Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Is Food From The School Tuck Shop The Best In The World?

Episode Date: February 9, 2022

Ben's daughter Indie reckons the pizza she buys from the tuck shop is the best pizza she's ever eaten. Even compared to a gourmet one! We also spoke about the most amount of money you've made off Trade Me off an item that would surprise us. Finally, we gave away our first $5000 of the year with 5W5K! Lucky Ryan from Marlborough matched all 5 words with Ben. Enjoy the show!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Heads, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, good morning. Jonathan and Benjamin here, the 10th of Feb. Or as they say in a game of bingo, nearly legs 11. Oh, what is legs 11? Legs 11 is 11, isn't it? Oh, it's just 11, eh?

Two legs. Two legs, yeah, I gotcha. I don't know what they would refer to. What do they refer to, number 10? Oh, in bingo they call number 10 the Boris Den. Boris's Den. Boris's Den, number 10. Oh, because of the rhyming.

Yeah, gotcha. Does it look like Boris's? Not Boris Johnson, I hear. No, not number 10 Downing Street, which he's been up to all sorts of stuff in that den. Yeah. Hasn't he? Yeah, there's a lot of parties.

A den of iniquity. Yeah. How's things been? Not bad, not bad. Good crazy morning this morning. No, you know, this is stuff behind the scenes. We're recording a lot of stuff off air.

Yeah. Which really puts the pump on air. You know, you're doing all this stuff off air. I think 29 interviews we managed to record in the space of about 15 minutes

this morning. Yeah, we had a couple of interviews come through. Yeah, that could only happen during certain moments of the show that weren't going to record in the space of about 15 minutes this morning. Yeah, we had a couple of interviews come through, yeah, that could only happen during certain moments of the show that weren't going to play on the show. So, yeah, you're right, it really throws everyone. I can't even remember who we spoke to, or what we said, or what we asked them. I don't know what played on radio, or what's in this podcast, but hopefully it's some good stuff.

Although I do know we had a winner for five words, so that was a pretty cool moment. Yeah, we spoke to a lady who made $50,000 on trading this week, over 50 grand. Yeah. And how she made it was, I think, a lesson to us all about what could be hiding in your backyard. Yeah. How much money, you know.

I know. If you actually did some digging and took the time to take items and put them online and sell them. You can actually, yeah. That's the thing, I don't have that. We've got mates who go around to garage sales. They make a killing. I'm not good on them, but that's what they want to do.

It's all of you can be fucked doing it. Yeah. You know? Yeah. You don't seem like a guy who's... I like to get rid of stuff. It's amazing how much stuff, we put it outside the front of our property,

it just gets picked up. Like, you know, put out like an old, they're still in good conditions and stuff, it's amazing how much stuff, we put it outside the front of our property, it just gets picked up. Like, you know, put out like an old, still in good conditions stuff and you're like, cool, gone. Oh yeah, we chopped. It's like,

I haven't been to the dump in years. We chopped a tree down the other day and my friend, this is the same friend who goes to the garage sales, he's like,

put it out the front of the house. I was like, no one's going to pick that up. He's like, put it out the front of the house within three minutes.

Yeah. I don't know, is there like an alarm that goes off? I know, it's like a beacon it out the front of the house. Within three minutes. Is there like an alarm that goes off? No, it's like a beacon circulating constantly with vans going around going, oh yeah, chuck that in. Number 12, Stanton. Beep, beep, beep, beep. So you've got to be quick on the game if you're hunting

around the side of the... Well, I love the berm. The berm's a wonderful part of our society where it's fair game. You know, dump anything on there, take anything from there. It does feel like you don't want to put anything temporarily on a berm. But then you're responsible for the berm. Anything could take place on

the berm. It's kind of like out in the ocean. The berm's an almost lawless society, isn't it? The humble New Zealand berm. Do you mow a berm? Are you a berm mower? Yeah, I do mow the berm. I don't have a lot of Are you a berm mower? Yeah, well, I do mow the berm, and I don't have a lot of lawn to mow, so the berm is the biggest

part of my lawn to mow. No, your house is 98% fake grass, isn't it? Yeah, so that's pretty much keeping a mower for the berm. Artificial grass. Yeah. Now, my dad, he mows all the berms in their street. That's what you do when you've got nothing left to do in life. Right. You're mowing a lot

of berms. Lovely, isn't it? I think he's almost mowed half of Christchurch. What? Well, yeah, I was talking to someone the other day, and he was saying what he does is he mows his lawns, but he mows the other couple of neighbours' berms, and he reckons they'll reply and they'll return the favour. Yeah, you do bounce back.

He gets the next two mows done from the neighbours, because they go, oh, he's done ours. Yeah. He's done his one.'re going to do his one. So I was like, that's a good play. It's a conversation that need not be had. Yeah. Oh, he's done my berms, we're going to do his.

So he gets both sides of his house, he'll get the next two weeks mowed by the two sets of neighbours. Yeah. I also find driving down the street, you can instantly tell how the neighbourly relationships are going on when you see a berm that's halfway up the berm but then cut off straight down the middle. That's me, I've done all my, it's all you

on that side. You've just left this line. Like a Berlin Wall. You're really putting your stake in the ground there, aren't you? But then sometimes you're like, I've just died, you know? Yeah, you'd be a half-birm guy. You wouldn't go the full bermim if there was an option.

You'd have that weird line of, oh, go to. It's all you, mate. I've done my part for the street. Anyway, we also spoke to a wonderful guy, Ryan, who made, he reckons, over $4 million on Trade Me. That's on the podcast today. Jono and Ben. Now, we've got a bit of beef with another show that plays at the same time as us. Yeah's on the podcast today. just premature puppies. No, the AM show on three with Ryan Bridge

and, you know, an all-star cast. Yeah, you've got Melissa Chan-Green on there, William Wairua, Bernadine Oliver-Kirby, all the big players in media. And they had a promo for their TV show, the new TV show, playing all through summer for the AM show, and we saw it, and we were like, well, why don't we use

some of their promo and put ourselves into it to promo our show? Oh, yeah, you know, radio's run on the smell of an oily rag. We don't have the big budgets for the showbiz pizzazz, razzmatazz, Ben. So, Juliet, you did a wonderful job of editing us into their advert. In 2022, there's a new way to wake up. There is indeed, Ryan Bridge.

It's waking up with Jono and Ben on the hits breakfast. Sorry, mate, we couldn't afford to film our own promo, so... Yeah, so we did this. We put it out there, and then they approached us, and they were like, hey, we want to talk to you live on our TV show. About what you've done. This happened yesterday morning. We're like, great, this is a great promo for us.

We'll get our show out there. Yeah. And we thought, oh, we we're just gonna be showered in adulation adulation uh well done guys clever stuff you know we did seamless cinematography you've done there um but no it was the opposite uh they sent in a pizza uh and have a listen to what played out this is live on television hey guys it's World Pizza Day and we wanted to treat you to a pizza. This is from our friends at Alvolo. Get into it, don't be shy. Have a taste on TV. How's the flavour? It is delicious. You're sweating mate, what's wrong? Is there a bit of spice

on there? Yeah. So I think in about one to two minutes, Jono and Ben will be in the toilet. Hold on. Is this a prank piece? Yeah, well, of course it is. We couldn't speak to Jono and Ben and not have a prank. Yeah. It is spicy. I'm just going to go, hang on.

Why would you do this to us? It was crispy pancetta and I cooked it in chilli oil and then we got that. Oh, didn't you? What? So, yeah. Pranked. Pranked pizza.

A spicy pizza. Live on the show. Pranked by the news. Stay in your lane. The news. I'm going to have to build a Ryan Bridge and get over this. It's going to take a very long time. And I know there's a lot of anti-mandate protesters outside Parliament right now.

I hear they're all travelling to Auckland to stand outside the AM studios to demand a public apology. From the AM show to National Heroes Jono and Ben. Brutally pranked. Oh, brutal, brutal. Mind you, suspicions probably should have been raised when they offered us breakfast pizza, Ben. It's traditionally not your breakfast time food, is it? No, no. But yeah, so well done.

Well done. Now it's back in our court. Yeah. What did you say? You said it was like an Anchorman style. We'll have to fire a shot back now. Hey, coming up next in Scrolling Through Your Feed. The most awkward thing happened at a wedding overseas.

This is super, super awkward. We're going to talk about this next. It is the hits. Scrolling Through Your Feed. All right, time talk about this next. It is the hits. Scrolling through your feed. All right, time for our morning update of news and vague information. Ben Boyce, what's happening in scrolling? Sad news again for the music industry, where Jim Beam, Homegrown, and WOMAD yesterday cancelled.

Obviously, they can't take place under the current settings because you only have 100 people and events like that. So, unfortunately, I think for the second time ever, there's going to be no Jim Beam Homegrown in Wellington, which is a real shame. Yeah, and it's a wonderful event, Jim Beam Homegrown, and it brings a lot of, stimulates a lot of the Wellington economy, all of those wasted young people turning up for the weekend, doesn't it? Yeah.

We heard an interesting story the other day about festivals and the government scheme where they give money back to the festivals. And rightfully so. These people, they deserve it. Yeah. Because they're out of pocket millions. Because you might wonder, well, why aren't they pulling the pin a month ago when the government announced there's going to be a huge Omicron outbreak? That would be the logical decision. But they have to pull out within a certain time frame

away from the event to be eligible for the government rebate, if you know what I mean. So if they pulled out four weeks ago, the government would have gone, oh, that's not inside our four-week threshold from when your event was going to take place, so you don't get your money. So that's

why a lot of them have to go up to the wire. And that's why we end up doing some unusual interviews with artists, and in the back of our mind going, well this is never going to happen. But I guess things could happen, things could change. That's why I love you, you're an optimist. You're a positive guy. Who knows, you get told one day not to wear this mask, and the next day you're told

to wear this mask. One day you're being told there's going to be 59,000 cases tomorrow, and the next day it turns out there's going to be 59,000 cases tomorrow, and the next day it turns out there's only five. What's happening out there? And a story from overseas that will make your jaw drop. A father, so the father of the son who was getting married,

so the father decided on his son's big wedding day that it was the perfect time to tell the son's mother that he wanted a divorce. It happened on the wedding day. I do need a jaw reconstruction after that. My jaw is on the floor. So the parents of the son got divorced on the wedding day. Oh, that is so sad.

Apparently there'd been a lot of friction. The son took to Reddit overseas to sort of explain what's going on. He's caught in a bit of a difficult situation because he was like, hey, his dad wasn't happy. They had a lot of argument. There's a lot of things going on. You could hear them arguing on the wedding day about the fact

and the mum's like, yeah, I can't tell you if I love you more than my job. So obviously there was stuff going on. Oh, she's prioritising work. Oh yeah, so unfortunately he handed her the ring. He said, here you go.

We're divorced. And that was it. That's so sad. And now the son's kind of caught in a difficult situation with his new, you know, his new wife because she's like,

oh, they caught him. And you've got to rearrange the seating too. Mum and Dad are going to be at separate tables on the other side. Yeah, so only, you know, if you think of things that happen on a wedding day, well, that's one straight out of the top drawer. Nothing quite like the tension of a divorced couple

turning up to a wedding, is there, a divorced parent. Couldn't he have just waited till maybe the next day at the aftermatch function? There's less importance on that. Everyone's like, oh, God, I don't want to be here anyway. I guess. At the aftermatch function. There's less importance on that. Everyone's like, oh God, I don't want to be here anyway. I guess so.

But I guess in that moment, it's like, all right, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. Your job, you're putting your accounting

ahead of the marriage and it's never going to work. And that is scrolling to your feed, some of the big news from New Zealand and around the world coming up next. We did a good deed, very early good deed,

but the police came knocking. Yeah. Well, that's next. That is the hits., very early good deed, but the police came knocking. Yeah, well, that's next. It is the hits. So Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, we are doing 28 good deeds in 28 days. All through the month of February, we're trying to do, you know,

enough good deeds to have one per day. Yeah, we're trying to spread the good cheer and not at the same time spread Omicron. That's our main goal for the next 28 days Isn't it Ben? So this morning Up early at Sparrows And doing a job that in fact I did at age 12

I was no good at it then And somehow got worse at it as an adult But it was delivering the newspaper And so we had a whole bunch of newspapers We got the hivers vest We had the yellow sort of strap. We got the high-vis vest. We had the yellow sort of strap bags with all the papers in there. Looked like Oliver Twist or something. We had a delivery route we needed to go to, all the places that required the

papers. And this is what happened early in the morning. Okay, it's 28 good days in 28 days. And this morning we're delivering papers for the New Zealand Herald. Yeah, the only people who are up and about right now are people just stumbling out of bars, vagrants, eh? Hide Hide So yeah the police sirens came appropriately Because I was looking inside car windows too But just for comedy purposes For the video Throwing papers onto lawns that I'd have to go retrieve

Putting them in ones that said No papers you know No circulars It was all just for the camera We always fix it up off camera But that was the good deed this morning And if you want us to do a good deed for you You can just simply text 4487

Tell us what the deed is We've got 28 of them to knock off This is only the second week mate Do I need to keep reminding you You wanted this to drag on for 12 months Oh yeah true Next though on the show We've got some false information

that we need to retract. Jono said something yesterday that was totally fine. And I need to make a public apology. Yes, to a great New Zealander. I need to make a public apology. Something took place on the show yesterday that I stated as fact and truth.

And I believe you have some audio of. Yeah, we're talking about the new movie, The Power of the Dog. It was filmed in New Zealand, filmed in Otago. It's on Netflix. It's a Western movie. Jane Campion, New Zealander, she wrote it. She directed it.

She's been nominated. 12 Academy Awards. Yeah, it's up for 12 Academy Awards. And here's a little taste of the movie. I wonder what little lady made these. I did, sir. So, yeah, Jane Campion, she's already got an Oscar for Best Screenplay for The Piano. She was nominated for Best Director for that as well.

And this one, she's up again. Well-deserved. And you were like, well, let's find out some more information. Well, I thought it would be quite good to delve a bit deeper into, you know, Jane Campari, Campadere, and get some more. Because we don't know much about her. You know, we know she does the stuff. She kind of goes off the grid for about 10 years,

comes back and wins more Oscars. That's her life cycle. She's brilliant. But you found out this information yesterday on the internet. Live on the radio. I looked on the internet. Five interesting facts. You read out the first fact. Have a listen. There's five facts she never knew about Jane Campion being boys. Did you know her name was originally Jane Champion? And she got the age, how New Zealand is this? She got the age removed by the New Zealand government in 1987. But she is Jane Champion. She is Jane Champion. She she says, I don't want to be.

She is our Jane Champion. Any other facts? Well, there's four others, but I felt some disdain towards my five facts. My five facts. I'd love to hear these. Let's do these tomorrow on the show. I'd love to hear more facts about Jane Champion.

An internet wormhole. Now, I must admit, it wasn't the power of the dog, it was the power of the internet, and I was fooled. I got trumped. Really? Donald Trumped by fake news. So she was never Jane Champion. Oh, that's was fooled. I got trumped. Really? Donald Trumped by fake news.

So she was never Jane Champion. Oh, that's so sad. I can't remember what she was. Now we need to call her Jane Champion. It turns out she wasn't Jane Champion. You know, sometimes in radio, words just come out of your mouth, and you've just got to keep saying words. That's what it is, and you don't have time to check facts.

Maybe if I was a better broadcaster, I would have checked the facts before we'd gone to Airbnb, but that wasn't the case. So it disturbed me that someone's taken time out of their day to write five facts you didn't know about Jane Campion that are all made up. That's why you didn't know those facts. Not even Jane

Champion knows these facts. Unsettling. Like, who is doing this? What monster is doing this? So as it turns out, yes, Jane Champion was never a name and she didn't get the New Zealand government to change it. It was Jane Champion 1987. You know, alarm bells should have been ringing.

We should have all picked up on that one, right? I blame us. Juliet, you're on here. We're all going down together. So what I thought I'd do is I'd read out the remaining facts. The untrue facts about... Well, this is when I, after the show, I read these and I was like, remaining facts. The untrue facts about... Well, this is when I, after the show, I read these and I was like, hold on.

Jane Campion was also nominated for an Oscar for her work in The Piano. The film was all about the fun adventures of a piano in the New Zealand rainforest. That is such a yarn! Like an animated piano. Everyone in the movie was depressed except for Harvey Keitel,

who was allowed to wander around naked the entire time. Although she was born in New Zealand, Jane Campion tells everyone Australia is better. Oh, my God. And she tells everyone she's actually Australian and being Australian is way cooler, especially because that D-bag Peter Jackson has ruined everything. This is written by an Aussie.

This is written, yeah. Yeah. This is getting fake an Aussie. This is written, yeah. This is getting fake, propaganda out there. So yeah, I've got an apology to make to Jane Champion, Peter Jackson, and you, most importantly as well.

I mean, you don't come here for made-up facts, do you? No. I don't know what you come here for, but it's certainly not that. We appreciate you sticking around in between the made-up facts. Well done, though, to Jane Champion. 12 Oscars. We do know that's a fact. She's up for that. We appreciate you sticking around in between the made up facts. Well done though to Jane Campion, 12 Oscars.

We do know that's a fact. She's up for that. If she wins all 12, she will be Jane champion. Coming up, we've got some spy entertainment news. Yeah, an iconic old film is getting a reboot. No film is safe from a reboot these days. I'll tell you what it is soon. What do you mean?

Oh, that's right. I forgot that I had this intro. It's got an intro. It's a wee segment that we'd like to do from time to time called What Do you mean? Oh, that's right. I forgot that I had this intro. It's got an intro. Yeah. It's a wee segment that we like to do from time to time called What Do You Mean? Where we look at sayings that we all say, and you just say them, and you're like, what do they actually mean? Yeah. Particularly on radio, you just say stuff, don't you?

Well, you do it in particular. You just, you don't know. What does it all mean? What does it mean? Who knows? You get to nine o'clock and go, i hope no one heard the last three hours uh today's saying a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush now what would you use this phrase for i don't know is it something what what conversation are you using a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and like if i wanted to give you advice where would i chuck this into our i think it's i've been we're gonna we're gonna google it in a moment but i think it's

it's kind of saying it's better that if the thing you've got is probably just you've got it rather than looking for something else is it about a risk taking it's yeah i think also yeah yeah like if you've got something secure and it might not be worth two like you the two in the bush might be worth better but at least you've got something yeah I know like don't quit this radio job for something that might not even happen to direct the next movie in Hollywood to go and join my mate Jane Champion in Hollywood you haven't got that yet

yeah right that would be a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush that's what I would think it would mean but you know when you go for the two in the bush those people get they go far in life sometimes you're right the two in the bush, those people get, they go far in life. Sometimes, you're right.

The two in the bush go far in life. So we all get to guess about the origins of this, and then we give you the actual origin of the saying. Ben, a bird in the hand is worth two, whatever it is. Two in the bush. Well, I'm from Marston, whited up a bush, and I think for many years, you know, we didn't have McDonald's there. KFC was the place. And it was, you know, because we didn't have McDonald's, KFC was obviously revered and it was better, you know,

almost meant more. The bird in the hand was worth more, you know, two and one up a bush, you know. So I reckon it's come from Arsenal. So you're saying so one takeaway was better than having two takeaways. Just because it's so great here. It's better, you know, it's more revered. And this is genuinely what you believe is the origins of a bird.

No, I feel like I kind of know what this thing actually means, but anyway, I've just gone for a quirky answer that involved a wadded up a bush. The math doesn't add up for me, though, because one bird is never going to be better than two birds. That makes sense. Unless you're the bird, when you're like, well, man, I want to be one of the two birds in the bush. I don't want to be caught

In some stranger's hands Yeah But that's the I guess that's the saying though Isn't it That the one bird is Yeah it's not going to be As good as two birds

But you've got it You've got it You get rid of that bird You may never get those two birds Yeah So you know But why are you carrying Around a bird in your head

Yeah well that's true It's a gather of times You know Yeah okay Back in the day Let's go Let's go. Let's reveal it.

We've got the internet page open. Okay, here we go. The proverb, like many, warns against taking risks. Hey, we got that bit right. But the origins suggest back that there was a time when you would have a falcon bird and they were worth a lot of money. And the falcon was a valuable asset and certainly worth more than the two you hadn't caught yet. Right. So saying, hold on to that falcon.

Yeah. God, holding a falcon would be terrifying. Oh God, I'd be flustered. Maybe no birds is better on that scenario. Angry falcon flapping away in your hands. And that is this morning's What Do You Mean?

Really interesting, that. What do you mean? We got the latest on a movie, a Hollywood movie that's getting a remake. Yes, and I'm very, very excited for it.

I'll tell you next. Breakfast with Jono and Ben. You on the hits, Jono and Ben, on your Thursday morning. Thank you so much for hanging out with us on New Zealand's Breakfast We do appreciate it, don't we? We do

It's great to have you tuned in Now, we want to open up, once again, our little bit naughty line Now, just to stipulate the T's and C's on this It is a little bit naughty This is not like a full-blown Monday morning district court appearance You know, just some light-hearted stuff but you know stuff that would get you some mild street cred because i want to share a story about what happened to my friend a couple of weeks ago she went out with the gals and it was that time of the evening where your decision-making is severely compromised.

You're right. You're not making sense of the decision. So she's on her way home with her friend in the Uber, and she whispers to her mate, hey, shall we take it back to the late 90s and do a runner? So her mate is looking at her, oh. Because, you know, there was this golden era, Juliet, you probably wouldn't have experienced this,

this uber generation where taxis, if you had the cardiovascular system that was able to, you could run from a taxi. Poor taxi drivers, just trying to earn their dollars. They were, yeah. And it was an era that the law frowned upon and probably the taxi industry. A great story of a friend of ours who, he was in a group situation

and they all decided to do a runner. He was lagging behind and it turned out the taxi driver was a former martial artist. Oh no. Yeah, and I think maybe even competed for New Zealand in sprinting and managed to track him down So she's whispering

She's in the Uber and she's whispering to me Should we do a runner? And her mate's kind of like what what So the car pulls up The Uber stops Boom She is out of the door Like a horse exploding away

From a paddock it's been locked up in Fangs down the road Takes a left through the public park. She's left her mate in the Uber, and the Uber driver is going, she realised that she booked me. She's got her credit card on her name on it. It's all on your credit card. What an idiot. No, not all an idiot.

She ran from a car that she had already paid for. I did not realise. Oh my god. Just the thrill though, I imagine. I imagine it was thrilling. And I think her friend caught up with her at her house like 10 minutes later and she's like, you realise it was an Uber and how Ubers work?

And they're rolling around on the floor laughing. So that's why we want to open up the little bit naughty line. What have you done or what did you do that is a little bit naughty? Things that, you know, wouldn't see you in the district court, but you feel a little bit naughty inside. Like, you know, the other day I took a countdown bag to a new world.

And pulling that out, you know, when someone's helping you pack your thing, you're like, oh, this is a little bit naughty. Yeah, you pull it out and you're like, here's, so I'm going to get a reaction here. And the person who is at the checkout gives zero cracks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A hundred percent of the time. Yeah. They never even raise an eyebrow.

Yeah, you're like. And you kind of like try and wave it in front of their face to get something. You kind of want them to go, oh, your bags aren't wanted here or something. But they don't. They just kind of just go, oh, yeah. Your bags aren't wanted around here, buddy. Okay, that's how the low-level badass line works. If you've been a little bit naughty, 0800 The Hits.

It's the human side. The Hits. Yeah. Sorry, I'm over the other side of the room right now, Ben. Maybe I should be closer to a microphone. You might help. That's what a good radio announcer would do. Just talking about those who have been a little bit naughty.

You know, just told a great story of your friend doing a runner from an Uber. Yeah, and when you break down the admin around that, it's, well, she's already paid for it. It's charged to her credit card. The Uber driver was looking at her going, is that the dumbest passenger I think I've ever taken anywhere? It's like settling your bill at a restaurant and then doing the run of it as well,

just for the thrill of it. But it does make you feel a little bit naughty. So we're going to go to the phones right now on 0800 The Hits. When have you been a little bit naughty? Get Sarah on. Morning Sarah, how are you? Morning team, how are we doing? Oh, we're feeling a little bit naughty. What have you we're feeling a little bit naughty.

What have you done that's a little bit naughty? Well, I locked myself out of a house, and I had to climb in through the window. But we've got some new neighbours, and they saw me, and they ended up calling the cops, and so I had to explain that it's actually my house. Breaking into your own house is a little bit naughty.

Self-breaking and entering. That's so low-level badass it's almost criminal. Well done, Sarah. Thank you very much for your call. Appreciate it. We'll get Hannah on. How's Wellington this morning, Hannah? Yeah, it's good, thank you. Yeah, right. It's always good, Wellington, isn't it? What's the weather like there today?

Windy, of course. Oh, that's what you expect in Wellington. It's always good on a good day. We could have given you that generic Wellington forecast for the next year, but on a good day, you can't beat Wellington. We'll just copy and paste that every day for the next 12 months. Hannah, why are you a little bit naughty? I got a paper plus on my lunch break and read the gossip magazine.

What? And don't pay for them. Don't pay for them. No, I just stand there and read the newspaper and say Women's Weekly. Wow. And it's a beautiful crime as well. It's victimless, isn't it? It's a victimless crime.

Well, except for the Women's Weekly publicators, you know? Yeah. They're probably wanting people to buy them. Oh, man, the internet's been mowing over them for years, hasn't it? I mean, if anything, you're keeping their business alive, almost. Just not paying for the magazine, Hannah. Really appreciate it. That is a little bit naughty.

Wonderful text here. And, jeez, every kid will feel the same. Stacey's texting going, my kid calls his teacher by her first name. That's quite common these days. A lot of teachers get that. The school my wife teaches at, they're all first name basis. Don't you feel so naughty when you're a kid doing that? Yeah, if you do and you're not meant to.

Oh, yeah. Oscar's starting calling me. He's like, hey, Jono. I'm like, what? do and you're not meant to. Oh, yeah. Oscar's starting calling me. He's like, hey, Jono. I'm like, what? Am I you? He just thinks himself from you. I like that. He's not related to me.

Hey, Jono, we're going to. Hey, oh, you're dead. Yeah, just better just be Jono. Just play it cool. Just pretend we don't know each other. Coming up very shortly. I'm new to social media. Ben, you know this

You've got something That's making you anxious right It is making me It's actually keeping me awake at night And it's making me feel like We You and me We're not doing enough

With lives Okay I'll tell you what it is next Jono and Ben You're on the hits Jono and Ben Now I'm new to social media I said just moments ago

I feel like I'm on my Learner's license Juliet have I What are you going yes Have I upgraded from my learner's license There's still a few shaky maneuvers No I would say like prior You were not even on your learner's license

Had no idea Like couldn't even drive a car But now you're probably at the stage Where you could apply for your learner's license I could apply So I haven't even You haven't even got your learners yet you're getting there you know the rules but you're just still swerving all over the road yeah we're still riding around the new old car park at three in the morning with a nervous parent in the passenger seat oh stop uh but i've noticed something uh which makes me a little bit anxious about social media.

And don't get me wrong. There's a lot that I enjoy about social media. One thing in particular is the abundance of motivational quotes. So many motivational quotes. And they always come from some muscly, fully tattooed, tanned guy, shirtless on a bench going, when you have a dream, bruh, you got to grab it and never let it go. And I'm like, you know what, tattooed tanned guy shirtless on a bench going when you have a dream bruh you gotta grab it and never let it go and i'm like you know what tattooed muscle guy you are dead right and there was some almost naked lady with a g-string bikini on telling me to keep my face towards the sunshine

and the shadows will fall behind you i'm like thanks naked lady you know they motivate you so there's a positive side uh to social media but there's also the negative side the dark side that we don't like to talk about and that is it's a platform for anyone to just brag about their achievements do you find that like a like a humble brag situation so yeah it's you know this is back in the day you would have put these achievements on your fridge door with a magnet. And now Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are the world's largest fridge door. You can post all of your great achievements,

and it stresses me out that I'm not doing anything useful with my life. Right. Because there's some 17-year-old called Leon who's been like, I've just been promoted to CEO of the company. And some hot 21 year old specimen called Chad bench pressing a car or something in the gym you know I'm thinking I haven't bench pressed a car today you know

this is a snapshot into how well people are doing in life and I'm like I'm not doing any of that stuff yeah and you're right Juliet it is people's highlight reel you know that's the thing you do need to remember yeah because sometimes you do see all these things you're like oh my god this person's doing all these and they are doing incredible things but it's not like their life's like that 24 7 well maybe some celebrities are i don't know but you

know yeah there are down moments for those people there are moments and those people but they're not postable well that's what i want to say i want to set up a bleak Instagram account where I'm like, oh, nice show group of day today. And four packs of burger rigs done literally nothing. Some people actually do this. There's this model. I think her name is Jade Tunchi or something.

I don't know if I've pronounced her name right. She's a model. She's gorgeous. And she's got an Instagram called The Real Jade Tunchi. I've, again, don't know if I've pronounced that right. But it's like hideous.

We'll all be knowing how to spell that when we type it in. Yeah, it's like hideous photos and photos of her trying to get the right model shot, but she's got a bit of flab there and she's super honest. It's got 150,000 followers. Making it real. Yeah, making a real account.

The other thing I like to think too about is social media. And, you know, Jeff Bezos, for example, he sends his rocket up into space and we're like, cool rocket, Bezosos you look your head looks like a thumb what are you and your penis rocket go off in space and never come back and you know when you think about it this guy is trying to change the human race for better you know he's trying to get us to space we can all go and we're like yeah nice one bezos you're way good yeah you're behind the keyboard sort of thing.

I like to imagine if Albert Einstein was on social media back in the day and he posted his theory on relativity. And it was like, cool haircut, Einstein. Yeah, lame would be the thing or something. Yeah, you're right, brothers. Your plane sucks as much as your moustaches. It's just become a platform to bully people. Yeah, no, it's quite sad.

Hey, Kate Shepard, cool woman suffrage movement. Why don't you suffrage a movement into the kitchen or something? You know? It wouldn't have worked back in the day. What if all of that cool stuff happened? They're probably saying it behind their backs. Next, the unusual reasons some athletes were disqualified from the Winter Olympics. all that cool stuff happened. They're probably staying behind their backs. Yeah. Next, the unusual reason some athletes were disqualified

from the Winter Olympics. We'll find out with Scrolling Through Your Feed next on The Hits. Scrolling Through Your Feed. Time now to cross live to three metres away from me where Ben Boyce is standing by.

How's it going over there, Ben? Not too bad. We love talking about the weather in New Zealand. It's just, it's great. It's great. It gives us something to focus on Ben? Not too bad. We love talking about the weather in New Zealand. It's just great. It's great. It gives us something to focus on that's not COVID-related. At the moment, a lot of conversations about how hot, how muggy it's been.

Oh, it's so muggy. And the muggy weather is... I actually drove to work this morning shirtless, and Ben caught me shirtless in the garage. I can't believe you did that. It's so random. It's such a Jono thing to do. It was so hot. It's because you go for a run First thing in the morning

Sweating I had a jacket on in the car Yeah I know That's the difference You know It's a shirtless Here we go AJR

Bang It is the hits Jono and Ben Scrolling through your feed Time now to cross live To three metres away from me Where Ben Boyce is standing by How's it going over there Ben?

Not too bad We love talking about the weather in New Zealand. It's great. It's great. It gives us something to focus on that's not COVID-related. At the moment, a lot of conversations about how hot, how muggy it's been. Oh, it's so muggy. And the muggy weather is...

I actually drove to work this morning shirtless, and Ben caught me shirtless in the garage. I can't believe you did that. It's so random. It's such a Jono thing to do. It's so hot. It's because you go for a run first thing in the morning. Yeah, sweating. I had a jacket on in the car. That's the difference.

Shirtless. Don't get me wrong, I didn't feel like 100% comfortable or confident driving to work shirtless. You've got aircon, you know that, eh? Yeah. It's better fodder for the radio if I turn up shirtless. What's going to happen tomorrow in the garage, who knows? Very unusual. But the hot, muggy weather is meant to continue over the North Island,

in particular for the next few days. But over the weekend, things are going to get really nasty. A tropical cyclone is meant to hit the Pacific later in the week, and that will impact New Zealand Sunday, they reckon. There's going to be some wild weather. What does that specifically entail? Well, I guess it's rain and wind and stuff. But it might be one of those things.

I'm not a meteorologist. I don't know. It's rain and wind and stuff. But yeah, I think it's one of those stages where it gets to us. It kind of downgrades us. A lot of the times they do peter out, don't they? Yeah. But that's not to say don't get prepared.

But it's probably going to peter out and become nothing. Sometimes I've tied down my tramp. You know, I've done things like that. You do all those things. You're running around. Oh, the hatches are batting down. Put this in the garage. You're like, oh, that was nothing.

But then the one time you won't, you're trampling up. And you're like, bloody damn, the weatherman told me to tie down the trampoline. Has your trampoline ever blown anywhere? No, it hasn't. But you see it on the news. I don't want to be one of those people on the news. Oh, go pick your tramp up for number 12. Sorry, guys. And the Winter Olympics are on on the news. I don't want to be one of those people on the news. I'll go pick your tram up for number 12. Sorry, guys.

And the Winter Olympics are on at the moment, and five female ski jumpers have been disqualified for their ski suits. Now, apparently their ski suits, they were ski jumping, obviously. The ski suits did not meet the rules. They were too big, and they reckon that gives you an advantage when you're in the air because it sort of, you know, slows you down a little bit. Now, they're saying these are the same ski suits we used in another event, but you've now disqualified us from this one.

But, yeah, I guess wind resistance is a great idea too. You could have a little cape, little wings. Well, listen, I don't want to be one giving advice to professional athletes, but I turned up to work shirtless this morning. That's always an option. That's definitely disqualification. I was having no wind to work shirtless this morning. That's always an option. That's definitely a disqualification. I was having no wind resistance in my car this morning. But that sucks.

But then they would have trained, like, for four years. Yeah, and especially if they felt like they'd used it in another competition, it would be fine. You know, just happening a couple of days before another event, you'd be like, well, hang on. Who was the wet sword that were like, oh, this ain't starting up to. Get their measuring tape out. Oh, you.

I feel sorry for them. None of them were New Zealanders. No. Oh, good job then. Well, what? If we need any advantage, we can get. And that is scrolling to your feed. We've got $5,000 on the way very shortly.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. I'm out here watching birds sink in the river, the lessons I've learned. It is the hits. Jono and Ben, 16 minutes away from 8 o'clock. It's our Game of Word Association. We do play it every morning at this time. We tell you five words, you tell us what pops into your head, and if your five words match with ours, you win five grand.

And we're going to welcome to the show, from one of the most beautiful parts of Aotearoa, Picton Ryan. Come on down. Hey, morning, guys. Morning. Morning to you. Now, you, we understand, are the mailman for the Mulvera Sounds and you deliver mail on a boat.

I do, yeah. It's hardly a job, I know. It's good times, man. I just cruise around the sounds and feed dogs and deliver mail. You still get chased by dogs on a boat? They're on a wharf, so they can't get very far. Boats are way quicker than dogs swimming. What's the coolest thing you see out there in the water?

A couple of weeks ago we had quite a fair few orca and they came right up to the boat. Actually one was right next to where the helm is, where my window is. One just went right next to me and exhaled literally just next to me. I've smelt some pretty rank things in my time, but that's next level. Did you get covered in the spray? Yeah, I like calamari, don't get me wrong, but

that was well fresh. Oh, well there we go, Ryan. Well, let's see if we can spray you not in disgusting whale breath, but $5,000 cash. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Ben, you're going, mate. You're going.

He's going. Actually, I've just checked. I've just headed onto the Met service here, Ryan. I've just checked the weather forecast for the Mulder Sounds, and it looks like a heavy downpour of cash is forecast. Bring it. Bring it. We love a good downpour. All right, let's see if you can match your five words with Ben's five words.

He can't hear you right now in the soundproof booth. First thing that comes to your mind when I say Taylor. Swift. That'll be the first thing that comes to Ben's mind as well. He even has a full-length Taylor Swift t-shirt, doesn't he? He does. Does it work sometimes? Yeah. Is it the redemption to a full... Reputation. Reputation, yeah, that's right.

Okay, word number two for you, Ryan. Shoes. Shoes. Feet. Feet. Nice. Flower. F-L-O-U-R Vase Oh sorry

No it's not the It's not F-L-O-W-R Oh you are Flower Yeah the other one It's baking Baking Beautiful

Nice Yeah He's on fire. Thankfully he's surrounded by water, because you might need to put yourself out. Arrest. Arrest is word number four. The police. Police.

Yeah. I've matched all four with you. Cool. So far. Battery. The last word this morning. What have you got for battery? Battery. I'm going to go battery charger. Battery charger. I had charge.

Oh my goodness, that is close. Okay, Ryan, we'll get Ben out of the soundproof booth. Ready. Come on out. Let's see if we can win Ryan anything to do with $5,000. You could buy almost anything with $5,000, as long as it wasn't over $5,000. You have to look after yourself when it gets to that point.

Okay, hit the music, Jude. Taylor. Swift. Low- swift low hanging fruit that one okay shoes feet i almost meant socks socks feet okay two from two wrong it's good it's good. Flower. F-L-O-U-R. Oh, okay, flower. Making. Woo!

Ryan, we are three from three. Sweet! Come on, come on, we can do this. Arrest. Arrest. Police. Arrest. Arrest. Police? Oh! Here we go.

Don't come, he's got... The cannon is coming out Ryan. Producer B Humps has got his hands wrapped around the confetti cannon. Come on Ryan, we can do this. We'll put Ryan on hold. Put him on hold so there's no careless whisper. The fifth and final word to win Ryan $5,000. Battery. First thing that pops in my head is

I got charger. He went charger! Oh my goodness! Ryan! I went charger! Oh, my goodness! Brian! I went charge. He went charger. Hey! $5,000.

Hey, guys, I just need to say something. Remember, many years ago, you were on a blow-up banana boat coming in through the sound, and I was on that boat trying water bombs at you. Oh, well, we take it all back. We take the $5,000 back now. $5,000, Ryan. You can buy yourself a new boat, and I don't know how much boats cost,

but hopefully not more than $5,000. Oh, guys, thank you so very much. What's that money going to go towards, mate? Oh, we've got a couple of young kids, and they're super hungry about money at the moment. They love money. They'll be eating up that money.

Sweet, sweet money. Thank you. You're very welcome. Well done. Hey, we connected all five. It can be done. Is it the first time this year? It is. First cab off the ring for 2022 and many more to come. Ryan, thank you so much. Keep safe on the boat and the sounds.

Legends, thank you so much. See you, buddy. Another $5,000 up for grabs tomorrow. That's the hits. Oh, my goodness. Hamlet. $5,000 long gone. We just had a winner.

Our first one for 2022. So congratulations, Ryan. Yeah, amazing stuff. Let's get into Spy. Spy. Know what's up. Spy. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. All right.

We call her UV Raze because she's about to burn some celebrities. Juliette, what's happening? So the Brit Awards were on yesterday celebrating everything British music. And Adele was the big winner, basically took out all the big bangers. She won Song of the Year for easy on me artist of the year and album of the year uh she also started crying in one of his speeches i'd like to dedicate this award to my son and to simon to his dad this album was all of our journey not just mine i'm very proud of myself for sticking to my guns and putting out an album that was about something so personal

to me because not many people do stuff like that anymore and um my son has been so gracious so gracious and kind and patient with me over the last couple of years oh that's lovely isn't it yeah simon getting any back-end deals on those album sales nine of these tracks are about me, mate. Yeah, yeah. And Ed Sheeran won Songwriter of the Year. And I believe this is the first year they put this award in the Brits. And I think the reason why was because Adele's victory was so inevitable that they introduced this award to give to Ed Sheeran

because he spent a quarter of last year at the top of the singles chart. So it was just unfortunate that Adele decided to release an album because otherwise he would have gone home empty-handed. Are they going to call it the Memorial Ed Sheeran category? We had to give Ed Sheeran one because we felt bad. He should have beaten her in album sales and things. Or did Adele? Oh, I don't know.

Adele was pretty, like everyone, she made such a big comeback, I feel, last year. Everyone was talking about her. Yeah, I imagine that's your worst nightmare, is a top-tier artist is releasing your music the same year Adele releases hers. People are like, bloody Adele's snaked in the last few months of the year. Got an Oprah interview. I know. I know, everything. And Adele has also caused some more chatter amongst everyone, because on the red carpet for the Brits,

she had a big fat diamond rock on her ring finger. So there's some engagement rumors for you. And Adele has also caused some more chatter amongst everyone because on the red carpet for the Brits, she had a big fat diamond rock on her ring finger. So there's some engagement rumors for you, but I'm just probably thinking, well, she's probably been through quite a traumatic divorce, so I don't know if she'd be wanting to keep married yet, but also a lot of stars just wear a lot of bling on red carpets, so it could just be... I want big fat diamond rocks on all my ring fingers.

And I've only got two of them. Yeah, so who knows? Hopefully we'll find that out a little bit later on. And that is your Spy Update for this hour. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we're going to speak to a lady who made $50,000 on Trade Me for something that she found that she was going to throw out.

Remarkable stuff. She joins us in about six minutes. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You're on The Hits. that she was going to throw out. Remarkable stuff. She joins us in about six minutes. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. 8.07 on your Thursday morning. I just read out a whole bunch of rando names, first and last names, and the first to call back is in the draw for our wonderful slingshot competition

to win $5,000 and a lot of Chromebooks. Are they tied up with my Chrome Dome, Ben, that you always bang on about? Not quite. Oh, OK. It's not a spin-off of the Chromebooks. Are they tied up with my Chrome Dome, Ben? They always bang on about. Not quite. Okay, it's not a spin-off of the Chromebook. Andrea! Good morning. In West Auckland, you're the first to phone through.

You're in the draw, most importantly. And also, we're going to give you $100 cash. Woo-hoo! That's just because we're very insecure people and we like to give you money so you like us. And you're very kind. You have a great day, all right? You just tell because we're very insecure people and we like to give you money so you like us. And you're very kind. You have a great day, all right? You just tell us we're kind and helpful.

Thank you very much, Andrea. She's in the draw. All thanks to Slingshot dishing out free Chromebooks when you join on a 12-month broadband plan. Plus power at the moment. Now, a wonderful story that we've managed to get our hands on is a lady who has made an extraordinary amount of money on Trade Me and it involves six figurines,

six Star Wars figurines, doesn't it Ben? Yeah, something she found when she was going through some of the stuff from her late mother. Hello Melanie. Hi, it's lovely to talk to you. Oh, it's more lovely to talk to you. You've had a busy week. I know, it's a bit overwhelming

but it's one bit overwhelming, but it's one of those life good news stories and we all need a bit of happiness and good news in our life and who would have thought something that I thought was rubbish that I was throwing out would turn out how it

has. So explain this story, now where did you find the Star Wars figurines? Oh, so what originally what would have happened, mum would have bought them for my brother, and being a good parent, as they are, put them away for his birthday or Christmas, and she probably forgot about them. Oh, so this was going to be the parent present for the birthday or Christmas.

Right, stored away in the attic. Yep. And then mum was packing up the house we grew up in, and she had a 20-foot shipping container that she put full of all her treasures. It was also a 20-foot shipping container. She had a lot of treasures. Jeez. Mum was a real character. She was larger than life. She had a lot of treasures, jeez. Mum was a real character.

She was larger than life. She had a quirky personality. You know you're in trouble when you're having to deal with a shipping container. There was two households plus a 20-foot shipping container. Oh, my God. They need to do a documentary on this. So you had to go through all the stuff. And I understand when you came to these Star Wars figurines,

you're like, well, I don't know if they're worth anything. You were just pretty much going to give them away. Oh, yeah. So by that stage, I gave it to my beautiful friend Cheryl. She thought she'd give it to her grandson, who didn't want them. So she went, oh, I'll list them on Trade Me for $25. He was sick for them. Oh, hopefully we get Melanie $150.

And what did you end up getting? $52,350. Oh, my God. The only person who has made more money off Star Wars is George Lucas. When he put his Star Wars collectibles on Trade Me and sold them to Disney for $4 billion. Wow. I didn't quite get that. You couldn't even picture this,

but someone has told me I should get a buy-a-lotto ticket this weekend. How much more money do you want? You've already got $50,000, $54,000. That's so incredible. I mean, people love collectible figurines, but this is just next level. Oh, totally. I was like, when I was watching the auctions,

I was going, oh, no, this is a dream. Oh, totally. I was like, when I was watching the auctions, I was going, oh, no, this is a dream. Oh, my God. The thing with people collecting things is the folks, they'll call you crazy. They'll talk about you behind your back. But inevitably, one day it will pay off or not. And people will still talk behind your back and call you crazy. Yeah. But that's an incredible story.

And so you've got the money now? It's coming. So two of the figurines I know are going to Australia. So, oh, I wonder if they need passports. Oh, man, they might do. Have they had a COVID test? They're still in their packaging, so they are fine. They're self-isolating in their packaging.

They don't have to M.I.Q. They're self-isolating in their packaging. Luke Skywalker doesn't have to MIQ. So some nerd in Australia bought it for $53,000. Six margarines across. Two of them, not all of them. Wow. That's really good. Melanie, congratulations.

What a wonderful story. And thank you so much for coming on the show this morning to share that. Thank you so much. And you guys keep safe and keep being you. You too, Mel. Thank you. And 0800, the hits, actually. What is the most amount of money you've made off Trade Me?

We should take houses out of the equation. Yeah, you're right. Can you compete with this story? Mel, six Star Wars figurines for $50,000. Unusual items we'd love to hear from you next on The Hits. You're on The Hits. Dance with me under the diamond. The Hits. Jono and Ben. You're on The Hits, Jono and Ben. We're talking about how much you've made off Trade Me for some random items.

Mel, we just spoke to her. She sold six Star Wars figurines that she was going to throw out, she found, for $50,000. Now, Ben, I know I've publicly shamed you along with your wife about your figurine collection. I don't think they're worth that? That's for sure. I've always said throw them in the bin and get your credibility back, but now I take that back. Don't throw them in the bin, okay? Hold on to them and we'll be rich in 25 years.

But joining us on the phone right now is Ryan. You made a lot of money off Trade Me, Ryan. That was the one, yeah. I still can't believe it to this day. How much money did you make off it? Well, it's a long story because the listing went up to about 100 grand. 100 grand? I know, it was even more than that at one point,

but I had to delete some what was known as false bids because some guy put it up to like 4 million. I knew that was a bit unrealistic. Alarm bells ringing at 4 million. What were you selling? So I was selling a COVID-free bag of air, which sounds a bit unrealistic. Oh, alarm bells ringing at 4 mil. What were you selling? So I was selling a COVID-free bag of air, which sounds a bit ridiculous, and it's because it is ridiculous.

What I wouldn't give for a COVID-free bag of air right now. I know. It was something pretty special, I'll tell you that. So I remember this. This is made news right about just after, you know, the 2020, the pandemic sort of hit. And so you decided decided what to put it up as a bit of a laugh yeah so um how it all started let me take you back like all great things that had humble beginnings yeah um i was sitting in class we were watching this like quite depressing war movie for film studies right

yeah to lighten the tension imagine if i blew into a bag of air and popped it at the sound of a gun to give everyone a bit of a fright and lighten the mood but they would have thought it was a gunshot from the war movie that was the whole idea, it was going to add a little bit of realism to it so then what happened as I was blowing into the bag I had this

bit of an epiphany and I was like imagine if this whole COVID thing turned into a bit of an apocalypse which was a bit dramatic in hindsight but you're probably pretty close imagine if this air was the last bit of COVID free air left and I thought you know supply and demand there's got to be money in this sure enough there was there was well yeah almost four million dollars at one stage so how did you go in that class out of interest because you didn't feel like you were focused or in the moment of the movie. In all honesty,

film's always been kind of the area where I excelled. So I could take some time to kind of slack off because I'd already done a majority of the work. So you put this COVID bag of air on Trade Me, COVID free bag of air, sorry, on Trade Me and what, it got up to like a hundred grand as you said, but you had to take it down? So I didn't actually have to take it down.

I got this kind of ominous call from Trade Me one day and just saying, oh, it has to be removed. And, you know, I was a little bit annoyed. You're like, it's up to $4 million. I know, but Jono, you can't fight corporate. You can't. He's always said that. He's always said that he's always said that

so are you are you done with the sort of random trade me sort of auctions or have you got any other ideas up your sleeve it's funny you should mention that because i actually went viral again very recently what'd you do now so during the 2021 pandemic i taught my mom to play the drums and we went like mega viral on tiktok so that was like the second endeavor you got a drumming mom now yeah i can't believe it we did the whole like round of media again i was on the project again it was insane oh mate so you're not this isn't you're not new to the game oh i'm a marketing guru i'll be honest and there's one takeaway from this is you can't fight

the man don't fight corporate yeah you'll never win oh well thank you so much for talking to us what a great story

have a good one breakfast with Jono and Ben you're on the heads Jono and Ben on your Thursday morning the school tuck shop

does it bring back memories oh my god I always remember the transition from primary school when you leap up to your intermediate years and you're greeted with,

it's like you're walking through a desert and there's no oasis. And you're like, what is this shop with no food grading, just handing out items to students. I imagine things have changed a little bit since we were at school. It was the Wild West back in the day.

We were eating half-frozen sausage rolls. They were just getting them out. They were under the pump, under the pressure. Getting a Boston bun, getting a steak and cheese, getting a Juicy. Oh my god, a Juicy. Although there was a design flaw on the packaging always. They always cut the side of your lips. Did you find that? Yeah, and the Mooseys as well, which was like the

seery chocolate versions of a Juicy. It was like sucking on something that had two knives on either side of it but my daughter indeed she owes the her school tuck shop uh once a week we're like you can get lunch and very like tradition she's like she doesn't get anything else she's found what she likes and it's a cheese pizza from the school tuck shop and she's like every week on on thursday she's like i'm gonna get cheese pizza this is great um and but she's like it is the best cheese pizza in the world. And I'm like, well, the world's a big place. Yeah.

And the Italians might have something to say about that. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Now, and it's been happening for the last couple of years, if we go, if we order a pizza at home or if we go anywhere, like a Italian restaurant or another restaurant and we see cheese pizza, I'm like, we're going to get a cheese pizza. You're going to try it and you're going to have it and you're going to tell me, because I'm like,

it's got to be, you know, the school one, I'm sure it's great, but I'm sure this Italian, authentic Italian restaurant is going to be better. And she's like, so far, I haven't been able to find a cheese pizza better than the one at school. In her mind, she's like, no, it's still not good enough. What are they putting on this cheese? I don't know.

Yeah, well. If it's this tuck shop pizza that I'm thinking of, it's a sort of small, roundish one. Like the McCain ones? Yeah. I've never seen that. That's the thing, because I've never seen it, and I'm not there for lunchtime.

So I don't know what. But I buy these pizzas now for her, and that's why I feel like a contestant on MasterChef, where you're handing it over, and Gordon Ramsay's sitting there going, hmm, it's good. I even did it yesterday. We got given a prank pizza. We got pranked by the AM show with a pizza,

and then we got another lovely pizza. So I was like, I'll take back a bit for her. And this was the action. The verdict on the pizza that I brought home. What did you think? It was actually pretty good. Okay, that's good. And how does that pizza compare to the one

you get from the school tuck shop it was really good but i would say um my school still wins still wins yeah it's really good now he was he was italian yeah he's putting his heart and soul into his pizzas this guy and this had parmesan cheese all over it. And that's Indy's. Indy, we did Secret Santa in our family last year. We got to buy each other a wee present. She got a block of Parmesan cheese. She was stoked. And she had a little thing with her name on it.

And two days later, she'd eaten a whole block. A whole block of Parmesan cheese. Did she just eat it just on its own? She'd go around like she's eating an apple. What, just chunks of Parmesan cheese? I don't know how good this is for a digestive system. Opening up the Parmesan cheese. How did you know?

Yeah, I know. So I was like, this is going to be in her wheelhouse. She's going to love this. But no, still not good enough for the one that's gold. Well, we need to find out what this is. We need to try it. If it is those McCain ones, sometimes they burn them. They heat them up to rocket fuel strength.

That cheese melts to the top of your mouth. I've still got cheese attached to my mouth from 1998 from one of those. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe next time I'll buy two and get her to bring one home. And you can try it. We can try it. We can bring it in here and just compare. I'm curious.

All right, the world's best pizza. Will we be having it this week? I don't know. The Hits, Jono and Ben. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben on your Thursday morning. The school tuck shop. Does it bring back memories?

Oh, my God. I always remember the transition from primary school when you leap up to your intermediate years and you're greeted with, it's like you're walking through a desert and there's no oasis. And you're like, what is this shop with no food grading, just handing out items to students?

I imagine things have changed a little bit since we were at school. It was the Wild West back in the day. We were eating half-frozen sausage rolls. They were just getting them out. They were under the pump, under the pressure. Getting a Boston bun, getting a steak and cheese, getting a Juicy. Oh, my God, a Juicy. Although there's a design flaw on the packaging always.

They always cut the side of your lips. Did you find that? Yeah, and the Mooseys as well, which was like the seary chocolate versions of a Juicy. Yeah, it was like sucking on something that had two knives on either side of it. But my daughter, Indy, she goes to her school tuck shop once a week where you can get lunch.

And very traditional. She's like, she doesn't get anything else. She's found what she likes. And it's a cheese pizza from the school tuck shop. And she's like, every week on a Thursday, she's like, I'm going to get cheese pizza. This is great. But she's like, apparently it's stuff about a pandemic. Oh, really?

Yeah, it doesn't sound good. So we'll see where that leads. But yeah, that's what we did this morning. And if you want us to do you a good deed, you can text 4487. Done a raft of stuff. And I've realized I have no skills in any areas. You know, mowed lawns, washed cars, washed high-rise buildings, babysat. You name it.

Done it all. But we're not good at pretty much any of them. But we're giving it a crack and trying to help people out. But we're also talking to people that have done amazing deeds for other New Zealanders. And this story. Yeah, I mean, we're not the only heroes out there. We'd like to share the limelight and that's what makes us heroes. Amazing story this one though, right from

Tokoroa. Yeah, it really is. So we caught this in the news actually. We've managed to track her down. Her name is Piritpono Brown. How are you this morning? I'm good, thank you. Lovely to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast. Are you in the chainsaw wood capital of New Zealand, are you?

Tokoroa. Yeah, Tokoroa. There's a giant guy with a chainsaw, a statue of him, in the main road, isn't there? Yes. Yeah, a wonderful place. We spent some great times there. But you've been making news for something that you did,

a really lovely thing that you did. Do you want to tell us what happened? Oh, did something normal happen? Something normal. It was pretty incredible what you did for a stranger. You'd driven past a dairy and you'd seen a lady struggling with a crying baby. Yes. Well, I had asked her what was going on.

She had explained it. And so because I didn't have anything on me, I told her I could give baby a breast. So you were, because obviously you've got young children, so you were lactating and you offered to feed her child. Yes.

Because she couldn't afford to get formula at the time, this mother, and she couldn't produce any milk at that moment. So you did this for a complete stranger, didn't even think twice about it. No, and I'll do it all over again. That's pretty awesome. Selfless. What an act think twice about it. No, and I'll do it all over again. That's pretty awesome. Selfless.

What an act. What an act. Was she grateful? Oh, yes, she was really grateful. I think just everybody's shocked, and I still think today it's a normal thing to do. Well, yeah, and we saw it online. It made a news story online,

and then we saw it on TV One as well. Did you ever think that this small act of kindness would be big New Zealand news? No. I just thought, well, why not? I'm sure this is common. Yeah, well, listen, you have the most talked about breast in New Zealand.

Yeah. I get some looks too when I'm walking around. You're getting a lot of lip service. But this is what you do. You're very generous. You give your food. You often go to the supermarket and you buy stuff for your family

and then you'll see someone else and you'll give away your food. Yeah, well, this time I give away my food. It's not actually a need. It's my want. So you want to give away your food? Oh, no.

So the second time, so I do Top Up on Sundays and that's usually where I see the families or I get messages. Sunday and Mondays are my common days of getting messages for food. So people message you directly saying they've run out of food and then you will go off and go and buy it and pick it up for them? Yep, pretty much in Tokoro. Yeah, well, over the past month, I was reading,

you've bought groceries for more than 50 families in Tokoro. Yeah, well, yeah. Over the past month, I was reading, you've bought groceries for more than 50 families in Tokoro. Yeah, nah. Well, you grow up poor, you give back what you can. You are an absolute Kiwi hero. Oh, well, hopefully someone can learn from them. Well, yeah. Is there anything people can do if they want to help you out, help support what you do for other people?

Yeah, don't be so judgmental to others. You just don't judge them. Yeah, Ben. No, I don't think it was that. Was that directed at me? Was it directed at Ben or just everyone? I think it was other people. I thought everyone in general.

Oh, right. Yeah, I thought. No, sorry. No, no, no, no. I'll tell it to his face anyway, put a pen on. Yeah. Oh, well, it's so lovely to talk to you. Keep up the amazing work you're doing in the community.

Yeah, really, really incredible. Oh, thank you. The Hits, Jono and Ben. It is The Hits, Jono and Ben on a Thursday. Hey, big morning. Five words for $5,000. We play it at 7.45 every day. We had our first winner from 2022,

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Delivers the mail via boat That's a pretty amazing job Now we'll see This is just over an hour later How he's feeling now We'll just put the call through Due to Ryan Pickton

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I love the honest sound. No. We're hoping for a nice little radio moment, you know, calling, but hey. Soulless radio announcers, you know where we are. We're hoping for a nice little radio moment. Soulless radio announcers. You know where we are. We're up to the heartfelt moment, Ryan. All right, we'll leave that one to you then, all right?

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of listening to us. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you so much. Take care. Another chance for someone to win $5,000. That's tomorrow on the show. Very deserving winner. Going to give it to the family, the wife and kids.

So well done. There we go. Tomorrow on the program, we're going to talk to the director of a new show which is streaming at the moment on Disney+, Pam and Tommy. Now this might seem an unusual storyline for Disney to tackle, but it was Pam and Tommy's saucy tape that was released in the 90s. Yeah, it's a whole series about it, and it's got a lot of talk all over the world, and so we're going to talk to the director

of that show. Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, so I'm sure they'll be happy that's all being dredged up from the 90s again. Imagine if you're the kids, you're like, oh, mum and dad. Shoot, imagine if I saw John and Annie. Oh, gosh. Yeah, we'll leave you on that note. We'll catch you tomorrow.