Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - July 06 - PM Jacinda Ardern, Jono & Ben's Bite Club, The Oldest Person To Jump Off The Harbour Bridge

Episode Date: July 5, 2020

On today's podcast we chatted to Jacinda Ardern and she dictated the length of our interview... Because she could stop the interview as soon as we asked her a question that she's been asked before! Jono also surprised Ben with a very strange item from his childhood. Finally, we chatted to Dorothy Pattison - the oldest woman (at age 91) to jump off Auckland's Harbour Bridge! Happy Monday folks!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. It's the podcast. Welcome to the podcast. We like to debate about podcast intros in the podcast intro. Well, it seems like a one-way debate. Like it's you just moaning how you don't like podcasts and me just going, oh, well, we're doing one. I don't know why we keep doing one. We can just get straight

into the content do you know where it comes from it comes from me listening to other podcasts some podcasts and then not getting to the content

because I get sick of sometimes the chat before it gets into it well podcast intro name and shame some podcasts no I'm not going to name who do you like

tell me who you don't like doing intros some people have some very good intros and other people I'm just like I just want to get straight into it.

Okay. So, you know. Okay. Conan O'Brien, I apologise on behalf of... Oh, no, no. He does a great job. He does a great job. He does a good intro.

Many people do a great job. Joe Rogan, I'm sorry, Ben. To be honest, I can't get through. I think ours is the worst. But I'll be looking at thepodcasthost.com, and they've said what makes a good podcast intro. Jono, put yourself in the shoes or earbuds of a brand new listener,

someone you want to target for your podcast. They've downloaded your episode. They've hit play. They've got no loyalty to you. They've probably never heard of you, and at this moment, they aren't interested in you personally. So what are you going to do?

What are you going to bring them? I'm crying. I'm crying inside a little bit after hearing that. Some savage. Oh, well, I'm going to share something. We were walking back from, we park our car at Sky City. Yeah.

And we walk back every day, Ben and me. And I noticed, I don't know if you saw it, parked on the side of the road, the Mazda Bongo van. It's been there for a while, hasn't it? With the curtains. Yeah.

Yeah, and I was like, if I was a car, I'd be a rusty old Mazda Bongo. With some flabby curtains on the side. What would you be? I don't know. What would I be? Honda Jazz or something?

Oh, yeah. A racy red Honda Jazz. That's a little something. Yeah, kind of. Ant gets around town, he's a little bit of a, hey guys, how are ya? Hey, what about me? A little bit of pizzazz, a little bit of pep in your step. Not that cool, you know, but just kind of like, yeah, I'm doing my thing.

And great for parking though, you are great for parking. Yeah. Smaller frame, can squeeze in anywhere. I can vouch for that. See, there you go, we learnt something about the two of us on the podcast intro. And this is probably an annoying podcast intro. But that's fine. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister.

She was on the show today. That was fun, wasn't it? It was actually really good. Hit her in the studio. Yeah. I can't even remember what else we did. It all just blurs into one. It does, actually.

One big mess of... Oh, you surprised me with something from my childhood as well. Oh, yeah. The sexy negligee That we had from your childhood Yeah Yeah that's true actually

And what Ben did with this As a child Wow It probably explains quite a lot The Songy Corn Flakes of Radio It's Jono and Ben on the hits Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Was in the building

After the show On Friday And we managed to Drag her in for a quick chat Yeah she was upstairs Getting a roasting From Kerry McIver And then someone said, hey, have you got two minutes to talk to John and Ben?

And we went, oh God, we've got no questions. And well, this was the result. We've got the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. You're in the building and I feel like we've just nabbed you and you've got important places to be. So thank you for giving us a couple of minutes. No, it's my pleasure. Under duress.

I feel like it's a burden more than anything. No, no, pleased to be here. We didn't know you were coming in, so we're not prepared. Neither did I. We're all in the same boat. Because you've done a lot of interviews over the years. Yes. And so we thought because we only got a limited amount of time, we're going to just ask you questions. And if you've been asked that question

before, the interview stops. That's the game. Okay. The interview continues on. Now I know you're fresh off a Kerry McIver reaming from upstairs. This is a bit more light-hearted. It is light-hearted. We'll see. We'll see. Okay, we'll start easy.

Favourite milkshake? Oh, I've never been asked that. Chocolate. I'm more of a vanilla. Yeah, quite vanilla. It's your career. How do you sign off your emails? Best, best wishes, thanks.

I vary it up. So I do a bit of best. I do a bit of kindest regards. Kindest regards is a good one. Okay. Favorite show to watch on Netflix at the moment? Oh, I haven't watched Netflix in a while. We're quite busy running the country, so that's okay.

Don't feel bad about not watching Netflix, hey? Yeah, no. So it's been a while. A while ago, I did see a bit of Bodyguard, which was hilariously inaccurate. Oh, that was quite good, that. Oh, right, yeah. I was saying before the other day about watching your Bodyguards

when I went to Snow Planet once, and you were there with Clark and your niece, I think, at the time. That's right. And your Bodyguards, they were in there. One was at the bottom of the slope, the other one at the time. That's right. And your bodyguards, they were in there. One was at the bottom of the slope, the other one at the top. Yep, they spread themselves. In the freezing temperature.

In suits. In suits. I was like, no one's working harder than them. Why couldn't they just wait in the cafe? I think the point is to be in close proximity. Oh, yeah, right. Not having a latte. This is why I'd be a shocking security guard for you.

It's warmer in the fire. Okay, next question. Are you good at parallel parking, Prime Minister? Do you know, I actually think I'm not good at parallel parking. He gets stressed out in front of people. I do, in front of cafes and stuff like that. It's quite a stressful environment. Yeah, it can be stressful.

Particularly, you know, that one down on Hearn Bay, that real incline. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A hill parallel park. It's a difficult one. It's a game changer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A hill parallel park. It's a difficult one. It's a game changer. Yeah, yeah. What's your most hated chore?

Hated chore. Have you been asked any of these? No, I haven't. No, no, no. Oh, don't worry. I'm remembering that. No one has asked me about my most hated chore. Jacinda has remembered how she can get out of this.

No one likes scrubbing a shower or a bath. No, you're right. But I do enjoy vacuum cleaning. Oh, you like that? I do too, yeah. It, you're right. But I do enjoy vacuum cleaning. Oh, you like that? I do too, yeah. It's the only thing Hoskins and I have in common.

You like vacuuming. Mark Hoskins and you, yeah. Who pulls the hair out of the drain in the shower at your household? Clark. Is that Clark's job?

Yeah, because he makes a really big deal out of it. He's quite handy, Clark. He builds stuff and all sorts. He is very handy. He's still got the fish tank? He does not have the fish.

The one here to reinforce the floor. Oh, yeah, that was a big, yeah. It was huge. Did he have a giant fish tank? He does not have the fish. The one he had to reinforce the floor. Oh, yeah, that was a big, yeah. It was huge. Did he have a giant fish tank? Oh, yeah, a very big fish tank. It was like, it could have got nice tropical fish, but he got quite sort of like ones that were like,

oh, they're not that. They were small when it started and then they grew to fill up the tank. Yeah. Okay, Prime Minister, last concert you went to? The last concert I went to might have actually been Elton John No, no, no, forgive me, Nadia Reid I went to Nadia Reid and before that Elton John

You must hate going to concerts No, no, no Nadia Reid was when we still had social distancing so it was very civilised, we were all seated at tables. So you could have made that permanent I sat there and thought this is the way to do it.

I'm starting to run out of questions for the promise. I thought we would last this long. Do you know which one of us is Jono and which one is Ben? Yes.

Yes, I do. Okay. She's just not going to say which is which? It's going to be bad radio. Top three favourite New Zealanders

in no particular order. I was waiting to end the interview but I've been asked this on kind of a shove. Mary. Oh, you've been asked that? Oh, that's okay.

So you have. We're done. We're done. We're done. Lovely to see you, Jacinda. It is lovely to see you. We should catch up more often. Yes.

You know. We should text and we should all hang out. Like the good old days. It's snow planet. It's snow planet. That's right. Good to see you. Thank you for coming in. Nice to see both of days. It's snow planet. Good to see you. Thank you for coming in.

Nice to see both of you. Thanks for having me. Remember to double pump the vogels. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Some wild weather overnight in the country. Winter's here, winter's here. As I said before, everyone seems surprised that the weather's always bad around the summer, yeah? I like it because it gives you something to talk about with people. It does, you're right. Yeah, otherwise I've got no

conversation. Oh, the weather. It fills, you're right. Otherwise I've got no conversation. Oh, the weather. It fills in a good one to two minutes of banter, doesn't it, with someone? While you're waiting around for a coffee. Oh, so wet out there. Oh, yeah, mate. Sorry, I've got no banter with you on this. And we talk all morning. And I'm like, oh, he's really killed the conversation.

On Friday, your mum, Jenny Boyce, joined the show, Ben. And I think, amongst other things, she said one of the most quintessential mum things that any mother could say to their child. Oh, well, I just hope he's fine and eating well. Come on. Are you eating well?

I'm eating right. Mum always thinks I'm, you know, oh, you're wasting, you know, mum always thinks I need to eat more. So I'm trying to eat more. My mum always goes, you're wasting away. But I'm wasting up. I'm, you know, oh, you're wasting, you know, mum always thinks I need to eat more. So I'm trying to eat more. My mum always goes, you're wasting away, but I'm wasting up. I'm doing the opposite. She's like, you're wasting away.

So, yeah, mum's always concerned about the food intake, aren't they? I mean, you've done well. You look tired. That's another one. I was like, thanks, mum. But you've done well to survive over the years. You're not dying of malnourishment. I'm still surviving.

You're right. I mean, you are quite skinny and bony, but that's just your genetics. You can't do anything about that. But I feel like she does have a great track record. Because I was little, she was like, eat crusts or put hair on your chest. Well, I did, and I've got none.

You know, it's like she's lied to me with things like that. And there's nothing more terrifying to a child to, you know, the thought of even having hairs on your chest. You're like, this is, why do I want hair on my chest at this age? It'd be unusual. I'd end up in one of those weird books like the Ripley's Believe It or Not books. So it's the thing that mums say. There's a lot of these mum sayings that go around,

and we want to know those this morning. Oh, 800 the hits. What is something your mum would say? Yeah, so you just call up and you just quote the line from your mum. Now, these are just some here. You'll take an eye out with that. Oh, yeah, that's good. That's a good mum line. Because I said so. Yeah. Now that's a conversation ender, isn't it? There's no coming back from because I said so. You can't carry on the debate. No, that's it.

Because I said so. Politicians should use that more, eh? Like Jacinda Ardern in a press conference. Oh, because I said so. Oh, okay. In a press conference, you're like, well, I said so. That's the rules. Just ignore him, he'll go away,

was something my mum would always say to me, or about me to my sister. We'll stay out of each other's rooms. That was a big one. And so my sister and I would get to the stage that we'd stand at the doorway of each other's rooms just to put your arm in. Just taunting.

Just put your leg in. From theunting. Just put your leg in. From the hallway. I'm in the hallway. You're like, just to get around mum's work around. And a champagne one is, there's kids in Africa who would kill for that.

Oh, yeah. I wonder if the Africans know how much they've been used throughout history. When you're not eating your food, it's like, it's a good reminder. There's children in Africa

who would be starving. Okay, so 0800 the reminder. There's children in Africa who are starving. Okay, so 0800 the hits. This is what we want to open up. Things Mums Say. You can text 24487. Get a hold of us on this Monday morning. Hannah, welcome to Things Mums Say. Take it away.

Oh, jeez. This was going so much better in my head. Yeah, I thought maybe a bit more conversation, but hey. So what do you want about Hannah? But she won't say anything to us. Hi. Oh, nice to see you guys. The suspense, the drama, Hannah.

Sorry about that. Hey, that's all right. It was fun. It was thrilling. Yeah. I was thinking, uh-oh, how are we going to get out of this hole? But then you came through for us. Things mums say.

Yeah, well, things mums say. I brought you into this world. I can bloody well take you out of it. Oh, quite threatening. Is this almost like I can end you? Liam Neeson and Taken or something. Yeah. So then you knew, okay, it just got real. Now you need to listen.

It just got real, yeah. Who was your mum? Like a hitman or something? No, not really. Short little lady. Oh, short little lady. All right. Hannah, I love your call, and you frighten me a little bit.

So you've won an Abico Natural Skincare and Supplements package. It's worth over $250, all right? Oh, wow. Thank you. How blemish-free is your face at the moment? Well, not as blemish-free as I would like it. Oh, those blemishes, they'll be gone. Enjoy that, Abiko, enhancing your natural beauty from the inside and out.

All right, let's get that next one. All right, Philippa, welcome to Things Mums Say. Take it away. You're not going anywhere until you tidy your room. Oh, it's a champagne one. It is one of those things that's like, turn this car around. It's another one. Don't make me turn this car around. But yeah, no, that's an empty

threat because they're never going to turn the car around because they're taking you where they need to be. It's like, well, they want to go on holiday. There's no stage as a parent. Kids, if you're listening and the threat is there, oh, turn this car around, they're never going to do it. I'd love a parent to have followed through on that, though, right? Like a full trip away and they turn the car around, they're never going to do it. I'd love a parent to have followed through on that, though, right?

Like a full trip away, you know, and they turn the car around and went home. I'd like a parent to just drop the kid on the side of State Highway 1. Oh, get out of the car then! Just to prove a point. That's probably happened in the 80s. Adrian, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Things Mum Say! Yeah, hi.

My son's ears would say what's for for dinner? And my reply was, food. Ouch. Good burn. That's up there with your legs broken. I'm hungry. Hi, hungry. I'm dad. That sort of thing.

Same category. Someone's texted in saying, mum always used to say, if someone asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Which is, if you deep dive a bit further, you have to factor in conditions. Yeah. The height of the bridge. And maybe if you're at AJ Hackett at the time, you know,

maybe that's fine to jump off the bridge. How much water is attached to it? We'll take one more. Mike, you're in Oakoonie. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. Things mum say, Mike.

Hey, if you've ever been into much mischief in life, you always get the old, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. There's nothing worse than that, though. You want them to be angry in that situation.

Oh, man, it's a quiet drive home. That's a very quiet drive home. You wish they would drop you off the side of State Highway 1. Pretty much. Hey, you have a wonderful day, Mike. That was fun. That was really fun. That was good fun.

I and my heart had fun then. Oh, good. I'm pleased. Oh, I think it's clogged. I can't figure it out. It could be a bit of both. It could be my clogged and my heart had fun then. Oh, good. I'm pleased. Oh, I think it's clogged. I can't figure it out. It could be a bit of both. It could be my clogged arteries. Serving bowls of Lulz for breakfast.

Actual Lulz may not be served. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. Busy night for emergency services. Up to 50 weather-related call-outs around Auckland, Northland and Waikato overnight. Oh, it was wild last night when we got home. Wild and windy. I almost got blown out of my house. I was lying in bed.

All right, Dorothy. Now, on Friday, we spoke to a man who was attacked by a shark. Have a listen to this. Yeah, I had to punch it. It was sitting, you know, it was chomped.

It was more of a hit and a glancing blow by a couple of stray teeth. One sliced through my wetsuit and didn't go all the way through to my skin, but the other one sliced through the wetsuit and into my arm and cut along my arm. And he ended up swearing at the shark as well. Yeah, telling her to get, you know.

So amazing tale. And he said he was now a member of Bite Club. So there's a special community of people who have been bitten by crazy animals. And so we want to open up our own bike club for a Monday morning. 0800 The Hits. What have you been bitten by? Now, does a hickey count? What happened to the hickey?

They kind of fell out of fashion, didn't they? Good riddance to the hickey. What was the point of the hickey? Have you ever had a hickey? It's not something anyone wants. I could give a good hickey. Do you want me to give you a hickey? I'm okay at the moment, but thank you.

Suck you like a leech. Maybe this way it just TV shows over. Suck the life out of you. What was the point of it, though? Like just embarrassment the next day when you had to cover up your bruised neck? Or a turtleneck or something like that. Have you had a hickey before? I don't know.

I can't remember. It's not something I think anyone would want. I'm glad the hickey's gone, but bike club is open up. If you have been bitten by an animal, we'd love to hear from you this morning. The most unusual animals we're looking for. Emma, welcome to bike club. What did you get bitten by?

Oh, it wasn't me, but my boy got bitten by a sea snake on holiday. We got the snake off the list. Now, what does a sea snake, what damage does a sea snake do if it gets you? Um, so at the end of his finger Um. I thought you were going to say something else then.

And that would have been horrific. Yeah. Um, no but his, within like 10-15 minutes his whole hand was turning black and it was travelling up his arm. Oh jeez. Um, so we were in Port Vila and a friend drove us up to the hospital, which was an experience, and we decided to leave the hospital and we were on a cruise, so we went next to the doctor on the cruise ship.

And, yeah, he pumped him full of all kinds of things and it eased off, but, yeah, it was pretty scary watching my six-year-old's arm turn black. Oh, my God. Yeah. So how is he now? Everything's all good? Yeah, he's absolutely fine now. Yep, he's a little fish himself now, so he's good.

And so did the doctor have the antivenom that was required? I don't know what it was. I was just like, give him whatever. I don't care. Just give him some meth, whatever it takes. Whatever, yeah. On that situation, you were like, whatever has to be done, has to be done.

Oh, that would have been terrifying because you would have been thinking about amputation and all sorts. Absolutely, and being so far away from home as well was a bit scary if we needed anything more. I'm glad he's fine now. And again, thank you. More gold fodder for the show.

Yeah, wow. Thanks for your, thank you, son, for taking the hit. Who's paying dividends right now. You have a lovely day. Have a great weekend. You too. See you. Bye.

See you, mate. And Hannah on New Zealand's Breakfast. Welcome to the show this morning. Good morning. How are you? Good and you? Thank you for joining Bike Club. Who are you?

What bit you? A seal. A seal? We were on vacation in South Africa, and then my husband was taking a stroll down the beach, and I was walking on the waterline looking for shells. And I was so inattentive that I did not see this huge seal laying right next to my foot when I put my foot down

and he just reached forward and bit me on my ankle. But I had to get a tetanus shot after that. Yeah, no, you would do because seals, they're quite violent, aren't they? But the mongrels are the ocean seals. Yeah, well, the doctor was quite astounded. He said he's been living in Silbo for 24 years and he's never seen a seal on any of the beaches.

And I get bit by one. Well, you didn't see it either, to be fair. So, it's all a bit, yeah. Did he sing you a song to say sorry? No, but my husband was quite upset with me. Good on you, Hannah. You have a good one. Thank you.

Love your work. See you. Bye. Don't think I didn't notice the seal joke there. What do you mean? Seal the singer. Yeah. I like the seal.

Oh, no, it's me. No, no. You mean this seal? Yeah, that seal, yeah. I love seal. That was me singing with seal if you ever missed this before. Thank you for playing that again. The winner snows. Another text here too, Ben.

Wife got bit by a trouser snake on our first date. Oh, yeah, I got it. She's become paralyzed. Don't read that one out. What is that one? That's first date. Oh, yeah. She's become paralyzed. Don't read that one out. Is that a... What is that one? Okay, that's all right. Oh, okay. No, stop, stop.

Moving on with the show. Eggs for breakfast. It's Jono and Ben on the hips. Kanye West apparently running for president if he just missed it. We don't know if it's this election or not,

but that's the big news. Yeah, very soon we've got more on that coming up. I don't know what more we have on that coming up. It just felt like something I needed to say. Well, maybe he'll join us later in the show.

Maybe. He probably won't, but he might. The opportunity's there. It's surprise time. Ben, I was handed something of yours. Is this actually something of mine? Well, you can tell me once I reveal it. It is a piece of your childhood,

a piece of memorabilia. Hand it to you. Hand it to me. It could have its own exhibition at Te Papa, our national museum, this piece of history, rich history. It's up there with the Treaty of Waitangi for New Zealand history. No, I don't know if it is. Now, I'm going to pull this out, and you just tell me what it is, okay?

I'm going to my bag now. Okay, Jono's walking across the room to his bag I don't actually know what it is Okay, now if I pull out Oh shit So what I have here is a

a racy lacy negligee of some description It's a petticoee of some description. A Lacey sort of... It's a petticoat. Petticoat of some description. Now, I was at your mum's house last night. And Jenny was like, oh, you may want to...

I was like, take that negligee off, Jen. What's up with this? And she's like, this, when Ben was younger, was his little comfort. This is my comfort. You used to walk around with a sucking on it. No, I used to, it was my feeling

petticoat. Well it is quite soft and I used to like the texture of feeling it between my hands. When I was little, man I was like two years old. This is the actual feeling petticoat. And so where would you take this?

This would go everywhere with you. This would go around with me. Just keep me safe. I should be having it right now. I was like getting bullied for this. Because it's like a lovely sort of white. It's an old, older ladies back in the day would wear it. Like they would wear a petticoat under their dress.

It was like a little bit of, yeah, like it's... And at what point did you think it was okay to take it off your mum and wander around with it? 18, 19 years old. Was it like a replacement for those little snuggly things that kids have? Those little blankets. Yeah, I had one of those.

You had a petticoat. I just sort of walk around. Normal kids went around with sheepskin rugs. Ben Boyce went around with his mother's racy negligee. I do remember my nana saying when I was about two or three years old, she was sitting next to me at some family thing and she felt a little hand go up to her petticoat and she was wearing it.

Not up this, but just to the... This was your hand? Yeah, but it wasn't out of it. It wasn't like that. Just to grab the petticoat. He's still doing that at our work drinks. He's still eating. No, I'm not.

All these hands just sort of end up. Okay, I'll take that back now. You can take it back? No, your wife Amanda gave that to me. Why have you still got it? I haven't seen it for a long time. Maybe my mum brought it down and gave it to her. Oh, that's embarrassing.

Yeah. How's that feeling, though? It is quite nice and soft. It's quite nice. Taking you back to your children. Old Hansy. Hansy McGee. Thanks for that, Jono.

It was a wonderful surprise. I told you it would be. I'm not here to make your day worse. Well, you have. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Bye.

No WhatsApp. Bye. Docco.nz Juliet, she's the Jack Tame of celebrity gossip, Juju. Thanks. You're probably on a longer career path if you went down the same route as Jack Tame. Yeah, it's for real. You're stuck here on this sinking ship with us, Juju.

Thanks very much. We're all going down together, mate. Now, you may have heard that Kanye West has announced he's running for president. So he did this back in 2015 initially at the MTV VMAs. And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president. Now...

I don't know why we could have guessed by that moment, him up there accepting an award. And the MTV award. Well, the natural, the logical next thing to do is tell you I'm running for president. Yes, and so,

but there was no really like huge follow-up from that. No, last year he said 2024, right? Yeah, exactly. And then he tweeted over the weekend

saying hashtag 2020 vision running for president. And a bunch of celebrities have given their thoughts. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, he has his full support because they're good mates. Piers Morgan, the British broadcaster, says, not now, Kanye, seriously. And Paris Hilton just writes in capital letters, Paris Hilton for president.

And it's all go there. So he hasn't officially entered the race. And we were talking about earlier this morning, there are some states that he can't officially enter because he's past the deadline. So whether he actually runs properly or not, we'll find out. Because he's a Republican, right? So he supports Donald Trump's party. He definitely was a couple of years ago, but then it seemed

like him and Trump kind of had a bit of a like a... Had a bit of a tiff and then they kind of made up again. He wears the old the green hat. Make America great again hat. Yeah, mega hat. So he stands as an independent. Yeah, because he. So he stands as an independent. Yeah, because he can't, obviously, Trump's the nomination for that party,

and then Joe Biden's the other one. The Democrat. And you were saying this could be a tactical play. Well, it could be. People are thinking that maybe he'll take votes away from Joe Biden, which will allow Trump to obviously have more votes. So even though he's not running on the same party, that's the theory going around the internet by much smarter people than me.

Yeah, that is tactical. Hard-hitting political analysis, international politics, Lejano and Ben there. Didn't think you'd get that on this show, did you? We just copied and pasted it from the internet, to be honest. But it sounded good. It sounded educated. It was to do with Kanye West.

I mean, if 2020, like, who would have thought 2020 could get weirder, you know? Yeah, that's a good point. After everything that's happened, it's like, okay, nope, Kanye's running for president. Cool. And after those Crocs shoes he released last week, he's really doubled down on the... He is. Who would you vote for if it was a celebrity-laden

New Zealand election? Briscoe's lady, she'd probably be in with the win. She'd be pretty good. We'd have a sale every weekend. True. Willie Apiata would be a great leader, wouldn't he? You know, there's a lot of great... You guys. That's what I was fishing for.

Thank you, Juju. Thank you. Pandering to my fragile ego. No worries. The NDI TV show got cancelled, right? Ben actually ran for Parliament once. Oh, years ago. You nearly got in.

Well, no, we were a long way off. But yeah, it was quite an interesting thing. How did that happen? What do you mean? You kind of entered in. It was a long time ago. Wouldn't do it again now, obviously, because you don't want to, you know, mess around was quite an interesting thing. How did that happen? What do you mean? You kind of entered in, it was a long time ago, wouldn't do it again now, obviously, because you don't want to mess around with that sort of thing.

Oh, but it was okay a while ago, was it? I don't know. Okay, whatever. We got our thousands, because if you get more than 0.05 of the votes or something, it's a very small amount, you get your bond back, because you had to pay a thousand bucks. And we just got over that, we're like, we'll go

spend that money on a bar in the place that gave us the most amount of votes. And it was Invercargill. So we ended up having to fly down to Invercargill and put it on a bar. It was a good night. That's fun. Yeah, so unlike Invercargill to vote in a comedy option. Oh, you take that back. Shedbox a legend.

Were you polling quite well in Invercargill? We were way off the mark, really, to be honest. But there's a lot of parties. When you look at it, there's so many different parties in New Zealand. There's ones you haven't even heard of. Oh, any crazy can run in the election. Yeah. And they do.

Like Kanye. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Just like a chocolate milkshake, only white and disappointing. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. We've given our producers a bit of a challenge this morning. Find us someone from the news in the last 48 hours. What an abrupt way to start the week for their job. 41 minutes left on the clock.

Producer Heidi, come on through. How are you going so far? Have we got anyone? Yeah, someone's in the works. Oh, someone's in the works. Oh, okay. All right, someone's in the works. I think so.

Before nine o'clock, will they track down someone from the news? Is this a cool story? Will we be excited to talk to this person? Yeah, I think so. Before nine o'clock, will they track down someone? Is this a cool story? Like, will we be excited to talk to this person? Yeah, I think so. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Do you like Yeezy?

I do like Yeezy. Because, yeah, you will enjoy talking to Kanye West before nine o'clock. If it's anyone apart from Kanye, I'll be bitterly disappointed, Heidi. Oh, jeez. We'll get Kanye on with more than, like, 20 minutes notice. Okay. Joining us right now is Jono. That's my name.

Welcome. And Ben over there. Just wanted to get some introductions out of the way. We didn't do that on day one, so it's good to do that now. Yeah, tell us something about yourself. Now, school holidays at the moment. And this I'm just serving as a friendly public service announcement. The lunches.

For some reason on the last day of school, I know I did it when I was at school, you forget about it. All of the administration goes out the window. Your usual post-school administration, empty your lunchbox out of your bag. For whatever reason on the last day, you leave it. You just put your bag away somewhere.

You're like, I won't need that for two weeks. And you're right. Often the lunchbox is still inside the bag. And Sunday night before you have to go back to school, you remember. That's when you remember. And it's too late. It's too late then because you open up your box and you've just got festering mouldy

sandwiches, shriveled up raisins, bananas that are rotting away and all brown. And I just want to remind everyone, hey, go and empty your lunchbox right now. It's a good point, because I don't know if we've done that at home. It's like a little science experiment you have for two weeks. You're not meant to be doing school, isn't it?

It's nothing quite like the undeniable stench of a lunchbox that's been sitting in a bag for two weeks. What does that smell? So there you go. School holidays are on now for two weeks to clear out those lunchboxes. Yeah. Producer Juliet, were you a lunchbox leverer? Oh, I think so. Yeah, there were definitely a few times

when I would open up my lunchbox and be like, oh God, there's some rotting banana skins and apple cores and stuff in there. Gross. Well, nowadays they make you take everything home. They don't let you leave any of the rubbish at school. Really?

Like, if you have anything to go with it, yeah. Oh, you can't even take Gladwrap into school now. Oh, no. Yeah, killing the turtles. That's the message that's being... I put one of those little squeezy yogurts in with the kids thing And they brought it back

They were very embarrassed Really They were like Dad you can't Do they get publicly shamed They did They're like dad Paraded in front of the whole school

They're trying to be like A good parent Give them a food They're like dad You can't do this They bought a squeezy yoghurt Yeah into the school grounds They'd rather have them

In the narcotics or something Yeah it's right to take drugs in, that's fine. It's not ruining the environment. Well, I'm just not in a plastic Ziploc bag. They've got some rules around that as well. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. We launched an unnecessary campaign of sadistic behaviour

to see our producers in a flap and a panic. At eight o'clock, we said until nine, you've got an hour to get us someone from the news. That was the producer challenge. Producer Humphrey, producer Heidi. Welcome back to the studio. Heidi has come through. Oh, right.

It's all Heidi. You're not claiming any of this as well, producer Humphrey? I had nothing to do with it. Oh, okay. What have you been doing, then? I've been trying to get hold of Kanye. Shooting for the stars. He hasn't seen my message on Instagram yet.

And Heidi, you set the bar a little lower. Yeah, I've got someone from Auckland. Well, hey, that's still good. I like Auckland. And it's only 8.30. You gave us till 9. Okay, so we've got someone that's done a world first. This is quite exciting.

Yeah, so how's this for a headline? Auckland grandmother, in brackets, 91 years old, becomes oldest person to bungee off Harbour Bridge. And you've tracked her down. I've got her for you on the line. It would be weird if you didn't after that lead in. All right, let's go. Dorothy Patterson, I think she's there.

Good morning. Good morning, Dorothy Patterson. Nice to have you on the show. You've made the news over the last couple of days for being the oldest person to bungee jump off the Auckland Harbour Bridge. It's weird, isn't it? Dorothy, are you 91? Of course I'm 91.

I wouldn't have it in the paper if I wasn't 91, you silly boy. Come on, John, are you a silly boy? You don't sound 91. I thought you'd be like, hello, I'm 91. That's how I thought you would sound, but you don't sound like that. You don't need this to be nightlife, do you? Well, I won't, so there. So, Dorothy, who talked you into doing a bungee jump?

All right, now what do you want to know? Oh, that question. Who talked you into it? Whose idea was it for you to do a bungee jump? Well, nobody talked me into it? Whose idea was it for you to do a bungee jump? Well, nobody talked me into it. My son just put my name down, and he thought it was a good idea, and then he told me I was doing it. Okay.

I feel like we just keep getting told off by Dorothy. Sorry, Dorothy. Apologise to Dorothy. Sorry, Dorothy. So what was it like, Dorothy, doing a bungee jump at 91? It was fun. Yeah. When you actually launch off, it's rather scary.

Yeah, I was going to say, did you get like butterflies or you're at a stage of life where you're like, oh, well, whatever happens, happens. Well, I'm very philosophical. I decided to do it, and I have a doctor who thought it was hilarious. Are they a real doctor? Oh, yes, a real doctor. I had to get a doctor's permission.

The sensation, because when you do the Harbour Bridge one, you go down, but then they tow you back up, and I always find, because you have to pull a cord which sort of releases you so you can climb back onto the podium. I find that bit the most nerve-wracking. Well, once you do the rapid fall down, and then it's kind of flopping in circles around, and then they kind of winch you up again,

and then haul you back onto the platform. It's all so quick. It doesn't take very long and it's all over. You've led a life. What an amazing life you've led and congratulations on becoming the oldest person to bungee jump off the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Well, I don't know if it's of interest to anybody, but, I mean, especially small potatoes. I mean...

OK, Dan. All right, you go back to being 91 and we'll go back to playing more pink songs, OK? OK. Bye. All right, lovely to talk to you. Bye, Dorothy. New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them.

They're chewy. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, the people know, Ben, the people know that out of the two of us, I'm the undeniable hunk of spunk of this show. I know why the hits got me over here. Sex appeal, just raw sex appeal. What you're lacking in radio talent,

you make up for in sex appeal, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, radio's average. But yeah, you bring a lot to the office. It doesn't matter because I'm hot, you know. You can forgive me for subpar broadcasting. So I was, you know, no surprise over the weekend that I was being bombarded on WhatsApp, the messenger service.

We set one up for our hits team, didn't we? Yes, we did. And we all communicate on it. We send funny little things. Well, you do. You're about three days. You were replying to messages about three messages ago, and you have to work out,

like you're reading a Dan Brown novel, like, oh, hang on, there's a thing. Oh, that's right, he's replying back to that one. There's too much going on for me. I only check it once a day. It moves quite fast. It does. It moves at a rate of knots, our WhatsApp.

You're just a boomer who can't keep up. So, yeah, you're right. I just a boomer who can't keep up. I know. So, yeah, you're right. I am a bit belated on my replies. But that aside, I've got a taking away our group chat. There was another message that came through on WhatsApp. You got a message? Yeah, from a young lass, nonetheless,

who just couldn't deny my raw sex appeal, Ben. And it says, hi, I'm Mary. I'm sorry I didn't have the time to talk more with you at the last party because I was a little drunk. My WhatsApp number is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If you want to continue to communicate, I look forward to communication. I look forward to meeting you. Can I stop you there? What's that?

Can I show you in my WhatsApp? No. Oh, you've got the same message. Hi, I'm Mary. I'm sorry I didn't have time to talk more with you at the last party because I was a little drunk. Mary is two-timing us. Mary is coming between us.

I don't know Mary, but it's interesting because she's like, sorry I didn't have time to talk to you at the last party because I was drunk. And then she says, I look forward to meeting you. So she's contradicted herself within the first sentence. Oh, saying that she does know you, but I just didn't get time. And then she's like, I've never met you. But I think that might be a scam, John. Yeah.

Oh, you think? Yeah, I think so. Producer Juliet is a millennial. I reckon. Yeah. Oh, her vague recollection of our meeting was pulling my heartstrings. What party was I at that I don't remember talking to Mary? Oh, Mary, she's been two-timing the both of us, Ben.

I will not let Mary come between us, okay? Your friendship is more important to me than Mary. 00-598-628-8947282. Oh, bloody Mary. Bloody Mary. That's where the name came from, guys. This lady on WhatsApp. Some of the world's most beautiful romance episodes

have started on generic WhatsApp messages. A random message. Says a scam. Morning! It's Jono and Ben on the Heads. We do a game called Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. It's an ambush game show where we ask people the world's easiest questions. We phone them, we catch them off guard, Ben, and we gift them with Hell Pizza.

Hell, well, jeez, we're giving away a lot of Hell Pizza. We are. We must be putting Hell Pizza out of business. I feel like we just give away so much Hell Pizza. Hopefully we're not because they seem to be back on board every day for this. Yeah, well, I hope Hell Pizza's somehow selling some pizza because we're giving away an awful lot of it. Let's go through.

I think we're heading to Palmerston North. Lodge, good morning. Hit the music, Ben. Are you there? Hit the music, Ben. I'm about to hit the music. Here's the music. Hello?

Who's this? It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, okay We've got a wee competition, a live quiz we want to do You want to play? Oh, yeah, I guess Okay, well, if it's going to be a burden on your day

We don't have to hold you up No, we don't want to, you know, inconvenience people We've got $40 Hell Pizza You've just got to answer four questions And we'll give you $40 hell pizza. Okay. It still feels like it's a burden. It does feel like it.

We don't have to do this. I'm running around in the rain checking. Oh, you're in the rain, yeah. Down here in Mighty Gisborne. Yeah, okay. If there's better things you should be doing right now, you just need to tell us. Be honest.

We've got an honest with this. Hey, our relationship is built on honesty and trust. It is. We don't ever want to upset anyone. You're not upsetting me. It's just busy, busy. We'll get into it quickly then. Four quick questions. Here we go. Okay. The game show, by the way, is called Don't Call Us, We'll

Call You. Whoop-de-doo. Okay, alright. Time is money. If I was in Thames, I would be what? A, a weed dealer, B, lonely, or C, in the Coromandel Peninsula? In the Coromandel Peninsula. Well done. $10 Hell Pizza, just like that.

Next question. Car Noah Lloyd hosts what? The Project, underground cage fighting nights, or Korean exchange students? The First Fund. The Project. Well done. Yeah, well done on three. Yeah, you've got that one right. $20 Hell Pizza? The first one. The project. Well done. On three.

Yeah, you've got that one right. $20 health pizza? Yep. Good. Good going. Quicking time is money. Come on, she's busy. It's raining.

Here we go. Chris Hemsworth was once on which Australian show? A, Bone and Away, B, Home and Away, or C, Gnome and Away? Home and Away. Home and Away. There we go. Quickly, quickly, Jono. And finally, Ben Boyce appeared on what TV show?

Oh, don't ask about this. Don't ask about me. Just say Jono and Ben. Yeah, that's the one. That wasn't the answer I was looking for. Yeah, I mean, I used to watch that. It was great. Oh, did you?

Where are the people from it? Sorry? Where are the people? Where are the people from the show? On the end of the line here, I'm guessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's us. That's what we're doing now.

That's what we're doing.. That's what we're doing. This is it. We're harassing innocent people as they go about their day. Our life is taken. You're making them laugh. It's fine. We took some wrong turns. It all went wrong for us, but here we are.

Okay. Well, well done. $40 Hell Pizza coming your way. Perfect. You just hold the line. Did you have time for any more chat, or is it time to go? No, because I'll have guests coming in soon. All right.

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Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Scrolling through your feed. Soft facts and even softer opinion. This is Jono and Ben lightly Instagram. Scrolling through your feed. Soft facts and even softer opinion. This is Jono and Ben lightly dusting over the news that's broken overnight. Scrolling through your feed. Kanye West, the rapper, fashion designer, entertainer,

he's announced over the 4th of July weekend in America that he's running for president. Now, he said this before in 2015. Have a listen. And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

So he said it then. They said the MTV Awards and all the 14-year-olds are like, yay! But then he said last year it was 2024, but over the weekend he sent a tweet saying he is going to be running with 2020 Vision is what he said, but he didn't exactly say this year. He may have left his run a little bit late, though.

It'd be funny if this was like 2020 Vision's the name of his new album, but a genius marketing campaign. Yeah, because it says here where decisions are run. It's something of a late registration. If you're a Kanye fan, that was the name of his second album, so there you go. But yeah, some states you can't actually register for

because it's past the deadline for this election. What other states are they? Big bangers, Ben? I think there is a couple like Texas and stuff. Oh, that's a big state. Yeah. That is a big state.

Well, you know, it's an interesting world when Kanye West is the most stable of presidential candidates. Joe Biden's 77, Trump's 74. Yeah, he's 30 years younger, right? Yeah, Kanye's 43. At least we know he's not going to die in office,

so I guess that's a bonus. And, well, Dwayne Johnson. People were talking about Dwayne Johnson running for president as well. I mean, I'd love that, but I hate it. Feels like you could get the cast of Fast and Furious in the White House too. Let's just chuck them all in there. Your favourite action heroes.

Your president of motorcade is just a race down the street a quarter mile at a time. Oh, good on him. I think he's a very smart man, Kanye West. I don't think he gets

quite as much credit for being... No, because everyone's like, oh, you crazy man. But I think he's just genius. I think he is actually.

Well, this, as you say, could be a marketing ploy. Who knows what this is? Well, Kim's been dipping her well-manicured toes.

Do you do manicure on your toes or is it pedicure? Pedicure. Well-pedicured toes into the political world, hasn't she? She has been helping out

with prisoner reform and stuff, right? Yeah. So, hey. She would be the first lady. She would be the first lady. Oh, my gosh. Imagine that,

the Kardashians in the White House. And back home in New Zealand. Ironically, it would be shittier than their real house, probably. Yeah, true. Back home in New Zealand over the weekend,

the Labour Party launched their new campaign for the election with a new slogan, Let's Get Moving. That's what a lot of people say. That's very much like a Madagascar movie. Let's Get Moving. What have we been doing up until now? We're sitting stagnant. Sounds like a freighting and logistics company.

It does. People over the weekend, I heard a funny call on Newstalk ZB saying, it sounds like a constipation commercial. Let's get moving. Like a laxative, isn't it? Get your bowels working again. Well, New Zealand First has just released theirs as well, Winston Peters. Just keep it up.

Keep it up, Winnie. That sounds like a Viagra commercial. This might be applicable to Winnie. So that is some of the news that we've found most interesting over the last 24 hours. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Jodow Ben on the Hats. Now, during lockdown, you'll remember there was teddy bear hunts all around the neighbourhoods

with soft toys. So my dad, you know my dad, Jono. I do know your dad. Yes, I've known him for many years. Wonderful man, Kevin Boyce, school principal. Yeah, so he made, just for a bit of a fun project, he made a bit of a kid's book about the teddy bear, teddy bears in the neighbourhood.

And we joined on the phone with him right now, Kevin Boyce, acclaimed author. Is that him? Acclaimed author. Kevin Boyce, have you printed your own book here? Yes. Well, not I didn't print it. I'm not a printer.

You've got a printer. I've got a printer, yes, and I've got a mate who did that. This book about a bear, It's Magical Moments with Mr. Bear, it's got a song that accompanies it. Correct. And I put that together with a mate who's got a recording studio in his third bedroom.

And so we were able to put that together. I put my guitar and sang, and he put a honky-tonk piano and a bass to it. And you've got the song, I think, there with you as we now speak, correct? John, you just play that, don't I? Are you pushing me into playing it? I haven't been handed any song.

No, you haven't, no. No. Oh, I'm sorry about that. I just thought you guys would be at the ready. I thought your people would have sent us the song. My people? Well, I'm actually the agent for Kevin Boyce. Yes, it's gone to six countries, so that's interesting.

What, the book has? Yes, it has. What countries? United Kingdom, United States of America. You might know those countries, John. Yeah, I don't know. And Australia, Holland, and also Singapore. And that was given, I gave one to the ex-Governor General,

Sir Gerry Mataparai, and he said, I'm sending that to the ex-Governor General Sudjiri Mataparai and he said I'm sending that to my granddaughter in Singapore so thank you. Who did you send the book to? How many other famous people have you sent the book to? I have sent it to the Prime Minister, yes, and I got a reply back from her and she said, well actually her prior private

secretary, and she said that she thanked me for giving that to Niamh I don't know how Niamh enjoyed it because I don't think she can write as a two year old but then I sent one to Todd Muller and I got an immediate personal response to the email. You're not quite as busy as Jacinda I guess.

No, possibly not. And the text John, I know Ben's reading it because I had him in a school that I read. I just don't know whether the text might be a bit advanced but I'm not sure. The text for me, it'll be way too advanced for me. I had to read it too, John. I read about Mr. Bear and his

magical moments with Mr. Bear. He tucked me into bed afterwards too. I feel like your people, because your people didn't send us the song, can you sing the song for us, Kevin? Yes, I can. Just down the road from me, a little girl lives there. One day her dear parents Yes, I can. Bear. Have no worries, have no fear. Me and my Mr. Bear, we just play and play all day. Every night he's

with me. When I lie in my bed and by my bed he listens to everything that's in my head. Join in, me and Mr. Bear. I don't know the words. It's too hard for him to read. And the last verse is this. Oh, me and

my Mr. Bear. Have no worries, have no... There you go. And the last verse is this Oh, be happy My Mr Bear Have no worries There you go Oh, that was great Kevin, can I just point out That your own son Your flesh and blood Halfway through the song

Went, oh, as in to go Isn't that sweet I'll wrap it up now But there was more to come There was more gold There was more to come Kevin Boyce Acclaimed author

Watch out the New York Times Bestseller list I can't bear it. All right, thank you, bye. Oh, jeez, all right. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

So at the moment we're working seven days a week at the moment, Ben. We're filming this really fun show on the weekends for TVNZ2 called Dog Almighty. Yeah. Looking for New Zealand's most talented dog. And $100,000 is the price money. Yeah, a lot of cash. A lot of cash. We're keeping that in a suitcase

under our beds at the moment, aren't we? You haven't lost any of it? No, I borrowed a few dollars, a few IOUs in there. As long as you pay it back by the time we have to give it away. But so the problem is when you're working seven days in a row,

you've got to squeeze your household chores into a very small window. You know, I've got like a two-hour window Sunday morning, bash it all out in a wild frenzy. That's where I'm also doing my karaoke for the weekend as well. I have to do my homework for the radio show on a Sunday morning. We've got two hours spare time and whatever extra stuff we have to do. It's got to be all done then.

Oh, it's like a hurricane in my house. Vacuuming, Ben singing karaoke over in his house. Family's still in bed and I'm singing karaoke. But the washing, I'm just like frantically just doing washing. In my washing machine, we've had it for a year, but it's gone into a next level now. The spin cycle. I feel like it's about to spin me into another time zone.

Have a listen to it. It's like an A380 airplane. Yeah, it is. I was going to say it's about to spin me into another time zone. Have a listen to it. It's like an A380 airplane. Yeah, it is. I was just going to say, it's like a plane. I could not push that washing machine. Couldn't push it how harder if it tried. It's working its ass off. Maybe it knows.

Maybe it knows the time constraints you're under. It's like, oh God, I got this done. He's stressed. What's your favourite household chore? Do you like washing? I don't mind. Yeah, I don't mind washing. I like folding clothes.

Annie Pryor, my mum, was like, no son of mine's not going to know how to fold clothes. So she like sat me down and had like a fold, a clothes folding. Yeah, folding clothes is quite good because you can often watch something on TV and you can still be doing it at the same time. Yeah. Yeah, I'm working. Yeah. What's your favourite household chore? I quite like the vacuum cleaning. Oh, do you? Yeah. doing it at the same time. Yeah, I'm working. What's your favourite household chore?

I quite like the vacuum cleaning. Oh, do you? I quite like the vacuum cleaning. Yeah. Juliet? Vacuuming as well. Yeah. Something quite satisfying

about the vacuum cleaning. Also, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I quite like cleaning bathrooms as well. Ooh, okay. That's quite gross. That's just so satisfying. But you live in a flat.

Your bathroom must be so, imagine the bathroom. Oh, I share the bathroom with a boy and it's just... But he's actually not too bad. Yeah. Boys have a knack of just leaving wild hairs all over the place, don't they? I know.

Sometimes I look at them like, how did it end up on the roof? What have I been doing? Yes. Especially you. Yeah. Hey, I've got no hair. Yeah, I know. That's questionable.

Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Spy. The WhatsApp spy.co.nz. She has all the dirt on the celebs. And when I say that, she actually collects their filthy used bath water from the drainpipes. It's producer Juliette with Spy. Welcome.

Thank you very much. Now, Josh685, the 17-year-old Kiwi, he collaborated with Jason Derulo on this song right here. So after it went... So catchy, eh? Yeah, so good. So the original beat went viral on TikTok. Jason Derulo picked it up,

and then they decided to collaborate on it, and it's now number one on the UK top 40 charts and he's the third New Zealander to ever reach number one on those charts. So Kimbra with Gautier, somebody that I used to know, they were number one at some point as well as Lord with Royals. So he's the third Kiwi to do it.

That's so cool. He's a 17 year old teenager from South Auckland. It's an amazing thing. It's incredible. Meseoric rise too. But we were talking to his manager on the weekend, the guy who's just kind of managing him through this, which is just,

they're sort of taking it day by day at the moment because it's just happening so quickly. But he was saying the song was like literally made on a program you just download for free.

Really? It's a sign of the times, isn't it? And it was big on TikTok and then obviously Jason Derulo jumped on and did some words over the top and it's just huge. That's Derulo jumped on and did some words over the top.

And it's just huge. That's all Derulo did, just some words over the top. Well, you know, I jumped on. I was trying to give the Kiwi more credit, but you're right. It was a collab and it's gone worldwide number one on iTunes as well as number one in the UK. It's amazing. I reckon the new way to break through as a budding musician is just get your songs on TikTok. Because Benny, that's how Super Lonely became super big around the world. That's why your

music career failed, John. Because I didn't release them on TikTok. I was thinking artists should just do 15 second song hooks now and then that's all they do. That's their career. A whole album of song hooks. The concert, I like the concert's done in nine minutes. You know I don't like going out

for long, Ben. High impact concert. in and out. Everyone knows the moves. We had a great fun. Everyone dancing in unison. 12,000 people at Spark Arena. Zumba class, really. You all done. Out you go. Congratulations though to Josh.

And Carol Baskin, so she has jumped on the app Cameo, which is a video messaging app where users can pay celebrities to do personalised videos. She has banked over $30,000 New Zealand dollars just in her first day of doing it. So people are paying $200 a video

and I think it's like a 30 second video and it's personalised video message. And man, she probably won't need to worry about income for the rest of her life. She can just keep doing that. Now Ben, the lady from Cameo.com was harassing you to get on there, wasn't she? She did ask if we were keen to do it. Really? She's been going for six

months and we're just like, I don't think anyone wants a message from us. I will pay people to take messages from us. It was lovely that she asked, but I was like, to be honest, I would feel bad getting money off someone for a message from us, which we'd do for free. If someone actually wanted a message, which they wouldn't, but if they did, we'd happily do it. If she said, John, which we'd do for free. If someone actually wanted a message,

which they wouldn't, but if they did, we'd happily do it. If she said, John, I would pay them for it. If she's reaching out to us, she's, the barrel has been scrapped.

She's gone below the barrel. We're the mossy gunge on the bottom of the barrel because the barrel hasn't been moved in many years. Damn it. Okay, I'm going to have a competition. Who can get the best cameo message

in the next 24 hours, Ben, between you and me? What do you mean? What do you mean? For each other. I'm going to try and get a cameo message in the next 24 hours, Ben, between you and me? What do you mean? For each other. I'm going to try and get a cameo message from a famous person for you and vice versa.

Oh, I've got to pay something? Yeah, we've got to pay money, mate. I know you don't like spending money. I don't know about this. For more spot, you can head to the stock credit NZ.

Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Man, we like to end Monday on a bit of a positive note, don't we? Send you out to the day, give you a metaphorical pat on the tush Get you out there and send you into the wild world with

It's gonna be a good day You just phone us on 0800THEHITS And you just tell us why it's gonna be a good day for you We got some Reading Cinemas vouchers to give away So yeah, as you said before, Jono, 0800THEHITS We wanna get Monday started. We want to be positive about going into the week. Oh, it's more positive.

You remember when Ellen used to come out and dance with the audience and everyone was like, woo, Ellen, before everyone started turning on her? Everyone's like, Ellen, we love Ellen. It's like that. It makes you feel good, right? Oh, that's such a frenzy, that show where they were dancing. No one's having more fun than them, eh? Yeah, well, they're like feeding them MDMA before they came and sat in.

I love Alan. Yeah. I will dance like a lunatic. We used to do a TV show in front of an audience and choose a talk. We would bribe them with beers and free wines. It wouldn't even get them to that stage. No, we were like, they're not laughing enough. Put more beers in their mouth.

And they were just like, we just dragged them out by the end of the night. Oh, yeah, but then we went and got to the toilet because of filming time constraints as well. So it was almost like a punishment. Torture. So what's going to be a good day for you today, Ben? I am, well, two things, John. I'm going to say I've got a Mr Courier that's coming again today.

So that's always exciting. Yes. And also, you never know. It hasn't reached the stage where you need to go to the depot to pick it up. No, it's a re-delivery today. That is the crime on humanity when you have to go to the depot to pick it up. No, it's a re-delivery today. That is the crime on humanity when you have to go to the career depot. And I'm actually looking forward to

going home this afternoon and having my kids there because they're on school holidays. So it'll be fun to hang out with them. I'm looking forward to that too, although it's going to end up in WrestleMania with my son Oscar. Now for years I dominated

in the WrestleMania arena, aka our bed upstairs. I could just pin him down. It was easy. I was like, who's the boss now? It's one of the joys of being a parent is being able to dominate your kids in wrestling. Or any sports and stuff.

That's right, anything. But now the tides are turning. Oh, really? And youth is starting to beat old age. And he pins me down convincingly. Like, I can't actually win now. It's embarrassing. Last time he threw me off the bed and my head went into the wall.

We give it all we've got. All right, so 100thits is the phone number. 4487 on the text. Why is it going to be a good day for you? We want to end the show on a high. It's going to be a good day. We go to the phones, you tell us why it's going to be a good day. We get you marinated and primed up like a juicy piece of sirloin.

Because no one really feels that good about a Monday, so let's go. Yeah, let's forcefully make you enjoy Monday. Kerry, you're in the South Waikato. What's going to be a good day? Because any day above ground is a blimmin' good day. Oh, that's a good attitude. That's a good attitude. And that's what this is about.

Yeah. A good attitude, Kerry. You want to go to the movies? Oh, yes, please. Oh, Reading Cinema vouchers coming your way. Thank you so much. Love you guys. Have a, Kerry. You want to go to the movies? Oh, yes, please. Oh, Reading Cinema Vouchers coming your way. Thank you so much. Love you guys.

Have a good day. And if you're a miner, you're working in the mines and you enjoy that job and then you're below ground and it's a good day, you know? You know,

that's the alternate to that rule. Or you're digging the underground tunnel in town there. Oh, they're doing the underground rails. They might be having

a good day anyway. Yeah, you're right. Good on you, Kerry. Maybe you work on the underground tubes and, you know, there's Oh, they're doing the Underground Rail. They might be having a good day anyway. Yeah, you're right. Good on you, Kerry. Maybe you work on the Underground Tubes and there's options, yeah. Let's poke a note. Nicole, it's going

to be a good day. Why? Because it's weak outside and I get to work from home with my kids and make waffles for lunch. Oh, that's nice. Don't tell your boss, though,

that you're skiving off cooking waffles. You want to go to the movies too, Nicole? Oh, we'd love to go to the movies. Okay, you're off to Reading Cinemas. I don't know if I've got to, but why not?

It's Monday, it's a good day. Reading Cinemas is all yours. A big shove. Oh, thank you. We're not Reading Cinemas, the movie's all yours. We're not going to give you the whole thing. Shoving a big spoonful of positivity in your mouth. And Kirsty, it's going to be a good day, why?

Just indicating. Yeah, Kirsty. All indications are pointing to a good day. Why, Kirsty? Here I am. Well, it's Monday. It's a fresh start to the week, and it's school holidays, guys. And you're going to go to Reading Cinemas to the movies.

Have a great Monday. Thank you, guys. You too, Tim. Thank you so much for listening. We really do appreciate it. Back tomorrow with someone who was scammed on the internet at LAB ahead of the world's first stadium gig. It is the Hits job.

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