Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - November 24 - Clarke Gayford, The Happy Birthday Game, Whose Got The Most Loyalty Cards?

Episode Date: November 23, 2020

On today's show we caught up with Clarke Gayford about his new documentary "Shark Lockdown" which sounds as scary as it is. I mean, who would willingly put themselves in shark infested waters... Not us. But clearly Clarke...! He also shared with us what it was like when he and Jacinda met The Queen, and what they all talked about. Ben also shared the funny thing his daughter Indie said to Santa when she met him at Snowplanet on the weekend, and it just goes to show how advanced technology and how smart kids can be these days! As well as this, we held a little competition on who has the most loyalty cards, Ben or a listener, because my gosh it's easy to accumulate them all! Enjoy the pod!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. Podcast, podcast, catching Ben off guard when he's clearing some emails. This is day two of the week.

18 shows to go until Christmas. Can you believe it? We were just brainstorming. You're on the countdown, aren't you? The Advent Calendar countdown. Yeah, we were just brainstorming ideas that we can do for Christmas for the program. Now, here's a question that I saw from another radio station's social media, but I'm going to take it now for you.

If you've got an Advent Calendar, do you go like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, that order, or do you go countdown? Do you count 3, 4, 5, 6, that order, or do you go count down? Do you count up or count down from like 24 backwards? But they're usually dated, aren't they? So they go from 1 to 25. Well, I thought it was 1st of December. Yeah, 1st to the 25th. Yeah, and sometimes I don't know if they've got something on the 25th

because that's Christmas. Sometimes they only go up to the 24th. Yeah, but they were like, do you count up or count down? But I thought you're always just counting up because you're going, oh, it's the 2nd of December. That was my thought. It was a pointless question. That's what I thought.

But I just wanted to confirm that with you. What person or what child in the history of Christmas has ever gone, I'll start at 25 and work my way back to 1? It's very confusing, right? Well, yeah. Because you're working your way back to the 1st of December. Yeah. So let's say...

Who's this station? Name and shame them. So if you were... Ben, don't splurge. Who was this? Who was this? So if you thought you were going to start... It was Hosking on ZB, wasn't it?

It was Mike Hosking. Stupid, classic Hosking-style question. What way do you count your advent calendar? Let's say you are starting the other way. The way you're not, you know, you don't agree. I don't agree. I'm weirdly aggressively opposed to it. So you would start on the 1st of December with, say, the 24th, the way you're not, you know, you don't agree. I don't agree. I'm weirdly aggressively opposed to it. So you would start on the 1st of December with, say

the 24th or the 25th, and then you'd get very confused by then. You'd be like, the 3rd, oh now I'm up to the 22nd. You know, it'd be very confusing. It would be. Yeah, so I thought it was a silly question, but I just thought I'd raise it now on the podcast to get your thoughts. Last year, my son... It was Coast, by the way, too. Oh, Coast. Coast breakfast.

Yeah. Was that Tony Street? yeah. Was that Tony Street? Yeah. Was that Tony Street? I'm going to have a word to Tony Street in the communal kitchen. Yeah. But do you know what? My son, on the 9th...

Oh, we've got to wrap it up, mate. We've got to wrap it up. All right. We've got someone on the phone. All right. Here's the podcast. We're getting that thing to wrap it up. Enjoy the podcast.

Clark Gayford, first man in New Zealand. Wrap it up, mate. Wrapping it up. He joins us on the show today. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Clark Gafford, he's a TV presenter.

He's also known as the first man of New Zealand with his relationship with Jacinda Ardern, our Prime Minister. And this week on Discovery Channel, you can find Clark's documentary on sharks. It's called Shark Lockdown. It's on this Sunday night. And he joins us in the studio right now. Nice to have you here.

Good morning, Jono and Sienna's dad I'm already getting there I got burnt the other day by my daughter going because someone's like oh you're on TV a bit she's like yeah more than dad

I'm like oh you just like take the compliment she's got bread commercials she's on billboards so anyway I'm here I'm on the hits

I'm talking to you so it's nice to be here talking to you where you need to be Clark this show looks if I can be brutally honest terrifying I know, I know. So anyway, I'm here, I'm on the hits, I'm talking to you. It's nice to be here talking to you. Where you need to be. Clark, this show looks, if I can be brutally honest, terrifying. Explain it. Explain Shark Lockdown.

Well, it was an unusual set of circumstances where coming out of lockdown, there was a real unique opportunity to go down and see what the fish had been up to because a whole lot of boats were off the water and sound actually travels much further underwater than it does on land and the ocean's noisy. What happens, we'd been hearing lots of anecdotal stories, big schools of fish hard on the coast, sharks spotted cruising around mooring boats, all sorts of strange behaviour

that you might not think is normal fish behaviour. So we thought, what are the great whites doing? So you're saying there's more fish, like fish are coming closer to the land and things like that because there's less people out on the water? Yeah, possibly, anecdotally. But it was just lots of stories and we thought, well, what a unique opportunity to go down there

when no boats have been there and see what the sharks have been doing while we weren't looking. Or you could stay at home and not see what the sharks are doing, which I'd probably prefer to do. I'd just be like, the sharks are probably fine. Let's leave them. Now, so you went to Fobo Strait, which is obviously the

land of water between Bluff and Stewart Island. Correct. And these are where all the sharks play, around New Zealand, right? The big ones. There are only a very few great white aggregation points in the world, and down there is one of them. So you went looking for them, and you had something called a snack box?

Yeah. What was that? So my man, Kennethena Skolle, who's a New Zealand Chatham Islands West Coast legend, he's always been fascinated with sharks, and he's made shark documentaries in the past, and he'd been scheming over lockdown, thinking what he could do to really sort of, you know, up the ante and get close to the sharks.

And so a lot of the shark work that we do is, you know, in cages, cages attached to a boat, or perhaps the cage is dropped off the back of the boat and you're down on the ground. You don't want to free swim with the great whites down south. They're quite aggressive. And so he thought, how can I get as natural a response or natural behaviour as possible?

And so he made this one-man shark cage, affectionately called the snack box. He put a couple of little airbags in it and two motorised scooters and essentially just a shell around him and off he went. And this hadn't been tested before, I understand, until you guys were rolling up ready to film. We didn't even know if it would float. Literally, we picked it up. His mate made it and they were passing diagrams back and forth.

His mate made it. He picked it up, threw it on the back of a trailer, put it on his Land Rover, drove it down. We put it on the back of a boat. We went out. We got sharks up to the boat and he goes, right it on his Land Rover, drove it down. We put it on the back of a boat. We went out, we got sharks up to the boat, and he goes, right, we'll see if this works. And so he just goes in,

is it attached to your boat in any way? No. And so the sharks, they come, I saw one photo. There's a massive shark, which almost looks like it's trying to eat the cage. It's pretty much what happened, yeah. And I was in the water at the time. I'd been lowered to the bottom.

So I was sitting in a cage and he was just off me. Now this guy, he was bitten by a great white too, recently you were saying. That's what started Kenner's lifelong fascination. He was a Chatham Islands parwa and crayfish diver. And he was very nearly killed once by them. He got hit down there diving in the water. Never saw it coming.

Oh my goodness. Now what amazes me, Clark, is that you, I've talked to you before, you've gone overseas, obviously, with Jacinda, and you've had security, even walking down the road to get chicken in the middle of the night, and then you go off and you're in the ocean with no one around with great white sharks.

I mean, how do you get that past the security team? Oh, so good, Ben. It was so good. Are they around when you're not with Jacinda? No, they don't care too much about me. They're like, he can go swimming with sharks. As long as Jacinda's not swimming with sharks. They do get a bit jealous.

They're often offering. They're just like, no, he's come along. And Jacinda's all right with that? She hasn't obviously watched this footage. She watched it on Sunday. Were you like, hey, just by the way, I'm going to be spending an entire week swimming with great whites.

Was that an issue? To be fair, I like the juxtaposition because I've been in lockdown with a toddler. Listening to Baby Shark, probably. Listening to Baby Shark and just that contrast of getting on a plane, flying to Invercargill and then straight out into the elements with some big body creatures. I remember once, you know, 49 years ago when I started in radio. Oh, I remember. Eight stations ago, eight radio stations ago.

Eight stations ago. You sat around the wireless transistor with your family. Now, I was sent down for one of my first shameless publicity stunts on The Rock to Foveau Strait, and they were going to tow me across to Stewart Island on a rubber ring, so I was behind a boat, and the waves like... No one filmed this or took photos no one filmed it

I know the cameras were invented then so I think there was a sketch artist drawing a rendition of it charcoal

and we went out for about 20 minutes and the waves I couldn't even see the boat behind the waves so the waves and the guy

even the salty old fisherman with a one leg and an eye patch he's like mate we're turning around, this is bad news. And then I didn't even realise they were shark-infested waters. Yeah.

So, I mean, this is... You had your own little snack box going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Could have been Ben and Ben's show. Sienna and Ben's show. No, Sienna with Ben's show. I'll just be a producer getting copies and stuff.

Now, Clark, you're not only swimming with sharks, have you also done some other unusual things, like having a meeting with the Queen, a private meeting? That was just another one of those moments where, you know, you grow up in Gisborne on a small farm right in the back blocks and then you go, wow, I'm sitting in a room with the Queen. Just the three of you, wasn't it? Just the three of us.

And the Queen. It's quite a lovely sort of procedure. So we went over for, it was all the Commonwealth heads of state went in, and the Queen granted audience with about two of them, I think the new leader of South Africa and Jacinda, and plus one, tags along. Awkwardly. Yeah, mate.

Awkwardly. Can I come? And it was really nice. You go in and her sort of guards-in-waiting talk you through the procedure of, you know, how to address a queen and how to, you know, enter the room and whatnot. You go in and there's quite a few people there.

There's about three photographers and you have a New Zealand press person as well and a few other people. And so you do your meet and greet and then she makes a little gesture and everyone leaves. Everyone leaves the room. Oh, really? And they shut the door behind you and you go, wow and greet, and then she makes a little gesture, and everyone leaves. Everyone leaves the room. Oh, really?

And they shut the door behind you, and you go, wow. And then she goes, would you like a seat on the couch? And you go, okay, yep. Wow. Yeah. What's your light banter like with the Queen? I mean, what did you have to lead with? Just all I could think of was my grandmother had passed away

a couple of years earlier, and all I could think of was, you know, man, I'm thinking of all of the biscuit tins that she had with her picture on it and all of the queen chat she had. So I chatted about my nana. You're like, oh, she's my nana, big fan, big fan of you. You know what? The one thing I will say is that she was very engaged in New Zealand affairs, and she knew details about things that really, really surprised me.

Wow. That's impressive. She's like a big fan of your show. Not quite those days, though. That's incredible. And you also get sent stuff, which I find is awesome. The New Zealand public send you and Jacinda all sorts of stuff, which is great. And you guys often will use it like a pillowcase I saw the other day,

which had Jacinda's face on it. Yeah, yeah. It's a way to get to bed at night. Yeah, all sorts of things. It's lovely that people do that. They take the time to do that. I kind of regret not better documenting it, but I was truly blown away by the level and quality of knitting that we have here in New Zealand.

Because when Niamh was born, you name it, it turned up knitted. You know, from jumpers and vests and pants, and I'm not quite sure what that is, and blankets. Someone even knitted her, I think two people knitted her, red band gumboots, like knitted them. Knitted gumboots? Knitted red band gumboots with a little red in the black trim. It was amazing.

A shout out to New Zealand's knitting community. Oh, yeah. Just epic. Is there anything you need now sent to you? Because you can get the message out. Anything else knitted or are're pretty good for now? I'm just doing my work. How good would a knitted onesie be?

Oh, what? It's out there. The challenge is out there. The knitters of New Zealand. Clark Ape with us. His new show is on Discovery this weekend. A documentary this Sunday night called Shark Lockdown. I have to bring this up.

I saw you talking about a wedding. Everyone's asking you about a wedding. Are you getting sick about talking about that? No, you're only about the second person to ask me directly. It's just talking about a wedding. Everyone's asking you about a wedding. Are you getting sick about talking about that? No, you're only about the second person to ask me directly. It's just everyone writes about it and no one actually asks.

Oh, right, yeah, because you're like, it's on the cards. But I mean, you've had a heck of a year, a busy year, obviously, with everything going on in both your lives.

Yeah, and that's exactly what happened. It was just like, this is a bit much, isn't it? We don't want to be greedy. Let's just, you know, let's just chill out for just a bit.

I mean, that's the thing. As soon as you get engaged, it's like, when's the wedding? When's the wedding? When's the wedding? And that's just for your average just a bit. I mean, that's the thing. As soon as you get engaged, it's like, when's the wedding, when's the wedding, when's the wedding? And that's just for your average schmuck like me, let alone you guys. You must be getting the acid put on from every second person.

Well, it's just, you know, it's sorting out the guest list. Yeah. Hey, Jono. Hey, mate. How you going? Is Sienna coming? Sienna's definitely coming.

Great, great. We need a couple of MCs. Jeremy Wells and Hilary Barrett Quite good So I could probably recommend them You two would be great wedding DJs actually I see you back DJing again Explore too

You're out of retirement is it? Or you're still not Officially retired Well you know We can't get any international acts In the country And they were scraping the barrel And it truly is one of the best festivals

In the country It's really kid friendly Actually that festival Okay It's a great place to take your kids if you want to have this sort of complete crazy wild experience. I can be honest with you, I took my children to Rhythm and Vibes last year.

What? What a wonderful... Not quite. It's highly different. I gave a shark lockdown on this Sunday. Discovery, 7.30. Get around. It looks like a great, fascinating doco.

Nice to see you. Thanks, boys. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It looks like a great, fascinating doco. Nice to see you. Thanks, boys. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday, we were talking about Skinny, who are friends of the show, but they've got a new ad on TV,

and this is at the end of their ad. Israel Dag announces rap career under the name Lil Dag. What the? Endless data weekends. Get free endless data every weekend. So, yeah, I mean, they've got a great campaign, the Endless Data Weekends, all through the summer, which is great.

You get two gigs of max speed data and then Endless Data after that. Yeah, for Skinny Cubs, every weekend of summer that's on, yeah. Yeah, if you've got a plan of $16 above, you get that. Now, that was the ad that was on TV last night, and we were wondering, is Israel Dagg, former All Black,

seriously considering launching a rap career in 2020? Because he put quite a cryptic message on his Instagram account. What did he say? Not really denying. He was just like, what do you think, basically, about this? Oh, yeah. No, it's always good when you throw stuff out to the internet, questions like that.

Yeah. Isn't it? You know, what do you guys think? And then you end up with a boat named Boaty McBoatface. Yeah. Don't you? The always reliable internet. But he's rapped before.

The New Zealand Safety video. He did a good job on that, didn't he? They did two whole verses on how to join your seatbelt together. Not just watching it before, we're like, jeez, if you're on a plane. Our friend Guy Williams is always like, if you don't know how to put a seatbelt on on a plane, how on earth did you get on the plane?

How did you even manage to book tickets? You can't click a seat. Get through the door, drive down, all those things. Ask the person next to you. They've been around for a while. Surely they can leave that out of the safety. Do you land and you're like, I can't get out of my seat. Something's holding me in.

What is it? You just need to unbuckle the strap. If only there was a video that taught me this at the beginning of the flight. But anyway, we're not here to talk about seatbelt safety. We're talking about Israel Dag's rap career. We want to phone him. Yeah, let's give him a call, eh? See if this is A, happening, and B, if we

can maybe pitch him a couple of ideas for his musical career. Hello? Hello Lil Dag speaking. Izzy, Izzy, Izzy. Oi, oi, oi. Izzy, listen, rumours that there's a rap career launching a bit of a dog leg in your professional life, but who's to say you can't?

Mate, that's the thing, it's 2020. This has been one hell of a year. So for me, anything can happen this year, mate. Oh, so you're not ruling it out. You're leaving us guessing. Oh, I'm not going to say yes. I'm going to say no, mate. It's 2020.

Look, we've had a pandemic. Why not? Right, OK. Let's have a rapdemic. Is that a... No, that doesn't quite work, does it? We want to come on creatively, on a creative level.

Yeah. If we can pitch you some ideas. If you want a credibility and then to have no credibility, then get us on board because that's what you'd get, right? Are you thinking like a Lil B, Lil J collaboration?

Lil B, Lil J can come out. We've got some at the moment. There may be... I don't think we're ready to pitch. Are we ready. We've got some at the moment. There may be some. I don't think we're ready to pitch. Are we ready? I've got a couple to pitch. Oh, okay.

John, you pitch. You pitch. This is a bit of a pitch session. Okay. There may be some plagiarism slash copyright infringement issues with these, but okay, here we go. Izzy, Izzy, Izzy, can't you see? Sometimes your words just hypnotise me.

I mean, that's just one. That's one, that's one. As you say, you've taken someone else's, you've sampled someone else's work, but that's fine. And you sing along too, babe. Okay, here we go. Snoop, Daggy, Dag. The Daggy.

Just spitballing here. Just seeing some ideas for you Yeah if you need some Yeah Yeah Yeah Oh boy Do you know what

I actually I actually I actually use my dad Quite a bit When I'm out and about Yeah Okay so What we

Listen the reason for our call Is we'd love to have A verse Yeah Yeah we're friends with Skinny We feel like you know This has come from A skinny thing friends with Skinny. We feel like, you know, this has come from a Skinny thing. You know, Skinny, yeah, well, maybe we could be part of something. So we thought maybe we could make something and play it to you

and see if you could let us be on your album. Yeah, I reckon you boys just come up with some little bit of magic. You know, you've started, okay. You've started with a little bit of magic, and I'll speak to my manager, and we'll go from there. Izzy, love your work, mate. Okay, we'll pitch something, we'll speak to my manager and we'll go from there. Izzy, love your work, mate. And we'll, okay, we'll pitch something,

we'll get something ready and we'll play it to you on Friday. All good, lads. I look forward to it. All right, all right, Izzy. Nice talking to you, buddy. Live bag out. Like starting your day

without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Now, kids these days, they're getting too smart. They're getting too, they're too good on the social media. They're too professional. Yeah.

Computers and all that sort of stuff. You know, because, especially during lockdown, I guess this year, you know, kids had to learn how to deal with Zoom and my kids also learnt about Google Docs

and they've been actually using it for a while. You know, when you have, you save all your stuff basically on like a cloud system on the Google, on the Google Drive, right? Yeah, you loosely explained it.

You save yourself on the cloud system that everyone knows about. It's like a cloud system, but it's done through Google. It's a drive. So you can all work on the same document. Yeah. You can share it with other people as well. So my daughters, particularly Indy, who's eight years old, you know, it's birthdays are the big thing.

Probably the same in your house. They like rhythm and vines. As soon as one's done, they're planning the next year. They're already on to the next one. The runway seems to get longer and longer and longer for the birthdays, doesn't it? Yeah, the planning. And it goes to extreme levels too.

You're talking about, I know Sienna's birthday's in November. You're planning Feb. Oh yeah, totally. Come Waitangi Day, that's when you start the planning. Bigger than bloody old Zuru's party on the weekend. Yeah, true. Saw that in the paper. That wasn't a scratch on Sienna Boyce's extravaganza.

Indy is also, for her birthday, which is in a couple of weeks, she's made a Google Doc of potential things. She's had me in on it that she would like, you know, or if I'm looking for something to buy her, these are some options. Indy is just the most organised child I've ever met. She also files his tax returns, plays the monthly bills for the household as well, doesn't she?

Yeah. She's looking after your mortgage repayments. Yeah, yeah. She's got it all covered. She's got me a really good interest rate on that as well. But we went and saw Santa in the weekend, took her along and I was like, oh, you should go see Santa. And Santa, you know, he goes rate on that as well. But we went and saw Santa in the weekend, took her along, and I was like, oh, you should go see Santa. And Santa, you know, he goes through the light banter.

You know, he goes through the talk of what do you want for Christmas? What do you want? And I thought, oh, look at India. I was like, what's your answer to me? And she was like, well, I've got a Google Doc. And he was kind of like, what? You know, expecting like a kid to say, I don't know, LOL doll or a toy or something like that.

She's like, yeah, I've got a Google Doc. I could cheer you in on the Google Doc. What's your email? Sclause52 at gmail.com. Meaning there was other 51 S clauses who got to it before him. You've got to see Santa's looking like, what? You've got a, like, what do you offer? You've got a Google Doc?

He's like, yeah, she's got a Google Doc of some potential presents. We could cheer you in on it. If you've got your email, we can send it through to Santa. I mean, he does need to move with the times. His system's the only thing keeping New Zealand Post in business, really. And, you know, he's getting older. You know, he's reaching Biden territory, Santa. You know, isn't he?

And we expect that we just sit on his knee, list off 53 items, and he's meant to remember them all? Remember them all. A lot of pressure on an elderly gentleman. So maybe he should look at incorporating the Google Docs system. Do you reckon who's got a longer term left in them? You know, Biden or Santa? I mean, Santa, he keeps going, doesn't he?

He's written out a couple of terms, Santa, isn't he? He's done well. I thought he was going to, I didn't know if he was going to make it through the 2010 Christmas, but he's still kicking on. He's back there again. There's a lot to be said. So there we go. Who's going to live longer, Biden or Santa?

Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. We've started a new game that we're playing on the radio. And this game is literally the most ludicrous thing I've been a part of. And I'm on a show with dogs

running a novelty agility course. But this has really set a whole new bar. I don't know whether it's higher or lower, Ben, but it's where we ambush people on the phone and start singing happy birthday to them, knowing very well that it's not their birthday. Yeah, we're just calling numbers at random, singing them a song,

and we'll see how long we can go until they stop us. It's a little game to see how quickly they stop us. Yesterday we tried it for the first time, and some people just get caught up in the song. Yeah, they enjoy the song. You know, it brings them to a happy place when it maybe is their birthday. And it brings us a lot of joy.

It brings me more joy singing happy birthday to someone whose birthday it isn't than having to sing it to someone else. Definitely. Because the confusion. The confusion you get a lot of joy out of. So as soon as we start the first note, that's when the timer kicks off.

And the current record is 10 seconds yesterday, the time to beat. Jason speaking. Oh, is that Jason? Yes. The one and only Jason. Hi. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday, dear Jason. Happy birthday to you. You know what we want now, Jason. Hip, hip. Hooray. Hip, hip. Hooray. Thank you.

All right. Happy birthday. How's your birthday? It was good. Yeah? What have you been getting up to? That was, yeah, a couple of Saturdays ago. Oh!

Have we got the wrong day? That was good. That was 15 seconds on the clock. Jason, it's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station here. Oh, thank you. How are you? Very good. We play a game called the Happy Birthday Game

where we sing happy birthday to people and it's not their birthday and the timer starts for you to tell us it's not your birthday. And you're on 15 seconds. Well done. Thank you. Yeah, I like your singing.

What can I say? I like your singing. We like you, Jason. You're on the line. Even though it's not your birthday, you've had it. We're going to send you out a prize, all right? Hold the line. All right, thank you.

Don't go after yourself, Jase. Yes, we'll do. Likewise, you too. See you, mate. I imagine there's a split second where you think, have I forgotten my birthday? Have I got the date mixed up? Okay, so 15 seconds.

Can this next person beat Jason? Hello? Hello? Yes. Who's that? It's Nicky. Nicky. Oh, it's Nicky. Happy birthday to you. What's that? Happy birthday to you.

Eh? Happy birthday, dear Nicky. Who is this? Happy birthday to you. Now, Nicky, give us a hip-hip. Hooray. Hip-hip. Hooray.

I'm at work, guys. Oh, you're at work. Oh, sorry. Happy birthday, Nicky. Happy birthday, Nicky. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's all right.

What am I speaking with? It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. Oh, my God. It's all right. Who am I speaking with? It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We just thought we'd wish you a happy birthday. Are you having a great day? Oh, my God.

I love you guys. I love you. It's a great day. It's crazy at work, but I absolutely love you guys. And your daughter's adorable. Oh, yes. Is it actually your birthday, Nikki? Yes, it is.

Oh, no way. Oh, it doesn't know that. Is it? How the hell did you know that? We didn't. How did you know that? We just do a silly game where we phone up and call people and sing happy birthday to them,

but it turns out it's your actual birthday. It is. Oh, my God. Is this for real? Or are you just doing my thing as usual? It's for real. It's for real. We didn't know it was your birthday.

Well, happy birthday. We want to send you out something then because it's your birthday, right? Oh, my God. Thank you, guys. It's amazing. I love you. I love you. Oh, Nikki, you're awesome.

I have to work. You guys make quite a bit, so it's awesome. I love you, Nikki. Love you, Nikki. And this has been a very suspicious sounding phone call. We're all very quiet. We're quiet. Okay, so you hold the line.

What's going on? We'll send you out something. Happy birthday, Nicky. Thank you. Well, there's a turnout for the books. Yeah. Egg on our face. It was a birthday.

Oh, my goodness. Happy birthday, Nicky. That was the happy birthday game. Next. Will it be back? Who knows? We seem to have clocked it with someone's birthday, but we'll find out. Well, we're desperate, Ben.

You know how much we need to do every day. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. I had this tooth issue at the back of my mouth here. And over the last couple of months, you know, it's slowly started to get worse and worse. But like a noise in my car, I just choose to ignore it

and turn the radio up louder so you can't hear it, you know. But eventually your teeth, they win, don't they? Yeah, they do. The teeth pain. And so I went to the supermarket yesterday and I was like, I've officially got the oral issues of an 80-year-old now because I went and purchased some bloody Sensodyne.

Sensodyne. I'm like, am I now buying Sensodyne? Did you also get some quickies and some Weathers Originals? No, but I got Macintoshes. And some expired Oddfellows to give to the local neighbourhood children when they pop over. But I also picked up some Gaviscon. You did.

So I've got a mouth of an 80-year-old, a digestive system of a 93-year-old, and two embarrassing products that you never want to be. You know, I hit them under other things in my basket. So you couldn't see. Like, I would have been more comfortable buying pornography. I would have happily had that under something. Just some pornography as you went up to the counter.

I hit the Sensodyne under a Playboy magazine because it was less embarrassing. Have you got products that you use and you're like, oh, jeez, this is well beyond my years. Well, actually, I was looking yesterday under a Playboy magazine because it was less embarrassing. Have you got products that you use and you're like, oh, jeez, this is well beyond my years? Well, actually, I was looking yesterday because I thought you were saying you were going to mention about this and I thought, I found there's a Quizly.

You've got an old person quiz. Are you older than you actually are? So I thought I'd throw some of these back at you. Okay, go for it. Just things to work out, are you actually older? Are you more of an older soul than you are? Now, this is like the NCEA exams, isn't it?

Yeah. Okay, so you bought Sensodyne, so there's a tick. Do you is like the NCEA exams, isn't it? Yeah. Okay, so you bought Sensodyne, so there's a tick. Do you wake up before 7 a.m. on the weekends? Yes. So, so go on. Do you have a favourite mug? Yes, I do. I do have a favourite mug.

I use the same one every day. Do you read the newspaper or magazines? No. Okay, New Zealand Herald not to have that. Oh, no, yes, I do every morning. Yeah. Do you use a physical wall calendar? I do have one in the kitchen.

Oh, you do? Yeah. Well, you need to keep track of the days and what events you have planned. Do you own a pair of slippers? Yes. Okay. Do you not go to places because they're too loud? Yes.

Do you like to sometimes take a nap? Yes, I do. And do you leave voicemails on other people's phones? Yes, I do. Okay, well, I think we know the answer. Do I pass with flying colours? Well, you definitely pass. And I want to go outside and hose the noisy skateboarders.

Tell them they're ratbags, the vaping skateboarders. So there you go. Just as I suspected, you pass with flying colours. All right, well, can you rub my bunions during this ad break? Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy, the what's up by

doco.nz. Uh-oh, is that an eclipse? No, no, it's just Juliet throwing some shade at your favourite celebrities. With Spy Entertainment News. Hey, don't go, oh god, do you know how many of these I've done? Sorry, I know.

The barrel is getting very thick. No, I do appreciate it. My nails are just starting to scrape the bottom of that barrel, Juju. You've got a very creative brain for cleaning up all of these. You really do. When you start to reference eclipses, you've really reached the end. They're good, they're good. Now, The Crown is obviously one of the biggest shows on Netflix at the moment.

It seems like everybody is watching it. But Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, has spoken out about it. And he said that the producers of The Crown asked him if they could film at Princess Diana and the family's sort of ancestral home as the set of the series. And he was like, obviously not. And the reason he gave for it was because he knew that it would be, the series would kind of be fabricated and there'd be some layers of fiction to it. And he didn't want the setting to almost make it feel like it was real. Right, oh yeah.

So he didn't want his family home involved in something that may be fabricated in the final result. I get that. Have you seen the Princess Diana version of The Crown? I know you're a big fan of The Crown, Ben. I haven't watched the latest series of it. It's very good, though. Everyone talks about it, right?

My wife's watching it overnight, and she watches TV overnight while we're sleeping, and it plays. I'm subliminally digesting The Crown. I wake up and get little pockets of it. But he should have taken up that deal. Friends of ours let New World film their hedge

for a commercial. Got five grand. Five grand? Yeah. Wow. They shouldn't have just told us and filmed it. We would never have.

A hedge is a hedge is a hedge. You're never going to recognise that, yeah? Oh, wow. So I tell you what, he could have got a cheeky 5K

for letting the crown film in his house. Yeah, cash in on that, baby. Did you watch The Crown, are you? Oh, wow. So I tell you what, he could have got a cheeky 5K for letting The Crown film in his house. Yeah, cash in on that, baby. Yeah. Did you watch The Crown, Juliette? No, but I really, really, really need to start.

I really do. Because you're a big royal fan, right? I'm a big royal fan, but I'm just terrible at watching things. I just always fall asleep. We mentioned it earlier

that Netflix have now said they had to put it and say it's actually, you know, it's based on real events, but it's not a historical documentary. No.

So be around getting the history lessons from The Crown. I mean, obviously, there's all the stuff real events, but it's not a historical documentary. He's a very around getting the history lessons from the Crown. I mean, obviously there's all the stuff that happened, but they don't know what happened in conversations. And there's a little bit of editorial license. Well, actually, you took a little bit of editorial license when you told me the theme song was the Crown lift song. Have you not seen the song?

That's what it's from. And then I watched it for the first time the other night, and I was like, he lied to me. It's not sponsored by Crown Forklifts. You did not see the scene with the queens out in the fork truck. Some wonderful integration. Can we get a forklift in this scene? It's the 1950s.

Yeah, just get one of them, mate. There is nothing like it. And that is Spy, my friends. For more, you can check out the hits.co.nz. Princey's die wasn't being chased by the paparazzi. She'd been chased by the crown forklift. Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Yesterday, a harrowing tale. The two of us, we thought we were going to get stuck in a lift. Yeah, we did. It's the lift stop. We're with another guy. And, you know, as soon as the lift stops, you, like, look around and go, when are we going to hook up?

That's the first thing that comes into your head. And then, unfortunately, the lift started after 20 seconds or so. Yeah, but in that moment, it was only probably, you're right, 20 seconds, but it feels like a lot longer because you start going, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, is this going to be it for however long? And then that started back going again. You're like, oh, but lifts are, like, I think they're just very tight personal spaces, aren't they? And you don't want to be stuck in a lift

with a complete stranger for any longer than a minute. Even a minute's journey in a lift feels like 15 minutes with a stranger. It can be quite awkward conversation. You're no one saying anything. Yeah. And everyone thinks you're weird if you try and spark up conversation in a lift.

And then when it gets too packed, you're like, where do I stand? Which way do I look? All those sort of things. But I thought this morning, let's throw it out there, has anyone actually been stuck in a lift for a longer period of time? Juju, you've been stuck in a lift? I don't think that I can recall, but gosh, I've definitely had dreams about it,

and that's just traumatising. It makes me not want to go in lifts. You'd be quite had if you were stuck in a lift with Juju. She's quite nimble. You could biff her through the roof. You know, and you can climb the wires and get us to safety. So 800 the Hudson. Have you been stuck in a lift?

We'll go to Tauranga Kelly. You're on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Morning, guys. Morning to you. You were stuck for how long? An hour and a half. Ooh, that's a good record.

What were you doing? Going to work. Obviously trying to get from one level to another. Silly question from me. What happens in that situation? Do you have to use that? I always wanted to use the little phone that they have in there. Where does the phone go to?

Yeah. Well, it kind of rang a couple of times, and then a guy answered. It sounded like he was still asleep. It was like quarter past seven in the morning. Yeah. Lift hotline. He said, I'll be there in half an hour. Hour and a half later,

finally managed to get out. Oh, so it was just you in there or other people? No, it was just me. What do you do to pass the time, Kel? Unfortunately, social media. Oh, you were talking about that just before. Juliet's cut her social media down to two hours a day now. Two hours a day.

Oh, no, two and a half hours. Yeah, two and a half. Two and a half hours a day. So this is like, Kelly was stuck in a lift for one and a day now. Two hours a day. Oh, no, two and a half hours. Two and a half. Two and a half hours a day. So this is like, Kelly was stuck in a lift for one and a half hours. That wouldn't even justify your whole day's social media juju.

No, gosh. Leave me in here longer. I've got another hour to go. Hey, good on you. Did you think you were going to die, Kelly? No, but I was worried I was going to miss the whole day of work. Oh, yeah, true.

I mean, I imagine the walls cave in. It would become quite a tiny space eventually, wouldn't it? Yeah, it doesn't help when you're claustrophobic. And so the technician came along and what happened? Had to pry the doors open. And did you climb up onto the level, did you? No, he managed to get it up to be level with the floor. Oh, there we go.

There we go. How many levels were you travelling out of interest? Just one. Oh, there we go. Yeah, next time you're like, oh, the stairs. How many times were you like, why didn't I just take the stairs? Just once. I got on your...

It was my option because I twisted both of my ankles. Oh, I got with it. Fair enough. I take that back. I take back that mocking. You had a very valid reason. Now, hold the line. We're going to send you out a prize, all right?

Thank you. You and your twisty ankles. Have a lovely Tuesday, Kelly. Let's head to Invercargill. Charlotte, what happened? So I was stranded at the Invercargill, yeah, at the hospital in the lift, and I was stuck in there for about half an hour, 40 minutes,

and I was with a guy who had been in the war. He kept telling me the war and the trenches were much worse than getting stuck in the lift. So he's putting his perspective for you. He's like, you think this is bad? He's putting his perspective, but it doesn't come into perspective for me. And we tried bringing the button. We were out of South Island Reserve Service in the lift. It was absolutely terrifying.

And all of a sudden We tried pushing the button To try and talk to someone It was quite late at night Like maybe nine And no one answered And all of a sudden It just started shuddering

After a while It started moving Doors opened at the next door Oh Did you think it was going to collapse Or something? Yeah I was terrified

I didn't know what was happening I couldn't get a hold of anyone And the guy was like We'll be fine We'll be fine He's like Yeah it was going to collapse or something? Yeah. I was terrified. I didn't know what was happening. I couldn't get a hold of anyone. And the lift guy was like, we'll be fine. We'll be fine. He's like, yeah, it was better. And I turned to the trenches. They were telling me about the trenches. Yeah.

And I imagine they would have been. But yeah, jeez. So that's still a scary experience for you. Yeah, it was pretty rough. Yeah, it is. Oh, that's my worst nightmare, getting trapped in a lift. Yeah, and especially with someone you don't know, right? Or with Jono.

Getting trapped with Jono. Yeah, no one wants to be trapped in a lift with me. And it with someone you don't know, right? Or with Jono. Getting trapped with Jono. Yeah, no one wants to be trapped in a lift with me and it's probably everyone else's worst nightmare too. But I imagine the space gets smaller and smaller and smaller.

Yes, it does and it kind of, the lights are still on and it's still working but I think it just malfunctioned. A friend of ours actually got trapped in a lift with Russell Crowe,

famous actor. And Russell Crowe is at a radio station, and he was getting him to bring him upstairs. And Russell Crowe thought it was a prank. Yeah, Russell Crowe's like, all right, mate, enough of this now. And then Rusty got quite aggressive. We've seen what Rusty can do with a phone. Imagine what he can do with an elevator.

But, friend, once he realised it wasn't a prank, he was like, he was a lovely guy. They had a good conversation. They sat down on the floor and yawned for a bit. Yeah, yeah. Charlotte, hey, thank you so much for your contribution this morning. Thank you. You go and look after him for Cargill for us, okay?

You so well. All right. Hold the line. We're going to get you a prize, all right? So sweet. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, you guys often give me grief because I'm an adult with a Velcro wallet. Yeah.

No, that's the sound of his virginity just still remaining. Still remaining miraculously. But then as soon as you bought the wallet, they made him a virgin again legally. It's a colour changing wallet too.

It changes colour as well. That's maybe how the Virgin Mary did it. They're like, how did you get rid of it? I don't know. Well, here's a Velcro wallet and you're really, miraculously, you're back to base number one again. So you do give me a bit of grief. But yesterday I was like, the wallet was getting too bulky. I was wearing a tighter pair of jeans and I was like,

well, it's all just wallet. Yeah, and it was pushing the Velcro to its absolute extreme limits. So I tried to cull it down, but I've still got a lot of loyalty cards that I've just, I just can't, I've culled some. Did you have a cull yesterday? Yeah, but I've still got quite a few in the wallet. Yeah, well, I'm looking at them. There is a giant pile still in your hands.

Mustn't have been much of a cull. How many cards did you lose? I lost about three or four, but I've still got a few more in there, you know. He's too loyal to the loyalty cards. He can't throw them out. Okay, 0800, I want to have a bit of a competition here with Ben Boyce.

We won't tell you how many he's got. I don't actually know. I can just see a giant mound of them in front of me. If you think you have the most amount of loyalty cards in Aotearoa, 0800. In your wallet, in your purse, in whatever you're carrying around, yeah. And you can go one for one. You know, it'd be like. I'll go, yeah, it's a countdown card.

Yeah, and then I'd come back with a legitimate massage, 10 for one. And then I'll go Archie Brothers arcade card, and then I'd come back with legitimate massage, 10 for 1. And then I'll go, Archie Brothers arcade card. And then I'd come back with illegitimate massage. Yeah, yeah. You know, things like that. That's how the game would work. With less massage, loyalty cards. So we're playing right now the loyalty card game.

Ben, in amongst experiencing a raft of emotions in a movie theater last night, cleared out his loyalty cards. Too many on the go, you said? Yeah, too many. And I tried to get my Smiggle Velcro wallet down a bit, but it's still quite bulky. I feel like I've got too many now. Someone's just texted saying StoCard is an app

that you can get on your phone and you just scan the cards and they're all in one convenient place. And therefore you wouldn't need a wallet of a seven year old child. If you just got Sto card my friend. So we wanted to play the loyalty card. Well I don't even

know what this thing was called. You basically go one for one if you think you've got more loyalty cards than Ben Boyce. We'll head to Te Puki. Rene, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Hey man, how you going? We're doing well bud. Moreno to you and we're going to go one for one. Ben, you can kick it off.

It's your home turf. Okay, home turf. Home turf. Okay, I'll go the countdown one card. Here we go. One. There we go. Rene, what do you got?

Super cheap auto club class card. Okay, I'll go Archie Brothers arcade card. Classic Flyers NZ card. What's a classic flyer? It's a cafe. Okay, there we go. I've got a Cotton On and Co. Per NZ card. What's a Classic Flyer? It's a cafe. Okay, there we go. I've got a Cotton On and Co. Perks card. I've got a Doug Jarvis Traditional Butcher card.

I've got a Smiles Mobile Rewards card. I've got a Shoebox Key Cutting and Shoe Review card. He really got there. I've got a Starbucks card with nine out of ten coffee stamped. I've got a Sierra coffee card. Oh, I see your coffee card. Nice work. We've got a Wickels reward card.

I have a Cafe Antolia authentic Turkish circus card. How many cafes do you go to? Just pick up a card everywhere you go. I've got a Perkus card. How many cafes do you go to? Just pick up a card everywhere you go. I've got a time zone card. I have a to-go real coffee card. I've got a neato card.

I have a fixed loyalty card. I've got a Sapiens sushi card with a free sushi available. There you go. I have a mobile smiles card. I've got a game on player card. I have the foundry burger bear plenty card.

And I have no more cards. He's out. Are you still going, Rene? I sure am. Rattle them off. How many more cards have you got in your wallet? I've got the wholesome special groceries bin in card. I've got the Bunnings Power Pass card. I have another Mobile Smiles card and a BP Mega Wash card.

How big is your wallet? I buy the Airpoints and another Bunnings card. Oh, my God. Well done. He wanders around with 29 kgs with the cards in his pockets. No one's more loyal than Rene. Oh, my goodness. Oh, well, you've beaten Ben, the most loyal person in Altair

with his loyalty cards. Thanks for listening, Rene. I appreciate it. Cheers, Ben. Hold the line, mate. We're going to figure out a Hell Pizza voucher as well. Hopefully, you can carry that

around in your wallet as well and go spend it at Hell Pizza. We really appreciate you listening. All right? Cheers, Ben. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the H. The A to Z of New Zealand.

A little something we started at the start of the year and it's going to take us over two years to complete. We're calling every town and city in New Zealand. We call one a day. We do it alphabetically. We had a meeting with our boss Todd yesterday. He's like, so how long is this thing going for? You know that, don't you?

Yeah, and you know when Todd says, so how long is this thing going for? He's like, is it going on too long? Well, we've started this and we ain't stopping. You're right. Once old J&B starts something, they refuse to stop. Unless it gets cancelled like our TV show. Well, then we've got no option.

But today, Kaikohe, which is located in the far north, 263 kilometres from Auckland. It's the largest and highest community above sea level in Northland, did you know? Population of 4,000 people, it's where your car. If it doesn't have rust on it, it's not going to get a warrant of fitness. It's a town where you know everyone's first name and coincidentally all of their first names are mate or bro. Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange lived in Kaikohe. Did you realise that?

And did you know that Winston Peters' brother, Jim Peters, lives in Kaikohe? No, I didn't know that. Well, you do now. And did you know that Christian Hiroai, the winner of the Unicycling World Championships, lives in Kaikohe? No. I tell you what, it's a lot of talent bursting at the seams. We're going to go through to the local bakery right now. Hiroian Spies, Brooke speaking.

Hi, Brooke, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Lovely to hear your dulcet tones on the phone this time of morning, Brooke. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. Oh, hello. Have we got hold of Lens Pies and or Hot Bread Shop? Yes, you have.

How are the pies? How's the bread? Is it hot? It's Pies and or Hot Bread Shop? Yes, you have. How are the pies? How's the bread? Is it hot? It's all delicious and good. Nothing better than some nice warm bread, isn't there? Yeah, fresh bread. Oh, I don't need to tell you about it. You work at a bread shop.

Brooke, we're phoning every town in New Zealand, and it's Kaikōhi's turn. Oh, is that right? Yeah, we do one a day, did you realise? Oh, I didn't know. That's awesome. So, you know, well, it's costing us a fortune in tolkoons. Yeah, and it's quite expensive.

But we'd like to learn about the place, so what can you tell us about it? What can I tell you about Kaikohe? Wow. It's an amazing little town, and we have our Honeheke Monument, which is where we got our name for our town, named after the kikohe Berries. We have our Leans Pies, obviously, hot breed shop, and then we've got a cute little pioneer village, which has a lot of historical monuments and buildings from around the area. Jeez, you're like talking to, it's like I'm talking to TripAdvisor here.

You know it all. How long have you lived there for? I grew up here. What population are we talking of Kaikōhi? Oh, I'm not sure. Maybe about 5,000. That's a very loud motocross bike. Is that a regular occurrence in Kaikōhi?

Oh, yeah, of course, isn't it? Everywhere. And so how long have you worked at Len's Pies and Hot Bread Shop? Six months. I tell you what I do like, and I can see this on your photos here from the shop. You've got your classic donut with the cream and just the dollop of jam in the middle. Oh, yeah. But you know what really, really gets my goat going, Brooke?

Why? Is when you put it in the bag and then the dollop of jam gets attached to the paper. Oh, you lose your dollop. You lose your dollop. You lose your dollop. No one wants to lose their dollop. That's why when you get right to the end, you use that bottom bit to scoop it up. Oh.

Or you just eat it there and then you don't even put it in a bag. But, yeah. I've ended up licking it off the paper previously. Rip the bag open and lick it. Yeah, now you've got many different donut shapes here too. You've got long, round. No, no, you've just got two shapes. Looks can be deceiving.

Hey, well, this is lovely to meet you. Thanks. And if we ever come your way. Yeah, well, this is lovely to meet you. Thanks. And if we ever come your way. Yeah, pop on in. Pop on. I was just going to say, can we stay the night? I don't know if they'll let you stay in the bakery. Oh, okay.

What time do they start? Otherwise, we might not have any pies left. What time do they start baking in the morning? Is it up and early, up and in? The baker starts the night before. Oh, really? Oh, they go overnight, do they start baking in the morning? Is it up and early? The baker starts the night before. Oh, really? Oh, they go overnight, do they, bakers? Yeah.

We've got a bakery across the road from work. On stop. Oh, yeah, and how good are they? Listen, they're probably not a scratch on Len's pies and hot bread. But they were saying that they do start like sort of 10 o'clock at night and work through. Yeah, quite crazy. When I first started here, I was amazed at the operation here. Yeah, and then you don't appreciate it

when you're biting into a dollop of jam on a cream donut. You don't appreciate it. No, you don't. You moan about jam getting on the bloody paper bag. They've been up all night. I know. I should stop my moaning, Brooke. Well, lovely meeting you.

Nice chatting to you. Yeah, and you look after Kaikohe for us. I will. Get out there and peddle some pies, Brooke. See you, Brooke. We're lovely meeting you. Nice chatting to you. Yeah, and you look after Kaikohe for us. I will. Get out there and peddle some pies, Brooke. Alright, thanks, bye. The A to Z of New Zealand continues again tomorrow as we slowly make our way all around New Zealand.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Just scrolling through your feed. Alright, now to the most respected journalist in the room right now. And he's sitting in a room with a 22-year-old who hasn't slept all weekend and a guy in a Bob Marley

t-shirt, but he's the most respected. Yeah, I'm definitely not a journalist, but this is some of the stuff that's been happening over the last 24 hours. Yesterday, our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, had a phone call with US President-elect Joe Biden. So they had the first conversation after the election. It seemed to be just a really quick call. Apparently, it went on for 20 minutes.

Now, who organises this? Does he just call at random, or is it organised by people? Do you know the details of this? Oh, no, I don't know who was... No, I don't, actually. I don't know which way it's... You'd imagine the US Embassy here would get in touch and say

well I don't know and I don't know why I'm so infatuated with how the call came Who made the move? Or did he just call? Like when your parents call and you're like oh god, daughtery old Joe's going to be on the phone for a while. How long did it last? 20 minutes. 20 minutes?

Yeah, it was meant to be just a really quick call, but they covered off all sorts of stuff, according to Jacinda Ardern. Quite a discussion about his Irish heritage, his views on his experience here in New Zealand, the fact that my grandfather and his uncle served in the Pacific. Oh, they are just an old man rambling. The ramblings of an old man.

I talk at your grandpa. You're like, okay, well, I better go. I'm out of country. Oh, no, you're still going? Okay. Yeah. She probably just had the phone down on speaker while she was working away at the commit. Yep.

Love you too. Okay. Bye. Love you. Yeah. So she has obviously invited him to come down to New Zealand because I think he's going to Australia next year. And she said, come on down.

So we'll see if he makes his way all the way over here, right? What, you're saying like he might not be alive by the time he gets here? No, I mean just you can't make plans in the world the way

it is at the moment. Well, he did come here last year, didn't he? I think it was 2016. Oh yeah, a few years ago so not last year. Yeah. But you know,

travelled around with his family apparently. Yeah. And we spoke to Michelle Dickinson, Nano Girl, who said he hosted her in the big penthouse and they did science experiments all night, him and his family. Yeah, with the grandkids and stuff as well. Yeah.

Yeah, there you go. And now he's doing a 20-minute phone call with his Cinderella dad. Do you think his people are like, Joe, Joe, wrap it up. Oh, we've got stuff at the unit. Well, no, he's probably not president. He's not president yet. No, but he's still in a pretty busy schedule. 90 other countries, you can't spend 20 minutes

with each person. We've got to get through all these countries. Talking about how your granddad was in the war in the Pacific. Yeah, Netflix. Now Netflix has put a warning on The Crown, the TV show The Crown, of course, about the royal family to remind viewers that it's fiction after controversy that

people have like, you what? You've made up some of the dialogue and scenes? Yeah, well it's not after controversy that people are like, you what, you've made up some of the dialogue and scenes? Yeah, well, it's not actually a fact. It's not a documentary, right? They've just created a story. Yeah, the Queen hasn't sat down and written the screenplay to this, but she enjoys the show, doesn't she? Yeah, and I think I was reading yesterday, Harry and Meghan,

they used to watch as well, but now, according to sources, and again, it's according to sources, they're getting quite worried that it's slowly moving up towards them being introduced. Yeah, right. And they've got a deal with Netflix who make The Crown, so it'll be interesting to see who wins that one out, if they've got any sway in stopping

or basically making it look like that. Oh, yeah, it's all great. And everyone's happy with us. Yeah, because they signed a big Netflix deal. Netflix have The Crown, so it'll be interesting to see what happens with the storyline. Oh, those sources.

To be honest, I read they were like, the sources were like, well, Harry and Meghan want the show done before it gets to their walking out of the royal family stage. Those srirachis, those mayonnaise, those sources, they're spilling it. They're spilling it all the time.

They would be nervous, too, to see how it was portrayed, I imagine. Yeah. And this thing, everyone lived happily ever after. Yeah, and Meghan and Harry did a great thing and the world was saved. There is nothing like a crown.

For picking it up and putting it down. That's your Crown News this morning. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. I tell you what, if Kanye West is so much clips a toenail the wrong way, she'll be on him like eczema to someone who suffers skin irritations.

This is Juju with Spy. Thanks so much. Now, can I just quietly say something that we were all probably thinking? Lorde kind of disappeared off the face of the earth a few years ago, right? We don't talk about it. We don't talk about it. Well, she was obviously New Zealand's kind of biggest thing the face of the earth a few years ago, right? We don't talk about it. We don't talk about it. Well, she was obviously New Zealand's kind of biggest thing at the time, and then she kind of didn't really release

any music. And then back in 2018, she disappeared off social media. I think she deleted a bunch of posts, a bunch of tweets. And she still only has three posts on Instagram over the past few years. She needs to get her bloody content up, doesn't she? She wants to get some sweet Fit Tea influencer posts. I want some Fit Tea. You needs to get her bloody content up, doesn't she? She wants to get some sweet Fit Tea influencer posts.

I want some Fit Tea. You need to boost your followers. That's all I thought Instagram was. I'm not on it. Ben's always like, hey man, you tried this Fit Tea? You could lose a couple of inches around your waist, buddy. I've never once hocked off Fit Tea. He's always sliding

these cups over to me. Just try it. Just sip it. Instead of coffee every morning. But she's now explained why she took a step back from social media in 2018. She basically said that it was all the stress that she was feeling. And when you're on social media, you kind of see everything bad happening in the world right in front of your eyes. And she compared it to having front row seats to the hellfire, as you could say. So she saw things, she was stressing about our planet, about racism and police brutality and was like, I just need to take a big break, which is probably good for her mental health

and all that. You can do your head in the social media, right? Oh my God, it really can. And you kind of get a skew. I mean, there are some things really important that people do talk about on social media, don't get me wrong, but there are some things that people really hone in on when you take a step back.

You're like, why am I down this rabbit hole of everything? Last night, I decided to put a, set a two hour a day limit on my social media because I was like,

ah. Two hours a day? Two hours? Just going to go, just do it. I haven't been on the internet for two hours in my entire life. Just two hours a day.

I've been waiting. I'm cutting life. Just two hours a day. I've been waiting. I'm cutting it down to two hours a day. I thought you were going to go two hours a week. It's actually two and a half hours. I think I said it from two hours. But just in the evenings. Two and a half hours in the evenings. Outside of that, yeah.

I'm restricting myself. Between the hours of 6 and 8.30 at night, I'm cutting down to just two and a half hours. Just looking at Instagram. That's all I'm going to do for two hours. This is a big step for me in my life. What were you doing before that? It was a while. Probably about three hours a day. Wow. I know. It was really bad. Cut it down to half

an hour. Well, good on you. Good on you there. Little baby steps, June. Baby steps. It really means a lot to me that you do that stuff. A minute off a day. But it becomes a default, right? Oh, my gosh. It just becomes like a...

It does. Yeah, when you're waiting in line somewhere, when you're sitting at traffic lights while you're driving. You can just look at... The amount of times I mindlessly just click on the Instagram app. I'm like, Juliet, get off it. It becomes a habit. Yeah, you're right.

It really does. It really does. So, you know, I'm following in Lorde's footsteps and limiting my Instagram. Well, no, you know I'm following in Lorde's footsteps and limiting my Instagram well no you're not no don't wait time to get off

social media maybe I should shut up now I mean Lorde's like if you're running a marathon she's finished the marathon you're just

you're warming up for it yeah true no but good on her and I imagine too for her I thought you were going to say good on me no I got on you mate

you're not there she got internationally famous at age, what was it, 16? Yeah. Two. So I imagine she probably just wants to chill for a bit as well. Yeah, have a break and then I'm sure she'll come back with new music. But yeah, you're right. Probably wants to enjoy some time, you know,

things that she didn't get to do when she was travelling the world. When she was recording her album, I remember Joel Little saying that she would turn up to the studio after school in her school uniform. Wow. Recording a number one international album. How crazy is that? That's so cool. And that's fine, my friends. For more, you can check out the hits.co.nz. Wake up and smell

them. Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Give us a call and tell us why today's going to be a good day. We'd love to hear from you before nine o'clock this morning. I'm going to tell you why it's going to be a good day because every day, Ben, you and me, we walk through a bus terminal, don't we, in town, and these buses, they depart and they go all over the country.

Yeah. And every day we walk through, there's always the person doing the bus timetables on the microphone. Have we got that audio, Jujie? So there's someone there going, you know, leaving to Lake Taupo in half an hour. And it's been my dream to jump behind that microphone and read out the bus timetable.

You jump behind a microphone every day. I know, but there's nothing quite like the thrill of... Why do you need another microphone? Jumping behind a microphone. It's not yours to talk. That's right. And there's a level of responsibility involved with it. I mean, you need to tell the times of the buses. People can miss their buses. So today I'm going to go in and ask if I can do it. That's what I'm going to do.

It's a low level dream of mine, but it's achievable. Or maybe it's not if they don't let you do it. Yeah, I know. They'll be worried you're going to do prank announcements. You have to take it seriously. Yeah, no, I will take it seriously. You have to be straight up the middle. I'll just do the timetable. You can record me. I'll go in and ask. And we'll just see if I can live out this dream today. That's why it's going to be a good day for me.

Josh, you're 11 years old. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. Hi. Why is it going to be a good day for you, Josh? Our class is specifically going to Waterwise, so that means we get to sail on Lake Tupuki and we kayak. Oh, that's awesome. Your class specifically gets to go to Waterwise.

Don't you love a classic day off school at your age? So much fun. Christmas has come early for you, Josh. Does that mean no classroom at all today? Yep, because my mum's picking me up early. Yeah. Oh, yeah, and then when you get back to school from the day out, from your field trip.

There's no time for work then, mate. I know, if you get back at sort of 2, 2.20, there's no point in learning then, is there, Josh? No. Oh, Josh, that's awesome. You have a great day, buddy, out there, and we're going to send you out a prize, okay? Thank you.

Hey, no worries. Good on you. We'll go to Christchurch. That sounds like a fun day, doesn't it? That does sound like a fun day. Yeah. Well, we can go sailing on Lake Pupuki if you want, you and me. Yeah, me.

Yeah, we can rent a little boat. I didn't know there was an option. I don't know how to sail. Neither do I. We can sit in a vessel and float around. Okay, that sounds good. Jess, you're on the air. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Thank you. Why is it going to be a good day for you, Jess? It's my anniversary with my boyfriend, so he's taking me out for dinner. Oh, what a gentleman how many years? How many months? Two years. Two years sometimes people celebrate unusual anniversaries they're like it's our

seven and a half month anniversary it's the anniversary of when you first brushed your teeth alongside me in the bathroom but I'm glad you're just celebrating the staples yes. The annual ones. Where are you going for dinner? He's surprising me.

He's like, don't actually know yet. Oh, okay. So he hasn't planned anything. But he's sorting it out today. When you end up in the McDonald's drive-thru at 7.30 tonight. That's always my thing. It's a surprise. I've definitely got something sorted.

And I'm definitely not Googling how to book a reservation now. Well, you have a wonderful anniversary, Jess, and we'll send you some hell pizza vouchers in case you can't get a booking and you can eat that. Good idea. Have a great day, right? Speaking of the month thing as well, I always find it with kids. You always say, oh, they're eight months old or they're 12 months.

When does it get to not month? Why don't we not go, my kid's 1,014 months old? Why don't we suddenly start going to the years? For a while, it's all about the months. But to them, every day is so important, isn't it? Yeah. I'm eight and five quarters. Yeah.

How do five quarters even work? No, I don't know. No, no, they don't. We had something. We lost it anyway. Hey, sometimes you win some in this game, and sometimes you lose some, and then sometimes Juliet just starts playing a song,

so you stop rambling. I had a really fun show today. We talked to Clark Gayford about his documentary about sharks that's on this Sunday night on Discovery Channel, and we've got a couple more people that got a documentary on sharks Sunday night. They're joining us in the studio tomorrow, right? It's almost like there's a week of sharks that they're forming. I think they do like a shark week.

Oh, they do? Yeah, patterns are starting to form. You know, two twins who we've spoken to before who were trapped, naked and afraid, two of the worst things in the world. That was the TV show called Naked and Afraid, right? Yeah, they were trapped in the African wilderness and hunted by hyenas for, what, 20 days.

So they're going to tell us where they were marooned, again naked. I don't know why they have to be naked the whole time, but they were naked again, and they're going to join us on the programme tomorrow. They're trapped in a place called Shark Alley, which doesn't sound like a great place to holiday. Listen, on behalf of Juliet Rothel,

Benjamin Boyce, Producer Humphrey, and Jonathan Pryor, thank you for listening. We've got a couple of seconds left, but we'll see you tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from sex on The Hits.

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