Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: BTC - Best Toast Combos... We Discuss This IN DEPTH!
Episode Date: June 8, 2021Hello hello! Today was a really interesting show. If you haven't been following along with the international drug bust that has resulted in the arrest of 800 criminals, you really should be! We spoke ...to Jared Savage from the NZ Herald who gave us a rundown on what has happened, and how an app created by the FBI has caught so many criminals around the world! On a completely different and lighter note, we discussed the BTC - Best Toast Combos. Producer Juliet eats avocado with feta on Vogels every day and claims it's the best combo to have on toast. We threw this out to you guys, and there were some very bizarre recommendations! Finally, we had another winner in our game 5 Words for $5K, lucky Susan from Te Awamutu was in sync with Jono today! Enjoy the podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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 Wednesday the 9th of June.
Now, when we do these podcast intros, Ben,
you know, we're kind of relaxed post-show.
I don't want to say we've checked out,
but we've probably checked out in all honesty, but it's not often we're kind of relaxed post-show. I don't want to say we've checked out, but we've probably checked out, in all
honesty, but it's not often we have the other team
members joining us. Normally they have,
they've checked out. They've gone somewhere.
Juliet's making toast.
Assume what happens when we do our podcast intro.
Bee Humps, he goes for his coffee,
you know, he goes for his coffee each day.
He does. He goes for a coffee and a gossip
across the road. Bee Humps, eh? He probably talks about
us too. He probably talks about us.
And we're like, oh, we will come.
No, no, no, no.
I'd like to go.
Probably give some space to talk about us.
It's my therapy.
It's his therapy, yeah.
So it's good.
No, it's fine.
It's a good routine.
You know, it's good.
Now, okay, let's get a producer's point of view.
How do you think the show went this morning, Behem?
I thought it was an absolute cracker this morning.
Can you remember what was on the show?
Just trying to find the run sheet.
What are we doing?
Oh, the most annoying toys.
Oh, yeah, no, we've got some good annoying toys.
Blinder.
Yeah, no, it's...
That recorder.
We got the flatulence piano came through
and then the wonderful lady in Ngaruahia,
oh, sorry, no, Tokoroa,
who phoned through with a minion gun.
Oh, yeah.
Which, you know, sort of exerted body noises as well.
And it seems the common theme
that the most annoying toys are related
to any function the body can make.
Yeah, they're all just making a noise,
obnoxious noises and stuff.
So much like this radio show,
just obnoxious noises.
Yeah, and constantly on repeat too.
It's fun when they're in your hand.
Like I'll grab this now.
As I'm playing it,
you'll be having a lot of fun,
but for everyone else,
you're like, oh.
This is the fart puner,
but it's really unfairly branded, this,
because you can push another mode and sort of a dry reach.
Just at that stage where you're like, oh, I've eaten some raw chicken.
I better get that out of me.
That's all right.
It's an odd thing, that one, anyway.
You'll hear more of that on the show today
as well as on the show today.
We're all in a bit of shock afterwards because
five words. Jono Pryor,
you came through. Unexpectedly
and no one was more surprised than
myself. In fact, no, I think we were all surprised.
Oh, it's the game though, isn't it?
You can win at any stage and today we
won and some would say too soon since our last victory.
And that would be Boss Todd.
But hey, you can't plan these things.
In a perfect world, you'd have at least two or three weeks in between 5K victories.
But that just shows that you need to listen to the show.
You need to call us at 745 because you can win.
It can happen at any time.
Even if you're like, oh, someone won yesterday.
It doesn't matter.
We'll give away more money the next day.
Afterwards, I was like,
I should have sabotaged it.
No, you can't.
It ruins the game.
Yeah, you can only
play genuinely.
The purist in me,
the five words purist,
it's like I'm a lover
of test match cricket
in five words,
and you need to play it
in the way that
it was intended.
That the radio gods
intended.
Yeah, you're not out
there with sandpaper,
you know, you're not
doing that, are you?
No.
But our boss, Todd, came in there with sandpaper, you know. You're not doing that, are you? No, no.
But our boss Todd came in and he looked a little deflated.
Yeah, he texted straight away as soon as it came.
He has texted before we even finished talking on the radio about it,
didn't he, Behance?
He was always like, this is not ideal. Oh, God.
Because it's his bottom line, isn't it?
It is.
It's his budget.
And let's face it, that's a couple of savvies that are not going to be
going down this
road.
Boss Todd doesn't
meet his,
what do they call
those in the
contract when you
have to meet
your targets?
Yeah.
Oh yeah,
wrap it up.
Producer Juliet's
coming and going
to wrap it up guys.
Okay,
it's gone on too
long,
enjoy the podcast
and if I can
take you out
with this.
Jared Savage, good morning.
Oh, good morning, guys.
Lovely to have you on from the New Zealand Herald, a crime reporter.
Now, Jared, if you don't mind, Jared Savage, that we've got an introduction song for you.
I think you know what's going on.
Here we go.
I can guess what this is going to be.
Okay, here we are.
Welcome, Jared Savage.
Was that the one you thought it was going to be?
Oh, I thought it was going to be
Give It Up for Savage.
Oh, that's another one.
Give It Up for Savage.
We should have gone local on that one.
You're right, yeah.
Hey, no, pleasure to have you on, Jared Savage.
Now, they're calling it the sting of the century.
The FBI and, in fact, all policing organisations across many countries
have busted over 800 people as part of an international drug ring.
Yeah, it's pretty massive.
We're talking like a dozen countries, maybe more, FBI, the DEA.
What they had done was basically for years
organised criminals have been using encrypted messaging devices
so they can message each other without the police
sort of snooping around and finding out what they've been up to.
And what the FBI did was create their own encrypted app
enticed criminals to start using it
who then shared it around with their mates
and so they're messaging each other with their devious plot,
thinking that it's all secret.
But, of course, the FBI was watching the whole time
and gathering it all up and then sent it around the world.
And yesterday we had a massive sting,
yeah, the sting of a century.
And even down in New Zealand, we had 35 people locked up,
about $4 million worth of assets,
900 charges laid in
court, so yeah, it was a pretty big day.
That's a heck of a play from you to design
an app and try and get it
out there. It apparently came out over
a couple of beers, the idea.
That's right, yeah. It sounds like it would
come out over a couple of beers.
Don't the best ideas come out over a couple of beers?
Sometimes at the time and the next
day they're not the best ideas,
but they follow through on it.
The FBI followed through on this one.
You can imagine the pitch to the bosses in the morning, right?
Hey guys, I've got this really cool idea.
Let's set up this app and we'll get everybody to use it.
I mean, a heck of a play.
And I guess it just shows on a serious note,
I mean, it has been tough for law enforcement around the world.
It's always a game of cat and mouse with organised crime.
And, you know, the technology will go ahead
and then the police will catch up
and then it just flips and flops.
You know, and we've seen that over the past 20 years.
So they gave a play yesterday.
And, you know, it's not the end of organised crime by any stretch,
but it's certainly got a big dent in things for a while
because everyone will be looking over their shoulder thinking,
you know, have I been caught up in this?
I love the term organised crime. I'd love to be part of disorganised crime where you
turn up to the bank and you're like, did you bring the balaclavas? No? I thought you were
going to do. Shocking. How do they convince the crims to get onto the app?
So over the years there's been a few different versions of
these sort of devices and
the FBI have obviously got some pretty
cheap cookies in the mix because
they've shut down a few of these networks
and so what they've done is
they kind of realised that each time they shut
one down, everyone would migrate
or move to another one. So what they
did was create this one that had some
extra features on it to make it look
even more attractive for people to be using.
So they had this G-Rest button which said, you know, if you're on there, you press the
button and it wipes all your communications.
So they made it seem really cool to Crim to have been looking for these sort of features.
This is a super deluxe model.
And of course what they did was
they used the undercover agents around the world
to sort of say, hey guys, you should try using these.
And it's really good.
It's impeccable.
Nobody will be able to get into it.
So they sort of,
and they actually spread around by word of mouth.
I think in the end they had about 12,000
of these ANOM devices around
the world. That sort of
unravelled about 300 different networks.
So, yeah, simply by making
the app cooler than the last app and then
telling all their mates that it was really good,
that's how it's
been around. Gee whiz, and I saw
they also foiled 21 murder
plots, like hit jobs as well.
All of the communication was happening on this app.
And it was on a phone.
Like, you had to buy the actual phone?
Yeah, some of them, yeah, some of them you had to buy the actual device.
I think these ones were, that was the only thing on the phone,
because they said you have other apps on there.
So it had the single, it was a phone used simply for having the ANOM app
or like nothing else.
Pretty amazing, pretty amazing time job, I have to say.
Now, how long would it be until they regroup and sort themselves out again?
Oh, probably today.
No, I mean, it's certainly by no stretch is this ending organised crime.
You know, there's some pretty clever criminals out there.
And then, I guess,
again,
the police and law enforcement around the world
will have another track at it.
Yeah,
jeez,
and still,
you know,
still six months to rhythm and vine
so we can regroup
and,
oh jeez.
It's not all over guys,
Julian,
it'll still be fine for you.
Excuse me?
Yeah,
let's not go there.
Hey,
Jarrod Stavis,
thank you so much for that.
It's like something out of
like a movie,
this whole plot, isn't it? Yeah, I really do think when you do have like Marcos, Jared Stevens, thank you so much for that. It's like something out of a movie, this whole plot,
isn't it?
Yeah,
I really do think
when you do,
it's like,
Marco's New Zealand
because that showed
me some good stories
back there.
Yeah,
well,
thank you so much
for your time this
morning and explaining
exactly what was
going on.
I really appreciate it.
No worries,
Doug.
Experts in semi-accurate
half-remembered
information.
Vaguely known
information,
maybe not correct.
Jono and Ben,
New Zealand's
breakfast on the hits.
It's now producer Julia every morning on the show.
You like to have your breakfast in here at work, don't you?
And you always seem to have the same thing on your toast.
It is the best thing since sliced bread.
Since Vogel's toast.
Smashed avocado with a bit of feta sprinkled on top.
Not a bit of feta, actually, a lot of feta.
If only she had used all that money she's invested in smashed avocado and feta,
she would have a house deposit by now.
But let's not simmer on that information.
Couldn't get more millennial than this right now, could you?
You're like a 75-year-old retiree.
You like clockwork, the same breakfast, same combination on toast every morning.
Every morning.
It's like, you know how some people love to drink coffee in the morning?
It's like their morning ritual.
This is my morning ritual.
And if I'm lucky and if I have a lemon, Jono, feel free to bring in your lemons.
One day, guys.
I'll put a bit of lemon juice on top.
They have a constant dig that I promised them lemons many months ago.
Many times.
You're like, I've got so many lemons, guys.
I actually went to get the lemons on the weekend, and they're not ripe.
It's not lemon season.
There's so many.
Anyone want lemons?
We're like, yeah, we do.
And make some in.
Mowed over them with the lawnmower.
OK, so what we want to do is, can we get the BTCs?
Not the Bitcoins.
This is the best toast combinations.
Can you beat Producer Juliette, who hands down says
she has the best toast combination?
And we're going to get professional chef Ganesh Raj from Eat Well for Less to judge New Zealand's BTC.
Yeah, the best toast combination.
So do you think you've got something that you have that's better than a feta and avocado?
I like my toast like I like my personality.
Bland and dry.
Not even a scrape of butter on there.
Just dry,
moisture.
Do you really?
Do you not put anything on it?
You have a sad life.
I do need a sad life.
And that's what makes me happy.
Yeah, so we're having
a competition.
The BTC's Best Toast Combos.
Ganesh Raj,
celebrity chef,
is listening to this right now
and he's going to judge.
You see how he's best at it?
I like that.
So Julia's put her case forward.
What do you have on top?
You're more of a granola
cereal guy.
I normally would have
a granola in the morning
but this morning
I had some toast.
I had peanut butter
and banana
and I really like
that combination.
That is a good combination.
That's an odd collection
of food you put in there.
But I do like it.
When the banana's ripe
and good to go,
it's delicious.
Now,
we're going to go to
Lizzie and Te Ao Mutu.
Morena,
Lizzie,
welcome to the BTC. Best's delicious. Now, listen, we're going to go to Lizzie and Te Ao Mutu. Morning, Lizzie. Welcome to the BTC.
Best toast combos.
What have you got?
Sardines, tomato, and onions sprinkled with a bit of pepper.
So, sardines, tomato, and onions.
Oh, that's very strong.
It's a lot of flavour early in the morning.
Absolutely.
Best ever.
Onions and sardines, you're right. First thing in the morning. Absolutely. Best ever. I knew it's in sardines.
You're right.
First thing in the morning.
But hey, I haven't tried it.
Do you work in close proximity to other human beings, Lizzie?
I'm a bus driver.
Oh, okay.
All right.
They make the wheels on the bus go round and round.
And is that an every morning thing?
I would if I could.
But unfortunately, it's more a special thing, you know, like weekends.
Bit of a treat.
Okay, so are the onions cooked or are they raw?
No, they're just raw.
Raw onions chopped up, okay, alright, we'll put it down.
The old sardine's a bit of a rogue fish, isn't it?
I don't even love sardines.
Yeah, okay, alright, I'm putting that down, I love it, I love it. Good on you. My dadardines. Maybe, yeah, okay. I'm putting that down.
I love it.
I love it.
Good on you.
My dad was a big fan of kippers.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know what a kipper is.
It feels like a fish that got lost in the ocean
and got swept up by some trawling nets.
But, yeah, he loved kippers on toast.
And it's a lot in the kitchen, fish first thing in the morning.
Yeah, yeah.
Fried fish.
But we'll go to Jane on from Hamilton. We're doing the
BTC's Best Toast Combos. What have you got?
Hey, I just love
a bit of goat's cheese and
strawberry, actually. A bit of honey.
Goat's cheese, did you say?
Yeah, goat's cheese.
Goat's cheese and strawberry and honey.
Oh, you've got a real
mixture going on there. Yeah, it's
really nice. It's like sweet. I think if you're putting any more than three on there. Yeah, it's really nice. It's like sweet.
I think if you're putting any more than three items on your toast,
it's a lot of administration.
Yeah, the honey's just like a drop over the top.
Yeah, right, a drizzle.
A drizzle, yeah, that's all it is.
It sounds gourmet, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does.
It's gourmet.
Oh, yeah, it is.
Don't question the gourmet nature of it.
Sorry, I shouldn't have.
Ganesh Raj listening to all these. He's going to pick the best toast combo. Someone's texting, yeah, that is. Don't question the gourmet nature of it. Sorry, I shouldn't have. Ganesh Raj, listening to all these,
he's going to pick the best toast combo.
Someone's texting,
cream cheese, chopped ginger, apricots and walnuts.
Cream cheese, ginger.
Now you're having a laugh.
Oh, wow.
Cream cheese, ginger, chopped apricots and walnuts
on a piece of Vogel's.
This comes through.
We'll go to James from Rotorua.
Morena James, the BTC. Morena, James, the BTC.
Morena, gentlemen.
The winner-winner chicken dinner is Kinner on Toast.
Oh, there you go.
Winner-winner Kinner dinner, as it would be.
Kinner dinner.
You've got to have real butter, though.
None of this margarine.
Okay, and Kinner on Toast.
Kinner on Toast, mate.
Give it a whirl.
Okay, thank you for your entry, James.
Always love talking to you.
And we're going to end on a bit of cuteness.
We're dripping for wind here.
We need some cuteness on this. So we Van,
12-year-old Van, how are you?
Yeah, good.
You're BTC, Van?
Pardon? You're best toast
combo. I should stop using the acronym. No one knows
what it means. It's not taking off.
Peanut butter and jam.
Peanut butter and jam, yes. It's a good one. I. Peanut butter and jam. Peanut butter and jam, yes.
It's a good one.
I love peanut butter and jam.
Peanut butter and jelly, as they would have in America.
But, yeah.
I always find that peanut butter acts as like a dehumidifier for your mouth.
Saps every last piece of...
I was supposed to have jam with it, you know?
Yeah, and a layer of moisture.
Like cod roll.
When you have cod roll, you're like,
where has every bit of moisture in my body gone?
Peanut butter does the same thing.
All right, those are the entries.
Ganesh Raj
will jump on next and award
New Zealand's best toast combination. You can still
text through. It's not too late.
Marmite and Mie Goreng noodles
on toast has just come through.
Some wild combinations coming through.
We've got Ganesh Raj from Eat Well for Less. He's
on hold listening to these. He's going to award New Zealand's
best. Some to Mull over.
Nutella and strawberries on toast
has come through more than once.
I bet you that would be good on a crepe,
but on toast I could try that.
My brother eats macaroni and cheese on toast
at least three times a week.
Carbs on carbs on carbs.
Oh yeah, some mince on toast the next day.
So good.
Speaking of, I've witnessed my dad eat
mince steak and garlic bread on toast.
He's put bread on bread.
I imagine you then witnessed him having a cardiac arrest afterwards.
I love it.
And I eat cucumber eggs and strawberries on toast.
Another one as well.
It feels like if you've got the bed of toast, it's the Wild West as to what you put on it.
You can put on them.
You know, I really need to branch out some more.
Kelly, you're on.
We'll take a couple of last minute entries.
What do you want to suggest?
Hamsteak with some cheese and barbecue sauce.
Oh, hamsteaks.
How old are you, Kelly?
14.
14.
See, you can eat that at your age.
You know, you get to my age.
Hamsteaks and barbecue sauce and cheese sounds magnificent
every day of the week I could eat that
but I'm not making it to next year
you enjoy it while it lasts
Kelly
we'll get Ganesh Raj on from Ewell for Less
wonderful show last night
Ganesh welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast
Hey bro how are you guys?
Always love talking with you Ganesh mate
always trying to get people to tighten their purse strings, aren't you, buddy?
Hey, healthier?
Tighten your purse strings.
Don't eat anything.
John, for you, that sandwich would be a toast with nothing on it and maybe no toast.
No toast.
Take away the toast.
Yeah, so, I mean, obviously, you're eating well for less on the TV show.
How many of these combinations you've heard so far would sort of tick that box?
Well, like when you said Nutella and strawberry, I was excited.
I was hoping a 14-year-old said it and not a 65-year-old.
Right?
Because that's an awesome combo.
Like, you know, when you're young, to me, it's like the equivalent of going to your first dance party.
It's like you're young, you're excited.
Nutella and strawberries!
Check it all out!
Strawberry is outstanding.
I love the steak.
I mean, the young kid with the steak and the barbecue sauce, the ham steak.
I mean, you could load yourself up before school on that.
Yeah, another one coming through right now.
Mayonnaise, marmite, and tomato sauce.
Oh, my goodness.
Listen, let's not judge.
Let's not judge.
All right?
All I'm saying is, not for me.
Not for you.
But your job is to judge.
Your job is to judge today, Kanish.
You've heard all the combinations.
What do you think has been the most winning?
Well, I'm going to go.
I'm going to definitely go with, although there was, what was the think has been the most winning? Well, I'm going to go, I'm going to definitely go with,
although there was,
what was the mince
with the garlic bread?
Oh, yes.
Let me just
get back to this one.
When does my dad
put mince,
steak,
and garlic bread
on toast?
I mean, look,
I want to respect
the dad for living life
to the max,
but like you said, bro,
that's got to be
his last one.
That's got to be his last one. So let's go to the max. But like you said, bro, that's got to be his last one. That's got to be his last one.
So let's go with the strawberries.
I think the strawberries
and the Nutella is a good time.
Don't do it above the age of 25.
Oh, there we go.
Age restrictions.
I love it.
Age restrictions apply.
And then I think we can go for the steak.
And then we've got a person
with the three sauces.
I mean, look, I respect what you're doing,
but you need a little help.
I love it.
A little bit.
Ganesh, so good.
We appreciate your time this morning.
And you can catch Ganesh on TV every week
on Eat Well for Less on TVNZ.
Thanks, boys.
From stealing Mike Hosking's car
to stealing the hearts of New Zealand.
Jono and Bean, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Actual hearts being not bestowed.
Over the last year or so, 12 months or so,
I've become increasingly aware that everything is covered in filthy, filthy germs.
Have you become hyper aware of that now?
Or have you kind of buttoned off since the COVID months?
I guess everyone kind of buttoned off a little bit now.
We don't want to get too relaxed in New Zealand, but they were talking about that on Seven
Sharp last night, how during that, when it was really quite scary here in New Zealand,
everyone had gone to the next level.
Now we're sort of, you know, we're not fully relaxed.
We're not wiping our bottoms as much.
I remember we were panicked by all the toilet paper.
Well, you know, we're scanning in places and we're taking care,
but it's not quite the panic that it was.
You're a good scanner.
I'm trying to be, you know.
I'm sorry, shamed on the new, you know, like.
And he didn't scan in.
So who knows where he went?
Especially over the weekend too, you know,
like on the weekend because I did travel around, you know,
in Hamilton and Taupo and I'm like, I'm scanning in everywhere.
Yeah.
I'm scanning in, but you know. you don't want to be the like he contracted and
then went to everywhere in the North Island yeah yeah and even like we took an Uber and I
you know we thought we'll put the face mask on because it comes up on the app you know
and they've got it and the guy goes oh you're from Auckland eh
I was like yeah we are how to tell you're from Auckland without saying you're from Auckland.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
No, I've become, you know, the hand washing,
you can cut it down from 20 to maybe 14 seconds now.
We can button off a bit.
All right.
But I have become quite fastidious.
I was pretty relaxed with washing my hands up until last year.
But now I've become quite fastidious at doing it in all bathrooms, public bathrooms
and stuff as well but
you know the humble hand
dryer comes in many
varieties and
the one that we use
here in the work situation
it has the
strength of an 85
year old with a collapsed lung
just
like
barely even removing Here's the strength of an 85-year-old with a collapsed lung. Right.
Like barely even removing a drip from your hand.
It is very lacklustre.
It is.
And then you walk out of there with moist hands,
and moist hands are weird.
Yeah, especially because sometimes you do see people at the lift.
You walk out and you see the lift, and you see people,
and then people go, oh, hey, how's it going?
And they go to shake your hand, and you're like,
oh, I've just gone and had a quiet. I know, but that's the, you always want to leave with bone dry hands.
Yeah, but you don't.
Because then you have to over explain why your hands are wet.
So it's the only time you have to explain, well, my hands are wet because...
Yeah.
I just washed them.
Okay, yeah.
Do you remember that weird, it was quite a fad for a while there, about 10, 15 years or so,
the weird piece of revolving cloth you would use to dry your hands.
So you'd pull it down.
Oh yeah, I used one of those in the weekend.
And you'd dry your hands and then you'd pull it.
Who knows where it goes when it goes back up?
Does it just do a constant loop?
Oh, you wonder if it's just doing a loop.
I love that revolving cloth.
Yeah, because I'm like,
how big is this system?
How often has this cloth changed?
Yeah, it does feel like it's a little bit,
now you think about it, you're like...
Because we just all assume once it disappears back into the white box
that a new piece of cloth's coming out.
I wouldn't say so.
You're drying your hands with someone who dried it 20 minutes ago.
Yeah, so I mean, give me the collapsed lung hand dryer
any day over a revolving piece of mysterious cloth.
Five words for 5K on the hits.
You're only five words away from a massive payday.
It's our game of word association.
We play it every day around about this time.
Five words for $5,000.
You match your words with our words, you win five grand.
Yes, it's the competition that's got everyone talking, apart from those that haven't heard
of it.
They're not saying anything about it.
But Susan, I tell you what, in Hamilton, it's on your lips, isn't it, mate? It sure is. Good morning, guys.
Lovely to have you on, Susan. You sound bright and bubbly. What do you do for a job?
I work for the Department of Conservation. Do you know, I was about to say you work in
nature. I said you sound like a nature person. Not a naturist, just a nature person.
Yeah, yeah, good, good. We're so in sync already, John.
Yes. Oh, does that good, good. We're so in sync already, Jono. Yes.
Oh, does that mean that you're going to want to choose Jono
to go inside the soundproof booth?
I do.
I feel like we've got a connection now.
Well, haven't you just?
Yeah.
Wow.
I haven't been in the soundproof booth in a long time.
It's been a bit, we almost rebranded it the Ben Box.
Yeah.
But I'll head in there now.
All right, he's gone over there.
That was an unusual start by that, but hopefully that bodes well for this game. You right, he's gone over there. That was an unusual start by that.
But hopefully that bodes well for this game.
You obviously know how it works.
Yes.
All right, Jono is almost inside.
He's inside there right now.
So I can tell you your first word this morning,
five words for 5K, is tuxedo.
Tuxedo.
I'm thinking.
It's all right alright you can think
Tuxedo
Suit
M&M
is
and it's not the chocolate M&M
it's M&M the other M&M
the famous M&M
Oh you mean like the singing
rapper guy? Yeah I was going to say one of those words,
and then I was like, oh, maybe that's leading you into a word that you might say,
so I didn't.
I'm rapper.
Rapper.
I'm going to go with rapper.
That's what I was going to say, that even I'm the rapper,
and then I thought, well, that's probably the obvious thing you'd say,
so I'm sorry for making that weird.
It's okay.
Uber is your next word this morning.
Uber.
I'm thinking eight this morning. Uber. I'm thinking
eats or car. Yeah.
You're right. You've got Uber as in
the car, Uber as in food.
Do you reckon Jono's a bit of an Uber Eats
man? Really? We did do
a campaign for Uber Eats. We were part
of an advertising campaign, but yeah.
A few years ago. I don't think he's an Uber guy. I reckon he's probably got a chauffeur. Let's go Uber Eats. We're part of an advertising campaign, but yeah. A few years ago.
I don't think he's an Uber guy. I reckon he's probably got a chauffeur.
So let's go Uber Eats.
He probably gets
the chauffeur to pick up the food as well.
Sandwich
is your fourth word this morning. Sandwich.
Bread.
Bread. Good, good.
I feel like you're playing this game really well.
Yeah, definitely. And celebrity is the final word.
Celebrity.
I'm thinking famous.
I think you've done well.
Wow, yeah.
Famous or person.
What are you going to lock in?
I think I'm going to lock in... Oh, my gut's telling me to go with, what do
you reckon, Brett? Famous. Famous. All right. We'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth
and see if we can match five words for $5,000. Let's do it. Oh, let's do it. Let's do it.
We're feeling all pretty hopeful. Yeah, good.
Good.
Now, Susan, working for the Department of Conservation.
Not conversation.
We're the Department of Conversation.
That's what we work for.
We do have conversations too, yeah.
Yeah.
I was staring at a plant through the soundproof booth glass door,
and it looks almost noxious nuclear green,
and one of those plants that will grow in about two days and come and attack us.
What is it? Who drops these plants in the
studio? We've always got
plants in here. Lovely little thing
isn't it? It's a lovely little thing.
What are you going to spend the money on Susan? We're going to
win this for you.
Because we're going to win it, it's my daughter's birthday in a couple
weeks. First birthday. Yes I made
it through one year.
So probably should get her a good present, you know.
There we go.
A $5,000 present coming for a one-year-old.
Oh, don't tell her that.
All right, here we go.
Here is your first word this morning, Jono, to see if you match up.
Was Susan a tuxedo was the first word.
Tuxedo suit.
Oh, well done.
Well done.
Susie, Susie, Susie.
We got this, Jono.
It's a good start.
I feel good.
M&M is the second word.
Now, it's not M&M chocolate.
It's the other M&M.
The wrapper.
M&M wrapper.
I wasn't sure if that was your answer.
Yeah, and when I say M&M wrapper,
I wasn't meaning the wrapper to the chocolate.
No, no, you're talking about M&M, the wrapper.
The artist. The artist. Okay, that's good. We're two from five. to the chocolate. No, no, you're talking about the rapper. The artist.
Okay, that's good. We're two from five. It's a good start, Susan. The next
word this morning is Uber. Uber.
Go Uber.
Uber ride or Uber
eats.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go Uber.
Uber eats.
Oh! Oh!
Yes, darling, yes!
Oh, Susan!
All right, we're two words away from $5,000.
Do you know a little thing?
When I just mention two,
I can tell when one of them is one of them
because Ben won't look me in the eye.
His eyes move everywhere else apart from me.
It's hard, isn't it?
It's hard.
Take it all in, Jono.
Now, Producer Humphrey's coming.
He's got his cannon ready.
Yeah, he's ready to go.
He's dusting off the confetti cannon.
Fourth word this morning, sandwich.
Sandwich.
I'm only going to say this because we were talking about it just 20 minutes ago.
Well, we were talking about toast, so I was going to go bread.
Oh, jeez
lincoln with me john o'd lincoln i'm lincoln baby i'm lincoln okay okay okay we're gonna put susan
on on on hold down the line so uh she can't whisper away. The final word this morning, $5,000.
Celebrity.
Celebrity.
Celebrity?
I'm not looking.
No, he's staring away from me.
He won't look me in the eye.
Much like that night we spent together.
You know what went on.
Celebrity famous?
No! Are you serious? Are you serious? No!
Are you serious?
Are you serious?
Susan!
$5,000!
You're getting a great present this morning!
$5,000!
No one's more surprised than Jono!
Oh my God, Susan! Can I drink already,000? Yeah, no one's more surprised than Jono. Oh, my God, Susan.
Can I drink already, guys?
Can you have a drink?
Are you in a celebration of bubbles or something?
You deserve it.
You've got five grand.
Wow.
Thank you so much for the hit.
Oh, that's so cold.
Technically, it was probably more me than the hits.
Don't make it about yourself.
If you're going to thank anyone.
Why has she gone the hits?
Well, mate, are you going to stump up the cash?
No, John, I do need to thank you.
We were in sync today.
Oh, yeah, for the ego.
Shit, that unexpected.
Yeah, I don't know. I literally said while the song was playing,
good luck, Susan, you don't have a hope in hell.
Didn't I say that to you, Juliet?
You did.
And you had a hope in hell.
Oh, you did. $5,000
Susan. Congratulations.
The hits, you are amazing.
Oh, that's so awesome. And that's as simple as
that. It's easy. Morning, cash
in a car up for grabs in 30 minutes
time. Hire-in-law is back and everyone's
pretty excited about that. And speaking of
cash, everyone's pretty excited for
Susan, who not but quarter of an hour
ago just won five words for $5,000.
Susan!
Good morning, Jono and Ben and the Hits.
Oh, yeah, how are you feeling? Just about 15 minutes ago, you won $5,000.
It's still a little bit surreal. Like, you say the money amount, I'm like, OK.
But actually, when you think about it, you're like, holy crap. And what have you
been doing? Have you been wandering around the
house? Well, I'm just holding
my daughter and I'm like, you know, I've got to feed
her and stuff and I feel like
it's so below me now. I'm like, can I
feed someone else?
It's not below you. You can feed your
one-year-old caviar now.
Can I? Yeah.
You've got $5,000, Susan.
It's incredible.
John, I just, you know,
you were in sync from the start
and it just worked for us.
It was weird.
It was weird
because then we asked you
what you did for a job
and you said you worked
for the Department of Conservation
and I thought you sounded
like a nature person.
Yeah.
What a day.
What a day.
What a great start.
Just like that.
Especially after you guys giving away, like trying on Friday.
I was like, you know, you went through so many people.
I know.
We're all a bit surprised by the fact that it happened so soon.
Yeah.
No one's more surprised than our boss Todd Susan.
You don't give him my number.
No.
He's already been on the phone to our producer Bee H, and there's going to be a meeting after the show.
But that's what happens.
Five words.
Being Humpfrey said, you put the cash up, you've got to pay out,
and that's what we're going to do, Susan.
That is incredible.
Thank you so much for that.
Oh, what a day.
And we're off to swimming soon, so.
Oh, it's a win-win.
Do you mind, just one last question,
if we deliver that $5,000 in $5 installments over a five year period.
Yeah, no worries. I'll take the
interest on that, Jono.
Ben and Jono call this
show Jono and Ben. Breakfast
on the Hefts.
Joe Bros, did you know
there was another internet hole I got lost
in? Facts about the Jonas Brothers.
And I got
one was telling how he lost his virginity.
Oh.
Yeah.
On the set of a Disney film, nonetheless.
It wasn't part of the movie.
It wasn't part of it.
It was in the DVD extras.
Oh, okay.
And there's an extra.
There's the fourth Jonas Brother, right?
What do they call him?
Bonus Jonas.
Bonus Jonas.
Yeah.
That's so good.
Sorry, speaking of the Jonas Brothers,
I did see an article this morning.
The Jonas Brothers, it's revealed they were abandoned
in the middle of nowhere by an angry bus driver
for 12 hours, Kevin revealed.
I haven't read.
Kevin revealed.
I haven't read much further than that.
Such a Kevin thing to say.
But that's the headline about the Jonas Brothers today.
Were they not nice passengers?
Oh, I don't know.
The bus driver.
I remember our school bus driver did that on the way home from school once.
And there was a child who was pressing his bottom cheeks against the backwood.
Was that you?
No, it wasn't me this time.
I didn't get caught doing it anyway.
And he pulled over the bus and kicked him out.
I was like, his parents are not going to be happy about that.
But you probably couldn't do it.
The bus driver would get in trouble for that now, wouldn't they?
They'd be like, cancel the bus driver.
You can't leave a kid on the side of the road.
Well, you can.
And he did.
Yeah, well, he did back then.
Now you couldn't.
Hey, yesterday, my gate at home is broken.
It's the gate that keeps the dog inside.
And I never knew how it functioned.
It's helpful for keeping the dog in the property.
And you.
Yeah, well, yeah.
You can wander astray.
We had to take it off to get it fixed because it's not working properly.
And as soon as it was gone, I was home yesterday afternoon,
three people over the course of an hour.
Knocked on the door door I'd be like
oh this is
this is
yeah there was
one was like
for a church
the other one was for
like a charity
you know charity thing
I'm like
oh my god
this gate has been
keeping
you know like
bring it back
it's amazing what a gate does
don't know
it really turns people away
I never
hadn't had that before
like I'm home pretty much
most afternoons
doing stuff
and I'm like
oh my God.
I guess the dog's normally, you know, there by the gates.
Don't you hate when people knock at your door?
You're like, if it's someone you don't know,
that you're not expecting, you're like,
this is just going to be a pain in the ass interaction.
Yeah.
Isn't it?
I mean, they're all doing, you know, some great stuff.
Are they?
Yeah, they are.
What does the church guy want?
What was he wanting to do?
He was wanting me to read some stuff.
So I was like, yeah, I could read some stuff.
They hand you over a free book and you're like, thanks, mate.
But then you've got to, you know.
Yeah, that was fine.
It wasn't like signing up to anything.
But the other one was trying to sign up.
And it looked like a good thing.
But I wanted to do some more research.
But I felt like that was a fob off.
Can I do some more research on it?
Gee, you've really got to have a can-do attitude
as a door-to-door salesperson.
Oh, yeah, full respect for what they do.
They just get knocked back every door they knock on.
You know, you get that one golden egg, don't you?
It must be, yeah, you're right.
When you knock on the door and you're like,
all right, here we go.
Make a numbers game.
Here we go, here we go.
All right, keep it together.
Here we go.
Hi, how's it going?
And then the wind's just taken out of your sails
every property you visit.
I know, so good on them.
They're doing more with their life than we are.
Yeah.
You know, and it's good.
And they're doing it for good cause.
Yeah, but it was so far,
because I did actually want to research,
because I thought, well,
I'm not going to hand over money monthly.
It's something that I hadn't heard of.
I want to kind of research a bit more,
but I felt like that was a fob off.
What you're going to research is
how can you get this gate fixed quicker?
No.
How can I get this done today?
No, no.
And leave these people out of my house.
The Google Games.
Yes, thanks to Google for bringing us this game.
And thanks to Google also for not releasing
my internet history publicly.
I do appreciate that.
Oh, Google.
Yeah, true.
The things Google have on that. Oh, Google. Yeah, true. The things Google have
on everyone.
Google knows you.
We were having this conversation
with Craig,
who is one of our bosses.
He's saying you're never more honest
in any stage of your life
than you are
when you're typing stuff
into Google.
Yeah.
You know,
you ask Google things
you would never even dream
of asking your friends
and loved ones.
True.
He knows everything.
Yeah. It's disturbing to think.
And the internet was down overnight as well, so we're lucky to be
even playing this game. Well, yeah, this is a game
that we couldn't have played overnight for an hour
or so. The Google Games, you just give us a call
0800 THE HIT to ask us a question.
We've got 10 seconds to try and Google the answer.
If we can't do it, you win. We'll head to North
Canterbury, Rangiora. Angela, you're on.
How are you? Good, how are you? Doing well, Ang. You're up bright and early, heading off to work, are you? it, you win. We'll head to North Canterbury, Rangiora. Angela, you're on. How are you? Good, how are you?
Oh, doing well, Ange.
You're up bright and early, heading off to work, are you?
Yeah, I am.
What do you do, mate?
I work for Early Childhood.
Oh, lovely.
Lovely.
Gee, some days you must be like, this is a tough job.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know, I remember when I dropped the kids off to daycare,
I was like, you people are saints.
Yeah.
Really are.
Well, keep up the good work, Ange.
Yeah, it's different when it's not your own children, I think.
All right, we've got 10 seconds to find the answer on the internet.
Julie, you can do the Googling.
What's the question, Ange?
What does Thin Lizzy do to make scars and marks disappear?
What does Thin Lizzy or the makeup company do to make scars and marks disappear?
Scars, marks, disappear.
Oh my God, I can't say I disappear.
Is it like a magic ingredient?
Oh God.
Oh.
I don't even think there's an answer.
Oh no, there probably is.
I think there kind of is, but
kind of isn't. Do you know the answer?
Well, they use a concealer
first. From
what I can see and what I can
Google, they use a concealer first
to be able to make those marks disappear.
Oh!
Time to wake up and
get busy!
I remember that jingle. That was a hell of a jam.. You're Thin Lizzy. Lizzy.
I remember that jingle.
That was a hell of a jam.
Yeah.
Do you use Thin Lizzy, Angela?
Not a concealer.
A powder I use.
Are you a Thin Lizzy customer, Juliet? No, but I used to be back in the day when I first got into makeup.
Because it's kind of on the lower price.
So that's what I could sort of afford.
Sort of body shaming Lizzie there, aren't we?
Finn Lizzie.
Why can't you just be Lizzie?
Anyway, hey, well done.
You win.
Thank you.
Hell pizza.
We'll get those over to you.
Tyrone, welcome to the Google Games.
G'day.
Lovely to have you on, Tyrone.
Ben, you can do the Googling here.
Okay.
And Tyrone, you can do the question asking.
Okay. And Tyrone, you can do the question asking. Okay.
What is the only car never to have been bought new by a woman?
Only car never to be bought new by a woman. Hey, mate, this is my Googling, don't you?
Don't you?
Why is it so hard to find?
He's bamboozled us.
You have, you have.
Is there an answer to that?
Yes, it's a Honda NSX supercar.
It has never been bought.
Originally, it was never bought by a woman.
New.
New?
Wow, that is some extraordinarily useless information you know there, Tyrone.
Yeah, but the internet didn't know it.
Well, at least didn't know it in 10 seconds, so you win Hell Pizza.
Oh, thank you.
Have a good day.
Well done.
That was a great question.
It really was.
Thank you for playing the game.
I didn't even have to try and stall on that one.
I was actually trying to find it.
It's when they have too many words in the question.
That's the flaw in this game.
You know how to trip us up.
Scrolling through your feed.
I'm going to be honest with you.
If this is where you come to get your daily news updates, then that's very concerning.
And I would suggest you re-evaluate your news sources.
But in the meantime, here's my friend Ben with what's been happening overnight.
Yeah, and overnight, quite a lot was happening.
Well, actually not happening on the internet.
So a whole lot of national and international news sites
crashed for about an hour last night,
overnight our time,
obviously not overnight overseas.
And so the New York Times, CNN, the BBC
were all offline for up to an hour last night.
And then back home here in New Zealand,
Trade Me, TVNZ On Demand and Radio New Zealand
were just some of the sites
that were no longer accessible.
There's moments like these
where you really go,
we are beholded to the internet.
We talked about the cable
the other day, right?
We've just got a single cable
that runs from America
and I think Australia
to our country.
Yeah.
It's just lying at the bottom
of the ocean.
I know.
If that cable gets unplugged
or something happens.
That's our internet.
Yeah.
The internet is down.
You're right.
That feels very archaic for 2021.
To have all these sites down, you mean?
No, to have a cable rolling along the bottom of the ocean.
It does feel like, yeah.
It's like an extension cord from the US.
Or boys in New Zealand.
Yeah.
You think now there'd be like satellites or something that would, I don't know.
Does America know we're tapping into their internet?
So they're paying a monthly plan and we're just sort of logging on.
We're getting a little bit of it.
Is that when you get on your parents' Sky Go?
Do you do that?
And then it gets, well, the internet in America's gone a bit slower now
because they've used up their data.
New Zealand's used all the data.
Do you know 4.3 billion people used the internet last year?
How many people in the world?
Gee, that's a good question.
4.3, because you imagine most people over the age of, I don't know,
even like toddlers and stuff would use the internet.
True, true.
You'd think, you know, they'd watch a show or something.
65% of people who use the internet are on their mobile.
That's interesting.
Wow.
That's interesting.
Okay, so the population of the world is 7.6 billion.
Okay, so it's 3 billion people not, roughly.
Yeah, not using it. That's still a lot of people not using the internet.
Yeah, 3 billion.
Well, if you think about the areas in the world
that probably don't have internet connection
or in areas of poverty and things like that,
they probably don't have phones or things like that.
Imagine showing them the internet.
They'll be like, oh my God.
What would be the first website you show someone or the first video you show someone who's
never seen the internet?
Oh, it's really hard.
There's some goodies.
The goat one from New Zealand the last week.
It's a beeping goat.
Oh, that's quite good.
That's a goodie.
Sneezing pandas, quite good with the pandas. You know, you want something that's just like. Oh, that's quite good. That's a goodie. Oh, sneezing pandas,
quite good with the pandas.
You know, you want something
that's just like,
hey, yeah, you know.
Dog soldier combo.
Oh, yeah.
Haven't seen each other
in a few years.
That's emotional,
but yeah, there's some goodies.
Yeah, there's a lot.
Charlie bit my finger.
Oh, yeah.
What would be the website
you'd show them?
You'd be like Ladbible,
Juliet.
You know me too well.
Have a look at Ladbible.
Have a look at this stuff.
Look at this.
It's so funny. Out of all the lads on the show, the only one who look at Ladbible. Have a look at this stuff. Look at this. It's so funny.
Out of all the lads on the show,
the only one who looks at Ladbible is Juliet.
You too.
It's so good.
It is so good.
You're like,
you're a sensory something.
You're like,
it's Ladbible.
It's the other Ladbible.
I love Ladbible.
And that is scrolling to your feed this morning.
They're proud of New Zealand.
Go New Zealand.
If only New Zealand was proud of them.
Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Now we're celebrating Lego's new video app
and we've been set a bit of a Lego challenge.
So the Lego video app lets kids set stages,
pick songs, band members, design album covers,
heaps to do with music and Lego.
It's a really cool thing
and you create your own music videos
with some of the actual songs from Taylor Swift, Billie Eil to do with music and Lego. It's a really cool thing and you create your own music videos with some of the actual songs
from Taylor Swift,
Billie Eilish,
Sam Smith,
and plenty more.
Yeah, don't tell that
to the music video directors.
They'll be quaking in their boots,
won't they?
But we've set ourselves
a bit of a challenge
because we have 300 boxes of Lego
to give away
and it's a competition
between Ben and myself
to see who can build
a 3,662-piece piano first.
Now, did you take yours home last night and begin?
I did. I started last night.
But jeez, there's a lot of bags inside that box.
I opened up that box and a large part of me died inside.
And then I spent probably 15 to 20 minutes going,
how can I cheat this scenario?
And there's no way around that.
No, because the piano actually functions.
Like, if you make it properly, you can actually play.
You can actually play on the Lego piano.
That's crazy.
Which is pretty impressive.
It took me an hour and a half to get to the end of bag one.
Yeah.
So that's sort of sitting on the dining room table at the moment,
and the kids are chipping in, Jen's chipping in.
It's good when you do that, because you can sort of use child labour,
which is frowned upon by many.
But in instances like novelty radio competitions, ideal.
It's a race between the two of us to see who can quickly,
well, who can make this grand piano the fastest.
It's going to take a while.
It's going to take a while.
One's going to be rooting for the North Island,
the other for the South Island.
Whoever wins
gets 300 boxes of Lego.
Great price.
It'll be satisfying when it's done.
Oh yeah, it's not a fight.
I like doing it. I did it through lockdown
a bit of Lego and it's quite nice. You're sitting there and you do
some stuff but
I get to my limit about an hour and a half
two hours into it and I'm like, okay that was really fun
I need to move on because you don't want to get to the frustration stage.
Everything might not be as awesome by the end of the week,
but we'll keep you updated.
And, hey, this thing might be given away hopefully by December.
Spy.
The What's Up Spy.co.nz.
Now to the youngest and least wrinkliest member of the show,
producer Juliette with Spy.
So Kiwi actress Robin Malcolm, she's most well
known for playing Cheryl West in Outrageous
Fortune, has found herself in a bit
of hot water in MIQ.
So she has come back from
the United States and in quarantine
in Wellington, despite having both of her
COVID jabs,
which I found interesting.
Oh, so even if you're vaccinated, you're still
quarantined? Yeah, well apparently she's had both of them. That's interesting. Oh, so even if you're vaccinated, you're still quarantined. Yeah, well, apparently she's had both of them.
Oh, right. That's interesting.
Because I wondered that, whether people were coming back,
if they've had both their jabs, would have to quarantine.
Yeah, I imagine eventually they'll have it on.
Eventually, yeah, totally.
But she's been posting updates of her MIQ experience on Instagram,
and in one picture, she posted a photo of a couple of bottles of wine
and a lit candle that she'd been gifted
from friends but the miq staff saw this on her instagram called her up and said look we're gonna
have to confiscate your candle because you're not allowed to light candles in miq and you're only
allowed you weren't allowed to light a candle in that situation i know it's so random and then
they're like you're only allowed one bottle of wine a day, so we're gonna
have to, you know, this is just, they didn't take
the other bottle of wine, but they said this is
just a warning. But who's to say that wasn't
wine from a couple of days before?
Exactly, that's a very good point.
It is.
If I was here, I'd be stockpiling for a big old
binge.
I know, she wasn't very happy.
She posted a video on her Instagram
revealing all this.
Big Brother's clearly watching.
Watching us naughty little eight-year-olds
who can't keep our own
candles for fear that we might do something
naughty like light them
again or perhaps
drink too much. Well,
Big Brother,
if you're still watching, there's my
breakfast. I mean, I should be so grateful
because there's no hair on it today.
Absolutely
savage.
I
does she pay $5,000
for that accommodation? Do you have to do that?
I think if you're staying less than
six months.
Those lines, yeah.
As long as you're going to be in New Zealand for more than six months, then you don't have to pay, I think if you're staying less than six months. Yeah, same thing. Those lines, yeah. Yeah, so as long as you're going to be in New Zealand
for more than six months,
then you don't have to pay, I think.
I think that's right.
Well, if you're, yeah,
I mean, if you're paying $5,000,
you'd be like, I'll light a candle.
In fact, I can light the curtains on fire if I want.
I'll burn down the building
and you'll be able to rebuild with my $5,000.
No, I imagine it's a long two weeks.
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
And in a more sort of lighter note slash for this is definitely what I would be keen on,
Harry Styles Day Spa is now a thing.
You know how you got your Gwyneth Paltrow candles?
Oh, they're all into health and well-being, aren't they?
Peddling their good health and well-being wares.
And Day Spa has opened up a Harry Styles special edition for $150.
You get candles that smell like him, a Harry Styles special edition for $150. You get candles that smell like him,
a Harry Styles branded skincare facial,
watermelon body scrub.
Of course, Harry Styles music is playing in the background.
And you get a picnic style lunch at the end,
which doesn't feature olives or beetroot
because Harry doesn't like those.
Right, and so his DNA's been used for these candles?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
What Harry are we smelling?
Is this after Jim Harry?
Is this I've forgotten
to shower on the weekend Harry?
You'd want it to be
a fresh smelling Harry
wouldn't you?
Wouldn't you?
But $150 for super fans
if they want to spend
that money on having
a Harry Styles pamper day.
How many songs
has Harry Styles got?
Are you doing a cheeky gook?
I'm just doing a cheeky gook here.
He's got about...
He has a lot if you're counting One Direction, too.
Yeah, he's probably got about 20-odd.
But, you know, 20 songs on loop?
If you're working in the day spa...
You drive you nuts.
I always think that when you go to the gym
and you hear the same music when you're in the gym.
Then you're like, the poor people who are trapped inside this gym.
Yeah, that's true.
You know, measuring watermelon sugar high 19 times a day.
While rubbing someone's face.
Yucky.
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you can head to thehits.co.nz.
Paid to talk words
and stuff into a microphone.
It's New Zealand's breakfast.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
Just hearing the news,
around 30,000 nurses today
walking off the job,
striking between 11 and
7 today. They're saying basically burnout, exhaustion and better working pay and environment
would be helpful.
So no episode of Shortland Street tonight?
Well, no, that'll still be happening, but a tough job, I imagine.
Oh, tough job. And they've put their health at risk every day, not just over the last
12 months. It's heightened over the last 12 months, obviously,
but even previous to that.
Yeah, exactly.
Every day these people are on the front lines,
so pay them more.
So hopefully that all gets worked out pretty swiftly.
As well as that, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern,
announced yesterday, also on medical news,
that one million doses of Pfizer vaccine
will be delivered to New Zealand in July.
She was breathing a sigh of relief,
because I imagine it's like when you order something online
and then you check in and you're like,
has it been sent yet?
It's like when you ordered that LeBron James singlet, remember?
And it turned out it was all a internet scam.
Oh, no.
Yeah, when he first signed for the Lakers
and they hadn't even made LeBron James singlets,
but I was like, be the first to get it.
LeBron James didn't even have a LeBron James singlet.
No, he didn't for the Lakers.
You could have been the first.
I was like, yes, I'll be the first
So it's exactly the same as that
Well, yeah
Jacinda ordering millions of vaccines to save New Zealand
And Ben ordering a LeBron James
The comparison is real, people
Exactly
Real Kiwi blokes
With soy lattes
Shono and Ben
Breakfast on the hits.
Mark Ronson actually engaged Meryl Streep's daughter.
Just been announced.
Did you know that?
So there.
Oh, that's wonderful news for Mark Ronson and Meryl Streep's daughter.
Who knew that was a thing?
Do we know Meryl Streep's daughter's name or we just call her Meryl Streep's daughter?
That's how I know Meryl Streep named her.
Listen, you're never going to be bigger than me. You should be known as Meryl Streep's daughter? That's how I want Meryl Streep named. Listen, you're never going to be bigger than me.
You should be known as Meryl Streep's daughter.
But I want my own.
No, no.
So Ben's named his kids Ben Boyce's children.
Actually, speaking of my daughter,
one of my daughters, Andy.
Ben Boyce's children number two.
Yeah, Ben Boyce's daughter number two,
as we like to call her.
I don't know if you've ever had an argument
or a discussion with a kid.
It's very hard to win those. They're very clever. Oh, but genetically, they shouldn't be able to beat it. I don't know if you've ever had an argument or a discussion with a kid. It's very hard to win those. They're very
clever. Oh, but genetically they shouldn't
be able to beat us. They shouldn't be able to outwit
us. And when you do get
outplayed in an argument situation
by a child, you feel like the same feeling
that when you get scammed on the internet. You're like, I shouldn't
have let that happen to me. I let my guard down.
Exactly. My daughter Indy
made a great point over the weekend.
So we went away.
We're talking about yesterday.
We went down to Taupo for the weekend,
and we checked into our little hotel room,
and the room had a little extra little room that the kids had just off to the side, a little connecting room.
They call it a cupboard.
Yeah, pretty much.
And as we were checking in, the lady on the reception was like,
oh, there's a little room for the two girls like that.
And Indy went, oh, will we be able to hear
dad snoring in there?
Publicly she's in.
Publicly.
Public shaming at reception.
A little bit sassy,
but I thought it was quite funny.
And I was like,
oh, that was a bit cheeky.
Like, yeah,
giving Indy a bit of grief like that.
And she was like,
well, what's your fault?
And I was like,
what do you mean it's my fault?
She's like,
well, you helped create me.
You made me who I was,
who I am.
So if anything anything this is a
reflection like basically of your parenting my parenting i was like oh you can never come back
from that that means that anything that happens now is on me so that's very good that's such a
good point from her i know i was like oh but sassy but cheeky no she's only six years old
she's actually been older she She's nine. Nine.
I'm a shocking uncle.
I tell you what, they grow up quick.
They do grow up quick. And they're forming pretty solid arguments.
But also, that's a very good argument, putting it all back on me.
But then you can also shift the blame to Amanda.
Well, true.
Because you're 50% not all just Ben Boyce's daughter number two.
Shouldn't have named her that.
She's always going to hold a grudge. Yeah. So I was like, all, just Ben Boyce's daughter number two. Shouldn't have named her that. She's always going to hold a grudge.
Yeah, so I was like, oh, yeah.
So now it's a slippery slope.
You've had the win over them, you know, psychologically for 10 years or so.
But now the tables turn.
I know, really.
I didn't expect this to happen so soon.
But, yeah, as you say.
I say we get revenge when we're sorting ourselves when we're 86.
Exactly.
That's when we get our final laugh.
And I'm going to have a high-fiber diet, kids.
You just strap yourselves in.
Thank God she is not in charge of North Korea
because she's about to unload some more bombs.
Truth bombs and spy his Jew.
So one of our favourite people has come out of hibernation like a bear at the end of winter.
Lord, finally after four years, she's teased some new music.
Her people, not her specifically yet, have posted a new album or single cover called Solar Power.
It's very different vibes to kind of what she's done in the past. You know, she's always worn, like Bee Humps was saying, our producer
before, that she always wears
quite, like, dark clothes and is quite mysterious
and this looks like a very bright new
thing. It's also quite summery, isn't it? Yeah,
yeah, so that's very exciting. The album cover's
got a shot of her legs, doesn't it?
Yes. Do my legs look
as magnificent?
Uh, I don't know how to
I don't know how to...
Okay, so if I did the same shot,
what would your reaction be?
No!
Juliette, I heard that.
She vomited a bit in her mouth.
I'd be like, good on you.
Good on you for doing that.
Good on you for doing that.
Good on you.
Good on you for doing that.
Yeah, a lot of whiteness.
Wouldn't there be a lot of white...
A lot of whiteness in my thighs?
I thought it was good
that she had some
sort of rash shirt on too.
She had long sleeves
and a rash shirt
which was great.
Sensible.
Sensible.
Gotta say,
sun smart in New Zealand,
don't you?
Yeah, dude.
No word on when
it's going to be released though
but everyone's
very excited.
Yeah, it is.
And in other news,
the Friends reunion.
So the director
has come out
and said that
the intro was almost ruined by a backstage blunder.
Yeah, so if you watch the reunion, you'll know that at the beginning,
every cast member, or the main six, walked onto the set one by one
and reunited on the set for the first time in ages.
And there was emotion and there was tears.
But basically, the director noticed that all the actors dressing rooms slash trailers where
they sort of hang out in the car park were all right next to each other and so that meaning that
they'd see each other in the car park before seeing each other on set and he's like no we need
to have this moment where they reunite for the first time on the set and it's filmed so what he
did was that um they built he built tents and gazebos over each trailer
for every star so that
they wouldn't see each other before going
on set. And so they had to bring
Because it was a lovely moment. It was probably one of the best moments
of the Friends reunion was seeing them
one by one.
Why didn't he just text them all and go, hey
I just wanted you all to meet for the first time on camera
just stay in your trailer. Instead of
renting gazebos.
He did say that.
And they were like, what?
Why?
There's no point.
He did actually text them.
But then he said, no, we want to capture this moment on camera.
So if you could stay in your gazebo, stay in your trailers,
and just wait until we call you.
Because he wanted them quite separate, obviously, right?
And then they put them all together.
Yeah, yeah.
Good move.
Could have booked them on different flights.
Well, true.
You arrive at 10, you arrive at 10.15, you arrive at 10.30.
There were cheaper options than gazebo rental costs.
I was also reading that because he came up with a lot of ideas for their reunion
and he had to sort of pitch it to the friends almost individually,
get them across the line.
So David Schwimmer was first and he kind of got him on board over Zoom
and then he sort of helped, David Schwimmer helped pitch the ideas,
a lot of the ideas to the other cast members.
Then he had to go to a house with Courtney Cox
and one of the other, I think Matt LeBlanc and stuff
and sort of get them across the line
sort of one by one to all the concepts.
Oh, for all the concepts within the reunion.
Within the reunion, yeah.
Right, right.
Because it's kind of like a unified thing
they all had to agree on, which makes sense.
You'd want to chip in at the weak link first, wouldn't you?
Yeah, yeah.
Obviously Ross Geller was the easiest.
Yeah, Schwimmer got David Schwimmer on board, he was all right. Once Schwimmer's on, he can get the rest first. Yeah, yeah. Obviously Ross Geller was the easiest. Yeah, Shroomy got David Shroomy on board.
He was like, all right, man, you've got to help me.
Once Shroomy's on, he can get the rest on.
Yeah, totally.
And then at spy, for more, you can head to the hits.co.nz.
Broadcasting live.
And mostly awake.
Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits.
Talking yesterday about New Zealand's most annoying children's toy,
a lot of people have them scattered around the household,
and we've both embarked, and I'm not saying it's annoying in any way, on a 3,662 piece Lego
marathon, Ben. You and myself are racing to build their Lego piano, one of the biggest
Lego structures.
Over 3,000 pieces, right?
Yeah. Now, there was a time in my career where, you know, stunts were jumping off buildings
or skateboarding through fire. Now it's building Lego.
Yeah.
And that's what things have become in 2021.
It's safe.
It's healthy.
Unless I swallow the pieces.
Yeah, well, don't do that.
Don't stand on them, but keep them on the table.
And we're battling it out to see who can make it first.
So yesterday I brought to the show my daughter's microphone poppy,
and she wanted me to recorrect.
I said she was gifted it for her birthday.
It was a Christmas present.
And it was an echoey microphone that I ran into dead battery state yesterday,
annoying everyone around the office.
It turns out no one wants to hear John Owen's surround sound,
particularly the colleagues as well.
So that was the front runner for New Zealand's most annoying toy.
Ben, you've brought another one to the party today. colleagues as well. So that was the front runner for New Zealand's most annoying toy.
Ben, you've brought another one to the party today.
Yeah, this was a card that my wife got given a few years ago, like a birthday card. And you know how sometimes you get birthday cards and you open them up and they play something,
they play like a tune, sometimes happy birthday. Well, this one had an audio recording,
which we've loaded in. This is what happens when you open the card.
Step away from the cake. It is loaded with carbs and sugar.
I repeat, step away from the cake.
It will go directly to your thighs, arms, and chin.
Step away from the cake.
That would have been fun for the first, you know, one to six times.
Yeah.
Because you'd show everyone, oh, look at my card, look at my card.
And then how many times would it take until-
Oh, we had to hide it from the kids because kids would just go step away from
the cake you had to hide the case it was like step away from the card guys step away from the card
uh well someone actually around the office has uh bought one in this morning uh which is the
flat chalance piano uh which is a uh oh so it's like a little like a keyboard keyboard uh maybe and i
would i would put that more in the burping category yeah it does sound like it maybe it's like a gas
piano yeah just gas in general so all the notes just play different yeah or like a troll sort of
clearing its throat or something like that but anyway anyway. I think Ludwig van Beethoven might have been classically trained on the flatulence piano.
I think if you look back in the history books.
Yeah, so what we want to do is open this up.
0800 THE HITS.
All week we're going to be running this competition.
New Zealand's most annoying children's toy.
If you've got it, if you've got it nearby, give us a call right now.
0800 THE HITS, or you can jump
onto our social media as well and post the video too.
My son's actually just texted,
he's quite a fay with the flatulence piano
that we demonstrated moments ago, Ben.
He's playing at a grade 4 level, I think,
at the moment, on the flatulence piano.
He's also learning the saxophone as well, and I tell you what,
that's a journey until
you become Kenny G.
But he said there's a mode button,
because we were like, oh, it sounds quite just gassy,
as in burpy, but you can...
Oh, I see, so you can change that.
You know, all of your favourite sounds from the body
that it can emit.
That might be up there as the New Zealand's most annoying toy.
I tell you at the moment,
and it's come through a couple of times on the text as well,
is the little poppets that the kids like.
They're like bubble wrap.
And they're not that loud, but it's just a constant in our house.
It's a constant sound of popping.
Just popping.
But when you've got it, oh, it's satisfying.
Who turned the idea of bubble wrap into a commercial commodity like a poppet?
I know.
Gee, yeah.
It's those ideas where you're like, why didn't I?
Why didn't I? I know, because, ah. I know. It's those ideas where you're like, why didn't I? Why didn't I?
I know, because everyone's quite satisfied
in doing bubble wrap.
You know, when you pop, pop, pop, pop,
and you know you've got that in your hands.
Listen, we're going to chuck Paula on from Tokaroa.
Welcome, Paula.
How are you?
Hi, good, thanks.
How are you guys?
Yeah, lovely to have you on,
as we always ask to anyone we speak to in Tokaroa.
How's the giant statue of the man holding the chainsaw?
It's still standing.
Good, good, yes.
No, it never changes every time we ask.
What's New Zealand's most annoying toy?
I've got this really annoying four-year-old minion fart gun
that battery just never stops.
Now, that wasn't actually the toy.
No, it was.
This is Todd after a long lunch.
Todd, our boss. Who's Todd? a long lunch. Todd, our boss.
This is Todd.
He's Jono after too many beers.
You're getting roasted by this.
I think it's New Zealand's best toy right now.
You can have it.
I'll send it to you.
Four years and the batteries haven't died on it, Paula?
No, and it's like screwed in so tight you can't even get to batteries.
I think there's like a miniature minion in there eating cabbage or something.
Yeah, she's in the trenches, Paula, with the...
Okay, we'll enter that in New Zealand's most annoying toy.
Thank you.
Okay, you're in the running.
Loray, welcome from Auckland.
What would you like to enter?
Oh, a recorder.
It's a recorder.
Sorry.
Yeah, we bought a recorder for my three-year-old girl
and I bought it out and here it is.
Well, as soon as you have a recorder, it comes out.
It just becomes one of those things that, again,
when it's in your hands.
Yeah.
Now, would you lump it in the toy category, though?
Well, it can be a musical instrument or a...
Because I've got one as well, Loray, in my bag,
which infuriates Julie as in being in the studio.
Maybe, what's your three-year-old's name?
Erin May.
Let's do a duet.
Oh, no, that's not...
Because you've never learnt a song on the recorder.
One day, I'd like you to actually learn a song
for someone who owns a...
I'll take Erin Ray's lead on this.
Okay, Erin May, ready?
Go play.
Okay, it's a no from me. You're not going through the next round.
I'm sorry. You're right. At least
I would have learned some tune on it.
You're right, Ben.
It would be nice one day, too, right?
I think the recorder is worthy of going in the competition.
Yes, I think so.
It would be remiss of us to not include it.
Hey, well, thank you very much.
We'll take one more really quickly.
Mia from New Plymouth.
Welcome, Mia.
New Zealand's most annoying toy.
Have you got it?
It's her phone.
It sounds like a phone hanging up.
And boy, listening to that for hours on end would really get to you.
Okay, you can still enter online at The Hits Breakfast on Facebook and Insta as well.
Wednesday morning.
Good morning.
We've got a brand new MG SUV with cash in the back.
You want to win this amazing car and all the cash that's stashed in the boot?
You've got to guess to the exact cent how much cash is in there and you take home both.
Now, you may be thinking, well, this thing has gone on longer than my drunk uncle's speech at a wedding.
But it's really getting zeroed in on, isn't it, Boss Todd?
It is.
We're playing higher and lower and everyone's worked out how to play that now, which is fantastic.
Yesterday, we started literally thousands away, and by the end of the day, if you're playing along,
and remember, I get death threats if I do everyone's homework for them.
Good, that seems reasonable.
Fair enough.
We got within maybe $100.
Wow. Deviation
Oh really?
The range
If you're playing along and you're clever
Okay
So I said to Boss Todd
Could you name the two figures that are sitting in between?
He said no
We're not going to make it easy
Because that would frustrate those that have been following along
Yeah because you kind of want to reward people that have been doing their homework right?
I mean it's luck to get through
So someone could just catch up today and get through.
But obviously, we will publish at the end of each day, the next day, the previous guesses.
And then if you're listening to the higher and lower, you will kind of start heading in the right direction.
Do you think it could go today?
I think it could.
We are so in the zone.
We're literally, it's just a matter of someone going bang, getting lucky.
And I think it's going to come down to, I don't discount that everyone lands on the right dollars
and that it's a battle over the cents.
And we're back to the world's biggest coinundrum.
Now tell me, are we doing higher and lower today?
Yes, forever.
Forever.
Until we come home, until we get rid of the MG.
Well then, it stands for, my goodness, that's a nice automobile car.
And we could be giving it away in just a few moments.
It's just getting more exciting every day.
It's Boss Todd down here in the Hits Garage.
It's MG's Cashin Car.
We've got Tynem.
Hello.
Hi, how are you?
I'm really good.
Excited for you.
You've got through.
That's maybe the hardest part, I know.
It is.
Okay.
Have you been playing along for the clues?
Yes, yes, I have. I've been playing along for the clues? Yes, yes, I have.
I've been playing along for,
ever since it started, basically.
Fabulous.
All right, it's higher and lower.
We had a big day yesterday,
and I hope you followed them.
But right now,
if you tell me exactly how much,
down to the cent cash I've got in the back of the MG,
I'm going to give you the car and the cash.
Yay.
Yay, aren't I a good bloke?
All right, tell me.
Tell me nice and slow and loud.
Okay, so $15,984.24.
I can tell you've definitely been playing along with the clues, Tynum.
Yes, I have.
It is not your lucky day.
No.
But I have some key information.
You said $15,984.24.
And I'm telling you and everyone else, it's lower than that.
Lower?
Lower.
Ooh.
There you go.
All right.
Hey, have yourself a fantastic Wednesday.
You can play again
We'll talk to you at 11.30 on the hits
Please welcome
Dwayne the Rock Johnson
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne the Rock Johnson
For 10 years
Dwayne the Rock Johnson
Has been Ben the Pebble Voices hero
He inspires me
Now Ben's challenge
Can he get on
Dwayne the Rock Johnson's Instagram?
It's been five weeks
Do we have to keep
Reflecting on this? Do we? The people are on the journey with us But Instagram. It's been five weeks. Do we have to keep reflecting on this?
Do we?
The people are on the journey with us.
But the journey, it's finished.
We've got to the end station.
We've got off.
We've gone, oh, well, that was a fun trip, eh?
Oh, what you didn't know is that
the government has funded more for the city rail link.
They've extended the train track,
so the journey has continued on.
Everyone's got to get back on the train.
So what happened?
Explain to people who have just tuned in to the show,
they're like, what's going on?
Well, Ben Boyce is a huge fan of Dwayne The Rock Johnson
to a point of unhealthy obsession, some would say.
But I had a dream to create Ben's dream
and make that a reality.
And that was to get on Dwayne's Instagram account,
be noticed by you.
Yeah, be noticed by The Rock.
And you said a good way of doing it was hold up his tequila,
because he posts about his tequila on his Instagram
and get a tattoo,
I heart Dwayne The Rock Johnson on my behind.
You lived up to your end of the bargain.
I did.
The only one that's letting us down is Dwayne The Rock Johnson.
We put a video online and nothing, nothing so far.
Nothing, no.
But every Wednesday,
which Wednesday our time,
Tuesday in America,
he does Tequila Tuesdays.
Yeah, we call it tea day here in the show.
We do a weekly update,
it's five weeks down.
And he's done another montage of shots
of people enjoying his tequila.
All around the world,
and the answer's no.
I didn't make it.
I've just been through it.
It's the first thing I do on a Wednesday,
even though I've been through them all.
You don't have to do this. You know what frustrates
me Dwayne the Royal Johnston? Do you know what frustrates
me? Is that you put up
sub-par content.
People just sitting in their lounge
like slobbing out on a
couch drinking your tequila.
We went into a tattoo par.
Maybe we went too hard. A man
permanently marked his body with your name on it. Maybe you went, oh went into a tattoo par. Maybe we went too hard. A man permanently marked his body
with your name on it.
Maybe he went,
oh, that's a bit far,
even for me, you know?
Like, maybe.
Well, Julia, it was like,
was it too professional?
Yeah, I almost think that,
you know, like,
he's probably like,
oh, super fan,
like, annoying, you know?
Don't go.
Punisher.
Maybe we went too professional.
Don't encourage him.
It's the first time in our careers where we've ever gone, have we went too don't encourage him yeah it's the first time
in our careers
where we've ever gone
have we gone too professional
because it hasn't happened before
it hasn't
but I think
I think the journey's
still in there
we're still in there
it's gone
but you never know
like we've gone in so deep
with all these hypothetical
situations
where like
all the social media team
they've probably got a backlog
got them
they've probably got a folder
of them
that they roll out
over six months
and that's what's happening.
You're going to be featured.
It's gone now.
I thought that for a while.
That was like,
oh, maybe, but no.
They would have systems in place.
It's not just him running the account.
No, someone got a birthday,
an individual birthday shout out
on his Instagram as well.
Was their birthday seven months ago?
Was she part of the backlog?
That was nine years ago.
Finally got around to posting it.
She's now 82.
So yeah,
we'll continue on.
We'll keep you updated.
It's done.
It's done.
It's not done, mate.
It's done.
It's done.
Do not, Ben,
don't give up on me.
It's done.
It's done.
It is the hits.
You got Jono and Ben.
Jono and Ben
on the hits breakfast.
Friends of Skinny.
Happy, happy, happy, oh.
Oh.