Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's awkward interaction with the All Blacks Coach

Episode Date: June 12, 2022

Round 1 and 2 of our 'Smell-Election' Bacon vs sharpie and petrol vs a lit match. Jono gave his wife a fright trying to do something nice at 4am and Ben had terrible banter with The All Black Coach at the rugby. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the podcast today. It's the 13th of June today and gee whiz, I tell you what, Ben, we've got some conditions outside. Oh yeah, it's really wet and horrible right around the country, isn't it? We speak to Philip Duncan, he's the weather watch. Is everyone else watching weather or just Philip? He's the main person watching weather, yeah. Yeah, he does a great summary of what's going on and what's to come as well around the country. He was saying whenever there's a bit of a rainy day, they're like, oh, we better shut down the Harbour Bridge. That's what, yeah. Yeah, there's warnings on the Harbour Bridge this morning.

But yeah, it seems a bit weird that that seems to happen with a little... Auckland just needs to hold its breath. No one breathes so the Harbour Bridge can stay open. No, but that's safety. I mean, you don't want anyone blowing off the Harbour Bridge, do you? Well, that's true. That would be a shambles. That would be on you, Ben.

It wouldn't be a great way to start your week, would it? No, it wouldn't be. How was your weekend, anyway? It was good. It was good fun. Productive? How was your weekend, Bill Crawford? Yeah, good, thanks.

Went to the movies. Yeah, what did you see again? Jurassic World Dominion. The new one? Yeah. That's cool. Is it good? Yeah, it was cool.

My boyfriend was really excited. He was a massive Jurassic Park fan back in the day, so he was really excited, and so I thought we could go for him. And yeah, it was really cool to see some of the old classics, but I remember at the time I was too scared to watch Jurassic Park much when I was a kid. Had you not seen any... I'd seen the older ones when I was younger,

but I think, you know, I just... There's like six of them or something, isn't there? Yeah, and they were out in the 90s, and I was still kind of little, so I was like, oh, these are a bit scary big dinosaurs but it's pretty impressive. They've done a good job. Now, you said you went along because your boyfriend's a huge fan. Yeah.

How enthusiastic were you going along to watch dinosaurs? Well, he does lots of things I like. That's what you do in a relationship. It's compromise. You do things the other person likes to do and vice versa. I booked him like VMAX. We got like fancy seats and everything. It was part of his birthday present. So like, you know... What a present. You've got to do and vice versa. I booked him like VMAX. We got like fancy seats and everything.

It was part of his birthday present. So like, you know. What a present. You've got to do things like that. What does he do that you love and you think he would be less than enthusiastic about? What does he come along to? Well, things like the things I'm watching. He doesn't have to watch them.

But he watches the Kardashians. The Kardashians. You know, other shows that I want to watch. And he's like, I don't really like them. Maybe he secretly enjoys it. Yeah, well, he knows all the drama. He's like, oh my God other shows that I want to watch. And he's like, I don't really like them. Maybe he secretly enjoys it. Yeah, well, he knows all the drama. He's like, oh, my God, I can't believe that happened. Yeah, I'm like that with Jen in Love Island.

I'm like, what's this nonsense? And I'm stomping around the kitchen. Turn this nonsense off. And then I'm like secretly watching, doing the dishes. But like watching, oh, yeah, I'm into this. I can see what happens. I mean, those shows, they do kind of suck you in, don't they? Are you a Love Island fan?

Yeah, I've started watching it a little bit. It's just a huge commitment. I've loved it in the past. It's just like four or five nights a week, and it's just like a lot to keep up on. It is a lot, eh? It's a big commitment. It's a long time for those people to be wearing almost no clothing as well.

But they look good. They look magnificent, don't you? I'm just like, what do you do with your entire day when you're on a show like that? Because they've got odd challenges. They sit around, they talk. Well, that's the whole point. They want to film their interactions, their talking.

And it's kind of like taking you away from, people have been on Celebrity Treasure Island New Zealand saying how you don't have your phones, you don't have anything. And that's kind of part of the challenge. That becomes your world. Yeah. You get caught in that sort of bubble of like, this is my life.

And you can't escape to calling anyone or texting anyone or checking what's happening on the news. I'd be the only one who would come away from Love Island bigger than when I went into it. What's he doing now? He's smashing more Heinekens in the sun? Can they just, they can go?

No, I don't know if they can. I was reading an article. They actually limit their alcohol intake. Yeah, and same with food. Like a friend of mine is actually on Big Brother in Australia at the moment. She was on it back in the day

and like they ration their food and they play with like you can have this treat or you can't have this. It's a bit of a mind game in there. Your friend's doing Big Brother at the moment. Yeah, Tully.

She's a big in Australia, yeah. Yeah, Tully. Sure, it's a big in Australia. Yeah, right. Playing here on TVNZ On Demand though. So they'll go, oh, okay, for dinner tonight, you will all have a single grape. And they're like, we haven't eaten in four days. Do they play games like that? Well, they do things like that. They obviously feed them, but they're not like, that's big stodgy meals, she was saying. You don't really get a lot of

fruit and veggies and it's just kind of... Stodge them up with some fish and chips. Yeah, like, so you're feeling a bit gross you know whatever they do are they doing big brother at dream world again um is it still going i don't get burnt down or like there was a band and stuff yeah it was all like it turned to ruin that that big brother house so maybe not yeah she did go away last it was ended last year and filmed it so it's already been filmed Yeah right What an experience Would you ever do anything like that

Big brother Your every move being on camera We can't control the edit I know that's the thing Love Island would be more my thing Constantly paranoid how it's going to be stitched up in the edit Why is this guy wandering around He doesn't say anything

He doesn't do anything He's like having massive paranoia Like anxiety, internal thoughts That wouldn't be so good on a show Just not giving them anything Why did this guy even enter Enjoy the podcast today Every caller that got on the show today

Won a hundred bucks, that was fun And we launched into the smell action Where we're putting the best smells up against each other in a tournament. And interesting, the second round that we had today didn't quite work out how I thought it was going to work out.

So see if you think the same when you hear it on the podcast. The great thing about listening to this show is that the day can only get better from here. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's a really wet Monday right around New Zealand. Heavy rain, snow, isolated tornadoes set to intensify and spread today. 41 weather warnings last night around New Zealand.

And they reckoned over 20,000 lightning strikes happened in New Zealand over 12 hours. Yeah, apparently Wellington was relentless on Saturday night. Non-stop lightning, mate. Thunderstruck. I think there should be a song that we could play right now. Last night was shocking, you know, rainy weather. And Auckland woke me up. And then the dog woke up.

And he's like, he wanted to go outside. I'm like, mate, you're not going to like it out there. He wanted to go. I was like, all right. And then, honestly, about 30 seconds later, he's like, oh, oh, let me back in. He's like, you're right. You said I would like it out there. You're trying to tell the dog you like it.

It's really rough out there. Yeah. I do like the cold weather, though. Because it's kind of a cold, rainy, miserable weather, because it does fall into the same category as a COVID lockdown for me. It's a great excuse not to go and do stuff. Oh, no, I can't go to the supermarket. It's too wild and windy out there. You love being home, don't you?

I do. I do. I like my home body. But Gene was like, the weather's not even that bad at the moment. There's a break in the weather I'm like but you never know when it could

snap again that's right I went to the rugby went to the movies it was a good weekend it was fun I'm not saying you didn't have a great weekend

alright we're going to have a great week though we're kicking it off with a hundy mundy thanks to Employment Hero they're not only heroes to employment

they're heroes to us this morning where every caller who gets on here gets $100. Oh, $800, the hits. Who have we got here? It's Debbie.

Debbie. Debbie. You got $100 just for being alive right now. Yay. What have you got planned for a wet Monday? I'm just off to work. Oh, do you sound pumped about it, Debbie? Mate, we've just given you $100.

Take the Jono Price call and run it home. Yeah, exactly. What pumped about it, Debbie? Mate, we've just given you $100. Take the Jono Price call and run it home. Yeah, exactly. What do you do, Debbie? Bakery assistant. Oh, yeah. What's the biggest selling item in your bakery? Probably the steak and cheese and mince and cheese, but we do win the Bakel Awards.

Have you won Pie Awards, have you? We have. What, for your steak and cheese? Mince and cheese, for all of them. Oh, for all of them. the Bakel Awards. Have you won Pie Awards? Have you? We have. What? For your steak and cheese? Mince and cheese. For all of them. Oh, for all of them. Oh, you name a pie. Bacon and egg?

Bacon and egg. Vegetarian. Oh, very nice. A lot of chicken. Tell me why the baker's dozen is 13. Why do the bakers

go rogue with the baker's dozen and put 13 in there? I have no idea. It's always confused me. Is it more like a generosity gift when the butcher used to give you a free chariot? Maybe like the fish and chips.

You always talk about the fritter. Yeah, maybe. Debbie, she's got her fingers in pies, literally, this morning, and you got $100, Debbie. Thank you. Can we even get a woo-hoo out of you or something? A woo-hoo.

That's what we wanted, Debs. Scrolling through your feed. Now, hands over to the Tom Cruise of news. He's our Top Gun and a stark, raving Scientologist. Ben Boyce, what's happening? Well, going for some nice positive news on a Monday morning just to get the week started. Now, Kate Bush, a singer, she's made a huge comeback thanks to the recent Stranger Things series. It's like the number one show on Netflix.

And she's got her first US top ten hit 37 years after it debuted, this song, Running Up a Hill. And it's the first time a non-Christmas song has re-entered the charts in the top ten since Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody after Wayne's World. So how cool is that? Bush would be loving that. If I know Kate Bush, she'll be a happy lady, much like Fleetwood Mac would be quite happy with all the remixes. And it's kind of cool to see these things happen, and hopefully the same thing seems to be happening to Kiwi artist David Dallas, hip-hop artist.

Now, Adam Sandler's got the number one movie on Netflix at the moment. It's called Hustle. It's produced by NBA star LeBron James. It's about basketball. And this song is like the training montage. Like, it's the whole song. It's awesome to see in there. Like, the whole, you know, you're getting better.

He's hustling. He's out there running. He's doing things. And it's really cool to see the song played. And the song is like one of the most Shazam songs in the US, UK, and New Zealand at the moment, David Ellis. So well done to him. That's incredible.

I see on his Instagram here, he says, I'm a pessimistic individual At the best of times Hence why there's Many nice things I could never imagine Or foresee happening to myself Top of that list

Is a song me and my mates Made nine years ago Appearing in a movie Starring Adam Sandler Produced by LeBron James I know Great stuff That's very cool

I wonder do they ask Or does it just appear And you're like I imagine Yeah I imagine They'd have to get there You sign off Otherwise you'd be like

Well now you owe me Fifty million dollars Which you'd be like, well, now you owe me $50 million. Which you'd be even happier about. Yeah, true. He's like, don't ask and then I'll charge you later for what I think it's worth. Adam Sandler's wonderful performance

in that movie. He's really good, eh? He gets a bit of shtick. Serious. Yeah, he gets a bit of shtick, doesn't he, Sandler? But I think he's good. He's bloody prolific, mate.

The amount of content Adam Sandler, he's like the backbone of Netflix. The amount of movies and shows he's making through his production company. I think he's just got to deal now exclusively with Netflix. So all his movies and shows that he ever makes just go, for the time being, just go straight to Netflix, not to the movies. And he's probably making bank off that, you know? It's smart. What are you doing, mate? Are you making bank off a Netflix deal?

No, definitely not. I'd love to be doing doing that this is a really lovely story as well now misha he's a young uh young teen he's non-verbal he's got down syndrome and he was he was quite confused he lives in the uk uh sorry ukraine and he was distressed about leaving home in the ukraine so his mum told him a story and said hey we're going uh overseas we're going to travel we're going to meet your hero john cena because he's a big fan of John Cena. His mum just basically told him that, so he'd be less panicked about the move and not thrown out.

John Cena heard about this, flew over to where they ended up. I think it was Amsterdam, and then met him. How cool is that? Very nice to meet you. I've come a long way to see you. Oh, my gosh

Pretty awesome eh It's incredible Yeah just to complete What his mum said So a lovely little moment So the lesson we take away From this is You know

All parents can lie Get away with it And eventually It'll all work out In the end Yeah Is that the takeaway I don't know if it was the takeaway

Because that's a big lie She took a huge risk Well yeah And in the end It's all poor John's head is like What I've got to

Do I have to pay for flights? Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. Pretty lovely things. It's the lovely news to start your Monday. It's John Owen Ben's general smell election. Yes, the smell election is happening. New Zealand's favourite odour.

It's the biggest week for noses since they figured out they could start smelling stuff, Ben. We just mentioned this in passing last week that we wanted to figure out what is the most loved odor out there. And there's no way we could settle on one. We needed to have a tournament. Dedicate a whole week of radio to it. Yeah, actually I'm looking forward to this. Because the more you start thinking about it, the more you go, oh, that's an amazing smell. That's an iconic smell.

We're talking about things like bacon cooking. We're talking about lawn clippings, rain on the pavement, coffee brewing, all those sorts of smells. Freshly washed babies. Yes, freshly washed babies is another one of our favourites. It is. That's the one I'm backing. I'm backing a freshly washed baby to take out this whole competition, but it's not up to me. And so after 7 o'clock, we're kicking things off with the smell of cooking bacon taking on a sharpie, the smell of a vivid, you know, the permanent marker. Now, both wonderful smells.

One will kill you with a heart attack and the other will kill you probably with chemical poisoning. True. But both great smells in small doses. So after 7, we need to know this morning what's your favorite before those. And then we're going to have another round after eight o'clock as well. Casting the earlier votes, what are you putting your good names to, Belle? Bacon or a vivid? Do you like chemical smells?

Bacon's pretty yum, though. I feel like you can't knock bacon. Bacon's one of the big players in this competition. You can't get rid of bacon this early on. As much as a Sharpie's a little... sharpie's like an instant little, oh yeah, but you wouldn't want to smell it for ages, whereas bacon, you could smell that cooking all day in the house. That's the thing.

Now, this is what we need to factor in when we're voting. All the fine people of Aotearoa are voting is like, are we taking the odour at its absolute best? So yes, bacon hangs around for longer and is more easier on the nostrils than a vivid for an you know an hour period but are we just taking it for that that short sharp vivid smell that that gives you no but even here i'm going bacon i'm going bacon all right and after eight o'clock as well the next round that we're going to uh to have your votes on that we'll get you to text through

after eight as petrol the smell of petrol versus the smell of striking a match. Now, not together. Not together. We don't want to combine the two. We have combined the two, but we're not combining them. Some very excited arsonists listening right now. Yeah. So petrol does have a very distinct smell. Again, not over a long period.

No, almost too much for me, petrol. Almost too much. Almost gives me a headache instantly. So I'm going to go lighting a match in that one as well. Okay. Well, we're going to get to these after 7 o'clock. The smell action. Changing broadcasting history this week, Ben.

I hope the history books are being rewritten right now. The sure weather masks make them look a whole lot better. Jono and Ben on the hits. Shocking weather right around the country this morning. The Harbour Bridge as well. They're talking about whether that will be closed this morning. Not a great sign for the city of Auckland, eh? When you're always questionable about whether you can get to work over a Harbour Bridge.

Yeah, what is this? Even though there's bad weather, you're like, oh, we're going to shut the bridge. Yeah, it's not shut at the moment. We'll let you know if it is. You drove over the bridge? Was it Ratley? Yeah. I mean, bridges, I don't know much about bridges.

I'm not an engineer, but traditionally they should just be functioning the entire time you'd imagine. You'd hope so, right? You'd imagine that it's so strong, the structure is that solid that you're like, ooh it's windy maybe don't drive over this. But it's okay at the moment, just letting you know. I actually think it's more about trucks and stuff, isn't it? And those

high winds. Or keep telling yourself that. Now, yes it may be wet, dark, miserable out there, but that shouldn't stop us from having a positive attitude, Ben Boyce. Motivational Monday. We started this about six weeks ago, and it's been a really easy part of the show

because I just pulled some audio off Instagram, mildly inspirational audio, and it's like the audio version of taking antidepressants. So get your week started off so today's one uh is about not giving up okay you don't want to give up okay it doesn't sound that great when i say it how about this guy when you're thinking about giving up don't when it look like you ain't gonna make it keep going when they tell you you can't come on man who are they when they tell you you're not gonna make it don't believe them man

don't believe them you got to be relentless don't give up come on man Don't give up. Come on, man. Don't give up. That's very good. I'm talking about smoking, gambling addictions. If you're having multiple affairs, don't give up. Keep going. You can do it. It's quite inspiring, isn't it?

They've got the voice, the music. It's the perfect package, isn't it, to start. But, you know, equally it sounds good if he's like, when you think about giving up, do. You know, it would sound just as cool. A lot, when you think about giving up, do. You know, like if he said, you know, it would sound just as cool. A lot of the times you do need to give up. Like, I don't want to undercut

what this lovely gentleman's just said. Belle, have you ever given up on something? I don't know. Yeah, I've given up on a lot of things and it's, you know, it's worthwhile. Sometimes you're like, what am I chasing here? This is never going to happen. No, but that's, why?

Why? Realist up. Don't be realistic. Why set realism on it? You know, that's what they're saying. Don't. Yeah, you've undercut the whole Motivational Monday. You ruined your whole thing.

You brought this clip to it. Now you're saying give up. Yeah, no. So don't give up. So that's the message. Let's start the week positively, right? All right, thank you. Well, yeah, why not? It's the point

of the segment. Warning, this show contains references to Jono's baldness. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's been a public fact, Ben Boyce, I've got a lot of mole removals. Very pasty complexion. Very skin cancer-y complexion. It's one of my things.

I've got one cut out on top of my head. You've got quite a lot of stitches at the top of your head, don't you? at the top of your stitches yes and it's one you don't have to worry about the old bccs but you have been quite snitchy over the last few years so it's only a matter of time we got some stitches you know the prison rules he's always gossiping about people in the office telling off everyone but the the doctor was like oh you need to put on uh on the scarring bio oil have you heard of bio oil i've heard of it yeah it's like this orange liquid bell you've you've heard it was massive back in like the 2000s yeah tv yeah back in the time i'm not trying to show then did it have a slow sort of fade in popularity i don't't know. I thought that was awful for you, don't I? No, it's not.

But I'm putting it on my head, and I feel like my head is just a frying pan when you've pre-greased it and you're about to cook some steak on it. It's very greasy, the bio oil. And then I read on the bottle, it's like, oh, you can use it on your face. You know, it gets rid of, you know, fine lines and wrinkles.

Oh, does it? Evens out skin completion. Oh. So then I've poured loads. I'm just dousing it on my face. I was like, give me a 20-litre tub. I just have a giant bowl and I just dip my face in bio-oil and shake it off. You're like bobbing for apples.

You're just straight in there. But the problem is... It's very greasy. The problem is I come across very slippery. Why is he sweaty? He's almost like a permanent sweaty complexion. Like glistening off the lights thanks to Biowirl. The great thing is I'm very waterproof.

Yeah, that's right. It's good for the weather today. No rain is going to get to you. You don't need an umbrella or a raincoat. You know when it rains on Vaseline, I'm just going to have those drips sitting on my face. Is he going to waterproof face that guy? But then I read online that some people said

it might not be good for you. It's got petroleum in it. So then I thought, well, I don't know. I didn't read too much into it. But then all those, you know, the oil spills in the ocean and all the seagulls who get covered in crude oil must have magnificent skin. Not a wrinkle on a sea lion's face. Sea lions, it would be good to be not, you know, not water running off them would be

all right, wouldn't it? Yeah, they're slippery. Oh, no, my face is like a sea lion's skin. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spy, know what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right, we call it Charlie's round here because she's coming in with the juiciest celebrity gossip.

What's going on, Belle? Oh, you couldn't get away from it. Biggest celebrity story at the moment, Britney's wedding over the weekend. She had a custom-made dress by Donna Della Fasci, herself, who was also there. She looked beautiful. It was a fairytale wedding for her on their LA property with Sam.

They had a big, huge wall of roses behind them. It just looked gorgeous. I'm so happy for her. Whoever the local florist was made a killing off that wall. It was enormous. So many roses. Someone would have been like, I'm going into the flower wall game. They'd be like, are you crazy?

It'll pay dividends. And it did that day. Yeah, and there was some drama earlier in the day. Her ex, Jason Alexander, who she was only married to for 55 hours in that Vegas wedding. Oh, that was the Vegas wedding one, right? Yeah. Now, he stormed onto the property and actually managed to get into the house. This was him when he first got on

and afterwards he was given a restraining order. Security's coming up here right now where's britney at where's britney at i'm good yeah he ended up uh getting right into the venue. He was wandering inside her house. He was live streaming the whole thing on social media. It was kind of quite scary, yeah.

Yeah, and the whole time I'm thinking, the security are doing a shoddy job. Yeah. They just keep following him around, going, hey, you can't be on here. He's like, okay, brother, don't touch me, and just kept walking. Like he got into the exciting-looking flower wall. Yeah, exactly. He was live streaming the whole thing. I don't know if he caught Britney,

but I did see a photo of him being arrested on the ground with a knee on his throat. Well, it was probably always going to happen though, right? What was he trying to do? I don't know. But he was trying to get to the wedding for free. I mean, if you could go to Britney Spears' wedding, if I said to you,

Ben, do you want to go and see Britney Spears get married, what would you tell me? I'd love to go. Yeah, exactly. But if you told me I had to live stream it and do you want to go and see Britney Spears get married, what would you tell me? I'd love to go. Yeah, exactly. But if you told me I had to live stream it and then get a knee in my throat, I wouldn't be that game. You also had Madonna, Paris Hilton, Selena Gomez were all there. It was massive. Also, Drew Barrymore.

And they actually sang a little reenactment of Vogue. It was pretty cute. Don't just stand there. Let's get to it. Strike a pose. There's nothing to it. Vogue. What is that? Who did that? It was pretty cute. Don't just stand there. Let's get to it. Strike a pose. There's nothing to it. Boom. What is that?

Who did that? Did Britney and Madonna recreate their kiss too from the MTV Awards as well too? A lot of iconic ones. Oh, that's fantastic. Who was singing Vogue there? It was a bit half-hearted, wasn't it? It was like when people get you and me to sing Ben. We're like, oh, we're no good at this.

We're not. We can't commit to this segment. Was it Madonna? Was she singing in that? Yeah, she was there too. There was Madonna doing that. I know a version of it. Paris actually turned down a Joe Biden DJ gig to be there as well.

And while Britney's family weren't invited, her mum, Lynn, congratulated her on her Instagram post saying, you look radiant and so happy. Your wedding is the dream wedding. I'm so happy for you. I love you. When they were clearly not invited. Can I just go back to the Joe Biden DJ gig? I mean, what songs are there?

Are you going to play Sinatra, My Way? Probably. I imagine. Yeah, all the lounge and swinging. You'd be all wrapped up. The theme from The Chase and you'd be all wrapped up. She probably could have done the Biden DJ gig and gone to the wedding. Yeah, exactly. Knocked them both off. Thanks very much, Belle. And at Spy, you can get more now at thehits.co.nz.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, I'm very excited because we do this once a month, Hundy Mundy with Employment Hero, where every caller who hops on New Zealand's breakfast gets $100 cash. It's the only way we can get people to like us. We know it's shallow, but it gets results, Ben. Yeah, so I 100 the hits right now. Let's try and give away $100 before we hit to 7 o'clock.

It's the smarter way to manage people, payroll, and productivity. Employment Hero. Can we spend 1,762 hours at work a year? An Employment Hero can make it all a bit more rewarding. Oh, don't. That's all I want. That's a lot of hours a year, isn't it? That's a lot of hours a year.

And it's amazing when we just say we've got cash to give away how popular we become. The phone line's already clogged up. Let's go to Alicia in Blenheim. How's the South Island this morning, mate? Good morning. It's ice cold, but beautiful. Well, I tell you what's not ice cold. Our hearts.

They're warm. They're melting. And they're going to give you $100, Alicia. That's awesome. Thank you. You sound adorable. What are you doing in Blenheim? I work for an insurance company

Oh, okay No follow up questions I always like to listen to see if Jono's got a follow up question Sometimes he does, other times he doesn't I do have a question about insurance How easy is it Oh my goodness How easy is it to commit insurance fraud?

Oh god, you don't need to answer that It feels like it's relatively attainable. Mate, but if you get caught... It depends where you are going. Yeah, you go to jail. That's where you're going. Hey, have yourself a great Monday. Enjoy that $100, all right?

Awesome. Tested safe for listing from home. John Owen Bean on the hits. Now, we, along with the Briscoe's lady, want to hear your kitchen mishaps with Kitchen Ref, whether it's forgetting to put the lid on a blender or maybe your dinner guests left not feeling too well and that was on you let us know about your kitchen mishap at the hitstock.nz and each monday you could score a 500 briscoes voucher just for sharing your mishap yeah i remember i

gave an entire an entire table load of people salmonella poisoning oh that's what you could you could share that story right now. Because I was in a rush with barbecued chicken. You can't rush through the chicken. Now, we're joined by the Briscoe's lady to judge the best kitchen mishap. Oh, good morning. I'm allowed to have a name. I'm Tammy.

Oh, Tammy. It's lovely to have you on, Tammy. Lovely. Lovely to be here fancy giving everyone salmonella. Yeah, no, it was a bleak day. I haven't been allowed to cook chicken since, to be honest. I've been banned from chicken cooking. Do you have those moments where there's chicken in the fridge

and then you think, oh, how many days ago was that? And you have to count back. Absolutely, Tammy. You're going to be okay. Ben's mother, Jenny Boyce, she pushes out the chicken, the fridge chicken, for weeks. Oh, yeah, the Christmas ham. You could be still eating it next Christmas.

Didn't your stepdad get food poisoning? Oh, multiple times. It happens all the time. So she'd be great for this segment, but she hasn't rung up today. So it's all on you. You need to decide who's going to get the $500 Briscoe's voucher.

A lot of pressure. Okay, we're going to bring Coral in from Christchurch. Coral, you're on with the Briscoe's lady. Describe your kitchen mishap. Right, okay, so picture this. Christmas Day a few years ago, I finally got my 30-something-year-old big girl pants on and decided to invite the whole family over for the first Christmas.

Super excited. I had a turkey on the Weber barbecue. I just needed to fill up my butane gas lighter. So I was clicking away, had this thing attached on the other end, click, click, click. Nothing seemed to be happening. I was like, ah, bugger this.

Went to ignite it, and I sent a huge fireball up into the air, into my face, lit my whole hair and eyebrows on fire, and ended up in A&E on Christmas Day. Wow. So that's me and my big girl pants. Well, there we go.

Now, Briscoe's lady with a huge fire hazard on Christmas Day, we'll let you settle with that one. And on line two, we have Nicole in Pocono. Welcome, Nicole. What was your kitchen mishap? Did you nearly blow your face off as well? No, no, not quite. Hubby invited all his colleagues over for dinner for the first time,

so I hadn't met them before. And I thought I'll do a nice baked chicken dish. And I didn't want it to mess my oven because we were in a rental, so I thought I'll line it with an extra baking tray. So I baked the chicken. Everybody dished up their salad, their rice, and I pulled out. It was quite a saucy dish. I pulled out the chicken, and we all served our chicken.

And as we were cutting it open, we realized it was raw. The extra dish had insulated the baking dish. Oh, no. So I got all of the colleagues to scrape their food back into my dish because I didn't have enough food to feed them another meal. And they had to wait an hour while they baked again without the insulation. And it's now still a standing joke three years on that I served them rice for starters and chicken for mains.

So that was a punishment of that one. When it got to the mains, did everyone just have an empty plate just with chicken on it? Yeah, they had to eat their dinner in different settings except for the other. Both amazing stories. Now, Tammy, the Briscoes lady, you've got to decide now

which mishap is worthy of the $500 Briscoes voucher. Well, I have to just talk to both the girls about this. So, Nicole, I mean, oh, disgusting. There is nothing worse than seeing raw chicken. Just having all those people expectantly waiting, that is a wonderful story,

but I'm going to have to go with Coral because Coral went off to A&E. I mean, Coral just put that into herself. So, poor thing. Your hair and your eyebrows, everything came back? Yeah, well, yes, but only just. A couple of face transplants later, she's back to normal. She had a Christmas day like a Fast and Furious movie.

Well, Coral, we're going to send you out the $500 Briscoe's voucher. But Nicole and Coral, because it is a Monday and we're doing a Hundy Mundy this week, you get $100 each. Oh, thank you. Good on you. That's all thanks to Employment Hero. Briscoes lady, Tammy, thank you so much for your time. Back next Monday.

Wonderful. Have a great week, all right? It's Imagine Dragons, Thunder. As I said before, a very appropriate song because there is wild weather around. It has been over the weekend and around again today, so we thought we'd get the latest to find out what's happening in your area with Philip Duncan from weatherwatch.co.nz.

Good morning, Phil. Gee whiz, you must be frothing. Yeah, this is kind of exciting. It's been a very quiet year, and now there's real weather energy out there. Yeah, Duncan's like, this is your time time duncan this is when you step up not so great for everyone else uh you know because the weather is pretty wild it rains snow there's isolated tornadoes what the heck is going on why have we got this sort of extreme weather at the moment so we've got a big storm that was down in the southern ocean and yesterday the center of that

storm got transferred to a new centre just near Fiordland. And what it's doing is it's just keeping the weather going around and around and around this giant storm, which is why central New Zealand, like the Kapiti Coast and Wellington and Nelson Ranges and Taranaki, those middle parts of the country are getting hammered by thunderstorms one after the other for days in a row now,

and it won't be until the end of today that it finally starts to move around a bit. Jeez, you can hear the excitement in Phil's voice. He's like, this is my happy place. When you're into weather, you're right. But when you're just into just living and life, it becomes a bit of a niggle. But how long is it going to last, Phil? Are we going to have bad weather for the remainder of the week or what? Yes and no.

The storm's with us for another couple of days, so that moves away today and tomorrow and then conditions finally ease sort of on Wednesday. But then the lower South Island still gets caught up in some wintry weather. The North Island, it'll be more like autumn. So it's normal kind of weather for June. And even the storm is normal, except what wasn't normal was how far north that storm actually went, the centre of it brushing the lower South Island. That doesn't happen very often.

I was reading this morning, 20,000 lightning strikes in 12 hours yesterday over New Zealand, over land and water, and there was 41 warnings last night. Is there any places in particular that they need to look out today and be a bit more careful? Who's the weather nerd now? Gosh, people don't know who they are. Yeah, sorry.

You can't call them and you can't go bullying them, Phil Duncan. Yeah, I'm just going to get to your game, right? How do you like that? Stay in your lane, boys.

Stay in your lane. Sorry. Stay in your lane. Yeah, there will be a few warnings around today. It's going to be very windy. 41, apparently.

Yeah, a few warnings around today. It's right up to Auckland even where it could be very windy with a few thunderstorms. But, you know, to be honest, a lot of places will have normal June weather today. But, yeah, it's similar. The same places that have been hit for the last few days are still getting it today. Won't be till tomorrow that those areas will sort of really notice it calming down. Also, I was reading as well, just to add one more bit of weather nerd chat in there,

is this going to be a warmer winter than most, I reckon? And, you know, it's warmer already up in the North Island. The last four or five nights have been warmer than average. So it's not your normal Antarctic blast. And it's partially because we're getting a westerly flow, not a southerly flow, that's keeping the temperatures up. And we're expecting the whole winter to be at least a degree above average. Now, what is your favourite day of all of the wonderful weathers

that are on offer, the smorgasbord of weather you can have? I like the big squally showers that just come through with a thunderstorm and a glass to hail. What are you laughing at? I was at Kids Netball of the Week, you know, and I did not enjoy those squally showers. I nearly left my house because I've been working pretty much. So let me give you this. Squally showers, hail, that's your favourite type of weather?

Oh yeah, this kind of set up, I love it. Yep, it's great. What about weather? Oh, yeah, this kind of set up, I love it. Yep, it's great. What about sun? Just a nice sunny January day. It gets a bit boring after a while. That's great. I love it. I'm like a parent.

I like all the weather evenly. But squally showers is your favourite child? That's my favourite child, yeah, just between us. Phil Duncan, always love catching up with you, mate. And you can go to weatherwatch.co.nz to get more weather nerd stuff that I like to go. Thanks, guys.

This week, we're doing something pretty fun. John Owen Bean's general smell election. It's the smell-ection. The smell-election. The smell-election. We're voting for New Zealand's favourite odour. It seems a little obscure. And you're right, it is. So I can't believe we're getting a whole week out of it,

but it's probably the most popular thing that we've ever done, Ben. Yeah. And so we've created a tennis tournament-style grid where smells will be taking on other smells, and eventually they'll work their way through the quarters, the semis, and end up in the finals of the greatest smell. Now, just rattle through some of the odours that have made the cut out of pool play there, Ben. We've got everything from KFC, rain on the pavement,

a freshly washed baby, one you're campaigning hard for. Do love a freshly washed baby. Pie in a warmer, liniment on the changing room. But our first round, our first battle this morning is this. Round one, bacon cooking versus the Sharpie. Yeah, sizzling bacon versus Vivid. And our producer B-Hump said, you know, both of these carcinogenics. Yeah, true.

But put that aside. A lot of carcinogenics throughout the competition. There is, yeah, a lot of poisonous chemicals and stuff, but that's what we love. That's the most poisonous tournament on radio. We're not here to worry about that right now. No, long-term health worries, don't worry. Yeah, not an issue.

So bacon versus the Sharpie Vivid. Now, I'm backing the Sharpie Vivid. Are you? Yeah, because you need to, and I said it before, seven, we need to take these smells at their peak. And I know Sharpie, you're in for a short time and a good time. Anything over a 10-second hoof on a Sharpie, you're going to start to feel like it's having some serious effects to your brain.

But you're going bacon. Yeah, I've got to go with bacon cooking. It's such an iconic, such a lovely smell. Like I said before, my wife, she's vegetarian, but even the smell of cooking bacon, she's like, ooh, it smells so good. And we rang a butcher before the show as well just to see what was so great about bacon cooking.

Bacon. That'd be your favourite of all the smells in the world? Walking into the room and it fills the room with the aroma. It does actually, doesn't it? Yeah. It'd be a wonderful cologne, wouldn't it, bacon? Throw a couple of tomatoes in there with it. They should do a Glade air freshener, bacon.

Yeah. True. Yeah. True. Smell of bacon. So you want to put a vote in for bacon? Yeah, bro. All right. Good on you. Thank you.

You'll be tuning in? Yep. See you, mate. For something I feel like you won't be. Is he going to be tuning in? I don't know. He's definitely not. I can tell you that now.

Okay. And also we phoned a stationery shop to get the odour of a Sharpie Vivid. I haven't smelt a Sharpie. Okay. Brett, go grab a Sharpie. Grab a Sharpie right now. Yeah, I'm smelling it right now. Okay.

All right. Okay. Now, stick it up your nose. I wouldn't say it's the best smelling thing that I've smelled. Okay, because it's up against sizzling bacon, cooking bacon. I mean, this morning. Yeah, I take bacon any day. Ah, bacon any day.

Okay. Let's have another sniff of the Sharpie. Let's just be certain. Yeah. Hang on a second. Hang on. He's like... He's like...

No. No, definitely no. No, okay. It's not getting any better. Okay. Not any better. Okay. And he's quite lightheaded now. Okay. Well, thank you very much for doing that little on-the-spot test for us. No worries definitely no. No, okay. It's not getting any better. Okay, well. No, not any better, okay. And he's quite light-headed now.

Okay, well, thank you very much for doing that little on-the-spot test for us. No worries, okay. Thank you. There we go. So, is the writing on the wall for the Sharpie? The permanent writing. It might be. Oh, 800, that's round one of the smelly action.

Bacon versus the smell of a Sharpie vivid. Who's going through? Don't forget, every caller that gets on the air gets $100. It's a hundy monday thanks to Employment Hero. So, oh, under the hits, you win $100

and help us decide on New Zealand's best smell next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben's general smell election. Yeah, we're doing

the smell election, New Zealand's favourite odour, round one. Round one, bacon cooking versus Sharpie. Yeah, two big bangers Zealand's favourite odour, round one. Round one. Bacon cooking. Versus Sharpie. Yeah, two big bangers in the smell

game, aren't they? Aren't they? What a round one. If you want to vote, oh, 800 the hits is our number right now and every caller that gets on the air this

morning gets $100. All thanks to Employment Hero, manage everything from contracts to promotions in one place. Employment Hero makes

being the boss easy. And that's what Ben's always going around the office saying. Did you know Employment Hero manage everything from contracts to promotions in one place. Employment Hero makes being the boss easy. And that's what Ben's always going around the office saying. Did you know Employment Hero makes being the boss easy? Now, Bell Crawford, your uncle, Michael, who runs the quarry in the hut, what's he put a vote in for, mate? He's voted for bacon, and he'll be so stoked with this little shout-out. He'll be happy as. Thanks for listening.

Good morning, Uncle Michael. The boss of the quarry. That's a big gig, I imagine, being a boss of a quarry. And they're all voting for bacon in the quarry. Is it going to be a clean sweep? We'll get Tanya on from Auckland. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast, Tanya. Morena, how are you?

Morena to you. Sharpie or a bacon? Oh, it's got to be streaky bacon all the way. Just that right mix between cremated and crunchy. The smell of death and slaughter. But you love it. So rewarding. Hey, we're going to send you out $100 all thanks to Employment Hero.

So thanks for playing a big part of the smell action. Well, there we go. Thank you very much. Did you know bacon, you know the phrase bringing home the bacon? Back in the day, like 12th century, beginning of 12th century, the gentleman who could declare hand on heart inside the church that they had no quabbles with their wife would be given some bacon to bring home.

So 12 months, no arguments. Oh, 12 months? 12 months. Argument free year. You get a packet of bacon. No one's talking to anyone in 12 months, that's for sure. All right, we'll get Amy on from Te Puki. Welcome, Amy. How are you? Morning, team. Good. How are you? The smell of vivid we're doing well, mate. The smell of vivid or bacon. What's it going to be? I mean, as a teacher, I love a sharpie, but you can't beat bacon. You can't beat bacon. That's what we're finding this morning. It seems to be the clear winner in the first round. We're going to give you $100.

Thanks to Employment Hero. Enjoy that on your Monday. Thank you. All right. Let's put this big pig to bed, James. Bacon or a sharpie? What are we doing for round one of the smell action? Bacon all day, lads.

Bacon all day. Bacon all day. Bacon all day, mate. It'd be too much bacon all day. No, all day breakfast, mate. True. True. Yeah, it's a food you can have at any time. I don't know, all day breakfast, mate. True, true. Yeah, it's a food you can have at any time. Unless you're vegetarian, of course, but breakfast, lunch, dinner. And so far, it looks like a huge win for the pigs.

The ones that are still living. Well, yeah, that's for sure. All right, hey, we're going to send you $100 thanks to Employment Hero. Thank you very much. Enjoy. The voting lines are open until tomorrow. But it looks as though, I don't want to, you know how they do the early predictions in the general election,

it looks as though Bacon might be sweeping through. Five words for 5K. You're just five words away from $5,000. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning on the Hits Match. All five words without five words, you win $5,000. Now this was, you know, before Wordle came in and started being the game, the

word game everyone talked about. You know, this was here. This battle through. Wordle was a flash in the pan. Oh, people still people still going on. Yeah, I want to pretend it's a flash in the pan to say that five words is the consistent one. I don't know, actually. Yeah, although, you know, let's not argue the fact Wordle's

far more popular. Yeah, true. And the owner made, what did he make? A million dollars from selling it. Made a lot of money, but hey, you can, let's not argue the fact Wordle's far more popular. Yeah, true. And the owner made, what did he make? A million dollars from selling it. Made a lot of money. But hey, you can make $5,000 by playing this game. Let's get Sarah on from Te Awamutu. How are you, mate? I'm good.

Now, 5K, what would it mean to you, Sarah? It would mean paying some bills and putting some money in the bank. Yeah. And helping out some family. Good on you, doing great things with that cash. Now, we understand COVID was a bit tough for you, Sarah. Yeah, on the first lot of COVID, we lost our first business. So we tried to start up another one, and that was gone as well.

Well, listen. My husband's got a job, but I've got a part-time job coming up, but it's only one day a week. Right, so this cash would mean a lot. Absolutely. Well, can I ask you a favour? Please, dear God, don't send me into the soundproof booth to match words with you.

Me. You've got to send one of us, though. Who are you going to send on in? After that emotional story. Yeah, a lot of pressure on everyone. It'll be Ben. Oh! Neither of us wanted to hear our name. He's off into the soundproof booth.

Ben, as you walk in there, you remember Sarah's story. Okay? How much this would mean to her. Let's try and win you $5,000. That would be wonderful. Be a very deserving winner. The first word, brolly.

Brolly. Rain. Rain brolly. Pooch. Word number two. Dog. Aquarium's coming in at number three for you, Saz.

Fish. Sniff. Bacon. What did you say? Sorry there, Sarah. Bacon. Bacon. Sniff, bacon. And the fifth and final word is knee. Knee as in K-N-E-E.

That's the one. Oh. Leg. Leg. Well, that was some fiddly words to navigate through this morning in Te Awamutu. Absolutely. Yeah. Is it cold there at the moment?

Yeah, it's pretty cold. Well, I tell you what, things are getting hot in here. I saw the sound booth is colder than outside the booth. Yeah, I don't know why it is cold now. We're in our own sub-climate inside that booth. Let's win you $5,000. How'd Sarah go? She did well.

There's some tough words, I won't lie. Don't say that. I want to give Sarah five grand. Now, just remember, lost their business in COVID. Oh, don't. Desperately needs this money. I want to give Sarah five grand. Now, just remember, lost their business in COVID. Oh, don't. Desperately needs this money. I'll try, I'll try. First word, brolly.

Rain? Good, good. Topical, too. Yeah, it's very wet out there this morning. It's the radio announcer's best gift, isn't it? Bad weather. Oh, the weather out there. Pooch, coming in at number two. Pooch. Pooch, P-O-O-? Bad weather. Oh, the weather out there. Pooch coming in at number two.

Pooch. Pooch. P-O-O-C-H. Oh, dog. Dog. Also, sounds like it could be a rude body part. I know it's not, but it could. What are you saying?

Aquarium. Fish. Oh, Sarah. Sarah. All right, here we go. Sniff. Sniff. Sniff. Smell?

Sarah looked in bacon. We were just talking about bacon. With the smell action. Sniff, smell. I see how you got there. He played his hardest for you, Sarah. We'll just go to the fifth word. Knee. Knee.

Cap. Knee cap. No, leg. Mate, we couldn't do it for you, Sarah. We'll just go to the fifth word. Knee? Knee? Cap. Mate, we couldn't do it for you, but we know what we can do is we can give you $100 because it's a hundy-mundy, Sarah, thanks to Employment Hero. Oh, that would be wonderful. You walk away with your head held high. Absolutely. A big hug from us.

Thank you so much, guys. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben, on the hits. It's the Super Rug'd want to clear this history. Jono and Ben on the hits. It's the Super Rugby Finals this weekend coming up. It's going to be the Blues taking on the Crusaders at Eden Park, which is very exciting. Yeah, that seems like it's harking back to the old days. Yeah.

Doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, well done to the Blues. I know. What a journey the Blues have had. They've done really well. When was the last time they were in a Super Rugby Final? Oh, Ben, yeah.

But, hey, even hope for the old Warriors, eh, to see what the Blues have done. Let's done really well. When was the last time they were in a Super Rugby final? Oh, but hey, even hope for the Warriors, eh, to see what the Blues have done. They're still getting carried away.

Hey, hey, hey. They're definitely not going to be pulling it back. Hey, well,

there was always hope. Now, the All Black team is well named today as well, so it's

all very exciting. But I ran into the All Black coach in the weekend because we

went along to the rugby and went to the bathroom and went to the bathroom. And then I was washing my hands. You know, I love hygiene, personal hygiene. It's one of my favourite things.

I love the guy who goes to watch rugby. He spends a lot of the time just washing his hands. Yeah, and I washed my hands for a while. And as I looked over, you know, as someone's washing their hands next to me, I looked over and I was like, it's the All Black coach. Was he washing his hands too? He was washing his hands. Was he doing the 20 seconds?

He was doing a very thorough job of washing his hands. I was doing a thorough job and I was like, here's your moment, boys. You better say something. You know, I don't know why I felt the need to say something, but it was that occasion you're standing next to the All Black coach. You're like, please don't tell me you talk to him about rugby. He would get punished by people talking to him about rugby all day, all night. I panicked.

In that situation, I wasn't expecting the coach we do interviews all the time you think of clever things to say but you know what i said in that moment where he was washing my hands and i was washing my hands i was enjoying the game and that's what i said he was like yeah yeah it's good it's good guy and that was the extent of our banter i'm like you blow it boys you're blind that was it yeah That was my opportunity to look like at least I had something. You should have gone, nice hands. Those are some nice hands. You're like washing your hands too.

Afterwards I was like, what was that? I'm all hope of being an all black now. It's gone for me. Well, he's not going to go, hey, that guy washes his hands pretty thoroughly. I reckon I could put him in at first five. Have you seen him play rugby? No, but I've seen him wash his hands inside thoroughly. I reckon I could put him in at first five. Have you seen him play rugby? No,

but I've seen him wash his hands inside and out. Well, you know, but yeah, just those moments you crumble.

I think also in the bathroom situation as well, it's, you know. Imagine all day he's just faced the people who feel obligated

to say something to him. He must just get, things just said at him. Especially at the rugby too. Why you put this player, at least I didn't punish him for anything like that. But I was like, who asked you?

Enjoying the game. Would you have been benched after that conversation? Yeah, I felt like benching myself after that. You've ran into some famous people in the bathroom. You ran into the guy from Oasis. That's right. It was a league, Gilead? Yeah, some football thing in Europe for work,

years and years ago. Did you say enjoying the game? I think I was like, what's the story you want to know? That would have been clever. No, but in those moments you're like, oh my God, I can see everything. You know, you could see him washing his hands, doing everything. And so he must walk into the toilet going, everyone just wants to stare at my codger. Well, our friend.

And I did. Our friend went to the bathroom next to Ed Sheeran. Remember that? And stared? And did, yeah. You can't help but stare. Now, Belle, if you're in that situation, don't you judge us. If you're in that situation, you're standing next to Ed Sheeran at the wall.

Are you telling me you're not peeking? Probably have a little bit. Exactly. No one's got eyes for that. It's Jono and Ben's general smell election. That's right. We're doing it. New Zealand's favourite odour.

This just spawned off a bit of a light conversation we had last week. It spiralled out of control. We started with the smell of an op shop, and it's turned into a whole week-long tournament, Ben. Yeah, we're looking at things that are the best smell and we've got a tennis tournament style that's happening every day this week. We're putting things up against each other. The likes of lawn clippings, KFC, freshly washed baby is another great smell, coffee brewing, but this is the round that we need to get into right now.

Round two. Petrol versus striking a match. Yes, very flammable round. It is. A lot of the arson audience very excited hearing this round. So the odour of petrol, when you're filling up your car at the petrol station, you just get that wonderful whiff and you're like, I could sit here and huff this all day long.

But it could turn problematic very quickly yeah i can imagine and we're talking about the night the smell of lighting a match as well not at a petrol station not around petrol can't even use a cell phone at a petrol station for some reason let alone a box of matches but when you do light a match it has got like a lovely smell so i did a little bit of research into this. Why does gasoline smell so nice? Well, it contains 150 chemicals, gasoline. But the one that smells sweet is benzene. That's the odour that we all love.

So if you like benzene, just go buy a bottle of benzene. Wow. You can sniff that all day long. It's very expensive, though. That's the hard thing about buying a bottle right now. A very small bottle. A shot glass. Now, on Friday

when we knew we were going to be doing this this week we phoned a gas station to see what they liked about the smell working there. Have a listen. Alright. Alright.

Now we're in the middle of something big at the moment. We're doing the smell action looking for New Zealand's best smell. Alright. Yeah and a lot of people And it's you.

Well yeah I'm sure you smell lovely. How do you smell? Shove your nose in your armpits and give us a report. Are you serious? Well, no, we're serious that we're looking for the best smell. No one has voted for you as of yet, but hey, there's still a chance. So you don't have to smell your armpits.

Yeah. But a lot of people have voted for the smell of petrol. Obviously, you don't want to do it for too long, but you work in a petrol station. I do. Does the novelty wear off of the petrol smell? Oh, to be honest, the petrol, I don't mind, but I love the diesel smell.

Oh, you're a diesel fan. Now, it's up against lighting a match. Now, obviously, you wouldn't want to do that at a petrol station and do the two together. Oh, God, I'd rather have the petrol smell. Okay, you're going for the petrol smell. I don't know if you're enough. Yep.

If I came in there dripping in diesel. Oh, jeez. Okay? Just soaked in diesel. Very flammable. Would I be your perfect man? Huge health risk. Too much.

Too much. Yeah, no, there's a health and safety risk. I'd just maybe an overkill. Yeah. Well, thank you very much for helping us out with our random call. Yeah, don't worry. See you, mate. All right, well, let's get to it.

She was definitely left with more questions than answers. Yeah. Listen, can I call a spade a spade? No. Let's get into this. It's Jono and Ben's general smell election. No, no, you can't. But in doing so, you have, so that's fine.

We're excited about this. Read between the lines. Smell election, aren't we? We are doing the smell election. That was the spade I wanted to call. I was like, let's get on to the smell election. Voting for New Zealand's favourite odour. This is the round we're in the middle of right now.

Round two. Petrol versus striking a match. That's right. Which one do you prefer? The smell of petrol or the smell of striking a match? Now I mentioned that benzene was the chemical in petrol that everyone likes. The sweet smell. Well when you strike a match

it creates sulphur oxide. So like almost a roturoa. Oh, really? It's the same sulfuric sort of odor. I don't mind the smell of Vegas. Yeah, no, me too. You know, everyone's like, oh, it smells like it. I like it. Once you get in there and you

climatize, it's beautiful. Alright, so we've got $100 up for grabs this morning. Every caller that gets on the air, thanks to Employment Hero, gets $100 because it's a hundy monday. Okay, Hayley, you're on. Welcome to the round two of the smell action. What are you putting forward? Good morning, guys.

Can I please go striking a match every time? Every time? Yeah, that's good. But it's such a quick little hit, isn't it? Yeah, but I take matches in my toiletries bag. So if you're going to an Airbnb with a work mate and you do something in the toilet that needs to be covered up,

I find a match quite effective. My mum was always like, have you lit a match in there? Light the match! It was such a boobie thing to keep a box of matches next to it. Does anyone know if the match does anything?

It's an ice smell. What a match! Hey, Hayley, we're going to give you $100, all right? Thanks to Plum and Hero. Enjoy that. You can play a whole lot of matches with $100, that's for sure. She's a good sword, Hayley. We'll get Adam on from Wellington first and foremost.

Have you lit in a match in there, Adam? Not any matches, no. No. Now, what are you voting for? Petrol or lighting a match?

Petrol every time. Yeah. Every time. Love the smell of those brain cells melting away. It is a bit

like that. It does feel like it's good, but it's not good for you. Yeah, that's right. Adam, what is good for you is $100.

Thanks to Employment Hero every quarter on air. Hundy Mundy, well done, mate. Thanks for your vote. And we'll knock it off with Fiona in Wellington. You're putting a vote through for what, Fiona? I am indeed. Who's it going to be? It's going to be the match.

It's got to be the match. Smells amazing. It does, doesn't it? I thought petrol would have bowled this. Yeah. Looking at the text machine, it's pretty evenly split. As we have mentioned, the voting lines are open for 24 hours. Yeah.

And we will be announcing the winners tomorrow of round one and two. But at this stage, it looks like the match might be creeping ahead. The match winning out that match. Hey, you have a great day, all right? Enjoy that $100. Thank you so much. The Heads. If you're a guy here for romantic advice,

you are in serious trouble. John Owen Bean on The Heads. Thanks for hanging out on New Zealand's breakfast. Now, what I like to do first thing in the morning is you don't want to wake up the household when we're sort of tippy-toeing around like pedantic burglars, aren't we, at 4.30 in the morning. But I thought I'd try and do something romantic this morning, Ben Boyce.

All right. Early morning romance. Did you? Okay. Not that much romance. Yeah, I was going to say, where's this conversation going? No one wants to be waking up at 4.30 for that. But I thought I'd do a cute thing this morning where I would say goodbye, my lover.

Cue the music. Now, you picture this. Jennifer's my wife. She's asleep in bed. And I thought, why don't I give my wife a kiss on the forehead, a goodbye kiss, an adorable gesture from an adorable, cute man. Okay. So I leant over her her i went in slow motion pierced my lips they go like that the prince was about to kiss his princess okay i'm slowly slowly moving in with my lips pierced ready for a kissing this feels like a

chapter from 50 shades of gray doesn't it but it was pitch black 50 shades of darkness and she woke up boom eyes open absolute mad panic oh yeah i can imagine she got a hell of a front she's and could you imagine the first thing you see when you wake up is me going yeah that was yeah no so she's like i look at what you're wearing today, too. Hoodie, you've got a beanie on. You probably look like it was someone who was coming to the house.

You do. You don't look like you're in a suit and tie and ready off to go to work. Yeah, no. So, I mean, this is, you know, sorry, sorry, sorry. It's just me.

It's just me. I was just getting in. Go back to sleep. Go back to sleep. You know, it kind of all ended in a bit of a fluster, which, you know, Sleeping Beauty would have,

actually, if Sleeping Beauty paid out in reality. That's very creepy. That would have been the actual wake-up. Sorry, who are you? There's a lot for her to download. Sleeping Beauty. I had to wake my wife up this morning as well, because my family are very good at sleeping through.

Like, I don't have to be quiet at all. I can turn lights on or whatever. No one seems to wake up. But this morning, I was like, she'd taken my my car yesterday and i could not find the keys you're like oh this is gonna be a fun wake up at 4 30 hey hey yeah yeah my car keys she's like this is admin that should have been done last night it wasn't on me it wasn't on me but i was like it was the last resort i'm like i'm I'm going to have to do it. And there's no easy way to break the news to someone at that time of the morning.

And you've got to rip the plaster off. Hey, where are the keys? The car keys. Where are they? I can't take the car out. Yeah, so that was a fun way to start the day. Almost as fun as yours. You just hope that both Amanda and Jen just thought they were dreaming.

Yeah, they've gone back to sleep now. Spy. Know what sleep now. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right, Bell, let's spend the next three minutes talking about a better class of people. What's going on in Spy? You may have seen over the weekend, Justin Bieber's revealed that he has these conditions where his face is half paralyzed, and he's explained why he's had to cancel some upcoming

shows. Have a listen to this. I have this syndrome called Ramsey Hunt Syndrome. And it is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear, in my facial, and has caused my face to have paralysis. Yeah, and it will come right. He just needs to rest. It's so, yeah. It was frightening to see.

I know this isn't taking the mickey, but it's almost like a Two-Face from Batman situation where half of it's like his one eye's blinking and the other one's not doing anything. It's sort of looking backwards almost up into his head and stuff.

Yeah, it looked horrible. When he smiles, only half of his face lifts up. Just crazy. I didn't know that was a thing from a virus you could get. Yeah, it looked horrible. When he smiles, only half of his face lifts up. Just crazy. I didn't know there was a thing from a virus you could get. Yeah, hopefully he's feeling better soon and he can still come to New Zealand eventually. Now, on the latest episode of The Kardashians, maybe you were watching this end of last week. Haven't kept up.

Haven't kept up with The Kardashians. Sorry, I know. They should keep up with The Kardashians. Well, that horse is bolted, mate. I just couldn't keep up. Yeah, well, we were watching it and we got to see the moment that Kim Kardashian found out about Tristan's paternity lawsuit, and she went nuts. Have a listen to this.

Khloe threw him his 30th birthday. So he went home from the 30th birthday party, went to Houston to play on the road. We can check his schedule, and then slept with this girl. Yeah. I just sent it to him, and I go, does Khloe know about this? Khloe's not answering. She has no idea.

The whole thing that's so sad is she wants a baby boy. And now this girl's having a baby boy, a random that he sleeps with one night. F*** him. Oh, I was so team him. She doesn't deserve this. This has to be the first time. Yes, on a conference call with the sisters, they're all working out has to be the most important step. Yeah, so a conference call with the sisters. They're all working out how to break the news to her.

And on this week's episode, it's the finale of the new season, and we'll get to see Chloe's reaction. There's Tristan going, oh, guys, this was in December last year. I thought we've all got over that. Piece of work. Well, it's true. Now it's all back up again. Why do we have to?

We've been through this. Is he back with her now? I don't know. It's hard to know. I feel for her. She just needs to let him go, but obviously that's a really hard thing for her to do. Fantastic basketballer, isn't he?

Yeah, well, he was for the Cavs back in the season. Was he really? Was he that good? They won a few championships. He was good. Just solid role play. I don't like him. I like him.

He was good. You know, like a role play, but he's playing for the Bulls now, I think, at the moment. Yeah. Well, listen, what he's not good at doing is keeping his basketballs in his pants. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. He needs to do a better job of that.

Yeah. And, of course, Britney's wedding over the weekend as well. Yeah, it was so cool. It was a fairytale wedding for her. She had Paris Hilton there, Madonna. They reenacted Vogue. Drew Barrymore's there, Selena Gomez. And also at the end, it just looked like any old wedding.

You know, obviously obviously it's Britney massive big deal she had this custom made she had a few outfit changes this custom made Versace suit jacket she had no pants on

they were dancing around in bare feet just having the best end of the wedding did she forget the pants or the no pants was part of the outfit that was part of it

and go off queen and then her ex-boy her ex-husband who she got married to over a 50 hour period in Las Vegas, he stormed the wedding live on Instagram. He's live streaming it, and he burst into her house. He's like, where's Britney?

Where's Britney? And security just kind of let him roam through the house. It's odd. The whole thing was odd. It looked to me like a radio stunt. You've got to rest it in the end, which is kind of like a lot of radio stunts end up like. You'd like to send your promotional person,

go storm Britney's wedding, that sort of thing. But yeah, he ended up with a knee on his throat. And that's not how you want to end the day, Ben Boyce. No. And that is the Hits. You can get more now at the Hits. Oh, that's Spy. Sorry, I keep saying that.

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