Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 24 - Jacinda Ardern Joins Us!

Episode Date: March 23, 2021

Gday all! Today we were joined by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern & we tried to play a little trick on her. Needless to say, she did not fall for it. THAT WOMAN IS SMART! (Duh). We also unpacked a bit of a dilemma regarding someone getting culled from the wedding list, but she'd already given a quite expensive gift. Ben shared an awkward hugging situation he found himself in, and Jono is living among hoarders! Enjoy the podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Wednesday, Wednesday, 24th of March 2021. This is Jonathan Richard Pryor and I'm joined by my colleague and acquaintance, Benjamin Ross Boyce. Hello, I'm glad I'm a colleague and acquaintance, it's good. Well, I'm trying to be professional. No, it's nice, I like it.

Off-air, friends. Friends and lovers. But we put that aside. We put that aside. On-air, we put all that aside. Is there a full version of Ross, or Ross is just Ross? Yeah, because people say Roscoe. Is Roscoe like, yeah, is Ross your...

I don't know what the full version of it is. That's your middle name. In the meantime, we had the Prime Minister on the show today. That was fun. Full name of Ross. That'll be coming up on the podcast, the Prime Minister. Yeah, Prime Minister. Causing our chat with the Prime Minister caused a bit of a news story

out of it, which is unusual. I mean, we don't normally think that the stuff that we talk about on the show ends up making the news, but it has made the news today, so you judge for yourself whether it's newsworthy or not. That's coming up on the podcast. Bloody good for the show, though. We needed some process marketing, let's be honest. And as well as that, five words for $5,000.

That's the game we play every day. So you can do that online at the hitstockco.nz. We have an online version of the game. And we had a lady on Adele and she had been playing it and she'd got five out of five six times online so we thought we'd bring her onto the radio today to see if her luck online would equate to winning on the radio now I've padded for enough time over to Jonathan Richard Pryor with the Ross update. Ross can be used as a given name typically for males but is also a typical family name for people of Scottish descent. The clan Ross.

So no, Ross is the full version of Ross. Such an interesting name. Ross, isn't it? Ross. Ross. The more you say it, it's one of those names the more you say it, the stranger it gets to say. Ross. Ross. Yeah. Ross-o. Ross. Ross-o. Ross-o. Ross-o. Yeah. Rosso. Ross. Ross.

Ross. Are you Ross? Roscoe. Roscoe. Yeah, Ross is probably the most common version of all that name. Ross Taylor.

Wonderful cricketer. Wairarapa College old boy as well. There wouldn't be many Rosses being born nowadays would there? Ross from Friends as well. Ross Geller.

Yeah, iconic TV character. That's okay. I'll try and see how many famous Rosses you can name. Well, there's Rick Ross, but that's going to do last names. Ross of Friends, Ross Turner, Ross Go. Oh, I've got it. Here's one you'll know.

He was on Gangs. He was on Gangs. Oh, Ross Kemp. Ross Kemp on Gangs. That's a wonderful show, Ross Kemp on Gangs. What ever happened to Ross Kemp on Gangs. He's on Gangs. Oh, Ross Kemp. Ross Kemp on Gangs. That's a wonderful show, Ross Kemp on Gangs. What ever happened to Ross Kemp on Gangs? Did a wonderful cameo on Ricky Jo Ace's show as well. Did you ever see that on Extras?

And he came along to the scene and he was playing basically, they all played themselves but alternate versions of themselves. A hyper version. He was really quite timid and really quite like he would cry and be really scared of all sorts of stuff. A guy who obviously on TV goes in. He's a guy who obviously on TV goes in and gets amongst the gangs. He was quite timid behind the scenes. So, yeah, it was good.

British comedian. Ross Noble. Well done. I've seen Ross Noble, yeah. I'm not looking at these on the computer anymore. No, you're not. You're doing well. Any other ones?

Ross? Just going through here. That's all the Rosses you would know. Ross doing well any other ones ross just going through here that's that's all the ross's you would know ross taylor you mentioned didn't you be quite a fun a little game we could play from time to time the name game how many famous people can you name and we go yeah and you are off the thing so today is ross and you have to get the last name as well character on friends ross geller you know like okay. And could you do it with someone's actual name? Like, could you do it with me, for example? Let's do Ben the name game, okay?

Famous. Ben's. All right. So you have to ask me questions. I have to try and think of it as I have to try and get. Married to Jennifer Garner for a while. Oh, Ben Affleck. He's a comedian.

His father was very famous as well. Oh, Ben Stiller. He had a band and they folded five times. Ben folds five. Oh, I didn't realise He had a band and they folded five times. Ben folds five. Oh, I didn't realise this. His real name is Ben, but his stage name would take you to a thrift shop. Oh, Macklemore.

His real name's Ben. That's it. He's going to take the ground on down. Oh, Ben Harper. Well done. This is a fun game. Yeah, the name. I mean, we're pretty much playing the Alpha Quiz, but with a name.

But it's, yeah, it's fun. Could be a little thing we play from time to time. It'd be impressive to do it with the caller. Go, Julie, what's your, you know, okay, well, Julie, we're playing. It's the Julie name game today. Yes, with the actual. With the person. Anyway.

We just developed a format in real time in the podcast intro that you will hear on the radio tomorrow? The name game. Well done. But the name game will be on tomorrow's show. Two dads just trying to fill some air time. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us. That is the main thing.

John and Ben, breakfast on the hits. We've got the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joining us on the phone. Hello, Prime Minister. Hello? Hello. phone. Hello, Prime Minister. Hello? Hello. Hello. We've got that weird cutty out thing going on. The beeping noise.

The beeping noise. Yeah, every time we talk to you, it's like... For me, it sounds like call waiting. So basically every third word you say is kind of blanked out. Oh, because I said, hello, Prime Minister, and there was a delay almost like you'd forgotten you were the Prime Minister. Oh, because I said hello Prime Minister and there was a delay almost like you'd forgotten you were the Prime Minister. Oh, there it is again.

Nice to talk to you. How's things? Nice to talk with you guys. Not bad, thank you. Not bad. I'm here in Wellington. Another day in Parliament today. Busy one. But, yeah. Another day in paradise. That's right. That's what they say. Now, it was pretty much a year ago this week. There's in paradise. That's right. That's what they say. Now it was pretty much

a year ago this week the country went into lockdown. I mean how do you feel now compared to how you felt a year ago when it was all happening? Well I mean gosh probably the same as everyone else. You know when you reflect on that time there was just so much uncertainty. You know we were

trying to make sure that we were getting ahead of COVID. We know so much more now than we did then. It's still having a really big effect on a lot of people. But I think we have our plan now. We know what to do. And it's changed for us in many ways. And I think looking around the world, I think, you know, for the most part,

we feel really lucky. It has been really hard, but when you look at other countries, everyone's done so well. Is there a word, you know, there's words like cluster, pivot, new normal, bubble. Is there a word that you're like, I would love to never use that word again in my lifetime?

Many, actually. Right. For me, it's just the day-to-day, the change in my thinking. I look at the clock a lot in the mornings because I'm waiting for the morning results to come through. And there are certain people that if they call me, my heart sinks a little bit. If I get a call from Chris Hipkins, that's a bad news day. Do you know, we gave Chris a nickname. Well, I bad news day. Do you know we gave Chris a nickname? Well, I gave him a nickname and he wasn't that

enamoured with it. But it was more based around I called him the hippo because it's around his surname. Yeah, but he thought it was something to do with his body weight. We're like, no. But anyway, it was awkward. I can see. I don't see that there's really a positive spin on it. No, that's what I said to Jono.

He has a nickname already, of course. Which he's had for a number of years. It's just a combination spin on it. No, that's what I said to Jono. He has the nickname already, of course. What's his nickname? Which he's had for a number of years. It's just a combination of first and last name. His nickname's Chippy. Oh, Chippy. Chippy's good. Chippy's really good.

I thought the next cabinet meeting, Hippo, your thoughts on this? I thought you could... Oh, God. I run quite a formal cabinet, so I'm not sure I'll be... You're not shouting, Hippo, Robbo, Robbo! What's happening

with the housing stuff? The housing announcement yesterday, Jacinda Ardern, do you think it's enough? Enough to stop these house prices going crazy? Yeah, well, I mean, undeniably, house prices have been crazy. It's been a really

overheated market, and that ends up being bad for everyone. It runs the risk that you end up with a bubble that bursts. And so we don't want that to happen. We know that people are finding it really hard to get into the housing market. So we just need those prices to calm down. And so what we've done, you'll hear some people on both ends of the spectrum. I think it's a really balanced approach. We're trying to increase supply, but also stop there being so much speculation in the market.

What are you going to say? We've got wonderful millennial producer Juliet here, fuelled on avocado. She's 23 years old. She doesn't have a house. What are you saying to her right now? That's exactly, it's for her. And it's everyone who owns a home now who wants their kids to own a home. That's the, it's for her. And it's everyone who owns a home now

who wants their kids to own a home. That's the reason we're doing this. New Zealand's being built around this idea that you should be able to own a home. Not every country has that as a value, but we do. I want it to be within reach. And so that's why we're doing this. Gotcha. That's awesome. Now, just quickly before we go,

we thought we'd throw it out there to see if there was anyone from the audience that wanted to ask a question. I saw that up on Instagram. I thought about popping my own question. And I think we might have someone on the line. We do. We've got some callers right now.

We have a Mike from Matakana. What's your question for the Prime Minister, Mike? The bubble will Australia. The pressure's got to be on you now to do something by way of a two-way, doesn't it? Quite a serious question there from Mike from Matakana. He really had a real voice for radio. He did have a real voice for radio.

Mike, he wants to ask another question. Another question, okay. Just quickly on the vaccine, why is it Australia has AstraZeneca on board, we don't? Your thoughts, Jacinda? Do you actually want those answers? No, we don't need the answers Okay I was perfectly willing to give them though

I just want it on the record You've already answered those questions I think from a previous interview Indeed Well listen we just thought you're not going on Mike Hosking's show now so listen Mike was like can you ask you some questions for me?

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern lovely to talk with you. You too. Take care of yourself and we'll catch up with you soon. See you, mate. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.

Now on the weekend, Jono, I'm, you know, I embarrass myself at a public setting. Now, meeting people for the first time is always... You weren't wearing that shirt, were you? This is the shirt that my wife doesn't like. I actually really like the shirt. It's a shirt he's got full of smiley, full of emoji faces. It is very nice. I actually really like it too. I like the shirt too. But were you wearing the shirt

when you were in the show? No, I wasn't wearing the shirt. My wife thinks it looks like pyjamas. No, but I wasn't. I turned up at a friend's barbecue and there was a whole lot of people outside on the lawn. And as I went in the gate, you know, it's summertime, the light's shining in your eye, the sun is shining, people were wearing sunglasses.

And I saw this lady there and she was like, oh, hi. And I was like, oh, hi. And I thought in my head, I was like, oh, this is, I thought this is someone else. This is someone I know. And I was like, in my head, I'm like, yeah, I know this person. And so I went in for the hug. And then as I was just, you my head I'm like yeah I know this person and so I went in for the hug and then as I was just

coming out from the hug the friend whose party we're at went oh this is, these are our neighbours, you haven't met them before. Oh! But I'd hugged them, but I'd gone in for a hug and there was a group of about six or seven neighbours all in the one group and I'd gone in for the first person thinking

I'd know them but I'd gone in for a hug and then I'm like well what do I do now? There's five or six. At what point did you realise that you didn't, because you must have realised before you were told that you didn't know them. No I hadn't Oh you were like I still know this person until it was, and do you think she

realised what was going on? I don't know maybe she just went oh this guy's quite friendly. He's quite handsy? I didn't want to be handsy, but quite friendly. I thought, oh, friendly. Very comfortable. And then I was like, oh, Jesus, five or six other neighbours now. And I've gone in for a hug on the first one. I kind of think,

oh, the guy was next. I'm like, hey, g'day mate. Did you go down the line and hug them all? It would have been weird if I just hugged the first one. Yeah. And then gone round and go, g'day, how do you do? So then you had half a dozen hugs you had to execute.

Yeah, but I just felt like one of those moments where you just arrived at a place, you know, you're first in the door. You spend half an hour hugging people. And then you're like, oh, that was weird. And then I sort of, you know, like I got upstairs and I was like, I felt a bit rattled. Like I was like, oh, that was a bad start. I was like, should I just go? Should I just go? You know, like you don't want to be that guy. I was like, hey know, like I got upstairs and I was like, I felt a bit rattled. Like I was like, oh, that was a bad start.

I was like, should I just go? Should I just go? You know, you don't want to be that guy. I was like, hey, he came. And they're like, it's all right, Captain Cuddles. It's all right, mate. Pull yourself together. Yeah, but it was just a very unusual way to introduce yourself.

Totally by mistake, but I couldn't put it back going, oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were someone I knew. Well, at least it matches your hug life tattoo on your stomach. I imagine hugging you would be like, you're just like a skeleton draping its bones over you. What is happening here? Only you would make a hug awkward. Exactly.

From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts of New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Actual hearts being not bestowed. We were working with someone the other day. We're filming this TV show at the moment and they have these little, they're called radio mics,

little microphones they sort of hide underneath your shirt normally, or they stick onto your skin. Yeah, the FBI would use them in undercover stings as well. I thought they would, wouldn't they? To get intel on, you know, Mexican cartels and things like that. And sometimes when they stick it onto your skin, under your T-shirt, you know, obviously it's got to be quite sticky, especially if you were, like, doing all sorts of sporty activities.

So they're looking for real top quality sticky tape. Yeah, you're not just talking about your stock standard pop down to a Wickles and get some cello tape. No. Needs to be industry standard sticky tape. Now, Tim, who was recording our sound the other day, I was like, oh, this tape is extra sticky. This feels really like double-sided, really sticky tape.

It clings to you harder than I've clung to Ben throughout our career, this tape. Can't quite peel me off, can you? And I was like, oh, where did he get this from? And he's like, well, it's a funny little story. He's found out over the years the best tape is at a place that sells toupees. So he goes in and he gets the double-sided tape

for people that, you know. Stick the wigs on their heads. Which is great for them. But he says, it's interesting because every time he goes in there, sometimes there'll be a new person working there. So he'll go and get the tape, walk up to the counter. And the people at the store are always like looking at the tape

and then they look up at his hair. Because he's got a wonderful head of hair. He's kind of half George Clooney, half Harry Styles. Like it's a proceeding hairline. It's somehow growing down. It's almost too much, eh? Yeah, it's a wonderful head of hair. He's kind of half George Clooney, half Harry Styles. Like it's a proceeding hairline. It's somehow growing down. It's almost too much, eh? Yeah, it's a wonderful head of hair. He says,

the new people always look up here looking up and going, wow, that is amazing. That is amazing. They're like, that's a hairline John Travolta would be envious of. And he's like,

I don't tell them either way. I just let them know his, but he always noticed they always look up at his hairline when he buys the tape going, oh, wow, that's really impressive that toupee

it would be a great position for him to be in if he was a sound operator and required a toupee he's killing two birds with one stone going to the toupee shop you put me in a

he put me in a toupee remember you put me in a toupee did you I was going on the project on TV3 your first time back on TV

first time on the project after our TV show got cancelled he's like well I want to make this a special appearance for you. Yeah, it was kind of getting rid of, you know, as someone, I felt like your manager giving you a new image. You know, the old show had been cancelled. I was like, hey, it's the new Johnny.

So he's like, I'll send you to a toupee shop. Like a proper one. Like a proper one. And I put on this wig. It wasn't like costume wear. Again, they used that tape, so it was stuck. Oh, wow. So it was like a proper one.

It was a proper wig. You look good. And what, like costume wire. Again they used that tape so it was stuck. Oh wow so it was like a proper one. It was a proper wig. You look good. And what like no one at the project knew. So I had to turn up for the pre-meeting at like three o'clock in the afternoon.

I'm like hey guys and everyone's sort of staring like Carno or Lloyd was like staring at my hair. But no one was. Oh no I had a hat on that's right I put a

hat on because I was like I don't want to walk in with this. So I had a hat on and then eventually like about half an hour before the show I put a hat on because I was like I don't want to walk in with this so I had a hat on and then eventually like about half an hour before the show I took the hat off

everyone was like oh and I was like wow wow just like looking at it and it was a talk at the show talk at the preacher

it was and I had to go on television with it yeah and you looked good but no one even said anything it was never referenced did you not end up telling them

that it was a toupee no I told her and then the word quickly spread around But no, they didn't say anything on air I was just like, oh this guy's gone away And now he's come back with a He said nothing wrong with it, that's your thing That looks great, if it makes you happy, that's good

But in this case, did it make you happy? No, and then I couldn't peel it off Because it had this tape on So I had to ride it out for a couple of days Oh dear God I just keep getting my wife to run her fingers through it as I enjoy it while it lasts. It's going on

Wednesday. It won't be around forever. But we are off, Tim, the sounder using the special tape for, the wig tape for sound recording. We want to know the best alternate product uses today. Like, are you using a product for something else? Yeah. We talk about

MIQ. Some people in MIQ were doing something like dangerous things like cooking toasted sandwiches on like irons and things like that, you know. But these sort of things happen, right? You know what I use? I use very, very sharp knives as screwdrivers. So when Poppy, my daughter's like, oh, can you change

the batteries on my for real pit? Yeah. I just can't be bothered going out to the garage and getting the screwdriver. So I just use a very sharp knife, the end of a very sharp knife. Okay. I guess that kind of works. Yeah, it works to treat it.

Also, I've spent a lot of time in A&E with knife wounds, but at least the batteries get changed. So your best alternate uses would love to have your calls and texts this morning. 0800 the hits, 4487 on the text. We might find a prize. Why not? Because it's Wednesday. Hey, Nicole, how's Auckland this morning?

Yep, it's light now. It's light? Oh, good. There's a wonderful report from Auckland there. Very vague weather report, but I love it. What's your alternate product use? So we all use our towel rail for drying our clothes. Oh, that's smart.

That is smart. Yeah, I guess you can get that. Is it a heated towel rail? Yeah, it's a heated towel rail. You're no factor in how hot those are. I accidentally rubbed my hand against one the other day. Some get too hot, eh? Yeah, quite a school.

I'm almost like, how are the towels not catching fire? Yeah, it makes me want, yeah. My love is turning switches off. It makes me go, eh? Yeah, quite a school. I'm almost like, how are the towels not catching fire? Yeah, it makes me, my love is turning switches off. It makes me go, should I turn this switch off as well? Nicole?

No, no, I made it awkward. Can you say what you're going to say? And there has been a time not at the current place where we've tried out washing to those

ceiling fans that spin, that hit the blade. Oh, jeez. And you can dry your clothes. That is smart. That's ingenez. And you can do the timing, you can dry your clothes. That is smart. That's ingenuity.

Thank you very much. Morena, Quentin and Tauranga, how are you this morning? Good morning, boys. How are you guys doing? Yeah, we're doing well. Lovely to have you on. Your alternate product use? The good old toothbrush.

So my wife has a couple of trays in our drawer in the bathroom. I always have a blue toothbrush, she has a green one, and this red toothbrush is used for the shower. So sometimes I just need to make sure I put the right toothbrush or brush in my teeth and not the toothbrush for cleaning the shower. Oh, I see. For the shower angels. That's a smart move.

Oh, but not the whole shower, because it would take two weeks. Yeah. It's all part of the planning, you see. If she starts in the shower with her toothbrush in the morning She might be finished in the evening Oh jeez what is this The 50s And when I get home she's got a lovely cooked meal for me

Oh god I've got one joke for you guys Uh oh I'm going to put you on hold right now No I reckon we go with it We're going to come off air and we'll come back and see the joke later on the show Behemoth you listen to his jokes See if it's worthy Given the lead content No, I reckon we go with it. No, I'm going to put it on hold. We're going to come off air. We'll come back and see the joke later on the show. B-Humps, you listen to his jokes, see if it's worthy.

Given the lead content. Yeah, I'm going to put that one on hold right now. I can't wait to hear the joke. Well, I can probably wait, to be honest. Jane, how are you? How's Auckland this morning? Good, how are you guys? Oh, we're doing very well.

Jane, alternate product uses. Yeah, I put my dishes in the laundry detergent in the bath. Oh, you wash your dishes in the bath? I suppose it's just a big sink. Yeah, it's a really big, like, really tough thing to get out. So, if it's been burnt on. Oh, yeah, that's not a bad idea. And we'll go to one more. We'll take Anna in Taranaki.

Welcome. You're on the air. Alternate product uses. Good morning, boys. Good morning. I make a lot of birthday cakes. Very hard to get them level. So I use my builder's level.

Oh, wow. That's not a bad idea. You'd have the flattest cakes in the game. Exactly. Got to have it right. That's a really smart idea, actually. You wouldn't want to use it when the icing was on, obviously, but use it beforehand and it'd be perfect, right?

Oh, no, no. With the icing to make sure it all, it's got to go back sort of like four, five, six levels. It's got to be right, man. Oh, Anna, flattest cakes in Taranaki. Thank you very much. And someone's texting 24487 No I use the salad spinner

You're pumping it It gets rid of all the extra moisture They're hand washed clothes They put in there to dry them So they just pump the spinner So potentially they could turn up To work in a salad dress If they mix up the clothing, but apparently that's very viable.

Oh, there we go. Some great Kiwi ingenuity there. Oh, we're not going to hear his joke. He's gone. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hets. Hey, great to have you with us. Thank you for hanging out with us on New Zealand's Breakfast.

I live in a household, and I'm quickly becoming aware that the household is full of sentimental hoarders. I know Jenny Boyce, your mother, is a hoarder. And it's lovely. Like Jennifer, my wife, and Poppy, my daughter, they've got the same hoarding gene. I don't know what generations it's been passed down from. Right. But everything's sentimental, and it's lovely.

And they're like, oh, no, Aunty Sandra gave me that when I was 20. We can't throw out the vase that's been in the cupboard for 10 years, covered in cobwebs and, you know, 5 inches of dust. Because Aunty Sandra gave that. Now everything's got a backstory. That's, I know that

can become difficult for people. It's an emotional backstory too. Yeah, I'm completely the opposite. Me too. I'm like, throw it out. I'm like, Aunty Sandra won't even care. She'll forget she gave you a vase. Amanda, my wife, she's like, because I'll sometimes read a card.

Someone comes to see me at my birthday and go, oh, that's lovely. Read it over the recycling bin as I'm putting it in the recycling bin. And I'm like, well, it's lovely. They thought of me. And I really get a nice smile. I do. I get a nice, oh, that's lovely. And I put it in. And the man's like, well, why don't you put it up? Put it up. And I'm like, well, it's lovely. They thought of me. And I really get a nice smile. I do. I get a nice little, oh, that's lovely. And I put it in.

And the man's like, well, why don't you put it up? And I'm like, well, I'm going to put it on the mantelpiece for a day or two days. And then I'm going to eventually put it in there. Well, I'm just cutting out the two days. She's like, you can't. You can't do it. It's a lovely card.

I'll throw it in the bin. You have a lovely moment. Place it gently. You don't tear it up. No. So later that day, if you're like, like oh I might go back and read that lovely card you can still pull it out yeah I could do it until I take the bins out

I'm just not that sentimental like that maybe that's too harsh but I'm just like we're going to do the same dance we do every time we put it up there on the shelf it stays up there for three days it is a sweet way to operate but yeah I'm trying to clear out Poppy's room. Like, and her whole room is just filling up with mementos.

She'll be like, Granny Annie gave me that. I was like, Granny Annie flies here from Christchurch and has basically burdened me with three rooms worth of toys. Granny Annie will forget she's given you that. And she'll be like, when I was two, Granny Annie gave me that. So I'd say, yeah, eventually I think we're going to be one of those families that end goes, when I was two, Granny Annie gave me that. So it's, yeah, eventually I think we're going to be

one of those families that end up on TVNZ1, you know, those documentaries where the wider family and friends have to come and have an intervention. You can't open the door

and you can't walk through the house. Yeah. My mum, my mum, she loves holding onto stuff. I spoke about this a while ago. She brought all,

she brought some stuff down. She was like, boxes and boxes and she was like, this is your stuff. Go through it. I'm done with this anymore. It's all up to you.

So I went through and went, I don't need any of it. And I went to post it out by the bin. She's like, you can't do that. And put it back in her car and took it back up north. I was like, what was the point of that? You should have been like, have you seen me read birthday cards? I can do this. I mean, school books.

I'm not going to look at my English school book again. Why do you feel obliged to keep school books? Have you just got an attitude like... Yes, I still have all of my diaries since I was year 7. My diary planners and everything. It's so fun to look back on. When have you looked back on? Yeah, I know. Who is? Can I ask you that? I know your kids. You're like,

all my kids are like, will they? My friend of mine, he's like a one box theory. He's like one box has got to fit into one of those boxes. One of those fish bin boxes. That's the thing. As soon box theory He's like one box It's got to fit Into one of those boxes One of those fish bin boxes That's the thing As soon as you can't fit in

You've got to take something out And that's your memento box That's savage It's a bad way of going Okay that's my thing It doesn't mean You can't have stuff Up in the house

But it gets out of control I mean the good thing is At least we know When we're old and dusty We won't be thrown out By our families Yeah exactly Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. This is a really interesting dilemma that we want to bring to you guys right now. I think we have Jane from Auckland.

Yeah, we do. Jane, you're on. Welcome. How are you? I'm good, thank you. Good morning. Good morning to you, Morena. You know, the hits audience

we've found since working over the last year, they're really good at giving advice. Yeah, they're really good, thank you. Good morning. Good morning to you, Morena. You know, the hits audience we've found since working over the last year, they're really good at giving advice. Yeah, they're really helpful, actually. Perfect. I need it. Yeah, good. Now, this is a hilarious, I find this hilarious situation that you're... I'm sure Jane's probably not finding it as funny as you.

You probably don't find it as funny as you. You're in the middle of it. It's a very hot topic in my household at the moment. One of us thinks one,, my partner thinks one thing, I think another thing. So we need to get it sorted. You take the ball from here. You were invited to your friend's wedding.

Yes. Okay, we're not super close, but we are excited to head along. We hang out with them every couple of months, you know, enough to go to their wedding. We RSVP'd. We got on the gift registry. I'm quite an organised person. Got in there, ticked the box, bought them a kitchen set worth about $200.

Since then, I've had a few issues with catering, venue cancellations, all around COVID and all that kind of stuff. And then I got an email to say, sorry, but there was no longer room for us at the wedding and the reception, so we've been culled from the list and we're no longer invited. You've been dropped harder than Megan and Harry from the Royal Inheritance. Much harder. So my thought is that, should I ask for my gift back? It was $200 and I wouldn't have bought anything had I not been invited. So, or is it rude to do that?

Well, no. Good question. Now, I mean, yes, it's rude to do that. Because the gift has to be a symbol of your friendship and you going, well done, congratulations on that. The gift isn't a symbol of, thanks for having me at your party. But isn't there like a wedding rule

of thumb that you buy the gift to cover the cost of like your meal and your liquor? And if we're not having the meal and the liquor then we're just giving them a gift. For no reason. You get nothing out of this deal. And I could have taken them out

for dinner. See, hot topic. I've covered all these scenarios and we're still not sure what the answer is. How are you going to approach it? Yeah, that's the hard question, isn't it? You have to delicately, well, send them an email. They sent you an email. Reply back and say, hey, all good. I understand it's your wedding

and I understand these things happen. And I bought them a really good knife block set. I would take that and have that in my own kitchen. You know, like New World would be jealous of that knife block set. Where do you sit on this, Benjamin? Oh, I think I'm with Jane. I think I would... Ask for the gift, Mel.

I think just politely, not be rude about it. I mean, I understand it's people's wedding and you get their right to cut you and I wouldn't be offended by that because circumstances change. It's an honour to be invited to a wedding

and it's still, you know, it doesn't mean they don't like you if you're not invited. But I would say politely, politely ask for it back and say, hey, that's fine. I'm be invited to a wedding and it's still, you know, it doesn't mean they don't like you if you're not invited. But I would say politely, politely ask for it back and say, hey, that's fine. I'm not going to the wedding, but I have bought this thing.

Oh, but you're saying, ask politely, but it's rude to even ask you politely or rudely to ask for your gift. Yeah, I understand because they've called you for the wedding. They'll be like, yeah, fair enough, take the pick.

And my thought of it, if I wasn't invited to the wedding, then I would have celebrated and said, oh, let's go out for dinner pre-wedding or post-wedding and paid for dinner. With the knife block. With the cost of the knife block set. So that's your argument.

Okay, so you're wanting the cash back, money back guarantee from being culled from the wedding. I mean, you must even be sitting outside the top 50 of the guest list. You must have been culled. You must have been culled from the wedding. I mean, you must even be sitting outside the top 50 of the guest list. You must have been culled. You must be culled. Did you ever ask her, where exactly was I on the standings? Not yet, but I could add that into the email. P.S.

I think email. P.S. Where was I sitting, just so I know. All right, well, Jane, well, thank you so much for bringing that to the radio program. We're going to throw that out there to you guys right now, listening on 0800 THE HITS or 4487. Help Jane out, Jane in Auckland. What should she do? Jono, you're saying?

I'm saying don't ask for it back. Do the Kiwi thing. Don't make a fuss. Just get on with your life and bitch about her behind her back. Normally I'd say that, but I'm quite frugal, so I'm going to go, well, $200 is a lot. Politely ask. You can politely ask for it back. I'm sure they'll understand.

Gary, you're on from Auckland. Your thoughts? Yeah, I think it'd be downright rude to ask for it back, to be honest. Downright rude. Downright rude. But you're not going to the wedding, Gaz? Yeah, but you're not paying for a ticket for an event. Oh, yeah.

It's like if you want to go to an event, buy a ticket for 6.60 or something. Yeah, thank you. Wonderful analogy. I kind of get the analogy. Yeah. He's right. Yeah, but if 660 then said you can't come to the concert, I'd be like,

hey, I want my money back. Yeah, I'd want a refund as well. Yeah, but what Gary's saying is she's not going to 660. She's going to a wedding and circumstances are different. That's what he's saying. Friendships are deeper than concerts, eh?

Yeah. But coincidentally, Ben is quite good friends with Chris Mack from 660. So what would you do in this situation? You've got a friendship and a concert.

Oh yeah, it's tricky, isn't it? It's tricky. I'd politely ask for the money back. What if they put on a bad show? Do you ask him for your money back? Hey guys, you know, that wasn't a $100 show.

What if they get divorced five years down the line? Do you ask for it back then? Great point, Gary. Oh, that's a good point, Gary. Oh, there we go. A couple of great arguments there from Gary. Don't ask for it back. On the Great point, Gary. Oh, that's a good point, Gary. Oh, there we go. A couple of great arguments there from Gary. Don't ask for it back.

On the text machine, many people going, it's just going to make it awkward. It's just going to make it awkward. We've got Rachel on from Pairoa. More to know, Rachel. Does Jane ask for the gift back? No way. No way?

No, I don't normally agree with John, so this is a first, but yeah, no, I think it's so great. Hold on, that was kind of a double-edged circle. What have we disagreed on within the past, Rachel? Just most of the stuff coming in, man. A whole lot of stuff. I've seen a lot of texts.

A whole lot of stuff. A whole lot of stuff. Basically, my entire career, Rachel's disagreed with up until this point. I don't have time to go into that. Do you not think they'd understand, though? You didn't think they'd understand? You think that's just awkward? No, I think they'd understand, though? You know, you didn't think they'd understand? You think that's just awkward? No, I think it'd be awkward, and I just think it'd be rude.

I mean, they're getting married. It's probably the happiest time of their life, and you should be supporting it. Good on you, Rachel. And this marks a new chapter in our relationship, Rachel, too. This day forward, we will agree on everything. I'm going to mark it in my diary. There we go.

See you, Rachel. 24th of March. There we go. See you, Rach. 24th of March. There we go. Melanie, you're on from West Auckland. How are you this morning, matey? I'm good, thank you. Jaz, Jane asked for the gift back. Is it going to get weird?

Definitely. I think it'll just be awkward. Yeah, and potentially ruin the friendship. And I think if she was, if Jane would have rather taken the couple out for dinner, if she couldn't attend the wedding, she rather would have taken them out for dinner. But the knife block set would cost about the same as that.

And dinner would potentially cost even more. So I think she should cut her losses. Okay. And leave the gift with them. Here's a question for you, Jono. He's thought of something that's going to trip me up. I'll stand down on this other one. I feel like the general consensus is that Jane should

just let it go. But let's say you're Jane's friend. What do you do in that situation? And you go, oh, Jane's given us this expensive thing and you're no one in my registry. It costs $200. Would you feel comfortable taking the gift? I'm not saying it changes what Jane should do.

That's a very good point. You'd almost go hey you've been culled also we can't in good faith accept this. That might happen. So put it back on her. Yeah.

Like just leave it and if it comes back it comes back on there and then maybe Jane's looking like the better person here in this. Good point there Ben. Yeah.

And we don't know the full story, do we? We went in on Kylie Jenner yesterday, not donating to the guy who needed a brain surgery, and then it turned out she had. She had, exactly. She had paid for the whole brain surgery. So there we go. Full board of calls and on the text machine,

95% saying don't ask for it back. It'll just ruin the friendship. See it as a symbol of congratulations, your friends are getting married. 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. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. You tell us five words, we tell you, you tell us the first things that pop into your head and if they match up with our words, you win $5,000.

Now, Adele's playing with us this morning. You'd think given her successful career, she wouldn't need $5,000, but she's joining us anyway. Thank you, Adele. I knew there was going to be an Adele joke there somewhere. I was trying to take the high road and not do it, but oh, mate. Yeah, yeah. We've mentioned the online version of Five Voids 5K. You can play it at the hits.co.nz. If you actually match up online, we will give you the opportunity to play with us right now

and have your name turned into some lowbrow comedy. And that's what's happening right now with Adele. So you said before the song, before 660, you'd like to send Ben into the soundproof booth. You said, obviously, I would go with Ben. Have you changed your mind? No, sorry. Okay, still going with Ben.

All right, I'm going to go in the soundproof booth then. Off you go, the soundproof booth. Fun fact, I was actually being blessed by the Pope. It was a confessional in the Vatican for a while there, so it holds a lot of Catholic secrets. But at the moment, it just holds one skinny radio announcer, Benjamin Boyce, and you need to match five words with him Adele, okay? Yep.

Okay. The first word that comes into your head when I say shampoo. Conditioner. Conditioner. Conditioner. Seems like an obvious one. Yeah. The second word.

Trade. Me. Word number three. Chile. Not as in the country. Okay. Or not as in Chile, sorry. You're going to go with what, sorry?

Bin. Chilly bin. Chilly bin. Not a bad option. Yeah. What did you think for that one, Ju? I was thinking, am I allowed to say flakes or something? Yeah.

But, I mean, that's very valid. I didn't even think of that. Yeah, chilly burn. Good thinking. Word number four, geography. Map. Map. And the fifth and final word.

You've had a hell of a streak online With this game We'll see if you'll nail it today The fifth word is family Family It's a wide and varied one Family isn't it Yes it is

It's a wide and varied one, family, isn't it? Yes, it is. It's a hard one. I'm going to go with kids. Kids. Okay, you've done well, Adele. I'm not sure. I see why you've done so well online. Ben Boyce, if Producer Humphrey can get him out of the soundproof booth. You know, I can see why you have done so well online. Ben Boyce, if Producer Humphrey can get him out of the soundproof booth. You know, I can see why you have done

so well online. She is very good, Ben. Adele, wouldn't you say, Juliet? Yes, she was very, very good. The pressure's on. One of the words I hadn't even thought of, but then I was like, of course. Of course, like it's

so obvious. You'd be course. Yeah. Of course. Like, it's so obvious. You'd be a dunce. Not even. All right. To come up with that word. All right. This is a hell of a radio competition. In the past, radio has given away trips overseas.

Radio has given away kidneys. Remember? Oh, yeah. Kidneys, kidneys. That's an amazing thing. Grant Kitty Armour gave away kidneys. That's so awesome. And right now we're trying to give away $5,000. Here we go.

The first word to match with Adele. Shampoo. Conditioner. That's why you have such silky smooth hair, Benjamin Boyce. And a silky smooth answer as well. Adele, you're off the off the old hooter. Off the old hooter.

Faded out on that one. That's what they say. Second word, trade. Me. Trade me. I see why you picked him, Adele. You guys are in sync. You're probably wearing matching clothes as well. Matching words andle. You guys are in sync. You're probably wearing matching clothes as well. Matching words and clothes.

Word number three, chilly. Not as in Chile. Not like Santiago. Get that out of your mind. There's a lot going through my head right now for that. Pepper. Chili pepper. He failed us. Chili sauce? No. Have another go. Chili flake? Chili con carne? He's taken the wrong turn off the motorway. He's taken the wrong exit. Oh, no. Adele, what did you say? Chili bin. Chili bin.

Chili bin. To be fair. That makes sense now. Yes. Sorry. Come on. Come on. Come on.

You just tell me when you regret sending him into the soundproof booth. Sorry, Adele. You're right. Chili bin. Well, you were. I was going to ask you, John. Are you serious? No, I didn't actually come up with bin.

I was going down the spicy stuff. But, hey, Adele, you played a good game. Hopefully you'll get another chance. Head back online to hits.co.nz. You can still play online. And like we say, if you nail it online, we can get you on here to play as well. But it's back tomorrow, 7.45. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Bye. No, what's up? Bye.co.nz. Spidey.com George Clooney, he's got a set of twins, three-year-old boy and girl. And he said his favourite part about being a father is teaching his children to do things that will shock their mother. And now, specifically, this is in the realm of pranking. Now, you guys love a good prank, historically love a good prank. So does George Clooney. He's been a bit of a prankster from way back. What was his famous prank he did on Brad Pitt when Brad Pitt came to stay at his house around Italy?

Oh, didn't he put up posters around the town saying he's a big famous celebrity. If you see him, don't look him in the eyes. It was all written in Italian. Don't talk to him. Don't bug him, basically. And Brad Pitt turned up. He's like, why are all these posters around?

And he couldn't understand what was written on them. Yeah, but basically they were just saying, he's a big celebrity. Please ignore him. Don't talk to him. That is so good. So obviously he's passing it on to his three-year-old twins. Now, he's taught them to do a bit of a trick involving Nutella and diapers. Do you know what Nutella is?

Yeah. You can put it in the nappy as if it's been an accident in the nappy. And then you can put it sort of down around one of your ankles as if you've just taken off your nappy. And they pull off the nappy and they hold it out like this. And she goes, oh, oh, okay, wait, don't move. And then they take it and they eat it. Just to shock Amal. Just to do it to Amal.

So you've got George and his three-year-old children doing that to Amal Clooney. Yeah, a humanitarian rights lawyer. Yeah, like, prank me, gotcha. I mean, that's even below Ben. That's out of your, like, Ben hates fecal-based comedy. Yes, yeah, I know. Don't you? Clooney, how old is he, what, 11 years old?

I know, I know. Amal must be like, who am I married to? Honestly, I know. And the children she's raising, very classy. Oh, funny. And yesterday we talked about Kylie Jenner. She received a bit of backlash. So an old makeup artist friend that she's only used sort of as a makeup artist a couple of times

was in a car accident and needed brain surgery. Now, Kylie posted on her Instagram story the GoFundMe page that was set up to help people contribute towards the cost of what the surgery was going to be. She donated $5,000 and everyone was like, up in arms because... I was up in arms. Remember, I was like, she's a billionaire. She should be paying for a new... What does he need?

All he needs is brain surgery. Buy a new brain. So yeah, there was backlash that she only donated $5,000 considering she's a billionaire. But now she's sort of set the record straight saying that she came across this GoFundMe page. She heard about this incident through another makeup artist. The goal to cover his brain surgery was $10,000.

They were at $6,000. So she donated $5,000 to bump them over the $10,000 mark. So she'd already got them over the threshold. Yeah, this is someone that she's not. Her current makeup person. No. Loosely knows. Yeah, so she's saying, hey.

So she had done a good deed. With the best intentions to go, hey, I know this person from previous experience from a while ago. I saw this guy found me thing and I got it over the threshold and now everyone's going in on her. Oh, you should have given more.

We all went in on her. Isn't that a good lesson on just waiting. This is the issue. We're part of the issue. We are. We're part of the problem. We didn't know the full story. But the full story wasn't out there because everyone who went in on her kind of took all the noise. Yeah, she said she had the best intentions at heart and she was only trying to

help out this family. Well, she did. She helped out the noise. Yeah, she said she had the best intentions at heart and she was only trying to help out this family and yeah. Well, she did. She helped out the family. And everyone's going in on her. This is disgusting. Someone's rapping as well. Like, Kylie Jenner

earns over this and she's like, okay, jeez. Everyone loves Wailing In. I know. It is. It is. What a good reminder.

Yeah, exactly. No one knows the full story. There was a good thing I saw online the other day saying that you don't have to comment on everything. That's the thing. Sometimes you can just go, okay.

That's the issue with everyone being keyboard warriors these days. You can just go, okay, and walk away and go on with your day. But everyone loves to... But unfortunately in this role, you've got to have an opinion on everything. So we have to comment on everything. We do. Even if we don't fully back it. Yeah.

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Yeah, we're going to just pay one bill Don't make a habit of it No The Hits isn't going to pay you for the rest of your life or anything No, it's just helping you out this month Yeah, and we'll go through right now to today's winner. Hi, Kelly speaking. Hi, Kelly.

It's Phil Landy here from Colmar Brunton. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Listen, we're just doing a quick survey, a 15-minute survey on radio stations. I'm probably not the best one. I don't listen to many radio stations.

Oh, really? If you were to listen to a radio station, what would it be? The Hits. Okay. And out of all the shows on The Hits, what is your preferred? Probably Jono and Ben in the morning. Yeah. Okay, good you said that.

Because it's Jono and Ben calling from The Hits radio station right now. We want to pay your bill. It's not Phil Lander. Phil Lander. We want to pay your bill. Oh, for real? Yeah, we do. It's better than a survey. We want to pay your bill.

Oh, that was lucky that I said that, eh? It was. It was going to be awkward if you started saying Gary McCormick on More FM. Yeah. And we're going to give you two. I was thinking, oh, the damn surveys. I haven't got time for that. No one's got time for that.

No, who doesn't ever have time? Whoever willingly goes, actually, yes, I'll help you out. They're a better human being than I am. Hey, Kel, that's awesome. So $250 for your dental bill. Oh, that is perfect. Thank you. What work did you need done?

I went yesterday for a check-up and I've got to go back. So, no, that would help heaps. It can be pricey, can't it? The dentist worker, right? Yeah, definitely. Ben's sick of me talking about it. I won't talk about it. It was a lot. It was a lot. You had to go back three times.

I had a very deep root canal, and then every time she was operating on my root canal, I'd fall asleep in the chair, which I find unusual, getting a root canal. But anyway, as soon as he stops talking, he falls asleep. We've talked about this many times. Even when there's dental equipment

inside my mouth. Hey, well, Kelly. Yeah. We're going to do that for you. So every time you use those beautiful chompers of yours, you think of the hits, okay? No, that's awesome. Perfect. Thank you, guys. No worries. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Now, Jono, we're always kind of running a little bit late for... I like to say we're five to ten minutes late for everything. It's a great thing to... You just say that to people, though. They can pitch a time. You're like, okay, we'll be 5-10 minutes later

than that time and then the expectations they're met the bar's set low and no one's disappointed we try our best but sometimes things get away on us and you know

I don't like being late but it's just one of those things now and again when we get caught up in work stuff it just happens you're quite an organised individual aren't you I'd rather be there

50 minutes before and just be relaxed and be calm Sienna your daughter's got this gene, but she's almost preparing 24 hours before. I know, I know. She set her alarm for what, like 4 o'clock or something one morning? 5 or something and it's like

you don't have to get out of the house till 8 o'clock. It's like, nah, I need to get organised. So the guy who doesn't chill out is telling his family to chill out. Yeah. It's a tight regime. But yesterday we were early for a meeting, weren't we? For the first time in history. First time in our careers we would turn up early for a meeting

and we're like, wow, this is, I think we're like five minutes to when the meeting was started. Yes, Julia? So if Ben's always on time and always early to things, does that mean that you're the one that's dragging the chain? Oh, am I? Yeah. I'm pulling down the average.

Yeah, potentially. He might be waiting on me to turn up for us to walk into the train. Oh, am I? Yeah. I'm pulling down the average. Yeah, potentially. He might be waiting on me to turn up for us to walk into the meeting. To put on your pants that you say have been pranked. Yeah, it takes me an extra 10 minutes to squeeze my sausage legs into those trousers, the prank pants. But yesterday we were early for a meeting.

We were like, this is great. We sat down because it was in a cafe area. We were like, this is nice. This is nice to be here early on time. And then it ticked over. The five minutes passed, it ticked over to the time of the meeting. About five or six minutes in, you're like, mm-mm. You start to cast doubt about, A, whether you've turned up late.

Yeah. B, whether they've turned up late or they're not turning up at all. The meeting's been cancelled. Yeah, we hadn't got one of those texts going, I'm running two minutes away. But there are actually 20. Guy Williams, who we used to work with, he was always, when we were working with him

and he was due to film something and he wasn't there and you'd call him and he's like, I'm just on Ponsonby Road. I'm just on Ponsonby Road. Which meant he hadn't left his house. He hadn't got out of bed. He was 35 minutes away. It was always this thing.

It's just so possible. And he always turned up frazzled with messy bed hair. But anyway, so we sat there and I said to Ben, hmm, I'm starting to cast suspicions over this meeting. He said, hmm, me too. Let me check my email. And it's today. It's today.

So we've done a great dry run A great dress rehearsal For today But we're a whole 24 hours early I think we were so early Yeah I mean We turned up early For the meeting

Like a day before Never been earlier than that The irony is We'll probably turn up Late today for it We're like Well we were here 24 hours ago

Early Where were you guys We were waiting for you guys Do you like going to meetings Juliet? No No What a great question Do you like meetings? No, Juliet? No, no, no. What a great question. Do you like meetings?

No, I mean, it depends on the meeting. But I do want to say my friend, she is always, always, always like half an hour late to everything. Not so much work, but for just social things. Or if you're going to lunch, she's always half an hour late. So my other friend always says to her,

yeah, meet, and then she'll say half an hour earlier than the time that the rest of us have agreed to meet. She's factored it in. She gets a special invite. Yeah, so then she's never actually late. Half an hour's a long time to be late. I know, I know. Well, like, 10 minutes.

Within 10 minutes, that's late. Isn't it? It depends what it is. Oh, yeah, yeah. But half an hour? Oh, jeez. I bet if you were meeting in a cafe, it was half an hour. You're like, I'm gone, buddy.

Half an hour. I saw you. Shoot. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. The A to Z of New Zealand. Something we like to do every day on The Hits

is call a different town or city in New Zealand. We call one a day. We are doing it alphabetically, slowly working our way around New Zealand, learning about each place. Now, I know you have an affiliation with the North, the fine Jennifer Boyce, who created Benjamin many years ago. She lives up there. Yes, she does.

Have you heard of Marsden Bay? No, I haven't actually. Well, that's where we're going today. Marsden Bay, I've looked here, is home to an oil refinery. So if you do like refined oil, then the oil refinery will be a fun place for you to go and visit. To me, it's a you've probably heard of it type of town. I've heard of it, but never been through it or seen it. And we have found that they do have a camp.

And the saying is, what happens in Marsden Bay stays in Marsden Bay, apart from when the hits call Marsden Bay and put them on for A to Z. Let's go through to the Christian camp. Hello, Matt speaking. Hello, hello. G'day. You're up and at them early. Is this Marsden Bay Christian camp?

It is. This is Jono and Ben Hitz Radio announcers. Whereabouts is Marsden Bay? We're about half an hour south of Whangarei. Oh, nice. Down by the oil refinery. And so do you live at the camp, do you? Yeah, currently.

What's there at the camp? We've got a few activities. We've got our flying fox and we've got some, I've got a wicked water slide. I was going to say, has it got a water slide? I used to love that on school camp. A water slide was always a good time. Now the flying fox,

remember the flying fox and when you'd hit the end, it would sort of almost catapult you up. You'd almost do a 360. Almost. And it's always quite good to get the groups in during winter because there's tyres down the far end filled with a heap of water. They normally chuck the cheeky one down first. Oh, they get cut.

Normally give them a bit of a humbling experience. You're like, hey, you like the fly box now? Yeah. And have you got a giant kitchen with massive, you only ever see them when you're on camp, enormous... Over-the-top ovens. Over-the-top ovens and whatnot. And peaches, like giant cans of peaches.

Oh, yeah. And commercial cans of baked beans and spaghetti. Yeah, yeah, nice one. Where do you get those from? I've always wanted, I've never seen them at Countdown or Pack and Save. Just Gilmore's. Gilmore's. Oh, that's lit.

Yeah, you've got to have a special card to shop at Gilmore's. Huge cans. Yeah, so you look like you're quite close to a beautiful beach as well, a beautiful ocean. Yeah, yeah, we've got an awesome little harbour just behind us, about 100 metres. Yeah, awesome little bay there, full of scallops, full of snapper. It's a pretty good time. Kids love going on camp.

My Ben's daughter just went on camp, didn't she? Yeah, she had a lot of fun. Where'd she go off to? She went just out of Rotorua. She went to a place, I can't remember the name of it. We had a great time, three days away. But although she came back and I was like, what do you want to do tonight?

She's like, eat meat. That was the first thing, because they were running a vegetarian option. She said it was great food. But she came back and she's like, hey, I'd just like a beef burger or a steak tonight. So it was an unusual thing. I was like, what have you missed the most?

Me? No? Okay. A beef burger. It came so awesome. Yeah, she had so much fun. It's really good for their confidence too. Does it disturb you when kids turn up on, say, Monday but then leave Friday in the same clothes?

You wonder why the water in the tank hasn't gone down at all. No one had a shower. You feel sorry for the teachers and the parent help on the bus on the way back. Hey, that's cool. What else is there to do at Marsden Bay apart from attend your camp? So we've got, in the local area, we've got wicked, like I said, diving spots. We've got our refinery while it's still lost at the moment. What's a refinery?

It's an oil refinery. That's where all our oil comes in and gets refined and then shut down the line to gas depots and whatnot. Oh, it sounds like it's pretty easy to do that. I see, I'm looking on your Facebook page here. You've got four children stacking firewood. Big photo. Do you just invite kids and get them to do jobs around the camp? Yeah, that's fine.

It's team building, it's team building. Fine line between team building and child labour, but we'll take both. Thank you so much for your time this morning. No problem at all. You look after the camp. Keep safe in Marsden Bay. Sounds like a beautiful spot. Add these two men together and somehow you'll get three quarters worth of a normal

van. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We've got an interesting guest now, don't we? Yeah, she's a model. She's graced the cover of Swimsuit Illustrated. She's an activist and she's a mum and she has an Audible original podcast. Now the podcast is called Everybody with Robin Lawley and it's surviving and thriving in a body-shaming world.

And she's done great things for breaking down stereotypes and creating more diversity in the modelling world and also for finding out what the human body can do. And she joins us right now. Robin Lawley, thanks so much for your time. Great to have you here. Thanks for having me, guys. How are you guys going tonight?

Oh, we're doing really well. It's morning over here. What time is it where you are? Yes, that's right, night time. Where are you? I'm in New York. Oh, well, it's a pleasure to talk to you. Live from New York.

I've always wanted to say that. We'll come to you again. We'll come to you again. Do it again. We've got Robyn Lawley live from New York. Now, Robin, the podcast is an amazing idea. I mean, all sorts of amazing people that you talk to and talk about. A guy treaded water for 29 hours, which is unbelievable.

I know. His story was incredible. I couldn't believe it. Can you imagine doing that? Can you imagine treading water for that long? I can only do it for 20 seconds. 29 seconds is enough, isn't it? That's an incredible weight of what the human body can do.

I don't know what would make me tread water for that long. Like, I mean, I hope I would. I hope I could survive that long. Like, you hope, you know, you don't know what your body can do until you put through in those positions. That's the thing. He doesn't even have a life jacket, I might add. Wow.

Obviously, he was stranded in the ocean somewhere? who you put through in those positions. That's the thing. He doesn't even have a life jacket, I might add. Wow. He was obviously stranded in the ocean somewhere? No, I mean, he was sick to start. They got bad pizza and they were vomiting. It starts off on a bad trip. He's not even in a fit body shape of mind. Wow. These are the kind of stories I really wanted to cover all parts of living in our bodies.

And it really does encapture that. And I think it's just such a journey. I know journey is overused, but it is such a journey of the human body. Because you've had an illustrious career as a model as well. And you're described online as a full figure model or plus size model. Is that a description you're okay with? Like I just call myself a model because I don't think like we need to put our bodies and like segregate our bodies because, you know, it just makes girls,

especially younger girls, look at my body and then go, well, she's plus size, what does that make me? Yeah, yeah. It's an interesting time too on, you know, particularly with social media and stuff. Body perception for young people growing up. Yeah, I mean, so that's another thing, body positivity movement. We cover a lot of that because unfortunately

it was a good start, but it doesn't really encompass a lot because we've got a lot of this like, you know, eat these gummies to get good hair kind of crap. Yeah. Hey, listen, I'm bald. Where do I get those gummies to get good hair kind of crap. Yeah. Listen, I'm bald. Where do I get those gummies from? Well, that's the thing. It's not really.

It's all bullshit. Oh, okay. Sorry, Jono. And damn it. Yeah, I know. You need omega-3s for that. You don't need to have like... Listen, Robin, I don't know if you're doing another series of this show,

but if you would like to interview a man with a body who's given up on life, can I put... We're all beautiful, we're all beautiful, John. That's the message. Can I put myself forward? Yeah. Everybody's different.

You are beautiful. You're beautiful just the way you are, my friend. Oh, thank you, Rob. The camera's not turned on on the Zoom interview, but I'll take that. Now, Rob and you,

Victoria's Secret was something that you sort of noticed they had a bit of a lack of diversity and you sort of, I guess, campaigned to sort of change that a while back. Yeah, because, you know, I had to look at that runway when I was 15 and it made me feel shit about myself. You know, they didn't really use any diversity back then. And we had to look at those bodies and we had to glorify those bodies

every year as these angels. And then we'd glorify their bodies after they return from having a baby, as they would get back into shape as quick as possible. And it just sent a bad message. And unfortunately, you know, I just didn't like it. And I campaigned against it. And guess what? They're featured diversity now.

They changed their ways. They changed their tune. And I couldn't be prouder. I'm happy they have. And it's beautiful things now with this diversity. It's like, I love it. I get to see change. And I'm sure the girls looking at their brand have loved it too. Well, I've got a couple of daughters and Jono's got a daughter and a son as well. Yeah. What is a good tip that you can pass on for parents, you know, to help them navigate this new world of social media and seeing all different types of things like that and parents, you know, to help them navigate this new world of social media

and seeing all different, you know, types of things like that? And have, you know, is there anything you can pass on that you've learned through doing this podcast? It is petrifying. I know that for parents. I would say definitely switch off and get out into nature as much as you can. That's my tip because Mother Nature really knows how to heal.

That's right. So we've got to peel them off. But the iPad is so handy for parenting. You've got to admit it. You've got to come on, Robin. No, Robin's all about sustainability. I know Robin's about, but Robin, a cheeky hour or two on the iPad. As your babysitter, I know you're like,

but I'm using this as my babysitter. That's right. The iPad's done more parenting than I ever will. Hey, Robin, lovely to talk to you and congratulations on everything you're doing right now. You are changing the world, and that's for the better. So keep up the great work, and everyone should check out your Audible podcast, Everybody with Robin Lawley,

Surviving and Thriving in a Body-Shaming World. Thank you so much, Jono. Thank you, Ben. She is interesting. Thanks, Robin. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah.

The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. He's a man not afraid to tackle the big issues, the big topics, as long as they don't involve the international trade, the stock markets, and any other issues that he doesn't quite understand.

Ben Boyce, what's happening? Speaking of issues that I don't quite understand, a big housing announcement yesterday from the government. They're hoping first-home buyers are going to be the big winners. A lot of debate since they announced all the changes about whether we'll actually do anything and people are worried that rents will just go up a wee bit higher. So they obviously changed a lot of things.

One of them being that if you've got a second home, like a rental property, and you sell it within 10 years, you get taxed on the profit you made from that? Yeah, it's called Bright Lines. It's not Capital Games. No, it's not Capital Games. It's Bright Lines. It's Bright Lines.

Blue skies, who told you that we could fly? And that's a great smoke screen. So Jacinda goes, it's called Bright Lines. And then all the journalists are like, Bright Lines, Blue Skies. And then they forget their question and move on to the next one. That's all I can think of is Brightlands. Now be kind, everybody, be kind.

Be kind, our team of five million. Yeah, so you're right. Ten years, you'll get a capital gains tax on your second property by the looks of it if you sell it within ten years. But moving on from stuff I don't really quite understand. So I guess the overall picture, correct me if I'm wrong, is to make the housing market more accessible for first-time buyers?

That's the plan, yes. And there's a few other things as well. Lifting first-time grant caps as well. They're hoping to build new homes. They're doing a lot of stuff. They're hoping that the house prices will stabilise, not just keep going crazy and crazy and crazier.

Because they have gone wild, haven't they? Juliet, this is a 23-year-old. Yes. Are you like, am I even going to? Juliet is a 23-year-old. Yes. Are you like, am I ever going to own a home? Yes. God, I'm terrified. Well, not terrified, but I'm like... Especially in Auckland, too.

Yeah, because I feel like my whole life is in Auckland. I've grown up in Auckland. I feel like it's kind of the place where I'll end up living. Yeah, well, now you're moving to Huntly, mate. I know. So what is your long-term plan to get a house? So at the moment, I'm considering going in with a couple of friends or maybe with my brother just to get on the ladder.

There's also the KiwiBuild thing. I don't really know much about that, but apparently that's been put in to help first-home buyers. So I think you've just got to find ways around it. That's the thing. A friend of ours, Alice, who we used to work with, her and eight others went in on a property. Yeah.

And they're developing the whole property themselves. But I guess that's the new way to get involved. Yeah. Exactly. And actually, speaking of selling houses, the smell when you walk in and you want to buy a house, there's been a bit of a survey done about the most popular smell when you enter a house in an open home.

And, Jono, you picked it before when I was talking about this. Freshly baked bread. Oh, that's only because when we sold our house, the real estate agent started cooking bread in there. I was like, mate, make yourself a home. But then she explained to me what was happening. What else is on the list? Well, coffee's the third most popular smell.

I get that, but coffee smells delicious when it's being percolated. But then somehow between the digestion process of the intake of coffee, between it being made and going into my mouth, it turns into the smell of an inner city sewer. I don't know why. And they reckon different age groups prefer different smells.

16 to 24 year olds prefer vanilla, and 35 to 44 year olds, for example, fresh linen. Which does, I mean, fresh linen is a nice smell, but it's not an overwhelming smell. You wouldn't walk in summer and go, ooh, I smell fresh linen. Fresh someone's done the washing.

Oh, so that's straight from the washing machine, biff it in the dryer and it's fresh. I prefer the smell of desperation when I walk into a house. A couple have divorced and you know you need to pounce on them. They need to sell. Now, now, now. That's what I love. Do you always find, too, when you're looking for flats and houses and stuff,

even cars as well as another industry, you always feel like you're being played. And you're always quite defensive about tactics that are being used on you. Yes. You never know what to actually believe. What is truth? My mum, I went to an open home with mum. She's Annie Pryor plays quite an aggressive offensive game

she walked into this house she's like you said it was three bedroom you said it was sun soaked I was like mum it's raining it's raining it's not going to be sun soaked go in and on the agent

you're right you don't want to be like a full you know look like you're like easy to win over so you kind of get your back up

you're like oh they're playing me are they playing me but then the agents they would all know our games too because they see it every day they're like okay

I see what we've got here. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. I was going to tell you about the Queen's Corgis, but we've banged on too long about that. I did a lot of banging on. Are you sort of blaming that on me? No, it's all right. We'll get to that after 7 o'clock as well

if you really want the Corgi news. We'll bang on about that after 7. You can wait for us to talk about it or you can Google it. It's up to you. We're not the boss of you. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Spy. Go WhatsApp spy.co.nz. When you're that hot and cut, you can wear anything on your feet. You can do it, eh?

Alright, Juliet's here to try and land herself a defamation court case with a famous person. Here's some celebrity slander with Spy. And today it's James Corden and Alan DeGeneres.

Now, firstly, starting on James Corden, there was a bit of, I guess you could say, advertising James Corden releases or, like, says a very special shout-out to New Zealand. Yeah, there was an email, wasn't it? Hey, watch James Corden's very special message for New Zealand. And, you know, as New Zealanders, we freak out. I was very excited about this.

I mean, Peter Rabbit 2's in cinemas, I think, April 1st. It looks awesome. He's the voice of Peter Rabbit again, and he's got an exclusive message. I'm like, this will be great. And then this is what it is. Hello, New Zealand. I'm James Corden. I'm the voice of Peter Rabbit, and I'm here to tell you

that you can now see Peter Rabbit 2 in cinemas on April 1st. I hope you enjoy it so much, and I look forward to seeing you very, very soon. He meant none of that. I know, what? He said New Zealand. Yeah, but he also probably then straight off that said, hello, Istanbul. Yeah. Hello, Afghanistan. Hello, Fiji. We were just one of many. He was going

through the alphabet. We don't know that. Maybe he just picked his favourite country out of them all. And gave them a very vague, sweeping message. Yeah, I love it. I mean, at least, you know, the shout-out could have been a little bit more personalised and better, but, you know, the fact that any celebrity, I just freak out when they say New Zealand, you know? I'm like, they know we exist because sometimes we get left off the world, Matt.

And I liked how you said cinemas, too. Oh, yeah, cinemas. That was quite good. We should do a message back for it. Yeah, on behalf of New Zealand. Okay, it's New Zealand here. Thanks so much for your message. Can't wait to see the movie in cinemas. Your move

Corden. Hit us back. Reply. But he said I can't wait to see you soon. What? He's never going to come down here. We can keep a spot open for him in my queue. That'll be... Maybe we'll book a flight for him or something. That sounds good. And now on the Alan show, the ratings have come out and we know

we like hearing the numbers. We like crunching the numbers. Now, it's lost a million viewers since this time last year, so it's now got an average of 1.5 million viewers. It used to be 2.6 a year ago, and this is since the old toxic scandal came out. Well, where have they gone to? What are they watching?

Kelly Clarkson's got a show, doesn't she? Yeah, so does Drew Barrymore. Do you put that down to Ellen's persona or her public persona, or did you put it down to just people streaming shows? Well, that's true. You know, they're in lockdown. A lot of people in America, they might have been catching up with... What would they be watching?

Ben, you tell me. Make me seem on point. Queen's Gambit. Yeah, Queen's Gambit. There you go. New Amsterdam. A lot of people are watching that at the moment. Really? I haven. Queen's Gambit. Yeah, what do you mean Queen's Gambit? There you go. New Amsterdam. A lot of people are watching that at the moment. Really?

I haven't even heard that yet. Oh, wow. Yes Day. Oh, Yes Day. That's a good one. I watched Yes Day the other day. Thank you, Johnny. There you go.

Jennifer Garner. Yeah. Is it good? It's a new movie. Yeah, the movie is that they used to say yes to this couple all the time before they had kids, and then all of a sudden they were just saying no, no, no, no, no, which is kind of the soundtrack to parenthood, isn't it? Yeah.

And then they decided to do yes. Yeah, so the kids can ask them whatever they want for 24 hours. And they have to say yes. And they have to say yes to the answers. Oh, that's dangerous. That is so dangerous. Uh-oh. You want to go through a car wash with the windows down?

Oh, no. Oh, dear God. That would have been fun for them to film, though. Don't they end up in prison? I think it's a wall, right? Yeah, so they regret doing that. That sounds so good. And that is Spy for More.

You can head to thehits.co.nz. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. I'm sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Penn, breakfast on the hits. The hits.

The hits. That is our show for Wednesday. Been a lot of fun hanging out with you guys this morning, so thank you for doing that. What are we going to do tomorrow? Oh, more fun and frivolity tomorrow on the show, don't we? Yeah. Don't ask me what it is, though.

No, I wouldn't. What's happening tomorrow? We'll make up some fun and frivolity between now and 6am tomorrow. Oh, we've always got five words for $5,000. That's still going. That's a lot of fun. And you can play online, too, if you are doing anything in the office. Don't work. Go online to thehits.co.nz. Play five words for $5,000. That's still going. That's a lot of fun. And you can play online too. If you are doing anything in the office, don't work. Go online to thehits.co.nz.

Play five words for 5K, the online version, and we could be putting you on the radio to play for real. Have a great day. We'll catch you tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast.

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