Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 25 - Kiwi Actor Julian Dennison Joins The Show!

Episode Date: March 24, 2021

Happy Thursday - on today's show we had Julian Dennison, he's been in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Deadpool 2, and he has a new film out, Godzilla vs Kong, which is in cinemas now. He's a really talented dude and is only 18! Jono also shared a huge mistake he made at the doctor's yesterday, and finally, we took some recommendations from you guys about what shows or movies we should be streaming at the moment! 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. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, welcome, 25th of March. It's a Thursday here in New Zealand to our international audience,

and speaking of which, we do have an international audience. Jon, our Kiwi in Oregon, Portland. Yeah. He joined the show today. Yeah, he was a correspondent and he investigated something for us because we'd heard something about Krispy Kremes. So we've been following that story very closely.

Very closely. Maybe too. It's a donut empire from America. They've got a couple of shops sprinkled throughout Aotearoa. But yeah, they're giving away free donuts for an entire year to everyone who shows their vaccination card in the US. They've been vaccinated. So we're like, is this true? And so today, John puts it to the test live on the radio in Portland, which is pretty cool, actually.

It was great. Good on John, our Oregon correspondent. No one else has got an Oregon correspondent. Not as far as I know. No. We might be the only show worldwide with an Oregon correspondent. No one else has got an Oregon correspondent. Not as far as I know. No. We might be the only show worldwide with an Oregon correspondent. Maybe for good reason,

but the reason today was for this. It's coming, it's paying dividends now. I can talk more about the Trailblazers, the basketball side, you know. How are they going this season, Ben? They're okay. Damien Lillard, very good player. CJ McCollum's been injured.

You do love the NBA. What I know about the NBA is Jay-Z. Does Jay-Z still own the Brooklyn Nets? I don't know if he does, actually. We were talking about this the other day. He might not own them anymore. But I know the Brooklyn Nets are run by a Kiwi, Sean Marks, and they have a very strong team this year.

Kyrie. Who else? James Harden. Kevin Durant. And Blake Griffin as well. The big four, they're calling them. Anyway, this is... How do they get under the salary cap with that?

I don't understand that. Because surely they're all on massive salaries, though, because they're big guns. I imagine some people would have taken a bit of a cut to play with a great line-up, but then, yeah. Because I know when Kobe was in the Lakers, basically Kobe took up 99% of the salary, and everyone else was on a couple hundred bucks a game

and a free Lakers singlet, weren't they? Yeah, but then they have things that they can, you know, there's all sorts of things. I'm not saying dodgy things you can do, but there's ways around, I guess. Oh, here's a free house or a free car. No, I don't know if it's that, but, you know, there's things called bird rights

and all sorts of stuff, and, you know, so I imagine there's ways that maybe money can be structured. I don't know, but, yeah. Oh, okay, well, there was a... be structured I don't know No I don't know It was a vague thing I don't know how to do it I don't know and this isn't an NBA podcast So you don't have to know Ben

And also why are we talking about the NBA In a non-NBA podcast Another big question Also today we have Julian Dennison Kiwi actor Julian Dennison starring in the Brand new Kong vs Godzilla film He's a good guy Julian isn't he? He is

18 years old, world at his feet He's just moved into a flat I don't know if I trust myself flatting at 18 I went to Wellington when I was 18 But I had a course to focus on Yeah right, well he's got Hollywood movies to focus on He's got an international movie career to focus on. He's acting with Ryan Reynolds and Millie Bobby Brown and stuff like that.

When did you go flatting? Yeah, probably about as soon as I left school. I went, yeah, so that would have probably been 18, 19, around that same time. Very young. It does seem very young when you're looking back to it. I wouldn't trust myself to go back and do it again. Some of the stuff we're up to, wild. I feel like people are a bit more responsible these days.

I reckon. I reckon. Kids are a lot more. these days. I reckon. I reckon. Kids are a lot more. I mean, looking at my daughters, they're super, you know, like I feel like they're making already better decisions than me. Okay, well this New Year's, let's take a trip to Rhythm and Vines and see if you feel the same way after that. Okay, we'll do that.

We've been to O-Week. Let your hair down. What was that one we went to in Christchurch? Oh, Garden. Garden Party. Yeah. Engineering. Oh, but that's a wild couple of days.

We've seen it. Then they knuckle down. We've been on the course. Then they knuckle down and study. That's right. Actually, we spent a week or two in Dunedin filming once. Yeah. Spent a lot of time on Castle Street, the famous student street.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It really kicks into life. But Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, it was like a ghost town. Yeah. It's like, what are these kids doing? Studying? No, probably. Losers?

Well, they can't just get, I mean, you can go down to Dunedin too, just, you know. You could get lost in the party, couldn't you? But then they're having to, yeah, they probably want to come out with a qualification. I met a guy who was 35 still at uni. He just hasn't left. Just loves the uni lifestyle so much. We were down there there I was like mate really

each to their own you always say each to their own I do say each to their own I feel like you can't judge anyone else you're not near as serious it's fun

judging's fun but they're probably looking at us going what are they doing you know I'm looking at us going what are we doing I'll judge myself

but each to their own each to judge myself but each to their own each to their own and each to their own podcast that's up for you now 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 now we get to get a gift for some friends of ours they're boys having a birthday 8 year old 8 year old birthday

right and you know, you ask, you're like, well, what do they want? Yeah, because it's quite good to get something

that the kids want, right? Yeah. I find the old panic purchase of, you know, the countdowns and you will have

just a big display of gift cards now. And you can panic purchase those on the way home. They're quite good. It looks like you've put in some effort. Yeah.

You know, it's the new, it's the 2021 version of petrol station flowers. Yeah. Here's a minor 10 mega gift card. Yeah. The kid's like you've put in some effort. Yeah. You know, it's the new, it's the 2021 version of petrol station flowers. Yeah. Here's a Mitre 10 mega gift card. Yeah, the kid's like, oh, mate. You know, I'll be good one day, mate.

But, you know, so we asked them what they wanted and they've got a wish list of presents that they want. And so we purchased what I think is probably the most obscure children's present ever. Now, you were saying yesterday to me, you didn't tell me what it was, but you were saying it's quite a grown-up gift. Very grown-up gift. And it makes you go, at moments like these, you're like, kids are goddamn awesome.

This request is wonderful. Okay. And I'll let you have two guesses each as to what it is. Juliet, you can come in first. An air fryer? They seem to be the trend at the moment. In the realm. Okay.

In the realm of an air fryer. I'm going to go a cubie. One of those, you know, you sit on the chairs and your bike pedal. Oh, when you sit on a couch and you can still. The thing under the couch you see on the infomercials. Is it a cubie? You can do the Tour de France on your couch. No, it's not a cubie.

Okay. If it's in the realm of air fryers, would it Is it a QB? You can do the Tour de France on your couch. No, it's not a QB. Okay. If it's in the realm of air fryers, would it be like a waffle maker? No. Okay. No. Okay, adult gift. Bedsheets with high Egyptian cotton count.

I want a thousand thread count. Yeah. No, neither of those. Okay. It's a foot spa. Oh, a foot spa. A foot spa. Oh, nice.

Are you all requesting a foot spa? So we went to Farmers. Yeah, got a foot spa. Got a foot spa. Oh, a foot spa. A foot spa. Oh, nice. Eight-year-old requesting a foot spa. So we went to Farmers. And got a foot spa. Got a foot spa. Yeah. And you know, when you run off your feet as an eight-year-old, you don't even mean tick-tocking on your feet all day. You just want to soak them and treat them.

Oh, it's quite a nice gift, isn't it? Genius. My feet are jealous. I don't have a foot spa. Yeah. Oh, that's a very adult, grown-up thing for a kid to want, but I understand. Now you say it. It's

a cool gift. They've also requested some fine Cuban cigars, some leather-bound books, some posters so their drinks don't mark the coffee table, things like that. A 10-year-old malt whiskey. So I wanted to open up this this morning. You can text 244-87 0800, the hit telephone

number. Kidults, do you know a kid who's wise beyond their years? I imagine you were wise beyond, because you're wise beyond your years now, Drew, as a kid. Apart from when you get Jagermeister poured into a shoe then you drink out of it. But you must have been a wise adult kid. I think I was.

When I was probably about 11 years old, I really desperately for Christmas wanted my own vacuum cleaner for my room. A hot pink vacuum cleaner that I could keep in my room and it was nobody else's. I never got it because obviously my parents thought, you know, we've got a vacuum cleaner for the household. You don't need your individual one. Oh, you want a giant vacuum cleaner?

But I wanted my own vacuum cleaner. I think I was an adult back then. Look, like foot spas, they probably look great to kids. Don't they, appliances? Yeah. They probably do. But when you're an adult, you're like, oh, these are the last things I want is to have a vacuum cleaner. Who knew all you had to do was swing by Briscoe's on the way home to keep a kid happy?

So what adult thing is your kid doing? We'd love to hear from you this morning on 0800 The Hits. Just off the top of my head, one of my daughters, Sienna, she loves making me lunch and putting notes in the lunchbox or snacks, which is a real adult thing to do. Go, have a great day at work. Love you. You're like, oh, thank you. She's a mum already.

I feel like I should be doing that to the kids. You're doing my job. Yeah, I wake up in the morning at lunch and say, Indy, my other daughter, puts herself to bed when she's tired. She's just like, yep, I'm tired. It's Friday night. She's like, no, I'm tired. I need to go to bed.

So that's quite an adult thing. She's seven going on 70. I know. Should we turn on Coro? Yeah, she's like, I'm tired. Yeah. Very impressive. Oscar, my son, he's just started calling me by my first name.

Oh, that's an adult. Okay, John, we'll get to that later, shall we? Like a sales manager or something? And nothing makes you feel like more of a badass as a kid than calling your parents by their first name. Yeah, you're like, okay, yeah. I remember the first time I was like, okay, Annie. And she's like, what?

Really blind signs. Yeah. So, oh, Andrew, the hits, the 4487. What is the adult thing your kid is doing, or a kid that you know would love to hear from you this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast? Let's go to the phone, shall we, from Tauranga Michelle. Maureen, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Kidults, you've got one in your life? Yeah, yeah, my second child, Zoe, she, at the age of six, she requested a sewing machine because she wanted to be able to make her own clothes. Wow, that's grown up. And then she ran about her eighth birthday, I think it was, she got a waffle maker because she wanted to make us breakfast on the weekends. Far out.

That's amazing. It's almost like she's just gathering items for when she moves into her first house at age 12. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, she's got some pretty spectacular pieces of grown-up furniture in her bedroom as well. What, like antique pieces of furniture? Yeah, like a glass display cabinet to store her books in so they don't get dusty. Really? Wow.

Did you give birth to a 48-year-old? That is wild. Pretty much. That's awesome, Michelle. You go and have a great day. Cool. See you. Let's go to Diane in Christchurch.

How's the Garden City, Di? Good. See you. Let's go to Diane in Christchurch. How's the Garden City, Di? Good. Good today. How's my mate Gary McCormick down there? I wouldn't have a clue. Yeah, good. That's the way I like it. The hits all day for Diane.

Hey, Diane, what's the adult thing a kid you know is doing? My son requested, this this when he was 11 years old. He wanted a Shakti mat for Christmas. And we said to him, are you sure you want a torture device? But yeah, no, that's what he wanted. He got swept in the Shakti hype as well.

It was a fad for a little bit there, wasn't it? But most kids would have been like fidget spinners, but he's like, nah, I want a Shakti mat. Even 11-year-olds want to work out those niggly knots. Good on you, Di. Thanks for listening. You have a great day. Thanks, you too.

Someone's texted in 4487. Our friend's son, who's four years old, was a page boy at our mate's wedding, and obviously they bought him a suit with a bow tie and shirt. For the next 12 months, he insisted on wearing nothing else but that suit, bow tie, and shirt. To kindergarten every day. He would look so grown up, wouldn't he?

Holding board meetings with the kids. And we'll go to Charlotte and Wonganui. Welcome, Charlotte. How are you? Good morning. I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? We're doing well, Shaz.

Kidults, what have you got? Yes, I have a lovely eight-year-old son and he enjoys watching trackside TV, especially the race, the horse racing. The TAB channel. I know. I'm waiting for him to ask if he can swim in and play some money on some bets.

You're like, well, this horse has been going well all season, Mum. You can't, yeah. I mean, it's never too early to get him into gambling. Well, maybe there is. Does he watch it all day instead of Cartoon Network? Yeah, like, he just goes, Mum, can you please put it on? And I'm like, ah, really?

Are you a horsey family? No, I don't know where he got it from. And I'm a bit frustrated because I think it's like watching paint dry. Oh, thank you very much. Appreciate your call, Charlotte. You have a great day. And thanks for all your calls.

Also, Tracy Texton as well said her nine-year-old daughter requested a potted apple tree for her birthday. Oh, wow. Now, just to grow in the garden. Very grown up, aren't they, kids these days? That's for sure. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, you know when you go to the doctors and you have to pick up a prescription? We've all been there. Yeah. When was the last time you went to the doctor? To the doctor?

I've taken the kids probably last year. They get a lot of doctor time, don't they? Yeah, they do. When was the last time you went to the doctor, Julian? Probably about four months ago, five months ago. I try to go once a year. Once a year? Was it?

You're a regular doctor visitor, aren't you, Jono? Yeah. You always happen to go to the doctor. Telling us regarding to Alzheimer's. I didn't know about it because you always talk about it. I was at the doctor's thinking, oh, I was at the doctor. I'm a sick individual. But I do suffer from light asthma, Ben.

Yeah, you do. Yeah, which he mocks me about. He mocks me about my light asthma. He's like, it's not even heavy asthma. So I do get the Ventolin, you know. But then picking up a prescription, it's like filling up your car when it's on E. There's never a convenient time to go and pick up a prescription.

So I bit the bullet yesterday and it exploded in my mouth, so I had to go see the doctor. So I picked up the prescription, and I was trying to use PayWave. You know how you just wave, magically, wild, wave your credit card around and it'll just pay it. She's very relaxed. Like I could just take Juliet's credit card and just start waving it. No questions asked. Don't even have to

enter a pin. No, this is a wild system. I love pay wave. So I was waving but the pay wave wasn't working to pay for the prescription. And then I could feel that there was a gentleman behind me. And you know when there's someone behind you

and you can feel their impatience, their energy is sort of, you're like, oh, the person behind me needs to go somewhere and get something done. It's like when you get cash out from an ATM sometimes and someone behind you is obviously in a rush. They need that cash. And they're like jiggling and tapping.

You can even feel it when you're driving. Like if someone's right behind you, right up, and you're like, slow down, mate. I'm driving the speed limit. You almost get defensive and slow down on purpose, don't you? So anyway, this gentleman was huffing and puffing and deep breathing. And I wasn't turning around because I was like,

oh, we're just trying to sort the pay away. I'm focusing on this, okay? As soon as I focus on this, because I was like, oh, we're just trying to sort the pay wave. We're just sort the pay wave. I'm focusing on this. Okay. As soon as I focus on this, Huffer and Puffer can get in and he can have some of my Ventolin. Maybe he's got light asthma. But the pay wave wasn't working. And so eventually I turned around and then I was like, oh, dear God, this poor guy. I see why he's huffing and puffing. He's got a white bandage wrapped around his hand

and blood is streaming down his forearm. Oh, and old mate's here trying to get the pay wave going. I'm like, yeah, I felt like such a monster. And he's like, oh, I cut myself with a kitchen knife to the lady behind the counter. And I was like, yeah, well, you know what's more painful than that, mate? Trying to get your pay wave going. Yeah, you don't. I hope you haven't got pay wave, because it's not working.

Get back in line. No, that's so bad. I didn't say that last thing. That was just for comedic effect to give us an out for this bit, Ben. Yeah, I get that now. Some people may not get that, but I got that. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. And now we have concluded this. Take a bow. On to the next thing. see real kiwi blokes

with soy lardes mmm Shono and Ben breakfast on the hits Julian Dennison actor you'll know him from Hunt for the World of People

he was on Deadpool 2 the Christmas Chronicles 2 as well my family loved that movie over Christmas time and he's in a brand new movie it's out in cinemas today it's called

Godzilla vs Kong she's the only one he'll communicate with. I knew that they had a bond. She had nowhere to go, so I made a promise to protect her. And I think that in some way, Kong did the same. It is epic. Yeah, Godzilla vs. Kong, the fourth film in the legendary Monsterverse, out in cinemas today.

And he joins us in the studio right now, Julian Dennison. Good to see you, buddy. Good morning, good morning, good morning. You're not a seat sitter. You said, I won't take a seat. I don't like sitting on seats. No, you're a stander. How you been, mate?

I've been good. I've been good. I just moved to Auckland. Just moved into my first flat. Oh, really? At age? 18. Your first flat at 18

That seems quite young To be managing bills And paying rent Stuff at age 39 I still can't do But you're pulling it off Like a capable human being I am

I am I'm doing well Hopefully I don't go downhill Oh yeah So this movie was actually Filmed a couple years ago right? Yeah

About two years Two and a half years ago In Hawaii Hawaii and the Gold Coast Yeah it was really fun So this movie was actually filmed a couple of years ago, right? Yeah, about two years, two and a half years ago. In Hawaii? Hawaii and the Gold Coast, yeah, it was really fun. It was a very big blur. Yeah. But it was super fun.

So it's like you relive your, I'm gathering your family went too, you relive your family holiday from 2018 just in a motion picture. My family could never afford a family holiday, so when they said we were going to Hawaii, we said, well, why not? So we jumped on a plane and we went. That's cool. Very cool. I imagine it'd be hot over there filming, though.

It was very hot, but it was their rainy season. So, yeah. So the cast loved it as well. I loved them as well. Well, great cast. So Millie Bobby Brown from Stranger Things in it as well. And you guys became friends off the back of that movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you work with them for three months,

so if you hate each other afterwards, it says a lot about the film. But, no, yeah, she's a great young actress. I actually watched Stranger Things because I met her. So I was like, oh, okay, this show, it's a crazy show. Did you feel, now because you're a friend? I feel obligated to watch it. Oh, yeah, I need to watch that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the animals, you know, you've got your Kong and you've got your Godzilla. Are they animated? They are not real. Right, yep. Because I was getting terrified. I was like, is this a documentary? When is this happening?

No, I need to actually charge you $29.99 because after watching the movie on the weekend, my kids then made me buy the three movie package which is featuring all Kong and Godzilla movies. They've become hooked now and I'm pinning this on you Denison I went deaf after watching it

because there's massive explosions I was reading about you guys it was like you actually had these huge explosions you had to act with you know that wasn't all special effects yeah it was like Adam Wingard an amazing director he was like holding up tennis balls and like pointing laser pointers and you'd lose them so they'll just like blow something up in your face to react to.

It must be quite difficult acting to nothing. Yeah, it's super hard acting to nothing. It's like I would stand there some days and I'd be like, what the hell am I doing? I'm talking to like a wolf. And the other cast, they're like, what are we doing? And no, it turned out great. Yeah, I was really hoping it wouldn't be.

It must be cool to see it all come together and go, okay, that was a ping pong ball or a tennis ball. That was Godzilla. Yeah. Yeah, because I imagine when you're filming your little parts, you're like, how on earth is this thing going to turn out? Yeah. Now we've got Julian Dennison with us. Godzilla vs Kong,

which is out on Thursday. Now tell us, my friend, you've worked with many people over the years. You know, your Ryan Reynoldses, your Sam Neilses, your Millie Bobby Brownses. Yeah. Have you formed friendships with all of them

or are they just like you get swept up in the movie? You're like, we're going to be BFFs forever and then it slowly fades out over time. To be honest, that does happen. Like all the time in interviews, they're like, oh, we're such good friends, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, I haven't talked to you in like three and a half months. Like, don't pull that crap.

But the funny thing is... You haven't texted me? Yeah, he hasn't texted me. We had a WhatsApp group. We had a messenger chat. But, oh, frick, how do I sound serious now? Like, yeah, I am still good friends with them. But, like, we all have super busy lives.

But, no, yeah, I would say we're still good friends. They could sleep on my couch with me. They could stay at the flat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the ground. On the ground, yeah. Because you've been doing this for many years now. You're, like, almost a veteran, but you're only 18 years old.

Do you think, as a person, it's made you grow up quicker? Definitely. You have to grow up quicker. You're surrounded by years old. Do you think as a person it's made you grow up quicker? Definitely. You have to grow up quicker. You're surrounded by adults in this industry. It's hard. I think people put like a label on you when you're a child and they see you grow up. So I think when you get into, when you start becoming an adult,

it's almost like they've held on to what they've seen on camera and on film. So it's like they almost want to hold on to your childhood. So it's almost they don't want you to grow up in a way. You've kept grounded through this whole process you honestly yeah i'm surprised i have honestly you want to do yeah my ego should be out of control right now my ego should be out of control because i know your mother uh spent a lot of time traveling around with you with all the film projects as well and your brother has aspirations of being a politician yes is that

still the case because we were chatting to him last time. Yeah, he probably does still want to be a politician. And he's doing him. And I think he's going to go off and study law or psychology next year. So yeah, he's just doing him. He's doing well. Do you think he's prime minister? You're picking prime minister in 2030? That'd be pretty cool if he was prime minister.

Can you imagine the things we could do? Yeah. Oh, it's great to see you. And great to see you in this movie. It is awesome. It's epic. Before you go, a quick wee game. You've Oh, it's great to see you and great to see you in this movie. It is awesome. It's epic. Before you go, a quick wee game.

You've starred alongside so many great people, including in this movie, Millie Bobby Brown and more. This is called Second Act. Okay, so there's going to be a second of audio of one of your co-stars.

You've got to guess who it is. Okay, Julian Dennison, here we go. The kid? That's Ryan. His voice is... Ryan Reynolds?

Ryan Reynolds, jeez. Yeah, yeah. That was pretty impressive. Okay, number two. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. That sounds Australian, so it's probably San Neil. Two from two.

Come on. Okay. Let's get this party started. This is one that I watch so many times with my kids on Netflix. That's Kurt Russell. Yes, there you go. Christmas Chronicles. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

And number four. There's something provoking him that we're not seeing here. So that's, yeah, I think that's Millie. That's Millie Bobby Brown from Godzilla vs. Kong. There you go. So, yeah, well done. You nailed that. Hey, lovely to see you, mate.

Thank you. If things turn bad at my house, I can come stay at yours? Yes, of course. If I was first, too, if the flat doesn't work out, you can always crash at mine. We actually have two lounges. We have like a little mini lounge. Oh, okay.

Two lounges, damn. Yeah, I know, we live in it. Julian Denison, go see Godzilla vs. Kong. It is epic. The kids will love it. Instant Miss today. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the today. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake.

Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Give us a call right now. 0800 the hits. If you've got a name. We want to try something. A year into the show and we've reached this point.

0800 the hits is the phone number. Give us a call. Yeah, as I say. I've got a name. All you need is a name. We want to try something. It may not work. But we're going to try it live on radio. What better way to road test a new game called the Name Game?

A better way is probably in the office with our colleagues. But, you know, good doing it all here. Kind of came up with an idea in the podcast intro yesterday when we were doing the introduction for our podcast on iHeartRadio, and we thought we'll give it a go right now. The Name Game, you can win prizes. It's good prizes for people playing. Vague. Let's just narrow, you can win prizes. It's good prizes for people playing. Vague.

Let's just narrow down on the prizes. Let's focus more on how the name game works. Okay, so this is what we've come up with. You tell us your name. Okay, g'day, I'm Ben. Hey, Ben, how are you? Good, love the show. Long time listener, first time caller? Yeah, yeah, it's the first time I call.

Wow, I got through. Yeah, great to have you on. Are you phoning up for these vague prizes that my friend mentioned? Yeah, I'd love to win a vague prize. Okay, great. So your name's Ben? Yes. All right, you need to name as many famous Bens in 30 seconds as you can. I will give you the clues.

Okay. Start the timer, Producer Juliet. Oh, these are all Bens, are they? Because my name's Ben. That's right. Was married to Jennifer Garner, best friend Matt Damon. Oh, Ben Affleck. Correct.

He used to sing Ground on Down. Oh, Ben Harper. Well done. Actor. He's a comedic actor. His father was also famous. He was in Something About Mary. Oh, Ben Stiller.

Well done. Oh, this is an interesting one. He sings the song Thrift Shop, but goes by a different stage name. Oh, McLemore. McLemore's name's Ben. Oh, is it? Who knew? Oh, okay. Oh, but goes by a different stage name. Oh, Macklemore. Macklemore's name's Ben. Oh, is it? Who knew? Oh, okay.

Oh, there you go. Four Bens. Yeah, thanks for listening, Ben. Have a good day, mate. I'm sorry, so what, a vague price? Yeah, someone will sort that out. So that's how it works. We've got a name like that.

We'll see how many we can get, or you can guess from your name. And we'll try and do questions on the spot because we don't know what's coming up in the name game. So 0800 that hits the telephone number. Are we going to go to Susan? Okay. Susan, welcome, Morena. Hi.

Wonderful. Hi. Jono, you were good with that one. Do you want to keep going with it, Susan? Okay. I'm going to look here. Famous Susan. Oh, okay.

That'll be hard. Oh, no, not too bad. There's a few. There's a few there. Okay. Oh, yeah, okay. Now, we're going to start the timer. Susan, I'm going to be representing you.

Ben will be representing another caller. Are you ready to go? Yep. She was on Got Talent. Simon Cowell made her famous. Susan Boyle. One from one. Famous actor.

She's also a bit of a climate change activist as well. Featured in Team America as a puppet. Famous actor. She's also a bit of a climate change activist as well. Featured in Team America as a puppet. Famous actress. Am I Susan Sarandon? Yes. There we go. Two from two. She's a musician.

Probably from the 70s, I think I remember her. Surname starting with a Q. Susie Quattro. Oh, three from three. Oh, well done. You were good, Susan. Susie Quattro. Oh, three from three. Oh, well done. Thanks, Susie. You were good, Susie. Susie and Susie.

Well done. So you've got three. Now we'll go to Lisa in Whitetoa. Oh, I love Whitetoa. How are you going this morning, Lisa? Hi, good, thank you. How is Whitetoa? Lovely little beachside.

Next one along from Whangamata, isn't it? Yes, yes. Yeah, quite a rough beach, though. The old sand drops off, doesn't it? Yes. Yeah, but it's very nice. Okay, Ben, you've got Lisa. You need to beat three.

Susan's on the record of three. This is Say My Name, the name game. Are you Googled yet? Oh, yeah. Okay, we'll give this a go. He's got the sound of confidence in his voice, Lisa. All right, hit the timer, Ju. From the Simpsons plays the saxophone, the daughter.

Lisa Simpson. Yes, she's on Friends. She was Phoebe. Lisa Kadrew. Yes, Elvis Presley's daughter. Lisa Marie Presley. Yes, and I'm trying to find another Lisa I know, and I'm scared.

Oh, she's a rower. She's a rower for New Zealand. She just won an award last night. Oh, yeah, she won the Sportsperson of the Year. New Zealand kayaker. She's awesome. Lisa somebody. Yeah, Lisa somebody.

That's her. Sorry, Juliet was giving me, because I couldn't find another one. She was giving me rowing and then canoeing, and I was like, game of charades. Lisa Carrington. Yeah, Lisa Carrington. That was a panicked, fumbly mess. Well, I started so well. It did. Lisa Carrington. Yeah, Lisa Carrington. That was a panicked, fumbly mess. Well, I started so well. I did.

I got Lisa Jackson, Lisa Arena, Lisa Scott Lee, and I'm like... Lisa Lopez. Well, listen, it was three all. It was a tie on the name game this morning. So we're both going to give you vague prizes. Oh, yay. It was fun until I floundered a little bit, but it was fun. It was good.

Should we give that another go? We'll do some tweaking to the format. Yeah. Yeah, but I think there's legs in it. Okay. Yeah. Good. Okay.

All right. We'll talk more about this. Julia, what do you think? Legs in it? I loved it. Yeah, I really liked it. It was good fun. Say my name back again.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Now, we heard a rumour a couple of days ago that Krispy Kreme, who make donuts all around Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. which we're like, this is going to sink Krispy Kreme. Yeah. The only people creaming it out of Krispy Kreme are the people getting the free donuts for 12 months. But you always phoned Krispy Kreme in Compton in Los Angeles. And this is what the lovely lady had to say. You get just one donut to show your vaccination card. Oh, not a year's worth.

The program is going on for the whole year. Oh, the program. But it's not like you come every day and every day. Which made a lot more sense. Yeah, it did. But they've since clarified it. And they've said, no, no, no. Actually, no.

Krispy Kreme have said that you can get a free donut every day for an entire year if you've been vaccinated. Have a look. This is on American News. Anybody who shows a completed vaccination card at a Krispy Kreme location can get a free glazed donut. The best part, a vaccinated person could get one free donut every day through 2021. Gee whiz, so it is happening. It is, yeah. And no one is more invested in this Krispy Kreme promotion than us.

We have brought you some extensive coverage and our coverage continues right now. Proudly, we are the only show in the Southern Hemisphere who can say we have an Oregon correspondent. In Oregon, Portland, Oregon. His name is John. Wonderful to have you back on the air, John. Morning, boys. Good to be talking to you.

I hope you can hear me okay. I'm wearing a mask. Oh, we can hear you all right now, John. How long have you been in, moved from New Zealand to Portland? Over 20 years, about 22 years. And you don't have an American accent. Oh, yeah.

It's about 50-50, depending on where I am. Yeah, you'd have to put one on so they could understand you at times, I imagine. This Krispy Kreme promotion, you reached out to us, you heard us talking about it on the podcast, and you do get a donut a day that's what I understand I'm about to find out I actually just came

from my doctor and I just got a vaccination so I have my vaccination card in my hand and I'm going to find out what's going to happen oh so you're outside of Krispy Kreme

in Portland I just walked inside I'm second in line oh great now John if this is a thing you could get enough donuts for the whole of New Zealand and send them back to us.

I need you to all send me a vaccination card. Yeah, you can only get one a day. Six months or so. Yeah, but John's going to get sick of donuts after three months. He's going to be like, well, I might as well send these other ones back to Aotearoa. So are there many other people standing in line with vaccination cards in their hands?

I don't believe so. Maybe there is one. Yeah, I think so. I think so. Yeah, there is. Definitely. I see her. If you buy a full-price donut at Krispy Kreme,

it's almost the same as buying some full-price Manchester from Briscoe's. It's not on sale. Yeah, exactly. I mean, it could add up to thousands of dollars per person, which is trillions of dollars of Americans. It's going to sink Krispy Kreme, but we'll see if John can get his free donut for the day. Isn't it a lovely gesture what they're doing?

I think they're doing okay. I'm up next. Up next. I'm here with a radio station from New Zealand, and I would like one glazed donut. Will it go through? Cool, man. I can come back every day.

Is that correct? Come back every day with it? Maybe next week. All right. Awesome. Yep. All right, guys. Come back every day.

Wow. It's a thing. John, are you going to go back every day? I mean, there's a lot of donuts. I mean, I'm about 40 minutes from the Krispy Kreme from my house, so maybe not every day, but definitely every weekend. Yeah, you'd definitely have to be quite passionate about donut consumption, wouldn't you?

And by November, the novelty's going to wear off. Yeah. Yeah, maybe so. Yeah, you only get it one time. You don't get to vary it up with a chocolate or a banana or anything. Ah, well, John, listen, hey, thank you. Our Portland, Oregon correspondent John from New Zealand. Always love catching up with you, mate. You keep safe over there.

And have you had two shots of the vaccination now, have you? Yeah, I got my first one a month ago. I just got my second one. How are you feeling? I'm all good. Good to go. Usually the second night you're in a bit of pain. So tomorrow night, not a good sleep.

But after that, all plain sailing. How has it been rolling out over there? Because in New Zealand, the vaccination sort of rolls out, goes to border workers first. How is it over there? Because in New Zealand, the vaccination sort of rolls out, goes to border workers first. How is it over there? Every state does it differently. Every state does it pretty badly. But Oregon's not too bad.

It's rolling out to every citizen in Oregon by the 1st of May and everybody over 45 next week. That's pretty good. Good on you, John. You keep safe over there and we'll catch up soon, my friend. Cheers, guys. Talk to you next week. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah. Oh. Good on you, John. You keep safe over there and we'll catch up soon,

my friend. Cheers, guys. Talk to you next time. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal van. The Hits

with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, the last couple of social functions I've been to, social cases, friends' houses, this is the one

yesterday you were talking about where you turned up and you started hugging people but you didn't know up and you started hugging people, but you didn't know them, but you started hugging one lady who you didn't know, but you thought you knew. And you had to then hug half a dozen other people just to cover that fact that you hugged a stranger.

Yeah, I know. So I made things awkward, but later on... Now he's known as a hugger. I'll be in the hugger. Later on at that social function and the one I was at before, people get into a conversation. I've noticed this happens quite a bit of what shows are you watching? Well, what's the show you're watching? What are you streaming?

And everyone seems to have loved making a recommendation of a show. The other night, I think I was telling you guys, it went all around. It was about a table of about eight people and they were like, oh, you need to see this show. You need to see this show. And I should have been one of those people writing it down because I didn't.

And now I regret it because I just got to the end of a couple of shows I'm watching and now I don't have a new show to watch. What have you, what have you finished binging? Oh, WandaVision.

I was watching that on Disney Plus and also Suits. I watched Suits. You know, of course, Megan Markle was on Suits. I'm Rachel Zane. I'll be giving you your orientation. Wow, you're pretty.

Good. You've hit on me. We can get it out of the way that I'm not interested. I'm Rachel Zane. I'll be giving you your orientation. Wow, you're pretty. Good. You've hit on me. We can get it out of the way that I'm not interested. I love you. The lady who married Prince Harry was a lawyer, was she?

Yeah, it was a hell of a twist. The plot twist on Suits as she started in a law firm and ended up on Oprah's backyard couch. Listen. Never saw that one coming. No.

What a plot twist. Listen, I'm not a watcher. There's too much stuff to watch. But you do watch. You love it. You're one of the people, the free-to-air television. I prefer my viewing old school. I'll like, you give me a show, you tell me when I have to watch it,

and you interrupt it with half a dozen commercial breaks, and that's how I like to digest my content. Hey, and there's nothing wrong with the free-to-air television. I'm not saying that there isn't. And there's a lot of great shows you can watch on demand on things like TVNZ on demand. The only thing I binge is the Whittaker's Hundreds and Thousands chocolate bars. I can't stop eating those.

If you want to ask me what I'm binging. So you're wanting suggestions. Yeah, I thought I'd open it up right now to the listeners here at The Hits and just say, what are you binging? I need a new show. And I feel like everyone loves recommending what the show is they're watching. Are you watching anything currently at the moment?

No, I'm like, John, I'm a useless watcher of Netflix shows and TV. I know, it's really bad. You always suggest things to her and I can tell she's got the glazed over look in her eye of like, oh yeah, I'll get around to watching that. But I know deep down you're never going to watch it.

For some reason, I never seem to find enough time in my day to sit down and watch things. But then I'm like, yeah, it's just a prioritisation. No, but it's a commitment. I know what you're saying. I understand when I was talking to you so much about The Last Dance, Michael Jordan. I was like, she's never going to watch that.

I don't understand that. I'm not taking any recommendations from this old man ever again. There's some other great shows out there. Yeah, I know. There are so many great shows. There are. I have given some a go like I gave The Handmaid's Tale a go

and it was a good series with the first few episodes but I just didn't commit. Checked out. Yeah. Ben, you love, one of the things you love doing

is signing up for a free trial. Don't you? He loves a free trial. And then you have to binge. You have to binge like on a mission to try and get it all done

in a week. He loves free trials so much he'll turn up to the district court and sit in the gallery just to get one. But it's the equivalent of standing in a supermarket checkout, reading all the magazines about the celebrities' miracle babies, and then not paying for anything, putting the magazine back. You get the entertainment free. It always takes over the next.

They always get you. They get you in the end. So what should we be binging? Here's your chance. Help it out because I think everyone wants to know. Everyone wants a new show to watch. So, oh, 100 the Hats. Apart from Juliet. 4487. Well, maybe you will. Maybe someone will convince you. What's the show that we should be

binging? What's the show that I should binge? Help me out. I'd love to know next on the Hats. We've got a full board. Mahesh, welcome from Auckland. How are you? I'm very well, thanks guys. How about you? Oh, lovely to have you on, my friend. What are you? I'm very well, thanks, guys. How about you? Lovely to have you on, my friend. What are you suggesting for Ben? What has he got to binge? Well, there are quite a few shows, but

the couple which I really like is on Neon. So one of them is Country, Lovecraft Country. Lovecraft Country. It's pretty much fantasy. It has everything. It has aliens. It has magic. So the first couple of episodes when I started watching,

I didn't get into it. But, like, as you go into it, it's getting better and better. And a bit like WandaVision. Yeah, WandaVision was exactly the same for me. I stuck through it, and I was glad that I did. It got really good. But Jordan Peele, I'm just noticing, he's one of the writers from Key and Peele. Oh, yeah.

They're funny. They're very funny. Yeah. Oh, that's great. Oh, Lovecraft Country. There we go. It's got aliens. The other one is his darkest material.

It's also neon. So one of the X-Men lead, he's the main character. So they've got two seasons. And I'm thinking the third one is going to come because of the COVID didn't arrive. But it's a really good show as well. I think you'll like it. Oh, Mesh, thank you so much

for your suggestions. All this is going to do is Ben's going to sign up for seven more free trials on different streaming services. My mate was always like, remember we used to bitch and moan about Sky?

Oh, Sky so much but it had everything. Yeah, always sports. Now, we're like, hand in your Sky Dakota and now buy subscriptions to 42 streaming services to get your content.

We'll start with Rochelle. We'll go to Rochelle in Whanganui. Welcome, Rochelle. How are you? Good, thank you. How are you? Oh, lovely to have you on. What's your suggestion?

What can my friend Ben... I highly recommend The Good Doctor. Oh, The Good Doctor. Okay. Yeah, it's about a surgeon who has autism, and he's quite funny, and yeah, it's a really good programme to watch. I think I watched, like, three seasons in a month.

And that's Sean Murphy when he was 14 years old. Sean! Just act like a normal human being. He was, and he still is, an extraordinary young man. Well, the good doctor, there you go. 97% like this show on the internet. Three seasons. You've watched all three seasons in a month.

Yeah, it was about that. The good doctor, there we go. Thanks, Rochelle. Great suggestion. The good doctor. Kelly from Tauranga, more in a Ben's binging. Quite a self-indulgent phone topic. It is a little bit, isn't it?

But anyway. How can you help Ben out? Help me out guys I would recommend a crime show called Longmire it's based in Absaroka County

in Wyoming in the US about Sheriff Walt Longmire he gets a lot of crime in his little county and I've watched

five seasons in two weeks now five seasons it's only got six seasons five seasons in two weeks jeez it's only got six seasons? Five seasons in two weeks? Jeez, it must be good. Yeah, yeah, many late nights.

What personal stuff in your life have you let go of just so you can watch this show? Mainly sleep. Mainly sleep. And personal hygiene lacking as well. It's on Netflix right now. I can see that. That's good.

That's good to know. Thank you very much. Logmire looks awesome. Well, let's take one more. James, welcome. You're on from Auckland. Morena. More. Thank you very much. Logmire looks awesome. Well, let's take one more. James, welcome. You're on from Auckland. Morena. Morena to you, James. Ben's binging. What should he be

watching? He may need to quit his job for this one, but I would recommend Shortland Street from the beginning. Head on to TVNZ On Demand, my friend. You want something to watch for the next 10 years? Oh, hey, that's not a bad idea. Watch it from the start again. Thank you so much.

I really appreciate it. There we go. Thanks for all the texts. And plenty of texts coming through as well. Yeah, Umbrella Academy is apparently another one. The Good Witch on Netflix, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. That's hilarious. Yeah, that's really good.

The English Game, New Amsterdam on Netflix. I watched a little bit of that. It's quite good, yeah. Another text here, Money Heist on Netflix, as well as apparently very good too. So listen, let's just all agree there's a lot of stuff to watch. I noticed you didn't write any of those down. I did.

I wrote a couple of them. You wrote some on the Herald, on the Herald newspaper? Are you going to take that home with you? I'm a picture of Grant Robinson. I've got it all written down as well, so I'll take that home with me. Thank you so much. I really appreciate you guys helping me out there.

Yeah, you did that. 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.

Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We tell you five words, you tell us the first things that pop into your head. If they match up with our words, you get $5,000.

Yeah, five words away from $5,000. That's all that stands between you and five grand. Also, all that stands between you and five grand is producer Humphrey getting your account details. Yeah, but he'll sort that out.

He'll sort that out, but that also stands in between you. Let's go to Michaela. How's New Plymouth this morning, Michaela? Good morning. How are you going? Yeah, not bad. How are you? Good, thank you very much.

How's the wind wand? Oh, I don't know. I actually haven't seen it. It's been taken away from maintenance. Oh, the wind wand's gone from the waterfront there. It's gone. Oh, I love't know. I actually haven't seen it. It's been taken away from maintenance. Oh, the wind wand's gone from the waterfront there. It's gone. Oh, I love that wind wand. Looks like a giant hypodermic needle.

It does. Now, Makata, you know how fire boards work? Yeah, yeah. You sound nervous. No, no, I've played along a few times and I've actually matched up a few times. Oh, okay. This is the thing, I mean, yesterday we had a wonderful contestant who had played five times online,

won five times in a row online at the hits.co.nz, we've got the game up there, and just in the live version, didn't quite work out. Well, they were tough words yesterday. Yeah. So hopefully today's words are a little bit easier. Who do you want to pick, Michaela, Jono or Ben, to go into the soundproof booth? Ben, please.

That's because he's rock solid. He's a rock. He's going to head into the soundproof booth. I don't know what we're doing with that booth after this competition finishes, but we should donate it to an unassuming superhero to use as a changing room on the streets or something, Juliet. Sounds like a great plan.

Michaela, it's great to have you here. It's good to be here, finally. We're going to name five words. You've got to tell us the first word that pops into your head, all right, Michaela? Yep. Lotto. Money. Money, okay

Word number two is wardrobe Clothes Clothes Money, what did you get for those first two, Juliet? I think I had money for the first one, and then wardrobe for the second one, I had malfunction. Oh, okay.

There's a lot of things in wardrobe I think you could have. Yeah, it's a hard one. It is a hard one. The third word, socket. Socket. S-O-C-K-E-T. Oh, it's a hard one. Socket. S-O-C-K-E-T. Um. Oh, it's a hard one.

Um, plug? Locking and plug. Word number four, cocktail. Ooh. Um. Drinking. Drink, drinks. or, oh, it's a cocktail. You've got words that are very wide and varied, don't you, this morning? Yeah, cocktail, cocktail.

Cocktail. Are you zeroing in on a particular drink? Are you just going to sweeping a sweeping statement of drinks? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah? We'll go... You've got to try and think what my friend Benjamin would say about cocktail. Cocktail.

Can we come back to that? We can come back to cocktail. Hold that cocktail order. We'll be back shortly. And the fifth word was vegetable. Vegetable. These aren't easy. Vegetable.

First thing that came to mind was broccoli. Okay, locking in broccoli. Vegetable and broccoli. Now back to cocktail. The barman's waiting there for your order. Cocktail. We'll just go with a bar. The bar.

Bar. Okay. It was a tough game, Michaela. Yeah. That was a bit of a hill to climb this morning. We'll bring Ben out of the SPB. Thank you very much, Producer Humphrey, as he emerges there. I find yourself in the soundproof booth thinking about other things that you need to do

because you've got, you know, some alone time. I'll pick up some bread. I've got to get some milk. Fill up a car. Yeah, you do. Pay him a warrant of fitness, stuff like that. Did you do that? I did, actually.

I was thinking we were going away to Hamilton tonight, and I was thinking I'm going to need to pack my pyjama pants. Oh, yeah. I forgot my toilet bag, so I'm going to have to go home and get it anyway. Michaela, this one doesn't concern you. Yeah. Michaela doesn't care if I have my toilet bag or not. Or I have pyjama pants or not.

If my armpits are deodorised this afternoon. I feel good about this. Let's be positive. Okay? Today's the day we're going to win some money from Michaela. Today's the day. Yep. Alright. First word. Lotto. Ticket. Today's not the day. Today is not the day.

Okay. Come on. We're in with blind confidence there. Sorry, Michaela. Today's the day we're going to win money. I'm trying to be positive. They were really tough words today. So Lotto, Michaela, you went...

Money. Money. She went money, Lotto, money. Word number two was wardrobe. Closet. Socket. Eye. Cocktail. I'll go bar

Oh there we go And vegetable Soup He was a 95% let down That's going to be a new record That was a shocker Michaela Michaela listen lovely playing with you Thank you so much for listening to the program That's going to be a new record. That was a shocker. Michaela, listen, lovely playing with you.

Thank you so much for listening to the programme. Thank you, guys. You go and have a wonderful day in paradise. That is New Plymouth. Okay, look after yourself. Thank 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. Now, Ben, do you notice the producer, Julia, she's always in such a great mood. And I put it down to her daily intake of vitamin C. Vitamin celebrity. Here we go with Spy. God. That was a long boat. I wonder if we're ever going to run out of these things.

Well, you have no choice. I think that might have officially marked the end of them. No, I loved it. That was one of my favourites. Now, Gwyneth Paltrow, obviously she's got her website, Goop, Well, you have no choice. I think that might have officially marked the end of them. No, I loved it. That was one of my favourites. Now, Gwyneth Paltrow, obviously she's got her website, Goop, which sells very unique products, as we've previously discussed, in Spy. The Vagandal.

Yeah, oh, yeah, that's a good one. Oh, the candle, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She also sold a lamp that looked like a baguette. It's very bizarre. She's kind of an interesting human being. I really like her, eh? She is. She's quite different.

Quirky. Yeah, which is cool. Unique, which is great. Yeah, and she was on Kelly Clarkson's talk show. So if you didn't know, Kelly Clarkson has a talk show. Not many people know that. I'm not sure. Apparently she's tipped her to take over from Ellen.

Yeah. And Ellen has a little doll of Kelly Clarkson that she stabs needles into. Ellen doesn't even be bothered doing it. She gets one of her paupers to do it. You will put needles into this Kelly Clarkson doll. Oh doing it. She gets one of her paupers to do it. You will put needles into this Kelly Clarkson doll. Not true, not true. And so Kelly had...

Oh, actually, I don't know if it's not true, but I'm guessing it's not true. It could be true. But Kelly Clarkson had Gwyneth Paltrow on her talk show

and asked her what her favourite song is that she likes to listen to when she's down. Her answer literally makes Kelly Clarkson lose it. So earlier we were talking about music.

So I have to ask, what are some songs you go to when you're down? Wet Ass B****. And Kelly Clarkson just like literally hysterically laughs for about 20 minutes it seems. And obviously we're not going to play that song because it's inappropriate, but it's the one with Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. Oh yeah, WAP. Yeah.

We should get WAP on after 8 o'clock. No. I don't, yeah, well. Yeah, I hate. The censored version might be appropriate. Did you see their performance at the, was it the Grammys? Wild.

Crazy. Well, I was watching it on the airplane. I was like, I need to turn this off. The person behind me was like, what sort of monster are you watching that content on a plane? Yeah, true. It's a tiny little plane as well. We're traveling from Parmy to Auckland.

Did you just watch it on your phone or something? Yeah. I had the sound loud up and everything. Oh, no. Made for an awkward flight. Oh, God. And we touched on the other day that Orlando Bloom, he has the most bizarre daily routine.

I mean, he goes for, he wakes up, he ingests some green powders and oils to make his health better. He goes for a hike while listening to Stone Temple Parts. Everyone roasted him. He's a Buddhist, practicing Buddhist as well, so he takes time to meditate. So his daily routine is just something that is so different from a normal average person's daily routine and now he says that he's the running joke in his

family and friends because he told the world what his daily routine is and so they're just roasting him endlessly for his his routine i can kind of imagine his schedule would be similar to some out of work actors you know, you know, or in between jobs. You know, like some of the things he was doing. But everyone was surprised because obviously he's a dad, he's got a couple of kids and a seven-month-old. I didn't see any fathering in his schedule. I know.

No. Maybe it was the day off that he was having, you know. Yeah, very true. And to aspire for more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Unless his baby's eating all the green powders and going hiking with him and practicing meditation. Yeah. We apologise in advance. Unless his baby's eating all the green powders and going hiking with him and practicing meditation. Yeah. We apologize 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 Penn. Breakfast on The Hits. The Hits. The Hits.

Don't be afraid of your freedom. The Hits. Live free. Bill's edition. Let's smash another one. I got bills. We're paying bills. If you've got a bill that you don't really want to pay,

let's be honest, what bill do you want to pay? None. I love paying bills. It's one of my favourite hobbies. 4487, text Bills to that number, and we could be paying one of your bills. We have a lot of happy customers over the last week. Need to book EFS.

We're going to pay that bill for you. Oh, my God, that's amazing. We're going to pay off your bill, Hayley. Oh, awesome. $300, just like that. I bloody love you guys. Joanne, we understand you've got a massive energy bill. We're going to pay it for you. Aww. $250 is off your credit card. Perfect, thank you.

Car repair, $210. We want to pay it for you. Oh, wait, yes. Your daughter can go along to camp and it's all on us. Oh, yay, she'll be thrilled. We want to pay your bill. Oh Oh, wait, Ed. Your daughter can go along to camp and it's all on us. Oh, yay. She'll be thrilled. We want to pay you a bill. Oh, for real? Yeah, we do.

Great one. Tell us, who's your favourite radio show? Ben and Joel. Ben and Joel. Ben and Joel. Love them both. Nice enough. Nice enough for us.

We love it. Here you go. There's a montage of us bribing people to like us. Let's bribe someone else right now. Let's make a call. Hello, Sarah here. Hi, Sarah there. It's Jono and Ben here.

Hey, hello. How are you? I'm great. You sound like we caught you off guard. I'm just at Bunnings shopping for Riverstone, but I wasn't expecting your call, no. Jeez, I tell you what, you'll be lost in Bunnings for another two days.

That place is enormous. It is indeed. What I find impressive, though, in Bunnings is they always know where, anyone you talk to there with the apron on, they know where it is. They know what aisle it is. Oh, good. Let's try.

Are you near a Bunnings employee now? I'm actually not. I'm out in the garden area, and I can't see one for looking. Okay, well, if you do bump into one, ask them where power drills are, what aisle, and we'll see if they can answer. But in the meantime, we've got some news for you. Okay.

We want to pay your daughter's school camp fees. Oh, that is very good news indeed. There you go. Thank you. $300 you can spend on river rocks now. Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah. Wow, cool. Thanks. That's all right. now. Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah. Wow, cool.

Thanks. That's all right. Listen, we pounce when you least expect it. Yeah, that's amazing. We might use that money to fill the water tank. We're out of water. Oh, you're out of water, are you? Why are you out of water?

Because we live rurally and we're on tank and there's not raining. It's not raining. My mum has that same thing at her house. And jeez, oh, if you're long in the shower, it's oh, I don't want it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to shower at her place.

A whole, like, yellow, a little mellow, you know, that applies. Yeah, and you take a shower, and you have to stand in, like, a laundry basket, basically, one of those. So you... Yep. That water... Probably not a laundry basket, because it's got holes in it, but maybe something without holes. Like a plastic-y sort of thing like that, and then that water goes not a laundry basket because it's got holes in it but maybe something without holes

like a plastic sort of thing like that and then that water goes on the garden afterwards yeah or down the toilet system

oh that sounds like a giant pain in the arse that's what people do that's what people do yeah oh good on you well you and your river rocks have a wonderful day

don't worry don't worry about your daughter's school camp we've got that covered at the hips incredible thank you guys I really appreciate it no worries super thank you there you go Don't worry about your daughter's school camp. We've got that covered at the hips. Incredible. Thank you, guys. I really appreciate it.

No worries. Super. Thank you. There you go. Hilary Barry doing another one at one o'clock. Now, do you know Hilary Barry? Millennial Max works with Hilary Barry, and she brings food in for him.

She's like, my children have left the house, so she's mothering Millennial Max at the moment. Oh, yeah, she's loving it. Loving Millennial Max. Yeah, loving looking after Millennial Max. Bring in baking. We don't mother you. Yeah. I'd breastfeed you, Max, if I had to. Okay, that's the it. Loving Millenial Max. Yeah, loving looking after Millenial Max. Bring in baking. We don't mother you. Yeah.

I'd breastfeed you, Max, if I had to. Okay, that's the commitment I'd show to raising young Millenial Max. Oh, that's good. It was a little odd, but a good commitment nonetheless. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. I think I had a bit of a faux pas in the office yesterday, Ben, that you witnessed.

That was quite funny. I'm not good at thinking on the spot. That's my problem. I should just shut up and run away. Should be the alternative. I feel like sometimes your mouth is kind of going at a pace that your brain isn't quite caught up. Yeah. It's a couple of minutes ahead of the old mouth, isn't it?

Sometimes I say stuff on the radio and then during the song that's playing after we've finished talking and I'm like well that was a mistake it was a bit of a delayed reaction but there's a new employee in the office and I was just showing some people round the office here's where we do the photocopying

here's where we shred all the documents that NZME don't want the inline revenues to know about. The problem is where you were just, you were showing somewhere around the office, which is great, but you kind of got into specific people. You kind of went around and went,

oh, this is, and you started naming it. And I was naming people, and I'm like, oh, this is a risky move. This is a necessarily risky move. Great if you can pull it off, but not great if you don't. You might just say, hey guys,

this is the new person, you know, rather than say, oh, meet such and such. Yeah, he's Michelle, he's Harriet, he's Danielle. Yeah, started listing off everyone. Risky, risky. It was risky. Then I got to, I looked over and I was like, oh, he is someone, a new person

who we had been introduced to. Yeah, yeah, we had, but obviously you hadn't remembered their names. Yeah, I had a mind blink as to what his name was. And then so I just said, oh, this is new. Yeah, you kind of went, and this is, and then you paused, like, because I was like, oh, does he know the name? He didn't, he didn't. And then you went, no, this is new.

What? This is new. I mean, I'm not lying. They're new to the office. New to the office. Right. But that was all he said, this is new. What? This is new. I mean, I'm not lying. They're new to the office. New to the office. Right. But that was all he said, this is new. And they sort of looked at him like, I'm new? Like, I'm what?

This is new. And so how did you save yourself? He didn't. I said, this is new. That was the save. It was a shocking save. Yeah. Because they sort of had to get up and go, g'day, I'm blah, blah, blah. And I am new. He's right. This is new. Like there's some sort of

like sports car or something. Like a piece of furniture. And this is a new piece of furniture we purchased. We got this little thing. Feel free to use it. So a humbling experience for that person.

He was, so walked away a little rattled by it. But then I've had another shocker too. Previous workplace we worked for, our producer was like, oh, can you go out there? There's a young student

who would like to have a conversation. So then I came barrelling out of the studio and there was a young guy sitting on the couch

and I put my knee, you know how you put your hands on your knees and you lean over and you talk to them. Like they're a child? Yeah, like he's a child.

But he was, you know, sort of 20, them. Like they're a child? Yeah, like he's a child. But he was, you know, sort of 20, 22 or something. Hello little fella. You want to get into radio, mate? Do you?

Must be nice to meet one of your heroes. And he was like, no, I'm here for a meeting. I'm a client. I was one step away from patting him on the head.

Yeah, he'll boop him on the nose. Yeah, you'll make it. Don't give up on your dreams. Yeah, he'll boop him on the nose. You'll make it. Don't give up on your dreams. So I think I should just be trapped in this room permanently. Yeah.

Just so I can, the only people I embarrass myself are in front of producer Juliette, Millennial Max, producer Humphrey and Ben. And the nation when we turn on the microphones. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B***h News. Tell you what, if someone's got their legs stuck inside an exhaust pipe or a man's given birth to a weasel, then you'll hear that. In this show, in this part of the show, it's Sir Juliet with the world's most obscure news stories,

but with a twist. Yes, with a little beep and you guys have to figure out what the headline actually is. Now your first story Man cooks bacon and eggs on ****. So obviously it's something a bit bizarre. I'm going to go with Jono's head in the sun. It does create a bit of heat, doesn't it? A lot of global warming on top of this forehead.

I'm going to say Man cooks bacon and eggs on a Sunday morning and then eats them off a plate. How normal. Man cooks bacon and eggs on live volcanoes, molten lava. So he was in Iceland and he had a pan, like a frying pan. This volcano was erupting. It was apparently a relatively small eruption,

but I would be nowhere near a volcano if it was erupting in the first place. But yeah, he cracked a couple of eggs and some bacon on the pan and cooked them, which is a bit of an unusual way to have your friki. It would be hard to control the heat. You know you want to cook low and slow, don't you? That'd be hot and heavy a volcano. Well, that's true. And he's

obviously pre-planned this. Yeah, so they said after the video was released Because you're not tramping with a fry pan normally, are you? Yeah, yeah. They said that this was performed under professional supervision and equipment. So obviously they were going with people who knew what they were doing and that they knew that a volcano wouldn't erupt even more. But yeah, isn't that quite bizarre?

Did he eat the molten lava baking in the X? No, well, the lava actually took over the pan, the fry pan. So, you know, the volcano essentially ate it, unfortunately. It was never going to work. I know. It was a stupid idea. I hope he doesn't regret lugging a frying pan

all the way up a volcano. And the next story. It looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger on sale for $14,000. So something that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger is on sale. I'm going to say a dusty old brown leather handbag. I'm going to go as one of those stories where someone's found a potato or something.

You know, they're like, oh, it looks like a celebrity. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Cheeto that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger on sale for $14,000. Close, very close. So, you know, Cheetos are like those orange sort of, what would you compare them to? I love Cheeto. Twisties. Yeah, love Cheetos.

Yeah. But there's all those stories that are like, oh, look, my toast looks like the Virgin Mary. I know. You burn the toast. I know. I'm going to have a look at this Arnold Schwarzenegger. So it's the pose that he did when he was Mr. Olympia or whatever it was. So he's got his flexing muscles, very tanned, and it's a bright orange cheetah.

It's kind of in the sculpture of a man flexing. It could be anyone. It could be anyone flexing. Someone's just trying to make... Is it like a cheetah that came out of the bag like this? Yeah, yeah. Someone's trying to just make a bit of that. It's quite an unusual cheetah, though.

Normally, it would be little, but this looks like it's almost like lots of cheetahs connected together. Yeah, it must have been. To form a person. Yeah. Yeah, look, the closer you look at it, the but this looks like it's almost like lots of Cheetos connected together. Yeah, it must have been. To form a person. Yeah. Look, the closer you look at it, the more it looks like Arnold. Yeah. Okay.

$14,000, that's well worth it in my mind. Yeah. And the final one. Viral TikTok hack keeps you from crying while... It keeps you from crying while watching Love Actually. Oh, yeah, that's a hard movie not to cry. It's a tearjerker. I'm going to say the TikTok hack keeps you from crying

when being constantly mocked by your co-host on the radio. She's the guy who just said the guy cooked bacon and eggs on my head. I didn't say it was me. I was hoping it was for you. And the result? Viral TikTok hack keeps you from crying while chopping onions. Do you guys cry when you chop onions? I do now and again, you know,

you get watery eyes and stuff. Well, this hack is you get a wet paper towel or cloth, like more than just damp, it needs to be sort of kind of dripping wet, and you lay it on the chopping board and apparently the acid in the onions is attracted to water, so that usually goes to your tear

ducts, but instead it gets attracted to the wet cloth on the chopping board. Oh, there you go. I haven't tested it, so who knows if it's actually legit, but you know, you can try it at home. I remember the last time I chopped an onion. Really? Really. Wow. You're sizzling things in the microwave.

I'm sizzling crancers in the microwave. That's a very good point. It would be years since I chopped an onion. Really? Wow. I'm not cooking meals with onions and stuff. No, it would be, I would say, over five years since I chopped an onion. Does Jen chop onions?

She chops an onion every now and then. Okay. But we're not a big onion-consuming fano. Right. You have a lot of onion, do you, when you diet? I don't have a lot of onions, but you do. You have a lot of recipes, you know. Reasonably often.

You know, red onions. We knew a guy who used to eat them like apples. I know he didn't know him. It was the Australian Prime Minister. It was, yeah. What was his name? What was his name? What was his name? No, I can't remember.

The guy who wore the Speedos, wasn't it? Yeah. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. He was a... I mean, Australia had so many. It's like...

Abbots. Tony Abbots. He came out of a... He was like touring around an onion farm and he picked an onion out of a barrel in front of the media and just started eating it like an apple and talking to them. Ew.

That's disgusting. Yeah. Anyway. You saw someone. You knocked on someone's door, and they were eating a lettuce. A nice big lettuce like an apple. It's unusual, but anyway. It lacks so much flavour.

Maybe we've been doing it wrong the whole time. Exactly. And that is the news and beeps. Thank you very much, Producer Juliet. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Time to look at some of the big news in New Zealand and around the world. Scrolling through your feed.

We have no idea what we're actually talking about. The thing is we just need to try and sound convincing for the next three and a half minutes. So see if we can pull that off. Ben, what's been happening? Well, it's exactly one year today since the first lockdown in New Zealand. So 11 of 59 tonight. I don't know if it's a happy birthday situation, but one year ago today,

New Zealand went into the first level four lockdown. This is with the press conference, which was basically this week a year ago. Now is the time to act. That's why Cabinet met today and agreed that effective immediately, we will move to Alert Level 3 nationwide.

After 48 hours, the time required to ensure essential services are in place, we will move to Level 4. What a crazy year it's been too. That was wild. It seems just like last week.

Yeah. It's gone really quickly, but really slowly at the same time. Obviously, you know, a lot of worry about the virus coming to our shores. And, you know, what would it do, what it's been doing to other countries around the world, or the events that got cancelled, or the people having to change the way they went to school, went to work, the panic buying, you know. Oh, the toilet paper. Jeez, I'm still going through it I'll be going through it

for the next 10 years and I'd like to personally thank COVID for coming to our shores not only devastating the economy which is having to rebuild now

but also adding 8kgs onto my frame thanks to lockdown I didn't ask for those 8kgs they just turned up yeah and all the things that have just become normal now

you know talking about the bubble and the team of five million and you're wearing masks on planes and things like that. Do you think masks are just going to be around from now until, you know, from now? Yeah, I imagine on transport maybe, like international flights and stuff. Especially in other countries, I think, as well. I mean, once the whole world's vaccinated and everything like that,

I think there'll still be people worried, what if a new virus comes and, you know, there'll be... Well, it does keep mutating. I saw on the news today in India, there's a double banger version of the virus. Oh, really? I don't know what that means, but I just saw the headline. Yeah. So that's what viruses do. They keep mutating. So you think this is, as they say, the new normal.

Well, yeah. And it is crazy to think that a year ago, you know, and to think the people, you know, we've been in and out of a few lockdowns, particularly in the 09 in Auckland, sorry, 09 in New Zealand. But, you know, overseas, some countries have pretty much been in a lockdown for the last year.

For the whole year? For a whole year. That's crazy. Didn't UK kids just go back to school last week? I think so, yeah. Which is pretty much a year away from school without seeing their friends and stuff. So people are doing it really, really tough by this virus.

It's devastated the world. Who would have thought? And remember when everyone became professional bakers on Instagram? We went into lockdown, everyone was baking breads and everything. Everyone had all the time in the world. Do you remember that fun app where we're all like, oh, let's have a party, house party. That was fun.

And then literally the following week, we were like, it's the Chinese communists getting info and then we all deleted it. Yeah. That had a meteoric rise and fall in the space of five days. Love this house party.

I imagine overseas they're probably still using it, but we kind of did the first lockdown and that was us. I was like, this is just niggly. Everyone's talking over each other. It's a nightmare. You didn't like it. I know you didn't like it. I know you didn't like it.

I got to a stage where it would just go on for quite, you had no excuse to go, you know, like friends that would lock in for the night. And that would be their way of catching up over drinking. But it would be two or three hours later, they were still going over house party. And I'd be like, yeah, well, I should probably go now. And they're like, where are you going?

Nowhere to go. But you don't like talking on the phone so a three hour house party people do it all night they just set it up and they'll be like having their like they go to the pub for drinks which is nice for a bit but then i was like okay you know like i like face to face yeah not over here face to face face to face and like banter over face to face yeah but uh what a wild 12 months in history yeah something that we'll be banging on to our grandkids about and they'll be like, shut up, old man. I don't care about your pandemic.

And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Spy. No WhatsApp.

Spy.co.nz. We want to thank Juliet from the bottom of our hearts for bringing the average age of the show down. And here she is, 23-year-old producer, Millennial Juliette, or as we like to call her, Mildew. Come on down. Just quickly, Ed Sheeran is currently in Melbourne. So he quarantined for two weeks and it was a memorial for a very prominent

man in the Australian music industry Michael Gudinski and he performed at the memorial with Kylie Minogue the locomotion did he fly all the way

to Melbourne to perform in the locomotion he did he did so this guy whose memorial it was he was a really big figure in the Australian music industry.

He brought, you know, he signed Split Ends and Kylie Minogue. He brought a lot of artists to New Zealand, like Ed Sheeran, Bruce Springsteen. So he's done a lot of things for the Australian music industry and he was quite good friends with Ed Sheeran. So Ed flew to Melbourne, quarantined for a couple of weeks. I saw him and his wife flew private jet, bought the baby, and quarantined for two weeks.

Gee, that is a commitment. It really is. It really shows how much thought of the person. Surely you'd be sending an email, a condolences email. No, but that's incredible. But to catch a plane and quarantine for two weeks. I know. It means so much to him.

Exactly, dedication. And a couple of royal updates. Now, the Queen's granddaughter, Zara Tindall, she is married to Mike Tindall. She, the rugby player, English rugby player, she gave birth on her bathroom floor on Sunday. Shaggy was doing stuff on the bathroom floor, wasn't he? He was.

Hopefully not the same one at the time. Maybe he caused the birth. True. But the baby came so quickly. You know, the labour was so quick that they didn't have time to get to the hospital. But the baby's all healthy. I think it's a little baby boy. Yeah, how would you be in that situation?

I'd be like, oh, oh, get the towels, get the beach towel. I'd be panicking. Yeah, well, I remember in antenatal class, because I never really thought about that. You just thought, oh, when the contractions happened, you'd go to the hospital and they'd know what to do. But then when someone came in who just had their baby, exactly the same situation happened. They ended up having to deliver their baby on the bathroom because it happened so quickly.

And you're like, oh, God, this could actually happen to us. You know? You just thought you'd have enough time to get to the hospital. But it doesn't happen like that for every, you know, birth. It's crazy how different it can be for everyone. I'm terrified. Birth and on the bathroom floor, eh? Yeah, totally.

How many kids has Zara and Mike Tindall got? I think this is their third. Yeah, right. He played rugby for England, didn't he, Mike Tindall? That's right, he did, yeah. Well, he was here

during the Rugby World Cup when it was on. He's never fixed his nose. His nose goes in four different directions. It's always been broken so many times. But it's his look.

I think he's actually fixed it though now. Has he fixed his nose? Yeah, from what I remember. Surely you've got money to just straighten that bad boy up. Well, maybe while his playing days was on, he was like, this is going to happen again. Yes, he has fixed it. Oh, it looks good now.

Yeah, yeah. It used to go in about nine different directions, that nose. But it was kind of his signature look. You recognised him because of his nose. He looked like a British gang member, didn't he, with, that nose. But it was kind of his signature look. You recognised him because of his nose. He looked like a British gang member, didn't he, with a broken nose. Now he looks very sophisticated. He does. He does.

And the other royal news that I was going to give was a spokesperson, a royal spokesperson, has now come out and said that Harry and Meghan didn't actually get married three days before their wedding. So in the Oprah interview, they said that they got married three days before their wedding. And I was like, really? And they're like, yeah, we just wanted a moment between us. So what did they do? Did they do something?

Yeah, so when they said that, there was speculation that they didn't get married officially because there were some things I think the Archbishop couldn't actually legally marry or something, the person, they needed another witness and things like that. And so people figured it out. But now a spokesperson has come out and said that, no, it wasn't official marriage. It was just an exchange of vows in a private ceremony. Just Harry, Meghan and someone else. Well, this isn't just picking the details, isn't it?

It really is. I mean, does it really matter? No. I lost interest halfway through you talking about it. But I could see why people could, you know, if people thought that that was a lie that they'd said, then they could question other things in the interview. True, very true.

If they were lying about that, then... That's probably the thing that matters. And I mean, it's kind of a technicality. It is a technicality. I mean, they kind of did and they didn't, you know. But then some people... I mean, if you're against the royals and against them, you'd probably go, they were lying about that, they were lying about other things, you know?

But you're right, it's just a technicality. They're kind of as good as got married. Yeah, yeah. It depends on how you see it. It may or may not have helped their cause. It's like a married at first sight wedding. They don't actually get married. True! And you think they do. I thought they did. I thought it was all official.

But it's like, so essentially they're just dating for four weeks and then hating each other after a month yeah totally very good point and that is Spy for more you can head

to the hits.co.nz experts in semi-accurate half-remembered information vaguely known information but maybe not correct Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast on the hits

if you want to open up the phones on 0800 HITS why is today going to be a good day for you? yeah we're not feeling good we'd like to end the show on a positive note. Maybe we could try and start the show on a positive note, not leave it till the last three and a half minutes of the programme.

It's a good idea, actually. We'll give that a go tomorrow morning, okay? Okay. It's a very negative six o'clock hour, isn't it, if you tune in early in the morning? Yeah, we're slowly waking up. We're like, ugh, it's only Thursday. But no, today, why is it going to be a good day?

You just call us up. Tell us, big or small, we don't care. But no, today, why is it going to be a good day? You just call us up. Tell us big or small. We don't care. We're not going to judge. We're just happy you're filling in some air time for us. Why is it going to be a good day for you? Make the rest of us green with MB. We're on the way to Hamilton.

We're doing the show out of Hamilton tomorrow. We'll tell you more about that very shortly. What I'm excited about is going to Hamilton is the new motorway. That's why it's going to be a good day. Get to go along the new motorway. It's a fun new motorway. I'm glad you enjoyed the new motorway. I love the new motorway. That's why it's going to be a good day. Get to go along the new motorway. It's a fun new motorway. Did you enjoy the new motorway? I loved the new motorway.

You went down the new motorway. I did, yeah. It was a very easy drive. I can't figure out what it's cut out. You know when you go down new passages of State Highway, you're like, well, what am I missing? Actually, tomorrow, come down and say hi. If you're in Hamilton, we're going to be live from Plus 91 Cafe

in Hamilton between 6 and 9 tomorrow and you can get a free coffee all morning which is awesome come get a free coffee and someone will be playing

for 5 words $5,000 and if anyone over the age of 91 turns up to Plus 91 I'll shout them a coffee too oh they will get a free coffee

but you can give them another coffee on top of it yeah for free as well alright very kind of you although that's too many coffees for a 91-year-old. Yeah, maybe. Maybe a cup of tea or something.

Where's the deep foot, Ben? Oh, 100 Dudes, why's it going to be a good day? Love to hear from you next. We've got about a minute to go, so why's it going to be a good day? Let's try and get through two quick calls. Georgia, you're on from Welly. Why's it going to be a good one for you? Today is birthday Eve for me.

Oh, priming up for your birthday tomorrow. What's on the plans for the weekend? Well, I've been spoiled this week. I've had early birthday presents. I've got a lunch set up

for my work day. I've been invited for some cheeky bubbles after work with my girlfriend. Jesus, this is a bonanza. You've got the birthday

to come. Sorry, where you at? You've've got the birthday to come. Sorry, we're good. You've still got the birthday to come tomorrow. I know. Tomorrow I turn, I decided this year

that I turn 26 on the 47th of March this year. Well, you enjoy that 26th birthday on the 47th, Georgia. Have a great day.

Thank you. See ya. Have a great day and you two listening, we'll be in Hamilton tomorrow if you want to come down and join us. It's going to be a lot of fun doing the show live from Hamilton tomorrow. We'll catch you then.

Have a great day, New Zealand. 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. Friends of Skinny.