Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 05 - Jono Is Self-Centred AF!

Episode Date: March 5, 2021

Kia Ora! You may be aware that Jono has an irrational fear of peaches, no joke. But turns out that he's not the only one with an irrational fear of fruit... On the topic of eating, we also debated whether "serviette" or "napkin" sounds posher! We were joined by Dr Michelle Dickinson AKA Nanogirl who has a new TV show out on TVNZ on Demand called Kitchen Science, with kid friendly recipes! Finally, Jono discovered he is more self-centred than he thought. Enjoy the pod & your weekend, stay safe out there!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome, podcast, Friday 5th of March. Bit of a crazy morning this morning, wasn't it?

Earthquakes and tsunami warnings, Ben. We were almost a proper news show, weren't it? Earthquakes and tsunami warnings, Ben. We were almost a proper news show, weren't we? Oh, well, you've got to delve into these things when they're the biggest news in the country right now, and everyone's talking about it and updating people as the news came to hand. Well, yeah, we navigated through the show, 2.30 this morning in New Zealand. This is for our international audience. There was a big earthquake off the coast of Aotearoa, and then as the morning progressed, there were

tsunami warnings and a big one near the Kermadec Islands on top. If you head north from New Zealand, the Kermadec sits in the Pacific and an eight magnitude earthquake. Oh no, yeah, so tsunami warnings we're recording this just after our show

at nine o'clock and there is a tsunami warning at the moment for some parts of New Zealand. So hopefully, fingers crossed, everything turns out to be okay. Big question, spell tsunami for me. It's T-S-U-S-U-N-A-M-I-E. Sorry, I was reading that off Breakfast TV. And you still got it wrong. I put an E at the end of it.

I got the end. I would have got the ding in the spelling competition. And then, yeah, anyway. So a lot of residents are being evacuated and moving to higher ground right now. I just saw shots from Western Samoa. All of the locals in Western Samoa are having to climb on top of roofs and buildings. Very scary, isn't it? Oh, just the waiting.

Yeah, waiting, just waiting around for it to happen. What are we waiting for? Like the demise or hopefully nothing? Yeah, fingers crossed that everyone is going to be okay. Sending lots of love out there to everyone affected by this. Oh, yeah. Today on the show, well, as you say, it was a bit more of a serious show today because we had to update everyone throughout the show of some of the big news

like that was coming to hand. We didn't do the whole show serious though. We had some fun. We did have some fun. We didn't turn into bloody... Who would we turn into? Who would we turn into? It wasn't Duncan Garner over here.

No, but I'm just saying, normally we go we had to balance it out. But we know our place in the world. Don't we? And it's like call us if had to balance it out. But we know our place in the world, don't we? Yeah, we do. And it's like, you know, call us if you scrunch or fold. That's our happy place. Yeah, that is our happy place.

But we're trying to, you know, we're trying to be in the middle of that now. Yeah. Call us if you like cucumbers or don't like cucumbers. That's where we sit now. Is that where we sit now? I thought we were a bit, but anyway, okay, fine. It's good to know these things. Moved on from toilet paper to cucumbers.

But something we didn't have a chance to talk about today was Jono's worst moments of the week. And so I thought I'd basically reflect on those now. Oh, that's nice because, you know, the general messaging that gets broadcast is be kind. And he's choosing to do this. Okay. No, I'm not going to pull back the curtain too much.

I'm just going to take this one on the chin, even though I shouldn't be taking this on the chin. You just had a conversation with producer Julian about where the audio was for this. Fine seats. Anyway, but I will look like I have decided to put this in the podcast intro. Savagely.

Savagely. So I'm not getting, don't think this bald git is getting away without a roasting this week. And it's all on Ben. It's all on me, so much so that I can't even remember what the first one is. You're going to have to read it to me off the computer. This is my worst moments of the week.

First one was about riddles, because you've been getting your daughter to read me riddles, so I gave it a go. And yours were not so good. I've got two legs, two arms, a torso, and a head. What am I? A body, a person? Well done. Are you just making these up? I've got four wheels, windows. Car. Yeah. Oh, geez. Okay. I'm cold on the inside and I'm a refrigerator. What am I? Oh, I guess I will never know.

So, yeah, giving it a crack. Giving a big taste of your own medicine. Yeah. Those ones are not so good. The other thing that wasn't so good, we had a conversation about what thing would you like to basically call someone out. Kindly calling people out. Yeah, because this week New Zealand, we've been told to be a nation of narcs.

Narc people who are flouting level three rules. But do it kindly. Who would you like to kindly call out, Rochelle? I know he's listening too, so I'm going to call out my husband, Rich. He's been meaning to paint the deck for about six months now and it's still looking like a bombsite. But hey, that's right. I might get my wines on the deck

soon. If anyone from overseas is listening to this conversation right now, they'll be very confused. Oh, wines on the deck. Oh, deck, D-E-C-K. Yeah, you've really got to get your lips around the deck. Deck, yeah. Hey, 7.45 this morning. As in pronunciation.

I'm going to clarify. So you go, they were my worst moments of the week. Yeah. Kind of weirdly played by me. I worst moments of the week. Yeah. Kind of weirdly played by me. I was pushing all the buttons. Yeah. Yeah, well, thank you for bringing that to everyone's attention. That's good.

And now you can enjoy the rest of the podcast. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. The other day, Jono, I was talking to a mate about your, you don't like eating a peach, peaches. Like you, the furry outside of the peach, the texture, you just don't. Yeah, no, I'd rather eat a cheese grater.

It makes the hair on me stand up. And as you constantly remind me too, I don't have a plentiful supply of hair, but the ones I do, they stand up. I don't mind you slapped downiful supply of hair, but the ones I do, they stand up as soon as I, like even as the teeth, I don't mind you, you know, slap down a waddy's canned peach. The ones that are in the canned form,

you're fine with that. What about a kiwi fruit? Since they're a bit furry too. No, I'm fine with kiwi fruit. I guess you're not biting into the kiwi. Oh, are you? I eat the kiwi fruit in the skin. That's interesting.

So you're biting into the, you're pretty, you contradict yourself, don't you? I do. Yeah, well, I was talking to a mate of mine about this. So you're biting into the, you're ready to contradict yourself, don't you? I do. Yeah, well, I was talking to a mate of mine about this the other day about how you, because they had some peaches at home

and he was like, oh, he doesn't like even cutting fruit in general, the texture, and when it cuts it up, he's just like, I just don't like doing it. He'll do it because,

you know, they've got a daughter and they give them, and you know, you need your fruit, but he's like, the thought of it, same as you.

What, slicing an apple or something? Yeah, slicing, yeah, it'd be terrible with that Fruit Ninja game if you're playing that in real life, but he's like, the thought of it. Same as you. What, slicing an apple or something? Yeah, slicing, yeah. It'd be terrible with that Fruit Ninja game, if you're playing that in real life. But I was like, it's interesting how, I know everyone's got their thing. Does he eat fruit?

He will eat it, but he doesn't like, probably like you, where he doesn't like the process of going through and- Doesn't like the preparation. The preparation, doing it himself. It's just like- All fruit. Yeah, all fruit in general, pretty much.

It'd just be like having to slice it. He doesn't like that part of it. But I guess if it's given to him already done, you can eat it. Sometimes I'm so lazy, I just eat the entire apple. The core as well, because I can't be bothered putting it in a bin. We spoke about this before, and apparently it can poison you to death. What? Yeah, we did.

It wasn't good for you, was it? Not good for you, apparently. I do that all the time. Yeah, no, hardcore, mate. Hardcore. Hardcore, that's where the saying hardcore came from, right? But yeah, it is interesting. We knew a lady a few years ago who, napkins, napkins were her thing.

Everyone seems to have their thing. This poor girl, we've put her on the radio so many times, and she's like, oh, you want to talk to me again about my hair? She got an irrational fear of serviettes, cheap serviet like, oh, you want to talk to me again about my hair? She got an irrational fear of serviettes. Cheap serviettes, though, like the paper ones that you'd get from McDonald's or Burger King or KFC or something. Can't use them. She's fine with your top quality Briscoe's jobbies.

Yeah, like the cloth ones or whatever. That's fine, but just the texture of... Kind of like the disposable ones. Yeah, and if it's on top of something she gets given, if she goes and gets a burger, she's like, I can't eat. She's had some sort of

traumatic napkin incident in her childhood. So she just wanders around with a chin load of mayonnaise and tomato sauce because she can't actually wipe her face because of the texture

of the paper. What's the difference between a serviette and a napkin? Oh, that's a good point. Give that a gook. Should we give that a gook? I'm gathering serviette

must be the paper version. Napkin must be the cloth version. Well, that's a good point. Give that a gook. Should we give that a gook? I'm gathering serviette must be the paper version, napkin must be the cloth version. Well, that's what I would think. Unless it's something to do with UK, US. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Okay, live Googling. So in the UK, the use of the word serviette

is often thought to be common or un-posh, whereas napkin is traditionally associated with the upper class. Oh, so you would have thought that would be a napkin. A napkin would be a lot nicer, wouldn't you? No, I thought a serviette's a more sophisticated word. Oh, really? Yeah. Get out of here.

No. Get out of here. A napkin. A napkin is that. No, serviette is far more sophisticated. Oh, no, look at a napkin. No, I would have thought napkin was a lot more. Oh, no, I know there's earthquakes going on.

I know there's, you know, there's level changes and lockdowns, but text 4487. What is more sophisticated, a serviette or a napkin? You know, let's get a poll open on this. OK, I'm saying napkin. I'm saying napkin. You're saying serviette. This wasn't what we were meant to be doing.

And I don't know why I'm wasting airtime on it. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Not but 25 minutes ago, a debate raged on. You would have thought that would be a napkin. A napkin would be a lot nicer, wouldn't you? No, I thought a serviette's a more sophisticated word.

Oh, really? Yeah. Get out of here. No. I know there's earthquakes going on. I know there's, you know, there's level changes and lockdowns. But text 4487. What is more sophisticated, a serviette or a napkin?

Yeah, now the text machine has been rinsed. Pages and pages of text. Kelsey joins us from Palmerston North. What sounds posher? What's more sophisticated, a napkin or a serviette? Definitely a napkin. Napkin? It sounds base level.

No, but it sounds, but you think a napkin, I feel like a napkin is the one that's made out of cloth material. Like a serviette's a cheap thing. Napkins are at all

the posh restaurants made out of material and they put them on your lap for you. You wouldn't go to a posh restaurant and say, can I have a serviette?

Would you? You'd say, I don't have a napkin. I can't spell serviette, so automatically it makes it more sophisticated. I get you, it sounds posher, but it's not. Okay, thank you very much. We'll head to Greymouth. Debra,

you're on the air. What's sounding more sophisticated, serviette or napkin? And should serviette take the place of a napkin in terms of the restaurant environment? Your thoughts? Well, serviette take the place of a napkin in terms of the restaurant environment? Your thoughts? Well, Serviette does sound posher to me. It does.

It also sounds rather sexy. Serviette does sound sexy. Can we get some sexy music, Julianne? Can you just say Serviette six times, Debra? Serviette. Oh, yeah. Say it again, Debra? Sevier. Oh, yeah. Say it again, Debra. But it's French, and of course the French are known for being quite sexy.

Yeah. And it probably doesn't help that when the World Firefighter Games were here, the French firefighters, who also doubled as striptease guys at night, they did a striptease and it was quite funny talking to them about their words and the words that ended up in New Zealand from French immigrants and it was always something that I was very keen on

was the cultural stuff because that's how we keep our culture alive by using the words. I'm an Oma and my heritage is Dutch and Danish and I want to keep it alive. Good the words. I'm an Oma, and my heritage is Dutch and Danish, and I want to keep it alive. Good on you. That's good.

And so was he explaining this to you as he was grinding his pelvis on you? I was the person up in the seat that they were in front of. Can we talk about serviettes? And were they strippers before they were firefighters or firefighters before they were strippers? I don't know. I really don't know the Soviets. Yeah. And were they strippers before they were firefighters or firefighters before they were strippers? I don't know.

I really don't know the answer. Yeah, no, it's... Oh, we're going to send you out to one pizza. You've made my day with that call. That's so good. And napkins remind me of babies. Nappies, that's right. Let's all agree, Soviets are far sexier word

and that we need more French firefighters slash strippers in this country. Good on you. Have a good one, mate. From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts of New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Actual hearts being not bestowed. Now, now, now, girl.

The scientist, Dr. Michelle Dickinson, is your friend of the show. She's got a new series on TVNZ On Demand right now. And she joins us over Zoom. Good morning. How's it going? Hello. How are you both? We're doing alright. Now a lot of people hunkering down at the moment with the lockdown and you've got your second series of your show, Nano Girls Kitchen Science on right now. It's perfectly

timed, dare I say that, with the lockdown. It couldn't have been more perfect. Look, we filmed this back last winter so we've been waiting for TVNZ to put it out and And luckily, our release date was the first day of lockdown in Auckland, so all the parents were like, yay! Some wonderful marketing. Lockdown, you come in, and perfect, perfect catchment for an audience here. So this isn't your traditional science experiment. It's all to do with food and using science to create food.

Yeah, so most people think of science as a lab with Petri dishes and test tubes, but actually science is everywhere. And the way that you science the most is probably in your kitchen at home. And so what this recipe set does is teach you that your favourite recipes actually are made perfect using science. And we teach you all the scientific tricks to make the crunchiest chicken nuggets, for example, or the creamiest custard. Yeah, we've given you all the science hints behind this.

Now, ketchup. I understand you make ketchup on the show. Now, I haven't seen this one, but I read about it. It sounds a little bit disturbing. How do you make ketchup at home? It's one of my favorite recipes. It's called burping ketchup or fermented ketchup. What you do is take tomato puree. So if you buy ketchup in the supermarket, it's actually loaded with lots of sugar. So if you make ketchup at home, you take tomato puree and just a little bit of honey. And you're going to use that honey to feed bacteria. So take a yogurt pot. You look at the yogurt and you look at the top.

There's a little bit of runny liquid on there that's filled with good bacteria. You pour that into your tomato puree, stir it up, shut the lid on a jar or a container and leave it for four days. Bacteria are going to eat all of the honey, ferment the ketchup up. And then when you open it up, they're probably going to make enough carbon dioxide gas that your ketchup will do a big burp when you open the lid.

And there you go, burping ketchup, lower sugar variety. Wow, just when you describe all the bacteria used to make ketchup, it really makes it sound quite appetising. It does, yeah. Well, bacteria's good for you. Sauerkraut is good bacteria. Yogurt is good bacteria. There's some good stuff out there.

Now, I have a question because Ben always gives me a little bit of grief. Monday nights, I make food for my children, and I microwave Kranskis. Have you got any science that could help? And you're pretending to vomit right now. But it's 59 seconds in the microwave on high. Why don't you put it in a fry pan or on the barbecue? Have you got any science

that I could cook my Kranskis with there? Kranskis are probably a science project within themselves, just looking at what is in them. And one of our recipes in Kitchen Science is how to make your own sausage rolls. I reckon you do that because you use engineering to understand how to make puff pastry and also understand what goes into sausages.

And then maybe you'll read your cancer screen and be like, actually, this is not real sausage. So you've got a recipe or an experiment to make sausages? So we make sausage rolls, but we allow you to pick the type of content you want in there. And if you want real sausage, you have to deconstruct the sausage you buy from the stores and then read the ingredients

and figure out what actually goes into your sausages because they're not all made the same. No, it's always disturbing to think about what's in a sausage. I like to not think about what's in a sausage. Yeah, nothing more disturbing than reading the actual meat content of something you think is meat. But anyway. There's some great

sausages out there. If you go to your local butchers, there are some amazing great sausages out there. So don't give sausages a bad name. Just think about

what the ingredients are. Yes, and listen, my sincerest apologies to the Kransky Empire as well. John is keeping them in business. It's all good.

Now, you've met so many amazing people over the years in doing what you do. Richard Branson, we talked about. You played chess against him. Joe Biden, you've done so many amazing people over the years and doing what you do. Richard Branson, we talked about. You played chess against him. Joe Biden, you've done experiments for him.

I mean, what's the one cool moment that stands out for you? You're like, wow, I got to do this in my profession. Oh, so many things. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Commander Chris Hadfield. I got him to eat his first Fijoa, which is cool. I mean, he only, you know, went to space and back and he'd never tried a Fijoa. He'd never tried a Fijoa. Well, listen, I imagine your first Fija would be a taste explosion

of some sort, wouldn't it? Yeah. So that video is on my YouTube link. If you want to see whether he liked it or not, you're welcome to take a look at the Nana Girl YouTube video. But yeah, I've been really lucky. All of the amazing heroes that I've met have just been bog standard, really lovely people.

Did you beat Branson at chess? Sorry? Did you beat Branson at chess? Sorry? Did you beat Branson at chess? No, he thrashed me. Oh, really? He thrashed me like three times a day. No, he definitely beat me. Around about four o'clock today is apparently when we'll find out

after the Cabinet meeting with the government if New Zealand are going to change the alert levels at some stage over the weekend. Okay, you put your bets in. I'll run an illegal gambling ring. You can pay me in the car park after work. What do you think? I think the right things are going.

Touch wood, there's been no community cases overnight and hopefully no more today. I'm going to say we're going to drop each, you know, the rest of the country will drop to, they'll get to level one and Auckland will go to level two for a few days. All right. Okay, so still not back in the team of five million.

That's just a guess. I don't know. Not back in the squad. Yes, I don't know. Everyone's got it. It's like America's Cup. Everyone becomes million fully. That's just a guess. I don't know. Not back in the squad. I don't know. Everyone's got it. It's like America's Cup. Everyone becomes an expert. You said it with confidence.

And that's the funny thing. Whenever you have this conversation with anyone, work or at home, everyone just says everything with confidence, don't they? As if they know what they're talking about. Except for me. I said it and then I backed out of it.

Yeah, well, that's classic voice. That's classic voice. You can't be fully confident when you're giving out your information. Now, what we wanted to do is get an expert on to see if we've made it through unscathed again. And joining us via Zoom, the wonderful Michelle Dickinson, nano girl scientist. Have we made it through? Have we dodged another bullet, Michelle?

Look, it's really hard to know. We know this new variant has probably a longer incubation period than the previous ones that we've seen here. So we really are, you know, with COVID learning as we go along, I think we're really lucky that we don't have any new detected cases yet. I think it's too early to say. We've sort of got out of it. So just got to have people keep testing and waiting for the results. I think we're doing really well though. Let's just make sure we're all sticking to level three so that we can get out of this quickly.

Well, it seems to have spread really quickly, this new variant, overseas. But have we kind of got lucky in some, you know, touch wood that hasn't spread as much? Or is there any reason why New Zealand's has been a bit better or just luck? Look, actually, the world is learning from New Zealand. What we know from around the world is a lot of guesses because we've never had just one case come in that we can really

study and track. In the UK, for example, you know, there's probably a couple of cases on every street. And so it's really hard to actually locate the person who started it and then the tracks along that. And so people are looking at New Zealand to really understand the virus more than they could do in any other country, because you really can trace where the person went, what the surfaces might have been that they touched. You know, it's why we've looked at things like, can you get it from an elevator button or from a rubbish bin? And Cam, which happened in Christchurch, we think we're the only country in the world that we can do those studies on. So to be honest, we are sort of the Petri dish because we do have so few cases that the world is looking to learn from about the virus. There's been a lot of talk about wastewater testing. Now,

I'm sure you're glad as a scientist you've advanced through your years that you don't have to go and test. You don't have to go and test wastewater. Is this a relatively new thing that shows up in sewage? No, we've been testing sewage for a long time and I should say my first ever job I used to test wee so I've been there. Have you done that? Oh you've done it, okay.

I used to sniff wee for my first job. What can you decipher from smelling urine? Was this like drug testing for sports athletes or what was this? I was working on a product for adult incontinence pads where we were trying to make them smell a little bit nicer when you peed in your pants, basically.

And the only way to figure out if you smell nice or not is actually to smell pee in people's pants. But so, no, sorry, back to your original point, the sewage testing, the wastewater testing, you've been doing it the whole time. So we've been doing a lot of things on sewage testing and you know some of the things that we've been looking at long term in our wastewater treatment is things like hormones we can tell a lot um about what goes into our water treatment we can test for you know drugs whether or not

there are regions that are using different types of drugs so wastewater testing has been happening for a long time what we can do now is test you know is there incidents of covid in there covid is really prominent in fecal matter. So actually, it's a great place to be testing. We've got Dr. Michelle Dickinson, her new series on TVNZ On Demand, Nano Girls, a kitchen science show. Always a pleasure talking with you, mate. You look after yourself. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the hips. Yesterday we got talking about the coolest names in New Zealand, and it was off the back of John Legend, explaining that the name Legend, it wasn't really, it didn't come from him, it was just a group of his friends who came up with it, and he was like, well, I haven't released any music yet, but I guess I'll roll with John Legend.

And it's worked out pretty well for him. It has. Very gutsy, as we thought about, to call yourself John Legend, but you're right. He's now John Legend, the name works. I reckon he went into it a little unconfident.

Yeah. But as time went on, his confidence has grown and he's probably hit legendary status now. Maybe it was ironic at the start. You're like,

oh, it's ironic. I'm not a legend, but now he is. Yeah, he's a legend. Yeah, so does he seem arrogant now? Probably, yeah. And we got talking about

New Zealand's coolest name yesterday. Some crackers came through. We'll head to Karen. It's your son. It is my son, yeah. His name is Maverick Ray Beauchamp. Maverick Ray? Oh my god. We'll head to Ash. Have you got New Zealand's coolest name?

Well, my mate has. He's called Jimmy Cool. Oh, actually Jimmy Cool. Yeah, C-O-U-L-L. Oh, Jimmy Cool. Rolls off the tongue as well. We'll go to Gary. Welcome to Auckland. We're after New Zealand's coolest name, Gary. Mr. Frosty. I think that's a cool name. Oh, a cool name.

Yeah, Mr. Frosty. Oh, Gary. He always phones up and jokes. It takes me about five seconds. I love that Juliet just getting there at the end. Oh, Mr. Frosty, because it's cool. We all had a bit of a staggered reaction to that, didn't we? Didn't we? It was like a relay race. Anyway, we're after New Zealand's coolest name. Oh no, 800, the hits.

Have you got it? Do you know someone who's got it? Lance with us. Morning, how are you, Lance? Yeah, my mate from school, after we left school, he was working in the public service and he changed his name to Slick Ultra. Slick Ultra. You sound like a superhero. I know.

Or a razor blade. Yeah. Slick Ultra. So this is his actual legal name is Slick Ultra. Wow. He's been pulled over and he flashes his licence and we're working in the public service. All the old guys in the company Wow. Slick Ultra.

What was his previous name? Oh, Stuart. Yeah, Slick Ultra. I mean, Slick Ultra is all over Stuart all day long. That is very impressive. Hey, appreciate your call, Lance. Awesome, guys. Cheers.

Cheryl's on the air. Morena, to you, Cheryl. Morena. How are you? Good, thank you. Okay. We're looking for New Zealand's coolest name. What have you got for us?

So we were 15 years ago watching Star Wars movies, and we couldn't think of any names, and so we ended up going with Anakin. Oh, like Anakin Skywalker, the character from the movies. Yeah, that's the one. Oh, that's pretty cool. How's it spelt? We spell it double A-N-A-K-Y-N.

That is a great name. Anna, Annie. Yeah, he's a teenager so yeah, he fits the profile perfectly. Does he like the name? Yeah. It's very cool and unique. Do many people pick it up from Star Wars? Nearly everybody. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's an obvious...

Yeah, it probably is, actually. Apart from calling your son Luke Skywalker. It's probably the most... Or Yoda. Yoda? Hey, Cheryl, go and have a wonderful day. Enjoy your weekend. You too, guys.

Hello. Welcome to New Zealand's coolest name. Who have we got here? This is Sonny. Sonny. Good start. Sonny's a cool name. What's your full name, Sonny, if you don't mind me asking?

Sonny Sunshine. Sonny Sunshine. Now, there we go. I like that. It feels like you'd brighten up everyone's day literally with your name, you know? Yeah. And I have to tell you guys, man, you'd crack me up. I listen to you guys every morning.

You never seem to bring a smile to my face. Oh, Sonny. Well, Sonny, you've brightened up our day as well this morning, Sonny. You keep safe out there on the bus in the Bay of Plenty, Sonny Sunshine, and have a great weekend. No worries, boys. What a lovely man. Love that name too, Sonny Sunshine.

Sonny Sunshine. That's how you say it, Sonny Sunshine. There you go. Sonny loves it when you say his name properly. Yeah, I love the name, but I just can't say it. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook.

Let's just pull back the curtain a little bit, if you don't mind. Behind the scenes of the radio show that usually gets to this time where we're closer to 9 o'clock. It's about 17 minutes to 9. And we've got these things on the show, which they fall under the category. We call them chat bits. Now, these are bits that Ben and I, we just both have to bring something where we chat about.

Yeah, we each have a couple of times a show where we're like, hey, I'll take care of this one, you take care of this other one. Yeah, but the problem is that you start to run out of stuff, don't you? And anything we can do to save our chat bit to the next day so we don't have to use it, that's a win. But unfortunately... What you're doing right now is like the kids that do a speech on making a speech.

That's exactly what you're doing. You're like, oh, today I'm going to make a speech. I'm making a speech. How hard is this to make? That's what you're doing. I see what you're doing here. You're saving your chatbot that you're going to talk about to another day.

I'll go into it. I was hoping to save this till Monday. There's probably radio shows out there who are just desperate to talk for themselves, but all we want to do is save our stuff till the next day, just to ease our workload. But no, I got something that was made aware

by Jennifer, my wife, yesterday. You know, I'm a self-centred, narcissistic radio announcer. We all are, aren't we? Let's be honest. Yeah, right. She said, you text me yesterday and the word I was in there 15 times.

Oh, really? I had put I in there 15 times. And then I've gone back on all my other texts and I'm like, my gosh, I say I in me an awful lot. Oh, yeah. So now I'm trying to send texts without putting the word I in it. And it's very difficult.

Like I was like, hey, thought, would, say, hi, yes, don't want to cause fuss, pick up, meet, see you tonight. Always you, love you. So I'm trying to avoid the word. Oh, it's just I in general. To not make it, to not make the text about me, but I'm having to second guess every time I'm wanting to type a text now. Oh, so it's all about you even in text message form.

Is that what it is? That's essentially what's been brought to my attention. Oh, that's an interesting observation. Text message game, it can be a confusing one. I was thinking about that before. You were saying the other day that someone thought LOL was lots of love. Lots of love, yeah. And they were like, oh, my grandma died.

It was my mum, Annie. Oh, was it? Yes. Yeah, Annie said that. She said, yeah, this was a few months ago. So her relative had lost someone in the family. I can't remember. And they're probably important details to someone.

Yeah, definitely. And Annie texts, oh, sorry to hear, LOL. So she's sort of gone, laugh out loud. That's hilarious. It's their time to go. Lol. Let's have a lol. Move on.

I'm thinking it was lots of love. Which it could. It could be lots of love. It's lots of love. But you can really misinterpret text messages too. Like sometimes if you're trying to organise a dinner or something, if I text Ben and I'm like, what do we have for dinner? And you're like, whatever.

And I take that back as whatever? But you actually meant whatever. Yeah. But you can really misread the written word, can't you? You never know what the intention is with those things. Emails too. Emails always get misconstrued. And I end up typing back in caps all firing up.

Hey, I was just saying Was Jono shouting at me Saying I want to do this And I'm going to do that And I'll be taking you To management Me me me me me Aye aye aye

The end We're going to take A look at I wanted to save this chat But till Monday I'll be talking to the boss They're proud of New Zealand Go New Zealand

If only New Zealand Was proud of that Jono and Ben New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Uh-oh, who wants some money heading into the weekend?

Thank you. Why am I talking like that? It is our game of word association. You match five words without five words, you win $5,000. That's how it works. Yeah. I haven't been into the soundproof booth in a very long time. Ben Boyce has become the people's voice,

we call him. You're just trying to make this happen because you don't like the pressure of going in there and coming out. John Farnham phoned me overnight. He said, hey, I'm thinking of re-recording my 1987 smash hit, The Voice to The Voice. The Voice to The Voice. Just in commemoration.

Well, I'd love that, but I still don't want to go in the sound booth as much as you do. Kayla, you're on from Christchurch. Morena, how are you? Good, how are you? Lovely to have you on. Did you feel the earthquake overnight, Kayla? I did indeed. Oh, man.

We were saying earlier in the show, for Cantabrians, you must just be up and out of beat instantly when you even feel a little rattle. Oh no, I fell back asleep straight away. Alright, okay, I take back everything I just said. Jeez, alright. Well, Kayla, you know how five words for 5K works?

Yep. Okay, who are you going to choose to go into the SPB? We're going to go with Jono. Oh, smart decision. I haven't been coming through for people this week. to go with Jono. Oh, smart decision. I haven't been coming through for people this week. So yeah, Jono, it's your chance. It's been a long time between drinks for me and the soundproof booth.

My mouth has been dry. There's been no moisture. That's also where he hides his liquor, so he hasn't been in there for a while. He's going across there to the soundproof booth. In the corner of the studio, and Carlo, I'm going to tell you five words. You're going to lock in the words that pop into your head after each of these words.

He's inside the soundproof booth. Yes, he is. All right. Kayla, this morning, your first word is maple. Maple. Syrup. Syrup. Yeah, it seemed like the obvious one.

Yeah. Just saying that out for the first time. That's what you got, Producer Juliet. Yum. Okay. Your next word is sell. Now, with an S, not the C version of S-E-L-L. It's S-E-L-L, like sell.

You would sell something to someone. Okay. Buy. Buy, yep. That seems good. Okay, your next word is tongue. Mouth. I think you're doing a good job so far,

Keira. Your next word is weather. Weather as in rain, sunshine, things like that. Weather. W-E-A-T-H-E-R. How's the weather today? Rain. And your

final word for five words for $5,000 is take away. Take away. Food. I reckon you've done pretty blooming well off the top of your head. I think good.

You didn't muck around too long. You went with one of the first things that popped into your head. I like that. I'm going to bring Jono out of the soundproof booth, bring him back into the studio and we'll see if those words match up with Jono. He's coming back in.

He's coming back in with a lot of energy too. Yeah, I liken the soundproof booth to the All Blacks changing room when you formulate a game plan in there. It's also where we get dressed and showered after the show, isn't it? Yeah, it is. It's quite small in there, but we make it work. We do. We make it work.

We share it, save water. Now, how did dear Kayla go? I think Kayla did really well in producing Juliet. Yeah, I think for a few of them there are a few options. I don't like it when you say there's a few options.

Yeah, but she's done what I personally probably would have done. Would you have done the same thing as Kayla? I would have done exactly the same as Kayla. So you would have won Kayla 5-3. Yeah, but it's all on Jono now. How do you have done the same thing as Kayla? I would have done exactly the same as Kayla. So you would have won Kayla 5K. Yeah, but it's all on Jono now. How do you feel your effort went there, Kayla? Not very well, but we'll see.

She's not confident, but I thought she did pretty well. But anyway, it's over to you now, Jono. Five words, 5K. Will you match up with Kayla's words? The first word we said to Kayla was maple. Syrup. Well done. The second word this morning we said to Kayla

was sell, as in with an S. S-E-L-L. You would sell something to someone. Buy? Oh, yes. Good. Oh, Joe. Two for two, Kayla.

This is good. This is good, too. He's got a bit of a smile on his face. He's feeling confident now. Yes, the smile gets bigger and bigger. The further down the list we go, Kayla. Okay, the next word is tongue. Tongue.

I'm going to go tongue twister. Kayla, what? What? What did you go? I went mouth. She went mouth. Oh, of course. Tongue twister.

Why did I go tongue twister? I guess it makes sense. What's popped into your head? You haven't got any time to prepare that. No, Kayla, I am so sorry. It's okay. We started so strong and I... Oh, we did? And unravelled.

Shall we see how we would have gone with the rest of the words? The next word was weather. Forecast. No. And the final word was takeaway. Food. Oh, okay. You got it right.

Three out of five. Not bad, not bad, but not bad. We're kind of in sync. We could probably get married, but it'd be a tumultuous marriage. We would never be on the same page. I'll always be right. You'd always be right. I'd be constantly apologising.

Have a great weekend. You stay safe, all right? You too. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, the big news this morning, if you're just waking up, a massive 7.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of New Zealand,

the east coast, about 2.30 overnight this morning. It was felt all over New Zealand. Now they did issue a tsunami warning, but that's been lifted. Here's Roger Ball from the Civil Defence. We did issue, as you know, a national warning for evacuations in specific parts. I can give you an update now, and we're now in a position that we can lift that evacuation advice, and that means people who have evacuated from their homes can now safely return home. Do you think Roger's always on edge?

Oh, he would be. Civil Defence guys can be woken up at any moment and he's got to be on his game, doesn't he, Arbol? Oh, exactly. Marine warning is still in place, but for the latest news, we've got Rachel Jackson-Lees from our news department. Morning.

Good morning. We'll just turn your mic on there, Rachel. Ben, it was going so well up until then. It was. We'll try that again. Good morning. This doesn't happen on bloody ZB, does it? Hosking's not leaving mics off, Ben.

Do we have any... Earlier this morning we spoke about the fact that you felt the earthquake. Yeah, I did feel it. And it's unusual because you don't expect it in this part of the country. And so it went on for a really, really long time. And all the windows, we've got an older house, and the windows were rattling. And at one point I thought, is someone breaking in?

Because it was just this constant tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, that just went on and on and on. It was very strange. Were you frightened? I was actually, especially because my husband didn't seem to give much regard to it and wanted to go back to sleep. Yeah, in the middle of the night, generally guys don't care, so they go back to sleep. And so what was running through your head?

Did you evacuate or what? Yeah, I thought, should I go to work? Like, should I... Oh, you think you're coming in because... Should I go straight to work? Like, how big a deal is this? But eventually I did go back to sleep and came in at the normal time

and then saw all the emails and went, wow, okay, that actually was... Yeah, but we all came in. We were all here at two o'clock, weren't we? We all came in. Yeah, just so you know. Yeah. We're like, where's Rachel?

Yeah, we thought it was you being here. No, but else is there. We're like, where's Rachel? Yeah, we thought it was just you being here. No, but anything to update from when we last spoke to you an hour ago? Yeah, so there has actually been another earthquake, not in New Zealand, so not to freak anybody out, but there's just been a 7.5 magnitude quake at Rowell Island, which is the largest of the Kermadec Islands. So that's quite far north of New Zealand. So I don't want to panic anybody with that, but it is in the vicinity, I guess. The plates are moving.

Yeah. Yeah. And this earthquake, the severe one, GNS calling it severe, there have now been 18 aftershocks in the same area. So it's off the coast of East Cape. 18 aftershocks sort of ranging around four, four and a half on the Richter scale.

Was it felt all over New Zealand? Yeah, even people in the South Island have said that they felt it as far as Christchurch were awoken to this. Wow. And Chatham Islands as well. Chatham Islands got a decent rumble there. So the reports coming out of there is that they were pretty terrified, pretty strong over there.

So I think down in the South Island, you know, it was a bit of a gentle rumble, but certainly up in that central parts of the North Island. Yeah, well, we were saying it wouldn't take too much for Cantabrians to wake up. Exactly. They would only need a gentle rumble, wouldn't they? Yeah, and you'd be on edge for that, so you know exactly what it is in that part of the country,

unfortunately. But there is some footage that started to emerge online, security camera footage that people have started posting. And, like, you see these buildings, like, seriously shaking and houses actually really moving. So it was a pretty decent jolt. It's amazing there's no damage being reported yet. No, the civil defence teams have just gone out and about

in sort of the Gisborne East Cape area. So they're on the ground now. So the initial reports were that, you know, people had had a few things falling off shelves, some sort of minor incidents. So fortunately, at this point, we haven't heard of anything serious. But those civil defence teams are out and about checking on people in that, particularly that Gisborne East Cape area to make sure that everyone's okay. But their natural reaction in that part of the country was just to evacuate.

So before even hearing from civil Defence, many of them just actually took higher ground, just got out of there. And that's normal for that part of the country and that the Mayor said she's really proud of everyone for taking that immediate action. And in fact, you and I, Ben, probably need to apologise to Jono, because Jono... Oh, really? Thank you.

It's about time. There's a long list I have and I've been waiting for this. But Jono mentioned earlier in the morning the long, strong, get gone, which we had a bit of a laugh at. But that is no laughing matter because that is officially what civil defence say. Oh, okay. Well, apologies. I said there was a saying, if it goes on too long, get gone.

You mocked me. Surely they didn't say it in those words. But they do, and those are the words. Oh, apologies. The words are long, strong, get gone and that is the advice for people in those earthquake prone parts of the country. They know that if it's long and it's strong they simply get gone

and that is what they did in the East Cape this morning. Take that back. On Monday I'll apologise about all the hair loss jokes I've made. Thank you. And he's never apologised for opening his car door or mine in the car park either. Hey, Rachel, thank you so much for the update. You're welcome.

We'll keep in touch throughout the morning. And actually, 0800, that's all we want to do. Throw this open. You can text 24487. Did you feel the earthquake? Where were you? What happened? Did you have to evacuate?

We heard this lady who phoned through to ZB overnight. Biggest one I've ever felt. It went on and on and on and I'm in the old stone house and I didn't know where to stand because it's all rock. And just panicking, the poor thing. And my favourite grab that's emerged over the last 10 hours. I was a bit shocked up. I was sitting on the toilet thinking it's just me, you know,

going back and forth because I'm due to have my baby on Monday. And then I realised it ain't me because the door's moving. Oh, jeez. When you're on the toilet. Amazing. So, you know, what happened to you? We'd love to get your calls on Joy New Zealand's Breakfast Next, eh? We'll start with Taranaki, eh, Paige?

Did it rock the knacky overnight? Yeah, I woke up about two minutes before it happened and I was just checking the time, thinking how much longer I had to sleep before I have to get up for work. Oh, don't you hate it when you do that? Yeah, yeah, but I was surprised when it was 2.30 and then, yeah, it just happened and I was like, is this someone walking around my house or, well, it was kind of just moved to a cabin, so it shakes normally if you're just walking around my house? Or, well, it was kind of just moved to a cabin, so it shakes normally if you're just walking around.

And I was thinking, is that my partner home early from night shift? Or is this an earthquake? And it went on for quite a long time, which is very surprising. I imagine, because, you know, an earthquake's probably not your first reaction, is it? No, not normally. Yeah, confusion would probably rattle around your mind. So weird that you woke up just before it happened. Yeah, maybe I've got some kind of sixth sense to a birthquake or something. Yeah, your waters might be...

I won't talk about your waters. No, no, that's not... Stop talking about your waters. Why did I start that line of conversation? You made it weird. Hey, thank you so much. Stay safe out there, Paige. Have a good weekend, all right?

Thank you. Good on you. Good on you. You know when you wake up in the middle of the night, you're like, how much longer have I got until I wake up? Isn't it the greatest feeling for any human being when you wake up and it's like 11.59? Oh, it hasn't even ticked over to midnight.

It hasn't even ticked over to midnight. Gee, that's a wonderful feeling. We'll head to Tauranga. Aaron, you were right on the cold face, were you? Yeah, how are you? Yeah, good, buddy. You felt the quake. Yeah, so I'd swear I heard someone outside my house,

but I was obviously just dreaming. And then my wife, she says, there's an earthquake. And I was like, oh, and then I could feel it. And it must have gone on for like 30, I don't know, maybe even longer than 30 seconds. Wow. And she woke up because she had her belt hanging on the door handle of our bedroom and it started tapping the door so she heard this noise and she woke up. Jeez, that's a long

time. It would feel like a lot, it probably felt like a half an hour, 30 seconds, wouldn't it? Yeah. I was just lying there and it's like they say that, what John has said before, long, whatever, get out, but I was lying there thinking, what do we do? Do we stay?

Yeah. Because I've got a dog. She sleeps in the hallway. She's like a King Charles Daniel. And she was just sleeping through it. She snores quite often. She's a deep sleeper. I thought dogs woke up.

Yeah, you thought it would be like Ben on each. I'm nervous. Yeah. And I'll just clarify, I didn't say long whatever, get gone. It was, what was it? I forgot what I said. Long, strong, get gone. Yeah, that's the actual civil defence little saying.

So that's good. All right, stay safe, my friend. Thanks so much for calling this morning. We'll go to Jenny, who's in the eastern bop, in the eastern Bay of Plenty, in Matata. You woke up, Jenbo? Yeah, yeah, we did. We woke up to, well, the bed was shaking.

And it wasn't a saucy, classy show. Classy show? This is not a classy show. Who's trying to be? Hey, we're doing some new stuff, guys. And we thought, oh, yeah, it's an earthquake, and it went on and on and on. And then we turned over and went back to sleep.

But we live way up on a high hill. So we never even gave a tsunami a thought. And it wasn't until we got up this morning and saw it on the news and thought, oh, it's a bit bigger than we thought. Yeah. No, I know a lot of people go, they say, you know, stay away from the beach. And the first thing you want to do when they say stay away from the beach is I want to go and look at the beach. I don't.

I want to go stand on the beach. The last thing I want to do is that. I want to see what's happening on the beach. I don't know why people do that. I haven't been to the beach for months. I want to go now. Good on you, Jenny. Thank you.

You keep safe, okay? Okay, thanks. Now, the Mayor of Gisborne's phoned through as well. Or we phoned the Mayor of Gisborne. I don't know. Yeah. Those details don't matter. But, Orihiti, welcome. Good morning. How are you?

Lovely to have you on. Thank you very much for sparing your time. I'm sure you're dotting from radio station to radio station at the moment. Gisborne, you're waking up. Lights hitting gizzy. What's happened? Any damage? Well, at this stage, no big damage has been reported.

I know of some shops where stuff came off the shelves and some people whose TVs might have fallen over, but nothing major has been reported yet. But like you're saying, daylight is only here now. And you as mayor, were you woken up in the middle of the night and you had to spring into action, put on your mayoral chains and get to it? Absolutely. I was nearly shaken out of bed, but I had to pop in.

I did not put on my chains, though, but I did come into the office. We've been going flat out for the last six, seven hours, just making sure we talk to NEMA all the time, get the right messages out. And now that the tsunami alert has been lifted, we can go out and see what our wastewater pipes look like. Is our stormwater still intact? What our roads look like? So our teams will be going out now to look for structural damage. I thought it was really good. I heard you on the news before. And you were saying that the residents, the locals, whenever they feel a slight shake, boom, they're up to higher ground instantly.

Well, that's fantastic because we try to teach our kids at school if it's long or strong, be gone. Because if it's a local earthquake, there will be no time. You need to self-evacuate if you're in the tsunami inundation zone. So I am proud that people decided, yes, I am going to better be safe than sorry and they self-evacuated to higher ground. Oh, well, thank you so much for talking to us this morning. You take care. We really appreciate it. Yeah, I'm going to know how busy this morning is for you, all right? Hey, thanks a lot. We'll catch up later. 20 minutes time.

We are nailing this new stuff. I think we're going to turn this show into a hard-hitting current affairs program for Monday. Well, it's not working out trying to do some light comedy. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Spy.

The WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. Integrity. Credibility. Respect. Three things you won't be getting in this news update, but Juliet's here with Spy. What's been happening in the world of entertainment?

So the Harry and Meghan Oprah interview, we officially know in New Zealand when and where we can watch it. It's going to be on Tuesday at 7.30pm on 3 and 3 now, and they've released another trailer for it where Meghan slams the firm, as she calls it. How do you feel about the palace hearing you speak your truth today? I don't know how they could expect that after all of this time we would still just be silent if there is an active role

that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us. And if that comes with risk of losing things, I mean, there's a lot that's been lost already. Jeez, they do well with that music. I know I've said it before, but that was different dark music, wasn't it? I hope it's not like a movie where all the good bits are in the trailer.

Oh, probably it's going to be. Do you reckon she was talking about suits? You know, talking about the firm, the law firm? Yeah, differently. Maybe, you know, that's been taken out of context. They perpetuated falsehoods. They said I was a lawyer. I actually hadn't got the bar.

And when it was about, you know, Harvey Specter lit or whatever the law firm was in suits. So, you know, maybe that's the firm because that was the firm there. Now, I struggle to believe that the firm, a.k.a. Harry's family, would start spreading lies about him. That's his family. I know. Wouldn't you agree?

You'd think so. I mean, maybe people associate around the outsides. Maybe that's a different conversation. When you break it down, the rumours, none of them are about Harry. They're all about her. Yeah. They're all about the way that she mistreated

potential staff that were working for them. Do you know what? See, she gives that. She says that, but then I'm like, I want to know specifics, like who in the palace and what did they say? And don't just say that, but I really hope it deep dives into the specifics,

although it probably won't, but you know? Someone raised a really good point that Harry and Meghan all just, they wanted their privacy, that's why they went away to America to lead a quiet life away from the media but in doing so they're about to conduct

their 170th media interview yeah it was great they've done James Corden they've done Oprah they've done quite a lot but yeah

each to their own it's their decision to make and including now but you're right it does slightly contradict what you thought was the point of them going to America.

But I guess they want to tell their story, so good on them. That's fine. That's fine. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Great to have you with us.

We had quite the funniest moment, I think, I've experienced at this radio station happened after the show yesterday. We had a meeting with Boss Todd, our boss, and he looked a little flummoxed, didn't he, heading into the meeting. You could tell there was something

on his mind. Yeah. He's like, if you could just excuse me, I'm just going to do something. Well, so it's weird because we're in, there's only us in the office right now.

Yeah, I was like, what do you need to do? It's like empty. Yeah. Yeah, and so he's like, oh, I meant to be at another meeting. Another meeting. We're like, oh, okay. Well, that's fine. We can wait. He's like, yeah yeah and so he uh he's like oh i mean uh we need to be at another meeting another meeting we're like oh okay uh well that's fine no we can we can wait he's like no no no i can run them both at the same time we're like oh okay how's this gonna work so it turns out it was

a zoom meeting that he was meant to be on genius play here logs into the zoom meeting okay we're going is he going to talk to us and it's going to be quite confusing, isn't it? Yeah. It logs into the Zoom meeting, so it looks like he's appeared in the Zoom meeting, and then just puts his hat on an office chair in front of the camera. Out in the empty office. So it looks like his head is just looking down the whole time. And then he just came back and had his meeting with us. Well, what happens if they go to him for a question? They're like, hey, Todd, what do you think about that?

He just looks like he's asleep or dead. But where's his body if he's just got a hat on and off his head? I don't know. Oh, Todd's got the camera angle wrong on the camera again.

It was a classic Weekend at Bernie's situation. But again, during our meeting you could always tell there was something on his mind and it was his other meeting that he was running outside.

I think he was messaging. He was part of that. He was part of the messaging and people would be messaging specific things but then he'd come back with very vague responses like, ha ha, oh, tell me about it. And this went on. It's such a, such a, such a thing to say, yeah.

But what a lockdown hack. Yeah, it's pretty good. You can look like you're in a meeting and you don't even have to be there. Zoom. Thank you. I think we talked about this once but someone overseas recorded themselves

basically nodding and looking at the Zoom meeting and then found a way to put that on loop on their Zoom call. And I was like, genius. So they're just like looking like they're really attentive and they weren't even there for the whole Zoom meeting. I know a lot of kids have been homeschooled. You just mute your teacher. Walk off and do whatever you want.

Midway through the class. Yeah, well hopefully it is the last couple of days of lockdown for the 09 region. But we wanted to know what is your lockdown learning? A friend of mine the other day, she thought her husband was on like a voice call, a conference call

because she could hear it going. He saw it was from the phone, didn't realise it was a Zoom call. So walked into the kitchen just in a bra doing some stuff and then realised, oh, I'm in the back of a Zoom shot right now to the office.

You never want to do a background bra shot in mid-meeting, do you? No. That happened to a friend of ours, a friend of Jen's actually, my wife. She took a photo of mountains outside her window when she was on holiday. Yeah. What she hadn't factored in was the reflection from the window

was showcasing other mountains on her chest. And she sent the thing out but hadn't noticed. Oh, geez. So, yeah, lockdown learnings, what have I learned? I've just learned that basically I've got no self-control when it comes to fast food intake and Heineken intake during lockdown. Oh, you were saying this yesterday. You're like, oh, you've been drinking.

Has everyone else been drinking every night? And everyone's like, oh, no, not really. No, well, because we've been- You're like, oh, you've been drinking. Has everyone else been drinking every night? And everyone's like, oh, no, not really. No, because we've been- You're like, oh, lockdown, lockdown. But producer Ben, producer Humphrey says like, well, your life has really changed. No, our schedule hasn't changed. Yeah, you're coming to work and then you go home

and your family's at home and you've got to stay in lockdown. But you really, like, what's different for you? Maybe it's just a convenient excuse. Like I keep saying to Jen, I was like, reset Monday. We'll reset Monday. Back into the system on Monday. Yeah, back into the routine. It's lockdown.

So what are your lockdown learnings? Love to get your calls on 0800. We'll go to Julie. You're on for the capital. More energy, Julie. Lockdown learning, what was it? I think mine's mostly about food. just no comfort eating and keep things simple I'm still trying to lose the weight from the first lockdown

Oh me too, I chucked on a cheeky five, it's been hanging around me He had these pants that he kept saying have you taken these pants in us again? because I keep our suits, we've got our matching suits. He's pranking me He's made my clothes smaller I haven't pranked your pants. You took them to a tailor.

God, these are not my ones. These must be your ones. They're not my ones. We had a little marital disagreement, didn't we? About the pants. Yeah, you took them to a prank tailor. Who's wearing the pants in the relationship? Well, not Jono. Because he can't fit into them. Hang on, you chills.

Have a wonderful weekend, eh? Yes, awesome. Thank you. From Auckland Kate You're on Lockdown Learnings What do you have? Hey I've learned not to start a bottle of wine Before 5pm Because then it always turns into a two bottle night

Oh right yeah And a tough morning And so when were you starting In the dark days, in the trenches? Just before five, maybe four. Oh, that's not too bad. That's, yeah, that's respectable. I mean, it's almost five o'clock somewhere, right?

Yeah, here. I always love that excuse. It's five o'clock somewhere, but you're like, yeah, it's 9.30 in the morning here, though. And that's what we need to focus on. Yeah, right now. It's a great excuse though isn't it

I know a lot of breakfast announcers because you get up so early so they're always like they're on at like 10 o'clock you're like

what are you doing it's my lunchtime it's my lunchtime yeah well it's everyone else's morning tea time you look like you've got a serious problem

you're drunk in the office Jono another text here 4487 I've learnt during lockdown that my wife is the ultimate multitasker, working on one computer and teaching the children the other time.

And I am shocking at multitasking. Yeah, well, that's probably quite true. Tell you what I learned, actually, is, you know, when you do the workouts on YouTube. Have you done any of those? Yeah. You know those, Jules? I've learned that the only time I appreciate ads on YouTube

are when they interrupt my YouTube workout. I'm like, actually, I'm not skipping that one. Give me more, if anything. Hang on, Grammarly. Yeah, hang on. Grammarly. Usually I'm cursing Grammarly. That's the grammar I'm using towards Grammarly,

but when it's during a workout, make the ad longer. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. If you're waking up this morning, you might be waking up to the news that a massive 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand around 2.30 last night.

Felt all over the country. Yeah, really scary stuff. One lady phoned through to Newstalk ZB was very, very shaken. The biggest one I've ever felt. It went on and on and on and on in the old stone house. I didn't know where to stand because it's all rock. Oh, poor thing.

Yeah, very scary. A tsunami warning was issued, but the land warning has now been lifted, so I guess that's good news. Some got evacuated near the coastal towns, but they're now allowed to come home by the sounds of it. Yeah, Roger Ball from Civil Defence, he said all those that did evacuate can shoot back home.

We did issue, as you know, a national warning for evacuations in specific parts. I can give you an update now, and we're now in a position that we can lift that evacuation advice, and that means people who have evacuated from their homes can now safely return home. Jeez, this has been some professional broadcasting. I mean...

I didn't know you said that. Like, send that off to someone, Juliet. I don't know, I don't know. This has been some top-notch stuff. Especially for us. We've got from our news department. In fact, you are our news department this morning. Rachel Jackson-Lees, nice to have you in the studio. Good morning. I love it when from our news department, in fact, you are our news department this morning, Rachel Jackson-Lees.

Nice to have you in the studio. Good morning. I love it when Ben says news department. It sounds like we have 40 reporters out there. But you're doing all the heavy lifting, Rachel. You felt the earthquake. I did. And it's, I mean, a bit like Julia, I sleep like a log.

So it was unusual for me to wake up to that. And I woke up my husband because it went on for ages. And I said, earthquake, earthquake. And he said, nah, nah, nah, it's gone on too long to be a quake and rolled over and went back to sleep. So what do you think it was? And I just lay there freaking out. Maybe the kids at the end of the bed coming in too.

That's a classic husband, just go back to sleep. It's 3am, I'm tired. But it went on for a long time. It really did rattle for a really long time. And you do because in Auckland you think, well, I'm not likely to feel that. So you go through all the crazy scenarios in your head as to what could be making this.

Is this the rest of the New Zealand hating on Auckland? The sun just shaked the city? Yeah, but I did look around thinking, oh, there'll be a child at the end of the bed or jumping on the bed. They've come in, what are they doing? And no, there was none of that. And then it just goes deathly quiet again. So, you know, wow, that was,

and I just lay there thinking. And there were no aftershocks? Well, there have been actually. So, we probably wouldn't have felt them in Auckland. But, so the first quake, it has actually been downgraded to a 7.1 from a 7.3. That's still classed as severe. So, that one was just before Hapas too. Since then, there have been 16 aftershocks. They've all been east of Te Araroa, which is where it was centred. So all of the aftershocks have been around,

averaging about 4.5. One of them was 5.2. So still rattling out there. So if you're in that part of the country, they probably have felt those other ones rolling through. It's a little bit disconcerting. So the tsunami warning for land has been lifted, which is good, but there's still like a marine warning.

Yeah, so they say don't go to the beach and that's for most parts of the North Island. But a lot of people tend to just... They do. They love going to the beach in their systems. As soon as they hear that, they think, well, let's go and see. Let's go to the beach.

I said, don't go, I'll go. It's like, don't go to the supermarket and panic buy it. I want to go to the supermarket. And you get the crazy surfers they think, well, let's go and see. Don't go, I'll go. Don't go to the supermarket and panic buy it. I want to go to the supermarket. And you get the crazy surfers who think, oh, those would be amazing waves. Let's go out this morning. But the advice is don't. They're saying it's unpredictable and that the first waves that come through are not necessarily the biggest.

So that could be, you know, some surges, not tsunami. So as we say, that tsunami warning has been lifted, but the unpredictable currents for at least the rest of the morning. Moments like this, so you really realise we're at the hands of Mother Nature. Yeah. Especially a small island down the end of the world, you know. So, jeez. Yeah, and people in that East Cape area, they're used to it.

They know what a quake feels like. And the mayor there said people just, before even getting a warning from civil defence they just immediately go to higher ground because they know. Oh really? Yeah so she said

that her town a lot of people in her town just immediately went to higher ground and just waited until they could hear that it was safe and they could go back home.

It's amazing where it was felt too. You look at the civil defence map of people that registered that they felt it and it's all over New Zealand and the Chatham Islands it was felt everywhere

all over the country. Even someone in Christchurch rang through and said that they felt it. So a lot of people in North Island but also down south as well. And then I heard the civil defence spokesperson saying, if it goes on too long, you better get gone. Is that right? That's what he said. Is that the quote?

Does it sound like I just made it up? Does it sound like you're trying to come up with a slogan or something for what you should do? But that probably does make sense. I think you said something along those lines. Yeah, I don't think you said it. You probably said it a lot more eloquently than you. Thank you, Rachel.

We'll have you back in after 7 o'clock, if that's all cool, to update everyone throughout the morning. Yes, I think now that people are starting to wake up, I think they can go and assess damage. At this point, we haven't had any reports of damage, which is really good news. But as I say, I guess it takes a little time in the morning for people to get out and about and go and check that everyone's okay.

But at this point, it doesn't look to be like there's mass damage on land. Thanks, Ray. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal land. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Of course, the news this morning,

the massive 7.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of New Zealand, the east coast of New Zealand about 2.30 last night. Thinking of everyone that fell, does that sound like a scary night for many people? Yeah, gee whiz. But the good thing is that the tsunami warning has been lifted and if you did evacuate your house, you can go back to it.

And no reports of damage so far, which is good. So fingers crossed that stays the way throughout the morning. But yes, too. And if you are still out, you probably know to go back to your house by now, wouldn't you? I think so. You would hope so. You're still on top of a hill or something right now.

Yeah. It's safe to go back home. But geez, it would be terrifying, wouldn't it? Oh, no. Yeah. Particularly, though, even when your mum texts before, you know. And it's like, yeah, for residents that felt the big quake and cry, you know. Yeah.

It didn't take much for them to wake up, I don't think, in Christchurch. Here's some other news, though, from New Zealand and around the world. Scrolling through your feed. Listen, if Ben doesn't have the details on the news story, you can rest assured he'll just make them up, and that's why we get him to host Scrolling Through Your Feed. The other big news story around the world from overnight, Prince Philip had a successful heart procedure

at the London Hospital, Buckingham Palace have said. So 99 years old. I mean, I just think modern technology is amazing. I mean, someone can have a heart procedure at 99 and still be, you know, fighting through and look all good. It's incredible, eh? Yeah, it is incredible. My dad had like a bypass

and the amount of bypasses that they do throughout New Zealand every day, like it's a major surgery, but they're just churning them out, mate. Churning them out like cans of peaches. Like we do a pink song on the hits. Try pumping them out. As many pink songs as we play,

heart operations are going on. Well, that's good. 99, eh? He's got 99 problems and his heart's not one of them now. Not one of them anymore, so that's good news. I'll tell you what, Harry and Megan certainly are. That's one of the problems. What's the countdown

to this big interview? When's it happening? Well, it's being broadcast Tuesday night on 3 at 7.30 New Zealand time. Oh, that's New Zealand time, right? Yeah. But that is actually about over 24 hours after it actually airs in the States. So I'm going to have to try to secretly find a streaming link so I can watch it live.

Just to legally download it. It's what we all do, but we never admit it. I'm looking forward to it being on just for the fact we can stop talking about it. No, but then there's going to be all the post-match. Oh, yeah. You're going to have more body language experts coming out of the cracks, aren't you?

Yeah, that's true. And Rod Stewart, the legendary singer, of course, was married to New Zealander Rachel Hunter for many years. So a bit of a thing to do with the America's Cup where Rod's got involved and he had a message for New Zealand that played last night on One News. I've got a real weak spot for New Zealand because two of my children are actually Kiwis

and one of them's behind the camera right now. It's absolutely wonderful. The boat race is going ahead and you deserve it with all these horrible things going on throughout the world. It's just a shame the fans couldn't be there to cheer on their favourite crew, as it were. So please join me in a worldwide sing-along for one of my fantastic hits called Sailing.

So enjoy the race, guys. Oh, good on Rod. So everyone's got to sing along to Rod Stewart's Sailing. Yeah, and I think all going well with the COVID alert levels. People will go down to the waterfront in Auckland. They have that on the screen as well. I guess they all sing along. And they want to get like a big choir together and sing along.

Are we all singing along all over the world? There's going to be internet delay. Well, I guess he's probably leading it and we're singing along as well. But what if there's some lag?

Like, you know when we try and do sing-alongs on the radio, there's a half a second delay on the phones. It never syncs up. Well, I'm sure they've thought about those things.

I'm sure. Maybe Rod hasn't, mate. Join in for an unsynchronised sing-along. Jeez, Rod, he's such a charismatic character, isn't he? Yeah. He feels like the type of guy, and Juliet, correct me if I'm wrong, that if he broke up with you, you would still love him, you know?

You'd just be like, oh, Rod, you know? He's one of those. He's sitting there in his tuxedo in his house, and he's, you know, he looks great, too. He's a bit of a charmer. He's a charmer, yeah. Like, oh, Roddy, he cheated on me with five girls, but I love him.

You've got to love Rod. That's just Rod. That's classic Rod. We were actually doing some research a while ago. Don't ask us how we found this out, but he loves his model trains. He's got like, he's a model train enthusiast. Yeah, we went deep into a Rod hole.

And he's got like a whole basically set up, you know, and he drives his little trains around. He dresses up like a conductor. I think he does. Doesn't he have the replica for the London Underground? He does.

Yeah, in his house. It's really impressive. Have a gook. Have a look. Have a gook? Yeah. For someone who's like a rock and roll star

it seems a very unusual hobby but he loves it. So what are you wanting to call him then? Classic Rod. Oh Rod, we love him. We love him. We love him. And that is some of the news from New Zealand and around the world.

Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no. The home of yeah, no. She'll be right, and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Let's look at some entertainment news.

Spy. No, what's up? SpyDoco.nz. All right, she's waiting to... Oh, no, I did that one, didn't I? Here's another one here. The queen of gossip. She's also the queen of feta, tomato,

and avocado on toast. Isn't every morning having that? Every morning. It is delicious. You make a cafe-quality breakfast for yourself every morning, Producer Juliet. I know, and as they say, as the boomers say,

I'll never be able to buy a house because of it. Well, you enjoy it. You enjoy that feta and avocado. I will. Now, David Schwimmer from Friends has finally confirmed when the Friends reunion will be filmed. It hasn't even been filmed yet. It was meant to be filmed in May last year,

but obviously the pandemic delayed it. They're going to be filming it in a little over a month, and there's going to be a portion of it that'll be filmed outside for sort of safety reasons because I guess if there's inside it's more... A collapsing roof

or something? Yeah. A light falling on their head from the ceiling? Is that because of the pandemic? Yeah, I don't know. Maybe they're easily

social... They can social distance easier outside or something like that. You can also socially distance inside. I know. I don't know why

they're doing it because of that. Oh, anyway. I feel like we've been talking about this for so long. Oh, good God. I know. I know. But finally. So it's basically, if you haven't heard, well, where have you been over the last year?

No, 10 years. Yeah. This reunion has been spoken about for over a decade. So it's not a new episode as such. It's just getting the cast all back together for the first time on TV and talking about the show. Yeah, it's like a sit-down, chitty chit-chat. But, jeez, just get it on the air.

Or do it over Zoom or something. Jeez, just get it out there. Or wrap it up. I mean, they probably want to clear it from their calendars. This thing is hanging over our heads. Can you come to that Friends reunion coming up sometime? I don't know if I can commit to what you want me to do. Yeah, so finally it'll be, and then it will pass, and then we'll all be happy.

Yeah. They did a similar sort of thing with the cast of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, didn't they? Yeah, they got their back together. And they did that quick. They just said, we're going to do a reunion. They did it, knocked it out, put it on Netflix. Bob's your uncle. They've all moved on. Do you know what? It could be a little publicity stunt. They could be like we're going to do a reunion. They did it, knocked it out, put it on Netflix. Bob's your uncle. They've all moved on.

Do you know what? It could be a little publicity stunt. They could be like, oh, it's getting delayed. It's getting delayed. It's getting delayed just so people keep talking about it. And then more publicity

when it finally does happen. Do we really need to get them all back together? What is there to address? I don't know. There's no scandal. I mean, some of the, yeah, anyway,

I mean, it's been a popular show, maybe if they did it again, and now they would have done it slightly differently because times have moved on in some aspects, but, yeah, anyway. And coming in 2036, the cast of Jono and Ben will be reuniting for a tell-all. For 2036, no.

Have you got time in 2036? Yeah, no, no, we'll see. We'll talk about it all the time until it happens. And comedian actress Amy Schumer, they're over in the States, kind of in a lockdown situation as well still. And she posted a video on Instagram of what life is really like with a two-year-old.

She's got one two-year-old called Jean. And just picture this. Kitchen. Mess. Like an absolute pigsty. This is what I imagine your flat to be like, Julia. Oh, yeah. Very close.

Yeah. Actually, like, we were worried not having childcare, but, like, we're actually, like, doing really well, and we're, like, I think we're a lot more capable of a lot more than people. You know when you go to someone's house, they have a dinner party, and then after the party is all the pots and pans are piled up And you wake up the next morning And you deal with it

It's like that on steroids Their kitchen Oh yeah Do you always find You go to someone's place for dinner And you're always like I'll help you clean up And you're always in your mind going

Please say Oh no it's fine Yes Oh no no We'll do that Yeah I'll help you You need to look like you want to help

And most people say Oh no we'll get to that It's alright you guys But then Oh that'd be great want to help. And most people say, oh, no, we'll get to that, we'll tell you guys, you know. But then, oh, that'd be great. You're like, oh. A few times people

have said that, you're like, oh, I really didn't want to do that. And they're all those people who don't have a dishwasher.

Yeah. And you're stuck there for it. It's like, how did you use 19 pots to make what would you say? Have you pulled

out every utensil your kitchen owns and I have to wash it all down? Yeah, you're right, Ben. No, you never want yes to that question. But you always want to look wash it all down. Yeah, you're right Ben. No, you never want yes to that question. But you always want to look like you're helping. Be polite. It's polite. And there's five more you can answer

that stuff kind of NZ. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now overnight, many people waking up this morning, all were woken up in the middle of the night around about 2.30. There was a massive earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand's east coast, felt all over the country.

They originally issued a tsunami warning. Then that was lifted. Then there was a warning for people going out into the sea. That was again lifted. Well, just a hand, a new tsunami warning has been issued following a second earthquake off the Kumadek Islands. So people near the coast from the Bay of Islands to Whangarei to... From Matata to Tolonga Bay and Great Barrier Island.

Yeah, so they must move immediately to the nearest highest ground out of all the tsunami evacuation zones or as far inland as possible. Oh, my God, and eight's big. Eight's big on the Kermadec. Yeah, jeez. Do people live on the Kermadec? I don jeez. Do people live on the Kermadecs? I don't know if anyone actually lives in them. Producer Humphrey, open your mouth.

You were about to say something there. I think there's visitors to the island, so a quick Google sort of suggested around six people are on the islands at any one time. Jeez, you're a spear of thought for those people, don't you? Yeah, well, hopefully there's no one actually living there at the moment right now. We'll have more news

as it comes to hand at nine o'clock this morning, but a strange old day today. Yeah, in the meantime, far north, evacuate, get to higher ground right now. Yeah, everyone hopefully is okay. I guess the earthquake's probably not been felt in New Zealand, that one, but the potential waves that may come through to New Zealand over the next

couple of hours. Now, is that considered an aftershock? Oh, the, yeah, because it's been a couple of... The eighth earthquake? You imagine it would be. You imagine... I'm looking on the GeoNet website here. They label earthquakes. So the one that we got at 2.30 this morning,

that was considered strong. And then they sort of shame the rest of the earthquakes. They're like, weak, weak earthquake, weak air, weaker, weakest. And the poor earthquake's like, I'm giving it my best. Jeez, yeah. So hopefully everyone stays safe this weekend and hopefully the warning will be withdrawn at some stage.

But at the moment, that is the warning for those areas in New Zealand. Yeah, keep safe. 7.45 Monday is back. We've got five grand to give away with five words. Unfortunately, no cash out the door this week, but we'll be unloading it next week. I've got a good feeling. You keep safe.

Yeah, have a good weekend. Hopefully, we get some good news at four o'clock this afternoon. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from six on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.