Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - September 14 - Ben Celebrated An Anniversary, Lukas Graham, What Are You Doing Beyond Your Years?

Episode Date: September 14, 2020

Kia Ora friends! On today's podcast episode Ben chatted about him and his wife's 12th wedding anniversary over the weekend and how it slightly went wrong.. Also behind the scenes we've been roasting Jono for the massive font he has on his phone, which sparked a topic - what is the boomer thing you're doing? Jono also shared how he's absolutely useless with drones (crashes them, loses them, you name it, he's probably done it). We also caught up with Lukas Graham, the singer behind that massive song 7 Years from a few years ago.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. Here we go, we're back again, but the boys, your boys. Here's your boys, back at it again.

You can't say your boys, it's your boy. Maxie is in here. Hello, Millennial Max, what are you up to, mate? Fixing the cameras. I saw you unscrewing something before. Are you quite a technical person? Are you fixing the studio cameras? Well, I'm actually, you know what?

I didn't fix them, so I'm just about to call IT and get them done. But I saw you taking it all apart. You're taking the camera completely apart. He looked like he knew what he was doing. As soon as someone starts undoing something you're like oh this guy knows what he's up to. Maybe that's the thing you just come along

and go no I can't do it. I did the old turn off and turn on again. So what were you hoping to do when you were unscrewing it? Just sort of dismantle it.

I was thinking it was restarted. We have cameras in here in the radio studio. They're smaller cameras but they're placed around the studio because we can get videos to play online but I always feel like they're not pointing at me

and then they're like, oh you're in the shot but I don't know, maybe they're trying to phase me out of the show because I always feel like they're off on another angle. They're quite widescreen. Oh no, there's just a hotter guy. There's a hotter guy behind you in the office. We just want to catch him. That's for the best. Six cells. He's a hot piece of spunk, that guy. That's for sure. Anyway, on the podcast today, We just want to catch him. Yeah, no, that's great. That's for the best. Sex sells. He's a hot piece of spunk, that guy.

That's for sure. Anyway, on the podcast today, I just want to talk quickly before we get into the podcast. Masks. You know, the masks you wear on your face. I find I'm doing a lot of chin time with mine. I drag it down.

It sits underneath my chin like I'm a surgeon who's just clocked off for the day. Oh, yeah, yeah. You do feel a little bit like that. And these ones, particularly the ones from kindface.co.nz, tell you what is this is an extra plug for them i like that you can wear it around your neck because some of those ones that you loop around the ear loops you can't really

wear them around your neck of course yeah i don't know if my ears are strong enough uh physically strong enough to hold those ear hooks oh and the other thing i like i tried on one in the weekend and it made me look like i was the world Cup trophy. You know, like... I pushed your earlobes right out. So that was the other thing. I was like, well, maybe kindface.co.nz. Great plug again for them. Well, you can't just keep saying great plug. You don't plug them in and go, that's another great plug for them.

They'll be happy with that. Chalk that one up to sales. I got that one on camera too. Oh, no, that's filming the guy behind me. No, no, we're filming the Todd, the hot guy behind you. He's good looking. All right, well, enjoy the podcast today on the show, Lucas Graham. You know, once I was seven years old.

Yeah. He doesn't do any jazz. He's on the show. He was really funny. He was actually really good. Yeah, it was a good sport. And also we're joined by Jake Ryan, too. Home and away actor.

You'll know him as Robbo from Home and Away. Well, he is the lead in a new Kiwi film called Savage, and it's about gangs, New Zealand gangs. He tells a hilarious story because he had tattoos all on his face. The director made him go to the mall, and what he ordered in the mall, looking like a gang member, a little heavy in stitches. Heavy in stitches, mate.

Yeah, no, it looks like a really good movie too. It's getting great reviews. So stick around and enjoy that on the podcast. It is the podcast. It's the podcast. That's a great wrap-up. Thank you. I was going to say the hits.

Yeah, I know. You can tell. You can tell. The radio version of Morning Breath. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now over the weekend, my wedding anniversary. Amanda and my wedding anniversary. Congratulations, Ben.

Boys, 12 years. 12 years. Blissfully wedded. We've been together a lot longer. We've been together a long time, but 12 years you've been married and I remembered this year, which is good

because in the past I've forgotten and it's not a good look when you have the date tattooed on your forearm to forget your wedding anniversary. It's not. What about the moment

when she dropped the bomb that you forgot? What time did she pick to? It wasn't on the day, too. Oh, did she wait till another day? Yeah, that was uh she dropped the bomb that you forgot what time did she pick it wasn't on the day too that she went to another day that was the thing you know what yesterday was are you like oh wait until yeah oh the next day we were really busy with work at the time but no excuse no excuse you know but you're like no literally you've got it written on your body there is literally no excuse and so did she wait till the next morning and go hey you know yesterday a whole day later. So she might have been like,

oh, you might be surprising, planning something big. Might be happening tonight. But you know what happened? And this has probably happened to many people over the years. Because this year, we are going to do something. We had something at home over the weekend and the kids, they put on like a restaurant for us. And we're like, oh, we'll buy something as a present for outside because we need some outdoor stuff.

So Amanda and I agreed that we're like, as, we'll buy something as a present for outside because we need some outdoor stuff. So Amanda and I agreed that we're like, as a couple, we're going to, we're going to buy something together so we won't get presents. That was the agreement.

Oh, here we go. Here we go. He's had a double shocker two years in a row. What's happened? That was the agreement. Now, if you had this happen before,

people would say, oh, we won't get presents. You're like, fine. You've said it. I've said it. We've agreed on this. But no one ever means it. Well, why say it then? Why say it? Because then we got to the day and then You're like, fine. You've said it. I've said it. We've agreed on this. But no one ever means it. No one ever means it. Why say it then?

Why say it? Because then we got to the day and then the man is like, oh, I know we said, and I'm like, oh, don't. Oh, don't. Please don't. I'm going to look like a bad husband. So I know we said. Keep it away. Keep it hidden. Yeah, I said, well, yeah, we said. And that's what we said. And she's like, oh, I'll just get you a little something.

I'm like, well, don't, you know. Don't do that. If we say it, say you've got to Has this happened to you before with Christmas or things like that as well, where's like, oh, I'll just get you a little something. I'm like, well, don't, you know, don't do that. If we say it, say you got to, has this happened to you before with Christmas or things like that as well, where people say, oh, we won't get presents, and then someone gets it. You're like, you've broken the pact. We had an agreement.

I'm happy to get a present. Like, oh, if we could say, let's get a present. Well, clearly you would, because you do. Because we had an agreement. If you really loved her, you would have got her a present. We had an agreement. Just a little one. Hey, I know we said, but here's a little one.

That's what that conversation means. It shouldn't be. And so what did she get you? She got me my hat that I'm wearing right now. Oh, your Krusty hat. My Krusty hat. I'm a big fan of The Simpsons, so she got me the hat, which was lovely. She said, I saw it and thought you'd like it, and I do, so you know.

And what did you see and thought she might like? I had it because we had an agreement. This is the thing. Do you know your 12th anniversary, you're meant to get is silk or linen? I love all these traditional presents you're meant to get. First 12 years are a dream.

Paper, piece of paper, cotton, done, fruit, easy. Oh, fruit? Yeah.

Do people follow those? Hey? Do people follow those? Well, they should do because they're hugely affordable. Tin or aluminium? Here's a can of Coke. Oh, tin foil?

These are all options for you today, Ben. Oh, this is good. So what's that? I can pull this back. A day late, that's my thing. Yeah. Get her a silk hanky or something. All right.

Or a bed sheet. Bed sheet, linen. Oh, there you go. All right. We've already got bed sheets. Thought of you. Yeah. There you go.

So pull that back. Anyway, my point was, if you're going to say you have an agreement, just stick to the agreement. Isn't that fair? Well, everyone else's point back you're going to say you have an agreement, just stick to the agreement. Isn't that funny? Well, everyone else's point back is stop being such a tight ass. Okay. I've got some work to do. This is your new breakfast. Health Star rating, still pending.

It's Jono and Mano Mahet. Now, Producer Juliette, you literally ran into an ex over the weekend, like running. Yeah. I was on a run, just going along a road and... Running your 60Ks that you'd be doing at the moment. She's training for a marathon coming up. It's honestly horrendous.

But yeah, I was running along, kind of minding my own business, listening to some music. And I see this guy that kind of looks like I recognise him. I was like, is that this guy I once went on a date with? And then I was like, okay, Juliet, just head down. Keep running, keep running. And I was like, okay, I'll look sort of last minute as we're passing each other's really quickly.

But he looked at the same time. And so we locked eyes and then I panicked and looked away and just kept on running. And then as soon as it happened, I was like, Juliet, you idiot. Why did you not say hi? No, you're fine. You're in a canter. When you're in a canter, no one's expecting you

to stop in a canter. If you're walking, whole other situation. And if you're in a sitcom, you would have run and fallen over a park bench or something like that. That would have been

one of those rom-coms or something, you know? Exactly. Mind you, I can't believe you actually ended up on a date with someone because we were going through Tinder with Juliet

and she's like, no, cut. Savagely cutting everyone. I know. I know. We're like sticking up and we're like, well, what about poor Gary? He's piggy, no. Cut. Savagely cutting everyone. I know. I know. We're like sticking up for them. We're like, well, what about bloody poor Gary? He's piggybacking his grandmother in that photo.

No. What about that guy saving 45 kitchens from the meth lab fire? No. Nah. Just cutting them ruthlessly. Yeah, I'm pretty ruthless. I probably swipe 100 no's before I swipe one yes, to be honest. Okay, what?

Yeah. So we're through with this morning. We're right out there. 0800 the hits. 4487 Your awkward ex encounter When have you bumped into an ex And gone

The only thing I can think of Is about my early 20s And I was in the warehouse And then I saw her Getting a bargain Absolutely That's where everyone gets one Ben And then I saw her

And she hadn't seen me So I just hit the floor Hit the floor Behind a display tent In the camping section You literally like Hit on the floor Yeah I was just just hit the floor. Hit the floor behind a display tent in the camping section. You literally, like, hid on the floor? Yeah, I was just lying on the floor. But then just praying to God that she didn't walk past.

And I was thinking of excuses in my head if she did walk past. I was like, I'm just testing out what it would be like lying next to the tent if I went camping. You just crawled in the tent and lied in there. Just sit in the tent. Sip it up. Sally, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you, mate?

Good. Yeah, I... I feel like this is a painful story for you to tell, but I appreciate you sharing it with us. What was your awkward ex-encounter? So I had just gotten out of quite a long-term relationship and decided that Tinder would be a good idea. Oh, yeah.

That's a thing nowadays, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And I found this really nice-looking guy and he asked me on a date and I thought it was a bit crazy, but he asked to meet up at mine and my ex's favourite bar. Okay. And so I don't know why, but I agreed.

And, yeah, so I'm kind of on the stage, and then my ex walks in. And from then on, it was a bit of a disaster because it was just kind of really awkwardly trying to ignore that he was also there while I was on a date with another guy. Oh, I thought you were going to say without knowing, your ex was the guy on Tinder and you met up with him. Oh, that's good, Sally.

Tinder can be the Wild West. I know a dear friend of ours dated a guy and didn't realise, but she turned up and he was a midget. Right. Yeah. Didn't realise. Oh, true. And he didn't front foot it in the conversations they'd had.

Yeah, right. So she was like, oh, okay. Just taken back. She had dinner with him. It was lovely. Yeah, good. Have you had an example like that on Tinder, Julian? No, I don't think so.

Yeah. But I guess that would happen because it's just a photo that you posted so you can't really tell. Just the headshot. She's like, okay, I had a lovely dinner with him anyway. And that's the main thing. Let's go to Emily and Tauranga. Welcome, you're on the air, Em. Morning. And what was your awkward ex encounter, Embo?

So I'd just gone out of a relationship and decided to do a bit of a solo trip to Sydney to get away. Was boarding the plane and I was on the aisle seat and turns out that my ex happened to be on the seat across the aisle seat. Oh, no. We had the whole flight just awkwardly trying to, like, avoid eye contact with our headphones on.

Did you acknowledge each other? Yeah, kind of, like, hi. It was kind of awkward because I was on my own. I was just doing like a solo trip, so it looked very... Did you have the works? Did you have the works so you could watch the movie, or did you just have to awkwardly stare at a blank screen for the entire flight? No, we had movies, thank goodness.

That's good. Yes, very awkward. You were saying on a flight, Ben, that your friend went on, this guy hooked up with someone in the toilet. Oh yeah, many years ago and then the lady, yeah, she was a steward and she announced, she was like, congratulations to the people, the new members of the Mile High

Club. Give them a clap, just thinking it would be a funny joke and they both went back to their respective seats. Next to their partner. I don't know how what circumstances led them to having this whole thing happen and it was like, oh, okay. You've got to be pretty confident in your abilities

to try and pull that off. I know. You've got partners in there anyway. Some people skip breakfast, the meal, and also this show. It's Jono and Ben on the Hits. You know, Ben, boys, I have a checkered history, a very questionable history with drones, don't I? Have I told you about my...

You bought a couple, right? Yeah, oh, my gosh, I'm shocking. And it should come as no surprise. I mean Have I told you about my... Yeah, you bought a couple, right? Yeah, oh my gosh, I'm shocking. And it should come as no surprise. I mean, I'm not a pilot, so I don't know how to operate drones, but I bought one for my son Oscar at Christmas. He actually got given one from Santa Claus, and

we flew it at the park, and it was one of those moments where as a parent you're like, I'll take it from here, mate. I'll show you how it was done. Small fry. And I flew it straight into a tree. Oh, so then you had to go buy what? Then I had to go buy a backup drone, which was another, you know, 40, 50 bucks.

So I got another drone and I was like, okay, well you take it from here, mate. I said, you fly this way. And then that flew, and he took off and I was like, I don't know why I place faith in a nine-year-old, but it just flew off and it just kept going. It just kept going. It's probably still flying out there somewhere.

Old Tesla guy could use it up in space. It's probably floating around up there somewhere. It just kept off into the distance. So this was all in the same day. Two drones. Then we got a third one. What? And the third one went completely missing as well.

I picked it up. I picked the controls back up again and that flew off hundreds of kilometres into the distance. They're quite hard to fly. I've only had a little go at it though. It's quite shaky and quite sort of you're like, and I'm like, nah, not for me. It seems like we're placing a lot of trust

in your average human being to be able to fly these things in the air. They seem quite dangerous, don't they? I always love when a couple of times we've been on big sort of film shoots and you see someone who actually knows what they're doing and they fly it up and then they fly it all the way back down and they sort of catch it and you're like,

how do they do that? I know, but you want it to go bad, don't you? You're like, I want this to be a disaster. I know this thing is- It's because you know they're filming it too. $39 million or whatever it's worth. I just want it to crash into the ground. But you know, having done a little bit like you have,

how hard that would be just to be like- Oh, the stress. And so I got back out there on the weekend. And I was like, we are going to the clearest, openest space. You can, like, within 50 kilometres radius. It was like the desert road. There was nothing that this drone could hit. And then I flew it

straight into the only tree that was in this giant park. I'm retiring from drone usage. Remember when we were just filming this dog show for TVNZ2, which is coming out soon, Dog Almighty, and they had one one day and we're at a park. And then there's a seagull. The seagull was in the sky next to it,

just harassing the drone, like, get out of my space, mate, get out of my space. Because can you imagine for a seagull? That would be like, what is this thing and why is it flying around? Seeing a drone for a seagull is almost like us coming across a robot, like a giant life-size drone. Hey, this is my space.

This is my territory up here. What was that? Yeah, and they're kind of flying pervert machines, aren't they? Whenever you see one hovering above the beach, you're like, what sweaty little greasy, hairy individual is flying this? Well, it's actually hairless. It's you. Wake up and smell them. Actually, no, please don is flying this. It's actually hairless. It's you. Wake up and smell them.

Actually, no, please don't smell them. That's odd. It's Jono and Ben on the Hatch. We're just looking at Jono's text. Just mocking my phone.

On his phone, have you seen the picture there? How large his font is on his text. It literally looks like my grandpa's phone, to be honest.

And he goes, oh, my friend changed it and I don't know how to change it back. That's another boomer thing. I don't know how to change it back. That's another boomer thing. I don't know how to change it back. I know, he changed it five years ago, and now my eyes, my glaucoma reddened eyes, have now just become adjusted.

This is what they see on the phone. You could read this phone from 7km's away. I held it up now. There's probably people in Australia who could read this text. It's that large. It's like an electronic billboard you're holding up. Yeah, it's probably a bit before my time This enormous text But I used to have

Another old person thing I had with my phone Was a cover That opened like a book Oh you did not It's a book cover Really And did it have your cards

On the inside as well Absolutely Oh God Save your soul Well we might throw it out there Help Jono feel a bit better This morning On a Monday morning

What old person thing are you doing Maybe before your time Yeah maybe you turn up at the airport Seven hours before your flight departs Annie and Jon do that Mum and Dad they're actually up at the moment What they do is they're like oh no I've had lunch I won't eat anything like yesterday my Dad was like

If you order fish and chips I'll have one chip That's what he was saying I'll just eat one chip What old person thing are you doing The weekend I took a photo with an iPad Dad was like, if you order fish and chips, I'll have one chip. That's what he was saying. I'll just eat one chip. Oh, mate, he had the whole meal. Yeah, what old person thing are you doing? Like, the weekend I took a photo with an iPad because it was the only thing around. I picked it up and then I was like, what am I doing?

I'm doing an old person thing. Oh, under the hits, 4487 on the text. Trudy, kia ora. Good morning. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast. What old person thing are you doing? Well, I've recently just started really getting into knitting. Every night I've recently just started really getting into knitting. Every

night I've made a scarf, I've made a couple of jumpers and now my friends are starting to want little clothes made for their babies and so you know, I'm getting really into it. You're two days away from getting the super gold card. Well done, Trude. Well done, knitting. Although knitting is quite a useful skill to have, I imagine.

Yeah, it's good. If, you know, China wasn't making incredibly cheap clothes out of factories with child labour. But thank you very much, Trudy. Appreciate that. We'll go to Vanessa in Wellington. Morena, Vanessa, how are you? I think Producer Humphrey's still chatting to Vanessa. Oh, no, there we go. Oh, that's all right. Vanessa, you're on the air now.

You were talking to Producer Humphrey. How was Bee Humps? How was your service? Hi, good. Yeah, he was professional. He was professional. He's bloody good Humps? How was your service? Hi, good. Yeah, it was professional. He was professional. He's bloody good at his job, isn't he? Yeah, amazing. What old person thing are you doing, Vanessa?

I turn my car stereo down if I'm trying to call people or find a street address. Yes, I do this. I can't hear. I can't see if it's too loud. I don't know what it is. You're just like... I do find myself just saying to Oscar, turn everything down. Turn it down. it's too loud. I don't know what it is. You're just like... I do find myself saying to Oscar,

turn everything down. Turn it down. It's too loud. All the kids are like, just a second, one second. Yeah, you're like, oh God. All right, thank you. I definitely wouldn't have used...

I didn't used to do that when I was young. I mean, I'm 35, so I still feel young, but I guess my kids... That's an old person thing too. I'm 35, but I'm still young at heart. I still feel young. You're only as young as you feel. Unless you've got some heart conditions and heart problems.

Thank you for your call, Vanessa. Let's go to Whangarei Jane. You're on the air. Old person thing you're doing. Hi. What was it, matey? Well, I caught myself this morning. There were some youths crossing the road on skateboards.

And I made that horrible noise, that tisking noise, you know, that thing your mum does. And then before I knew it, my hand is in a fist and I'm shaking it. Oh, you're shaking a fist at skateboarding. I am 29. I'm like, what am I doing? I'm ready for my rocking chair. Why am I shaking the fist at you?

I like how you call them youths as well. Youths, yeah. The troubled youth. Thank you very much, Jane. Appreciate your call. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.

That is Lucas Graham, seven years. That was a smash hit, multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated song. And Lucas Graham has got a new single out right now. He's teamed up with chart-topping rapper G-Eazy. This is called Share That Love. And Lucas Graham, he's on Zoom right now when he joins us. This is exciting. How are you?

I am very, very good, fellas. Whereabouts in the world are you? Are we good? Whereabouts in the world are you now, Lucas? I am in Copenhagen, Denmark. And what are you looking at right now? What is Lucas Graham looking at right now? I'm looking at the most beautiful people in my life,

my lovely partner, Rillo, and my my personal assistant i'm looking at the most i thought you were gonna say your child and my personal assistant 10 to 11 and uh and and thankfully both children are sleeping i have one daughter who's uh she will be four in two weeks and then i have a almost five month old, four month old baby. Two lovely girls. Awesome mate because was it true that you were born on a couch? Is that true speaking of birth?

Yes I was actually born on a couch. Both of my daughters have been born in inflatable bathtubs. Really? Like one you get from like a Walmart or something? Like a children's paddling pool A little more durable than both of those brands

Big salt water baths Are you in the bath at the same time? I was in the second one, yes I was Oh were you in there? Wow I was really in that labour I have to say I was holding my wife's body Like helping her get this child out It was very intimate I was really in that labor, I have to say. I was holding my wife's body, like helping her get this child out.

It was a very, it was very intimate and like almost like a transcendental moment. What a special, what a special moment to share. I tell you what, you want to give that pool a good chlorine afterwards, wouldn't you? When you've seen like a third of a placenta like float around. Yeah. Noticing like the water is like slowly float around. You're like, oh, I'll buy another one.

Noticing like the water is like slowly becoming the colour of blood. Oh, okay, okay. We think poop to begin with,

but that's because there's not enough blood and then it really becomes a blood. What a special moment. And that's our time, I think. I'm wrapping it up now.

Don't worry, we don't need the 15 minutes now, Lucas. Lucas Graham, you've gone all over the world. You've been nominated for the Grammys, you've been on American Idol, Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, Dancing with the Stars.

Who's got the best snacks backstage? The best food, the best catering? I have to say James Corden is pretty damn good. Oh, really? Because then also Seth Meyers, they have like a candy buffet. Oh, that's good. Seth Meyers gives you slippers, right? Because then also Seth Meyers, they have like a candy buffet. Oh, that's good. That's why Seth Meyers gives you slippers, right? He gives you slippers?

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I think it's Saturday Night Live. There's one of them that gives you slippers. So the one with the slippers, that has to be like, I still have those slippers. I mean, if you get free slippers, you're not going to, yeah, they're handy.

You don't go and buy slippers. Now, you've got like a wide range of musical inspirations. I was reading Dr. Dre, Irish folk music, The Beatles, James Brown, Prodigy. Just a really wide range. Yeah, my dad had an eclectic music collection, and we could just put on records and CDs and whatever we wanted to hear. So it kind of prompted a bit of like exploration into like all these like old men's vinyl collections.

Right. Do you know what? Nothing makes me feel older when you go about Prodigy, some old man's music. I'm like, well. That's the fun thing about my dad, that he also had like things like the Prodigy and like music that more young people listen to.

Thanks, mate. You feel better. That's good. I'm not such a boomer now. Thanks, Lucas. Lucas Graham with us on the phone. Now, you grew up in a hippie commune, we understand. Yes, some people call it that. To be a hippie, you kind of need to afford it. I mean, everybody I grew up with, their parents worked really super hard. But yeah, born on a couch in a squatted community in

Copenhagen, it's still there. 34 acres. And so do you all live communally? You all wander around? Is it like just everyone wandering around naked and having a great time? More or less, yes. When we were kids, it was very much running around naked and having a great time.

So when you say a commune, are you educated in there? You work in there? And you live in there? You hardly leave the place? Well, not if you, like, unless you really, really have to. We don't have any schools or higher educational facilities, but everything like daycare, creche, like shopping, a building market. We have cafes, concert halls, like football pitch. It's like a little village within a city.

Like 700 people live there. Wow. That's cool. Oh, Lucas Graham, this has been really interesting chat. It's been really lovely catching up with you. We hope one day to see you in New Zealand. And then I'll come and do the radio show with you. We'll all come full circle.

Oh, mate, we will do that. Anytime anyone else can do the heavy lifting on this dog, we will take them up on that offer. We'll get more into your home birth story. We'll give we will do that. Anytime anyone else can do the heavy lifting on this dog, we will take them up on that offer. We'll get more into your home birth story. We'll give it a good hour. Take care lads. See you Lucas. Making poor life decisions every morning. It's Jodo and Ben on the hits.

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Oh, I gave Annie my mum's up from Christchurch, gave her one on the weekend. She was wandering around in it going, whoo-hoo. Because we've got Ashley Bloomfield on ours, right, saying I'm a baby bloomer. Baby bloomer, yeah. She was loving it. And I tried to give her, I've got Pash Rash as well, less enthusiastic about that one. Those were our earlier renditions.

I had an interesting experience with a face mask over the weekend, going to the supermarket, wearing them, and then buying alcohol, you know, and then getting ID'd, and you've still got your face mask on. True. And you're like, oh, you know, half your face is covered up. There's a lot of trust in that situation, isn't there? I was expecting them to go, oh, they moved the mask,

but she was sort of looking into my eyes. Yeah, like, just trust me. Saw the wrinkles and went, oh, yeah, he's fine. Looked into those dead lifeless eyes. Yeah, that definitely is. So 0800 the Hits if you want an Ashley Bloomfield baby bloomer mask. This is the unofficial Ashley Bloomfield club. We want to play a little game, though.

We're going to start a 60-second clock, and it's name the mask. So we're going to give you clues as to who is in a mask, and if you get it right, you win one mask, and you keep going until you get one wrong. Then we go to the next caller on 0800. So you could win a couple of masks? Yeah. Right.

Oh, you could win, potentially, you could win 12 masks. Wow. Some may say that's a dozen more masks than anyone needs in their life. I don't think they need four. That's the thing. Everyone needs four each. Really? On rotation. Use them all masks, yeah, for rotation say that's a dozen more masks than anyone needs in their life. I reckon they need four. That's the thing. Everyone needs four each. Really? On rotation.

Use them all. Yeah, for rotation. That's what I heard. Oh, wow. I always forget to wash them. Yeah. Don't you? Well, they know you can have one and not wash it.

That's another option. And just ride it out. Yeah, yeah. They do become manky over a 48-hour period. So we'll give you an example of how the game works. Ben Boyce, let's just pretend you're the caller. Okay. Hello, the hits.

Oh, hello. Love the show. Oh, cool, mate. Especially that Ben're the caller. Okay. Hello, The Hits. Oh, hello. Love the show. Oh, cool, mate. Speaking of that Ben guy, he's great. Yeah, yeah. What about the other guy? He's all right.

All right, you want to win a mask, buddy? Yes. Okay, fires webs from his fingers. Wears a crotchy suit. Birth name Peter Parker. Oh, Spider-Man.

Well done. So you would have won a mask and then you keep going like that. That's how it works. We'll head to the phones right now. Joining us from Auckland, Sarah. Please welcome to the hits, Sarah. Oh, no, Sarah's gone.

She's hung up on us. What does purple mean on the phone line, Juliet? So purple means that the producers behind the scenes are currently chatting to them and getting their names and all that sort of thing. Scotty, you're on the air. You're no longer purple. You're green. You've been given the green light, Scotty.

It's all go. Start the clock, producer Juliet. This masked crusader looks great in black. Shocking father had the force. Green Lantern? No. I'll give you another clue. Star Wars.

Star Force? Star Wars. Star Wars? Yeah. Green. Who would wear a mask in Star Wars. Star Wars. Star Wars. Star Wars. Yeah. Three. Who would wear a mask in Star Wars? Darth Vader. There we go.

There's one. On to the next one. She's half woman, half cat, sultry PVC suit. Catwoman? Yes. There's two masks. The guy who had a mutated face lived in the theatre. Hell of an operatic singing voice. Sang in the opera in the theatre. Hell of an operatic singing voice.

Sang in the opera in the theatre. He's in the opera. There we go. Three masks for Scotty this morning. Ryan Reynolds. And if I drank too much and then fell asleep in the water, I'd be what in the pool? Dead pool.

There we go. Another mask. He wore just an eye mask. Very cool black hat, black clothes., played by Antonio Banderas. Dora. Oh, we'll give him another one. Seven masks. Well done.

Was it seven? By the way, I love your show, and especially Ben. Thank you. Thank you very much. What do you think of the other guy? Just out of interest. A little bit sucky. Hold the line.

We'll send you out those Ashley Booth. Come here with a face mask. Thanks to kindface.co.nz. We apologise in advance. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, he played lead roles in Underbelly and Wentworth. Then he played Robbo for three years in Home and Away in Australia. Aussie actor Jake Ryan now stars in a brand new Kiwi film.

It's in cinemas right now. It's called Savage. I'm a savage. No film that's in cinemas right now. It's called Savage. No, that's the TikTok song. That's not the trailer that we wanted to play, Juju. It is the trailer for Savage. Ain't none of us angels. Probably an opposite. We wouldn't be

gangsters if we always did what we were told to do. Society put us in a hole. Freedom, that's all we want. To let your beast out, boys. Be a savage. Savage is a new film, raw, emotional, getting rave reviews,

inspired by true stories around New Zealand gang life. And as I said before, you'll know him from Robbo on Home and Away. It's this Aussie actor, Jake Ryan. He joins us over Zoom. How's it going, buddy? Hey, guys. Thanks for having me. Lovely to see you on Zoom. Geez, I love these Zoom meetings, don't you? You've been Zooming up a storm, Jake? These are great because I can do all the press and the media from my lounge room. It's good. I don't even have to dress up. I just put a shirt on.

Yeah, great. I mean, what are you wearing? You look like you're in a singlet at the moment. You've got a singlet and a's good. I don't even have to dress up. I just put a shirt on. Yeah, great. I mean, what are you wearing? You look like you're in a singlet at the moment. You've got a singlet and a shoe combo. Yeah, I'm not going to pan down for you. It's not too pretty. I've been up since two with the little fella, so it was, yeah. You've got a one-year-old, you were just saying before.

Yeah, he's 11 months now, so I don't think he'll be allowed to see Savage for a while. No, you're in the trenches, mate, you're in the trenches. But Savage, it looks like an amazing movie, something that I think a lot of New Zealanders will probably resonate with and have a lot of interest in, would you say? Yeah,

I mean, I think it's a really important story. I don't think I haven't come across anything that really touches on why these guys are the way they are and their past and the history that's informed their choices of, you know, leading into gang life. And there's a lot of heart and soul in this and I think people are going to be pleasantly surprised.

I mean, the trailer's very violent and there is an element of that brutality in the film, obviously, but I think people are going to be surprised on how much heart and soul is in this. And there's actually a really good message within it. You've got to say you've got facial tattoos in the movie. I'm a bit disappointed to see they weren't permanent ones, Jake. That way of commitment to the role.

Yeah, I know. Sam Kelly, the director, he was pretty keen for me to get them permanently put on. How much do you want this role to work? I drew the line at getting them put on and off every day. Is it true you had to wear them through, the director made you wear them through a mall out in public? Yeah, I mean when we were in the rehearsal process

I was really worried. I mean Sam's, he's a brilliant director, he's a genius and he kept telling me to pull it back less. I don't want you to do anything. You don't need to do anything. It's all kind of there in your eyes. You look terrifying. And I just didn't quite get it. I was worried that i was going to give him a really flat performance so one day he just grabbed me um all kitted up and face tats and everything and i didn't know where we were

going and then he dropped me off at lower hut in the shopping center and said oh you just walk through to the other end i'll be walking 10 paces behind you and it was that was an amazing experience because that i was terrified at first um just to be you know to to put that sort of to put other people in that position to see someone like this but then I started feeling really isolated and lonely and it was I was resenting people judging me just because of the tattoo on my face right so it was a really amazing experience and to watch people just part like people big groups of guys were walking on the other side of the shopping center so to see that the the power or the the the fear that is

instilled in people the judgment people make with just that yeah that was enough to go sam's like he said you are terrifying you don't need to look at it you look terrifying yeah right people know the world they know the story so that was a really important thing. I apologise to anyone who was in the Lower Hutt shopping centre that day. Great for social distancing, though. Yeah. I kind of stuffed up, though, because I went and ordered a coffee and instead of ordering a coffee that Damage probably would drink,

I went and ordered an almond latte. And the lady didn't know, I don't think she knew what to make of me. I forgot that I had the face sets on for a minute and I was like, yeah, just an almond latte with an equal please. And I think she was quite confused. Thanks for the coffee. It was a good coffee. Yeah, but lactose intolerant, you know, I'm looking after

myself. You played a few bad boy characters, I guess in this movie Savage. You're also home and away. Robbo as well was a bit of a bad boy. Listen, I was a big home and away fan, a big Robbo fan. And the diner, Irene at the diner. How long has Irene been running that diner for? I think from day dot.

I'll tell you what, if I've ever been starstruck on set, it's in all my career, it is sitting in the diner, ordering a coffee from Irene, getting told I'm a boofhead or something like that. You're just a bloody boofhead. Yeah, and you'd have a little chuckle because I like everyone in Australia you know, same way growing up so

to be there in the diner ordering a coffee was that used to blow me away. You were also in The Great Gatsby, right, with Leonardo DiCaprio. So would Irene be more, were you more starstruck by Irene than Leo? 100%, 100%. Irene and Elf, like, I was way more nervous talking to them at first than I was with Leo.

You must have felt good the first time Elf called you a flaming mongrel. Well, I think he did. I think he, because I hit him over the head the first time I met him, which was, I thought, that's it. Everyone's going to hate me. You can't knock out Al Stewart the first day you rock up on set. Jake, it's always good to catch up, buddy. Congratulations on

the new movie. Cheers, guys. And cinema's right now. Go see Savage. We'll catch up with you soon. Take it easy. Thanks for having me. like starting your day with panda eyes. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy, launch into mess-free Mexican with the new Old El Paso tortilla pockets. Now for a bulletin featuring people filled with more plastic than the ocean. Here's Juliet with Spy. Thank you very much.

Now, Chris Evans, actor, as you may know, he posted accidentally. He was Captain America, right, in the Marvel Avengers movies? Yeah, he's a very good actor, he is. He accidentally, over the weekend, posted an NSFW. And can I just quickly say, it took me so long to realise what that actually meant. Not safe for work. Yeah. I didn't realise that meant that until... What did you think NSFW stood for?

I don't know, I just thought it was like New South F Wales. New South F-ing Wales? Yeah. What, people who are really passionate about New South Wales? I love Queensland, not New South F Wales. New South F-ing Wales? What, people who are really passionate about New South Wales? I love Queensland, not New South Wales. But why is it always attached to illicit videos? Yeah, really good question. Don't know why my brain went there.

Anyway, he posted a video. And accidentally, though, in the most unusual way, right? Yeah, so it was a video of his family playing a particular game on your phone. And when the video ended, it then went to his camera roll. So it must have been like a screen recording. When you take a screen recording and then you kind of stop it and then it goes to your camera roll.

And in there was a photo of a man's downstairs region. And everyone's like, oh my God, did he realise he's posted this? Obviously it's deleted now, but he hasn't spoken out about it or we said whether it was his or not don't know his brother his brother actually kind of uh i was reading before went on the internet the day after he's been away from the internet for a day what did i miss obviously just and someone went not much apparently it was one of the things which he liked well you got in trouble with uh your your sharing service on your phone because you were trying to prank me looking up how to flirt at work videos and things.

And how to cover up a hickey, yeah, that all came up in my YouTube search things because I got that, yeah, at home. You had a lot of explaining to do there to Amanda, didn't you? And then you get all flustered. Yeah, you over-explain. You're like, oh, look, there's a thing. Put on your hickeys. Look, look, look, look.

Yeah, look, look, look. Yeah, you over-explain. You're like, oh, look, it's a thing. Put on your pickies. Look, look, look, look. Yeah, look, look, look. Yeah, so you've got to be careful. So maybe he was doing, maybe it was a prank on someone. He was doing it for an Iron Man or something. Could be, could be. But he's like, Robert Downey Jr. like this. I'll send him a picture of this. Is that what you're saying?

Oh, no, maybe he was doing something, saying, oh, look, what I would do. Anyway. I don't need to cover that. Why are you defending Chris Evans? I know. I'll help you out, mate. Ben from New Zealand got him out of that Stiggy situation.

Just hit me up, mate. And Mark Ruffalo, he tweeted afterwards saying, bro, while Trump's in office, there is literally nothing you could possibly do to embarrass yourself. See, there's a silver lining, which is a really good point. If you just put it into perspective, it's not that big of a deal compared to Trump. You know, anyway, that's neither here nor there. Anyway, and the cast of Fresh Prince of Balea

have officially reunited for their 30th anniversary for that reunion special that they're doing. It's that whole sit-down reunion situation. What I thought would be interesting, because I read an article that Will Smith and the original Aunt Vivian hated each other. That was the rumours, right? And she left the show.

Yeah, because they were replaced midway through, I think it was the second series or something. It was a new Aunt Viv. And so they do an interview, the two of them, in this for this reunion thing. There's a photo of them sitting up there and laughing and doing an interview. But it'll be a very interesting interview because I'm sure they all dressed there. Yeah, true. That'll be interesting to see.

And it's not like one of those scripted reunions. It's actually like a sit-down thing. So hopefully that happens. And I think Friends is doing the same sort of situation, a sit-down thing. Yeah. So hopefully that happens. And I think Friends is doing the same sort of situation, a sit-down reunion. So they're not episodes. It's just like a tell-all. Catch-up.

Oh, they're all sitting on a couch talking about the good old days. Although they are doing a Fresh Prince version. I was reading a sort of reboot. It's quite a gritty sort of story. It's like a drama. Yeah, it's on the trailer for it. It looks epic. Really?

You know, getting in trouble on the basketball court. It's quite serious. And he's caught with a gun and he gets sent to his family in Balea. All the things you know in the story, but it's all kind of gritty and real. Has it still got the fun song at the beginning? No, not that I saw it. In West Philadelphia. Oh, no, it won't fit with the tone of the show now.

Not quite. And that is Spy Things to Old El Paso. They've got new tortilla pockets so you can launch into some mess-free Mexican food. Low in calories and low in laughs. It's Jono and Ben on my hips. Yeah, one o'clock today, Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, delivering the verdict on whether the current restrictions, level 2.5 in Auckland and level 2 in the rest of the country,

will be lifted on Wednesday or not. One day we'll all be at the same level. Won't that be a magical day? Hopefully. Where South Island doesn't look at the same level. Won't that be a magical day? Hopefully. Hopefully. Where South Island doesn't look at the North Island with disdain.

Well yeah, because you kind of feel like they'd feel like that a little bit. I would if I was there. They'd be like, hey, we're all, you know, we're all good.

That's my gosh. We're all part of the same team. Team of 5 million, team of 5 million, team of 5 million. We're all on the same team, aren't we? Yeah, same team, same team.

Come on guys. Speaking of New Zealand, the A to Z of New Zealand. Yes, phoning every town and city in Aul. Another team of 5 million. Come on, guys. Speaking of New Zealand. The A to Z of New Zealand. Yes, phoning every town and city in Aul. Another team of 5 million. Team of 5 million in Aul, we're doing one a day.

Friday we spoke to a wonderful part of the country. Which was Gisbert. Gisbert, that's right. I was just waiting to see what he was. I know. Damn it, I should have

held off. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. All the memories we had of phoning that wonderful part of the country. Gisbert. BlitzSurf shop. Chloe speaking.

Chloe. Hang in 10. Is it you guys again? Oh, it's the same lady. Oh, you rang? Oh, no. Shuckaburra. Shuckaburra.

Oh, Shuckaburra is you too. We promise we will never call you again. Oh, we'll seera. Shakabra. Shakabra to you too. We promise we will never call you again. Oh, we'll see. We'd accidentally called her two days in a row, not realising it was the same number. It's a small country, isn't it, when you have to prank call the same person two days in a row. But today we're heading to Glen Massey, which sits in Ngaruahia. In the early 1900s, it was a mining town. Now there is literally nothing there.

So if you're looking for somewhere to live where people will forget about you, maybe you should consider Glen Massey. Or maybe you're a former assassin for the government. You left your military life behind you and now you want to live quietly in a cabin in the woods. And the president turns up with the military advisors wanting to return to your former life of assassination. Then Glen Massey. Oh, it's the place to live, isn't it? It's the quiet location for you.

Let's go through now to the school. Glen Massey School, Kate speaking. Hello, Kate. You sound adorable. Oh, thank you. That's a weird way to start the conversation. It's John Owen Ben calling from the Hits radio station. We're just calling every town and city in New Zealand.

We do one a day. We like to learn about the place, and today is Glyn Massey's turn. Okay. What would you like to know? Sorry, you've thrown me off. I mean, I'm willing to accept the compliments. That's lovely.

I just don't hear that very often. I've thrown it off with the adorable thing, haven't I? Yeah. You made it weird. Anyway, I'm trying to pull it back now. Glyn Massey. I keep lingering on it. No, don't linger on it. You made it weird. Anyway, I'm trying to pull it back now. But I keep lingering on it. No, don't linger on it.

You sound adorable. Moving on. Glean Messy. What's in Glean Messy? What should we do if we come to Glean Messy? Where is it? What's it? All questions and more.

Sure. Okay. It is outside Narrawahia. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But it's sort of rural Narrawahia. It used to be a mining town, quite predominant, booming mining town. And now if you come to Glen Massey, you can go to school.

Okay. What if I'm not of the age? Yeah, nah, that's really it. That's it. So you can come to Glen Massey and go to school? Yep. And there's nothing else? Maybe, you know, pat a few sheep and cows.

Oh, yeah. That's good. Yep. And there's nothing else? Maybe, you know, pat a few sheep and cows. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's good. So are you just literally in the middle of nothing? Pretty much. Yeah, no, that's it. No, it's not the most exciting place. No. Oh, so I'm reading here at its peak,

Glen Massey had a general store, butcher, post office, hall, church, fire station, medical centre at its peak, but all that's no longer there. No, it even had a golf course and a swimming pool. Oh, my gosh. What happened? Yeah. It was mining town, I think.

Mining town, yeah. People moved out. They'd mined it. So the hall is now part of the school, and so is the swimming pool. All right. And do you do everything at the school? Depends what you ask.

Yeah, I feel like you're probably the caretaker, the principal. Yeah. The front desk person. You're probably the caretaker The principal Yeah The front desk person You're probably taking a lesson right now While answering the phone Very talented Yeah

Just that adorable side coming out Yeah so adorable Are we back there now? Oh we're going back there Oh okay I started in a weird place And I'm sorry I rattled the whole conversation

You did It was my bad That's all on me And so would you suggest we come to Glen Massey? I can't think of you'd want to. Hey, I want to pat a sheep. Really? Yeah.

And I want to go back to school. Yeah. Probably the place. Yeah, the place for you, Glen Massey. There we go. Well, have a great day. Lovely talking to you. And if you're ever coming by, Glen Massey, we'll be sure to wave.

Okay. All right. Thank you. You look after your adorable self. Thank you. Making it weird now. Bye-bye. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, last week we were asked by Tony Street, who you'll know from the hits, and works in the same building as us, to record a little message for Sam Wallace. Again, he used to be on the hits, because he's having twins.

Yeah, and they wanted us to predict what gender we thought the twins were going to be ahead of the gender reveal party. Yeah, so we got to do a little video. Should we play the video, Producer Juliet? Yeah, we can do that. This is us. He's having identical twins

and they were like, hey, can you predict what gender it's going to be? We'll ask a whole lot of actual they actually got actual celebrities and then they must have been making up the numbers with us and we were there

to pad out the numbers and that's fine I don't mind being a number padderer yeah because it was like Richie McCaw was on this video yeah we were definitely making up the numbers I know but anyway

we made the cut I can't even did we make the cut yeah but I can't even think mainly because of what you said oh right yeah have a listen

listen I'm going to go one boy one one girl. That's my bet. Hedging my bets. It's just like a gambling thing because I love gambling. I've got a rampant gambling problem. Stop filming him. You do realise identical twins have to be one gender.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I know. So you're having identical twins. And a big congratulations to Sam and his partner. That's awesome. But you said... One boy, one girl. Hey, I'm not a baby expert.

What are they called, baby experts? Doctors? I'm not a doctor. I like how Producer Juliet had to point it out from behind the camera. You're like, you do know. You know, the worst thing is we did another take where I didn't say that. Somehow that one makes the cut. That was the funniest moment. Do you another take where I didn't say that. Somehow that one makes the cut. That was the funniest moment.

Do you know, I was looking, actually after that, I was like, I need to research on twins. Right. For future reference. Yeah. For future number padding videos if we ever require it again. Do you know 40% of twins invent their own languages? What? Together.

Yeah. As a way to communicate. Okay. Yeah. I suppose that kind of made sense, particularly when they're younger, right? They'd have their own little language. Yeah, I knew two guys who are identical twins. I went to school with them.

And, jeez, they were a nightmare. They'd drown me in the school pool together. Because twins, they can come like velociraptors, you know? They can work in pairs. Oh, yeah. I heard a story the other day when I was listening to Flicking Through Talkback where a guy said back in the day

his dad was an identical twin with his brother that now sadly passed away. But at the time, one of them was a good driver. One of them wasn't a good, was a bad driver. And so got the identical twin to sit his driver's license test for him so he'd pass. Of course. You'd be able to get away with so much if you had someone who looked identical to you.

I know because your friend was bumped into someone at the pool who he worked with he didn't realise he had an identical twin and he was like he started sort of fat shaming him in a way in a joking way because they quite like the twin he knew

he didn't know it was a twin he was like mate you're looking a little bit chubby and he was grabbing his stomach and like oh look at this mate look at this guy and this guy was like looking at him like, oh, look at this, mate. Look at this guy. And this guy, he was like looking at him. Like, excuse me, do I know you?

It wasn't until like the next day at work. He's like, oh, sorry about the pool, mate. You didn't take the ribbing that I gave you pretty well. And he's like, it wasn't me. It was my twin. He's just grabbing his brother's guts. Something you don't actually know. You're like, oh, look at you, mate.

He would have walked away sad inside after that. What was it? This guy's just mocked me. Complete stranger grabbing my stomach. Wake up full of shame. Wake up with these guys. It's Jono and Ben on the heads. Scrolling through your page. This is like the news that you've never heard before.

It's completely made up, fumbly and very unprofessional. Much like Fox News in America. Now, this is what I like. This is the sort of stories that I like reading on a Monday morning. A family of ducklings caused a bit of a scene in Wellington, actually. We're going to lead the week with this, are we? A duckling story. Everyone was okay, but it caused actually a bit of a traffic jam in Wellington.

So just out of Wellington on the highway in Johnsonville, there was a family of ducklings decided to cross the motorway and caused an hour delay for motorists as they slowly waddled their way across the road. Everyone's fine. So the cars stopped for them? The cars stopped and then it caused like an hour backup of traffic. Only in New Zealand, right?

Is it worth stopping? Yeah, it's cute. It's so cute. I mean, it's cute, but I mean, it's holding people up for an hour. Now, I don't think when they stopped, they thought it was going to be an hour. I told you the other day about how I tried to save a baby duckling. Oh, that's right. And you got attacked, didn't you?

By the mother. As I went to give it back to the mum, it sort of did a little quack, and then the mum just went, oh, right, I'll go with you, and flew at me. What did you do with the duckling? Were you still running with the duckling? No, I put it down gently in a paddock and then ran away in a paddock. I gave it back to you.

I was bringing it back. I used to get attacked by magpies on the way to school. Have you heard that? They swoop down. Oh yeah, they keep coming at you too. Yeah. I see them and I'm like, you are the devil. They've got no fear. I've got nothing left to lose, mate. Yeah, they do. They're really scary. On golf courses,

I remember next to my grandparents out in Amberley, there used to be a lot of magpies and they'd just swoop down on you. What a fun guy. Mind you, if you had that advantage of height and flight, I'd do the same too. I'd be a menace. Just annoy people's mornings. And a couple from Ecuador are now the

Guinness World Record holders for the longest living married couple in the world. How's this? They've been married for 79 years. He's 110, she's 104, and they reckon their marriage has been stronger over time. It's got stronger over time. It's lovely.

The last 30 years, they've just been sitting there, just waiting, waiting for the finish line. Julio's his name. He was born before the Titanic sunk. That's how long he's been alive. And they got married in privacy,

an intimate, secret celebration because some of their family weren't into the marriage. So hopefully now, by now, 79 years later, they're like,

oh yeah, it's okay. How old were they when they got married? Did they say? They got married in 1941. So what was that? Oh, no. I love live radio maps. Thank you. Nothing like this. I don't actually know when they got married, did they say? They got married in 1941. So what was that? Oh, no.

I love live radio maps. Thank you. Nothing like this. I don't actually know where they were born, but there you go. They got married in 1941. He loves, well, he loves,

she's great in conversations, long conversations, and geez, they must have had some long conversations. Do you think once you hit 79 years together, you've got nothing

left to talk about. It's like Ben and me, we just sit in silence. And he captivated her left to talk about. It's like Ben and me. We just sit in silence. And he captivated her with some beautiful poetry. That's how they got together. Oh, what a romantic. Yeah, so 79 years. Well done them.

Get a sword record holder. What is the magic trick to marriage, Ben Boyce? You've got a wonderful, healthy marriage. Oh, don't ask me that. You just celebrated 12 years. 12 years, yeah. 12 years of marriage over the weekend. I don't really know. What's the secret to that success? 12 years. 12 years, yeah. 12 years of marriage over the weekend. I don't really know.

What's the secret to that success, 12 years? I wouldn't say. I would know because you don't ever go out there and go, well, we're a successful marriage because you never. You've got to keep working on it. That's the thing, right? It's never the. You know, communication, shall I say?

Communication. That's a good answer. That's a good thing. Talking to each other. Don't make things fester, you know? Yeah, be open. That's right. So I come to each other. Don't make things fester, you know? Yeah, be open. That's right. So I come onto the radio each day and I get to talk about it

and I get to communicate with everyone. And Amanda's like, oh, okay, we'll just talk about that. That's your marriage counselling. Just doing a radio voice break, getting a phonotopic out of it. So it's six and nine each day I get to talk about all those things. I don't bring them up at home. Oh, no, no, Oh no no no no. But here on the radio. Great communication.

That's my secret guys. Get yourself a radio show. Start your day the wrong way. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Time for the big news. Small town town town. And we're heading to the south. Oh jeez we really peed her out of that thing don't we. We commit

to that in no way at all. This is taking the big news stories from the small towns, the ones that the major news networks, they're going to neglect. Not us, though. We'll slop up those slurpy seconds. Except for Seven Sharp, who actually did a story on this. Oh, they covered this today. Yes, they did.

This is the story of a South Island taxidermist by the name of John. For years, he's had a skin, an animal skin, pinned to his wall. He never knew what it was. It was borrowed from a neighbour, a friendly neighbour, and it hung there for decades. I guess as a taxidermist, you know, when you're in that line of work, you probably have a whole lot of stuff around that you wouldn't necessarily know where you got it from, you know, or originally where it's, you know. Yeah, John will have that.

I can see you ever would just give it to John. Yeah, all over the leftovers. I mean, I'd peel my skin off and give it to john he could pin it to the wall yeah uh but he discovered after a visit from some students that the skin was a rare australian tiger which is long because australia's trailing us don't have time damn right ben this is from many years ago so this is a tiger skin that even Carol Baskin herself would be chomping at the bit for. So he sold it for a quarter of a million dollars. Wow.

And John joins us right now. Welcome to the big news, John. Hello. Hello, is that John? Yes, it is now. What were you before? That was my wife talking. Oh!

Hello, John's wife. Okay, so we've got John now. Yeah, we've got John now. Okay, this has been a fumbly start. John, you're on the air. Welcome, it's John Ombien from the big new small town. So, John, you had a skin, an animal skin hanging on your wall for years.

In your museum, yeah. That's right. And you didn't realise what it was, where it came from, or how much it was worth. I knew where it came from, but I didn't know what it was. But then you had some students, they came in and they went, oh, that looks quite valuable. And then how did you get it valued? They rang up the professor, and he came and had a look at it and he said the only way we can get it valued

is to put it at oxygen. So it went to oxygen and that's apparently the skin now that they've sort of got it, they realise it's the best tiger skin in the whole wide world. It's the best tiger skin in the

whole wide world. Of an extinct tiger, we understand. So this tiger died out years ago. That was the last time this tiger was alive. And its skin has been sitting pinned up, thanks to some blue tacking can-do attitude, on your wall all these years. And you sold it for how much at auction? Thanks to some blue tacking can-do attitude on your wall all these years. That's right, that's right.

And you sold it for how much at auction? $250,000. Oh, my gosh, John. Incredible, eh? And you had it up there the whole time on your wall, had no idea how valuable it was. No, anybody could have just come in and picked it up off the wall and walked away with it.

Now, you're a taxidermist by trade, John. That's right. That's right. Is there anything you can't stuff? I'll name some stuff and you can tell me if you... I'm not going to go into that, mate. I'm not going to go into that. He's not going to go into that.

Okay. Fair enough. I wanted to go into it. No, he didn't want to go into that, mate. You're not going to talk about your own game? No, that's fine. Okay. Because I love Ben.

If Ben was ever to go, as an example, John, hypothetically speaking, if my friend Ben... If I was okay with it? If you're okay with it. So I've said, hey, Ben, when you pass,

can I taxi-dream you? And I'm like, yeah, sure, why not? Is this a possibility, John? If it was legal. You mean to say he'd like to be sacked? Yeah. If it was legal. He's on board with it.

He's signed. Yeah. John's like... It's not legal anyway to do that. It's not legal. All right. Okay, but you could do it, technically. Oh, yeah. What's the difference between a human being and a monkey?

Exactly. That's right. There's no difference at all. Right. No difference at all. Well, it's good to know it's a possibility because I want a piece of Ben in my life. Okay, but it's not possible because it's not legal.

You have a good one. Yes, same to you. Go John. $250,000 John, we call him. And it's good to know I can stuff Ben later in life too. Like starting your day without your morning coffee. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. The Kiwi Referendum.

Yes, we're voting for the ultimate piece of Kiwiana. Ahead of the general election. We were meant to be having the election this coming weekend. It was meant to be this weekend, right? Yeah, so we're giving you something to vote on. My only concern is that this is taking the wind out of the general election's sails. People will be voted out at the end of this. I can't be bothered voting in the actual election.

Now, after 7 o'clock today, we're going to get into today's battle, which is this. Jandals. We say jandals. Everyone else says flip-flops. Versus Buzzy Bees. We've got best friends, Buzzy Bees. For the iconic Buzzy Bee that we force upon any celebrity's newborn baby

when they come here. Even Royal Family, I think we gave one to William, his baby, and I think even before that, Charles and Diana got a Buzzy Bee. Flopping out Buzzy to William, his baby, and I think even before that Charles and Diana got a buzzy bee. Flopping out buzzy bees left, right and centre. So that's the battle we're going to get to after seven o'clock today to vote for the best of the best, the most iconic bit of Kiwi, Ana. But over the weekend we need to update you

with some of the big battles that went on. Producer Juliet, let's go through them on social media over the weekend. Mince and cheese and the Kiwi, who won that? That was Mince and Cheese Pie won that one. Took out the Kiwi. Who won that? That was mince and cheese pie won that one. Took out the kiwi. Yeah.

Kicked that poor defenceless kiwi out of it. You know, we met a kiwi once. We did. It was a little baby. So precious, the kiwi.

It's like, don't look it in the eye. Don't tippy-toe around it. We had to have special gloves. I don't think we were allowed to touch it, but we still had to wear special gloves anyway

just in case we touched it. Yeah, literally just being in its orbit, we could have offended it. Very fragile thing. You can see why there's not many of them left. What I imagine bloody Mariah Carey's like is how you have to behave around a Kiwi. Also over the weekend,

on our Kiwi referendum, we had Kiwi Onion Dip taking on Lorde. Who took that one out? Kiwi Onion Dip. So good. I reckon it's a big contender, the onion dip. Bet Lorde. Yeah, and I mean, hey, full praise to Ella.

She's a wonderful artist and a great New Zealander. I mean, jeez, our economy. Our economy has been, she's been the backbone of it for many years. She has, yeah. But yeah, onion dip, I think it's going to ramp through. Okay, and Slice of Heaven took on Cheese Rolls as well. Yeah, and Slice of Heaven won that bad boy. Oh, Slice of Heaven, because the South Island are very passionate about Cheese Rolls, right?

And we've lost the South Island now. No one's listening to us from the South Island. I apologise. But Slice of Heaven, a very iconic bit of Kiwi Anna. And last week, I don't know if you heard this, but we thought, you know, the start of Slice of Heaven was da-da-da-da-da-da. We were like, if we just played that to someone Randomly down the phone line Would they sing back? Here's what happened

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Groovy Doovy. I haven't heard that since the 80s, and that was a wild time when I was saying groovy. All right, we're having a competition today to see which is better, which is more iconic for New Zealand. We've got Slice of Heaven. Slice of Heaven taking on Cheese Rolls from Southland. Oh, Slice of Heaven all the way. Oh, let's do one more

then. Da da da, da da da da. Da da da, da da da da. Yay! The Kiwi Referendum. We are putting the best of the best New Zealand things up against each other, looking for that

one thing that typifies New Zealand. The most iconic New Zealand bit of Kiwi art. That's right, and this round, I can't pick a winner, and the votes on the text 4487 are split 50-50 at this stage. We say jandals, everyone else says flip-flops. Versus Buzzy B.

We've got best friends, Buzzy B. Oh, I tell you what, the Jando versus the Buzzo. 4487, we're going to announce the winner just before 9 o'clock. Do you know we are the only country that calls them Jandals? $20 billion industry, the Jandal industry. Yeah, it's funny how it became Jandals here, but they're like flip-flops and thongs and everything else. Thongs in Cambodia, and chelanos in Brazil, slops in South Africa.

Slippers, a couple of countries I was reading call them slippers. Sorry, where does jandals actually come from? Do we know how it originated? Or am I just being really naive? No, I don't know. I'm imagining it came from a lady in Palmerston North who talks like this. What are those cool shows you got there?

It's called him Jandles. Very good question. If anyone knows, I would love to know on 4487 as well. But producer Humphries went around the office and around some of the businesses around by work to see what was their favourite. Buzzy Bee or Jandles? Here's their replies.

I think Jandles because people kind of forget about the Buzzy Bee. I'm going to say Jandles because it's summertime forget about the Buzzy Bee. I'm going to say Jandals, because it's summertime. Definitely the Buzzy Bee toy, because of that photo that was taken when Prince William came to New Zealand when he was a baby and he was playing with it. Jandals, because I love going to the beach and wearing Jandals. I'm going to go with the Buzzy Bee. Resembles great New Zealander Jean Batten, actually.

Definitely Buzzy Bee. Childhood memories to a T. Jandals. Reminds me of summer. Of course it's got to be the Buzzy Bee toy.hood memories to a T. Jandals. Reminds me of summer. Of course it's got to be the Buzzy Bee toy. Just reminds me of being a child. Buzzy Bee toy. Definitely. My daughter just got one. It reminded me of being a kid. So, legendary. Jandals. Well, you can't walk on a Buzzy Bee. Buzzy Bee,

baby. Buzzy Bee. I would have to go Jandals. I think Buzzy Bee was probably before my time. Never really affiliated with that. Jandals. Buzzy Bee. Because it is way more original and Australians don't have it. Jandals because summer. Well, given the fact that I know what a Buzzy Bee toy is, I'll go with a jangle. Did you say jangle?

Jangle? Jandle? What do you guys call it? It's a slip-slop in South Africa. Buzzy Bee, definitely. I like the click-clack. Probably the Buzzy Bee. It's not a G string for the foot

like a jandle is Jandles Definitely jandles Jeez that was long I thought I didn't think that was ever going to end It's got nice work

produced by people I thought you can't say nice work at the end of that What was nice about that it wasn't a compliment It was nice No long's good

I wanted more I wanted to be double the length You thought it was never going to end. There was no compliment there. You just felt bad

and you put a compliment in there. That's the thought of the people of the street. The street people would say you go until nine o'clock

to get your votes in 4487. I was just reading here while that long thing was playing, according to Jono. I had plenty of

time to research where jandals came from. Apparently 1940s in New Zealand because a lot of them were imported at a variation of Japanese sandals. Jandals for Japanese sandals in the 1940s in New Zealand because a lot of them were imported at a variation of

Japanese sandals. Jandals for Japanese sandals. That's how they got the name? Makes sense. Makes sense. Oh, it's a

hyphenated word. I like it. The Kiwi Referendum. Putting the most iconic New Zealand things up against each other.

You guys get to vote on your favourite. Today's big battle was this. Jandals. We say jandals. Everyone else says flip flops. Versus Buzzy

Bee. What is the ultimate piece of Kiwiana out of those two? We're going to go to Leanne on 0800 The Hits. Morena and Leanne, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. You have an affiliation with the Buzzy Bee. I certainly do. I have it tattooed on my hip. Oh, that's cool.

Something a bit different. Yeah, now listen, I'm not going to throw stones about questionable tattoo decisions because my life's been full of them. So why the buzzy bee though and why on your hip? Well, funnily enough, 27 years ago today my cousin passed away and she used to call me Lee Bee

and gave me a buzzy bee toy teasing me once. So when she passed away, I got that tattooed on my hip as a memorial to her. Oh, that's adorable. And on my hip so no one sees it unless I want them to. If you play your cards right, Leanne. That's very cool, Leanne. I really appreciate you.

Cool. We're going to find something for you. We'll send you out something in the post, all right? Oh, wonderful. Thank you so much. Good on you Oh, wonderful. Thank you so much. Good on you, Leanne. Thank you very much for calling through and listening. I've got a letter B, not a buzzy B, but a letter B on my leg that one of my daughters has drawn on, but it's quite good for a dad joke.

Oh, there's a B in my leg. A B. And it gets the kids every time. I didn't realise that at the time, but I'm like, oh, I've got a letter B. Oh, geez, you've been milking that for weeks. Okay, so the announcement. What is going through to the next round? Producer Juliet, you've been looking at the polls all morning.

Yes, it is. We say jandals. Jandals. Jandals walking on through to the next round. That's an upset, I would say. Of the referendum. Bye-bye to the buzzy bee. Buzz off.

Yeah. The jandals are through. I reckon onion-dipped jandals in the final. That's my prediction. Is that what you reckon? Yep. Yeah. The Jandals are through. I reckon Onion Dip Jandals in the final. That's my prediction. Is that what you reckon? Yep. Alright, he's caught it early. We're going to keep fighting

all week on our referendum. Not a morning person? Sadly, neither of these two. It's Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. Launch into mess-free Mexican with the new Old El Paso Tortilla Pocket.

Now for your hourly update to see who's winning out of the competition between Brad Pitt and Leo DiCaprio to date the youngest 20-year-old. Here's Julia with Spy. Thank you. So another royal that has apparently done the dirty.

Apparently Prince Philip, who is the Queen's husband, they've been married for 73 years, has been linked to at least 12 different women across the whole entire marriage. And I'm like, man, this runs in the family, doesn't it? Really? Seven decades. Oh, yeah, so that's what, 1.714 women every 10 years.

Yeah, those good maths. Well, he was a bit of a handsome devil, wasn't he, back in the day? Yeah, have you seen The Crown? No, I haven't. Yeah, he's off, yeah, very popular, you know, out and about in the parties and stuff like that. Bit of a pants man. Yeah, he must be.

But then you feel kind of almost quite sad with him because he's all out, you know, he's out living his life and, you know, socialising and not saying anything dodgy like that.

But then he sort of, when he gets sort of dragged into the Royals, he sort of has to stay home and he can't really do anything and you kind of feel like, oh, he's just like, and she's off, you know,

she's really busy off doing a whole lot of stuff. He was like, do you know how much slaying I was doing? Exactly. I was out there. I was the guide.

And now I'm just standing there while you're off and bloody running a monarchy. Do you know what? Because apparently this information is coming from his biographer, an upcoming book or something. And apparently when Elizabeth was first named the Queen, the look on his face just apparently looked like his whole life had been just like. He goes, well well there goes any fun I have in my life. Yeah, apparently that was the case. Because her brother was

meant to do it and then they had to stand down. Yeah, there was some sort of situation. So she wasn't meant to be Queen, I guess, originally. No. Anyway, he does a great job of looking dead, but still living now, doesn't he? How old is he now? I think he's 98 or 99. He's like, come on, guys.

Let's just wrap this up. He's really getting there, isn't he? I'm done. Yeah. And a couple of Australian weather reporters were stunned after Chris Hemsworth crashed their weather report. Now, I don't know about you, but I would love my weather report. I'd love my spy news to be crashed by Chris Hemsworth. You'd like Hemsworth to crash anything of yours.

Oh, my God. He can crash my wedding. Crash your crashed. You'd like him to crash anything of yours. Oh, my God. He can crash my wedding like that. Crash your car. Crash your car. He's like, go for it. Crash your internet, your Wi-Fi connection. I'd be very happy with that. But this is kind of how it started.

Hi, back. I am in Scone this morning. I've been telling you all morning. I'm in the horse capital of Australia, but I was yet to find a horse. So I thought I should hot foot it up to one of the horse studs and check out the beautiful, the beautiful. I heard you talking about looking for some horses there's a bunch down here actually which i've noticed in the paddock what are you doing well we're doing the weather for the today show um and i often get teased about not having the best presenting

skills or pronunciation you want to help me out yeah let's uh let's mispronounce all of these. All right. Cairns, possible shower, 28. Townsville, sunny, good, 28 as well. Sunshine Coast, shower or two, 22. So maybe get a raincoat ready there. Brisbane. So he did the weather report. He sounds bored reading the weather. Yeah.

He had a great opportunity, though, because she was talking about horse studs. So you've got to go and speak to your studs. Are you looking for a horse stud? That was his opportunity, right? That was it. It was like, yeah, you've got one of the horse studs. So you've got to go and speak to your studs. Are you looking for a horse stud? That was his opportunity, right? That was it. It was like, yeah, you've got one of the biggest studs in the world right there.

He might be good looking, but he might not be that witty. Yeah, and he's probably quite modest. He's not going to come and go. Hey, it's a stud. Did someone order a stud? No, sorry, it's horse studs. Oh, by mistake. Hopefully you'll do that at your wedding, Julius.

Did someone order a stud. Oh, by mistake. Hopefully you'll do that at your wedding, Julius. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did someone order a stud? Yes, I did. She's at Julius doing that shaky thing with her torso. Oh, huh? Are you like a husband? Yeah, or he can get lost. Maybe like, hang on, what's this? And that is five things to old El Paso.

You can launch into some mess-free Mexican with their new tortilla pockets. 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. Hey, feeling good? Want to wrap up the show like we do every day with a bit of positivity right around New Zealand today?

Oh, jeez, I started well today. 90-second shower. You would have been happy, Ben. I think I solved the water crisis. You've not a lot of sleep this morning. No. You survived it. Yeah, you said you woke up in the night and just couldn't get back to sleep. No, I solved the water crisis. You've not a lot of sleep this morning. No. You survive it. Yeah, you said you woke up in the night and just couldn't get back to sleep. No, I've been up since quarter to one.

And I don't know if you can tell. You can snap at any moment. He's a little bit scary. He's a little bit intimidating. But anyway. Record show. There was a soapy hot mess in that bath this morning, in that bathroom. Yeah, you would have loved walking in on that, Ben Boyce. I would have loved to. Because I know how clean you are. It's good to like seeing people who are clean.

Well, let's find out why it's going to be a positive and a big day for you. Why is it going to be a good day? Amanda, you're on the air. Welcome. Hello. Why is it going to be a good one for you, Mandy? It's going to be a good... Oh, I hate that.

Oh, I've just ruined her day. Ruined her day. No, it's going to be a good day because my youngest is her first day at school and she ran off without any time to give mum a kiss. Oh, isn't that good? But also you're like, hey, give me some sugar. I've just raised you for five years. Yes, I know.

And she was keen as a bean, ready to go real early. Oh, that's awesome. I apologise for ruining your day. You had a good one and I did it with one fell swoop. We're going to send you out one of our face masks, all right, with Ashley Bloomfield's face on the side. Thank you.

Good on you, Amanda. Thank you. To Tauranga, Mike. Morena. It was going to be a good day for you, buddy. How are you this morning, boys? We're doing well. You sound like you'd have

stubby fingers, Mike, with calluses on them. Yeah, but short. Short, oh yeah. Why is it going to be a good day for you? Well, I've got a poem with Sam Hunt. You remember Sam Hunt? Yeah, I do.

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