Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - May 03 - The Things That Make Us Feel VERY OLD...

Episode Date: May 2, 2021

It's so frustrating when you come across things that make you feel old... Like how the last episode of Friends aired 17 years ago... WHAT!? We chatted about this and there were some hilarious stories from you guys on the things people say or do that make you feel old. We also launched a new giveaway on our station called CASH N CAR, where we're giving away a brand new MG ZS Essence, and a bunch of cash that is stashed in the boot. But you have to guess the amount of cash in the car (to the cent!) in order to win both the cash and the car. We had our very first guess this morning, and you can tune in live to The Hits at 8.30am to be in to win! All that and more on today's poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings, friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Two, two, two, it's the 3rd of May, blow me down. Blow me down, Ben, try and blow me down. It's not working. We need bigger

lung capacity. Third of May already. Gee whiz. Welcome to the podcast. Are you really reflecting on that, are you? It's going quick. It's going too quick. Well, it's first in some ways, but then I also feel like it's the end of the year in other ways as well. I don't know. I'm all

over the place. Mentally, are you at the end of the year already? But it's not. It's a long road ahead. Long run. No, I'm halfway through the year in other ways as well. I don't know. I'm all over the place. Mentally, you're at the end of the year already, aren't you? But it's not. It's a long road ahead. We're not even halfway through the year. But yeah, we're not getting into the June, July. Anyway, you guys know how the months work. I always feel like once you slip into October, you're like, yeah, you start really early. I'm checking out

early October. You're like, oh, the year's done. I'm like, no, there's still months to go. Yeah, no, October, the year's done. People have checked out in October. People work up until Christmas Eve. A lot of people do. But they've checked out. They're there.

In body. Not in mind. But, you know, welcome to the podcast. We're joined by our special guest, Sienna Boyce, who's here today. Lovely to have you here, Sienna. Hi. That's Ben's daughter. Now, Sienna.

Not just a coincidental young child with the same surname. Sienna, now, you just had two weeks of holiday and then last night, what did you tell me today was? It's a teacher's only day. Teacher's only day after two weeks of holiday. It must be a niggly day for you though, Sienna. You're like, oh, let's just get back into it.

Let's mow back into it. Wouldn't you rather be at school right now learning? Well, you just bought me some food, so I like food. Sienna wanted to go to the vending machine, but Ben being a good father... Took her across the road for a little hot chocolate. Took her to the pub for a beer.

Yeah, well, it's lunchtime. It's too early for that. But it's nice hanging out with you today. It's good. Is it fun coming into Dad's work, or is it unusual? It's fun. You love the vending machine, don't you? Every time she comes to the office, she's like, oh, the vending machine. I bought my own money this time so I can go.

Oh, are you going to let her spend it? I don't know. What have you eyed up in the vending machine that you like? There's normally some cookies, which are really good. Oh, the cookie time ones. And some chips, yeah. Yeah, put them in the microwave. As an adult working here, I forget about the vending machine.

I don't even use the vending machine. As soon as the kids come in here, they're like, vending machine. I'm like, oh yeah, that's right, that's down there. Yeah, my friend's brother does those. I think he supplies it for this place. So his job is putting vending machines in offices all around. Makes a mint. Just restocks them.

He just goes around restocking vending machines. Can we buy one, Rafa? You want to buy a vending machine and put it at home so you've got to pay? We've got a fridge and a pantry. I can give it a mire. I can give it a mire. Yeah, but you've got to pay for all the fit. You don't want to pay for a...

We had the idea of the Jono and bending machine. Do you know Jono and bending machine? I don't know what was inside it on that occasion. What would you pay for of ours? But maybe they're our products. You pay for it and you can win from our vending machine. Or as a prank, put clothes in there. You can win stuff.

Wallet and keys and cell phone and stuff. Anyway, that's an idea. We always like brainstorming ideas on the podcast. Now, I just want to go back to Sienna. It's not a good idea to have a vending machine in your house. Dad and mum have already gone to the supermarket. Yeah, but it can just be my food. I can store all my stuff in it.

But how are you going to stock it? I can just use it as my closet anyway. I can just be like, I want A3 and B4 today. On those of your socks. Boop, boop, boop. Jim. And then I'm dressed. Oh, she's got to pay for her clothes every morning.

Yeah, you're like, oh, do I really want to wear that? No, yes. If I pay for it, then I can just, at the end of the day, just grab all my money back. Oh, you reckon you'd get your money back? I guess if you owned it, you'd get your money back. It feels like the novelty of that would wear off pretty quickly. Yeah. Just like restock it.

Just, you know, restock it with food. So it's a food, but it's got all of your items in it. Yeah. It feels like you haven't really thought this one through. But that's what the podcast intro's for, is these ideas that you haven't really thought through. But we had a big show today in Siena. Of course, you would have listened on your way in here to work.

What was your favorite thing about the show today? So much. So much. There's too much stuff to choose from. You guys talking. That was my favorite part. I heard lots of it this morning. Yeah, it was. It was good. Is it too much talking? No. No, no, no. No? You guys talking. That was my favourite part. I heard lots of it this morning. Yeah, it was.

It was good. Is it too much talking? No. No, no, no. No, not enough talking. There were too many ads. Yeah. Yeah, lots.

You want more of us talking, right? Yeah. We need some, like, five words for 5K. We need more of that. Oh, you want to do that more? We need to do it every day, yeah. Yeah, okay. You do like that game, don't you?

I like it. I listen. On school days, normally, I just sit in the car before someone wins, but then nobody normally wins. Although, Andy, my other daughter, was saying that she gets dropped off to school by Grandma in the morning, and she has to listen to Mike Hosking on the way. Oh, Joyce won't even listen?

Joyce listens to ZB? Yeah, she's a big... Can't get her away from ZB. She's your mother-in-law. Well, we can't compare with Mike Hosking. Have you not converted your mother-in-law? No, and I feel, to be honest, I don't even want to go, hey, you should give us a chance,

because I feel like if you're listening to Mike Hosking, you want to listen to Mike Hosking. You don't want to come across to us. Yeah, I've pulled over Cathy and John, my mother and father-in-law. Well, Cathy, John's there by collateral. My mum and dad listen, but yeah. No, John doesn't like being there. He's like, not for me, but he's there

because out of obligation. Yeah. So I appreciate John and Kathy listening. Joyce, we'll turn Joyce. Okay, maybe we can make that a little mission one time. Can we flip over Joyce to the hits? Yeah. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on

the hits. I've had, over the last couple of weeks, four different occasions where people come up to me. Most of it actually happened at the 660 concert I was at the other week, where people come up at the 660 concert, people with drinks in hand, you know, everyone's having a great time. I'm like, hey, it's a, people lucky dip,

it's either a Jono or a Ben. Yeah, it's a 50-50 game, isn't it? Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they get it wrong. Sometimes people just say, hey, Jono and Ben. I'm like, well, it's just me Jono or a Ben 50-50 game isn't it sometimes they get it right sometimes they get it wrong sometimes people just say hey Jono and Ben I'm like well it's just me by myself but that's fine

he always leaves me in the car with a packet of burger rings don't you and that's why people are like where's Jono that's the question he's a grown adult

he's living his life yeah but anyway what's happened four times recently is people go oh you know love this show love you know love watching you guys on TV and you're like oh that's awesome that's really nice Yeah. But anyway, what's happened four times recently is people go,

oh, you know, love the show. I love watching you guys on TV. And you're like, oh, that's awesome. That's really nice to hear because you don't always get compliments. So it's nice when people say that. But then they've followed it up with, you guys were such a big part of my childhood. I'm like, oh, that makes me feel old.

You know, when someone's like, oh, it's from my childhood. You know, these are people that are drinking. Yeah. And someone's like, oh, I spent my childhood. You know, these are people that are drinking. Yeah. And they're like, you were part of my childhood. If only your illegitimate children could say you were such a big part of my childhood. But they can't, unfortunately. Other people that watched us through those growing up years on television could say that. Yeah, you're right.

So it's one of those things. Well, I suppose when you think about it, the show that we were doing did start 10 years ago. Pretty much, yeah. So the way that time works, those people are now 20. Yeah. I get it. You do get it, but you don't often think about it. So right now we thought... And we shouldn't have been a big part of kids' childhoods.

We were flabbergasted, the amount of prepubescent children watching that late night television. Especially when it was at 10 o'clock. Oh, some of that content. Yeah, I know. I wasn't allowed to watch it. When it got to 7.30, it was okay, obviously, because it was 7.30. There were some shocking parental decisions made across Aotearoa back then. Some seven-year-old would be like, oh, I stay up and watch your show.

And you're like, well, you shouldn't. No, you definitely shouldn't. So we want to know this morning on 0800-THE-HITS or 4487, what makes you feel old? What are the things that happen in your life, those occasions that happen? It maybe happens with the that happen maybe it happens with the kids maybe it happens

with conversations you hear at work where you go jeez I just feel old oh I tell you Millennial Maxim producer Juliet they can't

every day make me feel old I'll be like Juliet you heard of Guns N' Roses and she's like yeah I think my dad likes them I'm like oh

and then Millennial Maxim the other day didn't know who bloody Jack Nicholson was I was like Jack Nicholson was I was like Jack Nicholson he's like never heard of him

he showed him a picture and he was like I was like there he is never seen him so I was looking online there's a few great things that make you feel make you feel old

so the Karate Kid the original Karate Kid is now older than Mr Miyagi was in that movie the Karate Kid how old was Mr Miyagi he was in his 50s he looked old for his was in that movie. The Karate Kid. How old was Mr. Miyagi? He was in his 50s.

He looked old for his 50s, didn't he? And so now the Karate Kid is now in his 50s. He's older than he was in that movie. 17 years since the last episode. Oh, Ralph Macchio. Yeah. His old, I see what you're saying. Yeah, now.

It's now, his age now. 17 years since the last episode of Friends. 17 years since the last episode of Friends. 17 years since the last episode of Friends. Toy Story came out 22 years ago. Yeah. I love all those memes that are like, bet this makes you feel old. And they're like,

Sabrina the witch is now 41 years old with three children. And you're like, yeah, well, yeah, she probably is. Madonna's 62. Michael Jackson died 12 years ago. These are things that just feel like the yesterday, these news events. And so, to make you feel old. I saw a meme recently, and it was like,

if you use Tamagotchis, it's time you start using night cream. And I was like, oh, okay, well, that's me. It was just a subtle way of making you wear night cream. Your face is looking a lot better, though, to be honest. Thank you very much. Flawless complexion. So, 0800 the hits. What do you want to open up?

I've just said the phone numbers. You better back it up with a topic. What are the things that happen that make you feel old? Those occasions. Like Jono before was trying to get a video onto Instagram and he was cursing for quite a while ago. And then he gave up. He goes, I can't do it.

I can't do it. So that's an occasion where you probably feel a bit old. I was like, ugh. You can't get a video onto Instagram. Well, and I was just like, oh, the internet probably doesn't need to see that anyway. I'll back out, pull out of it. Remember when we first got here

and Julia was teaching us how to use Microsoft OneDrive? Oh, yeah. I was like, goddamn OneDrive. I've forgotten it. I've forgotten it. But that was like, oh, this is a humbling experience. So, 0800 the hits. What makes you feel old?

Yeah, you can text 24487 or you might not be able to text if you're too old. You can call us. 0800 the hits. The phone. We still take phone calls. You might want to give the actual numbers because they might not be able to text if you're too old. You can call us. Oh, 800, that's the phone. We still take phone calls. You might want to give the actual numbers because they might not be able to figure out. Oh, 800. Oh, I don't actually know that.

That's the hits. You guys are going to have to work that out. We've got a lot of texts and calls coming through. Amy, you're on from the Waikato. How are you? Morning. I'm good, thanks. How are you?

Yeah, good. Lovely to have you on. What makes you feel old? I am a teacher, and in my first job teaching, I was feeling pretty excited and was getting to know my kids, and one of them said to me, oh, I was born in 2007, and I almost cried right in here, because that was the year that I started at high school, and they were the same, you know, they were year nine, and that was when when I was year nine and I'm like, how can you be that young?

And you're like, they're like, oh, the new teacher's quite emotional. He cried on the first day. They're like, are you alright? I'm like,

no, I am not okay. I just told her what year I was born and she cried. Will you go and teach those kids your old teacher, you Amy? I will,

thank you. Cheers for listening, really appreciate it. We'll go to Aaron in Tauranga. How are you, Aaron? kids, you old teacher, you, Amy. I will. Thank you. Cheers for listening. Really appreciate it. We'll go to Aaron in Tauranga. How are you, Aaron? Good, thanks. Stuff? Yeah, we're doing well, mate.

Wonderful to have you on. What makes you feel old? The fact that SpongeBob is 22 years old. We're on TV for 22 years. 22 years, SpongeBob. Wow. What's the Simpsons been running for? 30?

30 years, I think. Yeah, they were saying Bart would be 40 at least, you know? That's my son Oscar. Oscar's got a big bug bear with the Simpsons. He's like, they don't age. They don't get older. They do have future episodes, don't they, where they show them in the future and stuff. But I guess that's the thing. It's kind of like

a snapshot in time. It still moves with the times. Grandpa's been hanging in there for... Yeah, really. Hey, good on you, Aaron. Really appreciated some text through here. I'm the GM of a multinational business and I refuse to use the server at work. I'm 33 years old

and all his younger employees give him grief for it, refusing to use the server. Maybe you should learn... If you're the GM, you might want to learn how to use the server. Yeah, well, he's the GM. Surely he can get other people to do that as the server. Maybe you should learn, if you're the GM, you might want to learn how to use the server. Yeah, well, he's a GM. Surely he can get other people to do that as the GM.

I felt old when I played the Squash Nationals last weekend. My three opponents equaled my age. They were 13, 14, and 15. I'll tell you another one that makes me feel old.

I hope you beat that 13-year-old. Another one that makes me feel kind of old, you take a selfie with one of the kids and you're like, well, they look great.

And then you're like, oh, there's that old guy next to the kids. You're like, well, just crop me out of it and it's a much better photo. Now you know how I feel when I take a photo with you. Everyone's like, who's that old bald guy? Oh, I thought it was going to be a burn on me. Okay. You would take it back? I would take it back.

I was in defense mode. You were in defense mode. And then you're like, oh. I turned my hearing aid up for a second. I was like, oh, no, that's okay. Stand down. Warning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, first day back after school holidays for kids all around New Zealand is 7.30. Yes, good luck, kids. Getting back to it. You'll be on a holiday probably in another week. So many holidays. Yeah, there's a lot of holidays. Don't appreciate the amount of holidays when you're in the air. When you're in the eye

of the school storm, you don't really factor in how much time off you get, do you? I had one of my daughters today's first day back at school, right? Teachers' Only Day. Really? Yeah. Wouldn't they have a Teachers' Only Day on Friday? So she's still got another day off?

She's got another day off. She's got to come in here and hang out with us later on, because, yeah. Because she's like, oh, okay? She's got another day off. She's got to come in here and hang out with us later on because, yeah, it's, yeah, because she's like, oh, okay, teacher's only day, but you, okay. Anyway, so that's happened.

But over the weekend, So that's happened. He's not happy about it. Oh, no, I always love hanging out with my daughters. It's fun, but I just found it unusual

the first day back. But obviously, good reason, what? Good reason? What's the reason? I don't know. There's obviously a good reason. I'm not part of the education system.

But over the weekend, I took my dog, Bo, down with the family to a dog park. Dog park. Very interesting environment, you know, because dogs just, you know, it's basically running free, doing all sorts of stuff all over the place. Yeah, but dogs combined too. Some don't get along with others. Yeah. Much like humans. Some don't get along with others. Much like humans.

Some don't get along with others. You put them all in one park and go wild. I got shamed once by someone. I think I was telling you about this for a dog. They were like, oh, he's peeing like a girl. I was like, well, does that matter? Does it matter how he, you know, like. But yeah, some guy was trying to shame me for the dog.

I was like, it's 2021, mate. They can pee however they want to pee. I don't even talk to the dog. How did he want you to teach him? Would you be like, Dan, what do you need to do, mate. They can pee however they want to pee. How did he want you to teach him? What did he do, mate? You get down on all fours and you show about a stunt. I was like, well, if that's the more relaxed way for the dog to pee, then the dog can pee. I'm a sitter.

Yeah. I take my time. Yeah. If at any time I don't have to use my legs, I'll take that option. But on this occasion over the weekend, we're at the dog park with the family. It wasn't my dog, Beau. It was great.

But it was an occasion where a couple of other dogs had got a bit sort of frisky and they were sort of together. And a couple of dogs just sort of started to, you know, as dogs do, there was a little bit of bump and grind. Can you say that going on? And it was kind of awkward. You can't take your eyes off of them, can you? Do you find that?

I'm like, I don't want to watch. I shouldn't watch, but I can. They're right there. Stop watching. They're right there. And of course, I've got the kids with me. And, you know, it's one of those situations as a parent, you're like, they're going to say, what's going on there?

What's happening there? And you don't want to, you know, like, I don't know. I wouldn't have that conversation on a Sunday morning first thing. It's too much. It's too heavy. Yeah. But they were sort of going on. And one of my daughters was like, oh, look, Dad, look at those dogs.

I was like, oh, I've seen what's going on. I'm like, yeah, yeah. Like, not really knowing what to say. And then she's like, oh, it's funny. They're twerking. Oh, yeah, it does look like twerking. I'm like, yes, they are. Yes, they are.

Sort of a twerk combo going on, isn't it? But I'm like, hey, if that's twerking in the dog, that's fine. We can leave it at that. It's kind of like Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B in the video. They're twerking together. Yeah. They join up. Yeah.

Don't they? Same dog twerking. Twerking. And I'm like, that's great. This is dog twerking. Your daughter saved They join up. Yeah. Don't they? It's like the same dog twerking. Twerking. And I'm like, that's a great, that's a dog twerking. Your daughter saved you there. Yeah, she did. She did.

Because you wouldn't have come up with that on the spot. No, no, definitely not. But I'm like, well, yeah, now they're twerking. And if you want to keep the twerking dogs in the competition,

text inappropriate to 4242. That's good. Dogs, their moral compasses are all over the show, dogs, aren't they? I mean, they'll do that. Broad daylight. Yeah.

But then, you know, there's one function then when nature calls and they're like, get away, don't you look at me. They're all hunched over by the tree and they're like, don't you dare look at me. It's like, hold on, you were just twerking with another dog two minutes earlier. Now you're like, don't watch this. We apologise in advance.

Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Pen, breakfast on the heads. The heads. Now, we work with two people, one named

Cameron and one named Mike. And you're like, what's so interesting about that Jonathan? Nothing. Nothing on the surface, nothing. But when you drill down a little further, Cameron is a cam operator. Camera operator. Cam. Camera.

And Mike works in sound with microphones. So Cam works with cameras and Mike works with mics. That's so good. It's almost like they were drawn towards those jobs because of their name. And also they're very good at that. They're very skilled in their field. But we researched this, Ben, and it's a thing.

Yeah, there's a whole study that's gone on over the years that they reckon that people are drawn towards or can be drawn towards a job that their name maybe leads them towards. Yeah, it's nominative determinism. Yeah. And I guess you nominate, thanks to your name, what your job's going to be.

So, I mean, if your name is Dr. Bottom, you'd be a proctologist or something. It might lead you to, well, why are you called Dr. Bottom? You wouldn't be. You wouldn't be a doctor at that stage. Yeah, but Barry Bottom, and you're like, well, this leads me into a profession of proctology. Yeah, like John Key, Lockwood Smith, they should have been doing, you know, they should have been doing

Mr. Minute sort of Locksmith stuff rather than National Party politics. That should have drawn them towards that. Key and Lockwood, you know, that would have been a great name for her. Yeah, truly it always says her surname rhymes with... Oh, yeah. My last name is Rothel, and that rhymes with...

Yeah, anyway, we don't have to... But I have no association with any of that. You could start up the Rothel Rothel. No, you would run it, though. Yeah, I would not be a part of that myself. You'd be in the exec team. Oh, gosh. Could I team up with a famous Don and get Ben Don?

No. Should I have been more drawn towards that and done lingerie? Maybe, maybe that would have been my calling. Maybe not, that's a bit odd. You know what I'm saying? I could be a defence lawyer. No prior convictions. Or prior convictions.

I looked into it. Now, Buzz Aldrin, who obviously went into space, went to the moon, his mother's maiden name was Moon. So they reckon that was one example that perhaps drew him towards that. Well, that must be subconsciously as well, because Sigmund Freud, another one I was reading here, who's a famous neurologist, Freud, surname means joy, and he spent a lot of his career studying

joy, humans' reactions to joy in the brain. So, this is what we want to open up. Does your name suit your profession? 0800 the hits. 4487 on the text. Maybe you're a dentist and your surname's Drill.

You're a chiropractor, your surname's Pain, anything like that. 0800, that hits the telephone number. Oh, we're going to see if this actually works, this theory next. So give us a call this morning. New Zealand's Breakfast. Steve, you're on the air from Dunedin. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

How are you? Good, mate. Yourself? Yeah, doing well. Are we even on in Dunedin? Hey. Are you listening on iHeartRadio? Yeah, mate, on the app. iHeartRadio? Yeah, mate, on the app. iHeartRadio.

What's your name? Does it suit your profession, Steve? No, not me, but my cousin, John. He works on a golf course and his last name's Bull. John Bull.

Oh, wonderful. Do you think John was drawn to the golf course from his name or he just likes golf? Oh, absolutely. He's been on passes, but... Thank you very much, Steve.

Have a great day in Dunnars, eh? All right. See you. Really appreciate your call. Anna's on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Anna. How are you? I'm great.

How are you? You're doing well, mate. Lovely to have you on. Your name, does it suit your profession? Yes. It's Anna Cash, and I work at a bank. Oh, makes sense. How long have you been working at the bank?

This is my first year. I'm in a graduate role. On debut. All right. Well, that's all the questions I'll ask about the bank. But Anna Cash. Anna Cash. That's very good.

That's her last name, actually. Yeah, get some cash out. Yeah, look, Johnny Cash, he could have been at a bank. He shouldn't have been doing music. Yeah, he did a great job of music. Yeah, but shouldn't have been doing music. Yeah, he did a great job of music. Yeah, but he would have been a better banker.

Would have been a better banker. Thank you very much and I appreciate your call. Matt in Wellington this morning from the capital. Good to have you on. Matt, your name, does it suit your profession?

Oh, hi. Sorry. Yeah, not me personally, but a good friend of mine, Derek Burns, and he's just become a firefighter. Perfect.

Absolutely perfect. The Burns unity could have worked in as well. Yeah, you're right. The irony has not been lost on him when he told us he wanted to become a firefighter. It seems a bit opposite of the name. Or if he ran a shaky restaurant, you know, that burnt all the food. Oh, my schnitzel's burnt.

Yeah, that's it. I'm the burns. Thank you very much, Matt. That's really good. Some other great texts coming through. I am a dentist and my name is Denise. And she read an article saying that a lot of Denise's and Dennis's become dentists. Because it kind of, yeah. There's more Denise's and Dennis's in dentistry than anyone else.

Really? There you go. Hey, stuff. We've just been talking about it. Yeah, yeah. There's more Denise's and Dennis's in dentistry than anyone else. Really? There you go. Hey, stuff. We've just been talking about it. It's a generic sweeping statement. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. 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's a game of word association. We play it every day at the hits at 7.45 in the mornings. We tell you five words. You say the first things that pop into your head. If those all five words match up with our five, you win $5,000. Yes, they call this appointment listening in the industry, don't they?

But, you know, don't put this appointment ahead of other important appointments, like if you're going to get a heart checkup or something like that. It's not that important, this appointment. But it's a pretty important... It's up there. It's up there. It's one of the most important things we do on a daily basis. Okay, so I'm due for surgery. What would you say to me?

Shall I put off the surgical appointment for this one? No. No. Okay. You just need to get the scope of the importance of this. Yeah, fair enough. We'll head to Mangatāwhiri. Amber, welcome.

You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Morning, guys. Did you ever think you'd reach these lofty heights? Probably not. How's the castle going in Mangatāwhiti? Well, it's on sale at the moment, so... Hopefully somebody buys it and turns it back into an ice cream parlour or something.

The State Highway 1 used to run right through Mangatāwhiti, didn't it? Yeah, I remember. Now it's done a big dog leg. Yeah, what's there now? A lot of dairy farms. Yeah, right. What do you do there? My husband works on a dairy farm. There you go.

We milked some cows not so long ago. We did, actually. Yeah. Tell you what, the technology in the dairy industry, phenomenal. Yeah, it sure is. Computer basically milks the cows.

Know how much milk's coming out? Yeah, they're all everywhere. It astounded me. Yeah, it did. A computer can tell a cow from another cow.

Yes, it can, yeah. Yeah, incredible. Wonderful, the technological advancements in dairy. Anyway, we've spent too long on this. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth, Amber?

I'm going to go with Ben today. Oh, yeah. Wonderful. Into the soundproof booth. Who knows what the soundproof booth gets up to over the weekend? We don't know. I've never seen it on a Saturday or Sunday, but I can only imagine what happens inside that booth

after office work parties, Amber. Oh, I bet. We won't be talking about that on the radio. All right, Ben has locked himself in there. He's giving it a dead-old wipe down after the weekend's antics of the soundproof booth. And the pressure is on you. You can tell by the dramatic music, Amber.

Yeah. First word that comes into your head that we'd like you to match with Benjamin Ross, boys, is greeting. Hello. Greeting. Card, did you say? Hello.

Oh, greeting, hello. There we go. Yeah. Sorry, I'm very deaf. Second word is spanner. Tool. Tool. Nice.

Word number three on this Monday morning for Amber in Mangatawhiri is plant Tree Yep, Jew, how do you think she's gone so far? Yeah, pretty well You're pretty good at this game Oh, I don't know You've got a good record Word number four is flight, Amber.

Plane. You're quick. You're quick off the mark. I like this confidence. And word number five, the fifth and final word to win you $5,000. Delivery. Mail. Mail.

Nice. All right. That was an incredibly quick game. Thank you very much for being mindful of that, that we spent three minutes talking about the dairy industry before heading into it, so we're not going to blow out. We'll get Ben out of the soundproof booth. Out you come, my friend.

You know, I once saw Juliet after the show lock herself in the soundproof booth doing her work on her computer. And I was like, are we that painful? She has to lock herself in a novelty radio booth and do her work. Do you remember that day? I get no distractions in the soundproof booth.

You can't hear anything. No one distracts you. Sounds like I'm making that story up, but I'm not. That happened. True. I drove home thinking, are we that bad? But anyway. I feel like I was in there for very long.

Played a wonderfully quick game. Amber, how confident are you feeling? I'm a bit nervous. Okay, a little bit nervous. That's what we like. We like our listeners to be on edge, anxious. So when we get the best results out of them, let's hit the music. Ben, you're up. Okay, I'm going to go a quick game too.

First word is greeting. I said a quick game, but now I've got options in my head. I've got options in my head. I've got a greeting card. I've got a greeting. If you greet someone, you say hello. I'm going to say hello. Well done.

Nice. One from one, Amber. I didn't think you were going to get that. That's good. I was quite nervous about that one. Oh, that was the word I was most nervous about. So this bodes well. Okay.

This bodes really well. Word number two, spanner. Oh, again, there's multiple options. Jeez, so much for a quick game. Okay, wrench, wrench. Okay, are you happy now? It was what, Amber? Tool.

She went tool. Oh, Swiss works was the line spanning the world. I don't know why that pops into my head. Word number three, we'll just go through the motions, was plant. Pot. Pot plant. Flight. Centre.

Delivery. Flight. Centre. Delivery. Mail. Not bad. Two out of five. Not too bad, Amber. Sorry, Amber. Sorry we couldn't come through for you today. But hey, lovely talking with you.

And you look after Mangatafli. Look after that castle for us. We will. You will. I don't know if it's your job to look after the castle, but I'll just put that on you. Another chance for someone else to play tomorrow, 7.45. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Spy, go WhatsApp spy.co.nz. We now present some champagne content of Jono and Ben pretending to care about the celebrities Juliet's going to talk about. Here's Spy.

So you may know actor and also happens to be Jennifer Aniston's ex, Justin Theroux. You may have seen over the weekend that his uncle, Justin's uncle, called him out for pronouncing his last name wrong his entire career. The main character is played by Justin Theroux, my nephew. Sometimes he calls himself Justin Theroux. It's a French name.

It's Theroux. He sounds like he's got disdain in his... So Justin Theroux is how his last name is pronounced, but we've all been saying Theroux. And after doing a little bit of digging, there's a lot of other celebrities who we just assume their name is pronounced a certain way

but it's actually completely different. Well, someone obviously takes the lead on the pronunciation and then everyone else follows. Yeah. And unless the person themselves corrects it, it seems to be what sticks. So you've got Chrissy Teigen is her last name is actually pronounced Teigen and she said this in an interview

that it is actually Taigan, but it's just so much harder to correct people and make that known worldwide. So she just rolls with Taigan herself. That's pronounced Taigan. It would be just annoying having to recorrect everyone every time they say your name. So I'll just roll with it.

There's a guy I was talking to the other day. His surname's Toleafoa. And he's like, people call me Tolly. I was like, why do they call you Tolly? He's like, well, because no one can pronounce my surname properly. That's a shame I was talking to the other day. His surname's Toleafoa. And he's like, people call me Tolly. I was like, why do they call you Tolly? He's like, well, because no one can pronounce my surname properly. That's a shame. That is sad. That is sad.

We should. We should take the time. But this is how the names are meant to be pronounced. This is how we should be pronouncing them. And then you've got Ariana Grandy is her last name, not Grande, as we all say. Grande sounds a lot more sophisticated, though, than Grandy, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. And so similar to Chrissy Teigen,

Ariana just says, you know, people just roll with Grande, so that's how she does it. Amanda Seyfried, not Seyfried. Okay. And then you've got... That's good. I don't know who she is to begin with.

You haven't begun that one wrong, man. That's good. Amanda Seyfried. You would know her when you saw it. I can say her name properly now anyway. And then, you know how we always say Ralph Lauren? It's actually just Ralph Lauren, but for some reason we all just make it sound a lot more fancier

by saying Lauren. My mum calls Domino's pizza Domino's. And I'm like, Annie, it's just Domino's. She's really found that sound fancy. It's like calling McDonald's Mish Donales or something. True. And then you've got Khloe Kardashian, and I think her family all call her Khloe,

but there's an accent on the E, so if this was pronounced correctly, it would be Khloe Kardashian rather than Khloe. Salise Theron is another one. Theron is how it's meant to be correctly pronounced, she said. And Jake Gyllenhaal is not how you say Gyllenhaal. It's like Ye-lin-hay-lo. Oh, that's hard.

If you break it down. That is very hard. Jake Ye-lin-hay-lo. Is it Jewish? I'm not sure exactly, but that's how you're meant to pronounce it. Yeah. He said the only people that pronounce it correctly are people from Sweden, it seems to be. Oh, good.

Interesting. For my actual surname, a lot of people call me Pryor. Jono Pryor is my surname, but it's actually Jono Knobhead. That's actually how you pronounce it properly. That makes sense. You want to get the correct one. And rapper T-Pain, who you may know from the song. He's known for putting out hardcore rap party songs.

Not known for his power saving, though. Turn all the lights on. He's like... Yeah. Tell that to your electricity bill, T-Pain. T-Pain, we could. Or we could just... You wouldn't want a flat with T-Pain, would you?

Put the lights on in the room. Are you in the room or are you not in the room? If you're in the room, fine. But if you're not, then switch the lights off. T-Pain causing a lot of T-Pain in the flat. So on Instagram, when you receive a DM from someone, you usually get a notification. But on Instagram, there's a folder with if you get a message from someone you don't follow back, it goes into a separate folder where you don't get a notification.

Right. And he didn't realise there was that specific folder for people who you don't follow back. And so he posted a video on TikTok showing all the celebrities that have DM'd him over the past two years that he didn't follow and he didn't realise they had DM'd him. So he's been ignoring hundreds of celebrities. He's been ignoring hundreds of celebrities.

And a lot of messages from Meridian too going, mate, your power usage is wild. This is your final warning. But we're turning it off. Ta-da, the lights up. Who's messaged them? So Fergie has, Viola Davis has,

that's all that's up. Yeah, a lot of famous actors and singers. Someone's name, who I don't know who that is, so I don't want to say who it is. But yeah, imagine all the people reaching out asking, you know, oh, should we collab? Let's go for a drink. You'd be gutted. You would be. There'd be so many things going, oh, yeah, I could have gone to that. Or I could have caught up that person.

And imagine like replying two years later, oh, sorry, I didn't see this. Just saw this. You're like, whatever, mate. Oh, I got a text back from a guy I was saying a couple of weeks ago. Text him in November. He texted me back last week. Yeah, I know. He's like, sounds good, mate. Let's do it. Oh, that's right.

And that's two, I imagine two years later. Yeah, that's a long time to even go back through all of those and reply to everyone as well. Yeah, what a punish. Oh, well, there we go. That's some great T-Pain coverage there.

First and only time you'll hear T-Pain coverage on The Hits. Yeah, and that is by, thanks to HP Instant Ink, and they've got New Zealand's first at-home ink subscription service if you want ink delivered to your door. Yeah, yeah, nah.

Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, Ben, I bumped into Ben on Friday afternoon, didn't I? Yeah, me. In the arcade.

Yeah, me. Unintentionally? Yeah. I was like, hey, it's Ben. It's me. It's Jono. It's the punisher from work you don't want to run into outside of work.

I was like, hey, mate. Come over here. Do you notice I shook your hand, which was... You did, actually. Yeah. I was in the middle of trying to play, I think, a Jurassic Park game at the time.

I was like, oh, g'day, mate. Which made it even more awkward. Yeah, I was like, shake my head. I was like, hey, mate. Yeah, good to see you. You always feel obliged to shake people's hands outside of work, don't you? I don't shake your hand every morning when we come in. Yeah, I was like, shake my head. I'm like, hey, mate, good to see you. You always feel obliged to shake people's hands outside of work, don't you? I don't shake your hand every morning when we come in.

Yeah, no, you're right. Sometimes you hug people outside of work that you see every day. You're like, are you ready to go? Like if we saw Juliet outside of work, we'd hug. Would we hug? Yeah, probably. Okay, maybe we wouldn't. Okay, well, maybe it's not a thing.

No, I'd hug you guys. But you'd always hug and you'd awkwardly bang cheeks, wouldn't you? I imagine if we saw you, like, at Danny Doolin's at 2 o'clock in the morning. You'd be like, hey! Hi, guys! What's up? Yeah, you'd be quite excited then. I don't want to see 2am Danny Doolin's producer.

You absolutely do. But anyway, so after I saw you in the arcade, long story short, we ended up going to the picture theatre. I don't know, some of the movies. But the thing is, I was sandwiched by two family members. I'm in the middle. I had no armrest action. They had put their arms on both of my armrests in the movie theatre.

Oh, and there wasn't enough room to sort of share? No, you can't share. Or just sort of muscle your way in and sort of just edge them out? And my arms are tired. They need resting. And your arms never feel tired until you see an armrest. You're like, jeez, I'd like to put my arms on those. It's the same when you're flying in a plane, isn't it?

Especially if you're sitting in that middle seat. You're like, well, who's, you know, do I get a bit of both these armrests? Because you've got ones on the other side. Well, technically, that should be the reward for sitting in the middle. You get that armrest. You should.

You've got to open up. It doesn't always work that way. No, you sort of end up passively fighting for armrest space, don't you? Even if you don't need it, you still want it,

don't you? Yeah. Otherwise, you sit there with your arms crossed in the middle of the place looking frustrated that your armrest has been taken.

Because you can't really put it down at your side. There's not enough room. So you're right. You either need to put on the armrest or cross your arms. I just want an international rule that we all abide by. You know? What do you do if you're stuck in the middle? What would you do?

Do you get to lay claim to one armrest or double armrest? I feel like you get both, but I'm happy to share on that occasion. I feel like maybe I'd go towards the back of the armrest or double armrest? I feel like you get both, but I'm happy to share on that occasion. I feel like maybe I'd go towards the back of the armrest, like the elbows of the back, and then the people, leaving a space for the aisle seats to have the front, if they want.

Oh, so you're resting your elbows and they're resting their forearms. Yeah, well, yeah. They've got a whole other armrest. Well, that's not awkward at all. Well, that's their choice, but that's what I... You'll know where I'll be. I'll be at the back here.

If you want to come on, you're more than welcome. You are very close together on a plane or a movie sometimes, aren't you? You're right in there. I reckon you just put your hand on the next person's thigh. That's the best one I'd do with you. I'm like, you want to play this game or I'm going to play this one? The best rest of them all Ben's knee

Add these two men together And somehow you get Three quarters worth Of a normal man The hits With Jono and Ben For breakfast Oh you've moved

I've noticed you've moved From your usual position Ben It's throwing me off I know It's a bit unusual When it happens Just the headphones Are not working over there

It's like when you're Trying a new manoeuvre on me. I don't know what to do. We had a wild weekend, Juliet. Yes. We were working. Well, that's not the wild part. Wow, it was wild. Saturday and Sunday working. To be honest, we haven't had a wild weekend for about three months.

But our poor director, James, jeez, we're filming on this jetty and he stepped back, lost his footing, and fell down, I would say probably about two metres, directly onto the concrete boat ramp. Boom! Poor guy.

Gee, it was full on, wasn't it? We were in the middle of filming a little bit, the other end of the wharf, and then all of a sudden when we stopped, there was this commotion going on, and yeah, poor James is lying there, bleeding from his head, really sore. He was such a trooper though.

He was like, okay, so what we need to do is get this shot. He was still directing. Oh my goodness. It turns out he's got a broken rib, a fractured rib. He was still directing. Now, Taika Waititi, are you listening to this? Are you doing this with Thor? Are you still directing with broken ribs?

Oh yeah. Wow, that's so scary. The worst part was they didn't film the scene because it was a wonderful scene we did. Oh yeah, the scene we were doing. Are you doing this with Thor? Are you still directing with broken ribs? Oh, yeah. Wow. That's so scary. The worst part was they didn't film the scene because it was a wonderful scene we did. Oh, yeah, the scene we were doing. Yeah, we'll never be able to replicate that scene. Yeah, like, so if you watch the show when it comes out, you're like, oh, that's a little average from John O'Bannon.

Well, you'll know why it was average. Yeah, because we did the good thing, but no one filmed it. Our director decided to break his ribs. But no, the poor guy, so he's recovering now. Right. But thankfully, there was a paramedic who was just sitting down to have a beer and lunch, saw the whole thing unfold. Yeah.

Came over with a big action, like a big square backpack. You know those big square ones? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so thankfully the paramedic was on hand to have a look. That's good. Do they usually have paramedics on TV sets just in case? Oh, we do have health and safety sometimes when we're doing a sport because we're doing all these sports.

When there's sports, there's a chance someone will get injured. Usually it's some pubescent intern. We've had some actual St. John's people helping us and some of the more full-on ones, but this was basically beer pong with no beer. So it's Kiwi Pong. So it's not a sport that you would traditionally injure yourself in so we didn't need

a health and safety person on there but it was the sport that someone got actually quite badly hurt. Yeah, so unfortunately the director who was too busy directing us lost his direction

and fell off and I felt brutal because he's like, you've just got to go on, you've got to go on. Like war. He's like, you go on without me.

And then so we're like okay and so we just continued filming while this poor guy was sitting there with blood pouring out of his head

yeah did he not go home he did he did he went to hospital and obviously they had him he got diagnosed

with a broken rib and a fractured rib and then you see the guy did you read his text he said oh the guy next to me has just swallowed

a whole chicken bone yeah I was like how do you swallow a whole chicken bone? That would hurt your insides. Yeah. Would you be sucking off the chicken maybe? Well, no, I guess you're putting it in your mouth. Maybe you're just biting away and you don't realise you've got a bone.

I've done it before. Could be a small bone. Yeah. Oh, no, he said it was a big bone. Big old chicken bone. Okay. That's bizarre. You never want a bone lodged in your throat, do you?

Your fish ones are ones you've got to watch out for too. Yeah. Because they're tiny and they're hard to get out of your throat, fish bones. Yeah. This has been a bleak start to the show. I know. Blood pouring out of heads, broken ribs, bones, you name it. Trust us, it gets cheerier from here.

Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the News. Now this is where producer Juliet comes in. She earns her money.

She also earns a little bit of money with her underground bare knuckle fighting club on the weekend. She's very good. She's very aggressive too. How'd you go this weekend? Yeah, really, really well. Thank you. Yeah, amazing. Alright, this is where I find alternative news headlines, but interesting nevertheless, and beep out words, and you guys have to guess what they are.

The first one, people named *** and *** are found to be the biggest complainers, not Karen. Oh, so Karen's aren't the biggest complainers. People with other names. Well, there's two together. Let's go Jono and Ben. We probably whinge every morning, don't we, on this show? I'm going to go people named Moaning Lisa and Complaining Cameron

are named the world's biggest complainers. People named Colin and Tracy found to be the biggest complainers, not Karen. And I thought this was going to be just like a silly little headline, which, I mean, it kind of is a little bit, but they actually took data online from the past 18 months and to see which names were most associated with negative reviews left online. So they saw that the Collins and the Tracys were most likely to leave negative reviews online,

therefore be more complainers. Karen suffered some brand damage through 2020. Poor Karen. I feel sorry for Karens, you know, and therefore be more complainers. Karen suffered some brand damage through 2020. Didn't care. Poor Karen. I feel sorry for Karens, you know, because I know a few Karens and they're wonderful people. Yeah, I know. Now people go, oh, they're a Karen. You're like, oh, this Karen's lovely.

Even when you ring someone and they're like, hello, Karen speaking, you're like, ooh. You look at each other. Are you going to yell at me? No. All right, story number two. Family Bill's giant from takeaway containers and bags, names it d***. I'm going to say family builds a giant mound of rubbish from takeaway containers

and names it problematic for the ozone layer. You could be right. You're probably right, actually. I'm hoping they made the bags into a hobbit and they've called it Bilbo Baggins. Oh, my goodness. That's what I'm hoping. My pun name. Well, you're on the right track there, Ben. Family builds giant dinosaur from takeaway containers and bags,

names it Bagosaurus. Oh, well, Bilbo Baggins would have been better. Bagosaurus doesn't even work. Well, so it was a family in hotel quarantine in Australia and they've got a three-year-old daughter in the two-week quarantine and you've got to keep the three-year-old entertained. So with all the bags and the deliveries of food to their hotel, they made this giant dinosaur.

Oh, wow. Which actually looks incredible. It looks like a little statue. I think it's about a metre and a half high. Out of all the paper bags and the cardboard containers. Very cool. Very creative. It is, but at some point it's got to be thrown in the rubbish. My Very cool. Very creative. It is, but at some point

it's got to be thrown in the rubbish. My daughter's done the same. Poppy's built this giant cardboard house with something that we purchased online. It just takes up a whole room. I'm like, how long are we persisting with this? It's been three months now.

Oh no. We could start charging rent for this cardboard house. Yeah, true. And the final story. New study finds sperm whales form that can last at least five years. What are you going to go with this one?

I'm going to go, whales can form an unbelievable story that can last five years. A whale of a tail, they call it the whale of a tail, so an unbelievable story could definitely last five years, I'd say. I'm going to go,

a new study finds sperm whales form meaningful medium-term relationships that last five years. New study finds sperm whales form meaningful medium-term relationships that last five years. A new study finds sperm whales form bromances that can last at least five years. Yes. Which is very cute. Yeah.

You were on the right track, were you, John? Ish. Yeah, you were. Ish, yeah. Basically, as I was researching this, the male sperm whales, they spend the majority of their lives in isolation. Well, that's what it was thought.

After being kicked out of their family when they reach sexual maturity. So they get kicked out of their family. The wife and kids leave them. And so they were thought to just spend, you know, their days roaming the seas by themselves. But then they meet up with the other bros and form partners. The lonely bros. Yeah. Isn't that sweet?

Oh, so once a whale's done what the sperm whale needs to do, they're like, thank you. They get kicked out of their little pod. That's brutal. And that's why they form bromances

with all the other isolated... Oh, they're like, out, out you go. They get kicked out of their little family. We work with a wonderful guy and he came out

to us and he said he was filming a nature documentary. And he's like, I saw a whale's... Yeah. Really? It's enormous. He said they were filming and he said like I saw a whale's yeah really he says

it's enormous he said they were filming and he's recording sound and he said you're not meant to make noise because everyone

gasped everyone went put Orlando Bloom to shame yeah well you'd imagine with a if it's a scale

yes like it's gotta be yes it's gotta be. Yes. Like, it's got to be. Yes. It's got to be, but. Yeah, yeah. He said it was the greatest day of his life. Oh, God. He's so, wow.

You know, they're dragging that thing around the ocean. The rudder. The rudder. And that is the news and beeps for you. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shona and Ben. Breakfast on the hits.

The Google Game. Now, sorry, just quickly before we get into the Google Games. Ben, you've got your, breakfast on the hits. The Google Game. Now, sorry, just quickly before we get into the Google Games, Ben, you've got your torch on on your phone. Have I? I do that all the time. People are like, you've got your torch on, and I never know how to turn it off. Well, I don't know how to turn it off.

Yeah, no, well, I don't. And they're like, oh, you boober, go turn your torch off. So I've just left the torch on for about two months now. This is the Google Games. Basically, you phone us, you ask us a question. If we can't Google the answer, within 10 seconds, you win. How do you turn your torch off on your phone? Yeah, I bet you can do that one.

Yeah, this is proudly brought to you by our sponsors at Google. Google, you have no idea we're associated with this part of the programme. Let's welcome to the show, Evelyn, how are you? I'm great, thank you. In the Coromandel. Yes. Lovely part ofomandel. Yes. Lovely part of the country. You got your dream catchers out?

No. No? Lighting that incense, mate? Stereotypical. Sitting in your house, bus? Whereabouts in the Coromandel are you, Evelyn? Pawanui. Oh, lovely.

Red footpaths in Pawanui. Yes, yes, yes. Are they? Yeah, I haven't been there in probably over 15 years, but that's the only thing I remember about that place. It's got red footpaths and roads. Oh, you don't remember the beach? No, just the red footpaths.

Do you want to see the beaches, Bjorn? I like these red footpaths. I've seen enough. All right, Evelyn, you ask us a question. We'll try and Google the answer in 10 seconds. Take it away, mate. Okay, this is a very cheeky question. What is my mum's maiden name?

Oh, that is a cheeky question. Evelyn's mum's maiden name. We'll both go for this one. Is it Birch? No. Oh, no. No. Is it somewhere for Scottish heritage?

Not Scottish. Not Scottish, no. Okay. Or Evelyn Riddle. Is it Riddle? I'm going to go Riddle, no. Okay. Well, don't... Evelyn Riddle. Is it Riddle? I'm going to go Riddle. No. Okay.

Oh, that was the only thing that came up. Now, listen, well played to you, Evelyn. Yeah. I don't know what you're up to, what sort of shenanigans you're up to in Pahuanui, but you found a flaw in our format. Yeah. Well done.

Now, let's just play the game properly. Okay. We'll give you a prize. We'll give you a prize. You stumped us. But have you got another question? Okay, sure. Yeah, I do.

Are you ready? Okay, Jono, you're on this one. All right. Okay, okay. What's the female population of Ireland? Female population Ireland. That would be the 50.39% in 2019. Well, that's a percentage.

I want the popular. Oh, my God. Evelyn, a double price coming your way. We're going to send you out a couple of Hell Pizza vouchers, all right? That's very nice, but you know what? I don't know the answer to that question either. It doesn't matter. You don't need to know the answer.

You just need to put us on the spot, and if we can't find it, you did so well in that game. Jono's still looking. 2.4 million a female, 2.35 a male. Oh yes, a pretty even... Total population's 4.7. And even the close to 50-50

split, there you go. That was wonderful. Someone's just texted in too. Can you Google the answer to this? If a baby's butt pops out of its mother at 11.59 and the head comes out at 12.01am, what day are they born on? Oh, surely. No, you'd have to all come out when you're to be born.

But if you've got your legs and your bottom out before midnight. I don't know. Or do you just one party? Is it like a 100-meter race? Just one party over the line and you get the win? No, no. I've Googled it. There's no answer.

I'd say... Evelyn, where do you sit on that? 12.01. 12.01. I'm going with 59. I'm going with Evelyn. The whole body's going to come out. Anyway, well, that was weird.

Hey, thanks, Evelyn. You go and have a great Monday. Thanks for listening to the show. Okay, thank you too. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Scrolling through your feed.

All right, he's here to present the news from overnight because, well, it's just something productive for him to do at this hour of the morning. He's Ben Boyce. Now, Auckland Transport threatening a police report against a person responsible for spray painting around potholes around the Auckland region. Now, this person has been going around and spray painting circles around potholes on the road for some time now in the hope that it will draw attention to the potholes and the council will fix them. But now some potholes haven't been fixed, so he's gone to the next step of spray painting a, let's say, a male appendage.

It looks like a space rocket. Yeah, a space rocket around these potholes in the hope that these potholes will get fixed. And so he's basically front-footed and said, yeah, that's what I do, this is why I'm doing it. It's a bit of a dick move. That's what the council is saying. The council are saying that.

The council are actually saying that you are putting yourself in danger, obviously, by going on the road and a distraction to other drivers. But the potholes are putting motorists in danger. Well, that's true. And the guy who has done it has put the space rockets around these potholes, has said that the ones with space rockets seem to be the ones they fix faster. So he's getting results. Space rockets get results.

Well done. There you go. And I know this probably shows a sign of my maturity. There's never one time that I've looked at one of those and never smiled. Don't you always smile when you see those? You're like, hmm. Do you, Juliet?

Yes. Yeah. I can't believe they're on a toilet wall. I know. On an alleyway. You're like, hmm. Do you, Juliet? Yes. Yeah. I can't believe they're on a toilet wall. I know. On an alleyway. You're like, hmm. And then you imagine the person who drew them and you're like, I like you. Some go to some very, you know, obscene detail.

Yeah, like really going into extra. It's like you just need the rocket outline, I reckon, to get a smile, get the impact. Yeah, sometimes it's a bit too full on. Get a pothole face. Yeah, exactly. And this is an unusual study that took place in Michigan in the United States. But men who wear large luxury logos on their shirts or T-shirts or sweatshirts are less interested in committing to a relationship

and more likely to be involved in brief sexual affairs. So the larger the logo on your shirt, the more likely you're going to be playing around, according to the study. Now, do the scientists who conducted this study understand that there's a pandemic going on? Yeah, I know. Hold on. We'll get to the vaccine soon.

Let me just get to the bottom of this logo study. So, and the way they did it, when I looked into a bit more detail, so they basically had a couple of tops. One had a large brand, you know, a branded thing on it. this logo study. So, and the way they did it when I looked into a bit more detail, so they basically had a couple of tops with one had a large brand, you know, a branded thing on it and the other had small,

but they're like, which of these do you like? Which of these do you wear? And then they went on to ask you questions like, do you also flirt often? Do you flirt with someone else's partners?

All these other questions and then they went, oh, well, the people that flirt more often are the ones with the larger logo. It's like, why?

Why have we wasted time researching this? And why are we wasting time talking about it now? Like, I mean, this seems like an absurd. Do we know what's going on with the world? So people can go around today, and if you see anyone with a large logo on their top, you'll be like, oh. Julia's got no logo.

Ben, you've got a tiny little logo there. I'm a tiny logo today. I'm logo-less. I'm a long-term guy. Today you are, but other days, you today. I'm logo-less. I'm a long-term guy. Yeah, someday, today you are, but other days, you know. Other days,

big logo. Coming in with Metallica all over your t-shirt, I'm like, oh, he's definitely up for flirting today. That's all we've all been saying. That's all they're saying

around the office. Big logo, low commitment. And that is Scrawly TFE this morning. We've got some spy entertainment news not too far away. Yeah, Rita Ora and Taika Waititi continue to fuel romance rumours.

I'll fill you in on why. What sort of logos has he got on his T-shirt? He's got some big ones. He's only there for a short round, Rita. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Pam on the hits. Buy the WhatsApp by doco.nz.

Round here we call her the captain because she's about to deliver a shipload of gossip on all your favourite celebrities. What's happening, Juliet? So recently we've seen some rumours begin about Taika Waititi and Rita Ora being in a relationship after Rita Ora posted a photo on her Instagram of him with his arms wrapped around her.

And so everyone was kind of like, ooh, are they together? Are they not? So they've continued to fuel their romance rumours after they attended the premiere of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under in Sydney over the weekend. So they turned up together. They hung out together.

And so this is just more confirmation that they are actually together, which is very cool. I'm like, go Taika, you're dating. Well, they could just be mates. Yeah, true. But isn't it exciting if they were? It is exciting. I love it when a New Zealander dates a famous person. Do you remember Rachel Hunter, Rod Stewart?

Wonderful years for Aotearoa. So exciting, isn't it? They look like a couple who would make sorry, I'm listening to't it They look like a couple Who would make Sorry I'm listening to us They look like a couple That would make Magnificent babies You know when you're like

You would make Good looking children Some good looking children Yeah Sure I always find that weird When someone goes up to a couple And goes you guys

Would make good looking children It's like what Do you want to watch us What are you What is this Unusual You guys have made Good looking kids Watch us. What is this? Unusual. I've seen someone do that before.

You guys have made good looking kids. I reckon your genes would work well together. Also, I was just thinking, because now that the bubble's open and they're in Australia and Sydney at the moment, what if Taika brought her over to New Zealand? Juliet, a celebrity in our country. He's dating. New Zealand, we couldn't. The bubble's open, you're right. Honestly, in our country. He's dating. New Zealand, we couldn't. The bubble has opened your eyes.

Honestly, nothing works like this. He's already done enough for New Zealand. He doesn't need to do this, but he's going out of his way and he's doing this for us. This is our relationship, guys. I'm more invested than he is. Now watch this space with that. Mila Kunis has revealed that early on

in her relationship with Ashton Kutcher. And if you didn't know, Ashton Kutcher is an avid investor, which I didn't realise either. So he usually invests in kind of small start-up companies. So I think he's invested in Spotify, Airbnb, when they sort of began. And so he often goes to Mila for investment advice just to keep her in the loop. And so this was early on in their relationship. And the idea was Uber. But he'll bring me companies and be like,

here's a company we're thinking of investing in. So he's like, there's this company. It's kind of like a cab company, but anybody can drive a cab. I was like, that's the worst idea ever. Why would this happen? And he was like, let me get you this thing. It's called Uber. Let me just order it for you.

You can test this out. And I was like, you're going to put me in a car with a stranger? What is wrong with you? Like, I was furious at him. And luckily, he didn't listen to her, and he went and invested in Uber anyway. So he invested. Wow. Geez, on the surface, it does sound like there's a lot of scope for stuff to go wrong with Uber.

Yeah. But they've got protocols and systems in place, obviously. Yeah, they do. Totally. Imagine if he had listened and she said, and he didn't invest and now Uber's like

this massive company internationally. I noticed now Uber's got the pooling system as well. I've tried that. Yeah, so you could obviously share rides

with people. So not only have a stranger drive you, you can have a stranger sit next to you. It's an option. It's over to you, but it's a lot cheaper.

It comes in in the options you think. Yeah. You can direct Uber with yourself or whatever and then you have a pooling one. Yeah. Do you pick someone up along the way? I guess so, yeah. I did this on Friday night, and two lovely Brazilian ladies came in the car, and I was

chatting to them away. They offered me some gum. They were talking to me about Brazil. It was great. And then my ride only ended up being $11. I was like, this is the greatest thing ever. You meet people when you get cheap rides. Oh, that's a smart one. one. I mean, it's just like

catching a bus, I guess, to a certain extent. Yeah, exactly. It was so good. They talked about Brazil. They gave me gum. They gave me gum, yeah. And then they started speaking fluent Portuguese and I was like, oh, I don't understand what you're saying, but I was trying to depict. I bet they're saying this lady next to us is the most wonderful passenger we've ever seen next year.

My friend had a really good business idea, like Uber. Yes. But it's PA for the day. So you hire someone to go and do all those niggly things that you just don't have time to do. Go out to bloody Highbrook and pick up the courier package that couldn't be delivered because you went home.

Go get your warrant done for your car. Yeah. You know, just all your, go post mail that you can't post. PA for the day. That's a really good idea. Just hire them for a day and they knock off a whole bunch of stuff

that's been piling up on your to-do list. That is genius. Maybe we could do that for people. Let's do PA for the day. Maybe we could be PA for a day for people.

Do all those jobs for people listening. Now we've mentioned this idea on the hits. Does that mean they are a part of this or is this still our intellectual property?

Even though it's not mine, I'm stealing it off a friend of mine. True, true. Yeah, but now I've said it on the public platform, people think it's mine. Yeah. True. And that is Spy Things to HP who has launched Instant Ink, which is New Zealand's first at-home ink subscription service. Awesome.

We've got Spy sponsored now, guys. Oh, that's great news. Ink subscription service. They deliver the ink to your house. Another great business idea. Oh, yeah. You don't need a PA for the day when you've got the thing

delivered to your house. Don't even need that on your list. Kutcher would be investing in that bad boy. 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. Wrapping up our show on a Monday. Want to know why today is going to be a good day for you? As Jono mentioned before, first day back for kids after school holidays. Yeah, that's right. Or adults who have gone back to school

because they feel that life has got a way on them. That's first day back as well. Juliet, you check your social media on your computer every morning and I can't help but look over your shoulder and hear it. You're right, you're right. I'm sorry. It's hard though, eh, and hear it. Oh, you're like looking. Oh, I'm sorry. It's hard, though, when people are doing that, you know?

I know it's on planes, too. You look through the gap when people are texting. You're like, ooh, someone's in trouble. I'll just check my Instagram. Yeah, no, good. It's looking great, mate. Thanks, mate. Kat, you're on from Auckland.

Why's it going to be a good day for you? I've only got to work half a day today because I've got the rest of the week off to get ready to get married on Saturday. Oh, you put a ring on it. Yeah. That's exciting. How big's the wedding?

Pretty big. 90 people. 90 people. That's a lot to manage. Have you got a cull list? I always want to know if, you know, you go back to another lockdown, have you got a list of punters you have to cull? Yeah, we do. You've got a cull list?

Name them. No, no, I'm kidding. We'll cull them on the radio. Hey, that's so cool. Well, congratulations on the wedding. Whereabouts are you having it? We're having it in Kumi,

Kumi Valley Estate. Oh, lovely. What a one. We will see you there. I hope the weather's beautiful on the weekend. I hope you have a great day, all right? Thanks. Hey, thanks so much for listening. We'll send you out some

Hell Pizza. Great, thank you. You can feed the wedding guests with Hell Pizza. We've had enough of that. But maybe if you call some, we can. Sarah, you're on from the capital. Why is it going to be a good day in Wellington? Good morning, guys. I've got three kids. My oldest is back to school today, so one less always makes the day even easier than it would have been. We just won't say that to the one that is back to school today, so one less always makes the day even easier than it would have been. We just won't say that to the one that's gone to school. That's fantastic. Some quality time with the other two though, right? Absolutely, yeah, they're still

kinder age, so just making the most of those young times. There you go, Sarah's spending time with her two favourite children. Oh no, she didn't say that. She didn't say that. I always try and get Ben to pick a favourite, but he won't. You can't. You can't do that. Good on you, Sarah. You have a wonderful day.

We'll send you out some Hell Pizza, okay? Thanks, guys. They deliver booze now, Hell Pizza 2. Yes, beer and wine delivered with your order as well, which is pretty cool. Tomorrow on the show, there's a special surprise for me that I'm nervous about, but apparently is good. And Ursula Carlson as well, comedian, joins us. She's very funny.

She'll be back, and we'll be back 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. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.