Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - April 28 - We Spoke To The Voice Of Siri (LEGIT!)

Episode Date: April 28, 2021

Kia Ora! On today's show, we SPOKE TO THE LADY BEHIND THE VOICE OF SIRI! Her name is Karen Jacobsen, from Australia, and my golly it was interesting to hear how many words & syllables she had to record! Producer Juliet also told a veeeeery juicy story about a groom who hooked up with the lady that dropped his wedding suit off, the NIGHT before his wedding... Kind of unbelievable really. On this, we wanted to hear your most unbelievable stories that would make us go NOOO..... Finally, Ben was very stoked when he was driving with Jono and beat Google Maps' time by a minute, and let's be real, there's nothing better than that feeling. Enjoy the show!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. It's the 28th of April. We're back. Back in the studio.

Did a show from a dairy yesterday, didn't we? That was a lot of fun, actually. Kishore from the Asquith Ave Dairy there. We've done cafe shows recently. We did a show from a show home. Really testing the old broadcasting ability, isn't it, when you broadcast from those locations. It's enjoyable.

Yeah, you're right. And also testing the equipment as well, too. At any stage things could drop out and the radio show couldn't be on air. But maybe that's what they're trying to do. Less of us on air. It was only because we were sitting on the footpath out there in the torrential rain when we were outside the dairy

going, well, this is a first. Was it a career first for you yesterday? Yeah, it would have been. It would have been a career first for me. Yeah, just wondering what was going on. We look like people selling sort of, you know? Yeah, it would have been. It would have been a career first for me. Yeah, just wondering what was going on. We look like people selling sort of, you know, charity, you know, trying to sign people up outside the dairy. I think people kind of avoided us.

But no, we're just there trying to do a radio show. Now, today on the podcast, Ben Bush, you've been watching the Tiger Woods documentary. I have. And you just wanted to know if in the future if I would be one of those people that would unload on you in documentary form later in life. Yeah, I notice a lot of people on the documentary

are like friends of Tiger Woods or former girlfriends or a friend of the family, and they have a lot to say on Tiger Woods. And I'm sure they have the best intentions, but I was just like, if there was a doco, there's never going to be a doco made on me, but if there was, would Jono be a person to go out there and say some stuff? Mate, you can guarantee it.

I would be saying some stuff. Because my career is petering out. So any more screen time I can get. You like screen time? Yeah. Talk about your free time. Yeah, absolutely. Even if it means just making up defamatory stuff about you.

Just so I made the cut for the documentary. You'd do it. I'd be happy. But in what, guys, what life are we living where there's a documentary being made on you? And what have you achieved in between now and then? Oh, there's nothing. There's no reason to make a docker on me.

It was a jump off point to see what you'd say about me. And were they going in on Tiger Woods? Not the friends. No, not really. No, they were just kind of explaining things from what they said. But I always go, you know, they'll go, Tiger at this stage. You know, he was like, how do you know that? Did he go up here?

Did he? Just making stuff up? Or maybe he did. I don't know. Maybe he did. We'll give him a benefit of the doubt. Well, anyway, that's on the show because we drilled down on that today. $5,000, five words for 5K.

Producer Juliet was sent in again on a 50% winning streak. And does she come through? Boss Todd would hope not for his bottom line at the end of the year on the spreadsheet, but we'll find out today on the podcast. Have a great day. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office,

those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. I want to play a wee game right on right now called Liar Liar. Basically, we get two calls on. One of these people are lying. One of them is telling the truth. But they're both unbelievable things that they claim has happened to them. Yeah, in the past, we spoke to a lady in London who eats bricks,

like bricks you make a house out of. You know, the pig couldn't blow over the, what was the wolf wasn't it? It had the hell of a breath that wolf in that Three Little Pigs story. You know, there's a lot of lung capacity coming out of that wolf's mouth to blow over

even a hay house. Yeah, you're right. Sheesh. With a pig inside you assume he had furniture and everything inside. It was just furniture and everything inside. Just clean off the foundation. So I would say in this circumstance that the wolf rang up and said, I blow over houses, mate. You'd say, lie.

He's like, no. But yeah, she eats bricks and has eaten bricks for a large part of her life. So sort of chips away and nibbles little bits of bricks. And then also another version of this, we had Nurse Jenny on who saved Boris Johnson's life, the New Zealander. So that's how this game works. These people pitch the obscene scenario and we have to try and figure out who is lying.

Caller number one right now. I'm not sure who we have on the phone, but what are you claiming? I am the original voice of Siri in a billion devices worldwide. Are we talking to Siri here? Surely we can't be talking to the actual Siri. Does it sound

quite like Siri? How long have you been doing it? Oh, that depends on your definition. I recorded the original voice many, many years ago and then in 2011 it popped up in Siri. Alright, have we got Siri on the actual Siri on the phone? Alright, we'll go to the next

caller right now. Hello, who are you claiming to be? Hey, good morning guys. Sam from Nelson here. Hi Sam from Nelson here. Hi, Sam from Nelson here. He's lying. He's lying. You sound like you're from Blenheim. Definitely not from Nelson. Now, what are you claiming, Sam?

So earlier this year, I found out that I actually had an estranged uncle who passed away, and he left me $5 million in his will. How old are you, Sam? I am 20. Yeah, right. You're too young and too irresponsible to be in charge of such an obscene amount of money. $5 million.

What did your uncle do? Why did he have so much money? Apparently he was a wine sort of grower thing. Oh, okay. A wine grower thing. That's what they say. That's the official job title I've seen on business cards. A man has given you $5 million and you haven't even bothered to figure out what he did.

He's a wine grower thing. He's a wine grower thing, exactly. Hang on, but I'm thinking, Jono, this is a conversation between you and me right now, I'm thinking Sam might be lying, but then I also don't think we've got the voice of Siri. But then Sam could be doubling down and pretending to be vague about things. Oh, yeah. We need a song to think about it. Text Siri 4487 as a number.

Who do you think's lying? Who do you think's telling the truth? Have we got the voice of Siri, the actual voice of Siri on the phone? Or have we got Sam who's been given $5 million from a winemaker thing? A winemaker thing, Uncle. The only thing I got from my uncle is a set of false teeth from his inheritance. So if you have done better than that, Sam, well, you're doing better than me.

So 0800, the hit's telephone number, 4487. Who is lying? Which one is the liar, liar, pants on fire? I'm not sure, but they're going to have very hot legs because they have to stay there for the duration of this next song. Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.

Oh, interesting game. We're in the middle of it. One of these two people are lying. One of them are telling the truth. We need to work out who it is. We can actually play the actual song if you want. No, it's all right, man. There you go. So we had someone who was claiming to be the voice of Siri.

And we had someone who was claiming to have inherited $5 million from their uncle. Here were the two calls we had just three minutes ago. I am the original voice of Siri in a billion devices worldwide. Now, a lot of people on text 4487 saying she's lying. Does that sound a lot like Siri? I don't know why Siri would phone

through to the program, though. And then we had Sam on the phone from Nelson or was it Blenheim? We couldn't figure out if he was lying, but that wasn't actually the crux of his story. Sam, what were you claiming? Ah, well, you know, I am inherited $5 million. Okay. Now, I'm going to go on the side of Sam here.

I think Sam is playing a vague game to put us off the scent. I think he's inherited the money. A lot of people on 4487 agree that the wine... So you think it's true? He's telling the truth? Yeah, from his wine grower thing uncle. But Sharon, what do you think? I think Sam's telling the truth.

Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. Michael? Yeah, I don't know. I think he's telling the truth. Yeah, well, sorry, you were going to say something there, and I rudely talked over you. I feel like, yeah. It's okay. I just think it's... I don't know. I think he's telling the truth. Sorry, you were going to say something there and I rudely talked over you. It's okay.

I just think it's... I don't know. I think he's telling the truth. I don't believe in Siri, but I think he's telling the truth. Okay, Michael, you're on from Hamilton. Who's lying here? I reckon it's Siri's lying.

Siri's lying. Oh, people think it's Siri. I reckon Siri might be telling the truth. Well, let's go to Siri now. Are you there? G'day. You claimed to be the voice of Siri. I'm going to say, I'm going to pick Karen's lying here.

Oh, but she sounded so much like Siri. I'm going to go. But you can put on a Siri voice. I'm going to go against you, Gino, and say you are the voice of Siri. So, it seems like something. Why would you make that up? I'm saying Karen's the one lying to us this morning. All right, Karen, and say you are the voice of Surrey. So, it seems like something, why would you make that up? I'm saying Karen's the one lying to us this morning. All right, Karen, what are you?

I'm sorry, I'm not authorized to answer that question. It is the voice of Surrey. Are you the voice of Surrey? Do I win a prize? Well, you are. You've won the prize already, the voice of Surrey. How did, well, I mean, firstly, I don't know how we got you on the show. How did you become the voice that we hear every day on our phones?

Well, I lived in New York the last 20 years. I went to an audition. A client was looking for a native Australian female voiceover artist living in the northeast of the United States. And I got the job. Recorded a voice system for 50 hours. They chopped it up and created a voice system based on my speaking voice. Can we do a thing? I've plugged my

phone in. Do you think Siri could talk to Siri? Have you tried that before? Now you're getting really complicated. I do have to tell you that she pretty much doesn't understand me and we've tried this in our household. My husband will ask her a question, she'll answer. My son will ask her a question, she'll answer. I'll ask a question, nothing. Oh, really? It's like you're ignoring yourself. It's crazy. Does your voice get recognized everywhere you go? Sometimes. I mean, it depends. Sometimes I'll be somewhere, people are like, you've got a

familiar voice. And they'll tell me where they think they know my voice from. And they look pretty shocked when they realise exactly where they know my voice from. Now, Producer Ellen has just given us some information because obviously we didn't know that we were talking to you this morning. This is a great surprise. So Karen Jacobson, that's your name? That's me.

So I keep, I'm the same as you, Ben. I want to call you Sarah. That's Karen, yeah. Do you find it surreal talking to yourself? It is bizarre. When I was a little girl, I dreamed of, you know, I'm from Mackay, the Whitsunday region in North Queensland, beautiful, tropical place, quite remote.

And when I was growing up, I dreamed of becoming a professional singer and having my and my songs coming out of the car radio not the GPS which was just not even invented then so so you're the Australian New Zealand voice that we would all hear are there other there are other series around different parts of the world, I assume? Oh, yes. And the US one, Susan Bennett, I have met. She's absolutely wonderful. And when we met at lunch together, we decided we would be known as the series from now on. Seriously speaking to each other. Yes, exactly. Exactly. And was there anything in your recording that you found unusual?

Because obviously you get asked all sorts of unusual questions. Yes. So, well, it's actually more tiring than you might imagine, all of that concentrating. And they only had me record a maximum of four hours at a time so that my voice did not sound tired or fatigued at all, like just four hours a day for three weeks. I think one of the most memorable parts was when they had me, you know, because you're saying sentence after sentence or phrase after phrase,

and I had to say the word approximately, approximately 168 times in a row. So your brain starts to wonder if you're going mad. And do you say, because I would have thought that you would have said separate words that technology joins together to form a sentence, but you actually, you voice full sentences. It's both. So there are sentences and phrases and words that they capture so that they can do that, so they can chop them up into syllables to create a voice system based on my speaking voice from those different syllables. So, yeah, you described exactly what happened. Would you have said every word in the English language?

I don't think I said every word, but I captured every syllable, that's for sure. That isn't really impressive. I'm trying to get Siri going on my phone. Hello, Siri. It's not going. Is it going yours? No, it's probably because the address is... I told you.

It doesn't work when Karen's around. It's not me. Listen, lovely, lovely to talk to Siri. Awesome. Well, I'd love to connect again. And, yeah, people can connect with me online. Real Karen J. Thank you so much.

And can you take us out with your favorite Siri-ism? You have reached your destination. Oh, my gosh. This is a moment. I can't believe we're speaking to Siri here. This is a moment. Here we go. Thank you very much, Karen.

You bet. We apologize in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the heads. The heads.

The heads. I've been watching the Tiger Woods documentary. It was on TVNZ, and I think now you can catch it on Neon. It's like a two-part documentary, really fascinating about the world's, I mean, he's the world's most famous golfer, and just to seeing his whole life from being, he was amazing as a kid, like just this incredible golfing prodigy

that his dad pretty much shaped through his life, you know, basically taking him out there from three years old, just basically making him hit golf ball after golf ball, but maybe it shaped him into an amazing golfer. That's what you need to do to be the best of the best. My parents had me radio announcing from a very young age. I think two years old I was hosting my first radio show.

Are you saying you're the best of the best? This is what happens, Jude. At some stage you feel kind of sorry for Tiger because he obviously lost a huge part of his childhood. Absolutely. I think the Williams sisters were the same. They were just forced to play tennis from age four or five. But hey, they're great now.

Yeah. What also I found interesting is because obviously Tiger Woods doesn't comment through it. They don't have him doing any sit down interviews, but they have friends and family of Tiger Woods, like former childhood friend or friend of the family, commenting on the way through going, oh, at this stage in his life, Tiger was feeling this, or I remember seeing this, you know, Tiger. All these people commenting, you know, friends and family, and I'm kind of like, well, does Tiger know you're doing this? And they're always the most tenuous relationships.

Man who once served Tiger a kebab in a Westfield mall. He's chiming in. He looked sad that day he ordered a kebab. He went, no, to bully. Usually he goes to bully. But, yeah, I always feel like if you're a tiger, one's watching that going, oh, is Gary from primary school just unloading on me?

Yeah. And a lot of the time I'm sure they've got their best intentions. They all say things that were probably the truth and probably the way that it happened. But I'm just like, you know, would you, like if there was a documentary made on me, there's not going to be, but if there was one being made on me, would you be like, oh, former

colleague and friend, John O'Prior, would you spill the beans? Absolutely. Firstly, I love that you think there's going to be a documentary. No, I don't. I don't. But yeah, I'd be one of those rats that would fully rinse you out. A little 15 second vignettes, you know. Maybe you'd say some nice things about me. Yeah, no, I'd be one of those rats that would fully rinse you out in little 15-second vignettes, you know?

Well, maybe you'd say some nice things about me. Yeah, no, I'd go, have you ever got a dramatic music journey yet? Oh, what? I'd go, I worked with him for many years, and he refused to let producer Juliet talk to him. He said, if you want to talk to me, you need to talk to me in fluent Italian. So Juliet went for four years to Italy to study the language. She came back fluent.

She said, buongiorno to him. He said, I don't even speak Italian. That was one of the sick things he made her do. You know those stories of rock stars who want green M&Ms removed from the bowl? Oh, right, yeah. He made me go to the M&M factory and cease production of them. M&M pulled them from the production line just because of this monster. I once saw a witness, a phone call come through from his own mother,

Jennifer Boyce, and he declined it. So these are the things you'd say? This is the sort of stuff I'd say. I've got it all written up, ready to go. I can't wait for the Ben Boyce documentary. Can I reply? Can I reply? Do you get a right of reply?

This is your documentary now. What do you want to say about your former friend and colleague, Jono Pryor, and the music? I mean, Jono, he was a great actor. I have to give him that. A great actor. I mean, the best acting he ever did was pretending to be a nice guy on radio and TV.

Behind the scenes, he was a monster. The sort of monster that would put a permanent marker next to the whiteboard so he'd use it. And then you wouldn't be able to rub it off. You weren't allowed to look at him. It was true behind the scenes, which is probably a good rule because sometimes the light would light up his bald head and blind you. But it was true. A total monster. John O'Prior.

That's the truth. Well, there we go. That was a great therapy session. That was true. A total monster. Jono Pryor. That's the truth. Well, there we go. That was a great therapy session. That was wonderful. The documentaries. I feel good. I see what they're doing now. Yeah.

So if I ever get a call in 30 years, are we doing a total documentary on Ben Boyce? Firstly, I'll go, why? Why? Is there a market for it? Secondly, I'll go, yes. So I'll take part in that. To everyone pulling a sickie today,

you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, on Friday, we were driving down for work in Tauranga after the radio show. Jeez, traffic is a nightmare when you're going into Tauranga. I know they're doing a lot of roadworks at the moment. It goes to a standstill, doesn't it? Because we thought we left Auckland with enough time because it was a long weekend. So we're like, sweet, we left Auckland, we

got out of Auckland. We thought that was the hard part. But as you said, around Tauranga, we got really busy. And all of a sudden, I was on Google Maps. And all of a sudden, our time, our estimated time of arrival just jumped up. It leapt up by 45, 50 minutes. And Ben was full blown co-driver in a rally. He was like, we need to cut this time back. We need to pull it back. I was like, what do you want me to do? You want me to drive through a farm paddock? We'd gone from being on time

to suddenly being 45, 50 minutes late. Now you hate being late. Especially when there's a film crew, a TV crew waiting for us. I'm like, oh, this is not a good look. There's people waiting for us. We're going to be late. We should have left earlier, but we didn't. We thought we were fine, and now we're going to be late.

So I had the Google Maps, and then it became like a little obsession for me. It was scary. The different roads and different options going, and watching the time go, oh, yep, two minutes down. We lost two minutes on that one. That's good. Or if we go on this road, we could lose seven minutes on this road.

And we slowly ate away at that time. We did. We veered off the state highway about 19 times, down little side roads, even down a gravel road at one stage. Residential properties and all sorts. Where are you taking me? I took a shortcut through a petrol station, remember? Yeah.

Oh, genius. It was a cafe. It was a cafe. You cut through and then did it right, then you turned back on. And we probably saved at least two and a half minutes. It was, it was not worth it. We were still late.

I mean, but we weren't as late as we could have been. Had we taken the route that they had told us to take. And then I needed to pee. Oh, yeah.

And I could tell he was not happy about the pit stop. yes, that's right. That added five to seven minutes. now I need to pee. And then he was like, I better buy something, a guilt minutes. Now I need to pee. And then he goes,

I better buy something, a guilt purchase. I'm like, oh. And then he got talking to the guy behind the counter. I'm like, oh. He came back and he goes, oh, you was a hits list now.

And I'm like, oh yeah, but it's not the time. Yeah, the BP at the Puna. Yeah. Good morning, guys. Yeah, they listen all the time, which is awesome. Well, apparently not according to you.

You wanted to go. I wanted to talk to our listener. I was not going to listen, but we were in a rush. I could feel him. I could feel it. Seven more minutes back to the time. I could feel his eyes burning at me through the petrol station window.

And it made me want to talk to him for longer. Well, because you went. I could see you go to the bathroom. You came out of the bathroom, and then you went to the drink scout. I'm like, where's he going? And it was quite a long line. And then you lined up in the line. I'm like, oh, don't, don't.

You're such a wanderer. He came out of there with peanuts and a drink. You don't eat during the day. You're like, what's the peanuts? I'm like, why'd you get peanuts? Is it guilt when you use a shop or a retail's lavatory? You feel like you need to make a gift purchase, don't you? You're like, you know what I've just gone and done.

I'd be a monster if I didn't give back to the business. When you're trying to cut down your Google Maps time. It's like a challenge from Google, isn't it? When they're like, your estimated time of arrival is 10.57. You're like, I can shave at least 90 seconds off that. But Google, it's a satellite. It's always going to win. It knows exactly what's going to happen. Well, true, because it kind of recalculates anyway. So you're not actually shaving any time off that. But Google, it's a satellite. It's always going to win. It knows exactly what's going to happen.

Well, true, because it kind of recalculates anyway, so you're not actually saving any time off that. There you go. That's the story of a bickering old couple travelling from Auckland to Tauranga. Sounded like my parents just bickering all the way down. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Now, we wanted to bring a new part to the show right now and hope you can take part in it as well. We hope you can join us on New Zealand's Breakfast. It's called... No! No!

Oh, no! No! No! Oh, no! No! No! No! Oh, no!

That's an intro we just did before, and it's definitely not going to date in time. It's called Make Us Go No. These are stories that are going to make our jaws drop on the ground. Unbelievable ones that you'd say, no, that didn't happen. You would even say, no. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Now, Juliette, we don't know the details of this,

but you said you've got one to kick things off. Now, if you're listening and you think you've got a story that would make us go, no, 0800 that hits the telephone number, but you? So, a friend of mine told me recently about a situation that happened before a wedding. Now, I didn't go to this wedding and neither did she, but it's just kind of rumours, you know. Well done on distancing yourself.

Thank you very much. Can I just say, I love a good old gossip. Love a good old gossip. You do love a gossip. But she heard that the evening before this wedding, the lady who had to drop off the suits for the groom and the groomsman to the venue. Ended up hooking up with the groom the night before his own wedding. No. No. No. No. Like, who pitches that? How does that happen? I don't know. I don't know.

That's just the gods. Surely that didn't happen. But that's the point of this phone topic. And then he got married the next day. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's so sad, isn't it? She was like, I thought you said get him in a suit,

his birthday suit. I missed the brief, boss. So that's a hell of a play. I always wonder how those sorts of scenarios kick off and who pitches them. Whether or not they met before for the fitting or something, I don't know. Because she knows what's about to take place the next day.

And he knows. He knows. They're both well, yeah. Yeah. But they're going, okay, yeah, wow. Crazy story. About 800 of the hits Make us go, no. We have a friend of ours who told us a wonderful,

well, he's not a friend. He's someone who calls a radio show we used to work on. And he was in coitus. Yeah, like having adult time, you know. Having adult time, yeah. And that's just not watching National Geographic after nine o'clock when the kids go to bed. That's lovely adult time. Falling asleep watching Netflix.

That's pretty much my adult time. But they were having adult time and there was a pelvis collapse issue going on. Midway through. So her pelvis collapsed. Whose? Locking him inside. Yeah. And they couldn't separate.

So they had to call her mum. What? To help. She couldn't help. And then in the end, they had to call the ambulance. And they still had to take them out on a bed, you know, a wheelie bed. Like Siamese twins. Like together with a little blanket over the top for the neighbourhood door.

Everyone coming out to go, what's going on there? And they got wheeled into the A&E. So a story that, I don't know, I mean it might not be true but it did make us go No! No! No!

No! No! So Juliet kicked things off with a beauty about a suit delivery worker who hooked up with the groom the night before the wedding. Wow wee, that is full service. Surely that's not

the case, but these may not be true but it's just got to make us say no. So a friend of ours, a colleague that we used to work with. No. Oh no, too soon? He discovered that his dad had a whole other family in Europe Really?

He was 21 years old at the time So he'd gone through all his teenage years and everything And his dad was away quite a lot of the time for work Really? And yeah, they discovered he had a whole family going on Kids, putting them through school Oh, like, so basically the same thing going on over each side, different hemispheres.

How do they get away with that? Different time zones. Jeez. Wow. That would be a very hard light to keep up. I just like the admin on that. There's a lot of admin. I can't even manage one life, let alone double lives.

Oh, no. I don't know how you do it. I feel like I'm, yeah, same as you, I'm really struggling manage one life. They're like double lives. Oh, no. I don't know how you do it. I feel like I'm, yeah, same as you, I'm really struggling with the ones. I'm a shamble. I can just keep my head above water with this one. Yeah.

And I'm a shambles. But he went and met them and they were getting all salty towards him. Oh, really? Like thinking that he was going to come and get his dad's money and stuff. He's like, but I was his fit, what? Anyway, that was a story that made me go, no.

Let's go to Raewyn. You're on from Auckland. How are you?, no. Let's go to Raewyn. You're on from Auckland. How are you? Hi. Make us go no, Raewyn. Okay, so several years back, I came home from work. I went to cook dinner. I put the meal into the oven.

I came back to check my roast chicken and vegetables several hours later, and there was a cooked sparrow in my oven. No. No. No. No. No.

Really? How did it get in there? Had the chicken just shrunk? No. No. The chicken was still there. The vegetables were still there, and on the shelf above it was a cooked sparrow. Oh, poor little sparrow.

I've never tried sparrow. Oh, no. I don't think you're allowed. Are you allowed to eat sparrows? No. I feel like there's a cooked sparrow. Oh, poor little sparrow. I've never tried sparrow. Are you allowed to eat sparrows? I feel like there's a lot of them. You could have a go. They are very cute. It'd be interesting to see what they taste like a sparrow, wouldn't it? Is it frowned upon?

I think so. I always pose this question to Ben and Raewyn. I'd like to bring you into this debate as well. If you could farm kiwis in Kakapo. Oh, no. No, no, no. No. No.

That's the answer. You know what you're going to say. Yeah, you would get oh no from me. Yeah, that's an oh no from me. I was just pitching the idea. It's a hypothetical world. You go and have a lovely Wednesday, Raewyn. Thank you for listening.

Awesome. Thank you. We'll take one more. Alisa, welcome to Make Us Say No. What's your story? Hi. So a few years ago, I was with a group of friends, and my friend had broken up with her ex-boyfriend,

but he was still really good friends with all of us and her dad. And we were at her dad's house and a group of people had decided to go get food. I decided to stay back because I was tired. And while I was lying there playing on my phone, I heard people doing the dirty. And my first thought was, it must be my friend and her ex-boyfriend. And then a little bit of time passed and I realised that she wasn't there. She had gone to get food. And the only other people in the house

was the ex-boyfriend and the dad. No. No. No. Scandalous. Oh, there's a scandalous story. And so what do you do in that situation? I thought about it for maybe like a week, two weeks,

and I ended up ringing her and I just said, hey, look, this is what's happened. She actually said to me, I'm going to pretend like I didn't hear that and just said, let's move on. And I said, okay. It's always really good to suppress those emotions, I find. They never come back to haunt you later in life.

That's the New Zealand way. Just pretend it didn't happen. Don't make a fuss. Just carry on. Oh, well, there we go. No, no, no. That was a winnow. It'll be back next week.

Thank you very much, Elisa, and thank you for all your calls and texts this morning. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

Now, I want to share something with you. Ben's been hiding a secret obsession from me for the last month and a half. I've heard about being none the wiser. And I was a little disturbed to find out what it was and that you could keep such a secret from your dear, dear friend and colleague. Well, yeah, for our TV show that's coming soon to TVNZ2 called Good Sports, we're sort of looking at sort of, I guess, less mainstream sports in New Zealand. And so one of the shoots that I knew we were doing,

we were filming at, was a Rubik's Cube competition. So I thought, well, actually, my mate had a Rubik's Cube when I was around there about a month before filming. And he was like, oh, you should learn this secretly behind Jono's back. Make it your hobby. And then surprise him on the day. So I've been trying all my spare time away from you, which is quite hard because we spend seven days a week together.

We spend a lot of time together. This is what disturbs me. If he can hide this from me, what else is he hiding, Producer Juliet? So I've been trying to learn this thing. It's really, really tough. It's honestly one of the hardest things I've ever done as an adult you don't normally learn things like this and it's all about sort of remembering patterns called algorithms and all this sort of stuff so it's like it's like studying for exams it feels a lot easier to learn

stuff as a child yeah for some reason because you've got all your perceptions and your brain's wired by the time you're an adult. Yeah, my mate learned in lockdown, he said. So he gave me his Rubik's Cube, so I tried to learn it. And then midway through, I gave up. I was like, it's too hard. And then I was like, no, I'll persist on because he did it. And then I caught up with him again. He's like, no, I gave up.

So he actually conquered it. But he was the inspiration for you. The guy who had actually given up. You should do this. You should do this. I was like, but you didn't do it. Anyway, you nailed it. You nailed it. But he was the inspiration for you. The guy who had actually given up. You should do this. You should do this. But you didn't do it. Anyway, you nailed it. You nailed it. It's one hell of a party trick if you've got about 15 to 20 spare minutes. Ben can do the

reverse. Very slowly. My best ever time which I was at a couple of minutes I got to 2.30 but when I had to do it on the day in front of all the people secretly I got a couple of things wrong and I started getting in my head and crumbling. I got there in about eight minutes but I kind of crumbled under the pressure. But I got a couple of things wrong and I started getting in my head and crumbling. I got there in about eight minutes, but I kind of crumbled under the pressure. But I got there, but still.

Well, sucked in. I've been learning the alphabet behind your back. I can do it all by myself now. It's my little hobby. That's awesome. We want to open up. What's New Zealand's most unusual hobby on 0800? What are you doing that maybe your work friends don't know about

and maybe even your friends and family don't know about and maybe even your friends and family don't know about? I'm making this sound very dark. Maybe you're collecting something. Maybe you've got a hobby for something like Rubik's Cubing. What thing, one last thing I'd say,

you know, I took anywhere between two to eight minutes to do it. But these kids were doing it in like six seconds. Unbelievable. Some kids were doing it blindfolded. They would look at the cue,

put a blindfold on and then just remember the algorithms they have to go through. That's incredible. It's just on another level. It's on another level. Secret hobby of mine, making Heineken's disappear. I do that. I actually play a lot of Sylvanian families with Poppy, my daughter.

Do you? Without Poppy. But I assume quite dark characters, too, of like a stressed out mum who's just arrived home. She's like where's the sav? I need to and she sort of passes out on the couch by about 7.30 at night so that's my, those are my hobbies.

What are your, the most unusual hobby or collection? We'll love your calls this morning. We'll go to Emma on from Wellington. How are you? Yeah, good to meet you. How are you? Yeah, doing well. New Zealand's most unusual hobby. Have you got it? Yeah, good to see you. How are you? Yeah, doing well. New Zealand's most unusual hobby. Have you got it?

No. So my partner, Andrew, he does metal detecting. Oh, metal detecting. Now, you don't want to judge a metal detector when they're traipsing up and down the beach, but you always do.

Like, I don't want to. I always want to know what are they finding. Yeah. He finds some pretty cool stuff, but he's also super embarrassed about it so he does it only at six o'clock he'll leave the house around five thirty in the morning go out and go on a hunt so no one can see him and then he'll come back with all his

little treasure i mean you're brave you're a brave human being to do it in broad daylight aren't you because some people do oscar my son he got given one uh like a toy one for christmas and he's like let's go metal dance when we went and did it at the beach. And you could feel eyes on you. Yeah. What's the best thing he's found, Emma? He finds a lot of old military stuff, like war medals and gold rings. He's found some really cool gold rings.

Oh, wow. Yeah, he's actually been pretty lucky. Yeah. I can tell you're like, I have no interest in this hobby, but I thought I'd phone up and help you guys out. We appreciate it. You're on the line.

We're going to send you something, okay? Some help pizza coming your way. When a sentence ends with, yeah. You know, there's not... I brought back some stuff. I wasn't paying attention. You go out doing your little metal detecting. Alan, you're on from Christchurch.

New Zealand's most unusual hobby. Have you got it? I think I have. The rumour has it I've got a large collection of toys. 40,000 to 50,000 of them. 40,000 to 50,000 toys?. 40,000 to 50,000 toys? That's the one. Oh my goodness.

When did this start? It started way back in the 60s, collecting the early Matchbox toys. And it sort of just grew from there, really. Oh my gosh. Where do you keep them all? We've actually opened a museum in Christchurch. This is so big. I'm hoping a museum.

It's turned from a hobby into an actual tourist attraction now. It is indeed. It is indeed. What's the museum called? It's the New Zealand Museum of Toys and Collectibles. Oh, my goodness. And so these are all toys that you've been given or bought yourself over the years? Yeah, over the years, yeah.

Since I've opened, we've got a few people who've put their collections in as well, which is really good. What's the most unusual toy there, or the one you're most proud of? Oh, the unusual. Oh, gee, we've got a horror alley. Pretty scary stuff in there. How much would this be?

This would be worth a bit of money, wouldn't it, this collection? Yeah, she's getting up there. What do you reckon? Oh, probably worth a bit of money, wouldn't it, this collection? Yeah, she's getting up there. What do you reckon? Probably over a mil. Oh, my gosh. And do you think you would have paid nowhere near that? Because obviously these things obviously increase in value over the years

as they become collectibles. Yeah, that's right, yeah. Yeah, you shop around and get them for a good price. Yeah, but I don't sell them. You know, once they're in the museum, that's where they'll stay. Do you have a partner, Alan? I do. You're a very good price. Yeah. But I don't sell them, you know, once they're in the museum. That's where they'll stay. Do you have a partner, Alan? I do.

You're a very good lady. Yeah, I was going to say, was your partner like, can we get rid of the toys? I've got a museum or something. Ben's had a whole bunch of Simpsons collectibles

that he's had on the shelf displayed on the mantelpiece and they slowly go missing from his house. Yeah, they do. Oh, okay. Maybe I need to open a museum. Like if I started getting those Funko Pop vinyl toys,

I started collecting those, and they're going missing as well. Yeah, you've got a few of those. Yeah. Well, you and Alan can have a conversation off here. I'll wrap this up. You can talk about your Funko Pops. Oh, man, after my own heart. I love Alan.

Alan, thank you for giving us a call this morning. It's so awesome that you've started a museum. Appreciate it. I get one shelf at home in the lounge. That's all I get. Not a museum, but there we go. And she's even embarrassed of that shelf. Yeah.

Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. 7.45 and it happens every day on our show. Five words for 5K on The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. 7.45 and it happens every day on our show. Five words for 5K on The Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's my favourite part of the show behind how many hair follicles will I lose in the next five minutes. It's five words, 5K, ladies and gentlemen.

A game of word association. We chuck out five words. You tell us the first words that pop into your head. If they match with ours, all five of them, you win $5,000. Hey, Lucy, how's Christchurch this morning? Oh, yeah, it's pretty chilly here. Yeah, Annie and John were saying that last night, getting a bit cold. It does get

cold over winter, doesn't it, Chitra? Yeah. Yeah, my dog's not too happy about being outside this morning. Okay. Well, that's how you've been playing the game, five words for $5,000. Was I sorry? Have you been playing along with five words for $5,000? Yeah, you've been playing the game, five words for 5K. What's that, sorry? Have you been playing along with five words for $5,000? Yeah, I've been listening along, thinking,

oh, would I do that? Would I say that? Yeah, well, now's your chance to do that or say that. You say some words, one of us says some words, and hopefully you win a buttload of cash, all right? Who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? You've got Ben, producer Juliet producer Juliet who's new to the game and myself

Jono Pryor who's very old very old to this whole game well you've got to send in another girl don't you Juliet

again oh no Juliet's becoming the most popular option we're facing ourselves out of the show

I think which is probably for the best fresh off a 50% winning streak she's won from two, ladies and gentlemen. Will she match five words with Lucy?

She's heading into the soundproof booth, aka the noise-cancelling box. She is in there now. Millennial Max, can we start the dramatic music, please? Alright, Lucy, here's where the acid comes on you. First word we're going to say this morning for five words, $5,000, is chalk.

Chalk. Um. Oh, that's tricky. I'd say board. Chalk board. Oh, yeah. That's a good option. I had cheese in my head.

I don't know why. Oh, cheese. I had chalk board, too. I think the two options, chalk and cheese, it was... Are they opposites, chalk and cheese? Yeah. Would you say cheese was the opposite? Anyway, we can talk about this another time.

It doesn't matter. I'm not at the soundproof booth. Your next word, Lucy, this morning is Roman. Roman. Oh, literally the first word that popped into my head was candle. Is there a Roman candle? Oh, the firework. There is a Roman candle, the firework.

They don't sell Roman candles nowadays, do they? Because people are holding them in their mouth and stuff and letting them off. They're very irresponsible. I don't know whether that one's really guessable though, but we'll go with that. Well, let's go for that for now. We'll come back quickly at the end of this time. So at the moment, okay, Roman candle. Crocodile

is your next word. Can you go with Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter? Yeah, Crocodile Hunter. Lock in Crocodile Hunter, yeah. Okay, singer is the fourth word. Five words, 5K.

Singer. Oh, that one's tricky. We should just name like a pop star, like Rihanna or something. Oh, Rihanna, okay. Yeah, that's a good option. And masked is the last word. M-A-S-K-E-D, masked. Is it a trick word if I go masquerade?

I don't know if she would go on with that. She would name a single standalone word, I imagine. I mean, you can if you want, but I would say masked. First thing that pops into my mind, no, I'm not going to say it. No, do, help me out. Well, there's a show that's coming to TV. I know, The Masked Singer.

That was the first thing that popped into my mind, but I'm trying to think of what other options there are. But then the fourth word was singer. That doesn't matter though, does it? A TV3 trying to infiltrate our five words competition for some subtle advertising. Well, I do like that show, so... Oh, should we lock it in? What do you reckon?

Yeah, yeah, we'll do that, eh? Okay, now, are you happy with all those? You going to stick with Roman Candle? Well... Nothing else has popped into your head? Well, that power car. If you have a power car, are you going to light up a candle?

I reckon you'd stick with Roman in that instance. Roman Candle, yeah. Mainly because time's starting to drag on as well, and I'm conscious that this is a commercial radio show. Yeah, enough for enough. Okay, Lucy, we're going to get Producer Julia out of the soundproof booth. She's coming back out.

We weren't brainstorming it. We actually tried in the weeks leading up to test trials the soundproof boot in the car boot, and we locked Ben in the boot, and you got trapped in there for about six or seven hours. It got awkward, didn't it? Well, I had the keys in there with me. That was the problem. You're like, I can't breathe anymore.

So I had to get the key. It was a nightmare. So we've ended up with a soundproof boot and Juliet. Hello. That was quite long, wasn't it? Yeah, there was a few words we had a bit of a debate over because they're tough words today. Alright, who are you, our boss? Yeah, it is dragging. Whoopsies.

All right, here we go. Let's see if your five words match up with Lucy. The first word we said to Lucy this morning was chalk. Chalk. Bored. Yes, well done. One from one, there we go. This is a huge winning streak, Juliet Storm.

I'm going to mix things up this morning. I'm going to jump around. Okay. Because I feel like... Anyway, I'm just going to do it. It's a long story short. You've already said it's quite long. Crocodile.

Crocodile. Hunter. Oh my gosh. How are you feeling, Lucy? Two from two. Yeah, I'm a bit nervous. So are the others. Okay.

I'm going to go jump to the last word. Today, we said to Lucy, was masked. M-A-S-K-E-D, masked. Singer? Oh, really? And I see how Ben Boyce is manipulating the competition

this morning, dragging it out for drama purposes. All right, you're two away. He's fired off the low-hanging fruit. Yeah, the easy ones. Well, maybe, maybe not.

Don't think I can't see what game you're playing. And I love it. It's five words, 5K. Okay, this is where it gets a little bit tougher. The words Lucy had a wee bit of trouble on. Roman. Roman. Numerals.

That's why I did what I did. Lucy. I should have got that one too, why I did what I did. Lucy. I should have got that one too because I can write in Roman numerals. Oh, you should have. Lucy went Roman candle. Yeah. Oh, okay. A wild firework from the 90s.

Oh. Yeah, no, it was fun times, fun times. I don't know how I got that. No, it's funny what pops into your head on the spot. And the last word this morning was singer. What would you have said, Producer Juliet? Songwriter? Hard luck, hard luck.

Three out of five. Not bad though, Lucy. Thanks so much for your time. No, all good. Thanks for that. Hey, good on you. Broadcasting live and mostly awake.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz Listen, I'd love to say right now that we're handing you over to our reckless partying 23-year-old producer,

but she literally spent the weekend drinking herbal tea, doing yoga and reading New Zealand Home and Garden magazine. I'm like, let's go to 660. You're like, oh no, I'm going to have a quiet weekend. I'm so for it. You're like, I'm going to have a pure weekend. You're like, what are you, in your early 20s? It was very wholesome, I must say.

I almost feel like just putting a cigarette in your mouth, lighting it, just so we can say we've got some form of badass on the show. Maybe that should be my New Year's resolution in April. Take up smoking? I'm going to take up smoking in 2022. Yeah. So, Lorde, she's been a bit off, she's been off the scene for a wee while

since she released her last album in 2017. But she's made a little bit of a comeback. But you may not know that she has an Onion Ring Review Instagram account. Now, she started this account and no one really knew it was her. It was just kind of this anonymous account that posted photos of Onion Rings around the world. It's called Onion Rings Worldwide. It's got over 60,000 followers now.

And so fans slowly started realising that it was Lorde because it would be in the same locations as she was at the time, back in the day. It has been dormant for five months but now she's just posted her first onion ring review in five months and now everyone, well not everyone, Lorde diehard fans

are like, does this mean an album is on the way? Because they're taking her coming back to this Onion Ring account. Oh, really? This is the way back. Maybe she's slowly reintroducing herself. What would be your Onion Ring review? Mine would be yuck. Really? It's not my favourite.

I would never order a bowl of Onion Rings, but when they come out, I'm that annoying person who'll go, oh, I'll have one. But it's not a go-to for me. But it's not just, like onions, I don't know, on its own,

I'm kind of like, give me a bowl of chips any day. Oh yeah. True. I see what you're saying. The Ferg Burger onion rings down in Queenstown,

the famous Ferg Burger joint, very, very good. But anyway, yeah, she hasn't done an album since 2016. She's done more onion reviews than she has done songs.

I know. Since 2016. All we want is a song, don't we? I know. I think she's meant to be releasing an album later on this year, Word on the Street is. She's quite erratic on social media, much like Ben. She's there for a big burst.

You'll see Ben pointing at all sorts of stuff. Punishing burst of 28, 48 hours. And then he'll go disappearing for a few weeks. Then he's back pointing at more things in photos. And I talked a couple of weeks ago about how Kanye West's very first pair of Yeezy sneakers he made and wore to the 2008 Grammys were going to be up for auction.

So that auction has now happened. And guess how much they sold for? $2.5 million. I knew you were going to do that. You read it on the sheet. What a great guess though. This is the price is right. You did get that correctly.

They sold for $2.5 million. Gee, that's what it feels like. Something that Kanye would buy for himself. Yeah. Just to say, hey, my shoe sold for $2.5 million. But I was actually, I saw it on the news last night and they were saying a pair of Jordans. I think one of the first pair of Jordans that Michael Jordan wore

in his opening basketball games, were sold for only $800,000. Yeah. And you'd think they would be more historical or history-making than a pair of Yeezys. True, true. So Kanye, because they were at the time the most expensive pair of sneakers to be sold, and now Kanye's bet that record. A private buyer bought them.

I don't know why you'd want an old pair of Kanye sneakers. Named Wanya Kess. Yeah. Sneaker people are sneaker people, aren't they? They are. We know a guy from Phil's. Well said. Sneaker people are sneaker people.

No truer words have been said. That's true. That's why they're sneaker people. We know a guy, Phil, lovely guy. He's literally got lock-up containers full of them. Really? And he'll go and collect his shoes for the week and then get five pairs or whatever

and then put the other ones back. He doesn't even have enough room in his house to store them. They must be like his children, like his most prized possessions. Sneaker people are sneaker people. That's what I've always said. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz.

Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Listen, I was driving in this morning, and there was an ad playing on the radio. Now, I like to think that the hits is the cleanest, most pure of all the radio stations. Would you agree, Ben Boyce?

I would say it's right up there. If it's not the cleanest, then it's one of the most clean. It's closest to heaven, much like those cashews I just tried from Countdown. But I was listening to this ad and I don't know if this ad for forklifts

falls into the category of almost swearing or if I'm just tired and delirious. Auckland Fork Truck Hire don't just hire fork trucks, they hire, sell and service TCM and Jung Heinrich Fork Trucks. So if you're in need of a fork truck or servicing,

give the team at Auckland Fork Truck Hire a yell or visit aucklandforktruckhire.co.nz The more I hear fork truck, you know, I know it's an innocent. How about you? If it keeps repeating in your head, you're like, it's a safe word to say I imagine when reading that ad

That lady did a wonderful job Because at any stage It could have gone wrong She was tiptoeing around it Wasn't she? She was That's the naughtiest The hits will ever be

Saying the words fork truck Yeah It's like when you say The word gobbler You know it's You know it's fine to say But it feels wrong Oh I don't know

If a fork truck Falls into the same category as me. I had a bit of a strange drive into work as well. We have a little plastic square. This is the long story short. Basically, you have to have a new dashboard for parking. And as I backed out the driveway and went out to shut the gate, it blew out of the car, the little plastic there,

and just in the dark with a torch on my phone for 10 minutes trying to find this thing. And I know if you lose that thing, it's big trouble in the building. You get towed. You get towed, yeah. It's like a little laminated square that says you work for the company.

So the tow truck drives there. And you lost that. Oh, my gosh. And you're going around your neighbourhood at like five o'clock in the morning with the light on, you know, looking for something. You're like, and that's all it was, was just a little laminated square. It means nothing, but it means so much. It means nothing in the morning with the light on, you know, looking for something. You're like, and that's all it was, was just a little laminated square.

It means nothing, but it means so much. It means nothing in the grand scheme of things. But you shouldn't have just come into work. That's day off stuff. I don't have my laminated square. Well, yeah, I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it. Didn't you last month,

we've got a dummy that we use for various things, like a stuffed dummy. It's a human-sized dummy that if you need to run over something, then you can put this there instead of me, which is good. Yeah, I loaned it to a friend of ours, didn't I? You loaned it. You did loaned it. It's not quite the right English.

It's step-up. Back the fork truck up. Got that wrong. But you were stuffing the thing, this is first thing in the morning as well, stuffing the thing into the boot, weren't you? The body. Out by the street. Yeah, I was parked by the street. Yeah, because a first thing in the morning as well, stuffing the thing into the boot, weren't you, the body? Out by the street, yeah, I was parked by the street.

Yeah, because a friend of ours wanted to borrow it, but then someone was running past, that looked very, very dodgy, because it is human size, it looks like a body, and I'm putting it in the back of the car in the middle of the night. Is that the guy from the TV? Putting a naked look, it looks like a naked version of me, that thing, doesn't it? Yeah, exactly. But if you were doing that in broad daylight, no questions would be asked that thing doesn't it exactly but if you're doing that

in broad daylight no questions would be asked no but it's just because you're doing it under the cover of anything under the cover of darkness

just really yeah suspicion levels want more Jono and Ben you can catch up with the boys anytime just search Jono and Ben on Instagram now you'll know her

from performing with her sister Madeline Sami and the Sami sisters. Now she's here with us in the studio to talk about her new change in career to encourage more females to get into the trade industry and make the industry a safer place for those that do.

Priya Sami, how's it going? Nice to have you here. Nice to have you in the studio. Now you recently did a bit of what they call, are they calling it a pivot? Yeah, well, so I'm a musician, right? So I have a lot of part-time jobs. And at the beginning of the last year, I was a travel agent for a short two months.

You looked dead inside when you said travel agent. Because the poor travel industry have been hit hard by COVID. Yeah. And I realised also I'm not a salesperson. Oh, okay. Yeah. I love the chat. I love talking about the destinations,

but I didn't want to sneak in my commission there. Well, so you ended up sinking. Maybe it was you who ended the travel industry. Yes. Just doing deals for everyone. It was me. So you're now a builder. Yeah.

So lockdown happened. industry, just doing deals for everyone. It was me. So you're now a builder. Yeah, so lockdown happened. I did go onto Netflix Cowboy Bebop and there I started as a trade assistant, which is like the bottom, which should be labouring, but luckily I got on the tools straight away and I

learnt so much every day and just realised that I'd been holding my skillet the wrong way. Oh, really? Yeah. The skill saw, you're holding it with the blade in your hands, were you? Yeah, yeah. They were like, I can't believe you've still got all your fingers, Priya.

This is amazing. And I was like, thank you. It's the handle, not the bit that does the sawing. Yeah, yeah. I thought I was being tough. But apparently I was being stupid, like so many of us. So you're here today to talk about trying to encourage more females to get into trade because there's a survey that's just been released saying there's not too many out there doing it.

Nah. And to be honest, I was one of those people. I love making stuff and I've always like kind of fantasised about being a builder, but I just could not be bothered putting up with the crap that you have on work sites. Yeah, yeah. And I imagine that's a huge turn off for a lot of women thinking about getting into the industry.

Yeah, I mean like just walking past sites and I know they probably don't realise, but when you're a group of men and you're having your lunch and a girl walks past and you all stare at her, that's intimidating. Yeah. Was it intimidating you going on to a work site or the building site for the first time?

Yeah, it was. I was, like, nervous. Luckily for me, I'm a beginner and I'm keen to learn. I like people telling me how they do specific things or telling me or mansplaining to me. I don't mind it. I don't mind it.

So if more females do want to get in and follow your lead and many others that want to do it, what's the best way? How do you approach it? Someone like yourself who wanted to have that interest but didn't know where to start, where do you start? You just go onto tradecareers.co. We're running through BCITO. So all of this cash injection for apprenticeships,

which are free at the moment, yeah, we can help you along the path. And the whole point of the survey is to go, hey, what is scaring you a bit about coming into this industry and how can we help you there? And then in the industry, we're going to be like, how can we actually make it a little bit more comfy for women to join? Because I know in my first job, having two other women there was amazing.

But I also understand this like men feeling threatened and how efficient will trades be if more women come in you might get your house done in half the time ahead of schedule and under budget things that have never happened before. Well, thank you so much for coming in. Congrats. Thanks for having us. You're doing some good stuff.

They need to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. If Patrick Gower ever decided to check out and not execute his job adequately, this is what it would sound like. Ben Boyce coming in with the news from overnight.

The big news yesterday, New Zealand lost its number one seed. It's no longer considered the best place to be during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, while there's no community cases in New Zealand, and we mentioned before how lucky we are to be in New Zealand, the slower vaccination rates have seen the country drop behind Singapore by 0.1 points in the scale of what is the best country to be living at right now. It's almost worth sending an infected person over there, isn't it?

Just to claim back the number one slot. I'm willing to take the hit. But yeah, so the global rankings pull together case data, fatality rates, positive test rates, vaccination data to calculate the final score. But, but, Singapore 5.7 million people, New Zealand 4.9 million people. So we're saying per capita, we take that one out. I love it when we break things down per capita. We always do it at the Olympics.

Per capita, we're the most winning country. We've won the most golds per capita. We've got one. Yeah. But per capita, we're the... But where are you on the actual... Oh, we're 89th. But per capita.

Yeah. You would have to say Singapore because they're pretty tight. I think the whole 5.8 million are in the size of Lake Taupo. Yeah, it's not a very big country. That is a phenomenal achievement. Yeah, they've done really well over there.

When you think how spread out we are comparatively, like what they've achieved over there, they deserve to be number one. Give it to them. Exactly. That's really impressive. And yesterday, Popstar... Can't chew chewing gum in Singapore.

Did you know that? Oh, yes. Remember we did a transit there through the Changi Airport. That's right. And we found out one of the laws is you're not allowed to chew chewing gum. And so then we went into a toilet cubicle both at the same time and chewed some chewing gum together. That's not a lie.

It sounds like I'm making it up. Yeah, I don't know if it's like a law that they kind of reprimand people for these days. But you're right. It's one of the laws. Why are those two gentlemen going into that bathroom stool together? They open the door and they're like, oh, they're just chewing gum. And pop star Selena Gomez

called on New Zealand to commit to helping people around the world get access to the vaccine. So she sent some tweets yesterday including the French President, the Spanish Prime Minister, and also one that included Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the tweet saying you should help out

other countries. They're doing a great job navigating through the pandemic. But then everyone went in on Selena Gomez going, she already is. She's helping out. New Zealand's helping out the Pacific with vaccines. I read this article and it said New Zealand backlash against Gomez.

The two or three people that maybe tweeted her back did so with a level-headed rational response, I assume, Ben Boyce. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gomez, you idiot! Do your research!

She's already doing it. Can Selena get up and Gomez out of here? You loser. And then I think the Prime Minister had to release an official statement

to Selena Gomez. I don't know if that was necessary. No. I don't know if Gomez is like, hey, she was just probably trying to do a nice thing. Yeah, her heart was in the right place. She was like, hey, could everyone put chin together and help out the world? And she might not have dug deeper and done research onto who's supplying vaccines to the Pacific. No.

Maybe she should have because she's an idiot. Anyway, I love how we can just go in on our favourite celebrities on the internet. That is scrolling to your feed. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. Time now for Juliet's mum and dad's favourite part of the show. This is Spy with producer Juliette. Come on in. That was probably the most normal introduction you've given me.

I thought I'd tone it back. I got into a weird Romeo and Juliette roleplay thing yesterday. I was like, you're too far. You've jumped the shark prior. That was still fun though. Time for a reset. So you may remember it was a viral moment last year where a video clip was released

of Nigella Lawson doing her thang in the kitchen cooking away, but the way she pronounced the word microwave just went everywhere. But I still need a bit of milk, full fat, which I've warmed in the microwave. The microwave. Yeah, I mean she somehow managed

to saucy up the unsexiest appliance in the kitchen, didn't she? Yeah. The Microwave. Yeah, I mean, she somehow managed to saucy up the unsexiest appliance in the kitchen, didn't she? Yeah. Microwave. Now, that moment has now gone up for, has now been nominated for a BAFTA, which celebrates British film and TV. It's called the Virgin Media Must See Moment BAFTA.

So that can be, and I looked at the other nominations, there's a moment in Bridgerton where Penelope was revealed as Lady Whistledown a dance performance in Britain's Got Talent and then the Microwave it's a really wide

net of nominations I always find Nigella Lawson just unnecessarily sultry very sultry very you know very seductive. Even if she's making...

So I'm placing the toast inside the hole of the toaster. You're like, whoa, she's cooking a piece of toast. Did you know, though, I was reading at the same time that she used to encourage people to take leftover wine from people's glasses at dinner parties, put them in an ice tray, freeze them, and then bring it out when she needed wine and cooking. Because you know how sometimes you need a splash of wine and cooking?

That's not a bad idea. Then she got roasted by a meningitis society. Oh, that's a terrible idea. In the space of five seconds, Ben's voice has turned on Nigella. Maybe, yeah, no, you're right. I'm sure I think about it. Because you literally take it from people's glasses at the end of dinner parties. I thought maybe the freezing thing would kill the germs.

It's a wonderful idea. It's a terrible idea. So the full sentence was said. It was a shocking idea. I mean, in COVID times, you probably wouldn't want to do that anyway. My friend would do that. It was a shocking idea. It's funny, yeah. I mean, in COVID times, you probably wouldn't want to do that anyway. My friend would do that. He was a shocker.

Go around bars and like, so people would have a drink and then like put their drink down. He would come up behind them and take the drink and put it back and they'd turn around and be like, whoa, that's how he would spend his whole evening. Wouldn't spend a dollar.

Genius, I say. But also not genius for meningitis purposes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, true. COVID-19. Yeah, COVID's a thing now, so we can't do that. And the Oscars were on Monday, but the ratings have come out, and they're down 58%. Are they worse than this show?

Yeah. They're down 58% from last year. But this is just Americans watching. This year, 9.8 million Americans watched. Last year, 9.8 million Americans watched. Last year, 23.6 million Americans watched. I just don't see the... And especially now of all times where you put everything in perspective. Yeah, I know.

Are a few movie stars winning awards making speeches for 15 minutes? Is that important in life? Yeah, I know. I'm sure that probably comes into play. People are like, I've got other stuff going on. Yeah, true, true. I mean, a lot of the world is in some sort of lockdown, so you think that maybe some people want some escape.

Maybe there's an opportunity there to have a show that people want. But you're right. But then they came out and they said speeches are going to be longer and all these things. It's like all the things that people, probably the general public, don't want. That's a recipe for the ratings to go down if you want speeches to be longer. We were talking yesterday saying Dwayne The Rock Johnson is being snubbed every year at the Oscars.

Maybe that's what they need to do. Mainstream it up. Yeah, they do. Put Fast and Furious in there. You know, best Netflix binge show. Well, yes, but the shows that a lot of us have seen. Yeah. The movies that have seen.

Yeah. We spoke about this yesterday. I also think probably because they're like, no one's been able to go out to cinemas. The movies that are nominated are kind this yesterday. I also think probably because they're like, no one's been able to go out to cinemas, the movies that are nominated are kind of ones that people wouldn't watch

because they're not on the streaming sites. Is that right? I don't know. That's just an assumption. Chuck, Tom and Jerry in there. Yeah. Best actor, Tom or Jerry.

I'm not sure which is which. Very true. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben.

Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. I've been watching the Tiger Woods documentary. It was on TVNZ. I think now you can catch it on Neon. It's like a two-part documentary. Really fascinating about the world's most famous golfer. And just seeing his whole life from being, he was amazing as a kid.

Like just this incredible golfing prodigy that his dad pretty much shaped through his life, you know, basically taking him out there from three years old, just basically making him hit golf ball after golf ball, but maybe he shaped him into an amazing golfer. That's what you need to do to be the best of the best. My parents had me radio announcing from a very young age. I think two years old I was hosting my first radio show. Are you saying you're the best of the best?

This is what happens, Jude. At some stage you feel kind of sorry for Tiger because he obviously lost a huge part of his childhood.

Absolutely. I think the Williams sisters were the same. They were just forced to play tennis from age four or five but hey, they're great now.

Yeah. Well, also I found interesting because obviously Tiger Woods doesn't comment through it. They don't have him doing any sit-down interviews, but they have friends and family of Tiger Woods,

like former childhood friend or friend of the family, commenting on the way through, going, oh, at this stage in his life, Tiger was feeling this, or I remember seeing this, you know, Tiger. All these people commenting, you know, friends and family, and I'm kind of like, well, does Tiger know you're doing this? And they're always the most tenuous relationships. Man who once served Tiger a kebab in a Westfield mall.

He's chiming in. He looked sad that day he ordered a kebab. He went, no, to bully. Usually he goes to bully. But I always feel like if you're a Tiger, Wood's watching that, going, oh, is Gary from primary school just unloading on me? Yeah.

And a lot of the time, I'm sure they've got their best intentions. They all say things that, you know, were probably the truth and probably the way that, yeah, it happened. But I'm just like, you know, would you, like if there was a documentary made on me, there's not going to be, but if there was one being made on me, would you be like, oh, former colleague and friend, John O'Brien, would you spill the beans?

Absolutely. Absolutely. Firstly, I love that you think there's going to be a documentary. No, I don't. I don't. But I'd say it's an example. It's an example.

But yeah, I'd be one of those rats that would fully rinse you out in little 15 second vignettes, you know? Maybe you'd say some nice things about me. Yeah, no, I would go, have you ever got dramatic music,

Junior? Oh, what? I go, I, I worked with him for many years, and he refused to let producer Juliet talk to him. He said, if you want to talk to me, you need to talk to me in fluent Italian. So Juliet went for four years to Italy to study the language.

She came back fluent. She said, buongiorno to him. He said, I don't even speak Italian. That was one of the sick things he made her do. You know those stories of rock stars who want green M&M's removed from the bowl? Oh, right, yeah. He made me go to the M&M factory and

cease production of them. M&M pulled them from the production line just because of this monster. I once saw a witness, a phone call come through from his own mother, Jennifer Boyce, and he declined it.

So these are some things you'd say. This is all stuff I'd say. I've got it all written up, ready to go. I can't wait for the Ben Boyce documentary. Can I reply? Can I reply? Do you get a right to reply? This is your documentary now. What do you want to say about your former friend and colleague,

Jono Pryor, and the music? Jono, he was a great actor. I have to give him that. A great actor. I mean, the best acting he ever did was pretending to be a nice guy on radio and TV. Behind the scenes, he was a monster. The sort of monster that would put a permanent marker next to the whiteboard so he'd use it.

And then you wouldn't be able to rub it off. You weren't allowed to look at them. It was true behind the scenes, which is probably a good rule because sometimes the light would shine up as bald-headed blind you. But it was true. A total monster.

John O'Prior. That's the truth. Well, there we go. That was a great therapy session. That was wonderful. Yeah. The documentaries. I feel good.

I see what they're doing. If I ever get a call in 30 years, are we doing a tell-all documentary on Ben Boyce? Firstly, I'll go, why? Is there a market

for it? Secondly, I'll go, yes, so I'll take part in that. I'll reveal all the skeletons from his dark, dark closet. Well, that is our

show. Thank you so much for listening. Tomorrow, 5K on the line. Five words, 5K. Have yourself a great Wednesday, New Zealand. Want more Jono and Ben?

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