Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - September 02 - The A To Z Of New Zealand, Tell Us Your Fun Facts, Sienna's Speech Update

Episode Date: September 1, 2020

Kia Ora! On today's show, we discussed how Ed Sheeran is now a father and how his daughter is named Lyra Antarctica. Which sparked a topic, are you named after the place you were born or conceived? (Word on the street is that baby Lyra was conceived in Antarctica!) We also chatted to a lady who suffered a stroke and then 5 months later broke NZ powerlifting records. All that and a bunch more. Enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast today. Lovely to have everyone here. I don't know how many of you there are. You never really do know, do you? But even if there's one, even if we're just changing one life, Ben, then this makes it all worthwhile.

Yeah, I don't know if we're changing lives. I got into this game to change lives. Oh, I know. We had a conversation with our boss, Todd, actually, yesterday about, you know, we're not here to change the game. We're just here to play in it. Yeah, yeah. People come in and they're like, I'm going to change the game.

What's wrong with the game? The game's fine. The game's fine. Yeah, it's like Richie McCourt. You see, he wasn't there to change the game as What's wrong with the game? The game's fine. It's like Richie McCourt, you see. He wasn't there to change the game as far as rugby goes. He was just there to play it and it played really well. Yeah, no, he didn't put the ball on the ground and start kicking it around like football, did he? It wasn't like William Webb Ellis who came in, the legend of the school, the rugby school,

where they were playing soccer. He picked up the ball and off he went. Yeah, so he cheated in a game of soccer. Yeah, I reckon the consequences of that would have been dire. He wouldn't have been a genius at the time, right? No, everyone would be like, William, you dick! Get the ball back! Put the ball down! He's like, it's a new sport, chums.

Whatever, mate. Well, yeah, I've never heard of it, so it just sounds like you're cheating in football. You're in a lot of trouble. But now suddenly he's a visionary, right? Yeah, so we had a show today and Ben Boyce, a lot of heated debate, wasn't there? Heated conversation around your Velcro wallet and whether a man of your age and stature should have one in his pocket.

Yeah, I've got a Velcro wallet from Smiggle, which is a store that sells, you know, lovely little stuff. What are they, like wallets? I think of the words you're looking for, children's merch. Yeah, pencil, stationary, lunch boxes, that sort of stuff. Yeah. There's the Velcro. I mean, in fairness, it's convenient. It is.

Velcro is convenient. Yeah. But when you signed up for a mortgage and you had to pull out your ID, did you pull out a Velcro wallet? Yeah, I do. I pull it out everywhere I go. Is the bank manager like, I don't know if we can actually go through with this deal now.

It's a Velcro wallet. I can't take you seriously. It's colour changes as well, so it goes from different colours. And it's got cool pictures. It's got a skateboard on it that says Epic. It's got a bike on it, a bicycle, a shark, a football boat. It's got all some cool stuff on it. You've got an extraordinary amount of loyalty cards in there too,

which we'll have to get to on the show tomorrow. I think we're going to, yeah, because it's really like, normally every now and again I do a bit of a cull, but at the moment there's a lot going on. They start to pile up, don't they? Yeah, you do like it. I've got a lot of no-ticking in here. I might have won them.

I might have won $50 million, but I don't even know it because I haven't checked it. Even then, would you buy a new wallet? Ooh, I don't know. $50 million. You still wouldn't leave your Velcro behind. It's doing great things. Not for my cred,

but it's just doing great things. Oh yeah, in the podcast, more Velcro wallet conversation plus Father's Day Sunday. We put another dad under the pump having to remember

some important dates from their life. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. You know, tourist attractions all around the world are being affected by COVID, aren't they? Yeah, it's

really sad. Yeah, it's really sad and hopefully the New Zealand ones start, get up and running soon, now that we're all back to level two. But one I saw yesterday, an article, one of my favourite tourist attractions in the Gold Coast. I don't know if you've ever been to the Gold Coast. I have been to the Gold Coast. A lot of fun things to do in the Gold Coast. I don't know if you've ever been. Have you been to the Gold Coast? I have been to the Gold Coast.

A lot of fun things to do on the Gold Coast. Oh, it is, yeah. There's so many leathery people. The skin tone is just very... A lot of neck tattoos too on burly guys. Yeah, handsome gentlemen. The ladies, I won't comment on them because it's 2020. Thank you.

It's not my place to here on New Zealand's Breakfast. We can talk about the burly guys with the neck tattoos, can't we? We can. Yeah, a lot of neck tattoos. Jeez, if you're a neck tattoo artist just specifically focusing on necks,

yeah, you'd be killing it. But one of the things I took the kids on was the Aqueduct, the amphibious vehicle. Have you been on that? There's one in Rotorua that I've been on as well.

Yes, they drive along. It's like a bus that drives along the street, and then it gets in the water. It's like, what? Yes. What? We shouldn't be on the water. We should be on the road.

I know. It's wild. Do they give you those things on the one in Rotorua, which is lots of fun, but do they give you duck callers? Everyone gets a duck caller? No, that's a great little novelty gift, isn't it? But then everyone for the whole 15 minutes is like,

oh, God. And the kids, my kids, you're like, you can go, okay, that's a great little novelty gift, isn't it? But then everyone for the whole 50 minutes is like, oh, God, and the kids, and my kids, you're like, my kids, you're like, you go, okay, that's enough. Do you hand the duck caller back? No, but you all get one each. Do you keep it? Yeah, like a little plastic duck caller. Oh, it's like they're not like communal duck callers, not blowing your bloody meningitis all over.

You've got like 50 people like quacking for an hour. The worst thing, it's either that or a recorder. The worst thing you could give to a child. Yeah. But yeah, I think the aqueduct might be done, mate. Really? In the Gold Coast, yeah. Now, the time that I went on the aqueduct with the kids,

it was like some shakabra surfer driving. He's like, hey, man, hop on board the aqueduct. And he would have rather been anywhere else apart from driving the aqueduct. And so once we'd driven down the boat ramp and into the water, he's like, which one of you little dudes wants to drive the aqueduct? And I'm like, who's he talking to? And he like, look, my kids at that stage were three.

Oscar was three. Poppy wasn't born. He was like looking Oscar dead in the eyes. I was like, are you talking to him? He's like, hop up here, dude. And so then Oscar, this toddler, is captaining the aqueduct. The maritime safety people would have been having a field day. And then he wasn't even there.

The guy was there. He's like, just staring, dude. We're going out to have a smoke or something. He's out the back. Wow. And it was for about 10 or 15 minutes. I was like, this is not safe. This is not.

I was like having to grab the steering wheel. He's like almost doing donuts, not knowing where he's going. I always wanted to take the aqueduct from one end of the country to the other. Like start and then just keep driving through the Cook Strait. Oh, that is shit. Because it's obviously. You could go from, yeah, you could go from. You could do that.

From, yeah, basically to the far north all the way down to, you know, the far south. Let's do that. Just nonstop. Well, not maybe not nonstop. You have to have a break, but, you know, but just keep going. We love that. Just non-stop. Well, not maybe not non-stop. You have to have a break, but you know, but just keep going. We love a nautical adventure, don't we? Our old boss is like,

stop it with the nautical adventures. He's gone now. He's gone. Shusti's gone. He can't chime in now. We've got more nautical adventures lined up. We've got plenty more where that came from. The old sea dogs will be back out there before you know it.

Another comical adventure on the ocean. This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating still pending. It's Jorow and Man on the Hats. We want to play a little game with you. People seem to retain facts. Everyone says they have one or two facts. And if you can give us a call on 0800 the Hats

and tell us a fact. If we go, oh, we didn't know that, we'll give you a prize. Well, that's all I end up doing in these things is when people phone up to the channel and go, oh, wow, yeah. Because my daughter, Andy, will give you a prize. Well, that's all I end up doing in these things is when people phone up on the channel and go, ah! Yeah, well, that's it. Well, yeah.

Because my daughter, Andy, was, yeah, she was learning about dragonflies at school and she came home and told me this fact. Dragonflies have been around for 300 million years and even though they've got six legs, they cannot walk. Cannot walk? Ah!

That's what I meant. I didn't know they had six legs and can't walk. Mind you, a dragonfly probably looks at our arms and goes, well, you can't fly with those. That's a good point. Probably some chit-chat going on the dragonfly community now going,

look at those schmucks. They have to stay on the ground. Yeah, very good point. Why would they need their legs? They're in the air all the time. Yeah, and sure, they can land and stuff. Well, there you go. The only thing need their legs? They're in the air all the time. Yeah, and sure, they can land and stuff. Yeah. Oh, there you go. The only thing I have remembered in terms of fat, I just remember watching National Geographic. It's a great filler television, isn't it?

National Geographic. And all of the world's camels come from Australia. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia. Really? They're all made in Australia Really? Crazy Well now they'd have babies within the country

But you're talking about originally Yeah Originally they'd No, no, they still import them all from Australia Don't question me Why would you question me? I was just saying No, no, stop talking

Please I came in there and everyone was like Wow, he knows some stuff about camel Camel importation camel manufacturing and breeding all in Australia just leave it there

why do you need to oh but hold on then they're going to have a subbreeding program in Saudi Arabia surely yeah well they might do okay and that would

probably be a sensible option instead of flying camels all the way from Australia to Saudi Arabia maybe some entrepreneur over in Saudi Arabia went, you know what? We can make it fornicate.

No, no, no, no. We must still fly the promised land. Sarah, welcome to the show. How are you? I'm great. How are you guys? We're doing well. What's your fact?

If it wows us, you're going to win. Okay, wow. Hairs are born with fur and can see Whereas rabbits are born naked and blind Okay I didn't know there was a difference between a hare and a rabbit I did not know I don't know Well, there is

I think a hare is like a bigger rabbit, right? I think so I'm saying these things I'm like, I shouldn't be saying these things without knowing 100% sure Oh, well, you've wowed me twice there Yeah Wowed me that they're two separate things and the birthing fact there, Sarah.

So you win big. You win twice. Oh, epic. Thanks, guys. Easy as that. Good on you, Sarah. Let's head to Auckland. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Fiona, your fact. If it surprises us, you win. Hi. A group of giraffes is called a tower. A tower? Yeah. We haven't said well. We haven't said well.

It makes sense. It does make sense, but that's quite interesting. Do you know another thing I know about drafts from watching National Geographic is that the male will constantly knock with his head the female's bladder until she releases or bursts. Why? And then he can the aroma, he's like, she releases or bursts. Why?

And then he can, the aroma, he's like, she's ripe. Oh, really? Oh, right. Oh, right for impregnating there. So there you go. That's what they do. Your fact made me go, ugh. Did I win a prize?

No. If anything, you owe me a prize after sitting through that. Listen, Fiona, you know how the show works. Everyone has to win for some reason or else Ben feels bad. So you're going to get a prize anyway. Well done. Thank you. Good on you.

Let's go to New Plymouth. Jonathan, you're on the air, my friend. What was your fact? If you wow us, you win. Okay. So there's enough blood vessels in the average adult human body that if you took them out and laid them end to end, they would be able to go around the Earth.

In one human's body? Yeah. Wow. You're trying not to do a wow, aren't you? Look at you holding it back. We can't wow everyone. We can't wow everyone. It was a wow fact. You know, everyone calls up and we go,

wow, wow, everyone wins. I'm just trying to offer a little bit of jeopardy to this game, mate. We could always try it out on Jono, just to be sure. Yeah, we could. Wow, there we go. There's a big wow from me. You don't need my burst capillaries on my nose spreading around the world, mate. Those red-fuelled alcohol capillaries.

Hey, good on you, Jonathan. Guess what? You win. Oh, wow, awesome. Good on you. And let's go to Masterton. John, before you even tell us, you've won. That's how Ben's running this operation.

But what's your fact? That eels' brains are in their tails. Oh, yeah. You're about to. I didn't well. No, you're about to. You held it back. That's brilliant.

And the tails. Yeah, eels' brains are in their tails. That's brilliant. Oh, okay. I'll give you a well for that. Not a fan of eels. Did you hear my eel facts the other day, John? No.

No, but if you're in a river, just be careful because the eels can latch on to a certain part of the male anatomy and death roll it off, mate. Death roll it straight off. I don't know if that, again, your facts made me go, John, I make me say, everyone else, I go, wow, so well done. And someone just told me John's 13 years old, and that's an appropriate fact for a 13-year-old.

I'm sorry, John. Hope I don't give you nightmares, mate. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. It's time to play New Zealand's favourite game show behind how many different types of cuisine can I get on my plate at the buffet? This is Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. We phone numbers at random.

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Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, the other day we were talking about my daughter, Sienna. She has to do a school speech. Same topic as your son, Oscar, has to do. On wisdom, yeah. Oscar chose Pythagoras.

He's doing the speech today, actually, on Pythagoras. The stuff I know about Pythagoras. Yeah. Pythagoras. He's doing the speech today, actually, on Pythagoras. The stuff I know about Pythagoras. Yeah. Pythagorean theorem. The A squared plus B squared equals C. Yeah, wisdom's quite a hard topic. That's the topic that seems to be given to a whole lot of schools around the area. And my daughter, Sienna, for a while there, she was like,

I want to do it on Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister, because I feel that she's wise. I was like, that's great. We had Jacinda Ardern on the show, and I got Sienna to ask a question to Jacinda, and I was like, oh, here you go. Here's the question. Hi, Prime Minister. It's Sienna here.

For my school speech, the topic is wisdom, and I've chosen to do my speech about you. So I wanted to know, what helps you to be wise? And do you think it's wise for me to do my speech on you? Double-ended question there. Yeah, two questions. Oh, that was actually quite deep at the end there. I'm not the person to answer the second part.

Someone, you know, if you're wise, you don't blow your own trumpet. Yes, little girl, I think you should run a speech on me. Definitely, make it longer. The first, though, the good question, I think, you know, wisdom is accepting that you don't hold all of the answers all of the time. So we've got this bit of audio. You've played your part.

You've helped out. It's not even your daughter's speech, but you've helped out. Thank you. Yeah, I said, yeah, no worries. I'm here. I'm here to father her if you need me to. So she's got this great bit of audio. The Prime Minister's talking about it.

She wants to do a speech on TikTok. Oh, so she's changed the topic. Yeah, she's like, oh, I think I want to do it on TikTok now. Why being on TikTok is wise? I asked the goddamn Prime Minister. We got the audio of the Prime Minister and it's like, that's a speech winner right there. No one else would have the Prime Minister.

She wants to do it on TikTok and why it's wise. If you could argue that TikTok is a wise thing, then you probably will win the speech competition. So she's doing a speech on wisdom but saying TikTok is a wise thing to do. Well, I mean, if you can have a 14-year-old aggressively twerking for 15 seconds, I mean, that's wise to put that in. It was funny last night,

because we were talking about, I was helping you, I was like, all right, I'll help you with this, you know, the speech on TikTok. And she was like... Oh, no, and no, you have to form the argument as to why it's wisdom. Why it's wise.

And she was asking, have you ever done a speech that hasn't gone well? And I'm like, well, yes, a couple of times. One, you and me, Jono, we did a, we emceed a travel function and remember it to Papa, and that didn't go well. At the National Museum, yeah, and I,

long story short, but I ended up walking headfirst into one of Sir Peter Jackson's wonderful war memorial characters. You know those oversized soldiers? Walk straight into the forefinger of one of them. Backstage in the dark. Holding a gun, yeah.

Bang. Big egg on my forehead. Came back out bleeding. Yeah, so I've gone to war. So that one, I told Sienna about this one. I said, John and I did this event one time

and it didn't go well. This is what happened. Traumatic. And then another time I remember at broadcasting school I was telling her we had a social function in the afternoon,

maybe a couple of beers, and then we turned up to another, leaving, and one of the tutors was leaving function. And I'd been enjoying the thing. And I was there purely on social engagement. You came in full steam, guys. Full steam. This is what he's trying to say. And one of the other tutors who was quite hard-cased,

she said a few lovely words about the tutor that was leaving, who I didn't really know, but it was like, yeah, lovely words. And then she was like, and on behalf of the students, are we going to get Ben to say a few words about the student? Just destroying me under the bus is a bit of a joke

because I guess maybe she'd seen that I wasn't quite prepared for it. And I was like, I think I was eating a mini quiche at the time. I was like, what? Still stuck between your teeth? And then I remember one of the journalists from broadcasting school go, oh, come on, you could at least say something. Like real salty at me. I'm like, this isn't being prayer, what? It's all stuck between your teeth? And then I remember one of the journalists from broadcasting school

going, oh, come on, you could at least say something. Like, real soulsy at me. I'm like, this hasn't been prearranged. Like, they thought I'd be prearranged to do that. I stumbled through a speech and I was like, this is all. I was like, oh, all the things you've done. Because I didn't have anything connected to. Oh, I love an ad lib speech.

Remember when someone left our office and they were, yeah, they probably, no one was really sad to see the back of them. And our boss ad-libbed a speech and didn't know what to exactly say because they didn't quite get along, but you needed to make a public speech because there was another

person leaving at the same time who had a heartfelt five minute bonanza of a speech a tearjerker and then it came to this other person and uh boss was like whoa all the all the emails so many emails you see me emails i replied to the host i replied and see you some emails great emails round of applause for all the emails. And that was the speech. I feel like I guessed that.

We've got to do the ages. Hey, well, good luck for Sienna on Tech Not Wisdom, the Chinese government getting all that intel. That is wise. That's wise. The commies, they put that in the speech. That's the argument. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Ed Sheeran and his wife, Cherry, had a baby girl yesterday called Lyra, but the middle name is causing a lot of attention, Antarctica. Yeah, so many people saying that maybe that was the way the child was consummated, in Antarctica. And he'll make a great dad, Ed Sheeran, won't he? You just feel like you have to say that to new parents.

You're going to make a great dad or a great mum. Yeah he you just feel like you have to say that to new parents you're going to make a great dad or a great mum yeah you do you end up saying that it might be shocking you may forget to you know pick the kids up

from swimming you know you may forget to change the nappies when he's meant to he could be a shocking dad but you feel obliged to say you're going to be

a great he does seem like he'd be a great dad he does actually and as you said before he'd be wonderful playing our bedtime story you know singing songs

and all sorts imagine having Ed Sheeran oh no I wish he was my dad I don't know logistically how that would work As you said before, he'd be wonderful playing our bedtime story, you know, singing songs and all sorts, yeah. Just imagine having Ed Sheeran sing. Oh, no. I wish he was my dad. I don't know logistically how that would work. Yeah, because he's a lot younger than you. Yeah, but I still wish it would be the same. Yeah, it would be quite weird if you had Ed Sheeran as a father, actually.

Because then he would have had to hook up with Jenny, Jenny, your mum, that maybe, yeah, that's a possibility. Yeah, that's a guess as well. Yeah, Jenny's was in the, why am I pimping your mum out to Ed Sheeran? She doesn't deserve that. that maybe, yeah, that's a possibility. Yeah, I guess it's possible. Yeah, his genies was in there. Why am I pimping your mum out to Ed Sheeran? She doesn't deserve that. But you deserve Ed Sheeran as a dad, Ben.

So we want to know this morning, what are you or someone that you're known named after? What's the story behind the name? Like Antarctica. Yeah, which we think was where they went nine months ago. Now, are you friends with the Kmart swimwear section? Yeah. I don't know. I can't think of any.

Minor 10 Mega. Yeah, there's a name. You named your cat Bubble after being in your bubble, didn't you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're right. We could branch it out to cats as well. That's a great example, Julian, if we're talking about cats. But we're talking about children here, mate.

Okay. I'll take cat calls as well, all right? Okay. I'll wait under the hats. But you're talking about children here, mate. Okay. I'll take cat calls as well, all right? Okay. I'll wait under the hits. But you're right. What were you named after? Can you beat Antarctica? Can you beat Ben's cat?

I don't know why the cat's been thrown in here as an example, but it is. Let's go to the phones. What were you named after? Felicity, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Welcome. Good morning. Good to have you on. You're named after who, Felicity?

Well, Falcon is my middle name and my parents owned a Falcon approximately nine months before I was born. Oh, Ford Falcon. Not the only one, too. And you're from West Auckland and I'm not going to stereotype about West Aucklanders because now's not the time to do that.

It's not the time to do that, but not the only one. Someone's named Tarana after his dad's first car. Yeah, a lot of car names are quite beautiful. There's like the Toyota Spackio. Spackio, lovely name, isn't it? Yeah, there's the Spackios, those tiny little ones that the old ladies drive

and you can't see them over the headrest. They just pull out of the car box. You wouldn't know any of the kids' Spackio though, would you? No, it sounds a bit... Thank you, Felicity. Thank you. You, Felicity. Thank you. You Felicity Falcon? You sound like a superhero.

It does sound pretty cool. My mate wanted to name his son Danger, the middle name. So his son could go, Danger's my middle name, which is pretty cool, but his wife wasn't quite as into that. Oh, wet blanket. Name your kid Danger. Give a comedy name. Hey, yeah, guys, Danger's my middle name.

Text here, 4487. My name is Aurora. My mum was a huge Disney fan. My dad said, I'm never going to name my daughter after a Disney character. But he didn't know Aurora was Sleeping Beauty's real name.

So she got that one past the goalie. Until now, if he's listening now, he'll be outraged. What? Amy, how are you in Whangarei? I'm good, thank you. How are you guys? We're doing well.

You were named after who, Amo? So my middle name's Ocean and my parents are really open about the fact that they can see me near the ocean. So we spend all my birthdays down at the beach. Oh, right.

Okay. How much detail do they go into? You know, not too much detail. Yeah, Grouch and Faye. Sand and noots and crannies. You're like, okay, cool.

Ocean's a cute name. Yeah, it's cool actually. Isn't it? Yeah, I think. Yeah, good on you, Amy. Have a good one. You too. Appreciate this.

Appreciate this. 44872, another text. Raiden, I was named after a Mortal Kombat character. Oh, yeah? Yeah. That's cool. Oh, definitely got a mullet, Raiden. Yeah, that's cool.

That's a cool name. If Raiden doesn't have a cool. Oh, definitely got a mullet, Raiden. Yeah, that's cool. That's a cool name. If Raiden doesn't have a mullet, there's a crime upon the name Raiden. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, a lot of cyber attacks happening in New Zealand right now. Yeah, I've been hearing you here over the last few days, like the Stock Exchange website's being attacked.

And, you know, you can think of something more exciting than attacking the NASDAQ index or whatever it's called. I guess it's critical information, I guess, is what they're going for. And even MetService yesterday was announced, the weather forecast channel. That was hacked. Yeah, and I think a bank's been hacked. The University of Auckland was hacked. Now, apparently all of the University of Auckland's data is housed by a U.S. company,

but the U.S. company paid the ransom to the hackers. Really? Yeah, but the GCS paid the ransom to the hackers. Really? Yeah, but the GCSB here in New Zealand, they're like, don't pay ransoms. Don't pay ransoms. They think it might be the Russians, mate. Russians getting in there. The cyber hackers.

Oh, really? This is the problem with when the world's in lockdown. No one's got anything else to do. So, you know, when you're bored, what do you do? Well, you hack the New Zealand Stock Exchange website. Or weigh in on Alan. Or Adele. Yeah, or Carol Baskin theories.

Yeah, you've got to weigh in on someone. You've got to hack or weigh in on someone. My parents, totally paranoid about technology, Annie and John Pryor, and we hacked them. Remember we hacked them? Because they got a new iPhone. Because up until then, they had like a petrol station burner phone. And they were very scared of the new iPhone

because they thought it was always going to be listening to them. Yeah. And so we phoned them. We got that computer voice that you can type things in and it speaks to you. And we phoned them as Siri to see if we could hack them. Hello? Hello, Annie Catherine Pryor and or John Walter Pryor.

This is Siri, the audio communication facility from Apple.Inc. How are you doing today? We don't talk to stupid computers. That is good to hear. You're an idiot. That is good to hear. You're an idiot. How is the weather in Christchurch today? We don't talk to stupid computers.

I am sorry, I did not understand your command. Please state how the weather is today in Christchurch. Shut up. Hello? Hello Annie Catherine Pryor, this is Siri the audio communication facility from Apple.Inc. How are you doing today? If you want to know how we're doing, put on a human voice Siri, we don't want you to ring us again we are calling to see how you are enjoying your new apple iphone from apple.inc if you put on a human not you siri i will tell them i will not talk to

you goodbye how is the wagon again what do you want, Sherry? We are calling to see how you are enjoying your new Apple iPhone from Apple.inc. Do not call again. How do we stop you? How do you stop? I still did not understand your response. Please repeat in a louder tone. Stop.

I am sorry. I did not understand your command. Do not call. Do not call. Do not call. How is the bald idiot of a son of yours? John boy. Hello. John Boy. Hello. John Boy. John Boy. Eddie and John. It's the bald idiot of your son.

You haven't been spammed by a robot voice. the bald idiot of your son. You haven't been spammed by a robot voice. Oh, right. You're fine. You're fine. We're just ringing to see how your iPhone was. Oh, it's good.

Yeah, good. Annie, we can hear Annie in the background. You're not going to put this on air, are you? Sorry, I can't hear you. That is so, you got us so well. It's so good.

And you see Your father hates Siri Just hates her I do not hate Siri I don't know Siri I like Siri Don't tell Siri that As everybody there

The whole team The whole team The whole gang Usually as you know I hate you doing this But that was really funny. That's one you quite enjoyed. You quite enjoyed this one at the end.

Love you, Mum. Goodbye. Yes, a warning to the Russian hackers, stay away from Annie and John. John the rat. So good. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

The A to Z of New Zealand. We call a different town or city in New Zealand We do one a day It's the A to Z of New Zealand Yes, we're heading to Flaxton this morning A small rural community in the Waimakariri district Flaxton is in the middle of what was once a swamp Now technically if it was a swamp Surely it still is a swamp

I don't know Oh yeah Unless something drastic has changed. It is home to an equestrian centre. What was that Trump's thing? Drain the swamp. That was his thing. Trump wanted to drain a swamp? I think it was all like in regards to all the politics in America

rather than actually draining a swamp. But who knows with Trump. Who knows he was also going to build a wall. What happened to that? Yeah, true. In Flaxton, it is home to an equestrian centre. So if you like watching horses, riding horses or eating horses, then Flaxton is the place for you. Let's head through to the equestrian centre now. Hello, Annabelle speaking.

Hello, Annabelle speaking. How are you? Is that Hamish, is it? It is. How's the kids? Yeah, good. How are you? No, I've been good. I It is. How's the kids? Yeah, good. How are you? No, I've been good.

I've been busy with work, with the family and stuff. Stop, stop. It's not Hamish. It's not. No, you can't. It's John Owen being calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, is it? Yeah, it is.

I was stopped by this. Or is it Hamish now saying it's John Owen being calling from the Hits radio station? Could we make this any more confusing? What do you want? Fair question. He's changed his tune now. What if it was Hamish? What would Hamish want? I don't know. He's my son, so he'd probably want money. Hold on.

You could not tell your own son's voice on the phone. We like to learn something about every town and city in New Zealand. Oh, yeah. Sorry, you wanted to say something? What did you want to say? I'm not sure what to say to tell you the truth. Well, shall I come in and say

something now? Yeah, go on. Yeah, yeah, you're very welcome. So we're phoning every town and city alphabetically. Flaxton is next on the list. Right. And we've come through to you, Annabelle, the wonderful owner, proprietor, manager of the Equestrian Centre.

You're having me on. Yeah, so we thought we'd find out about your wonderful place. What can you tell us? Oh, not a lot. We're just people come and ride their horses here. It's a nice place to be. Yeah, now, Flaxton, whereabouts in New Zealand is it? It's in between Rangiora and Kapoi.

Oh, yeah, North Canterbury. Yeah. North Canterbury. Where are you? We're in Auckland. Oh. If you talk to us for too long, you might catch COVID. Oh, jeez.

I know. Now, are you a fan of, well, clearly you're a fan of horses, or else you wouldn't have started an equestrian centre. Well, you'll never know, really, will you? You're like, no, they're one of the things I hate, but I decided to start one anyway. You don't know anything. I could be anyone, anything, anytime, anywhere.

Oh, you could. You could be bamboozled up in their heart. What's the one thing we should do if we come to Flaxton? Be careful. Okay, be careful. Okay Flaxton? Be careful. Okay, be careful. Always good to be careful. Walking behind a horse, I understand. Pay lots of money to have your horses here.

Do you ride them and jump over poles and things? Is that what you do? No, I'm ancient. The young ones come in and ride their horses here. Did you used to jump over the poles? I think everyone's jumped over poles in their days. I remember my pole jumping days. Wonderful pole dancer you are.

Have you jumped over poles? No, I've slid down them. Hey, Flaxon, Flaxon was once Rangiora Swamp, I understand. You're dead right, and they reckon a couple of hundred years ago there was a big swamp fire that came through here. Oh a swamp fire so there we go and then from that. There you have it. There you go.

Next time you're down you have to come and have a ride on a horse. Oh I'm always a bit shaky about jumping on a horse. Yeah well they're probably shaky when they look at you too. The Felix Mitchell. And have you trained any Olympians? No, don't be stupid.

There's not very many people that have done that. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry for thinking New Zealand equestrian could... You ask some really stupid questions. I do. You really should know a few more facts before you ring an old girl like me.

Well, thank you for telling us all about not only Hamish, but also Flaxton. Well, you guys have a good day. Are we allowed to play that on the radio? You can if you like. Oh, thank you. telling us all about not only Hamish, but also Flaxton. Well, you guys have a good day. Are we allowed to play that on the radio? You can if you like. Oh, thank you. She's like, I don't know why you would. I'm too old to care.

Too old to care. I love your work, Annabelle. You have a wonderful day. Nice to speak to you. See you later. Bye. She was amazing. The A to Z of New Zealand will continue tomorrow

as we make our way alphabetically throughout New Zealand. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Big news. Small town. Today, we're looking, this is an incredible story that we're going to get into. A young mum, a New Zealand mum,

who's broken the New Zealand powerlifting records after a few months ago she had a pretty... Life-changing event. Yeah. Yeah, she's so strong she could lift New Zealand out of level two this lady. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah, and she joins us on the phone right now.

Ashley Hortetti, welcome to the big new small town. Oh my gosh, this is crazy. Sorry. It's nice to talk to you. You've got an amazing story. Thanks. Yeah, you're in the middle of a squat or are you bench pressing anything right now

or we can have a chat? We can have a chat. Now, Ashley, you're just 24 and five months ago you suffered a stroke, is that right? And then five months later you broke New Zealand powerlifting records. Yeah.

That's incredible. What happens when you have a stroke? What do you feel? So I had numbness in my leg and then my face started to droop. I ended up in the hospital for a week and then because we went into lockdown, I spent like another two months just resting.

Yeah. At 24 years old, that would have been the furthest thing from your mind, thinking, oh, that's a stroke, right? Yeah. I thought it was just like pins and needles, but no, it wasn't. And so, and now five months later,

how did you recover so fast and be able to lift heavy weights again? So I didn't actually really fully recover. It was more like, so two weeks after I went back to training, I tore my rotator cuff in my arm. I spent a month off, and then I decided a month and a half out that I was going to compete.

Wow. So I was looking. The squat record in your category, 130 kgs. Well, you did 240 kgs. The deadlift was 160. You did 230 kgs. Well, you did 240 kgs. The deadlift was 160. You did 230 kgs. You just smashed these records. Yeah.

How do you, what's your technique? I mean, what's the secret to be able to lift amazing weights like that? Do you mind if I answer? I think strength, Ben. Oh, strength? Is that, oh, really? I thought maybe mentally, like, I'd be thinking of something like Jono, and he'd be firing me up. I'd be like, geez, I hate working with that guy. And then I'd be like Ben. Oh, strength. Is that how it is? I thought maybe mentally, like I'd be thinking of something like Jono and he'd be firing me up.

I'd be like, geez, I hate working with that guy. And then I'd be like, you know, is there anything in your mind you're thinking about, something like that? No, not at all.

Like I completely zone out when I lift. Now, are you doing a clean and jerk? No, so it's a squat, a bench and a deadlift. Clean and jerk is weightlifting. Yeah, I had many years weightlifting. I was a weightlifter.

Believe it or not. You weren't. Ashley, you don't laugh, mate. When was this? I had my weightlifting years. What? Lifting a beer to your mouth is not about lifting weights. At school, they made us do weightlifting.

Oh, really? Yeah, no. Have you heard of Rory Barrett? No. Rory Barrett, he was our deputy principal, but he was an Olympic weightlifter. And so one of his things was getting everyone to do weightlifting. Oh, really?

I was shocking at it. Wow. I was shocking. And so powerlifting, can you take drugs? I don't know. Can you take steroids? I have no idea. Do they test you for steroids?

I think so, but they didn't at this Nationals. A friend of ours used to do that as a job for the tennis players. Oh, that's right. Test the steroids and he had to watch them, you know, release, so to speak. So what's the goals for you? You want to continue to do this? Maybe represent New Zealand in the Olympics? You got aspirations like that?

It was just to compete at nationals. I didn't really have anything after that, but because my dad's quite fit, it's pretty much to rush to get to the top as soon as possible while he's still around. Right. Oh, what a wonderful goal. Yeah.

Gee whiz. And you're doing it in such a... You've only been doing the sport for about two years, haven't you? Oh, a year. A year, and you're smashing records. Do you reckon the other powerlifters are like, oh, why did she have to come in here and ruin it for us? We're doing all right there,

and this one doubles our weight, had a stroke five months ago. When did you realise you could lift heavy things? At the Nationals. You're like, did you enter the competition without lifting anything? I'll give it a go. I'm not too bad at this. Good on you. And if we ever need help moving house, can we call you?

Because we've got your number now. Couches and beds and stuff. Yeah, you probably could do that just couch by yourself, that sort of thing. Yeah. You know, I had another radio interview this morning and they said the exact same thing. Who beat us to the chase? It was a radio station from down in Taranaki.

Taranaki Radio. Oh, jeez. You tell them that, yeah, okay, we might be late on that one. We got beaten to the chase at the movie gig. Damn it. That was our big closer. I can't think of another one. No, what is it?

Hold there, Ashley. We'll just try and think of another route to this bit. Give me a lift to work. Yeah, oh yeah, go try that. Okay, hold on, Ashley. Ben's got something.

So if I need to get to work, you're going to give me a lift? Like literally give me a lift? Oh yeah, for sure. Great, there we go. There's some original content. There you go. All right, you show the,

tell that Taranaki radio station to put that in their pipe and smoke it. I love your work, Ashley. Well done. You seem like an amazing Kiwi. Keep up the good work and keep lifting heavy things. Awesome, thank you.

Low in calories and low in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on my hits. Buy the WhatsApp by doco.nz. Here is a bulletin about famous people Lou in calories and Lou in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on my hits. Spy. Know what's up? Spy.co.nz. Here is a bulletin about famous people that might vaguely interest you. Producer Juliet with Spy. And this might vaguely interest you as well.

Ed Sheeran is now officially a father. Him and his partner Cherry are welcome to their first child, a baby girl. And her name is Lyra Antarctica Seabourn Sheeran. So got both their last names and middle name is Lyra Antarctica Seabourn Sheeran. So got both their last names and middle name Antarctica. And there's rumours going around that because Ed Sheeran was in Antarctica about nine months ago, that is where

she may have been conceived. Which is quite interesting. It looked like he was on a boat in the photo with like a Christmas jumper on because it's quite cold down there and everyone's like, oh Antarctica, nine months, maybe. Oh well you would assume there was a crew on the boat as well. I don't imagine Ed Sheeran was captaining his own way through Antarctica.

So they did it with other people on board as well. I imagine they had cabins. I don't imagine it's an open interesting. In the dining room. Has anyone else noticed that Ed Sheeran is currently making a baby in front of us while we're having our Sunday roast? That's a bit weird. In Antarctica.

He'll make a wonderful father. I tell you what, the old bedtime lullabies better be good. of us while we're having our Sunday roast in Antarctica. Oh, that's why he'll make a wonderful father. I tell you what, the old bedtime lullabies better be good. Oh, true. You're not going to get a better lullaby singer, are you? True. Which one of my number one worldwide smash hits do you want me to sing you to sleep with? This one or this one?

Producer Humphrey was saying before the show that will this kid be quite a good, responsible kid because it's got Ed Sheeran as a father and he seems like a really good guy and I'm sure a lovely mother as well. We all thought Ellen was a great lady for many years. Let's not go jumping to conclusions, Juliet.

Yeah, true. Or will it just go off the rails because it's got a lot of money and nothing to worry about in life? Generally, the famous people's children, for the most part, don't end up doing anything wild, do they? It Generally, the famous people's children, for the most part, don't end up doing anything wild, do they? It's usually the famous people themselves when they were young.

It's only so embarrassing. You look at David Beckham and Victoria Beckham's kids, you're like, oh, they look like well-rounded children. Yeah, they do. You're right. Boring, well-rounded children just living their life. Now, has anyone else been named after where they were conceived or born? Oh, that's an interesting one.

Yeah, 4487 on the text if you or someone in your family has had that happen. Yeah. We might get to that after the clock. Yeah, just give a text. For more spy, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Viva, they've got a glossy edition out. It's on sale and you can text Viva to 4487 for more information. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Now, of course, under level two, it's compulsory for everyone to be wearing masks on public transport. And thanks to kindface.co.nz, we've made our own versions. Some new masks we want to give away

with Ashley Bloomfield's face on the side. It says... I'm a baby bloomer. The official Ashley Bloomfield fan club. Although, where is Ashley gone? I mentioned's face on the side. It says... I'm a baby bloomer. The official Ashley Bloomfield fan club. Although, where has Ashley gone? I mentioned earlier in the show. I haven't seen him in a week. I'm starting to get worried. Has anyone told

Ashley we're commemorating him by putting his face on a mask? Maybe he's gone into hiding because we're doing this. So we want to play a wee game because yesterday we noticed you and I wore masks up the road where we had to move our cars. We were trying to have a conversation to each other. It was very hard to understand what...

I was just going, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know what you were saying. I know, but you need good technique. We spoke to a lady the other day in Hastings at the chemist and she was wearing a mask we couldn't even tell. Now, what are your thoughts on the face mask? Are you for or against? I'm wearing one now. So I'm for because if you've got that, can't have the two metre distancing. I can't tell you're wearing a face mask. Are you for or against? I'm wearing one now, so I'm for, because if you've got that,

can't have the two metre distancing. I can't tell you're wearing a face mask. If you had said, am I or am I not wearing a face mask, I would have said you're not. Well, I am. So, under the hits, we're going to play a wee game with you right now.

You ring us up and you either wear a mask or don't wear a mask. It's up to you. We need to guess if you're talking through a mask or not. Yeah, hit the game show music producer, Juliet. This is thanks to kindface.co.nz. You can protect yourself

and those around you. Show your kind face. They have triple layer design using natural materials and all New Zealand made so you can order yours at kindface.co.nz. And now,

our boss Todd also, he seems to think everyone looks sexier in a mask. He does. Remember he came in the other days, like you look, everyone looks sexier because you're a little bit more, say, another extra layer.

Or leave your mask on, or keep it on, or take it off. Yeah, up to you. It's a little bit of an air of mystery, isn't there? Let's head to Auckland, Victoria. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast. You start talking. We'll try and figure out if you're wearing a mask or not. Okay.

Oh, she's a little muffled. What are you doing today, Vic? I'm on my way to school. I'm going to say mask. I'm going to say mask. I'll have to go the same as you. Okay, I'll say I'll go mask as well then. This is when you tell us if you're wearing a mask or not, Vic.

No. You're not. Oh, that's late. Well done. You've got one of our Ashley Bloomfield masks coming your way. Thanks to Kindface. Good on you. Let's head to Wellington.

Sarah, mask or no mask? You start talking. Sarah? Hey, g'day. Mask or no mask? I've got a mask on. She sounds quite clear, though, doesn't she? She's bluffing.

She's bluffing. Yeah, I reckon she's bluffing. Yeah, you're bluffing. I've got a mask on. She sounds quite clear, though, doesn't she? She's bluffing. She's bluffing. Yeah, I reckon she's bluffing. You're bluffing. I've got a mask. I'm in a taxi and I've got a mask. You are wearing a mask. I am. I don't know why I'm so amazed by this.

This is the game we invented and that we're playing. It's like we've just watched Dynamo trick or something. We're like, wow. Is that you walking across the River Thames? She was wearing it. She wasn't. We're going to get an Ashley Bloomfield walking across the River Thames? She was wearing it. She wasn't. We're going to get an Ashley Bloomfield commemorative signature range mask for your troubles, Sarah. I love one.

Thank you. Hey, good on you. Also in the capital, Sarnie. Mask or no mask? Take it away. Well, I'm on my way to work. Raining. I've been no good at this game so far.

I know, because it all sounds so clear. I'm going to say no mask again. What are you thinking, Jono? I'm going to go with you. No mask. No, I'm not wearing a mask. Yes! We got one.

We got one. The greatest thing I've ever achieved in my life was guessing if Sarnie was wearing a mask or not. It is mask or no mask. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Van on the Heads. Of course, it is Father's Day on Sunday,

and we want to give one lucky dad a chance to win some vouchers. Thanks to grabone.co.nz to spend on their Father's Day collection. There's a huge range of gift ideas on site. Visit grabone.co.nz. I really like those bobbleheads we saw the other day. You get specifically made bobbleheads. That's a very cool idea, eh? Yeah, so grabone.co.nz

to win those vouchers if you want to right now. We're doing... Important Dad Days. Important Dad Days. grabone.co.nz. I just talked all over the grabone bit too.

That was the important part. Yeah. But I think grabone's, they'll be satisfied with the airtime. I hope so. I hope so. I mean, you gave them

some good love there, Ben. You did too, and then you talked to them. Anyway. And then just to pull the rug out, talked all over their credit. So 0800, the hits telephone number, Father's Day. They're not good. Generally, dads aren't that good at remembering important dates, and we've put this to the test this week so far.

Heidi, your moko, what date is their birthday? Oh, I don't know that one, sorry. I'll give you the month. It's January. January, okay. Okay, okay. Still got any bells? How many days are in January?

Don't double down on it. Poor old Mike's already under the puff. Now we're asking him how many days. Let's just say, what is the day after the 30th? Oh, the 31st. Oh, of course. There we go. We get there in the end.

We got there, yeah. That's the main thing. And welcome on 0800, the hits. Shannon, what day is Father's Day, Shannon? Sunday. That's right. Father's Day, Sunday. Your dad, has he done a good job of being a dad?

He has. He's a really good dad. It'd be awkward if you're like, he was shocking. He left when we were three and never came back. Now Mark, he hasn't left yet, but has he left out some important dates in his head that was almost a segue that didn't quite work? What dates

are we going to give him to see if he knows? We'll give him his children's birthdays, all three of them. All three? Because that's a lot of dates. And now you know, he's also got to remember when Bunnings are having a sale. Yeah. What time the Warriors are playing this weekend. Where he left his jandals, his really thick rubber jandals.

Yeah. He's got a lot of things to remember. Okay, Shannon, when's your birthday? The 23rd of February. 23rd of February. And your other siblings, what are their names and what are their birthdays? Regan's is the 6th of May and Bradley's is the 31st of July. 6th of May and Bradley, 31st of July.

And what does Mark do, Shannon? He sells car batteries. Oh, car batteries. Very handy to have, aren't they? Yes, you don't think about them too much, but you do when they don't work. Yeah, exactly. All right, well, let's give Mark a call. Good luck, Shannon.

Let's hope your father, Mark, answers the phone and answers these questions correctly because then you won't have to worry about a presence this Sunday. True. Hello, Mark speaking. Oh, Mark, it's John Owen Bean calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hey, John Owen Bean. How are you?

Oh, we're doing well. Do you really want to know how I am? No. Don't bring the vibes down. Oh, hey, John. I'm Ben. How are you? Oh, we're doing well. Do you really want to know how I am? No. Go on. Don't bring the vibes down. Oh, just a little stodgy. A little stodgy at the moment. Oh, really?

Yeah, I've been eating quite a stodgy diet, so I feel a little heavier than usual, Mark. Okay. How are you feeling? How's your intestinal health? Oh, pretty average. Okay, pretty average. All right.

Ben, how are you feeling? Are you feeling light or stodgy today? No, I'm okay. I'm okay at the moment. I wouldn't say stodgy. No, pretty average. All right. Ben, how are you feeling? Are you feeling light or stodgy today? I'm okay. I'm okay at the moment. I wouldn't say stodgy. I'm feeling all right. Now, Mark, we haven't just called you to tell you about Jono's stodginess. We've got your daughter on the phone, Shannon.

Oh, Shannon. Shannon, are you stodgy? I'm all right. She's not feeling stodgy. She's good. She's good. Just you, Jono. Now, Mark, we're putting on the spot with some important dates in your life.

These are dates you should know. Every question you get correct, you get $100 GrabOne vouchers for Father's Day, right? Oh, awesome. And every question you get wrong, we'll probably give you $100 GrabOne vouchers out of guilt. So, no, you're a walk away a winner regardless, Mark. Okay, we have Shannon on the line right now. We want to know Shannon's birthday, Mark. 23rd of February.

Oh, well done. One from one. Well done. He's a good father. Okay, Regan. Regan, Regan's birthday, please. Regan's birthday. He's your son.

Yep. That would be the 6th of May. Oh, two from two. This is not the comedy we need from this. Usually it's Dad's foot flailing around trying to remember dates and panicking. We thought you'd be stumbling on this one, but you're doing well. And finally, Bradley's birthday, please. Bradley's is easy.

It's the same as my wife. It's the 31st of July. Oh, three from three. Too good, Mark. You've got $300 worth of. It's the 31st of July. Three from three. Too good, Mark. You've got $300 worth of GrabOne vouchers from grabone.co.nz. Thank you very much, guys. What a great father. Thank you, Shannon.

Oh, good on you, Shannon. I'll tell you what. You are a dad that other dads could aspire to be like. If I could be reborn again and you make me, you create me, I would love you as my father. Oh, that's awesome. I'll take you as my father. Oh, that's awesome. I'd take you as my son. There we go. Thanks, Dad.

Thanks, Dad. Alright. Love you, Dad. Hey, we'll see you soon, sis. Thank you very much, guys. That was a rollercoaster of a conversation, but you have a great day. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on my hips. Scrolling through your feed. Yes, these are the breaking news stories,

and if they're not broken, we will break them. We just don't know how to put them back together. Ben Boyce, over to you. Ed Sheeran, pop star, has broken his media silence to say him and his wife have had a baby. A little baby girl. Completely in love, he says, which is lovely. But Lyra is the first name, right, producer Juliet?

Yep, Lyra. Antarctica, which is lovely. But Lyra is the first name, right? Producer Juliet? Yep, Lyra. And Antarctica, the middle name. Antarctica. Now, a lot of people on the internet thinking that nine months ago, Ed Sheeran, they've done some investigating, was in Antarctica, so they thought maybe that's the place it was conceived.

Seems like an unusual fornication location. Antarctica. Freezing cold Antarctica. You're going to start warm somehow, don't you? Well, I guess so. But then you'd have to take off your nice warm suit, wouldn't you? Unless you just unzipped a little part of the suit. Yeah, well maybe they went outside in the snow.

I don't know if you're thinking they're out in the blizzard in the snow. With the polar bears. They do have like... Cabins. Cabins and stuff. Yeah, right. I'm not surprised he's gone with a quirky name, Ed Sheeran. I thought he would have done like Ned Stark or bloody Daenerys or something because he's gone with a quirky name Ed Sheeran I thought he would have

done like Ned Stark or bloody Daenerys or something because he's a fan of Game of Thrones isn't he he's a big fan

of Game of Thrones yeah what's her name the wife yeah Cherry Cherry yeah

they kept it secret for a long time they did it was only kind of speculation maybe a month ago that she was even pregnant oh really

I think so yeah I remember seeing that. I guess lockdown probably helps to keep things under wraps because people aren't going out as much. Oh, there's a lady here at work, Gemma. Remember we met her when we first started here before lockdown and she came back from lockdown fully pregnant.

Like, fully, like, almost. And now she's having a baby. I don't know what happened. This year has been a crazy year. This is what's happened And speaking of craziness Here in New Zealand This is kind of scary

A whole lot of cyber attacks Going on against New Zealand companies The NZX website Has been crashing for the last five days And now MetService Yesterday MetService got hacked What are they trying to get? The weather?

The weather before tomorrow? The incorrect weather updates? That's what they provide for us Oh that's interesting too Because a bank Was it TSB or one of them? the weather, the weather before tomorrow. The incorrect weather updates. That would provide for us. Oh, that's interesting too, because a bank, was it TSB or one of them? I should be careful here, but one of them got hacked too. They were saying that MetService does hold a lot of critical safety information around New Zealand,

things like that, you know, and authorised weather watches and warnings. So they actually do hold quite a lot of stuff that's very important. If you're going to hack a country, New Zealand's not high on the list, I wouldn't imagine. What do you mean?

Well, you'd go for a bigger, better country, wouldn't you? Yeah. Hack America? Yeah. England? What are our secrets? You're like, oh, fairly, yeah, snow tomorrow. That's a surprise, first day of spring.

That's the sort of stuff you're going to find out at MedService. My old man is so paranoid about just being hacked on the internet. He won't put his credit card details on the internet. No, but he gets me to do it for him.

So he'll phone me up. He's like, I'm thinking of getting this. Can you buy it for me? And he never pays me back either. Oh yeah, I'll put my credit card online. He has no worries.

And he's just so suspicious of every email and phone call that comes through to him. Well, maybe he should be in charge of cyber security here in New Zealand. Yeah, well,

we just wouldn't have the internet. You'd unplug the internet. We'd be 30 years behind the rest of the world. That is scrolling through your feed this morning. All the news partially correct from us, I'd say. You know, probably seven and eight. Did you just make up? That's for you to decide.

Ed Sheeran didn't actually have a baby, but we rolled with it anyway. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy the WhatsApp by it anyway. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Spy. The What's Up by doco.nz. Now for an update

on which Kardashian has been cheated on here's Juliet with Spy. Thank you. So Bradley Cooper he is in isolation looking after both his 80 year old

mother and his three year old daughter as well as two dogs. But the thing is here is that so he's trying to preschool his three year old keep his dogs, as well as two dogs. But the thing is here is that, so he's trying to preschool his three-year-old, keep his dogs under control.

Oh, we all know how stressful this has been. You've got dogs, you've got three-year-olds. It's all gay. And then his mother, she has a, how do you say it, Jono? A colostomy bag. A colostomy bag. So she's vulnerable to the virus. I don't think that's your answer, Jono. How do you say it, Jono?

What's that bag you carry around with you, Jono, you old man? What do you call him again? With all your waste in it? That's my colostomy bag, Juliet, and I thank you very much for emptying it after every programme. I was wondering what the smell was in here. So he's basically locked inside because he can't leave and no one can come inside because she's vulnerable already.

So he's basically in isolation just trying to look after all these animals and people and I feel like that's quite a situation to be in. Oh, what a lovely guy though. What a great thing to be doing. His ex-wife will be like, hey, this is punishment, isn't it, mate? This is punishment for that sexually driven performance you did with Lady Gaga on stage in front of me. Everyone thought they were hooking up and if they weren't hooking up, everyone wanted them to hook up. Oh, I was just reading

an interview with someone. I was like, why? There was interviews going out at the time with people on set like, the chemistry is electric. She even finishes her sentences.

Oh, God. Imagine if his wife was reading that. Oh, no, no wonder they're having problems. At times she's like, oh, so she finishes her sentences, does she?

I'll give you a sentence to finish. That is true. But apparently they only stay, Bradley Cooper and Irina was her name. They only stayed together because of the child and they thought, oh, listen, we're just not getting along. She didn't like his gruelling work schedule.

All right. And that's how you end up changing your mother's colostomy bag with a three-year-old. Exactly. And the cast of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, they are reuniting for one episode. And it's to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the show. 30 years.

Yeah, of the show being on air, basically. And it'll be one of those unscripted reunion specials like how they're doing with friends where the cast all sort of reunite. Seems dangerous. Seems dangerous. Seems there should be a script. If they're filming an episode of The Fresh Prince,

are they all just going to turn up and go, okay, we'll just wing this? Yeah. This is Will Smith's very good, but it won't be that good. Yeah. It seems like maybe it's a reflection on the series, right? More than an actual sitcom moment. Yeah, yeah.

Good series. The kids have been watching it on Netflix. It's still really, really, really good. Remember when we were in LA and we filmed with bloody Carlton? Alfonso. Alfonso. Yeah, we paid him to do a little cameo in something we were filming.

Yeah. And he turned up in this van, like this people mover van. He's like, I've got a big family. But his van had a TV in it, a coffee machine. Oh, it was so impressive. He's like, I play golf

and I drive all around America in my van. Yes, look at my van. He loved that van. It's a nice van. It was a lovely van. He's like, you sit in the van. I was like, that's fine. I don't need something. He's like, sit in the van. So I had to sit in his van. It's a nice van. It was a lovely van. He's like, you sit in the van. I was like, that's fine. I don't need something.

He's like, sit in the van. So I had to sit in his van. His absolute pride and joy. It was a wonderful van. I think the driver's seat, because the driver's seat and the passenger's seat were separate, and he could push a button and it would rotate around. Oh, my God.

So he could face the back and turn that into a lounge. Yeah. That is flash. Great van. It was a great van. He was right. It was a great van. For more right. It was a great van. For more spy,

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Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. It's almost at the end of our show and we like to end

on a positive note. This is feeling good at the beginning there. Yeah. And we're feeling fine. End like to end on a positive note. That says feeling good at the beginning there. And we're feeling fine. Ending the show on a high Wednesday night. Toasted sandwich night tonight in my household.

Toasted sandwich night? I'll tell you what, if it could be toasted between two bits of bread and my grill, it'll be going into my stomach this evening. Is it because you miss out

on lunch? You don't eat lunch? Then you go, oh jeez, I feel like a toasted sandwich. Because normally that would be a traditional lunch.

What, a toasted sandwich? Yeah. Is toasted sandwich not done? I would feel like a toasted sandwich. Because normally that would be a traditional lunch. What, a toasted sandwich? Yeah. A toasted sandwich. I would never have a toasted sandwich. Oh, sorry, when did you become the meal police? I suppose you're telling me I can't eat Coco Pops for night time snacking. Well, you can. You can do what you want to do. But I was just curious. I was just saying, you know, normally that would be, would you be right to say that? Yeah, I'd say so. It'd be a lunch time thing.

Oh, I didn't realise there were designated hours where you can consume toasted sandwiches. There's also lunch as well too. You can have that any day, but you choose not to. Yeah, I do. I go lunchless. So I have my lunch at dinner time. So that's why I wanted it if you wanted it.

And I have my dinner at two in the morning. This is my unusual regime, but it works for me. But yeah, toasted sandwich night tonight in the household. How are you feeling about today? I'm feeling okay about today. Feeling a little niggly about my eating time? I was feeling good after I got

roasted for bringing it just a question it was just a question yeah so alright but I want to get things back onto a positive note

alright so you tell us why it's going to be a good day for you producer Juliet you're running like 60k today oh no thank god today's a rest day

after my huge run yesterday I'm going to chill out if you dated Forrest Gump, you guys would just never see each other. You'd both be out running training for marathons. True. So your marathon's at the end of the year and you ran 12Ks non-stop yesterday. Yeah, it was

tough, but yeah, I feel sore today so I'm just going to probably just lie on the couch watch a bit of tally. Yeah. Have a wine after midday. That was also your say? Yeah. Juliet literally hasn't moved. She's stayed in the same position all morning. She can't move at the moment. We're going to have to carry her out of the building this morning.

And the only thing I've said is that I feel like a wine already. So why is it going to be a good day for you? 4, 4, 8, 7 or 0, 800, the hits. Why is it going to be a good day today? We end on a high. Did you know it's 114 days till Christmas? Oh, really? We shouldn't be surprised about that.

I should have said that figure and it should have been like, oh you know, only 30 days till Christmas but 114's quite a long runway. We are on the home stretch. We've done two thirds of the year. Yeah. And everyone's like, oh bring on Christmas as if like once December 25th hits, COVID-19 goes. You know what, I've had a hell of a year on my collar today.

That's enough. 2021, no thanks. I only had a one year contract so you're right. It That's enough. 2021, no thanks. I only had a one-year contract, so you're right. It was a lucrative 12-month deal for COVID. But hopefully next year will be a lot better. I guess you've got to look to the positives. That's what this segment's all about. That's what I've been. We don't need to sit in the cesspit of negativity.

Let's go to Connor in Auckland. Why is it going to be a good day for you, Connor? It's a good day because I got offered a job in Cleveland packaging coffee and stuff. Yes. A country that most coffee. Oh, that's great. Yeah, you did, buddy.

When do you start? I start next week. Good on you, Connor. Well done, mate. Well, you go and pack that coffee good and then pump that coffee into your bloodstream. Yes. Yes.

Yeah, all right. Double pass to Reading Cinema is coming your way too, my friend. Have a great day. Thank you, you too. We'll head to the Coromandel. Pauline, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Why's it going to be a good day in the Mandel, babe? The Mandel.

It's my 50th birthday today. Oh, well done. Congratulations. Happy birthday. Carol Baskin's got a song for you. It's your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going to sit and party like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give a fudge like it's your birthday. We're going to sit and party like it's your birthday.

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