Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - November 20 - Lance Savali, Jono's Worst Moments Of The Week, Where Were You Last Stranded?

Episode Date: November 20, 2020

It's FRIDAY and there's absolutely no better feeling! Today's show was a real fun one. We had some great stories from you guys about when swimwear & togs have let you down, we caught up with Kiwi dancer Lance Savali who has danced with the likes of Beyonce, Rihanna and JLo (he spilt a lot of secrets about what it was like to work with those celebrities!) and we also did a wee social experiment to see whose parents would text them back first, and therefore whose parent loves them more... Enjoy the poddy and have a great weekend!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. But it might not be a final. Let's try it.

But what Ben is doing here is he's trialling some content for the podcast intro. We'll see how it goes, see if it makes to the main show. Yeah I was just going to say yesterday you know you probably had this when you've been roped into something that you weren't intending to do but it's very hard to not sometimes to get out of a situation. I've had that happen before with

an old boss of ours asking when I was first starting out in radio asked me to help him move house and it was a Saturday morning the truck broke down the moving truck that we were driving. And so he was like, oh, hold on, I'll just go and get some new keys. And he left. And I was stuck with the truck and all this content.

So he never came back for about, until about five or six o'clock. And I was like, sorry, mate, went to the pub. And so I sat there. Yeah, exactly. As a young, bushy-tailed, bright-eyed intern at radio. Well, it happened to me yesterday. So I was saying my daughter, Sienna, she was going on school camp and she'd forgotten her pillow.

So I thought, well, I'll just drop down the pillow in the afternoon to where they're camping, just drop it off, and then I'll be done. I'll be like, okay, all done. Because they were out on an activity. I thought it'd be fine. And I got down there and all the parent helpers, lots of parents helping out, and good on them. They're helping out, taking them out on day trips and doing stuff.

And there's these parents that are setting up all these tents. And they're like, oh, great, are you here to help set up the tents? I'm like, oh, no. No. I'm not a helpful parent. I'm not here. You've either got people who are parent helpers and people who want to hide and not help.

I'm a hider and not a helper. And I'm like, oh, no, I'm not. But then I see all these parents, you know, there's, you know. Are they staying the night too? Some are staying the night. You know, you're like, well, they're just those, the parents that go the extra mile. They're the elite. They're the elite.

And now I'm questioning whether I've got time to help set up tents. I'm like, I guess. Did you? Yeah, I did. Mind you, you wouldn't be much use. No, I kind of help. I kind of help. What did you do?

Morale You know like Oh yeah that's it Alright yeah I'm good I'm good when someone shows me What to do in that situation I'm like oh cool

The tent poles go through there And then oh I hammer this in here I'm not like a Oh yeah I know how this works Step back everyone I've got this Was it a So did you have set up

All little tents for all the kids Or one big tent? No lots of different tents So lots of different And yeah And I was just like Oh you know And from what went In my head, I was like, I'll

drop off the pillow. I'll be going away to do other stuff. This turned into like a two hour exercise, you know, and you felt like you couldn't leave because all these other wonderful parents are helping out. And then summer stay, as you said, summer stay in the night, you're like, oh, this is the least I could do. What you should have adopted is the, it's a classic prison trick. Now, they get their friends and colleagues outside who aren't in prison

to drive past the prison and throw stuff over the wall. You should have driven past the camp, thrown the pillow over the wall and just kept going at 100 k's an hour. Should have left it. Should have left it. Did you get a pillow? No, I didn't. Oh, well, I'll throw it up.

It was there somewhere. Yeah, you're right. A really fun show today, Bigger Friday. We found out people that had the best weekend. People, some people were having amazing weekends. Yeah, we spoke to Lance Tavalli too, who's a Kiwi dancer. He's danced with, I'll name these names and you tell me if you're impressed. Rihanna.

Yeah. Beyonce. Yeah. Jennifer Lopez. Yeah. Chris Brown. Yeah, they're all amazing artists, aren't they? So yeah, so he's danced with them.

What were they like hanging out with backstage? He also danced with Ben's mum, Jenny Voice. That one didn't impress me as much. Did it? I was like, oh. Did it catch you by surprise? Oh, that sort of dance. Oh, very, very close in the crotch-y joining department there.

I'm not a dancer. Are you a dancer? No, I'm shopping. No, no. Shopping bloody. No, but then I must like my tent ability. I'm not a dancer. Are you a dancer? No, I'm shopping. No, no. Shopping bloody. No, but then I must like my tent ability. I get roped in. I get roped in.

After a few drinks, I'm up there. You'll get out of there. I'll get amongst it. I'll get amongst it. But I don't like it when I feel like people are watching me. Like if it's a big group situation, I'm like, it's fine. Numbers. It's the safety of numbers.

But I think, you know, when it's one of those, especially one of those circle situations where people are like... Go Ben! Go Ben! Like, I wish I had just one move to do in that situation. Some people like come out with the worm. You need a comedy move, given your background.

I normally do something like a real dad one, like the sprinkler. Or you can grab your head and your ankle and move those back and forth your leg you know yeah so you can look like you're quite a thrusty mode but anyway yeah no

dancing not for us but Lance Savali dancing's for him and he's made a whole career out of it yes he's very entertaining and he'll join you on the podcast have a great one

the radio version of morning breath it's Jono and Ben on the hits it feels like summer's starting to arrive. People already out there swimming, you know. I mean, you got your fedora out last week.

I know, I got shamed by my daughter outside school for trying to push the fashion boundaries, you know. Fedora Day, that's the official first day of summer for us when Ben dons that fedora. Fedorable. Oh, that is Julia. That was good for you, Julia. Our little punny daughter's growing up.

She's growing up so fast. I know. Isn't it adorable her first pun. First pun. But I was talking to a mate, actually, about swimming, and he reminded me of an occasion that happened at school. So we had to film. It was part of PE, physical education.

You had to film basically your stroke, your overharm, and they'd say, oh, they'd analyse it. Hold on, were you training for the Olympics? No, no, I don't know why we did that, but we were like, we're going to film it, and everyone's going to analyse it. I don't know why they couldn't analyse it all the day, were you training for the Olympics? No, I don't know why we did that, but we're like, we're going to film it and everyone's going to analyse it. I don't know why they couldn't analyse it on the day, but anyway, they had footage.

And my shorts were quite loose and as I was going, they started to sort of creep down. I had a bit of a rudder. Yeah. And luckily, I wasn't backstroking at the time. I was like front forwards doing a freestyle or something, but it was just, you know, I could feel my cheeks starting to get displayed.

And then you're in that weird position where you're trying to pull them up. My stroke looked terrible. It was like, look at this guy. And it was on camera. You've got adorable little cheeks. He's got good little cheeks, doesn't he? I'm not trying to get them out as a schoolboy. Get your cheeks out.

No. I wanted to know this morning, have you had any swimming related, you know, related incidents? Swimwear shockers. Yeah. I mean, I went through all of last New Year's for seven days every day at the beach

in see-through togs and no one told me until my friend came up and he's like, nice. I was like, what? He's like, oh, I can see you. Oh and he's like, nice. I was like, what? He's like, oh, I can see you. Oh, really? Yeah. Like glad wrap.

It was like I was wearing glad wrap and I couldn't tell. How did you not know? Well, I didn't look down. I'm just wandering up and down the beach. Let me put them on and go, yeah, they'll do. Oh, 800, that hurts. Have you got a swimwear shocker, Michelle? All right, well, my son is now 22, but when he was about three, we came home one day and it was super scorching hot

and he was desperate to go for a swim and I was really grumpy and over it for my long day and I said, fine, you've only got five minutes, you've got to get into your costume and get down to the pool, otherwise it's not happening. Right. Because I'm South African and costume came out

and he didn't know what costume was, togs was the one to go with. Right. Because I'm South African and costume came out and he didn't know what costume was. Togs was the one to go with. Right, yeah. And so he had obviously ran upstairs, had a little bit of a think, what the hell is a costume? So he scrounged around in my underwear drawer, because he didn't have one, and slowly came down the stairs. I just saw these little bare feet and little bare bottom cheeks.

And he said, don't laugh, don't laugh. And he came down wearing a bright purple spandex G-string of mine. Borat style. He pulled it over his shoulders. He hadn't quite tucked everything where it needed to be either. So unfortunately, I I did not laugh. You'd be like, why is mum wanting me to wear this to the pool?

Yeah. So much confusion. Yeah, it was... But I really want to go swimming, so this is what it takes. Yeah, yeah. I am getting in that pool. I don't care.

I will do whatever it takes. And caused quite the commotion at the public pools that day as well. Unfortunately, before the phone time, otherwise I would have had some amazing Christmas ready first. Oh, that's such a good story. Thank you, Michelle. Appreciate it. Thanks so much, guys. Have a good day.

Oh, that's an amazing tale. But on reflection to any child, that clothing accessory would be a very confusing thing. Is this a hat? Is it a belt? Is it a belt? Is it a backpack? What is this? What is the design purpose of this thing?

This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating still pending. It's Jorowen Manomahe. In the studio with us right now is a Kiwi guy who's danced with some amazing artists. He's performed with the likes of, oh John I'll say some names. Jennifer Lopez. Who's that with the likes of, oh John, I'll say some names. Jennifer Lopez. Who's that?

Beyonce. Not familiar. Rihanna as well. No, not ringing a bell. Some amazing, amazing artist all over the world. He joins us in the studio right now. Good to see you, mate. Yeah, likewise. Bloody good to see you. Now, you know, some people might not know what you've achieved internationally, but you're a New Zealand

success story, mate. That's awesome. You're probably better than the All Blacks. Oh, sad, sad. Come on, man. Did you see the play last weekend? I did. But hey, come on.

Come on, you've got to share around the wins. Yeah, share around the love. Yeah, yeah. So amazing story. So you pretty much just got on a plane when you were like 19 years old and went to the States, right? Yeah, exactly. My friend hit me up and was like,

bro, Chris Brown's having an audition next week. And I was just like, okay, mum, do you have enough money to pay States, right? Yeah, exactly. My friend hit me up and was like, bro, Chris Brown's having an audition next week. And I was just like, okay, mum, do you have enough money to pay for my flight? Pretty much. So you've been dancing for a while with that? Yeah, ever since I was little. Yeah. I moved from Wellington to Auckland

to jump on board with Paris Global and their dance company. And then from there, I ventured out to America. You got the job from the audition? Yeah, yeah. That was my first audition out there and I was lucky enough to get it. And so when you land in the States, you don't know anyone, you don't know anything,

and you turn up in front of Chris Brown to audition for him? Yeah, pretty much. And so was he like a like it, you're in, on the spot? No, no, there was about a thousand, it was an open course, it was like a thousand male and we just had to keep auditioning and they were doing small cuts and then we were down to the last 50 after like six hours. It's pretty ruthless. And it ends up with how many?

Ten, ten of us. So out of a thousand people, you made the ten? Yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah, there's ten of us. And since then you've gone on to perform with so many other amazing artists. I want to say some of the names right now.

You tell me something that was cool about working with them. Usher. Coming home to perform in front of my family. That was one of my biggest goals. So for me to come home. Coming home to perform in front of my family. That was one of my biggest goals. So for me to come home with Usher and perform in front of my family and friends who haven't seen me on a professional stage with an artist. Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah, that was huge for me. And so you travelled around the world with Usher? No, just Australia and New Zealand. Oh, just Australia and New Zealand. Yeah, that R&B live Fridays, whatever. Oh, yeah, cool. Yeah, we did that at Western Springs. Okay, we'll go J-Lo.

Super Bowl with her. You performed at the Super Bowl? Yeah, that was my first NFL game, to be honest. That's not a bad one to start with. I know. I think what was special for that was I got to perform with my brother Lawrence and that was his first job. So yeah, I only wanted to do the job if they booked him too.

So we jumped on together. You had a moment during that performance where J-Lo threw her, like it was like diamond encrusted mic that was a microphone and you had to catch it in front of like not only the people there but around the world

I mean was that a nerve wracking moment yeah the sound man was putting pressure on me he was like mate this is an expensive mic I'm like look how she's chucking it

she doesn't like lob it she's just like I'm like whoa and it's covered in diamonds yeah are they the fake ones you get from the one, two and three dollar shop?

I have no idea. I would hope so. If not, I would have picked some off. You caught it though, obviously. Yeah, yeah. Lucky. One hand catch. Yeah.

And you're still dancing while you're catching. Yeah, exactly. I just ran off stage, grab it and then back on to the next move or whatever. So you're performing halftime at the Super Bowl. You're performing with all these artists. Do you get nervous? Not anymore. But I like being nervous

because that means I'm in an unfamiliar space like I get nervous with like interviews like this because it's a foreign energy to me and this is normal

for you guys but for me it's completely different Whereas you put us in front of millions of people at the Super Bowl dancing

we're like uh oh I can't even dance in a nightclub you know I'm like oh this trust me I'm standing at the bar too I'm not doing nothing Are you not a dancer in a nightclub? I'm like, oh, this. Trust me, I'm standing at the bar too. I'm not doing nothing.

Are you not a dancer in a nightclub? No, bro. Everyone treats me like a puppet too. Like, dance, just dance. I'm like, that's the last thing I want to do right now. That's a very New Zealand approach to your skill and your talent. You're like, oh, no, no. Imagine if you saw me in a club and I'm like just busting a move.

You'd think I'm a cornball. I swear. We're going through some of the artists that Lance Savali has performed alongside. Let's go Beyonce. Coachella. That was a huge moment for me. It was like three weeks into rehearsal I realised that I was the only

male of Pacific Island descent. Every other male was of African descent. So like just to be a part of something so staple in the black community was huge for me. And so does Beyonce handpick you to dance alongside her? Yeah, her and her choreographers do.

And how much interaction would you have? Does it vary from tour to tour with people? With different artists, yeah, your interaction is different. Not so much with Beyonce. She would come in, do her little part, or little, huge part and then kind of go off, you know. But with artists that I've worked for over years, like Chris Brown and stuff, I have

more of a personal relationship with. But Beyonce was more so, I buy. Very professional. Yes, yes. I imagine it's a machine. Oh, bro. Wouldn't it be? Beyonce's operation.

Oh my gosh, bro. You know it's the real deal when her security guards don't look like security. That's the ones you have to watch out for. Oh, really? They're like the Secret Service dudes. There's probably about 50 of them in the room and you wouldn't even know. It's crazy, man. They look for stuff that you wouldn't even think of.

And Rihanna recently as well, right? You just got performing like a solo in her show. Oh, yeah. For the fashion show. Yeah, which is awesome. There was a bunch of us that went over there. There was about 10 of us from New Zealand. Obviously, Paris choreographed the whole show.

That's probably one of my highlights out of my whole career. Yeah. And so where was that fashion show? In LA. So we flew over during COVID. I really wanted to do it just to experience COVID at its finest, I guess, in the industry and how that works. I really wanted to see what it was like.

And so backstage, is everyone in masks and having to social distance? So we were part of what we call A party production and cameraman, like B party. There's a C party and you have your own toilets, your own lunch eating area, your own rehearsal space. So it's kind of your own little bubble, right? Yeah, exactly. The only time we got to take off our masks was when we were filming

and that was it. Wow. There were like COVID police there. If we were to try and breathe, was when we were filming and that was it. Wow. There were like COVID police there. Like if we were to try and breathe, like put our mask down to breathe, they would be like, mask up, mask up. Well, I mean, you can't have Rihanna getting COVID, can you? Yeah, right. She can't contract. So she's worn around in a mask

as well, I assume. Yeah, unless we're on camera then she'll take it off. It's amazing what you've done. Yeah, it must be hard at the moment though because obviously a lot of the tours are unhexing because of COVID, which you said. of COVID. It's all good. I came home because I was wanting a break. I might go back to LA. I might not. I'm just... I might dance

with Beyonce. If I could be bothered again. I was thinking of the same thing for 2021 for my plans. I might do the Rihanna fashion show next year. Just see how the cards fall. You don't want to play too far ahead, eh? No, I don't.

Hey, Lance and Marley, pleasure hanging out with you, my friend. Thank you, fellas. Congrats on all your success. Thank you. It's really awesome, mate. You guys be very proud. It's awesome to see people like yourself

doing these amazing things worldwide. It's so cool. How are you? Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. I feel like this show is now going to be known as a show that has awkward things happening at the supermarket. Because you, you were talking the other It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. I feel like this show is now going to be known as a show

that has awkward things happening at the supermarket because you were talking the other day, Jono, about getting trapped in the bathroom. Yeah, it's a countdown and I tell you what, the countdown was on to the end of my life. It was a battle for survival in there. As I mentioned before, I was seconds away from nourishing myself with the liquids from the lavatory.

Someone walked in the door and went, what are you doing, you strange man, with your head down the toilet? I had an awkward experience last night at the supermarket. We were around at some friend's place. We'd just called in there, and it was one of those occasions where they were like, oh, yeah, stay for dinner, you know, and we're like, oh, we haven't really got anything. Did they mean it, though?

Or was it like, stay for dinner, a.k.a. leave? Yeah, one of them. Maybe they're thinking back now, or maybe they didn't mean it, but we were like, okay, but we haven't got anything. Maybe we'll whip up the road and grab some stuff from the supermarket. And it was one of those situations where we'd parked our car and then someone else had come in after us. So we were sort of parked down there like, oh, it's okay,

take my husband's work car. And it was a flash car. So we got to drive that up the road. And my wife Amanda and I went up to the supermarket and we're sitting in the car park and I was talking on the phone. So Amanda's like, I'll just run in. I'll be a second.

I was like, oh, great. So I was just sitting in this flash car after I got off the phone call. I'm like, this is amazing. It's like one of those Range Rover things. Is that the technical term for that? Who are you hopping on with? I know.

Who are your friends? I know, it was a work car. I know, it was great. Mike Hosking? And it had in there, it had like a, like in the stereo system And it had in there, it had like a, like in the stereo system, it had like radio

and it had like TV and DVD and I was like, oh, this is flash. So I was like, I hit the radio and I was like, oh, you can listen to the hits. That's great, that's great.

And then I was like, oh, TV, maybe I can watch some TV while I'm sitting there. How long did you listen to the hits for? Not that long. What was your time spent listening? Your TSL?

Not long, because I was like, oh, there's a TV. Let's see what's on TV. The TV obviously wasn't tuned into anything, so it was kind of a little bit grainy and stuff. So I cranked up the volume, could hear a little bit, but it was just kind of grainy.

And I was like, oh, DVD. Let's see what's on the DVD. Hit DVD. And then suddenly it was like, I think it was one of the kids and we was like, bring it on. But it was like cheerleaders dancing and doing like quite a full on cheerleading high school dance. Yeah.

And the noise was so loud. I couldn't turn this thing off. As Amanda's walking up towards the car, my wife, I'm like, uh-oh, I'm watching cheerleaders on TV. In the car park. I'm pretty sure it was like bring it on the movie, but you start to get quite flustered in that situation because you're like, I'm just sitting in the car park by myself watching cheerleaders

at loud volume too. Yeah, and I mean, there's a lot of explaining to do there, but there's a pattern forming with your viewing habits. What? Because didn't you have something pop up in the cloud that you pinned on me and you're like, oh. That was you. That was your fault.

You were saying, oh, I was trying to prank Jono. Yes, it was. We talked through that story. That was you. That was your fault. You were saying, oh, I was trying to prank Jono. Yes, it was. We talked through that story. How to up your flirting game at work. Yes. Videos like that. Yes, and we talked about that on the radio. That was because of research. And then Amanda discovered this footage. Oh, here we go. Couple this with the cheerleading scandal. And

Mara cast you back to when you. Oh, hey, don't you get involved. I meant to help us out. When your daughters Googled girls bobbies for bobby pins. Girls bobbies, that's right. Girls bobbies, interesting. Okay. Was that a child or just a gentleman who can't spell correctly? And there wasn't ever a twerking incident?

Yeah. There was a twerking incident. Okay. On Zoom. Okayerking incident. Okay. On Zoom. Okay, all right. On Zoom. Okay, so on the way for you. He actually did a twerking class on Zoom.

Play something. Play something. All right. Play something. See ya. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. We are calling a different town or city in New Zealand. We call one a day and we're making our way slowly around New Zealand alphabetically. A quiet boy is located 17km north of Christchurch, did you realise, Ben Boyce? Did you also realise? Yeah, I do, yeah. You did realise that.

I did. Sadly, it has suffered quite extensive damage in the Christchurch earthquakes. Large areas were condemned as a residential red zone and there was a ratio of 0.96 males per female. They never stipulate what the 0.4 is that is missing from the male, whether it's a bit of earlobe or maybe a couple of toes missing. They never drill down on that. But fun fact, at one stage, did you know there was a walnut tree

on one resident's property that was so large, it was used as a landmark for pilots approaching Christchurch International Airport. Oh, really? Yeah, they got their bearings before landing at the airport. Now, since then, the owner and his sons have cut it down,

and from that day forward, pilots have never been able to find Christchurch. They've just been flying around. It's around here somewhere. Where's that tree gone? We're going to head through to Kaipoi now, the monogram shop. Kaipoi Monograms, Penny speaking. G'day, Penny, how are you? I'm good.

John Owen Ben from the Hits Radio station here. How are you? Oh, it is not. Penny, it is not. Penny, it is. It is, Penny. I know. This is, you'd rather a better breed of announcer calling you. What's going on, Penny?

What do I owe the pleasure of this call? Well, because we're calling every town and city in New Zealand. We call one a day. We're calling it alphabetically as we make our way around New Zealand. Oh, and you've got to call a point. Yeah, we have. And we just one a day. We're calling it alphabetically as we make our way around New Zealand. Oh, and you've got to Kaipoi. Yeah, we have, and we just picked a random number. John, I picked a number and we're talking to you.

Now, you run Kaipoi Monograms. That's correct, yes. And what do you do there? Monogramming. We do everything, really. We do monogramming, heat setting, heat transfers, Christmas stockings are a good thing this time of the year. Is there anything you can't monogramming, heat setting, heat transfers. Christmas stockings are a good thing this time of the year. Is there anything you can't monogram?

Yes, plates and glasses. Oh, yeah, true. You can't. We do caps and hats and everything. No, I always like going to the mall and getting things. I've got something printed for my wife, Jennifer, who's a huge fan of Judge Judy. Yes. And I've got Judge Judy printed on a huge fan of Judge Judy. Yes.

And I got Judge Judy printed on a t-shirt for her. Very cool. Does Judge Judy know about the knock-off merchandise you're creating? We're very careful about what we do put on things. You know, we've got copyrights and things. You've got to be very careful. This other place that Jono went to was... Yeah, a bit more relaxed with their morals.

Anyway, I hit a picture of Judge Judy and it said, only Judy can judge me. That's quite good. I'm going to name some items I can see. You tell me if you can monogram them for me, okay, Penny? An Ajax bottle of spray and wipe. No. And a coir candle.

Sometimes we can put stickers. We can do that. Oh, okay. So now you've changed the game on that. You can put a sticker on. A guitar. Once again, stickers.

Stickers on the guitar, yeah. A microphone sock. No, stickers. Sorry. They've all got to be stickers. We're getting busy with stickers here. Okay, the last thing, stickers. Can you monogram stickers?

No. A packet of dead old wipes. You're a couple of clowns, really. A window. I feel like we're taking up enough of your time. A red light. We've done blinds. Oh, there you go.

If we come to Kya Boy, what should we do? What's some of the good things, apart from getting something monogrammed, what should we do? Oh, my gosh. Oh, there's heaps to do here. We've got some amazing eating venues out here. There's the Port and Eagle.

There's some beautiful cafes here. Big, huge softball ground here with all the big nets up. Awesome. And we're looking at, now we're looking at the Wild Charitable Trust which is a they're putting together a water park that will be a national

icon really if it gets off the ground properly. A water park as in like a canoeing and all that? As in canoeing, as in kids water play, as in surfing. So there's the idea of the three things together. They've been done individually around the world,

but nothing has been done with the whole three things. So you can have like a wave pool in there? Yes, the wave pool. It's everything. It's everything, and it's a charitable trust because they want the local schools and things to be able to afford to go and do their water education and things like that. So, yes. And Penny, if we come to Kaiapoi, can we come and stay at your house?

No. I've got a tiny wee house. Okay, fair enough. No, you wouldn't want to stay at my place, but I'm sure there'd be a lot of people around town that would like to see you. Oh, hold on. Listen, let's not cancel out Penny's place just yet. Penny calls. She'll monogram a sticker.

You can stick that on the house that you want to stay in. How's that sound, Johnny? Oh, yeah. Have you got a couch? I've got a couch. Oh, we can sleep on the couch. This is fine, Penny. We're not coming.

It's fine. Just agree with him and then never answer his call again. Righty-ho. Hey, Penny, so nice talking to you. Good as gold. Thank you for tolerating us and our silly questions. I love your dog program. Oh, thank you.

We love your monogram business. Can you monogram a dog? I hope everybody else does too. You can't monogram a dog. Can you monogram a dog? No, you know that. Love you, Penny. You're an angel.

Thank you, Jono and Ben. See you, mate. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up See you, mate. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, Annie and Jon Pryor, my parents, they did the hard yards making me. They really dug it in. And Annie birthed me in Seattle, Washington.

It was a complicated birth. She stuck it out for a few hours. Great stuff. But anyway, okay, I popped out at the other end of it. Umbilical cord attached. It had to be cut. Going into quite a lot of detail. What's the point of this story?

No. Mum and Dad, I'm the only kid, you know. They've got no other options to love anyone more than me. Yeah, you are the only child, right? It's a fact. No, you, you're only the third loved child in your house, aren't you? Oh, yeah, there's lots because my parents have remarried. We've got, yeah, it's a big family.

How many kids and half-brothers and sisters? What's the unit? We've got three, four, yeah, there's a lot, yeah. Well, I've got a step-brother and step-sister as well as technically two half-sisters and a full sister. Where are you seated? What number are you? I'm down the bottom.

Fourth? Probably ninth for some reason, which is weird. Well, they went on holiday and they left you here. Yeah, but both did. Both did. Both went to Movie World, Hollywood on the Gold Coast. Dad, separately, Mum separately, and took Amelia, my sister. Twice.

So Amelia went twice? Twice, twice. And you went nunce? Nunce, yeah. It still stings, that one, doesn't it? I know. This is why I like bringing it up. Anyway.

So yeah, Ben's not that loved, but I've got no other option. I've got another option. I've got two parents and just me. So they need to love me. But at the moment, then I'm texting them all the time and getting nothing back.

Usually Annie wakes up at a 3.30 bladder, for a 3.30 bladder issue. Right. And not that she's got issues with her bladder. She just needs to deal with it. And texts me and says, good luck for today or whatever. Have a nice day. Oh, does she?

Yeah, some mornings when she's up. My mum is sleeping, so wake me up. And I've been texting them for the last five days. Nothing. No response. Nothing at all. And then yesterday, after five days of text messages not replied, and even you said I sent a bit of a novel, an update of the week

of what's been going on, a bit of a weekly report, if you will. And you know what I got back? What's that? I got a smiley face emoji. Oh, my dad's always got a thumbs up when he's busy. You wrote him a three-page text and dad's always got the thumbs up when he's busy. You're like, oh, that's, you know. You wrote him a three-page text and he came back with thumbs up. Yeah, ooh.

Yeah, but he's actually very good, though. He's very good at keeping in touch. I'm probably the weak link in that chain. But anyway. Okay, well, what I want to do is I want to see whose parents love them more. So we'll both text our parents. Okay. Okay.

And just say something like, good morning, love you, and see who gets the response back. We'll start the timer. And if it's neither of us by nine o'clock, we'll end the show in tears. Okay. In a sobbing mess. What are we saying?

Good morning. Good morning. Love you. Is this something you guys would usually text your parents? Well, no, I wouldn't say good morning, love you. No. It's an old thing to just type. We'll do that.

What should we text you? What's a natural thing? I don't know. Good morning, love you is good. Do love you. Good morning, love you. What about some sort of like topical? Have you seen the new Team New Zealand boat?

Okay, good morning, love you. Have you seen the new Team New Zealand boat? Just for good morning. Love you. Have you seen the new team? Just for something like topical banter. So we're both drafted. Team New Zealand boat. Good morning. Love you. Have you seen the team New Zealand boat?

Send? Question mark. Send. Okay, the timer starts now. Do I have an advantage because I've obviously got to send it to my mum and then separately to my dad. Yeah, you can send them both. That's your family dynamics. You work with those.

Okay. And now the timer starts to see who gets the text back first. Now, we're not going to sit here and wait for the text to come back. No, we're not. Because we might be here quite a long time. So, 5 o'clock this evening. Stace, Mike and Anika taking the day off. We're still waiting for a text back from our parents.

So, that's started. And we'll see whose parents love them the most, okay? Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, Jono, you just made us conduct a wee bit of an experiment relating to our parents. Who's loved the most by their parents? Because my parents have been refusing to communicate with me this week.

Usually my mum sends me a lot of texts with those suggestive lips at the end, which are like, hmm, sort of come hither lips. And I keep telling her, use some different lips. So she used the eggplant, mine? Which is one of my favourite vegetables. Eggplants for dinner tonight, aubergine. So anyway, long story short, I said, well, let's have a bit of a race between us.

We both send a text to our parents. Whoever gets, I said, well, let's have a bit of a race between us. We both send a text to our parents. Whoever gets the first reply, well, that's definitive. They're loved the most. So the text we had to send was, good morning, love you. And then I just looked at the newspaper, the NZ Herald in front of me, and we're all talking about the America's Cup. So I put a question, have you seen the new Team New Zealand boat? Just open up the dialogue there.

Like a purpose for the text. And during the ads, Ben Boyce, you got a text back from Kevin, your father. Oh, yeah, he's pretty good. I said he was pretty good on the texting. He came back going, love you too. Seen the boat. So it's good he's seen the boat.

Dad. Oh, that was it? So no feedback on the boat, what he thinks of the boat? No, I've seen the boat. Seen the boat. Oh, good. It was an odd question to ask your parents. Have he thinks of the boat? No, I've seen the boat. Seen the boat? Oh, good. It was an odd question to ask your parents. Have you seen the Team New Zealand boat?

I've seen the boat. I don't think I've once discussed the America's Cup with my parents, but there we go. That's a debut. Well, let's go through to Kevil. Congratulate him. He's had a win. He's had a win.

Oh, well, yeah. Let's give him a call. My dad, Kevin Boyce. Hello. Well done. You won. Kevin Boyce. You won. Kevin Boyce. You won.

We were seeing which of our parents would text us back first, and you were the first one to do it. Well, there you go. I was just actually on the way to Wellington with three international students in the car, and I said, just listen to this program. I said, my son's on it. They said, oh, yes, okay. And then their conversation came on.

Oh, you heard the conversation. You're like, quick, why don't you guys text me? Text me. So the reply I got back was, yeah, you've seen the boat. You've seen the Team New Zealand boat. So you knew the context of this. Yeah, I did. I heard it.

Well, Kev, well done. Well done. Turns out you love Ben more than my parents love me. He's even listening. I don't think that's the case. Okay. You could have just said yes. All right, hang on.

I don't think that's the case. There's not a cast wild accusations around. All right, see you later. Okay, bye. See you, Kev. There we go. That was, bye, mate. How do you feel about that, mate?

Let's have a bit of a post analysis on that one. So let's break that down so you said I said turns out you love your son more than my parents love me and then he said I don't think that's the case

well ok he's like no I definitely love love him less than your parents love you some truth bombs this morning yeah that's good

well he had the win that's the main thing yeah the win there we go we apologise in advance it's Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, I want your calls and texts. Love you to get in touch with us this morning.

0800 the hits. 4487 is the text. Where you were landed stranded? Because we've got a guy joining us very shortly from Whangarei who he was landed stranded in a very uncompromising position, wasn't he? Someone took something and he was, yeah, we'll get him on very shortly, but we want your calls.

Have you been stranded anywhere, Ben? It took me a while to get out of Masterton. Does that count? 19 years, wasn't it? Yeah, pretty much 18, 19 years. So yeah, yeah. So it took me a while to get out of there. I told the story on Tuesday, on Monday, sorry,

when I was stuck in the Countdown lavatory on Friday, last Friday. Yes. I thought that was it. I thought this was a tale of survival. So the person who did rescue me, I had my head in the bowl drinking the toilet water for survival purposes. You haven't been there 35 seconds, but you've got to do what you've got to do in those situations. You've got to do what you've got to do in those situations. Yeah, so 800 of the hits.

Where have you been landed stranded? We spoke to your friend Chris Mack from 660. Yeah, that's right. He's been accidentally in the middle of the night locked himself out of his room, his hotel room, naked, going to the bathroom, got the wrong door. I couldn't get how this happened. Yeah, you had a go at him about it.

You know, you're in a hotel room. There's no one else around. You're naked. Yeah, but why are you outside naked? Well, I wasn't on purpose, John. You're asking me like it was a planned thing. I wasn't like, you know what, I'll try tonight, walking out of the room naked without a key.

So where have you been stranded, wherever you ended up being stuck? We'd love to hear from you on 0800 THE HITS. And every caller that gets on the air gets a $50 Mitre 10 voucher. So you can go along and buy Stace, Mike and Anika's Silly Seasoning. They've got that out at the moment with wrapped in naturals. It's very cool. It looks awesome. It does look cool.

So get that right now if you call 0800 The Hits. We'll go to Kirsty. You're in Hamilton. Welcome, Kirsty. How are you? I'm good, thank you. Lovely, lovely to have you on the show. Thank you. Where were you stranded? We were stranded in this nice remote hotel in Spain. We went for a wedding, a friend's wedding, and we were upstairs.

We were staying in a really nice hotel, and it was quite late. So me and my sister decided to venture out, and we thought we'd go and look at the pool upstairs. It was right on top of the roof, and somehow we got stranded on the pool because we couldn't get back out. The door shut behind us. Oh, no. All night? And we were like, not all night.

We got stuck there for about 40 minutes, half an hour, 40 minutes, and we're screaming. We're trying to knock on the door, but nobody could hear us. Well, it's not the hangovers. Isn't that what happens with the hangovers? That was the beginning of the hangover.

Yeah, that's right. Up the top of the hotel. Then Mike Tyson was in a room with a tiger. Yeah. My sister was panicking. She's like, I need to go to the bathroom. I said, well, you can't go to the bathroom. So in the end, she had to use the side of the pool there.

Oh, there we go. There's some deets. There's some deets. I'm sure she didn't want you to tell. Well, you've got a $50 Mitre 10 voucher so you can go along and buy Stace, Mike and Anika's silly seasoning, all right? Oh, thank you so much for that.

No worries. Have a lovely day, guys. Thanks for sharing. Thank you for listening. Thank you, bye. Thank you for listening. Now, we've got a man on the phone from Whangarei who he was stranded on top of another roof.

He was landed stranded of the Domino's Pizzeria in Whangarei after someone took a piece of his apparatus and he joins us right now. Tom Clancy, how are you? How you going? We're doing well. How are you going, harrowing tale? Yeah, not something you want on a Saturday night.

So you were stuck up there all Saturday night? No, no, no. Fortunately, I called the people in the store and the Domino's just to see if they'd taken my ladder down thinking I'd gone and they hadn't taken it down but one of the guys that worked there had one at his house there to shoot home and grab it for me. Oh, so there was a rescue mission there to the place.

What scallywags, what scoundrels took the ladder of a man who was on a roof? Yeah, and I was actually up for my birthday dinner with my father-in-law, so it was his birthday, so I got called away from that to go and work on this, and then that happened. Oh, jeez. So did you know at the time that, I guess you had no idea the ladder had been taken? No, because

I had to put it up on a different part of the roof and then walk along to where I was, so I couldn't actually see it or hear it. Yeah, I didn't know it was gone until I got to the edge of the roof and there was something missing. What was that movie with James Franco? And he got trapped? Oh, the 127 Hours?

Yeah, this was more like 27 Minutes. 27 Minutes, the New Zealand version. He got his arm stuck in a rock, you got stuck on a roof. And so have you caught the thieves? No, no one seems to know anything. I had a look around to make sure. No one had sort of ditched it just as a joke but no, it seems to be long gone.

Well that's the thing, maybe it was someone coming along, tidying up going, oh we can't leave that here, I'm putting it away and wherever you put away big ladders, I don't know where that is. Yeah, well they've had to climb up the ladder and undo the strap at the top I had. Oh, okay. And they took my rope off the roof as well, which I was using

to lift my gear up and down. And so you've put steps in place, excuse the pun, for this not to happen again? Yeah, I'll be a bit more vigilant on things like this. But yeah, first time I ever had that happen in 18 years. So yeah, something new every day. So who else has been in touch

since this has made national news? Well, the local newspaper Advocate have and I also just found out that the boys on Radio Heroic have been talking about me as well. Oh, Matt and Jerry. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, apparently have. And they're just next door to us, so we're going to go next door after this and go, well, did you speak to them?

You've gone one step further. We have. They pipped us at the post the other day with the nudist confrontation which is happening in Dunedin between two nudist camps. They got the scoop on the nudist, we got the scoop on the electrician. Hey, sometimes you have wins, sometimes you have losses in this radio

game. Tom Clancy, obviously you get this all the time. He's an author, right? Well, he was, yes. Last name is spelled slightly different, but pretty close. Is the other Tom Clancy passed away? Yes, as far as I'm aware. Oh, good one.

Good one, Ben. Good one. There we go. Bring the vibes down. Sorry, I didn't know that. Yeah, no, so. It was actually your father, wasn't it, Tom? Oh, no.

No, don't. It was Tom's dad. No, don't do that. No, well, you've opened these. No, I'm just a very famous author. Tell you who wouldn't have done this, Matt and Gerry. No, they're right. You should have gone with Radio Hauraki, that's for sure.

Hey, Tom, really appreciate your time. You keep safe. Cool, not a problem. Thanks, guys. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. No, what's up?

Spy.co.nz. Okay, here is a good, honest attempt from Juliet to make this show sound relevant. Spy Entertainment News, what have you got? So Jay-Z He's invested a bunch Of his money into A new fitness company, it's a new fitness Startup called Climber

And the thing with this Is that Beyonce has recently Done a collaboration with a different fitness Company that's in rival With this company that Jay-Z's invested A bunch of money in. I say they sort it out with a burpee off. That's the only way you can solve this fitness-based beef.

Yeah, but then upon further thought, maybe she's covering that company and then he's covering the other. So they're kind of hedging their bets with which one might be more successful. It's a relatable problem. Do you know how your wife signs up with one fitness company and you sign up with another competing fitness company? It's an age-old marital issue. We with one fitness company and you sign up with another competing fitness company?

It's an age-old marital issue. We've all been there, and you work through it. You get through it. You do. And then there's multi-millions of dollars at stake. And in the end, you would accept that both your fitness companies are good, and that's why you chose them. I mean, you can both do your own fitness routines.

It's fine. You know, I just mentioned before Becky with the good hair. Remember, she sang something about Becky with the good hair, and it was alleged in relation to Jay-Z's cheating scandal. How good was Becky's hair? And if you were Becky, you'd be pretty stoked. Like there's worse things Beyonce could have said about this person. Did we ever find out who Becky with the good hair was?

No. It was rumours or something. It was rumours it was a fashion designer. Beyonce's got great hair too. She's got great hair. So this lady must have astonishing hair. Imagine it. Yeah. Wonderful hair. It hair, so this lady must have astonishing hair. Imagine it. Wonderful hair.

No one is Becky with the good hair. I'm Becky with the good hair. Wow, you have good hair. You'd be Jono with the bald head. Well, then he'd want to know who it was. Jay-Z cheated on me with Jono with the bald head. I know exactly who that is. Why? Who? And another couple. Oh, sorry, Juke. Actually actually after 8 o'clock

we're speaking to Lance Savali who is a Kiwi who toured the world with Beyonce dancing, not just Beyonce Che, Lo, Usher some amazing artists that he's worked with and we want to find out what they're like behind the scenes

we'll find out if he knows Becky and how good her hair is maybe he is Becky with the good hair. And Hugh Grant has said that his wife has never liked his rom-com movies that he's been in. He says my wife's really the man in our house. She likes the horrors and the violent films and the

gangster films while he's just sitting there watching The Sound of Music or The Holiday or something like that. Love Actually. Love, Love Actually. It's a good film. Every year you're watching it around Christmas time, eh? Lovely.

And he does it every time and get the feels. And he does that speech where love actually is everywhere. At the end over the airport and hugging.

One of the great films, eh? Melt your heart, Hugh Grant. Anyway. Turns out his wife doesn't like that movie, so. Who, what monster doesn't like Love Actually? No, no. Divorce her, Hugh Grant. I know. Turns out his wife doesn't like that movie, so. Who, what monster doesn't like Love Actually? No, I know. Divorce her, Hugh.

Exactly. That's five. For more, you can check out the hit stock on NZ. Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. We like to do this heading into a weekend. We want to know who out there is going to have the best weekend. And we like to judge the best weekend.

I don't know who died and made us judges of who's going to have the best weekend, but we've kind of self-appointed ourselves. So no one's died in the making of this segment of the show. It's good to point that one out, right? What are you guys doing this weekend? We've got Bee Humps' party, haven't we? Yeah, housewarming. Producer Humphrey's housewarming.

We're at the address on the radio, so everyone can come along. Is everyone welcome? Yeah. This is New Zealand's breakfast. Yeah, I feel like we should invite everyone to come along. Yeah, so if you'd like to join us at Bee Humps' housewarming, number 22. Okay, no, that's not good.

Oh, was that a joke? That was a joke, yeah. Yeah, I was like, I thought, well, we've only got three people listening to the show anyway, so it'll be a total success. Take it all, come along. Yeah, no, it'll be fun. Looking forward to that.

But those three people, out of those three people, which is having the best weekend? Give us a call right now. But let's go to Mel. You're in Auckland. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast, Mel. Was it going to be a good weekend? We were on the judging panel. Okay, well,

thanks for the hits. I'm getting my son along to be the ball runner for the Auckland vs Waikato game tomorrow. Running the ball out in the middle of the game thing before they play? Oh, that's cool. He's so nervous. I always wanted to do that as a kid. I feel like maybe it's too

late for me now. Yeah, no. That train's definitely departed. It would be weird if you ran out and this boat of Barrett's about to kick and you pass him the tea. What are you doing here? You're older than me. Why are you doing this? We're like, good luck with the kick, Mr. Barrett. Thanks, old man.

Go back to the retirement village. Oh, that's awesome, Melanie. What a special moment for your son. Oh, no, it's so cool. So we get to sit up beside the guys, and we get to watch them warm up beforehand. So, no, we can't wait. Oh, you're going to see some hamstrings being stretched.

I know, I know. I'm going to have to remember to take a photo of my son and not just the big boys. Mum, you just took a photo of all their hot legs. Where's the picture of me with the ball? Someone else might have got that. Okay, pretty good weekend. Pretty good weekend.

Hold there, Melanie. We'll see if you're leading the charge. We'll go to Tauranga. Cassandra, welcome. You're on the air. Hi. Well, is it going to be a good one for you, Cassie? Well, it's going to be a pretty exciting weekend for us.

My eldest daughter is only eight. She's doing her first triathlon, and she's got two little toddler brothers and they're going to be able to see what goes on and get totally inspired to do one hopefully when they're older. She's all doing a triathlon. Like a full length one? Well, it's a children's

one. It's a week X one. Oh, that's still good. She's pushing herself out of her boundaries like a comfort zone and she's doing something that she's not really confident in, and she's pushing it, and I'm so proud. Oh, I bet you are. That's awesome.

And you'll be the proud mum chanting on the sidelines, I always wanted to enter the Weebyx Triathlon and kick all their butts, you know, the kids. As an adult. Again, you're too old for that. Too old. Why is the old man in the Weebyx Triathlon? But you wouldn't.

I wouldn't like to see that. They'd beat you. I reckon they probably would. Yeah, they're younger, fitter, and they've got their whole lives ahead of them. Good on you, Cassandra. Hold there. You could be having the best weekend. Emma might beat you, though.

She's in Wellington. You got a good one lined up to you, Emma? Yeah, hi. I've got a couple of things this weekend. We're having a weekend of celebrations because we're launching our small business this weekend. You're launching a business? What's your business?

It's Frankie Lane. It's a clothing store for babies. I like babies. Me too. I've been planning it for a couple of months and today at one o'clock is like, you know, go time. Awesome. Whereabouts in the country is that?

I'm in Wellington. So it's going to be an online store to start with, but we've had a lot of interest through Instagram and all those online platforms. What's the name of the business again, so people can go on and buy some cute baby clothes for themselves? Yeah, so it's Frankie Lane underscore. Frankie Lane.

So that's on Instagram, and at one o'clock today, we'll launch our Shopify website. Good luck to you. Yeah, that's very exciting. Jeez, everyone's having a great weekend. Good luck to you. That's very exciting. Jeez, everyone's having a great weekend. Good luck with that. Thank you. All right, we'll go to Raewyn because she's a dunnus. Raewyn, why is it going to be a good one for you?

Oh, we've got a couple of things going on as well. So we are painting our kitchen over the weekend because we've got a brand new kitchen getting installed on Monday. Oh, that's exciting. Whoop, whoop. And the second thing is my son is chasing his dreams. He wants to be a pilot. So he's going for his third flying lesson tomorrow morning,

and he's 10. Oh, my God. What? He's flying a plane at 10? Yep, yep. Wow. How are the Civil Aviation Authority about this? Well, I don't actually know, but it is recorded.

I don't know. He just goes up there. I'm sure that's all done under proper supervision, but that's amazing. Yeah, super proud. That's great. He's going to pilot his first Air New Zealand flight from Dunedin to Wellington. Give it a go, mate. You're on your own way there. Weather looking a little bit windyedin to Wellington. Yeah, give it a go, mate. You're on your own, aren't you? Oh, weather looking a little bit windy

as we approach Wellington. Oh, we change from when we do that. Yeah, at least we'll be able to understand the captain this time. Hey, that's awesome. Now, Ben, over to you. Who's having the best weekend? I just wanted to take two calls.

I think everyone's having a great weekend. The $50 Mitre 10 voucher so they can buy the silly seasoning from Mitre 10. I'm going to put it off here to producer Humphrey. Oh, no, you're not. We end up with a result. No, because there's so many great choices. Okay, I'm going to say...

They all sound like great weekends that I would like to have. Raewyn, whose son's going to go and pilot Air New Zealand 547 to Wellington. She's got one. Okay, and then you've got Mel, kids' runner, the ball runner at the rugby. Cassie, oldest daughter

doing a triathlon. Emma, she's celebrating a new business. Yeah, okay, I'm going to let Producer Humphrey decide that one. Good luck to you, Ben.

Ben Humphrey next door. That's a tough decision. Those are some good weekends. Yeah, I know. It's a great weekend. This is why we will never be on a judging panel. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up on a judging panel. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Scrolling through your feed. All right, now to update you on what's happened overnight. However, he still can't explain what horrific crimes take place in my mouth overnight to have me smell like a public toilet first thing in the morning. I still can't figure that out. Morning breath, it's a real thing, isn't it?

It's a real thing. It goes to be a go-to-bed clean and you wake up like... You've done nothing, really. You've slept. My mouth's been shut the whole night. Yeah. Now is the time everyone in New Zealand

pretends to be experts on the America's Cup. Every few years this happens, right? We're all like, oh, we're into this again. Because Team New Zealand yesterday unveiled their new boat, their flash new boat, and it looks amazing. I mean, these things go so fast now, these boats. I can't wait till after the America's Cup when you can have a buy now on Trade Me for $200 billion.

What do they do with the boats? Because they pretty much become old technology. They become redundant, don't they? Yeah, because the boat we had a few months ago, now we've updated on that one, right? In this new boat. So is that an old, what's happened to the old boat? Well, I don't know.

That was the version one. Now we've made a new version with a, you know, like different front. It's incredible. They've got 90 kilometres an hour, these things go now. They're so fast. Yeah, my friend Baz, who I caught up with yesterday for lunch? He's got himself a job and his role

is course marshal. Oh, for the America's Cup? Course marshal. What's that mean? I was like, how have you got this Baz? Is that like sitting there in the highlight of... Yeah, so he goes out on these boats and there's a team of them and they're all on a rostered schedule. He goes out on the boats and he places out

the big orange things, you know? Oh, yeah, the actual... The floaty things. But inside them, he said there's like about $100,000 worth of camera equipment. So he used to tow them out, and then he'd mark out the course, and then he used to sit in the boat. And all the boats, there's about a dozen of them, have been donated by the Lottery's Commission.

They're worth like a quarter of a million dollars each the ones he's taking out and then they get then they get donated to Surf Life Saving people all over New Zealand afterwards that's a lovely thing isn't it

yeah interesting eh oh very cool so your America's Cup happening next year as well you remember when your boats used to go so slow and they were like

the graphics package was the most exciting thing they'd go to the graphics and be like oh that looks cool then they'd go back to the boats and be like, oh.

You know? Now they go so fast. Tacking, jibing. Jibing, tacking. You're like, oh, he shouldn't have tacked there. He shouldn't have jibed. The America's Cup is now.

Whatever happened to Peter Montgomery? Is he coming back for it? I think he's still doing stuff with yachting and stuff. What does he do for the dozen years in between the America's Cup?

Where does Montgomery go? He's still a lot of work for Newstalk ZB, right? Yeah. A lot of sports reporting. Bloody good broadcaster, Peter Montgomery. I know, the voice of sailing, isn't he? You wouldn't want anyone else commentating sailing. Yeah.

I think he comes back for Newstalk ZB and does the commentary for them, I think. Oh, good. I hope he does. I hope he does. Because he did a great job of making the slow boats seem exciting. I know. So imagine how he's going to go with it. Maybe these new boats are too

exciting for him. This is going to get Peter really heart attack. And the new, you know, okay mate. These boats are going quite fast now, we've got to warn you. It is a lovely story. I'm going to give you a lovely story for your Friday. 2018, a Scottish man, his name is Dean, he decided to bike from his home in Scotland

across the world to Thailand. So he decided to do this as a bit of an adventure by himself. He was cycling through Southeastern Europe. He noticed a little grey and white kitten running at him, meowing, to stop. So he picked the kitten up, took him into the next township, took him to the vet and said, does anyone own this kitten? They couldn't find anyone to him. And so the kitten kind of crawled up and sort of sat on him

and really was quite, like, wanted to hang out. He said, oh, maybe we'll go for a bike ride with him. Put him in the front and they've now gone to 20 countries around the world, him and his kitten, over the last two years. Oh, isn't that adorable? The kitten loves it. He sits up the front with his little paws out, looking out, and he's got a passport and everything.

Meanwhile, a five-year-old Thai girl is crying as her kitten has gone missing. Oh, no. And never been retrieved. She thought it got run over. That's how I've seen the world. It's got a passport. It even sits on kayaks as well.

It loves it. Oh, that's cute. That's pretty cute. I thought that story was like, I saw a little kid and accidentally ran over it. There's a happy story for you Friday. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono and Ben with Razine. Taking the guesswork out of choosing colours. It's been a fun little game we've been playing all week. Thanks to Razine. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono and Ben with Resene, taking the guesswork out of choosing colours. It's been a fun little game we've been playing all week. Thanks to Resene, it's been good. And so far we've given away some prizes as well as $500 worth of Resene vouchers, Jono. Now I've been looking through the plentiful Resene colour chart.

So many colours. I want to play a game with you. Is this a Resene paint or is this not a Resene Paint? You know, you know, okay. Julian, if you can get the bell or the buzzer ready, if possible. Okay, first one. Is this a Resene Paint? Marlborough meningitis.

Not a... No, no, it's not. Well done. It's not a Resene Paint. Okay. Caraca COVID. No, no, no. Well done.

You're good. You're good at this game. Otaki ovaries. Okay, no. Again, no. Again, no. Yeah,. You're good. You're good at this game. Otaki Ovaries. Okay, no. Again, no. Again, no. Yeah, he's on fire. Three from three.

Yurawira Uterus. No, no. No. Yeah, you're good at that game. None of those are his ink color paints. None of these actually have good, like proper made up colors, right? Yeah, like scrumptious pink. That's right.

They have I Dear You Yellow and Unwind with Soft Blue Green as well. So how it works is like a game of memory. We've got now only six paint tins, Resine paint tins in the studio and you need to match up two of them to not only get a $500 Resine voucher but also get the prize attached to those paint colours. Yeah, Producer Humphrey is filming this and

it is cinematic. What he's doing, he's sweeping shots over to Ben, sweeping shots back to me, sweeping down to the paint tins. I mean, Peter Jackson would be frothing over this footage. What's putting me off, though, even though we have cameras the whole time? Where is this going? Where is this video going? I don't know.

I haven't seen any of this online. This is his own personal collection, I think. He's a big fan of Rosine Cutler-Payne. All right, let's head to our lower heart. Doa Kana, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you on a Friday morning, mate? Hi. Lovely to have you on the air with us.

Doa Kana, well done. First off, you've got a $500 Resene voucher. You've got some painting you need to do. Yeah, a heap. There's always heaps of painting you can do. It feels like when you've done painting, you always do it again. It never stops, does it?

There's always stuff to paint. Yeah, which is great. All right, so you've got a $500 Resene voucher. Now you need to open, well, does it? There's always stuff to paint. Yeah, which is great. Alright, so you've got a $500 Resene voucher. Now you need to open, well, Jono's going to open two paint cans. Resene colour. What's the first colour you want to open? What number? One. Number one.

Okay. Opening one bed. Okay, opening paint can one. Down here on the Resene drop sheet, and that is a red. Okay, red. You've got a red. Okay. Pohutukawa red is the first colour we've opened up. Let's see if we can get a match with the next...

What are the tins? What numbers have we got left? Three, five, nine, ten, and eight. Three, five, nine, ten, and eight. Number nine, please. Okay, number nine. Here we go. If this is a Pohutukawa red, what is she going to win,

Ben? She will win. Great question, Jono. A barbecue pack with everything you need for a Kiwi Summer Barbie,

including a new Weber. Oh, one of the Weber Barbies. Oh, okay. Is it a Pahutukawa Red? We're about to

find out if I can open the tin. Oh, jeez. Come on, Jono. It's a Pahutukawa Red. It is. Oh, jeez. Come on, Jello. It's a bow and a go, Red. It is. Oh, you got it.

Well done. Oh, that's so sweet. You won a Kiwi barbecue pack with everything you need for a Kiwi summer barbie as I said before, including a new Weber barbie. Everyone who has a Weber,

they love it. They always shame me because I don't have a Weber. No, what, you bought a Jumbo, didn't you? Yeah, I bought like a $200 barbie. I like a Jumbuck. Yeah, it's just a Jumbuck.

It's functional, but it's not a Weber, and that's what you've got. So congratulations. Oh, man, thank you. No worries. No worries. You go and have a great weekend. Enjoy that barbie, and every time you sizzle some steak, you think of this program.

I will. Believe me, I will. Oh, enjoy that. And if you need help choosing the right colours and wallpapers for your home, you can book a consultation with a Resene colour expert in person. They'll do it virtually and they'll do it for free and they'll do a colour expert service on a Resene website for you as well. So that's pretty sweet.

Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I was asked to emcee. There's some shops around the corner from my house, and they've got a little business association. And when you think of Jono Pryor, two words that come to mind are business and association, aren't they? Yeah, yeah, definitely.

So I was asked to go along and talk. There was probably about 20 people in the room at the local hairdressers, you know. But jeez, I get nervous talking in front of small groups of people. Does that happen to you? Oh, yeah, I know what you know. But jeez, I get nervous talking in front of small groups of people. Does that happen to you? Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I feel like because we talk on the radio every day and talk to lots of people everywhere, but they can't actually see you. And even like, we've been lucky enough to host like the

Music Awards and you go on stage and there's 5,000 in the room, people watching, but you can't see the faces. Yeah, no, it's almost too many people for it to even register. Yeah, yeah. But when you can see the faces. When you sit just staring at like 20 people looking at you like, oh, God. And I don't know anything about business. Look at me, Ben.

No, you're true. Yeah, I've worn the same T-shirt for 20 years. So, yeah, I had to do some introductions. Did you wear a business suit? Yeah, I came over dressed in like a tuxedo. Everyone was just in jeans and a T-shirt. I am here to do some business, my good sir. I was talking to a lovely lady, Carol,

who actually listens to the show. And her job, she goes around and sort of facilitates, you know, boards of companies and how they can have better systems and interact with each other and stuff. But she was talking, and I was like, you know, business, crazy time, 2020, good conversation starter, isn't it? At the moment, like banter,

COVID is really helping us out. How were we light bantering before COVID? It was just weather, wasn't it? It was pretty much weather. Now we've had COVID, we've had US elections been another great one as well. Our elections. Yeah, referendum, you know, you can banter a little bit about that as well this year. Lots

of stuff to banter about. Look at the positives of 2020. There's been a lot of negatives, but the light banter has turned into almost heavy banter. It's a 20 to 30 minute conversation. Sometimes you're like, oh, I don't really care what you're voting for in the referendum, but we've started this now. But yes, I've told her about business and stuff.

She's like, generally, the only people who succeed in business are the ones who take risks. You know, a lot of people, and I guess that's in other areas of life, isn't it, too, where I'm pretty safe, I don't want to take too many risks, but she's like, all the people who

do really well in business, there's a huge amount of risk associated with what they're doing, but they're willing to take that risk. And that's how they succeed. Sometimes maybe they don't succeed, but I guess that's what risks are about. That's what you do, that's risk. High risk, high reward, as they say. That's right. And I don't succeed, but I guess that's what risks are about. That's what you do. That's risk. High risk, high reward, as they say. That's right.

And I don't, you know what? I took a risk on this, and I don't know what the point of this chat is. I don't know what the point of this conversation is. It was a good little insight. Did we all learn stuff? I don't know what I just did there. It's a metaphor for life.

You've got to take risks. Take risks, yeah. And it could pay off. It's quite inspirational, Jonahna When Oprah does her inspirational stuff She doesn't second guess it You live your best life What did I say that for? Did I say that?

What do I mean by that? And everyone's like I don't know what you mean And this is why I'll never be Oprah Winfrey No And this is why I won't take any risks And I'll just see my days out On the H hits radio station.

Until they have decided they've had enough of you. Which could be rolling around pretty shortly after that. Starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Buy the what's up by doco.nbed. Alrighty, we pay her an expired cans of Cool Charm

from the prize cupboard. She smells incredible. Nah, it's producer Juliet with Spy expired cans of Cool Charm from the prize cupboard. She smells incredible. No, it's producer Juliette with Spy. Gosh, Cool Charm. That's such a throwback. Do they still make Cool Charm? Probably. But I use that as a tween, you could say. I used Lynx Africa or Lynx Musk and Lynx Africa.

It smelled nothing like Africa, I wouldn't imagine. I don't know why. What did you roll with? Back in the day, it definitely was Lynx. Lynx, back in the day, yeah. I feel like it all smells the same, Lynx. I can't differentiate it. Yeah, no, it's the distinct odor of a pubescent 15-year-old teenage boy.

Yeah. Exactly. That's what it takes me back to. It's much like Cool Charm probably does for you. Probably, yeah, exactly. Now, every year, the People magazine, they crown someone, usually always a celebrity, the sexiest man alive.

And every year it changes. So John Legend, he won it last year. And then it was announced earlier this week that actor Michael B. Jordan, who's in Black Panther, he won it this year.

He's in The Wire as well, Michael B. Jordan, isn't he? Yes, I think so, yeah. And so John Legend was, you know, they usually are kind of like, oh, how does the previous Sexiest Man Alive feel about the new Sexiest Man Alive? Does he feel less sexier? Wow.

Has he lost his sexiness? Wow. It's like the bird of the year for overseas celebrities, isn't it? Exactly. But he's stoked because he says, thank you, I can now keep gaining this quarantine weight in peace without the pressure of having to maintain the sexiest... I suppose he's right. You're like, I was sexiest man alive for a year, that was me,

but now I've passed that man too long to Michael B. Jordan. You would feel for those 12 months that you had to really keep up your sexy. You'd be like, you know, pouting your lips every time you ordered dinner or something in a restaurant. You couldn't go out wearing track pads and things like that. You'd be like, oh, I'm sexiest man alive. Giving sultry looks to the person behind the counter at the petrol station

and you'd have to just be sexy all the time. The pressure would be just so hard. Too much sexiness would wear you down. It wouldn't wear you down. Now, as I like to do annually, they release the Sexiest Man Alive

and I like to cover off the sexiest man dead. Oh no. I've done this before because this is... Yeah, I do this annually. They do their thing. I've got my thing.

It's offensive. Okay, now, this year, I'm going to take it back a bit. Elvis. Okay. He was very sexy. It feels better looking people that haven't recently passed. Oh, listen, Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger's always in my list.

Yeah, I know. He was sexy. I'm sad about that, you know. You know, he was sexy. I'm sad, obviously, about Elvis, but a lot of time has passed now. Who are you sadder about, Heath Ledger or Elvis? Oh, don't do this to me. Well, you've said you're sad about Heath Ledger. I'm sad about people. I'm always sad about Elvis, but a lot of time has passed now. Who are you sadder about, Heath Ledger or Elvis? Oh, don't do this to me. Well, you've said you're sad about Heath Ledger.

I'm sad about people. I'm always sad when people pass us on. But it felt to me like you were more emotional about Heath Ledger than you were Elvis. I just feel like it's more recent. So I'm still coming to terms with that. Elvis happened a while ago, right? Okay, so you've got over Elvis? I've got over Elvis.

Mate, you know what's offensive? You. You come in here and say... I'm trying to be non-offensive, but I'm somehow making it more offensive. Oh, he's ruined the sexiest man dead list, 2020. Damn it. I know about this annual list.

I'll stop the list now. I'll stop it. It's done. Should I go to another story? Yeah, we'll pick this back up in 2021, guys. I'm sorry. Ben ruined it for everyone. I've got another year to get over Elvis.

Now. Oh, God. Oh, sorry. Yeah, move on. Should I? Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, New Zealand. Please do.

I'm sorry. Okay, okay, okay. Now, speaking of pranks, and you guys have a history of this, George Clooney, he talked about a prank that Brad Pitt did on him back in the day when they were filming Ocean's Twelve, and this was back in 2004. So they were filming at Lake Como in Italy where George Clooney

lived at the time. And what Brad did is he sent out a memo to all the people in the town sort of knowing that George Clooney has lived there and said that the movie is coming to town, George Clooney's in it, please only address George Clooney as Mr. Clooney has lived there and said that the movie is coming to town, George Clooney's in it,

please only address George Clooney as Mr. Clooney and his character's name is Danny Ocean and don't look him right in the eyes. So we posted these posters all around Lake Como in town so the locals were like, oh my goodness. And then it got headlines around the world that George Clooney was the... It was like, didn't want to be looked in the eyes.

Yeah, exactly. Great prank, really escalated, but great prank, right? Why do people not want to be looked in the eyes? Like, look at Great prank. Really escalated, but great prank, right? Why do people not want to be looked in the eyes? Like, look at the, isn't that the best place to look at someone? I guess if you're a celebrity,

maybe you wouldn't want to be looked in the eyes. Why? Don't look at me in the eyes. If you're evil Alan, then maybe. I don't want to look directly into your eyes.

Where's the alternative? The throat? Where do you stare if you go, or just look, awkwardly look at their ears? Yeah, exactly. And why is, can I just ask,

why is George Clooney unloading all the skeletons from his closet this week? Well, I don't know. He's done a big interview with a magazine. You know those massive lengthy ones where they talk about heaps of stuff? Because we had some George Clooney news yesterday. Yeah, we did.

He did a lot of pranks himself. So I think that's why the Brad Pitt things didn't come out of nowhere. Ah, I see. I think Matt Damon was trying to lose lots of... I was reading the same article. He was trying to lose lots... Yeah, he reading the same article. He was trying to lose... He was trying to look fit, healthy for Oceans of Lever,

and every week, Joyce Cleaney would get the costume department to take his pants and tie her. Until by the end of it, Matt Damon's eating a grape for lunch. I can't understand why. Brilliant. This is what you've done to me. I'm not fitting my trousers this year. Oh, yeah, definitely.

No, that's definitely a prank. He's like, you fit them in November last year. That's what he keeps saying to me. That is good. You know, put that on top of this Elvis business. This guy is a nightmare. Not a morning person?

Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben Voice Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's Worst Moments of the Week. Looking back at some of the shockers that Jono Pryor's had

over the last five days on radio. I can't tell if this is a weekly performance review or a weekly public shaming. The lines are blurred between the two. But what it does highlight is it shines a light on how shocking and appalling I am at this job. Now, we got to talk to Sarah Jessica Parker from Sex and the City. Thanks to Envivo Wines.

She's got some wines out with them, Envivo X, Sarah Jessica Parker. And you talked about not only about her wines, but also she's a business person. She's got her fingers in pies. She's diversified, yeah. And you also said that she was selling, well, she's selling bags,

but this is how you said she was doing it. And you're quite the entrepreneur as well. You're hocking off shoes. You've got bags. You've got the wine as well. I'm not hocking off shoes. Yeah, I feel like that was really downgrading what you're doing. She was very offended by that. I'm not hocking off shoes.

Oh, God. You're hocking off this? You're hocking off that? She was like, because we could see her on Zoom, she kind of sat back in her seat. She was taking it back that someone did say that she was hocking off shoes. But this is what she's doing. Or peddling.

No, she's selling them. She's making and she's, you know. Yeah, she's like, they're carefully crafted and designed shoes from Italy. Yeah. So anyway. I'm hocking them off. And then I said, well, you weren't,

and I corrected her. I said, you're not hocking off the wine. You're selling the wine. And she said, thank you. Thank you. It was all fine by the end. It got back on track. Nearly lost her.

We also had a wee game because NCEA exams were happening this week and we had a game against a young student and you were trash-talking them. Count to three in Māori. Tahi, rua, toru. Well done. Well done. There you go.

Thank you. One for one. Suck on that, Annie. Hey. Hey. Hey. You can't trash-talk people, you know. Especially children.

I mean, yeah. It builds resilience. It builds resilience in them. Or traumatises them, one of the two. And the Bird of the Year. Seemed like you got a lot of media coverage again. Too much. An extraordinary amount.

And then we fell for the trap. Yeah, we did. We talked about the Bird of the Year. And we're doing it again right now. Like a kiwi set upon by a stoat. We fell for the trap as well. Yeah, I like. But the kakapo won.

And we were talking about the bird of the year, and you had this to say. Well, I think we should taste the bird of the year. Oh, no. That's what we should judge it on. What's the tastiest? You're getting some legalities here. Has anyone tried a kea or a kākāpō?

Well, no, they're protected, so that's probably what they're... Yeah, no, I'm not going there. Mmm. Mmm. Now I'm just thinking how succulent a kakapo would be. No, it might taste... They were fat-shaming the kakapo on CNN, weren't they?

Saying it's the world's heaviest parrot. I didn't need to say that. I could say it's a beautiful native bird of New Zealand. You win a competition, there's going to be haters. Hey, next week on the show, we're very excited, aren't we? We're joined by acclaimed international author David Walliams. You'll know him from Britain's Got Talent, Little Britain, the comedy show as well. And all the books he's brought out.

He's going to join us on Monday. We're very excited about this. He's got a new book out. He's going to join us over Zoom on Monday. Have a great weekend. And we'll catch you guys Monday from 6. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits.

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