Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - May 18 - Kevin Boyce, BoozeTalkZB, We're Hosting A New Show On TVNZ!

Episode Date: May 17, 2020

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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 to the podcast on a Monday after the first weekend of Level 2 here in New Zealand. Very exciting, isn't it? Very exciting time. A lot of people back in the building today. We've spent six weeks in a giant building with no one in it. So we're meeting everyone for the first time here at the new job. It just feels weird all of a sudden. It's like, whoa, where was everyone? It's been an absolute dream.

I said on the show today, we're just flown under management's radar. Haven't made it. You never want to see. Here's your thing. For longevity, you never want to stick your head out. You just want to keep below water. Like we've been drowning for many years.

Just keep below water. Don't cause a fuss. Just do your thing. Just, hey, and we happen to be the number one podcast on iHeartRadio. That's just collateral damage. We're not though, because that would be sticking our head up. Yeah, no, so we to be the number one podcast on iHeartRadio. That's just collateral damage. We're not, though, because that would be sticking our head up. Yeah, no, so we want to keep down.

We're just middling. Like, if we're in the hundreds, no one knows we're there. It's fine. We're just not here to cause a fuss. Today on the podcast, one of my family got a message from Boris Johnson. Incredible. The British Prime Minister. That's on the podcast.

A personal message where he says he loves him. As well as that, there's been some controversy. We've upset some people in small town New Zealand about our A to Z that we do. And we've upset some people upstairs at Newstalk ZB with our game Booze Talk ZB. And that's coming up in the podcast. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Big news.

Small town. Now, today we're looking at an international version of big news, small town. Yeah. The Warriors in the news today. Some injuries plaguing the Warriors two weeks out from the NRL.

And they're living in Tamworth. Tamworth. Now, you know, there's plenty of places you could go in Australia. Gold Coast. Bondi. Tamworth.

Doesn't sit high on the list I wouldn't imagine it's a town that we've been looking up love their country music they have like a 10 day country music festival

there and that's they've got a big golden guitar or something I think it's almost like the NRL placed them in Tamworth hoping everyone

would forget about them but we won't because we're going to go through to Tamworth now to see how they're looking after the Warriors Good morning Tamworth Vis to see how they're looking after the Warriors.

Good morning, Tamworth Visitor Information Centre. This is Kate. Hi, Kate. It's Jono and Ben from the HITS radio station in New Zealand. Hello, how are you? This is, as you'd say in Australia, hello. How are you going? We're going all right.

We just want to ring you to say thanks for looking after our Warriors' league side. Oh, yeah, great. How are they as house guests? I believe they've been very well behaved. That's unlike NRL players. Hey, well, Tamworth have really embraced the Warriors. It's been cool. They've been big signs. You guys turned your airport into an international airport.

The Warriors are even going to have your postcode on their jerseys. It seems like a lovely relationship. Yeah, it does. It really does. And Tamworth has embraced it. Well, don't get too cosy, buddy, because you know they're ours. This is like sending our girlfriend away to discover herself on the OE. They'll probably like you better.

What can you tell us about Tamworth? Country music capital of Australia, as you're probably aware. So this is a 10-day festival, is that right? That's correct, yes. That seems like nine more days of country music than anyone should have to endure. Oh, it's on you. Lucky your phone cut out there. It's on the music.

You guys have got a big golden guitar. How tall is that? 12 metres. We've got one in Gore in Southland. Yeah. 24 metres. How tall? 24.

Yeah, I don't know. Don't check that. Don't check it. Don't fact check that. Keith Urban got his big break at the Tamworth Country Music. Yeah, he used to busk in Tamworth. Wow. And Tamworth pork is something else that's quite popular.

Sport. Pork. It's your accent, Ben. Pork. Sorry, you just dropped out. Oh, jeez. I've got to take that discussion. Annunciator.

Tamworth pork. Sorry, no, I can't speak. I can't speak. No, seriously, the line's dropping down. I just can't understand what you're saying. No, he can't. I can't get the line. No, seriously, the line's coming out. I just can't understand what you're saying. No, he can't speak properly. It's not your fault. I'm from New Zealand.

Yeah. Okay. I was going to talk about the pork, but that's fine. Well, you look after yourself and Tamworth and your 12-metre guitar, and we'll look after our 24-metre guitar and gore. Yeah, that's 24 centimetres, George. Thank you for embracing our rugby league side, like you have.

Good on you. Thanks for the call. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on The Hits. We're brand new here on The Hits. Been here a couple of weeks. Really enjoying it. I'll tell you who's really enjoyed the breakfast hours for me

is the cat. We got a kiss in before lockdown. And because I get up, you know, like four in the morning now and you're trying to tiptoe around the house, cat knows but if it makes noise it gets that extra feed I was like well played cat every morning you have played this to perfection what uh what do you end up calling the cat because there was covered cat for a while we went bubble because it's in our bubble so you know like so we thought it was a nice way to remember this time in a nice way rather than calling it Corona or Lockie for lockdown.

Now that lockdown's over, level two, you put the cat back out on the streets where it came from. I don't know if I can get that one past the kids. And speaking of kids. Man versus child. Yeah, first day back. Many schools are going back to school. First day back today.

And we thought we'd play a little quiz right now. Thanks to Planet Fun, we've got a board game called Beat the Parents, and thanks to Reading Cinemas, we've got a pass to the movies. You take on Jono if you're a kid in a quiz, and if you win, you get the prize. Little tip too, as parents, when you're dropping your kids off, try not to celebrate while the kids are still in earshot. It'll damage them later in life. Joining us on the phone from Hamilton.

Welcome, Sam. Hi. How are you? You first day back at school today? Yeah, I'm actually at boarding school now, so I've got all my mates in here. What happened at boarding school? You obviously were sent away or you had to stay there? We were all sent home, yeah.

I did see on the news there was one boarding school with some overseas supporters that just had to stay. They were in a big sort of bubble lockdown at the boarding school. So, yeah, that did happen, John. How old are you, Sam? I'm 15. 15. Okay.

Have you got armpit hair? Uh, what? That's a weird question. Have you got armpit hair? Sometimes I wish there was. Please don't answer that. Sometimes I wish there wasn't an N don't answer that. Sometimes I wish there wasn't a name between

our names. Let's just get on. That's not your first question. I'm going to ask the question. From now on I'll ask the questions.

I'm the quiz master in this game. I know where you're going. Sam's got armpit hair. No. I shouldn't be playing Sam as man versus

child. 15 years old. Sam you've got the kids questions. Jono you've got the adults questions. Sam the first've got the kids' questions. Jono, you've got the adults' questions. Sam, the first question is, what was Noah's boat called? An ark.

Well done. Noah's ark. Noah's ark. Okay, Jono. Why isn't Sam being asked the adult questions? What country does Orlando Bloom come from, Jono? Orlando Bloom, America. He's gone.

No, England. When did he come from England? He doesn't have an English accent. He's an actor. You're in the lead, America. He's gone away, England. When did he come from England? He doesn't have an English accent. He's an actor. You're in the lead, Sam. What do you use a thimble for? If you had a thimble on, what would you be doing? Is it sewing? Well done. He's got two.

Jono, how long can a flea go without eating? 18 days, 18 weeks, or 18 months? 18 weeks. 18 months. Why? These questions are designed to make me look like the idiot I am. We don't even need one last question, Sam, because you've got that prize. But where is London's – so what is London's Big Ben? A clock.

Yeah, well done. Three from three. And, Jono, your last question. Name the seven dwarfs. Itchy, Scratchy, Randy. Okay. Well done, Sam. First day back at school, mate. Itchy, Scratchy, Randy. Okay. Well done, Sam. First day back at school, mate.

We've got a board game for you and a double pass to the movies. Thanks to Reading Cinemas. Thank you. Good on you. What's this music play? It's some cool celebration music. Oh, thanks, Juju.

I haven't had this before. I really, I like it. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. We're doing Jingle Bells, a segment we tried for the first time the other day, which was fun. Yes, the jingles for businesses,

they're a radio staple. What we're going to do is we play a jingle that has been etched into our brains and then we phone the store in question to see if they will sing along with their own jingle. Today, this is one producer Juliet's bringing to the party. We had never really heard of it. Well, once you played it to us, we were like, oh, yeah, I know it, but yeah.

Fresh makes the world go round. Is that one of your favourites, is it, Juju? And honestly, I couldn't tell you how many times that jingle's been stuck in my head. It's outrageous. No, it's for the business of Fruit World, an entire world of fruit. All of the fruits you can imagine. So we're going to go through to them now, see if they'll sing along. This is Jingle Bells.

Are we singing or do we play the jingle? I can't remember how it works. We'll play the jingle. Okay. Not a good time to bring that up. Sorry, I panicked. Hello, Fruit World. Hello, hello, hello. Yes. Food World.

Food World. Yes, yes. You finished the jingle. Here we go. Food World. Food World. Fresh makes the world go round. Hello, yes.

Hello, yes. Fruit World, we're trying to get you to finish this. Fruit World, yes. Fruit World, take a knee knee. Yes, so sing along with your jingle. This makes the world go round. You know it. Do you want to sing it?

Do you want to sing it with us? Yes, yes. Okay, you do it, you do it. Do you want to sing it? Do you want to sing it with us? Yes, yes. Okay, you do it, you do it. Here we go, here we go. Fruit world, fruit world. Fresh makes the... Fresh fruit for the less. Makes the world go round.

Fresh fruit for less? No, it's fresh... You just made up another jingle. I like your one, though. It's fresh makes the world go round. This is your jingle. Oh, though. It's fresh makes the world go round. This is your jingle. Oh, sorry. But fresh fruit for less is also great.

It's also very good. What's in season at the moment? What's the most popular fruit? Mandarin. Oh, yeah, good. I noticed the strawberries are sort of fading out, aren't they? Yeah, it's nearly end of season, so yeah. Yeah, and just tell me,

the amount of lettuce that you have on offer now, too much lettuce, too many varieties of lettuce. Would you agree? Yes, it is. That's good, though. It's good, it's good. We're one lettuce away from eating lawn clippings. It's such a useless food, lettuce.

That's great. Do you like lettuce? Yes He loves all fruit Anything And how many types of apples have you got? Oh, that's a lot of apples A lot of apples How do you like dim apples?

What we'll do I want to play a game with you I name an apple Then you try and name another apple And Ben will go around, okay? Oh, jeez Okay, Granny Smith Lemonade A royal gala try and name another apple. And Ben will go around, okay? Oh, jeez. Okay, Granny Smith. Lemon Lake.

Royal Gala. This Is It Rose. Braeburn. Braeburn. Jazz. Oh, damn it, I was going to say Jazz Apples. I'm out, I'm out, guys. It's just you two.

Oh, okay. This is on, this is tense. Oh, Pink Lady. Oh, good one. Ambrosia. Oh, Ambrosia. She is tense. Oh, Pink Lady. Oh, good one. Ambrosia. Oh, Ambrosia. She came in with an Ambrosia. Take that.

Oh, I'm out. He's out. You win. Well done, Fruit World. You won. That was a worthy opponent. A worthy opponent. You look after yourself.

And we'll go out on your jingle again. Here we go. Fruit World. Fruit World. go out on your jingle again. Here we go. Fruit world, fruit world. I'm not good at singing. Fresh fruit for less. Fresh fruit for less. Hey, you're lovely. Lovely day, right?

Lovely to talk to you. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Poppy, my youngest, she's seven. She's assumed a new character and she hasn't dropped character for the last couple of days.

I remember she spent like three weeks as a cat, didn't she? She did, yeah. She really commits to the role. She's kind of a method actor like bloody Danny DeVito or De Niro. Is Danny DeVito a method actor? I don't know if he is.

He might be, but I don't know. When you look at Danny DeVito's work, you're like, there's a guy who goes deep into the role. Yeah. Daniel Day-Lewis. Daniel Day-Lewis. Yeah, I think he's the one. I started naming actors. I don't know if they're method actors or not. But yeah, she's assumed the role now. She's like, I'm going to be

American now. I'm like, okay, cool. But she hasn't dropped character, and this was her last night. Mom, I've never had a sleepover in my life. I've only had one with my grandparents. Mom, are you listening? Sounds like Joe Exotic's daughter.

Yeah. She'll be watching him and Joe Exotic. She sounds like one of those people who would be interviewed on Fox News spouting off that they don't believe in coronavirus.

Now, because I knew that you, because you played with this audio this morning, and I thought, well, let's play a little game with you, Jono. See how good you are at picking American accents. So what I've got on the phone right now is two people. Can I tell you the answer? I'll be no good. Do I have to play this game?

One is a genuine American, and one is putting on an accent. You can ask them whatever questions you want. You have to work out which is which. Okay. I'll play a game. Who have to work out which is which. Okay. I'll play a game. Who have we got? Which is up to you. Okay.

Caller one. It says Jen. Welcome, Jen. Hey there. Keep talking, Jimbo. Well, hi. I'm Jen. Nice to meet you.

Whereabouts in America are you from, Jen? Texas. Hmm. No, she could be, but then she might have been in New Zealand for a number of years and kind of developed a hybrid. Okay, that was Jen. Caroline is on the phone. Hello.

Oh, she sounds good too. Okay. I am American. The other one is a fake. I'll tell you that right now. She sounds too American. Is she putting it on? This is a confusing game.

So is it Jen or is it Caroline? Can you both talk to each other? I want to see how your conversation flows. So where in America are you from again? You said Texas? Yeah. When I imagine free-flowing conversation, this is what I pictured.

Where are you from? Oh, you said you're from... What city did you say you're from? I didn't hear that. I'm actually from Greenville. Where are you from? Greenville. Oh, I've never even heard of that.

I'm from San Francisco. San Francisco. Fun, fun. So, she said both. Good. I'm from San Francisco. San Francisco. Fun, fun. So, jeez, they're both good. I'm going to say Jen, the first caller, who said she's from Texas. She's putting on an accent.

You are wrong. I am from Texas. She's from Texas, but also Carolyn's from America as well. She's from San Francisco. So, what was the point of this? What was the point of this? What was the point of this? Just to bamboozle you.

Like such a low-level bamboozling. Guess what? They're both American. Wouldn't it amaze you if I told you they're both... I'd be a bit confused by it, but they are both genuine. To be honest, we wanted to get one American and then we got two,

and they were like, oh, we'll just roll with both of them. Okay. So that's how we got here. If I told you, you'd be talking to two Americans. There you go, Jen and Geraldine,

have a great day. Thanks for playing our game. No worries. Love your work, guys. Thanks for listening to New Zealand's Breakfast. Whatever the point of that was. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Very shortly, we're going to do our A to Z of New Zealand. And if you haven't heard this, this is what we call a town or a place in New Zealand, a different one each day. We're going alphabetically. It's going to take us two and a half years. And today, Jono, we're going to where?

We're going to Albury, which is very close to where producer Humphrey grew up. It's a very special place in his heart, so he's going to give us some information on that. We've had a complaint about something we've said as well. We have. Yeah, so we started this mission to call all 570 towns in New Zealand. Now, there is a complaint from the very first location we rang, and this is a text that has been coming through daily, and I've been trying to ignore it. But it's

going to be one of those things that's going to catch up with us and become an absolute scandal as we reach the finish line of this thing two and a half years ago. This whistleblower is not going to stop. So I think it's the lady we phoned when we were meant to call Ahura, which was in just inland from Greymouth. So that was

day one we did of the ABC of New Zealand. Yeah, but we called this number just slightly out of Ahura, Ikamatoa. This is the Ahura store. We're just Ikamatoa. Oh, you're Ikamatoa. Ikamatoa. You just sit in your wee office there.

And it's a few kays away. Well, she talked about the area. We thought we were in the right place. Yeah, and since then, she's like, you know, it's a few kays away. Well, she talked about the area. We thought we were in the right place. Yeah, and since then, she's like, you said you called a holder. You called a kamatua. And it hasn't stopped, so I think we need to call her

and see how much we need to pay her to shut her up. Some bribe money here. Good morning, Akimatuas for Corrine speaking. Corrine, it's Jono and Ben here from The Hits. Welcome. Listen, we're calling here on a negotiation mission. We phoned Ikamatoa at the very beginning of something we're doing, calling every New Zealand town.

Yes, I know the one, yes. Yeah, it was the talk of the town, probably. Yeah, you rung us instead of ringing a howler because you mixed us up between a howler, which is not ideal. Talk of the town, probably? Yeah, you rung us instead of ringing a howler because you mixed us up between a howler, which is not ideal. Talk of the town, see? Yeah, exactly. We've ruffled a few feathers in the township, I understand.

Yes. Who do we have to sleep with around here to shut you up? Can we silence the complaints? We're getting texted every day. No, not at all. You can't silence the complaints. You can't mix up the Kimatoa in a hour. Seriously.

So what are you saying? You need to do better research, guys. Okay, we're getting a roasting here. Can we do a make good? Like tomorrow, can we call the place and we have to go back? Can we make it up to you that way? You want to ring back tomorrow?

No, not you. No, I can't deal with another conversation with you. Don't worry, I won't be here so you're safe there. No, if we phoned a haora and then we said, hey, we've phoned a haora now and then we can phone Ikamatua at a later stage,

would this right the wrong? Sure. Let's do that. Yes, I'm okay with that. And maybe we can head to Ekamatua and host a wonderful evening of a dinner party or something

up to 10 people yeah that would be that would be great okay up to 10 people socially distanced a metre apart from each other

of course yes okay we all have to follow those rules on behalf of the show we'd like to apologise for our mistake we've learnt from it

and we hope to do better in the future awesome thanks guys okay love your work. Alright. See ya. Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Can we just say before we get into Spy, congratulations

to producer Juliette Mildew, our millennial Juliette, who won a radio award on Friday at the New Zealand Radio Awards. Thank you. Well done. The New Zealand Radio Awards are sort of like the Oscars, aren't they? Minus the Botox and really famous people. Good point. True. Well done. It's awesome. Thank you. Well done. The New Zealand radio odds are sort of like the Oscars, aren't they? Minus the Botox and really famous people. Good point.

True. Well done. That's awesome. Thank you. She's been on a three-day bender. Yeah. Best new broadcaster. Thanks very much.

Should I hit the bed off? Yeah, go on. Bye. No WhatsApp. Bye. Dot co. In bed. How do we make that awkward?

I don't know. I was just meant to be nice. Yeah, we made it really awkward. Sorry, Jude. It's all right. I'll get into spy, shall I? I don't know why that was just meant to be nice. Yeah, we made it really awkward. Sorry, Jude. It's all right. I'm getting despised, Sean. I don't know why that was so awkward. You're very good.

It's only a matter of time until you realise you're too good for this show. I was like, yeah, six months. She's gone. Don't be silly. She's gone. All right. You're coming down with us, mate. Sinking ship.

Sinking ship. So we all know the goss about the Alan show and Alan DeGeneres. Apparently, she's not very nice behind the scenes. Quite a few people have come out to say that. But... I heard she drinks cow's blood. What? Goat blood.

She's a Satanist. That's very exciting. There's a lot of rumours floating around about her, eh? You don't know how many are true and how many are not. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. But apparently there's a list of guests that she's banned from the show. Vince Vaughn is one of them.

He's banned because apparently one of his characters on a movie trailer called Electric Cars Gay. Oh, yeah, I think she's banned a lot of people for sort of homophobic slurs, which I understand. You know she's a big campaigner. And then another one that surprises me is Caitlyn Jenner. So Caitlyn Jenner previously appeared on the show

and claimed she wasn't accepting of gay marriage, but obviously now she's backtracked from her previous beliefs in that and says gay marriage is a wonderful thing to see, but Alan is still saying, nah, don't want Caitlyn on my show. It's quite a good tactic for your TV show. We should have said that on ours.

We banned Barack Obama. We banned, you know, we never got them on the TV show, but at least you could say it was our choice. Even if we could, we wouldn't. But deep down, we'd definitely take Barack Obama. The Queen, she was banned from our show. I don't care what Barack Obama's done.

I'll take him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For more spy, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Well, we just said before we wanted to announce that we've got a new show. We're very excited to announce we've got a new TV show started. We thought it would be appropriate to bring in Ben Shambles of a dog, Bo,

who's coming in like a hurricane, like an absolute hurricane. So the show is on TVNZ and it's called Dog Almighty and we're looking for New Zealand's most talented, gifted and downright exceptional dogs. And because it's for a dog show, we thought we'd bring my... Bo, Bo, Bo, come here, buddy. Listen, we're looking for the New Zealand's most talented dog, so we've brought in New Zealand's least talented dog. Well, he's got to try and get the message across to all the dogs out there.

Yeah, because we've done the message for the humans. Dog Almighty, it's going to be airing on TVNZ2. We're about to start filming it. Very excited. It's going to be awesome. We're looking for, as we say, New Zealand's most talented dog, $100,000 prize money for the winner, and dogs are tested on their agility, obedience, and their X factor, and they can take home $100,000, the dog and their owner.

So it's pretty cool. If there's a part of the competition where who sniffs the best crotch, then Bo would win. Because he spent 10 minutes down there on mine. I'm always like, what's down there? It makes you anxious. Yeah, no, I mean, I love Bo, but I don't think Bo will be good enough to enter in this competition.

No, so he's wandering around. So, Bo, we need you to get the message out to all the dogs because we want talented dogs to enter this show. Just take it away, Bo. Head to tvnz.co.nz. $100,000. Prize money. Dog got my dad.

tvnz2. Catch it soon. I can't believe they gave you another job on television. You washed up hacks. Thank you, Bo. No, no, that's personal. No, mate. No, yeah.

I did that to your mum. What? We apologise in advance. It's Jono and, mate. No. Yeah. I did that to your mum. What? We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the Hats. Now, Newstalk ZB, a very distinguished radio station, talkback radio station, we play a little game called Booze Talk ZB. The news, the opinion, the debate.

It's Booze Talk ZB. Phone up Newstalk ZB as a caller. Pretend to be inebriated. Be drunk. See how long they leave you on here for. And, I mean, it's not our fault that news rhymes with booze. Blame the laws of pun. That's right.

These poor innocent hosts, they've done nothing to us. So you started things off a couple of weeks ago with Peter Wolfkamp, you know, from The Block Builder. And he does a building show on, like, Sunday mornings. First thing Sunday morning, 6 till 9 Peter Wolfkamp, you know from The Block, Builder, and he does a building show on like Sunday mornings. First thing Sunday morning, six till nine, Wolfkamp's building show. Kim, good morning. G'day Peter, how are you

going? Alright, Kim, and yourself? The Wolf, woo! Peter. Right, what's your question, Kim? Peter, I love you and I love you a heart And my wife, she's a Royal Estate agent Alright, mate, I appreciate the sentiment as well

And I'm sure it's shared around, but maybe for another show 35 seconds there Pretty quick Yeah, you know, he didn't have time for your shenanigans first thing in the morning Oh, and you feel like such a fool Because you phone up the producer and you're like, yes, hello, I'd just like to talk about my home renovations. And then all of a sudden you're on air going, ah, it's a stitch-up. So the week after, I had to see if I could beat your call.

And I rang the two Tims, Tim Roxburgh and Tim Beveridge. They do a great show, The Weekend Collective. I got in during the parenting hour. I know I had because one of the guy's names was Tim Beveridge. I just said I'd been having a few Tim Beverages. Hi there, Tim. How's it going? I'm a Tim as well.

Tim. Tim. Three Tims on the radio, Tim. I'm sorry. I've had a couple of Tim Beverages before starting. I thought that was funny. I thought that was funny. But I've since found out, thanks to your call this week, it wasn't.

So I got on last night and I didn't realise it was the same people that you had spoken to the week previous. And they'll be like, just leave us alone, please. Please leave us alone. We apologise. It was a mistake. I didn't even know who was on air at the time. I just phoned and then all of a sudden I'm on the radio. And we do this for a job, but I get really nervous for some reason.

So this is, you hold the current record. Last week's call was 90 seconds. Yeah. Which is 101 years in talkback years. I know, so long. They just kept me going. So this is what, I haven't heard this yet. This is what happened last night.

All right, let's take one last call. Jason, hi. Hi. Hello. Hey, Jason. Hi. Hello. Hey, Jason. Hey. Yeah. Are you Jono and Ben again?

Jono and Ben rang us last week. Jason. Hi. You guys got cash? Not on me right now. But see, I want to know if this is Jono and Ben again, because Jono and Ben, they prank called us last week. Did they?

They did. Who as? Well, as... No, Jono and Ben. No, Jono and Ben? Yeah, but it's pretty close. No, they can keep a straight face for longer than that guy could. It was last week's memo.

It was the guy who called himself Tim, and he said, Yeah, I've been having a few Tim beverages. Oh. And then that was Ben. Well, I mean, if they're going to call up with this, they at least come up with an original joke. I mean, you know, a joke on the surname of beverages. I've never heard that before.

You're the first thing they go, really? I'm like, no. Savage roasting for your joke. It wasn't even me that was ringing that time. I got booed by that one. Oh, fair enough. Listen, I was pulled off. I was still talking while they were talking, but that was ringing that time. I got burned by that one. Oh, well, fair enough. Listen, I was pulled off. I was still talking while they were talking,

but I was clearly on hold. So, yeah, it lasted 10 seconds. 90 seconds, still the time to beat for Booze Talks. We'll play that again next week. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. My dad, Kevin Boyce, he's been on the show before, and you would have remembered a couple of weeks ago, Jono,

he wrote a song about the Invercargill nurse Jenny McGee Jenny McGee who Boris Johnson shouted out as one of the nurses who saved his life when he had coronavirus. So Dad had a bit of time on his hands and he made a song about Jenny McGee Feeling crock till someone looked at me

A Kiwi nurse, her name Jenny McGee When you say time on his hands, he has to have a lot of time on his hands to write a parody song about a nurse from Invercargill. It was lockdown. Also, one of the favourite bits in the song was when he put on his Boris Johnson impression, my dad.

Jenny McGee from Invercargill. Thank you so much. You put me back to where I can be. So we spoke to Dan about this, because he'd messaged Jenny McGee and got a lovely message back. Yeah, she said, oh, thank you, didn't she? Yeah, but now, now. Now what?

What's he done now? He wasn't happy with just a message from Jenny McGee. I mean, he was, but he thought maybe I could get a message from... Please tell me this is going where I think it's going. Boris Johnson. Yes. So he has been in touch with Boris Johnson. About the song. I mean, he was, but he thought, maybe I could get a message from, please tell me this is going where I think it's going. Boris Johnson. Yes. So he has been in touch with Boris Johnson.

About the song. Yeah, so we need to give our dad a call. All I got was a message from Boris Johnson, and I feel like it's a bit of a, you know, one of those automatic response messages. So he's emailed Boris Johnson. I think so. With the song attached.

Yeah. And the impersonation. Yeah. Hello?ation. Yeah. Hello? Hello. Hello. Is this Boris Johnson? No, it's not.

It's actually... No, it's not even John Boris Johnson. Don't worry. Couldn't think of anyone. Couldn't think of anyone on the spot. So we're just talking about how you sent

a message to Boris Johnson. What platform did you bug him on? Well, I got him on his, it was on a messenger, and he said that he would respond back, I don't know he personally, but he did, within 24 hours. I just wished him back to, congratulated him on being back to full health, congratulated him on his fatherhood, sent him a song about Jenny McGee,

and then apologised for my impersonation of her, so you would have seen that too. And this is what he sent back. Do you want me to put his voice on, or do you want to just leave it like that? Yeah, put the voice on. Put the Boris Johnson voice on. So Boris Johnson's emailed you back personally.

Thanks very much for your warm wishes. I love you, and I vow to serve you all with love and harmony. Boris. Well, that seems like a very generic... It doesn't reference the song or the fatherhood. A bit unusual. I love you as well. I know. He said it twice though. He said it twice so he must mean it. He must mean it, Kev.

I know. I think he actually looks at a mirror every morning and goes, mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of all? He looks at his hair and says, bloody hell, it's me. Oh, jeez. Now, Kevin, this is not your first interaction with a celebrity, because I remember you told a wonderful story about how you and Brooklyn Beckham...

David Beckham's son was at a restaurant in LA, right? That's right, Brooklyn. I call him Brooke now, but this is... Look, to be honest, I have heard the story about this. So you were sitting having lunch and there was a whole group of people and someone was like, oh, that's Brooklyn Beckham. And my dad was like, who? That's Beverly Hills, by the way.

And you had no idea who he was, but then decided you'd go over and talk to him for 20 minutes and take a photo. Well, one of the millennials I was sitting having lunch with, he said, that's Brooklyn Beckham over there. I went over and said, oh, go and have a chat. He said, no, don't do that. And I said, okay. And I went over and said, oh, go and have a chat. He said, don't do that. And I said, okay. And I went over and said, hello, Brooklyn.

He said, g'day, Kevin, how are you? I said, g'day. He said, where are you from? I said, from New Zealand. I said, yeah, you're looking pretty good. Now we're going to get the whole conversation. We can just probably just play it. Yeah, yeah.

There we go. So the long and short of it is he got a photo with Brooklyn Beckham. And sort of got a deep conversation with Brooklyn for about 15 minutes. Brooklyn Beckham's lunch got quite cold. And then I just said to him, you wouldn't eat. Yeah, so you were very interested. So there you go, my dad giving boys a message from Boris Johnson. And Brooklyn Beckham.

He's hobnobbing with the stars. Congratulations. He's still going. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. This might be your first time listening to New Zealand's Breakfast, New Breakfast Show.

We just came in here obnoxiously and said we're New Zealand's Breakfast. Yeah, and I hope we're bitterly disappointing you, because that's our goal. We set the bar very low. It was great coming in under COVID because we just flew under management's radar. There's been no eyes on us. Now they're all back in the building.

Now we're going to have to do some work. Anyway, speaking of which, we've been called out by our counterparts in the Hawke's Bay. Joining us on the phone right now is Adam. Adam, how's it going, buddy? Boys, welcome to you and welcome along to the hits. It's been a little while now. It's Adam. Adam, how's it going, buddy? Boys, welcome to you and now welcome along to the hits. You know, it's been a little

while now. You've been chilling and doing your thing. I think it's about time we busted into some challenges, eh? We hear you've got something for us. I'm a little bit nervous about what you're actually going to come out with. I don't like radio station initiations. It always ends up with you eating some animal's testicles.

Yeah. I promise there is no animal testicles involved. Okay, great. Not yet anyway. Maybe we can put some on the line. But we've been doing a couple of things in Hawke's Bay during lockdown. Obviously, spending time at home with the kids and things, you get a bit sick of reading children's books, right? So you've got to spice it up a little.

So we're kind of at home, my co-host Megan and I, we were having a bit of a read, and I started doing it with a bit of cadence to it, you know, doing it along to some music that was playing in the background. That evolved, and it's become somewhat of a thing on the show that we're doing children's books in a rap style. So rapping the children's books, essentially. And it's going pretty well.

There's lots of teachers in there using them in the classrooms and things. So we've got some audio. Producer Juju, Millennial Juliet Mildew is going to play some audio. A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good. Where are you going to, little brown mouse? Come and have lunch in my underground house. It's terribly kind of you, fox.

But no, I'm going to have lunch with a Gruffalo. A Gruffalo? What's a Gruffalo? A Gruffalo? Why didn't you know? Oh, it's terribly kind of you, Fox, but no, I'm going to have lunch with a Gruffalo. A Gruffalo? What's a Gruffalo? A Gruffalo? Why didn't you know? Oh, that's great. The Gruffalo, what a great book and a great rap there. The thing with children's books is most of them rhyme, right?

So there's a lot of books out there. You've got your Harry McCleary's. I think the writer of the Gruffalo's done about, I don't know, another seven or eight books or something like that. So there's a lot of choice out there. Oh, yeah, one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. So many. So if you boys want to have a bit of a look through

and see if you can bust out your own children's book rap. So this is a rap battle challenge, I understand, that you're laying down the gauntlet for. You want us to do one like yours? Pretty much, man. Yep, you pick the children's book. I've got the Gruffalo. You can't pick that. Okay, you've got the Gruff book. I've got the Gruffalo. You can't pick that.

Okay, you've got the Gruffalo. Something else. Gruffalo's yours. But the Gruffalo is open fodder. Okay, all right. Now, this is the most friendly rap battle ever. The most family-friendly, children-friendly rap battle. That's what we like here on the hits.

That's what we like. The household shoppers will be loving this. Hey, thanks, Adam. I've just looked up, Adam. Adam was the Woman's Day radio hunk. I'm looking at your shirtless hair and your underpants with your arm seductively placed behind your head here. Yeah, yeah, that was last year's.

We mentioned to take out the Horses Media Hunk competition, which I managed to do. Yeah, well, great torso as well. That was a good torso. Yeah, I could never enter that competition. No, we tried to enter you. They keep rejecting our entries, Jono. Hey, thanks, great torso as well. That was a good torso. Yeah, I could never enter that competition. No, we tried to enter you. They keep rejecting our entries, Jono. Hey, thanks, Adam.

We will get to work. How about Friday? Friday? Yeah, that sounds good. It gives you a week to find a book, get it done, lay it down, and we can find ourselves a judge and see who can take out a bit of a children's book rap battle by the end of the week, eh?

There you go, Adam. From Adam and Megan in the Hawke's Bay, the issue has been laid down. Thank you for not pointing out that I didn't say any words there, Ben. A family-friendly challenge, it is one. To turn a children's book into a rap song. Now we need some help. If you can help us out, please.

What book should we rap about? Like, what should our rap song be? I think our first problem is we can't rap. Like, there's bigger issues here. Anyway, let's not worry about that. What book, what children's book do you think we should do a rap song be? I think our first problem is we can't rap. But there's bigger issues here. Anyway, let's not worry about that. What book, what children's book do you think we should do a rap song on? 0800 The Hits is the phone number. Or you can text us through on The Hits as well.

4487. 0800 843 4487. Call us. We'd love to hear from you. Karen, you're on from Invercargill. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Kazza. Thank you. What are you suggesting?

What book do we do, matey? Harry McLary from Donaldson's Daring. That's a good one. A are you suggesting? What book do we do, matey? Harry McCleary from Donaldson's Daring. That's a good one. A New Zealand book. Didn't we get bloody sued by Lindley Dodd, didn't we? No, we just didn't take it down. Yeah. Because we did a skit where...

You ran over Harry McCleary. Harry McCleary came out of the gate not for a walk and then he didn't get past the road. Very grim ending. It was a very grim ending. No wonder she wasn't too happy with it. Put a beat down. Put a beat down. Put a beat down, Producer Drew.

You can do that, but yo, if you only had one shot, one opportunity to leave your gate and go for a walk, would you go or would you stay out? That's all I've got for Harry McLaren. That's a good start. It's cold as shaggy. No, you've got to go to the lyrics, though, the original words, right?

Yeah, because we can't rap about the story. We have to actually rap the story it's nice that you wanted to do an original as well I mean me I can do that in your own time

okay get it thank you thank you for letting me know what I can do in my own time someone's also texting Kiwi Classic Craig Smith's

The Wonky Donkey The Wonky Donkey that's a good one beautiful and you've just been practicing during the song and this is just bear in mind just a demo it's a demo oh. Beautiful. And you've just been practising during the song and this is, just bear in mind, just a demo.

It's a demo. Oh, hang on. Okay, go. Hi, my name is who? My name is what? My name is the Winky Winky Donkey. So that could kind of work. Demo, demo, okay, so don't judge. So what we'll do is we'll come back with a couple of options tomorrow.

I like a New Zealand book idea. Like there's lots of texts coming through, they're very hungry with Caterpillar, the Yellow Digger, all those sort of things but I'm like, no, maybe we should like a New Zealand book idea. Like there's lots of texts coming through. They're very hungry with Caterpillar, the Yellow Digger, all those sort of things. But I'm like, no, maybe we should go a New Zealand book.

Yeah, and we'll present them to you tomorrow and you'll think less of us by Friday. Yeah. Once we release this. You probably had a very low bar with us already,

but after that, you'll think a lot less of us. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

The first day back to school, the first day back to work for a lot of people. The office here where we work, very busy today. It is, yeah. You sort of find yourself just awkwardly smiling and waving at people, don't you? You say I wave too much. Too much waving. Especially during chats on radio, you're just like, it's like you've got lost control

of your limbs. I'm like one of those guys outside. Because no one in the videos can see that you're waving at people. I'm like the Godfrey's thing with outside Godfrey's with the arms blowing. The waving tube inflatable man thing.

Yeah, I just feel like you need to wave. Because we've got windows on both sides of us. So you just wave into the left. We're going to have to close the blinds in life.

Wave into the right. Anyway, very excited that we are in level two and I hope your morning is going well. Bloody shambles getting all the lunches and stuff ready, isn't it?

Yeah. I'm saying like I had to do it. I've been here all morning. I've done nothing. I'm just trying to sound relatable, Ben. But we have got something for level two that could help you out. Have a listen to this. Are you sick and tired of having 100% of your face exposed?

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Yeah, they are very good. They can end you. Just by blinking. Because we have windows here at the Hits that look out onto the reception you know, the foyer sort of area. But I notice that everyone that walks in, you wave. I feel obliged to just wave. All throughout videos you're waving, but no one knows you're waving.

Half the people don't wave to you. They don't even look in. You just look like you're like, oh, here we go. I feel an obligation to wave. Well, you don't need to because no one looks in. Very few people look in. I feel like we're in an aquarium or something. No one's waving. I'll display. Well, I'll just keep waving back.

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while you're asleep and Jacinda Ardern, our Prime Minister and Clark Gaiford, her partner, over the weekend they got caught out. Now we spoke to Jacinda

on Friday and we were like, what do you want to do in Level 2? And this is what she had to say. The country is at Level 2. Was there one thing that you managed to do

that you couldn't before or not yet? Not yet. But I was just talking to Clark about we were thinking about maybe going out for breakfast on the weekend, which is a very big deal. So that was Friday. They were talking about going out for breakfast. Clark did nothing about that. Nothing.

He didn't plan anything? No, because they went out on Saturday. Big news all over the place. They got rejected from the place that they went to. They got turned away? Because there was too many people in there. You know, social distancing. Kick out a lesser person.

If I was in there, I'd be like, look at me, I don't deserve to be here. Put the Prime Minister in here. Fortunately, though, as they were walking away to find somewhere else, someone did actually leave and then someone from the cafe ran down the road and got them back into the cafe. Can you imagine Donald Trump being turned away at a cafe? Only in New Zealand would we kick away the Prime Minister, kick out the Prime Minister from a cafe.

This is the lady that's pulled us through the last six weeks. Well, a lot of people over the weekend are going out for the first time. Restaurants open, those sort of thing. And Producer Ben, you went out, and it was quite an interesting sort of, you had to go through all sorts of stuff with the menu. Yeah, so they had paper menus on the table, and they kept the menus on the table,

and at the end of the night, you had to take the menus with you just so the waiters didn't have to handle the menus that you'd been touching. So I thought that was quite an interesting... Did you keep it? Did you keep it, or did you... No, it went straight to the bed outside. A little memento to going out. And you're quite distant. They say you're quite separate in the bin outside. A little memento to going out. And you're quite distant.

They say you're quite separate from the other tables. So not only did they have every second table, but say for argument's sake, we were table one. Table two was empty. And then table three, they filled once we left. So it was basically... A rotation system. Every third table was taken up, which was really nice.

You know what I noticed at the dairy? You know how a lot of them are putting up plastic screens and stuff so you don't cough COVID all over them? Yeah. I noticed there was a Coca-Cola-sponsored plastic screen there with a frame of Coca-Cola, like, look after each other. Oh, really? Share a Coke.

So this is the new sponsored thing? They've got marketing around COVID. Genius. Like, Coke can cure the rona. Well, according to the frame. No, I think it was just saying look after it. I don't know if they're quite making those claims. Isn't that good though?

We're going to cash in on this whole COVID thing too. We're doing masks. Don't say cash in. You keep saying cash in. We're not cashing in. We're not cashing in because we're not making any money from this. Well, technically we are cashing in because it's a marketing ploy. Yeah, but...

So we're cashing it on the road with face masks. No, we're actually making money. They're free. We're giving away free masks. And that's pretty exciting, actually. So you can get those for free. This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating, still pending.

It's Jono and Matt on the hits. What's that? Oh, no. Shut up. Now what? Oh, it's Jono. Oh, now what? Oh, it's Jono and Ben's rude awakening. We like to get up in the... Well, we don't like to get up early in the morning,

but we do for our job. How long does it take you to get up early in the morning? Like, are you just... When the alarm goes, you're up and you're into it? I am. I'm definitely now. Like, I've never really been a snoozer, like, you know, where you put your alarm on for 10 minutes, because I don't think it helps you.

No, and you never get the best sleep during that period, because you know that inevitably it's going to end in about three. 10 more minutes isn't really going to help you. My wife is. She'll press the snoozer, like, six times. I'm like, why don't you just set the alarm for when... You need to get up and just get up. But then she's like, but then I would snooze 10 more times from that moment.

Oh, well, no. So it's just, just don't do it. Well, I like to put the phone in the other, you know, I don't sleep next to the phone so the phone is in like the little bathroom next to our room so you have to get up

to turn the phone off and then you're up anyway so away you go. Yeah, there we go. This has been great banter and I'm glad that it was my fault. I initiated it

but you know, you did your job. You engaged. I thought it was alright. Jason, Juliet, was that terrible? Uh, nah. We've had better. We've had better, right? Oh, you've had better. I thought it was alright. Was that terrible? Nah.

We've had better. I'm not saying it was the best banter we've done, but it was alright. A little insight into our lives. Well, let's get Glenn on the phone. Did you hear that little passage just then, Glenn? Hello? No, I'm not going to ask Glenn.

Welcome, Glenn. How are you? Hey, man. How's it going? We're doing ask you that. Welcome, Glenn. How are you? Hey, man. How's it going? Good morning. Oh, we're doing well, buddy. Whereabouts in the country are you? We're in the H-town, Hamilton. We're going to wake up your flatmate Donna this morning.

Okay, yep. Yep, no worries. All right, $40 worth of hell pizza on the line. $10. Each question she gets correct. Good luck here. Okay, no worries. Flatmates are an interesting one, aren't they?

Because you're not with them. No, good morning. Oh, gee, she's awake already. Donna. Yeah, good morning. How are you? Are you guys next to each other? I can hear you in surround sound.

Oh, well, hang on. I'll go another way. Well played, guys. Well played. Listen. Well played, yeah. Well played. How are you?

We're doing all right, Donna. Welcome you. You know, what you need to do is you need to pretend to be tired at least. We've woken you up. We'll pretend to call you again, okay? Okay. Ring, ring. Ring, ring.

Ring, ring. No, that's when you go, hello. Hello, I'm tired. Hello, how are you? Who am I speaking to now? No, you've got to be tired. You still sound quite sprightly. Try and sound tired.

Ring, ring. Ring, ring. Bing, bing. I guess she's tired. We're not really picking up what we're putting down. So, Jono, do you want to go through the questions? Okay, here we go. First question is, if I was in Thames, I would be what?

A, a weed dealer, B, very lonely, or C, in the Coromandel Peninsula? A dealer. A weeds dealer B. Very lonely Or C. In the Coromandel Peninsula A dealer A weed dealer Yeah I guess, okay I'll take that as an answer Yeah They've bamboozled the game bed I don't know what

I'll go and persist in with it Kanoa Lloyd Hosts what? A. The Project B. Underground cage fighting nights Or C. Korean exchange students The Project She hosts The Project. She hosts The Project.

On to the next one. Chris Hemsworth was once on which Australian show? A, Bone and Away, B, Home and Away, C, Gnome and Away? Home and Away. Home and Away. And final question. Ben Boyce once appeared on which TV show? A, Police 10-7, B, Pulp Sport, or C, Fair Go? Can you please repeat?

Big fans, Ben. Big fans. Followed your career. How humbling is this? Can you repeat the question? Which means they're having to goog this. Ben Boyce. Do you know which one?

Do you know Ben Boyce? Heard of him? Yeah. Which one's he? Please stop talking. Not Police 7. I don't think so. Ben Boyce appeared on what TV show?

Police 10-7, Pulp Sport or Fair Goat? The Pulp. The Pulp. It was The Pulp. Yeah, I'll take that. Please move on, John. I give them their

Hell Pizza vouchers. $40 worth a Hell Pizza. Glenn Donner, you look after yourselves. Have a wonderful day and thank you very much for listening. Thank you very much, man.

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Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. I like pineapple on pizza. I like the ads that pop up on YouTube. Kiwi onion dip tastes like crap. Controversial call-ups. This is where Jono and I both say something that could be deemed controversial

and we see if someone agrees on 0800THEHITS. You give us a call, 0800THEHITS, and the winner is the person who gets someone to call up. Yeah, so the one I'm going to chuck out there is probably going to offend a lot of movie buffs out there. But my controversial call out today is

old classic movies are boring. They're boring. They're dated, shoddy special effects. They have the godfather and Scarface. Everyone's like, oh, these. It's like you feel obliged to like these movies.

But you go back and watch them, you're like, they're overacted. They're slow. Special effects are shock. Give me Fast and Furious any day of the week. You know, normally I'd disagree with what you had to say, but I watched, I was like with the kids the other night, it was on TV, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the original. I'm like, kids, it's such a great movie.

I watched it at the start of it. I was like, oh, my God, this is boring. It's so boring. I mean, it's very rarely that something stands the test of time. In my mind, in my memory, it was a lot better. That's the thing. You've got fonder memories of those. Like, you go back and our boss Todd is like, Forrest Gump's an absolute crapper of a film.

Forrest Gump. He said it's slow, it's boring, and you probably go back and watch it Because times have moved on Because in my mind I'm like That's such a great movie Exactly So maybe that's best where it stays So that's my contribution So I'm agreeing with you right now

That's Jono's contribution call out 0800 the hits is the phone number I'm going to say something You give me grief every day And I'm going to say it's okay For a grown man to wear clothes With cartoons on it Apparel from movies I've got a Toy Story 4

backpack. I've got an itchy and scratchy t-shirt. I've got Simpsons pajamas. I've got Batman boxer shorts. I've got Olaf from Frozen. I've got those on shorts. It's okay. I get mocked every day, but it's okay guys. You can do that. You can be like me and it's okay. It doesn't matter. Why? Because you're not nine. Do you have

to stop? Because you're an adult. Why? Now, producer Juliet, you hadn't met to stop? Because you're an adult. Why? Now, producer Juliet, you hadn't met Ben. You hadn't met Ben before this. What did you think when he came traipsing in with his Toy Story 4 backpack? The thing is, I thought it was just like a one-day thing. You're like, okay, I'm just going to wear him a Toy Story. And then every single day it's a different, like, T-shirt or a different...

Do you know, at the end, when I left, they gave me a backpack. That was my gift to go, now you can have an adult backpack. I gave that away. Did you give that bag away? Yeah, because I was like, I like my gave me a backpack. That was the gift to go, now you can have an adult backpack. I gave that away. Did you give that bag away? Yeah, because I was like, I like my Toy Story 4 backpack. It's got the Wiggles underpants on. Thomas the Tank Engine singlet. It gets a bit cold, and one at a time, you've got to wear a singlet.

But no matter how much mocking or comments, you still persist with it, and that's what I appreciate. My favourite one was the My Little Pony one I had before that, but the zip ring. That was my favourite one. This sounds like it's being made up, but it's fact. No, it's true. Okay, 0800 the hits.

Whose controversial call-out do you agree with? Ben saying you can wear children's merch as a fully grown adult, or classic movies are boring, slow, and old. We've got Marty on the phone. Who do you agree with? Yeah, classic movies are boring, old, and slow. Yeah, they are. They are.

Thank you, Marty. What was the last movie you went back and watched and you're like, actually this is no good? Actually, it was Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory. Oh, yeah. There's that weird scene where the guy, the candy man, the candy man's got all the kids in the store and he's singing

around. I'm like, who is this guy? Where are your parents? Yeah, that was a little bit. And to be honest, Wonka's, he's a little bit creepy, isn't he? It's like, who is this guy? Where are your parents? Yeah. Yeah, that was a little bit... And to be honest, Wonka's, he's a little bit creepy.

Yeah, yeah. It's like, well, he's got this weird little thing where he invites children to come over. I mean, he's Michael Jackson of the chocolate world. Oh, jeez. Isn't he? I don't know if I'd quite put him in the... If Wonka was down the road from your house, you're like, there's this guy down there, he's got this

factory, all the kids go over. I'd like help. Exactly. And he's got this factory. All the kids go over. I don't like help. Exactly. And he's got these people from overseas that are working there. I don't know if they're getting paid or looked after or, you know. He's got little dwarfs, doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah, they're getting paid minimum wage.

Hey, thank you, Marty. You have a wonderful day. You too, mate. The Songy Cornflakes of radio. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Don't tell the sales department because it's Jono and Ben's winning ad. And Meta Businesses opened up again today, so we thought we'd give away some free advertising on the radio.

The catch is we give someone a call. They don't know they've won the ad until we call them. Better than winning the lottery, isn't it? Well, not quite, actually. No, no. We're going to head through to Southland today to Gore. Let's make a call. Hello, Country Living, Katie

speaking. Hi, Katie. How are you today? I'm good. How are you? It's Jonathan and Benjamin calling from the Hits and we have given you a free commercial. Oh, my goodness. It's a lot to digest. What are you thinking? What are your initial thoughts? Just whatever you want to do. I'm sure if it's a lot to digest. What are you thinking? What are your initial thoughts? Just whatever you want to do.

I'm sure if it's free. Oh, yeah, free. Free commercial on the radio. We've written half of it. You've just got to fill in the blanks. Okay. What do you do at Country Living? We sell homeware, giftware and fashion.

Oh, this sounds like a place that my mum, Annie Pryor, would froth over. Yes. Have you heard about one of the Kiwi businesses? It's the... Country Living? We're all... Hold on. That's right.

You're right. You didn't sound that confident. I don't know if I'm very good at this. That was great. You just started with a hiss and a roar, but then really peed it out quite quickly. I kind of thought I was live, and it's like, uh-oh.

Don't let the fact that hundreds of thousands of people are listening to you right now get inside your head. Yeah, don't even think about that, all right? Here we go, carry on. Okay, that's not helping. Carry on with your ad. Famous for its popular... Country living gore.

There we go. There we go. And she's back. And don't forget the crowd favourite. Oh, um... What is our crowd favourite? All our beautiful decor and... Do you know what?

I'm going to go out on a limb here. Do you know what I'm going to say the crowd favourite is? Yes, what is it? Katie's friendly face. Oh, look, I'm not going to say that out loud. You didn't have to. I did it for you, Katie. But wait, there's more,

because that's not even the best thing about them. Let me tell you about it right now. Um, um, what have we got here? Hold on, I'll put you on speaker. Where's speaker on this phone, Robin? They want to know, it's a radio station, they want to know our best thing that we have in here for sale. It's gone to Robin.

Robin. Gone to Robin. We're waiting with bated breath for Robin's response. The latest fashion, Ikoya candles. Oh, I just want to tell you I love an Ikoya candle. They're good, aren't they? Yes. He loves to treat himself to a Friday afternoon bubble bath.

And an Ikoya candle. Oh, beautiful glass art. Yep. Glass what? Glass art. Oh, beautiful glass art. Yep. Glass what? Glass art. Oh, God. Glass. They might have that as well.

I'm not sure. And who could forget that catchy slogan? More than gifts. Oh, more than gifts. What are they? That's the name of our website. What does that mean? Well, we've got, like, it's not just gifts.

We've got homeware. We've got Well, we've got, like, it's not just gifts. We've got homeware. We've got fashion. We've got... The general vibe was that you were just a gift store, and you're like, no, guys. Yeah. We're more than gifts. We're more than gifts.

That's the one. That's the one. And then so you say, well, buddy, buddy, don't you just come here for your gifts? We're more than gifts. And their wonderful staff, who sometimes like to reveal a secret about themselves live on the radio. The secret.

This one's a bit of a stitch-up. But honesty is appreciated. You guys are funny. Have you been stealing from the till or anything like that? Yeah, no, we don't steal from the till. Well, that's always a bummer. Well, I don't. No, no, my staff are awesome. no, we don't steal from the till. Well, that's always a bonus. Well, I don't. No, no, my staff are awesome.

Well, I don't. What about Robin? Are you keeping your eye on Robin? Yeah, no, I've left Robin. I'm out with Megan now. Chugger's on to Megan. You would like to talk to Megan? Yeah, we need to talk to Megan.

Hello, dear. Listen, Katie says you're stealing from the till. Oh, did she now? Yeah, but she wouldn't say it to your face, so that's why we have to say it. Oh, no, that's okay then. I wouldn't do that to her. We're just here to say, keep on doing it,

because she doesn't know. No, I don't need to. She pays us enough. You guys sound like a lovely store, so thank you for chatting to us today. Thanks, guys. Sorry we're not very good at this public speaking. Yeah, you nailed it.

You know, the sad thing is you were better at it than Ben and me, and we do it for a job. Oh, Ben and you probably do an awesome job. Oh, well, no, that's debatable. Thank you. Remember to double pump the vogels. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Super Rugby, the team's back training today and everyone's got to get temperature checked on the way

into training, too, which I guess makes sense. I noticed it's something you just hold up to your forehead, isn't it? Yeah. What is it? Not the old get it in your ear? Have you had the one you jam in your ear? Oh, yeah. So there were those.

And there's under your tongue and another place, which we won't talk about. Can you test the temperature? Well, apparently. I've never. After 7 o'clock, that's what we'll be doing. Jono tests Ben's temperature. That's what the rectal thermometer does. Oh, really?

I'm wrong. Surely, if he's like, can you just put it in my throat? Yeah. And not the same one that you put. Anyway. Spy the WhatsApp by doco.nz. With producer Juliet.

The award-winning producer. The award-winning radio award. We'll talk more about this after 7 o'clock. She's a better class of person now. She is. She'll stop at nothing to get the celebrity gossip, including ruining marriages and relationships. Exactly.

And Katie Perry, she was a guest judge on MasterChef Australia. And the reason for this was because the theme song of Hot and Cold, her song Hot and Cold was the theme song of MasterChef for the past month. Of course. It makes a lot of sense now because I was like, this has no... What, she's got a mouth so she can taste food? So we'll get her on to judge? It's like me judging a hairdressing reality show.

No relation at all. Sounds like she was a lot of fun on set. Yes, apparently she was an absolute whirlwind. So Jock Zonfrillo, I think his name is pronounced, he's a judge on the show, and he said, Katy Perry is an absolute dynamo. She came into the kitchen real hot, broke all the rules, was a nightmare to keep under control, and just absolutely talked smack.

She was calling him Daddy too, right? Yes, so he'd be asking her to chop some meat, and she'd say, oh, put the meat in my mouth, Daddy. Oh, God. I'll tell you what, because on our Netflix at home, you know how you can change names to things? So the kids have changed it all to Daddy you know, to Daddy, Mummy and stuff. But now I get emails

from Netflix going, Daddy, we just added a movie you might like. And some of you like it and it feels like when Netflix says it to you, you're like, some of you are like,

oh. Hey Daddy, here's some titles you might enjoy. Yeah, I know. And I'm like, oh, I don't know how I feel about this.

Why is Netflix calling me Daddy? Oh, that's so good. For more spy, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.