Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - July 01 - Michael Galvin, The A To Z Of New Zealand, What's The Most Pedantic Thing You Do?

Episode Date: June 30, 2020

In today's podcast, we continue with our A to Z and we call Bunnythorpe, a lovely village just north of Palmerston North and apparently the residents there would prefer to live in Bunnythorpe over Hawaii, Italy and anywhere else in the world! Michael Galvin AKA Dr Chris Warner from Shortland Street also joined us, and Ben told a hilarious yarn about someone being stitched up after they had a little accident on a train... Happy Wednesday!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. Are you happy with the podcast, Ben? Yeah, no, it's performing well. Is there anything we could do better? Less talk at the start. Oh, this seems to be the common theme. All we talk about in these intros is not talking in the intros.

That's the main content of these intros. Yeah, well this is, yeah. It's an ongoing saga between Ben and myself. Will they, won't they? Will Ben ever call me back after that wonderful night we shared together after the Christmas party? I have just Googled it and I must say, first thing that came out saying,

introduce your podcast. Whether a listener is new or has been a loyal audience member for a while, your introduction will help solidify brand awareness to your audience. This introduction also ensures listeners who don't or can't look at their screen know your podcast info. Oh, okay. Is that me? This is a guy reading an article on a microphone live.

This is how to get listeners hooked, according to this podcast. Okay, well, I'll introduce myself. My name is Jonathan Richard Pryor. A little bit about myself. I suffer from rampant sexualness. Quite a sexual being. And it's hard, isn't it? Because I know why you've teamed up with me, Ben, and you're using me for my body.

And you know that sex sells. And that's the marketing crux of our little brand and would you like to introduce yourself? My name is Benjamin Ross-Boyce and I don't like podcast intros. I like just getting straight to the podcast and that's one of the things I like to do so the more time I spend on this the less time you'll have on the podcast. Yeah well we do have a wonderful show lined up for you this afternoon this morning whenever you're listening to whatever time zone in the world you're listening to. We had a fun show this morning. I thought it was pretty fun.

Yeah, it was. A lot of laughs. Great laughs. We've been told in a meeting that we just need to relax a bit. We come in quite energetic. There's too much stuff going on some days. And so we've been working hard on just, hey, just chill. Have a breather.

One idea work. Move on to the next one. So we hope that that comes across, and we hope you're noticing the slight adjustments in the program as we move through this journey together. Because we've never done breakfast radio before. No, we haven't. This is probably a little too honest. But anyway, enjoy.

Enjoy. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Unfortunately, yesterday Ben contracted coronavirus and has made a miraculous recovery. A recovery that Ashley Bloomfield himself would be proud of. So he's back in the studio. I didn't have it by the way, but I am

back in the studio, yes. Every time he feels like he needs to say he didn't have it. But it was sensible of you. You had a little runny nose and you had a little snuffle. I was not meant to sound condescending. I see you say little. So you've got little in front of it, eh? It's your little runny nose.

Little runny nose. But little runny nose is all gone. I didn't mean to say. I was meant to say you actually, with your little snuffle, was doing the sensible thing. They thought it was Paw Patrol. It was a great day. This is the problem with New Zealand. It's this mentality that people feel like't want to watch Paw Patrol. It was a great day. This is the problem

with New Zealand. It's this mentality that people feel like they have to go to work and I'm sorry. I was part of the problem just then and I shouldn't have done that, Ben.

No, you're like, oh, how's your corona? I didn't know. Anyway, just mocking you for taking a sick day but you weren't. You were still working from home.

This is where I'm heading. This is where I'm heading because after the show yesterday we were phoning every town and city in New Zealand the A to Z and Ben with his little sniffle was at home so that will explain the microphone quality and the lack of. I'd like the audience to know

I had a little microphone problem with my little microphone while I was in my little house. I got a little cold. Get a little Bob the Builder underpants. It's the A to Z of New Zealand. The A to Z of New Zealand. The A to Z of New Zealand. We are calling a different town or city in New Zealand one a day. We're doing it alphabetically.

It's going to take us over two years, and we're still about eight or nine weeks in, in the Bs, Jono. We're phoning more places than a telemarketer at dinner time. Yeah, it just is annoying, aren't we? We are, if not more annoying, I would say. Actually, the rate's been pretty good, if I'm being honest. I was going to make a joke about it here, how everyone didn't want to talk to us,

but if anything, people have been over-welcoming, more than happy to discuss their towns. Well, and it's really cool for us. We learn a little bit about the great country of New Zealand that we love being in. So let's ring today, Bunnythorpe. What do you know about that so far, Jono? Bunnythorpe's a village in the Manawatu-Wanganui region,

located 10km north of Palmerston North. It's got a population of 222. They have cows, they have school, they have a rugby club. And if you need anything more in your life, then you need to move out of Bunnythorpe. I used to have a milk powder factory, I was reading, that was the principal milk powder product that was sold in the United Kingdom, came out of Bunnythorpe.

Well, that's a fun fact. When I say it's a fun fact, it was probably just more of a fact. Yeah, it wasn't that fun, was it? No, much fun. But it was an interesting fact. Heading through to Bunnythorpe now. Hello, is this Bunnythorpe? Yep.

Is this the Bunnythorpe mini-mart? Mm-hmm. It's Jono and Ben from The Hits. Welcome to the A to Z of New Zedland, where we're phoning every town and city in Aotearoa. And Bunnythorpe is number 45 on the list. Oh, OK. Wow.

We're doing it alphabetically. What can you tell us about Bunnythorpe? Yeah, what we can probably tell, like, yeah, the Bunnythorpe is all right. You know, it's a small town, small community. And, yeah, just sort of things like, yeah, all right. Yeah, right. That's all right.

You've just, you've named nothing good about the town there. Yeah. 222 people live in Bunnythorpe. Yeah, just like slowly. I think it's like last two years ago, I think it's 500, but now I think it's a little bit less. 222 people live in Bunnythorpe? Yeah, just like slowly. I think it's like last two years ago, I think it's 500, but now I think it's a little bit less, but yeah. Oh, it's growing.

How long have you lived in Bunnythorpe? I've been here for 18 years now. 18 years? Yes. Can you not escape? No. You must be a local hero. Yeah, yeah.

It's all good. I like it because I've been here for 18 years now. You like it, don't you? It's just like a good, and I don't want to move somewhere else. You know, like, yeah, I want to stay here. What if I said you could move to Hollywood? No. No? No way.

Okay, what if I said you could move to tropical Hawaii? Nope, not another country. No, no. I don't like either in Palmerston or like somewhere else as well. Like, I love Bunnythorpe, so yeah. You love Bunnythorpe. What if I said Italy? You could retire in Italy.

No, no. No. Not another country, no. Nothing, but this is, we're saying there's no coronavirus, you're safe, Italy, France, you'd still live in Bunnythorpe? Yep, I'd stay thought yep i love it

that's so good i love i love your passion for bunny thought that's great there's nothing there but apparently it's better than hollywood hawaii and italy it's so better than them yeah you don't like it yeah and then things is like a we've been here for so i just see the whole small kids to grow up you know like for teenagers now 18, 19 and that sort of thing. So, yeah. And I know the whole families as well, like all family members or something. You know the generations of people and you're like, if I leave Bunnythorpe, Bunnythorpe will crumble. You are the pillar of Bunnythorpe.

You are the type of person that keeps this country running. One of the good sorts, A great New Zealander. Yeah, yeah. And he's not going to disagree with that. Lovely to talk to you. You stay safe in Bunnythorpe, and I'm glad you love it so much. Yeah, nice to talk to you. Thank you, man.

This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating still pending. It's Jono and Mano Mahec. Good luck to those doing dry July that just kicked in today, being July the 1st. And now in the studio, joined by a very special guest, Michael Galvin. You'll know him as Dr Chris Warner from Shortland Street. How's it going? Great to have you here.

Always an honour to be with you people. Now, Shortland Street, back to Five Nights a Week. Yay! Which is awesome, because during COVID-19, you know, in lockdown, you guys had some interesting things you had to do to navigate filming during that period. Yeah, well, we couldn't shoot at all in level four, obviously, which is why we've had to do, you know, go three nights a week and had to do this massive catch-up recently.

But then in level three, we could shoot, but we were having to stay like one or two metres away from each other, so it was a bit crazy. Actually, the first scenes that we shot like that were actually bed scenes between Dawn and Marty. Oh, so it's a loving scene. A loving bed scene, yeah. So one of them kind of lies on half the bed with this big mannequin next to them

and then they kind of swap it over like that. It was pretty crazy. You did your own makeup as well, I understand. Yeah, well, the guys, we don't really need that much. Just kind of put a bit of powder on. And I did notice I went a bit crazy with my eyebrows. What did you do was your eyebrows well i usually put a little bit on them because it's looks like yeah they're quite a bit and it's like oh no you want them to be seen you want them popping you want them popping but they weren't popping though and we're kind of shouting it's like what

you could look at with this i was like why didn't anyone tell me you could walk on there like a character from sesame Street or something. Exactly. He's really inquisitive today. He goes across the water. Very concerned. Very concerned with his furrowed brow. Yeah, yeah.

So I think people are too polite. They don't want to hurt my feelings. It's like, oh, no, we'll just let him think he's doing a good job. And you were sort of saying how you remember your lines for Shortland Street. You have to do that over the weekend. Yeah, well, if you want to be on top of it, you've got to kind of do the initial learning in the weekend, I find, and then the night before and then on the morning before.

Some actors can get away with doing a lot less, just kind of learning it and sitting there in the chair and learning the lines. Have you ever tried carrying around like a clipboard or anything like that? As a doctor, you'd think a clipboard would be a great... Well, I don't want to land any other actors in the, you know, but you know when Tamara Morrison came back to work on Shawna Street? Yeah. I think we got him at a weak moment when he agreed to do that.

And when he came back on, he was like, he just wasn't into learning the lines. So he'd do that kind of thing. I wonder what the clipboard with the lines on. No, kind of things like that. If he could do it, why not? Or he'd do that kind of thing. What's he going to do with the clipboard with the lines on it? No, kind of things like that. If he could do it, why not? Or he'd give lines to other people. And, you know, if he had all this medical stuff,

he'd give it to another actor playing the doctor, and then I'll say, I concur. That's a great way. I agree. Maybe I should start employing that method. It's quite a good method. You could write your lines on the body or the torso of one of your patients you're operating on as well.

You could. Yes, or request them to be tattooed. I'll be shocking at remembering lines. What's the trick? Do you just have to keep doing it? No, doing it over and over, that's the trick. Unfortunately, there's no easy way. Well, I haven't found it yet.

Actually, to be honest, the scary thing is sometimes you shoot a scene and there's something wrong with it. You have to go back and reshoot it two weeks later or maybe do a pickup of just the audio and two or three weeks later, and then you find that you actually know the lines for that scene. You've forgotten a lot of great stuff from your personal life.

You've got that monologue of Shoreland Street from day one. Just say before you've got to pick your daughter up from school today, so don't forget that, okay? Yeah, yeah, my real daughter, not my wayward son That's right Now, Shortland Street, back to Five Nights a Week Yay! Which is awesome, because Chris Warner, the character

You know, iconic New Zealand character On the show you've been married five times You've had more than 20 romances I think it's six Is it six times now? And so we want to play a game with you Or is it five? I'm not sure

I don't know, I feel like this is something you should know I'm really sure It doesn't bode well for this quick game we're want to play a game with you. Or is it five? I'm not sure. I don't know. I feel like this is something you should know. I'm really sure. It doesn't bode well for this quick game we're about to play. This, Chris Warner, Dr. Chris Warner, this is your wife. Now, we have on the phone one of your previous Shortland Street wives and two other ladies from the office. Okay, so you have to work out which of the females we have on the phone was your actual wife from Shortland Street and which two are just from our office. Okay, so you have to work out which of the females we have on the phone was your actual wife from Shortland Street

and which two are just from our office. Okay, Dr. Chris Warner is wife number one. Please talk to your husband. Hi, Dr. Love. Do you remember me? I don't think so. No, looking at his face, he doesn't remember you. How could you forget me? Oh, they sound offended that you don't remember them.

Yeah, no, I don't think so. You don't think that's your wife? No, not ringing any bells. Okay. Not ringing any wedding bells. Okay, there we go. That was wife number one. Wife number two.

Talk to your husband, Dr. Chris Warner. Hi, Chris. How are you? Good. I'm well, thank you. Gosh, we haven't spoken in such a long time. It's kind of weird. Good. I'm well, thank you. Gosh, we haven't spoken in such a long time. It's kind of weird.

Yeah, it's real weird. This is like those awkward meetings you see in a restaurant. It's even weirder that I don't remember you. You don't think it's wife number two? I really hope it isn't. Okay, so it might not be number two. All right, let's go to potential wife number three. Talk to your husband, wife number three.

Hello, husband. Oh, it's Laura. Lovely Laura who played Tony. How good was that? Oh, I can't forget her. That was so great. I feel responsible for her death because she died when she fell down our staircase. No, I bloody didn't.

Oh, you didn't? Well, how did you die? How did you die, darling? I've been telling everyone that's how you died. Sorry, I bloody didn't. Oh, you didn't? How did you die, darling? I've been telling everyone that's how you died. Sorry, how did you die? That's how I miscarried our second son. Oh, that's how he died. Okay, so how did you die? Well, remember how I ran

off with your brother? Oh, so you did. I'd forgotten about that. Yeah, so there was a car crash at Christmas Cliffhanger, and I had a busted kidney. And then the remaining kidney got norovirus and died, and you were going to buy me a dialysis machine,

and it all fell apart, and I died. Well, the dialysis machine fell apart. The relationship as well. The relationship as well. That was pretty impressive, though. Laura, you just pretty much said about two words and Michael got it straight away. I'm not going to forget. I'm not going to forget Tony, last name alludes me.

I wanted to say Morrison, but it wasn't Tony Morrison. How could I forget Tony, last name alludes me? Laura, what was your last name on the show? It was Tony Warner eventually. Thompson. Ah, Thompson. Tony Thompson. Of course.

Well, Laura Hill, thank you very much for playing our game with us this morning. We appreciate your time. Thanks, Laura. Pleased to be here. See you. There we go. Dr. Chris Warner, this is your wife. Thank you for playing.

You did really well, actually. Thank you. Thank you. That was fun. Shorten Street back to five nights a week, which we're super excited about. And the 7,000th episode. You wouldn't have thought 7,000 when it first started, right? No, no.

We were lucky to get to seven when it started. It was, you know, got bad reviews. It was like, okay, this is not going to last. But yeah. We're in that awkward period right now with this radio show. We don't know if it's going to last. I don't think we're going to get to 7,000, that's for sure. Yeah.

Anyway. All right. We'll just settle on that. I don't think we're going to get to 7,000, that's for sure. Yeah, anyway. All right, we'll just settle on that. Michael Galvin, Chris Warner, thank you for your time. Thank you, thank you so much. There we go, Chris Warner from Shorland Street. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Europe has opened up again, really.

It seems like there's a lot of corona there, but they've kind of opened up the European countries. Those crazy free-loving Europeans. Not to the Americans, though, I see. But New Zealanders can now travel, but our Prime Minister's saying, probably not the best idea. She wouldn't recommend it. And I noticed that she's planting the seed, too, that if you do come back, you've still got to go two weeks

quarantine in a hotel, but we may not foot the bill now. $4,000 per person. So it's quite hefty if you went for a holiday and then you had to pay that when you came back. There's only so many lush hotel rooms

the government can pay for. But yesterday I was clicking on an article reading about that and you know how you get little articles down the bottom and you start clicking on articles and you click on other articles.

Oh, you end up deep. I always end up in like 36 wayward celebrity children. Yeah. And you're like, what happened to, you know, or 36 of the most demanding Hollywood stars. You get along with all those things,

but the picture, the picture's never the one or you have to click through like 40 times to get to that picture that gets you, that click baits you. You'll never guess what Randy Jackson's doing now and you're like, I want to know. By the time Tim is there, you're like, oh, I don't care.

I'll just Google him. But I kind of got stuck in a European travel, you know, sort of clickbait. And so the Tube in London, in the famous Underground Rail System, so obviously they've got escalators going down. They used to have stairs. But when they first wanted escalators going down to the Tube and up, everyone was very scared of these moving staircases, apparently,

and no one would ride on them. Everyone was like, oh, the moving stairs, I don't like these. So they hired a guy with one leg to ride it for a whole day up and down just to prove to everyone that it was safe why did he have to have one leg was that even a guy with one leg the amazing one-legged man has embraced the moving stairs all day up and down this guy sounds like a storyline for the Simpsons yeah the uh the moving stairs. All day up and down, this guy had to go up and down. Sounds like a storyline from The Simpsons. Yeah. The moving stairs, although I imagine the transition in history

from your stock standard stairs, which we know and love, to the moving stairs, it would have been a trust. You would have had to build up the trust. I still don't trust them. You're like, oh, what is this? What about those ones when you're in the mall and you're with your supermarket trolley and you're pushing along happily,

and then you go on the moving stairs and they just gunk and they lock you. It just stops. And then all the people behind you are filthy because you're actually stuck. You can't move it. I'm sorry, I can't move it. I had a guy trying to squeeze past me, the trolley and the side of the escalator once. But I was thinking about with all the European travel going along there, I heard a story a few years ago about a guy who was travelling in Europe on a train, him and his mate, and he had a bit of an accident.

You know, like an upset tummy, he had a bit of an accident. You know, it happens. No more Lowell Point in an adult's life when you have an accident. Especially on a public train. Yeah, so he was on the way to the train, though, at the time. So he was like, uh-oh, I have an accident. And he sent his mate into a clothing store with this card, said, can you get me some pants?

I need to replace these pants. So his mate went in there, bought some pants for him in a bag and off they went. They were in a bit of a rush to get on the train. So they ran to the train. He's like, I'll get on the train, go straight to the bathroom and I'll get changed and get, you know, and it'll be all good. So he went to the bathroom and he took off his pants and his underpants. Both were

gone. And he was like, oh, I've got to dispose of these in the train bathroom. There was no bin. You can't flush gone. And he was like, oh, I've got to dispose of these in the train bathroom. There was no bin. You can't flush them. So he was like, he did a bit of a naughty thing. He's like, I'll just throw them out the window. I'll just get rid of them. That's not naughty.

That's like literally your only option in that situation. Got rid of that. And then he opened up his shopping bag to get his new pair of pants out that his mate had bought him from the shop. And his mate had bought him a top, a t-shirt. Oh. Ha, ha, ha. As a gag. I remember this. So then he had to fashion a t-shirt. Oh! Ah, ah, ah. I remember this.

So then he had to fashion the t-shirt like a nappy because he had no pants, no underpants. And we had made a great gag from his friend though. I was like, I wish I'd thought of that in that moment. Oh, did he do it on purpose? Yeah, his mate decided that that was the funniest option because he knew what had happened. And so he had to wear

the rest of the train journey with like a t-shirt like a nappy. And that's the story of the poo tube. So there we go. Incredible. Wake up and smell them.

Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, petrol prices going up today. Tax going up

on those petrol prices. So I don't know what to say there. I was going to try and offer some friendly bit of advice, but all I had before 7 o'clock was change your licence plates and try and steal it. Yeah, 3.5 cents a litre from today it goes up,

which equates if you've got one car per household, on average around an extra $35 to $40 a year. You're a petrol guy? I can't imagine you working the petrol station that well. I imagine you'd be quite confused at the petrol pump. In what way? Like, I can't imagine you holding a petrol bowser. Like, I can put petrol in.

Like, I realise how to do that, but that's about the end of it. Yeah, like, I'm not, I don't pay a lot of attention. My mum, you know, Jenny, she's real. All the price there is that, you know, she's very good at keeping a track on the prices. I know. I asked the other day. I didn't know why they change petrol at keeping a track on the prices. I know, I asked the other day, I didn't know why

they change petrol station to petrol station, the prices. I have an app that's called Gatsby and it tells you where the cheapest petrol is in your area.

So you can like, add to how many cars. I should pay more attention to it because I don't like paying money. I just, when it's low and I need to go, you just find the next

nearest petrol station. exactly. So Gatsby. Gatsby. Gatsby. Or the Gassie app. Something else. When you're feeling bloated. Tracks you bloating. But anyway

we talked to a friend yesterday and I hope they don't mind us telling this story on the radio because it's too late now and we're very desperate for radio content, aren't we Ben? But they shared something. It's a task they do in their house which I don't know how many hours a week they would spend doing this but they've got this two finger do in their house, which I don't know how many hours a week they would spend doing this,

but they've got this two-finger policy in their house. So in his wardrobe, his clothes, his T-shirts, have to be exactly two fingers away between his pants, between his jerseys as well. There needs to be an even two-finger space gap between it all. Which I guess looks nice. Yeah. So that's his wardrobe.

And then come to the fridge. Oh. It's like a finger, a finger gap in the fridge and pantry. One finger. So everything's laid out lovely. You know, like it's one of those things. It's a very pedantic thing to do, some would say, but okay, he's happy and so that's how they keep it.

The popular finger measuring policy, which we know and love throughout history. It has pulled us through many, many a world war, that finger measuring policy. But I get it. Like, I imagine once you get something in your head and you're like, well, this is the way I like to do it, you wouldn't feel like you had done your job properly until you had completed that task. I'm like, that was shutting the door. I'm a nightmare with the door. I don't know. I must have some shocking door-based issues dating back to my childhood. But when I leave in the morning, I have to open, shut it, lock it, open, shut it, lock it, open three times.

Three times. Or else if I'm in the car, I'm like, I haven't done that properly. I haven't done it properly. Wow. Yeah. It gets so bad that in the old house we lived in, I'd wake up in the middle of the night not even knowing I was awake. Go down and open and shut it and lock it. But then many times I'd wake up in the morning and I'd left the door wide open.

Front door wide open. Come one, come all. That's probably why you have to check it now because you keep leaving it open all the time. It probably doesn't help that I'm always fuelled on about 12 Heinekens as well. So what is the most pedantic thing you do? I like to turn the plugs off. That's just something I like to do. I just like to make sure if I go out of the house, just turn the plugs off.

Yeah, and it leaves us every morning, before you go to bed, you turn every plugs off. That's just something I like to do. I just like to make sure if I go out of the house, just turn the plugs off. Yeah, and he leaves us every morning, he turns every plug, or before you go to bed, you turn every plug off. And you don't turn them back on in the morning and your family wake in darkness and just stumble around knocking into furniture.

Or maybe it's something like I've never, in my relationship with my wife, never made her a cup of tea that's been just right. Just the way, I try, but I just can never get it quite right.

You know, like I try and make a cup of tea, but it's like I don't need the bag in for long enough. I don't put the, I don't know. I don't know. I haven't been able to nail that. She's very like. How long are you tea bagging for?

How long are you doing it for? Well, obviously not long enough. Is there an exact amount of time? Well, there is in her. It's more on look than. Oh, aesthetically. Yeah. So it's not long how.

No, it's not. Yeah. So that's why I haven't been able to do it. She's very, and that's why, if you like a cup of tea and you like how you have it, good on you. So she's very, some would say pedantic, I would say pedantic, but not on the radio. So you're not teabagging long enough then?

And I don't think you need to do it longer, let that flavour really sit in the cup there. Yes, thank you so much. 0800 the hits. 4487 is the text. Love you to get in touch with New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. What is the most pedantic thing you're doing? Are you doing the two-finger measure policy? Are you opening and closing your door three times?

Are you turning off all the plugs? We want to know. Love your calls right now. Give us a bell. Dean, welcome to the show. What's the most pedantic thing you do? I check and I recheck my alarm, so I'll probably set it about 10 times. Oh, on your phone, I get that.

Because there's no worse feeling than knowing you have to get up early but not sure. If you wake up at like 3 o'clock in the morning as well, you can never get back to sleep? Yeah, yeah. And yeah, because the thing is, it's like I'll set it and I'll call it out as I'm setting it. My wife sits on the edge of the bed shaking her head. And if I walk out of the room once it's set, I have to come back in and double check that it's set again. So I'll do it more. I get it.

Look, because there's been times you put it on like p.m., not a.m., and that's the one time you're like, maybe I've done this again. Maybe I've set this for, yeah. Do you know, Ben, the monster leaves his phone in the bathroom, not even next to the bed because he doesn't trust whatever nuclear rays are coming off it overnight. So his wife's been waking up every morning

at four o'clock, and he has to walk 15 minutes to get it from the bathroom. I'm like, I'm up. I'm on the phone and everyone else is awake too. So there you go. Hey, good on you, Martin.

Thanks so much for listening to the show. Sorry, Dean. Thanks so much for listening to the show. Sorry, Dean, thanks so much for listening to the show. Not a problem. Awesome, you guys. Doing a great job. Love your work, buddy. Love your work. Only because he said he loved our work and it makes an egotistical radio announcer feel

great about themselves. Sam's with us on Auckland. See you in the sun, then I fail. Sam, most pedantic thing you do? Hi, I eat pizza with a knife and fork. Take it home, put it on a I eat pizza with a knife and fork. Take it home, put it on a plate, and I use a knife and fork. Oh, is pizza meant to be eaten with a knife and fork? John Pryor, my father, would love you.

Please don't have it if you're with my dad. That would be weird. I don't know. I think greasy fingers just creep me out, you know? Yeah. Okay, I see. So you're doing it like that. I suppose, you know, sometimes when you have it when you go out to a flasher place and

you have pizza, you do feel like you almost need to do that. Greasy Fingers is the nickname we give Ben around the office. You've had to answer to a couple of things, haven't you, Greasy Fingers? No, I haven't. Thank you, Sam. Have a good one. You too. And joining New Zealand's Breakfast, Marty in Christchurch, the most pedantic thing you

do? It's not me, it's my wife. And don't worry, she doesn't listen to this station, so I won't get in the shit. I'm in trouble. Family-friendly stuff, Marty here. Yeah, so she's got this thing where after dinner or after lunch, whichever it is, the chairs must be 5 to 10 millimetres away from the table,

not too far out, so you trip on them not too close that they rub. Oh, wow, Marty's, well, you're well versed in this 5 to 10 millimetre, and how, like, are you guessing this, or are you measuring with a ruler, or? No, no, it's just an estimate guesswork, but that's just the start of the row CD. It's, it's

like, entry-level stuff this. Oh, well, I know this sort of thing is a problem for people as well, and it can be quite debilitating, can't it? Yeah, it can be quite a serious thing. It just means that you've got to walk around the room, make sure everything's right, or the day's ruined.

Yeah, and God, that must be frustrating for those poor people. Yeah. If something's not done correct, your whole day's up the clinker. Pretty much. And I just made up's up the clinker. Pretty much. And I just made up a word called clinker. I don't even know if that is a word.

Marty, you have a great day. Thanks so much for listening to the show. No worries. Cheers, guys. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Spy.

No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. She was born like baby Jesus on a haystack of gossip in a manger. Welcome, producer Juliette with Spy. How do you think of these every day? I don't know. I'm going deep now. They're quite obscure.

I love them. I really do. Judy Dench, she said that she TikTok, going on TikTok and spending lots of time on TikTok during quarantine basically saved her life and saved her boredom. So she was in quarantine with her grandson and at the beginning of lockdown, she was like, what am I going to do with my time? But apparently learning all the TikTok dances and rehearsing, her grandson made her rehearse religiously,

really made the time fly by for her. So Judi Dench on TikTok. She's 85 years old. I made Ben cancel his TikTok account. Yeah, because I thought he was too old. Judi Dench. Judi Dench, 85. Wow, I need're like, you're too old. Or Trudy Dent. Trudy Dent's 85. Wow.

I need to sit down with her and have some words. True. James, we were speaking to Sam Neill and he was going to do some sort of Instagram video with Dame Judy Dench.

Yeah, he was actually. He was like, I'm just about to go and film an Instagram video with Dame Judy Dench. Yeah. As you do. As you do.

Hey, good on you. What a good activity. She's more up to speed with social media than I am. Yeah. As you do. As you do. Hey, good on you. What a good activity. She's more up to speed with social media than I am. Yeah, true. We need to change that. I keep telling myself that. The MTV EVMAs

are returning to New York on the 31st of August. But they're taking the precautions very seriously. They're either going to be very limited people or no people at all. And the performances

are going to happen from iconic landmarks around the city from different artists. So that'll be quite a cool way of seeing it. But I guess every other award show kind of has to take the same route. And in other news, Dolph Lundgren from Rocky, he's 62. He's engaged to a woman who's 38 years younger.

She's 24. And they're absolutely getting trolled online about it. So he's a famous action hero. You can say he was in Rocky and a whole lot of other action movies. Kind of around that Arnie sort of era, you know, where they're all big beefcakes. So what, he's how old?

He's 62 and his fiancée's 24. And everyone's saying that she looks like his daughter. She does look, I've seen the photo. I mean, he's looking fantastic. He looks great. For his age. I mean, he looks better than I'll ever look. He does look better

than me when I was 20. If they're happy, then they're all great. Age is just a number, isn't it? Except when the number's under 16, then it's a matter

for the courts. But up until, you know, past that. It's a 38-year age gap. Yeah, I thought you said at first that she was 38, but now she's 24. Okay.

So it's a 38-year age gap. Incredible. Who are we to sit here and judge? No. No, not at all. she was 38, but no, she's 25. Okay. So it's a 38-year age gap. Incredible. Who are we to sit here and judge? No. No, not at all. Yeah, well, they're probably happy. Although I am judging a little bit. Are you?

You can't help. You can't help. I'm trying not to. I'm trying to be the better person. Maybe if your relationship's in a bit of an age difference, 4, 4, 8, 7 on the text, tell us what it is. Are you 38 years like Dolph, an old mate? Or maybe you're just

no he's the old mate she's the young mate for more spy you can head to thehits.co.nz making poor life decisions every morning it's Jono and Ben

on the hits hey a friend of ours Sam mentioned the child catcher over the weekend and I was like I haven't seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

for a while yeah it's an old classic movie if you haven't seen it. It's probably 30, 40 years old. Yeah, it's a timeless one. So I was just like, oh, come on, kids, come and watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And then the child catcher comes on. And you're like, oh, okay.

He's quite a charismatic sort of gentleman, isn't he? But then he's like luring the kids out of their house with his ice cream and lollies. It definitely doesn't stack up. I mean, we've got another name for the child catcher nowadays, don't we? Exactly, yeah. But I thought it was just like quite a... You wouldn't see a movie character like the child catcher now, would you?

These days, do we? In 2020. Well, not in that sort of sense. He's a bit of a laugh. And is that his profession on the customs declaration form? Is he right? Where they're like, occupation, child catcher. Not a good look, is it, when you hit the borders?

No. No, it's slightly, it's nicer than kidnap. Yeah, I mean, child catcher sounds a little more friendly, like I'm chasing them and they're having a fun time. Yeah, but it's not really. It's funny when you watch those old movies now, and you're like, I was saying, I think the having a fun time. Yeah, but it's not really. It's funny when you watch those old movies now and you're like, I was saying, I think the other day I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory around, the original one.

And I was like, that's such a good movie. And you watch it and there's a few things in there that you're like. Wonka, Wonka, mate. I was like, if this was now, the FBI would be knocking on your door and your chocolate factory. Oh, again, there's kids in the, you know all, you know, there's all the labour laws, I don't know, with the Oompa Loompas, all that sort of stuff. Oh, yeah, you thought there was a slave labour operation

going on with the Oompa Loompas. I don't know. Wonka may have been paying them. I don't know. I don't know what's going on, but there was question marks for me. Where did he wrangle all the Oompa Loompas from? They never really got into that.

They never had the backstory of that. He's just like, come and work in my fun factory, and they're just busting. They're not having a great time. But they're busting their ass making chocolate for a while. Yeah, but they're singing along. So maybe they're happy. Maybe I've cast a horrible generalisation.

Maybe they're singing for the cameras, though. It's like North Korea. It's like when the camera's here, you sing on bloopers. And I will pay you nothing. And you'll get one piece of chocolate a year as a Christmas present. Some of those old movies are just better in your memory. They are. What was your most terrifying movie character when you were

growing up? Did you have one? Oh no, I think I watched one of the original Nightmare on Elm Street when I shouldn't have. You know, when you're too soon, you're like, oh yeah, I'm brave enough to watch that. And that Freddy Krueger character was like ugh. It was a shocking acne problem Freddy Krueger, didn't he? His face was all over the place. Yeah, he did.

Producer Juliet, did you have a terrifying movie character? Yeah, the lizard on Monsters, Inc. that changes colour. Oh, yes. You know that one? Yeah, he used to terrify me because he's just so creepy looking. I don't know why, but... Randall. Randall, Randall.

Not a very creepy, not a terrifying name, but in character he's very... Did he turn around? I can't remember. Did he turn around? I can't remember. Did he come around, did he? I think he might have come around at the end. Oh, yeah, John O'Bannon and Juliet vaguely remember plot lines to children's movies. There we go. Text 4487 if you have a terrifying movie character.

Sharni's on the phone. Terrifying movie characters from your childhood. What was it? Chucky. Chucky got me real good. Oh, the little doll from Child's Play. Yeah, I watched that as a kid, and that was very creepy. Yeah, no, Mama told me not to watch it.

I asked, and she said no, and then one night I remember she was watching it, so I snuck up and watched it from behind the couch, and yeah, it screwed me up for years. It screwed me up for years. Some real deep-seated childhood issues there. Thank you very much for your call. Appreciate that. Kylie, terrifying movie characters as a child. Mine was Candyman.

What was Candyman? Yeah. You had to say it three times into the mirror, didn't you? Yeah, and I still can't say it. I still can't say it. Oh, you still won't say it? How old are you now? Well, I'm in my late 30s and I watched it when I was 12. Yeah, well, I'll tell you something. It's safe to say it. I don't know. I wouldn't do it.

I still wouldn't do it. No, I can't. Just in case one of them happens. You're right. You can do it right now if you want. You've got to be in front of a mirror saying Candyman three times into the mirror, and then you have to appear. I remember that one.

And from Hoka, thank you for your call, Kylie. From Hoka Tikka, Ruth's on the phone. She's been terrifying movie characters as a child. What was it for you, Ruth? It was the fire dance people from The Labyrinth. Oh, I remember. David Bowie's Labyrinth. That's a creepy movie.

I tried to watch that recently with the kids, and it's like this. It's kind of odd and quite, yeah, quite out there. It's really tame now as an adult, but yeah, as a, I don't know, four or five-year-old watching it, it was freaky. Bowie was in some pretty experimental years making The Labyrinth. I always remember he had silver balls in his hands.

Yeah, he did. He just tore the balls around. He had several silver balls, yeah. We're still talking about the same silver balls I was talking about? I think so, yeah. Yeah, his tights were rather penis-y from memory. Yeah, there's a whole lot in that movie.

As I say, I tried it. It was on TV a while ago. I think during lockdown. I was like... Did the costume department not tell Bowie to just get a bag of your pants? I think they spent a lot

on the Muppets, the Jim Henson's work to make the characters. Yeah, and less on Bowie's costume. Bowie just came up with the pants and you're like, oh, yeah, that'll do. Hey, thanks, Ruth. You have a like, oh yeah, that'll do.

Hey, thanks Ruthie, you have a great day. Yeah, you guys too. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. It's something that has been outside my house for near five, six months. I'm not keeping exact track on it because I don't know when it first arrived, but it's getting to a stage where it's

got cobwebs on it. Here's a new law that I want to install. If a car is parked outside your house for three months or longer, you should be able to keep it. That should be your car. You should be able to... Now, you disagree with this.

Well, yeah, I do think that. It's still not yours. Anything outside your house for an extended period of time should be yours. You should be able to have it. So it's a long time, though. It's a very long time, and that's the thing. And a sensible member of the public would say,

well, you should call the police and say, there's a car outside my house, maybe it's been reported stolen. And I did that, and it's not stolen. So someone's parked it. It's even getting cobwebs on the door handles now. Oh, really? It's been there a long time. And you're thinking, well, that could be yours now?

Yeah. That's not like you. It's a? Oh, it's been there a long time. And you're thinking, well, that could be yours now. Yeah. That's not like you. It's a nice car. It's like an old BMW. I was like, oh, I could have that. I could push that into the driveway, pick the locks and get it. Or maybe it's just because it's an older car

that someone's just like, oh, you know, I'll get around to restoring that one day. Or maybe it's just like a, I don't know, a disorganised, or a forgetful motorist who parked their car there,

went to work or something, walked to work and then forgot where they left it. Or someone who was like, I'm going to get a new car today, I'll leave this car here. Yeah. And they could just stay there and I'll go and walk to the car yard

and buy a new car. Wasn't there a rapper that did that? Came back from the airport, couldn't remember where they parked their car, so they just bought another one? And left it at the airport? I think so. What a New Zealand rapper.

No, no, overseas one. Like, yeah. airport. I think so. What a New Zealand rapper. No, no, overseas one. Like, yeah. And then I think they went bankrupt a few years later after that. So you're like, well, mate, if you're going to buy a car every time you can't find it. I went to Westfield Car, remember? I might as well just buy a new car. Yeah.

The other good thing, we park in the casino, which is a labyrinth. Speaking of that, before, that's a labyrinth of the car park. But now you can just type your registration in and it tells you where your car is. They've got a cool little machine there and they'll show you a labyrinth of the car park but now you can just type your registration and it tells you where your car is. They've got a cool little machine there and they'll show you a little video evidence

of you coming in and where you parked it. Bloody hell I do. Also a great place to leave the kids when you want to go gambling. Maybe not quite as much. There's nothing

that car park doesn't provide for you. Speaking of leaving things outside the front of your house I love that. I love the game of like when you've got a kid's bike that's about to go on

or whatever you're like I'll put it in the thing and see who stops and bets. And you're like waiting. Someone slows down. Oh, no. Who's going to take my 20-year-old rusty gas barbecue? Yeah. It's amazing what

people will stop and grab. Oh, my friend Baz was mowing his berm. And he was like, oh, I just need to go inside because I need to fill up petrol. So we went to the shed to get more petrol. He walked back out. There was a guy walking off with his lawnmower that was still going. He was pushing it down. He's like, hey, mate.

I mean, literally. Well, you're living out there. It's like the Wild West, isn't it? It's like that's, it's no longer yours. Yeah. As soon as it hits the. This is the thing. Anything on the footpath's for your game. Although.

Take it. If it's outside your house, it's yours. Great play a few years ago because Christmas tree time. And I was like, it was, you know, January. I was like, what do I do with the Christmas tree? I'll just put it out the front of the property while I work out how to get it to the dump or whatever. And then I came back a half an hour later, four other Christmas trees were next to my one.

Oh, you became the dumping ground. Everyone was holding off, waiting to see what Schmuck would put us out there. This guy will get rid of it. You don't know what houses they're from. So you're like, okay, I guess I'll take all these to the... I don't know why putting it on your burn means you have to get rid of it.

I know. Oh, that's where you leave it. I'll get it. Someone will come and get it. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, earlier in Spy, producer Juliet, you were talking about a new wedding that was on the way,

a new wedding, a new relationship, but basically with a huge age gap. Yeah, so Dolph Lundgren, who's from Rocky, he's 62, and he's engaged to a woman who's 38 years younger than him. So she's 24, and everyone's just trolling them online saying that she looks exactly like his daughter. She does. She does.

He looks great, though. As we said before, he looks amazing. To look at him, you wouldn't think he was 62. No, no, not at all. He looks incredible. Yeah, but she does look like his daughter. And it looks like, you know, her and all her friends, all her friends would say to her, oh, your dad's so hot.

It looks like that sort of relationship where you're like, he's a handsome dad. All her friends would be like, oh, he's such a hot older guy. Daddy. That would be the conversation. To be honest, it doesn't concern me at all. Like, if they're happy, I'm just like, well, sweet, good on them. Yeah.

Who cares? I'm kind of in the same. If they're happy, I'm just like, well, sweet, got on them. Who cares? I'm kind of in the same. If you're happy, do what you want. If you're happy walking down the road with people thinking that you're walking down the road with your mum or your dad, then that's absolutely fine by me. Who are we to judge? Exactly.

And it's hard to sort of have a point of view on this because my dad's not dating anyone 15 years younger than me. So I imagine if you were in that scenario, there would be quite a lot... Well, he's got kids around about the same age, right? Yeah, so I imagine for them, it's quite a lot to come to terms with. Especially, like, not that they're ever going to call her mum, you know, as such, but still, if it was technically stepmum,

is, you know, potentially younger than you. And I imagine a lot of motives, a lot of questions from the family surrounding the motives of the relationship too, maybe? Yeah, maybe. You know, what is the... Why would you date someone so much older than you? Maybe she's a big fan of Rocky III. Which was a wonderful movie in the series, wasn't it? It was a great movie.

Third installment of the Rocky series. Yeah. So 0800, that hits the telephone number if you're in a significant age gap. Anna, this is you. So our age gap is about 12 and a half years. 12 and a half,. 12 and a half? Oh, that's pretty decent. How old are you, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm 28. Yeah, and your husband, 40. Yeah, he's just about 40 in a couple of months. Oh, okay. And it works fine for you guys? Obviously, you're happy and everything's all good? Yeah, yeah. So we've been together for seven years, married for two,

and I'm a step-mom to his children. Yeah, so we have kids. Awesome. Do you find that people get judgy on it, like for some strange reason? I have had a little bit of that, but to be honest, my husband looks real young. Like I didn't realise he was like that old, I guess you could say, when I first met him. So a lot of the time people don't realise. Oh, that's good. When you're doing like

instagram and tiktok and stuff you're like oh you wouldn't understand old man yeah pretty much he doesn't even have any accounts like that like what is that yeah no no he's like me he's like me so does the generation gap have complications at all um i guess you could say just in like the modern sort of things like in like bands and stuff we like different music, but it's kind of, like, good because I've learnt some of the older stuff and he's getting into some of the younger stuff. So he likes The Beatles? No, that's a generous answer.

Pretty much, yeah. Oh, he does, okay. More like the Foo Fighters, but it's probably showing my age. All right, yeah. I know it's sad now, the Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters, I feel like they're now a dad rock band. They are a dad band, really, now, aren't they? Yeah.

How many Eagles concerts have you had to go to, Anna? None yet, but I'm sure the day's coming. Good on you. Hey, well, I'm glad you're happy. That's the main thing, isn't it? Happiness. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, well, you keep safe.

Thank you. I really appreciate you calling in for the show today. No worries. Have a good day. Low in calories and low in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on my hits. Listen, our cardboard cutouts, they made it back yesterday after a whirlwind nationwide tour of New Zealand.

It was a socially safe distancing tour of New Zealand. Thanks to you for transporting them around. And everyone who did touch them, have a photo with them, transport them from A to B, we're in the draw for $5,000. And it was a journey, you know. It's a journey they'll put in a time capsule. And students in 2075 will look back on this pandemic and see how we executed quirky radio promotions

in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Yeah, and yesterday it all concluded with a big winner. Have a listen. We've got a cardboard cutout version of ourselves. They're going on tour and you could win $5,000 if you help them get back to our studios. Listeners are taking them

up the country. The journey is underway. In Bluff. Bloody dark and windy and very lonely. Just like Ben's underpants. In Christchurch. Felix.

Carry around cutouts of washed up schmucks. In Nelson. The science has actually given them an extra inch at the bottom there. And we need those inches, that's for sure.

On the inter-under. Get a photo with the hits Jono and Ben cardboard cutout. Hello? Today's the day, boys. I'm taking the cutout today. Oh, is this the guy

from yesterday? Oh, he's hung up. I'm really sorry. Somebody's taken the cutout. No. What can we do to get it back? Get me a personalised video message from Jacinda Ardern. I'll release the cutout.

If we can get a happy birthday message. Happy birthday, Beryl the truck driver. We'll call it a day on this one, eh? I'm going to leave it just outside of Tauranga. We're back. We're back. We're back. Let's head to Northland right now.

The whole town will be talking about it. Really? Okay. Take two. The whole town's talking about it though, aren't they? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I thought so. We're about to call the winner.

Hello, Megan speaking. You have just won cold, freezing cold, hard, throbbing cash. $5,000 is all yours, Megan. Oh, my God. What are you going to do with that money, Megan? I've got two kids. My goal is to buy a first home together with my kids. That's going to really help that.

Well deserved. Thank you so much. You've been a superstar. What a journey, the Cardboard Cutout Tour of New Zealand. Thank you to everyone that helped transport us in cardboard cutout form up the country. Now we can use them at home, can't we? Like Macaulay Culkin did with all those cutouts with that.

Oh, yeah. Very... In Home Alone, yeah. Yeah, it was quite an intricate rope pull system Macaulay had designed for himself. I think he had like a model train set and everything. He did a great job, didn't he? His engineering skills were well beyond his years,

Macaulay Culkin, in that movie. That iron swing system he designed, the iron went in the guy's face. I mean, no, how old was he at the time? Oh, yeah, he was probably like 10 years old, wouldn't he? 10 years, I mean, no 10-year-old's pulling off that. No, you're right, he did great with that. Didn't do so great going around the neighbourhood

and telling other neighbours that he was home alone. There was some burglars. At any stage, he probably could have done a bit more effort to find some other responsible adults. Less on the comical traps and more on comms skills. That movie with a cell phone It's over in

two minutes. It's one of those movies put a cell phone in there Where are you? I'm at home. Okay, well we won't catch this plane. We'll just come back for the airport. We've got the neighbours coming over. They'll sort you out. It'll be fine. It wouldn you? I'm at home. Okay, well, we won't catch this plane. We'll just come back for you. We'll book another flight. We've got the neighbours coming over. They'll sort you out.

It'll be fine. It wouldn't be quite so comical. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. It's time to look at some quirky news that has happened in the last 24 hours with the Beeping News. Kia ora, I'm Ash Thomas and this is the beeping news. Yeah, we take newsreader Ash Thomas to read headlines from around the world. Producer Juliette beeps them and we have to try and figure out the words.

But this is why. This right here is why we'll never be respected newsreaders because we'd always play quirky games during the news. Thanks for the weather, Jim. Now it's time to play which world leader is farting at the APEC meeting. They don't do this on the news, do they? No. It would spice the news up a bit, wouldn't it?

You guess the stories. We're going to guess them right now. So, producer Juliet, our first story. Louisiana man faces charges for s*** in a sporting goods store. For doing something in a sporting goods store. Louisiana man faces charges for selling products in a sporting goods store during sale. I'm going to go with he was playing sport in the store. Louisiana man faces charges for swimming in a sporting goods store fish tank.

Oh, that's pretty close. Oh, true. You were. You noticed. Going into this, Ben's like, I've got no funny answers. I'm just going to try and play the game. Remember when we played rugby in Rebel Sport that time? We rushed in to do some filming and we knocked over a Richie McCaw mannequin.

Did you? With an Orbit top by accident. It was moulded to Richie McCaw's body. They put him in boiling hot plastic and moulded this to him so it looked like his body. You wouldn't tell though. Well, I was so sorry. We'll pay for that. And we paid for it.

It was quite expensive. It was $5,000 to repair it. It was quite a lot. We somehow decapitated his head or something came off. What sort of sporting goods store is it with a tank in it? It's like mermaids' bed. Good, you went for a swim in the mermaids' tank, didn't you? Well, he did it as a TikTok challenge.

He was like, if I get 2,000 likes, I'll go into the sporting goods store, swim in their giant aquarium. And so he did. And they had to fish him out. So, I know. You'd want to put some chlorine in that mermaid's tank, wouldn't you? He definitely would. What happened when you swam in it?

I didn't swim in the tank. Were you all right? Did you go fully closed? What did you do? I haven't swum in the tank. Next story. All right. Lands lead role in $70 million sci-fi movie.

Someone lands lead role and says, well-known actor. Lands lead role. You're probably going to be right, to be honest. I'm going to go with Donald Trump just to get him out of the Oval Office. All right. Please be Donald Trump. Artificially intelligent robot lands lead role in $70 million sci-fi movie. Well, there we go.

Now they're stealing all the acting gigs. This is happening. John Pryor, my dad, was worried about artificial intelligence. They're taking over the world. Well, they don't know. I was thinking, would she get paid? Would her creator get paid? Because apparently she can speak, she can blink,

she can kind of respond to you, kind of like Alexa would. Yeah, right. But she looks like a human. I thought when you said a robot, I thought you meant Tom Cruise landed another role in a sci-fi movie. He is not real, that man. Next headline, producer Juliet. Joggers and walkers are... ...next to the Queen's holiday home lawn.

I'm going to keep this clean. Stretching themselves next to the Queen's holiday home lawn. I'm actually going to genuinely try and guess this one correct. Relieving. Joggers and walkers are relieving themselves next to the Queen's holiday home lawn. It's less fun when you get them right. Oh, no, you're right. I should have gone with Meghan Markling themselves or something.

Meghan Markling themselves? Leaving the royal family or something, is it? Hey, well, thank you, Producer Julia. That was the news and beeps for a Tuesday morning. Wednesday morning. Wednesday, wow, yeah. Oh, God, I you, Producer Julia. That was the news and beeps for a Tuesday morning. Wednesday morning. Wednesday, wow, yeah. Oh, God, I'm having a sloppy start today. That's what happens when you go for runs at three in the morning.

Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. On Friday, we have the Pledge for Plunkett to support Plunkett families. It's a great organisation. You can pledge an item right now at grabone.co.nz and this item will be added to our whanau box for families in need.

It's just $10. We'll add that to the box as well, grabone.co.nz or you can text Plunkett to 4487 if you want to see the link. So we're doing a big... Sorry, I talked over the end of that. Were they important words? 4487 if you want to see the link. Yeah.

Oh, the link. Those were the words, yeah. They were important words. They were important words. They were quite pivotal. But Friday, we're doing a big fundraiser on the hits to raise some money for Plunkett. And Ben, yesterday you planted the seed. You said, Jono, since you look like a giant baby,

you should dress like a giant baby until we raise X amount of dollars. Yeah. Well, I want you to know if I'm going to do this, I'm going to go full method. And I want you to feed me like a mother. Straight from the source. Feed you like a baby? Yeah, feed me like a baby. Okay, I can do that. I'm going to go full method and I want you to feed me like a mother. Straight from the source. Feed you like a baby? Yeah, feed me like a baby. And I want it to come straight from you.

Oh, jeez. I'm going to go full method. I need my nappies changed. Oh, no. I need you to push me around in a pram, take me to the park. Okay? These are the conditions. These are the conditions.

You planted it. This is what I can. I was actually looking at the most popular baby names so far of this year. Luna and Milo. Female and male baby names so far. And yeah, they're the ones worldwide are the number ones. I find it so interesting that the trend of baby names, like you're not getting any like Bruce's born now or some of Dorothy's or something.

Are you? And it's like a fad. And then Lunas and Moons and Apples and stuff, they will be the new norm. But then there might be a resurgence on those names, you know, like you're saying, or Bruces. Where was Benjamin on the list? Well, yeah, I went to a couple of websites

to look at Benjamin and Jonathan. And one of them, Benjamin was number 10. Oh, you're top 10, baby. And Jonathan was not currently ranked in that one. How far down did this list out of the Zaliska? But then I went to another site just to see you were at number 63 in the baby names. And then I was at number 6. So there you go.

Oh, he's still trying to brag that he's in the top 10. Well, this is just facts, mate. This is a fact. I love it on the internet. If something doesn't impress you, you just keep looking hard enough until you're satisfied. I was looking at other sites as well. Yeah, I bet you were. Start your day the wrong way.

It's Jono and Ben on my head. Listen, we've got no internet this morning on our computers and you don't realise how much you rely on the internet, so I'm plugged into Juliet's personal hotspot, which sounds like a... Sounds like a... Yeah, that's something that should be doing. It shouldn't be said.

It reminded... It reminded me of Ben. Just keep your hands out of my personal hotspot. Well, speaking of which, Ben, I once let Ben into my personal hotspot. He did. And he was in my personal hotspot for years and he didn't tell me. Really? He kept blowing up and I was like, oh, I can use this again. Yeah, he would log into my hotspot. Can't you just,

you can see at the top of your phone a little blue line saying your personal hotspot's connected on for my phone. Yeah, but he's not as technical as you. No, I just thought

it was a fun blue line except it was my mate plugging away at my hotspot for years. It was really handy too every time we'd go work at like a cafe or something like, oh, here you go,

Jono Pryor. And he never He told me two years later On a radio break I was mortified Absolutely mortified Here's a call to your data Thanks for your data

I appreciate it That's right No worries And now Jingle Bells Is a wee game we like to play We want to know If businesses who have jingles In their advertising

Know their jingles And love them as much as we do We've played this a few times Here's a St. Pierre's one we did. One, two, three, four. St. Pierre's. You give a lava? St. Pierre's.

Okay, okay, okay. Do you have to order anything? No, we're not. He was a bit busy manufacturing sushi to sing jingles, which is fair enough. And we have another time we rang up a business as well, which I definitely know which one this was. One of our faves.

Yeah, you just can't beat the Mad Butcher's Meat. Yay! You got it. It should be a prerequisite for a business. If you're an employee and they've got a jingle, you must know the jingle. Like, if you're not loving it at McDonald's, you're out. Yeah.

If you're not buying better at Briscoe's, you're gone. If you're not beating a bargain, the warehouse., you're gone. You're not beating a bargain. But yesterday we phoned up Australia just after the show. You may notice a difference in microphone quality, not studio quality because Ben had coronavirus and was broadcasting from home yesterday and was in his kitchen, so it's a bit echoey.

That will explain that. We're transparent. We're not going to try and say this was done this morning. And this was Crown. You know Crown? There is nothing like a Crown. For picking it up and putting it down. Wonderful ad.

Wonderful jingle for forklifts. And we're going to go through to Crown right now. Good morning, Crown. Tony speaking. How may I help you? Tony. Tony. Tony, Tony, Crown. Tony speaking. How may I help you? Tony. Tony, Tony, Tony. Oi, oi, oi.

How are you? I'm fine, thanks. Yes, John, I've been calling from the Hetz radio station in New Zealand. Oh, okay. Okay, now don't go cold on us, Tony. Tony, you're part. Okay, I won't. Feet are nice and toasty.

It's cold outside. Oh, well, yes. A bit chilly this morning, yeah. It was about six degrees or something, yeah. Tony, you're part of our game called Jingle Bells where we take some of the most popular, well-known, lovable jingles in New Zealand and we play them to those particular businesses.

And you just have to sing along. Oh, well, you can play the crown one, yeah, that'd be good. Okay, here we go, here we go. There is nothing like a Crown. Like a Crown for picking it up and putting it down. There we go. It's a great jingle. There we go.

Well, it's timeless, isn't it? It's a timeless jingle. It is timeless, Jono. Jono, it's timeless, you're right? It's a timeless jingle. It is timeless, Jono. Jono, it's timeless. You're right. No matter what year it is, that jingle was still a great jingle. Fast forward to 2085 and we'll still be listening to that. I won't be around then.

I won't be able to sing then. I'll be long gone by then, as you probably will too. A bleak way to end. We're all dying. It's just who's first to the finish line. Tony, you have a wonderful day. you probably will too. Blink way to end. We're all dying. It's just who's first to the finish line. Tony, you have a wonderful day. Thank you for being such a good sport on the radio.

Oh, that's fine. Thank you. All good. You have a great day. All right. And thank you for picking us up and then putting us down. Okay. Thank you.

Bye. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Yes, scrolling through your feed. Yes, this is Scrolling Through Your Feed, where we lightly dust over the topical events that have happened overnight and bring you up to speed so you can have some light banter around the water cooler

and be mildly informed. That's right, petrol tax comes in today. Well, it's the 1st of July and a whole lot of things have arrived on the 1st of July, including petrol tax. I thought they were going to make petrol cheaper. Well, petrol has got a little bit cheaper over the last little bit because I think all prices have come down.

But the government's latest petrol tax increase will see the pumps raised by 3.5 cents a litre from today. So over a year, they reckon, if a household's one vehicle, that basically equates to about $35 to $40 extra a year is what you're paying. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Ben, this is way too much research for our radio show. That's right.

I thought I would investigate. Wow. I can't even tell you what it would be on an average of $0.67 to $0.76 per week, but that's just going into too much detail for this. No, you're just showing off. No, no. Yeah, no.

Don't ask me any more questions on it. Please stop there. But that's all I know, about $35 to $40 extra at the pump. And people get annoyed about that, don't they? No, and why wouldn't they? But especially in this current climate too where people are doing it tough.

Yeah. People are doing it tough. A lot of people lost their jobs and things and for the petrol tax to go up, I'm not happy, Ben. Do I sound not happy? You do, you do sound happy. This is my not happy voice.

Fair enough. It's a fair call. Yeah. So what I suggest is, no, I won't suggest that. Okay. I was going to say drive in, change your license plates, fill up, and then drive away. I won't say it, but you know you've said it.

I ended up saying it. Also on the 1st of July, it's two other things as well, dry July and plastic free July. Oh, God. So what are Free July. Oh, God. So what are you going, oh, God. Oh, these months. There's all like manuary and December and all this. Every, there's a month, there's always some sort of drive.

I saw like vaganuary, which doesn't even work as the pun. But Plastic Free July. I like that one. I know you're all anti-plastic. I'm pro-plastic. I'm trying to get better at it. I'm not perfect on it, but I'm trying to get better at it. I mean, the kids,

they're just being scared into an oblivion at school about plastic, aren't they? We're killing turtles all over the place. Every time I pick up some plastic poppy, my daughter's like, you've killed a turtle. You monster. I don't know how that correlates, but anyway. They've got it in their kids' heads. They have, yeah.

I mean, which is good in the long run, isn't it? But when I was driving to work through the less savoury part of town, did I bring this up before? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, when you drive past the adult store, and they, I tell you what, their carbon footprint will be, you've got rubber, latex... A lot of plastic stuff.

A lot of plastic stuff they're using in the adult toy game, aren't they? And I think that's an industry. Have a paper mache one. Paper mache. Use it once. Oh, no, it needs to be reusable. Yeah, it does need to be... I don't know if paper mache would work.

And also, as well as that, yeah, dry July. So good luck to everyone doing that this year. I see Mike Padu from the Hits Drivers doing it. He's been bullied

into it, has he? I loved how you did it a few years ago and you found a loophole where you could pay, which is good because the money goes to a

charity. You could pay per beer and I just ended up, I never got asked as an ambassador. It was more expensive than a

minibar like beers wasn't it? You're like, oh geez, I'm paying a lot for this. Beers I've than a minibar like beers, wasn't it? You're like, oh, geez, I'm paying a lot for this. Beers I've already bought. I'm paying that extra dry July tax. And I was only dry in July for like two days. And then I looked on the website. I was like, surely there's a loophole here.

And I found that loophole and drank my way through July. But paid the price for it. It hit me in the pocket, too. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. Spy. Go WhatsApp spy.co.nz Yes, that's right. She had

dreams of becoming a respected journalist, but then inevitably gave in and now just reports on what track pants the Kardashians are wearing today. Producer Juliet with Spy. Now, Anne Hathaway has revealed that the director Christopher Nolan doesn't allow chairs on his set

and his reasoning is if there are chairs people will sit and if they're sitting they're not working so for all of his movies he just does not allow chairs he also actually doesn't allow phones because he says it's distracting everyone but then also Anne Hathaway goes on to say that she actually really loved working with him and said

she had so much fun. Now he won't be happy because we're all using chairs right now, making use of chairs. But while working, though. But are we working? Is this work? It's not proper work, is it? You're right.

What happens if a disabled person rolls onto set? He's like, mate, stand up. No chairs, that's the rule. You know the rules. He's like, I've got no use in my legs. I don't care, mate. I made this no chair policy and everyone's going to stick with it.

I don't think he would do it. I don't think he would do it. You don't think he would do it? I'm not Christopher Nolan. It's a movie star thing though, isn't it? To get your name on the back of a chair. Yeah. True. It's like one of those things. What happens if he's shooting a dinner table scene? Are all the actors like awkwardly crouched over the dining table and have to like

do those leg squats where you're pretending to sit? It's leg day every day on this set. I think directors would do it. You know, when you think about the control that you have to have on a movie set and the amount of moving parts, like when I watch Taika on the internet doing it, I'm like, how are you even, how do you even get your head around that? It'd be so hard.

So you just need everyone on their game, eh? Yeah, sure. Everyone's kind of waiting on you, you know? Yeah. You've got like a hundred people you're like uh oh you know if I'm like taking ten minutes

to think about something everyone's waiting on me for ten I heard a wonderful rumour that James Cameron he runs a tight ship he ran Titanic for a while there

didn't he make Titanic was that James Cameron yes it was the tightest ship of them all nothing went wrong with the Titanic can't think of any

blemishes on that ship's career but he when he was filming he apparently kicked a coffee cart Nothing went wrong with the Titanic. Can't think of any blemishes on that ship's career. But when he was filming, he apparently kicked a coffee cart down the stairs. I heard it. Really? Just because he didn't like the chai latte the guy made. He was like, this is not up to scratch.

Boom. And the guy was still in the coffee cart. I may have made all of that up. I don't know. I've just heard it. I believed you for a bit there. I was like, wow. I think there's some element of truth to it but something went wrong

and I would love to do that in the fit of rage. Just boom with this coffee gun. You do that as a director. Yeah. And Dr. Dre's wife is filing for divorce after 24 years of marriage

and no prenup was signed so she could be taking a big chunk of his net worth which is essentially meant to be $1.2 billion New Zealand dollars, apparently it is. Wow. So awkward. Of course, Dr. Dre, you know, rapper, producer,

and then Beats by Dre, the headphones. Yeah. Huge wealth. I hadn't heard from her in a while. I'd forgotten about Dre. What? I'd say, you know, you have to explain it to him.

Nothing better than having to explain a joke. Go on. Explain it. I don't get it. There's a wonderful song from his, I think, album 2001,

wasn't it, Ben? Yeah. Called Forgot About Dre. Oh. Yeah. Oh. That still makes it no better. No, but did you know

I was reading about him? He wanted to become a pilot. Really? He wanted to become a pilot. Really? He wanted to become a pilot. Obviously, he went to become a doctor, which was a better career option. But yeah, he originally wanted to be a pilot. And another Dr. Dre fact, he has six children to five different ladies. Four sons and two daughters to five different ladies.

Wow. Look at his oldest son. He looks like just a kind of a weirder version of Dr. Dre. Doesn't he? Very similar.

Look like brothers. They do look like brothers. Don't they? He had him when he was 16. Wow. There we go. I know way too much about Dr. Dre.

And I hadn't forgotten him about him but it turns out I'd actually researched him thoroughly. For more spy you can head to thehits.co.nz

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch upco.nz. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Wrapping up our show for Wednesday. It's time for our producer Juliet to go and blast avocado on about nine pieces of ogle. She loves avocado on toast. I really do.

Although today I've got a bit of, I don't have it, I've got oats today and I'm really sad about it. And that's neither here nor there. Yeah, no. Oats are depressing. It makes me depressed just you talking about oats. Thank you, I know. Before we go, Ben, the iPhone has done an update

and I notice you've embraced an emoji as your profile. Yeah, it's made an emoji for me and now it pops up quite large. I didn't realise on the phone when I rang. Yeah, no, you look like Enrique Iglesias. They've given you a beauty spot. Well, I couldn't get lots of moles, so they just gave me one. Anyway, enough about that. Well, enjoy your day.

We'll catch you tomorrow for sex. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits. And via the iHeartRadio app.