it down, Drew. There is just one thing I need. Is it a singing coach? That's what you need.

And then... I'm made over here. That's me. I was just like, I want to sing. I'll just mock you for not singing. I can't sing, innit? He's like, I'll sing the next line. And then he just ended up mocking me.

So yeah, that's our singing history at the hits. So yeah, we're not good at singing. But anyway, I worked hard on this one. There's a song at the moment, a great song we play on the hits, Justin Bieber, Holy. So I thought I'd use this as inspiration to make a song about someone that couldn't, I used, basically you, John, you couldn't go out in the summer,

couldn't go out in the sun because they're so moley, moley, moley, moley. I am quite moley. I got a mole cut out this week. So I was like, you know, a summer message about, you know, covering up and someone who, like you, who's a bit, you know, pasty white,

they couldn't go out in the sun. So here's a quick little bit of my moley, moley, moley. I stay inside in the summer I'm whiter than a polar bear But if I go to the beach A full hazmat suit is what I should be wearing, yeah. Cos the sun, it scolds me, scolds me, scolds me, scolds me, scolds me. My skin's all molly, molly, molly, molly, molly. Oh, God.

Can I just... Can we pull this down? Where are you going, mate? There's still more guests. Can we pull this down? There's still more going, mate. There's still more gigs. Can I pull this down? What? I thought the prerequisite that one of us sung. Yeah, that's me singing. That's you singing. That's me singing.

So that's Mowly. That's Mowly, Mowly. It's sung by Ben Boyce. Yeah, well, okay. It's not me singing. It's actually Storm from Flavor. I tried to sing it. It was shocking.

So thankfully Storm came in. But yeah. Okay, well, I stuck to the rules. Oh, did you? And I'm regret sing it, it was shocking, so thankfully Storm came in. But yeah. Okay, well, I stuck to the rules. Oh, did you? And I'm regretting it. This is all you singing, is it? Well, you know Dua Lipa. Have you heard of Dua Lipa?

Yeah, great. Up-and-coming artist. She's going to write, she's got Levitate at the moment, this song. Yeah, Levitating. Is that the right one? No, this is Hallucinate. Oh, it ends with an eight. That's the right.

I'm Levitating, yeah. She's either Levitating or Hallucinating. She's doing one of the two. I'm levitating, yeah. She's either levitating or hallucinating. She's doing one of the two. Yeah, levitating, you know. And it's the time of year where there's a lot of people putting off tasks and procrastinating. Okay. So I see what you've done here.

Instead of levitating, it's procrastinating. I see. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got two pay bills, email, yeah, yeah, yeah I got two pay bills Email, call, girl, I need to Fix a car and see grandma I'm procrastinating

I'm one of the latest You'll be waiting on me I've put more things off than expiry dates Instead of doing the task, I prefer to look at clickbait You want a romantic dinner? Get ready for a later date You want some sexy time? You're gonna get delayed I'll do anything apart from the task, I prefer to look at clickbait. You want a romantic dinner? Get ready for a later date. You want some sexy time? You're going to get delayed. I'll do anything apart from the task at hand. The last five years I've been meant to call Dad.

Kindergarten's waiting for me to graduate. My middle name starts with P and ends with procrastinate. When Grandad died, I was supposed to book the hearse. I also didn't get round to finishing this verse. So there we go. And that was just some slightly out of time rapping. I don't think it was you singing at the start, though, was it? It was a combo, though.

It was a combination. Okay, you were on there. I was on there, yes. So those were our summer parody songs. Is there a winner here? Or are we all losers? I think what you just said there is probably quite apt. No one is losing more than you, having to listen to those.

Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. It is, of course, the last week of school holiday. School seems to be starting next week. Congrats to all the parents out there. It's been a long haul. Isn't it? I mean, you start so joyous.

I'm really appreciating all this family time, and I will not forget this. And then last week of Jan you're like can this end? End of the madness Not for the kids though, kids could go on forever and ever but the parents now are all thinking about school lunches I'm juggling and all that sort of stuff

my kids are coming over for a play date at your house this morning. It's just what you kind of have to do around it, it's like this is where you want school to be back on right? Now I'm going to be a little confused because here we're at a professional capacity. When I come to retrieve my children from my house, do I now assume

the role of a responsible parent and reintroduce myself to you? Ask you how your holidays were? I'd like that. All that sort of light banter and stuff like that. And then I'll awkwardly hang around wondering if you're going to offer me anything. Oh God, he's hanging around. I just wanted to get him, get in and get out.

But my girls at the moment, my two daughters, Sienna and Indy, they've been quite creative lately with their holidays. They're getting into sort of making movies as well. They made one with their cousins just on the iPad and they edited it up. They made like this creepy horror and then one of the girls was like,

couldn't go to sleep that night. They're like, I'm too scared of the story. you made the story up you know it's fake this is not true and yesterday they were like I was at home in the it's like Wes Craven making his last film and lying in bed oh dear god I know it was such an unusual thing I was like you made up the story it's not real uh but yesterday they're like dad can you help us? We're filming a TV show. And I was like, oh, here we go. This is where I feel like I can actually help out, you know, because we've done some TV work over the years.

I'm not very good at a lot of other stuff. I'm not practical. No, but, I mean, you've got the skills and, you know, you can help them start a TV show and also get it cancelled. Yeah. So I was like, okay. The harsh realities of the commercial TV industry. I cancelled it midway through.

I'm like, mate, that's what the TV industry will do. Sorry, ratings are dwindling. We're losing them. We're losing them. But they're all like, we're going to do a news. We've written a news bulletin. This is what my daughters have said. They've written a news.

And I was like, oh, great. What do you want me to help you with? You know, some scripting. Do you want me to help you with some presenting stuff? They're like, oh, no, can you just play the news music at the start off the laptop? They had the camera set up on the phone. Which is an important role. Otherwise, can you just play the news music at the start off the laptop? They had the camera set up on the phone. Which is an important

role, otherwise you wouldn't know the news had started. So they'd found a news, started the news online, the News Hub News, and then I had to, so I had to play the news at the start of it and then just turn the sound down, just so they could start their bullet. That's all I had to do. Oh, because then Mike McRoberts would obviously start talking. Yeah. From the proper news bullet. So you'll hear, I recorded

it a little bit. It was quite a long bulletin. I won't bore you with the whole lot, but here was the kids' news bulletins they did yesterday. And this was me at the start. You'll know, a very important role of playing the music and then turning down the volume. Kia ora, good evening. This is News Hub Live News for Monday.

I'm Sienna Boyce. And I'm Indiana Boyce. Leading the news, we have a school disco on Thursday. And in breaking news, there are no parents allowed. In other news, I brought some roller skates at the mall. I wore them to school and fell on my bum. But it was fun. And in weather, it was really cold today.

Brr. And that's News Hub News. I'm Sienna. And in weather, it was really cold today. Brr. And that's Newshub News. I'm Sienna. And I'm Indiana. Good night. That was actually not Ben's daughter. It was Jack Tame's audition. Audition day for TVNZ.

Yeah, very important role. But self-indulgent news. And the weather was wrong. I mean, it's been a heat wave lately. Yeah, and they just brush over it. They rushed through the bulletin. It was over and done within, what, 20 seconds? Yeah.

And what sort of wild disco are they going to where there's no parents? A lawless disco. I know, there's a lot of... Well, you understand now why that was leading the news, I guess, if that's the case. I mean, it's your classic childhood game. You know, who's going to play Wendy? Who's going to play Simon? Who's going to keep hosting the 6pm news?

Who's going to get sidelined? Have to do some weekend stuff. We all played it as kids. Oh, Simon needs to break the news to one. One of them's going to get shifted along. Anyway, still more credibility than Fox News, so well done. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this.

Jono and Pam. Breakfast on The Hits. The Hits. The Hits. It is a Friday heading into the weekend and it's a big day here at The Hits The Hits The Hits It is a Friday heading into the weekend And it's a big day here at The Hits Because Laura McGoldrick Who does the 3pm pick up Does a great job with the cell each afternoon

It's her last day for a little bit She's going off on maternity leave Having baby number 2 Which is awesome for her and her partner Martin Guptill Who you know from the Black Caps as well Yeah well that's wonderful No one told me she was pregnant

This is news to me she was pregnant. This is news to me. Okay. When was this memo sent out? Right, anyway. How long has she been pregnant for? So we thought we'd, well, I guess,

normally it's nine months is the whole thing. Nine months. You've been keeping this secret from me. Now he decides to tell me the day she's leaving. So we thought we'd give Laura a quick call and wish her all the best.

Have you told her about this? No, we're just going to surprise her. Oh, you like keeping things for people, do you? You just surprised me then. Everyone loves a cold call on the radio. Yeah. Hello? Laura McGoldrick, it's Jono and Ben here.

How's it going? Hi, good. How are you? We just weren't ringing. You're pregnant. Oh, Jono, are you not? So he just told me. I'm pregnant.

Don't tell anyone. No, he just told me. I hadn't. Don't tell anyone. He just told me. I hadn't told anyone. Lips were set until just then. Oh, oh, oh, okay. Very exciting for you guys. You're looking forward to it? Yeah.

No, definitely looking forward to it. It's very exciting, but it's at that end and you both being fathers and having partners, it's at that point where you're like, oh, dear, it does have to come out. But we don't have to push it out. That's the good bit. No, you don't have to do it.

Oh, you boys can handle it. That's true. But yeah, no, it's really exciting. No, it's really good news. And I tell you what, having had a February baby, I know the pain of watching someone go through the summer months

with a tiny human being inside of them. Not good with the heat. Not good with the heat. I'm just sick of being sober, watching everyone else. You can't get on their level, you know. Well, you can get on their level, except people will judge you. Yeah, you know you can't. It's definitely proud of you.

That's definitely proud of Pod. But, you know, the summer months, it's been very sweaty. Now, Laura, is there someone at the door? No. Oh, there we go. Yeah. You're like It's the inland revenue Wondering if you've been paying tax

Guys I've got to go Hi Matt Hello It's Millennial Max Who works with us on the show Millennial Max And works with you of course In the afternoons as well

Produces the 3pm pick up We just We thought we'd send them over there with a wee surprise gift for you and Marty, all right? Oh, that's very nice of you. You didn't have to do that. Maxie. Your little face.

Hey, guys. Hey, Max. You must tell Laura that you've actually been hiding outside her front door all night. Yes, and I slept in your front yard here. You didn't see me? Just for this. He's been looking through the windows all night.

Because I've gone inside. Okay. Oh, you're inside. Oh, you're inside. Now, Max, you can tell Laura what we've got, what presents we have. We've got some gifts for you. Firstly, this one from John and Ben. Oh, babysitting service voucher. We've got some gifts for you. Firstly, this one from John and Ben. Oh, babysitting service voucher.

We've got a babysitting service voucher. We're available any time. Yeah. Apart from the weekends and most weeknights. Yeah. But if you want us to babysit, we can do that. And I think there's a present there for Marty, your husband as well. There's something here for Gap as well.

We won't be... We'll put that outside, I think. We'll put that outside. Hang on. He loves cricket. I know there here for Gup as well. Okay, we won't be, we won't break, we'll put that outside, I think, we'll put that outside. Hang on, he loves cricket. I know there was no black caps tops in the shop, so I got him an Australian one,

so I thought he'd like that. Guys, it's just gone outside. Okay, okay. Max is probably about to be kicked out, but we have got you

a proper present too. Here's the actual gift. Oh, you did get to actually get a present. Oh, I told you we didn't have to, guys.

Oh, I know, okay, take it back. Take it know. Okay, take it back. Take it back, Max. Take it back. Who wrapped it? That was producer Humphrey. He's got wonderful wrapping technique, Ben.

That doesn't surprise me that much. He's got very little fingers. He does have tiny fingers, doesn't he? He does. Little adorable fingers. He's very dainty. Oh, puppy makes mischief. Oh, and it's actually the puppy.

It's the book and the puppy. Oh, that's so beautiful. The book and the doll with the books. Oh, hey, Gup. G, and it's actually the puppy. It's a book and the puppy. Oh, that's so beautiful. A book and the doll with the books. Oh, hey, Gup. Gup's just walked in, guys. They've got you an Australian cricket jersey, so I just put it outside. Pity it was rubbish day and you said it.

I can't just say pity it was rubbish day and you said it. Oh, listen, Laura, well done. Congratulations to you both. And we wish you all the best. And we'll catch up soon. You're only off for a month or two. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, T. To everyone pulling a sticky today, and we'll catch up soon. You're only off for a month or two. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks, T.

To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, obviously, being the time of year, a lot of people probably going away this weekend, and I'm doing the same, going away for a couple of nights. Oh, nice. It's worth it without the family. I think they're coming.

Are they sending you away? You're like, get rid of that guy. They're like, we'll meet you there. I was like, oh, okay. Usually we all go together in the same, anyway, so I'm going to meet them there when we get there. But I was just, I like to get my packing done early, so I was doing it late last night.

But I don't know if this is just me, but when I pack to go away, in my head I'm preparing for every possible season and or situation that could arise. Yes. Yeah, I'm the same. Amanda calls me the what-if packer. I'm like, what if we go to the beach?

She's like, we're not. What if there's a wedding we get invited to and I need a suit? A tuxedo, yeah. What if we go horseback riding? I better take my stirrups. Yeah. I pack almost twice as much as everyone else like you know

I think I put mountain climbing boots in there and I'm not planning on climbing a mountain but you never know when summer goes by let's go hiking tomorrow should we do Everest today

yeah you're like this is the day oh I don't have my boots and yeah it's like I'm I'm fit for all conditions like the suitcase

I could be in the Bahamas or the Antarctica I'm gonna be fine you don't know it could chill off at night, summer, but it gets cold at night. It could rain when you're up. You know, there's so many things.

You just pack a ludicrous amount of it, and you only ever end up, I only ever end up wearing, over a four-week period, especially when it's over New Year's, probably the same pair of shorts and the same singlet forts. 97% of the contents never comes out, never sees the light of day. And it's a surefire sign that you've light of day and you're like and it's a surefire sign that you've packed too much when you're dragging your suitcase to the car it's

like you've got a dead body in there yeah and then you at the end of the holiday i don't know if you do this you fire you're like i'm never doing that again i am never packing that much so i'm gonna just next time i'm gonna'm going to be focused in what season it is and I'm just going to pack little. But then you do it again. You do it to yourself again. Because you're probably going away for one or two nights this weekend. I always find that it's almost as,

you almost pack as much as if you're going away for a week in that situation. You're like, oh, I've got a bag. I'll put it all in there and it's fine. Do you guys ever overpack underwear? Like, do you pack way more underwear than you need? Is that a normal thing? Because I do it. A huge amount. I can soil myself nine times

a day and still have plenty of spares. And we've got a full car like over summer. There's four of us humans. We've got a big fluffy white dog as well. And I'm taking up most of the room in the back. And then you arrive at the destination, but there's always someone who will shame you,

who will suitcase shame you. Oh, you bought a kitchen sink as well, that'll come out, some reference to a sink. Are you moving in? It's always a one. You're like, no! You just don't know what could happen. I like to be prepared. One thing I did notice actually

doing road trips over summer, and I think we mentioned this on the podcast, and I always thought it was a myth where you'd be driving along and Dad would be like, close the window. There's this noise that I can hear in the back. You know, and we'd get it. There's no noise. You can't hear anything.

Shut up, you old man. Yeah, but now when you're driving and one of the kids opens the window, you're like, oh, my God, he was right. Put up the back window. And why does the back window! No! Why does that back window have to make that noise? It is the most excruciating sound known to humankind. Because it's like 50 degrees in the back with all your clothes and your bag and everything.

You're like, close the window! Make it this noise! It goes deep into your ear holes, that noise, doesn't it? It does. I never thought it was a thing, but it's actually a thing. Well, there you go. There's three people moaning. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up three people moaning. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. LMNOP, they had massive hits and albums in the early 2000s. Now they're getting back on the road. A 14-date nationwide tour over the next couple of months. It starts in Waiheke on Waitangi Day. Waihe Beach the day after and goes right around New Zealand in March. We're very excited.

We've got Elementa P with us in the studio. How's it going, guys? How you doing, Ben? Lovely to see you guys. Always good to see you guys. Now, Dave, fresh back from New York. This must be a breath of fresh air. Literally, you can breathe fresh air here.

It is a breath of fresh air. I've never felt so privileged to be a New Zealander in my life, to be able to come back here and live a normal life. So you did quarantine with a small child. I did quarantine with a small child. It was actually pretty good. It was great, you know, great facility. Felt, again, very lucky.

And we were travelling with another family, Tim Youngson. I believe you guys know him too from Stereogram. So we're travelling with his family all the way from New York and they actually said, oh, you can just connect your bubbles. So when we went into the facility, our bubbles were connected. So it felt like quarantine, but we had friends and we could hang out and so it was a little bit cheating. And we must mention too, Lani, you've wheeled in here with a broken leg.

I broke my calcaneus, which is my heel bone. I've never heard of the calcaneus. I've never heard of it either, but now I have five of them. Five calcaneuses? Five little miniature calcaneuses. Are we allowed to talk about how it happened? I was just skateboarding. You've got to commit when you're skateboarding. You always hurt yourself if you don't commit. That's true. Were you half-piping

or was this street skating? I was going over a nipple. Do you know what those are? They're like a kind of like a pyramid shape, but they're round. Oh, yes. Yeah, I do know those. And someone just skated in front of me. And if I just kept going, I would have been fine. But I freaked out and jumped off and landed on my heel.

And there goes the calcaneus. Jeez. And you've got a futuristic sort of wheelie machine that you can put your leg on. The knee scooter. I was actually looking at cooler ones on Amazon this morning, but out of my budget. So is this going to be a worry for the tour? Because it's about to start. Are you going to be okay? Are you kidding? Rock and roll Lani Perkus.

It'll just be different. It'll just be different. It'll be better. Wheel out on stage. And in 40 years, you can all wheel out on wheelchairs on stage. He's prepping us for the inevitable. I might add also to Lani's story, it was actually a New Year's resolution for her to skate every single day of 2021.

So that was day four, right? Day four. But, you know, good intentions. Hey, now, guys, we want to play a little game with you. You've got a vast back catalogue of songs. So what we're going to do, this is one second of each of your songs and you have to guess what the song is. So you're playing against

each other. Here we go. Okay so this is one second. Do we buzz in or how do you want to do this? I haven't thought about this. Maybe say your name. Maybe say your name and then we can go okay. It's a very loose format Dave. Okay here's the first song. Dave. 11.57

I was trying to find a buzzer. Here's the first song. Dave, 11.57. Hey! I was trying to find a buzzer. Okay, here's the second song. LMNOP trying to figure out their songs in a second. Dave. Tahoe. Okay, Justin, I'm sorry. We have to take Dave.

He said his name first. Dave, you're looking. I'm going to look at Tahoe. Oh, yeah. Fast time to Tahoe. All right, here we go. Dave's winning this one. Come on, guys.

Verona. Oh, Scott! Justin, Justin. Oh, Justin. Justin. I feel like Scotty, Justin. Verona. Verona.

Okay, cool. I've got to focus. Okay, here we go. 2-1 to Dave at the moment. Justin in second place. Lani and Scotty just on the sidelines at the moment, that's fine, that's fine,

and they don't seem too phased by it. Here's the fourth and final one. Dave. Every day's Saturday. Oh, there you go, well done, Dave,

yeah. So it's pretty awesome, 14 dates around the country, biggest tour you guys have pretty much ever done, is it right? Pretty much, yeah,

starts next week, actually, in Waiheke and Waihe. Awesome. But yeah, 14 dates, I thinkaiheke and Waihe. Awesome. But yeah, 14 dates. I think we might have done a bigger tour. Right. Our first tour.

Yeah, our very first tour when we were grommets. Late-frees guys. Yeah, had a bit of youthful exuberance. Yeah. Now, Ben was saying he watched the Mike Hosking interview you guys did, and you mentioned that when you get back together and rehearse, you feel like a LMNOP covers band. Yes.

So have we got past that point yet? We've just recently got past that point. I think last night. At drinks after practice last night, we were like, okay, things don't sound good. This sounds like LMNOP. The first year was a little bit rough. Right now it sounds like,

hey, is one of those guys actually in LMNOP? I wonder if they might be in LMNOP. Oh, it's so awesome to have you guys all back together on the road. Go see LMNOP. Before we go's so awesome to have you guys all back together on the road. Go see LMNOP. Before we go, Dave, we'd like to get an update of your unread emails. This is something that fascinates us. How many unread emails you've got on your phone?

Because normally it can be in hundreds and hundreds, right? Okay, 19,253. Oh, it keeps climbing. I tell everyone in the store, I'm like, I don't know, Dave, but he's got, I think, 19,000. And text messages, 362. Well, these are good stats. This is new.

These are new. These are unread. Those figures always give Ben anxiety, don't they? Yeah. You can't understand. Hey, always lovely to see you guys, and good luck for the tour. Thanks, guys. Peace.

Yeah, you did that. Yeah. Nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

Hopefully we can make someone else happier with this. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. 7.45 each day is the time you need to tune in for Five Words for 5K, a game of word association. We give you five words. You say the first word that pops into your head. If those five words match up with one of our five words,

you win $5,000. I tell you what, this game is taking the radio world by storm. It's got the secret sound holding secret meetings, panic meetings. It's got the pop quiz popping pellets out its backside. And also, guess what? What? I'm going to present to you Sue from Wellington.

How does that make you feel? Makes you feel good. Yeah, Sue, you feeling good? Absolutely. You feeling confident, Sue? Yeah, why not? It's a simple game to play, but it is quite hard to match up. But it is possible.

Hayley, a few days ago won. Have you been playing along, listening in the mornings? I have. You're on my morning commute. So, yeah, I usually get at least half wrong, but never mind. Well, there we go. We'll give it a go this morning.

You got through because the phone lines, they go crazy. Yeah, oh, actually, another call's here. Who's that? Beat the Bombers on the phone, Ben. Oh, really? Beat the Bombers, and they're saying, well done, five words, 5K. You've officially beaten the bomb. The Bombers been beaten with this campaign.

So, Sue, who are you going to choose? Please say, Ben. I'm going to choose Jono. Jono. I just don't like the pressure, Sue. There's a lot of pressure because we need to try and sync up the words with Sue, but not knowing what Sue says, so Jono's going to make his way now. I'll get into the booth.

Into the soundproof booth that we have in the, what is it, corner? Yeah, in the corner. Corner of the studio. Very very great. Fill a chair, Ben. Thanks, mate. Corner. All right, just get in the soundproof booth, mate.

It's better when we can't hear you. Jono has locked himself in the soundproof booth. Sue, I'm going to read you five words. You tell us what's going to pop into your head. I'll write those words down. If they match up with Jono, you're 5k richer. Yay. Okay, your first word, Sue, is

Bluetooth. Bluetooth. Phone. Phone. Bluetooth. Okay, and fine. Makes sense. I guess Bluetooth on your phone. Are you happy with that one, Julia? Do you think it was a good one? I think so. I think it makes sense. Yeah, okay, alright. No, can I change it? Oh, she got a chance. Oh, Sue's not happy with it. Okay, Sue. Okay, what are you going to do? I think so. I think it makes sense. Yeah, it does. Okay, all right. No, can I change it? Oh, she got a chance.

Oh, Sue's not happy with it. Okay, Sue. Okay, what are you going to do? No, I think it would be better with speaker. Speaker. Okay. All right, Sue. Okay, changing it to speaker.

Yep. Next word, feathers. Pillow. Pillow. Okay, all right. Your next word, tiger. Roar. Pillow. Okay, all right. Your next word, tiger. Roar. Okay, as in what the noise they make.

Okay, makes sense. Coins. Money. Money, okay. And your final word is margarita. Summertime. Ooh, okay. Those are your five words, Sue.

How are you feeling? Bloody awful. Like your honesty, Sue. We'll get my bald-headed friend out of the soundproof box. You can come out. I'm waving to Jono right now in the corner of the studio as he makes his way across there. How are you doing?

How was that last couple of minutes? Unusual. I was just thinking, because producer Humphrey holds, quite possibly, I would say, the Guinness World Record for the brightest light attached to a cell phone.

And he's just on you the whole time? Yeah. And I'm just sitting there thinking with my thoughts. You're not doing anything, are you? I feel like I should do a show or a pantomime through the glass to make a very boring footage.

But how'd Sue go? Well, Sue's not feeling confident. She said shocking is what she said. But anyway, we'll go through the whole dance because who knows? Maybe you guys could sync up and Sue could win $5,000. No pressure, Jono. No pressure at all. Although Sue did actually fund American Magic.

She actually bankrolled them fixing their boat. And so she needs the five grand back now. She's the money bag. She is, yeah. But anyway, let's not worry about that right now. He loves this. We both revel in putting pressure on the other one. Okay, the first word we said to Sue was Bluetooth.

Have a think about what you want to say with Bluetooth. Speaker. Oh, yes, Sue! Are we down one from one? Yes, Sue had phone, and she changed it to speaker at the last minute. She had Bluetooth phone. Yes, your phone was the first thing. Then she went, no, no, no, I want to change it.

So there you go. All right, we've got one from one. Sue, where's Sue? I'm here. I'm still here. I'm amazing. I'm amazing. Sue's always good.

Don't you worry about Sue. Oh, we've got one from one. All right. Jeez. Okay. Feathers. Jono, feathers. Birds?

Oh. Oh, you mother. Hey, we went from BFFs and now she's abusing me. Sue had pillow. Feathers and pillow. Oh. We're going to play it out. We'll play out the other words just to see how you're going.

Tiger. King. No, raw. Coins. Purse. No. And margarita. Cocktail.

Oh, you guys. No, you guys were not in sync at all. I am a Muppet, Sue. He's hopeless. That was fumbly, Sue, from me. You were all good. You were in good rhythm. That was all my bad,

so I'm sorry, Sue. Yeah, you were bad. I like how Sue's shifting the blame. all good. You were in good rhythm. That was all my bad, so I'm sorry, Sue. Yeah, you were bad. I like how Sue's shifting the blame. So good. Hey, Sue, thank you so much for playing. I'm sorry you didn't win 5K this time, but hopefully we get to do it again. Oh, good.

Thanks for listening. My friend, thank you so much for listening. Add these two men together, and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Watermelon sugar. Harry Styles, watermelon sugar. Very expensive watermelons at the moment,

so I don't know how much he's having, particularly in New Zealand, but hopefully he's getting... He likes those watermelons, doesn't he? He does. Sounds like he mows through the watermelons. Even at that price, you reckon he's... Oh, he's Harry Styles.

He'll be fine. Yeah, I think Harry Styles can afford a watermelon. Do you know watermelons, they come too big. They're too much. It's too much. So she's just, I want a little bit of watermelon, don't you? You kind of do want to end up buying them when they're sliced up, right? Yeah.

The whole thing. That floss trick, isn't it? You can cut the watermelons with floss. Oh, yeah. Have you seen that on the internet? Yeah. Yeah. Very clever.

But enough about watermelons. Why are we in this hole? I don't know. Pull us out of this. Blame me. I started talking about it. Get us out of this. Blame me. I started talking about it. Get us out of this. Buy the WhatsApp

by doco.nz. Juliet, I'll give you full permission. When we ever go on another watermelon rant, it's going to end up nowhere and so you just play the next thing, okay?

Actually, before we finish, the kids stitched me up the other day. What? They put a watermelon in the trolley at the supermarket when I got to the counter and I was like,

oh, put this in there. They did. It's only $4.99. I'm like, oh, great. That must be cheap they did. It's only $4.99. I'm like, oh, great. That must be cheap again. It's $4.99 a kilo. Oh. And then you're at that stage

where you're like... We got a 20kg watermelon. Yeah, you're like, $4.99, that's a great deal. It wasn't. All right, she's fresh back this week from an important discovery

of self-discovery, important journey of self-discovery and now back to the mindless drivel of celebrity gossip. Here's Juliette. Very contrasting, the two of what-discovery and now back to the mindless drivel of celebrity gossip. Here's Juliet. Very contrasting the two of what

I've just been doing but Bernie Sanders, the iconic meme of him sitting in the chair in his face mask and his mittens, that has now helped raise

$1.8 million for charity and on the Bernie Sanders website he's selling sweatshirts with that picture on it as well.

So it's a very iconic picture. Is this him looking a little bit like he's over sweatshirts with that picture on it as well. So it's a very iconic picture. Is this him looking a little bit like he's over the inauguration? He looks like an elderly Chile person who's just trying to keep warm and wants this event to end as soon as possible so he can go back to the home. It's a photo that's been photoshopped into TV shows like Sex and the City, Friends, you name it. It's been photoshopped all around the world. Now he's kind of embraced it and he's put it on T-shirts, sweatshirts, stickers.

He's like a TikTok star. Buy my merch. Yeah, exactly. And on the Bernie Sanders website, you can get it for about $45 or you can get the jumper for $45. But then it says, due to overwhelming demand, it will be four to eight weeks until you receive it. So you have to wait.

And then by that time, it's probably past. Oh, mate, you're a child of the internet, Juliet. It's probably old news already. I know, I know. But all of the donations, all of the money raised go towards charity, which is a good thing from an internet meme. I've got so many novelty shirts that just, if I wore them now, you'd have to explain what the gag is.

I've got the Jay-Z Jay Watch one about he's riding a jet ski and it's like Baywatch but Jay Watch and everyone's like, oh, who's that? The show's called Baywatch but you've got Jay, oh, no,

this is Jay-Z and he was on, about five years ago he was paparazzi'd on a jet ski and they put him on a t-shirt. Oh, I get it.

His problem was topical t-shirts. He's still wearing a Kony 2012 t-shirt. Don't you also have a... Free Harambe. Free Harambe. Oh, Harambe.

No, you did something else for Harambe, didn't you? Yes. Don't you also have a Kim Jong-un poster that says, Live, Laugh, Love or something? Yeah, he's standing over... He's still... He's always topical, isn't he? He flares up every few months.

That's a wall hanging of him by a nuclear ship. Big, smiley, cute man he is. Well, I know what I'm going to get you for your birthday this year. I'll get you this Bernie Sanders meme t-shirt and you can add it to the collection. Good on him for doing it for charity though. Yeah, that's awesome. So much money, right? What do you do for charity, Ben?

You monster. What's that $50 note story? Oh, yeah. We were walking through town and there was someone in the bucket collector and they're like, Oh, it's Ben from the TV. He'll have some money. I thought I had a $5 note in my thing because I opened it up and I was like, oh, five, but I didn't realise it was 50.

I don't normally have cash. I was like, what? I've got 50. But once I brought it out, I think it was $5. He was showing it around and I was like, uh-oh, there's no coming back from this. It was a 50. And then I had to go, oh, you can see me just go, I don't really want to put this in. No, but it was an inner turmoil

because you like looking like a charitable person. But you don't like the money handing over part. So I put it in. And they were like, put it in, put it in. The whole street started chanting

and they were like, what a great guy. At least it made it for a good story on the radio, eh? And that's five and more. You can check out thehits.co.nz. Broadcasting live

and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's check out thehits.co.nz. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. We are heading into a long weekend for a lot of the 09 region. We'll be here on Monday. Don't worry about that. A lot of the country are having a three-day weekend, and maybe you could pull a sickie and take a Monday off and have a three-day weekend anyway.

So if you're doing that, congratulations. We'd like to know on a Friday. Sorry to interrupt. I had important stuff to say, mate. You know me. You probably cut off, you know, like a Martin Luther King style speech just then. We could have been part of history and you cut me off.

We'd like to know on a Friday. Who's going to have the best weekend? You give us a call right now, 0800 to the hits. Tell us what you're doing this weekend. We'd like to judge it. And up for grabs, if you are in the O-9 region today, of course, the Prada Cup,

the semifinals is happening out there on the harbour, the America's Cup boats. And we've got a VIP hospitality pass for two people, courtesy of themarket.com, to enjoy the Prada Cup racing today,

this afternoon, out there on the boat. What, today? Yeah. Is this a race against time? What time does the boat depart the wharf? Oh, I'm not sure, but you have to be available this afternoon. Entry to the hospitality lounge at the Emirates

Team New Zealand base. A light lunch and beverage service and a place on the Emirates Team New Zealand hospitality boat to watch the cup racing on the water. How did we get this? This is wild. I don't know. I feel like yeah, this is... Who gave us this? This is themarket.com. Did they? Which is incredible, yeah. Oh, thank you to themarket.com. Yeah, that's so good. Grant Dalton's going to regret having his listeners on the boat. This is goingarket.com, which is incredible. Thank you to themarket.com.

Grant Dalton's going to regret having his listeners on the boat. You must behave yourself. So that might be a reason why you're having a best weekend if you're in the 09 region. But if you're not anywhere else in the country, give us a call as well, because we could be giving you a prize as well. Grant Dalton just texted, actually.

He said he'd pass the 12-ish. So if they could get there, probably, I'd say 20 to 12. I'm glad. Thank you for listening, Grant. I appreciate it. He doesn't want to miss you. He doesn't can get there, probably, I would say 20 to 12. I'm glad. Thank you for listening, Grant. I appreciate it. Good on you. He doesn't want to miss you. He doesn't want to miss you.

But he likes to run to schedule. John, Masterton, why is it going to be a big weekend? Yes, we're going to move in our house. We're going to have a housewarming tomorrow or Sunday. And then either tomorrow or Sunday, we're going to shift some bales for the neighbours. Okay. And then we're going to have some bales for the neighbours. Okay. And then we're going to have a party then as well.

Oh, Jesus. Never too young to own your first house. 13-year-old John. You've got to get on the property ladder at some stage and John's got in there early. Moving today, housewarming tomorrow. I love that. It's so quick to have a housewarming too.

It's like moving in and housewarming all in the same weekend. I love it. John, that's awesome. Good chat. I really killed the vibe. Hey, John, sounds like you're going to have a great weekend. All right, hold there and my friend will send you

out something. All right, let's go to the next one. Andrea, welcome. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast Morning. It's going to be a good weekend. Why, Andrea? Hello. Now, who is it that has that awesome laugh? Is it Ben? No, we both go quite nasally. I do the...

And I go, ha, ha, ha. No one's ever said it's awesome, so yeah, I don't know. It makes me happy whenever I hear it anyway. Oh, thank you, Andrea. That's nice. I don't know what to say to that. We're not used to getting compliments. No, we're not.

I'll fade out of it and make it more awkward than being with John from Aston. What are you doing this weekend, Andrea? Well, my dad's a war veteran veteran and it is his 94th birthday. So we're going to take him on a big picnic. Oh, 94. 94, that's a pretty good innings, isn't it? It's a beautiful innings.

I hope the weather's wonderful. What do you take on a picnic? What do we take? Sammies. Lots of nice sammies and cold ones. You know, I haven't had a picnic in years. I always enjoy a picnic when you picnic.

That was so good, wasn't it? The lost start of the picnic. You enjoy that picnic and happy birthday to your father and thank you for his years of service. Yeah, that's awesome. I know, I know. Not many guys get to 94, do they? No, no, very special. You enjoy that time with them, Andrea.

Oh, thank you very much, guys. All right, mate, thanks for listening. We'll end on Annabella, Annabella, Anna. What? Oh, my God, this has been, we've made this atrocious this break. Annabella, how are you? Hey, guys, how's it going?

You're on the air, mate. It's going to be a good weekend. Why? Well, the thing is, I am pregnant and I have a six-year-old girl. And my fiancé, who's a massive fan

of the American Cup, he's going away this weekend on a boys' trip to Napier. And I thought, maybe I just want to chase the waters to see if I can get those tickets,

will he actually stay with me or he will still go with the boys? And I just want to test how big fan of the American Cup he actually is. Okay, so you want the two passes, the hospitality VIP passes to watch the Prada Cup racing this afternoon, thanks to themarket.com?

Yes, I want him to have it, not me. I feel like we should give it to you and I wish, well, yeah. You're trying to, okay, we're trying to manipulate him away from his boys weekend in the Hawke's Bay. The boys won't be happy. Knowing boys, they won't take this

news lightly, especially last minute as well. Oh yeah, can't go now, I'm going to watch the Cup racing. Oh, okay. I feel like we've got I'm going to watch the cup racing. Oh, okay. I feel like we've got to do it. It's too funny not to, right? Just for the drama. Annabella, you got the tickets, okay? You enjoy it?

Or your husband will be... Oh, no. Please let us know. Good to see you. Let us know. I will let you guys if he's still my fiancé or not after he will get all the updates.

We need to update us. So whether it's today or on Monday, we need to know what happened, all right? Awesome. Thank you so much, guys. All right, you hold the line. Thanksinthemarket.com. Those tickets are hers.

Will she be by herself? Will she be out there with her partner? Oh, boys, the boys won't take that news well. They will not. Oh, the boys are reasonable. It's 2021 now. The boys are going, I understand, mate. I want to go out and see. You like cup racing?

That's fine. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. You may have noticed a change to the top of the programme, the top of the

broadcast over the last few days. We've been told we were coming in too hot. It was too much for people to take at this hour of the morning. So we're just trying to

ease into the show now, just with a bit of a how you going, a light bit of banter. What have you been doing overnight, Ben? What have you been doing? You got a note here about socks. Socks?

I forgot some socks there. Someone put a note on the run sheet about socks. Oh, okay. What have you got there? It's nothing. No, I don't think I did. Who wrote socks on the run sheet? No one wrote socks on the run sheet.

No, I didn't write that. Anyone like to talk about socks? Come on, now's your chance. You bought a funky T-shirt yesterday. Did you buy some funky socks? No, I didn't write that. Anyone like to talk about socks? Come on, now's your chance. You bought a funky T-shirt yesterday. Did you buy some funky socks? No, I don't think I wrote about socks anyway. Maybe it was like a shopping list that someone's accidentally put on our radio run sheet.

What's the mystery of why someone wanted to talk about socks? It's also got milk, bread. Oh, you're going to read my shopping list. We got to the bottom of the mystery at the top of the show. Someone had written in the run sheet that we all share about what's coming up in the programme. Someone had just written suspicious socks. And that was all it was.

And we couldn't figure out who wanted to talk about socks, if it was part of a to-do list, a shopping list. And we did get to the bottom of it. It was me last week because the Friday run sheet had been carried on for another week, the shared document, and it was me wanting to talk about socks last week. The fact that I'd worn socks for the whole week, the first time I'd worn socks for a long time

over summer, coming back to work, you know? It's an unusual feeling on your feet. But I'm sure we covered this off last week, so we don't need to go back over. Do you know what happened yesterday? We got a promotion coming up where we need to get a criminal record check and you have to send an application form off

to the Ministry of Justice, which I sent off last week and I got the email back from the Ministry of Justice about the criminal. And for some reason, I was nervous opening the door. I was like, I don't think I've got a criminal pass.

But you're nervous in case there's something you've forgotten, in case I don't think I've got a criminal past. But you're nervous in case there's something you've forgotten in case I forgot that I robbed a bank 10 years ago. I like that it comes through going with the information

you supplied to us, we can say that you don't have a, it's almost like putting it back on us. Yeah, like we lied to them. Like we might have left some stuff out. Yeah, they're like,

judging by the information that you said. Although it's a great excuse to get out of hosting anything. Sorry, mate, I've got a colourful criminal past. Of course, we get up nice and early for this job in the mornings. I'll be trying to go to bed a bit earlier because I still haven't kind of got back into a routine,

but it hasn't happened always. I find it's harder in summer when it's sort of still essentially daylight when you are looking to slumber down. Especially now because the kids are still on holiday at the moment, so they're not really into the routine either. Oh, everyone's in party mode. And then, like, my in-laws, they've got a pool, so I go around there in the afternoon.

I'm in the pool, it's sunny, and they're like, do you want a beer? And I'm like, oh, I shouldn't, it's Tuesday. But okay, then all of a sudden, you know how it happens. This alcohol addiction is a slippery slope, Ben. Yeah, well, last night, I tried to go to bed. It wasn't actually that early, but the kids were still, you know, doing what kids do.

They take so long sometimes just to get to bed. They're cleaning their teeth. They're doing this. They're drinking water. They're all sorts of stuff. Well, I'm told once they get up and down about half a dozen, it's a dance. It's the same dance you do every night with them.

And you can't speed it up. You can't just go, like, I'm happy. I can just walk into bed and go to sleep. That's it. I'm done. I'm ready to go. And you can't speed it up. You can't just go like, I'm happy. I can just walk into bed and go to sleep. That's it. I'm done. I'm ready to go. It's like an event for children. Last night, they were still in the kitchen.

And I'm like, guys, come on. You're in the car. I don't know what you're doing. Stop messing around. Go to bed. And then I woke up this morning. You're in the kitchen. There was a thing going, love you, data, on a little lunchbox.

And inside, they packed me, for you, daddy, snacks for you. Have a good day. Love you. So they were making me snack bags. Oh, I knew you were a monster. Oh my gosh, stop messing around. We're just trying to do a loving act. We just love our daddy but he just yells at us. I wasn't actually yelling but it was still lovely and they made me all these little snacks for work. But I like it

at the top too because they've got it on a piece of paper that says sort your priorities at the top of the paper because it's obviously like a generic sort of thing. But it sounds like a little passive aggressive message to me. Sort your priorities, mate. What are the snacks? I never trust kids providing food. It's like listeners sending in

baked goods. I've got some fruit. Oh, you've got a peach. I hate peaches. They're too furry. A muesli bar, banana, cookies. I'm never going to eat this these will last me months you could go camping

it's like a whole scroggin yeah I know yeah well done so lovely so yeah I have to apologise to my kids when they're awake

later that oh do it now make the apology on the radio they're not going to hear that send it Julia will email them some audio

yeah yeah can do it's a lovely gesture so I really appreciate that at four o'clock in the morning what more Jono and Ben you can do it. It's a lovely gesture, so I really appreciate that at four o'clock in the morning. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. 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, and we're slowly working our way around New Zealand, calling every town and city alphabetically learning something about the place.

It's at a painstakingly slow pace but we're going to get there. We will not stop until this is done today. We're heading to Koromiko which is very close to Picton top of the South Island and a wine region.

Whenever I see pictures you know how you like surf the internet and then ads will pop up of like visit Hawke's Bay and indulge yourself. And everyone in the photos always looks so relaxed and happy riding old-timer bikes, don't they?

With straw hats on, not a care in the world. And it's probably because they're about five wines deep. Yeah, yeah. Those zigzagging their way on their bikes. That sounds like a drink-driving loophole. But Cotamico, apparently one of the most fertile regions in the South Island, not only in soil but also in baby production, they tell me, according to the latest census.

And we're joined on the phone by the wonderful Edel, who's a local winemaker. You there, Edel? Yes, hello. Is that Edel from Cotamico?emaker. You there, Edel? Yes, hello. Is Edel from Cotamico? It is. Yes, it is. A winemaker extraordinaire. Yes, of course.

Hello, how are you? Lovely to talk to you. Nice to talk to you. Yeah, cool. What part of paradise are you in? Where exactly is Cotamico? Cotamico is 10 kilometres out inland from Picton, which is, of course, on the South Island.

It's, yeah, the gateway to the sounds, the Marlborough sounds, the beautiful ones. And, yeah, it's a lovely place with rolling hills and lots of greens and, of course, a beautiful winery and vineyard called Johannes of Sellers, where I am at the moment. As a professional winemaker, do you do the spitting out thing when you gargle and spit out? And what is the point of gargling and spitting? Well, we have to be a bit careful at the moment, don't we? Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah, the point is that you entice

all your taste buds that you have all around your mouth, throat and tongue. So, yeah, there's different areas that give you different sensations like, you know, sugar or sweetness and saltiness and tartness. And so, yeah, that is the point of, you know, getting the most out of your tasting buds and your wines that you're tasting. So you can tell it's a good wine without actually having to like to drink it. Yeah, you can already, yeah, enjoy it that way.

But of course, the best way is to drink it. To make it go past the mouth. We'd like to encourage you to do that. Not too much, of course. No, no. And I can imagine for your job as well, too, if every day you were just drinking lots and lots of wine, that would be quite taxing after a while.

So, you know. Have you been to Koromiko? I've never, ever been. I've never even heard of it. No, the airport's there. I'm just looking, just discovering. So the airport there, you can land there and a sound's here, operates out of there.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's just across the road from us here at the winery and it's a beautiful airline where, you know, which connects us to the world. 20 minutes flight to Wellington. So all the Wellingtonians who haven't heard of Coromico, they should come. And so do you catch international flights to Los Angeles

from Coromico, it's an international airport? Sometimes. I'm going to name an occasion. You tell me an appropriate wine for it, okay, Edel? Oh, okay. Okay. First date? Bubbly. I heard Bubbly Rosé the otherel? Oh, okay. Okay. First date? Bubbly.

Didn't I hear Bubbly Rosé the other night? Oh, nice. I'd never tried that before. That was a bubbly... Treated yourself? Oh, no,

a friend brought it over and I was like, this is actually really good. It was a lovely, lovely little treat. A funeral? Yeah. A funeral.

Okay. I think maybe we'll go for our port-like spirit then. Okay. Okay. I think maybe we'll go for our port-like spirit then. Okay. Ben has just figured out how to tie his shoelaces. I want to give him a bottle of wine. It's a big day for me.

A congratulatory bottle of wine. Okay. I would give him our desert wine, our Nobile Late Harvest Riesling. Ben has just started crying after making love. Oh, jeez. He wants an apology bottle of wine for his wife. What's he getting him? Oh.

Apology bottle. Well, I think he has to give her a whole case of the whole ring, then, wouldn't he? Everything. That's such a good answer. Edel, lovely to meet you and you keep making wine beautifully and enjoying that wonderful place. Best aromatic

white wine in the world. The winner. Thank you very much. That's what they said. You take care and you keep up your good work too. And I hope to see you on farm there soon. Adele, don't you wrap this up. You didn't tell us you won a World of Wine Award. Best aromatic white wine in the world.

Oh, yeah, that's a while ago. That's a while ago. We don't want to brag about it. You just won a World Award. That's amazing. That's London, that was. Yeah, that was pretty cool. And the Canter World Wine Awards, proud of that one.

Yeah. Yeah. Good on you. Look after yourself. Keep safe. Thank you. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's Breakfast. Jono and Ben

on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Now this is what Mike McRoberts and or Simon Dallow would be doing if they weren't successful in their chosen field. So Ben Boyce is reading the news before 7am. It's scrolling through your feed. Great news for parents of New Zealand. The Wiggles, they've wiggled their way into managed

isolation for their nationwide tour which kicks off in March. The vouchers are allocated for rooms set aside for contingencies and they play political hot potato and they've got in there. So the Wiggles will be performing on their nationwide tour in March. It would have been a wild stampede if they weren't allowed in. Yeah. Just the frenzy around this office from parents when the tickets were released. Oh, no, everyone's like,

got to get on ticket, Mark. Got to get whatever the ticket sites are. Jason from upstairs came running down when they were released. Can you get Wiggles tickets? I need a ticket. I need to get the choo-choo chugga-chugga pass on the big red car tickets.

And everyone was in full panic. And you're like, well, reverse 10 years ago, you were trying to get, you know, tickets to Big Day Out. Yeah. Talica and ACD, now it's the Wiggles. That's right. It's what everyone's stressing over.

Now, this might seem like a very ignorant question. MIQ. What's it stand for? Is it Managed Isolation? What's the Q bit? Quarantine? Is it Managed Isolation Quarantine? I don't know.

Is it doubling down on the Isolation Quarantine? That's what I thought too. MIQ means... I just keep saying it like I know what it means, the acronym, but... Yeah. They never used to call it that, did they? It was just managed isolation. And then MIQ just came all up.

They checked Q it. Yeah. Because if you're... Oh, it's managed isolation and quarantine. That's what it stands for. But they don't have the and. That annoys me with acronyms. They never represent the and. Do you want me with acronyms. They never represent the and.

Do you want me to talk about the ASB Bank and the TSB Bank? Do you want me to talk about the double B in that? The Auckland Savings Bank Bank? You've been there before. Hey, I'm happy for you to go there again. In fact, he's already been. I have been there. We actually talked to a couple of the Wiggles a while back.

We had Emma Wiggle and we had Anthony. And remember, we were trying to come up with a song so we could be like the Wiggles. And back. We had Emma Wiggle and we had Anthony. And remember we were trying to come up with a song so we could be like the Wiggles and here's what happened. So what do we need to know if we were going to ever audition for the Wiggles? What are some tips you can give us? Come up with a song about any subject because every subject is interesting

to a child. Okay, let's go Cafe Salad. Yummy, yummy. Cafe Salad. Yummy, yummy. Oh, hang on to Cafe Salad. $16. Do you really want the salad? Very expensive yummy. Cafe salad, yummy, yummy. Oh, they hang on to cafe salad. $16, do you really want the salad? Very expensive for a Caesar salad. And then we noticed that over the Zoom,

Anthony Wiggle was sort of looking at us. He looked bamboozled. He looked confused about why our cafe salad was expensive, what was going on. He was looking at Emma, and Emma was looking at him, and he was looking back at us, and he was looking off camera, obviously, at the camera operator.

He's like, what are these? I don't get the joke. And then Emma W all had to explain to anthony wiggle what we were joking about the salad at the cafe is overly priced oh yes yes i love how emma's having to explain it oh it's like when you're explaining something to your grandmother and you're watching the news or something. Oh! I get that now. Anyway, that was scrolling through your feed.

Nice work. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Spy.

The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. It's time for our mate producer Juliet to present some celebrity gossip and for us to make half-hearted attempts at offering some

meaningful opinion or some mildly amusing quips about the aforementioned story here we go with spy so good morning Britain is one of

the big it's kind of like the equivalent of breakfast here in New Zealand but over in the UK and Piers Morgan he has praised

660 for their summer gigs and the fact that there's been no social distancing and they're kind of gobsmacked because London's, are they still in tier five or something? They're in lockdown until March now. Crazy. It's unfathomable. Yeah.

This is it for those people to even understand what we're doing. We've spoken to a couple of people since the show's been back on who are in the UK and they see photos of us enjoying summer holidays at the beach. We're bloody doing this. You're over there doing that, you know. And they just can't comprehend that something like this is going on somewhere in the world. So this is what Piers Morgan had to say. Meanwhile, 20,000 New Zealanders gathered to enjoy an outdoor concert over the weekend.

This is just a dream, isn't it, for us in the UK? No masks, no social distancing, because there's no COVID. No one tell him. No one's fact-checking that just at the moment. But then they had Machu, the lead singer of 666. Yeah, so he joined the show, which was probably quite a big deal for him as well.

And he chatted about, I mean, he's probably done so many interviews about what it's like being able to perform in New Zealand. This is what he said. Yeah, it is. Look, it felt really great. We felt very fortunate that we didn't want the rest of the world

to shut down for us to be able to do this. But look, we're lucky. Guys, thank you both and good luck to the hottest band in the world right now, which is 660, who are killing it over in New Zealand with 20,000 people going nuts outside. How cool is that?

Oh there we go. It's the hottest band in the world. You just want to take that little bit of audio 660 forever and go, Piers Morgan says the hottest band in the world. That's like when you go tour posters. Yeah. Hottest band in the world. Right now.

I've never even listened to a song. Piers Morgan says good morning Britain and you're like wow, that's incredible. I mean I'd claim that if I was Machu I'd be like yeah says, good morning, Britain. And you're like, wow, that's incredible. I mean, I'd claim that. If I was Machu, I'd be like, yeah, yeah. That is so good. Now, well done to them. Congratulations. You know, as we keep saying, we're lucky.

We're lucky. Are we? I don't know. Are we teetering? Yeah, hopefully it continues right now. It's almost like COVID's like, yeah, summer off. I gave me a break. Now we're, you know, back to work.

Ashley got a couple of weeks rest. Now I'm back on his ass. Well, fingers crossed. Things stay the way they are. And in other news, Disney Plus, if you've got it, is hiking the price of their subscriptions from $9.99 to $12.99 per month. But in saying that, they are going to be adding 600 new movies and TV shows. It's like they're doubling the amount of content, right?

Yeah, yeah. But not doubling the price. Yeah, right? Yeah, yeah. But not doubling the price. Yeah, only a few extra dollars but if you're obsessed with Disney Plus or you love your Disney movies or things like that then it's probably

quite a good thing. They merged with I think 21st Century Fox or something, one of the big movie companies I think. So that means a whole lot of things like Deadpool

and Borat and a whole lot of the stuff that 20th Century Fox owned is now going to be on the platform as well. Heaps of shows I think like Family Guy means a whole lot of things like Deadpool and Borat and a whole lot of the stuff that 20th Century Fox owned is now going to be on the platform as well. Heaps of shows, I think, like Family Guy. What happens to Netflix? Because they housed a lot of their content. Did they pull all their content off?

Yeah, the license sort of ran out, as far as I know. I feel like I was part of the board deal. I wasn't. I feel like maybe I'm just spouting stuff. No. Keep talking. It sounds like you know. Yeah, so it was quite a complex board negotiation, but we got there.

They can find the percentage cut that Disney are getting, you know, from 20th Century Fox. Yeah, it's all right. Yeah, it's all right. You know, it's smaller now than it will be in the long term, I think. But, you know, it's early days. A bit of win-win for all parties, safe to say. Yeah, everyone's happy.

Everyone walked out happy. But it's crazy when you go on to that Disney streaming service. They've just got so much. They've got all the Marvel stuff. Simpsons. That's awesome, the Simpsons. I mean, if there was another lockdown, you could just spend the whole time just watching shows on all those

platforms, you know? Listen, don't you worry about Mickey Mouse. Disneyland may be shut down, but he's still cashing in. Absolutely, yes. It's like Disney's a cockroach. You can't kill it. And that's five. And, well, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's Worst Moments of the Week. These are the moments I'd rather forget, but Ben likes to linger on and make me suffer. Yeah, producer Juliet, she came back from three weeks

doing Outward Bound this week, didn't you, Juju? Yes, basically three weeks gone bush. Yeah, you had three nights by yourself with no one around as part of it, which still blows my mind. But Jono asked her some of the big questions when coming back, including this all good one. Juliet went to Outward Bound to discover herself.

And do you shower and shave in there? You get to sometimes. I don't know why I'm asking you this. Do you shower? Jono's coming in with the big questions. It's not a question you ask a female colleague. I can ask you, Ben. Do you shower and shave?

Yeah. But no, it gets weird when... Yeah, I know. I apologise. That's all right. Showering would... Anyway, it's a when... Yeah, I know. I apologise. That's all right. Showering would... Anyway, just... Even showering's probably a bit weird.

It's a bit weird. That was fine. The whole line of questioning was weird. I apologise to you. That's all right. And then we obviously... The conversation this week, it was a lot about COVID back in the community here in New Zealand.

And you've through. Like, this is awful. Even for you, Jono. Four out of six hits listeners are scanners. Yeah. And that's a good

hit rate. I tell you what you go over to More FM none of them will be scanning. Crazy audience. They're against it. If anything I think

they actually I think they launched COVID didn't they? More FM was a promo. And I apologise to More FM and the Media Works Company for those defamatory

comments. Turns out they didn't release COVID into the community. Not at all. And Ben, you like to have a go at me in this part of the show, but I'm going to have a crack at you, my friend. Yes, a little bit of a mistake from you. What I found interesting as well, reading in this article, they used meditation to assist them in reaching an agreement

in regards to the assets and properties. So I don't exactly know how... Now, hold on. Medi-mediation. and reaching an agreement in regards to the assets and properties. So I don't exactly know how... Now, hold on. Oh, no. Mediation. Mediation. It's mediation.

That's no way. That's no way, dear. Turns out Adele Ender-X didn't use meditation to divorce. Have a great weekend. Five rands to give away. We'll catch you Monday. See you then. Want more Jono and Ben?

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