Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Ben's Daughter Is Starting Her Own Business! But She Isn't Committed Enough...

Episode Date: November 11, 2021

Ben tested Sienna's commitment to her business in a brutal way, have a listen! We also spoke with someone who'd accidentally been called a completely different name by their boss for SEVEN YEARS, and they never corrected them! Finally, there were a couple of special moments on today's show, Kate from Christchurch won 5 Words for $5K, and we had a very deserving winner for our giveaway with themarket.com - whose house had burnt down in a fire. Super amazing & what a way to end the week! Enjoy the podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast, Friday the 12th of November. Juliette, how are you? I'm good. Got producer Juliette in here. Ben Boyce has run off. He's demanded he needs coffee inserted into his COVID hole right now. His COVID hole.

Yeah. Someone said an epidemiologist called our mouths COVID holes, and I haven't been able to stop using that. Didn't an epidemiologist say that? Yeah, he's like, keep your COVID holes away from each other. Oh, my God, that's so good. So Ben's doing that at the moment. I think we should call him because, you know,

his obligation is to do the podcast intro for him, by the way. Yeah, he dragged me in to do it. He's like, do you want to do the podcast intro? I was like, what are you? And you're like, you're coming here all confused. And you're like, what are we talking about the podcast intro? Have you got anything from your life that you'd like to bring to the podcast intro?

Oh my goodness. You must have something. What are you doing this weekend, mate? This weekend? Yeah. God, what am I doing this weekend? Well, tonight I'm going to watch one of those movies that I've created from? Yeah. Oh, God. What am I doing this weekend? Well, tonight I'm going to watch one of those movies

that I've created from my list of my must-see movies. Oh, yeah, so we did a thing during the week where you suggested movies that Juliet must watch. She hasn't watched many movies. What are you going to kick off with?

Back to the Future, Jurassic Park? Well, either Pretty Woman or what's it called? The Parent Trap. Oh, yeah. My friend suggested those. Is that Lindsay L it called? The Parent Trap. Oh, yeah. My friend suggested those. Is that Lindsay Lowe in The Parent Trap? Yeah.

Yeah, I've seen that. She's like a twin or something? Yeah. Yeah. He's not even answering now. What a freak. He's stormed out to get a coffee. Oh, he will answer.

I wasn't going to. It's you guys. I've got a blocked number. What's the... He's not a blocked number guy. Juliet's here doing the podcast Hello I've already been replaced No, no, you ran out the door and you're like, Juliet do the podcast intro

And she's come and gone, what, what What are we talking about? Now this is the situation we're in Oh, you're cool But Juliet always brings hot fire stuff She's more entertaining than that God no Don't say anything to make yourself feel better while you're reneging on your duties of getting a coffee.

I'm just getting a coffee. There couldn't be a more Auckland thing that I could be doing right now than getting a coffee. How is it over there? It's all right. I'm just trying to stand away from other people and, you know, talking loudly into a phone through a face mask. Yeah, you sound a little bit muffled.

Yeah, it's the mask. Tell me you're from Auckland without saying you're from Auckland, eh? Hey, hey, hey. All right, I'm going to hang up on you now, buddy. Have a great day. All right, I'm sorry. I brought nothing to it. I'm sorry.

It's okay. Good luck. There we go. He's left. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing this weekend. Yeah. I'll have some. So I'm going to watch my movies.

Sometimes you like to go out on the ocean, don't you? You're an ocean person. I'm an ocean person. Unfortunately, our family, we don't own a boat fully, but we've got like a share in it. So we share it with six other... You go to the marina and you steal boats. Yeah, basically. And so you have to book the boat out for the days that you want it because you have to share it with six other families. Yeah. And so some days when the weather's beautiful, we don't have it booked. And I'm like, oh my gosh.

FOMO. Has it always booked out this boat? Pretty much. So you need to get in at the beginning of the year and lock your dates in? Yeah, pretty much. And so Dad sends out the dates that we've got. So we've got it for next weekend,

which will be very exciting. And hopefully the weather is good and we can catch some fish. That's a good way to operate a boat. Do you have to clean it and stuff when you come in? No, that's done for us. Because it's all a big sort of conglomerate. Yeah, so it's quite handy.

All we have to do is just get the boat in, get the boat out, sort of tidy up our rubbish and things like that. But there's someone that comes in and bloody makes the beds and stuff. Wow, I love boats. I know. But I don't think I could own one. I'm not a boat. Imagine you trying to.

I would be a shambles on a boat. You've got to be really, really, really particular and onto it, and you can't make any mistakes driving a boat. Not for me. I'd be all over. I'd be very easily distracted. You're a little bit like me in the fact that I'll let Dad drive the boat, and I'll be the person having a drink.

Do you drive at all? No, I don't. I'm the first mate sometimes, so I have to be on lookout for other boats. I put the anchor down. Jesus, how big is this boat? You're reaching out the Titanic. You're like, we've got someone to make the beds. I have to be second mate.

Oh, no, class. What are you, navigating a cruise ship through the harbour? Well, it's a boat that you can sleep on. You can sleep on this boat? Yeah, yeah. So like some of the other owners, they take it out for like a week and take it out to Great Barrier Island. Oh, Jesus.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So you can have, but like, you know, you've got to pull out sofas and you can have a whole bloody team on there and it's so fun. Good on you. Well, are you fishing? Are you catching fish? I love catching fish.

Not that I'm very good. I'm not very good at it. Yeah. But I just like sitting out there and there's nothing, like when you think you've got a bite, it's very exciting. Yeah. Otherwise you just sit there and you're kind of a little bit bored. That's my issue with fishing is I'm not experienced in any way,

but I put it down and I feel a little movement. Oh, good one. I know. And then you pull it up. Yeah. It's tangled into other people. I know. Every time I've done it, I'm like pulling it and then it's the old mate behind you on the other side of the boat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A good way, if you want to go out fishing and you don't want to be bored, a good way to do it is get like a fishing charter. And they know the spots to go. They put out all the fish guts to attract all the fish to the area. And then you're like going to catch some big ones. We went out on Lake Taupo with the kids on like, you know, you can do those, oh, you go on a fishing charter. Yes.

And we did it with the family and someone hooked a trout. So the kids were all fishing. The kids were all fishing. And the wonderful person who was running the charter handed the rod to my son, Oscar. But I was like, the trout was definitely, he'd done the end. Oscar's like, oh, I've got one, great. And then the person was like, oh, great, we'll put it back in the water. Was it too small?

Yeah, it was too small. And then they handed it over to Poppy, like, you've got one as well. Oh, I see. And so they handed it around to all the kids. By the time the ninth kid was pulling up this lifeless trout who had just been yanked in and out of the water. That's so sad. Just going, guys. That is so sad.

You're just like, when you catch a fish, it can't be a slow death like that. It needs to be, you just need to get the knife in it, as brutal as that sounds. Do you cook the fish on board? Yeah. We've got a little mini, mini sort of grill, I guess you could say. Yeah. Yeah, so good. Oh, I look forward to that, Julia.

Have a great weekend, mate. Thank you. Thanks for doing this. You guys have a wonderful weekend too on the podcast today. Two great winners. A lot of crying on the show today, Juliet. Yeah. Crying at 7 o'clock.

Crying at 8 o'clock. It was wonderful. I know. It was great. Lots of winners. Yeah. So that's in the podcast. Enjoy your weekend.

Keep safe. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. All right, here we go. It is a Friday. Good morning to you. Welcome along. It is going to be a fun, big show today.

I'm a shell of a human being this morning. Don't say that. I'm just like a fun, big show. I'm feeling exactly the same, but there's a lot of exciting stuff happening. There is. That's the thing about breakfast radio. No matter how you're feeling,

you put on a happy voice, you laugh your way through the next three hours, don't you, Jo? Your eyes look just glassed over. I don't even know why. I haven't done anything different. Yeah, but you do get up ridiculously early for this job. Even earlier than everyone else. It's going to catch up on you.

Well, it is right now. This is the moment. I feel like my mum every time I see it. You've been saying it for 18 months. You're going to catch up. And, well, it's happened right now. 6.03 a.m. on the 12th of November. Hey, no, we do have an exciting show. Sole Mio.

They're joining us after 8 o'clock. The wonderful operatic trio. Jenny Boyce, Ben's mum. Tell you what, if she could rebirth three children, it would be the guys from Sole Mio. Moses Amatai and Penne. Moses loves Sole Mio. As well as that, this morning we've got Mark Richardson

talking about the big block auction this weekend. And we've got $5,000 to give away with our game Five Words for 5K. And thanks to themarket.com, you can win $5,000 worth of stuff from the market for Christmas. And let alone free fish and chips on offer today for a town in New Zealand. Too much info. We're going to get told about this in our post-show meeting. You said too much on the menu. People

would have forgotten what you started with. I can't even remember. Well, you were tired. That's what we started with. It is the hits. Jono and Ben. The shoe and the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered up old face. Jono and Ben.

New Zealand's breakfast. You know what I'm starting to weird me out with technology is the Gmail prediction, and phones do it as well when it comes to texting too. It's called Gmail Smart Compose with your email. Is that what it's called? Yeah, I looked into it yesterday because it kind of predicts what you're going to say, you know, the upcoming words, so to speak. It gives you

some options too sometimes. You can click between a couple, you know. A lot of sure things and copy that. Do you know, whenever you get a copy that back, you're like, I don't think I've ever heard you say, Ben sends me a few copy that's back when I know I've been automatically replied to. I don't think I've ever heard Ben say the words copy.

I just look at the options and I'm like, oh, copy that. It's like a nice option to use. Sure thing. Yeah, sure thing, yeah. But yeah, I like't think I've ever heard Ben say the words copy. I just look at the options and I'm like, oh, copy that. It's like a nice option to use. Sure thing. Yeah, sure thing, yeah. But yeah, I like to think that in the matrix of the internet, it's like an illegal gambling sweepstakes. And Gmail's like, oh, I bet they're going to go with the copy that. I bet they're going to go with the short.

And they offer up the predictions. And then whatever one you click on, they have a big win. Oh, yeah. In the matrix behind the scenes but it's um the issue i have with it is now it's got to a stage and it's you know a credit to to google and their technology it's got to a stage where it can even predict full sentences what sentence is coming up next oh you start typing right and then it kind of completes it yeah you're like oh hey you know i was gonna go there but the issue is that i'm the trouble i'm falling into is i use

zero punctuation in my normal day-to-day emailing life no full stops capitals often sometimes all caps and i can't be bothered going back and changing it so it's like it's the wild west of punctuation when i'm writing an email but all of a sudden if i hit the automatic one there's this beautiful formed sentence commas apostrophes and all sorts and so i get shown out showing up that half the email is written in caps and the other half is beautifully punctuated so i'm a bit gun shy to use the the function yeah no i understand i mean i was talking the other day about how uh predictive text uh you know to reply to an email had me say thanks heaps and it would have corrected to thanks jesus which is you know to reply to an email had me say thanks heaps and it would have corrected to thanks

jesus which is yeah again it's a nice thing to say again i like to think that betting matrix is like i think he's a godly man i'm gonna chuck in a thanks thanks you're going with the thanks jesus it's paying well thanks jesus and then i go to god bless you been back you know from from the and i was like wow we're we're here now you know juliet do you use the automatic function yeah i do but i don't do full sentences i kind of just do the words that are coming next so because i'm like i don't want to it is quite handy if you're typing out a long word and just like finishes it for you just tap done easy but i'm kind of wondering if google will eventually get to know your form of emailing i was just about to say yeah like kind of tell it to

you yeah and then it just aggressively types and catch for the rest of the most frustrating thing though is when you want to type a word and you know like this is the word and then they change it you're like this is the word you have that little passive aggressive thing with them going no no that's it they're like nah that's what you mean you're like no i don't you know because i know what i want to write here but this is the thing the tide is going to turn yeah we're now it's predicting what we're going to say soon it's going to shift and go it's going to tell us what we're going to say that's where the technology's going sometimes i just like to make a moral stand against it when it's like you're about to say thank you and i just type screw you just to just to make a point

yeah it's like nobody i'm the boss here i do the same with it you get into your car to leave work, and it tells you, like, your address. You go, it's 12 minutes to, well, maybe I'm not going home. Yeah, maybe I'm driving the opposite direction just to prove it wrong. That's right. It's lost us a lot of friends, a lot of jobs, making those moral stands, but that's, we're making a point. Jono and Ben's Friday. Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup.

It is thick, rich, and absolutely delicious. Heinz Tomato Ketchup is sure to upgrade any meal and it's upgrading meals in a different town and city throughout November. Yesterday, Wellington, lots of people came out to get free fish and chips between 12 and 2. Yeah, this was at the Sea Market in Cuba Street. They had more there than they did in the protest,

the anti-lockdown protest on Tuesday as well. In fact, I think they're going to do another protest upon Parliament to ask for free fish and chips as an apology for locking us down. Ketchup, when you put it on, Heinz ketchup, are you going to put it on top of your chips or to the side and dip? Always on top, eh? Yeah. To the side every time.

Always the side, yeah. Yep, if I've got a little bit I'll put it on top, if I've got heaps I'll put it on the side. On the side. Yes. I think I'm going I've got heaps, I'll put it on the side. On the side. Yes. I think I'm going to go for the side. I'll put it on the side. Yeah. A bit of a ketchup debate there.

It was good to hear. Wonderful bell from the Hits in Wellington. So, yeah, great turnout. And thanks to Dion and the team at Sea Market in Wellington. And Heinz Ketchup for shouting these free fish and chips. It's a crazy thing. I know. To think that everyone in an entire town can get free lunch.

Today it's happening again, Ben. Yeah, New Plymouth. It's happening today at Snapper's Fish and Chips in New Plymouth between 12 and 2. Thanks to Heinz Tomato Ketchup. And we're joined by someone who's going to be very busy today between 12 and 2 at Snapper's. It's Joey. Good morning. How are you doing?

Good morning. How are you? I'm good, thank you. Lovely to have you on, Joey. From Snapper's Fish and Chips, New Plymouth. Yep. What a shop, what a great name for a shop as well, Snapper's Fish and Chips. Do you provide snapper?

Yeah, it's a lovely fish. What is your go-to fish? I personally actually like snapper the most. It's good that you say that because your name is Snapper's Fish and Chips. Free fish and chips today, New Plymouth for Taranaki people, from 12 till 2, thanks to Heinz Ketchup. What's your usual Friday lunchtime business like? What do you usually eat?

I imagine it would be a busy day, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah, but it's sunny. I think the weather forecast is expecting it to be pretty good, so it might be a little bit... It's usually pretty busy. More people working in the store? You think you can handle it, you know, if lots of people come along and get free fish and chips?

Yeah, definitely. We've put on a couple more stuff. Oh, right. It's all good. You're all preparing. Now, do you have, we spoke to Albie, who reviews fish and chip shops all over New Zealand. We spoke to him the other day, and we asked him, you know, what's the core decor, the core

design of a fish and chip shop? What's required? And he said one of the main things is that Species of New Zealand fish poster. Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. One of those. Have you got one of those up things is that Species of New Zealand fish poster. Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely one of those. Have you got one of those hanging up in the store? We did have one, but we wanted to get an updated version. Oh, yeah, maybe it's a new species, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, because for the older ones, they didn't include all of the fish that we liked. I'm going to play a little game with you, Joey Shen, from the Snappers Fish and Chip Shop in New Plymouth. Ben, you're involved in this as well. Okay. Okay, it's a one for one. Name a fish.

And we have to keep going until someone can't name a fish. All right, Joey? Oh, no, name a fish. Okay. Okay, you start first, Joey. Salmon. I thought you would have gone snapper,

but anyway. Oh, no, no, no. She's hiding snapper. Can I go snapper? I feel like I'm going to struggle with this game. Okay, you've gone snapper. I'm going to struggle with this game. Okay, you've gone Snapper. I'm going to lock in a Teraki. Gurnard.

Gurnard. Damn it, I was going to go Gurnard. I'm going to go Nemo from the movie. Yeah, great fish. Yeah, that's the name of the fish. I'm going to go Free Willy from Free Willy. Another type of fish. Worryhook?

Oh, yep. Good, yep, Ben. Where's the Little Mermaid? Ariel's friend was Flounder, so I'm going to go with Flounder. I'm going to go Blue Cod there, Joey. Oh, no more from me. Oh, Joey's out. No, my knowledge with fish is surprisingly not good.

You're like, I just fry them. I don't study them. Yeah, yeah. Now, the squid game. You've been watching that? Oh, yeah, I've watched them. I don't study them. Yeah, yeah. Now, the squid game. You've been watching that? Oh, yeah, I've watched that. The Korean show? Yeah.

It's very good. We'll be doing our own version of squid game with fish and chip shops around New Zealand. We have to guess the price, Jono and I, of a single squid ring. Oh. Okay, so you don't tell us. You don't tell us. I imagine you have like a squid ring or a calamari, a single one on the menu? Yes, we do. Okay, all right. Just for the price of one. Now, I'm you have like a squid ring or a calamari, a single one on the menu? Yes, we do.

Okay. Just for the price of one. Now, I'm going to lock in. I think Joey sounds rather affordable. She likes to give the people of New Plymouth a bargain. And I'm going to say you're running those at about a dollar there, Joey. Dollar for a single squid ring. Okay.

Close, close, close. Oh, close. Now I get an opportunity. An advantage. Does he go higher or lower? Higher, just a little bit higher. Oh, like $1.10? One more, one more.

$1.20? Yes. Yay! What are you celebrating? You had two guesses and a huge advantage. I thought we were going to edit it out. Yeah, it was good, yeah. It was the closest.

I thought we were going to edit it out a bit. No was good. It was a crisis. I thought we were going to edit it out. No. We're live. We're raw. This is raw. You know how the squid game works, mate. They didn't get take twos on the actual squid game, did they? No, they didn't.

Joey, thank you so much for being part of our fish and chip Friday, shouting the nation fish and chips thanks to Heinz. Give yourself a plug. Where can people come down to? 497 Devon Street East. Devon Street East today. 12 till 2 in New Plymouth. Free fish and chips.

Thanks to Heinz Ketchup. And Joey Shen from Snappers Fish and Chips. You have a great day. Thank you. You too. Thank you for giving us the opportunity. Thank you. Scrolling through your feed.

He may have to sleep with a nightlight on, but I'll tell you one thing this man's not scared of, and that's hard-hitting news. Ben Boyce, what's been happening? Well, New Zealand, it looks like we're bang on 80% for fully vaccinated. And to celebrate the Sky Tower this morning is a blue with a sort of white top, which kind of, I think, is meant to symbolise a needle, is it? Yeah, like an injection needle, I would say.

Well, it does look like a giant hero with needles at Sky Tower, doesn't it? It does, really does. You Google a needle, Google Sky Tower. I did think that when driving in. Maybe it was built with this in mind, that one day there's going to be a pandemic and there's going to be vaccinations handed out.

Things are starting to open back up again, particularly in Auckland. We've got the shops that are open. And as of today, Rainbow's End opened today, which is pretty cool to bring a bit of fun and a bit of cheer back in for families. It's such a great song, isn't it? Here we go. Take me back.

Oh, shit. Sorry, wrong bit there. We've got the full version here. Why don't you go to the full version? Why don't you just get the hook? Oh, yeah. It's a great, great song. We spent 30 hours in a bumper car once driving around.

Be back to the rainbow. Rainbow's here. Rainbow car to magic. 30 hours. Yeah, we did that. We broke the world record for the longest time in a bumper car, which was 30 hours nonstop of driving a bumper car. You didn't sleep?

No. I think we had like a break each. Oh, no, we did. We had literally 17 minutes each because you could build every hour. You could store like 30 seconds or something, so we saved it up and had probably about 17 minutes sleep each at about 2.33 in the morning boy, they were great minutes

the bleakest time was about in the middle of the night because it was fun, lots of people were there but we just ended up being you and me driving around non-stop, no, and the guy from Rainbow's End, and he was just like, I could you could tell he had that look in his eyes of like I don't think there's ever going to be a lower point in my life.

And we're just like, we had this soft volleyball that we turned into a game so we'd all be circling around and half-heartedly throwing the volleyball at each other trying to catch it. And then we faded out of that and we were just driving around in silence. Half asleep. I think I did fall asleep

while driving that. Banked into Ben's bottom. So Rainbow's End are back Slipping around in silence. Half asleep. I think I did fall asleep while driving that one. Banged into Ben's bottom. Yeah, so Rainbow's End are back open today. That's pretty cool. And YouTube have announced something big. As of today, they're going to not show the dislikes on any of the videos. You know the thumbs down option?

So no longer can you click, well, they show the thumbs down option. And some creators are a little bit annoyed about it because they're doing it for obviously for good intent because, you know, like stopping sort of the dislikes and the hates that a lot of people can get on social media. But a lot of creators are saying it was a good way to sort of monitor how well videos were doing. And also, you know, if there was false information, people could also go, hey, I dislike that.

They're taking away our freedom of speech. You still get to see it if it's your video but not but not publicly all right you still know how many people gave you a savage thumbs down good that's good because it's one of my favorite hobbies it's just going trolling through the internet and thumbs down things it makes me feel better about my miserable life I'm making because I was making YouTube videos with my daughter for a while there and I remember you're putting that up and saying sandwiches. Who is thumbs downing a seven-year-old girl? The thumbs down on my little child?

Monsters. And her watching you going, how come there's so many people thumbs downing this? You're like, oh, yeah. That's a brutal reality of the internet. Thumbs downing a little girl. I see why they've taken it away. But there are some videos, hey, it's like this lovely lady's doing, you know, charity work and giving free food

to starving African orphans. Thumbs down, thumbs down. Oh, boo! Yeah. Well done, YouTube. It's probably a good call. Yeah, the Block Auctions is on TV this weekend, on TV3.

It's always a big event on the television calendar. Is that what we have? Do we have calendars for television? It started well, but I ended badly. But Mark Richardson from The Block is joining us very shortly. It is the hits. You got it, Jon. I'm Ben.

As painful as entering a password on your TV remote. One letter at a time. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. The reality TV show, the building show, The Block, is a huge show. And this weekend is the big event, the auctions. It's happening Sunday night on TV3. Jesus, what's been going on for... I thought it was going to outrun COVID, The Block.

Well, they had to stop it a couple of times, right? Yeah. And we're joined now by a man whose main role on the show is just yelling at contestants when they're running out of time. Mark Richardson. Lovely to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast. G'day, guys. It's so good to hear your voices again. I haven't heard from you two clowns for a long time.

No, that's all right. And, well, you're saying it's good to hear our voices, but it sounds like your voice isn't happy to hear our voices, Mark. Yeah, that was just pleasantry. You know, it's more talk for a TV program. You will be frothing much like my friend Benjamin was with the Black Caps result. Oh, yeah, how good. You know, we've just got to realise we've got a good team now.

You know, we still don't think we realise, you know, how good our cricket team is. I know they have some losses every now and then, but, gee, they win more, and they win more big games than they lose as well. Ben Boyce is very happy. The problem is we're on the hits, and cricket isn't at the forefront of our content. And so he's having to silence. It should be. It should be.

It should be. I'm with you, Mark. It should be. More cricket on the hits. You know, you've got to stay ahead of the curve. Cricket's trending, as Youngster'd say. Yeah, well, we could call it the crickets. The crickets.

I like that. Now, the block, of course, this weekend, the auctions. The block has been a tough thing to film over the last sort of 12 months with COVID. How have you guys managed that? Yeah, well, we've endured a couple of shutdowns, haven't we? A couple of lockdowns. It's been about 18 months in the making, when normally it takes three months. Are you charging week by week, Mark, for your fee?

How does that work? Oh, don't worry. I've been charging overtime. But, you know, the contestants, it's such a big thing for them. They put their lives on hold to do it. Normally they have to put their lives on hold for, you know, three months. These guys have effectively had it hanging over their heads for 18 months. So they've stuck it out there.

I'm just so pleased finally we could get across the finish line. Well, you couldn't find a better time, and hey, I'm no property expert, but to be selling property this auction on Sunday, they must be expecting moon money. Yeah, I sort of think back to the last time that the property market sentiment was similar, and that was when we did the one that was in Meadowbank, and that was the last time everyone had a good result, and I think it was Sam and Emmett made $380,000 profit and then you add the grand prize of $100,000 onto that. So $480,000, nearly

half a million. They walked away from it. But the lowest was about $150,000. Which, of course, all bodes well for Sunday. I can't tell you anything. If I told you anything, I know I'd have to kill you, which would obviously be very enjoyable for me. But also, you'd have a murder charge hanging have to kill you, which would obviously be very enjoyable.

But also, you know, you'd have a murder charge hanging over your head. Yeah, you don't want that, mate. You've got opportunities ahead of yourself to take up. So also, have you already filmed the auction? Yeah, it's done this year. It's no audience, of course, with COVID. So it's paying out on, which is probably quite good in some ways, because it can be an awesome experience for some of the teams, but also can be a little bit awkward sometimes if it doesn't go well.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, obviously, if it doesn't go well, we just edit those out. Hey, can we do a take two where you're all smiling and hugging? So you know. Just tell us. Tell us how good it goes. There was a lot of cameras and a lot of lights and people standing around,

and I got a little bit disorientated, and it's just all a bit foggy now. Oh, you can't remember it. Okay. Oh, Mark Richardson. Hey, Mark, you've done a lot of TV ever since retiring from cricket. The Block, the AM Show, Crowd Goes Wild, The Project. Want to play a little game? What did you call it?

You came up with a name for this. Oh, yeah, this is called Missed the Mark. Now, we're going to play, we're going to give you a chance to answer a question, and then we're going to see if you missed the mark as to what we're referring to. Now, do you remember what you said? So you were talking on the project, Mark Richardson, about people that drive sports cars, and you said they had what particular job? Do you remember?

Where would they work? Where would they work? Where would they work? Oh, they would own a strip club. Oh, let's see if Mark Richardson has missed the mark or not. You know, I see someone in a sports car like that and I think strip club owner. Hey! There you go.

He remembers what he said. Jeez, you must say so much stuff every morning that you must walk out and forget what you've said at like, you know, 6 o'clock. Yeah, and then I remember it at 7 o'clock and regret it. Mark Richardson, you talked on the AM show about a job you used to have for a while, wearing a bow tie. Do you remember the job? Yes.

I was a breakfast waiter in a posh hotel in Brighton, right on the south coast of England there, when I was sort of going over playing a bit of cricket, but I wasn't. I was only sort of semi-professional. Yes, I remember. You said it was a posh hotel. How they got you to dress though? Let's have a listen. Let's just say there was a time in my youth

Oh gosh. Oh no, don't go there. When I may have been a topless waiter. So you were a topless waiter at breakfast time. It ought to be very cold, Mark. Well, it's a slightly embellished story, but it was a hotel where when you served breakfast, you know, you had to

wear a tuxedo and do service and all that sort of stuff. So, you know, we thought we'd give the old ladies a bit of a thrill one morning. And finally, Mark Richardson, a couple of years ago, you forgot which famous pop star had sadly passed away. Do you remember the pop star? I always get mixed up between Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.

Which one's dead? It's one of them. Yeah. Let's listen. Oh, she was good, wasn't she? Yeah, it's gone off the rails, hasn't she? Yeah. Well, she passed away.

She passed away. Yeah, that's gone off the rails. Yeah, she's gone. Yeah, I'll take that back. You don't get any more off the rails than that. Well, yeah, she might have fallen off. Mark Richardson, lovely catching up with you. The block, the auction, this Sunday.

Tune in. Mark knows the results, but he won't tell us. Spy, the WhatsApp spy.co.nz. Time now for Kim Kardashian, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here's Spy. So this month, the Netflix is releasing a Jonas Brothers family roast, where the Jonas Brothers basically just sit there, get roasted by a

bunch of celebrities, and these celebrities also happen to know them very well, so they can give the appropriate roast. So it's not just their family sitting around having a nice roast lamb or something like that, the Jonas Brothers on a Sunday or anything like that? We wish. But some of the people who will be doing the roasting are Pete Davidson, Niall Horan, John Legend, Blake Shelton, and all their wives will be there too. But they've released a teaser clip of Pete Davidson

giving a bit of a roast. Oh, I'm a huge fan. I listen to the Jonas Brothers every time I'm in a supermarket. I mean, show some respect, okay? Nick's a legit actor now. He's won everything from a Kids' Choice Award to a Teen actor now. He's won everything from a Kids Choice Award to a Teen Choice Award. Did you know Nick even had a hit called Jealous?

Though it would have been way more believable if Kevin was singing it. Sad to give it. I love those roasts. I imagine they're a bit more not as brutal as they used to be. Those are pretty safe gags, weren't they? Yeah. Yeah. Some of the ones, the Bieber ones and the Donald Trump. Oh, my God.

Watch the Donald Trump one. Really? Okay. Yeah. This is his pre-presidency. Right. Wouldn't stack up now, I would imagine, those roasts at that level. Really?

I just don't know. Yeah, true. Sometimes you catch them late on a Saturday night, they replay them and you're like, this is not 2021 and I love it. Loving every bit of it. But yeah, it seemed to be like there used to be no holds barred yeah you knew what you were getting in for yeah i wonder if it was a pre-recorded thing and then if like the person who was getting roasted didn't like any of the jokes they could take it out or if it was live and they just had

to deal with it i think it was pre-recorded and it's also not just to roast on the person it's everyone who's on stage as well roasting Roasting everyone else. Yeah, they're like, oh, look at your face! Look how you smashed down the ugly tree! Ugly, you know. Yeah, I remember they all drive away from that going, what? What? What was I part of? I just feel a little sad inside. Start self-doubting

your face. Do I need plastic surgery? So that's out on the 23rd of November on Netflix, if you do want to watch that. And remember when Benedict Cumberbatchbatch was in new zealand filming because you couldn't say his last name i tried really hard to say his name correctly just then i think i did it okay um so he was filming a movie called the power of the dog but in a new interview he said that he gave himself nicotine poisoning three times while filming because he went full method actor for it and he was just basically chain smoking chain smoking chain smoking um and oh so actual cigarettes actual

cigarettes um so because he didn't want to he didn't want to have the fake stuff he would if he was method acting um and he didn't also really wash himself much so he'd be going out with the director for dinner meeting the director's friends and he didn't wasn't really clean because as part of the whole method acting he wanted people to be able to smell his sten friends, and he wasn't really clean, because as part of the whole method acting, he wanted people to be able to smell his stench, and he didn't reply to when... Does he realise moviegoers can't smell his stench?

I know, I know, but that's probably just part of it. But then if he's going out to dinner with the director, they're like, who's your weird mate? Who's your smelly, strange He's going out to smoke cigarettes. I know. What's going on over dinner?

Is he overdosing on nicotine? And apparently, I don't know if all method actors do this. Maybe they do, but he didn't respond he stopped responding to his real name, so if someone called him Benedict, he would just completely ignore them, and they'd have to call him by the role that he was playing.

Oh. I know. Crazy stuff. We heard a story about someone, I think they were an overseas actor, but they had like a bit part in a movie that was being filmed here. But, you know, it was like they were on screen for 25, 30 seconds, but they were full method. Really?

For 30 seconds. Really? And the makeup, because we were talking to the makeup artist, and she was like, this guy was just the biggest asshole in the world. Really? But that was his character. That was his character. And then later you're like, oh, this person's fine.

For 30 seconds. Like, imagine other areas of his life that, you know, annoyed people. Parking wardens. True. His family. Method acting would be quite a commitment. It would really affect the people around you, I would say. Especially if you smell like cigarettes

the whole time. Anyway, that is Spy for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, yes, six COVID cases in Taranaki just late last night as well, so

a little bit scary for residents waking up there this morning. And the old wastewater. Oh, no, it was in the wastewater. Yes, they found that a few days ago. Now, obviously, there's confirmed cases in the area. It was Stratford, though, right? It was the Stratford wastewater just out of New Plymouth there. Who is to go and pick up the wastewater?

Whose job is that? It amazes me, that whole thing, how they detect that in the wastewater. And I probably don't want to know how they do it, to be honest. I think they do it by taste. It's an intern's job. That's how you earn your stripes in the... You want to be the next Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, mate? Well, get out there.

That's how he started. The amount of wastewater Ashley Bloomfield's had to drink to work his way up that ladder. That's how committed he is. I regret bringing that up there. Sorry, Ben. Can I just mention something? Speaking of New Plymouth, today we have free fish and chips thanks to

Heinz Tomato Ketchup. It's going to be happening at Snapper Takeaway. It's on Devon Street from 12 till 2. Free fish and chips. That's awesome. That's what you want to be putting in your mouth if you're in that region today. That's awesome. That's what you want to be putting in your mouth if you're in that region today. Not the wastewater.

Not the wastewater. Hey, this hour, 7.45, your chance to win $5,000. And don't forget, thanks to themarket.com, you can get five grand worth of anything from themarket.com. So go on there now, share your wish list with us at the hits, and you could win. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there

and then I backed out. Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. You know, working with you for many years, you know, as, you know, you were Jono and Ben. We're known as Jono and Ben there. It's somewhere along the line people don't know my name. Well, you know, kind of get confused to which one I am, which I understand.

That's what happens. People have got stuff going on in their lives. Yeah, it's fine. And we politely which I understand. That's what happens. People have got stuff going on in their lives. It's fine. And we politely answer to both. That's the thing. I've just learned when I was allowed to go out before lockdown, obviously you'd go out with friends and people would, you know, if people did see me and they were like, oh,

maybe recognised from TV or whatever, they would just go, Chado! Or Chado and Ben! You know, that was usually the first things that would pop into their mind. Yeah, I mean, the amount of sinister things I've done under your name out in public. The amount of abuse I've hurled at people's way. By the way, it's from Ben.

So my friends kind of got into just calling me Jono when we'd go out. They'd go, come on Jono, let's go, just because it's a gag. And now it's sort of become something that my kids have decided they've embraced it now. So they'll go, alright Jono, whenever I'm talking to someone, they'll go, come on Jono. They're mocking you as well now. It becomes embraced it now. So they'll go, all right, Jono. Whenever I'm talking to someone, they'll go, come on, Jono. They're mocking you as well now.

It becomes a thing now. And I'm just answering to Jono. I'm answering to a name that's not even mine. I'm just like, oh, well, I'll just roll with it. People must do that all the time, though. And we're a polite society here in New Zealand. We don't like to ruffle feathers. I mean, more often than not, we don't even like to kick up a fuss

when we're left off a world map. We're like, hey, sorry to be inconvenient, ruffle feathers. I mean, more often than not we don't even like to kick up a fuss when we're left off a world map. No! Hey, sorry to be inconvenient, but looks like you've missed us misdrawing off our couple of islands there down the bottom. But I've always been a big backer of government funded name tags. Oh yeah? What do you reckon about that? Everyone has

a name tag. So you kind of know that you can kind of... Yeah, just another way that the communists can keep on top of us. But you know, we all get given a name tag. I don't know if that you can kind of... Yeah, just another way that the, you know, the communists can keep on top of us. But, you know, we all get given a name tag. I don't know if it's the right time to push this through with the government. I think people, you know, the vaccination's hard for everyone to get on board with. Let alone a name tag.

All you need on there is your address and your phone number. Just a few little, my light details. But, you know, a name tag, so everyone knows everyone's name. Wouldn't that be handy? That's actually quite smart, yeah. Yeah, because I love those Hello My Name-ers stickers. When you're at a conference, you know a name tag so everyone knows everyone's name wouldn't that be handy it's actually quite smart yeah because i love those hello my name is stickers when you're at a conference you know who everyone is yeah you don't have to wander around going oh geez what's this person yeah don't ask yeah the worst things when you have to introduce someone and you've forgotten their name oh you know yeah you're like oh this is i always like to go uh here's my friend ben

so i'll lead with you and i'm praying to God that they're going to chuck their name out into the ether. Yeah, that's the... But imagine there's a problem that happens to many, many people. It even happens on a world stage, people getting names wrong or forgetting someone's name. Joe Biden, we've talked a lot about the US President Joe Biden lately, but remember when he was trying to introduce the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison?

He couldn't quite remember his name. Thank you. Over to you Mr President. Thank you Boris I want to thank that fellow down under Thank you very much pal. Appreciate it Mr Prime Minister. Pal Thank you. I want to thank

Big pause too. And he's like, yeah. That is the worst moment. Now, if he had a government-funded name tag, he could have seen it on the live stream. And remember, it must be an absolute exhausting role being Joe Biden's political aide. You're basically just keeping a dead guy running the world,

essentially, aren't you? It's like Weekend at Bernie's. Joe Biden. We wanted to know this morning, 0800 the hits or 4487. Have you had your name wrong? Have people got your name wrong many, many times? Yeah, and how long have you stuck it out, too, where you haven't actually corrected anyone? Because I think a lot of it you put down to, you meet someone and your brain's like,

you're never going to see them again. Don't even worry about holding on to that name. There's a lot of other stuff you've got to remember. Exactly. You know, Gary, who I've just met, forget about him. And then you meet Gary again the next week. Yeah. Oh, Andrew, that's 4487. I'd love to hear

from you next. It is that. Jono and Ben, The Hits. Friday morning, to hear from you next. It is that. John and Ben, the hits. Friday morning, we're talking about people getting your name wrong. They call me hell. Such a good song, this one. It's not my name. It even happens. It happens to all of us.

It even happened to the first man of New Zealand, Clark Gayford. We were talking to him the other day. He was talking about a scary experience when he was diving in Nui. And anyway, he basically blacked out. He thought he was going to a scary experience when he was uh diving in neway and uh anyway he thought he basically blacked out he thought he was gonna it could have been gone yeah now the guide that had taken the new and guide that had taken him out to the deep sea uh all day he had his name wrong and clark was like i just i won't correct him won't correct him was calling him mark or something yeah and he really saved clark's life at the start of the day he misheard my name

as mark and he was calling me mark all day and i didn't i didn't really care i hadn't really And he really saved Clark's life. At the start of the day, he misheard my name as Mark, and he was calling me Mark all day, and I didn't really care. I hadn't really corrected him. And he saw what was going on, and he grabbed me, and he held my head above the surface as I came back around. And as I came back around, all I remember is this large New A.M. guy staring me in the face going, Mark, Mark, wake up, Mark. We can't lose you, Mark.

Dear, dear going, Mark, Mark, we got Mark. I got Mark. We can't lose you, Mark. Dear, dear friend, Mark. So, I'll wait under the hits. Have you had your name wrong? How long has it gone on for? Nikki, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How are you? Hi, good, thank you. Lovely to have you on the show.

Now, have we got you by your correct name? Yeah. Yes, I am Nikki. You are Nikki. Yeah, so for many weeks, months, actually, you've been referred to by your wrong name. What's the story? So when I was fresh out of high school in my first job, my boss was an old Russian man.

And for some reason, to this day I don't know why, he called me Lydia. Right, so what were you doing? I worked in like a fast food place that sold jacket potatoes. Well, Nikki is nowhere near like Lydia. And the thing with New Zealanders is we're too polite to correct too. Especially at that age, it's your first big job. So you just ran with Lydia for how long? For seven years.

Seven years. Wow. Seven years. Other people in the store must have known your name was not Lydia, right? Yeah, all the other staff knew. So you must have been, you know, they must have got like year four or five. You must have been like, is my actual name really Nikki? No, at that point I'd just kind of given in.

And we used to joke about it a lot throughout the staff as well. He was the only one that got my name wrong. And I was the only one whose name he got wrong. Seven years is a wonderful, that's a wonderful run. And did you ever tell him that he had it wrong? No, I actually left and just left him thinking that I was Lydia. Yeah, right, he had a wonderful going away party for Lydia. He got you a car.

Dear Lydia, pleasure working with you. You've been my favourite employee. Yeah, it was a very heartfelt speech. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't in it. Yeah, so many fond memories with you. You've been my favourite employee. Yeah, it was a very heartfelt speech. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't in it. Yeah, so many fond memories with Lydia. The thing is, though, he would be mortified. Wouldn't you be mortified if you knew you'd been calling someone by the wrong name for seven years?

Well, that's why I didn't want to tell him, because I was like, oh, he's this poor little old Russian man. I'll just, you know, let him live his life. Who did the payroll? Not that I did. Oh, yeah. He's like, paid Lydia. If you did tell him, he's like,

who's this Lydia I've been paying for seven years? You would do the roster as well? Yeah, so I was his assistant manager, so I would take care of the roster and payroll and things like that. Oh, so you're in management. You're working alongside this guy. He's gorgeous. That's awesome.

I love it. Oh, that's really good, Nicky. Well, have they got your name right at your new place of work? Yes, yes. They've got my name right for the last seven years now. Well, I'm glad they've nailed your name now, Nicky. We've nailed your name and RIP Lydia. She was a good lady.

She was. She was amazing. Hey, you have a good one, Nicky. Now we've got Martin on 0800 The Hits. Great to have you on, Marty. How are you? Not too bad, guys. Yourself? Oh, really good. Ben's looking goody. Now we've got Martin on 0800 The Hits. Great to have you on, Marty. How are you? Not too bad, guys. Yourself?

Yeah, we're good. Oh, really good. Yeah, Ben's looking good today. I can tell he's feeling good. And Martin, your name. It's a good name. It's an easy name to remember. Please don't tell me that someone's messed up Martin.

Most definitely. When I first started working at my company, there was one guy who, well, for some rhyme or reason, could never remember my name. He'd be across the room and he'd pop his head up and he'd go, hey Matt, could you do this for me? Then the next day, hey Mark. He wouldn't even consistently

have the same wrong name. He would mix up all sorts of names. He would just get it wrong. Matt seemed to be the most common one. For some reason he seemed to suit a Matthew. To be fair to him, you do sound like a Matthew. Martin and Matthew, they're similar, Mark. So they were usually M, starting with M names.

Well, yeah, that's about all he got right. Yeah, right. It got to the point that I just started calling him by the wrong name in return. Oh, so this went on for how many weeks? Three months. 12- week period there and was he picking up what you were putting down when you would get his name wrong? Yeah,

eventually he sort of got the plot and started going, oh shit, sorry, your name's Martin. Your name's Martin, I'll have to write it down and remember it. Yeah, right. Well, you don't have to write them down. You just have to remember them, don't you? Apparently the trick is,

and I learned this from Simon Doole. you remember simon doole who played cricket for new zealand they would do social many social gatherings and functions and the new zealand cricket team was taught social etiquette and they were taught if you want to remember a name you need to repeat it back to the person three times within the conversation right so not just go just go, hi, what's your name? Ben. I don't just go, Ben, Ben, Ben, because that's unusual. That would turn people off. But you segue Ben into, what do you do, Ben?

I see. Are you in a relationship, Ben? You know, that sort of thing. Gotcha. And you'll never forget a name. Not that it's a problem for you, Mark. Did you just call me Mark? I think I might have.

I hope you didn't. Oh, jeez, after all that. All right, Matt. You have a great day, Martin. No, no worries. Thanks, guys. Have a good one. See you, bud.

Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. We just introduced something new in the prior household, the fuddy. We used to be a sit on the couch and eat dinner off your knees fauna. Oh, really? Yeah. Like every night? Every night.

And I got to a stage where like, this is wrong. This is wrong. This needs to be around a table setting because we just sit there and mindlessly watch the masked singer or something and and just like silently, and we're like, there's no conversation going on here. So we put a mandate in, okay? And that was dinner around the table now, Ben. Are you a table dinner family?

Yeah, table or sort of like we had a little breakfast, sort of what are the bench thing? Yeah, we often will sit between the two. Yeah, it's kind of between. What about you, Julia? What does the flat do? The flat, well, we don't really have a dining room table so we either just sit in the toilet either on the couch or um at like one of the little work from home desks that we've got at the moment do you do

a communal eating such or was it everyone just eats all at home yeah everyone on their own but growing up we always sat at the table yeah my dad kept a voice i mean he's a school principal so yeah it was like etiquette was no hats at the table, the prick cutlery, you know, all the things. It was like, if you're going to eat with the queen one day, you need them. Yes. I'm never going to eat with the queen. What hopes and aspirations do you have for me? Because you need to scale them back a bit.

And if I do, is she going to be like, oh, wrong fork? Maybe she is. Maybe she'll judge me, but, you know. There is so much cutlery on offer, you know, and where to place it, how it's placed and the rules and stuff. But, yeah, we're doing it now. And it's actually really, really lovely to sit down. It's good.

It's like a post-match on the day, isn't it? Everyone sort of relives the day. And it's like when the players run off the field and they're bombarded with a lot of clichés, like, you know, one game at a time and proud of the boys and things like that. But we've got to the stage where we've implemented, everyone name three great things that happened in their day. Oh, I love that.

Oh, that's good. It is good. But sometimes I'm like, not even one great thing happened. Now you're asking me to list a top three. It's putting too much pressure on. And now I'm reaching for like, well, I guess I drove home and didn't crash the car. Is that a bonus? Yeah, three's quite a lot.

Maybe just narrow it down. One. One great thing about the day would be good. Yeah, but I can't scale it back now because we've started with three. And the kids can list off three because, you know, kids can name anything. Oh, yeah, I did the alphabet in order and stuff. You saw a butterfly, you know. For them, that's like, oh, wow, that's amazing.

There's a lot more pressure on the adults to provide something of decent content when it comes to good things of the day. And the other thing that I'm really enjoying is you just get the kids to do all the jobs that you don't want to do. And that's the good thing about children is slowly you raise people to do the stuff you can't be arsed doing. You know, setting the table, doing the dishes. Right. That's the great thing. I mean, setting the table, doing the dishes. Right.

That's the great thing. I mean, slowly, I'm hoping sort of mid-2022, I'm going to have the kids in here doing this job. You know, that's why you have them be. I find the other thing as well, just harking back to what your parents would say, would always the little things that would, like mum would always be like,

you've got to eat your crust or put hair on your chest. There was always things like that that would come along. And I was a big fan of crust, but not one crust or put hair on your chest. That was always, you know, things like that. And we'd come along. And I was a big fan of crust, but not one hair do I have on my chest. Show us your chest now. Get your chest out. Pull your chest out. Julia, you want to see his chest? I've already seen his chest.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't eat. He ate crust. I do. I'm a big fan of crust. A living testament. Yeah. And I'm like, not once.

If anything, I'd eat more crust. It's the hope that I get your hairs on my chest. You're like, if you're not going to eat yours, I'll eat your crust. That's what I'd do. And then the swimming. No, no, swimming after a 30-minute window. Oh, yes. My mum was a big strict.

You'd die at that. And who knew that? It just felt like something that's handed down through the generations. I was doing it the other day. We were over at our grandparents' pool. And don't go swimming after you! What's going to happen? I don't know!

I'm just being told by everyone not to do it. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on the hits. We tell you five words, you tell us what pops into your head after those words, and if they all match up with our five words, you win $5,000.

$5,000. The things I wouldn't do for $5,000. The things I would do banned in nine different countries, Ben Boyce. I won't even start to list them. Kate, you're on from Christchurch. How are you? Good morning, guys. How are you?

Good. Good, mate. You know, I got a text from my mother, Annie Catherine Pryor, this morning, who resides in Christchurch, and she likes to keep me up to date with local going-ons. Big week in Christchurch. Big week in Christchurch. The Cup week, right? That's right.

And it's Canterbury anniversary, so there's a holiday. Yes, it's very exciting. Very exciting. But however, Annie Pryor says, reading on from her text, thanks to COVID restrictions, the show was cancelled. Yes. There's show day. Don't they have show day? They've got restricted numbers at the races. Take care.

Drive safely. Love, Mum. That's from Annie Pryor. She thinks I drive like a maniac. Yeah, well, we all do. She's dead right. Hey, Kate, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth this morning? I'd like to send in Jono, if I can, please.

You could send in Jono. And have you seen the words online at Instagram or Facebook? Yes, yes, I have. Oh, good. And do you feel good about this? Do you feel confident that you've got some good answers? Yeah, I've thought about it a wee bit. Okay.

But hopefully, fingers crossed. All right. Well, he is in the soundproof booth. He can't hear what we're saying. So here we go, Kate. What are you going to say when I say ketchup? I'm going to say tomato. Tomato, yeah.

Screw. Driver. That's a weird word to say out loud. But yeah, there you go. Screwdriver, yes. Author is the third word this morning. Author. I'm going to say book.

Book. Nice. Fuel is a word, number four. And fuel is an F-U-E-L. I'm going to say petrol. Petrol. And castle is the final word this morning. Castle. I'm going to say king.

Oh, the king of the castle. Producer Juliet, how are we feeling? I got five out of five. Oh, really? Yeah. I reckon I want to match with four out of five of those. So we'll see if we can match up all five with Jono. We'll get him out of the soundproof booth and we'll see how we go.

Kate, how are you feeling? You feeling all right? Yeah, I'm feeling nervous. You're feeling nervous. Kate's feeling nervous. She played a quick game because she's seen the words. She knew what was happening. You've seen the words.

You've got a bit of a game plan, but will you change that game plan? I don't know. We'll find out. All right, Kate, let's get you five grand. What are you going to spend the doulas on? I'm going to save a little bit. Some will go towards Christmas and I'll probably go on a holiday when

we can. Wow, big plans. It's like Lotto, isn't it? You've spent the money already, but ho, ho, ho. Whoa, whoa, whoa. We haven't quite got across the finish line. Alright, here we go, Jono. Are you ready? Yes. Ketchup was the first word. What do you say with ketchup?

Tomato. Yes, all right. We're on to a good start. One for one, Kate. Let's do it, OK? Screw. Got two options. One is screw you.

I was just thinking you'd probably say that. I don't think Kate would be thinking along those lines. She might be saying that if you don't get five out of five. Driver. Correct. All right, here we go. Two from two. Author is word number three this morning.

Author. Book author. Yes. Kate. Oh, Kate. How are we feeling? Talk to us, Kate. Talk to us, Kate. What's going on? I'm starting to get very, very nervous. Who are we feeling? Talk to us Kate.

Talk to us Kate. What's going on? I'm starting to get very, very nervous. Who's in the house with you Kate? Um, just me and my dogs. You and your dogs. Okay, we'll strip the dogs down. This is looking good.

Fuel. F-U-E-L. Fuel. Pete, why'd you have to spell it for me? Well, it sounds like I say, fuel. Oh, fuel. Like a V-H-E-W. But you've seen the words, son.

It's a V-H-E-W. It's a V-H-E-W. It's a V-H-E-W. It's a V-H-E-W. It's a V-H-E-W. It's a V-H-E-W. It's a V-H-E-W. fuel pitch why'd you have to spell it for us sounds like I say but you've seen the word so I don't need a spell for you okay so the words we all know we've done So is it? No, I'm confusing it now. It's Bill. Petrol. Oh, Kate! Kate, we are one word away. Talk to us, Kate. We've been here before.

We've been here before this week, Kate. Oh, God. Yeah, I'm shaking now. I'm so nervous. You know it's business time when Humphrey, producer B Humps is in here polishing off the cannon, the confetti cannon. Oh, I've got my lucky black caps top on today.

I never worn this for the radio and the hits so could this be a good moment? What luck has it brought you? I don't know. We'll find out. You just called it the lucky top. Okay, trying to crowbar a topical thing in here. Here we go. Castle. Jono, castle is the final word. Put Kate on hold please if you can

producer Julia. Yeah, we don't want any whispers. Castle. Think about it.'t want any whispers. Castle. Think about it. Go king of the castle. Oh! Kate! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

Kate, you have won $5,000! Oh, my God! Oh, I think she's about to cry. You cry, baby. It's great for our promos keep crying keep crying we love this shit okay we're in shock to as an hour I ran $5,000 that's awesome oh. Oh my God, thank you so much, it's amazing. Oh, well there you go, Christmas is sorted for you like you said, you can go on holiday, you can do a lot with $5,000. Oh, I just can't believe it, I'm just, oh, gobsmacked, gobsmacked. The dogs must be pumped, have they changed their demeanour?

Oh, they're really outside. They're like, what's going on? What's going on? Mum's upset. Oh, well, Christmas is covered. You're going on holiday. You're saving some money. And you can do that all on the hits. Oh, my God.

Thank you, guys. Oh, thank you for listening to the show. We really, really do appreciate it. Thank you for trying. Five words, 5K. You nailed it. Well done. Thank you.

You guys have a good day. Oh, you have a great day. No, we'll do. Holiday in Christchurch and $5,000 for Kate. That's how you do it well done thank you you guys have a good day holiday in christchurch and five thousand dollars for kate that's how you do it new zealand five words 5k another chance you could be a winner on monday how cool is that it is the hits i got my peaches out in georgia we're all just recovering from kate and christchurch winning five thousand dollars we'll try and catch up with her after 8 o'clock. That was a pretty awesome moment, wasn't it? Yeah, beautiful stuff.

Beautiful stuff, mate. Stuff radio's made of. A bit more of that happening. Why can't you make that happen every day? I'd love to. They'd probably sink the station. I'd love to. Yeah, you're right.

Management wouldn't like that, but I would love it. We guarantee if these stories don't mildly interest you, then don't worry, there's going to be four minutes of government vaccination commercials coming up very shortly. Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So yesterday, Paul Rudd was named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2021. And Ryan Reynolds, he's kind of a,

he's often in the headlines for being a bit of a jokester, commenting on a lot of things. He's very funny. And he was named Sexiest Man Alive in 2010. And this news broke just before he went to do an interview and they asked him what his thoughts were on Paul Rudd winning Sexiest Man Alive. I think that this opportunity will be wasted on him

like so many before him. He's going to play it shy. He's going to play it bashful, humble. If I know what I knew now, you know, I wouldn't do that. You've got to seize this opportunity. Yeah, when it was your, remember your moment. Yeah. Do you remember your reign? Oh, if I got it now.

Yeah. I'm not saying I would leave my family, but they would need to go on without me. He's so good. He's very good. He's like, I'll travel the world like a naked gardener Just like sewing my wild You know that's what he would do now

Who's on the judging panel for the sexiest people person of the year? That's a good question Do they do the female version? I don't think so No It's not really advertised is it? I'm not sure Why don't we start there Ben?

Is that a campaign? That seems like something you'd get behind Don't do this Don't do this really advertised it's not no no but when Paul Rudd was named sexiest man alive um he did he didn't do a little bit of a video on like what he did when he found out but and he said he will take it in a stride he will make the most of it which is oh yeah i learned about this via email which i had to read twice because it was so insane once it registered what it really was uh the first thing that i thought of is i thought oh get ready for outrage oh every single person i know is going to give me so much grief. As they should. I would.

I mean, I'm going to lean into it hard. I'm going to own this. I'm not going to try and, you know, just be so self-modest. I'm getting business cards made. He's getting business cards made. Ball ride sexiest man alive 2021. And they're not even a thing nowadays, business cards. That's got a funny thing to get by an email.

You'd think it was spam, wouldn't you? Yeah. If you're opening up your email. Congratulations, you're a six man. All you need to do is give us your credit card number and we'll deposit some cash in your account. Well done, Paul Rudd. Yeah, well done.

Well deserved. Well done. And that is Spy for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Hey, after 8 o'clock, the winning doesn't stop with five words this morning. Thanks to themarket.com, we have an amazing prize, $5,000 worth of products from themarket.com. If you want to win that, just go on themarket.com. It's not too late.

Basically, put in your wish list, share it with us at thehits.co.nz, and we could be paying for the entire shopping basket after 8 o'clock on The Hits. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben Good morning, it is a Friday morning that's a good feeling, just gone at 8 o'clock Hey Jacinda Ardern, she's making world news at the moment

for a video where she was doing a Facebook live she was talking about businesses coming back to normal in New Zealand and Niamh, her daughter, kind of interrupted with something that was important to Niamh in that moment. Safe, but you'll see that great assertion tea for business. You're meant to be in bed, darling. It's bedtime, darling.

Pop back to bed. I'll come and see you in a second. I'll come and see you in a minute, OK? Sorry, everybody. Yeah, Nanny will take you down to bed. Thanks, Nana. Well, that was a big time fail, wasn't it? Gone all over the world right now.

Some way I talk to you when we go away on work trips. It is, yeah. Actually, she wasn't actually talking to Niamh. She was talking to the rest of New Zealand because they now tell us when we need to go to bed. Hey, political. Yeah, it's John. There we go.

There we go. Take over from Mike Hosking. It's coming. I'm going to be Hosking. That's all I've got, political. Yeah, Jono. There we go. There we go. Take over from Mike Hosking. It's coming. I'm gutted for you, Hosking. That's all I've got, though. I'll just keep saying that one line over and over. It was good. It was good.

Hey, thanks to themarket.com. Well, we've got $5,000 worth of products to give away. And there's an amazing amount of products at themarket.com. This would pay for Christmas and then some, right? So you can go there. You can fill up your basket, share it with us at thehitstockco.nz and we'll be paying for someone's entire basket next

thanks to themarket.com in just a few moments. Jono and Vince, empty your basket with themarket.com with prizes worth up to $5,000. This is so, so awesome. This is great for Christmas. You can check out the incredible items at themarket.com. You can fill your basket. They have thousands of brands at themarket.com making Christmas shopping easy for Christmas. You can check out the incredible items at themarket.com. You can fill your basket. They have

thousands of brands at themarket.com making Christmas shopping easy for everyone. So you fill up your basket, you share it with us at the hitstock.nz and every Friday we'll pay for someone's entire basket thanks to themarket.com up to $5,000. And this goes all the way to Christmas. Yeah. What a prize.

The only thing is you wouldn't want to, in IRL Ben, in real life, you wouldn't want to be stuck behind someone with $5,000 worth of goods in their trolley. No. Where you prize. The only thing is you wouldn't want to, in IRL, Ben, in real life, you wouldn't want to be stuck behind someone with $5,000 worth of goods in their trolley. No, but do it at themarket.com is fine, right? I just popped in to get some Airwaves chewing gum. Now I'm stuck behind this pain in the ass who's got $5,000 worth of goods. But that's what we're doing. Now, just something behind the scenes here, a bit different.

Yeah, we just got our winner on who had got their shopping cart sorted and sent it with us at the hitstock.nz but now she's telling us that she wants to give it to someone else. She doesn't even want to win the prize. But she's won. But she's like, well now I want to give it to someone else. Her name's Brittany. So she's given us the number of the people that we need to call and give it to. This is a selfless

act, isn't it? Yeah. A prize winner giving away the prize. I feel like she might be with these people right now as well. We're going to call Hannah and Sue right now. Hello, Hannah speaking. Oh, Hannah, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. How's it going?

Fine, thank you. Now, Brittany, who's Brittany to you? She is my, well, she should be my sister-in-law. She should, oh, there's a bit of pressure coming on for an engagement, is there? Yeah, well, I don't know if you know this, but we've been running a competition each week on our radio show, thanks to themarket.com, where someone wins up to $5,000 worth of stuff from themarket.com.

They can choose any items they want, as many items as they want, up to $5,000. Now, Brittany has won this competition this week, but she was like, I don't want to win this now. And we're like, WTF? That's what we said. Yeah. And then she's like, actually, there's some people that I want to give it to. And it's Steve andise from number 22 so if you know them go let them know i know

it's you guys uh britney wants to give you guys five thousand dollars worth of products at themarket.com you can shop and you can do whatever you want it's really lovely sorry, we're just in tears. What's going on? Well, I don't know what background Brit's given you, but Mum lost her family home a few months ago, so she's lost everything. So, yes, it's just a bit much.

What happened? Yeah, a house fire. So, yeah, it's been pretty devastating, but Britt has certainly picked us up and dragged us through. So, yeah, it's a bit overwhelming. Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry to hear that. Well, hopefully, if you need some stuff, I mean, they have everything there, appliances, you name it. through so um yeah it's a bit overwhelming oh my gosh i'm so sorry to hear that well hopefully

um if you need some stuff i mean they have everything there appliances you name it they've got it there that hopefully we can get that stuff for you to replace some of the stuff that you lost oh that's amazing thank you so much now what do you want let's have a look on the market.com i'll see if they've got it and we can afford it what sort of things do you need think of anything we need it everything everything i'll just look for everything yeah you know they've got it and we can afford it. What sort of things do you need? Think of anything. We need it. Everything. Everything. I'll just look for everything.

Yeah. You know they've got everything. Yeah, you get about $4,550. You can get everything. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's amazing. Thank you so much. Oh, so this will be beds, couches.

Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry to hear that it happened to you guys, but it's a pretty amazing thing that Britt has done for you. She hasn't stopped since we moved in. We crowded her house out and my son's house. They've just been amazing. Oh, you're living with Britt at the moment. Yeah.

Britt, is this just a ploy to get them out of the house? Well, now she's given you $5,000 to spend at the market, just in time for Christmas. Thank you. Thank you, Britt. And thank you, you guys, and thank you to market.com. Oh, well, yeah, lovely to talk to you guys, and hopefully this brings a little bit of Christmas cheer,

which has been obviously a very tough year for you guys. It's actually Mum's birthday today. Oh, happy birthday, Sue. Thank you. Sue's actually mum's birthday today. Happy birthday, Sue. Thank you. Sue, come on the phone here. Let me hear those sweet, sweet lips of yours, Sue. Jim got a hearing aid, so.

Well, I want her to hear my sweet, sweet lips. I wish I could take my hearing aids out when you talk, Jenna. Turn up your aids a bit, Sue. I've got something to say. I want to sing to you. Well done, guys. Enjoy that and aids a bit, Sue. I've got something to say. I want to sing to you. I know. Well done, guys. Enjoy that and hopefully this goes some way towards you rebuilding the house and your life. Bless you. Thank you

so much. Oh, how cool was that? It was lovely of Brittany to give that away to those people. So it was very, very cool. There's some good people out there, Ben. Yeah. And they're not you and me. Congratulations still to Hannah and Sue winning. All thanks to themarket.com. If you want to and Sue winning. All thanks to themarket.com. If you want to win just like them,

head to themarket.com and up to $5,000 in your shopping basket. Share it with us at the hits and you could win next week. Welcome to two half-assed dads do a half-assed job. Official title, Tuno and Ben,

New Zealand's breakfast. My daughter Sienna, we're basically three months of lockdown right now and her and a friend have come up with a cool little idea. You know, they're like, we want to start our own business. Well, when you've said little idea, it's quite patronising. Sorry. They think you're big.

They want to start a business. I'm like, okay, what do you want to do? And they're like, we want to be dog walkers in the neighbourhood. And you're like, well, firstly, fill out these IRD 334s. Exactly right. The harsh realities of a business. Yeah. And also, secondly, well, firstly, fill out these IRD 330 forms. That's exactly right. The harsh realities of a business. Yeah. And also, secondly, why don't you walk our dog?

Before you start focusing on walking the neighbourhood. Yeah. We've got a dog here. Charity starts at home, mate. Yeah. But they're really passionate about it, and they've made little signs, and they put up around the neighbourhood. You know those ones you can rip off the little things,

and then she goes and walks up and checks it every day. Oh, someone's taken the thing off. They could call and stuff like that. Have they called? Well, someone texted me the other day. Oh, really? The thing is, it's going to become my job as well because I'm going to have to go and help.

Oh, yes. Because they're at the age where I'm going to. So I'm going to basically be my new unpaid job will be helping them with their job of walking dogs. Have Ben Boyce walk your dog. Yeah, you're right. Because you're the vision of the whole thing. You're going to go to the park.

She's going to go play on the playground. You're going to be responsible for the stranger's dog. Yeah. Are you getting paid for it or anything like that? But that's how it's going to work. But anyway, I'll do it. You'll cut me in on the business. I'll do it because I love my daughter.

But then Sienna's like, hey, we want to get it out there. We want to get an Instagram. We want to get a Facebook. I'm like, slow down, slow down. Hold on, Dragon's Den. Yeah. And she's like, can you give an advert on the radio? You've got a radio show that goes around the country.

Can you give the job? Well, other businesses pay for advertising. So I thought I'd take it on board because we never say where you can do a traditional ad on the radio. So I said to her yesterday, I said, look, I can give you an ad, but it's under a condition. And she's like, well, okay, what's that? I said, I have to wake you up on the way to work.

And I record you. Are you okay for me to record you at 4.30 in the morning about your ad? And she's like, yep, yeah, 100%. I said, all right, I'm going to be doing it. And I did it this morning. Why didn't you do it when she was awake? I just thought, you know, it.30 in the morning about your ad. And she's like, yep, yeah, 100%. I said, all right, I'm going to be doing it. And I did it this morning. Why didn't you do it when she was awake? I just thought, you know, it's more comical. I thought, you know, if you want this advertised, you've got to work hard.

She's like, okay. This is business. Nothing comes easy in business. That's right. So this morning, just about 4.30 this morning, I went into Siena, and this is what happened. Siena. Siena.

Siena. Siena. Siena. I'm just recording you. Sienna. Sienna. Sienna. I'm just recording you. I'm just... Why? Do you want to do an ad for your dog walking for the radio? The screens are bright.

Sorry. Do you want to do an ad for the dog walking? Do you want to do an ad? Here's your ad. Here's your chance. It's the 4 o'clock ad. We'll play it on the radio. Plug your dog walking.

Dog walking business now. Can we go make sleep now? You can. There you go, dog walking business now. I didn't get any of the details. I don't know how you can contact. You can't contact. I mean, really, you know, she had

a chart in business. Yeah, that was it. School of hard knocks. Voice household. So dog walking business now. Dog walking business now. Back to sleep. There you go. The dog walking business. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The hits with

Jono and Ben for breakfast. Our next guests have amazing voices as well. The pop operatic trio of Solomio. They've got a new album out. It's called Coming Home. They're amazing, incredible. Have a listen. So awesome, eh?

They are. And they join us right now on the phone. Is that our dear, dear friends? KFC Manukau? Dear friends at KFC Manukau. Guys, who ordered the three-piece order pack? Solid, Mio. Nice to talk

to you guys. How's things? Oh, not too bad. You know, we're all here in Tamaki Makaurau. We're doing the best that we can, but it's really cool, man. We're keeping it together. Do you know what really is unusual about this interview arrangement is we're in the same man. We're keeping it together. Do you know what really is unusual about this interview arrangement is we're in the same building.

You're literally 25 metres away, but we can't mix and mingle. I really want to give you guys a hug, you know? Yeah, we want to hug you too. It feels like, oh, I'm glad we can't hug you because every time we hug, we always see Jono try to grab Penne's bum. Yeah. I'm like, well, we've hit second base, Penne.

We can take this relationship. You guys in Auckland are just crying about these lockdowns. We must bring Penne in. Are you in Germany at the moment? Where are you? I'm in Paris right now. I'm about to leave to Amsterdam tomorrow.

Wow. You're off over in Europe, highfalutin around in Europe. We're stuck here in the eye of the storm. Amitai and Moses, you're off over in Europe, highfalutin around in Europe. We're stuck here in the eye of the storm. Amitai and Moses, they're at the coalface, Penazan sipping fine champagne in Paris. Yeah. Hey, man, we've been through the lockdowns,

man. We've done it. That's why I'm like, yeah, the eye of the storm. You finally got the storm. You suck on that storm. Yeah, it's not so good, is it? You guys, our third studio album, Coming Home. Imagine Coming Home probably reflects you guys coming home a bit for COVID. Well, not Penne at the moment.

He's off overseas. But it probably reflects the world. It's been a rollercoaster for everybody, especially for the people who have left the country. We heard stories about people heading overseas and not being able to come home because of all the restrictions and everything. And so when we were putting this album together, we decided to go with songs that sort of reminded us of home and the things that kept us going when we were overseas, all of these songs that kind of just got those memories going.

And so that's what people will be listening to on this album. It's a very nostalgic album. I always love when Salomeo releases an album because it's more often than not at this time of the year, and I'm like, it's the end of the year. It's what this country needs right now. A bit of hope. This is what's going to pull us through out of the pandemic.

But how did you record an album through these unprecedented times? Well, funny enough, we recorded this album back in April, April, May. So it was actually quite a while ago. It was when Penny was here. It was like within the space of about four days, I think. Oh, wow. We had that much time. So we had to cut things short as soon as possible

because Penny was on the next flight out. Wow, Jesus. So this album was done in a rush. Is the 11th track called That'll Do? No, no, track 12 is I've Had Enough. I've got to wrap it up, guys. Track 7, my flight's about to leave. The tracks are some cover songs I can't wait to hear in there

from the Bee Gees, John Legend, Hallelujah, of course, you guys cover as well. Who decides on the tracks that you guys want to put into the album? Who brings it forward and goes, hey, guys, I'd love to do Bee Gees or whatever? It was definitely, we all sat together and we put on the favorites. Now, stuff like Hallelujah and Blue Bayou, those ones that were sung all the time live in concert, we've never recorded it because the idea was if you wanted to hear these songs, you had to come and watch it.

There was no way we were going to record it. And then just coming home, we're like, look, people can't even get out to the concerts now. So I think this is a calling for us to put it down. So we're like, okay, let's put these ones down, the solid tracks down. And then we sat and discussed between ourselves, what are some other songs that are nostalgic for everybody for everybody else and we just diminished the entire thing we went from like a set list of about 50 something and then went down to 40 to 30 to 20. it was like a both voting

base yeah right it's like was that similar to you being on the bachelor uh moses or not was that how it sort of anyway It's kind of a It's a little bit awkward guys Because you guys are doing operatic covers Of obviously some big songs But we were also going to bring out an album Weren't we John O'Cook? Yeah

Our versions of operatic songs And we picked some of the same songs Just by chance So this is Yeah what we thought we'd do We recorded ours in March. I mean, it was just before April, wasn't it? Yeah, it was, yeah.

In about half a day. Yeah, half a day. Some would say we should have taken longer, but this is, yeah, we did the Bee Gees cover, which I understand you guys do, You Don't Know What It's Like. Yeah, so have a listen to this. Have a listen, see what you think of our operatic version

of You Don't Know What It's Like. You don't know what it's like, baby. You don't know what it's like, baby. You don't know what it's like. To love somebody. To love somebody. The way I love you. Honest feedback. World class.

We don't know. We will never know what it's like. Maybe we don't know what it's like. Maybe we don't know what it's like. Maybe that's the problem. Would they like that over in Paris, Penne? Oh, man, they'll love it. They'll drool all over it. Bearing in mind, too, Solimero,

the mixing and mastering hasn't been done on that yet. Yeah. That was absolutely raw. Raw talent. I always love catching up with you boys you really are some wonderful New Zealanders

you keep safe and look forward to the album coming out and congratulations on a big year thank you guys love your work let's catch you guys soon

and if we could I'd give you guys a hug actually I was flicking around the radio stations on the way to work this morning and Kate Hawksby, who's on Newstalk ZB. She does the early show, doesn't she? Five till six.

Great show. Kate doesn't know this and the audience doesn't know this, but we must be an open book, you know, transparent program. What's that? You steal an abundance of content from Kate Hawksby for the show. She doesn't know how much prep she does for our show. Yeah, I said I was flinging around, but really I was listening to what Kate had to say. He steals, he likes it, Kate, if Kate ever hears this,

when you open up your show with the events of the day. Yeah, she does. The agenda. She does it every day. Ben notes them all down. He's like, well, copy and paste that over onto the hits. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But she also said this today, which I found quite interesting. And two countries that don't usually agree. So the proof, of course, will be right, yeah. But she also said this today, which I found quite interesting. And two countries that don't usually agree, so the proof, of course, will be in the pudding. Proof is in the pudding.

Now, now and again, we like to look at sayings and sort of go, well, what do they mean? And so I thought, why don't we do proof is in the pudding? What do you mean? Now, Kate Hawkinson didn't give us the answer to this, so we now have to guess the answer. For once, she didn't do the heavy lifting. We've actually got to do some work.

We can't just copy and paste Kate. So we have to guess where the origin of proof is in the pudding came from, and then we'll Google it and find out if we're right or wrong. Well, I'm just thinking along the lines of maybe early detectives. So, you know, a murderer might hide a weapon in the pudding. Yes. You could put other things in there, you know, car keys, cell phones, where is the keys? I don't know. The proof will be in the pudding, and you weapon in the pudding. You could put other things in there, you know, car keys, cell phones, where is the keys? I don't know.

The proof will be in the pudding and you dig through the pudding. That's pretty much what I was expecting. It's thinking as well. Juliet? I was going to say that there was a historically bad baker and they had friends around for dinner and someone was about to

bag their baking and say this is going to be horrendous. But then the baker was like, hey, the proof will be in the pudding. Too logical. Too logical. I'm with Jono. It was a murder case.

They couldn't find the weapon. They were looking around. They go, there's nothing here. And then the boss, I found proof. He's like, where's the proof? He's like, it's in the pudding. He put a machete in a pudding? Yeah.

Because you do those pranks where you put someone's stapler and jelly and stuff like that in an office. So why not put proofers in the pudding? Tell you what, I do love a pudding. You don't have enough pudding in your daily diet. Pudding is a good word, eh? My grandma used to put coins in puddings. Really?

Now, apparently that's not good now. No, because there's a giant choking hazard. Yeah, and also I think something about cooking a pudding with coins in it, it's not really, I think this does some things to it. And coins poison you, basically, I think. Yeah. But you need more of it. And they're very unhygienic.

I know, you need more of it too, because you just wanted to make more money. You'd be like, yeah, another serving of pudding. I don't even like it. But I just wanted to have it. A barrel throw for a 10 cent piece. You're like, damn it, I didn't get it. I couldn't move that pudding through my body for three weeks. It just sat there.

I was a walking pudding. I probably ate 10 cent pieces. My uncle would have pudding every night. Really? My auntie had to cook pudding every day, and he would finish off his meal with a big stodgy pudding, night after night. Relentless.

Find out. Let's Google it. All right. Now, what does proof is. Let's Google it. All right. Now, what does proof is in the pudding come from? I reckon. Okay. So we've both said murder-based reasons. Juliet, you've probably come a little more thought through.

Mine is probably more realistic, maybe. Okay. Ben, have you found it? Yeah. It's a new twist. It's been around since the 14th century, that one. Oh, yeah. The proof is in the pudding as in the eating.

It means you had to try something in order to find out if it was good. Oh, Julie wins this one. Do I need to go a little bit more left field with my guesses? But it has changed the words. Originally, back in the day, pudding was more than just a sweet dessert. Pudding referred to a type of sausage, something that you wanted to try carefully because you weren't entirely sure what was inside.

Oh, I'm looking at all sorts in there. You're like, oh, we better try this before. I'm looking at the ingredients of, I've just googled it, what that sausage was back in the day. Often minced meat stuffed into intestines, stomachs, mixed with blood as well. So a lovely appetising dish.

I see why the proof was in the pudding. Yeah, yeah. To check it out. So there you go. That was really, really interesting. The proof was in the pudding. Yeah, yeah. To check it out. So there you go. That was really, really interesting. The proof was in the pudding. And then back in the day they would make someone. One person had to take the hit and try the pudding first and go, how's that, mate? And see if they lived or died.

It obviously had deadly consequences. The pudding tester. He's like, feeling good? I think it's safe. It's like coming to a barbecue at my house. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah.

The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. It is 6.60, fade away. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben. They are on air with us at The Hits tomorrow from 9 till 6, the 6.60 takeover. 9 till 6, putting a nine-hour shift.

It's a huge shift, and every hour... It's three of our shows. They're giving away a double pass to one of their gigs over summer, which is pretty awesome. Hey, we had a really fun moment on the programme this morning. Kate phoned through for five words,

and we haven't had a five words winner in weeks. And this was the moment Kate won five grand and matched her five words with ours. Castle. Jono, castle is the final word. Put Kate on hold, please, if you can, producer Juliet. Yeah, we don't want any whispers. Castle.

Think about it. Go king of the castle. Oh! Kate! Oh my god! Kate, you have won $5,000! Oh my god!

Oh my god! Thank you so much. It was amazing. Oh, it was a pretty, pretty awesome moment. We thought we'd catch up with Kate again right now to see if it's sunk in. It's been about an hour since she's $5,000 richer. Kate. Hello.

Mate. I'm still in shock. Oh, yeah, we're still a bit. We're the same. But, I mean, how are you feeling? I'm just so excited. This is just amazing. Like, I've been trying to get on and play for ages.

Yeah, just gobsmacked, really. It's going to be a good Christmas, I think, for me and my family. Oh, good. Have you told anyone yet? No. No, I haven't. Let's tell someone. Who would you tell?

Oh, I don't know. My partner? Well, should we call your partner? Is it all right if we call your partner? Is that okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. His name's Vaughn. Vaughn.

Will he answer block number? That's the question. Hello? Vaughn, he will. He's got nothing to hide like you, Ben. Vaughn will answer a block number. Hey, Vaughn, it's John. I'm Ben calling from the Hits radio station.

Yeah, hi. How you going? Yeah, good. Got Kate on the Hits radio station. Yeah, hi, how you going? Yeah, good. Got Kate on the phone. Right. She's got a huge surprise for you. Right. He's like, uh-oh, what's going on here?

No, it's a good one. It's a good one. Kate, over to you. I just won $5,000. Oh, shit, really? $5,000, Vaughan. Oh, good job. Good job. That000, Vaughan. Oh, good job. Good job.

That's the Kiwi attitude. Good job. And that's the reaction you expect from a Canterbury farmer. That's excited Vaughan. He's mad at many words. Imagine that's excited. That's excited Vaughan, I understand. Yes.

That's as excited as Vaughan gets. This is him running at $120 right now. $5,000, buddy. What a great way to start the weekend. Yeah, not bad. Not bad at all. It's so good. Well, you guys have a great Christmas.

I'm sure you'll put that $5,000 to great use. Yeah, good. Thanks, guys. No worries. Well done, Kate. It was lovely to meet you, and you keep well. Thank you so much, John and Ben. You're welcome.

Thank you so much for listening to the show. Take care, and we'll get that money to you well. Thank you so much, Jono and Ben. You're welcome. Thank you so much for listening to the show. Take care and we'll get that money to you shortly. Thank you.