Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 11 - Oprah Interviewed Our Colleague, Mike Puru!
Episode Date: March 10, 2021Kia Ora! After Oprah's interview with Harry & Meghan, we collected all of Oprah's questions, called our colleague Mike Puru, and played those questions down to him... It confused the hell out of him, ...but he answered them and therefore was TECHNICALLY interviewed by Oprah! We also caught up with vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris and she answered whether kids or pregnant women can be vaccinated, and how effective the vaccine will be once you get it. Finally, Ben's kids have found a very good loophole into getting him to buy them treats from the supermarket when he does the online shop. Cheeky cheeky!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Do you know what day it is?
It's the 11th of March.
One of my favourite days in March, the 11th.
What are your favourite days in March, Ben?
This feels like a question you've never
thought about. No, I never have.
Have I blindsided you?
Oprah Winfrey. What did
Producer Juliet say the other day, March
4th? Because you're in March 4th.
March 4th in Conker.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's a good one.
She's still here. We're in a different studio, but you're still
listening to what we're saying, aren't you? I listen to every
word you say. Yeah, I thought it was like the voice in my head going what did
producer juliet say she was like match for them wow i can really hear it in my head so we're in
the metropolis of palmerston north today wonderful place palmerston north in new zealand
it's not what you said last night every night oh you know you're right
i was gonna try and make up a false defense but you're're right. Hey, well, I grew up in Marston.
It was raining when we arrived.
Look, you know, as I said, I grew up in Marston,
and so going to Palmerston North or going to Wellington was so much of a...
It was like going to the McDonald's.
We didn't have McDonald's for many years in Marston,
so we had to go to Palmerston North to get McDonald's.
It was such a treat to go to Palmerston North or go to Wellington.
You know, that was what we...
We could only dream of being like Palmerston North
when we were growing up and mastered it.
And now you're back here?
Yeah, loving it, loving it.
Absolutely loving it.
I'm going to take you to McDonald's.
I'd love to.
Take a little bit and get a little happy meal.
A little happy meal.
No, it's fun.
We've been to Palmerston North probably about five times, haven't we?
Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
It's good people in Palmerston North.
Very flat.
The city itself is flat flat but I know it's
surrounded by hills
with the wind turbines.
Although we have been
here a few times but
then yesterday you're
like oh there's the
square.
I was like oh no
isn't it close to town
and you're like yeah
okay that's a square.
It was just a square.
It was a square.
Yeah what was a
square?
When I said there's
a square.
You're like there's
the square.
It's a square.
It was like a grass
square in the middle
of the town.
Do you know John Cleese not not a fan of Palmerston,
the British comedian, said some disastrous things about Palmerston.
I think, bring him back here now.
Well, like, quarantine him for two weeks.
I'll pay the five grand.
Put him in the jet park.
Bring him back down to Parmy and say, hey, what about now?
And he's like, well, it hasn't changed.
It hasn't changed.
Oh, OK. okay well then we'll
take you to Marsden
and stay there
for a couple of days
now I'll take you
back to Parby
and see what you think
again it hasn't changed
it's only been two days
put me on a
can you please
put me back to England
on a plane
sorry for bringing you
up here
that's a four
that's a four week
thing really
quarantining him
he's got a quarantine
yeah
I was living with
my family he pulled me away for a month to review
a place that I've already reviewed. Anyway, on the podcast today, we had a fun show.
Spoke to a vaccinologist, Auckland University vaccinologist
Helen, who joined us and taught all the rumours surrounding the vaccine.
There's so many of them and we all know there is a vaccine.
For the most part, we all know that it's going to be good in eradicating or keeping you safe from covid but you know there's
many more questions and we hit her with those don't we yeah it was a bit more of a serious chat
i guess for our show but i think it's an important chat to have because it's all something that we
need to make a decision on this year uh one way or the other the other and you want to be informed
when you make these decisions there's a decision to be made.
Is there?
Oh, no.
No, personally, there's not.
But I think some people there are.
You know, every time you hear a news story, it's like, oh, such and such, there's a percentage
of the population undecided.
So hopefully now when you hear what she has to say, you will hopefully make your mind
up what you want to do.
Okay, a pro-vaccination propaganda.
With you.
With you on the podcast.
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.
It's been a couple of days,
but the world is still talking about
the Oprah Winfrey interview with Meghan and Harry.
And it was the biggest thing on TV3 for years and years.
Since 1995, I was reading an article.
And since that...
Since 1995, that's 10 years.
That's almost...
How many years?
Don't get on the spot, man.
So you've gone 95 to 2005, it's 10.
2005 to 2005, it's 20.
Wow, 25 years.
You know, people listening right now are like,
you idiot, it was 25 years.
They could have figured that out quickly.
But yeah, a million people watched in New Zealand.
Oh, it's just incredible.
People all over the world obviously tuning in and the fallout is still happening.
The Buckingham Palace yesterday was responding.
And so they're going to deal with it behind closed doors.
But I don't think it's the last.
That's a British thing to do.
Yeah.
Shut the doors, we'll deal with this.
But Oprah Winfrey, wonderful interviewer. She is. And I think it just showed how
good she is at her job, you know, Oprah Winfrey. And we thought,
what would it be like if a New Zealand personality did a tell-all
interview with Oprah Winfrey? So we took segments and parts of
Oprah's voice from the interview. What's your relationship like now with your family?
Wait, hold up.
Wait a minute.
Were you silent or were you silenced?
Yeah, and we phoned Hits Afternoon host
and broadcasting legend, Mike Peru.
He had no idea we were calling, right?
He thought it was only the Edge radio station
that would viciously prank him.
Uh-uh-uh.
He is not safe anywhere.
So we called Mike yesterday morning after the show.
It was early for him, and we just surprised him with Oprah Winfrey.
Hello, Mike speaking.
So, hi.
Thanks for joining us.
No, thank you.
What's your relationship like now with your family?
Sorry, what was that?
What's your relationship like now with your family?
What's your relationship right now with my family?
Do you hold Zoom calls?
No.
What do you think your mom would say about this decision?
What decision?
Why wouldn't everybody love that? Isn't that what you want?
Well, I do sometimes want that, yes.
What was the tipping point that made you decide you had to leave?
Oh, is this Oprah?
My goodness.
The tipping point.
Well, I just had to get out.
Wait, hold up.
Wait a minute.
I did.
I had to get out.
So when I asked the question, why did you leave?
The simplest answer is.
Gore was pretty boring what what hold up hold up are you hurt by that decision uh no i get to go back every now and again what was that like
were you worried about making the right impression oh that's the story of my life all the time.
Were you silent or were you silenced?
Definitely silenced.
Who is having that conversation?
Why were they doing that?
Why are you doing that?
Mikey, it's John Owen being here, if you hadn't worked it out.
I know, you're like, ooh, Oprah.
I love to hear who you realise.
Ooh, I've got an exclusive.
She's calling me now.
Hey, thanks, Mikey.
No worries, that. No worries.
That made my morning.
Mike Peruzza,
tell all of you there
with Oprah Winfrey.
Yeah, some home truths
about Gore.
Home truths about
his hometown there.
I love it when he clicked
at about 15, 20 seconds in.
He was so happy.
It was Oprah.
Oprah's calling me.
How nice of you to call.
They need to talk words
and stuff into a microphone.
It's New Zealand's breakfast.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
Going to the supermarket with kids is always an interesting experience.
I don't know if you've had the same situation.
You spend a lot of your time going down the aisles
and they try to put stuff on the trolley
and then you spend a lot of your time secretly trying to get that stuff
out of the trolley before you get to the checkout.
That's one of the thrills as a child going to the supermarket is how much stuff can you sneak into the trolley and then you spend a lot of your time secretly trying to get that stuff out of the trolley before you get to the checkout. That's one of the thrills as a
child going to the supermarket is how much stuff can
you sneak into the trolley and then I mean
the checkout is a whole other game
the tension is at an all time high.
Because the confectionery is all there again you know.
But if you get one of your
scanned items through
one of your contraband items through as a
child past the checkout
wow wee that is an Ocean's Eleven-style heist.
Do you find you do this or is it just me?
Sometimes when I'm by myself at the checkout,
you start loading stuff onto the conveyor belt,
you sort of get buyer's remorse and you're like,
oh, no, I don't need that.
And then you kind of end up trying to secretly put it in
with the confectionery just because you can't really
put it back into the shelves.
Sometimes you can put it on the hooks behind the chewing gum.
I once hung a roast chicken on there.
A lady the other day,
it was first thing in the morning
so the supermarket just opened,
she came over and she was like,
is this yours?
I was like, uh, nah.
She's like, well, it's definitely yours
because no one else is shopping.
There's no one else in here.
I was like, I'll put that back.
She was like, no, it's fine, it's fine.
But she called me out about it
and I appreciated it.
One of my favourite things
is going through the supermarket
and just the soundtrack appearance going, no, put it down, put but she called me out about it and i appreciated it one of my favorite things is going through the supermarket just the soundtrack appearance
going no put it down put it down put it down you can hear it throughout all of the aisles well i
had a modern uh modern take on the uh on the supermarket well shopping with kids because
they um you know we're going away this week so i was like i need to get some some some food for
the household and i'm oh like maybe i'll go online and do like a countdown food shop on the internet
and get delivered just because my wife's busy i was going away i was like maybe I'll go online and do like a countdown food shop on the internet and get it delivered just because my wife's busy.
I was going away.
I was like, maybe I'll get things sorted out.
Don't I hear your problems, mate?
What do you mean all those problems?
What I found was really interesting, though, that the food turned up just before I left
and I started unpacking it away and putting it away.
And I was like, huh, I didn't order this.
Huh, I didn't order that.
But three items, I didn't order this.
Maybe I got the wrong shopping.
Went back, look at the list.
I was like, no, everything else I'd ordered was in there. But there was like three items, confectionery items that I didn't order this. Maybe I got the wrong shopping. Went back, looked at the list. I was like, no, everything else I'd ordered was in there.
But there was like three items, confectionery items that I hadn't ordered.
And then I talked to my girls, my daughters.
I was like, did you guys order that?
They're like, yeah.
When you went to the laundry to check if we'd run out of cold water surf or whatever it is,
I'd left my laptop still logged into the countdown.
They were like, we thought you'd notice.
But they did the equivalent of putting stuff in the trolley,
thinking, you know.
But it's an easier proposition online.
Yeah.
A hell of an internet scam.
And I just went through and I ended up paying for it.
And then you don't really double check down on the thing.
I was like, oh, well played to them.
Yeah, girls, you win this one.
Yeah, so it can even happen when you don't take the kids to the
supermarket. The
thing with supermarkets is they're making it very easy
to shop now, but it's still a painful
experience for some reason. You know, they're like
we're doing everything we can
to make this as less of a hassle as
possible. You can do the click and collect.
Oh, yeah. You can get it delivered to your house.
But even when it gets delivered to your house, you're like, oh.
And like they're literally dropping it at your door and you're like
now I'm going to walk it
three metres from here
put it all away
put it all away
what more can we do?
maybe they'll do click and collect
and then the put away in your pantry service
so you have to do nothing
you're like no no no it doesn't go there
but then that would still be a bother because you'd have to open the door for them.
Here we go.
Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes.
Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.
Now, yesterday the government announced the vaccine rollout plan for New Zealand,
which will see the coronavirus vaccine roll out through four categories throughout
the year.
So by the end of the year, they reckon they'll vaccinate all of New Zealand that want to
get vaccinated.
It's like a Peter Jackson movie comes out in four installments.
This is great.
And we've got an expert on Helen who's going to be joining us very shortly.
And I hope she's not going to come on here and say that we all need to take the vaccine
and keep safe.
Because I don't want to be safe.
I don't want this nonsense propaganda on our show, Ben.
Well, there's a lot of rumours around the vaccine.
I mean, so many people are undecided,
and there's questions I think that we all have.
So we thought it's actually quite important,
maybe a bit more serious in tone for us here on the show,
but as important as New Zealand's breakfast show,
to give you guys information and give us all information
so you can make that decision for yourself.
So we've got Auckland University vaccinologist, Dr Helen Petousas-Harris. She joins us right now. Helen, how are you?
I'm good. How are you?
We're good. Thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate it.
You're very welcome.
Now, what a topic near dear to my heart.
Yeah, well, I imagine it's a topic that you're speaking a lot about at the moment.
Yeah, a little bit.
What is your job role, if you could explain for
those that don't know, aka me? Okay, there's three main things. One is teaching. So I teach on
epidemics, pandemics and vaccines. And the other is research. Mainly I'm interested in
vaccine effectiveness and vaccine safety. And then the other thing that us academics do is service,
and that even includes talking to you guys.
Yeah, right, get the information out there.
So now is probably a bad time to bring up I'm an anti-vaxxer.
Why would you go ahead and book Helen?
You know my thoughts.
We're bad if Helen says she's an anti-vaxxer about now.
So did you have any idea, like could you have predicted
something like this would have happened through your studies and learnings in the world?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's been inevitable.
It was just a matter of what and a matter of when that this was going to happen, really.
So, yeah.
In fact, you know, some people had actually, quite a few people had published that we needed to be looking at coronaviruses more closely as they were a serious human pandemic threat.
Wow. And we didn't listen.
There's a lot of rumours, there's a lot of mistruths
that go around, particularly on the internet about the vaccination. One big one
too is that it was rushed through. Is that something that people should be worried about?
Oh yeah. Oh, yeah.
Well, no, because what we've seen is what we're capable of doing.
If we actually, you know, throw some money at something and play nicely together.
It's a shame that we haven't been able to achieve this in the past because of all these barriers that have been in the way.
We haven't missed any of the steps.
And, you know, I'm always reading this sort of literature and that,
and there's nothing missing here.
Everything has been done.
It's just been done really quickly,
not rushed and missing essential steps out.
The question I wanted to know is,
you hear about all these vaccines and there's Pfizer's
and there's Johnson & Johnson and many other companies,
and they all seem to have a sort of percentage
of how effective they're found to be.
Now, will you get a choice about what vaccine you get?
And then if you did have one,
say you had Pfizer's vaccine or Johnson's,
could you get another one later
because it was more effective?
Yeah, yeah, you could.
But also I point out that all of those vaccines have actually,
in the trials, were 100% effective against severe disease and death.
All of them.
Oh, really?
Wow.
Okay.
So they're all really effective.
I mean, whatever carries you off, it's probably not going to be COVID.
Right.
And could I, you know, for example, could I take a Johnson & Johnson,
could I take a Pfizer, then become
200% protected
against COVID?
I don't think that's going to work.
Is that how it works? But like if you take
one that's, further
down the track you're saying they've had 100% success
rate so far, but one that sort of advertises
to be 60% effective
and one that advertises to be 80% effective and one that advertises to
be 80% effective.
Could you combine them both?
Yeah, yeah.
There's some work going on now, quite a bit actually, looking at using one and then you
come along later with another because we're going to be facing this, of course, because
whatever we end up getting, we might not have enough of whatever it is to give two doses
of the same one.
We do this a lot with other vaccines,
so it's not something sort of weird or unusual.
And there's also the thought that actually doing that
might actually give you a broader response
and could be beneficial.
So we'll wait and see,
but I think that will probably be the case.
We've got Helen Petousas-Harris on the phone.
She's an Auckland University vaccinologist.
Now, vaccines, they seem to be people over 16 at this stage.
Do you think at some stage people under 16 will be able to get it?
And should we be worried that they won't be able to get vaccinated
with the rest of us?
No, they will eventually be added.
It's just waiting for the data from the trials to come through.
Some trials have gone down to 12 now.
The data will be available soon. trials have gone down to 12 now. The data will be available soon.
Others have gone down to five already.
So, yeah, later this year, I think,
you'll start seeing us truck down through the age groups.
Now, we joked about the anti-vaxxers at the top of this,
but on a serious note,
is there anything you want to say to people who don't get vaccinated?
Well, I think we've got a lot of people who are just hesitant and want to wait and see. And I think that, you know, that's really understandable
because this all seems very new. What I'd say at this stage, and I think we're not getting this
message out right now very well, is that there's now been over 300 million people administered a
COVID vaccine. That's a lot of people.
And that's a lot of information we've got on how the vaccine's doing.
So reassure them that the information is flowing in.
And by the time it's their turn and then perhaps offered the vaccine,
there's probably going to be a billion people on the planet
vaccinated already before then.
Pregnant women, can they have the vaccine safely?
Yeah, we're not recommending it in New Zealand at the moment
for pregnant women because we don't have much COVID.
We don't have COVID really in the community.
And the data is coming through now on pregnant women.
But in countries where they've got COVID,
they are vaccinating pregnant women.
And these sort of vaccines, we expect to
be fine. And so far, it's looking good. So it doesn't matter if someone receives it accidentally
and they find out they're pregnant. And it doesn't matter if they're planning on getting
pregnant, they can still have it. This is probably a hard question for you to answer.
So, but I'm going to throw it out there anyway. In the future, what do you see? I mean, when
enough of the population have the vaccine, do you see elimination of COVID or is it something like the flu where there's a new strain,
but we get new vaccines coming through and we're able to manage it a lot more?
I think you could have either of those scenarios play out. I think either are possible. Yeah,
I mean, I don't think we'll be looking at annual vaccination, but maybe periodic. You might have to change it periodic if the thing's still hanging around.
But as you say, become manageable.
It is possible that we sort of eliminate it by and large as well.
So it could go either way.
And it's free, right?
It's going to be free.
Yes.
It wasn't free to the government, but it was free.
Yeah, it cost them a little bit of money. Yeah. It cost them a little bit of money, but everyone gets it for free, right? It's going to be free. Yeah. It wasn't free to the government, but it was free. Yeah, it cost them a little bit of money.
Yeah.
It cost them a little bit of money,
but everyone gets it for free, which is great.
I love getting free stuff.
If you've got your feet on New Zealand soil,
it's there for you.
And one big last question.
Will we ever stay at the Jet Park Hotel?
The Jet Park, has that really taken one for the team of five million?
It has.
All the people that work there and all the things. I mean, it's amazing taken one for the team of 5 million. It has. Yeah, all the people that work
there and all the things. I mean, it's amazing.
We were thinking about this the other day. The people,
you go around and you think, oh, I could catch,
there's a chance I could catch COVID. But the people
that go into work there, they're in an
environment where there is COVID every day
and they don't have it, but they're working there.
That's incredible. I know.
I know. I think these guys
all need a medal, really.
They're there, as you say, they're taking one for the team and they're helping keeping the rest of us safe.
Yeah.
God bless Jet Park Hotel.
Yeah, I know.
I wasn't thinking that.
I saw them on the news the other day and they were saying
the stigma attached to when they say we work at the Jet Park.
Everyone's like, oh.
Yeah, I know.
And it's, yeah.
It definitely needs a rebrand in a couple of years.
Yeah, yeah.
But they've done a great thing.
Hey, listen, Helen, this has been really interesting talking to you.
It feels like you're probably far too intelligent for this program,
but we appreciate you lowering the bar, lowering your standards
and joining us this morning.
No, I'm having fun.
Oh, we appreciate it.
Thanks so much for your time.
Thanks for answering all our questions, no matter how stupid they were.
They're not stupid.
You have a great day.
You too.
See ya.
Broadcasting live
and mostly awake.
Jono and Ben,
New Zealand's Breakfast
on the hits.
Yeah, New Zealand's Breakfast
and today New Zealand's Breakfast
broadcasting from
Palmerston North.
A bit of a wet
wet sort of day here.
Mate, I won't have a bad word
said about Palmerston North.
I don't think it was a bad word.
It was a bad word.
It said rainy, windy.
It's like the Bahamas
of New Zealand. A bit of a not the greatest start to our trip to Palmerston North. I don't think it was a bad word. It was a bad word. It said rainy, windy. It's like the Bahamas of New Zealand.
A bit of a, not the greatest start to our trip to Palmerston North
because last night when we got off the flight, we were like,
oh, let's go, maybe we'll get a, you know, have a beer at the hotel
and purchase a Humphrey's.
He's gluten-free.
So asking for a gluten-free beer to get at a liquor store in Parby,
you know, they kind of judge you.
I feel your pain now, you know.
I feel your pain. If you know? I feel your pain.
Have you guys got a gluten-free option?
Yeah, I've come from Auckland and I'd like a gluten-free beer.
And have you got some hand sanitiser too?
Yeah, yeah.
But, you know, we're in Palmerston.
You can't have a bad day in Palmerston, can you?
No.
Unless you're John Cleese.
John Cleese had a bad time in Palmerston.
Oh, yeah, he did.
He called it something not very nice.
Not very nice?
Yeah, Cleese, back off.
I'm sure there's some places in England that aren't that nice,
but we don't go around telling you about it.
Yeah.
So we're off to milk some cows or something later on,
whatever pays the bills, aren't we?
But my mum, Annie, when she discovers that we were going to Palmerston North,
and this will be a thing that I think a lot of parents would do,
is they're like, oh, you're going to Palmerston North.
And I said, yeah.
Oh, you must go and visit Graham and Maggie.
They're visiting Palmerston North too.
And I said, that's great.
Who are Graham and Maggie?
I said, you don't know Graham and Maggie.
And she's like, yeah, they are.
They're our old neighbours from Rangiora.
They're tripping around New Zealand on a caravan and they're in Palmerston North at the moment.
They would love to see you.
Would they?
And I said...
I love it.
It's such a boomer thing to do.
You've got to go see them.
They'll love it.
And I said, well, I don't know them.
And she's like, well, you know us.
And they know us.
And I said, well, that's great.
That's probably five or six minutes of conversation.
What if you ran into them?
And they're like, oh, we used to be your neighbour.
Oh, you know, that's fine.
But to go out of your way. For dinner.
For them as well, too. They'll be like, oh, this
guy. We don't want to go
with him. He doesn't want to be here.
I've got nothing to talk
to Graham and Maggie about. And I'm sure they're the same
with me. And it's an
unwritten law, too. Another thing, too, when you're out,
when you're not in your usual
location, you're out of town in your location
but you bump into someone who's from
your usual location out of town
you're like, oh we must catch up
here. And you feel obliged to catch
up out of town. Even though you wouldn't
really catch up with them in town?
We go back to the same place or whatever
and we're not going to catch up with them.
It reminded me of my dad
doing a similar thing.
We were in Taupo last year at the same time.
We were seeing out the dad, and he's like,
oh, you've got to come around to my friend's house.
You've got to, you know, I'm more like calling for a visit.
We know them, so on this occasion, you're like,
okay, we'll go around.
We turn up at this place.
They weren't even there.
He just wanted to show me his friend's house
that they'd stayed at before.
He's like, well, there's the house.
But he knew they weren't going to be there.
Yeah, they weren't even in Taupo at all.
But he's just like, well, you've got to see. I was why are we to be fair you made an assumption like hey he said let's go see the house he lived up to his end of the bargain
i know but i thought obviously they're clearly they're there we're going to catch up with them
it was like oh no oh no we're just gonna oh that is a lovely house we can see it from the street
there we go i'm glad we drove around the yard oh felt a bit weird. I was like, have a walk around.
I'm like, oh, no.
Walk around.
The neighbors are going to be like.
Are they scoping the blades out?
Yeah, I was like, I can see it up over here.
It looks like a lovely place.
Anyway, Ben, so I booked us in to see Graham and Maggie after the show.
We'll just go for a lovely brunch, okay?
Okay, I'll wait for that.
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.
Yesterday, the first two races of the America's Cup happened,
and we've been having our own little cup race ourselves,
haven't we, Jono?
Oh, no.
Oh, my word.
Fantastico.
Fantastico.
Yes, we sent a couple of old mugs,
because that's the name of the America's Cup. We sent a couple of old mugs,
because that's the name of the America's Cup.
We sent a couple of old mugs from the office.
Not the two of us.
We're a couple of old mugs.
We sent those to two people yesterday who phoned through.
Now, one mug representing Ben and the other representing myself,
and we decided where our start lines were.
Thanks to you phoning through, I ended up with Chris and Piano.
Chris, you okay to take a photo of that winner and arrives and send it back in the envelope we provide?
I didn't know that I had to
do something for this competition.
We're going to provide you with
the courier post to send it
back to us. That's fine. I thought maybe
you could give me some KFC.
He had
chicken on his brain.
I don't have any faith in Chris,
so I've sent my mug to Chris and Tiano.
And I've got Tanya in Christchurch.
I've sent my mug down to her.
Are you a safe pair of hands?
I'm putting a lot of faith in you.
Yes, yes.
I've got my daughter that can help me take a photo and send it.
Lord needs daughters to help take the photo.
I like it.
I like it good.
So which mug will arrive and get back to our studios in Auckland
to win one of Tanya or Chris' $250 shopping voucher?
Yeah, we'll keep you up to date with that action,
rolling coverage of that action.
But, you know, Tanya does sound like a safe pair of hands.
Chris sounds like a pair of hands that my 95-year-old nana has.
A little brittle.
And you couldn't put any weight on them.
If mine comes back
before yours I'll be very surprised. Well we never know.
But then we discussed yesterday
after the program
while we embark on our own novelty
cup journey. Does anyone
give a cup about the cup? Oh yeah
because I was talking about it a lot yesterday
and we were flying down here to the apartment
to do some work and the people at the airport were watching it on the screens or on their phones.
And then Producer Humphrey, when we got down here,
because you're down here in Palmie, you were very excited about it, like me.
You were like, yeah, we'll love the Cup.
But it didn't seem that many people were watching it that you ran into.
Yeah, so I got all set up down here and then went to go find a TV to watch the race.
And I sort of said, oh, you know, are we going to watch the race? And they were like,
what race? And I was
the America's Cup. And they were like, oh, is that not
over yet? And they had
no idea. They thought that we'd
already been racing. That sounds like
something our boss Todd would say about a segment
on our show. Is that not over yet?
And fair call to them. This is
what I believe. It's
not every person's sport.
When was it?
Okay, you name five of your favourite Eminence Team New Zealand sailors.
Ben, go.
Oh, Ben Chook, Peter Birling, Grant Dalton.
Are they great?
Dean Barker, we used to sell for us.
No, no, current ones.
Joseph Sutherland.
There's four.
Sorry, yeah.
And Craig Monk, is he still?
Glenn Asprey.
Yeah, Glenn Asprey's pretty good.
Named a few, but it was a little bit shaky.
But it is something we can all get behind.
I know we don't go out there and support yacht racing every year as a country,
but I love it.
The America's Cup, it's our boat.
They're out there on the water.
Listen, I can do without it.
What?
I don't want it.
I mean, yeah, sure, it's got some sort of economic flow on for our country.
That's great.
It's great for New Zealand.
It's great for Auckland.
What about the rest of the country, mate?
Does Auckland need it?
The Bombay's been...
Is that what you're telling me?
No, but we can all get in behind this.
Don't be.
I'm a man of the people.
You're in Parmy.
All right?
All right.
So we're likely America's Cup.
It's the first to seven.
So what we're going to do right now in 0800 The Hit,
so you can text us, 4483.
Tell us, Cup.
4487.
Oh, sorry.
I don't know who's got 4483,
but they're going to get a lot of random texts,
people either agreeing or disagreeing with the America's Cup.
They're like, I hate the America's Cup.
You'll be like, oh, okay.
What a way to start the day for 4483.
So 4487.
And tell us, or nup.
That's basically the thing.
Are you in the America's Cup or are you not in the America's Cup?
Okay, so it's first to seven callers.
You can text us and give us a bell.
Love to get your thoughts on this.
Come on, Team New Zealand.
Team of 5 million.
Team of New Zealand supporters.
Let's take the first call.
Cup or nup?
What do you want to say?
Oh, I forgot to get your name.
What's their name, Drew?
Gary.
Gary, you're on.
What happened, mate?
Couple up.
Yeah, I painted a door yesterday
and I just wanted to let everybody know
that the paint is now dry.
So you're saying it's as exciting as paint drying?
Okay, I'm up 2-1.
Yeah, Jono's taking the lead in the nup.
Now, someone's
texted in 4487. A lot of texts
on 4487.
This is one in your camp, Ben. Good.
Yes to the cup. Yes to the cup. All the
kids in our school are wearing black t-shirts
and red dicks tomorrow too.
I don't know if
that was, is that meant to be red socks?
Red socks, that's right.
Yeah, so we're all supporting.
It's a bit of an autocorrect situation.
I don't know how to socks autocorrect too.
This is what happens.
The wonders of modern technology.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
I love it.
I love the support.
To 2H.
2H, let's go to Kelly.
You're on the air.
Cup or nup?
What do you want to say?
Absolutely nup.
Oh, 3-2 to me.
Why, Kelly? It's
so boring.
But so quick, they're quicker on the water.
It doesn't take hours. Anyway,
alright, Kelly, can I also say
Ben Boyce is the type of individual
who also watches five-day-long
test cricket. Yeah, true. Yawn.
And I agree, it's an
elitist sport. Like, as a kid, we were forced to do stuff at school
and the Red Sox, and that was all great.
But as an adult, I'm definitely a nup.
The Red Dicks, mate, not the Red Sox.
Definitely a nup.
Okay, Jono's in the lead.
Right, let's smash through a couple more.
Sally, yup or cup?
Nup or cup?
What is it, cup or nup?
Cup.
Yes, Kit.
I used to say nup, but now that I've actually sat? What is it, cup or nup? Cup. Yes, Kit. I used to say nup,
but now that I've actually sat down and watched it,
I'm getting to be a bit of a fan.
Oh, good on you.
We've all become experts.
It's like this whole coronavirus thing.
Suddenly we've all got opinions.
Suddenly we all say, open the borders.
We think we're experts.
It's the same with America's Cup.
A lot of texts coming in here.
I'm pretty neutral.
Okay, well, thanks for reading that one out, mate.
What a useless text I read out there. Another one here. I'm pretty neutral. Okay, well, thanks for reading that one out, mate. What a useless text
I read out there.
Another one here.
I'm from South Africa.
I'd never even heard
of the sport
until a month ago.
And?
No.
You're reading it once
and giving us no results.
He's like,
I've never heard of it
and I wish I never had.
Okay, well,
there's one for you then.
Okay, so it's 4-3 to me.
We'll go to Georgia.
You're on the air.
Cup or Nup?
I'm going to say Cup. Oh,
4-0 right now. This is tight
racing. Maybe the America's Cup is
exciting. He's foiling back.
Adrian, Cup or
Nup?
Adrian, you're on the air?
Yes, Cup. Arian, we're
on the air? Cup, Cup, Cup.
Cup, Cup, Cup. Oh, yeah.
I've just snuck ahead.
5-4.
Another text here, 4-4-8-7.
I'm going to say nup to the cup.
Oh.
Thank you, Charlene from Christchurch.
Appreciate that.
Annette, you're on.
Cup or nup?
Cup, cup, cup.
6-5.
Oh, 6-5.
Oh.
It's the clincher.
It's so close to it. Oh, can I take it out this time? One more call or text? 0five. Oh, six-five. Oh, it's so close to it.
Oh, can I take it out this time?
One more call or text?
0800, that's the telephone number.
Another text here from Tony, who's in Mount Maunganui.
I'm by the ocean, and I couldn't care less.
Oh, so it's all tied up.
It's six each.
We need one more call on 0800 the hips.
0800 the hips.
All the hips.
The hips, yeah.
Our hips diversion of the station.
You tell us, cup or nup.
What do you want to do?
This is the deciding call, New Zealand.
Have we got a call there, Ju?
Yeah, I think we've got Kim.
Hello, Kim?
Hello.
You're the deciding vote.
It's six all, cup or nup.
I'm saying nup to the cup.
Oh, no.
Yeah, we're...
No.
No.
What? The America's Cup is now Jono's Cup.
Oh, what?
What's your reasoning?
Just boring.
Just boring, man.
Oh, I'm disappointed.
I'm disappointed.
Why don't you shove that in your pipe and smoke it
and deal with the long-lasting effects of lung cancer.
Oh, well, there we go, New Zealand.
That's our quick, well done, Jono,
taking out the America's Cup on up this morning.
But it's good to see, in all honesty, 50-50 split, you know?
Add these two men together
and somehow you get three-quarters worth of a normal dad.
The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.
It is 7.45 on your Thursday morning
and that means it's time for...
Five words for 5K on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is 7.45 on your Thursday morning and that means it's time for...
It is our game of word association.
We say five words, you tell us the first words that pop into your head.
If they match with ours, you win $5,000.
Now the most talked about event of this week has been two like-minded people speaking out and that was when I synced up on Monday
with someone else.
Five words and we've won $5,000.
It's out the door. $20,000
given away so far with this competition.
It's achievable. It's doable.
And Chris from Christchurch,
we want to do you. Do it for you.
Cam from Christchurch. Cam from Christchurch,
we want to do it for you. Awesome.
I hope so. What have you been doing, buddy? You been want to do it for you. Awesome. I hope so.
What have you been doing, buddy?
You been listening to this thing?
Yep, yep.
Been listening daily, trying to get in.
Have you had any matches from the comfort of your car?
Yeah, I've had a couple.
Okay.
That must be frustrating, isn't it? It's like having your lotto numbers called out when you haven't purchased a ticket.
Yep.
Okay.
Who are you wanting to head off
to the soundproof booth this morning?
Ben, please.
Yeah, Ben, boy, say anything you're going to sync up with Ben
as he makes his way out.
He won't be able to hear anything
we're talking about, Cam. You just tell us
anything you want about Ben.
You got nothing?
You're too nice, Cam.
Yeah.
You know how it works, buddy.
You match five words with him, you've got $5,000.
And the first word that comes into your head...
when I say fizzy...
Coke.
Utensil.
Cooking. utensil cooking What do you reckon so far, Juliet?
Yep, they're pretty appropriate, I would say.
Pacific
ocean
golden
retriever
explorer dora Golden. Retriever. Explorer.
Dora.
Quickfire, Cam!
Did you want to go back on any of them or are you pretty happy?
No, no.
They'll be alright, I hope.
Quick game is a good game.
Jeez, you're confident with those words.
That's good.
We'll bring Ben back in from the SPB.
Jeez, can't we?
Quick.
Really quick.
I wasn't out there for long.
He was confident.
Quick and confident.
Okay.
And everything you're not.
I was going to say the exact opposite of me.
You're slow and nervy.
Yeah, okay.
Let's see if we can.
I mean, sometimes opposites attract.
So let's see if this works this morning.
All right, Julia, let's hit the music.
The music's there.
Oh, the music's been there the whole time.
Hit more music.
Play some different music.
No, don't.
She's like, the music's there, you idiot.
You're deaf.
First word.
Fizzy.
Drink.
What?
Don't say what.
Cam, what did you say?
I said coke, but I was thinking I should have gone back and said drink.
Oh.
You could have vocalised it.
You could have gone back.
I would have let you.
I'm not a monster.
Oh, sorry, Cam.
Sorry straight off the bat, too.
Let's rattle through the next.
Let's rattle through.
Oh, nervy.
Slow and nervy.
Ben Boyce not coming through.
Juliet, play some more music.
This music, boy.
Utensil.
Utensil?
Oh.
Oh, I don't know.
Is it an individual one or is it?
Dude, no, mate.
What is this?
I'm either thinking cutlery or I'll go knife.
I'll go knife.
Cooking.
Oh, okay.
Cam.
Yeah, okay.
I'm so sorry. Tell him he's a letdown, Cam. No, I don't want him. Sorry. Cam. Cam. Stop, stop.
Tell him he's a letdown, Cam.
No, I don't want him.
Sorry, Cam.
You're a letdown big time, Cam.
Pacific.
Ocean.
Golden.
Retriever.
Explorer.
Dora.
Jeez, you had three.
Three out of five.
It just started, Shebby.
Hey, Cam, thank you so much for listening, mate.
We really do appreciate it.
And thanks for playing.
All right, thanks, guys.
Yeah, yeah, nah.
Yeah.
Nah.
Yeah, nah.
The home of yeah, nah.
She'll be right in at the end of the day.
Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.
Bye.
Brought to you by the Rainbow Explorer train.
Getting you to Wellington's Pride Festival.
More info at thehits.co.nz.
OK, prepare yourself to cast judgement on celebrities
from the comfort of your couch or car.
Juliet, what's happening in Spy, mate?
Look, I know we keep talking about Piers Morgan,
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle,
but it is kind of everywhere.
And since Piers has quit Good Morning Britain
after his, you know, attack on Meghan, some would say,
he's now broken a silence since quitting
and tweeted saying, basically, he's doubled down
on his opinion of Meghan Markle,
even despite all the backlash.
He said, on Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan
in her Oprah interview. I've had time to reflect on this opinion, even despite all the backlash. She said, On Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan in her Oprah interview.
I've had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don't.
If you did, okay, freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on.
Thanks for all the love and the hate.
I'm off to spend more time with my opinions.
Oh, well, I saw him being accosted by hordes of tabloid reporters
outside of his house.
And he was taking his daughter to school,
which he probably hasn't done in many years.
Oh, yeah, working in the morning, yeah.
Yeah, and he was basically saying the same thing.
He's like, listen, this is my opinion,
this is what I firmly believe,
and this is what I honestly believe,
and if you don't, that's fine.
Also coming out this morning as well,
there's talk that Megan herself
was one of the people that complained to ITV,
which is the station that owns the show that Piers Morgan was on. So she was one of the people that complained to ITV, which is the station that owns the show that Piers Morgan was on.
So she was one of the people that complained about what he said.
I hope. Did she go through the right channels?
Went to the complaint page on the website?
I think so.
I had to send it off to the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
It takes three or four weeks to look at upholding the complaint.
Thank you, Mrs. Markle.
We've reviewed the decision.
And here is Piers outside of his house.
If people want to believe Megan Markle. We've reviewed the decision. And here is Piers outside of his house. If people want to believe Meghan Markle,
that's entirely their right.
I don't believe almost anything that comes out of her mouth.
I think the damage she's done to the British monarchy
and to the Queen at a time when Prince Philip
was lying in hospital is enormous
and frankly contemptible.
So if I have to fall on my sword for expressing an honestly held opinion
about Meghan Markle and that diatribe of bilge that she came out with in that interview,
so be it.
There we go.
So he's standing by it.
He's standing by it.
So many paparazzi.
Yeah, I never get it about paparazzi here.
It's like, haven't you got the photo?
One photo? Yeah, I know. How many photos are you taking It's like, haven't you got the photo? One photo?
Yeah, I know.
How many photos are you taking?
I know.
It's just going to clog up your stream, right?
Yeah.
It's like when you do a burst on your camera.
You're like, oh, I've got 39 photos of the couch that I accidentally pushed the wrong button of.
I know.
And then you have to go through and delete them all.
And then your camera all just gets clogged up with pointless, repetitive photos.
Well, that's my struggle anyway.
And while Piers Morgan is in probably every news site,
Chelsea Handler, she got interviewed by him in 2014.
And a clip of her has resurfaced of,
so she was promoting a travel book, Uganda, be kidding me.
That's a great little part.
I remember this interview,
and there was something about during the ad break,
he completely ignored her
and was on his phone the whole time or something.
Yeah, he wasn't paying attention to her as a guest,
and then she kind of went all out at him.
I mean, you can't even pay attention for 60 seconds.
You're a terrible interviewer.
Well, you just weren't keeping my attention.
That's more an issue for you than me.
That's not my problem.
It is your problem.
This is your show.
You have to pay attention to the guests that you invited on your show.
Is she interesting enough?
Well, maybe that's why your job is coming to an end.
If I said to you, I can give you Is that interesting enough? Well, maybe that's why your job is coming to an end. If I said to you,
I can give you
one moment back in your life
to repeat right now,
what would you choose?
It would be spending
this hour differently.
This is very funny,
Chelsea Handler,
a great comedian
and also had her own
interview show on E! Television
for many years.
Chelsea, lately, you remember.
Yeah, and what did she say?
She said,
I find it ironic that Piers is going in on Meghan Markle for walking away from a Lately, you remember. Yeah, and what did she say? She said, I find it ironic that Piers
is going in on Meghan Markle for walking away
from a situation. An uncomfortable situation
when, yeah, that's what he criticised her for
doing. And then he's walked away from an uncomfortable
situation, his TV show. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, true. And more people have come out and supported
Meghan Markle. I mean, you've got Beyonce
who thanked her for her courage and her leadership.
There was Serena Williams the other day, posted
something on Instagram.
I mean, her and Megan and Serena have been friends for quite a while.
So you've got the lovers and you've got the haters.
And hopefully, you know, it's Thursday today.
Hopefully by Monday we're all over it.
Do you reckon?
Well, listen, I know you're getting fatigued, Juliet.
I know.
You were coming in at 150 kilometres an hour on Monday.
That is saying something. What are you running at now?
Oh, probably about 30 kilometres an hour.
30 kilometres now.
It's running out of gas. I know, I know.
And they're to spy for more. You can head to the hits.co.nz To everyone pulling a sickie
today, you're not fooling anyone.
Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.
We travelled down to Palmerston North to do
some work last night.
So we're here today broadcasting out of Palmy.
I love travelling with you, Jono, because
you're a Kauru member.
I'm a better class of traveller.
You're always lauded over me, like, oh, yeah, I'll let the riffraff in.
And when you have to, they still make you, like, swipe into the club,
even though you're no member, and it always goes, machine life.
Oh, it's because we don't like your types in our lounge.
Okay, but I bring them in.
It's my charity for the year.
I claim it back on tax.
You always say the same thing. I don't know if we want him
in here, do we?
About 20 times in a row. Same gag.
Do we want to let this riffraff in?
And then the person behind the counter's like, I don't know.
And I'm like, I don't know. And then he puts his
ticket and it's like, bang.
No, you can't. Actually, you can't come in.
Anyway, this morning we're we're
in palmerston north just filming some stuff for the telly this weekend but um producer humphrey
wild morning absolutely wild morning trying to get into the hit studio here in palmerston north you
you tell us what happened because we turned up and you look like a broken human being you do well it
all started yesterday yeah and i came into um i came in to do some prep and get the studio set up
so we could broadcast this morning.
And the lovely office people here gave me a key.
You weren't calling them lovely office people when we came,
but anyway, back to you.
Yeah, so they gave me a key yesterday afternoon.
They gave me a key.
Now, when I say rain in Palmerston North, it is pouring with rain,
like torrential rain this morning at 4.45.
I come up
to use the key and nothing.
The key, a key swap
and it's just
doesn't work. What's the first word that came
out of your mouth? Can you say it on air?
Oh dear. Okay, that's fine.
And then I thought to myself, oh well, I'll run round to the front
of the building and see if it works for the front door.
Nothing.
But in your mind you'd be like surely
that this is the key this is the key they gave me right that's the key they gave me so the lovely
office people yeah so i literally have called pretty much everyone that works in the palmerston
north office and this is what quarter to five in the morning quarter to five in the morning
she even called mike west who hosts the more fm breakfast show to go do you know how to get in
mate we try to get in as a studio.
Anyway, I was just about to hiff a brick through the window
when finally someone answered their phone
and so we're here.
It's all fine.
Let's give a shout out to the wonderful person
that you woke up at 4.45.
Yeah, Viv Shaw from the Palmerston North office.
I definitely owe her lunch today.
Yeah, well done.
Let's take our hats off to Viv.
Thank you, Viv.
She would have been hating that phone call.
Well, we're in here now and we turned up and you were like,
you won't believe what has happened to me.
I look like a drowned rat.
He did.
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 Pam, breakfast on the heads.
The heads. The heads.
The heads.
It's time to look at actual news stories from around the world,
but we're beeped out of word.
Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B**** News.
Yes, welcome to a part of the show that would be a lot quicker
if Juliet didn't beep certain words from the headlines.
And on the surface, it sounds like the world's most explicit news headlines,
doesn't it, when she plays them down?
But we've got to try and figure out what they are.
Drew, what's the first one, mate?
Alrighty.
Breeder sells python with **** for $6,000.
So the python's being sold.
I'd say breeder sells python with the gory remains of a deceased human being on it for $6,000.
Oh, okay.
I reckon the python's attached to Orlando Bloom
because I've seen those paddle boarding photos.
And maybe that's the case.
With Orlando Bloom on it.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking it is.
And that would pay up $6,000 to see that.
God, I wish.
Breeder sells python with three smiley face emojis on it
for $6,000.
So she obviously breeds lots of different pythons, but you know
how some pythons, they're white and they
have sort of the yellow patterns all over them?
This python has been
born and it looks like he's got
three little smiley face emojis
on him. Oh, I can see it here. I've
Googled it. It's very impressive.
I know. I've only had one incident
with a snake and Ben put a
giant, was it a python?
It might have been.
That was when we were filming in the UK, right?
Around my neck.
I thought I was having a stroke.
I thought you were having a stroke too,
because you just went,
that's all you did for a little bit.
This British lady turned up,
she said, hello, governor, here's me snake.
And she pulled it out of her handbag.
She had it in one of those little,
the clear click-clack containers
that you have stuff in.
She was travelling on the tube with it.
On the tube.
On the tube.
Is this alright?
That is terrifying.
Oh gosh.
What's the next one, mate?
Face-planting *** in Otago
shoots to global fame.
Face-planting something in Otago
shoots to global fame.
I'm going to go face-planting legend
in Otago shoots to global fame. Oh, look, go faceplanting legend in Otago shoots to global fame.
Oh, look, I'm just going to say a burning couch.
That's the only thing I can think of for Otago.
Faceplanting albatross in Otago shoots to global fame.
So in Otago, they have live streams of all the albatross nests and things like that.
And on the live stream, it caught this albatross gliding to the ground,
but it just face-planted it, and it's been turned into memes,
it's been slow-mo'd, and I think it's been viewed like over 300,000 times.
So we've got an albatross that's more famous than you guys.
No, I'm kidding.
Could you use any other example in the world?
I'm sorry. It's a humbling experience at 6.30 in the morning. I'm sorry.
It's a humbling experience.
It's 6.30 in the morning. Thanks, JJ.
Hey, mate, you're the one in charge of the social media.
Don't pin that
on us.
And to our 30 followers,
we love every single one of you.
Woman mistakenly receives a package
containing **** from US
Marine Corps. I'm going to say woman mistakenly receives a package containing **** from US Marine Corps.
I'm going to say woman mistakenly receives a package
containing something that wasn't
intended for her from the US Marine Corps.
I'm hoping they send her a whole submarine.
That's what I'm really hoping. Is that the case?
Woman mistakenly receives a package
containing drug test urine
samples from US Marine Corps.
What would you do
if you got sent a bunch of people's urine?
Oh, now, Ben, how's your testing going?
I know Boss Todd came in and took a sample the other day.
Did you pass the flowing colours?
Everything's all good, mate.
That's good, that's good.
And that is the news and beeps.
We knew a guy, actually, sorry, just speaking about that,
who used to test athletes.
Yeah, the tennis.
Yeah, that's right.
It was his job to sort of be there with the male athletes
as they were sort of going.
He'd have to be in the room with them.
Yeah, because otherwise people could cheat and pour stuff into the air.
Some people actually go to the lengths of buying false appendages.
Yes, I've heard about that.
Yeah, just to get out of it.
And he would have to go sit there and watch
and make sure nature was doing its thing, Ju.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
And that isn't using beeps.
Weird headlines for you.
Thanks very much.
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Let's introduce the Piers Morgan of 6.40am news bulletins.
Don't tarnish me with that.
Surrounded in more controversy than Morgan.
It's Ben Boyce with the news from overnight.
Yesterday, the government announced how the vaccine, Pfizer's vaccine, is going to roll out for New Zealand.
They've basically broken it down into four groups, which starts with the border and MIQ workers,
then goes to frontline workers, then priority populations,
and then finally the remainder of the New Zealand population.
It's kind of a staggered thing that's going to be happening,
but it seems like a sensible rollout.
You'd think the elderly and vulnerable would be first in line, wouldn't it?
Well, the border workers first.
Oh, sorry, public, when it comes to public.
Oh, yes, yes, sorry.
I thought you were having a go at me, mate.
I was very defensive.
They're in there, mate. They're one of the first. Thanks, yeah, sorry. I thought you were having a go at me, mate. I was very defensive. They're in there, mate.
They're one of the first.
Thanks, Chris Hipkins.
Do you know a really funny thing happened at the airport yesterday?
Oh, yes.
You should talk about it.
Yeah, talk about it.
Who cares?
Well, yeah, because I was standing there at the airport
and someone was having a meeting off to the side,
a bit of a Zoom meeting.
Well, it looked like a Zoom meeting.
An old nosy parker over here.
Nosy parker, Piers Morgan. I know, and someone very famous was on a Zoom meeting. Well, it looked like a Zoom meeting. An old nosy parker over here. Nosy parker, Piers Morgan.
I know, and someone very famous was on the Zoom meeting.
Can you say who it is?
Don't just tickle me.
I feel bad saying that.
I was trying not to worry.
It was Dr. Ashley Bluefield.
Dr. Ashley Bluefield.
Ben was peering over a person having a Zoom meeting with Dr. Ashley Bluefield.
I was like, let's see, and with other people.
I was like, oh my God, Dr. Ashley Bluefield.
And then everyone we were flying with,
everyone we were flying with, there was like four of us, we each did laps behind the guy to go, oh yeah, it's definitely a Zoom meeting with Dr. Ashley Bloomfield. I was like, let's see how many other people. I was like, oh my God, Dr. Ashley Bloomfield. And then everyone we were flying with, everyone we were flying with,
it was like four of us,
we each did laps
behind the guy to go,
oh yeah,
it's definitely a Zoom meeting.
And we're like,
is he watching a video?
No, no,
it's a Zoom meeting.
Yeah.
So I wanted to wave
in the background,
I'm a big fan,
but I thought
that was a bit much.
So yeah.
Yeah,
but that was good.
It was really,
it was such a thrilling moment.
It wasn't even
Ashley Bloomfield in the flesh.
It was him via the internet
and we were still loving it.
And I see here too, MIQ,
you know, the managed quarantine,
$20 million in unpaid bills
that are still owed.
Oh, really?
Because, yeah, obviously people have to pay their own...
What is the...
Behemoths, this seems like something you would know.
What is the deal with that?
Is that...
So I think they have to...
You have to pay an instalment by a certain date.
But who has to pay?
Do New Zealand residents have to pay?
Or is it just people coming to visit?
I don't know the question there.
Does everyone?
So if I'm a New Zealand resident and I'm coming back to New Zealand,
am I required to pay that bill?
I don't think you pay it if you're staying for longer, right?
Sorry, yeah, so if you are staying
in New Zealand for longer than three months, I think
you don't have to pay, but if you chose
to leave New Zealand during the
pandemic, then you
do have to pay to come back. Right.
And $20 million unpaid,
I don't know what they're going to do. The government's going to be like,
hey, you owe us money. And they're like, yep.
Or, what are you going to do about it?
Oh, tell Jacinda.
And, well, she won't be happy.
Sure.
Speaking of the vaccine, which we were before,
after 8 o'clock on the show,
we're going to have a vaccine expert.
Any question that you want answered,
4487 on the text.
Anything at all we're going to put to them.
Because so many people have a lot of questions
regarding the vaccine.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going around
on social media, isn't there?
I've heard some wild rumours.
I heard that if you get the vaccine,
that Jacinda Ardern will refuse to talk to Mike Hoskey ever again.
Oh, really?
Those are the rumours I've heard.
Oh, jeez, the wild rumours.
And just quickly, before we wrap up what's happening in New Zealand and around the world,
tomatoes.
Nine cents a kg in the Hawke's Bay yesterday.
We were talking about this before the show.
Nine cents?
As a tomato farmer, you'd be like, what's the point?
Best price in New Zealand for 10 years at Hastings Pack and Save yesterday.
Yeah, so nine cents a kilo.
Dozens of people were seen leaving the supermarket.
Some only just came in to buy tomatoes, but that's an amazing price.
I'm not even a big fan of tomatoes, but
that would make me buy some tomatoes.
Do you think it's because we're not exporting them
as much? You might be right
actually, yeah. Because I know we had an abundance there
for a while of just the
most strawberries on steroids.
Yes, well that's... Didn't we?
I'm just reading further down in the
news article, you're exactly right. That's why
there's an abundance of tomatoes.
There was a period there where I was eating like 20 kilograms strawberries
that were that big.
And we're sending those overseas.
We're sending all our good ones.
The good ones normally get, yeah.
Save a couple for us.
They were wild.
And that is what is happening in New Zealand and around the world.
Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben.
The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Long gone. Hey, Ben, you're on, mate.
Oh, we're on.
We're doing a radio show, and if you'd like to just say that was 6.60,
that'd be ideal right now.
6.60, yeah, 6.51.
Sorry, we're getting caught up in your Zoom meeting, Link.
I was shaming you.
Yeah, I'm holding a zoom meeting uh between everyone right
now because we're in different locations three of us are all in the same room but we refuse to look
at each other so we're just talking over zoom over zoom meeting and uh it insulted me it's like
because you know you got like a 45 minute limit or whatever on uh the free zoom and it's like
uh you can take your meeting from basic to professional simply by upgrading as if we've
just had a basic meeting
over the last four years. And it has been pretty basic.
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Alright, prepare yourself for an update
of celebrity news that will in no
way affect your life.
Juliet, come on in.
Hello.
So after the old Megan and Harry interview and peers famously absolutely slamming Megan and Harry,
the other day, or I think it was yesterday, we touched on it as well,
he stormed off in the middle of one of his co-hosts kind of confronting him about the way he's been treating Meghan and Harry.
Has she said anything about you since she cut you off?
I don't think she has, but yet you continue to trash her.
Okay, I'm done with this.
No, no, no.
Sorry.
Do you know what?
That's pathetic.
You can track him, maybe, not my own.
No, no, no.
See you later.
Sorry, can't do this.
And that is how that turned out.
And Piers has now quit Good Morning Britain.
And he's resigned.
He's been there for about six years now.
And people are wondering who might replace him.
Because he's quite a strong character.
We compare him to Mike Hosking, kind of, don't we?
Yeah, do.
And, you know, whether you agree with his thoughts or not,
losing a personality like that on a show would be a huge loss. I mean, we're
talking, we've been talking about the guy every day this week.
I haven't even watched the show.
I mean, we've just been assuming
everyone knows who he is. I know, and so
people are wondering and slash
wanting Jeremy Clarkson
who is Piers Morgan's nemesis.
They don't like each other at all.
To replace him on...
Oh, imagine it. Honestly, and so if he replaced Piers, because I think nemesis. They don't like each other at all. To replace him on...
Honestly, and so if he replaced Piers,
because I think he's quite a
bold character.
Yeah, and so I don't
think Piers would be too happy about that either.
It was interesting,
Juliet, I was looking yesterday because everyone said
Piers Morgan and Megan were friends
and I was like, well, how did that all come about?
And it happened a few years ago, from what I understand.
He followed her on Twitter.
She replied back.
This was obviously before Harry.
She replied back going, oh, my goodness, I'm a big fan.
They ended up corresponding over social media.
They went out for a drink just to catch up as friends.
And ironically, that was the same night she went into an Uber afterwards
and went out with Prince Harry for the first time.
And since then, he raved about her afterwards
and said,
oh, she's great,
she's my friend and all that.
But since then,
I guess they haven't had
really much of a relationship.
Yeah.
You think?
Well, definitely now.
Even on their wedding day,
it was like,
congratulations,
Meghan and Harry,
Harry, you've got a good one there.
Yeah, I know.
He was really quite complimentary
towards us.
It's gone just awfully wrong.
She Ubered to a date with Prince Harry.
He didn't even send a pauper to go pick her up.
Oh, wait.
Ubered.
Man, he wants to be just like us.
That's all they do.
He wants to live an ordinary life.
He's a normal person.
And listen, I'm in no way saying,
because he's like, she's lying, she's lying, she's lying,
and I don't believe she's lying at all.
No one's in no way saying she is lying, Meghan Markle.
But if it turns out she is,
isn't he going to feel like a legend?
Yeah.
He'll be like, mic drop.
Yeah.
I don't think she is, though.
No, I don't think so either.
So I don't think that's ever going to happen.
Yeah, and it'd be hard to prove everything that she said would be false.
Everything, you know?
And Chrissy Teigen, married to John Legend.
I feel like we talk about her quite a lot,
but she's quite a funny celebrity to follow on social media.
She posts a lot and she's very entertaining.
She reveals that she once confused actor Michael Keaton
as a champagne server at a Golden Globes after party once.
So she saw him by the door, saw him holding champagne
and went up to him and was like, thank you, walks away.
And Johninden goes,
that was Michael Keaton. And she
goes, so wait, I thought he was a champagne
server. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no. You got
that completely wrong. She felt terrible. He was
original Batman. Yeah, crazy.
Crazy. But that would be...
How many champagnes was Keaton holding?
You'd have to assume he had a tray
of 20 or so. Well, it says he was
holding a glass of champagne.
So he just took his drink out of his hand?
Thank you very much.
Yes.
But she also said she was drinking a lot.
So she probably in her state was like,
ah, champagne, and took it off him.
But, yeah.
The other day, it was about three weeks ago,
I was in a shop and I got confused for a shop.
You know when someone comes up and asks you
for advice in the shop?
What shop were you confused?
I was in a hardware store.
Oh, really?
Like a suburban hardware store.
And this guy was like,
hey, listen, I'm after some galvanised nails.
I was wondering if you could show me.
I was like, mate, you are asking the wrong person.
I shouldn't even be in the shop myself.
They go to the bald guy with tattoos, do they?
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Jono and Ben,
or as they're known
in the office,
those two.
Jono and Ben,
New Zealand's breakfast
on the Hits.
Hey, Bailey.
Good night.
Are you feeling good?
I didn't sound good.
You got up a ridiculous,
you woke up so early
this morning, didn't you?
Oh, I know.
I can't sleep when I,
I just can't sleep.
I'm not a sleeper.
Yes, though.
As soon as you got on the plane,
straight away.
It's almost like your brain shuts down
as soon as you stop talking.
It was in your mouth talking, you're awake.
But as soon as you stop talking,
which you don't normally do during the day,
it's like your brain suddenly turns off.
Thank goodness he stopped talking.
I could switch off.
He's just been talking at me all day.
If you stop talking for more than five seconds, you'll be a slave.
Never happens during the radio show.
Like a malfunctioning robot.
It just shuts down at odd times.
And then wakes up at crazy times.
So, yeah, that's me.
That's me doing tea.
We're going to end on a good note, though.
Not the sour character assassination Ben's trying to launch on me right now.
Why is it going to be a good day? We'll head to Wellington. Steph, you're on the air. Morena. Good morning. Today is a good note though, not the sour character assassination Ben's trying to launch on me right now. Why is it going to be a good day?
We'll head to Wellington.
Steph, you're on the air.
Morena.
Good morning.
Today is a good day
because it is last day before payday.
So tomorrow will be an even better day,
but today will be good.
Don't you love a payday?
Yeah.
Still though,
that last day you're dragging out,
aren't you?
You're really,
you're eating food out of rubbish bins,
aren't you?
Oh, yeah.
So yeah,
I cannot wait for tomorrow.
A friend of ours was on a date the night before payday
and basically made the date go after 12 o'clock
so he could pay for the bill because his money wasn't coming in.
That's a long date.
So I was shouting tricks and things, basically.
I hoped that it would go after 12 o'clock and it didn't.
They got on really well.
I think they're still together now.
Gee, so let's say you start dinner at 7.
That's a 5 at least.
You're like, no, no, the night is young.
That's him.
Just to pay where his money came
through after midnight.
Shall we call it a night?
No, no.
Sue, you're on from Auckland. Welcome on to New Zealand's
Breakfast. Why is it going to be a good day for you?
Yeah, Marina. Well, I work
in a school. We're now in Level 2.
I have these beautiful children coming in the gate,
smiling and happy to be back at school.
So, hey, it's going to be a great day.
Oh, that's nice.
Are you a teacher, are you?
School principal, yeah.
School principal.
You sound like a friendly principal, too.
Yeah, you do sound nice.
Yeah, I am.
I'm the nice one.
Oh, good on you, Sue.
Well, good on you.
It's been so disruptive for kids all over New Zealand
over the last year or so, so it's nice.
Hopefully we're back to a bit of normality, eh?
Yeah, I think tomorrow we might find out.
But even level two, look, the kids are back.
You know, that's just great.
They're just smiling.
They're happy.
They're excited.
It's a bit sad.
We're in week six of our term,
and we've had 15 school days.
Oh, Mary.
Let's hope no more lockdown, Sue.
You're doing God's work out there. You have a great day
and thank you for listening.
Thank you. Bye.
Thank you guys for all listening. Back tomorrow morning,
five words for $5,000. We're putting
5K on the line at 7.45.
Have a great Thursday. We'll catch you tomorrow for Friday.
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