Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - September 03 - Reception Reception, Ben's Sanitiser Incident, What Were You Paid To Do?

Episode Date: September 2, 2020

Reception Reception is baaaaaack! And today's one was a little different... Ben also had a bit of an incident with hand sanitiser, one where it spilled all over an area you don't want spillage! Finally, we discussed the weird things you got paid for and one caller was absolutely golden. 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, the Thursdays podcast. How do you preen yourself?

Are you like a weekly, just get it all done in one hit? Your nails, your face, your hair. What are you doing? Oh. When do you shave? I've been a bit lazy lately with the shaving. I clip a clip of my beard. Are you clean shaven all over?

No, no. I don't like clean shaven. No. No, but no, I'm not talking about that. No, no. Even my face. Yeah, I'm not talking about your face. Oh, right.

Yeah, no. Body down. You're quite a hairless guy. I am quite, yeah. You run a smooth operation. You're making me feel a little bit weird now. When I run my fingers

down your torso, it reminds me of a wetsuit. I love it. No, the reason I ask is because I do it all in one hit. Did it all last night. Oh, right.

You know, you whack the nails off, whack the hair off, whack the thing. Getting it all done. Yeah, I like to get it done in one hit. Did you cut your hair as well?

No, I didn't get around to that. Oh, right, because you keep saying I'll put it off keep putting it off oh no no it only takes me five minutes yeah I thought that would be part of

the hit session yeah like get it done in one hit you didn't include that in one hit no do you do it weekly what's that

your tidy up a bit of a tidy up a spruce up of the body yeah I put time to it every few days just monitor it and go oh okay that needs a little bit

of a spruce up when it needs a touch up you'll give it a touch up? Yeah, haircuts. I'm getting one today, actually, after the show. Oh, really? So I'm looking forward to that because it's been a while since I haven't been able to do it in lockdown. You've been seeing your barber for many years, haven't you?

Yeah, so I'm going to go see him today. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. I'm going to be wearing a lot of hats later because his hair's getting a bit long. Such an intimate relationship you have with a hairdresser. One that I haven't had for many years, obviously. So not that intimate for me. But you never... Well, you have an intimate relationship with yourself. You're your own hairdresser. One that I haven't had for many years, obviously. So not that intimate for me. But you never... Well, you have an intimate relationship with yourself.

You're your own hairdresser, right? That's right. The things you've told yourself and do with yourself. How I pay myself. But the question I was about to ask you is when you walk out of the salon, you're looking a million bucks, aren't you, Ben? Well, they do a good job in there, right? Do you ever recreate the hairstyle they leave you with when you walk off the chair?

No, no, I don't think you do. The next day, you're never like, oh, they did it. They just did it well, yeah. And they sort of take the time to sort of, you know, like get a hairdryer out and things like that, that I probably wouldn't do in the morning when you're in a rush. You're like, oh, they've really taken the... You never go back to that salon cut, do you? Yeah, you're right.

No, never go back. That's why they know what they're doing. They do. Yeah, you'd think they wouldn't. You'd be like, I can do this at home, but you can't. No, it's always those things that you think you can do yourself. Like surfing. You're like, that looks easy. Yeah, but it's a lot harder than you think. Today on the show, podcast, reception, reception's

back where I leave a message for Ben. He has to retrieve the message. This is how it generally works. Hello? Oh, hi. Is that Nadine? Yes it is. Oh hi, it's Ben here. I'm a hard working businessman. Just wondering if you have any messages for me. From Jonathan perhaps.

Yeah, I think I was expecting a message from Jonathan. He did leave a message. It's about a wake on Sunday. He was wanting you for a Star Wars theme. As an exotic dancer by the way. Me as a exotic dancer, by the way. Me as an exotic dancer?

Yeah. Okay. So that's when you were a hard-working exotic dancer doing funeral work. Oh, funeral work, just diversifying my portfolio. So that's how Reception Reception works.

That's in today's podcast. As well as that, we hack into Jono's computer and, oh, the things we uncover. You won't believe what we uncover. Enjoy it on the podcast. Neither do I. Just like a chocolate milkshake,

only white and disappointing. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. Reception Reception Time. Yeah, we do this every week, don't we? I leave a message for Ben with the receptionist around the country. You head off and you don't know what the message is and then you come back in,

and we'll see if that receptionist will pass the message on to you. All right. I'm about to head out, and you can leave a message with a random receptionist. Go to the soundproof booth. All right. Do some squats, lunges, whatever you do. It's leg day today, mate.

Don't skip it. And we're going to head through to a company here in the South Island and leave a message for Ben Boyce. You're speaking with Maz. Hello, Maz. How are you? I'm good. You having a lovely day? Who's calling?

Oh, there's a chat pit calling here. I'm just leaving a message for a friend of mine, Ben. Leaving a message for Ben? Yeah, Ben. He's my best man at my wedding and I have to, listen, can you do me a favour, Maz? Potentially. If I leave a message with you, are you able to pass the message on to him if he calls? If he calls? Yeah, I'll give him your number to call because I just can't deliver this message to him Sorry, so does Ben work here? No, he doesn't work there

He's just a friend of mine Okay And if you could take down the message I'll get him to call you and you pass the message on to him Who am I speaking with? My name's Chad Chad? Pitt, P-I-T-T

So listen, I've got my wedding this weekend. Okay. And he is meant to be my best man. Right. And he can't be my best man.

So I'd like it if you could please pass on that message to him I don't know who this man is though Yeah that's fine there's no emotional attachment for you Have you used our company recently? No no What I tend to do with awkward conversations Is I phone receptions

Leave a message with the receptionist And get them to pass it on to the person Oh my gosh So listen Do you want to know what the problem is? Go on then I need to replace him As the best man

And now it's a bit awkward because we're a few days out from the wedding But the problem is He's too hot. So he's going to steal the limelight. He's going to steal the limelight. He's so hot you could iron clothes on him. Right. Yeah. I can see your problem there. Yeah. He he's so hot, you could... Simply by holding him, you could restart a car with jumper cables. And fry an egg as well. He's so hot, he cries lava. So, Maz, if he's at the wedding,

I might have to serve him up as the main course. Right. I can see the issue you have. Yeah, I mean, are you married? I mean, no, I'm not. No, but if you get married, you're not going to have someone hotter than you as your maid of honour, are you?

I have to say that looks aren't everything. I suppose that's a personal preference, but it depends what that person means to you, you know? Well, my rule of thumb is always hang out with someone uglier than you. Right. I will see what I can do. Yeah, so what message have you got there?

You know, I'm just going to have to spontaneously verbalise that, won't I? Oh, you'll pass on. Thank you so much, Mez. All the best. So, Mez, will she tell Ben that he's no longer required as part of the wedding party this weekend? Let's bring him back in from the soundproof booth. All the stuff we've been saying about you, mate.

All positive, all positive. I'm sure they are, okay. Okay, Maz is our receptionist this week. Okay, we're in here receptionist, yep. What's the scenario? My name's Chad. Chad? Chad Pitt.

Chad Pitt, and you're Ben. Okay. And as we are in real life, you're my man. You're the best man, and you're at my wedding. Oh, so I'm best man at a wedding? Yeah, my wedding, yeah. Okay, man At a wedding Yeah At my wedding Yeah Okay Chad Pitt's wedding

Chad Pitt's wedding I just need to I just need to Pass on something to you Okay A message Someone's going to give me A message

Maz will About the wedding Okay We'll call Maz now Alright You're speaking with Maz Oh hi My name's Ben How's it going Hi Ben Hi If you're speaking with Madge. Oh, hi.

My name's Ben. How's it going? Hi, Ben. Hi. This is a bit weird, but my friend Chad left a message here for me, apparently. Yeah, I did speak with Chad recently. Oh, Chad. Yeah, how is Chad?

Is he all right? Is he good? Yeah, yeah, he's really good. We're looking forward to his wedding. It's coming up soon. Yeah, Chad. Yeah, how is Chaddy? Is he all right? Is he good? Yeah, yeah, he's really good. Yeah, we're looking forward to his wedding. It's coming up soon. Yeah, right. It's this weekend, right? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, geez, a heck of a boys weekend away last weekend. Awesome, yeah. Anyway, I won't hold up too much of your time. What did he have? What was the message for me? Do you know? He just wanted to say that I just hope you enjoy that wedding so much. Oh, thank you.

I'm looking forward to it this weekend. Awesome. Take it easy, Ben. All right. No worries. No worries. Thanks for passing that on. You're very welcome.

All right. There's a lovely one for us, James. Thank you. That's not how it's meant to go. Thank you. There was a nice one. Normally they're embarrassing things. There's other content. There's not how it's meant to go Thank you, that was a nice one Normally they're embarrassing things There's other content There's other content that's meant to come

Maz was meant to deliver a message You go, you get out of the room What? I'm going to call Maz back Don't leave Maz alone I'm calling Maz, man This is not how the game works, Ben Leave her alone

Go back to the soundproof booth Julia will call Maz, man You're speaking with Maz Maz it's Chad Hey Chad What the heck man What what's going on He just texted me saying

He's looking forward to the wedding Oh that's weird What did you tell him Oh I just told him I told him what you told me to say Did you tell him that He can't be my best man anymore Oh is that Was that what you wanted me to say. Did you tell him that he can't be my best man anymore? Oh, is that what you wanted me to say?

This was clearly stipulated. He's too hot. Remember, I said all that stuff about how hot he was. He's so hot he cries lava. Oh, yeah, I did let him know that. No, you didn't. He's just texted me. He still thinks it's on.

He's really looking forward to it. I know, but you've got to break the news to him, Maz. I just couldn't do that to him. Listen, if he calls back, I'm going to get him to got to break the news to him, Maz. I just couldn't do that to him. Listen, if he calls back, I'm going to get him to call you back. You tell him, Maz, okay? No. I can do it.

Maz, please, if there's anything you can do for me, this random man called Chad you don't know, remember I told you he was so hot his clothes ironed themselves? Yeah. You remember all that? You laughed. You laughed then and you're laughing again now Remember? Yeah I do Yeah

It's coming back to me Just tell him Just tell him You're no longer required In the best man duties I'm going to write that down Hang on Yeah

I don't know why You didn't write it down The first time Maz I just thought I was going to be spontaneous About it but I couldn't Yeah well your spontaneity Ended up with him still thinking

He's part of the wedding party You are no longer... Required. Required. As... Best man at the wedding. Best man at the wedding. Best man at the wedding.

Okay. Yeah. I've got it this time. Oh, you've got it? Okay, I'll get him to call you back. See you, Chad. Bring Ben back in. Ben!

Ben, come back in Alright I'm back in Alright Now Maz is going to Drop the message to you Oh she's not done Your silly jokes or something She hasn't

She hasn't completed Reception She can't finish Until the receptionist Has passed on the message Oh maybe she doesn't want to Alright let's make a call You're speaking with Maz It's Maz How's it going? Hi who am I speaking with Maz.

It's Maz. How's it going? Hi, who am I speaking with? This is Ben. There's a really weird chat to see to give you a call again. I don't know why he's not talking to me. It's kind of odd. Yeah, he just let me know that he's like super, super excited for the wedding.

Oh, good. So am I. So am I. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome. Oh, there was another message. Hang on. Yeah. Oh, good. So am I. So am I. Can't wait. It's going to be awesome. Oh, there was another message. Hang on. Yeah?

I actually forgot. I'll read it straight out because I quoted it down. Okay. All right. Prepare yourself. Okay. I'm ready.

I'm ready. What's Jenny got to say? My boy. Oh, you know, you're going to love this one. Okay. We'll see. We'll see.

He just wanted to say that you are a very beautiful person inside and out. Oh, geez, he's a good guy, isn't he? No! No, it's Chad here. I wanted you to ask him as my best man for the wedding. No. You're too lovely.

It's Jono and Ben here from the Hits radio station. The Hits? Yeah, it's the Hits. You're such a nice person. Maz. Jono leaves a message for me. It's Jono, not Chad, Chad Pitt. A random message to see if someone will pass it on to me.

You were too nice. You didn't want to do it, which is lovely. So are you both people? We're both people and we're both here. We're here for a radio show. Jono leaves a message at a random reception, just calls a number at random and sees if they'll pass on a message.

Today was tough because it was a tough message to pass on and you were too lovely. That is fantastic. Thank goodness for that. Oh, wow. That's so crazy. Hey, you've got toothpaste on the side of your mouth. It's Jono and Ben on my heads.

No, you know, I'm a guy who's up with the play. I've got my ear to the ground. Finger on the pulse. Have you? Have you really? No, I've never had my finger on any pulse. I actually can't feel a pulse on my body. That's worrying.

It's concerning. OnlyFans. Have you heard about this OnlyFans website? Oh, a little bit. Yeah, I've been hearing bits and pieces. I read an article, a former Disney lady. I'm a bit confused by what it's all about, but it seems to be like you pay subscriptions

to go on and have access to people's accounts. So instead of being able to follow someone on Instagram and Facebook and stuff, they have their own special OnlyFans account. Yeah, they provide content for their fans and some of it a bit more saucy, Benjamin. Oh really? Not all of it's like that though, right?

No, I think there's fitness instructors and stuff on there as well who probably do workout videos and things like that. But a former Disney star, and I know I just hit my fingers on the pulse, but I've completely forgotten her name. Bella Thorne. Thank you. Thank you, Producer Juliet. That's why we have a 22-year-old on the show, to help with my Alzheimer's. Bella Thorne, she took a bit of a pivot, as they say, in her career.

She was a Disney star when she was a teenager. Yeah, she was. She was on a TV show, a dancing TV show or something. Yeah, now she's gone into a more provocative form of entertainment. Right. And so she's on there. In one week, with stuff she was posting to people who had signed up and paid a monthly registration to her OnlyFans account, made $2 million. $2 million? $2 million.

Holy. Over a million in 24 hours. Wow. The stuff, the unspeakable things I would do for $2 million on the internet. You could start your own OnlyFans account. The unspeakable things I've done on the internet for free. You put me up there and you put a photo of me dressed as a baby. Yeah, that's true.

Imagine how much I could have got for that. I could be making bank right now, baby. Maybe that could be your thing. You just, and man dressed as a baby and see how people sign up for it. Okay, I'm going to start my account today. Man now, baby. Maybe that could be your thing. You just, and Mandris is a baby and see how people will sign up for it. Okay, I'm going to start my account today. Mandris is baby.

They're like, oh, I've got to see what he's doing today. Just different bleak photos of me. They're having tantrums on the floor in the supermarket. Is that Gollum who's got tattoos now?

Let himself go. But it's crazy what you can earn money doing nowadays, isn't it? It's really amazing. Let's open up the phone lines. Not that they're not always open, but it sounds better when you say open up the phone lines. Yeah, no, it sounds like they're the phones. open up the phone lines. Not that they're not always open but it sounds better when you

say open up the phone lines. Yeah it sounds like they're too busy that we have to shut them down but that's not the case. Like a big drawbridge on Game of Thrones or something like open the phone lines. The calls come flooding in. What have you been paid to do? Like a crazy thing they actually got money for doing. We've got a story about a guy involving his hands. Yes. That we must share next. Oh, that's incredible. And he got flown around the world doing this with his hands.

Yeah, this is a legit story. Hell of a job for those hands. It was. Well said. Under the hits is the phone number. If you want to give us a text, you can do that as well. We'll open the text lines as well, 4487. Let's go to Christchurch.

Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Olivia. What did you get paid to do, mate? Sorry. No, weren't you early in the morning, Claire the Frog? I was like, well, this is the first time I've spoken today. It's a bit like that, eh? I get it at 6 o'clock in the morning. I used to get paid to hold a sign outside a pizza shop

for like nine hours a day, which is quite punishing as is. But I used to have like a bunch of different signs that I'd have to hold depending on like the daily deal or whatever it may be. And I used to have to hold one that said $10 meat lover, which I used to get. You used to get some honks? $10 meat lover.

So you were essentially doing the job of a pole. Yes, pretty much. They do that. People in America, they spin the signs around. They put flair and stuff into it. A friend of mine at broadcasting school, he got a job. He had to walk around. It was a shoe shop, and it was like the end of the world sale,

and he had to walk around with a sign that said, the end of the world is nigh, is what it said. Everyone just thought he was like a crazy cuckoo guy. John 320 or whatever they have on their shirt. All right, mate. As he walked around there with a little shoe advertising. Hey, Olivia, thank you so much for your call. Thank you.

Great debut for your voice this Thursday as well. Oh, that's great. Good start. It's going to be a good day for that voice, I can tell. Look after yourself. Let's head to Tiamaru. Sally, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast, mate. What did you get paid to do?

I used to do people's homework for $20 a piece, and people thought I was a total nerd, but I got to live it up large in the weekend. Oh, live it up large. Tax-free $20 cash as well. And so how long would one piece of homework take you? I'm just trying to think if they were getting banged for their buck. Depending, I think,

it used to be kind of between an hour or kind of two hours-ish, depending on what it was. Twenty bucks? Not bad, not bad at that age. As a school kid, that's pretty good. Yeah, good on you, Sally. Good initiative. Let's head to Whangarei.

We'll head to the north. Welcome, Nikki. You're on the air. What did you get paid to do? I was actually working at a sexpo in Milan back in the 80s. In Milan in the 80s? This sounds wild. What a crazy time it was in Milan in the 80s. I'm surprised you're talking about it now.

It was a three-day event of basically strippers and educational toys. And it was actually my job to make sure the strippers got to the stage on time, in order, without having tantrums. Why were they having tantrums? I don't want to take my clothes off. What's your job? That's the 80s. Some of them actually got really upset because they didn't want to be first because the crowd wasn't big enough.

Oh, I see. You've got to come out of optimal conditions, don't you? You need a prime. You want the crowd humming when you hop out there. Well, Nicky, I tell you what, we could start a radio series, the Milan in the 80s. Every day we have a different story from Nicky. I've got some good stories, all right.

We'll get you back on. We'll get you back on. We'll get you back on. I'm going to send something for you. You have a great day. That's such a great call. New Zealand's breakfast. Just don't eat them. They're chewy.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, obviously, you know, work here. We're all back at work this weekend, this week after lockdown in the O9 area. And there's a lot of, you know, extra hand sanitiser and social distancing and QR codes and all that. Everyone's trying to keep safe. A lot of people wearing masks around the building as well,

which is good to see. But there's large, very large potholes of hand sanitiser. Oh, commercial-sized hand sanitiser. I imagine it came from Gilmore's or somewhere like that. You go to Gilmore's and everything's like five times bigger than you need. You're like, what? We've got enough, literally the bottle

of hand sanitiser in here could sanitise me for five lifetimes. But I love hand sanitiser. You know, I like that. You do it like, if it's there,

I'll just use it. Like he literally just, during the Chainsmokers song was sanitising. Now he's looking at it now longingly wanting to sanitise again. Because as I said,

there's one in the studio and I use it and then when Iise again. Because as I said, there's one in the studio and I use it, and then when I went to the bathroom after the show, there's one on the way to the bathroom, and I was like, I'll use that again. You should just take up smoking. It's a better addiction. But that one on the way to the bathroom,

you've used it. It's sitting up above, sort of up high on a sort of shelf. Yeah. Yeah, no, and it comes out at a rate of knots. It does. It comes exploding out of the container. Well, that's what happened yesterday.

So I gave it a good decent pump down there and the hand sanitizer sort of exploded out, like you said, and went all over my crotch area. And I was wearing like... Well, if anybody needs sanitising. I was wearing... Maybe you know something that we all know. We've all been talking about behind the office.

I was wearing some light-coloured jeans. Actually, Juliet put it up there just so the angle would help. Well, it worked. It worked. Because it went all over and I was wearing light coloured jeans

and I tried to sort of rub it in and then you're sort of, you know, you're rubbing your crotch in the middle of the office. It's not a good look. So I went off to the bathroom.

And they did it in the bathroom? And then I was like, well, there's no way this is going to come off. This is not going to work so I just have to walk straight out. Walk straight out.

Then I had to take my trousers off and walk back into the office with no trousers on. Then I got called to HR. HR? Can you believe it? Don't you have any people complaining about me? Being pantless in the office? What? PC madness, bro.

I blame the labours and the greens of the world. So anyway, I walked out with quite a decent patch in front of my jeans, straight into someone from Hodaki who's like, hey, mate. You don't want to walk out of there with that incident and go to Hodaki. Yeah, I know. Straight out of there and it's like, oh, bit of an accident in there, mate, because I looked like I'd just come out of the toilets and just weed myself all over there.

And you over-explain it. You over-go, oh, it was a hand sanitiser. It was around the corner and just weed myself all over there. And you over-explain it. You over-go, oh, it was a hand sanitiser, it was around the corner, and I did it all the way there. And they're like, oh, yeah, cool story, mate. You end up on the radio trying to back up your claims just to make sure that everyone knows you had no trousers on. Your pants are off for HR. So, yeah, can we send this up to HR?

I just want to make sure of that. It's part of the case. This is evidence. We'll be your alibis, mate. Morning. It's Jono and Ben on the hips. If you join this show, the ongoing saga of me wallet-shaming Ben Boyce continues on. We're into day two.

Ben Boyce paid for some coffees the other day, and I noticed he has a Velcro wallet. Fully grown man with a highlighter green Velcro wallet. Smiggle, yeah, smiggle wallet, yeah. Much like the Velcro, that wallet has stuck on you. He's persisting with it, aren't you? Yeah, and you were saying also yeah. Much like the Velcro, that wallet is stuck on you. He's persisting with it, aren't you? Yeah, and you were saying also yesterday, including in the wallet show, they have a lot of cards in there. Like, it's quite thick.

It is. Juliet, you've seen a lot of wallets in your 22 years. Wow. I need to give it a proper clean out because there is a lot of stuff that's going on in there. Does that go in your back pocket? It goes in the front pocket, but just, yeah. You're like one of those old guys you see at the RSA who puts the wallet in his back pocket, but the back pocket actually forms a shaded shape around the wallet.

There's a lot in there. How many loyalty cards have you got in there? Well, apart from, okay, so obviously bank cards and swipe cards and driver's license. Yeah, take those out. Let's run through your list of loyalty cards. I've got a Smiles card from Mobile, like an arcade card, Archie Brothers,

Wickles, Perks card, two Smiles cards. No, he's smiling extra. He's extra happy. More arcades cards, Starbucks, St. Pierre's, Smiggle, of course, Smiggle. Another Starbucks, another St. Pierre's. There's honestly about 20 loyalty cards. Four Hop cards. Oh, that's for the family, though.

That's all, you know, that's transport. No one has shown more loyalty to loyalty cards than Ben Boyce. Countdown cards. Four hop cards. Oh, that's for the family though. That's all, you know, that's transport. No one is showing more loyalty to loyalty cards than Ben Boyce. Countdown cards. There's some business cards in there for people because I do a lot of business photos of my kids and a lot of I could have won Lotto. I don't know. Do you forget what you've got? Yeah, I didn't even know I had half the stuff in here to be honest.

Okay. Oh, 800. I'm going to shut this out then. Wow. Who has the most amount of loyalty cards listening right now? You can rattle them off. If you can beat Ben, there's a good 20 there. You've got 20 crammed into that wallet. There's too much. There's too much.

I don't know if anyone out there can beat me. Oh, 100 of the hits. We'll find a prize if you can. And let's head to Tokoroa. Michelle's with us. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Michelle, how many loyalty cards are you running? 20-something, I think.

Oh, wow. Give us some of the big bangers. Rattle through them, Michelle. Okay, the main ones I've got. Flybys, Subway, BP, New World, Mobile, Airpoints, Blood Donor Card, Strandbags, The Garden Centre, Spotlight, The Coffee Club, Super Cheap, Silver Moon Jewellery, Farmers, silver moon jewellery,

farmers, the garden centre, my dog's microchip card. Michelle. Michelle, well done. My car finance card. Oh, she's still going. She's still going. We're going to send you out a prize. All right.

Maybe a voucher so you can put it in a wallet. Can we send her out a voucher? Get a new card, yeah. Good on you, Michelle. Really appreciate that. Oh, that's good. Michelle's saying she's got 22 cards in total. Lisa with us.

How many loyalty cards are you running, Lisa? I'd say like 10 plus. Oh, there, okay. Give us a rattle through them. St. Peter's, AT Hot Cards. Yeah. Three Coffee Clububs Cards, Three of them, good.

A New World Club Card, Peter Pert, Farmers Card, Visa Prizzy Card, Penner's Loyalty Card, Airpoint Card, an AA Smart Fuel one, a Warehouse Gift Voucher one, and also a Countdown One Card.

Oh, that's a great list of loyalty cards. Why isn't there an app where you suck the loyalty cards into? And I don't know, through some witchcraft, they're all sitting on one thing on your phone. On your phone, yeah. So you just go ding. There probably is. Is there?

I think there is one, yeah. Oh, damn it. I was about to stand up, hang up my headphones, walk out and become very rich. We're going to send you out a prize. Thank you so much for your call as well. That was very impressive. Yeah, nice.

Thank you. You said thank you. Now we're in this awkward thing where I'm now thanking the thanking and now I'm talking about the thanking. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now tomorrow streaming on Neon and all around the world,

there's a brand new murder mystery series out. It looks epic. It was filmed in the Marlborough Sounds. It's called The Sounds. Have a listen. When I first met Tom, I thought it was an act. It's a whole boy next door thing. Two of me against the world.

The place is so charming. I thought you found a pretty little pair to us. Lady, you picked the wrong town. Tom? Tom? Tom? I think something has happened to my husband. Yeah, it looks incredible. It's called The Sounds.

It stars an actor who was in the Twilight movies and Kiwi actor Matt Whelan, who you'll know from Go Girls. He's played Hugh Hefner in an international series. He's been a detective on Narcos as well. And he joins us on the phone. Matt Whelan, hello. How are you? Oh, good.

Thank you very much. Whereabouts are you in the world? Good. I'm in New Plymouth. Oh, it sounds like you're in New Plymouth. It felt like a New Plymouth line. I could feel the... New Plymouth reverberation.

Yeah, I could feel Taranaki coming through the phone lines there. Yeah. Are you there for work? Are you there for... I live here. I've got a place here. Oh, you live in New Plymouth, but you base a lot of your time in America.

Yeah, so a little bit in the States and a little bit in Auckland, Australia, just wherever I need to be. I'll tell you what, you couldn't get further away from the streets of Hollywood than Devon Street in New Plymouth. That is true.

So you also spend a bit of time, I imagine, in The Sounds, filming The Sounds, which looks amazing. We've seen the trailer for the series. It looks incredible. It looks good, hey? Yeah, I was quite nervous

when that was coming out, but it's really good. It's awesome. Yeah, we shot most of it actually Up north in Whangaroa And around Auckland And then we had a whole unit go down

And shoot a bunch in the sounds To get those beautiful aerial shots Yeah the scenery looks incredible Oh so hold on the thing's called the sounds But the bulk of it was not filmed The film industry's a lie. That's so right. Next you'll be telling me those blue characters off Avatar

aren't actually real. Now, to explain the story just quickly, now you play Tom, you move to the Marlborough Sounds with your wife, you start a new life there, and then you go missing, and it seems like there's a whole lot of unsettling facts about your character. Yeah, so basically, yeah, you're right.

So the idea is Tom and Maggie Cabot, a Canadian couple, moved to the Sounds to set up a fishery. And yeah, I go missing. I go missing. Is that good for not

having to learn lines? You're like halfway through, you're like, well, I'm out, I'm done. Yeah, well, yeah, you'll have to wait and see. He may have a few more lines. Well, maybe, you know. Ben, I don't think your goal as an actor

is to spend as much time off screen not saying lines. Oh, is that why? Okay. No, it's what I've been doing wrong. We've got Matt Whelan with us, a Kiwi actor. He's in an awesome-looking new series called The Sounds, which is on Neon right now. Now, Matt, you've also appeared, you played Hugh Hefner in an Amazon series,

and you actually met Hugh Hefner. Is that correct? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we went and shot for a day at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, and, yeah, we were, you know, hanging around by the grotto and the pool and stuff. And then one of his assistants came down and said that he really wanted to meet me.

So, of course, he was involved in the casting process, so he had to watch my tape. Oh, so he helped choose you to play him. Wow. Yeah, which was crazy. That was surreal enough to play him wow yeah which was crazy that was surreal enough to have him go yep that yep he can he can play me and then uh so yeah they you know he's like oh he wants to meet you so i get taken upstairs into this you know no access area i'm waiting in his room in his bedroom while he's you know getting ready in in the office and there's the big rotating

circular bed which, you know. Are you like, what are we about to do? What does Hugh Hibner want me to do? Why have I been sitting here? Why have I been rotating? And so he comes into the rotating bedroom. No, no, I go to meet him. I go to meet him in the office.

And then, yeah, he was just sitting there and his son was in there and his assistants and we just chatted for a good 20 minutes, took a couple of photos. Awesome. Yeah, a real gentleman. Talked about his son a lot and his family and, you know, very proud.

He was a lovely guy. What I saw of Girls of the Playboy Mansion on E! New, I was a big fan of the E! show. Yeah. I was like, that grotto needs a bloody good chlorine-ing. Need to biff some chlorine salts in that grotto. Yeah. We shot in there, too.

Did you just swim in it? Yeah. Oh, no! Yeah. Worse than a public spa pool, that thing. Imagine the stuff that's gone on in the grotto. Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah. Worse than a public spa pool, that thing. Imagine the stuff that's gone on in the grove. Oh, yeah. I know, I know.

We got Kiwi actor Matt Whelan with us. Now, Matt, you also starred in international smash hit Netflix show Narcos. Now, that follows the story of drug kingpin Pablo Esquipa. You played a detective. You travelled to Colombia to film it. I mean, that must have been surreal. Yeah, that was crazy. That was a lot of fun as well.

As an actor, sometimes you're not in the room for auditions. You send off tapes of yourself. And then, you know, before you know it, I'm on a plane to Colombia, and I haven't met anybody. No one in person. This sounds very shady. Yeah, I know. I just. No one in person. This sounds very shady. Yeah, I know. I just had to take a suitcase all the way to Columbia.

Don't ask any questions. Yeah, it was so surreal. I didn't believe it until I was on set shooting. And did you film on Pablo Escobar's estate? We filmed in a cartel in one of their sicario, so a hitman's mansion called Scorpio,

I think his name was. And we went over the road to this really, like, hole-in-the-wall cafe and started chatting to this guy. And he was, yeah, turned out he was one of his guards. And so the guard,

now he's a yogi. So he showed us all these pictures of him, like, standing around with guns and stuff, and invited us to a yoga retreat. Yeah, great. I like the hitman's name, Scorpion. I mean, that's a great hitman name. You don't want to be called Buttercup or something, do you?

Sweet Cheeks or something. Sweet Cheeks. Oh, I'll get Sweet Cheeks talking after you. Listen, really interesting talking to you, man. Well done on all your success. It's really great to see New Zealanders like yourself doing such fantastic things abroad and also keeping it humble by living in New Plymouth.

Yeah, thanks, man. I'm really looking forward to the sound coming out and everyone being able to see it. Well, it's probably a good time to release it in the world where a lot of people are not going out as much anymore. It's a good time to binge watch an epic TV show like this. Yeah, yeah, totally. That's Matt Whelan, Kiwi actor.

The Sound's the epic drama on Neon as of tomorrow. More painful than your alarm clock. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Listen, when was the last time you checked your couch, cleaned out your couch? Oh, what do you mean down between the sort of cracks? Underneath the pillows, you know. I got home yesterday and I sort of found the pillows were sitting above the couch.

I'm like, well, this isn't a good sign. I don't know what's underneath them that's raising the cushions up. We hadn't checked the couch in a long time. It's one of those things when you move it as well into vacuum and then you're like, well, wow, how did they get so messy under here? I know, and then as soon as you have children, it sort of becomes like an extra pocket for the kids. They're trying to chuck stuff down there, hide stuff,

meals they don't want, food, toys that they want to hide from each other. Or wrappers from muesli bars or something like that that they haven't taken to the kitchen, they've just sort of put down there. Yeah, you're right. Listen, I cleaned out my couch yesterday. I was like, well, now's the time to do it.

I found my grandmother. We thought she had died six years ago. She was hiding in the crack. Really? Wow. No, but in all seriousness, stuff I found, I found my missing wallet

that I lost and I had to get all replacement cards down the crack of the couch. Really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. How big does a couch go down?

No, it goes, you know, the slot and then there's like an empty base. Oh, it goes back in. So it goes in the crack. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. How big does a couch go down? Oh, no, it goes, you know, the slot, and then there's like an empty base. So it goes in the crack. Yeah, right. Yeah. And once you stick your hand down that crack, I tell you what, I felt like the teeth were going to come out and bite me.

It's a little bit scary, isn't it? You put your hand there, you don't know what's going to happen. And you never clean it. Why do you never clean underneath the couch? What, down through the- Down the crack, yeah. No, no.

So it's kind of one of those out of sight, out of mind things, isn't it? Where you'd be a sort of sweet, I love putting stuff away. Like putting things in piles and putting them in cupboards. Yeah, you're not a tidier as such, are you? You're a hider.

I just like, I like tidying it up. I like cleaning the surface. So I just put it all in piles. Amanda does all stuff and she's like, I didn't pay this bill. It was from three months ago. I'm like, oh, well, I put it in a pile with a whole lot of other stuff

and put it away in the cupboard. You're a pile guy. I like everything in piles. I pile it up, put it away, shut a drawer in it. You're like, oh, well, I put it in a pile with a whole lot of other stuff and put it away in the cupboard. You're a pile guy. I like everything in piles. Put it away, shut a drawer. He's like a mole. Just leaving piles of dirt all over the place.

I don't see it. Why is all this stuff together? He hasn't opened his cupboard in five years because for fear of it exploding the house to pieces. There's a lot of stuff in there. A lot of skeletons

in those cupboards. Hey, Father's Day's coming up very shortly. If you want to win $300 with the Grab One vouchers for your dad, we put him under the pump, don't we? The unnecessary amount of pressure on fathers. These are important dates that your dad should know.

Family members' birthdays, anniversaries, those sorts of things. They should know, but generally don't know. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Father's Day is on Sunday and on 0800 the hits right now. Hannah.

Hi. Hannah. Hannah. Just a little bit. I was just mixing up a bit. That's good. I like it. What do you do, Hannah?

I do social media and online content for a travel company. Awesome. Oh, yeah. Good. How's the old social media stuff going and the TikTok

and the Facebook? You sound like a boomer. It's always going. It's always going. It's always good. It never stops. I see Ben do it. Ben does it.

He's just a constant. He's created a whole other job for himself. It does get quite relentless, I imagine. Yeah, I mean, you've got to stick up with the trends

and it's always changing so it's pretty hard work but it's a lot of fun. What's trending at the moment, Hannah, in social media? Oh. Ben keeps sending me pictures of his...

Is that a common thing? No, I don't. Anyway, Hannah, this is not why you called. It's Father's Day on Sunday. He's like, is it unusual to have three moles there? And I'm like, I don't know. What do you reckon, Hannah? I don't know if I have the professional capability.

No, no. Don't send it to Hannah, though. No, I'm not sending it to anyone. Just send them to me. It's fine. No, I can take them. No, Hannah. And now Father's Day on Sunday, we're going to call your dad,

and we're going to throw at him some important dates. How's your dad going to go with this? I hope okay. I like to think that he knows his stuff. Awesome. Now, this is for $300 worth of GrabOne vouchers for Father's Day. Fantastic website. And the amount of stuff you can buy on there, it's endless.

I'm like, where are they keeping all this stuff? That was the question I asked you. Oh, it's a great question. You know, you've got wine, you've got restaurant vouchers, you've got massages, you've got chairs that massage you. You've got socks that massage you. Hands that massage you. If you want to be massaged, you can go to GrabOne and be massaged.

But that's only just one of the categories. Now, Hannah, what's your dad's name? Richard. Richard. And what date shall we give him? Let's go with your birthday first. What's that? 27th of December.

27th of December. Okay. And what other birthday shall we throw at them? I think we should try my mum. Her name's Viv. Viv? Oh, that's a great mum name. Yeah, that is a good mum name. My mum's name's Annie. I call her Annie because's. Her name's Viv. Viv? Oh, that's a great mum name. Yeah, that is a good mum name.

My mum's name's Annie. I call her Annie because that's her name. That's good. Great, great, great combo, Jono. Now, what's Viv's birthday? His is the 2nd of July. 2nd of July. I mean, let's go one more date.

Yeah, I've got a few, so you can pick one. We've got one that's quite close to my mum's, but we could throw him a curveball and go my brother's. It's in January. Okay, let you can pick one. We've got one that's quite close to my mum's, but we could throw them a curveball and go my brother's. It's in January. Okay, let's go your brother. What's your brother's name? Reuben. 17th of January. 17th of January. Okay, great.

Let's go. I love the moment just before we call them, because I don't know if they're going to nail it or not. To be honest, it's better for us if they fumble around. It's better entertainment. Not great for you, Hannah, because I don't know if they're going to nail it or not. To be honest, it's better for us if they fumble around. It's better entertainment. Not great for you, Hannah, because obviously you want your dad to win the voucher, but it's great for us.

I don't mind it too. We're going to go through to Richard now. What does Richard do for Chris? He works for Richie's. Does a few things down there. Richie's the bus company? Yeah. Oh, Richard, Richard, Richie. Richie from Richie.

I mean, you must have got the job as soon as you walked in. Yeah, it worked. Hello, Richard here. Hello, Richard. I'm looking at getting a bus, a bus to run over you with, because guess what? It's Jono and Ben from The Hits, and you're under the bus right now. You've been thrown under it, Richard.

It happens. It happens. We have your daughter, Hannah, on the line. Oh, excellent. Okay, now we're going to put some important dates to you. So these are dates in your life that you should know and each one you get correct, you get $100 Grab One voucher, alright? Oh, fabulous. How are you at

remembering dates, Richard? I'm pretty fragile. Okay. Well, this is the best time to strike for us. Alright, Richard, your first date. Hannah, who's on the phone right now, so it's going to be awkward if you don't know, what is her birthday? Oh, crap.

This is not a good start, Hannah. Hannah was born... It's pretty close to another big event over there. Ah, it's coming clearer. She was born on the 27th of December. Yeah, well done Hannah do you get your birthday and sort of Christmas lumped in together

do people try and do that? they definitely try well done Richard you're one from one that's $100 from GrabOne your next question Viv your wife what is her birthday? 2nd of July he's sucking in the big breasts there.

He did well. As soon as you mentioned your wife, you're like, oh, I better get this one right. In third and final, you're doing really well, Richard. You've got Reuben, your son, Hannah's brother. What is his birthday? That's harder. Yeah.

Hannah said this would be a curveball. Yeah, definitely a curveball. He's born on January the... Yes. Just take a stab, take a stab. You're so close. 31 days. January 16th.

Oh! One day off. One day off. One day off. Shall we re-record it? It was the 17th, but don't worry, Richard. We're going to give you the $300 worth of GrabOne vouchers anyway, my friend. Oh, too kind, too kind. Thank you, GrabOne.

Hannah, if I could reference your industry, are you hashtag happy with that? I'm hashtag happy with that. It's trending. It's trending, that combo. Are you hashtag happy with that? I'm hashtag happy with that. It's trending. It's trending. That combo. Are you hashtag happy, Richard? Super hashtag happy. Yeah, good. We're all hashtag excited and happy. Good on you guys. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you.

Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on my heads. Spy the WhatsApp by Ducko.nz From Jay-Z in New York to Day-Z in New Plymouth, here's producer Juliet with Spy Entertainment News. So Tom Cruise, he has spent just under a million dollars, New Zealand, on a cruise ship for his cast and crew of Mission Impossible.

A Tom Cruise ship? Oh, it was a race to the pun. It was a race to the pun finish line. That was so good. And this is purely because he doesn't want any coronavirus inconvenience, any filming. So it's all for all the cast and crew to stay on, to sleep on, to use. So they're all in their giant bubble and they stay there

so that coronavirus can't get them. Is he purchased it or is he renting this? I actually don't know. I've never rented a cruise ship before. I don't know how the logistics of that would work. I can imagine he could do both. Yeah. With his finances, he probably could do both with his finances.

He probably could do both but you'd think he'd rent it, right? The niggly part is they've all had to convert to Scientology while on the ship. Yeah, exactly. And Robbie Williams,

he's also placed himself in the middle of nowhere on a mountain in Switzerland purely to avoid getting COVID as well. He says he's a bit neurotic and thought, where can he place himself

so that he's as far away from possibly getting the virus as well. He says he's a bit neurotic and thought where can he place himself so that he's as far away from possibly getting the virus as possible. So he's in the mountains in Switzerland. And what you wouldn't give to be trapped in the mountains in Switzerland with Robbie Williams. That would be a fun time. Huge Robbie fan.

What was the story on the hero? Here's the story that Jono Vagley remembers. I like how Jono Vagley remembers stuff. Yeah, I don't like it. I'm not a details person. No, there were two actors that were trying to come into New Zealand and the headline was like,

oh, they tried to flout the quarantine. Oh, it was like Kristen Dunst and her husband, I think he's also an actor as well. Because they were filming a movie before lockdown and then they had to go home

and they've come back to film the rest of it. And they were like, oh, can we just sit out our two weeks quarantine on this sort of estate on a farm? And they're like, no, we'd prefer if you're in a hotel. And so they did. They stayed in a hotel.

But everyone's like, who are these bloody Hollywood bigwigs coming in here trying to flout our world? They asked if they could quarantine isolated in a farm. They said no, and then they followed the rules. They stuck by the rules. Yeah, I don't know why that was a big story. Oh, well, I had my pitchfork out. Chase them out of town. Get these bigwigs out of our town, mate. Don't abide by our rules. Yeah, I don't know why that was a big story. Oh well, I had my pitchfork out. Chase them out of town. Yeah.

Get these bigwigs out of our town, mate. Don't abide by our rules. Oh dear. Play by our rules around here in New Zealand. And they did. I don't know why. What's the story? For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz and Viva Volume 1 has gone glossy. It's on sale and if you want some more information, you can text Viva to 4487.

When are you going to go glossy then? You turn up a bit glossy. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. We are calling every town and city in New Zealand. We do one a day. We do it alphabetically.

We're slowly working our way all around New Zealand. And as you mentioned before, Jono, today we're calling a place that I kind of just thought was like a tourist attraction. Yeah, I've seen it on postcards and things, but I didn't know, yeah, that there were people actually habitating there. Very beautiful part of New Zealand, right? It is.

And I didn't, I'm ashamed to say this, but I didn't know exactly where it was located. No. Did you? No, no. I knew it was a thing. Yeah. So the Fox Glacier.

It's a small town on the west coast of the South Island. Right. Yeah. The population is only 306, which means until the glacier melts due to climate change, the gene pool is rather shallow in the Fox Glacier. And we're going to head through right now to the General Store,

which looks like something from the 1920s. Good morning, Fox Store, Ash speaking. Oh, Ash. Yes. How are you, Ash? It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station here. G'day, mate. How are you?

We're doing really well. We're phoning every town and city in New Zealand. Fox Glacier might be the most picturesque part. Absolutely. I'm not disagreeing. No, he's not disagreeing. What can you tell us? Because we like to learn something about each place we call.

What can you tell us about Fox Glacier? Well, at the moment, Fox is a tourist town without a lot of tourists. But, no, it's a cool wee town. It's like a rural town with a farming backbone. You know, tourism topping it up, if you will. And, yeah, there's a cool community. There's a glacier or glacier. What Glacier or Glacier? What do you like to roll with?

I never know. Oh, it's Glacier, mate, yeah. Oh, Glacier. Yeah, no, it's Glacier. The more you say Glacier, the more fun it becomes, doesn't it? Yeah, Glacier. Is that always there, where you can go under the ice and you can see like in the ice cave?

Is that always there? Is that a silly question? Yeah, yeah, no, the. The glacier's always there. It's sort of, yeah, it's there 24-7 and doesn't shut down at night or anything silly like that. That's why it's there, I suppose. So the summer, summertime, there's still ice there. That was probably my question.

Yeah, yeah, no, it doesn't disappear. 24 hours a day, if you want to go look at that glacier, you can go and do it. How long have you lived there, Ash? Oh, mate, I've been here since 89, yeah. 89? Married a local girl, so I'm sort of just about part of the furniture. And so you want us down there simulating your economy?

Oh, big time, mate, yeah. We're sort of feeling it at the moment. Being sort of three, four, well, four and a half hours away from a major city, yeah, things are under the pump. But, hey, we're not the only ones in New Zealand like that, so we're just battening down the hatches and hoping for better times. Cool spot to spend the night or two, you know. You sound like an adventurous guy, Ash. Yeah.

I'm going to chuck some things out there. You tell me if you've done them or not. Have you jumped off a bridge with a rope tied around your ankles? Negative. Oh, you haven't? You sound like the type of guy. Have you been flying under a parachute of some description? No.

No, I wouldn't do that either. Yeah. I've read you wrong. Yeah. Because I fly, I don't. I do. I fly helicopters. Oh, you do helicopters.

So, yeah, I've seen the other side of that. So that's just not what I do, yeah. Oh, really? So you fly up towards the glacier and stuff? Do you learn by that? Yeah, I just do that part-time. So I used to do it full-time, and then I'd run the cutter here at the shop a lot. And when I try and, yeah, just get two days, three days a week flying, which is, yeah, breaks up the monotony.

I was lucky enough to go on a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon in America, which was incredible, which I imagine with a Fox class here is very similar. But great gag by the pilot because we were sitting around waiting and we're sitting next to some people waiting to take off. And then the guy who was sitting next to me was like, oh, I'll just jump in and fly, shall I? And we're like, what, what? And he turned out to be the pilot.

But I was like, well, that's a good gag. Yeah, really. Yeah, I'll tell you a story. When I first started flying, I was pretty young looking, and I was only probably 21, and I probably looked about 18. And the office staff would say, oh, this young fella, he's going to take you to the helicopter. And yeah, and then I'd say, oh, I'm the pilot. And they'd go, well, we thought you were just a school child.

Trying your luck. It was a bit embarrassing, honestly. All right, well, that's lovely talking with you, Ash. Trying your turn. It's a bit embarrassing, honestly. Well, that's lovely talking with you, Ash. Likewise, guys. Well, if you're floating through, call in, have a brew and yeah, as I say,

welcome anyone to come down to Fox. It's a pretty cool part of the country. Nice to talk to you. Take care of yourself. Okay, boys. Take care.

Bye. How awesome was he? The A to Z of New Zealand continues tomorrow as we learn something else about every town and city in New Zealand. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Scrolling through your feed. A lot of coverage, isn't there, about the Russians hacking all of our websites over here. They should be spending more time concentrating on Ben Boyce, who's been hacking your feeds overnight, scrolling through your feed for the latest stories. This is something pretty cool. It came out of the States. It was actually

on TV in Europe. The tennis is happening in America right now. The US Open. And they had a hologram of a player that was beamed into the studio in Europe, and they were conducting an interview with a reporter. Have a listen to the audio. The audio obviously doesn't do it justice,

because it looked like this tennis player was actually in the studio. And we have Karolina Pliskova now right here next to me. Karolina, congratulations. And there she is. Technology makes it happen, which is unbelievable. How did you feel playing out there on such a big stadium without any crowd? I was a little bit nervous before the match. Of course, the beating was not the great.

I lost my sense. It's incredible, right? It looks like something out of Star Trek. She's in a changing room at the tennis centre in New York while interviewing, by being interviewed in Europe. It was crazy. I feel like the host was really underplaying it. I would have been like, what the crap?

Look at this. Look. She's right here. I know. In this room, but she's on the other side of the world. Because you showed me the video. You say, look at this. And I'm like, oh, great.. I know. In this room, but she's on the other side of the world. Because you showed me the video. You say, look at this. And I'm like, oh, great.

Why are you showing me this? And then you're like, it's a hologram. I'm like, oh, my God. That's going to change the game. Like, if this is just where it's starting, imagine what we're going to do in our houses. Ben, I could look at you in hologram form. I don't want to be hot beamed around.

Yeah, I want you beamed into my lounge. Beam yourself into my lounge. I'm crazy where that technology's going. Yeah, that's pretty incredible. Imagine by the time Juliet, when you're dying, what the world's going to be like. I know. I actually think about that quite often.

I'm like, wow, when I was a kid, I didn't even have an iPhone. And now they're a thing. And now I've totally got an iPhone. I didn't have an iPhone. I didn't even. But you look at Zoom. Mum and Dad wouldn't let me.

Yeah, they were the worst ever. Worst ever. But you look at Zoom, previous to lockdown, no one really, for the most part, had used Zoom. Yeah. And now that's just, and now we all take that for granted. But when you stop and think about it, you're like, this is wild. Yeah, it's pretty incredible.

Imagine if you'd told 15 years ago us that you'd just be video calling each other. Yeah. And not having to go to work. Blow your mind, doesn't it? Plus, imagine if you told us 15 years ago that we'd be in the middle of a pandemic as well. Yeah, that would also blow our minds. Now, former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett, she left politics a couple of months ago. We spoke to her.

She was very excited. Sad to see you go, mate. Are you happy or sad? I am so happy. It's kind of scary. And she's got a new career in real estate. It's just been announced today. She's going to be joining Bailey's real

estate team. I think she'll be really good. I think her look has actually slowly transformed into a real estate agent over the last five years. Wouldn't you say so? Like, if you saw her on a real estate ad, you'd be like, oh yeah, she's a real estate agent. That's what she does. Oh yeah, she'd be great in it too.

She'd be wonderful. I'd buy a house off of Paula Bennett. Except for the fact I don't have money to buy a house off Paula Bennett. But yeah, the thing is too, everyone would want to buy a house off her. Apart from the Labour supporters maybe. And the Greens.

And the Greens. But some of the people. Some of the people. Maybe half the population. Maybe a little less than half the population. Maybe the Greens and Labour just want to waste their time. You know, stretching around open homes. Oh, well done, Paula Bennett. You never think about politicians post their political careers, do you?

No, that's very cool. Where do they end up? Well, Paula Bennett, real estate. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, on Monday, we were talking about Millennial Max,

who works as producer on the show, that he accidentally ended up at a nudist beach. Yeah, on the weekend. And I don't know at what point he discovered, what made him realise this. And then I said, I need to apologise again to the nudist community. I went on a vile rampage saying that all nudists, they decide,

people decide to become naturists when they're sort of 50, you know, when their best years are behind them. I mean, like I said the other day,

I could get into it now. My body, gravity's starting to take effect on this body. I could, yeah, now's a good time to spend 90% of the day naked.

Yeah, so you're doubling down on this? Yeah. That was my very half-hearted apology. You're like, I need to apologise. And then you're like, I wasn't really much of an apology.

I didn't apologise in any way. You're like, I need to, but I won't. Sorry, sorry. Is that better? Yeah. I was also thinking about places you accidentally end up. And it happened to you. Remember when you ended up in a conference for that car?

Oh, for the Range Rover. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. We were doing a stupid segment that never even saw the light of day. And I don't know what we were thinking. Ben and myself would turn up to work and start. And then the team would feed us shots of tequila. It was like 7 in the morning.

Fun. Tequila and Jägermeister and beers and wine. And in the space of like 30 to 35 minutes. At like 7 in the morning. Fun. Tequila and Jägermeister and beers and wine. And in the space of like 30 to 35 minutes. At like seven in the morning. You turn up to work sober and in half an hour you were just like rissing off. And then they put us in suits and then they were like, we're trying to interview some people. It was going to be like drunk interviews.

We weren't showing any of the drinking on TV, but even that wasn't allowed. It was the point I can't even remember. I actually can't even remember what I said, what went on. I know. We could never play them on TV. No, because that was on at 7.30 and I vaguely remember

being a hurly comedian going, this is never going to be on TV. So the only thing I remember about those interviews and we did like 12 of them. You left at one stage to go to the toilet

mid-interview like I'm chatting to someone and you're like, out you went. I was like, I don't know where he's gone. We were missing for about 45 minutes

and I ended up, because we're in a hotel, and it was like a conference facility and so next door, Range Rover were having their annual sales update and forecasts for the next financial year. I just burst into there. With a camera behind you.

With a camera behind me. It's like, G'day guys! and then they're like hurriedly shutting their laptops shutting down the overhead projector screen with all the sensitive sales information

and I ended up in the Range Rover conference for quite a while yeah it was quite a while I was in there I think I gave them like a motivational

Tony Robbins type speech of get out there and do it but they had a wonderful year would they did yeah the forecast was great yeah

I was thinking that was a great occasion where you accidentally ended up somewhere. And my mate, similar sort of story, on a bus in Christchurch, this is when we were flatting, had a big night. Like, it kept going to the morning and then got on the bus. It was daylight. About 7 o'clock, got on the bus, thinking he was gonna, I think

he lived up on the Kashmir Hills in Christchurch from the centre of town. Thought it was like a 10-minute bus ride. Fell asleep. Woke up in Kaikoura about three hours late. On the coast. He just got on the wrong bus. I don't know. He had obviously paid for it.

And he's drunk and it ended up like three hours back the other way. I'm like, wow. And you're not, and like when that stuff happens, you're like, this is too much to deal with right now. You're like, I can't be allowed. I might as well go to sleep on a whale or something and deal with this tomorrow.

A very nice, Tohu Harris, when I say very nice I mean there was a very nice conversation we just had there, Juliet. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I really did. Post analysis. How do you think, Ben? I enjoyed it. It was fun. That's a good seven and a half out of ten. That's what we strive for. Lou in calories and Lou in laughs.

It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now whether you're a fan of league or not, you have to commend the Warriors league team for everything they've gone through this season, the huge sacrifice they've made, moving to Australia away from their families and friends here in New Zealand, isolating, losing a coach, injuries,

players returning home, and there's still a chance the Warriors could make the top eight. They're playing really well at the moment and joining us on the phone right now, star Warriors forward, To'u Harris. How's it going, buddy? How are you speaking?

Hello there. It's your dear friends and acquaintances. Chums, if you will. I don't know if that's... Old chums. Jono and Ben calling. How's it going? Good, mate.

How are you? Yeah, yeah, all right. We've met once or twice. On the phone, we met once or twice. Would we be in the chum category yet? Not for a chum. I'd say so.

Oh thank you. Just annoying radio people who phone you every couple of months. Yeah. We're not probably there to help you move house

or pick you up from the airport. We're not at that stage yet but we can call you up and have light banter. That seems chum category. That's chum category, yeah. How's things over in Aussie mate?

Yeah, it's going alright at the moment. We're stringing a few good games together, so that's made things a bit easier. I tell you what, if you, at the beginning of this year in January, if I sat Tohu Harris down and I said, guess what, mate? Things are about to get wild. Yeah.

You're going to live in Australia in a weird hotel in North Queensland. You're going to borrow players from other teams. The coach is going to go. And then some players are going to go home. That is just like a story you couldn't even script. Nah, nah. You wouldn't have even been able to guess that. Yeah.

But you guys, after all that, though, you've got a chance of making the top eight. Yeah, that's the cool thing about it, really. I don't think anyone expected us to be in this position, especially after a few things happened throughout the year. But it's great for the players and the staff that are here because we've got something to strive for. Our season isn't over.

And so then if you are out of the top eight, you head back to New Zealand two weeks in a hotel, is it? Yeah, I think that's the process. As if you haven't spent enough time in a hotel, we'll give you another two weeks on this side of the Tasman, baby. In saying that, I think the team will do it pretty easy. We're getting used to it.

Moving back to a normal house, they'll be like, hold on, where are the mini sachets of coffee? Milk comes in a big bottle, not these little little pottle things. Do you know Tohu? I've got Tohu Harris here from the Warriors. Ben Boyce, huge fan. He's been loyal, and he's always wanted to wear some Warriors stubbies.

Oh, yeah, but I don't have the legs for them. Like, I see people on the beach wearing them, and I see, obviously, you guys running on the field, and you look good. You've got muscly legs. You look good in Warriors shorts. I go to Rebel Sport or whatever, Sterling Sports once a year, I try them on.

Every year he's like, have my legs got bigger? And I'm like, no, not for me, and I put them back on the shelf. I mean, what's the key? Probably not skipping leg day? Oh, I can't say that. I think it's just confidence, really. Confidence, yeah.

He's got the legs of a reindeer. I keep owning it. Okay, I can't own it. Just own it. I can't, yeah. He's got the legs of a reindeer. Okay, I can't own it. Just own it. I can't like that. It's good. It looks like a couple of sticks inside a parachute when he wears them. Yeah, they do.

There's a lot of room. Even if it's a small size, but anyway. I've never seen anyone have room in league shorts. Somehow they're like baggy beach togs on them. Now, this weekend you guys are playing the Eels. You've had a couple of lone players from the Eels who have been playing really well for the Warriors, but unfortunately they can't play against the Eels this weekend. Yeah, and I think they're pretty gutted.

They've been really enjoying their time here at the Warriors, and we've been enjoying having them because they've been playing outstanding, and they're good guys. So, yeah, they're pretty gutted that they can't play. We've got a few guys, it's hard because we've got guys who haven't played a game yet but they do all the training, they're working hard, things like that.

So it's good to see a couple of them getting opportunities this week. I always wanted to ask a rugby league player, when you get tackled, are you like, ouch? When does it stop hurting? Or is that a stupid question? Yeah. Yes.

Yeah. A lot of the times it doesn't stop hurting until captain's run the next week and then you're ready to go and get sore again. Yeah. You become quite conditioned to it, though, wouldn't you?

After a while, like in season now, you'd be kind of used to it? Or is that again a silly question? Yeah, no, you sort of learn to manage your body. Your body gets hardened to it and you get used to it over time. I reckon, because when I played rugby very briefly in school, they put me at fullback and the most nerve-wracking time was when the players have broken the line and you're the only one there and you're like, I don't want to tackle.

I didn't really, deep down, didn't want to. So I sort of half-heartedly sort of loosely try and look like I was. And you're like, when you're running, you're like, oh, this is going to hurt. This is going to hurt because they're running right at me. I'd prefer them to run straight because then I don't have to worry about

sort of catching them or keeping up. All right. Yeah. Well, you're in the right business. You're in the right business. I'd be shocking at your job. Well, To Harris, it's always good to catch up with you

and congratulations. You guys are making New Zealand proud. Not only what you've sacrificed off the field, but what you guys are doing on the field. It's really awesome to see, so well done. Thanks, Colin. Like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

Spy, the what's up spy.co.nz. I tell you what, she's doing a lot of running at the moment, training for a marathon, but she will never jump off the non-stop treadmill that is pointless celebrity gossip. It's producer Juliet with Spy. So Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have started... I've heard of them.

Yeah, we have. I have, I've heard of them. They have started their own production company and have signed a big deal with Netflix. It has been revealed. They're aiming to make documentaries and children's shows. They say that they want to make content that gives hope and family-friendly content.

I feel like this is very Meghan-driven, and I'm like, can't you just do something where it's like a documentary on everything that happened when you were in the royal family? That's what people probably want, some scandalous stuff, like write the new series of The Crown or something. I've never picked Harry as a content creator. I don't feel like this is Harry's career move. I mean, good on them.

Good on them for doing it. But Netflix probably want them to make more sort of royal scandalous stuff, right? Yeah, I reckon. Tell us how the queen's a bitch. You know, stuff like that. Yeah.

I don't know if the queen is, by the way. I'm sure she's not. I'm sure she's lovely. Yeah. But it's probably something that Netflix is like, well, if I've got Harry and Meghan

on board, then people will be more likely to watch it. All the royal fanatics like myself probably just get them on Netflix. And didn't she sign with Disney?

Isn't she just signing with everyone? Oh yeah, she voiced over the elephant documentary. Oh, saying how passionate she was about elephants. I'd never heard about her love of elephants until then. Oh hey, there's a lot you don't know about Meghan Markle. And Kanye West, he wants to buy all paparazzi agencies purely so he can pick the exact photos that get published. And this is quite what he says.

And it kind of reminds me of something that Donald Trump would say. I'll hop in the car with a paparazzi. I'll hire a paparazzi. I know business is down because of COVID. I am hiring. I'll buy all paparazzi companies. Isn't that something that Donald Trump would kind of say? It's a smart move, though, because you get the good angles on yourself, don't you?

That one's good. Oh, that one's not so good. He's probably got some unflattering shots where he's like, hey, that wasn't a good day. That was not a good day. I had a stodgy meal the night before. I was feeling a little plumpish. Although, to be fair, he just looks the same in every single photo, that just really straight face. Like, he probably...

He doesn't seem to smile as much. Yeah. What is a good photo for him? I don't know. Well, I suppose if you're pulling all sorts of faces, you don't know what one's going to get snapped. Yeah. So your best is to walk like you're emotionless and dead inside. I was looking at one of those women's mags the other day,

and it was, yeah, it was like someone like, I think it was William, William was touching his face or something, and it looked like he was like down and all out. And depressed and having an argument. William has a shock such and such. He's like, he might just be scratching his face. He was probably just feeling a pimple on his forehead or something. Yeah.

Exactly, exactly. But that split second becomes a photo that you go, oh, he's looking sad. I always wanted to, speaking of paparazzi, wanted to start, I don't know if I've pitched this over here,

The Paparazzi, which is a magazine purely that focuses on celebrity dogs. And you just take photos of their puppies. So you don't involve this, like Brad Pitt's? No, you might see Brad Pitt's ankles. But you basically see Brad's pit bull.

Brad's dog. Yeah. Brad's pit bull. Yeah. Great headline for the paparazzi, Brad's pit bull. I like that. And he's just his hands in the shot just holding, yeah, okay. Yeah, so it's a fan, it's a magazine for fans of dogs.

Yeah. Specifically celebrity dogs. You like the celebrities and you like the dogs. It's a good thing to buy. And the dogs it's a good thing to buy and I heard it's a good time to get into the magazine game too yeah well true for more spy

you can head to thehits.co.nz Viva Volume 1 has gone glossy it's on sale if you want more information you can text Viva to 4487

speaking of magazines exactly one of the greats I like that fashion magazine yeah it's very flashy I can't stop flicking through it we apologise in advance it's Jono and Ben

on the hits. That is our show for Thursday. Been a real fun show this morning. Yeah, we've enjoyed it. I know we were just talking about Ben's copious amount of loyalty cards that he's running over. 20 loyalty cards. Someone's texted in, Stowcard is an app. Because I said, why isn't there an app where you can suck all this information

in and just flop your app out all over the show? And there is some genius entrepreneurs done it already. Stocard is the name of it. Yeah, it looks really cool. So you just scan your barcode from the Lord of the Thing, it's all on this app and it's all one thing. Oh, mate, 2020. What an age we live in, guys.

Aren't we lucky to be in the middle of a pandemic? Yeah, I was going to say, there's some things we're not so lucky about. Also, you know, not only a pandemic going on here in New Zealand, but some hacking into computers. And we hacked behind the scenes your laptop. Yeah, well, it's funny, eh? Because they've hacked the stock exchange and my laptop.

Yeah, and some of the stuff we've discovered. I mean, earlier this morning we discovered there was a lot of advice on flirting that you've been looking at. Hey, guys, this is the one and only expert dating coach, Annabella Rose. Today, I'm going to be talking about how to flirt at work. So I didn't know how to do it.

And so I had to get a lesson, blow-by-blow lesson on YouTube, Ben. That's right. And a couple more things. A lot of stuff centered around your lack of hair. And I think you should be proud, mate. You know, you should be proudly wearing that hat in the studio and covering it up.

But anyway, there's other stuff there. In today's video, gents, I've got special guest Eson of the Style Jumper, and we're talking about seven style details that look amazing on bald men. Yeah, that's right. This is all stuff I've been looking at. Yep. And you've been playing it all morning. Yeah, all morning.

It's a common thread. Yeah, a common thread. So that's some of the stuff we've discovered hacking into your computer. So thank you for that. Oh, well, thank you for sharing. If you want to catch all that you can on iHeartRadio the podcast goes out there every

morning after the show. Hey tomorrow Jacinda Ardern you may have heard of her she's the Prime Minister of the country and we're going to talk to one of the players who are going

to be competing in the North vs South game this weekend. It's going to be a big Friday we look forward to joining you then we'll see you then. What more Jono and

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