Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - June 18 - Jono's Parents Upgraded To A New iPhone, Benee, Unusual Eating Habits

Episode Date: June 18, 2020

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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. 2-2-2-2-2. 1-2. Should we just leave this bit in the podcast? Yeah, why not? Really, we should edit these opening things up while we don't. I wonder where mic check 1-2-2 came from. I wonder why they chose that as the words to test whether a microphone was functioning or not. Oh, yeah.

I wonder what the history is. Just one, two, one, two. You're right. You can say anything, really, couldn't you? But they don't. I like it when people go testies, testies. It sounds like testicles. Yeah, it does.

That's why I like that. It really would appeal to your sense of humor, wouldn't it? My lowbrow sense of humor. Not your lowbrow. Not your sense of humor. Not me, mate. Not me, mate. I'm better than that.

Today on the podcast, though, it's a big show today. We find out what happened to our cardboard cutouts and we get the demands from our kidnapper. Is this still sponsored by HelloFresh? I don't know. If it's not, I want to talk about HelloFresh. I had HelloFresh last night. If it's not, what do you mean? I mean, if it's not, I don't mind.

If it's not, then this is some extra content. I feel like you've been waiting to say what you really feel. Because if it's not, I'm ready to go. You've had nothing but glung reviews for it. I'm ready to roast them like a piece of meat they've prepackaged and sent to me in a cardboard box. No, I had quesadillas last night. I ate so many quesadillas. I had nine quesadillas. That's because you don't eat during the day. Have you had any quesadillas last night. Yeah. I ate so many cassadillas. I had nine cassadillas.

That's because you don't eat during the day. Have you had the cassadillas? Yeah. So many cassadillas. It's delicious, but I eat during the day, though. I regularly eat at intervals. How many cassadillas would you have at night? Well, not nine of them.

Maybe like three. Even when I was packing up, I was like, oh, there's five more cassadillas. Even when I was doing the dishes, I was still eating cassadillas. Yeah. Very delicious, though. Yeah. They're lovely, aren't they? I've never had a cassadilla before. Have you not? I know. You're very straight up the dishes, I was still eating quesadillas. Very delicious, though. Yeah. Lovely, aren't they? I've never had a quesadilla before.

I know. You're very straight up the middle, aren't you? It's like a Mexican sandwich, isn't it? It's lovely. It's beautiful. Beautiful, though. Today, also on the podcast, as well as quesadilla chat, we prank your parents. They're very suspicious about Siri and artificial technology, robots and all that, and we get

them a good one. So enjoy that on the podcast. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. One of our favourite things is boomers and technology. Oh, we love it. This show has traded off it for the last couple of months, haven't we?

And it's provided us much joy. My parents, Annie and John Pryor, they live in Christchurch, phoned me on Tuesday night and they're like, we've got a new iPhone XR. Are they the XR And they're like, we've got a new iPhone XR. Are they the XR? Yeah, yeah. We've got a new iPhone XR. Some salesperson at the store did a great job getting them to buy the XR.

Because I was like, you don't need an iPhone XR. They've got a checkered history with cell phones. They literally turn the phone on to make a call, then turn it off once they've finished the call. To save the battery, right? This is their cell phone. They bought one of those burner phones that people who are having affairs buy from a petrol station. That's what they've finished the call. To save the battery, right? This is their selfie. They bought one of those burner phones that people who are having affairs buy from a petrol station.

That's what they've had up until now. That's probably been fine for them, really. So they've gone from zero to 100. They've gone from one of those to the Apple iPhone XR. To the top of the line. Look, I wish I had one of these phones. Yeah, well, it's got way too many functions for the boomer generation.

Yeah. They should do the iPhone boomer. Text, phone. That's it. Maybe Facebook occasionally if you're, you know, advanced. But that's it. Yeah. New Sock ZB programmed in so you can complain.

You know, that sort of thing. So, yeah, on speed dial. Yeah. Oh, 880, 1080. But they, my dad doesn't trust advanced, what's it called? Artificial. Artificial intelligence. So, like Siri and all that sort of stuff. Doesn't trust advanced, what's it called? Artificial. Artificial intelligence. So like Siri and all that sort of stuff. Doesn't trust it. He's like, every time I talk to him,

oh, you never know what's going to happen. They're going to take over. They're going to take over the world. Oh, so he's worried about the robots. He's watched YouTube documentaries on it. Terminator movies or something. Yeah, yeah. And so yesterday we used a computer voice through our laptops where you can type into a program and it comes out as a computer voice.

And we phoned them as Siri just to see how they were enjoying the new iPhone. Enjoy. Hello? Hello? Hello, Annie Catherine Pryor and or John Walter Pryor. This is Siri the audio communication facility from Apple.Inc. How are you doing today? We don't talk to stupid computers. That is good to hear. You're an idiot. How is the weather in Christchurch today?

We don't talk to stupid computers. I am sorry I did not understand your command. Please state how the weather is today in Christchurch. Shut up. Hello? Hello Annie Catherine Pryor, this is Siri the audio communication facility from Apple.Inc. How are you doing today? If you want to know how we're doing, put on a human voice Siri, we don't want you to ring us again. We are calling to see how you are enjoying your new apple iphone from apple.inc

if you put on a human not you siri i will tell them i will not talk to you good bye how is the weather again what do you want sherry we are calling to see how you are enjoying your new Apple iPhone from Apple.Inc. Do not call again. How do we stop you? How do you stop? I still did not understand your response. Please repeat in a louder tone. Stop.

I am sorry. I did not understand your command. Do not call. Do not call. Do not call. How is the bald idiot of a son of yours? John boy. Hello.

John boy. John boy. John boy John boy Eddie and John It's the bald idiot of your son You haven't been spammed by a robot voice. Oh, right. You're fine, you're fine. We're just ringing to see how your iPhone was. Oh, it's good.

Yeah, good. Yeah! Annie, we can hear Annie in the background. You're not going to put this on air, are you? Sorry, I can't hear you. That is so... You've got us so well. It's so good.

And you see, your father hates Siri. Just hates her. I do not hate Siri. I don't hates Siri, just hates her. I do not hate Siri. I don't know Siri. I like Siri. Don't tell Siri that. As everybody there, the whole team. The whole team, the whole gang.

Usually, as you know, I hate you doing this, but that was really funny. That's why you can't enjoy this one at the end. Love you, Mum. Goodbye. Bye. This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating, still pending.

It's Jono and Mano Mahets. Now, singles have gone massive. They're all over the world, thanks to TikTok and being just bloody awesome as well. It's great to have her in the studio. Our first guest in the studio since lockdown is Benny. We've been working here for at least about seven weeks. I think maybe too long if you listen to the audience.

But Benny. How are you? We're good. It's great to have you here. Nice to be here. So only the first ever guest in the studio because we told her we were Fletch and Vaughn on ZM. And so we have to trick them in. Mainly we haven't had people in the studio because we told her we were Fletch and Vaughan on ZM. And so we have to trick them in. Mainly we haven't had people

in the studio because they haven't wanted to come into the studio with us. But Penny, you just did a performance for Jimmy Fallon, right? I wanted to know watching your Fallon performance,

your core strength, holding a dog during a lot of singing, how was that for your core strength? I got very, very sweaty. Because I imagine you had to do multiple takes.

It was difficult. Yeah. And you're like, I'm committed to this dog holding. It's one of the exercises I imagine you had to do multiple takes. It was difficult. Yeah. And you're like, I'm committed to this dog holding. It's one of the exercises I've done in a very long time. What's your dog's name? I've got Rosa and Bo,

but I just sit up. I've got a Bo. I couldn't hold my dog up like yours. I try. Every time I pick him up, you're like, oh, don't do it. It's a big one.

It's a big, white, fluffy Samoyed dog. Oh my gosh. But he's very heavy. And sometimes I will pick him up and Jono's like, he's not a dog you pick up. The dog to human ratio, the size is all off. Big dog. Yeah.

We're going to be back with Benny very shortly, because, Benny, you're going on tour. I am. Yeah. Indeed, I am. I'm going on tour. A tour. So Christchurch, Wellington, and Auckland later this year.

And Dunedin. Oh, and Dunedin as well. Yeah, sorry. No, that's right. Is this going to be the first Kiwi artist to tour after coronavirus? I don't know. No, I think a lot of people are going to.

I reckon. Yeah, because you're in October, so some people might come and snake you beforehand. I think some people are snaking me beforehand. But that's awesome. Do you want us to take them out or anything? Yeah, I think so. Anyone who announces a tour before you, we'll end them, Benny. Yeah, cancel. What phenomenon? Songs have gone worldwide

and she's about to go on tour. Yeah, nationwide tour of New Zealand. Get your tickets from Live Nation or you can get them early from Vodafone. Because we talked about your songs being massive worldwide. I was reading number one in Germany right now as well. Number 12 in America.

It's pretty crazy just where they've gone. It is very wild. Have you come to terms with your fame yet? Nah. Or is it weird? Imagine if I was like, yeah. Yeah, pretty comfortable. Pretty much.

Driver, it's time to leave. Imagine. Rip this up. Now, we have interviewed you a couple of times now, and we're like, well, we feel like maybe we've asked you every question at the moment, so why don't we get our kids, who are massive fans of you, to ask some questions that they'd like to know. Jono, you're first.

This is my daughter Poppy. She's seven. She's a huge fan. She's like, get Benny to come to my birthday party. I'm like, mate, Benny can't commit to an eight-year-old, a seven-year-old's birthday party. But here's her question. Hi, Benny.

It's Jono's daughter here, Poppy. I was just going to ask you a question. Wait, what is it? Oh, yeah. What's your favourite animal? I don't know why she forgot the question. Oh, that's right. That's what I want to ask.

What's your favourite animal? Now, let's take away cats and dogs. They're a given. Oh, yes, yeah. They've got the animal kingdom. Yeah. I think a dolphin. Oh, yeah.

Nice. I think. Have you patted a dolphin? I have not patted one. Oh, wait. No, I haven't patted a dolphin. Yeah, I patted a dolphin. They're quite the amorous, aren't they?

Yeah. They are quite, yeah, very sexual beings, the dolphins. Oh, I love them. But they're actually quite, I like, once went underwater when I was like in the Coromandel, you can hear them. Oh, really? Well, they were in the bay, obviously. Doing their, eh.

And it's actually quite scary. Okay. Well, when there's a massive pod of them, I imagine. Yeah, you're like, damn. Okay, dolphin, good answer. All right, here's a question from one of my daughters, Indy, who's eight years old. This is what she wanted to know.

Hi, Benny. I love your music. My dad, Ben, sometimes gets called Benny, but you're way cooler than him. So can I pretend that we are related instead? It's a bit of a burn on me, but that's... You're okay with that? Here we go.

Okay, she can pretend the Benny is actually... Okay, cool. And here's a question from my other daughter, Sienna. I'm a big fan. Do you think the achievement of a commercial pop song like Super Lonely lies solely in its connection with the audience thanks to a strong melody and lyrics? Or is it a mixture of having a well-crafted song

along with a bit of good luck and timing? And more importantly, do you think I understand this question my dad has made me read out? That was my daughter, Sienna. I was confused. I was having trouble understanding that. Oh, my God. Yeah, so really she had no idea what she was asking him.

Wise beyond her years. Benny in the studio just announced a nationwide tour. Now, you used to make pizza. Did you work in a pizzeria? Yeah. But not very well, you said, right? Eppolitos. Well, I mean, I couldn't flip them or anything.

What's the key to a good pizza? The dough. It's all in the dough. That's the key. It is. Every time I go to my pizza hut, the poor guys, they're all so frazzled. They're just running around like mad, you know. Dude, it's intense.

I bet it is. It's busy. Because when people are hungry, they're like, I need my dinner at 7.30. People get angry. Do they? If they don't have their pizza. Have they tried to call you Because when people are hungry, they're like, I need my dinner at 7.30. People get angry. Do they? If they don't have their pizza. Have they tried to call you back for a shift now that you're like... She actually did.

She was like, we need help this weekend. I was like, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm on Jimmy Fallon. No. No. Maybe I can schedule it after Jimmy Fallon. No.

That's awesome. And finally, before we let you go, Benny, we want to play a quick game. It's called Second Chance. We want to see how well you know your songs. We're going to play one second of your song and see if you know what the song is. And we deep dive a little bit into the catalogue as well.

We'll start easy, hopefully, we think. All right, here we go. Second Chance. Well done. One for one. Well done. I'm going to definitely get some of these wrong. It's going to be really embarrassing.

Oh, um, glitter. Well done. I didn't think definitely get some of these wrong. It's going to be really embarrassing. Oh, glitter. Well done. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, you did. Two from two. Soaked. She's so good. She's so good at knowing her own songs.

Anyone would have thought she'd written them. You would hope so. Here's the next one. Evil Spire. Damn, this should be a game show. And the last one. Afterlife. Afterlife. Damn, this should be a game show. And last one. Afterlife. Afterlife.

Oh, my gosh. Well, we thought we were going to stump you there, and that backfired on us. Yeah, there we go. Sucks to be us. You did great. We can't wait for you to go on tour October. That's very exciting.

It's always so good to catch up where you just keep on kicking ass. It's so cool. New Zealand's very proud. Thank you. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Hit the music, producer Juliet. Jono and Ben's very responsible safe social distancing tour.

I'm glad there was music to hit. I just said that without even knowing if there was music for you to push, but you did well done. Correct. So, $5,000 we had up for grabs. We were trusting you to transport the cutouts From Bluff To the Hit Studios If they made it back here safely

We'd give away five grand To anyone We knew this could happen though right Yeah It was always a risk Ben So yeah The money goes to anyone Who helped drive them somewhere

Or anyone who had a photo with them Yeah they just have to use The hashtag Hashtag Jono and Ben 5k cutout Oh but we've reached The dog leg In our journey

Someone Has kidnapped them I don't know for what reason. I don't know what their purpose is. Because if their goal was to take them from Wellington, they kidnapped them yesterday in Wellington, take them from Wellington to the Hit Studio and claim the five grand.

I don't know if we'd give it to them. No, because we said we have to do it in stages, right? Yeah. So no one person can take it more than one stage. T's and C's, kidnapper. It's not going to happen. Before you kidnap, always check the T's and C's kidnapper before you kidnap always check the T's and C's. It's not going to happen so

we have a number of the person yesterday that rang and said it's taken our cardboard cutouts. Now Ben you've been a professional pervert for many years and one thing that you've always told me is if you're calling people go private and the kidnapper. You were the person that taught me this.

Maybe I'm the professional. I didn't even know about this until recently. I'm like, what? I get what? Yeah, if you want to block your number, just dial 0197 before you call, yeah. It's one of my things I like to do. And I try to push it on Ben, but it's all me.

I'm talking about myself. Yeah. That's me. So we're going to dial through now because we have caller ID here at the radio station at the hits. Hopefully they answer. It's early in the morning. I don't know what hours kidnappers work by.

If the cardboard cutouts have been well fed. Juliet, you and the music. Maybe they won't answer. Hello, Daryl speaking. Daryl! Hello? By that surround sound welcome, I think you know who this might be.

How are you guys? We have a name. It's Daryl. Daryl, you've got our cardboard cutout. I sure do. He's like, you caught me off guard. I was just brushing my teeth getting ready for work. I was hoping it'd go through the message.

You go, you've reached Daryl whatever your last name is. Yeah, but sorry to interrupt your morning chores because we know kidnappers. You need to get on with your day. I hope you're flossing at the moment. What are your demands? Daryl, what are your demands? Why have you taken our cardboard cutout? What can we do to get it back?

Look, guys, it was a bit of a laugh. I mean, I saw it and I thought, you know, I'd better do it. I don't need the money. I don't need money. I've still got my job, you know. There are people out there who need the money more than me. What a wonderful kidnapper. Yeah, got a heart of gold.

A kidnapper with a heart of gold. No, not he. I still want something, you know. Oh, okay. And I still have a demand. Do you want me to pimp Ben out for one of his semi-central Portuguese massages? Full body. Full body.

Full body. No part of the body neglected. That is tempting. It's actually my birthday this Sunday. And look, if you guys could get me a personalised video message from Jacinda Ardern, I'll release the cutout.

What? Oh, mate, she's got bigger things to worry about than... In amongst your COVID, Jacinda, can you just do us a personal video message for Daryl, who's kidnapped some cardboard cutouts? Okay, that's your demand. That's my demand. And if she could refer to me as Daryl the truckie

in the video as well, that would be perfect. Well, video might be, yeah. Okay, be perfect. Well, video might be it. Okay, alright. Well, we've heard your demands. It would have been easier paying you $1 million in unmarked bills. It would have been. And the Portuguese full body massage. That would have been easier. Ben, you would have had to take a bit of therapy to get over it. But I would have done it. Okay, well, we've got your

demands. We'll think about it and we'll get back to you. Sounds good, guys. We'll talk soon. That's the demands for the cardboard cutouts. And he made that up on the spot as well because he clearly didn't know that we were calling for demands. No. So I don't think this has been his goal all along. He's tried to make something so unobtainable that we can't deliver.

Well, okay. Well played, well played. That's the deal. And if we retrieve the cutouts, the five grand's back on the table, New Zealand. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, it was about

a week ago, Jono, you came into work and you said you were up late finding snails in the backyard. Do you remember that? I do, yeah. So I was putting my lovely daughter Poppy to bed. She was late at night. It was about 9, 9.30. She's like, oh, that's right, I need to get some snails. I was like, well, this information certainly could have been passed on four, oh, that's right, I need to get some snails. I was like, well, this information certainly could have been passed on

four, five, six hours ago. She'd been home for three o'clock in the afternoon from school. So I was traipsing around the bloody garden with my phone torch on trying to find snails and snails when you don't want to find them, they're everywhere. When you're looking for them, it's a needle

in a haystack. I still, I see snails all the time now. There's one, there's one. Yeah. But when you need to find them, well's a needle in a haystack. I still, I see snails all the time now. Yeah, there's one, there's one. Yeah. But when you need to find them, well, pretty much the same situation happened to me last night, just getting ready for bed. And I was talking about before how I was, I was the person in charge last night.

So I was quite frazzled. There was things going on at home and the neighbour was dropping off food. They didn't realise it was the neighbour and I thought it was an Uber Eats guy. Slammed the door in his face with a smile on your face. She said, I politely slammed the door in his face. Yeah, so I was parenting, not babysitting.

I get in trouble when I say it's babysitting. So I was at home with the kids. It's not babysitting. They're your kids. It's parenting, all right? So I was at home last night and it was probably about half an hour before one of my daughters had to go to bed. She was like, same as Poppy, your daughter.

By the way, I need to make something for school tomorrow. I'm like, oh, what's this? She's like, a Hogwarts castle. Oh, jeez. Why do we get dragged into this? We're not going to school. It's not my job. It's not reflected on my report.

I'm sitting down doing maths. I can't even do it. Like, I'm having to secretly Google answers just so I know who maths homework. I'm shocking. I left school for a reason early. It's because I was no good at it and I don who Math's home was. Yeah. I'm shocking. I left school for a reason early just because I was no good at it

and I don't need to go back to it. The set is like, oh, it's all good. I've saved some toilet rolls, some, you know, like some toilet

brown ends of the, oh yeah, because that looks like a Hogwarts castle. Yeah, great. So I had to make a cardboard castle of Hogwarts.

It took me about three hours. What, 11 o'clock last night? Well, yeah, I was up until about 11 o'clock trying to make this thing, painting this Hogwarts thing. I mean, they start, the kids start, and last night? Well, yeah, I was up until about 11 o'clock trying to make this thing,

painting this Hogwarts thing. I mean, they start, the kids start, and then you're like, well, you've got to go to bed. I've got to be a responsible parent. And I'm a bad parent if I don't finish this project. I've got to work away on this Hogwarts replica castle. That's when Harry Potter was very well-rounded for a child that was

abused for 11 years. Wasn't he? He was such an even-keeled... He was. He never really let anything get to him, did he? No. They treated him horribly, that family. Yeah. So he turned out quite well, Harry Potter, I thought.

But I judged a thing at a school, you know, they wheel out the crap liberties to judge a thing, and it was a robot design competition. Yeah. And I had done the same. I just got some boxes from Pack and Save and spray painted them silver and shoved them on Oscar,

my son's head. And then I turned up to the fashion... It was like the world of wearable arts. Oh, really? Parents had clearly done... The heavy lifting.

Yeah, it's not a competition between the kids. It's a competition between the parents' design. Well, this morning, I was kind of leaving a note like, be careful when you touch this.

I'm not home to it because I'm like, I've worked really hard on this Hogwarts castle. Don't you ruin it for me right now. It needs to be at a 45 degree angle for the right presentation. The sunlight needs to be coming through

about 9.30 in the morning to create the perfect atmosphere. It got me thinking about one of my science fair projects at school, and I was telling the kids about that last night. I didn't have anything for one of those science exhibit, but then I was living on a farm. I found a hawk that had sadly passed away on the side of the road. So I was like, oh, maybe I can make a science exhibit. But then I was living on a farm. I found a hawk that had sadly passed away

on the side of the road. So I was like, oh, maybe I can make a science exhibit about hawks. So I put this hawk in my, you know. Well, the corpse of a hawk. Yeah, it's a full body. You know, it was in there. And I actually did quite well.

I went through and I went through to the Wairarapa Nationals. With the hawk. The Nationals with the hawk. But by that stage, it was a week on and the hawk was starting to smell really badly. Here's my hawk but by that stage it was a week on and the hawk was starting to smell really badly and I was like maybe I shouldn't be

in the finals of this because this is starting to smell a bit eating away at its own flesh we'll give it a proper burial and I think I'll pull out of this competition so I had to

yeah we couldn't we couldn't enter me in because of the hawk you could have shot another hawk I didn't shoot a hawk you said you shot the hawk no I didn't that's what you said off air

you're like mate I shot down this hawk. I did not. You blasted the heck out of it. Oh, no. No, I did not. Killed its babies. No. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Something we can talk to you

about on the air is how you like to eat an apple, which is great. Apple of the day and all that. But you describe how you finish the eating of an apple. I mean, I'll admit it's a little bit, my apple consumption is somewhat unorthodox, but it was something that was handed down to me from my father, John Walter Pryor. Oh, so he's someone that does this. His father's father, his father ate apples like that,

and his father's father ate apples. For generations, the Pry prior men have been consuming apples in this manner. Basically, I eat the apple and at the point where your average human being would throw the core out.

Yeah, you get to the core. I eat the core. The whole core? The whole core. I don't eat the stalk. I'm not a madman. That would be crazy.

Yeah, but you eat the whole core. Yeah, I eat the whole core. You've filmed me now. I suppose you've put that on the internet, haven't you? We're about to, I think. You'll be apple shaming me. I know how Gwyneth Paltrow felt when she named her baby Apple.

I feel the same pain, Gwen. I think it's very unusual. Very unusual that you do that. But hey, I'm sure there are a lot of people out there. And that's what we wonder with unusual eating habits. Yeah, like mine's a combination of genetics and laziness. I can't be, I know the bins, I can see it through the window outside. It's 20

metres away, 20 paces away. I just can't be bothered going there. So it's better if I grow a tree inside my stomach. So what is your unusual eating habits? Oh, 800 the hits or you can give us a text as well. 4487, producer Juliet, you I bang on about your millennial avocado every day.

A lot of consumption of avocado. Smashed avocado on Vogel's. Oh, it's so good. It's the best combination. But something else I do, I started to notice, is that when I'm eating a salad, you know how there's multiple ingredients in one salad? I have to have at least a little bit of every ingredient

on my fork when I eat it, because then you get the full experience of the flavours of the salad. So you can't just have the chicken and the lettuce. You've got to have a bit of the tomato and the cucumber and the dressing. Oh, you're one of those people that goes around the whole plate stabbing a bit of each. Yeah, I see. See, a friend of ours, Chris, is the exact opposite.

He won't mix any of the food on his plate. Wow. Like if he's got something, let's say like a roast, he'll eat, okay, I'm going to eat the potatoes first and then I'm going to move on to the peas, let's say, and then I'm going to eat one at a time. He's quite a systematic individual though, Catherine and Chris. Like if anyone was going to do that, I imagine Christmas would do it.

Yeah. Have you got unusual, you just eat hummus. You just mainline hummus into your, he shelves hummus. I do like hummus, you're right. So what is your unusual eating habit? Something that people would go, oh, that's unusual. Let's go to the phones quickly. Someone's backing me up.

Miranda, you're an apple. You're hardcore as well. You eat the apple core. Absolutely. Thank you. See? It's not just me, Ben. Take the video down from the internet.

It started when I was a teenager because I was leaving all the apple cores all around my room and it was disgusting. So I just started eating them. So there's no other option, is there? There's literally no other option. No, you're right.

It's the sensible thing to do, Miranda. 4487 on the text, 0800 the hits. What is your unusual eating habit? Love to hear from you this morning.

Let's get to Anna. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Anna, how are you going? Oh, I'm so good. It's so cool to talk to you guys. Oh, mate, it's lovely to talk to you.

Thank you so much for listening. We didn't know if anyone tuned in to what we do. It's just an honour to have one person. I do miss Jono and Ben at 10. Oh, well, now you've got them at 7. 7 in the morning, that's right. No, it's good to have you on, Anna. What's your unusual eating habit, matey?

So when I get McDonald's, I start with chips. I eat all the chips. And then when I get to the burger, I separate the burger out into pieces. What, like a Big Mac? Yeah, yeah. What, so you'll pull off the buns? Yeah. So I pull off the first, like first two buns and have that as a burger

and then I have the last little tear as the next one and somehow it feels like I'm getting more. You deconstructed your burger. I deconstructed Big Mac. Yeah, I would say if it was a fancy restaurant. You could enter that on MasterChef. Yeah, so do you think it tastes

better or does it just make it last longer? I think it's it just make it last longer? I think it's just to make it last longer. I think that's really the only point to my weird eating habit. Everyone's got their way they want to approach McDonald's, don't they? The people at the drive-thru are like, I'll get a cheeseburger, but I want mayonnaise with it, and then I want you to put in Big Mac patties, and then I also want the chicken fillets in there as well.

We've designed the menu. Just take what you get or go somewhere else. That's what I'd be like. Hey Anne, it was a pleasure talking with you. You go and have a wonderful Thursday. You too. Nice to talk to you. You have a great day. You too. Alicia's on the phone from Auckland. What up? How are you, mate? Hello!

I won't say what up again. I tried to sort of segue it in as it was a natural conversation. It wasn't. Alicia, what's your unusual eating habit? I don't put what up again. I tried to sort of segue it in as it was a natural conversation. It wasn't, Alicia. What's your unusual eating habit? I don't put sauce on my salad. That's the best part of salad, is the condiments. No, not for me. Only the salt and pepper, not the sauce.

Salt and pepper on your salad? Yes, just the salt and pepper. Oh, like a salt and pepper on a tomato, but a whole salad. Have you tried Kewpie mayo, Thousand Island bolsa, all the big bangers? Have you tried any of them? I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that. You wouldn't, but you can. Well, I'm very sorry, but I won't.

Okay. Sticking to her guns? And who am I to say? I'm not the boss of you. I love you, Alicia. Have a great day. I mean, my dad likes salad cream. Okay, she's a salad queen. The queen has spoken. She shall not put a condiment on.

I love your call. No condiments for her. Have a good day. And 0800, the hits. Is it Megan on line one? How are you? No, it's not. Is it Megan?

Yeah, Megan. I remembered the name. It wasn't even on the screen. I'm so proud of myself. Megan. Thank you. What's your unusual eating habit? I couldn't think of a better word for this.

So when I texted in, I said that I like to snatch the wig off the top of the strawberry. So the leave. I just take those off and then I eat the strawberry like a grape. Oh, so you're consuming the whole strawberry? Yeah. There's no point in wasting the top of it. Well, no, you can. You can.

I mean, it's not a waste. Who am I to say? I eat an apple core. I can't throw stones. I think that's great. I think that's awesome. I think waste not, want not. You know, if you cut an apple into slices, you'd eat the core.

There is no core. It's all, you know, constructed, man. That's right. I'm doing my part for climate change, aren't I? That's why you drink all those Heineken's just to recycle, don't you? That's right. Just to do your best for the world. And I appreciate that you do that.

I'm playing my part. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jolly and Ben on the hits. Let's do some spy and salmon juice. Spy, the what's up spy.co.nz. From the moment she was born, she was destined to read stories from the internet about celebrities. It's producer Juliette coming in with Spy. Hello. So at the BAFTAs It's producer Juliette coming in with Spy. Hello.

So at the BAFTAs earlier this year, Ruby Wilson was the host. And this was, just to set the scene, this was kind of when Harry and Meghan ditched the royal family and all that jazz. And there were quite a few jokes made about them. It is really great to be here at the Royal Andrew, Royal Harry, no,

Royal, at, Royal, at this Royal Palace Place. And then Margot Robbie accepted an award on behalf of Brad Pitt. Oh, and he says that he is going to name this Harry because he is really excited about bringing it back to the States with him. That's a good burn. So good. And so Prince William and Kate

Middleton were in the audience and they cut to them a few times when these jokes were happening and they looked a bit uncomfortable. They kind of were just like, oh gosh. But Reba Wilson has now said that she was speaking to them and they loved it. And she was speaking to other people who were around them. Apparently they were cracking up at the jokes and thought they were really funny. So apparently

the royals have a good sense of humour. Oh, but you could have been like, well, could you have laughed on camera? Because you didn't look like you were loving it. I suppose, what reaction do you give to jokes being made about your handsy uncle? Yeah, true. You're like the card.

You're probably like, ah, he's a classic. He was grabbing the young girl. I know. I'm related to him. Yeah, yeah, very true. And also... Everyone's got a handsy uncle though, don't they?

Well, hopefully not these days. Yeah, yeah, very true. And also... Everyone's got a handsy uncle, though, don't they? Well, hopefully not these days. Yeah, true. And as a little side note, Prince Harry, did you know his guilty pleasure is Nando's? And now that he's in LA, he can't have it because it's apparently not in LA. What's it not in LA? No, I don't think so.

Well, I read an article. No follow-up question. Yeah, sorry, sorry. How dare I ask a question on regard to that. Someone can tell, Harry, though, I think they're well-catered for in other fast food departments in America. Yeah, but Nando's is good. It is good.

You like Nando's, don't you? I do. I'm a big fan of Nando's. I don't think I've ever eaten it before, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway. Nando's haven't paid for this. We've talked about Nando's for way too long.

Portuguese-style chicken. He likes Portuguese chicken and he likes semi-erotic Portuguese full-body massage, don't you, Bess? You? Oh, no. No. Back-to-back after the other one as well.

After this, I'm going to tell you how much I love these jokes. But right now, I'm not going to say I do. All right. And also, Gwyneth Paltrow, she released a while ago her goop candle. And it was one that smelled like her lady parts, apparently. It sold out twice. But she's released. How do you extract that odour?

That's exactly what everyone is wondering. But she's got one that's a bit more risque. I don't really know how to say this. A bit more? Yeah. So this candle smells like her excitement. Oh, yes. You know.

Yeah. And I don't know how that's going to smell exactly, but she says it's a bit of tart grapefruit, a bit of berries, and apparently it smells very delicious and addictive. I imagine it's quite awkward in the candle laboratory gathering all these odours from Gwyneth. Yes. Poor scientists are there in their lab coats in Gwyn's body.

We could be working on a cure for COVID, but we're doing this right now. Oh, yeah. And for more spy, you can head to the hits.co.nz. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. We gave ourselves a song to find. We like to do this from advance. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. We gave ourselves a song to find.

We like to do this from time to time just to live life on the edge. Yeah, really. So as I said, my arteries, they're not in the best of shape.

It really puts a lot of unnecessary pressure on my cardiovascular system. I'm a little short of breath. You got your inhaler? Hey? You got your inhaler? Yeah, I do.

I'll do it. Oh, good. Good to know. So we gave ourselves a song to find the streaker. I think his name is Kenny from the first Super Rugby game. That's the stuff. That's the stuff.

And I think we might have him on the phone. We got him on the phone. I think so. Oh, my heart. Kenny the stalker. Streaker. Sorry, not stalker. He's not a stalker.

Kenny the streaker. So you're the actual guy. Legit. This is for real. Yeah, it really is. soccer, getting the streaker. So you're the actual guy, legit, this is not, this is for real. I always wonder about streakers when I see them mid-game, if you don't mind me asking. Do you go to the stadium prepared?

So you've got a game plan, much like the teams on the field, you've come prepared with the game plan, you're like, at this point in the match, I'm going to take my clothes off and streak across the field. Yeah, well I think most people would have a game plan, but this is more a heat of the moment thing at this point in the match, I'm going to take my clothes off and streak across the field? Yeah, well, I think most people would have a game plan, but this is more a heat of the moment thing. Spur of the moment decision. Gotcha, okay. And what happens

to your clothes afterwards? Because I imagine you leave your clothes in the stadium and you got taken away by security, so what happens to your clothes? Do you ever get them back? Well, what I was supposed to do is I handed them off to a few of my friends and they were supposed to meet me around at one of the local parks, but didn't end up making it out, so, yeah.

I mean, it's quite optimistic of you thinking you are going to make it over to the other side of the field. And then what happens when you jump over the fence on the other side of the field? You're hoping to just wander out of the stadium, carefree, not a problem in the world, naked. Yeah, well, that was the plan, but it turns out the gap that I was aiming for, there was a police station right outside there. You ran straight to the police station.

Oh, jeez. So you ended up... Yeah, pretty much. What happened afterwards? You ended up in the police station, right, overnight? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was in the cells in a pair of tidy blue overalls for the night.

Oh, they put you on those ones that all the bad criminals wear, you know, when they turn up to court. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Gee, so what happens now for you? Do you have to obviously, you have to go to court? Yeah, I actually have court in an hour.

Oh, do you? Oh, jeez. What are you charged with? I'm not sure yet. It's some offensive behaviour. Yeah. I'm not really too sure. Well, I'll tell you it's not fraud.

I can say that. Tax evasion or something like that. It'll be a surprise if you get in there. You're like, oh, okay. Multiple that. Tax evasion or something like that. It'll be a surprise if you get in there. You're like, oh, okay. Multiple counts of tax evasion. What? I just ran naked across a field.

But you must feel happy. The first streaker in the world post-COVID. Yeah, I wasn't even thinking of it at the time, but yeah. Oh, great marketing. I got a lot of thinking done, so. Yeah, well, I can imagine.

Do you regret it now? You know, like having, you know, I was at the time, I guess you might have been like, oh, I feel full of something, you know? Maybe a few beers and adrenaline, but afterwards you're like, oh, Jesus, it's a bit serious now. Yeah, it was a bit like that in the cells overnight

because of the record colds that weekend. Oh, you were freezing in the police cells. Yeah, yeah. You didn't look too cold on the night, mate. Nah, nah. Would you do it again? Would you do it again, Kenny? Nah, I don't think so.

I'll leave it to all my other friends. One and done. He's learned his lesson. Did they egg you on or were you like, this was just all you? Oh, no, it was definitely most of them too. They're like, you've got to go and stream. What point of the game was it? The last five minutes.

Yeah, right. I went to drop goal, but it's all right. And are the players saying anything to you as you run across the field? Like, go, mate, sidestep, you know, giving you advice? No, no, but I could see a few of the Highlanders players in the stands getting a giggle out of it. They would love it. Because what they do in the broadcast is they always cut away from it, don't they? Pretend it's not happening.

But you always know when it's happening. Because you're like, why are we on this wide shot of the stadium? Give the crowd what they want. They want naked students. Yeah, well, Kenny, thank you for joining us this morning.

We're appreciating all the best with everything you've got going on now. Cool, cheers. Like starting your day with Panda Eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday, our cardboard cutouts,

which are meant to be touring the country, if you get a photo with them, we'll help them get from Bluff to Auckland Studios. You can hashtag John on BAM5K cutout and you're in the draw for $5,000 if they got back to us. But the journey hit a snag, didn't it? It hit a snag with a kidnap plot.

And we were warned. We were warned three days leading into it. Every day this person would phone up and say, I'm going to kidnap, I'm going to kidnap. We did nothing about it. We had our eyes somewhere else. So I had my eyes looking into your eyes, you were looking into my eyes. It got weird,

and we weren't keeping an eye on the cardboard cutouts. You're right. So our cardboard cutouts, they've been taken. And they were taken yesterday, and we got, because they were taken, we got talking about the classic movie, Taken, with this scene. I don't know who you are.

I don't know what you want. I will look for you. I will find you. And I will kill you. Oh, yeah, Liam Neeson. He knows how to scare the pants off a kidnapper. Yeah, he does. Doesn't he?

And so what we thought we'd do, because we kept his number from caller ID. We phoned him earlier. Daryl was his name. Yes, but you also, you kept saying that Liam Neeson, just sorry to dog-leg slightly, what Liam Neeson's saying sounds a lot like a Backstreet Boys song. Oh, yeah, when he's like,

I don't know who you are, don't know what you want. He's not saying it quite as happily as the Backstreet Boys. He's more like, I don't know who you are. He got inspiration from the Backstreet Boys for that scene. You're going to rip that off. Yeah. So we've got the kidnapper's number, and we're going to give him a call, and we thought we should give him a call as someone pretending to be Liam Neeson from Taken.

We've got Aaron, who is our production engineer, who can do, he says, 40% Liam Neeson from Taken. Between 4 and 40. 4 and 40. Depends on humidity. Okay. Well, good enough for us, okay? Admittedly better than what you guys can do. That's the show.

Not great. The ethos of the show, good enough. Good enough is good enough for us. Yeah, I mean, if you're punching over 40% on this show, that's doing well. That's great. That's doing well. So you want to call yourself Ian Neeson? Yeah, I think that's pretty accurate.

For copyright reasons, he's not Liam Neeson. Okay. So we're going to make a call through to the kidnapper now, Daryl. You know the script, Liam. Hello? I don't know who you are. You do. His name's Daryl.

I don't know what you want. He wants Jacinda to get him a happy birthday. If you're looking for ransom, I can tell you, Jono and Ben don't have money or listeners. All right. Too soon. But what they do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills they've acquired over a very long career.

Skills that make them a nightmare for people like you. If you let the cutouts go, that'll be the end of it. But if you don't give the cutouts go, that'll be the end of it. But if you don't give the cutouts back, they will look for you, they will find you, and they will take you to small claims court. How do you like that, Daryl? Daryl, eh? It did terrify me a lot.

Yeah, yeah, good. Yeah, I don't know if you're a fay with Liam Neeson's speech, but you don't interrupt it when he's talking. You tried to chime in there halfway through. It's quite irritating. And if that didn't hit home, well then maybe this will. Sing along. I don't know who you are.

Don't know what you want. If you're looking for ransom, I've got no money. If you let the cutouts go, we will not look for you. If you don't, we'll find you and kill you. What? What? Yeah, what? I don't know if we will. You made the Backstreet Boys somehow sound menacing, Joe.

I don't really know what to do with this information. It's quite confusing. We don't know either. But, yeah, we'll speak soon. Okay? All right. Well, I'll hear from you two and the Prime Minister soon. Well, okay.

Are you still sticking with that? I guess we'll be working on that overnight and we'll see how we go. Fantastic, guys. Can't wait. Hopefully we'll get them back tomorrow. Who knows? Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. So Heidi, she's pregnant at's jonathan on my head so heidi she's

pregnant at the moment um and when she gives birth she's going to do it in the studio for a great social media video uh but i don't know how he knows about this but yeah no it'll be good we need to get the insights up don't we on our social media so that'll be that'll send them through the roof yeah uh but i did ask you know have people been rubbing your belly because you feel like it's okay you feel like it's fair game to rub a pregnant lady's belly. Well, no one does now in 2020. But you, for some reason, seem to think it's okay to ask it. Yeah, I thought it was a done thing.

I haven't rubbed her belly, for the record. No, you haven't. You'd be asked if people have been. It's an unusual act, though, isn't it? You wouldn't normally go up to people. No, you wouldn't walk over to Juliet right now and start rubbing her belly. That would be unusual. Even you as well.

No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't think about it. Best mates for many years, but it'd be weird. You'd be like, why are you rubbing my belly? G'day, mate. Someone's had a few Heidikens last night. You'd be like, oh, okay, mate. Such a personal space, isn't it?

Yeah. So just know your belly is safe from being rubbed here, Heidikens. We're going to start a new game, a game right now on the show. It's called Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. Now, basically, we did the rude awakening where we phoned people up, listeners, friends, family, and woke them up with a game show. Although, as we just mentioned minutes ago, the market was wearing a little thin, wasn't it?

Not many people were interested in doing that. Right. So we've decided to take the bull by the horns. We're just going to call people and put them in the middle of a game show. Yeah, rather than being nominated, we're just going to call people up and say, hey, you're in the middle of a game show. So we're going to go through to a motel in Thames. Good luck to this person.

Rollerstone Motel, Elaine speaking. Hello, Elaine. It's Jono and Ben from The Hits here. Seriously? And welcome to our new game show, Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. You're live on a game show. It's the game show no one knows they're going to be on.

Kind of like to catch a predator with less predators. Hey! Yeah, we're just going to ask you some questions and the more questions you get right, the more hell pizza you win. Oh, but I'm useless at this game. To be honest, Elaine, this is the first time we've ever played it. What the hell?

Okay. All right, you ready for your first question? No. That was a great answer. $10 Hell Pizza. Well done. It's just as simple as that. All right, question number two.

Who sang She Played the Fiddle in an Irish Band but fell in love with an Englishman? I have no idea. Ed Sheeran? Yes. Ed Sheeran. There we go. One from one. $10 worth of hell pizza.

Coffee. Well done. $20 Hell Pizza. Who plays the lead role of the mum in the Kardashians? A, Kris Kardashian, B, Motor Kardashian, or C, Card Kardashian? Kris? Kris Kardashian. Well done.

Your last question for $40 Hell Pizza. Who founded Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk or Kanye West? Uh, Mark. You got $40 help pizza, just like that. Wow. Thanks for playing Don't Call Us, We'll Call You.

How'd you find that? Um, interesting. Yeah, now this is the first time we've played it. Do you think it's got legs? Do you think we should stick with it? Uh, uh, yeah. think we should stick with it? Oh, yeah. Anything we could do to improve? Yeah.

Don't call us, we call you The Game Show. No. No? No, it worked well from your end? From your end, logistically it worked well? There were no sort of technical flaws? No. No?

Good. No, were the questions, were questions too hard, too easy? Too easy. Too easy. So maybe a bit... Do you like the multi-choice format or would you prefer just a question-answer scenario? Multi-format. You like the multi-choice.

Yeah, no, good. And it was fine to call you and surprise you with a quiz like that? That was okay? Caught me off guard. Yep, that's the plan. Yeah, but you got into it and you got $40 to sell pizza, so well done. Oh, cool's the plan. You got into it and you got $40 sell pizza, so well done. Oh, cool, thank you. You hold the line, we'll get your details

where we can send that pizza out to you. All right, then. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Scrolling through your feed. While you've been sleeping, manufacturing gunk in the corner of your eyes,

we've been scrolling through your feed to bring you the latest news stories. Are you a gunky eye guy, Ben? Do you wake up with eye gunk? No, I'd say no. What is eye gunk? Why does it form overnight? I don't know what the eyes have been doing in the night. It's built up so much.

And my breath. I brush my teeth insidiously every night. And I go to bed with a fresh mouth and I wake up something. In the morning, you're like, what's been going on? I haven't been doing anything. No talking, no nothing. Some unthinkable acts have gone on inside my mouth throughout the night. Of course, New Zealand, it's all pretty much COVID all over again.

We're talking about... The sequel, COVID 2. It's back. And the UK media as well, they were ripping into us. They were ripping into us going, you know, basically saying, there was an article in the Telegraph

saying it's absurd to compare UK's response to New Zealand. Basically went on and say that they're a densely populated country. We're a small country. We're isolated. And then they had the gall to give a sheep joke about three paragraphs in. What's the joke?

Oh, well, it's a, if New Zealand was going to be devastated by an epidemic, it would be scrappy. I don't even know what scrappy was, but I've Googled it. It's a sheep disease. And I was like, oh, how dare they? So there you go. Yeah. And it talks about how we got 27 million sheep, nearly

six for every man, woman and child. You make love to one sheep and the world just trades off it for decades. I won't forget that. You know? So there you go. And I was in love with that sheep. We had a special thing. Because obviously it's been a little bit of a shambles.

And we're not going to get into too much detail with the whole quarantine. But people have been let out. They've gone to funerals. People have been let out to drive down the country. It's been a bit of a rigmarole. My wife was driving past ANE yesterday, the one doing COVID testing. There was a line of traffic, she

reckons, for about two or three k's down the road. Wow. So I think a lot of people since that news broke maybe got panicked or thought, oh God, do I have symptoms? I'd better go check. But yeah. So do you still get dispensation if you need to go to a funeral? No, not anymore. I think they've said no

Imagine how filthy Jacinda is She would be Behind the scenes There's some calls I think David Clark The health minister Sack him What a useless piece of

He had to call Ashley Bloomfield The night before When he found out These people had He was like Oh imagine that call He's like Hey it's David here

Sorry what was that David? Sounded like, hey, it's David here. Sorry, what was that, David? Sounded like you said you let two people go who have coronavirus. You didn't check that. You'd be hoping that while we're through your message, you'd be like, please don't answer, please don't answer, please don't answer. I'd text, I'd text. And then I'd burn my phone and get a new phone number.

Turn it off, not answer that. So there you go. The funerals reminds me of my friend sadly passed away, but we were in the, me and my other mates were looking at his body in the funeral home, and he was laid there, presented beautifully, as they do. And he had, because he liked wearing Nike Air Max, and Tottenham Hotspurs, he was a big fan of the football team,

so he had a Tottenham Hotspurs top on, and he had some someone had purchased some brand new Nike and maxed for him to be buried in my other friend he's like what do you reckon

they're going to do with those shoes because he's like I'm the same shoe size and I was like mate but he's like they're either going to

cremate them or bury them so then like it seems like a waste of these you know some good child labour has gone into those

Nikes and so he took the night no he didn't he didn't no he didn't but he was seriously considering it

it would be a better end to the story if he took them and also as I mentioned before new Top Gear presenter Paddy McGinnis over in the UK

had a little bit of an accident while filming. Just a small crash. Thankfully, no one hurt but the car was slightly damaged

and the car is worth $400,000. Lamborghini V12. There's a law of averages with that show. They're fanging around in Lambos and Ferraris

and Audis. Eventually, one of them's going to have a fender bender. Imagine you're on Top Gear. You'd be the most nervous thing. Who gets nervous just parallel parking? Especially in front of a busy cafe. That would be me.

I'd be like, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. He's got the new Ferrari Testarossa. Can he parallel park it in front of a Sierra cafe? It's packed. That would be stressful. You'd be scraping the mags against the carpet. And then ding it to the front. And then ding it to the front.

I'm sorry. All right, I'm done. Thanks very much. Next week on Top Gear, can he do a three-point turn? Oh, God, and a hill start. It's all happening. So that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Wake up full of shame.

Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Van on the hits. Now, I kind of blew out with our new neighbours a little bit. Are these the neighbours where you stole their underpants or was it their browsier? No, no, no. That was the dog that stole the... The dog.

He's sticking with that story. He's stuck with that story. So those ones, I'm okay with those ones. You know, they're a little weirded out by me after I had to return some underwear that the dog stole. But yeah, I've had a shocker with the neighbourhood recently. So these are on both sides of you. One, you've stole their undergarments.

This is one, some new people have moved in across the road and I haven't met them yet. And the last night I was at home and I was a little bit frazzled. There was a lot going on. I'm going to get into some of it later, but I was looking after the kids. Yeah. And the dog was barking. Someone knocked at the door. It was all just full noise. Well, it doesn't sound full noise. It doesn't sound like you need to be frazzled. There was a lot of stuff going on. Dog was barking. Door. Someone at the door. Open the

door. There's a guy standing there with a brown paper bag. And he's going, oh, I've got your dinner. And I'm like, oh, sorry, mate, we didn't order anything. Must be another house. I hope you have a great night. Okay. And the dog's barking. It's all gone. So I shut the door. What sort of monster house are you running? Sounds like it's off the rails. It's the evenings, you know, everything's going on. And then later on, I went out to put something in the bin outside and I noticed that the brown paper bag was on the doorstep.

And it said a note on it going, it's from your new neighbours. Enjoy the food. And you slammed the door in his face. Yeah, so what had happened, because my wife Amanda had gone out, she had an appointment, and so she went out, and she noticed there was a car lights on across the road. And so she knocked on their door and said,

oh, hey, your car lights have been left on. And they were the new neighbours, introduced herself. They had a lovely chat, unbeknown to me. And then she said, oh, your dinner smells lovely. Just, you know, making banter, making conversation. And they thought, the lovely people thought that they would bring over some of their dinner. A lovely neighbourly gesture.

And you slammed the door in their face. Thinking this guy worked for Uber Eats or something like that. I'm like, oh my God. I mean, I was, I was that. I was like, oh, my God. I mean, I was smiling. I was like, hey, sorry, not for me. I mean, when you slam a door in someone's face, you want to be smiling. You want to be enjoying it.

It's not often you get the chance to do it, is it? I was like, not for me. Have a lovely night. I couldn't even count on one hand how many doors I've slammed in people's faces. So when you get that chance of life, you grab it with both hands and you smile, mate. So I don't know if I can come back from that, because obviously they didn't know.

You could have gone over and apologised. That's probably the first thing. But instead of coming on the radio and talking about your slip-up, maybe you could have solved the problem last night. In their heads, they wouldn't probably know that Amanda went out. They might have thought Amanda had come home, talked about it, and I'd just come to the door and gone, alright, thank you, bye.

Not my house, so very awkward situation. That'd be like, that guy used to be on TV, really. Not that welcoming. Yeah, so apologies. I'll go over tonight. Why don't you go over tonight and steal their underwear or something? Blame it on the dog. Start your day the wrong way.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy, the WhatsApp spy. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. Go WhatsApp spy.co.nz. She sanitises her hands in 99.99% celebrity gossip. Producer Juliet with Spy. My guy Robbie Williams. Hey, my guy. You love Robbie Williams.

You said if Robbie Williams ever walked into the studio. Yeah, things would go. Things would go. Your bowels would lose control. Yes, I would. That was like a couple of days after we first met you. Okay, things would go. Things would go. Your bowels, would you lose control? Yes, I would. That was like a couple of days after we first met you. Okay, wow. I don't know why I said that so quickly.

Well, we just know that we will have some depends on standby if Robbie Williams is ever in the studio. Well, he has revealed that he does not go to sleep until 6am and he makes his first meal at 5pm in UK time. So he says he's most

productive between the hours of 1am and 5am. So he just stays up, does all his work then and probably just sleeps during the day. What's he done? He hasn't produced anything in the last five years. He made a Christmas album. I know, but you could do that during the daylight hours. The songs are all written.

True, true. That's a very unusual schedule. Apparently Kanye West has the same schedule. Friend of ours who's a friend of friend who knew someone who knew someone

and someone said he would work in the studio at like three, four in the morning and he would call people and they'd be like, Kanye wants to see you in the studio.

And they're like, I'm asleep. They're like, oh, Kanye needs to see you and the studio. And they're like, I'm asleep. They're like, oh, Kanye needs to see you. And so people will have to get up and go. Wow. Like now, really? And then I think the guy turned up and Kanye's like, no, the creativity's gone now.

And so he just left. He's like, what, so do I just go back to bed now, do I? You never get back to sleep after that. I know. Might be a creative genius. Yeah. If you've got a more unusual schedule, 4, 4, 8, 7 on the text,

what schedule are you running right now that people would go, oh, okay, you get up then, you go to sleep then. Have you got a crazier schedule than Robbie Williams? Yeah. So he has his breakfast at 5pm. Technically, yeah. And I'm thinking, I'm like,

mate, you're basically living in the New Zealand time zone. Just come live here. Oh, but what if he would? Or what if he had switched to the other? True. True, true, true. And in other news, so Harry Jowsey, who you guys interviewed on our Zoomathon, so he started on Heartbreak Island here in New Zealand,

and then he went on Netflix's Too Hot to Handle, blew up. Justin Bieber now follows him on Instagram. They're mates, him and Justin Bieber are mates. I know. is too hot to handle. Blew up. Justin Bieber now follows him on Instagram. Bit of mates. Him and Justin Bieber are mates. Yeah, I know. And he got engaged to a woman, Francesca, from the show Too Hot to Handle. Which is a big Netflix show, right?

Yes, big Netflix show, especially over in the States. It's big. Proposed with like a lolly ring, but now they've called off their engagement because they're doing long distance. He's back over here, slash Australian. She's in Canada. I mean, I personally didn't really see that last back over here, slash Australian. She's in Canada. I mean,

I personally didn't really see that last time. Oh, if there's no hope for anyone, if Harry, Jowsey, and Francesca from Too Hot to Handle can't make it in this world,

what hope is there for the rest of us? Especially after a lolly ring engagement. I mean, come on. I love Jowsey. He's a big hot mess, isn't he? He was great.

We really enjoyed talking to him. He actually talked to us about Justin Bieber. Do you have that around? Yes, I have. Yeah, we're boys. He's a big hot mess, isn't he? He was great. We really enjoyed talking to him. He actually talked to us about Justin Bieber. Do you have that around? Yes, I have. Yeah, we're boys. He followed me on Instagram. He liked the first stack of my photos. And we just text every now and then.

We FaceTimed and had a call for an hour and a half the other day. So it's kind of been crazy. Don't give us all the details, but what do you guys talk about when you talk? It's pretty much advice. And obviously, this is super new to me, and he's experienced it all, and I just kind of, it just seems like a big brother.

Jowsey seems like the type of guy, nothing has gone wrong in his life. Oh my gosh, I know. He's always going to be fine. Jowsey, don't worry about Harry Jowsey. He'll be fine. He's going to be fine. He's hot, and that's all that matters. Too hot to handle.

He's too hot to handle. Thank you very much. For more SPAR, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. This is when we phone every town and city in Aotearoa. We're doing one a day.

It's going to take us two and a half years. And we're in the B's at the moment. Because, of course, we're doing it alphabetically. And, yeah, it's taken us a long time to get to the B's today. It's what, Benha? Benha, which is in New Zealand. Oh, funny. I'm not reading this off Wikipedia.

Located five kilometres east of Belclutha in South Otago. Looking at photos of Benhar, you would think there was nothing to do in the town. But I am here to tell you, you're 100% correct. There's only 20 households, so Benhar's also a great place to move if you like everyone knowing your business or would prefer to keep the procreation pool nice and shallow. Well, let's make a call to Benhar and find out what else is going on. Hello, Kate speaking. Oh, we've got a call to Benhar.

Yeah? Who is this? Sorry, we should have said that. Very rude of us. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Okay. We're calling every town and city in New Zealand, one a day, and we're trying to call someone from Benhar.

Can you tell us about it? It's just a little tiny, not even a town. I don't know. There might be 20 houses in it. Oh, and is there things to see and do in Ben Ha? There's an old Hoffman kiln that used to make toilets. There used to be a toilet factory in Ben Ha. So they made toilets

in Ben Ha? Apparently, yes. Okay. So you always had somewhere to go? I suppose so, yep. And a pottery factory as well, apparently, back in the day. Yes, back in the day, yep. So it was quite the town back in the day, but now, not so much, yep. So it was quite the town back in the day, but now not so much. No, but it's full of lovely little people that live there, yep. Okay.

Where's your, are you from America? Close, I'm from Canada. Oh, Canada. And you moved to Benhar? Yes. From whereabouts in Canada? Near Toronto. Oh, wow.

And are there any parallels between Ben Ha and Toronto? Maybe the lovely people. Oh, lovely people. I think the Canadians and New Zealanders, we're quite alike, aren't we? Yes, I think so. Very, very passive. We don't want to cause a fuss, keep our heads down. We've both got bigger brothers who are loud, noisy, and obnoxious.

Good way to describe it. I love the underground malls in Toronto. Oh, yes. It obviously gets very cold, so you spend a lot of your time underground in the mall. But very confusing. We walked around for hours and hours and basically, well, we're only about 10 metres up the road from where we started.

Yeah, it's like a little rabbit warren down there. Yeah, it is. You're right. Drake's from Toronto. He is. What's that? Sorry? Drake's from Toronto. I feel like we've stopped talking about Ben Har. We've spent more time on Canada than we have boring Ben Har. I'm sorry. I couldn't be more of an advocate for Ben Har. I enjoyed talking about it.

I went to a Maple Leafs game. I like maple syrup. Try it. Who doesn't? Yeah, it was great. And I like going out and about. Out and about. And what I found as a New Zealander,

as a proud New Zealander driving from America to Canada, I loved it when the road signs went from miles to kilometres. I was like, I felt like I was home. Yep, you would too, driving in. Yep. Listen, you've been an absolute superstar. You have a lovely day. Look after yourself.

I know. Thanks very much. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on the hits. And via the iHeartRadio app. Thanks very much.