Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - May 14 - We Had Katy Perry, Julia Roberts & Brad Pitt On The Show, NO JOKE!

Episode Date: May 13, 2021

Yes, we aren't joking, we had these people on the show. Buuuuut they may not be the celebrities we know and love. Shhh... We also discussed the funny things you've taught your kids. Ben taught his about taxes, Jono taught his how to twerk. Interesting. Finally, Jono has been continuously served dieting ads, what are they trying to say!? 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. It's the 14th of May, it's Friday, it's Jono and Ben, it's, I feel like I'm about to go into an Italian accent.

Don't know, can you do Italian accents now? I think it's safer just not to do any accents these days. Italian accents are a fun one to do. It's the only one I can kind of do. Right. I knew you were going to do it. It's a fun one to do. But it's not, I think it's safer just not to go there.

Is it? Yeah. But then is the Australian one one to do? Because we do that, you do that. Yeah, well, that's the thing. I don't know. I don't know. You did that this morning.

Yeah, I know, I know. And I was just thinking of it when it happened. You're like, you know, because you don't, the last thing anyone wants to do is mock anyone else. For accents. For anything, you know, these days. Oh, God, we've all just become so safe, haven't we? What happened to mocking?

Mocking. Yeah, but you can't even mock yourself. Maybe you can mock yourself. No, it'll be like, how can you self-mock? You're giving off a message of self-hatred. Oh, yeah, probably right. We've just become this. That's probably the only thing you can do at the moment. You're right. You wait. Next week you won't be able

to, mate. Yeah, we're like, oh, still making jokes about yourself. It'll be it. But then if you're, at least with yourself, you're the only one that could be offended or not offended. Really? Really,

you really reckon if you offend yourself, if you mock yourself, you're the only one who's going to be offended? Well, no, that boils down to it.

At the end of the day, that's all that matters. You're right. Yeah, but you're right. Is that the only person who'll be offended? Someone will go,

yeah. That's the world we live in now. That's interesting. It's a fine line, isn't it? Where does stand-up comedy go? A lot of stand-up comedy was mocking

and ridiculing audiences. You couldn't go to a stand-up comedy show and have the person bully the person. How you had a microphone and you bullied the audience member.

Well, yeah, you're not. I mean, it wasn't like they were set out to bully anyone. But you're right. It was always going along. Where are you from, mate? And they'd make jokes and stuff like that and have a bit of a laugh with the audience. It was always going along. Where are you from, mate? And they'd make jokes and stuff like that

and have a bit of a laugh with the audience. It was intended to be good humour most of the time. You wouldn't get away with it now, would you? They'd embarrass the person. You wanted to come along to the... Listen, you sound like a boomer, don't you? I do, I do. But it's getting to the point of ridiculousness, I think.

Don't you? A lot of it is absolutely warranted. There's a lot of things, a lot of changes that had to be made, I think. Don't you? A lot of it is absolutely warranted. There's a lot of things, a lot of changes that had to be made, I think. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, there's a lot of it that needs to be done. And I think the world is going to be a better place for a lot of it, a safer place for people to be.

Then I always wonder, is it just a very vocal minority who... Maybe in some instances. Yeah. Yeah, but not, I mean, in general stuff. I think we've all learned a lot of lessons over the years that you've gone, okay, in this particular instance, it's too far. We shouldn't do this and this is not right. But then in these other occasions,

maybe sometimes people get outraged about stuff like that. Oh, yeah. What winds me up is when they go back to a David Letterman show from 1974 and they edit together a montage of David Letterman saying mean stuff from 40 years ago. It's like, yeah, he probably shouldn't have said it. It was wrong then. But he's not. Yeah.

He's not even hosting a show now. Yeah. Today, though, on our show, big show. I mean, we're going to probably re-edit this in 20 years. We've never been able to say this before. Julie Roberts, Brad Pitt, Katy Perry, all on the show.

No, you can't say that, mate. You're going to offend someone. Why not? Why not? Well, you wait. You wait for the result and if you're offended then you go in on being voiced. Well, no, you shouldn't be offended

because they're the actual people with their names. Katy Perry, Julie Roberts, and Brad Pitt. Are they the actors and musicians and singer?

Sorry. We'll leave that for you to decide. I mean, yes, we'll leave that for you to decide. But it's on the podcast anyway. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. The wonderful Aaron Watkinson,

he does production for this show. Production of the highest quality. That's the only good thing about this program is the production levels they're running at a wonderful level the bar is set high but he's saying he taught his daughter a funny thing uh over the weekend how to blow bubbles with bubble gum oh yeah because the kids as a kid that's all you want to be able to do right you know when you see bubble gum you're like i want to be able to do that right? When you see bubblegum, you're like, I want to be able to do that. And it's actually quite tricky to be able

to nail that. I mean, it seems like a recipe for bits of bubblegum being stuck on the couch. And some arguments had with partners about, why did you teach the kids how to blow bubblegum? But it's a great trick to teach

your children, isn't it? Do you remember doing that as a kid when you couldn't quite nail it, so you'd take the bubble guy out and you'd stretch it across the front of you? Yes, yes. And you'd blow through there, you're like, I'm blowing a bubble. You're like, well, you are, mate. It's not quite what you do. You're pushing air into a wall of gum. Yeah.

Yeah, no, so I think that's a great skill to teach because I think it was the late, great Whitney Houston who once said, I will always love you yeah she sang that yeah and I believe children of the future teach them

that's probably a better reference yeah I believe children of the future teach them well and lead them away but if you teach children bad then they become a viral YouTube sensation

well that's true there's always that option you're right have you taught your kids anything? Well, yeah, we want to know kind of on 100 the hits, four, four, eight, seven. Yeah, not like, I taught my kids to be decent human beings. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's a given. That's a given, exactly. Funny things you taught your kids. I would say one of the funniest conversations we were teaching the kids was taxes. Like, because they'd done a job and it was like, oh, how much do we get paid for this thing? And I was like, oh, you get this.

But the government, they were like, you could see the little hearts breaking inside. Bendity, a diagram on a whiteboard. They were just like, why would they take the, well, that's what they do. It's a harsh reality of the tax system. I know. He also, we call Ben New Zealand's Wesley Snipes too.

He's also taught them how to avoid paying tax. So that's why his daughter Sienna now has an offshore account of the Cayman Islands. That's right. That's going very well for him. That's right. I taught him about that too. It's a wonderful tax haven over there.

I remember I taught, well, I like to get laughs from the kids. I'm desperate to get laughs. So I'll do anything. So when something hits, I'll just ram it home. And so I was twerking one day in the kids. I'm desperate to get laughs. So when something hits, I'll just ram it home. And so I was twerking one day in the lounge. And I was like, this is landing. I'm rolling around laughing. But unfortunately what that does

is it becomes a production factory for twerking children. And kids twerking is never a good look, is it? Especially in public when you're going through the Westfield Mall. Are those your twerking kids? I'm like, yeah, sorry. That was my bad.

So, yeah, I had them twerking everywhere. But don't teach them too early to twerk. No, that's true. What's a good age for twerking? Like, what's up? Nine? Okay. Anything before that's weird.

Yeah, you're right. Well, nine's not weird at all. So give us a call right now. I would love to hear from you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Our Andrew there. Yeah, you're right. No, it's not weird at all. So give us a call right now. I would love to hear from you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Our Andrew there. It's 4487. What was the funny thing

that you had to teach your kids? We might find a Trade Depot voucher for one of our favourite callers next. We're going to start with you, Julian Tauranga. How are you? Hello. What did you have to teach your kids? I taught my kids the F word.

Never too early to learn. Was it finance? Was it friendship? There's a song living next door to Alice. Do you remember that? Yes.

And they were really wanting to know who Alice was, weren't they? Who is Alice? Yeah, so there's two versions to it.

And the one is who the F is Alice. And I used to play it in the car and I'd have my kids in the Alice. And I used to play it in the car and I'd have my kids in the back seat and I'd have it on loud ads and when it came to Who the F is Alice, I used to watch my kids

and yeah, I'm quite happy to say that. Yeah, I know. What a strange driving song. I've never been driving anywhere in Ghana. You know what I could listen to is Who the F is Alice. We'll try it over the weekend. We'll give it a go.

And so when you drop them off at school, they'd be singing their anthem. Absolutely. Yeah, they would. And I was on the way to school too. Oh, we appreciate your call. We're going to give you a $200 Trade Depot credit. TradeDepot.co.nz.

You can upgrade your bathroom, kitchen, laundry, your appliances, easy. Oh, awesome. Thank you. Some friends of ours, they taught their son, you know the Bob the Builder song? Bob the Builder, can he fix it? They taught their son that song. Bob the Builder, can he fix it?

Bob the Builder, it's fit. No, I don't know what he's done there with the end. He hasn't done a great job with the building, has he? Yeah, no, it seems like a failed inspection. It's not. No, I don't know what he's done there with the end. He hasn't done a great job at the building, has he? Yeah, no, it seems like a failed inspection. It's not up the code. Oh, it's, yeah. Nicole, welcome from Auckland. How are you?

Good morning, how are you? Really well. The unusual things you taught your kids. We were sitting at a dinner table one night and my younger brother said to my mum, he couldn't figure out how my mum got pregnant with my little sister. And so he asked if he ate her.

He couldn't figure out for the life of him how a baby would get inside her. Yeah, and that's an unusual concept. Yeah, you're right. And he said you ate her. And then your mum's like, well I can't tell him the truth, so yes. Yes, I did eat the child. He was so young as well.

That's what I did. Oh, that's so good. Thank you. Appreciate it, Nicole. We'll go to Jane. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast House. How's Hamilton this morning, Jano? Yeah, it's great, actually.

Is it foggy? Is it foggy? A little bit of fog, but pretty warm, by the way. All right. What is the thing you taught your kids? Actually, I taught both my kids. It took them a little while to open a corked wine bottle before they were the age of 10.

That's a skill. That's their real skill, yeah. Yeah. Mummy doesn't quite have the capabilities to open the ninth bottle, so can you do it for me? It's true. Thank you, Jane. Appreciate your call.

Awesome, thanks. And thanks for all your calls. That was a wonderful 3 minutes and 12 seconds It was, it was great Probably the most enjoyable 3 minutes and 12 seconds I've ever had in my life Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast You know how you get fed ads on the internet So if you've googled something or you've looked at something on a website

Then you get just assaulted with commercials relating to that product for the next seven to ten days, don't you? Yours is sometimes different from the rest of the team. Yeah, listen, I made a faux pas the other, it was many months ago, you guys haven't let it go. I said, are you guys getting fed all these ads for this gentleman named Bobby Rio? Yeah, it was how to flirt more at work and things like that. It was essentially how to manipulate women. It was everything I stand against.

No, we're not. You're like, oh, come on, be honest. We're like, no, we're not. And then you were like, you guys Googled him. And then we tracked him down, didn't we? We spoke to him. We did, we did. He actually had a really good concept.

His concept was providing a service for nervous gentlemen. His advertising was off. Yeah, the way we went about it was... Anyway, I don't know how that smut was being fed into my Google account. I don't have a clue. But my latest one is I'm getting fed all sorts of diet commercials for some reason. I don't know, maybe it's keeping track of my Uber Eats orders. But, you know, the more diet commercials I get fed,

they're not doing anything for my weight loss. They keep just putting on more kgs. But there are so many diets out there. I Googled, there is over 3,000 different types of diets you can do. Oh, really? Isn't that insane? It's insane. Yeah.

Ben's got me on a diet at the moment. It's funny. I haven't seen this one online where you hold on to your friend's dress pants and then every time he goes to put them on you say well you used to fit in them which is something that's happening between Ben and myself I just, yeah I do

we've got suits that I hold on to because I'm slightly more responsible in that regard than you and so when I bring them along you're like oh you've shrunk these why don't you just give me some of that fit tea and those diet pills you advertise on Instagram more responsible in that regard than you. And so when I bring them along, you're like, oh, you've shrunk these. Yeah. Why don't you just give me some of that fit tea and those diet pills you advertise on Instagram? I don't do that.

Just give me some of that stuff. I don't do that. That stuff that gives you the squits. No, no. You do. They pay well, mate. I haven't never, have I ever done that. I'm actually honestly only two.

Have you done a diet before, Juliet? No, I can't be bothered with that. No, it's a commitment, isn't it? Have you dieted before? No, but there are lots of people that do, and if it works for you and you're not hurting yourself, then go on, yeah, whatever you want to do. Remember I did the General Motors diet?

Remember over New Year's, once there was the General Motors, the automotive company in the States, they put all their employees on this diet, you know, to make them healthier, you know, healthy life, rah-dee-rah-dee-rah, and the diet was all fruit based. So all you did was eat fruit. 24 hours a day fruit. And it worked. It worked wonders for General Motors, but not for my engine. I started this diet, it was Thursday morning, I was starting

7am eating fruits. I had watermelon for breakfast, but 12 o'clock I had three heinies. Where is that? Where is that, the fruit? What tree are you picking that off? The Heineken. The Heineken tree? From the Amazon. You started over New Year's.

You're never going to not go to the fridge by midday, are you? By 3 p.m., I was eating chips and onion dip. I literally lasted on this diet for a morning. But I've gone through all these diets and I'd like to play a game with you if you don't mind okay this is diet

diet or no diet okay the waste management diet the diet or no diet oh is these the actual diets yeah I was going to say not a diet where you eat all the food

out of a skip bin yeah well well done you're good at this game not a diet. The Milan catwalk runway diet where you're cruelly starved by heartless fashion designers to squeeze into their creations. Oh no, that's not an actual diet.

It's a diet. It works for some people. It's not an actual legitimate thing written by anyone. Two from two. The affair diet where you go around cheating on your partner and not only do you lose weight from the stress of leading a double life but also you shred your family. Two from two. The affair diet, where you go around cheating on your partner,

and not only do you lose weight from the stress of leading a double life, but also you shred your family. I imagine that happens, but it's not an official recognised diet. The methamphetamine diet. Oh, God, move on. 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 Penn. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Now across the Tasman in Australia, there's a big legal battle going on with a very famous name. Blow me down, Katy Perry, as I live and breathe.

That's me. Nice to talk to you. Yeah, you too. Thank you for your time this morning. Now you're up nice and early for us, so we really appreciate it. Oh, yeah, well, I've got two small kids. I'm always up very early. Oh, that's the thing.

You just, like, you lose all hope of sleeping in, don't you, as soon as you procreate? Oh, yeah, sleep? What is that? You just run off adrenaline, and at the moment you run off legal proceedings, Katy Perry. Oh, exactly. There's a lot of adrenaline running through my blood at the moment. Obviously, off legal proceedings, Katy Perry. Oh, exactly. There's a lot of adrenaline running

through my blood at the moment. Obviously, your real name is Katy Perry. Yes. So, my real name is Katy Perry and the pop singer is Katherine Hudson. Start with those facts. Okay. So, your birth name is K-A-T-I-E Perry. Her stage name is K-A-T-Y-E

Perry. So, K-A-T-Y Perry. That's right. Okay, and why do I always get into live spelling? It never helps me out. You didn't quite know that. So you've been making clothes in Australia. You've got your own company, Fashion Designer. You've been for how long now?

So since 2006, I've had my label. Where does this legal stash come in? How does it begin? Okay, so it began actually back in 2009. So I have the trademark for Katy Perry for clothes. And when I first started, I had never heard about her, had been told by everyone, which is what happens a lot in fashion. Just use your name.

You know, there's a lot of designers, you know, Alexander, Vera Wang, most people use their name. Katy Perry, it's a great name. And then in 2009, I got all these legal documents. They stop sale of your clothes, stop your website, stop any advertising material. We're going to take this to the Supreme Court. Oh, this is from Katy Perry, the singers, her lawyers, her legal team, right? Yes, that's right. So we had a 10-week huge battle. And then two hours before the court case, they just withdrew their opposition.

Kind of that was the end of it. Never heard from them ever again. And over those 11 years, she's been breaching my trademark. So I would get people sending me messages saying, oh, you know, she's selling clothes in Target. She has accessories in Maya. So your trademark, I guess, being Katy Perry, a fashion label, gives you the ownership of the name in Australia and that territory

for clothes and any accessories. Yeah, for clothes and accessories. That's correct. And Katy Perry rolls in here, does a line in Target, and you can't do anything legally. Exactly. So I thought, well, my hands are tied because I don't have, you know, thousands and thousands of dollars or hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight this.

I'm a small business. All my money goes back to my label. So it's fine when Katy Perry was, you know, a singer, you know, a presenter and all that sort of stuff. But I guess now you're right in Australia in particular, she's selling clothes. Exactly. So then I was told about litigation fund managers. I don't know if you've ever heard of that. No. They sound fun. Sounds fun. Putting the fun in fund manager. It sounds like the world's most boring job, but they're like, let's put fun in the title.

Just try to make it fun. Yeah, it sounds very serious. It is very serious. So what they do is they look at a case, so they're paying for all of my legal costs. And that's the only way I'm able to fight this. So is Katy Perry coming at you or are you coming at Katy Perry? No, so now it's my turn. I'm coming after her. She's been breaking Australian law.

Do you have any idea if Katy Perry, the singer, even knows about this thing or is there her team? Yeah, look, a lot of people said that to me. She knows all about this. She knew it back in 2009. She knows that it's happening now. Really, she is the one person that could stop this, but she's choosing not to.

Well, what if I told you we had Katy Perry on the other line? That would be amazing. We don't. We don't. We have you who is Katy Perry. We've got one Katy Perry. Yeah, exactly, Kerry. He has Captain Hudson on the line.

Oh, there we go. I like it. But the spelling is Katy Perry. We've got one Katy Perry. Yeah, exactly, Katy Perry. He has something Hudson on the line. Oh, there we go. I like it. But the spelling is obviously different. Does that... I mean, I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination. You're not a radio announcer by any stretch of the imagination. But is there an argument there to say that it is spelt differently so you guys can both exist?

No. Look, we both can exist. Her as a singer and me as a fashion designer, which is what I fought for back in 2009. So this is a stay in your lane is what I fought for back in 2009. So this is a stay in your lane, Katie Perry. Australia's your turf. Very much.

And also just, you know, it's Australian law. Now, correct me if I'm wrong. I think, I believe that happened with Burger King in Australia because Burger King is Hungry Jack's in Australia. Very similar. So there was already a Burger King in Australia. Oh, and they just changed the name of Hungry Jacks within that territory. Exactly. Yeah, so it's happened quite a few times, and look, I mean,

something like the Burger King and the Hungry Jacks, that was quite a big battle. It's just that it happens so many times with small businesses, and they go, well, I don't have money for legal costs, so I'm just going to have to give my trademark, or I'm just going to have to change everything, and that shouldn't be the case. What if she got you a double pass to her next concert?

Is that a make good? Might be returned in the mail. So are you hot or cold? Oh no, don't do categories. Here we go. Was it your teenage dream to start a fashion label? See it was.

It was my dream since I was 11. Do you sell clothes all over the world? Primarily Australia. Well, have you ever thought about selling them to California girls? We're going to have to stop with that. Well, good luck with your endeavours, and hopefully everything gets worked out in the long term for you and for Katy Perry.

Yes, thank you so much. That is Katy Perry from Australia, who's in a bit of a legal stoush with the singer Katy Perry. So we want to so much. That is Katy Perry from Australia who's in a bit of a legal stoush with the singer Katy Perry. So we want to know right now on 0800 The Hits, have you got the same name as a celebrity? Yeah, have you traded off it? Have you milked it?

Has it been a burden or has it been an absolute grace from God? Julia on the phone. How are you? I'm very good. How are you? Doing well, Julia. Julia who? Julia Roberts. Oh, get out of'm very good. How are you? Doing well, Julia. Julia who?

Julia Roberts. Is it really Julia Roberts? It really is. I married John Roberts. So, yes. Did you marry John just so you could become Julia Roberts? I did, really. We won't tell John that. So, has it been

of a benefit at all or is it a conversation that you get sick of having? I mean, how does it work? A bit of both. Lots of pretty woman jokes, lots of... I got a few things. I got refused at a restaurant. I phoned up to make a booking, and the guy kind of said,

yeah, right, I'm Mickey Mouse, and put the phone down. And you're like, well, lovely to meet you, Mickey. I look forward to dining at your restaurant. Last time you booked Disneyland tickets. Exactly. So overall, it lovely to meet you, Mickey. I look forward to dining at your restaurant. Yeah, because it's the last time you booked Disneyland tickets. Exactly. So overall, it's been quite good, really. It's been, yeah, I like it. I do.

People remember me, that's for sure. Did you ever think you'd call yourself Julie Roberts or anything like that? Or were you like, no, I'm Julia? No. No, we're going for it. No, we stick with it. Indeed. And I mean, another perk is you get to phone up for novelty radio topics as well.

Exactly. Well, I also got auditioned for the telephone adverts, the skinny adverts, when they were looking for... Oh, famous people. Yeah, they did the famous people. So I went and had a few auditions and got through a little bit. So that was quite fun. That was hilarious. Oh, but did you not make the final...

So Julia Roberts didn't make the final cut in an advert. Wasn't a good enough actor. No, exactly. I got so far. So it was quite fun. I thought my friends were winding me up because I got this phone call to come for this audition. I just thought it was a complete wind-up,

but it was true. Oh, it was a great campaign, that, from Skinny, where the famous people. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. No worries. Jeez, spare a thought for all the Jono Pryors out there. Jeez, I've done some damage to that brand, haven't I?

Yeah. Oh, it's despicable things. Brad is on the phone. How are you, Brad? Good, how are you? How are you guys? Good. Brad who?

Last name Pitt. Oh, get out of it. Are you really? Brad Pitt? Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, I think if I took you back to 1992, where I was in England getting born, you know, and the movie Thelma and Louise came out.

Oh, so this was a conscious decision from your parents? Well, they tell me no. But, I mean, Thelma and Louise came out, and it was a big hit out in the movies, and, of course, it was a big hit on the... It was. Out in the movies. And of course, that was his big break. But I don't know whether they were living under a rock or not. But when it came time to writing all my birth certificate, Brad Pitt was put down.

Jeez, they probably didn't think how big he was going to become. And what a... I imagine a pain in the ass having the name Brad Pitt is. To be honest, with all the laughs that you can have with it, it's not bad at all. Do you get any perks? Well, like Julia was, I was going to be on the advert, but I kind of had a bit of a conflict

with potentially doing that with my employer at the time. So the two names, the two best actors in the world, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, weren't good enough for the skinny ads. I love it. Skinny, of course, we're talking about the ads where they got people with famous names to be in the skinny ads.

There's like a Michael Jordan on there as well. Yeah, there was a Ben Affleck, I think, as well. Oh, listen, Brad, thank you so much for phoning through. Really interesting talking to you. And I tell you what, it's going to be great for our podcast when we describe in the episode Katy Perry, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt. Oh, this is going to

send iHeartRadio, so they're going to have to cancel iHeartRadio. It's going to blow it up. Thank you very much for your time. Nice talking to you, Brad Pitt. No worries. Well, that's cool. As you say, on the show today, Katy Perry, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts without a word of a lie. That's pretty cool. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. This week we've been on a journey and one heck of a journey involving one of the world's biggest stars and one of my heroes, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Please welcome Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. For 10 years, Dwayne The Rock Johnson has been Ben The Pebble Voice's hero. He inspires me.

Now, Ben's challenge. Can he get on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram? Yeah, that's right. I am a friend. A good friend. Wanting to make Ben's dream come true. His dream is to feature on The Rock's Instagram account. So we went to some extraordinary lengths

during the week to get you noticed by Dwayne The Rock Johnson, didn't we? Yeah, we did. We did. Love heart tattoo on my behind with his name in there. Now, Juliet, have we got an audio montage collection of what's happened so far?

Because, you know, our 6.17am audience, they might not have been across this. Oh, true. We'd better bring them up to speed. Talking about Dwayne The Rock Johnson's tequila. When people enjoy his tequila around the world and locations, he will sometimes post the montage. And that is my dream, guys,

to be part of that montage one day. Well, may I present to you Dwayne the Rock Johnson's tequila. To get on his Instagram. To get on Dwayne the Rock Johnson's Instagram account. It's generally lovely. Thank you. But the thing is we're going to leave it to the audience to decide.

I like that. Lisa, you're on the air. What about just a cute little heart tattoo that just says Dwayne Johnson? To give us some advice, Kate Rogers, entertainment reporter for News Hub. One single Instagram post for his films

is worth a million US. Price figure you put on there, taking the wind out of my sails. The votes have come through, my friend. You've got to say tattoo, aren't you? What if I said tat? If he doesn't post this, I mean... Well, it doesn't matter because you win at the end of the day

because you still love Dwayne the Royal Chanty. And that's why I'm doing it, because I love him. Days of the day, I woke up, it was like Christmas and all these people enjoying tequila from around the world. Who have we got here? The Rock's Taramana Tequila. Anything with friends is a good day. I wasn't on that post, but I was like, oh, there's another post.

There's a whole bunch of people on the other post. And I flicked on through. None of them was me. It wasn't on that post, but it was, oh, there's another post. There's a whole bunch of people on the other post. And I flicked on through. None of them was me. We weren't on there. You said we'd be on there. You said. On a completely unrelated matter, have you got any regretful tattoos? A final PSA.

A little butt weights. Will it ever sit on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram? There's a new show. Young Rock managed to track down Stacey Leilua, who plays The Rock's mum. Oh, you don't? I got a heart with Dwayne The Rock Johnson's name on my left buttocks cheek.

Yeah, I think they'd find that very amusing. She's just posted it on her Instagram, which Dwayne The Rock Johnson follows. Oh, he might see it. He might see it. We are... It's like, I don't know why we're still talking about it, to be honest. Well, Ben.

Because it's not, nothing's happened so far. You said, you said The Rock Dwayne Johnson was going to post something about the topic. Just those sweet little lips. Put those lips together, my friend. Pierce them together. Because something has happened over the last 24 hours. I don't know if you've seen the account. Clearly not, because you're looking at me with a confused look.

No. Shall I look that up? No, don't look online, but I'll play this. Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, I've got the mic drop announcement of mic drop announcements going down. Not now, but right now. He's made an announcement. Am I going to be disappointed with this announcement? No, announcements going down. Not now, but right now. He's made an announcement. Am I going to be disappointed with this announcement?

No, you're not. Is this? No, you are not. Is this? After 7 o'clock. Oh, no. If I could coin a phrase, it's been a rocky road to this point. Ben's been going, you made me get a tattoo for nothing.

Nothing. And our friendship's been on the rocks. But after 7 o'clock, some... That's all I'll say. Exciting news. Okay, all right. I'll look forward to that. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Get into this, though. Five words for 5K on the hit. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's our Game of Word Association. We tell you five words. You say the first five words that pop into your head.

If your five words match with our five words, you're $5,000 richer. We're going to Christchurch. Must be chilly there this morning, Kate. Good morning. How are you? Doing well. Is it cold there this morning?

Not too bad. It's four degrees, so not as cold as it was yesterday morning. How are you? Doing well. Is it cold there this morning? Not too bad. It's four degrees, so not as cold as it was yesterday morning. Not too bad? Yeah. Four degrees. It's four degrees in Auckland at the moment. I had the snow plough out this morning.

We're a bit harder down here. We're actually flying to Christchurch today. Here we are. We've got our final weekend of filming our TV show. And I'm taking you to $2 rice, but you refuse to go. He wants to feed me $2 rice. He wants to poison me for some reason. That's good.

Yeah, I don't know what I've done wrong to him. It's almost like I made him get a tattoo for no reason this week, Kate. All right, let's win you $5,000. Couldn't think of a better way to rip into the weekend. Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? I'm going to send Ben, please. Okay, I'll go in there. Get in there. He's making his

way into the soundproof booth now. It would be an amazing start to the weekend to win five grand. The only other better way to start the weekend right now would be if, Juliet, you told me it was a long weekend and I didn't realise it was. Well, I'm sorry. I can't break that news to you today. You're always disappointing me. Constant disappointment, producer Juliet. Yeah, I know. Alright, let's get into it, I'm sorry. I can't break that news to you today. You're always disappointing me. Constant disappointment, producer

Julia. Yeah, I know. Alright, let's get into it, Kate. Alrighty. You know how it works. You've just got to match your five words with Ben's five words, okay? Yep. Question. Mark. Mark. That's an obvious flow on. Sprained.

Ankle. Ankle. Brush. Here. Here. Yep. Barbecue. Grill. Grill.

And the fifth and final word, applicable, given the structure of the week, Friday. Oh, Friday. Yay. Weekend, I guess. I don't know. Yay, weekend, I guess. I don't know. Okay, is that the final answer? We'll go weekend.

Weekend, nice work. Hey, you did well, Kate. Awesome, thank you. You played that well. Do you like playing a quick game, getting the words out early? Yeah, it's not too much when you you start questioning yourself, don't you? Yeah, you do. We'll eject Ben from the soundproof booth now.

Emerging, much like he emerged out of his mother Jenny the day he was born. Welcome. A little less mess though. Morning, morning. Kate did well. She played quick, she played hard. I'll play a quick game, okay? Let's go quick for me too.

All right. Question. Mark. Sprained. Ankle. Maybe quick's good. Brush. Hair.

Kate. I've just been farting round. I've been an idiot I played a quick game with you And I was playing a quick game with him for fun But this is a turning point It is What do you want to say to him?

Good luck, you got this Let's do this Bar B Q Tongs B-Q. Tongues. Oh. Oh. Oh.

What was that? Sorry, Kate. What did you say? What did you say? What did you say, Kate? I think growl. You know, we could have ended the week on a high. Kate could have gone, we were going down to Christchurch.

Kate would probably shout us out for dinner No, sorry Yes, she would have, you see That's all Started well But anyway, it fell apart If I was The Rock I wouldn't post you on my Instagram account

He was about to Then he just deleted the post The fifth and final word was Friday Night Started with such promise What's his name on Friday? Weekend. Oh, yeah.

Kate, you've been an absolute hero. If it was up to me, I'd put you on the $5 note instead of Sir Edmund Hillary. But that's not my decision. That's over to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Oh, Kate, hopefully we get to play a game with you. That was lots of fun. It was. Thank you so much.

No worries. Another chance tomorrow, Monday. We're Friday. Yes, on Monday. That's how the weeks work, Ben. Yeah, you did that. Yeah right, another chance tomorrow, Monday. We're Friday. Yes, on Monday. That's how the weeks work, Ben. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah, no.

The home of yeah, no. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Bye. Thanks to Cadbury, Dairy Milk sniffed his block. The new fan favourite. Listen, she's got her nose up in everyone's grill.

And when I say everyone's grill, we had a dinner party at my house last weekend. She put her nose inside my barbecue. Went to rush her off to A&E. But that's how committed she is to putting her nose into other people's grills. Juliette. It's a bit sore at the moment now. So one of Ellen's former producers has gone on Australian TV and basically slammed her since the announce that she is finishing up her talk show next year.

So Hedda Muscat worked for Ellen when the show first started, and her role was to sort of book human interest guests. So not celebrities, but people who would kind of be topical or in the news or interesting to talk to. And this is what Hedda had to say about Ellen. The viewers have spoken. Her ratings have been in the toilet for a long, long time now, and she's not really, by the way, stepping down.

The viewers fired her and they're not going to put up. The viewers are not going to put up with the backstage racism that goes on and the backstage bullying that goes on. Frankly, I'm very disappointed that Oprah is lowering herself to interview Ellen. I mean, Oprah can interview kings and queens, and for her to interview Ellen, it's like, why? Who cares about Ellen anymore? Oprah's never interviewed kings or queens. She interviewed Meghan Markle and Harry. Yeah, but royalty, I guess.

Yeah, but the shot's fired. The shot's absolutely fired. She also said that apparently Ellen would, like, sort of kiss the butts of the celebrities and basically be, you know, all happy as Larry to them, but then to the guests that Hedda would get, maybe the more topical ones who aren't celebrities, she wouldn't really care about them or would make sly comments.

Oh, fair enough. Why do you need to treat normal people with respect? Hey, now. They're just normal. We don't know why. They're minions. You treat celebrities better than you do normal people. It's a fact of life.

You know? Ben, as an example, Dwayne the Rook Johnson walks in here. Okay? How are you going to treat him? I'd be pretty excited, wouldn't I? Okay. Some smelly radio school students come in. I'd be just as excited, Jono, about that as well.

Exactly. A fact of even more so. It's a fact of life. Famous people get treated better. And I say we stick with it. Good on you, Alan. Oh, my God. That's great stuff. And something that's been very highly

anticipated, the Friends reunion date has been announced. It's going to be airing on the 27th of May on HBO Max. HBO Max isn't a thing, or it's not available in New Zealand, but I believe a little bit of research shows me that they've in the the past, given Sky the rights to some of their content,

so there's potential that Sky might air it, but we don't know that for sure right now. Hey, well, thanks for that. Yeah, well, no, no, no, just providing the information that I know. But Lisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe, she went on. Was it Conan O'Brien that it was? Yes, it was Conan O'Brien's talk show. Yeah, Conan O'Brien, his talk show. And he asked her, what can you say about the reunion? She literally gets her phone out and reads what she is allowed to say.

I'll tell you everything I'm allowed to say. Key phrase that we're allowed to say. Joined by special guests, we will all, the cast, we all, shoot. It's good. I like it. I like it so far. And the fact that you made a little bit of an error there adds excitement to it. Like, this is really happening.

It's real, and there's pressure. Yeah. Okay. Joined by special guests, we all, the cast, return to the original soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Brothers studio lot for an unscripted reunion special in celebration of the show. So... Whoever wrote that knows showmanship. That came from the heart.

Heartfelt message. So much. So many details. Yeah, it wasn't much, right? No. So the Friends reunion not too far away. There's some bizarre guests in there that we have touched on this morning. BTS, Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber apparently wears Ross's potato costume that he once wore in an episode.

None of it makes sense. Yeah, weird, weird edition of guests. Oh, there we go. Hey, thank you very much. I didn't realise the show was going to be called Insomnia Cafe originally. Do you know that? Was it? Friends, yeah we go. Thank you very much. I didn't realise the show was going to be called Insomnia Cafe originally. Do you know that? Was it? We're friends, yeah.

Interesting. There we go. That's a wonderful edition of Spy. Ben, you played a wonderful role. So did you, Juliet. More to come after eight. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal dad.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, I'm a bit worried that something that I've... I've created something, a problem in the house for one of my little, I guess, quirks. You've got a lot of them too and a lot of worry about a lot of things. What is this one? We did some renovations

in our house a while ago and that included the bedroom and I was like, well, I don't want to sleep next to any plugs. I don't like sleeping next to plugs, to PowerPoints and stuff. You've got a problem with electricity for some reason. I mean, you and Benjamin Franklin just wouldn't see eye to eye. I know.

He even got on the internet, producer Juliet, and bought a reader. Yeah, that's when it got too far. Oh, wait, what? He came to work with like a reader that he holds up to electricity. Oh, yeah. Electricity and the waves and stuff. Then I was like, no, I need to put this away. Just to see how many skagamussons

it was releasing or whatever. Is it just the thought of like the electricity being there? Yeah, what's it doing? I don't know what it's doing to me when it's that close to me. And also so I don't sleep with my phone next to my bed. So when we got So he'd go around waving this reader all around. He brought it into the radio studio and it was going

I know, I know. What's happening here every morning? I try not to think about that. He brought it into the radio studio and it was going, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. I know. I know what's happening here every morning. I try not to think about that. I tell you what, we're not having any more children, that's for sure. So anyway, so at home in the bedroom, I'm like, I didn't want any plugs, didn't want PowerPoints because I didn't want a phone next to the bed. I didn't want to sleep next to the phone because I don't know what it's doing.

I'm like, maybe it's fine, maybe it's not. I don't want to take the risk. But what I've created now is an extra problem because there's like a little PowerPoint just tucked around to the little bathroom we've got next to the bedroom. But now my wife now runs an extension cord from the bathroom to the bed so she can have her phone or a laptop, whatever she's got next to the bed. But at four o'clock in the morning when I'm getting up, and that happened this morning, there's an extension cord running in the dark from one room to the other. So this is my fault because obviously if there was a plug next to the bed, this wouldn't be happening.

So I tripped on this thing. And then yanked the laptop off. Yanked the laptop, phone, half a cup of tea, all down onto the floor. This is just because he demanded a plugless bedroom. I know. And then I tripped slightly over it and then bashed my elbow on the wall.

And I was like, oh, and I was going to complain. I obviously woke up my wife and I was like, oh, but then it's all on me when you think about it. Like if I just said, well, let's put a plug in. There's nothing wrong with a plug in a room, mate. Okay, honestly. You plug things on Instagram fine. Why weren't you plugs in your room?

I've created this problem and I was like, I've only got myself to blame in that situation. I love plugs. I'll have plugs anywhere. In my wall, in my bathroom, in my hair, I'll take them. Put a plug anywhere. Actually, speaking of, it's an unusual location to have plugs in the bathroom, I find.

Really? Well, just the environment. Yeah, well, I guess a hairdryer is probably what it gets used for. And hair straighteners. You know, if you could pick any room in the house, where do we want

some electrical equipment? I'll chuck it in the bathroom, mate. Alright, give me nine plugs in there, thanks. Broadcasting live and mostly awake.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryeror's Worst Moments of the Week. Reflecting back on one particular show member's

worst moments over the last five days of radio. Is it me? It's you. Because the introduction said it was Jono Pryor's worst moments. Now, you demonstrate all my low points. Now, my problem with this presentation is you're playing them bang, bang, bang, one after another. But what you need to keep in mind

is they've been spaced out over five days. So, you know, yes, in a collection they seem terrible and I seem like a substandard broadcaster. We've had a lot of options, though. We have a lot of options that we just go through and it takes us a while to whittle them down to our favourite sort of three. Yeah, but what I'm saying is they're not happening all the time.

No, but consistently they're happening many, many times. They're happening more than this, though. That's what I'm trying to say. I know you get your point. You're saying it're not happening all the time. No, but consistently they're happening many, many times. They're happening more than this, though. That's what I'm trying to say. I know you get your point. You're saying it's not happening all the time, but I'm saying it's happening more often. Enough to generate a weekly feature. No, if I was plenty, we could do five weekly features,

the rest of the day. But anyway, we got talking the other day about Producer Juliet's love for, did he win Australian Idol or X Factor or something? Australian X Factor. Rhys Maston. And you had a very unusual way of describing the fan club Juliet's love for, did he win Australian Idol or X Factor? Australian X Factor. Rhys Maston. And you had a very unusual way of describing the fan club for Rhys Maston.

I was like, oh, I love Rhys Maston. Like, I've got mastitis. And then my friend's mum was like, don't say that. She's like, you call yourself a mastinator. If you're going to call yourself anything. In hindsight, sorry. Not much better. I should have said the Masties.

All right. Next, though, you basically made someone say some nice things about us. Now you need to go and spread the good word about the generosity of Jono and Ben on the hits, okay? Oh, you guys are so generous. We are. We are. We are. Can you say that again, actually, just a bit clearer, just for the ad?

Jono and Ben are so generous. So generous. Charity, just check charity in there as well. Charitable. Charitable. Good folks. Good folks. Handsome.

And you didn't do it just once, though, did you? You did it a couple of times. 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.

The thing is, they're not going to say it themselves. They need a little prompting. What do they? Whether they believe it or not doesn't matter. The main thing is they said the words. They won prizes, so of course they've got to say nice things. And we're talking from Jono bullying to you talked about, every time we mention Ellen, you have to bring up this whole saga. 19 years, amazing run, amazing run.

Why is she pulling out? I think she's just said, but it's not challenging anymore. She's not allowed to bully people now. Oh, hey, hey, hey. They've sucked the fun out of the gig for Ellen. I mean, the only reason I come to work is to bully people. It's the joy of the gig, Fallon. I mean, the only reason I come to work is to bully people. It's the joy of the workplace, isn't it?

The best way I find to handle bullying is with more bullying. Double down on the bullying. That's what we do in New Zealand, isn't it? If someone's mean, we end up bullying them three times worse. It's what happens. It shouldn't happen, but you're right. It is what happens. Okay, I didn't write the playbook, mate.

It's like, well, it was those X Factor judges. Remember when they bullied the poor contestant and then everyone bullied the, you know, it was just like a circle of bullying. We literally bullied them out of the country. Yeah, there you go. It's just no bullying, full stop. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm.

Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. A big long overdue announcement. I'll be there for you. Of course, the iconic show Friends. They've been talking about a Friends reunion for, it feels like, I can't, well, I can't remember how long it's been. They've been talking about a Friends reunion longer than TVNZ2's been playing Friends on loop. You're right. And no one's been able to say when the Friends reunion is going to be out of play.

The other day, well, actually just a day or so ago, Lisa Kudrow, who is, of course, Phoebe on Friends, she was on the talk show Conan O'Brien in the US. And this is what she was allowed to say about the Friends reunion. What can you tell us? Everybody wants to know. And there's just been this veil of secrecy about the whole thing. But I thought, I know Lisa. I've known her for a long time.

If I get her here, she'll tell me everything everything i'll tell you everything i'm allowed to say do you really get a did you really get a memo of what you're allowed to say key phrase that we're allowed to say joined by special guests we will all the cast um we all shoot it's good i like it i like it so far and the fact that you made a little bit of an error there adds excitement to it. Like, this is really happening. It's real, and there's pressure. Yeah. Okay.

Joined by special guests, we all, the cast, return to the original soundstage, Stage 24, on the Warner Brothers studio lot for an unscripted reunion special in celebration of the show. So who... That's what you're allowed to say? So I think that's... in celebration of the show. That's what you're allowed to say?

Whoever wrote that knows showmanship. I haven't been able to say anything, basically. Why? She had her phone out reading that. She's like, this is all I'm allowed to say. But right now, it's just been announced as of about 10 minutes ago that Friends, the reunion, so they're getting all the original cast back together. Oh, she just said that.

It's a sound stage at Warner Brothers to reflect the celebration of the show. It's going to be on May 27 worldwide on HBO Max. And they've got a special list of guest stars. Bieber's in there. Now, you mentioned this inspired you, Juliet Bieber. I'm really intrigued to see how they're going to weave Justin Bieber

who was probably maybe just a thought in his parents' mind. I don't even think he would have been born. He might have been in the process of being made. How are they going to weave him into the reunion? So special guest stars include David Beckham, Justin Bieber,

BTS, James Corden, Cindy Crawford, Cara Delevingne, Lady Gaga, Kit Harington who was a John Snow on Game of Thrones and you know

and then they've obviously got some people like Tom Selleck and the guy who was Gunther and things like that that is part of the guest stars but some people that weren't actually.

That just sounds like a collection of people who are wandering around Warner Brothers filming other shows. And they're like, hey, you got 10 minutes? You want to talk about Friends? Yeah.

It's in celebration of the show. So, yeah. Yeah, HBO, Max, who got the rights to Friends, that's in 2020. So this was just last year. Cost them $400 million for the rights to Friends. Now, this is not Friends at its prime. This is Friends now.

They got it off Netflix. $400 million is what they pay for it. So they've got the Friends. Now, this is not Friends at its prime. This is Friends now. They got it off Netflix. $400 million is what they pay for it. So they've got the Friends reunion special, which hopefully we'll have slightly more details of over the next couple of weeks rather than just a vague in celebration of the show. Gee whiz. Yeah, well, I think each cast member,

each of the core cast every year still make 20 mil. Far out. And they reckon the other rumour I was just reading in the article was that each of the cast for the reunion special talking about the show got 2.5 million for participating in the special. That's the other rumour. And it's just a sit down and shit.

It's not even an episode. This was winding me up. They should have come back with a feature length 90 minute episode. Where are they now? Maybe someone got married or they get together for something. Maybe someone passed the one they get together for. And that's the frustrating thing for me.

This is making friends my enemies, this thing. Because it's like you've dragged it out for five years of this reunion. You could have scripted something, had something we'd all love. Now I'm just wound up about it. Now they've got BTS in there for some reason. And the guy from Game of Thrones. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Can't wait. Dairy Milk, they've got together with Snifters. They've brought out blocks of chocolate. Dairy Milk, inspired by Snifters, with the great Snifters mint taste inside. And because Snifters back in the day was iconic for the movies, we thought we'd do Snifters movie scenes.

And we've got Emily on from Taranaki. Morena, how are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you? Oh, good. You sound more awake than we do. You should be hosting the show.

Okay, sure. Why not? Listen, a lot of energy. What do you do, Emily? I'm milking my cows right now. All right. Four o'clock start? No, six o' energy. What do you do, Emily? I'm milking my cows right now. All right. Four o'clock start? No, six o'clock here.

I've only got a small herd. We milked a cow the other week, didn't we? It got really weird. We did it with a wonderful farmer by the name of Tangaroa. And he started doing the hand milking because a lot of it's automated now, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, he started doing it by hand and then he was squirting it in my face. And a lot of it, it was a weird scene.

It was unusual. We watched it back on camera. I was like, well, that was as odd as it felt in the moment. But I was enjoying it. I had to tongue out and everything was all, yeah. You were really, yeah, enjoying it a bit too much. Do you do that every morning, Emily? No.

No, the novelty would have worn off for you. Not for us town folk. Anyway, we want to win you $500, okay? Sounds good to me. Speaking of dairy milk, this has got dairy milk and snifters together. You may have milked the milk that features in this chocolate.

I hope so. So you've got $500 cash. I'm going to turn over some blocks of chocolate and it's got movie titles on the back of it. And I've got to try and describe the movie for you. Everyone, you can't get right. We take away $100, okay? Okay.

Timer starts now. A rat who's cooking in the kitchen. Ratatouille. Yes. There we go. There's one. She's a nanny. She's got an umbrella.

She flies. Nanny McPhee. No, she sings supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Mary Poppins. That's right. Well done. Kermit and Miss Piggy, they're all part of a group. The Muppets.

Muppets, that also could have been what they call me. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is also called this. Narnia. Yeah. You're on fire. And there's an ant. There's lots of insects. They're going on a one.

A bug's life. Oh, wow. Oh, my goodness. on a one? A bug's life. Oh, wow! Oh my goodness! How did you get a bug's life? An ant's an insect. I was like, jeez. I was struggling on that one without saying bugs or life. Did we email you the answers or something? Oh, no, I'm just

connecting telepathically, so I'll be good at five words, you know. $500 is all yours. Well done. Awesome. You also get a movie snack pack. It's all thanks to Cadbury Dairy Milk and Snifters. Blocks of chocolate. You can get them out now. How good were you?

You were amazing. Woo-hoo. What a way to start a Friday. That was a performance worthy of an Academy Award. Well done, Emily. We'll let you get back to your girls and go and have a great day. Thank you. All right.

Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scroll through your page. Listen, he's got the reading ability of a seven-and-a-half-year-old, but that's two years better than mine, so it makes him qualified to bring you the news from overnight. Ben Boyce.

You might have seen this on the actual news, not my shabby version. Whatever this is. In the mornings. Just fill a content. But Super Rugby, some of the Super Rugby teams were sort of part of an attempted scam. Now the scam involved,

I'm going to say involved Bruno Mars, but Bruno Mars wasn't attached to it. It was people posing as Bruno Mars' management. Now when you say Bruno Mars' do you say Bruno Mars management or Bruno Mars's? That always trips me up. Yeah, because you can put the apostrophe there without an extra S, but when you say it.

So the Grammy Award winner, we all know Bruno Mars, so many hits, 150 million records worldwide. And they were told that this is particularly the Crusaders team, but also apparently the Hurricanes and the Highlanders received a call from what was supposedly part of his management team saying, Bruno Mars is in town, he's in New Zealand, he's recording, and he would love to come along and watch some super rugby. Now, of course, if you get the opportunity

to host Bruno Mars, you're going to take it, right? Oh, listen, if they phone up right now and said Bruno Mars would love the opportunity to come in and watch you do radio, I'm saying yes. Yeah, any day of the week. 100% of the time. All day of the week.

So in the end, it sounded like... I don't know why he would want to come in and watch us do radio, because watching radio being made is the most boring thing on the face of the earth. So there was a final last week, of course, between the Crusaders and the Chiefs, and they were like, Bruno Mars, if you can fly him in on chopper, he'll meet some of the players, he'll perform before the game or at halftime, you've got Drax Project, you'll get on stage with them, we'll have a jam.

He'll do a collab with the Drax Project. He'll do it all. The Drax Project are like, Bruno Mars, well what, yes, yes. So the Crusaders put on extra security and basically they had a suite allocated for them because, I mean, if Bruno Mars is going to turn up, you're going to allocate this. They renamed the stadium.

Yeah. And they even got audio of someone who was talking from one of the rugby unions to one of the scammers on the phone. Is he doing anything with his label in New Zealand or anything? With whose label? With the Warner label. Isn't that what his label sits under? With Atlantic Records?

Yeah. That sits under Warner in New Zealand. I was just double checking. He wasn't doing anything with them as well. No, we aren't. So that was where it all kind of fell apart. The Rugby Union got in touch with the Crusaders Rugby Union, got in touch with Warner,

who are basically the record label for Bruno Mars in New Zealand. They said, hey, what's happening? And they're like, look, he's not even in the country. So that's where they were like, oh, hang on. But unusual. But they had booked a helicopter. They had got road management plans in place. Extra security.

They'd given him a corporate box. Yeah, then they had to obviously be like. I love it because it's just the most unusual prank ever. Because no one's claiming it. No radio stations come out and go, and it was us. Because if you would, you'd be like, well, that's good. But now it's just sort of sitting in no man's land.

Well, I think, yeah, the Crusaders have laid their formal complaint with the police, but also I've said they could see the funny side of being scammed because obviously nothing serious. What are you getting charged with? Are you guilty of pranking? You're guilty of... I guess public news. I don nothing serious. What are you charged with? Are you guilty of pranking? You're guilty of, I guess,

public nuisance. I don't know. Yeah. You've got to. I sentenced you to 12 months of not being able to use the phone or email.

Very, very unusual, isn't it? Yeah. But I mean, but why would, if you were the Crusaders, why wouldn't you believe it? Why would you go,

why would someone phone up and pretend that they're Bruno? What purpose is this prank? You know, they're like, well now they're like, oh, we got you, you thought Bruno, yeah, I did, we did, we would have, yeah, why would someone phone up and pretend that they're Bruno? What purpose is this prank? You know, like, well, now they're like, oh, we got you. You thought Bruno. Yeah, I did.

We did. We would have. Yeah, we would have hosted him. Of course we would have. You know, so. Mind you, we tricked you into thinking you were interviewing Dan Carter, didn't we? Oh, true. Yeah.

We just used sound bites of Dan Carter and played it down the phone and we got him good. Oh, that's a very unusual news story from New Zealand over the last week. They're proud of New Zealand. Woo! Go New Zealand! If from New Zealand over the last week. 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.

Bye. Thanks to Cadbury Dairy Milk Sniffers Block, the new fan favourite. Juliet, she has her whole life ahead of her, and we are humbled that she's wasting a large part of it sitting in a soundproof booth studio with us every morning so harry styles won a brit award yesterday um and obviously when you win awards you go up and you do your speech and people are quite baffled sorry to interrupt were they awards awards or were they done awards awards yeah yeah um but people are quite confused and the headlines are all saying people are baffled

because it appears that Harry Styles, who is British, has a bit of an American accent when he did his acceptance speech. I'm really happy to be here and proud to be celebrating British music tonight. I want to thank my fans for being so generous to me, always. And everyone in my life who has my back, thank you so much. I love you. And all of you around there, thank you so much for everything you did for this country. Do you kind of hear it?

I do. It sounds like he's swallowed about four countries' worth of accents. Yeah. Like a hybrid. Of like an Irish, American, Australian, British. Yeah. Yeah. He does do a bit of acting as well at the moment,

whether or not, but I think he's doing British work with acting. So he's not like hanging out with a bunch of Americans all the time. I love it when friends of yours,

they'll go to London for a week and they return with a British accent. I mean, we were there for 48 hours. I came back talking like something from

a Guy Ritchie film. Hello, governor. Mate, you're only there for 48 hours. I came back talking like something from a Guy Ritchie film. Hello, governor! You're like, mate, you're only there for two days. That is so true. Does your sister's over in London, has she got a British accent? No, she doesn't. No, she's pretty good. She's as Kiwi as sounding as ever. You probably couldn't ever get rid of her Kiwi accent.

Although I've got a friend who, she moved to Australia quite a few years ago and I think it was after six months she came back to New Zealand. She had a little Australian twang. She was like, g'day girls. But you understand if you're over there in America or something, you actually need to talk

like them to be understood. Like I said before, they even thought of my name as Bin. Because of the New Zealand accent. Oh, because we have a shocking one. My God, we form these shocking one. Hi, guys. We form these thought lines. And they're like, oh, bam.

Yeah, that's how you need to say it. When I try to talk to Siri on my phone, she is mightily confused. None of our dialect is getting through on the old Apple iPhone. Very true. And Seth Rogen, he's an actor, comedian. He's also kind of done a bit of voice work. He voiced Pumba in 2019's The Lion King.

He's got a very recognisable voice. But he shared a story recently about how he... Because, you know, if you go to the Grammy Awards, there's just famous person after famous person after famous person. I remember when I was at the Grammy Awards, that was the case. I do know you. We know it well firsthand. And, okay, if I was there, like, I would be just wanting to meet and talk to everybody.

And Seth was the same when he saw Beyonce from across the room, but a security guard completely stopped him from meeting Beyonce. Yeah, I was at the Grammys, and I saw Beyonce with Gwyneth Paltrow, actually. And I charged over, instinct took over, and I was like, I got to go say hi. And yeah, I was hit so hard by her security guard that I

spilled a drink all over myself. And then a second later, someone came up to me and was like, you now have to present a Grammy. So he had to present a Grammy with a big sort of liquid stain on him. After being assaulted by Beyonce's security

guard. Yeah, yeah. So that's pretty unfortunate, eh? No one... Oh, I'd be honoured to be assaulted by Beyonce's security guard. Wouldn't you? He's probably touched Beyonce. So by second hand, I might have some of Beyonce's germs. Yeah, true.

Great stuff, eh? Nice work, Ju. No worries. That's Spy for more. You can head to thehits.co.nz. That is our show, wrapping things up on a Friday. I hope you have yourself a wonderful weekend. Very cold morning right around New Zealand right now.

Yeah, keep warm, keep safe. Kia kaha and God bless. We'll catch you Monday. 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.