Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - October 16 - PM Jacinda Ardern, Jono's Son Oscar Is Off To High School, We Tried To Make Ben Cry

Episode Date: October 15, 2020

'Twas a big show today! We were joined by PM Jacinda Ardern, and a couple of cameos made an appearance in the interview - her partner Clarke Gayford and Ben's daughter Sienna (who asked her some hard-hitting questions!) Jacinda wasn't the only MP to join us though, Judith Collins from the National party and James Shaw and Marama Davidson from the Greens also joined us on the show. A VERY POLITICAL SHOW! But with two hosts that can't ask any serious political questions! But in amongst the political banter we gave away some All Blacks tickets (a child had to decide whether they won chocolate and an LOL doll, or All Blacks tickets for their parents, it was tense) and Jono had a situation with a note he left in his son's lunchbox today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings, friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. Busy show, busy week in New Zealand right now, because of course the election is tomorrow. There's an All Blacks test this weekend, a Benny concert. Jono, you've got an acupuncture 10.30 Saturday.

Don't let me forget that, New Zealand. But I brought my daughter in Siena this morning and you had to get up pretty early, just before five o'clock to get in here. How are you feeling? Well, I'm better now, but just before I was about to sleep. Yeah, is that tough?

Although you had a little bit. She took a while to wake up. She's like, I'll wake up. And then just before five, because I was leaving quite late to sleep. Yeah, is that tough? Although you had a little bit. She took a while to wake up. She's like, I'll wake up. And then just before five, because I was leaving it quite late to wake her up, she's like, you know when you're trying to wake them up. You're like, Sienna, Sienna, Sienna, it's time for your radio show that you're not getting paid for. Make sure you get up.

And then in the car ride here, you were pretty excited, weren't you? Yeah, I was. But I was like half asleep. You're like, the Sky Tower's amazing in the morning. The novelty of that wears off, doesn't it? It wears off. Day two, you're over that. You're over that.

You're not even looking at the... All you're looking at is the homeless guy huffing glue on the street. I mean, that's all you've got to look to. Wait till Monday morning at 4am. That's the best time of the week, Monday morning at 4am. Yeah, it's my favourite time of the week too. But Sienna, you interviewed the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. I almost screwed up her name there, but that's on the podcast today. As well as that, we interviewed the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. I almost screwed up

her name there but that's on the podcast today. As well as that, we've got some more big tickets to give away. We play a fun little game which involves kids. You know,

I can't see where the microphone bar is right now. I can't see your eyes. I can just see your mouth. You've only got like really space age sunglasses or just a silver bar across your eyes.

You're like a cool superhero from the X-Men. This means nothing to the listening public. No, it's great for us. So enjoy the podcast today. It's a fun one. The soggy cornflakes of radio.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Joined in the studio by the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern. Thanks for your time. Oh, good morning. When you woke up this morning, were you like, oh God, I've got to talk to Jono and Ben on the hits?

No, that was not my first thought. What's your first thought this morning when you woke up? One last day. One last day. Oh my gosh. Because it was busy last night, the debate. Of course, this morning we just saw you on Breakfast TV. You're doing the rounds in the radio station. It's pretty relentless this campaign. It is pretty relentless and I've

never been to so many shopping malls with buying so little in my recent times. A lot of shopping mall visits. So we're doing a couple of those today. It's just a place to talk to people, talk to voters, get out for one last day. I know you do a fantastic job of interacting with the public

and with the voters, but are you like, I'm just sick of hearing everyone's opinions about what we need to do with the country? No, actually, I haven't at all tired from that. People have been really lovely this campaign. That's actually the bit of campaigning I enjoy the most.

That would be my highlight. Selfies in the thousands? I wouldn't put a number on it. I don't know. A few. A few. Have you got a selfie face or do you just... I have this pretty permanent, I don't know, you might have seen it, frozen smile. It's just pretty

static. Non-blinking, quite startled look. When Ben takes a photo he goes like this. He makes a noise. Pull me up on it. I didn't know I was doing it. It's quite awkward in a photo moment because you're all talking and everyone stops. Do you know one of the worst

things I've discovered is how many people have preset their selfie mode to have a countdown. Oh, that's awkward. So they put up your phone and you see it, 10, 9, and you're like, oh my goodness. Oh, we're in for the long haul here. I'm frozen here for another eight seconds. Now, last night you said if Labour didn't win,

that's it, you're done. Is that like when the parents say, I'll turn the car around, don't make me turn the car around? It amazes me how many people are surprised by that. If you lose, you know, politics is pretty brutal. If you don't succeed, you know, more often than not, leaders say, well, okay, the voters say I'm off. I understand.

And you've probably got, listen, post this, you're going to be at the UN, you're going to get your mate. I've got your career map down for you. I have zero plan B. There is no plan B. I've just been focused on, hopefully, being successful this time. Now, the election tomorrow night, what's the plan? Were you watching?

Clark, who's with you right now, last time you cooked fish, I think, and brought it out. Come on in, Clark. Which was the lovely thing. Have you got some fish ready to go tomorrow night? Clark and I have only had two days on the election campaign together. This is one of them. Right.

It's good to have some quality time. Yeah, this is real quality. Just going for the three cups of tea. Yeah, sure. Is there anything you want to say to Jacinda now in front of any relationship? Yeah, that's right. We need to get on with this. Now that we've got this intimate moment holding us.

Actually, thank you very much for this opportunity, Ben. And so you brought up before about needing to supply some fish. Is that what you... Yes, yeah. So that would require me to go fishing. You've struck something. I see. So perhaps I should go fishing tomorrow.

You're going to go fishing tomorrow? Yeah. That is a good, solid idea. We may or may not have been having an argument about whether or not on election day it would be an appropriate use of Clark's time to go fishing. Do you know what her response was? If you get up at five in the morning, you can sleep on the couch tonight. Have you got Niamh all day tomorrow, Jacinda?

Yeah. So we've got Clark's parents up helping us out. And, yep, no, it'll be me and Niamh tomorrow. And your mum missed the debate. Well, you know, that was just a beautiful reminder to me that everyone has got other stuff going on, including my mum. Yeah, well, Trish was at Ferg Burger waiting for a burger, I understand. She was. It was the most amazing text.

Hi, darling. I'm so sorry I missed the debate. I was waiting outside Ferg Burger. Yeah, true. That's worth missing a debate for, isn't it? Everyone has waited at some point outside Ferg Burger. That's true. Now, before you go, I know how busy you are. You've been grilled by a lot of media people over the last few weeks. We've got someone right now

that's going to ask you a couple of quick questions, some hard-hitting questions. He's going to make Mike Hosking look like a pussy cat. It's my daughter, Sienna. Oh, beautiful.

Sienna, what are the questions you need to ask her? Hey, Sienna. She's been out there prepping, I saw. Yeah, we've got some hard-hitting questions here for you, Prime Minister.

Prime Minister, are you ready for some hard hitting questions? I must warn you because Tova O'Brien and John Campbell have got nothing on me. Okay, she's ready to go. Which means she's not going to ask the same question 20 times.

I'm ready. Miss Ardern. Oh, sorry, that's what Judith Collins calls you. Prime Minister. My dad is taking me fishing and it's really boring. Be honest. How bored do you get when Clark takes you fishing? Well, this is all good because Clark's here right now.

You didn't plan for Clark to be sitting here while you asked. I actually enjoy it. I enjoy fishing. I don't get bored, but yeah. What can you promise us kids if you get PM again? How about longer school holidays and more TikTok followers? What about an extra public holiday?

She's doing that. Okay, there we go. Matariki. You're in the Labour Party but will you come to my birthday party? I need someone to make a speech to welcome my friends. Or does public speaking make you a little nervous? I do still get nervous with public speaking, but if I can't

make it on your birthday, how about I send a video? A little welcome message. Good backup. Avoiding the birthday. A couple of questions from my daughter Sienna to Jacinda Ardern. What's your policy on bedtime on a school night? If I go to bed later than I meant to, surely I'm still allowed to read a book for a while

as it's good for my education. Dad? Well, yeah, I know you get into this debate quite a bit actually because it's late but then it's also reading as well. Any good books you can recommend? Judith Collin has a book out. I don't recommend

that for bedtime reading. It's political questions. Very bloody. I think I'm selling my, I'm thinking of selling my dollhouse. Can you guarantee there's not going to be any capital gains tax?

There won't be any capital gains on your dollhouse. Okay, that's okay. And final question for Jacinda Ardern. And finally, I want the scoop in my first interview.

The weed referendum. Which way did you vote? Oh, there we go. There we go. I'd love to give you a scoop, but maybe another time. Maybe another time. There we go. I'd like to give you a scoop, but maybe another time. Thank you so much for putting up with that. Great questions. Thank you for coming in.

And, you know, on a personal note, with Clark being here, which is obviously not planned, how proud are you of Jacinda, mate? I'm just proud that we've got so close to the finish line and she's still standing and still walking and still smiling. It's been some incredibly long, long days. But not just the campaign, like the last three years. He's trying to draw still walking and still smiling. It's been some incredibly long, long days. But not just the campaign, like the last three years.

He's trying to draw out some emotion from you. It's a classic radio play. He's trying to get a tear. He wants to click my head like Clark David cries. I'm surprised we don't have any sort of emotional music building slowly in the background. Coldplay fix you. Jono's moving his face closer to me.

Oh, there it is. How proud are you? Are we going to hook up? Oh, Jono, I mean, others have tried and now I feel like I finally can open up to you. Thank you. I'm the New Zealand Oprah Winfrey. I've never unloaded the dishwasher so much myself in my entire life. Made the bed, padded the pillow,

looked over at where my partner usually is and isn't, and thought to myself, one day this will be all over. But not too soon, though, eh? Not too soon. Not too soon. Done in three years. I love that you called it out. He's trying to draw some emotion out of you.

We really, really did. We still couldn't do it. No, no tears. No, I'm not going to get my Herald headline. Nice to see you guys. All the best for tomorrow. And thank you for your time this morning. We appreciate it.

Remember to double pump the Virgals. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, just last night, I was on Oscar's 10. He goes to high school next year. Oh, so what? So there's an intermediate that rolls into a high school. Yeah, crazy, crazy. You're cliche. It goes quickly. It goes fast, eh? Doesn't it? Yeah. Oh, so what? So there's an intermediate that rolls into a high school. Yeah, crazy, crazy. It's a cliche.

It goes quickly. It goes fast, eh? Doesn't it? Yeah. No, you had to go to like a meeting last night and I turned up. He's already gone to meetings.

Yeah, he's already gone to meetings. Business board meetings. I have to drop him off at the board meetings. Yeah. But it's a meeting for the school,

what they have to expect and things. I was like, oh, there's people here in suits. You know, parents in suits and I and things. I was like, oh, there's people here in suits, you know, parents in suits and I'm here in my bloody McGreen,

McGreen chinos. Yeah. McGreen cargo pants. Looking like a skateboarder who should be outside tagging or vaping or something. A t-shirt with a beer logo

on it or something. Yeah, that's what I'll do. I went to a parent-teacher interview with a Miller Lite t-shirt on and an army jacket and track pants. You're going beanie as well. You're like, yeah, that's called a parent-teacher interview with a Miller Lite t-shirt on and an army jacket and track pants. You're going beanie as well.

You're like, yeah, let's go parent-teacher interview. You're like, okay. I can feel the judgment. I can feel the judgment. But this was last night.

Okay, well, it was the first time you're like, oh damn, this is when you've got to be a parent, you know,

with people, with other parents in suits there. Yeah. Big time. But anyway, he's got to go there today and get tested,

you know, in terms of where you sit. And I, you know, before you know anyway, he's got to go to there today and get tested, you know, in terms of where you sit. And I, you know, before you know it, he's getting older. And, you know, before you know it, I know what the kids are up to nowadays. He'll be out there planking, doing the Harlem shake, dabbing. Yeah. Oh, you're on those cool things. I'm in touch.

I'm in touch. The gangnam style. Oh, mate. Yeah, they'll be doing it all very shortly. So I was like, oh, you know, it's a nice thing to, maybe because I won't see him in the morning, I'll write a note in his lunchbox. Okay. And I had to do like four o'clock this morning.

I was doing like five drafts because I was like, oh, listen, love you, little man. Good luck, blah, blah, blah. But I was like, oh, what if the note slips out? You don't want the other kids seeing that note, you know. Oh, day one, they're like. Sign of weakness. It's like prison, you know.

Yeah, but it's a lovely thing you're doing. Yeah, so I ended up on draft five and it was like. Here know it's a lovely thing you're doing yeah so I ended up on draft five and it was like here's your lunch here's your lunch go get him tiger nameless

so no association now what did you put no I just put go get him tiger oh yeah so you started with I started with heartfelt

but ended up with go get him tiger because I was in my head going well if this falls out but now in my head I'm like still if this falls out. Right. But now in my head, I'm like, still if it falls out, it's got his name attached to it. And it's still a note from your parent. Oscar, Go Get Em Tiger.

Yeah. Joe Exotic. Loved it. So 0800 of the hits, I need your help here. Please call 4487. It's not too late for you and my wife to take this note out of the lunchbox. Oh, do you think it's going to be a bad luck if it falls out?

I don't, have you met, listen, Sienna's still hanging around for the Justin Bieber interview. If you haven't tuned into the show, we had Justin Bieber earlier today. It was a good guest, so thanks for coming out for that, Sienna. Would you like a note,

first day of high school, and if it fell out, would you be embarrassed if your friends saw it? Very embarrassed. Yeah, see? Okay, 0800 the hits. Is it too late to pull this note out? Because I know Jen's still got time before she drives home. Okay, so we Okay, 0800 the hits. Is it too late to pull this note out? Because I know Jen's still got time before she drops it.

Okay, so we'll take some calls right now. We've got these Fiji 5.0 prize packs. They're worth $200. Every caller that goes on the air. We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Fiji Independence Day. And if you want to get a little slice of paradise delivered to you on the mailing list, fiji.travel.com. Now, I'll give you a bit of a back story.

Oscar, you know, he's 10. And Ben, I showed you this the other day. I was like, watch this. I'll try and give him a hug. And all of a sudden, I end up in an unprovoked attack. He grabs my arm and then sort of launches it behind my back like a police officer. He's like a UFC fighter, isn't he?

Yeah, you're going for a hug. All of a sudden, you're on the ground in a grapple lock. It's quick, too. It is quick. It happens without even noticing. All right, we'll go to Jess. Is it too late to take the note out? Should I take the note out?

I don't think you should take it out. I reckon you're going to, like, raise a real good kid. I draw faces on my kid's fruit, man. Keep it in there. Oh, keep it in there? Keep it in there. Best parent ever, man. Best parent ever.

He'll have memories of that. He won't forget. Okay, all right. Well, there you go. I've just been awarded best parent ever in history. You said go get him, Tiger. Yeah, man, I think that's awesome. He's going to remember that when he grows up,

about how cool his dad was sticking notes like that in his lunchbox. Yeah, with Tiger and cool sayings like go get him. Yeah. Yeah, man. Maybe you could say something really heartfelt like love you, and then you could also balance it out in case the bullies find it and say, P.S., I'll put some cigarettes in there too. Something to make it cooler, you know,

like just to kind of balance out the... P.S., there's a cigarette in your sandwich. Something to make it cooler, you know, like just to kind of balance out the... P.S., there's a cigarette in your sandwich. Yeah, just to kind of make it cool for the cool kids. Jo, you're on the air. Shall I take the note out or not? I definitely not. No, leave it in. Leave the note in.

Okay, if anything, put more cigarettes in too, just to balance it out. I'm sorry I talked about cigarettes. I didn't mean that. It's a vape nowadays. It's vaping. Maybe next week it could be a joint. Oh, jeez.

Who knows? Who knows? We're going to have a vape weekend, don't we? Yeah, depending which way you're voting, I'm not going to sway you either way. Oh, God. Hey, good on you, Joe. You have a wonderful weekend.

Fiji price packs coming your way. Serving bowls of lols for breakfast. Actual lols may not be served. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. Now, if I can cast your mind back to this time yesterday Previously on Jono and Ben What are you doing? I don't know what you're doing right now I'm trying to create radio mate, what are you doing?

That's what I'm trying to do too But I'm not sure where we're going with this But okay, what are we listening to from yesterday? I'm an architect of audio I don't know what your profession is No, I don't know either Yesterday you shared a lovely moment Ben Boyce I'm an architect of audio. I don't know what your profession is. No, I don't know either. Yesterday you shared a lovely moment, Ben Boyce,

when you were in Whitcalls. And you read a card and it got you quite teary. Oh, a birthday card for my daughter's birthday coming up to Siena, yeah. If you missed it, here's the same guy's talking now but talking 24 hours ago. But yesterday I went to Whitcalls and I was buying a card for one of my daughter's birthdays hours ago. But yesterday I went to a Whitcalls and I was buying a card for one of my daughter's birthdays.

Please don't tell me you cried in Whitcalls. I did. Oh, because I read a card and it was about, you know, growing up too fast and all that sort of stuff. And, you know, I obviously love my kids and I was like...

Oh, you never want to cry in Whitcalls. I know. And then there's some dude there with a skateboard and a hoodie and headphones around his head. He's like, you all right, dude? You all right, dude? All he wanted to do was go out and vape or something.

Probably, yeah. Instead of... So that was yesterday. Yeah, I told you about that. We're moving on with this. Yeah, no, and all the team and me, we had a chat after the show, and we're like, oh, you know, it was nearly a really lovely moment. Nearly.

Nearly, nearly. And I've been looking at the research being of this programme and we're lacking lovely moments. Okay. Are we? Yeah, so I think we need to try and create one now. You said you cried when you read the card in which calls. Yeah, I had a few tears.

I was reading a few birthday cards, yeah. Yeah, so I'm going to try and get you to cry on the radio now. What? Yeah, so what we've organised is... What are we doing? With your wife Amanda to go and purchase that particular card from Whitcalls and bring in our special guest. It's your lovely daughter Sienna, boys.

Oh, Sienna's here. She's coming in a beautiful jacket. Nice glittery jacket, Sienna. Thank you. Yeah, it looked like a travelling glitter ball. It's amazing. Now, Sienna's got this card. Now, you're just going to read it slowly.

Look your daughter in the eyes. And I'm going to try and create a tear-jerking moment. I'm the jerk and the tear-jerker. Take it away, bed boys. Read this card. Sienna, daughter, your birthday will always be special to me because it's the day you came into my life. Oh, no, Jono, you're going to make me cry.

Thank you for being a daughter to love, to enjoy, and to be proud of every day of my life. Love you. Happy birthday. Oh, isn't that sweet? Sienna, what do you want to say to him? Remember that line we told you to say? Just say, cry, dad, cry.

Cry for the radio. We want you in a sobbing mess by the end of this. Cry, dad, cry. We want you in a sobbing mess by the end of this. A pile of tears. It's not quite as cute when it comes directly from Jono. Why am I not cute? You're not quite as cute.

I feel like I shouldn't be part of this moment. Like I've inserted myself into quite a precious moment here. I feel like the third wheel on something. Yeah, that's right. And we've got one more song to bring tears to your eyes, my friend. What's that? Oh, no, sorry. Wrong song.

It's Old Town Road. That's right Junior That's the one we picked No you asked You know you're growing up Way too fast So stop growing up Too fast alright

No You're not the boss Of her mate Hey good on you Sienna Thank you for coming in It was worth getting up At five in the morning For this wasn't it

Not really Eggs for breakfast It's Jono and Ben On the hits Now of course, the election is tomorrow and joining us in the studio right now, we've spoken to her a few times, but not in person. It's the leader of the National Party, Judith Collins.

Thanks for being here. How are you going? Oh, it's going great, thank you. I was going to say, it's another what, sleep? Yeah. Is it like Christmas in a way for you? I guess in many ways, yeah, because whatever it is, I don't have to do any campaigning on Saturday. In fact, I'm not allowed to do any campaigning on Saturday. So yeah, it's almost a day off.

And so do you, because I know there's laws, the Electoral Commission has laws about taking down the billboards and the hoardings. Are you out there Friday night peeling down the core flute? Well, I hope the volunteers are out there doing it. I may well be out there. Who knows?

Now, when you drive past people's houses and they've got, you know, your face and Gerry's face on their fence, are they National Party, like, members or something? No, well, they're people who have agreed to have a sign on their place. So occasionally you see people who have multiple party signs all over their place, which means they just gave in to everybody coming along. Right, because I did see one of those ones on the corner

and they had Greens, Ag, National. I was like, this is a very confused voter. Yeah, this is one who's going, oh, any, many, many. As New Zealanders, we're quite modest. Does it feel weird voting for yourself? Yeah, it's really weird. It's really weird to constantly see my photo all over the place. Right, yeah.

It gets to stage things. It almost becomes like wallpaper. Yeah, and I suppose every time you turn the TV on, you see yourself now. Yeah, and every time there's an advertisement, I think, oh, who's that? Oh, it's me. It's you everywhere.

Yeah, well, can we see one of the eyebrow razors? Oh, there we go. That's good. I can't do the one. Yeah, I know. You just do the one Oh, there we go. That's good. I can't do the one. Yeah, I know. You can do the one. How did you know you could do that? I don't know.

I realised it when I was a teenager. Quite an impressive trick. I can do it, yeah. Because you went to charm school as well. I did. They don't teach you an eyebrow razor, Tertia? No, they taught me how to do my nails. That's about it.

What is it? No, no, lots of things. I can, you know, I can do a cat walk. Oh, can you? I can do the turn at the end of it. Things like that. No, no, lots of things. I can, you know, I can do a cat walk. Oh, can you? I can do the turn at the end of it. Things like that. I learned how to set a table

and obviously didn't quite manage on the charm sticks. Well, then you've got the nickname Crusher. Yeah, it's just a bit mean, isn't it?

It could have seemed charming. Could have been charming. I understand, is it a granddaughter of a friend of yours? Oh, she loves it. Yes, a little,

she's only about two and a half and she calls me Aunty Quatha. Aunty Quatha. Now, Judith Collins, heading into Saturday, if national win, are you like, oh God, now I've got to get to do more work. Like it feels like you've been working nonstop for the last... Yeah, I think whatever happens, I'm going to get to do more work.

And it's just going to be slightly different work. And then whatever it is, whether we win or we don't win, first or second, I continue, we won't have my face on every single... What's your plan on election night? Like, who are you watching it with? Where are you watching? Ah, well, I'm going to be in Ardmore, actually. So I understand some of the media are going to be Well, I'm going to be in Ardmore, actually. So I understand some of the media

are going to be outside my home, which is not in Ardmore, so it'll be a long night for them. Do we want to tell them where you're going to be in Ardmore? No. She's like, I've had enough of them. Do you feel obligated if they're outside to send them out some food or order them something? I'm not feeling like

it at the moment. Let's see how I feel on Saturday. But then I'll come into the city because we've got a national party sort of get together there too. Now the debates, three of them obviously this year. You look like you thrive in the debates.

You enjoy that. What happens in the ad breaks? Do you and Jacinda, do you talk or do you kind of just... No, she walks off away from me. She doesn't like me. Do you guys get along? No.

Well, I always say, I'm always well-mannered. Went to charm school. Come on. How do you do? Massage her. That's it. Top of the morning. Something like that.

I guess you guys obviously respect each other, right? Oh, yeah. I've always said you should always respect your opponent. Never underestimate someone who is a leader of, right? Oh, yeah. I've always said you should always respect your opponent and never underestimate, you know, someone who is a leader of a party or anyone, really. I mean, I think that's always the silliest thing in life is to ever underestimate people that you're opposed to. I mean, can't do it.

Now, I want to ask you a question. The Miss Ardern, you keep referring to as Miss Ardern. Is that a tactical play? Because it's a good one. I don't think it's a bad one. People ask me, why do you do that? And I say, well, gee, Mr. Rishi. We're not actually close friends, so...

You went to charm school? You were in charm school? And, you know, it is actually respectful to call somebody by a title, so that's fine. All right, well, all the best for Saturday night. We really do appreciate your time coming in here this morning because I know how busy you are. Quickly before you go, this is question time.

You think you've been grilled already? Well, Mike Hosking's going to have nothing on this, okay? Yep. Judith Collins, quickfire questions. Who's your best friend in Parliament from another party? Well, I would have said Stuart Nash, but then he was quite rude the other day. Oh, was he?

I imagine it changes a bit too sometimes. You'll be like, oh, hang on. But he says he was joking, so we'll see. We'll see. He's going to regret that. Have you deleted his contact details from your phone yet?

No. No, you've still got it now? She's still got a chance. No, no. When he's crawling wanting my help for something, we'll see. We'll see how much

he has to crawl. A couple more quick questions to know you're busy. What's the best way to dodge a question? Can you demonstrate by dodging this question right now?

Oh, there's a squirrel. One of them across there. That gets Duncan Garner every time. A squirrel? Where's a squirrel? I love squirrels. And finally, say some nice words about the following people.

James Shaw from the Green Party. He's a very well-meaning, pleasant person to chat to. Winston Peters. He has great longevity. We asked him this question yesterday on the show about yourself. And he said you had a kind, big heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which was nice, I thought. Well, he's always, you know. Okay, Jacinda Ardern. Or Miss Ardern. Miss Ardern. Miss Ardern. She's got a great smile and she's very positive. Oh, there you go. And what would you say about Judith Collins?

Well, she never gives up. Never gives up. Tell you what, she's always fun. And she's bloody charming, I'll tell you that. Bloody charming. As you went to charm school, so what could be wrong with that? We appreciate your time. All the best for Saturday night.

Thank you so much. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. And of course, the election is this weekend going into vote. I mean, you were just talking before, Jono. You're still undecided what you're going to do. I'm still undecided,

and it's not like I haven't tried to educate myself on the issue. I've seen all the debates. I've seen them talking all over each other. You've spoken to every leader. Well, by the end of the show, every leader of the major parties has come in. You've spoken. You've talked more about the election than probably most people.

And I think that's what's tripped me up is I've met them on a face-to-face level. And you're like, oh, they're actually all very lovely people. Yeah, they are. Aren't they? And so that's confused me. And so going into the booth tomorrow, I don't know what I'm doing. So you're going to vote. There's no question that you're not going to vote.

But so you may go on tomorrow and then just go, oh, this and that and that. Every day my wife, Jen, she's been like, she gave me our electoral form. She's, it's in my bag. She's like, yeah, go and vote. Do the early votes. Every day she's like, have you done voting? I was like, no. Have you done voting?

No. She's like, you realise you can't procrastinate voting. Like, it's not like bringing the bins in after the meeting. You've got to basically. You've got to do it. End of tomorrow, right? And I'm just leaving it till the very last minute. But yeah, I still don't know what I'm going to do.

You? Are you in a camp? I'm struggling a lot with the referendum. I still don't know about that. I keep sort of flip-flopping on that as well. So I'm really struggling. So I may be going in tomorrow with the referendum and going, oh, I'm still 50-50 on these.

Is there a fence-sitting party? Because I might vote for them. Can I tick all of the boxes? Is that okay? Just share it around a little bit. Am I the only person in New Zealand who's undecided going into the voting booth tomorrow? I don't know. I must be.

Are you just going to walk in there tomorrow and just... Am I just going to turn my microphone off? Are you just going to walk in there tomorrow and just go, oh well, just see how I feel on the day? Well, yeah. Because it's a shoddy way to vote. Have you ever done that before? 0800 the hits is the phone number.

4487 on the text. We've got these Fiji 5-0 prize packs to give away, which are pretty awesome. They're worth $200. I've got some all great treats from inside Fiji inside the bag. So if you want to give us a call right now, you can win one of those if you get on the air, 0800 THE HITS. Afina Ndranui, welcome to the show.

Lovely to have you on. Are you undecided? Yeah, undecided at the moment. I know I'm going to vote Green Party, but it's just the other question about euthanasia. A little bit iffy on that one. Yeah, the referendum's the ones that are tripping me up a lot as well, you know? And every time I hear someone talk about it, I'm like, oh, great point.

And then I hear the opposite point from someone else, and I'm like, oh, that's a great point too. I saw a billboard yesterday, Afina, when I was driving home, and it was about the euthanasia one. Hey! It was about the euthanasia one, and it was like an 18-year-old

wouldn't have to consult their family before making that decision, and I was like, wow. Oh, that's a lot for them to carry on their shoulders, that. That is. Yeah. Well, see, you've just made a great point there, Jono. I know.

Well, the billboard did. I didn't know. I'm just reciting a billboard I saw on the way home. Hey, well, good luck tomorrow. Just close your eyes and tick a box, I guess. Yeah. Love your work. Susan's on the phone from the capital.

Morena, Susan. Hi. How are you, mate? Oh, not too bad. You don't know who you're going to vote for? Well, it's not so much that as whether I want to vote or not. Oh, really? I shouldn't say that. You get a free pen. Yeah, you do get a

free pen. You get a free pen. Do I? Yeah, still, that's not selling her. I think you get free jelly beans, too. Free jelly beans as well? I mean, what more do you want? Why aren't you going to vote? Well, various reasons.

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I just... Well, that's a rock-solid argument. I've got to get out there. They've got referendum questions I can vote on, so yeah. My dad would say, if you don't vote, you can't complain. I don't complain.

And complaining is one of New Zealand's favourite hobbies. It's what we all love to do, right? That's right. Don't complain about politics. Good on you, Susan. You go look after yourself and hopefully you'll make up your mind to get in there because, you know, we live in a democracy.

Not many... A lot of countries don't even get the chance to vote. Yeah, we're lucky to be able to do that. You're right. Thanks, Jono. That's a lovely piece of advice. Hayley, also in Wellington, are you voting? Well, hopefully I am voting

You're still undecided Why? Well I am from a medical background and so there's a few things in the end of life referendum that I struggle with but also I've come from having a family member

that would have enjoyed to have that option. Right. I think it is the referendums that's confusing a lot of people, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, I 100% know who I'm voting for on the other front, but yeah, big scheme of things. Not sure on either of the

marijuana or the end of life referendum. All the best with your big decision tomorrow. Thank you so much for calling the program. And everyone that was on the air right now gets one of those Fiji Five-0 price packs. And gets a free pen too tomorrow when they go into the voting booth. Just like a chocolate milkshake, only white and disappointing. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz.

All right, I'm sick of hearing from those two twerps, Jono and Ben. Let's get someone sensible in here with some hard-hitting stories about what colour the Kardashians painted their toenails today. I'm glad you think I'm sensible. Yeah, I said you are a sensible person. Am I? Okay, that's good. Although then we went to Topol with you

and our boss Todd was trying to make a speech at dinner and Juliet was the other end of the table. You can't mute me. Just be quiet on one of those speeches. You can't mute me. That's my line now. You can't mute her. Just be quiet in one of those spaces. You can't mute me. That's my line now. You can't mute her. You're all right.

No. Especially not now because we need you to talk. Yeah, thank you. I will keep going. So the Billboard Music Awards were on yesterday, obviously all done sort of virtually. No crowd in the audience and everything. Kelly Clarkson was the host, and she had her own, you know,

when they have the sound effects of the cheering and the booing and all that sort of thing, she had her own, you know when they have the sound effects of the cheering and the booing and all that sort of thing, she had her own remote to control that so she'd say a gag and then she'd just play the booing noise. That's a good idea. I feel like that's something you guys would do.

Yeah, that is good. We used to, when we had the live audience filming for telly, we got them to record laughs before the show started. No, we'd always say, oh, this is a warm-up just to get you into the laughing thing.

They'd pretend you're laughing, but we'd just use them. Then you'd edit those laughs in because it was just deathly silence. To boost what was going on. And they'd watch you back, oh, I didn't laugh for that at all. It's a great tactic from you guys. And Post Malone, he was a very big winner. He's a rapper. You probably know a few of his songs.

But one of his speeches, and this is, I think you get to a point of celebrity level and winning so many awards that this is your acceptance speech. I'm not a man of many words. As you know, last time I think I accepted an award, I said, I love grapes. And I would like to just accentuate that statement because I still do.

That's literally his thank you speech. I mean, grapes are good, aren't they? They need to be prime. They need to be perfect condition. I like a crunchy grape. Yeah.

Yeah, the soft ones I'm not a fan of. It's like kind of avocados. You have a kind of a window you need to eat them within and then they go

you're from amazing to like, oh, not so good. You're dead right. So, hey, I'm with Postman.

That's a great speech. You know, in times like this we need words like that. Thank you very much. And a question for you both. Do you think you've ever missed out on a role of some sort because you weren't well-known or talented enough?

You guys? Yeah, probably heaps. I think we both went for hosting roles of like X Factor and all sorts along the way, right? Luckily, I got the Ben role on John Lennon Ben because my name was Ben, but that was only because my name was Ben. I once auditioned for Shortland Street.

Did you actually? Yeah. No, there was a character many years ago. It went along, and I don't act. I can't act. And I went along, and I remember the lady going, yeah, no, we're not going to be calling you at the end. Oh, great.

Oh, I like your little face. I was like, don't you usually say that when I'm out of the room? When I'm calling that guy? Yeah, like I like to be up front and just let you know. That's ruthless. Well, Nicole Kidman, she missed out on, you know the movie Notting Hill with Julia Roberts? She missed out on that role because she apparently wasn't well-known or talented enough. And I was like, but Nicole Kidman's an exceptional actress.

Why would she miss out on that, you know? Wow. I know. See, that happens to Nicole Kidman. There you go, Why would she miss out on that, you know? Wow. I know. See, that happens to Nicole Kidman. There you go, Jono. Makes you feel a bit better. It makes me feel better about losing that Shortland Street gig now. Yeah, exactly.

That's a lovely movie, Notting Hill. Charming Hugh Grant. Yeah, it is. Yeah. In the bookstore. Such a love story, isn't it? All right. That is an awkward reflection on Notting Hill.

Just awkwardness from me straight up. Get us out of this, Juliet. For God's sake. Okay, okay, okay. For small spike, you can go to the hitstock.co.nz. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Here's Ben Boyce with his hot takes to the hot events of the day. Put these in a topical debt fryer

and slap some heart disease on it. Here's Ben scrolling through your feed. Tomorrow, of course, the election. So only today and tomorrow. Two days to vote and last night on TV One they had the last. The third and final leaders debate, it was quite civilised. They were just sitting behind a

desk and they had some nice things to say about each other. They got asked what would be the one thing you'd say about each other. Here's what, should we start with Jacinda Ardern? Here's what she had to say about Judith Collins. Actually, I have something. It's actually been a long time since this happened, but I've never had a chance to thank

Judith for the speech that she gave after March 15. In the House, she gave an incredibly sincere, authentic speech about the need for us to move on gun law reform. I found it particularly powerful and I do want to thank Judith for that. Well, here's been the problem. They've been niggling away at each other for two months,

but the whole time they've been standing up, sitting down. They're different people. Oh, yeah. They're nicer people to each other. And then Judith Collins replied with something nice about Jacinda. You know, I just think that anyone who takes on the job of Prime Minister has to put their heart and soul into it, and Jacinda? You know, I just think that anyone who takes on the job of Prime Minister has to put their heart and soul into it, and Jacinda

has been doing that, and I think, you know, that's a really good thing. I don't think anyone should ever take the job lightly, and, you know, I think we can say that that's a great thing. What I've found is we've had a few politicians in over the last few days, and we've been getting them to do similar things, say something nice

about other politicians. Sometimes they struggle a little bit because they're so used to going, oh, their policy sucks or their thing, and then they're like, oh, hang on, I hadn't thought about this. I've never said anything nice and or thought anything nice about this particular person. Yeah, and I'm sure they actually all get on quite well, but they're so used to sort of pushing their points and finding, you know, issues with the other people's policies, not necessarily the people,

but it's quite a good exercise to do. Well, we've got all the big leaders coming in this morning. We've got Marama and James from the Green Party before seven. Judy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Judy! She's at ten past seven. Jacinda, ten past eight. And I tell you what, if you want hard-hitting opinion in politicians,

then you have come to the wrong show. Jacinda, though, last night, this was interesting. This was probably the thing that people were talking about most this morning. She was asked if she would quit if the Labour Party didn't win. Jacinda Ardern, if you become Prime Minister next week, will you stay on for a full term? Yes. If you don't

win, would you stay on as Leader of the Opposition? No. Oh, interesting. Well, it kind of makes sense. She'd probably go on to the UN or somewhere like that. Respected internationally, isn't she? Is it an idle threat? Is it like when your parents are driving along in the

car and they're like, don't make me turn the car around? They're never going to, right? They're always on the way to somewhere. But, you know, it kind of feels like one of those. It's like, would you really? Oh, but it's a huge demotion, isn't it? Once you've been Prime Minister, it'd be like us going from bloody breakfast to mid-daughters. Wouldn't it? Would you hang around?

Come in here at midnight? Yeah, I probably would, actually, to be honest. Just be happy I'd still have a job. Otherwise, I'd be talking into toilet rolls in my garage, doing my own radio show to myself. So that's scrolling through your feed. New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them. They're chewy.

It's Jono and Beryl the Hats. Now this is something that I like to do on a Friday morning is reflect on this. Ben Boyce Productions Limited proudly presents Jono Fryer's worst moment of the week. Some would call it character assassination and I would agree with that but

I'm in too deep. I've got an intro made. In my head I'm like I've had a pretty good week, you know, because the bad moments are all spaced out during the week, but when you collate them into a countdown as you do every week, well, it doesn't paint the nicest picture of me. And our producer Juliette's gone through, and we always have a two- to three-hour meeting about these. We play them all.

It takes a while. We sit through them all. We rank them. Analyze. There's 50 a week. There's so many of them to a while. You know, we sit through them all. We rank them. Analyze. There's 50 a week. There's so many of them to get through. It's like music research on this station. But here's the first one we wanted to play yesterday.

I don't even know if you could say these sorts of things on radio, but you had a talk about David Seymour's bill. What sucks about being an adult? The nap pain. My kids love to take naps during the day. I wish I could just sleep when I'm tired. Have a nap. That's true. I can't sleep during the day. I wish I could just sleep when I'm tired. Have a nap. Well, that's true. I can't sleep at the moment. I'm getting shocking sleeps at the moment. I'm almost like, I just want to vote yes

for David Seymour's bill so I can have a sleep. Oh, Jamie, stop it. Stop it. No. I'm tired. I know, but you can't. Anyway, moving on. We spoke to a lovely couple. They run Cooper's Catch. It's a Kaikoura fish and chip shop.

And they've got the naming rights this weekend for Eden Park. Yeah, part of an ASB campaign. Because ASB are the new naming rights sponsors of Eden Park. And they said, hey, well, I tell you what, we'll give it to a small business post-COVID. Lovely gesture. Yeah, so they're a fish and chip shop. And you started talking about what fish they have on the menu. What's the best thing you do on the menu?

To be fair, it's got to be the blue cod. Have you ever served up dolphin? No. Now, come on. Oh, my God. The ocean's a free-for-all. No, it's not a free-for-all. No, it's not.

If you can put a dolphin in a deep fryer, I'll eat it. No, no. Yeah, well, she had to go and sit down after that. I love the horror. She backed out of the interview for that. Well, if she didn't like that, she's not going to like this next. And I didn't want to play this again, but this is by far your worst moment of the week.

I was wanting to play a game, a game that kids play. It was sleepovers and parties on the internet. Oh, because you're organising your daughter's sleepover. Yeah, it was called rock, paper, whatever. And basically instead of doing rock, paper, scissors, you would come up with two items, an item each, and then you would decide who would win in a fight. So I was thinking we'd talk about things like,

okay, it could be a lion taking on... A shark or something. Yeah, yeah. But you were like... Well, I wanted to win, didn't I? You just took it to... I'm sorry for even playing this. Rock, paper...

Bill Cosby. Okay, okay. Now, who's, paper, Bill Cosby. Okay, okay. Now, who's going to beat Bill Cosby, Ben? I was going to say a dragon from Game of Thrones. Do you want to do another one? Yeah, okay. Rock, paper, R. Kelly. Okay, right, moving on.

It is the hats that Jono embeds. And we'll move on. You didn't even let me play a third round. No, because I didn't want to play any round. You ruined my game, so I'll never be back. Morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hips. That is the election tomorrow. And joining us this morning, we've had a lot of leaders in this week.

But today we've got leaders from the Greens, National and Labour. And in the studio with us right now, the co-leaders of the Green Party, we've got James Shaw and Marama Davidson. Great to have you guys here. How are you going? Kia ora. Thank you. Kia ora to you guys.

How are you guys feeling about this weekend? To coin a bad pun, is it a Shaw thing you're going to get involved with, James Shaw? That is definitely a bad pun. Yes. Okay, thank you, thank you. Unless you caught yourself out on that. I'm surprised you don't use that on your billboards. James Shaw.

I mean, dad jokes aside, I'm not sure that we would be able to pass the 5% threshold if those were on our billboards. Probably not. Okay, we'll manage your campaign next time around, guys. Thank you. Yeah, we're looking able to pass the 5% threshold if those were on our billboards. Probably not. Okay, we'll manage your campaign next time round, guys. Thank you. Yeah, we're looking forward to that. From the Green Party, obviously you're very environmental

as far as the party goes. Do you feel any pressure, you know, if someone gives you something with a plastic straw in it or a non-keep cup or you're recycling at home? Do you know what? The part of being environmentally strong

is understanding that it genuinely is hard for people to be green, that the system has set us up to have limited choices. And that's what we're trying to get at, is actually giving people more choices, changing how we produce things in the first place, all plastics. So we know, right? We're not Puritans.

We cannot be because the reality is we are held hostage to massive waste and producing plastics plastics and that's our life. So we're not going to go around expecting people who support us, who want to support us to be really fundamental about these things. Oh, that's good. I mean, hey, you've mixed up some recycling in the past. Guilty. Guilty. What I want to talk to you guys about, and this is a serious topic for me, not so much Ben,

the paper straws. Oh, he's got issues with the paper straws. I know they're doing good things for the environment, but they get soggy in my lips. Can we change that? You need to drink faster. Or just not use a straw as an option too. You don't have to have a straw.

Well, look, there is a serious point that you validly raise in there because not everyone can work with paper straws. That we have to understand that there are some parts of our community, of our whānau, who need to use straws and plastic seems to be the best. So what we are trying to do instead is allow for choices for those who can go without certain things to choose alternatives. So we leave the people left with those, you know, those choices, those options to do what they need to do. And on a serious note, like I never really, to be honest, care or didn't think too much about the environment

up until the sort of last five years of my life. And you go to the local tip when I've got to put, and the mountain of rubbish is insane. Yeah, that's right. The cool thing is the kids now because we've both got little kids they're really ingrained in them now

I gave my kids a yoghurt and a plastic straw sucky thing and they were like that was the worst thing it's a dad they came home

like a bear's dad you remember a couple of years ago we got rid of single use plastic bags and it was astonishing the level of public support we had for that it was just awesome

and then of course everyone's kind of like going, oh, these plastic bags are horrendous. They actually are only about 1% of the overall plastic waste problem. Oh, really? But they're the thing that's right in front of you, right? Because you interact with them, it's kind of visceral. And then once we got rid of that, all of a sudden,

it's like your field of vision expands. You can see everything else. And so it's been amazing over the last couple of years since we got rid of single-use plastic bags. People are going, yeah, but what about everything else now? And so there is momentum building and I think Kiwis generally want to make sure And you're right.

Our kids are way more woke than all of us. Yeah, yeah. We've done a great job of ruining the planet up until now. We've got Green Party co-leaders with us in the studio. James Shaw, a lot of people online. Compare you to Rowan Atkinson in looks, I've seen. I have to ask who that is. It's Mr Bean.

I hadn't seen this before until I was researching last night. It wouldn't be the thing that you would be like, oh, thanks a lot. It's not like the thing that most warms the cockles of my heart, I'll tell you. I don't see it. He's a very talented comedian.

He is a talented comedian. That's right. But Sabine's quite bubbly and fumbly, right? Good line in physical comedy. I always get compared to a sick-looking Vin Diesel. Before he hit the gym, sort of thing. Roughly half the body mass. Yeah, that's right.

Just wondering how Vin Diesel would feel about that. He's the aftershot on the before. And Marama, listen, we were just talking about this before we turned the microphones on. I did not realise this, but reading about you last night, your father is Rawiri Paratini. Yeah. Former play school host, star of Whale Rider.

Must have been the coolest father when you were growing up. He still is the coolest father right this very second. And yeah, so growing up in creative industry was just normal for me. I thought every child took a day off school to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday. I thought that was it. My father told us that was a nationwide global holiday.

He would take us to the parks and recite Shakespeare things. And I was like, what are you guys doing for Shakespeare's birthday? Madama Davidson, James Shaw Green Party. We're going to end this on question time. These are some hard-hitting questions. Just quick fire. Oh, these ones.

Okay. This year's all about being kind in New Zealand. Just send us a message. So one nice thing about maybe David Seymour. Wore some great lycra on Dancing with the Stars. He does. What a compliment. That was the...

After five seconds of silence, we got a lycra compliment. New Zealand is generally pretty modest. Does it feel weird voting for yourself? Yes. Yeah. Every time. Yeah, it does.

I always wondered that. You'd be like, oh, I guess I'm going to, but... Yeah, yeah. That's why you ended up voting national, because you're just going to bring something too self-indulgent. Next question, office politics. When it comes to the office policy of covering food in the microwave when cooking it, do you cover or not cover?

This drives me up the wall. So yeah, I cover my food and then I clean the damn microwave because nobody else does. Politicians are good at dodging questions. Can you demonstrate by dodging this question right now? It's good to be in here this morning and I really hope we see you again soon. Great answer. Really nice catching up with you guys.

All the best for this weekend. Thank you so much. Green Party co-leaders, thanks for being on the show. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz Tell you what, if you don't like celebrity gossip,

you've got far more important things to do in your life. But for us other schmucks who love it, here's producer Julia with Spy. Thanks so much. Now, there is this band in the United States. You've probably never heard of it before. I haven't. They're called The Flaming Lips.

And they have really, they're really innovative with their, how they perform in the COVID world. I mean, I think The Flaming Lips came to a big day out once. I know. Did they? Oh, mate, us old people, we love The Flaming Lips, mate. They have, I think a whole lot of people I remember watching on stage were in sort of like mascot costumes and stuff like that.

I think a couple of New Zealand celebrities got to go up and do it. They're Alf Stewart's favourite band, the Flamin' Lips, the Flamin' Bungles, the Flamin' Galahs. That sounds about right. What have they done? So they have performed in the States, and all of the band members and the audience members are in, you know when you go to Rotorua and you've got the Zorb?

Yeah. Everyone's in sort of those massive Zorb-like bubbles and just partying in their individual bubbles and even the band members are like playing the drums, playing the guitar up on stage in their actual bubble to prevent COVID

spreading. You'd be so hot by the end of it. It would all like sort of the condensation and you wouldn't be able to see when you go to the tour, how do you get out? Oh, that's a good question. You probably can't do that, can you? And theensation and you wouldn't be able to see. When do you go to the toilet? How do you get out? Oh, that's a good question. You probably can't do that, And the doors. You'd never be able

to go through a normal door in those as well, too. It would end up being like, you know, when you just run up. Have you ever played Zorb soccer or something like that? You just run up

and just push each other over. It would turn into that, wouldn't it? Everyone would be pushed over. It would be fun for 60 to 90 seconds, wouldn't it? Yeah.

Whenever you climb out of a Zorb, it feels like you're being birthed, doesn't it? Have you done that? Yes, I have. It's fun. Oh, that's really innovative. Yeah.

I would like to take part in that. Are you like unusually hot right now? You're like taking off your jacket as we're speaking. We're so hot in here. Thinking about going to that concert. Oh, jeez. And a bunch of celebrities have said...

Yeah, she couldn't wait until the end of Spike. She was like, we're taking this thing off now, guys. Such an unusual time to remove your jacket. But anyway. Anyway. We won't linger on it. No, we have. Not that anyone can see.

I could take my jersey off right now, actually, guys. Put your pants on. And Tommy Lee has said that if Trump gets in, he will move to Greece. Snoop Dogg has said that he would move to Canada. And Amy Schumer to Spain and Cher to Jupiter. So all these celebrities are like, if he's in, I'm just going to build a house in another country

or another planet, as Cher would say, if he gets in. I think Miley said that last election, but... She's still there. Much like Trump and the wall, she hasn't really followed through on that one. They never do. And there's always a news story like, oh, the amount of Americans

who want to move to New Zealand and the Google searches for moving to New Zealand and say, no, they never do. False promises, we would take him. Except for James Cameron, he's come over here, the director. So that's probably the only one that's come over that I know of.

And I'd love Cher to live here. Yeah, well, she's in Jupiter, though. Yeah, no, she doesn't want to come here. We'll take any celebrity's come over that I know of. And I'd love Shea to live here. Yeah, well she's in Jupiter though. Yeah, no, she doesn't want to come here. We'll take any celebrity. Yeah, that'd be fun. Isn't it great when a celebrity comes to New Zealand? It's the most exciting thing ever. So we just love it.

We always ask them, what do you think of the place? What do you think of it? They're like, tell us it's good. Please tell us it's good. Yeah, try some Marmite and Weet-Bix. Yeah, have a spoonful of Marmite. Yeah. And marry a sheep. Other fun things.

And that's Spy. For more, you can go to the hits.co.nz. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Jotter and Ben on the hits. A feeling good. Something we like to do every day on the show is we like to end the show with, why is it going to be a good day?

Sorry, I'm laughing because my daughter is still in here because she interviewed Jacinda Ardern before and this is a TikTok song. She broke out into a TikTok dancing spasm. Automatically all the kids... It's like they're brainwashed, hey? It's like, where do we go? Do you know I'm having a thrilling time at the moment.

My petrol light is on and it has been on for two days. Driving this morning along the motorway, I was like, this is exhilarating. Oh, the motorway too. That's risky. That happened to you on the way back to Taupo, from Taupo, didn't it, Juliet? Yeah, it was really scary.

It said you've got five kilometres until you run out of fuel and it was seven kilometres until the next petrol station. Oh, I tell you what. But we made it. It was fine. If you want a cheap thrill, that's the one Sia's been singing about, driving down the motorway on empty with the petrol light on.

But yeah, 0800 the hits. You call us, you tell us why it's going to be a good day, why it's going to be a good weekend. End this pig of a show on a high. We've got a couple of our last Fiji Five-0 prize packs to give away, which are worth around about $200. Some cool stuff in there

from chocolate, face mask, hand cream, all that sort of stuff. Yeah, you can moisturise your face, your hands, your lips. Too lovely lip balm, isn't there, Ben boys? Oh, lovely lip balm. And the collection of aromas that come from this one sack, very unusual. Yeah. Isn't it?

We've got coffee, chocolate, balms. Yeah. Individually amazing, but you're all together. You're like, oh, this is a lot. A lot of senses for my nostrils. A lot to take in. Much like this show, but 0800THEHITS is the phone number. Why is it going to be a good day?

Welcome to the show, Nev. It's going to be a good day in Hamilton. Why? It's going to be a good day because I'm wearing a pink shirt to support anti-bullying. We were just talking about that before. It is anti-bullying day. So a great day to go out there and wear a pink shirt. Good on you, Nev.

We're going to send you a Fiji price pack celebrating 50 years of independence in Fiji. Well done. Let's try and get another one in there. Squeeze one more in. We'll go to Marie. Welcome from Tauranga. Welcome.

Hi. How are you going? Good. I sort of said Marie and then said Tauranga. I like it. You ran it all together. It's very exotic. Yeah, there we go.

Marie, why is it going to be a great day? I've got a three-day weekend. I've taken the day off work. It's my partner's birthday and we are heading heading up to Auckland and Waikiki Island. Oh, look at Waikiki. Have a wonderful weekend, and we'll send you a Fiji price pack. Thanks so much for listening.

We'll pretend we're in Fiji. That's right. So really enjoy. Everyone listening to this show, thank you so much. You have a great weekend. Don't forget to get out there and vote. Do it tomorrow.

All right, we'll catch you Monday from 6. Have a great weekend. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app. Jono and Ben on The Hits Breakfast. Friends of Skinny. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh.