Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - May 13 - Today We Learnt 2 Wildly Shameful Things About Jono

Episode Date: May 13, 2021

One of those things is just how much he is a menace on the roads, and the other is how much of a guts he is! We also caught up with Kiwi actress Stacey Leilua who is FOLLOWED BY Dwayne The Rock Johnson on Instagram. This maaaay be a way in? To get on his Instagram!? We shall see! 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. Welcome, this is the 13th of March. Oh, I thought tomorrow was the 13th.

Today must, today's the 13th, tomorrow's the 14th. Yeah. I wrote 13th on the 13th. Today's the 13th. Tomorrow's the 14th. I wrote 13th on the run sheet. I'm sorry, Ben. That's a huge administration error. You really get fixated on the days, don't you? Yeah, I do. Thursday, the 13th of May, 2021.

Welcome to the potty. It's Jono and Ben back for another day. Another day. The podcast yesterday, we featured a live scam going on when we were recording, which was interesting. Oh, yeah. That's right. Out of nowhere, there was just a phone number from Australia giving us a call.

If you haven't heard it, go back to yesterday's podcast. Yeah, because we can't be bothered putting that audio in this beginning. Yeah. But, yeah, basically ended up in a scam. Our internet was down, according to this wonderful person. So it was nice of them to inform us. And then in the next breath, they're like, what I'll need to fix your internet is your credit card details.

In fact, no, give me your debit card details. So we did. And the internet seems to be working as fine as it was yesterday. So they must have done something overnight, which is great, Ben. That's right, yeah, because the internet is... No, good still going yeah it's going great anything else you want to talk about you're looking at emails yeah what are you reading some stuff you know clearing some stuff feel like you're not engaged in this moment no no let's read your emails what are you clear right at the moment right now what do you get let's talk through emails we've got we're filming tonight

they're gonna be there at five o'clock yeah Yeah, we do. Now, we're filming wheelchair rugby tonight. We are, so we've got to be there at 5 o'clock. That's good. We actually did a practice because we're filming a TV show called Good Sports, and we did a practice with the wheelchair rugby team. That is a brutal sport. They call it, well, the name they've called it over the years is Murderball. There's a documentary about it.

And, geez, it's just, they're coming fast. There's some high collisions in the sport. I think some rebranding could be done there on Murderball. Yes. To make it more appealing and accessible to the wider community. But a really great group of people that we played with and a fun sport. It is a really fun sport. You've got to watch out for your fingers on the wheels.

Yes. Because if they get jammed in between a wheelchair hurtling at you at 120 k's an hour, Barney, who's one of the players, he's a wonderful guy, he just comes in like a freight train. Head on collisions with you.

Oh, I know. He loves it. So you're like, yeah, well. He almost knocked, he knocked your wheel off your chair. Yes, my wheel.

Clean off the chair. My wheel actually fell off the chair. That's how fast Barney hit Ben in a wheelchair. I know. So it's a support that, we're five o'clock tonight according to my emails

that I'm just checking there for you now we're doing that out at the Middlemore there yeah we are that'll be fun what else is on

the Ben Boyce emails well there's a lot of personal stuff yeah we won't go too personal yeah let's have a look shall we have a look

at the social what have we got here no that's that's gone okay you pick three emails and you read me

what we would deem to be the most exciting email you've received in the last 24 hours. Oh, exciting email in the last 24 hours. Okay. I want a blow-by-blow detail, okay? This one, from yesterday, cars have been towed from the car park, the work car park that we park out across the street. That is exciting, yeah. So it's exciting. Well, exciting for the people whose cars are getting towed, exciting car park, the work car park that we park out across the street. That is exciting, yeah. So it's exciting. Well, exciting for the people

whose cars are getting towed. Exciting for the tow truck people. Have they stipulated what car is being towed? Oh, it's the cars they haven't displayed the correct, this little lanyard display system.

Oh, yeah, you've got to leave a lanyard on your dash, but mine slipped down in between my dash and my windscreen, so it's not visible. Probably my car.

I've got a little car. Well, that's exciting for you too. I enjoy the podcast. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, we're on a mission to get Ben featured on his hero's Instagram account. He's even tattooed his bottom

to show his love for Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Jeez, we spoke to someone close in his inner circle today, didn't we? Oh, yeah. She was great. She's awesome.

The Kiwi actor who's achieved an amazing thing. She's the star of Kiwi actor who's achieved amazing things. He's the star of a big hit show involving The Rock, but also The Rock follows her on social media. One of only 300 people that he follows. We'll talk to Stacey during the podcast. You go and have a wonderful Thursday.

It's the 13th, not the 12th, by the way. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. We've talked a little bit about Jono's driving and what it's like to be in the car with Jono as he erratically drives everywhere through lanes, through car parks. Doesn't like sitting still. I'm a maverick on the roads.

Yeah, I don't know if it's a good way to approach this. Well, it's definitely not because what's arriving every second day? Hey, you're starting to question the way you drive. I am. And the way I park. And the way you park too, yes. Every week I'm getting sent to work two or three infringement notices, whether they be from the New Zealand police or whether they be from the council.

Now I've had a theory when it comes to parking for many years. Oh, you have, yeah. Don't pay for it. You don't pay for parking. Sometimes you have a win. Sometimes you have a loss. But at the end of the year, it all balances itself out. So what you would have paid on parking, you end up paying on fines across the year.

Fines, yeah. And you're like, hey, well done. You got me, granted. You had a win on this one. But this next time, I had a win. I had a win. But that's the thing. But at the moment, the balance

seems to be tipping in the favour of the authorities. You're like the Chiefs a year and a year and a half ago, where things, you're in a slump. But then you can't come out of that slump. I can call my way out of this ticketing slump. I am. But this is every week, and then Ben, you get great joy delivering them to me. You get them sent

to work, which I don't understand. Are you trying to hide your infringements from your family? Exactly what I'm trying to do. Okay, it's becoming quite the discussion point in our marriage when why are all these fines coming out of our account?

So they come to work now. We all get excited. Oh, another letter for John Overs arrived. To be honest, I just love the attention. I do these things so I get attention.

Ben gets sent nice chocolates and little movie merch he puts on Instagram. I get parking tickets and speeding fines. There was another one yesterday, wasn't there? For a 60 and a 50, like, come on. Ooh, how expensive was the fine?

60 and a 50 is 80. 80 bucks. But, you know, the road rules state if it says 50, it means go 60. If it says 100, it means go 120. That used to be the way that people would operate not anymore not anymore

I think you can still you can get done I mean technically you are speeding if the light's green go if the light's orange go

if the light's turning to red go if you think you can get away with it that's the road code we all read it no no

now it's coming back to it is yesterday I was like this madness needs to stop you went through we got a lovely little thing the other day,

you went through a bus lane, didn't you? We saw pictures of it happening. 150 on a bus lane. They've got a photograph. It came to work. I was like, I didn't see anyone filming, but they've got them on poles now. You ever took photos of you going down the bus lane?

You're like, maybe I can dispute it. I'm like, well, it's clearly your car. I've got photos. They can't prove it's me. Well, it's registered to you so all you want to do in these situations

you want a finger point you want to blame but there's no one else to blame well that's the thing you've technically I've broken them all you have

and you have to pay but it just feels like such a waste of money it does but it's what happens that's what fines are all about you're like

oh god but I thought maybe we could try and make you feel slightly better today. I actually do feel better. I'm like, I said to you yesterday, I was like, this needs to stop. You need to stop. Really need to stop. Like, I feel like, you know, the government was putting on a wage freeze for all of its workers.

They were talking about that the other day. I was like, you don't need to wage freeze them. I've been paying their salaries for the last year with these traffic infringements and fines. So is anyone out there listening or anyone who's got a partner listening that's much like Jono? Maybe it's been a whopping fine for something. It doesn't have to be traffic infringements.

New Zealand's biggest fine. What have you got, Julie? You said you've got one relating to... The most amount of fines. Relating to a rental car, which you can tell us about very shortly. Yeah, it was a big one. It was a big one.

But I managed to get out of it, which was wonderful. We've got Sarah Owen from Tauranga. Mordena, how are you? Morning, guys. Great to have you on. Sarah, you sound bright and bubbly and like someone who would attract a lot of fines. Unfortunately, yeah. What'd you get?

Okay, so my peak was that in one week I got six speeding tickets. Six in a week? Yeah that in one week I got six speeding tickets. Six in a week? Yeah, in a week. So I didn't realise, but they'd installed this sneaky speed camera on the road where I live. Monsters. Monsters. What are they out there to do?

I think my neighbours dubbed me in. Yeah. But they put all these sneaky little cameras in. You don't know they're there. It's almost like they're just trying to... I remember a family member got one on the way to the airport at one point and then on the way back from there

would drop his phone off in the same way. Do you remember the good old days where everyone knew where the one speed camera in town was? The word got out. You're right. Oh, slow down. You'd fang along at 80, screech on the brakes,

slowly crawl past it at 30, and then you'd be back on your way again. Those were the good old days of speeding. Not anymore, not anymore. It's for the best. Keep the road safe. Thank you for your call, Sarah. I appreciate it.

We'll head to Rangi Oro. Lockie, welcome. How you getting on? Great. New Zealand's biggest fines. Have you got them? I don't know. It's six in a week.

It's pretty bad, but I had a bit of a fine trip when I drove down to Dunedin a few weeks ago. There's a speeding camera in Oamaru

that got me on the way down which is 120. When I was down there I got a $60 parking ticket and the same speeding camera

got me on the way back. Oh, lucky. Lucky. Oh, Lockie. Lockie. Gee, why are they doing this to us? You know, I've got a couple outstanding too

that I'm terrible at it. Oh yeah, that's my other thing is I don't pay them. Oh, you're like, you like to wait for Baycourt to get

to the end of it. Yeah, and then they mount and then they go to the courts and they're like, you've got a $40 district court fee and you're like, you guys, you're killing me here. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm mount and then they go to the courts and they're like, you have a $40 district court fee. And you're like, you guys, you're killing me here.

Yeah. Yeah, and I'm with you, Lockie. Godspeed, mate. No, don't speed, actually. No, no, keep it under the speed limit. We'll go with Kylie in Wellington. How are you, Kylie? Hi, good morning.

Now, I understand it's not you. You're wiping your hands of this fine, but it was your hubby. Yes, I got the blame, but it was my husband speeding in my mum's car, $300 fine for, I think it was about $85 and a $50. Oh jeez, he's really kicking it.

You always go $60 and a $50, that's the rule. Yeah, $50 and a $50. And your mum would have got the ticket directly, I imagine. Yes, she did. Normally, I was the one driving her car, so I initially got the blame. And he was quiet? He was hush?

Yes, so I requested a photo because I was like, I would not drive that far. I would maybe do 60, but I would not do over 80. And your husband's like, we don't need to see a photo. It was definitely you. I've seen you drive. Yeah, no. So, yeah, I worked out from the photo it was him. I couldn't see his face, but I was like, we don't need to see a photo. It was definitely you. I've seen you drive. Yeah, no. So, yeah, I worked out from the photo it was him.

I couldn't see his face, but I was like, that's not my hand. Oh, yeah, well, you couldn't prove it was him, though. So, this might make you feel better, Kylie. A lady's texting saying her husband borrowed her dad's vehicle and got it impounded. Oh, my goodness. So, there you go. Well, that makes me feel better as well.

So, thank you for your calls and texts, New Zealand. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, Ben, we've been on a little bit of a journey to make a dream come true for you. You're a huge fan of Dwayne the Rock Johnson. And I've managed to track down someone who's very close to Dwayne the Rock Johnson. There's a new show which is called Young Rock,

which is actually produced and made by The Rock. It's all about his life, basically, and it's coming to Sky Go. It's on Sky Go, and it's coming to Neon on the 4th of June. Yeah, I've heard it. There's a lot of Kiwi actors in it. Huge amount of Kiwi actors, and we've managed to track one of them down who actually plays The Rock's mum in the show. Oh, wow, that's awesome. Young rock.

Her name's Stacey Leilua, who joins us now on New Zealand's Breakfast. Good morning. Hello. How are you? You sound very suspicious. Oh, no, it's just weird because whenever we have these media calls, it's sort of like to the States and then back to New Zealand. So I'm like, hello? Oh, hold on.

So this call, so you're in New Zealand. You're in Auckland? Yeah, yeah, I'm in Auckland because Jen's on the call from NBC, so it sort of goes all the way to her and then all the way back to Auckland. So you're literally down the road, but we're making a hugely unnecessary toll call to America. Exactly. I love it.

I love it. I love this wild spending. Who said things are dire in the entertainment industry? We're just paying for toll calls for no reason. It's awesome. It is lovely to talk to you, and congratulations on such a great role in such a huge international show.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah, huge. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yeah, huge. I was just reading about you before. It's your first major acting role. And if you don't mind me saying, not a bad one to start with. I mean, I've been acting for 20 years, but it's been in the theatre. So I've done a lot of theatre work,

but this was my first sort of international gig. And yeah, pretty much straight from the top, so awesome. Yeah, I mean, talk about the story of getting there, because when you were asked to audition for Young Rock, you kind of thought twice about it, because of the commitment where you had to go, and how long it was going to take, right?

I'm a mum, at the time my daughter was four, you know, and the first thing that I say on the audition form was, you've got to be available to work in the States for five months. And I just sort of went, oh, I can't do that. And my mate sort of said, like, you have to do it. You have to put something down. And so I did.

And then that set the ball rolling. And before you know it, I was off to L.A. for a screen test and then got confirmed for the role. Just surreal. But, you know, it is what it is, I guess. Speaking of surreal, I understand you had to do a Zoom with The Rock, Dwayne Johnson

and his mum. I mean, that must have been a nerve-wracking experience. Not only are you one of the world's biggest stars, but also the mum of The Rock, who you're going to play the part of. Correct. Yeah, so again, I went to a plate having coffee

with a friend one day and I get a text from my agent saying, you know, I never thought I'd ever type this out to anyone but Dwayne and his mum

want to have a Zoom call with you and I was just like, you know, there's so many moments along the way that you just go, what the hell,

like, what the hell is my life? And yeah, I ended up meeting them. And we talked for like an hour and shared stories, you know, about motherhood and just the loveliest people. And everything was amazing.

How do you prepare yourself for a Zoom call with Dwayne The Rock Johnson? Do you get the bit? You must have the background looking perfect. Yeah. First you crack your pants and then you go, okay, get it, get it, get it. I was like, everything from like, yeah, what does, you know, what does my background look like? What am I wearing?

What am I talking about? Like, don't say anything stupid. So I was so nervous. And then the moment, like, you know, you've got your Zoom set up and you can see the camera. As soon as the camera light comes on, you're very aware. They're like, okay, I can see you, so you can see me. And I'm sitting there sort of like, oh, my God, oh, my God.

You know, and I feel like I wouldn't swear or anything like that. Very quickly, like, the nerves just go away because he's actually really just a normal, well, you know, as normal as you can be, being Dwayne Docton, but he's very genuine and you could see that he was very passionate about telling the story right and being authentic about the Samoan aspects of it and everything like that. So that made me feel very comfortable

and just kind of assured me that, like, we're all here for the same purpose. Oh, that's so awesome. Well, we're so stoked for you. The series is awesome. Kiwis can check it out Young Rock It's on Prime TV right now

And we understand He even follows you now On social media On Instagram How was that When that popped up The Rock is following you Like again

Those moments You just freeze And go what the hell And you know You just start thinking Oh crap He can see that I'm pleading He can see that I'm posting

I better make sure this and that. Yeah, because he only follows 400-odd people. And you're one of them. He'll comment on something I post, and I'm just like, what? Oh, he comments on your posts. You're like, oh, my goodness. I don't like something that I've posted or, like, might be, like, in the middle of, like, Pack and Save or something. Oh, The Rock tweeted me and I'm, like, you know,

picking up my daughter from school or something like that. Oh, weird. Yeah, I'm in the middle of meat week at Pack and Save. Exactly, right? Do you know, Stacey, actually, it's coincidental that we got you on this week because Ben Boyce, who you're talking to, he is a huge Dwayne the Rock Johnson fan, and I made him get a love heart of Dwayne the Rock Johnson

on his left bottom cheek. Now, knowing Dwayne the Rock Johnson, is this something Dwayne would like? I think he kind of would. He would probably laugh. I think knowing what I know of him, he'd probably laugh. Like, what is it he's saying? What did you get?

What did you do? I got a heart. Because I am a massive fan of The Rock. I have been for many years. So I got a heart with Dwayne The Rock Johnson's name inside, on my left buttocks cheek. And, yeah, you know, it was my commitment to The Rock, who I've never, yeah, we don't hang out or anything like that.

We don't message each other and pack and save. But I was just like, hey, I love him. Yeah, I think he'd find that very amusing. I can feel Stacey being weirded out now. Yeah, did I come on too strong? Maybe I came on too strong. She's like, I'm just going to back out of this chat now. Hey, listen, Stacey, congratulations on all your success.

That's really awesome. And all the best for the future. Thanks, guys. And you can catch Stacey as The Rock's mum on Young Rocks on Sky Go Now and coming to Neon too. Awesome story, eh? Oh, so cool. How's that, The Rock?

Messaging, you know, like when you're in pack and save. I mean, that's a great story but not as good as the story of Ben Boyce's butt, which could be featured on The Rock's Instagram coming soon. Don't know if that's going to be on Neon. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this.

Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Heads. The Heads. You want some good news? We just spoke to Stacey Leilua. She was awesome. She was fantastic. She plays The Rock's mum in Dwayne The Rock Johnson's show, Young Rock. She's a Kiwi actor. We mentioned that you'd put a tattoo of Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Loveheart on your bottom.

She's just posted it on her Instagram, which Dwayne The Rock Johnson follows. Oh, yeah, because he only follows about 400 people. He only follows 400. She's one of them. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you. She's's one of them. Oh, that's awesome. Thank you. She's put on a story. Yeah, that's awesome.

She's put on a story. This is the best chance yet, Ben. Well, he might see it. He might see it. Could this day get any better? I mean, I can't do anything else. What else do you want me to do for you? I've got you the tattoo.

Made you tattooed it on. I've handed you Stacey to get you in there. In the back door. Well, that wasn't the reason why we spoke to her. I'm working hard over here. Anyway, no, it's great news. We'll keep you up to date with that. How much organising have you done for this? Actually. Tireless, tireless minutes.

Actually. I had a really embarrassing moment. I didn't even tell you over the weekend we were staying in Wellington for work, Ben and myself, and we're at the't even tell you over the weekend. We were staying in Wellington for work, Ben and myself. And we're at the Novotel there in the terrace. Are you trying to hashtag sponsor? No, I don't know why I'm giving the Novotel a plug. We paid full rates.

Anyway, take it back. We'll stay at the cop fort. But on Saturday night, you went in and caught up with your father, Kevin Boyce. Yeah. And I was left alone in a hotel. I said you could come out. No, you did. You caught up with your father, Kevin Boyce. Yeah. And I was left alone in a hotel room. I said you could come out. No, you did. You invited me. I was just rinsed.

I was rinsed. Come out if you want. I'm a loser. I'm a hermit. So I just sat in the hotel room. I was like, oh, I'll get some dinner. And you know how you order room service. And I was caught doing the most embarrassing act any person could be caught doing in a hotel room.

I ordered double dinners. Okay, well, I'm sure there's a few more embarrassing things that people could be caught doing. I can't list them. What's more embarrassing than that? No, not for our family, for any radio show. You're saying there's embarrassing stuff? You back up your claims.

So, no, but I ordered... Oh, because we've talked about this many times and if you're new to the show, you may not know that Jono doesn't eat during the day. No. You don't eat from breakfast time to dinner time, but when you eat, boy, do you eat, especially at night time. Like a foraging.

You're like a nocturnal animal. Yeah, like a foraging possum. At night, I come out and just eat. Guilty, I'll put my hand up. Guilty as charged, I've had a career in eating double dinners in the past. Ben will go out for dinner, have a break, and I'll go out for another dinner, get a burger or something. I think I even

joined you with a double dinner on Friday. We were out together. So you went again, double down on your double dinners on Saturday. But then I cut out the inevitable time in between dinners. I was like, well, I may as well order two dinners at the same time. I just cut out the inevitable. And then the lovely gentleman,

he turned over the door, and he leads with dinner for two, and I'm like, oh, uh-oh. What am I going to do here? And he's like, yes. Yeah, I did. I was like, yes, and he walks in with plates in hand. I could tell he's looking around the room. He's looking around the room, but he's like, where's the other plate?

He's like, where would you like to put this meal? And I'm like, oh, they would like it over there by the TV. But then I could tell he was starting to go, he's like, oh, I could tell. He was looking at me, I was like, oh, they're just downstairs. He's like, oh, okay. I said, they're vaping. And I started making up this crazy story.

Are you kidding? Yeah, no, I did. I started getting into this web of lies, making up a fictitious person who was staying in my room who was eating the second meal because I was too embarrassed. Embarrassed to say both of those things. What were your meals, by the way?

Club sandwich and fish and chips. Both loaded with chips as well. Double chips. I didn't realise the club sandwich came with chips. So a mountain of chips. I imagine you would have got through it all though. I did, yeah. And I felt terrible. And I slowly opened the door.

You know when you slide the tray out the front? I was looking side to side, making sure no one saw me. Oh, I felt awful. I could never tell he was judging me. I could see it in his eyes. He's like, you're a double dinner. God. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Hey, Fiji, just news breaking going into a lockdown, a 24 hour lockdown you're saying Jude? Yeah, from Friday till Tuesday. No, that's not. That's more than 24 hours.

That's more than 24 hours. It must mean you're not allowed to go out 24 hours a day for any supplies. Yes, true. A 24 hour curfew.

There have been nine new cases reported. I think they get things under control. Thank you everyone over there. They were sweet for a while, weren't they? Yeah. For months and months and months. Yeah, it can happen like that, right?

It can, it can. Now, Ben Boyce, you're a little aggrieved at the moment, aren't you? Something that's going on with your wife? Yeah, well, it's like I'm not a great relaxer. Like it's not really my thing. No, he's always on alert level four. Doing nothing kind of drives me a little bit, you know, like bonkers, really.

But the funny thing, he was forced three weeks ago to have a nap during the day because we were going to be working late into the night. By a director, he was like... He's like, you must have a nap. And he was like an agitated, resistant seven-year-old. I'm not tired. I don't want to go to sleep. And then what happened?

I did have a sleep. But you always feel a bit weird afterwards, you know, a bit sort of like... You went to bed with a... All day you had to stay in and was like, oh, we're going to have a nap. We're going to have a nap this afternoon. Whereas some people, they love a nap.

You and Patricia, you love a nap. I love a nap more than anything in this world. Like literally it's my favourite thing. I'd just like to slow you down. I'd like to slip some sedatives into his coffee. I'd like to just get doing stuff, make the most of a day, you know, and go through that. Like I actually enjoy ticking things off a list

and enjoy when I'm out there doing stuff. But my wife, you know, obviously she's got, bless her, she's got my best interest at heart and she's like, she loves reading. And she's like, well, maybe, you know, you can try and read. Maybe if you tried reading, reading some books as a way of relaxing.

Just what normal people do. Yeah, well, hey, so she's given me this book. It's like Dan Brown who wrote The Da Vinci Code. It's one she read. It was like Angels and Demons and she's given me this book

and it's a good book, but now I'm in this and now I'm like, I've got to take this off my list. Like I've become like, I've just got to finish this book and now I'm on my way through I'm like I've got to take this off my list. Like I've become like I've just got to finish this book and now I'm midway through and it is a really good book

but I'm almost like cursing her name. I'm like, why did you get me started on this book? Because I was up way too late last night reading this book because now it's on my list. I've just got to knock it off and get the book done.

So it's almost doing the opposite of what it's meant to do. I'm getting more wound up with the fact that I've just got to finish this book. Another thing on your list to do. Yeah, it's like now, and I'm like, she's like, just read a bit, then come back to it. I'm like, no, I just want to get the book done now.

So I was up, yeah, after like pretty much midnight last night, still reading this book. Yeah, that's why J.K. Rowling had to stop Harry Potter series, because Ben was just reading them too quickly. She's like, I can't type any faster. Reading over her shoulder, going, hurry up! Typo. But yeah, it just becomes, yeah, I don't know what it is about.

It just gets, I've just got to finish it. Like I was more relaxed before I started the book and I'll be more relaxed after I finish the book. But during the reading process, I'm not relaxed. Yeah, I can tell you. Well, they say, you know, they do say Rome wasn't built in a day, but it bloody well would have been if Ben was project managing it. He gets results.

It would have been really not great right now. Like it's like kind of ruins and stuff. That's probably how it would have looked. Let's get it done, guys. Come on, let's get it done. He gives results. That would have been really not great. Right now, like it's kind of ruins and stuff. That's probably how it would have looked. Let's get it done, guys. Come on, let's get it done. Wrap it up.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. So I went to, you know, to conduct one of life's

most mundane tasks, going to the supermarket yesterday. Do you enjoy going to the supermarket? Yeah, I don't mind going to the supermarket yesterday. Do you enjoy going to the supermarket? Yeah, I don't mind going to the supermarket. Yeah. Yeah, I seem to do it regularly in our household.

Do you get delivery or do you go? Go in. Go in normally. Yeah. Yeah, so I went to pack and save last night. But it was waiting with the trolley to go through the checkout, you know. And there was a lovely lady who was in front of me. And she turned around. And, you know, we started off like looking at each other.

And she's like, hmm. And I went, oh, yeah, we must know each other. So then we started a conversation with, you know, a hug and a light cheek bang. You know, you go for a kiss on the cheek, but you always end up just sort of like contently caressing each other's cheeks with the engagement. But we started talking. And I was trying to, you know, when sort of like gently caressing each other's cheeks with the engagement. But we started talking and I was trying to, you know, when you have a conversation, you're trying to figure out who you're talking to.

I feel like it's like your brain in a mad panic going through like a whole list of filing drawers, like opening drawers and filing, filing, looking at a file, looking at a file, thinking like, no, no, no, no. That's what I felt in my brain. On the outside, you're trying to look calm, but in your head, you're like, I'm picking up the drawer,

you're filing, filing, filing. No, no, pick another drawer. You're trying to find the document. Barry, Denise. No, no, no, no. School, work. That, you know, will eventually go, this is the one. Oh, I've got it. Yeah. And you sometimes do it when you're walking up to someone

and you're trying to do it as you're walking up to them. Yeah. But anyway, so we engaged. And I just started off with very vague, how's the family? Yeah. Questions that might lead to knowing. Yeah, little vague, how's the family? Yeah. Questions that might lead to knowing. Yeah, little clues. How's the work?

I love it when you get it midway through the conversation. You're like, oh, that's it. I've got it. And then you ask a question. Yeah. But she was doing the same back. She's like, you know, how's the family? How's the work?

And so we're both lightly dusting over a very vague conversation. And then it came probably to about two or three minutes into the chat, which is a long time when you're waiting in a supermarket aisle in a line. And we both, I could tell she realised, I don't know this man. And I realised, I don't know this woman. But both of us were too polite to pull out of the conversation. So then it got into, oh, it's busy out there, isn't it? And we still continued on the conversation

so we could slowly, slowly peter out of it. Did the New Zealand thing. No one wanted to make the call that we both didn't know each other. And that happened in Wellington too. A lady came up to us and was like, you're from Te Tahi Bay College. And I didn't have the heart to tell her no. I was like, yes, I am. How have you been?

You know, you don't want to break their heart. I said, how's all the gang? You get into conversation. You don't want to crawl the shots in that awkward situation, do you? Well, no, it's a very New Zealand thing, you're right. And that's the end of that. I think I've just found a conversation more awkward than the one I had last night.

The end of that conversation. I was just going to say, but like how did you even, if you both knew from the get-go that you didn't know each other, how did you escalate to the point where you're pretending like you do? No, well, I think she thought she knew me. I thought she knew her. And so then you're engaged at that point. Yet the conversation trains left. Classic you're engaged at that point. Yeah, I see.

Yet the conversation trains left. Classic you getting into one of those. Yeah, and so she both started. We both started just hoping that, again, those clues would pop. But in the three minutes, we're like, no, Penny's not dropping here. Yeah, yeah, nah.

Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits.

We're doing this still. Please welcome Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne the Rock Johnson. For 10 years, Dwayne the Rock Johnson has been Ben the Pebble Voices hero. He inspires me. Now Ben's challenge. Can he get on Dwayne the Rock Johnson's Instagram?

Yeah. Can we move on from this? Can we just move on? Like it was a fun little journey. But I feel like we need to move on. As a show and as people, we just need we move on from this? Can we just move on? Like it was a fun little journey, but I feel like we need to move on. As a show and as people, we just need to move on. No, it's not the time to move on.

I know I can see in your eyes you've given up all hope. You've given up all hope of having your tattooed butt with the love heart of Dwayne The Rock Johnson on it, featured on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram account. You don't give up. Well, you said yesterday was the day

because it was Tuesdays and take a long story short, you said yesterday was the day. Well, it wasn't the day. Turns out it wasn't give up. Well, you said yesterday was the day because it was Tuesdays and... Long story short, you said yesterday was the day. Well, it wasn't the day. Turns out it wasn't the day. It wasn't the day. No, it wasn't. And that's fine. And I don't regret it,

but I would like to move on from it. If I do one thing before my life ends, which, according to the doctor, is not too far away, it will be to get you featured on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram account. Even if that means me starting an Instagram account called Dwayne The Rock Johnson and putting you on that, I will go to those links.

That's one way around it. Not verified. You haven't got the blue tick on that one, have you? But you'll be happy to know that I've tracked down someone which could be our best possible. You think of any person that could get us on this account? Kevin Hart. Okay, it's not Kevin Hart.

Think of another person that could get us on this account. Ooh, Dwayne the Rock Johnson's mum. It's not Dwayne the Rock Johnson's mum. Oh, Dwayne the Rock Johnson. No, it's not... Okay, okay. Well, listen, one of the top 50 people who could get you on Dwayne the Rock Johnson's Instagram account.

I've tracked them down and we're going to get her on after 8 o'clock. Oh, really? Yeah. If you play your cards right, there could be a DM sliding into DJ's Insta account. I don't want to... But anyway, I'm not giving up hope.

Ben, I know you want to move on. You've done a regretful tattoo on your butt, and you want to close this deal. No, it's been a fun journey, but it's not time to move on. Your butt check's starting to close this deal it's been a fun journey but it's not time to move on your butt check's starting to look old and sad like a retired person

in a retirement village that their family's forgotten about so I would just like to send out a final push a final PSA to the team

of five million what's this what are you doing as you go about your morning stressing about running late... Don't do this.

A little butt waits. As you try to figure out which former reality TV contestant is in the Tua Tata costume on The Masked Singer. A little butt waits. As you flick through radio stations and an aggravating radio announcer is doing a parody of a heart-wrenching World Vision commercial. A little butt waits it waits and wonders will it ever sit on duane the rock johnson's instagram

hi sympathetic sounding d-grade celebrity john o'briar speaking and my friend ben boyce has put his ass on the line and now our relationship is on the line. For just one tag a day, you can validate this butt's existence by harassing The Rock and informing him that a disheartened radio host has gone to idiotic lengths and is rapidly starting to regret it. It was God who said to turn the other cheek.

Well, Ben went one better and tattooed the other cheek, his butt cheek. And it was Dwayne The Rock Johnson who said, can you smell what The Rock is cooking? And it turns out that smell is desperation from a desperate butt yearning to feature on its hero's Instagram. Don't make this little bottom the butt of all jokes.

Give it a crack today and tag in Dwayne. No ifs and buts that's only if you can be asked I've been Jono Pryor add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal van The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast five words for 5k on The Hits

you're only five words away from a massive payday putting five grand on the line once again here at The Hits with our game of word association we give you five words away from a massive payday. Putting five grand on the line once again here at The Hits with our Game of Word Association. We give you five words. You say the first words that pop into your head. If your words match up all five with our words, you win five grand. There's 170,000 words in the English language, did you know?

So you only need to match five of them. The odds are pretty good. Olivia will bring you down from Christchurch. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? I'm doing really well. I love it when people call through from Christchurch. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? I'm doing really well. I love it when people call through from Christchurch. It's great. It's bloody great. How's

our mate Gary McCormick going there? Is he alright? I don't really listen to him. I'm not sure. That's what we like to hear. That's what we like to hear. Anyway, we'll pass on our regards if you see Gary. I will. Love Gary. But Olivia, you want to win $5,000. Gary McCormick aside, we've got the cash. You want it. I will. Love Gary. But Olivia, you want to win $5,000. Gary McCormick aside, we've got the cash.

You want it. I do. Have you matched when you've been playing in your car or at work or whatever? I've probably got about four. Oh, that's not bad. It's not a bad hit rate. You can play online too. The hits.co.nz, there's an online version which could get you playing the real version

if you match up there. Now, the big question. What are you eating for lunch? I don't know. Oh, no, that's not really the big question. You've got time to think about that. There's another big question. Right now, do you want to send Jono, Ben, or producer Juliet

into the soundproof booth? Who do you reckon you'll match up with? Jono, please. All righty, come on. Jeez, I've been out every day this week. It's a chance to win for someone right now. And here we go. Here is your first word this morning.

Five words for $5,000. The first word is stars. Sky. Sky? Nice work. Swing. Park. Park.

And the next word this morning I want to ask you for five words for $5,000, Olivia, is courier. Van. Courier van. Nice. Chocolate is the fourth word. Chocolate. Bar. Chocolate bar.

Oh, yes. And finally, five words for $5,000. Your final word, Olivia, is retail. Store. Retail store. Nice. Not a bad job. You feeling okay with those words?

I guess, thanks. It's hard when you're on the spot like that. It's very hard, yeah. And you can think of other options as well, but yeah. But it doesn't matter what, it only matters what Jono is going to match up with right now, Olivia. It looks like he's having a cry in there. I can see him through the window waving to him.

He's got his head down. He had his, like his head and his hands in there. But anyway. I was telepathically trying to sync with Olivia. Mentally sync. How you going, Olivia? You think you went well? I'm good. I don't know. I was actually in there thinking about what you could eat for lunch and I decided upon a seafood

linguine. Okay. I was super lucky I'd go and crush it. It's always good. You just can't get them back up with the tiramisu. Dimitri's or the $2 rice that Jono refuses to get with me. I would go with the $2 rice. Yeah, Jono won't. Anyway, that's a conversation for another day, Jono.

He's trying to put $2 rice down my throat. Hey, we're going to Christchurch this weekend. It's our chance. I have no interest in eating rice with mysterious sauce on top of it. Tomorrow afternoon I'm taking you to $2 rice at Christchurch. Okay, Olivia, let's win you five grand, okay? Okay. First word we said to Olivia was stars.

Night. I'm not going to win you five grand, Olivia. You're not. Oh, no. Olivia went with sky. Stars in the sky. Both are great answers. One would say it was better than the other, and it was Olivia's.

No, it's tough. They were tough. Some of these words are really tough to match up today. Swing. Set. Courier. Package. Chocolate.

Chocolate pudding. Oh, dear. And retail. Therapy. I don't know if you're just trying to deliberately tag that now. Why would I deliberately tag it? Those are the words that came into my head.

I don't know what Olivia went. Do I want to know or is it just going to be disappointing? Olivia, you did a great job. I thought Jono let down the team of five million. Have a great day in Christchurch. Enjoy that lunch. Really appreciate it. Enjoy that linguine.

Have a great day in Christchurch enjoy that lunch enjoy that linguine have a great one listen we call her the funeral director because she's here to bury some celebrity careers what's happening in Spy, Producer Juliette? So Ellen DeGeneres has decided to end her talk show after her 19th season next year. She's been doing the Ellen show since 2003 and the final episode will wrap up around this time next year.

She did a lengthy written interview with The Hollywood Reporter who first broke the news earlier this morning and basically she said this decision has been several years in the making. She feels as a creative person, the show wasn't challenging for her anymore. Well, you're not allowed to bully your colleagues anymore. It takes the motivation out of coming to work every day to make television, doesn't it? Doesn't it?

It really does. So she is going to do, I was going to ask that question, she is going to do the 20th season so round that out so she's currently at her 18th season she's going to do the 19th season

yeah so that'll be next year yeah give her a run though I mean 19 seasons is a heck of a time crazy so well done Alan

yeah well done and jeez I tell you what she makes that DJ dance doesn't she that poor guy great dancer though great dancer but I'd love to look at his Fitbit

analytics at the end of each day. Sometimes she's probably like, dance, dance! And then she's like, after 30 minutes, oh sorry, I forgot to turn the cameras on. Start again. Imagine that. No, but in the interview with the Hollywood Reporter they did ask her about the allegations

about the toxic workplace environment. She said she wasn't quitting because of those, because if she was going to quit because of those, she wouldn't have continued and returned for this season that she's currently doing. But she said she's totally learnt a lot from that whole experience. She now Zoom calls all the different departments and checks in with them to make sure that they're happy in their job. She doesn't want people to feel like they can't talk to her,

so she's really made a change because she wasn't aware about everything that was going on in the workplace environment. But something that I did find quite interesting, over her time on the show, the show has given nearly $70 million worth to charities and more than $300 million in audience giveaways. Oh, my gosh. Over the last 18, 19 years or so. When you break that down, she's done. She really has used that platform for good. Totally, 100%.

And she wants to focus. She doesn't know what exactly her next step's going to be, but she wants to focus more on doing things for the environment. She's got some gorilla sanctuaries in Africa that she really wants to prioritize. What's wrong with that? Yes, prioritize. What's wrong with that? Yes, Jonathan? What's wrong with that?

Do more for the environment? Yeah, that's the lovely thing. Well, we need to do it as a society. There you go. So yeah, whatever, Ellen. No, good on you. Well done. Well done.

And later on today, Oprah is going to be a guest on her show, and they are going to deep dive into it. And Oprah, they'll probably be interviewing each other because they're both such great interviews. Do you know how good producer Juliet is at her job? She actually got an exclusive. Oh, yeah. An exclusive of the Oprah Ellen interview.

And are we able to play it now? Yes, we can. Were you silent or were you silenced? When life gets you down, you know what you got to do? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do?

We swim. Wait, hold up. Wait a minute. There you go. Can't wait to see that in full today. Well, well done, Ellen. She's living at bloody Courtney Cox's house at the moment. Is she?

Yeah, she sold her house. Her and Portia moved into Courtney Cox's house. Courtney's like, hey, crash here. They all live in each other's houses, I swear to God. It's one celebrity buys that celebrity's old house and they're neighbours of them and everything like that. Yeah, Ben's never let me live in his house, even when things were tough

for good reason. You're like, you sleep in your boot, mate. That is Spy Entertainment News. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Snifters scenes. I love this little intro. Yeah, Cadbury Dairy Milk have been inspired by Snifters,

and they've got blocks of chocolates with dairy milk and the great Snifters mint taste as well. You can get them in dairy supermarkets, wherever you get chocolate for a limited time only. I can just imagine a really happy seven and a half year old playing that and nailing it. Now, Sniff the Scenes, you win 500 bucks and then

one of us reads out clues as to what the movies could be, but I've been benched. I've been sidelined after a controversy a couple of days ago. You're just giving the names of the movies. You weren't even trying to give clues. There's Wars and Stars. Star Wars. Yes.

Well done. Steve Carell. He's despicable. Despicable, mate. Well done. Wall-E. Wall-E. Wall-E, the robot.

Yeah, well done. So you've now been benched. $500 cash up for grabs and a bit of a family snack pack as well. Yeah, my performance was panned by the critics and those critics were producer Humphrey. So let's welcome Jackie from Auckland. You're on. Hi. Okay, you got five movies to get $500 and translated

to a rupee. You're looking at around about 26,000 Indian rupee or 11,000 Thai baht. So that is some good cash for you, Jax. Yeah, it is. Okay, apologies. I get quite flustered reading out these, trying to give you clues on the spot, because I haven't prepared these. I just turn over the block of chocolate, and then the movie title's written there,

so I'll do my best. Just do it calmly. You don't need to unnecessarily get flustered. Okay, here we go, calmly. Start the timer. Oh, an elephant. He's got big ears. He flew.

Stand by. Yes. There's 100. A superhero. Friends, best mates with Robin. He drove around in a motorbike. Oh, Batman.. He's got big ears. He flew. Yes. There's 100. A superhero. Friends, best mates with Robin. He drove around in a... Oh, Batman. There's 200.

Oh, there's a lot of dogs. You'd say over 100 dogs. 101 generations. Ring, ring. Jackie's got 300. There's a hen. Kind of like a hen. Another word for hen, and they go faster than a walk.

Faster than a walk? Like, they go fast. Lots of the hens, they're going fast. They're doing a marathon, maybe. Why are they go fast, lots of the hens there, they're going fast, they're doing a marathon maybe. Why are they doing that thing? Chicken run. Yes. Dwayne Johnson's in this animated movie,

he's the voice of one of the... Moana? Yeah. Oh, I like that. 500 dollars. Ben didn't get flustered. I was actually very calm during that. You were calm, you were starting to get a little...

I'll be on the chase. I think I'm ready for it now. Starting to get a little wound up with Chicken Run, but he pulled himself back. Chicken Run! Jackie, easy as that. Try not to say Chicken or Run. What a way to start your Thursday, Jax.

Yeah, that's amazing. Thank you so much. What favourable comments do you have to say about us and all the show? Please state them now. Oh, I think you guys are amazing. You're a lot of fun. Keep going. You don't have to keep going.

You've got $500 cash in a movie snack pack. It's all thanks to Cadbury Dairy Milk, inspired by Snifters, and the new blocks of chocolate's out now. Fantastic, thank you. Good on you, Jackie. Have a wonderful day. You too.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. If you just joined us, I was saying before, we spoke to DJ yesterday who joins us back. Welcome from Rangitiki, DJ. How are you? Good to have you on.

We just got into a conversation about how terrifying it must be waking up to our nasally tones and these being the first voices you hear every morning. And we are for you, we understand. Yes, nah, every morning. We really appreciate that. We asked you yesterday how could we make it better and you had what we thought was an unusual suggestion.

What was that? A little bit more of Guy Williams on. A little bit more of Guy Williams. And we said, too much energy, too much noise. His decibels are way through the roof. Too loud first thing in the morning. But we're like, okay, but we hadn't tested it. We hadn't tested it.

I mean, and this is the thing. We like to give everything a chance. DJ, this is constructive feedback and criticism you've put to the show. And so we're going to give it a go right now because Guy Williams joins us. Morning, Guy. Good to be here, Guy. It's a lovely day for it. See, this is the other thing.

You come in quite loud. You don't have an inside voice, do you, really? No, of course I don't have an inside voice. I'm a professional broadcaster, Ben, and the people need to hear the good stuff that I have to say. You came in the other day, and our producer, Juliet, was like, he's got such a presence. You know when Guy is in the room.

Yeah, that's because I'm six foot five. I've got the loudest voice in New Zealand and the biggest head in the world. I mean, the advantage of having Guy on the radio show is we wouldn't have to pay for another microphone. He could just... Broadcast me around the country. Well, DJ wanted to hear.

He wanted us to do a test run as to see what it would sound like. So far, so good. I think I'm enjoying this. This is fun. Well, DJ wanted to hear. He wanted us to do a test run as to see what it would sound like. So far, so good. I think I'm enjoying this. This is fun. Matt, that sounds like an absolute dream job. But what I can't understand right now is that you guys,

like, is this a positive thing or a negative thing? Because when I was talked into coming on here, I thought it was like, hey, guy, you'd be a lovely thing to wake up to. But now I'm here, I feel like it's because I'd be a lovely thing to wake up to. But now I'm here, I feel like it's because I'd be the worst thing to wake up to. Oh listen, my text may have been a little misleading when I was trying to get you on the show. No, no, but DJ, it was actually like

that's one thing he'd love to add to the show was more Guy Williams. That's what he said. I don't believe that for a second. No, he did. I swear he did. Yeah, he did, he did. We weren't keen on it, but he was. Mate, I don't want to hear myself in the morning. My partner doesn't want to hear me in the morning.

No one wants to hear me in the morning. No one wants to hear me any time of the day, to be honest. How does Gold Rees, who works for Parliament, she's an MP, a respected MP for the Green Party, how does she handle your voice first thing in the morning? Well, she hates it. She hates it any time of the day, obviously. Who likes it?

One thing I do fondly remember working with you for many years, which was a lot of fun, but how you'd often text on the way to a shoot saying, you're just on Ponsonby Road. Now, normally this was Guy running late, and Ponsonby Road was a good indication that he was sort of 10 minutes away, maybe still in bed. Ponsonby Road meant I was half an hour to 45 minutes away, maybe still in bed. Yeah. Pomsonby Road meant I was

half an hour to 45 minutes away. Hey, guys, thanks for your time, mate. If you want to see guys part of the International Comedy Festival New Zealand Live,

New Zealand Today Live, the TV show that's on three at the moment, Thursday nights, the hugely popular show. You're doing a live show, mate. I'm doing a live show

bringing Karen to Christchurch in Wellington and Auckland. Come along. Oi, guys, you wouldn't believe this show bringing Karen to Christchurch in Wellington and Auckland. Come along. Oi, guys. You wouldn't believe this. A guy just told me

to shut the hell up on the window. Sorry about that because my voice was loud. This is literally about my voice being loud. I'm so sorry. Sorry, sir.

Sorry. Guy Williams, always good to chat and you catch New Zealand Today live. Go to guywilliams.co.nz if you want some more details. Guy Williams there for you first thing in the morning.

I hope that was all right for you, DJ. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Okay, he's a shaky pair of hands when it comes to parallel parking and an even shakier pair of hands when it comes to delivering your news from overnight. But Ben Boyce, come on down.

Alan DeGeneres has decided to call it quits her US talk show after 19 seasons, which is a heck of achievement. Yeah, phenomenal. Would that be one of the longest running series? Let him in. No, let him in. Well, yeah, because The Tonight Show in America

has been taken over by various hosts over the years. So that's probably been running for Johnny Carlson all the way through to, I think, Jimmy Fallon's doing that one now. Yeah, so that, I'd say, would be going a lot longer. But Ellen has been the single host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, obviously, because it's got her name in the title, after 19 years. Yeah, Letterman went for 30. There we go.

So, but 19 years, amazing run, amazing run. Why is she pulling out? I think she just said, but it's not challenging anymore. Well, she's not allowed to bully people now. Oh, hey, hey, hey. The fun has got, they've sucked the fun out of the gig for Ellen. Hey, hey, we don't know. I don't know.

There was, was she, was she, you know, You know, she said she was sorry there was a bit of a toxic workplace going on. But was she doing, you know, like... I mean, the only reason I come to work is to bully people. It's the joy of the workplace, isn't it? So I understand that if that's taken away from her, she's like, ah, what's the point? But she doesn't even dance anymore. She makes other people dance for her.

We watch it after the show. She's got everyone else working hard on that dance floor. And she's just sitting on her couch. Why does she feel like dancing? Because you've been like, oh, she's dancing there. Oh, you have a dance after everything. It's, you know, like, yeah. Dancing on the grave of the informer employees.

I still want to carry on through that whole thing. Because it would have been easy just to call it quits there. So go on there for, you know, carrying on and continuing to do the show. Was it that bad, really? I know I take the mic to do the show. And was it that bad, really? I know I take the mickey out of it, but was it that bad in the grand scheme of things? Because if it was, she probably would have lost her gig. Yeah, well, we haven't heard anything about

what has she done, apart from being a bit cold to people as well. I've read, but maybe I've seen her. Apart from having a bad day every now and then. Yeah. But yeah, so Ellen DeGeneres after 19 years, a wonderful achievement and she's going to reveal more reasons behind it when she talks to Oprah on her show. So Oprah's being a guest on her show today, later today. Well, did you know, actually, I got an, well, not me.

I won't put this down to me. Producer Humphrey, he did some digging, spoke to the programmers at the TV station. Who's she with? NBC, CNN, whatever. One of the big stations, yeah. program is at the TV station. Who is she with? NBC? CNN? Whatever. One of the big stations. An exclusive snippet from that interview with Oprah and Ellen. Were you silent? Or were you silenced?

When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Swimming. Swimming. What do we do? We swim. Wait. Hold up. Wait a minute. Can't wait to see that whole thing. Can't wait to see that in full. I tell all, I tell all.

So there you go. That is scrolling through your feed this morning. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits.

The Google game. Fun game this, isn't it? Yeah, it's a wee fun game. You just give us a call. Oh, Andrew, the hits. You ask us any question at all. We've got 10 seconds to frantically try and Google the answer. If we can't do it, we've got up for grabs today.

A Trade Depot credit, $200. If you want to upgrade your kitchen, laundry, or bathroom appliances, it's easy. Just shop online at tradedepot.co.nz. I mistakenly had a slip of the tongue and said $250 previous to that song playing, and I want to deeply apologise. I sent producer Humphrey into an early morning cardiac arrest. $200!

$200! And then you're like, we make it $250? No. No, reel it back. It's a cool... It's still a lot, though. That's a lot of cash, Trade Depot.

I was thinking you couldn't have played the Google Games in 1997. It would have been like, you ask us a question, give us 10 minutes to look it up in Encyclopedia Britannica or something. Yeah, you're right. Would have dragged out. Would have gone too long, this voice break. Nicole, you're on.

Good morning, how are you? I'm doing well. How's Auckland this morning, Nicole? Dark. But it's not cold. Yeah, I can see it outside the window. It is looking pretty dark. You're not lying. She's not lying. It's not cold, so that's good.

Yeah. Are you heading to work, are you? Uni. Oh, what do you study? Animal management. Oh, how is it managing the animals? Is it like zoo? You end up in a zoo?

No, more like dog training or working with guide dogs or something like that. That's awesome. That's a great job. It's a fun job. Cool, rewarding job to do. Alright, now, Jono, are you going to Google this one?

I'll do it. Okay, Jono's got 10 seconds to Google the answer. What is the question? What are three benefits of being a member with AA Breakdown? Being a member with AA Breakdown. Anything to do with your body.

Discounted windscreen replacement. List your car for free on AA Car Fair. Discounted car. Oh, I didn't get the third one. That's a good play, listing. That was really well done, listing the three benefits. You can also get free technical advice. I can, mate.

It's faster. It's faster. You just snuck in there, Nicole. Well done. A $200 Trade Depot voucher, okay? Oh, awesome. Thank you. You go and manage those animals.

Have a great day. Okay. Cheers. Bye. Have a good one. Yeah, see you, mate. Sorry, rudely cut Nicole off there. We'll head to Morrinsville, Sue Morena.

Good morning. How are you, Ben? Lovely to have you on, Sue. Morrinsville this morning, looking magical as always. Very wet. Oh, yeah. Do you know Ross? on, Sue. Morrinsville this morning, looking magical as always. Very wet. Oh, do you know Ross? I know Ross from Morrinsville. Oh, could be.

Yeah. I don't know a surname, so when New Zealanders go to London, they're like, oh, you must know Gary. Oh, Jacinda. Jacinda, you know Jacinda from Morrinsville? She's someone, right? She sure is.

She sure is. All right, Sue, what's your question? Ben will do the Googling. How many sticks are in a pickup stick set? How many sticks in a pickup stick set? Oh, sticks. Don't just type the whole sentence. Just paraphrase.

Okay, so I have six to get out. Don't drag it out. We can get a 40. Whoa, 41. Too late. You can get them range in price from $9.99 to $556. Anyway, yeah, 41 sticks is traditionally what's there, but I didn't get there in time.

Thank you. Well done, sir. He didn't get there on time on purpose, Sue. I know when he's flailing around. He starts going, oh, oh, oh. He drags out another three or four seconds. He doesn't like to see losers on this show. No, we're the only losers on this show.

Yeah, congratulations, Sue. There you go. You get $200 Trade Depot voucher. Thank you, boys. Do you know the pick-up six game that I've played way too many times for my liking is when I knock over the cotton earbuds in the morning in the bathroom?

Oh, my God. That's a painful process. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hets. Bye. Thanks to Cadbury, Terry Milk sniffed his block. The new fan favourite. Alright, now here to make us

average people feel better about our miserable lives, we talk about how the celebrities have screwed up in their lives. Juliette, what's happening in Spy? So I'd like you to cast your mind back. I think it was a few months ago or maybe end of last year. Tom Cruise, there was a bit of leaked audio of him

on a set of Mission Impossible yelling at his crew for not following COVID protocols. They weren't socially distancing. And this is what happened. I don't ever want to see it again. Ever. And if you don't do it, you're fired. And if I see you do it again, you're f***ing gone.

Anyone on this crew does it. That's it. And you too. So we're on and on. The irony would have been if someone was like, Tom, we can't hear you. You've got your face mask on. You'd better take it off. Then he breaks COVID protocol.

Yeah. Well, he has, for the first time spoken about that incident and stands by it. He said, I said what I said. There was a lot at stake at that point. It also wasn't my entire crew. I had the crew leave the set and it was just a select few people

there. And then he said, and here we are continuing to film. So he obviously doesn't regret what he did. There's a select few people there, and one of them was a rat who recorded him on a phone. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, literally. Literally.

I know. So it's quite interesting that, because, you know, when he received so much backlash for this and the way he spoke to people, he probably doesn't... He probably saw that as the most effective way to get the message across.

But he put it into context of what was going on in the world what they were doing in some ways you know but he was he was probably

he had the crew's best interest at heart he was not doing it for Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is going to be fine yeah he didn't need to do that movie

no the hundreds and hundreds of people working on the movie they could have lost their gigs and that's who he was fighting for

exactly I think he said they were one of the few film crews that were working at that he said they were one of the few film crews that were working at that time where they were providing hundreds of jobs so it was kind of And I think he had personally put money towards the COVID

protection too. Yeah, so he's quite invested in it. He would be keeping everyone safe in a scary time. And Nicki Minaj, she has caused the website for Crocs to crash. So she posted a photo on her Instagram. She wasn't wearing much, but she was wearing a very bright pink bedazzled set of Crocs.

And so everyone saw this photo of Nikki looking a little bit sultry, wearing some Crocs. And she increased sales by almost 5,000% on the Crocs website for that photo. 5,000%? Yeah, the website crashed because she posted that photo. Oh, I'm seeing it now, yeah. Yeah. I see. The Crocs have never looked so seductive. I know.

Like, I've seen you in a pair of Crocs, Ben, and, you know, it's done things to me. But not like this photo. Yeah, true. This is weird. I know, I know. So, I mean, Crocs and, I guess, nudity sort of sells, doesn't it? Yeah.

Sex sells everything, even a pair of rubber crocs. Yeah, true, true. And there's a theory, if you're watching RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under, there's a theory that's been raised on TikTok that RuPaul wasn't actually in New Zealand or Australia when they filmed. So someone's posted a video on TikTok basically saying the editing's weird, the laughing doesn't match up, RuPaul's

never in really the same scenes as everyone else. But I think that's probably a valid thing because COVID was a thing. We thought RuPaul was here. Radio stations harassed RuPaul. Well, I think there's been someone on the show that said RuPaul was in New Zealand and Australia.

Did anyone see RuPaul? True. There were no pap shots or anything. No, no. I mean, who really cares if RuPaul was here or not? Yeah. I don't know. RuPaul, Drag Race, you know,

big fans notice these sorts of things. Potentially RuPaul... They've done a great job of making it look like RuPaul. Potentially RuPaul was on a satellite from the US so the contestants Potentially RuPaul has done a great job of making it look like RuPaul. Potentially RuPaul was on a satellite from the US so the contestants could see RuPaul

on a big screen. That's true. Hey, it's COVID times. Who cares? It's almost like there's not a pandemic to worry about. With RuPaul

in the same scene as the contestants. I know. As you say, I guess it's a great show. It's a great show. Totally. And that is five more.

You can head to theh hits.co.nz. From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts of New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Actual hearts being not bestowed. Listen,

I forgot to tell you, this morning I had to go in and you know, when you fill up your car with petrol and when you need to fill up petrol, it's never a convenient time.

It's like the worst possible task a human being has to do. Yeah, I've started to try and do it when I've got the time because you're right, when you're rushing, you're like, oh, you know. And I'd already pushed the car to its limits. It was just running off pure adrenaline. It was like, please, fill me up with petrol so I can create more of a hole in the ozone layer. It was begging me.

So I went in, and that classic thing, no one releases the pump for me. You put their pump in your... The pumps It was begging me. So I went in and that classic thing, no one releases the pump for me. You put their pump in your... The pump's not prepaid. They've got a sign. Go and pay for it. Yeah, no, I put it in the nozzle. I know the beeping's going on in there.

I'm like waving. I'm like, I'm good for it, mate. I am good for it. That's why they have the signs. You've got to go in and pay for it. Do I look good for it? No, you don't. Would you,

you saw this guy turn up once he wore a Budweiser hat, a Guns N' Roses t-shirt And an army jacket Yeah You're absolutely right Ben If you look like The pictures for the hits

Around the country Yeah absolutely But look at you I mean a beer Rock band And an army t-shirt True And track bands

Are they track bands You'd see me on CCTV Wouldn't you On Police 107 Yeah no I wouldn't Release the pop I'm a stereotype I can know

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