Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 08 - It's The Day We Celebrate The Incredible Wahine In Our Lives!

Episode Date: March 7, 2021

It's International Women's Day today and we were joined by the powerhouse that is Chloe Swarbrick, she's only 26 and has achieved some awesome things in her life. We chatted to her about the importance of a day like today and the women that have inspired her throughout her life. We also had another winner for 5 Words for $5K! Finally, producer Juliet overheard a conversation in the office about a woman who isn't a big fan of her engagement ring after her partner recently proposed. Does she tell her fiancé or does she suck it up?! Enjoy the poddy!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. Hey, welcome to the 8th of March. It's a Monday.

Listen, everyone's back in the office today. Auckland's headed back to level two. We're back, baby. Kiss me. Kiss me. Kiss me. Well, last week, it was a very dramatic end to the week. New Zealand not only had the COVID, you know, we're waiting on that big announcement. There was a potential tsunami from earthquakes off, you know, quite close to New Zealand, I guess, geographically.

Yeah, the Kermadecs, they... Do you know, I was reading the newspaper and they were saying that there was meant to be a tour party on the Kermadecs, but they didn't go. There was going to be a whole load of students, some iwi, and they didn't go because of COVID. Oh, wow. So they would have been on the island.

Not to say that anything might have happened or might not have happened, but it'd be terrifying if you're stuck on there in an 8.1 ben yeah i'm no earthquake expert or uh what do they call them seismologists and bless you uh-oh i'm no earthquake expert uh what do they actually call earthquake experts are they seismologists so yeah i feel like they're so seismologists you can tell i'm not an earthquake expert because I'm gurgling. Gurgling what an earthquake expert is. Expert, what is one? What's an earthquake?

A seismologist. Oh, there you go. There we go. You're no seismologist, are you? No, because I don't even know what it does. Yeah, so we got through that. And today, New Zealand a little bit closer back to normal today, which is nice. And we rolled into the show, and five words for 5K.

What an episode of that. What a start to the week. Was it good? Was it bad? We won't tell you either way. We'll have to keep you. I don't want to spoil. It was the most exciting one that I've been part of for many weeks, that one. So, yeah, today's very exciting on the show.

Yes, and also it was something called Office Goss that we've brought to the program, because Producer Juliette spends a lot of time out in the office, overhearing conversations, eavesdropping, and so she's stealing those conversations and putting them on the radio. And today's one, it was about an engagement ring, which I thought, there's a girl who has been proposed to by her partner. She said yes, but she doesn't like the engagement ring. What do you do?

Do you ride it out or do you hit him up? Yeah. You said ride it out. Well, I was like, give it a chance at least, because obviously someone's put a lot of, you know, love and, you know, like gone to a lot of effort. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of blood diamonds that have gone into that ring. So, yeah, blood, sweat and tears have gone into that ring.

Did you pick out Amanda's engagement ring? Yeah, I did. A friend of mine, she came and helped me do it. And I went off and you got to choose which part and put it together and stuff. Did you take the friend because you weren't certain that you knew what to do? Yeah, I just kind of thought it would be helpful having her opinion because she just... A good one to blame too. Oh, she said.

Yeah, she just got engaged, you know, like not about six months before that as well. And then I had to carry it over with me because I was meeting up with Amanda overseas and she was starting her OE and going off for there and I was meeting up with her three months later. So I took that over in a little box for the right time to carry it around.

Did you know when the time was going to be? Well, I sort of had some sort of plans, but then I've spoken to this on the radio. There was one time I was getting the random search at one airport. Never random. Never random. It's just like, this guy looks like a shabby,

shabby piece of work. We'll scan him. And the guy was going very meticulously. I had a book, and he was looking through each page, flicking through, and I was like, oh my God, this guy's going to detail. And he's like, I want to have a look in your backpack. And I'm like, yeah, sure.

I opened it up. This was in customs, I think, in Prague or something. And then I was like, uh-oh, there's the ring. The ring's in there. Amanda's standing next to me. She doesn't know that it's in there. And I was like, oh, this is going to be the moment. He's going to go, what's this?

And then I'm going to have to get engaged in the middle of like a- And everyone in the airport, in the security, starts applauding. In my head, I'm like, is this the way we want it to- Good story, but probably not. So I went, Amanda, I'm real thirsty. Can you get a drink? And she's like, oh, maybe there is something dodgy in his bag. I'm thirsty. Go to the toilet

and flush the stuff. Flush the stuff. And then I had to explain to the guy as Amanda walked off that, oh yeah, pulled out the ring and he was like, oh yeah. So you could tell why I was getting quite nervous. I think he thought he was going to find something a lot more exciting than a wedding ring. He was like, oh, I thought I was going to get more runs on the board.

But oh well. Can you just say you've got drugs on you so I can tell my boss I busted someone? Yeah. Hey, enjoy the podcast. Enjoy Monday. And I'll tell you what else you should enjoy. What's that? Each other's company.

Oh. You know? That's nice. Be nice. Be kind. There you go. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

Now today is International Women's Day, a day about celebrating women's achievements and also calling out inequality. And they have themes every year, things that we should focus more on. This year, celebrating the tremendous effort by women around the world in shaping a more equal future and a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now let's call a spade a spade, shall we? Women are genetically better versions of human beings than men. Yeah, exactly. Hands down. Hands down. Juliet, we said at the top of the show, this thing, this program would fall to pieces without you. No, I'm sure you guys would be able to handle it.

No, you're calm, you're relaxed, you're wise beyond your years, Juliet. Oh, thank you. We're very fortunate to be surrounded by amazing women, not just the workplace, but also home in our lives as well. You know, my family, my mum was one of six girls. I've obviously married Amanda. My wife is amazing. I've got two daughters, only daughters.

My sister's only got daughters. My and his brothers are only got daughters. Sounds like you're moaning that you're outnumbered. No, no, it's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. It's incredible. It is, you know, and you look No, no, it's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. It's incredible. It is. And you look at,

I'll just look at Jennifer, my wife, who is working up until 10 o'clock every night with the kids this morning, rushing in the peak hour traffic. I honestly don't know how she does it sometimes because I'm a shambles. And it doesn't miss a beat.

Thank you. Thank you for agreeing that I'm a shambles. Can we take away from this that it's International Women's Day and Jono's a complete shambles. And doesn't miss a beat. Thank you. Thank you for agreeing that I'm a shambles. Can we take away from this that it's International Women's Day and Jono's a complete shambles. Yeah, we are fortunate to be in New Zealand. We're such amazing New Zealand female role models. The Prime Minister, you've got artists like Benny, sports people like Valerie Adams,

and scientists like Nano Girl, epidemiologists like Dr Susie Wilds, and also Green Party MPs Chloe Swalbrick, who we're going to be speaking to next. Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Today, International Women's Day, a day about celebrating a woman's achievements and also calling out inequality and joining us right now,

an inspirational politician from New Zealand. We're so very lucky to have her in New Zealand. What she's achieved at just 26 years old is just incredible. Kia ora, good morning, MP Chloe Swilbrick. Oh, morning. I'm doing well, Matt. How are you? Morning.

What time do you get up? Most weekdays. It is around six to go to the gym, but I am skipping that and making it later just for you, mate. Oh, listen, we're holding off the cardio this morning. Thank you so much. How have you been? I've been good. I've been good, mate. Oh, listen, we're holding off the cardio this morning. Thank you so much. How have you been? I've been good.

I've been good, yeah. It's been a bit of a tumultuous week, to say the least. Yeah, it was wild. Yeah, the edge of Auckland Central happens to be a great barrier, even though it's geographically closer to Coromandel Cairns. So, you know, with the tsunami warming coming in on Friday, yeah, that was an interesting end of the week.

Everyone's safe. All our dams may be filling up. So, you know, there's a silver lining. Silver lining. And I love it how you're like, sort of passively, you're like, it was closer to Coromandel Thames, they should be looking after it. But somehow it falls on me. I'm very happy to have Ultaire Great Barrier. Look, there's a reason

that Nicky K has been talking about going off to be a hippie on that island after retiring now Chloe hey happy International Women's Day to you

oh thanks thanks for noticing thanks for that that's alright now as someone that many young girls would look up to who do you

who do you find inspiring oh I've actually been reflecting on one of the incredible women in my life just over the past few days, because it was, and this is not intended to be at all harrowing, but it was the anniversary of her one-year anniversary of her death a few days ago. And that's Jeanette Fitzsimons. You know, she was the founding kind of co-leader of the Greens going into our Parliament.

And as somebody who personally, myself, I didn't come from politics and, you know, I wasn't raised on activism, entering a space like the one, the weird and wonderful one that I found myself in, having somebody like her, such a matriarch, who didn't at all try and intimidate or take up space, but led with just immense amounts of empathy. Yeah, it was just, I am beyond grateful for that.

Politically, New Zealand have had many great female leaders and still do. You know, as you say, right now, we've got Jacinda Ardern, we've got Judith Collins, female leaders. Do you think the rest of the world is slowly catching up to New Zealand or going a bit too slowly for your liking? Well, interestingly, we have done well, as you say, with women in positions of visible leadership, but definitely when it comes to those women who are still on less than the

living wage and overrepresented and those kind of workspaces that have traditionally been considered as women's work, quote unquote, and having to fight for their wages to be increased. I still think we've got a way to go as far as other countries in the world. So, yeah, I guess definitely when it comes to us holding those women, those positions of leadership and recognising the value that women and women's perspectives bring to those places and spaces, and so we are definitely in one way leading the world, but we've also got to look in our own backyard

and do a bit of work there. Yeah, it's never easy looking at yourself as you speak to a radio show with two white men on it. Yeah. You're doing great, guys. You're doing great. Thank you, Chloe. So what would you like people to take away from today? Or what would you like people to take, you know, into tomorrow?

I mean, I understand that the theme of today's International Women's Day is about choose to challenge or something along those lines. But also, you know, oftentimes when I talk about International Women's Day, as is often the case on the old social media, you get a response about, oh, when's International Women's Day? Just so everybody knows, it happens to be on the 19th of November. So if you want to celebrate the men in your life, you've got a day for it. Not you today to go and rip down those who are inspiring.

Yeah, exactly. I'm glad you got my message too, Chloe. Oh, it's all in that subtext, mate. But no, in all seriousness, today, like any day, that's about looking at certain identities inside of society is, I guess, just about challenging the assumptions and looking those boldly in the face that surround any of those kind of characteristics that any of us hold

in a visible or invisible way. So just the assumptions that we make as society about what other people are capable of and the biases that we hold towards them, whether we know them or not because of how they present. So yeah, if anything I just hope as you said I think Jono that we

are looking at ourselves in the mirror today and figuring out how we behave and respond to other people. Oh Chloe, as someone we honestly admire and look up to congratulations on all the hard work that you've done and all the success that you've had and I'm

sure there's much more to come. Oh, there's definitely more fights to come. Yeah. Thank you so much, my friend. Have a great day.

Like us, yourself. See you, Chloe. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been

dragged into this. Jono and Pen, breakfast on the heads. The heads. Well, we just mentioned before, we're both so fortunate to be surrounded by so many amazing women in our lives at work and in our families,

and we thought we'd give you guys listening the opportunity to give a shout-out to the legendary woman in your life. That's right, and extra points if you actually shout the shout-outs. You know I'm always a fan of a high-volume shout-out, Ben. I mean, just look at our colleagues. Stacey Morrison's a mother, fluent in te reo, TV host, radio host.

When I was a child, I used to bug poor Stacey on a radio station where she was... Oh, she was on my film with Robert Rarkety. And I was 10 years old, and I'd phone them every morning. And listen, if it was me, I would tell that annoying kid to... Well, now you know how annoying that is, right? Yeah. And they were just so lovely. That's awesome.

And Estelle, again, a mother, a legend, won multiple radio awards. Estelle, genuine down-to-earth person. Anika Moore, musician. Hilarious. She's so funny. Mother again. Laura, too, has just given birth for the second time. Two tiny bubbles.

And I'm sure when Martin Guptill's away for like 49 months in a row, that would be really tough juggling the kids and work as well. Oh, she's amazing on the cricket too, Laura McGoldrick. She knows more about cricket than you. I know. And you're a nerd. You're a cricket nerd. Hilary Barry again, mother of the nation.

And she's also the mother to her children as well. Yeah, she's an actual mother. She's more like the cool auntie, I reckon. Hilary's amazing well. Yeah, she's an actual mother. She's more like the cool auntie, I reckon. She is a cool auntie. Hilary's amazing. I mean, she calls a spade a spade.

She calls out things. Even last week, she had a great tweet about the vaccine, you know. So, yeah. What you see is what you get with Hilary. Donna in accounts

who processes all invoices on time. I mean, the list goes on. The list goes on. Let's go to the phones. Olivia, shouting out to the legendary ladies in your life. Yes, yeah, I just want to give a huge shout out to my mum, of course.

And I also want to give a huge shout out to the woman that I live with who is helping me through my studies. Okay, now do it again but shouting, please. No, you don't have to literally shout out. What are you studying? I'm studying radio. Oh, good on you. Don't take our jobs, please.

Please. I'm very desperate. Clinging on to life here. Do you actually want me to shout it? Yeah, shout it. Say, I'm going to steal your job. Oh, no. You have a good one, Olivia.

Thank you. We'll go to Wellington. Sarah, welcome. You have a good one, Olivia. Thank you. We'll go to Wellington. Sarah, welcome. Legendary lady. Shout it out. I just want to shout out to my sister, Lisa. She's a legend. Oh, that's nice.

What does your sister do for you? She just makes me want to be a better person. She's a great mum. Oh, that's lovely. We'll take your word for it. We won't ask for any CV or any backup evidence there, Lisa the Legend. A lot of tests coming through too. My mum, who I'm an essential worker,

who basically moved into our house during the lockdown periods. Oh, because each year for International Women's Day, it is kind of themed. And this year, there's a special emphasis on, you know, women in particular have helped around the world navigate through COVID-19, and that's a great example of that, Jono, yeah? So, anyone, have a great day today,

and why don't you pay some special attention to the special women in your life today, too, for International Women's Day. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. So, hopefully not breaking anyone's hearts right now with this. Five words for 5K on the hits.

You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association. It's a really simple game to play. We do it every day at 7.45. If your five words match with our five words, you win $5,000. Yeah, let's bring in Mel. Welcome from Atea Muri. Welcome, Mel, to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Good morning. Good morning to you. You've been playing Five Words at home? Sure have. Yeah, how you been going? Because a lot of people do play along in their car or in their lounge or in their dining room or in their office or in their gymnasium

or on the bus. Yeah, a lot of people play along, I think is the point of that story. Mel, how have you been doing when you play along? I actually live in a bus off the grid and I am playing with my bus this morning. You play and you live in a bus?

That's awesome. Does the bus move or it's just one of the run-down buses that you've turned into a house? No, she's a beautiful bus and she moves. Oh, that's awesome. I tell you, I bet people love being stuck behind you on the road, Mel. They sure do. So you've been

playing along. Have you had any wins so far? I have had two. Oh, so you've done five out of five so far playing along? I have. Oh, well, hopefully that's a good sign going into today. Who do you want to go into our soundproof booth? Jono or Ben?

Jono today, please. Jono, he's coming back. He's won $5,000 for someone. Can we make it two? Jono's making his way across to the corner of our studio into the soundproof booth he goes. And here we go, Mel. I'm going to say five words.

You know how it works. You played along in your bus before and you tell us the first word that pops into your head. What word do you want to lock in? Today's first word is cash. Cash. Money.

Money. Money, yeah. Seems like the obvious one, but you should it. Yeah, I agree. Okay, your next word is meatballs. Meatballs. Spaghetti.

Oh, yeah. Spaghetti and meatballs. Makes sense. Yum. Salon. Like gonna get your hair did. Your hair did. Yeah. You go to a salon. Yeah. Something that Jono will feel like that's been put in there, especially

for him, as a joke, but it hasn't been. Your next word, Mel, is private. Private. Ooh. Hot? That's a good one. Okay. Oh, you're saying okay, Producer Juliet, like you had some other options? Yeah, yeah, no, but

that's... It works. It works. It does work. And your last word, yeah, no, but that's... It works. It works, right? It does work. And your last word, Mel, is purple. Ooh. Take your time. There's no rush. Maybe colour. Ooh, hang on.

Maybe purple rain. Ooh, okay. What are you going to go with? You got two options there? Let's go rain. Okay, Mel. They are your going to go with? You've got two options there. Oh, let's go Zane. Okay, Mel, they are your five words. I think pretty good. I think pretty good. I would probably guess most of those.

Yeah, they were some of the words pretty much very similar to what popped into my head. We're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth. He's coming back in with some pace. We're walking around the studio. Ready to win $5,000 so Mel can buy some new wheels for her bus that go round and round. Well, Jono has been thrown under the bus right now

because you are the person that is going to win or not win, Mel, $5,000. Come on, Jono. Come on, Jono. How do you think you went, Mel? Oh, I just threw whatever popped in my head out there. Pretty good. I think she head out there. Pretty good. I think she went pretty good.

Pretty good. I think you and Mel might make a good connection. There's a couple I'm maybe worried about, but that's always the way when there's lots of options for the word. But let's go. See how we go. First word I said to Mel today was cash. I'm going...

I've got two in my head. Can I flop them out there for you? Yeah, but you're going to have to decide on one if you want. If you want to say them out loud. I'm going cash machine. Okay, yeah. Or cash money. Yeah.

I reckon she would go on cash money. Oh, well done, well done. Did you go money? She went money. Jeez, I thought you were going to go cash machine there. It would have been all over at the start. Didn't even think of cash machine. So there you go, that's how the brain works.

Meatballs was the next word. Meatballs. Ben's always saying to people around the office, check out my... Don't make that about us, mate. It's not time for slander and lies. We'll talk about it after the show. Not for on-air.

Not for on-air. Not for on-air. I'm going to go spaghetti. Spaghetti meatballs. Yes, you would be right. We've got two from five. We're three words away from $5,000. Come on, Jono.

You can do this for Mel. I'm trying. I know, I know. Okay, the next word is salon. Salon. Salon. Beyonce sisters

pop into my head for some reason. But I'm going to go here. Yes, well done, Jono. And no I'm going to go here. Yes. Well done, Jono. And no one's going to bring up the obvious. Anyway, we've talked about it. Did he bring it up when I wasn't here?

No, we just said that Jono's going to feel like that was a loaded word. But it wasn't. Mel, this is the turning point. And I actually hate, you know what I'd rather? I'd rather let you down on word number one than word number four because it gets you...

Anyway. Okay, Josh Pryor. It is what it is. It is what it is. Your next word is private. Private. I've got two again. I've got plane or pass.

I'm going to lock in private parts. Oh! Yes! There he is. What a one. Okay. Oh, dear God, no. Okay, we're one word away from $5,000.

I'm going to put Mel on hold just because this is an important word. Oh, dear God. We don't want anyone whispering across it it's all on you my friend $5,000 for Mel Jono Pryor, the final word today in 5 words for 5k is purple

purple there's one that's just floating around in my head it's a Prince song. Purple Rain. No! What? Mel, you have won $10,000! Mel!

Oh, my God! What? What? A confetti cannon's just gone off in the studio. Mel! Oh, my God, Mel! Oh, my God! What? Wow! A confetti cannon's just gone off in the studio. Mel! Oh, my God, Mel! Oh, my God! Five grand.

How's that feel? Oh, my God, it's amazing. Oh! Jono, no one's more surprised than Jono. Oh, my God, Mel! Oh, I love you too, Mel! I didn't think private was the one I thought. There was private plane too, I thought. Oh, I love you too, Mel. I didn't think private was the one I thought. There was private plane too, I thought.

Oh, Mel. Five grand. No one is getting paid more in radio. In fact, you and Mike Hosking are the two highest paid people in radio right now, Mel. Right now today. Mel, what are you going to do with the money? Any idea? Well, my son's motorbike blew up not long ago and it's costed us a lot of money.

So I think I can put that back towards savings maybe and then think about it a bit maybe. Oh, Mel. Thank you so much for listening to us from your bus. I don't think we've ever spoken to anyone in a bus. And it's well done. My puppy just barked an approval, so. Oh, we've got the approval of the puppy,

the approval of Mel's son, and the approval of, wow. What a way to start the week. $5,000, a great start to the week. It can be done. Five words for 5K. Back again tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Millennial Mac's just tidying up. We gave away five grand today with the five words for $5,000 at quarter to eight. Millennial Max is tidying up all the confetti and glitter. What you don't factor in is very hard to tidy up glitter, isn't it? You can't sweep it. Clogs up the vacuum cleaner.

Yeah, this is like confetti cannon stuff. And it's, yeah. This made such a mess. We're never doing this again. No more celebrations. That's it. The party's off. No more money because Max doesn't

want to clean up glitter. Now Ben, actually last time I fired one of those cannons, remember? Fired at you and you were holding your daughter Sienna and there was a shard of metal. You've got to be careful about what you do with those. Don't fire a party cannon at someone. You weren't actually even firing at my face or anything like that.

It just shot off to the side and it was like... The shard of metal cut your hand, eh? He was holding Sienna, his daughter. Wow, dangerous. Actually, speaking of kids...

It's prank life, baby. It's what happens. First day back to school for many kids, particularly in the 09 region after a week of being homeschooled over the last week. Must be bloody unsettling, right?

Oh, we're going to be real tough for kids at the moment. You sort of had, you know, three days off the other week. Must be bloody unsettling, right? Oh, we're going to be real tough for kids at the moment. You sort of had, you know, three days off the other week and then they're off again and they're back on. It's almost worth just retiring from school for. Oh, this is too hard. Go and get a job or something.

But what I found is my daughter Sienna, who's just started intermediate, I was putting her to bed last night. She's like, oh, can you set my alarm before I go to sleep? I'm like, yeah, sweet. I was like, what time is it? She goes, 5.45. I'm like her to bed last night. She's like, oh, can you set my alarm before I go to sleep? I'm like, yeah, sweet. I was like, what time? She goes, 5.45. I'm like, 5.45? She's like, oh, I'm trying to be organised

this year. I'm like, yeah, that's great. But that's super. You've got two hours before she has to leave for school. What's she organising in the morning? Talk me through her morning rituals. Oh, yeah, well, she's actually pretty organised, as I was saying before. Sometimes I get up in the morning and I'm the only one because the first one up, she's made my lunch.

Put a note, and have a great day, love you, and stuff like that. I'm like, isn't that my job to be doing this? So she's taken on

those responsibilities. Now I know in the past you've enjoyed bullying your kids and calling them nerds. Did you call her a nerd last time? No, I was just like, no, we just sort of talked through it. I said,

it's great that you're getting up and getting organised, but do you need that much time? Because you don't want to be too tired for school. So we sort of talked through it. I said, oh, it's great that you're getting up and getting organised, but do you need that much time? Because you don't want to be too tired for school, you know? So we sort of, you know. Do you need a three-hour lead in? Yeah, she's like, I don't want to be rushed. I understand you don't want to be rushed in the morning,

but I think it's pretty cool that, you know, I feel like she's made that step to intermediate this year, you know, and sort of gone, okay, I need to be, I want to be a bit more organised. I want to try these new things. I was telling you the other day, she's trying a whole lot of new sports. Sometimes she has them. I said, I've signed up for softball. When?

Tomorrow morning. Have you played it before? Nope. But I'll give it a go. You're like, oh, okay. Well, we could have talked about this in the afternoon and at least tried to, you know. That's the thing with kids sports.

You don't need any skill to play it. She got on the team. She got on the softball team. She's the number one pitcher. I text her like before, yeah, because I was at work going, watch this YouTube tutorial, three minutes on softball. She's the number one pitcher. I text her, like, before, yeah, because I was at work going, watch this YouTube tutorial, three minutes on softball. She's like, thanks, watch that.

Gave it a crack and got on the team. I was like, oh, that's pretty cool. Well, is that a good sign of the team that they're just letting people in? Well, yeah, that too. I was like, oh, you know. The people that didn't, no. See, he loves bullying kids, told you. Loves it.

Loves it. Oh, well, good on her. Good on her and all the kids getting back to school today. Yeah, I think it, no. See, he loves bullying kids, told you. Loves it. Loves it. Oh, well, good on it. Good on it. And all the kids getting back to school today. Yeah, I think it's good because, as I say, it's been so unsettling. You kind of forget about this. And I think, oh, I was going to talk about this later in the week, but I can mention it now.

You know, like on Friday, like I was at home watching that wall-to-wall coverage of the tsunami, you know, and you find it interesting as an adult, you put it on. But you don't sort of think for a second what it actually is potentially doing to the kids. Because the kids are at home. And then Indy, my youngest daughter, came up to me and she was crying and she was like, I'm scared and gave me a big hug.

And I was like, oh, the tsunami is coming. And I'm like, oh my God, what is that? They've gone through COVID and they've gone through all those things, all those huge, heavy things. Absolutely. For adults, we're dealing with that and we're still struggling to deal with that. But for kids, you're like, oh my God, this is the world they're living in right now. We are like, don't touch that.

There's germs. Don't touch your hands and all that. Don't look at Aucklanders. It's like, geez, there's a whole lot for these kids there, you know, to deal with. There's a lot to take in. You're right. So I thought later on the week, we might try and get someone on, someone who deals with kids on a day-to-day basis.

And as parents, you go, how do you navigate? What do you say? Because you don't want to hide things from them and you want to teach them. But you're like, what do you do through those situations? It was quite one of those moments of like, wow, what's the world that these kids are growing up in? Well, it's frightening too when they don't have a grasp

on what exactly is happening. And it was nice. We just ended up switching. And that's why we made that robot the other day. We just switched off the TV and we're like, let's just do something and not watch that. And then it was nice to report back to them later and go, hey, the tsunami's all fine.

It's all good. And then at least they got that relief without going, oh, gee, she's had the news on for like nine hours of rolling coverage of the tsunami. It's good. It would have been ironic if you were like, let's go make a robot. Then you got wiped out by a... Turn the news off. We don't need that. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah. Yeah, no. The home of yeah, nah.

She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, we're going to, we've, just Juliet's been out and about chatting to people in the office today. And there's a little bit of office gossip going on right now. Yeah, she's going to tell. Ben and I refuse to talk to anyone in the office. So, Juliet, you've heard something secondhand. Yes.

So, someone got engaged recently, which is very exciting. Very exciting life event to happen. But she isn't really a big fan of the ring that her partner presented her with. And so, she doesn't think it suits her finger. You know, as a female, trust me, you've got to have a think it suits her finger. She... As a female, trust me, you've got to have a ring that suits your finger. So your fingers actually match rings. Who knew? Well, if you've got small fingers, for example,

you don't want a massive ring because that just looks bad. Some people love silver, some people love gold and I guess if you get a ring that was gold, if you like silver, you might be like, oh, that doesn't really go with my other jewellery Does my finger suit my wedding ring? Yes it does. Okay. Yeah, don't worry Now I'm getting all paranoid about my fingers

Don't worry, only girls notice that. But yeah, so she's not the biggest fan and she's kind of worried that it's something that she's wearing every day. She obviously loves her fiance deeply. Yeah, but you do wear it every day, right? Yeah, you look at it all the time I imagine Yeah yeah and so she's i kind of heard us like tossing between whether it's something that she should bring up with her partner or not or what why doesn't she just

lose it on purpose no is that not an option well no how well no because money would have been lots of money would have been spent what are you going to get insurance insurance do an insurance job yeah it's insurance fraud. That's fraud. Yeah, well, then that's not an option, is it? No, it's not an option. It's not something I'd consider. It's not a legal option.

See, I would be offended if I was him. Really? Because he's obviously put his blood, sweat and tears. It's not an easy decision for him to make or any person to make when they're buying a ring for their partner. It's always a bit of a gamble. He'd be mortified. Probably the best thing would be to just hit him up and say,

listen, my finger doesn't suit this ring. Yeah, and he'll go, what? I was like, yeah, it's apparently a thing. Fingers need to suit rings. Well, to be fair, hopefully one day when I get engaged, I actually don't want my partner to have a ring because I want to go shopping with him so I can choose my favourite one. Oh, you hear about that?

Producer Humphrey was saying that. Friends of theirs, the partner just gave the credit card over and said, you go shopping with your friends and you go buy it because I don't, you know, I don't think I can, you're the best person for this decision, not me. Okay, 0800, what do you think? What do you think she does?

Does she? So what are you saying? Because before I was a bit confused. You were like, he'd be mortified, but then hit him up. So I'm a bit confused about what you were, what's your argument? He'll be mortified, but then hit him up. So I'm a bit confused about what you were, what's your argument? He'll be mortified, but he's got to say,

he'll hit him up. You've covered both bases here. So I thought I was going to have a different argument to you, but now I'm like, oh, he's got to say both of the arguments. I think she needs to talk to him. I think she needs to talk to him. I think she needs to talk to him. So that's what you're saying? Even though he'll be

mortified? Oh, you've got to. He will be mortified but you've got to have that conversation. So you think, yeah, because she's looking at it every day of the year. Are you saying that she just rides it out? Yeah, I'm saying yeah. I'm going to say, well, yeah, I have to now. No, but yeah, I'm saying you say, well, yeah, I have to now. No, but yeah, I'll say you, write it out. Write it out because this is something special. He's put a lot of care and attention into it.

I'm going to say, you know, it's something that may, give it a chance at least. It's very new in the relationship. Your finger could fall in love with the ring, couldn't it? Yeah. I think maybe the more she wears it, the more she'll actually get used to it and maybe like it. I mean, it is a lovely ring.

Those are the two questions. Does she ride it out and not say anything, or does she hit him up and say something? Maybe you're wearing a ring that you don't like, or you didn't like, and you had this conversation with your partner, and how were they when that happened? Or maybe you did do an insurance job.

We'll take all calls. 0800-THE-HITS-4487. Tiana, you're on from Auckland, Morena. What do you reckon? Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Tiana, you ray of sunshine. What are your thoughts on this? I think, considering we're talking about marriage,

a lifelong commitment, honesty is definitely the best policy. Oh, so you'd just say, you'd just front foot it with the partner and say, hey, I don't like this. Yeah, but you do it in the nicest way possible. You don't want to be a jerk about it. No. So you just pol and say, hey, I don't like this. Yeah, but you do it in the nicest way possible. You don't want to be a jerk about it. No.

So you just politely say, hey, I would really appreciate if we could go and pick a ring together. Oh, there you go. The other option is to say no when he said, do you want to marry me? No. I wish you could call off the wedding. Thanks, Deanna. Appreciate it.

We'll get Jess on. You're on the air from Auckland. The engagement ring, does she hit him up or does she ride it out? Well, the other team hit him up. Hit him up? Hit him up. Have you had this happen to you? We're having conversations now.

Have you had this happen to you, Jess? I've had this happen to me. My partner chose a ring that absolutely had heaps of meaning for him, that he proposed to me with. But then I said, as much as I love it, I do want the ring of my dreams. Oh. And now I have two. Oh.

So how was he when you broached that subject? He was gutted, to be honest. Yeah. If I'm honest, because he had put heaps of thought and effort into it, and I had to respect that and just acknowledge it. Well, that's the thing. If you've gone to a lot of effort and a lot of trouble, you're like, oh, okay.

I thought you would have liked this. How do I not know you that well? Should we not get married? Dad, did you think about doing the insurance job, flushing down the toilet? Not at all. No. No, what would you think of that?

I don't know anyone would suggest that. Oh, that's good that you got through that awkward conversation. And now you have two rings. I do. But you obviously don't wear the one he gave you. Yes, I do. Oh, you do? Oh, that's nice.

Oh, good on you. Well done, Jess. Let's go to Carrie. You're on for Whangarei. Good morning. What does this person do? Do they ride out with the engagement ring, not say anything, or do they talk? I reckon just suck it up.

You know, your hand might change, but the ring's always going to be beautiful. Oh, she's going like a bottle of up and go. Suck it up. Well, you know, it probably spent a lot of time trying to pick that out, and I just wouldn't want to hurt his feelings. Yeah, you're going Ben Boyce on this one. Yeah, I remember going to choose the engagement ring and I had a friend of mine who,

she came along to help me choose for Amanda, my wife, and I remember going in with the, I was like, this is my budget to the jewellery. They do such a great thing. You're like, okay,

well, here's some things that will earn your budget. But, you know, I told you, but if you spend a little bit more. But if you really love her. Why are you bringing out this extra,

but, but, but? No, but, but, but. Don't, but, but, but. Just a little bit more. But if you really love her. Why are you bringing out this extra but, but, but? No but, but, but. Don't but, but, but. Just a little bit more. Okay, maybe with my budget. My friend was like, well, they are nice.

I was like, oh, you're no help at all. You get out of Michael Hill, Joola. You got on your free show, you're cool, Carrie. And Tony, you're on from Christchurch. It's been a bit of a mixed bag on the text too here, Tone. A lot of people saying just ride it out. Surprisingly. What are your thoughts, Tony? Just up front and tell them.

Tell them. Have you got a partner, Tony? Have you proposed? I have in the past, yes, and I let her pick out the ring because it's a lot simpler. A ring is just a representation of your marriage. It's not like, it's only the ego and his part

that's going to be hurt and women are pretty good at fluffing up men's egos. And there's also things you could change too. I mean you could you know you keep parts of it and change around

the you know different gold or silver or things around the outside. So I'm sure there's ways you maybe could adapt some of that. What parts did you keep? Oh well the part

where it looked like a circle. Yeah. It was still a ring. It was still a ring. It wasn't a ring. It was still a ring. It wasn't your one, but it was still a ring. Hey, good on you, Tony. Go and have a wonderful week, buddy.

Cheers, guys. Appreciate it, mate. Thank you for your calls and text 24487. The text machine has been very busy on this one and I'm going to say

60% in favour of not saying anything. Oh, really? And not causing a fuss. Oh, that is a surprise, but we do live in New Zealand. Yeah. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal dad.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Producer Juliette Juliette was just saying she did gardening in her flat yesterday. Yeah. I know, you're like a 75-year-old woman. I know, I love it, but my back really hurts now. I guess I am a 75-year-old woman, aren't I? But every flat I've been in, the garden's been weighed out the priority list. Good on you.

Look, you did a good job too. Thank you. It was just really getting to me. You know when gardening really gets to you? Am I officially an adult now? Am I officially an old person now? Well, I don't think

I've ever tended to a garden. I'm not a gardener. No. Mow the lawn. Right. You love mowing the lawn. It'd be like getting the lawn getting away with it.

You'd be like, I need to mow the lawn. That's the same feeling. Amanda's a gardener, isn't she? She loves it. Yeah, she's really got into it like there's plants all over their house apparently she's going to sell them at some stage oh it sounds like she's making my illegal platter apparently they come in tin foil and people knock on the door four times apparently

it's quite profitable yeah they're all right they're illegal but yeah monsteras yes she's been propagating monsteras and now we've got about nine of them and they grow quite well. Wow. But jeez, they've taken up a lot of the house. I feel like, can I sit here? Can I sit here on the couch?

No, that's for the plants. The plants sitting on the couch. Yeah. Next you'll try going to get her to bed one night. She's like, sorry, the plants are sleeping with me tonight. The monsteras are sleeping. Are they quite profitable? I don't know Are they quite profitable?

I don't know if they're profitable. She just enjoyed, she basically got a little sample of one of the other samples. They call it a cussing and then there's growing them from another one. Yeah, so. Well, actually, coincidentally, I was mowing the lawn yesterday

and then I don't know if you suffer the same fate because we get up at a crazy time in the morning. Well, you get up even crazier. I still can't believe it. We get up early, but you get up a whole nother. Oh, you get up even crazier. I still can't believe it. We get up early, but you get up a whole nother... Oh, 3.40 a.m. I don't know why. That's crazy.

I don't know. It's just a good talking point, isn't it? It is a good talking point. When everyone's like, what time do you get up? 3.40. I was like, wow, they're impressed. That's the only thing in my life that I can impress people with. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The time I wake up. And I spout it off to everyone who asks, too. Oh, 3.40, we'll go 3.40. Yeah, they love it. They love it. It's always a good conversation. But what I do find, though, at the other end of the day, as soon...

You're tired. Oh, it really catches up with you. And as soon as I sit on the couch, it's like a bloody ticking time bomb as to when my head's going to start... You know, your head rocks forward and jolts back. It must be so frustrating for Jen. She's like, cool husband.

He's like snoring and dribbling on the couch. But I'm up at 3.40. I'm up at 3.40. I don't care now. I just want to watch a movie with you. Yeah, so it's very dangerous. Do you find you could sleep at any moment? Yeah.

When you're an adult, all you want to do is sleep. I'm not really a sleeper as such. Yeah. Like, I don't like sleeping during the day. Like, yeah, so. Have you ever napped? Oh, like once or twice. And I feel awful afterwards.

I think I get past that point. Some people do those little micro naps and they're almost like restarting your computer and they're like, and I'm away again. But for me, I just feel drowsy and stuff afterwards. He doesn't like being massaged. He doesn't like napping. He just likes being alert.

Alert level Ben at all times. That's the current alert levels. No matter if we're alert level two or one, it doesn't change with me. It's always alert. I'm just ready to go. If I was Sleeping Beauty, oh, I'd love it.

Wouldn't you? Without the beauty bits, obviously. Just sleeping. Just having a big long sleep. It was a funny plot. It was a funny movie. It wouldn't stack up in 2021. Some of the stuff that went obviously. Just sleeping. Having a big long sleep. It was a funny plot. It was a funny movie. It wouldn't stack up in 2021. Some of the stuff that went on in that film. No.

The witch roofied her. Yeah, yeah, true. There was a whole lot of... The witch, I demand an apology for the witch. Public apology. Outrage, I'm up in arms. There was a whole lot of... Yeah, a lot of those movies and...

Yeah, anyway, anyway. We won't get into a whole lot of questioning plot lines because the internet is doing a good job of that for us. So if you were sitting down watching a movie, how long would you last? Oh, man, 20 minutes. Oh, really, 20 minutes? Yeah.

I'm pretty sure on the way home, I fall asleep at the beginning of the motorway and then wake up pulling into the driveway. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Right now, some entertainment news.

Bye. Brought to you by the Rainbow Explorer train. Getting you to Wellington's Pride Festival. More info at thehits.co.nz. Listen, we can't back up most of what we're about to say with any hard facts, but we'll spill them off as if they are fact anyway. Juliet, what's happening in celebrity? So, singer Lizzo,

she has kind of blown up in the last couple of years as a very popular artist. Great music. She often gets online sort of... Trolls? Trolls commenting about her weight. And she eats very healthily. She works out,

but she's so happy being the size that she is. And she hilariously posted on Instagram a response video of someone calling her obese. And this is what it was. Oh, no, man. I wake up and I wake up into my obese bed. And I put on my obese Louis Vuitton house slippers. And I walk into my massive obese bathroom. And I just stare into my wall-to-wall

obese mirror and I just lather myself in the most obese expensive oils and creams and oh god I walk into my obese gorgeous minstrelry modern kitchen and by the time I've made it to my kitchen I've already made another obese million dollars. Oh, good on her. She's awesome. Incredible. She's so good. I love her. She's one of my favourite artists, I reckon. Did you see her when she came to New Zealand?

Yes, I did. I went to that little festival concert thing. She was great. I saw her frolicking on the beach. Did you? On the internet. No, not in real life. That's right.

She was at Piha. Yeah. Oh, yes, that's right. And the yellow togs that she was, like the golden togs that she was wearing. Piha is a lovely beach, don't get me wrong. But if you've arrived in New Zealand and you arrive on the black sand beach burning your feet, you'll be like, well, there's other ones that don't burn your feet as much. And then you go for a swim and it's like, jeez, the waves.

Then you end up on Piha Rescue. The currents are, yeah. Crazy. What an amazing, amazing West Coast speech, isn't it? Yeah, and trending at the moment, people are preparing for Harry and Megan's interview with Oprah. It's a two-hour long interview. It'll be airing in the United States today

at about 2 o'clock New Zealand time this afternoon. So you'll see little clips and snippets and stuff come out probably on the internet this afternoon, but it's airing in New Zealand tomorrow night at 7.30pm on 3 and 3 now, so that'll be the full one for us. Jeez, they've teased this more than the Bloomin' Friends reunion, haven't they?

It's a hotly anticipated interview. It'll be interesting to see what the general vibe is post the interview on Meghan and Harry. I can imagine you'll feel sorry for what they had to endure, but then a lot of people are talking about saying the timing feels a bit off with Prince Philip being in hospital right now. Of course. And to be speaking out against the family feels like a little bit of a strange time to be doing it.

I imagine they would have recorded it before he was in hospital. Yes, but they could also put it on pause and release it if they wanted to at a later date once Prince Philip anyway, it's, you know. Yeah, true. Prince Philip's like, oh, jeez, if I pass away now, it'll overshadow the interview. It could be a good play

for the royals. That doesn't happen. Dramatic play. And that is Spy for More. You can head to the hits.co.nz. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes.

Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Don't be afraid of your freedom. The hits live free. Bill's edition. Let's smash another one. I got bills.

If you want your bills paid by us here at the hits and the live free, the Bill's edition, then text Bills to 4487. Tell us what bill you need paid. And then at 8.30, 1 o'clock and 4 o'clock, we'll be bill busting. We'll be giving a call to someone and saying, hey, guess what? We've paid your bill. Yeah. And are you going to say it in that friendly, welcoming tone? Hey, guess what? We're going to pay your bill. I can. It's not like we're debt collecting here. We're doing the opposite. We're doing

the, hey, we're going to pay your bill for you. We're like accountants. We're sorting out the overdue bills for you. And sorry, when I say bills, just one bill. We're not going to pay for every aspect of your life. No, but what's that one bill you're like, I really would love someone to pay that. Well, we could be paying it for you here on the Hats. What's your bill? What's hanging over your head?

Those skinny little shoulders. What's burdening you at the moment? I am the power bill. Because only because my wife refuses to tell me. She's like, I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you. Oh, she won't tell you what the bill is? Yeah, yeah.

Well, I know, you know, because then I'll go around because I love turning switches off and everything like that. So the house will just be in darkness. Yeah, like I'm a switch-turner officer. You won't even turn the oven on. So I can't visit my grandma in hospital. I just turn, no, no. Turn off the life support.

What's this thing doing on? It's a nightmare for the power bill. I'm joking, I'm joking. Let's go through to someone right now. I'm going to pay the bills. I'd say my parking tickets. Oh, they get sent to work too, so we know about them. I know, I've got a lot of them.

And then they go to the courts, then they go to Baycourt. We're going through to Jane now. Hopefully Jane answers the phone. If she doesn't, it's going to be very awkward. For us, floundering, but also for Jane. Jane speaking. Jane. Oh, Jane. She answers. Jane. Oh, Jane.

She answers the phone. She answers the phone with authority and gusto. Jane, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Hi, how are you? Yeah, good, Jane. What do you do? I work for Trust Power. Oh, great.

We were just talking about it. I don't want to know my bill. If you know my bill, don't tell me, okay? I don't want to know. My wife, she's like, because I like turning off switches and stuff in the house. Anyway, you don't need to know that right now. Coincidentally, how much do you save by turning off a life support machine? No.

Now, Jane, you text bills to 4487. What was the bill that you want to pay? I need to get my son home for his semester break, so I need to be able to book ear fairs. Oh, you want to fly? Where is he? Dunedin. Studying.

Oh, imagine the despicable things he's up to in Dunedin. You probably just want to get him home to hose him off. Yeah, pretty much. So you're going to be out about $300 for that? Yeah, that's right. Oh, well. Tell you what, Jane. When you hug your unshowered son fresh from Dunedin,

you can thank the hits. We're going to pay that bill for you. Oh, my God, that's amazing. Thank you. You enjoy bringing him home for a little bit of family time. Yeah. Yeah, well, it's his 21st as well. What's his name?

Patrick. Should we call him and tell him he's coming home? He might be in a lecture, but we can try. Oh, if he's in a lecture. Or it also might be 8.30 in the morning. He's never going to be up at that time. In a lecture, Jane. You want to hope he's in a lecture.

I don't know if that's okay. He's telling you he's in a lecture. Anyway, we won't call him. I was just looking for some nice radio moments. I thought you had it. We had it with Jane. Yeah, that was a good moment. It was great. Happy with that? It was a great moment. It was great. I was just looking for some nice radio moments there. Oh, but you had it. We had it with Jane. Yeah, that was a good moment. It was great.

Happy with that? It was a great moment. It was great. I was trying to look for more emotional moments. But there's only so much emotion we can handle. Jane, you're a superstar. You enjoy... There wouldn't be too much emotion from a 21-year-old at 8.30 in the morning.

More weekend. We'll get into logistics. Anyway, enjoy bringing him home, and thanks so much for listening to the hits. Awesome. Thank you so much, guys. No worries. If you want your bill paid, just like Jane's,

4487, text Bills to that number, and tell us what bill you need paid, and we could be doing it at 1 o'clock today. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Auckland dropped down a level in the rest of the country. Basically, everyone's got a bit of freedom as of the weekend

and heaps of Aucklanders out and about yesterday. One of the KFCs on the North Shore ran out of chicken because of a groundswell of people wanting KFC. And that's their backbone. You know, KFC runs out of chicken. Yeah. What else have they got? It was only temporarily, so they managed to sort that out.

Managed to kill some more chickens and cook them. The mall's as busy as Boxing Day, I reckon, in Auckland yesterday as people were out and about. Well, isn't that good that they're stimulating the economy? But it's such an unusual human reaction as to, I must go out and spend money now. I haven't spent money in seven days. I guess you've kind of been locked up for a week,

best part of a week, so people wanted to get out and about. On the final day of lockdown on Saturday, my daughters were like, oh, can we make a robot out of some cardboard boxes? I was like, oh, okay, yeah, I'm sure we can do that. And so we did. It was a good little activity.

Stopped me from drinking early in the afternoon. Helped me off for about 45 minutes. See, that's the sort of thing where I'd go, yeah, yeah, go make a robot. You can make a robot, but you got involved in the construction. But what I did is I got some, because we had some grey paint under the house, you know, in our garage.

And so there was a little tin of paint. I was like, I'll open it up, get the screwdriver in to pop it open. And something, the paint must have like fermented or something like that. But the thing exploded exploded with a bang, and the paint turned and smashed me straight in the face. Oh, the lid?

Yeah, the lid just banged. I was like, whoa, so close. Assaulted by a... Could have been my eyes, could have been my... Yeah, just on the cheek in the end, but I was like, oh, my God, I've never heard that happen before. Did it explode all over your face? It did, yeah.

Like the paint? Well, the paint, no, the paint was all bubbly and fermented. For me, the paint was no good. But yeah, it was like, jeez, I've never had that happen before. It gave me a hiccup of fright. No, it's not often a paint tin explodes in your face. I was ratcheted. I was ratcheted. Like the paint can might have been.

I was like, did someone prank me? What, is Jono going to pop around the corner and be like, ah, or something like that? You know, like when that happens. That's what I'm always doing. I'm always popping out. You know, my problem With paint cans Is you can't throw them Out anywhere You don't know how

To throw them anywhere I don't know how You dispose of them What do you mean? You can't chuck it In the rubbish bin Because of the toxic Paint that's on the side

You can't put it At the dump I don't know where They're meant to go They just end up Moving in with you For the rest of your life You've got to keep them around

I'm going to get those Paint cans What do you do With a paint can? I'm going to just leave them in my will and burden my children with them when I die. 49 paint cans. Surely there's something. If someone knows, this is not what we want to know,

not what we're meant to be doing this morning, but 4487 on the text, what do you do with your paint cans? Where do they go? Because that's a good point. Because mine are quickly becoming family heirlooms. If they're not exploding in your face, they're just sitting in your garage or shed for the rest of your life. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. We weren't meant to be getting to the bottom of what you do with your paint tins and paint cans if you've got them around your house, but we are. We seem to be finding some information out. Yes, Rachel Jackson-Lee's newsreader is coming. You've had this exact issue, Rach. What happened to be finding some information out. Yes, Rachel Jackson-Lees, our newsreader, has come in.

You've had this exact issue, Rach. What happened to you, you poor thing? Oh, we recently got a new house. Yeah. And a real surprise underneath the house was about 20 paint cans. So the previous owner was like, I don't know what to do with these. And probably the owner before them as well. It was just a collection of massive, like not just little test pots.

These are the big paint cans. There's no room for anything else. We're trying to store some things. Can't do it. Paint cans everywhere. That's why they sold the house. We're like, we don't know what to do with these. There's so many paint cans. Anyway, you can take them to Resene and they dispose of them. If it's Resene paint, a lot of it wasn't, so

you pay a small fee. And it's like 50 cents or something. It's not much. Oh, right. So if it's a Resene kit, they'll do it for free. But if not, you'll pay for it. And maybe the other companies do this as well. I'm not sure. But for some reason, we went to Resene. I guess that was what Google told us.

Oh, listen. Good on you. Thank you. Oh, look. You know, Friday, we're here giving, you know, tsunami advice to people. And Monday, I'm here telling you how to dispose of your paint can. What will Tuesday bring?

I don't know. Rachel Jackson-Leese, thank you so much, matey. We'll catch up. The A to dispose of your paint can. What will Tuesday bring? I don't know. Rachel Jackson Lees, thank you so much, matey. We'll catch up. The A to Z of New Zealand. Well, the A to Z of New Zealand right now, something we do every day on the show. We call a different town or city in New Zealand. We call one a day,

and we're slowly making our way around New Zealand alphabetically. Yeah, we're heading to Mangamuka this morning, which is in the far north, and the school only has 24 children. Wow. They ride a horse to school. The playground is a horse. They go to camp.

It's under a horse. Everything is on a horse in this town. And we're going to head through. Believe it or not, they've got a radio station, Ben. So we're going to head through to the local radio station in Mangamuka now. Kia ora. Kia now. Kia ora. Kia ora. Kia ora.

Kia ora. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station here. Okay. And who have we got a hold of here? Raywin. Hello, Raywin. How are you? Very good.

You sound suspicious. Yes. We're phoning every part of New Zealand, and today we're in the Ems at Mangamuka. Very good. Okay, so my name is Rowan Ross. I'm actually the Programme Director of Radio Teutokau in Mangamuka. Oh, you're a radio station.

Awesome. That's why I'm suspect. Oh, yeah, you know us. You can't trust radio people, can you, Rowan? No. Don't trust them. Listen, we're phoning purely on innocent terms, but we actually do call every town and city in Aotearoa

and find out a little something about them. Okay, well, okay. Well, as you can tell, little old Mangamuka has a radio station. That's pretty cool. In the middle of it. So how many people work at the station? Starts with 15. Oh, wow.

And do you also not send out prizes like us? I always give prizes to listeners and then I never send them out. Well, actually, no, we don't do that. You send out prizes like a diligent radio station? We send out prizes. Would you ever be in the need for two washed up average broadcasters such as Ben and myself? Oh, always.

Always. Broadcasters will always have places in broadcasting somewhere. Yeah, right. So, well, listen, hopefully one day we'll be able to come in and host a show on the radio station. Is that a job? We'll introduce you to the mid-north.

Well, you could go pig hunting, you could go eeling, you could go fishing. Have you caught a pig? I don't, my partner does. No, I'd be the person running up the tree. Oh, me too. I would be terrified if a pig was coming barrelling towards me. Does he carry them out on his back and things like that? Yes, yes, yes, he does.

What a legend. That's part of hunting. Yeah? How much does a pig weigh? It'd be a good 40, 50 kgs, wouldn't it? Yeah, the heaviest my partner's brought back is a 160. Ooh, jeez. What, 160 kilograms?

Yeah. Yeah, no, I wouldn't mind that. And then I'll carry back the scoggin' that I take with me in the little bag. You know, that's heavy enough for me. Well, I'm scared of horses, so I'd be no good in the bush with a pig. Yeah, no, I've been carrying Ben for many years on my back. I might be able to. I've been carrying him quite a lot, actually.

Oh, listen, Ray, well, it's been an absolute pleasure talking with you. Okay. You go and run that radio station like a boss. And you be a host like you should be. We will, and we'll keep tuning up to you. I feel like we'll just talk to another boss. Now we've got two bosses, two radio bosses. Okay, then, and you have a great day in this beautiful day.

Yeah, you too, Ray. And look after yourself. Okay, keep saying it. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits.

Scrolling through your feed. Oh, here's Ben Boyst, one journalist who's not afraid to lightly tippy-toe around the tough topics. Come on in. Now, this was getting some news over the weekend. A child, a young child, wrote to our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, to basically dob in her dad for not washing his hands properly to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and not using soap. The little girl with this lovely little handwritten letter that she wrote in that Jacinda Ardern posted to her social media

said, my dad's not washing his hands properly. He's not putting soap in his hands and rubbing for 20 seconds. And basically she was worried that dad wasn't doing enough to spread. So she narked on her own dad. Well, that's what Jacinda said. She wants people to tell. Kindly call them out. Nation of narks is what we're,

even the kids are doing. We're raising a generation of narks. Did Jacinda reply to her? I think that she's sending her back a letter as well as she was just going through her mail at the time going, oh, this one made me laugh because a little girl dobbing in her dad. That's very sweet though.

That's very sweet. And their dad will be grounding her for a long time now. He's been publicly outed. Publicly shamed. And I don't know. Did you catch the press conference on Friday? They were covering a lot of stuff on there. You had bloody tsunamis.

You had COVID. All sorts going on, eh? I felt like journalists would have been like, we were just meant to be doing a COVID one here. But at the beginning of the press conference, Jacinda led in with this. This week I received a letter from a mum who was distraught that she had to tell her daughter there would be no school camp.

It feels like we're just, any problem we've got, we're just writing to the Prime Minister. Little girls are dobbing their dads in. I've got a parking ticket that I'm disputing. Shall I burden her with that? Maybe, darling. Maybe, darling. Boss Todd won't give us two weeks annual leave in July. Yeah, that's right to Jacinda.

She writes to Jacinda to get some results on that. Yeah. It's very lovely of her. It's good on her replying to them all. I know. It seems like she's across everything. Like, amazingly across. There was another letter from a lady in Ireland that wrote to the Prime Minister in New Zealand,

and she got a letter back. That's not even here. I know. That's over there. Yeah, incredible. So she's done such a great job. And Moa chips. So there's moa chips, basically Pringles. You know, the

chips that come under the tube, the cylindrical tube. Once you pop, you actually can't stop. They are wild. Do you find that true? Yeah, they're so addictive. Oh my God. The newest flavour is called a moa burger. And it's getting a lot of attention on social media, particularly in New Zealand. So a bizarre flavour creation released on Friday.

Now it's based upon mower animals which live in the video game Halo. It's like a cross promo between Pringles and the computer game Halo. And they've said they're large, fightless, bird-like creatures with two legs, wings, scales, a neck up and a lizard-like head.

Loosely based, they're similar to the New Zealand bird of the same name. So you can have the flavoured chips of a mower? I would try that. New Zealanders are like, well, how do you, that's how, anyway, yeah. Is that a go? A bit confused at how this happened and it was like, well, it was a real thing,

because obviously a fictitious planet, but they're like, well, hey, we had a bird called the mower that lived in New Zealand many years ago. It was like a chicken on steroids, the moa, wasn't it? Very big. We see it at the museum, bones and stuff. It was a very big bird. I'm always like, you know how they recreate dinosaurs in the museum

and old fossils and stuff? How do they know that's what they look like? Obviously, the bone structure. Yeah. You can get a good, but how do you know that Tyrannosaurus Rex's face looked like that? That's a good point. How do you know the eyes looked so, Tyrannosaurus Rex has been painted,

stereotyped as this evil monster. Might have been the friendliest dinosaur out there. Like a cute emoji smiley face or something. Like Barney. There he goes. You're right. You know, but we've got this like, Jurassic Park stitched them up.

That's a good point actually. So there's a lot of guessing to be done isn't there? It wasn't like someone's around doing like a police sketch and we're like was that what they look like? Yeah that's it. That's the Toronto Sox Rex I saw.

You're like oh you're right. And that is the Scrolling Through Your Feet this morning. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hats.

The Hats. We're looking at some big news from around the world. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B***h News. Yes, this is where we agonisingly try to decipher producer Juliette's cryptic headlines

from around the world. You better have some good stories today, Juliette. I hope I do. Okay, no pressure. So you beeped out a word and we're trying to work out what those words are beeped out. Australian runs marathon in under 17 hours, pulling a... Pulling a...

I'm going to say pulling an all-nighter. And you know those conversations you have at three o'clock in the morning in the bar where they're like, we should do a marathon tomorrow. Well, this person followed through with it. It took 17 hours. It's a long time.

I'm going to say a man ran a marathon for 17 hours after pulling a door that said'm going to say a man ran a marathon for 17 hours after pulling a door that said push. You know how embarrassing that is when you're pulling a door and someone's like, oh, it's push, mate. You're like, oh, I'm so embarrassed. One of their doors in the middle of the marathon. No, no, he did that.

And he was so embarrassed he went for a run for 17 hours just to get away from everyone. Australian runs marathon in under 17 hours pulling a 1,400 kg truck. Ouch. What? Ouch. Yeah, it was a Ford Ranger truck.

And he made a world record for the world's strongest marathon. So he had to drag it 42 kilometres. That's crazy, eh? Why? Is it for charity? Please tell me it's for charity. Yeah, he did. He did raise money for charity.

Yeah. Jeez. Which is crazy. Well, you're not doing it for the fun of it, are you? No, absolutely not. That is wild. I know. Normal marathons are hard enough.

Did he have like a harness on, obviously? Yeah, it was kind of like, almost kind of looked like a backpack, but had a big string, like a massive rope thing attached to the track. And was he going back and forward, or was he going around a sort of court? He was following roads. Wow. So, yeah, just continuously. Just flat, I imagine.

He's not putting up hills. You ran a marathon. A half marathon. A half marathon. So half a marathon. This guy's done a full with a Ford Ranger on his back. I know. Next talk of a marathon, Jo,

I want to see you towing an 18-wheeler. I'll do that. I'll do that. Nine apes receive **** at San Diego Zoo. I'm going to say nine apes receive annual family passes. Oh, that's for free. It's always handy, isn't it? I'm going to go nine apes receive Planet of the Apes DVDs.

It's a lovely movie. I'm sure they'd like it. Nine apes receive the COVID vaccine at San Diego Zoo. I didn't know that animals could get the vaccine or could get COVID, but it turns out they can. Yeah, but it's the one that's specially made for animals. So I think a troop of gorillas had got COVID so they were like, well they can't

infect the rest of them. So they gave apes the vaccine, which is kind of crazy. Well no, because well hey didn't it start from a bat? That's the rumours right? Yeah, yeah. Wow. Although I read something the other day saying that it didn't on CNN. So anyway, who knows?

No, I watched a documentary on the weekend, and they were interviewing people in Wuhan. And the people in Wuhan were going, oh, the bloody Westerners started all this. And then we're being told that the people in Wuhan started it. Who do you believe? Oh, yeah. So they're over there.

They're going, we've done all weekend. Yeah. And there was some reports that it may have been in Europe before. So anyway, yeah, it's hard to know. It's a great finger pointing.

And isn't it how, you know, how much you put on the media and what media you consume as to what you believe? 100%. We're part of it. We're part of this fake news.

And the final story. German prison has to change 600 locks after intern... I'm going to say after the intern went to Westfield Mall and got 600 keys cut at Mr Minna and gave each of them to the prisoners. Oh, that'd be lovely, wouldn't it? Here's a key for you, just in case you lose it.

I don't know. Forget to lock the door. I don't know. German prison has to change 600 locks after intern's selfie with keys. So he took a selfie at his new job at this German prison, sent it to, just with the keys, just like, you know, didn't intentionally do this and sent it to his mates on WhatsApp.

And obviously that's, you know, if people get a hold of that image, they can look at the keys and try and make cuts. Oh, can cut them. Yeah, of the keys. And so the German prison is, the German prison guards are like, well, we have to change everything now because that could cause a mass breakout of prison if the keys get replicated.

Aren't they all, like, electronic now, the doors? They're still using padlocks. They're still using padlocks in prisons. The Germans, obviously. Yeah, yeah. So that intern no longer has a job at the prison, unfortunately, as you can imagine, but it's unfortunate. But the photo wouldn't be three-dimensional, would it?

No, but I think that it poses a risk. Is it enough to pose a risk? I hope the great guy missed a minute looking at the photo going, oh yeah, cut the key like that, there you go. Crazy. And that is the news in bits. But is it the same key for 600 locks? Or are there 600 different keys? That's a good question.

That is a very good question. Maybe there's one master key. Oh, yes, no, that is right. There's one master key that can access, yes. I remember seeing it. All 600 locks? Yeah. Well, you couldn't have 600 keys.

It would be a nightmare, wouldn't it? I know. I know. Well, thank you very much, Producer Juliet. 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 be not bestowed.

Bye. Brought to you by the Rainbow Explorer train. Getting you to Wellington's Pride Festival. More info at thehits.co.nz. That'd be a fun train to go on. Yeah, wild party that train. Anyway, Juliet, she's got one goal in the morning, and that's to wake up and take down beautiful celebrities and also to

turn up to work on time. Actually, there's two goals and you do both. Thank you, thank you. I'm glad. Now, actor Nicolas Cage, he's in the movies Con Air, Face Off. He's 57 years old and he's just got married for the fifth time in his life to his girlfriend who's 26 years old.

Five times, you say? Yeah, this is his fifth marriage. They got married in Vegas. And her name is Rico Shibata. So that's his fifth marriage. Well, hopefully fifth time's a charm. Yeah. Face Off, it was a great movie, that Face Off. Yeah, it was.

Wonderful technology they made out they'd have, convincing they'd got their faces swapped. Yeah, it was a face transplant between Travolta. John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. And Cage, yeah. So they basically just ended up playing the other person. But yeah, it was really,

yeah, the time was wrong. So they swapped faces. Well, that was the thing. They got the face of the other person to do their thing, yeah. Oh, they'd be bloody frothing over that face swap app. Oh, yeah.

They're like, why wasn't this around? We would have saved us having a face transplant. That's what I was just thinking, literally. Yeah, true. This is excruciating surgery.

Yeah. It looked very convincing though, didn't it? It was a wonderful surgery. Yeah, well, wonderful. Yeah, almost too convincing. Almost like, was the other person playing the other person? I don't know. I was looking here at nine bizarre facts about Nicolas Cage.

I know you're going to scoff. Oh, nine's too many. Yeah, no, nine's too many. I like two to three. Two to three. To go through, read nine and then tell us your favourite nine to be. I like two to three. Two to three. To go through, you read nine and then tell us your favourite two or three. I've picked out my favourite six. Six? It still sounds too many.

Okay, I'll cut it down to my two or three. He once took mushrooms with his cat. Did you know that? Really? Mushrooms? Yeah. He said we just sat there staring at each other for 12 hours. Oh, that's, yeah. It seems like the SPCA would have some problems with that. Okay. Okay. He bought the most haunted mansion in the world.

Is that not that interesting? No, it's interesting. Really? Do you know whereabouts it is? Yeah, where is it? This is in New Orleans. Wow. Yeah, he bought the mansion where he wanted to write a thriller, a thriller book.

Oh, go write it in the mansion. Yeah. Wow. He accidentally bought a stolen dinosaur skull on the dark web. He slept in Dracula's castle. Wow, he's really bizarre, isn't he? He seems quite an interesting human being. Yeah, and he once woke up to a naked man at the end of his bed

wearing one of his leather jackets and sucking on a Popsicle. Oh, really? Wow. Good facts. Yeah, they are bizarre facts, aren't they? Shake you over the mushroom under start, I'd lost the crowd Pulled them back with the sucking on the popsicle by the end

Very strange Naked home intruder sucking popsicle Ben does that to me every Saturday night Where's this leading to? Never leads anywhere Give my jacket back and put my popsicle back in the freezer. I'm going to move on.

And the Kardashians, they are expanding their business empire by launching greeting cards. So they've trademarked the name Kardashian Cards and the card's spelled with a K. Kardashians. That's good.

Slow clap for the pub. Why have they not done that 10 years ago? I know. And so obviously it'll be greeting cards, but they're also going to be doing scrapbooks, stationery, paper, notebooks. So it might be one of those things for your kids when they need to buy stationery for the new year.

They want to buy the Kardashian version. How would you feel about that? Oh, the new smiggle. They could also release vehicles too. The Kardashian. Oh, that's good. Kardashian. That's good. That's good. It's a versatile name, isn't it?

Yeah, very smart play from them. They're very smart. When I say it's versatile, I can't think of any more business ventures they could go on using this surname. Whatever they do. I mean, that's what I was reading in that article today. Because they've all got such massive social media followings,

whatever they decide to do, they just put out something and it's bigger than probably any ad campaign they could get. Isn't there a New Zealand company doing something with the Kardashians? Yeah, Dose & Co. It's like a sort of a collagen powder thing that people put in their coffees and their teas that helps with hair growth and nails and things like that. Yeah, so it's awesome that they team up with one of the Kardashians,

and things go really well, so that's great. Well, they've done Kards, and then they've done Dash, which is their old clothing line. All they've got left to do is Ian's. Ian's. What could they do with that part of the name?

Is it a pet food or is that Iams? Iams. Kardashian Iams. Yeah, maybe that's it. Yeah, some dog biscuits. You know she gets paid $250,000 US per Instagram post

if you wanted to... Is that Kim? Kim. Wow. Oh, no, that's Courtney. Oh, wow. That's Courtney. How much does Kylie get's a million dollars per post? Kim. Wow. Oh, no, that's Courtney. Oh, wow. That's Courtney. How much does Kylie get?

A million dollars per post. Wow. A million. Ben, imagine all of the posts you've done your finger pointing at. You could be getting a million dollars per post. Yeah, but I'm not. That's right. Because I'm not a Kardashian.

Yeah. And that's five and more. You can head to the hits.co.nz. You could do boys and berries, though. We've spoken about it. Oh, true. That's right. Want more Jono and Ben? You can head to the hitstockpo.nz you can do boys and berries though we've spoken about it oh true that's right want more Jono and Ben you can catch up

with the boys anytime just search Jono and Ben on Facebook really fun hanging out with you this morning it is fun hanging out just producer Huffrey

saying Jacinda Ardern's cancelled her weekly interview with Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB done to come here on a Monday every week

is that what she wanted? Has she cancelled our monthly chat with her Ben Huffrey? Not yet. Not yet. We've still got it. She hasn't cancelled it. Like, if she's going to cancel anything, cancel us. That's once a week, though, I guess.

Yeah. It's not going on. I mean, she's got a lot of letters to reply to from kids. From kids who are like, my dad's not washing his hands properly. That was so cute, though. It's awesome that she's across all that sort of stuff. And there's the other lady who sent a letter going, my kids couldn't go to camp.

I mean, these are issues that our Prime Minister should be dealing with. But it's amazing she is in touch with all, you know, she's in touch with, she's not losing touch with what's actually the things that matter. I mean, that was one of the big things, without a word of lying, your household. Oh yeah, our school was gutted.

Your son was really gutted he couldn't go to camp because of what was going on. And that's, you know, that's not losing touch with really gutted he couldn't go to camp because of what was going on and that's losing touch with what actually... I didn't think of writing to the Prime Minister though, but... No, but no. No, you're just...

Next time we have her on, we're like, what about my son's camp? I wouldn't burden her with that. Because you cab on the lawn at the Beehive or something, can't you? Hey, we like to end the show

on a good note. It's going to be a good day. Yeah, let's bring some positivity to the country today because things feel a little bit more positive today after the level changes yesterday. A little bit more freedom for those in the 09 region. You tell us why it's going to be a good day.

Guy Williams, our dear friend Guy, is in a cab in Wellington. They're listening to the hits and his taxi driver's name is Great. Oh, that's awesome. So keep up the great work, Great. That's great. I was listening to the show and I was like, well, by choice? He surely wouldn't be by choice. No, no, it's not by choice. This is being force-fed down his throat.

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