Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - May 18 - We Spoke To Prince Charles & Camilla's LOVE CHILD, Simon Dorante Day!

Episode Date: May 18, 2021

He's been in the news over the past few weeks, claiming he is Charles and Camilla's secret son that they adopted out shortly after he was born. He currently lives in Australia and has been investigating his links to Charles and Camilla. It was very interesting chatting to him! Afterwards, we spoke to our UK Royal correspondent, Gavin Grey, about his thoughts on all this news too! We also discussed not once, but twice, Jono's sleeping habits. One was about what happened to him when he fell asleep at a massage parlor, the other, what he did while sleeping on a plane. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. It's Tuesday the 18th of May and it's wonderful to have your presence.

It really does mean a lot to us. And I'm saying it like it doesn't mean a lot to us, but I say it really does mean a lot to us. Yeah. And I'm saying it like it doesn't mean a lot to us, but I say it really does mean a lot to us, but I actually mean that. Now, I've just got into coconut coffee, Ben. Oh, you have? Yeah, you have. Now, I'm kind of collateral down.

We're sipping back. We're sucking back on some Joe. Sucking back on a cup of Joe right now. Post-show, we always do, don't we? Yeah, we get up early in the morning, and so coffee kind of helps you get through some of the day. Where are you right now? Number four?

No, I've been actually cutting back pre-leaving the house because I noticed I didn't get to work. So I've even just been doing one single shot at home. What, you've changed? Well, then I can have more during the day because I was trying to have too much coffee just by myself. And I'm like, what am I doing with this? I love your addiction is like, so I can have more during the day.

Or later when people go, hey, let's have a coffee. Let's make a coffee. And you're like, yeah, I can now. Rather than sitting alone in my kitchen going, you know. I like getting jacked up. I have two or three. Some mornings I'll have three coffees before I leave the house, which is an obscene amount of caffeine rolling around our systems.

But anyway, yeah, coconut coffee. And it's only because my wife Jennifer, milk wreaks havoc with her. Right. So she was like, I'll try a coconut milk. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right.

Yeah. I feel like a wanker ordering it. Yeah, you sound like one. It's a wanker coffee, isn't it? Yeah, you do. I'll have a coconut coffee. But hey, I mean, there's a good reason why people don't, you know, don't have milk.

There's a lot of different milks. You don't have one, but other people do. You don't have a good reason. Yeah, I don't have a good reason why. Yeah, there's a lot of lactose intolerant people. I know Millennial Max. Of course, he's got the stomach of a millennial. He used to have oat milk, doesn't he?

You can milk anything nowadays, can't you? Yeah, including oats. How are they milking an almond? I don't know. Just with your little fingers, you just kind of rub it up and down and extract them. You can honestly,

you can turn anything into milk. Microphone milk. Maybe you can. We've been milking radio for a while. Computer screen milk. I'm just looking at things. Hey, we've got a really, really interesting show

if you can stick past the milk banter because today we catch up with someone who's been making international news for what he claims is the child, the love child of Prince Charles and Camilla. He was quite interesting, wasn't he? Simon Double D's. Yeah, Simon Deante Day. Deante Day, yeah. Simon, he phoned through really interesting

yeah phoned through from Queensland and I was like we are going to talk to one unhinged unstable individual but then when he was on the show

I was like oh well you know he made some solid points he's like I don't think he's lying from his point of view of what's happened

whether he's telling whether the truth is the truth in terms of he is actually Charles and Camilla's love, whether he's telling, whether the truth is the truth in terms of he is actually Charles and Camilla's love child. Well, that's to be decided. But I genuinely believe what he told us has happened to him. Yeah. And he believes it's happened to him.

Yeah. And you can't argue that. I make up all sorts of stuff for the radio. But he wasn't making that up this morning. I believe that. What are you doing? You've checked out. What are you doing? I thought checked out. What are you doing?

I thought you were just trying to. That was the big part of the interview. Oh, was it? Oh, were you like, I've wrapped up the podcast intro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're like, you're not even looking at me. What are you looking at? What's going on?

Well, actually, we've got another interview about to come out. Oh, so we better wrap it up with another interview. Okay, all right. Yeah, we've got a lot going on. You know, we've got to make sure the studio's tidy. This is getting filmed. Yeah, right. This is getting filmed.

This is representation of the hits. So, you know, I'm just thinking I've got the names of the people we're interviewing, which is good because I didn't have that. So now we do. And we're still in the podcast intro. I know. Enjoy it. Too much.

Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. It's awesome to have this person on our show right now. You would have seen him in the news online. Around the world, a man who lives in Queensland and says he's the son of Prince Charles and Camilla. That's right. His name's Simon Durante Day,

and he joins us live from Australia right now. G'day, Cobber. He said good morning. How are you, Ben and John? Koalas, snakes, and other Australian references. We're doing all right. How are you? I mean, it must have been, snakes, and other Australian references. We're doing all right. How are you? I mean, it must have been a real rollercoaster

the last few weeks for you. It has been. Since Philip sadly passed away, it's just gone bananas. And I think everybody's seeing me out and about and seeing the images. It's just increased everybody's interest in the thing, yeah. So, Simon, you claim to be the love child of Charles and Camilla. I think a lot of people listening

would have read the headlines, but maybe not dived much deeper than that. How certain of you are this? For me, pretty much 100%. I've been looking at it for quite some time. Just to sort of briefly run through it, I was adopted as a child at eight months. I was told I was born in Haslam

Naval Hospital, which I wasn't. From there, I was grown up by a family in Portsmouth, the Dane family. A lot of strange things occurred during the time I was growing up, strange visitations to houses. I had lots of memories of different things that went on, operations, taking to different places, which I kind of left behind when I went in the Merchant Navy and went around the world. It wasn't until I had Simon in 1994 after I'd met LVM that we started to really get seriously into it. So Simon George is your child, is it?

Yeah, that's correct. He's my first son with Simon, yeah, when he came with Blue Eyes. My wife said, well, where'd the Blue Eyes come from? And with Simon, yeah, when he came with Blue Eyes. My wife said, well, where'd the Blue Eyes come from? And I said, well, I was born with Blue Eyes. And she said, well, when did they change? And I said, oh, about the age of eight. And she said, oh, no, you can't do that. Being a nurse, she knew, you know, that was fairly late to happen.

So that's sort of what triggered the investigation further. So you got adopted, you're adopted parents. Now, their parents used to work for the Royals. Is that the connection? My grandparents, my adopted grandparents, granddad was a gardener and ma'am was a cook at a Royal household. That's where they met. And then from there they obviously moved around different jobs. He was in the Royal Navy, he was a prison guard, he was an MP and he got an Imperial Service Award for his time in the jails there, which I didn't know about until 1998.

So, yeah. So what you're saying is your theory is Charles and Camilla had you. It was out of wedlock, frowned upon in that era. And then they handed you off to some of their workers and the grandparents looked after you. Yeah, well, that's correct, yeah. I mean, basically, Nan and Grandad sort of brought me up, really. I spent a lot of time with Grandad working on vegetable gardens and doing things for the community.

So, yeah, that's pretty much how it goes. Did your grandparents tell you this, you know, flat out, that you were actually the... Well, I'm sure you all go through these things. You remember your grandparents said certain things and at the time it didn't make much sense. But later on it does. And I mean that's what's happened. She hinted at it as the new ideas many times. But she only came out and said it in 1998 when I went back. She was

not well. So I rushed out of Australia, flew back to the UK, just got there in time. They didn't think she'd survive the night, but she did. And, yeah, she told me then. Oh, wow. So we've seen the photos that's been circulating around, some uncanny resemblance to some of the royal family that you've got, particularly in younger years.

Yeah, you look a lot like Prince Andrew. In one of the photos we've seen. Which I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Hey, but what do you want? What would you like out of this? Do you want closure? What's your ultimate goal? Well, you know,

my wife was adopted too and I sat and watched her speak to both sets of parents and understand the story of why she was given away and what happened. And, you know, I'd like that opportunity, and I think they've got the right to air their side of the story so that I know, you know, what they went through.

That's the main thing I'm looking for is the truth, yeah. So you're not after money, you're not after a Prince title, you just want them to take a DNA test for a boy, a man who's looking for his parents. That's the simple truth. Well, it's pretty much like Delphine's case. I mean, she could understand what I, the Princess from Belgium, she'd understand closely more than anybody

what we've been through. Yeah, I'd like to know the truth first. Let's start with step one. Let's get there. That's hard enough to achieve. So what do you want to say to the Royals if they're listening? Because I do know they tune in on iHeartRadio. I'm sure they do. The Queen does do that. You want to be careful.

She could be listening to you. What do you want to say to them? Come clean. Look, I don't think it's them that's suppressing it. I've always said this. The monarchy is controlled really by the government. If you look at how it all works out, that's the way it is. They're the ones suppressing it, I believe. And I'd say

to them, look, come on, let's do it. It's just gone on for too long. I mean, the longer it goes, I'm just going to put it back in court and we're just going to go through it all again. And they're going to be the ones that are going to be looking not so good. Have you had any correspondence with the Royal Family? Yeah, I have. I've written to the Queen several times. I've written to Charles several times, once via SO14, which is approved ahead of SO14, who's the Royal Security Branch.

David Smith, D.I. David Smith, got a letter. I've got a receipt for that that went to Charles as private secretary.I. David Smith got a letter, got a receipt for that that went to Charles' private secretary. So I've done quite a lot.

We did all this private before it all went public. I exhausted every private route that I could before

it went public. Well, a fascinating story and we wish you all the best with getting closure in your

endeavours. So thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate it. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We just really had a really fascinating chat with an Australian man

by the name of Simon Durante-Aday who claims to be, he's been making world news recently for claiming to be the son of Charles and Camilla. Now, going into this, I was like, we're going to be talking to some unhinged mad dog, you know, someone like myself. Yeah. But then after speaking to him, you're like, well, he's pretty reasonable.

He's got his facts and whether, you know, this is his story. This is what's happened to him. I feel like he believes what he's saying and that's the most important thing in his thing. And he's going to a lot of... He's gone privately, and now he's going through the court system to find out the truth and get closure on his story. Yeah, so yeah, you're right.

These things happen to him. This is his truth. But is it the truth? And Gavin Gray, our UK correspondent, has joined the programme. I'm not talking to Gavin. How are you, Gigi? Good morning, guys.

Yeah, yeah, very good and very, very interesting, isn't it? What are your thoughts? You heard the interview, Gavin Gray, royal correspondent. Well, I think you

hit the nail on the head, both of you, just there saying, look, he believes it to be true, so he's the one that, you know, should pursue it and perhaps should be helped to pursue it.

But I have to tell you, he's already found out the royal family won't be cooperating much with him. And indeed, today, earlier, I spoke to Prince Charles's press office, and they just said, look, we just aren't commenting on this at all. However, in the interim, I have found one or two facts that might get in the way of his thoughts of how things turned out and perhaps might need further investigation oh okay we'll unload these on us gavin well i'd say okay so there are three main points now obviously this is what they say but it is reported that prince charles and camilla actually uh met five years after he is saying that she fell pregnant with him.

So the royal couple, we don't think, were together on that date. But, of course, you know, if these things are always made public, then perhaps there's a story behind that. But my reckoning is they weren't together at the time. Secondly, he's quite right in that during that time, Prince Charles was sent to Australia on a royal official visit. But he's saying Camilla disappeared from public eye for nine months. Well, actually, I think that there are photos that exist

which show her attending a debutante's ball in London on March the 25th, 1965, which is about the time he's talking about, I think. And she is quite obviously not pregnant. And it's not just one picture. She's actually pictured numerous points throughout the year in 1965. But I don't, as I said, I'm not saying he's wrong. It's just things that get in the way of his chain of events. And one last one. He says his adoptive grandparents, I think they're

Winifred and Ernest, he said. He said they worked for the Queen's household. Now, if they did, it's very, very, very likely they would have received some sort of award for their service, probably the Imperial Service Award. And a quick flick through the records suggests that there's no record of Ernest receiving an award. Now, please don't think I'm therefore suggesting it's all nonsense. I'm not. But I think there's a few facts that need to be explained first. Right.

This is the thing I imagine would happen to the royal family all the time. What is the general... They just basically to the royal family all the time. What is the general, just basically because you've heard the stories about Harry and the rumours about who he's the child of. I mean, what did the royal family do? Did they ever engage in these sort of rumours? No, they don't. Not in modern times. Of course, you know,

having a child out of wedlock was not unknown in the bad old days of the Middle Ages and so forth with the royal family. But it isn't known in modern history here in the UK. And obviously this would cause massive shockwaves. I mean, Prince Charles, you know, the heir to the throne, Camilla. He knew Camilla very, very well before getting married to Diana.

And then, of course, they got it together after Diana's death. And so this would have tremendous ramifications for all of those things. Plus, of course, you know, how could they let a young child just go, as it were, and not want to keep in touch? But there would be plenty of people, indeed, one of the headlines about the whole story and about the claims being made by Simon are described in one paper as complete bonkers, in other words, complete nonsense, believing that he is just, you know, a long way from the truth. Well, he could leapfrog William to the throne. And of course, that is exactly what I know so many Australians are quite keen on.

But I have to say, short of a disaster of some scandal or something like this, there is absolutely no way Prince Charles is going to give up what he sees as his rightful place next in line to the throne, waiting for, as it were, his turn. And that, of course, could mean that his turn could be relatively short. I mean, you know, Prince Charles, the Queen, seems to be going strong, age 94. Prince Charles, you know, well into his pensionable years now.

So, yeah, the next year is going to be very interesting for the monarchy. And, boy, a story like this would really blow up. Well, the next time you're in the same room as them, I just want you to take a little cotton bud and swab the inside of his mouth, OK, Gavin Gray? We'll get to the bottom of this. We won't rest. Gavin Gray, UK correspondent. Love your work.

Keep safe over there. Cheers, guys. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the heads.

The heads. Ben, you know one of my loves, one of my loves is mall massages. You do love a mall massage, don't you? I'm a sucker for a mall massage. My biggest bugbear for the mall massage, one is I don't relax during a massage, so that's probably why I don't get them. But also-

Literally the only human who finds massages anxiety fueling. Yeah, it's just a little like, oh, you know, I just, yeah, it gets me more tense. But the other thing I really don't like about the more massage is my skin, you know, I lean on my skin, it gets quite red and sort of, you know, murky and when you put your face

through a little round hole for 20 minutes with someone pushing down, it just looked like I put my head in like a rubbish bin or a pot or something afterwards, you know? Yeah, you got to be serious. I made my head stuck in a pot at the florist. I was just seeing what the pot looked like on the inside. You know like when you see people in the mall, they look at you like,

what's up with his face? It's a pot again. Oh boy, so we're shoving his face in flower pots. But I went there last night. You love it, eh? I do, and he's always like, oh,

you go to Golden Fingers. Oh mate, that's where you go. It's therapeutic. Okay, it's a legitimate therapeutic message. It's always discreet

parking around the back. You're like, don't park there, you just park around the back. Anyway, it's not as legitimate as I thought it was is this the mall

yeah like yeah that goes through to the mall why am I putting on a moustache and a top hat yeah anyway

wear this monocle it's nowhere near the mall it's underground tunnel system but anyway you go there just keep your head down it's great

no no it's legitimate it is and every time I talk about it he tries to insinuate it's the furious reasons that I go there. Oh, no, it's legitimate. But anyway, I found myself face down on the table, like you say, head through the hole.

Yeah. And I start, like, you know, five minutes into it, I start really relaxing. I doze off. But the problem is then I wake up and my mouth has created like almost a bungee cord of drool, which is like just dangling down to the carpet. So then I'm trying to, because I can't move my arms, I'm trying to... Oh yeah, you wouldn't be able to sort of wipe it away or anything like that. No, and I don't want to create a puddle on their carpet, which I imagine a lot of people would. And so it sort of forms like an icicle.

You know how the icicles come down from the cave? And they're really hard to get rid of when you've got no hands. They just dangle there. Yeah, for how long? You don't really want to break it off, do you? No, and I think I even got to the stage where I was so tired, I woke up and I was snoring, and I woke myself up snoring. They must see it all the time,

but a new claim to fame at Golden Fingers for me. I'm going to be on the wall of fame now. Do you know what the lovely gentleman said last night? What's that? He said, I have never seen knots like this in my 10 years of massaging. Wound up in knots, mate. Knotsbury Farm, my shoulders. Really? Wow.

Running at a rate of knots. Oh, wow. He doesn't want to massage me. Imagine there's a whole lot going on there I don't want to know about. I'm just massaging concrete. Yeah. Don't touch me.

Anyway, you're always welcome to come with me, mate. You know where the park is. Very discreet. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. me, mate. You know where the park is. Very discreet. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. We were talking earlier in the show how you fell asleep getting a massage yesterday.

Oh, I did, yeah, yeah. It's one of my skills. It's one of my hobbies and interests is falling asleep. You do get up ridiculously early. Even for an early morning radio show, you've somehow managed to make an early time get even earlier. Yeah, I like getting up at 3.40

because it's a good conversation point, you know? Oh, what time do you get up? 3.40. Well, you don't get to be working till five. You're like, yeah, no. It's the only thing that I can impress anyone with anything I do. Which is great. You do it and good on you and you commit to that. He opens his eyes earlier than most.

But then you close them at any opportunity, you know, through the day. As soon as you stop talking, if you're on a plane, if you're getting a massage, like you said earlier, he just falls asleep. That's his thing. And it happened on the plane ride home from, you know, you know when you sit next to Jono. When I sit next to Jono, I know because we've had conversations,

every conversation to be had, you're going to fall asleep, which is fine. We're like an old married couple. We can sit happily in silence for three or four hours. One time we drove from Auckland to Taupo. Didn't say a word to each other. But when there's someone new who always got a banter, you know, you've seen him at his

bantering guest, haven't you? Yeah, but on the plane, you had a wee sleep and I was like, oh, he's all tuckered out. He's in the sleep. But at one stage, I thought you... Like a big baby, that big bald baby sleeping. I thought you were doing a joke on me because your arm sort of went and almost like punched me on the leg, almost punched me on the leg, but it was almost like a grab out. And I was like, oh, he's doing a joke. Then I looked around and I was like, oh no, you're still

asleep. You're still dead asleep. So you must've been, I don't know what you were dreaming about, what you're trying to grab. Oh, one thing you'll learn about me is I'm a physical dreamer. Very physical in every aspect of my life. Even burning calories in my sleep. Maybe I was having a dream about my last hair follicle falling away.

I was trying to grab it. There it goes. Trying to grab it from the clutches. Yeah, I was like, wow. Because I was sitting against the cam who does camera with us and he was like, wow. Because I was sitting next to Cam, who does camera with us, and he was like, wow. We were just both looking at, you know, very physical, like it's a sort of interpretive dance routine was going on.

Sorry, I didn't know that. For a wee bit. That was fine. It was fine. It was me. I didn't care. Now seems like a good time to bring it up. I mean, that was two days ago.

He didn't see anything. He's like, wait, I'll go with me on this. I'll talk about your weird jolting and your sleeping. I'll sit you up. You know what I love about sleeping on planes at the moment is obviously masks are mandatory. Government enforced mask usage. They are.

And they work and act as wonderful slobber sacks too. When you're sleeping, usually you'd wake up with bits going down your chin and all sorts. Well, the mask is taking care of all that stuff. But then you're weirdly, you can take them off when you're eating cassava chips. They're like, you keep your mask on, except when we have a two-minute food break,

halftime break for COVID. You can all get a snack and refreshment. It's almost like COVID's on a timeout. Everyone's like, timeout, timeout, COVID, you can't get us. And it's like, all right, it's the break time. It's made no sense to me then. It didn't. People take it off the break time. We can't, you know. It's made no sense to me then. It didn't. It didn't.

People take it off, they have their coffee and whatever, cookie, and then they put it back on. It's like, all right, back on second half. Here we go. Come back at me, COVID, you know. Maybe COVID's allergic to cassava chips and watery, weak coffee. Maybe that's it. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. It's a fun little game we like to play. It's called the Name Game. It's my favourite game of the morning, along with How Ticklish Has Been This Morning, where I tickle him. We enjoy that game, don't we, Juliet?

Yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's like Tickle Me Elmo. He's always very ticklish. Weird. So what we do is you give us a call on 0800THEHITS and you tell us your name and then we quickly try and Google as many famous people with that same name as you and we give you a

challenge to try and get in 30 seconds to win the Hell Pizza. Now we've got Nicole on the phone. How are you, Nicole? Yeah, good morning. I'm good, thanks. Where do you live? In Auckland. Oh, the greatest city in Aotearoa. And I said it proudly in Christchurch and Ben was very embarrassed. I said it loudly and proudly.

Outside the Christchurch airport and everyone agreed by pulling their fingers to me, which I think is a local custom of, hello, my friendly Aucklander, welcome to our town. Okay, Nicole. You've got to get five. Oh, five. Five in 30 seconds to win the Hell Pizza vouchers this morning. I've got to get five. Five famous Nicoles or Nickies I think you were going to look at as well.

Yeah, we'll branch out to Nickies. Is that okay with you? Yep. We'll start with Nicole. Okay, ready, John? You've got some questions? Here we go. Okay, go.

She was married to Tom Cruise and realised he was a little too Scientologist for her. Now she's with Keith Urban. Nicole, Aussie actress. Yeah. Are you asking me? Yeah. That's the full mechanics of the game.

Nicole Kidman. Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like her She's a pussy cat Dole Married Hold on you start No Juliet No Ben

Hey No stop the timer Stop the timer Stop it Ben was mouthing and pointing at Juliet Stop it No you reset I was trying to do that really subtly

It did not work. I was like, I was managing that... He wants Nicole to win. He's like, reset the timer. Lose the timer. But there was... No, no, no. That's the end of the game.

That's 30 seconds up. Nicole doesn't win. No. We still had about 10 seconds. No, we didn't. You reset the timer. We still had a long 10 seconds to go, too. You're like...

Everyone can't win in life, Ben. Sometimes the timer runs out on life. Okay? And you can't reset it. You're like, everyone can't win in life, Ben. Sometimes the timer runs out on life. Okay? And you can't reset it. You can't point. Nicole, congratulations. You got some help. No, you don't, Nicole.

You can get beer and wine delivered with your order right now. She started too slow. Lost the game. That's out. Calling up Nicole. You don't win, by the way.

Yeah, you do not. Yeah. Nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

Ba, ba, ba, ba, da, ba, da, da. Ba, da, da, da, da, ba, da, da. Last night's Shortland Street was a very dramatic finale to Shortland Street last night. Carla, who's returned from Shortland Street, iconic character, and Chris Warner. Oh, she's got some issues. She's got some deep-seated issues

that she hasn't quite dealt with. I'm assuming maybe from her childhood, but she's knocked out Warner twice in his house and then set it alight. You're just like all the rest of them. You pretend to be my friend and then you stick the knife in. I will help you if you let me. I never should have come.

You were never going to help me. Come on. You... Come on. A lot of grunting, puffing and dramatic music, much like Ben and myself making love. Is this the end of Dr Chris Warner? Well, we'll find out tonight at TVNZ2 at 7pm.

But joining us right now, the lady who plays Carla and does such a great job. She's with us in the studio, Elizabeth Esther. Thanks for coming in. Great to hang out. Thank you for having me. Lovely to have you on. Now, we were just talking during the break there

that it's a little unusual to see you as a normal, friendly person fresh off the scene that we've just watched on our computers from last night's episode. Do you like playing a psychopath? That's a hard question to answer, isn't it? I don't know anything different. And what is it like being in that role? Like, do you go to some strange places in your head

or what happens? No, I learn my lines. That's my acting technique. And I say them, and then everybody else who's watching layers on the meaning. But if you just say your lines, everybody can plaster on the feeling. Your million jobs sound too easy. I don't think anyone can do it. No, it's really good.

It was a crazy scene. Afterwards, when something that intense has just taken place, what do you say to Michael Galvin, who's Chris Warner, who you've just knocked out not once but twice, and then set his house on fire? Well, I was quite conscious because I had to go to a play that night and I'd looked at the schedule and was certain that I could go.

And so I bought five tickets for various friends and I watched the clock tick along close and close and I was going, I'm not going to. And then eventually I was texting them and I didn't want them all to go, oh, we're not going if you're not going because I wanted them to pay me for the tickets I'd bought

so I kind of pretended I was going to go right up until the last minute So you're using kind of some of that anger that you weren't going to go to the show Yeah exactly

that's all it is it's just like oh no don't let this guy on the heat because I'm going to miss a bloody play So do you

Carla was obviously iconic character you know a few years ago on Shorten Street one of the most memorable scenes ever and then did you know coming back again that Carla on Shorten Street, one of the most memorable scenes ever. And then did you know coming back again that Carla was going to be still the same Carla?

Were you thinking, well, maybe Carla's had a change in how she is? Well, I did hope she had rehabilitated because I would rather that she had one of those therapy clinics where she took people on lovely walks, perhaps around the South Island. Oh, yeah. Or I thought that she could do that kind of therapy. So do something new, New Zealand? Yeah. Stimulate the economy?

Yeah. No, yeah, so I wanted her to be nicer, and every time I got a script and she was doing these awful things, and then sometimes she'd suddenly veer off into humping that poor Damo. Poor Damo. Poor Damo. I know it was a dream sequence, but we still had to do it. Now, you said before when you came in,

you made your son watch the scene last night with Chris Warner. I did, because he sort of, I think, finds that sort of thing. I mean, watching your mum doing anything at this stage when you're 15. Especially humping Damo. No, I definitely would not have inflicted that on him. You didn't make him watch that part. And he's really naughty. That's going to be my threat.

I'll be like the naughty step right. And I'll keep his eyeballs open with some sort of special device. Oh, so good. That's a terrible parenting style. No, I'm not going to do that. But I did say, look, I have to go and do some radio tomorrow, so I'd like to be kind of au fait with the cray-cray. And he was sort of half watching it

and then decided to watch it more than half. He was three-quarter watching it and I could see his little face and he was like, oh, oh, oh, mum. Oh, mum. Oh, mum. It's a sight I've never seen before. And he was like, what was it like lighting a fire?

I was like, well, that was probably one of the highlights, pun intended, of my life. I didn't realise it was going to be a pun until it came out of my mouth. But the arson specialists, who were amazing, they were like, yeah, we're going to put a fire up there, we're going to put a fire up there, it was going to be a pun until it came out of my mouth but the arson specialists who were amazing they were like yeah we're going to put a fire up there

we're going to put a fire up there we're going to put some burners there we're going to have two million tonnes of water outside just in case just in case if there is an emergency don't try and help us

just leave in a normal fashion we'll take care of it those sorts of people they froth over it just a little too much don't they a little to the point of it's like the stunt

teaching people and they're like, yeah, get him here and do that and eyeballs and throat. Chris Warner has had such a tumultuous life at Ferndale.

Oh, I know. It's time for him to move somewhere to another area, not to leave the show but just another area because a lot of it goes on. My life's in constant danger here.

Car crashes, flying fox accidents, being burnt to death. And the turmoil. I know. Poor old Chris. And he's so nice. He is lovely, isn't he? Why would anybody, you know? And the turmoil. I know. Poor old Chris. And he's so nice. Why would anybody, you know, and he's not even Dr. Love anymore

because once upon a time he thought that sluttiness could have got him into trouble. So tonight, do we find out if Chris still lives? What can you tell us about tonight at 7pm? What can I tell you? Well, because I only look at the bits of the script that I'm in, so I left the building and it was fully alight. So you lit the fire and you just walked out?

I just garpered. So you're going to find out tonight. And then I tried to get to the theatre. Okay, thank you so much for coming in. Always fun catching up. And great job, too, on the show. Yeah, awesome, awesome work. Thank you, thank you very much.

Add these two men together, and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits, with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Behind a gentleman yesterday in the petrol station. I know you had to get petrol on the way to work yesterday, Ben Boyce, and you were... Yeah, not the most convenient time to get petrol. Not a great way to start the day to realise that your car's on E

and you've got to swing by. It does really, it becomes an inconvenient chore. But yeah, I was doing it on the way home yesterday and there was a guy in front of me who had, you know, sort of the bum bag situation over his diagonally across. I like the diagonal option. I've seen you rock a diagonal bum bag. I like the diagonal bum bag option. Well it feels

a bit like you're an American tourist you know, wearing the fanny pack around the front, you know, so I'm like I feel like across the shoulders is a nice way to go. It's fashion now. Thank you. I like to keep it old school. I wear it as a fanny pack. Just full waist, full access.

So there was a guy, he had it dyingly across. And so he was paying for his petrol. And then he opened up his bum bag and grabbed his wallet. But out at the same time, out fell his personal protection. Oh. If you know what I mean. And I'm not talking about a face mask or PPE equipment. Personal protection of the lovemaking brony.

The greasy adult balloon. Right. Two of them just fell down in slow motion. Did he notice? We all noticed. The guy behind the counter noticed. I noticed. The lady behind me noticed.

And it was like someone landed on the floor. Everyone's staring at them. And no one wants to touch them. You know? It's one of those situations where he just walked off. Oh, he didn't? You're not picking those up. You're not laying claim to that

you're hoping that no one saw what went on that's what you're wishing deep down and everyone's pretending like they haven't seen it but in those situations everyone's seen it

everyone's saying no what you're talking about now then you're a monster but he walked but I reckon they're probably still sitting there because no one if you lay

if you pick it up it's ownership you know they're probably going to sit there for the next 10, 20 years. Someone goes, take the cat out, oh, they just fell off the floor.

Oh, yeah, it's yours, mate. No, no, no, it's not. I was just picking it up. I was too scared to touch those things. So, yeah, the poor old Connie artist got outed but moved on. But hey, that's life. Things fall out of your bag,

don't they? Yeah, it can be an awkward situation. I had one overseas because I bought an engagement ring when I was going to go overseas to meet up with my, who was hopefully going to be my wife Amanda, wasn't there at the time.

So she didn't know I obviously had an engagement ring. Were you confident? Were you confident on a yes? Oh, semi-confident. I'm never confident at the best of times. How nervous were you? I mean, you're a nervous guy. Monday through Friday,

he's nervous about all sorts of stuff, isn't he, Julie? Imagine a proposal. I was nervous about taking this ring around too. Me being the character, it was such a relieving moment to give her the ring.

You mean the Bilbo Baggins. Mainly for her, just having the responsibility of the ring more than just saying yes. I was just like, relief that she now had to take care of this ring and not me because I had a moment where I was just like, relief that she now had to take care

of this ring and not me because I had a moment where I was going through customs and they were opening my bag to check out, checking what was inside and Amanda was next to me and I was like, uh-oh, and out fell the ring from the bag. Unfortunately, she didn't see it, but it was just like, you know, is this going to be it? This is where I'm going to propose in Prague.

In Prague while being internally investigated. What else are you carrying around? Well, it's a beautiful ring piece too, isn't it? The one that you purchased. Yeah, it's lovely. Did it stay as the engagement ring or did you get a new wedding ring after that? Or did you add on to the engagement ring?

Oh no, Amanda got a wedding band as well. A band as well. I've got no wedding ring, which you always give me grief about. Yeah, you don't got a wedding band as well. A band as well. Yeah. And I got the nowhere wedding ring, which you always give me grief about. Yeah, you don't wear a wedding ring. No. Well, I know because you're trying to hide it from all the affairs you're having. You don't want them to know you're married.

You don't want to market that. It's a turn off, you know. Isn't it, Juliet? Ladies are like, who's a married man? I was that guy in the petrol station whose stuff fell out. We got it on this morning on 0800 the hits of 4487. Have you ever had anything fall out of your bag accidentally? And what

situation did it happen in? Was it an embarrassing situation? Well, because particularly handbags. Handbags are a dark abyss. Just a sack of items, random items that can fall out at any moment, Juliet. Have you had an incident? There's been one or two times where sanitary items have fallen out of the bag,

like at work. Hand sanitiser and stuff. Yeah, yeah. But it's okay. It's all normalised now. So I'm like, I'll just pick it back up and then go to the toilet. We'll start with you, Jonathan and Taranaki Moreno. Good morning. How are we? Oh, we're'm like, I'll just pick it back up and then go to the toilet. We'll start with you, Jonathan and Taranaki. Morena. Good morning.

How are we? Oh, we're doing well, Jonathan. Lovely to have you on the show. What fell out of the bag? Oh, I was there in ACT and I had a bloody joint. Oh, no. So I'm going through ACT, marijuana's legal, sweet as, no problem. So anyway, I turn up in the morning a little bit hungover, all the rest of it.

I'm working at New Parliament House. And I'm very security. And in New Parliament House, it's our federal territory. Not so good, not so good. It's very, very much illegal. And anyway, this joint drops out onto the floor. I look at the joint. The security guards look at the joint. They look at me straight in the eyes.

I bend down, pick up the joint, put it in my pocket, give them the ID. Okay, sweet ass, just go on through there, buddy. There's some lapsed security there at Parliament in Australia, Parliament House. I'm about a good stoners. Thank you very much, Jonathan. Have a great day. Yeah, you too. Someone's texting, Fiona's texting saying that her husband's underpants fell out of her handbag while she was in Kmart.

And what had happened is they got caught up in her pocket in the washing machine. She found them in her pocket and then, oh, well, I'll put that in my handbag. Then when she's at the counter, the underpants fall out. She looks like she's either shoplifting or she's found them from a superhero who left them in a phone box while getting changed.

And one more text here on 4487, what fell out of your bag? Our kitten crawled into my giant handbag, I didn't notice, and I was paying for my petrol at the petrol station and the kitten crawled out onto the counter. No. Wow. How would you not notice that? Cat out of the bag.

Yeah, literally. He let the cat out of the bag. Hey, thanks for your calls and texts this morning. Really appreciate them. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits.

Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Yep, we love this game. Some of us love this game more than we love our families. And I don't want to name names, but my wife's starting to get suspicious I'm having an affair with the soundproof booth. Yeah, you spend a lot of time in it. We do, we do indeed.

And we're going to welcome to the program Aroha from Taupo. How are you? I'm more than that. I'm nervous. How are you? Oh, don't be nervous. I'm sure you're going to nail this. Thank you, hopefully.

It's very hard to match up the words, you know, like we've only had, well, we've had four or five wins over the last few months, but maybe today it could be all yours. Yeah, now you can win $5,000 or 265,000 rupees or 112,000 Thai baht. Yeah, I went on to the international calculator there. Aroha, big question. Who are you sending into the soundproof booth?

I'm going to follow the common choice, and it's you, Jono, I'm going to go with this morning. Oh, my wife's not going to be happy again. He's gone back again. Back into the booth. He said he was going to not go in there today, but he's gone back in there. Aroha, okay, here is your first word this morning.

Five words for $5,000. It is herbs. Herbs. Herbs. H-E-R-B-S. Or herbs, as they say in America, but herbs. Like really herbs and spices. Spices, yeah.

Mixed herbs. Mixed herbs. Mixed herbs or herbs and spices? You got a mix? God, does John O use mixed herbs. Mixed herbs? Mixed herbs or herbs and spices? You're going to mix? God, does Jono use mixed herbs? That's another question I'm having. Oh, Jono doesn't look like a mixed herb sort of person, to be honest.

Okay, okay. It's bland. But then, I don't know. I mean, maybe herbs and spices I thought was quite good, but it's over to you. You need to... Mixed spices. Okay, we're going to...

Are we going to go mixed spices? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, guys. I'm so nervous. I can't think straight. Mixed herbs. I'm going to go mixed herbs. I use it quite a lot.

Mixed herbs. Yeah, okay. That's a good idea. Good idea. Okay, the next word this morning is 10. 10? Yes, the number 10. I don't know.

Like $10. Yeah, I'm going to go $10. $10. Yeah, nice work. It's hard if you go, do you go flow on? Do you go something that pops into your head? It's tough when you've got so many options. I understand what's going on right now.

Sleep is your third word this morning. Sleep. Sleep. Goodness, word this morning. Sleep. Sleep. Goodness, bed, pillow. I'm going to go pillow. Sleep, pillow. Nice. Nice work on that one.

Kiwi is your fourth word this morning. Kiwi. New Zealand. I know, you know, that's quite iconic. Iconic New Zealand. That's very that's quite iconic iconic New Zealand that's very good I like that and finally beef

is your final word this morning beef beef stock beef stock oh yeah of course can I quickly

so I've got my son in the corner he's saying kiwi fruit so I've got to oh kiwi fruit good idea I'm going to disregard

his comment sorry son and I'm going to disregard his comment. Sorry, son. And I'm going to stick to New Zealand. Okay. I like that. I like that. You're like, well, I thought about it. But no, it's good.

You locked in there. Okay. Beefstock, kiwi, New Zealand. Okay. No, I think you've done a really good job with some tough words this morning. She'll be very happy with that. I'm going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth. Okay.

Yeah, he feels evil. Look at you. He's shirtless for some reason. There is something going Jono out of the soundproof booth. Okay. He feels evil. He's shirtless for some reason. There is something going on between him and the soundproof booth. Tough words this morning, to be honest, Jono. Very tough words this morning. Well, you know, this business has given away a lot of cash. A lot of cash, and at the end

of the year, the financial forecast for the hits is not looking good. We are sinking this business, but we're doing it for you Aroha. That's good. Are you confident? I am like not confident if I'm feeling like this. They're tough, they're tough this morning.

The first word we said this morning was herbs. I don't know, herbs. First thing that comes into my head is that house that you have with the shoes over the power line. Oh, no.

That you don't like me talking about. We're better than this, Jonna. We're better than this. Spices. Oh! What was it? Mixed herbs. Mixed herbs?

We talked about whether Jonna was a mixed herbs type of person. I'm not a mixed herbs type of person. I didn't even know mixed herbs were a thing. We say that and I tossed and turned between the two and just because I use mixed herbs so much, then spices I chose to go with. No, I understand.

The big question here, unfortunately you didn't win the money this morning, but what would you have said with kiwi, Jono? Kiwi? Yeah. Fruit? Oh, my son was right. Oh, kiwi, Jono? Kiwi? Yeah. Fruit? Oh, my son was right. Oh, my God, he's going to be so upset.

Oh, yes, they had a bit of a debate over that one. Let's go through the rest of the words this morning. Just quickly, 10. 10. 11. No, it was dollars. Sheep. Sorry, sleep.

Sleep was the word, not sheep. Sleep. Deprivation. No. And finally, sorry, sleep. Sleep was the word, not sheep. Sleep. Deprivation. No. And finally, beef. Lamb. Oh, no. Unfortunately, Aroha.

None from five. I am a disappointment, a national disappointment. I'm so sorry, Aroha. Oh, John, if only I could see my son's face right now. He's actually disappointed too. I did not pick kiwi fruit. I didn't know her. Oh, John, if only I could see my son's face right now. He's actually disappointed too. I did not pick kiwi fruit. I didn't need to hear that. Hey, thank you so much for playing.

It was lots of fun and I hope we get to do it again, all right? No worries, me too. Thank you. See you, matey. Bye. She was awesome. Real kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm.

Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Spy. No, what's up? Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. We call her Eminem because she's busy cleaning out the closet. Load of skeletons of the celebrities. What's happening in Spy, Juliet? So last night, Taika Waititi posted a very cool video on his Instagram.

And it's basically him standing next to this giant photograph of himself when he was young. I think he might have been eight or nine. And it's basically he's telling his younger self, don't be told that your opportunities aren't there because you're Maori. And it's basically encouraging teachers nowadays to un-teach racism in our schools and it's very cool. Listen, younger old photo version of me,

you don't know it yet but you can be great. And I know your English teacher said he wasn't expecting much of your English because you're not English. But I like your stories. And who knows, one day your storytelling might mean you get to work with some of the world's most overpaid actors. Please don't listen when I say opportunities are limited for Maori actors. It's acting. You literally just have to remember words and try to say them convincingly. As teachers, you've got the real life ability

to make a difference for kids in the face of racism there are so many things they're benevolent and successful future sellers would love to go back and unteach them but you're the ones who can choose to do that you have the power to unteach racism so that video actually goes on for about 3 minutes and there's some

little humorous things that he does in there and then some obviously more serious but it it's really, really well done. And I really suggest you should go watch it. It's just on his Instagram account. Very important message. Jeezy's good, isn't he, Ty? He's so good. Oh, what I wouldn't give to be Rita Ora for one night.

Just one night, dress me up as Rita Ora, Ben. That's a weird thing. That was weird. Yeah. Should I move on? Yeah. All right. That's so weird. That was weird. Yeah. Shall I move on? Yeah. Okay. All right.

And just in, Ariana Grande, who we all know, massive pop star, she has just been married. It's been announced over the weekend to her partner, Dalton Gomez. Oh, how is Dalton Gomez? I'm not quite sure how old he is, but I think he's quite a low-key real estate agent. So he's not a famous person at all. Dalton Gomez. Let's have a look at a famous person at all. Dalton Gomez. Let's have a look at what he does. Who is Dalton Gomez?

Meet Ariana Grande's new partner. Oh, now they're married. Yeah, over the weekend they got married at home in Montecito. So congratulations to her. Los Angeles real estate agent, Dalton Gomez. Been together for just over a year. Yeah. Quick turnaround, eh?

I know. She was engaged to Pete Davidson, who you might know from SNL. Yeah, comedian, right? Yeah, actor and comedian, but that didn't work out. But happy that this one's worked out. Well, Dalton Gomez obviously has some wonderful indoor-outdoor flow. Boo.

Are you trying to do a real estate technology? Yeah, I was trying to crowbar, but then it came across very... He's an entertainer's delight. How's that? He is an entertainer's delight. The thing I love about Ariana Grande is her real voice. I keep stumbling across her on Nick Jr. Yeah, it's one of my favourite channels. She was a childhood actor.

Yeah, on one of those... Victorious. I think it was Victorious. And her voice, it kind of... Is this her real everyday voice? I've never heard her talk properly. Hello, future me. It's me, past you.

I'm back! Yes, yes! Just shut up and take my money! Now, Dalton Gomez. He would know her real voice. Do you think that's her real voice? I'd say maybe it's the character. I don't think it is.

There's a character she's playing, maybe. It's like a voice trapped between puberty and adulthood, isn't it? She probably had to make her voice sound younger for Nick Jr., whatever Victorious played on. To bring this show to a younger audience, we're going to talk like that for the remainder of the programme. Okay! Our voices couldn't get any more annoying.

After 8 o'clock this morning! Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Last night, at the end of Chorlton Street, we were just watching before on a real cliffhanger. Oh, jeez, Chris Warner is lying unconscious. She's attacked him.

She set his house on fire. The law would frown upon that sort of behaviour. And you're like, there's no way Warner's getting out of this. And then I was like, oh, there's probably a way he's getting out of this. They're not killing off Warner. We'll ask her. We'll ask her. This is then I was like, oh, there's probably a way he's getting out of this. They're not killing off Warner. We'll ask it. We'll ask it. This is it. So she, Juliet watching, she's like,

oh my effing god. And then they cut after this happens to two ladies just having some lovely wines. I'm like, how can you cut to two ladies just having some, you know, girl ketchup after Chris Warner's nearly dead. I know. The, um, the thing with Warner, jeez, how many times has he nearly died?

A shift out of Ferndale, surely he's on the cards. You'd think you'd get to that stage. I've been in bombs and terror attacks and murders, plots and car crashes. Remember he had that horrific flying fox incident where he went head first into a flying fox and then started talking like Yoda of Star Wars. Yeah. It was kind of like a brain injury. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, tumultuous life. Anyway, we'll talk to her after eight o'clock. As well as that, a man who's been making international news, Simon Durante Day, and he claims to be the love child of Princess Charles and Camilla. Now, he's got, when you look into it, and he'll be talking to us more about this after, he's got some very interesting things that he's saying that backs up his claim.

Does the timeline work out? I know you've been investigating this. Well, it seems to. Like, according to him, it works out Charles and Camilla knew each other. He was born in 1966. He reckons he was adopted by basically his grandparents who basically his grandparents worked for the Queen

in Phillip. So that's the connection of why his parents ended up adopting him. So yeah, so his grandparents were not biological grandparents. His actual, yeah, his adopted grandparents. Adopted grandparents, right. So that's how he reckons that he ended up being adopted out by the royal family because

there was connection in his. So Charles and Camilla were like, can you take this baby from us, this bastard child? Is that what they call them? I don't know. And so they adopted him. Yeah. The grandparents. No, sorry.

His grandparents had the connection to the royal family, so they gave it to obviously one of their kids. Their kids, right. So, yeah, when you look into it more, it's, yeah, it's, yeah, it's like he remembers as a kid going to, being dropped off at sort of like

royal palace estate sort of things and going inside to meet people. He has vague recollections of those sort of meetings that stopped when he got to about

five or six years old. Yeah, so it's a really, really fascinating story. I don't know what he wants now after, out of this now. He wants obviously

Charles and Camilla to take a DNA test but I don't know what, wants now after, out of this now. He wants obviously Charles and Camilla to take a DNA test, but I don't know what, yeah, so it'll be interesting to find out what he hopes will happen because it's going through a bit of a court case over there.

Well, maybe he just want clothes. He might not want to become a prince or want riches sent to him. He might just want closure. So a lot of those people, I imagine it's just probably just wanting to finish out their life story.

Where did I come from? There'll be a lot of question marks hanging over your life. You know what's the most disturbing part about Charles and Camilla's love child? It's the thought of Charles and Camilla making love. That is... There's an early morning thought for you.

Even now, imagine it now. It's like your parents. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Pam on the hits. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. This is a really fun part of the show that Julia puts a lot of labour into. Labour of love.

She's up until late in the night prepping these stories although this one came through early afternoon. Yeah, I was onto it yesterday. Yeah, this is the news and beeps. How does it work, Ju?

So I find quirky little headlines around the world that are still interesting just because they're quirky doesn't mean they're not interesting. So I'm getting so defensive

about your headlines. Hey, I'm very defiant. Very unusual news that you find but it's actually always really fascinating these actual stories. Totally. And then I beep out a word and you guys have to,

or a couple of words, you guys have to figure out what the headline is. A convoluted way of telling you the unusual news, but we do it anyway. We could easily shave a couple of minutes off this, but we do this dance anyway. All right, the first news story. Restaurant claims its *** has helped 31 women give birth.

Thanks to their expired condom machine. What? I'm going to restaurants cocktails of help women give birth. True.

Restaurant claims its labour inducer burger has helped 31 women give birth. Oh really? Yeah, so it's quite a hefty burger. It's got beef,

caramelised onions, spicy mustard, so it's quite a hefty burger. It's got beef, caramelised onions, spicy mustard, honey cured bacon and a pretzel bun, which I don't really know what that is, but it sounds delicious. And the women make the count if they go into labour 24 hours after eating the burger. So naturally you'd probably just have heavily pregnant women eating

the burger. I don't know if you were only like six months pregnant you'd go into labour, but Oh, so this is not to help me get pregnant, this is just helping me to... No. To give birth. Right. To begin that process. Pineapple's another one too, apparently. That induces labour. Really?

Yeah, so, Ben, I know you've been eating a lot of pineapple lately. Congratulations. The next story, TikTok is starting a target at Gen Z. What are they trying to aim for Gen Z? I don't know, like a line of sustainable oat milk lattes or something? That's what Gen Z want, don't they?

I'm going to say, what is Gen Z? Who's Gen Z? It's before millennials. It's after millennials. So the younger people who probably already use TikTok. Okay, then my answer's going to make no sense. I was going to say, TikTok is starting a synchronised dancing daycare centre. But that would be the next generation.

But also a great idea for TikTok. We're going to go back to Gen A again after Gen Z. True. I'd love to see toddlers twerking away. Synchronisation. And the real headline, TikTok is starting a job service targeted at Gen Z. So it's quite a good idea. Companies or brands can use it to recruit employees.

And Gen Zers or people who are using the service can post TikTok videos as their resume rather than submitting a document. So it kind of gives more of an in-person impression as to why you want the job. Oh, great. And also how you can dance. Yeah. And do funny little tricks on the internet in 15 seconds. You know, we know a guy who works for TikTok in Australia. Ollie.

Oh, yes. And I didn't realise this, and I probably should have. I just thought TikTok was like, you put your song up, you have a dance, but there's a whole structure. Like, they deal with the record companies, and the record companies go, hey, we've got this new song coming out. And so then that's heavily promoted on the platform. Wow.

It's a whole thing. I should have known. But I can imagine there are other ways that can go in the other way, you know, where people make stuff like Josh685 in New Zealand. True, I'm sure there's those stories. You're right. There is a lot of now record companies going, we need to get our music on TikTok.

It's a marketing device now. Yeah, totally. And the final story. Documentary is being made about a man who got drunk and... Got drunk and came into work and hosted a morning radio show. And that man's name was... John O'Prior. I'm going to say there's a documentary about a man who got drunk

in Sun Country Music and dated Lady Gaga. Oh, that was a star's body. I love that. I'm going to say there's a documentary about a man who got drunk in Sun Country Music and dated Lady Gaga. Oh, that was the Star Is Born. That's kind of a part of that. And the real story. That wasn't a documentary, eh? No. That wasn't a movie. The documentary is being made about a man who got drunk and changed his name to Celine Dion.

I think I did this similar story when this first broke about the man who got drunk and changed his name to Celine Dion. I think I included this in Newsman Beeps, but now it's being made into a documentary about his life as Celine Dion. How long has the doc go? It's like, oh, okay, the birth test of marriages now. I've signed the paper, and that's the beginning of the end. I'd like to book a restaurant under Celine Dion.

Okay. Is that your real name? You know, this guy actually went on Ellen DeGeneres' show and was given 10 grand by her for some weird reason. I just saw it in the article that this man, Celine Dion. To be a guest. Yeah, Ellen invited him on the show and he was a guest. She's checked out, though.

We know that. She's on the slow fade out. She's got a 12-month fade out, Ellen. She's not even doing her own dancing now. Well, thank you very much, Juliet. That was a wonderful episode of News and Beeps. You should be proud. Thank you very much.

They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Scrolling through your feed. All right, he's here to tell us the news

because my eyeballs are too tired and lazy to read it for themselves. What's happening in the world of topicality, my friend? Well, the Friends reunion is what the world seems to be talking about at the moment. The much-heralded Friends Reunion. Mainly because it's going to be over next week. The madness will cease. It feels like

they've been talking about this for a long time. They're getting all the cast together, and it's a bit of a tell-all interview. I guess they're talking about their experiences on the show, and then they're also getting a whole lot of celebrities commenting on why they love Friends. Everyone from Justin Bieber to James Corden to Cindy Crawford, Lady Gaga. A whole bunch of different celebrities.

Is that their role in the show? I think. So they'll do little vignettes of like, oh, Friends meant so much to me. That's what I'm guessing, yeah. My mum was a raving alcoholic. She'd go out and drink and leave me at home alone and I'd watch Friends. Friends were my only friends. Yeah, stuff like that.

I was wondering how they were going to insert all this random collection of celebrities. Well, I've said that now, but then I'm like, did I just make that up? Did I just go? Well, it makes sense if that's what it is. But BTS? BTS are there.

Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, they're probably talking about their experiences of watching Friends, as you say. But this is pretty cool. So in New York at the moment, they've got all the sets, basically, in this big, it's almost like a museum. So you can go into the apartment. You can go into Joey and Chandler's apartment. They've got Central Perk as well.

And you can basically stay a night there. One lucky couple of Friends fans gets to stay a night in Monica's apartment, which is pretty cool, I thought. So, yeah, so amazing experience. And if you want to go check it out at the moment in New York, it's $19.94, which is a nod to 1994. Oh, that's the price. That's the price for people to go see it. But then obviously two lucky people get to stay the night

as part of a sort of friends reunion special. $19.94? Yeah. That's very cheap. Can you do $0.94? Yeah. That's very cheap. Can you do 94 cents? Probably in America, you can. In America, yeah. They're like nickel.

Pennies and nickels and all sorts, aren't they? Yeah, of course. Yeah, round it up to $19.95. That's the thing. Now, did you know Friends was going to be called Insomnia Cafe? Oh, you said this the other day. And did you also know that Courtney Cox was going to play Rachel? Yeah.

Did you know that? Oh, you did know that fact. I did hear that. And Rachel was going to go for Courtney Cox was going to play Rachel? Did you know that? Oh, you did know that fact. I did hear that. And Rachel was going to go for Courtney Cox's Monica role. Wow. Yeah. It's quite interesting when you go into the, because we've sort of been deep diving into some of the friends,

you know, information online. And when you look at actors that almost got the parts or sums that were, like Chandler Red with a mate of his who was going for the Chandler role. He was helping him out for it, and then he ended up auditioning as well and getting the role. Snaked him. Yeah, I don't think on purpose or anything like that,

but it's just there. And things like David Schwimmer, who was Ross, was the first character cast as the Friends. Wow. Out of all the cast. That was written for him, that role. Really? Apparently, yeah.

We should do our own Friends reunion next week. What? Just with like, not the core cast, we'll never get there, just all the fringies. You know, like all the extras.

Well, get them on the show. Like Ross's first, the wife that turned lesbian. Get her on. Oh yeah, we could, yeah. Why?

Hey, what's our own Friends reunion? The friends of friends. Oh right. Who else would you get though? I don't know. Gunter? Oh yeah, he right. Who else would you get, though? I don't know. Gunther? Oh, yeah, he'd be good. Did you get Gunther from the cafe?

Yeah, he was pretty good. What's Gunther up to nowadays? There's those two bullies they played American football against. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they might be obtainable. More realistic for our show. The old guy in the building. Yes, the grubby neighbour. That'd be actually quite cool

because those people probably have a lot to say about their experiences on the show. Yeah, we'll do that. We'll get on to that. Friends of friends. I feel like you've said it now. You're not going to do any of the admin. You're not going to email anyone

or make a call, are you? No, you know how I operate. P. Humphries. P. Humps is looking all nervous and sweaty next door. He's like, this sounds like a mountain of work. It does. A lot of liaising with agents. A lot of emails.

But next week, we present the Friends of Friends reunion. Jono and Ben's Friends of Friends. You've said it now, so it's coming soon. The thing is though,

could we get sued? What? For doing the Friends of Friends? Friends of Friends? That's Friends of Friends. It's a completely different show. It's not Friends. It's just coincidental we're doing our reunion the same week as they're doing theirs. It's Friends of Friends. That's Friends of Friends. It's a completely different show. It's not Friends. It's just coincidental we're doing our reunion the same week as they're doing theirs.

It's Friends of Friends. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hats. The Hats. Today. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz.

She failed miserably in her career as a cafe waiter because she was always spilling the tea. But it works wonders for this entertainment segment. Do you aspire with Juliette? Do you actually know my first job was at Tank Juice Bar and at my trial I forgot to put the lid

on the blender and so it actually went everywhere but I still got the job and so that's like my biggest claim to fame. That was the trial? Yeah, that was the trial.

Oh my God, they set the bar. In the old Newmarket Mall where it was really, really busy and you bumped into everybody you knew and I was in this bright orange t-shirt and forgot to put, really busy and you bumped into everybody you knew.

And I was in this bright orange T-shirt and forgot to put the lid on and they still gave me the job. They were obviously so desperate for someone to snuff. Well, the bar's set very low there if you can leave the lid. I mean, you ought to have been a good juice proprietor. I would say. I'd hope so. I'd hope so. Juice and love tank.

Yeah, it's really good, eh? Really, yeah. Was it the strawberry? Oh, the strawberry last year's nice too. Oh, yeah. Tank C is also very good, eh? Really young. Was it the strawberry? Oh, the strawberry last year. Tank C is also very good, nice and citrusy. Anyway, this is not a... Hashtag not sponsored this, but it feels like it is. Yeah. So Nick Jonas has apparently been injured on set,

a mysterious set that they don't know exactly what it was. Did he know? We hope so. And taken to hospital. So no word on what the injury was, but he was rushed to a nearby hospital. But since then, he has been, he is recovering at home. And so they're saying that he's filming a new TV show, which they think. Well, you'd hope so if he's on a set.

Which they think is Olympic dreams featuring Jonas Brothers. Now, this was announced today as well, that Nick and the rest of the Jonas Brothers, Kevin and Joe, when they were younger, they wanted to be Olympic athletes. And so they're obviously quite athletic. I tried to figure out in what sport specifically, but it doesn't seem to say. And obviously, pop fame and music got in the way of them becoming athletes. So there's going to be a one-hour special

that shows their dreams as kids to be Olympians. Oh, don't you hate it when pop fame and music gets in the way of your Olympic dream? I know. I was reading something about Nick Jonas the other day, actually, and he was saying that he has a playlist for, you know, adult time playlists. Oh, really? And he realises that a lot of people have his songs or, you know, Jonas Brothers songs on their playlists for adult time.

But he was like, it's a bit weird having his own songs on his own particular playlist. But he fully encourages people to have his music on his sexy playlist. Imagine having your own music on that playlist. That'd be a bit arrogant, wouldn't it? I don't know. What Jonas Brothers songs are sexy?

What's the sexiest Jonas Brothers song? Should I have a look while we... We Rock from Camp Rock. Burning up. Sucker for you. Yeah. Camp Rock is one of those movies when you flick it on,

it's, I tell you what, it sets the mood, doesn't it? It really does. No, they're good on them. If you were going to enter the Olympics, Ben, what would you... I reckon you'd make a good javelin. What, me being the javelin?

You are, as it works, the javelin. Or he'd be a really good pole vaulter. The pole? Because you'd be really light to go over the big, giant pole, you know? They do have wonderful, quite svelte bodies, don't they, the pole vaulters? Yeah. Yeah. What would you be?

I reckon you'd be like a hockey player or something, Producer Juliet. I actually reckon I'd be a sprinter. I'm small, but I've got speedy little legs, I think. What about you be? I reckon you'd be like a hockey player or something, Producer Juliet. I actually reckon I'd be a sprinter. I'm small, but I've got speedy little legs, I think. What about you, Jono? I'd be a... Drug tester. What, testing the drugs? Yeah.

Actually... Sifting around. Taking your own summer. Hey, mate, can I have a little bit of your... Just in this cup here. Just a little bit. That's the stuff. That's the stuff.

But not actually an official? just collecting it for personal reasons. It's not an official, like, oh, it's all the effort of getting a lanyard and everything. Is he impersonating a drug test? Collecting everyone's... It's disturbing. And on a slightly different subject, Bill Gates, it's been sort of revealed and uncovered that he reportedly had an affair with an engineer employee during his time in Microsoft. And he made the decision in 2020 to leave the board of Microsoft

when these investigations happened. She was engineering his gates, sneaking into his bedroom windows, logging into Bill. So kind of, yeah, a bit interesting that this is all sort of starting to come out now. His wife I reckon the first thing Melania Melinda Melinda. Melinda.

Trump's wife. You've combined a couple of famous people's wives. Melinda and Melinda. I reckon the first thing she did when she found out was went out and bought an iPad or an iPhone Oh you devil. She'd been hanging out. But then she's going to have to re-sync all her stuff over to Apple now. That's the problem.

It's a niggle. The biggest, biggest challenge that is. Even for someone who's like me is in a boomer, that would just be the toughest thing to figure out. One of those companies gets their claws into you. So you tried to veer away from Apple. I did. And get a Samsung phone. And it was a really good phone.

It was an awesome phone, but we weren't compatible, me and the phone. You only stuck it out for a week or two. Because all our systems have been on the other, you know, and the others, oh, anyway.

Oh, well. And that is Spy. Before you can head to the hits.co.nz. Juliet, oh, well, shut up now. Shut up. You've been going on way too long.