Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - February 25 - Mums Are Joining Only Fans!

Episode Date: February 25, 2021

Today there was some gossip in the school grounds... A mother has made an Only Fans account, and everybody is talking about it. Should she get off Only Fans for her childrens' sake? (If you don't know what Only Fans is, it's a platform where people pay to see *raunchy* content, so in this case, people would pay the mother to see her pictures...) So we discuss Only Fans, and then we debated whether eggs should be kept in the fridge or pantry. Too VERY important topics, obviously. Jono also discussed the thrill of driving his stressed boomer parents around when the petrol light is on. Finally, we had social media superstar William Waiirua on the show, he even joined in for the Celebrity edition of 5 Words for 5K!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. John and Ben, breakfast on the hats. This is going to be a really interesting debate, I think. We heard this story the other day. We've changed some names. Yeah, and we tracked you down on social media.

Someone saw this lady post about it online. And we've both got differing opinions on this, Ben Boyce. Yeah. But we'll bring in Julie. Hashtag not real name. Hashtag don't even know what your real name is. Hashtag I don't even want to know. But welcome, boys. Yeah. But we'll bring in Julie. Hashtag not real name. Hashtag don't even know what your real name is. Hashtag I don't even want to know. But welcome, Julie.

Good morning. How are you? Sorry for bombarding you with hashtags, the unnecessary ones. So, Julie, what's your predicament? You posted about it on Facey. Yeah, so, look, I've got a bit of an issue. So, earlier this week, my kid asked me,

in front of my mother-in-law, if you can imagine, if I had an OnlyFans account. Now, OnlyFans, for those that don't know, is a platform for people to share a specific genre of content, one that my friend Ben finds rather popular, don't you? You've got to know a lot

of information about it for someone throwing me under the bus. But it's not all about that sort of stuff. It's just what people want to see, you know, like, yeah. But your fans, don't they, they pay a fee to see your content, essentially. And whatever that content is you want to create, you create. But a lot of people create a certain brand of content, don't they?

Well, apparently. So how this has come out is because apparently my daughter's friend's mum has an OnlyFans account. So apparently this is sort of these kids are talking about it and since then I've found out that a lot of the mums are talking about it as well. So, you know, this mum is basically the chat of the school community, which, I mean, I'm really torn. I want to know who was the only fan who signed up to the OnlyFans

to know that she was on OnlyFans. Let's get that person, track them down. Well, exactly. Because, I mean, apparently it's true, but no one's sticking their hand up as to, like, how to verify that. But, you know, I'm really torn with this. Do I talk to this mum? Like, do I suggest

that she maybe take it down if it's true? Or do I... So how well do you know her? Is she just like a high acquaintance in the yard? Kind of, yeah. Like, I'll see her

at school drop-off, but we wouldn't have coffee or anything. I mean, it's a difficult conversation to lead with her OnlyFans account, isn't it? Listen, and it's a funny debate, too, whether your profession directly affects your children.

Or what you do in your spare time as well. Yeah, whether that, you know, it's your spare time. You're your own person. Surely you should be allowed to do what you do. But I do understand that, you know. I think once you chuck kids into the mix, you're making decisions not only for yourself, but them as well. And you know, it'll direct, hey mate, I have been a testosterone fueled pubescent teenage boy

shrouded in a cloud of Lynx Africa. I know what they're like. And you know, if a teenage boy finds out that this guy's mum's or girl's mum's got an OnlyFans account, you can only imagine the direct impact it would have in the schoolyard, you know? Yeah, but she's not doing anything wrong.

She's doing her own, you know, she's allowed to do that. She's her own person. She's an adult. If this is the case, I mean, I understand she can take her kids, you know, she's got to take what they think into account and what their friends, but okay, people gossiping her kids. I'm living my life. I'm happy with that.

So you're saying she should continue doing OnlyFans. Julie, where do you sit on this? You're torn. I'm so torn because these kids are talking about it and, you know, it's rough being a kid, let alone having people talking about what your mum's doing. She's got to see, you can't be on

OnlyFans and you're a mum, you know? And hey, if you want to be on OnlyFans, that's fine, that's your decision. I'm on OnlyFans, I've only got one fan, it's me. The account's abysmal. I feel sorry for our kids with their parents being Jono and Ben

and that's the thing this is speaking for first hand experience I know you and me are both like oh god some stuff for our kids if they see that on the internet

an entire series of Jono and Ben is one thing you know but it does affect I think in the long run you've got to sort of think of the long term

consequences of you know having an OnlyFans account or what you post online. Maybe she's thought through that, and maybe she's come to that decision. She's like, hey, I've got nothing to be ashamed of. This is what I do, and she's okay with that. So I'm saying, well, if that's the case, then carry on.

Let's chuck it out, shall we, Jules? Does Jules tell this lady she kind of knows and kind of doesn't know that she should stop doing OnlyFans for the sake of her children. Chime in now. 0800, that's 4487. Give us a call. Thank you for coming on, Jules.

Let's go to Emily. Welcome from Taranaki. Your thoughts. Does she broach the subject and tell her to cease showing what she's showing on OnlyFans? No, she doesn't have a right to tell her what she can and can't do. She's an adult. She's free to, if she wants to put herself out there and people pay for it, that's her business.

But I do think that she needs to approach the mum and just be like, hey, this is being spoken about in the community. It's your business, but I think you need to bring it up with your children because it has been spread. It's basically

her life. She's an adult. She can do what she wants, but somebody's paid to see this. Yeah, that's who I want. I want to track them down. Yeah, it's spreading around the community like a case of COVID, isn't it? This whole conversation, isn't it? Hey, good on you, Emily. And they're a confident OnlyFans user as well to go, yeah, I know she's doing it and I've paid for it.

Now get this around the school yard. Get this. Someone's texted saying she should use it as a marketing opportunity. Once everyone finds out, offer them a 15% discount. Oh, hey, that's a great option. Gotta capitalise. I mean, yeah, people can be honest. She's a grown adult. She can be honest. She's not

doing anything wrong. I know, but the thing is the internet. They tell me it's going to be round for a long time, Ben. You know, when the kids just get to teenage years, does it affect them? I don't think you've got to take that into account. I'm not sticking my head in the sand on that one, but I'm saying maybe she has taken that into account and it's her life and she's doing it.

She's like, I'll tell them about it when they're ready. Emma, welcome. I don't know when any kid's ready to hear that there's been nudie pics of mum on the internet, but apparently there might be a time in life. Emma, what do you reckon? Should Julie intervene here, tell her to stop? there's been nudie pics of mum on the internet, but apparently there might be a time in life. Emma? What do you reckon? Should Julie intervene here, tell her to stop?

No, she's been a bit of a Karen, and to be honest, it's definitely not her right to tell other people to take things off. She'll talk to them, but, you know, you can't say take it off. Yeah, right. The general consensus seems to be, broach the subject with her,

hand it over to her. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, good idea. Well, then we might have found out Julie's real name, Karen, in fact. The general consensus seems to be, broach the subject with her, hand it over to her. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, good idea. We might have found out Julie's real name, Karen, in fact. Appreciate that. I mean, Julie's got best intentions. It's an awful thing to say, but she really sounded like a Karen while I was driving my son to school. And he's like, does she think she has the talent to take it down?

No, I think she's concerned about, I think in her defence, I think she's concerned about it. She's like, these people are gossiping about this poor lady and I think she wants to do something to help her out. And just let her know that people are talking about it but, you know, it seems like it's more gossip than anything because

nobody's actually said I've seen it. And, yeah. Yeah, no, true. Well, one person is, and we don't know who they are. A mate of a mate down at a thing. There's no one. Someone should go, how do you know? Someone should really hit that question up. Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information.

Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Had to pick up Annie and John from the airport yesterday. They only left a week and a half ago, my parents. They're back again. They're back again. But not intentionally. They were coming back especially because Oscar, my son,

they were meant to have Grandparents Day at school on Friday. Oh, right. And literally as they were boarding the plane, we got the email that they've postponed Grandparents Day just because they're a bit nervous about having a bunch of susceptible old people all in one location at the same time, you know, given the current climate. Yeah, gotcha.

That makes sense. So they've come up for nothing. But anyway, they're happy to be here. But it's funny because they just, your mum never stops being a mum. No matter how old you are, always concerned about your food intake. Yeah, well, especially with you,

I'm concerned about your food intake. I'm not your mum. You don't eat during the day. Ben plays the role of my mum. I'm like, yeah. But she always brings up frozen spaghetti bolognese. But too much of it. Like a suitcase worth.

Like she lugs it off the plane. Like if a sniffer dog got involved, they'd be like, who are you feeding? Team Lunarossa? What is this? There's so much spaghetti bolognese. But anyway, we put it all in the freezer. So I pick her up from the airport and I look down

at my petrol light. And I'm like, oh, that's on orange. That's alright. I'm like, we can breeze along the motorway. Right. Because there's no petrol station at the airport now when you leave. Oh, is there not? Oh, they must be building a new one or something. Oh, right. I had in my head

gone, I'll swing by there before we hit the motorway. But I didn't tell Annie that I was on orange because you don't want to stress a boomer out. They've already had a stressful flight. You know, boomers get stressed out about domestic flights. So they check in five hours before the plane departs. And then

as the car's going on the motorway, there's like a... She's like, what's that noise? I'm like, don't worry Annie. But eventually I had to tell her that, listen, we're on MD and we're on the motorway. Whew, thrilling. What a thrill. Have you done that, Juliet?

Yes, it is such a risk. You're either one of two people. Someone who fills up when you're at a quarter tank or you literally leave it till the last second. And I'm one of two people, someone who fills up when you're at a quarter tank or you literally leave it till the last second and I'm one of those people. Yeah. And when you need to fill up for petrol, there's never a convenient time. You're like, this is a burden to go. It only takes five minutes.

Yeah, it doesn't take long, does it? But you're right. It's always like, ah. That's why I've been trying to get into the habit of doing it when it's a less stressful time. You know, even like, you know, quarter tank, you're like, I'll do it now because you're right. When it gets down to the wire at somewhere, you try to get somewhere, you're like, oh. Oh, and she was like, are we going to make it? I'm like, I don't know.

She's like, where's the nearest petrol station? I was like, this is the perfect opportunity to wind her up. I was like, it's 10 Ks away, Annie. She's like, 10 Ks? We're not going to make 10 Ks? I'm like, we'll just roll there. It'll be fine. If we don't roll, we'll just push it.

I'm not pushing a car. I'm over 70 years old I can't push a car anyway we managed to slowly roll into like a Z petrol station

and alleviate the stress so there's no real good ending to that story I just I mean I could have said we broke down on the side of the motorway it's honest

it's honest I remember my dad's car I mean driving my dad's car when I was about sort of 18, 19 had my licence and stuff but it didn't have a petrol light. What car does not have a petrol light?

Some monster created that. So my friend and I were like, we're low, but we'll wait for the petrol light to go on. How did you even know you were low? Well, it says, you know, obviously there was a petrol gauge. Oh, there was a needle thing. Yeah, it was like, well, it's close to empty. But you're like, well, the light hasn't come on.

Still driving along, the light hasn't come on. And then suddenly you're like... You're like, what? How long do you have when the light's on? Maybe someone knows who's listening. I think some cars tell you now. They'll go 32 k's to da-da-da, you know? Ah, right, because when the light's on,

you're like, oh, I can push another day out of this. Yeah, they kind of tell you how many k's you've got to all that. You're not going to be driving anymore, right? I remember when I was a teenager, you'd fill up with such extraordinary amounts of like $6, $7. That's all you had, right? Yeah, and you wouldn't even take the petrol light off, but you're like, I can get another day out of this at the moment.

So there you go. There's some stories about filling up your car. Everyone does it. It's a relatable content, Ben. It is relatable. We've all been to a petrol station. Five words, 5,000 words. Unless you drive an electric car.

Well, that's true. There's a whole other stress involved in charging those. From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts of New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Actual hearts being not bestowed. Yesterday I went to the supermarket, as you do. I've heard of the supermarket. Household shopping.

That's what we love to talk about here on the hits. But I brought back... What's some of your favourite times you've gone household shopping, Ben? Well, yesterday, last night. You brought back the food, and as you do you've gone household shopping Ben? Well yesterday, last night I brought back the food and as you do when you bring back the food for the household once I've done the shopping was when to put the food away and I put the eggs, you know

the normal eggs you get from the supermarket I put them on the bench as I do but it wasn't until I opened up the fridge door and I noticed our fridge has got little egg you know when you put the eggs in individually in the fridge and I was like well hang on a second. Where do these eggs want to go? Oh, hello little eggies. Where would you like to be stored? Because, you know, it's the age old question. What came first, the chicken egg or the refrigerated

egg holder? Isn't it? I think it was the chicken egg. But then once it came, yeah. Oh, so that's not an age old question. No, but where do you put the eggs I want to ask that question right now because I was like we always just keep them on the bench

in a little we've got one basket and we're doing what you shouldn't do we're putting all our eggs in one basket but we're doing it we're doing it

history's told you that's not a good option we're taking the risk well otherwise there's too many baskets on the bench so I've just got all my eggs in the basket

on the bench but what happens at the supermarket they're not refrigerated they're just on a shelf. No, they're not. Why is that thing there in the fridge there? Inside the chicken.

The chicken doesn't have a refrigerator inside of its body. No. So they're not at any stage leading from the birth of the egg to the consumption of the egg. Yeah, but then if I bought chicken from the meat department, I'm not going to leave it on the bench under that rationale. You don't want room temperature chicken, even though it's lived its life at room temperature. Yeah, under that rationale. If anything, if you've got an actual chicken and it's got an egg inside it and it's not

yet popped it out, that would be warm inside the chicken. So that's another thing. If an egg's all good in a warm environment in a chicken-in, does it need to be in the refrigerator in the complete opposite temperature? Yeah, because I'd always kept it on the bench for now, but then I got wondering. Maybe the fridge is the place to do it. I mean, there's a compartment there for them, so can we open it up? I know it's not.

People are already texting in on this issue. This is the biggest thing we've ever discussed. Well, you just talked about OnlyFans and stuff. Yeah, no. Tell OnlyFans we don't need them anymore. And whether it affects your kids and things like that. We don't need your talked about OnlyFans and stuff. Yeah, no. Tell OnlyFans we don't need them anymore. And whether it affects your kids and things like that. We don't need your saucy OnlyFans content because this eggs thing is going hard. Okay, well, let's make a decision next, New Zealand, with your help.

0800 the hits, 4487 on the text. Eggs, pantry, fridge. It's not groundbreaking radio, but it hopefully... We're not here to change the game. We're here to play it. Shannon, coming from Papamoa, more to know. Your thoughts? Hi.

What do you reckon, mate? Eggs definitely belong on the bench or in a basket, but if they're hard-boiled, that's why they go in the fridge. Oh, so you're saying the little containers in the fridge, the little compartments

are for hard-boiled, you reckon? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, okay. Okay, all right. Thank you. Andrew, we'll go to Huanganui. He's an egg delivery driver, Andrew.

Oh, here we go. An expert of some sort. Oh, nice. Yeah, I am an excellent dad. What have you got, mate? Where do they store? They store on the bench or in the cupboard up to five weeks.

They last. That's a lot longer than I thought eggs would last. Five weeks? From the chick's bun to the bin is five weeks. From the bun to the bin. That sounds like a lovely slogan. I just want to do a little plug for Better Eggs. Okay, Better Eggs, so that's your business?

Rise and shine. Rise and shine, Better Eggs. All right, mate, we're done with your plug. He's trying to get his catchphrase in, mate. I get it, I get it. Rise and shine, Ben, rise and shine. Rise and shine. All right, man. We're done, you plug. He's trying to get his catchphrase in, mate. I get it. Rise and shine, Ben. Rise and shine. Better eggs.

I love it. But why is there the compartment thing in the fridge for then? For hard-boiled. She got it right. Oh, Andrew got it right. Oh, no. I've made this all quick. Sorry, Andrew.

Love your work, mate. Tony, welcome from the West Coast. Has a reason why there are egg holders in the fridge. What is it? So over in America and some other countries, basically it's a safety net. So as soon as those eggs come out of the chicken, they bathe it in hot water.

So it's generally why the colour of the eggs over there are more white compared to ours. Oh, right. So they actually, they basically clean the outside of it in America and other countries. Yep, and it traps that kind of oxygen and stuff into the eggs,

and that's why if you pop over there, not that you've got to jump on a plane at the moment, but all the eggs over there are sold refrigerated. Yeah, I see. Oh, I see. And that's why they keep them

in the fridge over there. Exactly. That's as well. Exactly. Hey, I also see. And that's why they keep them in the fridge over there. Exactly. That's as well. Exactly. Hey, Tony, why do you sound so suspicious handing out this information? It's like he's got a government secret. That's what the egg people are going to get him. Listen, you didn't hear from me.

I can only talk for 32 seconds. It's probably at work. I love your call, Tony. We're going to send you out some hell pizza, all right, my friend? Thank you. Love you. See you, Tony. Celebrity chef, one of New Zealand's most Thank you. Love you. See you, Tony. I'm upset too much.

Celebrity chef, one of New Zealand's most well-known chefs, Josh Emmett has joined the debate. Josh, welcome. Morning, lads. How are you? We're good. Love your work. Josh owns the Onslow and Oyster Inn, don't you, Josh? I do, I do.

And where do you keep your eggs at the Onslow and Oyster Inn? We keep them out, yeah. And actually at home, we keep them out as well. We keep a bit of a mixture, actually. We keep some in the fridge and some out, depending on how fast we're eating them. But I grew up on a farm, right, and I think most people who maybe grew up in the rural lifestyle,

you know, and we had chooks. So, you know, you go out and got the fresh eggs and you either got them every day or you got them, you know, once a week or whatever. But they were never anywhere near the fridge. But the thing about eggs is you know when one's gone, right? It's pretty obvious. Yeah, you taste it and you're like, well, this is, Dr. Seuss wrote a wonderful poem about it. You smell it before you taste it. I'm a bit

dubious about boiling eggs and then I reckon if you boil an egg, then unless you're going to use it the next day for a salad and it's left over, fine, but I reckon once it's sat in the fridge for a day, it's not as exciting as it once was. Oh, Josh, there's a professional opinion there. Now, Josh, I

actually, the other week, saw you getting changed in a changing room in a opinion there. Now, Josh, I actually, the other week, saw you getting changed in a changing room in a shop. And I thought, oh, I should... He was trying on some jeans. And I was like, oh, I should come up and talk to him. What were you like? And then I thought... Were you trying on jeans at all?

I was perusing. You were just putting them in. And I thought, no, this would be an odd location to talk to Josh. So I didn't, just so you know, Josh. Yeah, no, no, we should have had a chat. talk to Josh. So I didn't, just so you know, Josh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, we should have had a chat. I was doing that and I didn't find what I want

and I, you know, I wear the same clothes over and over again. Okay. Well, if you want to go jean shopping again, I can take you jean shopping and try them on with you.

I do, I do. Hey, thanks so much for calling, Josh. Josh, if you want to go taste some of Josh's wonderful food, head to the Onslow in Western.

Have a great day, matey. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hefts. The Hefts. You would have seen him on your social media. Hilariously funny. He's taken his talents and humour to dancing with the stars, and now he's the morale booster and Toyota ambassador.

You can see on TV One's America's Cup coverage. William Wairua, how's it going? Kia ora, guys. Good to be here. I didn't say morale properly. How do you say morale? You've got to carry the A and then add an H in that, so you want to go morale. Morale.

Now, your catchphrases obviously have so many catchphrases. Do you write a short list of them? Do you run them past your partner, Taylor, or how does it work? Nah, oh, mate, I just, whatever sticks, whatever, I throw a few out there and then you certainly know when you're walking the street and people are yelling them at you that, oh, yeah, that's latched on.

Must be cool feeling. Hey, that's something that you've created and people really pick up on and, you know, it becomes part of everyday life. It's surreal sometimes, eh? You'd be walking down, it's, you know, everybody as well from a young kid to an elderly lady. They've teamed up with Toyota, which is pretty exciting

because they're big supporters of the America's Cup. And, you know, the whole campaign's about in crazy we believe. Grammatically incorrect. Well, yeah. We believe in crazy. You probably would. Yeah, you're right.

I mean, it's crazy. It's like crazy. But you do think about some of the stuff New Zealand's done in the America's Cup over the years. It's been sort some crazy additions right yeah absolutely and I didn't know much about sailing or racing or anything about the America's Cup

I don't think most of New Zealand does but we all pretend we do yeah absolutely but I got to interview all the guys down at the base and still don't know what sailing's about I was going to say should be like always falling or anything like that or no you have no idea and still don't know what... I was going to say... Are you watching me like, oh, he's falling, should be falling or anything like that?

Or no, you have no idea? Oh, no, I do know a little bit more than I did. They are finely tuned athletes too. I saw a video on the Herald of these guys training. They're enormous. Those grinders. Yeah. Yeah, they're absolutely huge.

It was amazing. But then you've got Blair and Pete and Glenn, those guys are the brains in the, you know, so. Also the other ones are just dumb and then Blair.

Oh, yeah. I told you there. But Ben, your stripper name is The Grinder. You should see him. He's available for hen's do's,

funerals. I love the other day, I think we got this audio around Jimmy Spittle. Obviously, he's the skipper for Luna Rossa. He's Australian. And his reaction when they won the Prada Cup.

Lads, congratulations. How does it feel, Jimmy? Yeah, not too bad, mate. Pretty good though, the office. So he's quite, you know, quite like a New Zealand-Australian reaction. And then, obviously, they talk to his Italian helmsman, Francesco. Francesco, how does it feel? You must want to say something to your home nation.

Fantástico! Fantástico! Emanesco! Emanesco! You've got to love that, eh? Now, Al, can we ask you why you're here? We've got William Wairua with us right now. You've seen him on social media. It seems like every day, I mean, I've got little kids, and all they want to do is be social media superstars.

They want to be on YouTube. They want to have their own channel. There is quite a lot of work that goes into creating something like you do, right? Yeah, there's a lot. I guess the first one is just getting yourself out. It's pretty hard in this day and age. It's a crowded market, isn't it? Oh, mate, yeah.

But just being able to, it's good when everything's going well, but, you know, when people, you know, I get a lot of positive stuff, but I get a lot of negatives as well. Right. So if you can't, it's hard. You've got to put yourself out there, aren't you? Yeah, putting yourself out there.

So you've got to be ready for everything, the full 360, and I don't really mind. I don't worry about the negative stuff too much. Yeah, you've got to focus. I get a lot of it. So when you first started out doing social media videos, was this the end goal, to actually have it as a full-time gig, or just they took off?

Yeah, I didn't think anything of it, eh, to be honest. I was just doing funny videos. I mean, me and my mates laughed, probably mostly me, to be honest. I'd sit there watching my own stuff and just laughing. And, yeah, they started sharing it. People started liking some of it. And then, yeah, it just naturally progressed to that. But people don't see all the hard work that's gone into,

they can see you now in your successful phase. But you've been doing it for a number of years now. Yeah, maybe about seven or so. I never thought that I'd end up here. Well, you started off, your original job was at the Meatworks, the freezing works, right? Yeah, Meatworks. And I think that's where I got a lot of my material.

And last, from all the older boys in there, they used to give me a lot. Give me a lot of content. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. They're funny guys, so I got them to thank. Is there any advice for anyone listening right now that would, that thought, oh, hey, I'd like to do this? Do people need to be unique, find what they do that's different from everyone else? Or what would you give them?

Personally, I'd just say just do whatever you love. If you want to do it, do it, and just find your own little niche. And that's exactly what happened to me. I'd still work a long day and be able to do these little videos and stuff, and I loved it. So I still love it now, which is awesome, and I guess it just progressed to that. So if you do what you love, you'll never lose, I guess. Even if I was still in Meatworks, or I think I was working at Ranga Tamariki,

if I was still there and doing this, I'd probably still love it as well. That's the key. Yeah, exactly. I'm very, very lucky and grateful for everything that's happened. Well, it's very infectious, your attitude, and we appreciate your positivity and your morale. Morale. Did I nail that one?

Oh, morale. Now, you're going to stick around because we're going to play our game Five Words for 5K. You could try and win someone's money at 7.45 this morning. Come on. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook.

Five Words for 5K on the hit. You're only five words away from a massive payday. Here we go. Five, 5K for another day. We're putting a wee twist on it today because Jono and I, we're stepping out of this one. We don't get to play today. It's a celebrity edition. Yeah, well, you know, Bradley Walsh, he does the celebrity chase, doesn't he? Not quite as intellectual. Yeah, not much chase.

Yeah, no much chase. There's nothing like the chase whatsoever. But we've brought in William W White, a social media superstar. You know, Willie, from Dancing with the Stars at the moment, working on TV One for the America's Cup coverage with Toyota. You enjoying that? Oh, man, I'm really, really enjoying it, eh? It'd be awkward if you were like, I'm hating every minute of it.

Yeah, no, I'm loving being down there, bringing the morale. Getting in amongst the people and all sorts of people and a guy in a wrestling mask the other day. Yeah, that, I'm loving being down there, bringing the morale. Getting in amongst the people and all sorts of people and all sorts of... I got on a wrestling mask the other day. Yeah, that was fantastic. That's probably my favourite one of them. Yeah, threw him up on my shoulder and just ran off with him. But you were carrying him and as you were jolting,

you were jolting a part of his body, weren't you? It was bouncing up and down. Yeah, on my shoulder. Yeah, I had him sort of like a fireman's carry, but because of the height of him, his area ended up on my shoulder and I was running and bouncing up and down. He was going, ouch, ouch, ouch. I could imagine that hurt.

So you catch Willie. When does the America's Cup kick off? Next weekend. Yeah, awesome. Okay, you catch Willie on TV1, but we'll bring in Debra from Whangarei. Welcome, Debs. Yeah, hi, morning. Good to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Say hello to Willie. Hi, Willie. Yeah, good morning, Debs. How are you, morning. Good to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Say hello to Willie. Hi, Willie. Yeah, good morning, Debs. How are you? I could already feel the synergies. I think we're going to get it. Okay, you feel confident. Debs, have you been playing the game along at home?

Yes, I have. You know how it works. Have you ever matched up five words? I have. Oh, okay. Well, this is good. You know how it works. Normally, you would say,

who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? But today, there's no choice. William, we're going to get on over there. Let's go. The lock's a little faulty, too, on the booth, so you've got to slam the door shut. It also doubles up as our ablution block, too, if you need to. I think we are live streaming some of this, so maybe not. Yeah.

Well, he can live stream his live stream. Deborah? Yeah? You know, things have got dramatic. It's more tense right now than when a couple's arguing over which family they're going to spend Christmas with because you need to name five words and those words need to match up with Willie's.

Okay, I'm going to give you the words, your first word and five words for five grand. The first word is dad. Dad. Mum. Okay. Next word is dad. Dad. Mum. Okay. Next word is table.

Chair. Table, chair. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense, yeah. You're sleeping banter with you during this, John. I thought we wanted to listen to that. Who's this voice? Just saying unnecessary words that don't need to be said. I don't know why I arrogantly decided I was going to read out the words today.

Would you like to read out the next one? No, you're doing a good job. I shouldn't hold up this game anymore because Deb's probably nervous enough. Deb, your next word is monopoly. Monopoly. Board. Monopoly board. Okay.

Bakery. Food. And your final word is concert. Concert. Ticket. Okay. You happy with your five dibs? Oh, I guess as much as I can be.

Yes, I am. What word are you most nervous about? Oh, the chair. Oh, yeah. What else was running through your mind when you heard table? Like table set, I'm not sure. That pops into my mind, I think your one popped into mine, that was the first

one that popped into mine so I feel good about this one but what do I know? You know nothing, nothing. Let's bring Willie out of the soundproof booth Producer Humphrey will unlock the door Willie's quite a big muscular man, he's he takes up a lot of the booth Slight look the door. Willie's quite a big muscular man. He takes up a lot of the booth.

Slight look of panic in Willie's eyes. He's like, is this a prank? A long prank that you just get locked in a novelty radio booth. Okay. Okay, Debra. Final words to Willie. Touching words. Good luck.

Oh, yes. I'll give it my breast. All right, here we go. See if your words match up with Deborah's words for $5,000. The first word we said to Deb was dad. Mum. Well done. One from one.

Four to go, Debs. Next word, William, is table. Chair. Oh, it's two from two, Debra. Here we go. He's not even thinking. You know, you're not overthinking it. Do you want me to think it?

No, no, it's great. It's great. Do you want me to do more thinking? You can probably think about it and lose. No, it's good. It's good. I like it. Okay, keep going with what you're doing.

Your next word is monopoly. Monopoly. Money. Where did you go, Debs? Board. Monopoly, board. Money was another good option, though.

Monopoly was a good option. Final two words right now. Bakery, what would you have gone? Pie. Julie with that

buzzer, I love it. And the final word, concert. Dance. Oh, wowee. She had ticket. So there you go. and the final word concert dance oh wow wee she had tickets so there you go hey Debra

sorry Debs that's ok it was a lot of fun oh and that's the main thing it was a lot of fun having you right now no it's not the main the main thing is

you probably wanted 5k also a lot of fun which is also good what price you put on fun John eh $5000 ok right hey good on you Debs look after yourself thanks for listening to the show cheers mate good. What price do you put on fun, John, eh? $5,000. Okay, right. Hey, good on you, Deb.

Look after yourself. Thanks for listening to the show. Cheers, mate. Good on you. And thank you, Willie, too. And catch Willie as part of the America's Cup coverage, teaming up with Toyota in Crazy, We Believe, and appreciate your time, matey.

They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of that. John O' and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. I don't know if you and your wife, Jen, you have, I guess, pointless discussions, but Amanda and I, my wife Amanda and I, we have a pointless discussion.

Sometimes it happens, there's one we regularly have if we're going somewhere to a friend's place or a friend's dinner or something like that, and one of us is driving and the other one's like, oh, I can have a couple of drinks. You know, relax, and we have a little discussion about who's more friends with the friend. Like, who gets to have a couple of drinks. You know, relax. And we have a little discussion about who's more friends with the friend. Like who gets to have the couple of drinks and who gets to be the driver. No one ever wants to be the driver.

No. But I think, here's my thoughts on that. If you're taking her to one of your friend's places, then she should be able to drink. Loosen up. Oh, right. No, don't tell her that argument. Because normally it's like, oh, it's your friends, you know, like, oh, it's my friends. Yeah, right. No, don't tell her that argument. Because normally it's like,

oh, what's your friends, you know, like, oh, it's my friends. Yeah, yeah. Is that the agreement? I know them more, you know, it's my friends thing, you know. You need to enjoy the festivities. What if you get into a mutual friend territory?

Well, that's the thing, that's you start debating, you're like, oh, I think they like me more than you. Oh, no, I met them before you and I brought, you know. Should we call them and ask? Who do they like more? I know it really puts it on the spot. So anyway, last night we went to somewhere and we decided that I was the one to drive.

The people like Amanda, which probably they do like Amanda a lot more than me. Why should we call them now and ask? No, let's not do that. So I had to drive along there. And then we got into another discussion about how I take the longest way to get anywhere. Like I'm not, I'm not, okay, Google Maps. Some of you know I was married to Google Maps, but yeah, I was like, you always take the longest way to get somewhere.

You do, I agree with you. I'm just driving in the direction of the way. Here's what, we were driving back from Hamilton and your only job when you're driving back from Hamilton is to stay on State Highway 1. Like, just don't get off the State Highway. Somehow, we veered off the State Highway and ended up in a remote rural location. You did. I was like, this is adding 35 minutes to our trip.

Who leaves the State Highway? For God's sake. So I grew the man up. We ended up in that place and I'm like, why are you doing this? In my head I'm thinking, why are you doing this? It's sake. So I grew up in the middle. We ended up in that place and I'm like, why are you doing that? In my head I'm thinking, why are you doing this? It's true.

We didn't even talk about it, but I was thinking the same thing at the time. Half the roads weren't even finished. No, I know. It was like, oh, I can't turn left because the road doesn't go that way. This man drives every day.

Anyway. There's more to that story. The only guy in New Zealand who got lost on the state highway. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on The Hits. The A to Z of New Zealand.

Something we do every day on The Hits. Call a different town or city in New Zealand. We're calling one a day and we're making our way around New Zealand calling every town and city to find out about each place that we call. Now, today we're going to Makahu, which I've never heard of it. It's a tiny, tiny little settlement and it's sort of, you know, it's so small it makes you wonder why they spent time and energy naming it. Yeah.

It's minuscule. Very tiny. When we knew this was coming up, we thought we'd call them after the show yesterday because otherwise we're like, we're not going to get hold of anyone. No. So this is a town where it's just in the Taranaki region. It's off the beaten track near Stratford and I think there's only sort of 50 people in the whole area. That's crazy small.

So anyway, we phoned the school yesterday and got hold of the teacher who's in the middle of the class. Kia ora, Macau.alu School. Chris speaking. Makalu School. Yeah, how's it going? Chris speaking. Yes. And you've got kids there.

I do, yep. That would be weird if there were no kids at the school. It really would be. It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. How are you? Yeah, yeah, we're good, good. Lovely to hear from you. What are you doing? We're just in the middle of doing maths, but we'll just stop now. Oh, okay.

You should probably continue on teaching the children and not talk to us. Is it all good if I stick you on speakerphone? I've got three of my boys here that want to have a corridor with you as well. Oh, I'd love to, Chris. Thank you. Hang on. There we go. Can you hear us? Hello, kids.

Hi. How are you? We're phoning up as an example of what happens when you don't apply yourself at school. Yeah, exactly. You end up B-grade radio announcers. Yeah. What's the maths question you're doing right now? Let's see if we can do it.

Rounding numbers. No, we can't do it. What's that one the other day? Here's one for you. Oh, this is a good, this will stump you in maths class, kids. So if a bat and a baseball cost in total $1.10 and the bat was $1 more than the ball, how much did the ball cost?

$5.10. Oh, she's a good, we are. Oh, that good... Oh, that took us 20 hours to figure out. Most people say 10 cents, but you guys nailed it. Well done. Thank you. Well done. Well, you keep doing your maths good. There's not much more we can add to this class.

Yeah. Hey, Chris, now, Chris, can you tell us whereabouts is Makahu? So we are off the Forgotten Highway in the Eastern Stratford District. So sort of Taranaki? Yes, yeah, definitely. Lance, how old are you kids? Oldest is 12, and then the youngest is 6. How many kids are at the school?

Ten. Ten children? So all one class, obviously? Yeah. Yeah, but two sides. Yeah, there's a junior and senior side. Oh, wow. Is it awesome having a small class?

Do you see benefits as a teacher? Oh, mate, it's fantastic. We know our kids really well because one of the ones here, Nathan, well, we've been teaching him since he was five and he's almost just turned 12, so we know him pretty well. I imagine it would be a juggle

because you've got kids of all different ages. Like what? How do you focus on different subjects for the different age bracket? Oh, we're really lucky, mate, out here. We've got great community support. We've got a part-time teacher as well. And she comes in, who's also my wife, and works with some of the younger members of the school.

But we also do a fair bit of work with the older kids, teaching some of the junior ones and a bit of a kind of relationship. Oh, that's awesome. What a wonderful community. So how big is the actual community? How many people would roughly live in the area? 50 people? Jeez. Gee whiz.

So you'd know everyone in town? School in a hall, that's it. So where's the closest? Do you have to a town, mate. It's a school and a hall. School and a hall. That's it. So where's the closest? Do you have to go into, say, what, New Plymouth? Or where's the closest? Where's the big smoke? The big smoke is Stratford.

It's about 35 to 40 minutes away. All right. Far out. Wow. What's the one thing to do if someone was going to come to town? What would you recommend? Oh, they could go up for a tram. They could go for an eel.

What do you reckon, boys? What do you guys want to do? Ride motorbikes. Play some footy. Play some footy. Ride motorbikes. Play footy. Catch eels.

Name three things I could never do. Yeah. And also maths that we've worked out we couldn't do. Can't do maths as well. Four things as well. I've never caught an eel, but I have a morbid fear of eels. You don't like them. Ben put me in a giant tank of eels once.

Oh. It was a lot of squealing from you. I thought maybe he was hamming it up for TV, but no. No, it's terrifying. Do you guys catch the eels with your bare hands? No, we use hooks. Oh, hooks, yeah, right, because they're very slimy and slippery creatures, aren't they, the eel?

Yeah. I use brass to grill them. Hey, listen, lovely to meet you all, because they're very slimy and slippery creatures, aren't they, the eel? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Brass, the real one. Hey, listen, lovely to meet you all, lovely to talk with you. You look after Makahu? Yeah. Hey, hopefully one day we'll get to visit the school and the town hall, and don't you threaten me with a good time.

Yeah. We'll hold you to that. All right, Chris, lovely to talk to you guys. You keep doing good and learning good and proper. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's really interesting. Ten kids in the entire school.

Someone's just text saying why are kids at school at 6.20 in the morning? I just want to recap. Ben did say that we recorded that. Had to record that yesterday because the town was so small.

We didn't think we'd get hold of anyone at this hour. Yeah. In the morning. But it's a good question. Kids should be at school at 6.20am. Two-sized kids are diligent

aren't they? Having Adam doing maths already at 6 o'clock. Oh, well, there we go. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Listen, if you turn on breakfast TV right now,

you can have John Campbell updating you on the news, or you can choose to listen to whatever this is we do. Ben Boyce, the stories from overnight. The big news yesterday, very scary news, Tiger Woods, the golfer, crashed his vehicle in Los Angeles early on Tuesday morning American time.

A full-on accident. Fortunately, no one else was involved. Unfortunately, he's going to be okay. But jeez. They used the jaws of life to free him from the vehicle. Two broken legs, I hear. Yeah, the body operated on his legs and stuff. Apparently, he was very calm when the officers, I was reading today when the officers came and saw him,

but they reckon he must have been in shock. They asked him, you know, what's your name? He said his name was Tiger and he was just quite calm. But I think, you know, in those instances, there's just so much going on. You're just not really sure what's happening. I imagine, because he's had a few accidents, hasn't he? Obviously he had the incident with his wife

who attacked his car with the golf clubs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think it was another accident. He was pulled over or something and he was on medication. And this time they have no reason to believe he was under any substance. It was just an accident. Yeah, it was no, they have no reason to believe he was under any substance. It was just an accident. Yeah, it was just, yeah.

Checker driving, like you've got, he might be a more checker driving history than Ben Boyce. You've had so many accidents, haven't you? I have, I've had a lot of accidents. Comical accidents though.

Yeah, comical, yeah. List off your rap sheet. Oh, look, I've got. The handbrake? The handbrake, yeah. The handbrake caused the, into the neighbour's fence. I've written my handbrake? The handbrake, yeah. The handbrake caused the... into the neighbour's fence. I've written my car off into a tree,

into my own driveway. Yeah, occasional... You know, I've opened the door many times onto Jono's car next to him at the car park. I haven't talked about that. Hey! But, you know, things like that. Just comical stuff.

No, no, let's drill down on the last one. Just comical stuff. Let's drill down on the last one. Just little comical stuff. Yeah. Now, do you know, I was looking, Tiger Woods, obviously not his real name. No, Eldrick. Eldrick or something, yeah.

Eldrick's his first name, but he was nicknamed Tiger after a guy his dad went to war with in Vietnam. All right. One of the soldiers that he fought with there. Geez, he was on TV putting, playing golf, like on US chat shows when he was two years old. Oh, no, he was incredible.

You see the old footage. You know, he was always destined to be. He was on a show called That's Incredible, ironically, as well. Yeah, and that was incredible. Yeah, it was. So I wish you Tiger Woods all the best. And, you know, no one wants to read these sort of stories

or hear about this sort of thing. And I love how... Then why are we talking about it? Well, you know, you know, I love how everyone's like, will he play golf again? Mate, let him recover from his operation

and everything first. Listen, he probably doesn't need to play golf again. No, no. He'll be fine. But if anyone can come back, it'll be Tiger Woods. Good on him.

And McDonald's in Australia have discontinued their plastic straws. And there's a little bit of outrage from some people who don't like, you know. Good. We got rid of plastic straws here and I's a little bit of outrage from some people. Good. We got rid of plastic straws here, and I think it's the worst thing New Zealand's ever done.

Those paper ones make my lips feel funny. You just get used to them. They get soggy at the end. You know they get soggy at the end, Ben. You've even told me off air, yes, they get soggy at the end. But I won't publicly admit they get soggy at the end. Yeah, well, but they are better for the planet. But in Australia, some people are now selling individual McDonald's plastic straws

on basically their equivalent of Trade Me. And one straw at the moment is already up for $1,500. One straw, one plastic McDonald's straw. Do you like paper straws, Juliet? No, but there are metal straws now. Metal straws are a thing. You can buy them in packs, but I don't think

they're McDonald's. Are they reusable? Yeah, you can just kind of chuck them in the dishwasher and they're awesome. Yeah, we've got some at home of those.

Yeah, yeah, very good. So then you don't get soggy straws, Donna. You bring your own straw, mate. You bring your own straw. Were straws causing that much damage to the planet?

Were they really? Contributing factor. Yeah, I feel like it all adds up, you know? It all adds up, you know? It's all part of the problem. What? Thanks, Chloe Swarbrick. Were you just thinking that? No, you're right. It is all part of the problem.

Yeah, but I understand the straw is quite small in comparison to some other larger items. Yeah, like let's stop spilling oil in the ocean. Yeah, that's good. That could be a good start. And let me still use a straw. Would you take, okay, would you take, if you could use the same plastic straw,

you'd just take it around, would you be okay with that? That sounds very unhygienic. No. It's your straw. It's not like you'd get someone else's. Yeah, I'm going to lose it. Well, that's on you, though. Well, yeah, I'd say, hey, bring your own straw,. It's your straw. It's not like you get someone else's. Yeah, I'm going to lose it. Well, that's on you though.

Hey, bring your own straw, otherwise you get your paper. Would you go for that? Yeah, that's a far better option than a paper straw. Every time I get a

paper straw, I'm like, ugh. And then I see something wrong. It's like, yeah, no, it's fine. And I walk out from the juice shop, you

know, when you go to the juice. Anyway, I'll shut up about paper straws. Yeah. No one's more passionate about bringing back a plastic straw than you. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Broadcasting live.

And mostly awake. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Spy. Know what's up? Spy.co.nz. All right, here's a bulletin of stories

smearing all of your favourite actors and musicians Juliet, what's happening to Spy, mate? So Chrissy Teigen, the wife of singer John Legend, she's very active on social media, on Instagram Twitter, all that jazz and she's a very big fan of Joe Biden and

is one of the 13 people that Joe follows on Twitter, so that's not a lot of people that Joe Biden follows on Twitter. The ActPotus account. Yeah, the official account. She was one of the first people, well, I guess she was the first person outside of anyone that worked in politics to be followed by that account.

Really? I didn't know that. Which is pretty awesome. That's cool. But obviously she wasn't a big fan of Donald Trump. Donald Trump didn't follow her. So she was like, hey, Joe, can you follow me? I'm a big fan. It's great you're president. Yeah, and so he followed her.

But then Joe Biden has unfollowed her now, but it's at Chrissy's own request. She kind of suggested that her Twitter was a bit too raunchy for him and didn't want his eyes on her Twitter. She said, in order for me to flourish as me, I must ask you, please, Lord, to unfollow me. I love you. It's not you. It's me. She swears a lot

and everything like that. She just doesn't want Joe Biden to think less of her. Yeah, no, it would be like your grandparents following you around Rhythm and Vines, Juliet.

You wouldn't want that, would you? No way. Same sort of vibe, isn't it? Yeah. And now he's unfollowed her. Within like two hours of the tweet,

he unfollowed her and everyone's like, oh, he must have seen that and yeah. Would Joe be running that? Would Joe? Someone ought to just hold a screen up. He'd be like, what's that screen? It's a cell phone. What does that

do? I don't trust it. Yeah. Switch it off. Switch it off. Turn it off. I will check it later. Call me on the landline. It would be very fun teaching Joe Biden how to use a mobile phone, I reckon. Like, I would, if I was offered that job, I'm sorry, you guys,

but I would literally go to try to teach Joe Biden how to use Twitter. Joe's tech advisor. Yeah, that would be so fun. Do you know what? This is embarrassing to admit, but I only sort of figured out or came to a realisation what POTUS meant. Oh, really? It's probably about a year and a half ago.

Right. Yeah. Why is everyone saying POTUS? POTUS account. And then FLOTUS? Do you know what that is? The First Lady? Yeah.

Yeah. And BROTUS? The bra of the White House. Hey, bra. Who would that be in the White House, do you reckon? The dogs? Oh, the dogs now, yeah. I see the dogs in the Oval Office.

There's pictures the other day. They're sitting there and hanging out and stuff. That is very cute. And they're like dogs back in the office. And then Fox News. You know how Fox News is anti-anything of, you know. Democratic. Democratic.

They're like, the dogs look unkept. They look like they need a wash. They look like, oh, they're going in on these dogs. Fleas in the Oval Office. I was like, oh, give it a break. I'm with Fox News. Dogs do start to smell. I don't know.

You don't want Putin coming in for a meeting and smelly dogs are lingering around. And George Clooney, he's got twins, a boy and a girl, Alexander and Ella. They're three years old. He's in lockdown. And he says that literally he's spending his days doing two or three loads of washing every day

and basically doing dishes all day long because his three-year-olds are absolute slobs. He just literally called his twins slobs. And that's how he's spending his lockdown. Kids are slobs. They don't have to worry about anything until probably about age eight. True.

He used to have a pet pig for many years. When he was a bachelor and he had a pet pig, he sang it. So he's had a pet pig and he's calling his kids slobs. It's George's words, but I'm just like, wow. It'd be quite cool to see George handle a pig, get his hands a bit dirty. He seems very clean cut. He does seem clean.

I think he ate the pig, didn't he? Oh, no. I'm not sure. I hope so. I hope so. I've just defamed George Clooney. I know. But that's because his wife's a humanitarian rights lawyer.

So he'd be busy during lockdown. Running a household, that's a nightmare of a job, isn't it? It takes a lot of work, you know, for respect, people that do that. Do you do washing dishes? Yeah, a lot of dishes. A lot of cooking, a lot of cleaning. You do, mate. Yeah, a fair share.

I always cook every night. But then he also, in the morning, he's like, when he sees jobs that he doesn't want to do he pretends he hasn't seen them oh yeah I did switch the light on in the kitchen

and lounge in the morning and saw all the pots and pans cheeky cheeky tactic George Clooney should probably do that didn't your dog spill something

and you just you kind of ignored it yes yeah I didn't see that in the morning as I walked down the hallway it's a great excuse leaving at three in the morning because it's so dark. Someone else gets up and you're like, oh, the dog's

had an accident. Yeah, well I'm leaving, it's pitch black. I didn't see it. That's someone else's problem now. And that is five for more. You can get to the Hits.co.nz. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Okay.

Juliet, we were just mentioning that you've got 11 avocados you're trying to get through. Freeze them. Someone's saying 4, 4, 8, 7. They only discovered you can freeze avocados this summer. Maybe I should give it a go. I'm very sceptical about that tactic. Well, you wrap them in Glad Wrap, apparently. Oh, then put them in the freezer.

Last three to six months. Wow. Yeah, there we go. That's not a bad little thing, isn't it? Now, because we're focusing in on Juliet, Ben, there's something that we've noticed about Juju, isn't there? Mildew, we like to call her, Millennial Juliet. Although Ben didn't like me calling Mildew

because he thought it might have been a Jewish, people might have misconstrued it for Jewish slander. Well, someone had asked me that. Yeah, is she Jewish? And I was like, Mildew, and that would be very offensive. Isn't Mildew like a mould? It is, yeah. It is like a mould.

Moss mould and mildew and stuff, you know. You can get rid of it and wet and forget or something. Oh, I'm mouldy. Yeah. So now you've offended her as well, isn't that? But Juliet, you have an obsession, avocados being one of them. The second one being Justin Bieber. Oh, yeah.

Every time Justin Bieber comes up, a look changes in your eyes. You almost become demonic, doesn't you? Possessed. up, a look changes in your eyes. You almost become demonic, doesn't you? Possessed. Yeah. Yeah, I do love him. I probably tapered off my peak Justin Bieber obsession, but when I was younger, boy, oh, boy,

my whole room covered posters. Like, when we mentioned Justin Bieber and that look goes in your eyes, I'm petrified. I can only imagine what Justin Bieber would feel like if he looked at you with those eyes. Well, I have met him twice, and I nearly died both times, but yeah. What was the one extreme thing that you did for Bieber? Like, is there anything that pops into your mind? Okay, like a couple of things.

So I wrote a letter, like a four-page letter to my parents convincing me to skip a day of school so I could wait outside his hotel and try and meet him. Why did it take four pages? Because they were so adamant that I had to go to school. And I was like, please you don't understand how much this means to me. And also, I had a poster, like

a giant lifestyle poster of Justin on my roof so that when I went to bed, I'm not even kidding, I would go to sleep. Staring at him. Literally. Wow, she caught fever many years ago and someone needs to vaccinate her because she's still suffering the consequences. But anyway, we figured this is your specialty

topic. Oh God. And that's what we want to open up this morning. What is your specialty topic? You phone up, we'll ask you three questions about your chosen topic. If you get all three right, we'll give you a prize. Simple as that. So we've got some questions that we'd like to ask you about Bieber and see

if you nail them. Oh, gosh. I'm going to have to. Justin Bieber. All right. Let's start. Do you know his birthday off the top of your head? I can notice right now you've got no computer in front of you.

He is born on the 1st of March, a Pisces just like me. And he is a year, he'll be 94 because he's a year older than my brother who's 95. Now to add on to this too, Juliet wanted to learn the drums because she learned that Justin Bieber could play the drums and she thought maybe we could be a husband-wife drumming combo. I don't even think my parents know that. Well, we both play the drums. Oh God, they're going to bring out their drums again after dinner.

So okay, first one. Okay, where did Justin Bieber go to school? He went to St. Michael's something primary school in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, where he was also born. Right, okay. Ding. Yes. Was that right?

I don't even know the answers. I'm disturbed that you know them. What's his mum's name? Patti Millett. Oh, jeez. She's doing her own dings too? Because I know the answers are right. Yeah, that's great.

All right, let's start some more. What else do you know about his family? His dad is called Jeremy Bieber, and he remarried. You're dinging yourself? And he remarried twice. And so Justin has three half-siblings, Jasmine, Jackson, and Bay, and his childhood dog was called Sammy. Okay, that's five dings.

Well done. Thank you very much. Gee whiz. Okay, listen, I think she's one fact away from a restraining order here. So 0800 The Hits, this is how it works. Have you got a specialty topic? Now this may have just been something through you diving into an internet hole, might be something you've learned at work, anything.

0800 The Hits will grill you. We'll ask you three questions. If you get all three right, you win. We'll start with Alan. Welcome to the show, Alan. Kia ora. Kia ora. Lovely to hear from you, my friend.

Your specialty topic? The Navy, specifically. The Navy. Now, where does this vast naval knowledge come from? I wanted to get the Navy to pay for my science degree, so I learned a lot about it and didn't get into it. So I just know it was not good, so I don't use it. Oh, so you were going to try and get into the Navy,

but you didn't actually, just learnt stuff and you didn't get in there? Yeah. Oh, okay. I teach high school mathematics now, so. Okay, okay, let's go. First question, what is the highest rank in the Navy? Captain.

No, it's not Captain. Admiral. Fleet Admiral. Well done, one's go. First question. What is the highest rank in the Navy? Captain. No, it's not Captain. Admiral. Fleet Admiral. Well done. One for one. Which country has the world's biggest Navy? Oh, that's tricky. China?

It's America. It's America. Second option. Second option. Okay. And what is the lowest rank in the Navy? Seaman. Seaman.

Seaman recruit? I'm going to dispute you guys on that. I think it's true. Oh, well, listen, I'm just Googling. I know nothing about the Navy. I'm putting a lot of faith in Google here. Yeah. So we'll give you a prize anyway because there was a protest there on the last question.

Yeah. Thank you very much, Al. Appreciate it. We'll head to Sophie. What's your specialty topic in Mungavai, Sophie? Hey. What's your topic, mate? Taylor Swift. Oh, Taylor Swift. What do you think of Taylor's new song she's recorded?

Yeah, really good. I love them all. What, isn't it just her old songs? Yeah, it is her old songs she's recorded, but she's done a new version of it. They sound like the old ones, but new. New, exactly. The point is she owns them. Exactly, that's the point.

Yeah, got away from that nasty Scooter Braun, didn't she? Yeah. Yeah, all right, she showed him. We've got three questions about Taylor Swift. Here we go, Soph. All right, do you know Taylor Swift's favourite number? Thirteen. Oh, well done.

Yeah, that's what it says online. Taylor Swift, where did she grow up? A lot of people say at Christmas time she grew up somewhere. Pennsylvania. Oh, yeah, she did grow up in Pennsylvania. I was more angry for the Christmas tree farm angle, but she did grow up. Apparently she had a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania.

Listen, if you were Jeremy Clarkson hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, you'd be like, oh, okay, well, you got me on a technicality. All right, you win a million dollars. This is why we'll never host those shows. Yeah. And name one of Taylor Swift's cats. Meredith Grey.

Oh, well done. She's got Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and do you know the last one? Benjamin Button. Oh, Jesus. You are good. Sophie, wow.

There you go, Sophie. Three from three. In fact, more. That was like five from three. You did so well. It was very impressive. We'll get you out some hell pizza, okay? Thank you.

Now, there we go. Specialty topic. A friend of ours, Joey, remember he's obsessed with Academy Award winners? Yes. Like he knows all of the major motion picture movie award winners from like 1995 through to 2021. Why would he need to know that? Well, no need to know that.

There's no need. He just knows them. You're like, who won Best Motion Picture 1998? He's like, Good Will Hunting. Then you go, did Forrest Gump win it? No, no, they didn't. You're like, well, okay. No, it's, yeah.

Wow. He's had to erase all the Weinstein ones, but apart from that, he's got everything else locked down. Add these two men together, and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Now, you know how you set yourself a New Year's resolution? You generally fade off late Jan, early Feb, don't you?

Yeah. Well, I'm trying to stick with mine this year, and my New Year's resolution was to be mildly organised. Right. Somewhat more organised than I have been running my shambolic life up until now. Okay. You know, I was like, come on, you're an adult now. Can't just see where the day takes you. Fair enough, fair enough. You're very organized.

I try to be. Yeah, you run a good organization. I try to be. I'm putting reminders and things in there and just thinking, you know. So I was like, I've got to use this calendar because up until now, the calendar that I've been using in my head has been pretty unreliable. I've been forgetting things, not turning up to things. So I was like, okay, I'll use a calendar. So every Sunday, you know, Ben, I'm my email frenzy, my email clearing frenzy I do. Once a week I clear emails and I set up all the calendar for the week just in a wild frenzy.

And I write down what we're having for dinner each night. You see, I think you've gone too far. Have I gone from zero to 100? Yeah, I think, yeah, I think I feel like that's just,

yeah. Okay. Like that's, that's, yeah. But that's what I'm doing. Okay. Okay.

If I stick with it, we'll see. And so. No, you're never going to stick, no one's going to stick with that. Well, I've done it for four weeks.

And so on Sunday, I was sitting there, I was like, hey, fish fingers and macaroni pasta Monday and, you know, spaghetti bolognese Wednesday and right in the morning. And then I send the invites to Jennifer, my wife. That's punishing. And so then...

No, I declined that. Well, can you have something better for dinner? That's what I'd be doing. And then I pick up the ingredients on the way if I need to home. But what I did on Sunday had an absolute shocker. It's because Jennifer starts with a J and also a very highfalutin

executive at TVNZ where we work also starts with a J. And so I was in a frenzy. You've got to be on your game with emails and calendars, don't you? If you drop the ball you drop the ball hard. So I had sent like 45 calendar invites to this

board member at the TV station. Inviting her for macaroni cheese. She's like, thanks mate. It's great to know that you're having fish fingers on Thursday and you need to pick the kids up from swimming at 4.30. And she hasn't sent anything back.

Oh, nothing back. Nothing. It's cold radio silence. So I don't know if I follow up and go, hey. You still coming to the... You still joining us for Fishfingers? Are you picking up the kids with me at 4.30? Do you not just proofread who you're sending things to?

No, just fire them off. Oh, my God. Yeah, probably. He's so impatient. He's really impatient. Did them in a rush. Yeah. You don't look at your screen when you type, do you?

No, because I do send a lot of emails in caps, too, which I know winds you up. I mean, you still just send it away anyway. It's wasted time going back and retyping. We used to work at a company, and a lot of people made email mistakes, didn't they? It happens all the time. Emails just, you can slip up very easily.

I know. And there's no suck back feature. No. You've got a five-second delay on yours, don't you? Oh, it happens all the time. I mean, emails just, you can slip up very easily. Oh, I know. And there's no suck back feature. No. You've got a five second delay on yours, don't you? A panic button. Yeah, it's the five to 10 seconds delay because I did send one to,

yeah, we got like a quote through for something. My wife sent it on. And I replied back, replied back, oh, and it had the guy on there. I didn't mean to. And I was like, oh, bloody, what about this guy? This is ridiculous.

And I sent that. And then I was like, oh, God, he's on this email. And then I tried to find like, you're quickly Googling how to stop it. There was no way. They're just like, the only way to stop it is to think about what you're... Too late! Too late! I haven't thought about it. I've sent it. Yeah, because I go, firstly, just calm down.

That's always the first bit of... I don't want to calm down! And then decide if you want to send the email. I was like, too late, I have, I've sent it What do I do now? It's ridiculous Can I burn the internet? Can I burn down his house? And he replied back too And he was like, yeah, yeah, it is ridiculous But that's the price

Oh god Yes it is, because it's a lot of labour And a lot of materials, and if you don't want to pay it Well then don't get it done buddy And then I felt like, yeah I should follow through on it because I was like I can't go see someone else now. So then you had to book him in with his ridiculous price.

Well he won that one. He did. Yeah nah. The home of yeah nah. She'll be right and at the end of the day. Breakfast on the hits. By the WhatsApp. By doco.nz

Now, contrary to popular belief, Juliet's closest colleagues aren't actually Ben, you or me. Who are they? Her two closest workmates are Copy and Paste. Copy and Paste proudly bringing you this episode of Spy from the Internet. What have we got, Ju? So if you're a big fan of Friends, which pretty much everyone is, there's something about Rachel, Jennifer Aniston's character, that you might not have noticed.

Now, it's been raised on TikTok. So a TikTok user has montaged this voice habit that Jennifer Aniston has every time she begins a sentence. And it's one of those things that when you hear this audio and then you go and watch Friends, you won't be able to un-notice it. So she coughs before every sentence, before she starts every sentence. She's clear, but maybe it was a character trait of Rachel. She always had a little bit scratchy in the throat region, one of her deeper character traits.

Yeah. Oh, wow, so she does that. Oh, I want to watch some old friends now just to see them do it. I know. It's kind of one of those things. Well, you can. It's playing for the 900th time on TV2, if you want. Yeah, it never stops.

It hasn't stopped. Yeah. You know, TVNZ have got the original couch, don't they? The friends couch. I think one of the couches or something. What? Yeah. What?

Yeah. It's in New Zealand? You can sit your derriere on that couch. It's in New Zealand? Yeah, I think one of the couches or something. Because I think the other one's at a museum over in LA or something. And the other one, yeah, Hoops. Yeah.

Wow. That's crazy. Should they auction that off, I reckon? Someone would buy it. Well, they did at an auction. Now we're going to auction it at another auction. No, that's good. Do you like Friends?

You said everyone's a fan of Friends. Yeah, I didn't really watch it in its peak time, so I don't know, like, every storyline, but I've kind of watched episodes here and there, just random ones. But it is a good, it's a good classic show, you know? It's one of those ones that can hold time, can't it? Hold the test of time.

Some things you go back and you've just got a far fonder memory of it than the reality of when you go back and watch it. Yeah, it's still really funny today. I mean, obviously there's some jokes they might have made that they may not make in 2021 and things like that, but it's still, you know, a very funny show on the whole. Yeah, 100%. Oh, there's jokes that were made that you couldn't make in 2021.

Well, rest assured, someone will hunt them out, clip them up. They've done it already. Oh, they've done it already. Good. Yeah, I'm glad. Were they outraged? Yeah. Up in arms. Did they demand a public apology?

Yeah, I'd say so. I hope so. I hope we got one too. A bunch of outrage. And yesterday we were talking about Gordon Ramsay, how he doesn't let his children fly first class or business class just to keep them humble. Keep them grounded while they're in the air.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Ha ha. And today he's revealed on a TV show that they asked him about his foot size. This is very bizarre. He's got size 15 feet. Sorry, I just thought this was a really interesting fact that you guys might like. Size 15?

15 feet. That's like Stephen Adams' size feet. Crazy, eh? Is that even possible? Well, it's possible. What size are your guys' feet? I'm just a US 11. He's US 10.

Oh, yeah. I know Ben's, all of Ben's measurements. So, no. You're about a 28. He fluctuates between a 28 and a US 11. He's US 10. Oh, yeah. I know Ben's, all of Ben's measurements. So no. You're about a 28. He fluctuates between a 28 and a 30 waist. All right, stop fat shaming me, mate. But isn't that bizarre? You know what they say about big feet?

Big socks. They do. They do, yeah. And more expensive shoes. Oh, Stephen Adams is an 18. Stephen Adams is US 18. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Let's go. Who has the biggest feet in the world? It'll be a Guinness World Record, probably. His name is Orlando Hernandez, the man with the world's largest feet. Let's go. What do you put your bets in? What do you think? Well, I've just Googled the biggest size shoe ever in the NBA was Shaquille O'Neal,

which most people would probably have heard of. He was a size 22. Wow. I'm going to say 25. 26. He's a US 26, this guy. Oh, my God. That's like my height.

He's got more foot than a clown. That is a huge hoof. Yeah. There we go. Big feet. Imagine him on Dancing with the Stars or something like that. You'd be like, oh, so hard to sort of navigate around that, eh? Yeah.

He's 26. Crazy. You'd be like, swimming? You'd be amazing? You'd be like, put him on the back of Team New Zealand? Yeah. Get at flippers. Like feet at flippers.

How would you drive your car with your pedals and things though? Your feet would be. Your feet would take up the whole space in that little area. Anyway. There's some live Googling for you. There you go. And that is Spy the Feet Edition. If you want more, you can go to the hits.co.nz.

To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. To wrap it up our show, it is 8.56. Thanks so much for hanging out with us this morning. It's been a lot of fun. And if you didn't hang out with us, well, we give you no thanks. No thanks at all. Zero thanks whatsoever.

We played our game Five Words for $5,000 today. We had a celebrity edition and we put social media superstar William Waroa in the box in the soundproof booth and he was playing with Debs and they didn't quite match up this morning. Dad. Mum.

Table. Chair. Monopoly. Money. It was a solid answer but not to be done today So we've already given away five grand this week Will we do it for a second time tomorrow? Join us at 7.45, okay? Don't forget you can play the game online at thehits.co.nz

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