Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono got scammed
Episode Date: June 27, 2022We call $20 Karen after she left us a voicemail asking for the money we owe her.We speak with NZ's biggest Elvis fan and get a review of the movie and our Hollywood Insider Enty. Jono thinks he's bee...n scammed and we chat about the shortest and longest time you've been in a job. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast
Kia ora, welcome, it's the podcast, the 28th of June
You're doing Susie Cato
It's out time
Kia ora, talofa
That was a good jam from Susie Cato, wasn't it?
Yeah
It's really stuck through the ages
Iconic, iconic song
I know for our generation, well I'm lumping bell in our generation, Ben.
I was more Aunt Daisy when I was growing up.
I've got a story about meeting Susie Cato.
Oh, yeah?
When I was five.
Because I grew up watching her early 90s, and I was five.
We went to this place in Wellington.
It was like a toy shop next to the town hall or whatever.
Anyway, she was reading stories, and I sat on her lap.
I remember it as well. I was like, I love you so much. And I told her that. the town hall or whatever anyway when in that she was reading stories and i sat on her lap i remember
it as well i was like i was like i love you so much and i told her that she's a piss off kid
suzy's drinking she is the loveliest person like every time we met her she just seems
lovely you know like on screen off screen it's pretty cool to meet people like that
yeah well i mean she couldn't be like that on screen and be an absolute monster off screen
it's only so long you keep that facade up Yeah, well, I mean, she couldn't be like that on screen and be an absolute monster off screen.
It was only so long you could keep that facade up for her.
See what I say?
The Ellen, that was the Ellen thing.
Now, I'm not saying, no, I'm not buying into all this stuff.
I'm not buying into evil Ellen like you say all the time.
He's defaming Ellen.
No, but that was the thing.
That was what was, yeah, that was the question people raised. Yeah, true.
Jono Pryor, what's he really like?
He's more of an arsehole
off screen uh but you know so she really carved herself a great market with an audience of like
you get your uh millennials we're still millennials get your obligations out of the
way by 10 30 at the westfield mall you know do a meet and greet it's a few kids you're home by
midday she said well, well, do well.
Do well, Susie Cato.
The Wiggles though,
they do well.
Highest earning entertainers in Australian
entertainment history.
Crazy, eh?
They're doing
adults only shows.
You going to those?
No.
I think it'd be fun.
But I think more
in a sort of,
like, because yeah,
you can obviously drink
in a big arena,
but I think it'd be
kind of cool
in like a bar situation. More than a big arena. So if I phone them up and say, can you do you can obviously drink in a big arena but i think it'd be kind of cool in like a bar situation more than a big arena so if i find them up and see like you do a gig for
being in a bar would you go hell yeah absolutely if you're like imagine we go across to the the
pub on the corner there the wiggles are playing you'll be like singing along in the pub you know
it'd be great fun well what's your wish you was the stadium well i don't know is it a sit down
concert like i'm like standing around the mates and you
know like put my arm around you drunkenly and have all these things yeah we're not this intimate
just more like a standing walkers you know maybe it's all standing room i don't know i don't know
if i'm going to sit down for the wiggles with a beer and like you know i know what you're saying
but i'm i'm there and i'm yeah i'm sure i'd get i'd get into it either way but yeah, to pay for tickets for me
but hey, it'll be fun
The funny thing too when you're sitting down is
you don't know when
because you kind of stand up for a bit of a song
but you don't know when
to sit back down
So that means you stand up
and I'm standing up
What are the rules with that?
I don't know.
Like, well, I'm proudly...
You just sit.
I just sit.
Yeah, I like to consistently say,
I was proudly the only person who never got up and danced at Bruno Mars.
Apparently, someone was watching it.
But it was a situation.
I was the only one sitting just surrounded by a sea of standing people.
You wouldn't be able to see anything by the end of it.
You could hear it.
It was fine.
I could hear it.
Left early to beat the traffic.
One of those people.
Wonderful night.
But, you know, I always find that awkward. Because, you know, you do get up for the, oh! it was fun i can hear it left early to beat the traffic one of those people
always find that awkward because you know you do get up for the uh
singing parts and you never know when to get back down the other awkward thing is when they go everyone get up on your feet come on so everyone gets up but then you go at what point do you sit
down whenever you want to i just sit down when i want you know i'm tired now i'm enjoying it but
then i'm like like am I sitting down
is other people
sitting down
so I still
well maybe that's
a good night
to the on stage
performers
yep we're all
like standing up
but give us
an end date
now we'll all
sit down now
alright great stuff
everyone
yeah you're right
at the end of the song
you can sit down now
they do that in church
you go to church
so generally
it's great
us Catholics over here
we know
those who stand up,
they have a sing,
and now you'd be singing
and you're like,
everyone knows where.
But you still sit down
there as well,
don't you?
You've got a nail to pray.
You're like,
I don't need that,
I don't stand up for anything,
not even Bruno Mars,
not even Jesus.
Jesus,
I don't stand up for him.
Two of the podcasts today,
we follow up on the call that we got given yesterday
from someone, a very famous person,
who wants their money back.
We owe them money, and we follow it up today.
It looks like we're going on a road trip.
Oh, and New Zealand's biggest Elvis fan,
what did she think of the Elvis movie?
You'll find out on the podcast.
Voted most likely not to be voted for anything.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
She's a busy one this morning, guys.
A lot of stuff going on, a lot of audio to edit next door.
But that's the audience.
You don't care.
No, I barely care, and I'm part of the show.
But I do realise there's a lot going on.
Yeah, now, Ben, I know you.
Did you have a similar incident where a coffee person was getting your name wrong consistently?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we get to a point where it's very awkward to say, hey, it's not my name.
So you just kind of roll with it.
Boy, they're calling you Bevan or something.
Yeah, or something.
Yeah.
Just kind of roll with it, hoping they get it right.
But they just carry it on.
Well, I'm suffering the same fate at my local
bakery so once a week i go down to the bakery and i get breads all sorts of fresh breads wonderful
breads to put in the freezer and uh the gentleman behind the counter a few weeks ago said i'll be
with you shortly uh what's your name because he was just slicing up the bread you know and I said Jonathan he said
great and then when the bread was ready he's like Justin Justin here's your bread and we're too
polite too correct or too lazy or like I'm like I'm gonna see this guy you know two or three times
a month doesn't matter if he's got my name wrong. But consistently for the last four weeks, hey, Justin, how's the day going?
How's it going?
Justin, how's your auto?
So I don't know, do I correct or I'm like,
ah, that ship's sailed.
That train's bolted.
Yeah.
Yeah, like I, when it was happening to me,
I kind of tried to think of ways
that I could somehow put my name into the conversation.
But that's an odd.
Yeah, like, what's the weather like?
It's going great. You know, the guy at the road was just saying to me, you Yeah, like, what's the weather like? It's going great.
You know, the guy at the road was just saying to me,
you know, Ben, it's a great day, you know,
just to kind of feel like, you know, just to plant that seed.
But I was like, that's weird.
I feel like I'm a boxer or something,
talking about myself.
What are you, name-jigging yourself?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I don't know if that's an option either.
Yeah. What's your advice, Bill Crawford?
That's wild from me, eh?
The amount of overthinking.
Yeah.
Trying to put my name into conversation.
I was at the petrol station and the other guy was like, g'day, Ben,
how you going? I probably just wouldn't say
anything either, but that's like not really fixing
the problem. It's just, what do you do? It's too late.
That's a New Zealand thing. And sometimes
I'm guilty of it
as well. I've met
someone. I remember their name. It was
beautiful times. Six months of
name court, you know, hey mate, you know, specifically saying their name. Now I've forgotten their name it was beautiful times six months of name call you know hey ma you
know specifically saying their name now i've forgotten their name oh no i've forgotten their
name someone around so then how do you pull it back yeah and it's someone who no one else that
i know knows so i can't go hey what's their name i think i might go through their mailbox is that
weird do you think people know like this is the thing sometimes when you run into people and you know the person you have a conversation but then you're with your partner
or whatever and you're like oh god i forgot their name and i can't introduce them do you think they
know when they when the person goes oh sorry i'm tony and to your partner and then you go oh sorry
did i not introduce you you're like you clearly i clearly know i didn't introduce you i clearly
know i haven't introduced you to my wife, Amanda.
And it's on purpose.
Because I don't know who I'm introducing her to.
But then I have to do this whole act.
You're right.
I go, oh, I'm so sorry.
Sorry, did I not introduce you to my wife, Amanda?
But in those situations, too, you're not present in the conversation.
Because the whole time you're like, what's her name?
What's her name?
You just go through all the files in your head.
You're like a filing cabinet.
My wife Amanda's really good now.
She knows if I pause awkwardly, she'll go, hi, I'm Amanda.
Then I'll go, oh, sorry, you're a bad form of me.
Because she goes, you know, you've forgotten the name, haven't you?
That's a wonderful two-person play.
You could take it around community theatres around New Zealand.
If I pause awkwardly, you know that I've forgotten their name.
You just come in with your name and it won't be so awkward.
Ben and Amanda starring at What's Your Name?
Coming soon.
Five nights.
Scrolling through your feed.
All right, fresh off our Wi-Fi connection and straight out of his mouth,
here comes the news.
Well, the All Blacks, they're going to play Ireland on Saturday,
a sold-out game at Eden Park, which is awesome to see,
but they've been hit by a COVID outbreak, which is not so awesome. So the All Blacks
have lost their head coach,
Hen Foster, and assistants John Plumtree
and Scott McLeod to positive COVID-19
tests. And two players from the side
as well, David Havili and Jack Goodhue.
So you've lost
five from the squad already gone.
I don't want to be negative kneel pants,
but you would assume that
it probably has gone a bit further than just them.
We know how this COVID thing works over the last two years.
But I see they're getting a former Irish coach to jump in.
Joe Smith, who was, I think, going to be starting with the All Blacks after this test.
Yeah, but he was like, well, maybe I shouldn't come in while you're playing with former team.
Maybe I'll come in.
A bit Orkies.
I think he's a selector at the moment.
But yeah, he's come in and he's been called up to help coach because we need a coach.
So at what point did they get to, playing-wise, where we get called up?
Like, how many people do they have to go through?
I think they'd go to the teachers' East and Under 7s first before they started looking
at...
Yeah, you're probably right.
I'm just wondering.
I'm just wondering if I should get my boots.
You raised a really good point yesterday afternoon that Beaver Donald would be getting a bit...
He'd be stretching the hammies.
Yeah, Beaver Donald.
He was the guy who saved us last time
we were about four people short, weren't he?
The Rugby World Cup.
And he kicked that goal.
So maybe he'll be warming up, ready to go.
We made a movie about that.
We did.
The Kick.
It was just a kick.
A 90-minute feature-length movie. I guess it was a remarkable story that he came back. But the thing was, you forget, it It was just a kick. A 90-minute feature-length movie.
I guess it was a remarkable story
that he came back.
But the thing was,
you forget,
it wasn't like a kick
right at the end of the game.
There was still a lot of rugby left.
But it turned out to be
a very, very important kick.
Yeah.
You could just say
one of the kicks of the game.
But he's such a humble,
Yeah, he is.
very unassuming gentleman,
isn't he, Beaver Donald?
And I think he looks like he'd kill things with his bare hands.
You know, animals and things.
Like humans, does he?
He's got big hands, Ben.
That's what I'm saying.
He'd look after you for the night, mate.
And this is a nice story for you Tuesday morning.
A grey short-haired cat by the name of Pippi went missing back in 2014
in Whiti Taua near Whangamata.
So that's eight years ago.
And the owner got a call this week going, have you lost a cat from the vet?
And they're like, I vaguely remember a cat.
Eight years ago, we lost a cat.
Was it microchipped?
Well, yeah, I guess it must have been microchipped.
Yeah, for them to trace it back to the owner.
What has it been doing for eight years?
So they've got the cat back.
Just in time for it to end its life.
You get lumped with the costly vet bills.
Yeah, so there you go.
Anyway, Whittletoe, a lovely part of New Zealand.
You been there?
I think I feel like I have.
Wild beach.
The beach just drops off and it's just boom, big waves, Ben.
Maybe the cat's been out there.
Just enjoying the waves.
They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now the cat's been out there. Out there just enjoying the waves. They've got pranks.
They've got puns.
Now they just need some actual listeners.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
Now, $20, Karen.
A few years ago, she became a viral sensation when she left a message
just on a random lady's phone about wanting $20 back,
and she was very upset about it.
Here's a little bit of the original message.
Karen, Rachel thinks she can ignore me and hide from me for her 20 lousy dollars that
she owes me from like well over three months ago. She won $600 at the pokey at the stokes valley bar and she said to jade and dion don't tell karen
you've seen me because i owe her 20 bucks i'll tell you what i'll get my 20 bucks or she's gonna
get 20 whacks yeah she just blew up rose to viral superstard, Karen, and has become a bit of an icon and a friend of the show.
Over the years, Ben, we've built up a relationship with Karen and we've given her some prizes,
one of which was not but a month ago, Queen's birthday weekend, we were giving away $20 notes,
the green queens, to everyone who got on air.
And we thought, who better, who more appropriate that we give a $20 note to
than Karen, the queen of the
20. Yeah, we thought it was a good idea, but it
turns out it wasn't because while
we had a nice conversation with Karen on air, we
said, would you like $20? And she was like, love
$20, that's what I want, that's my thing.
We forgot to send her out the $20.
A slip in administration.
Yeah, so over the weekend, you got
a message, much like the weekend, you got a message,
much like the first message that went viral from Karen,
from $20 Karen, wanting her $20 back.
You have one new voice message and two saved voice messages.
First new voice message received today at 12.11am.
Hello, this is Karen. John O and Ben think they can hide from me
for the $20 they owe me
since Queen's birthday weekend.
I'm f***ing unbelievable.
They rang me up and they said,
oh, we know somebody who needs $20 and we'll give it to you. Well,
I'm still waiting for my $20 lousy $***.
So yeah, Karen, not happy.
No.
That was at 12.11am. 12.11am. So we've organised to phone Karen after 8 o'clock this morning.
Hopefully we can get some closure on this particular issue, Ben.
And what her demands are. Well, her demands are she wants the $20.
Yeah. How we give her that $20? Well, yeah, we've got a bit of grovelling to do.
And we need to make this right.
To be honest, I'd prefer an outstanding debt to like a Russian oligarch or something.
It'd be a lot safer than owing $20 to Karen.
So after 8 o'clock we're going to
phone Karen, see what she wants,
how she needs the money delivered, how it's a wire
transaction, or just post it.
Spy. Know what's up.
Spy.co.nz
They're rich, they're famous, which gives us
free licence to have an opinion on their lives.
What's going on, Belle? Well it looks like
Johnny Depp could be returning
to a role he said he would never do again.
For no amount of money, he'd never go back to them because they dropped him.
Well, now they've dangled $300 million in front of him and he's thinking,
hmm, maybe I will take it back after all.
Wow.
When I said no amount of money, no one mentioned $300 million.
So this is for Captain Jack Sparrow.
300 mil. Yeah, this is for Captain Jack Sparrow. 300 mil.
Yeah, this is the report at the moment.
They're looking at getting him back after his trial.
They're thinking, okay, maybe we can work with him again.
And, of course, he got dropped from the franchise
and lost out on a $22 million payday as well.
Yes.
That kind of makes up for it, I guess, in some ways,
if that's what he's going to get
Guilty till proven innocent
Isn't that what they say?
Isn't that the old adage Ben Boyce?
I don't know if it's quite the adage
But is that the new version of it?
Yeah well
Hey weren't they getting Scarlett Johansson
To sort of do a female version of Captain
Weren't they talking about that?
Oh were they?
I don't know
Maybe
What was it Margot Robbie
Oh Margot Robbie Margot Robbie I love Margot Robbie. Oh, Margot Robbie.
Margot Robbie.
I love Margot Robbie.
Oh, my goodness.
Have you seen the photos of her and Ryan Gosling?
They're filming Barbie movie at the moment.
Yeah, Barbie and Ken.
And her outfits look so...
I'm so excited.
Yeah.
I love Margot Robbie.
I've seen the photo of Gosling sort of draped over a power pole with a denim vest.
No shirt on underneath.
No.
As Ken with bleached blonde hair.
Looks good.
Looks good.
Magnificent.
You guys should try that look.
Maybe not.
Just be a sad, like, I've got the Endeavor tattooed on my guts.
Just be like this, just slightly, this gut just poking out of a denim vest.
Old Captain Cook over there.
Is he a washed up biker?
What is he?
What's going on there?
And Lorde performed
at Glastonbury
with a new look
she's coloured her hair blonde
she was a vibe
she was very positive
and happy on stage
she also
had this to say
about the
Supreme Court ruling
you possess
ancient strength
ancient wisdom.
Wisdom that has propelled
every woman that came before you.
That wisdom
is also your birthright.
F*** the Supreme Court.
Oh, there you go.
Good on her.
It's great to have a platform like that, isn't it? Well, I saw yesterday was Oh, there you go. Good on her. Yeah. Good on her getting out there.
It's great to have a platform like that, isn't it?
Well, I saw yesterday was Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen performed a few song to the Supreme Court, which is pretty good for them to do that and, you know, to make a stand and to get the message out there.
So that was cool.
Yeah, and that is Spy.
You can get more now at thehats.co.nz.
Notice Lorde's got her whole band dressed up in mustard suits. Yeah, they were very Spy. You can get more now at thehats.co.nz Notice Lorde's got her whole band dressed up
in mustard suits.
Yeah, they're very colourful. Very good looking.
She looks cool with the bleach blonde hair, doesn't she?
She's looking amazing. She looks fantastic.
Although the mustard suits, is that kind of
like, you know, when you have bridesmaids and stuff
and you make them wear uglier clothes
than you on your wedding day?
Is that like...
You would pull off a mustard suit, Ben.
Yeah, yeah.
If I'm Lord Saxophonist.
Back in the Q-Rite days, mate, I would have busted out a mustard suit.
If I was playing her saxophone, she's like,
mate, I need you in a mustard suit.
I'm like, Lord, I'm out.
Mustard's not my colour.
That's why you and Lord will never work together.
It is the hits.
You got Jono and Ben, 634.
The hits.
This is the Jono and Ben podcast.
Now, Ben, you actually raised
it was a flippant comment.
You said, has anyone ever been to one
of those
timeshare things where they're like, you know, we'll give
you 50% off at Waterworld
or SeaWorld if you sit through
the seminar. Yeah, normally I've seen
it happen when I've been to the Gold Coast before
where you go along the street and then
they offer you amazing deals on some attraction though i guess you have to sit
through a timeshare presentation and probably feel like you need to buy times yeah it's always
some greasy like like and my friends did this too and he won't mind me saying he was doing in the
uk but he was kind of selling paintball you know hey mate you want to play some paintball like
generally like no one's in the mood for paintball but he know, hey, mate, you want to play some paintball? Like, generally, like, no one's in the mood for paintball.
But he made some sales back there.
But, you know, they kind of got the wraparound glasses,
slick back hair, don't they?
Hey, mate, you want to go see the dolphins at SeaWorld?
Yeah.
Yeah, come sit through this presentation.
Has anyone ever ended up taking advantage of it?
Now, someone text in.
Oh, really?
Someone text in to the studio.
So we're going to call them and see what the repercussions were of saying yes.
Because I struggle, as I said earlier on the show,
I struggle to say no in those situations.
The longer you get locked into a conversation.
So I imagine going, you've had the attraction, you've gone,
and then you're in this room with people.
Yeah.
It'd be very difficult, I'd say, to get out without buying a time share.
Hello, Jamie speaking.
Oh, Jamie, it's Jono and Ben from The Hits, mate.
G'day, how are you?
Good.
We were just discussing.
You said yes to going to one of these seminars.
Yes, of course.
Well, you know, Dracula's tickets were ridiculously expensive,
and you want to spend any money you have on the expensive cocktails they have.
Yeah, the show they have in the Gold Coast, right?
The Dracula show. Yeah, the divorce vampire- in the Gold Coast, right? The Dracula show.
Yeah, the George Vampire-themed show, yeah.
It's kind of like a restaurant,
dinner in a show situation.
Yeah, you're right.
And so, was it a free one?
Were you getting a discount?
What was the carrot dangler?
Discount.
They discounted it to like $15.
So yeah, it was like $15 for Drax tickets.
$15, okay.
So you're like, great, you're going to that.
So you go to the show,
the tickets work, they go through, and then what what happens after when do you have to go to the
seminar i imagine it's a seminar here's the clincher yeah you've got to go to the seminar
first so everyone would sign up so you go along it's early morning too you're like can you give
me my tickets can i just get my tickets when do we get in the tickets all ready to take the bait
um it was a pretty good deal.
It was a pretty good presentation.
I'm not one for scams, but we were pretty close to signing up.
Was it a timeshare or was it a share in an apartment?
All over the world.
Oh, world wide.
You know, they're building these amazing hotels everywhere.
You're going to get like first dibs on rooms and your children get to benefit from it
for the rest of their lives.
Oh, your children.
The children's children and all sorts.
One for the generations.
Yeah.
Pretty enticing, I must admit.
So, you know, and even the payment plan is pretty good.
Yeah, right.
So you're thinking, this is awesome.
And, you know, we're going to have all these holidays
in the future.
Yeah, they definitely sell you a dream. Yeah, yeah right so you're getting swept up in the holiday madness
you're about to you did it so how do you break the news to them like how does that work
oh well we got right to the point of signing and probably will have but then the next thing they
want your you know firstborn child um so you're like you can you can have the firstborn Take the baby, I want the apartment
So yeah, they asked for a deposit of like $10,000
And so they wanted $10,000 on the spot
And so you're about to sign
How do you break the news to them?
I was just like, I said, well, I don't have that kind of money
And she said, oh, don't you have credit cards?
And I'm like, lady, I maxed out my cue card
Just coming to the golf course.
And then, you know, she sort of morphs into Rumpelstiltskin
and gets super angry.
Oh, did she get quite feral?
She was, yeah.
She'd been nice as pie the whole way through, you know, your best friend,
and then did a total Jekyll and Hyde.
And so then you're like, hey, about
the Dracula tickets.
Well, no, that's just it. You still get
the Dracula tickets. You just have to sit through the
seminar and stuff like that. But yes,
buyer beware. Buyer beware. Thank you, Jamie.
Appreciate it. So you go, that's what happens, Ben.
You've always wondered.
Damn Microsoft. Can you please make
order correct for audio? Jono and
Ben on the hits.
Weather-wise today, not so much thunder, but it is going to be very, very cold.
Sub-zero temperatures again and snow down to 400 metres in parts of the South Island,
so very, very cold.
There's any minus 10s?
We phoned the minus 10 place and they were unaffected by the minus 10.
Looks like Invercargill might be around negative 3 this morning,
but yeah, not quite negative 10.
The All Blacks, you mentioned before,
and they're scrolling through your feed part of the show, Ben.
They hit with COVID, haven't they?
Ahead of the test this weekend, Ian Foster, Fossey Foster,
Plum and old Grunter, all out.
Who's Grunter?
The other guy with the COVID.
And a couple of players as well.
Yeah, so three of the coaches, you're right,
three of the coaching staff.
Wrenchy and old Lockie also had the squad.
Okay, he's just making up nicknames now.
But you're right, five out of the squad, which could lead for some more,
as you said before.
And it's a reminder too, I think personally I've just forgotten about COVID,
but it's a reminder it's still out there.
It's still out there, it is.
It is.
But announcing, I don't know if you heard them announcing the squad,
the All Blacks squad, where they're standing in front of the microphone
and they read them out like they've lost the will to live,
these people, these selectors.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's meant to be a fun occasion.
It's meant to be a celebration.
These are people making the national team,
and this is what it sounds like. Adi Savea, Hurricanes and Wellington, Aaron Smith, Highlanders and Manawatu,
Hoskien Sotutu, Blues and Counties Manukau.
So that's that.
And it reminded me, because my son is obsessed with basketball, the NBA.
I spent all of Saturday sitting on the couch watching the NBA draft.
I don't know who the players were.
I don't know how the systems worked.
Some random teams were picking these guys, and they'd go on stage,
and by the time they'd walked off stage, they'd been traded to another team.
I couldn't get my head around it.
But I tell you what, there's a lot that's wrong with America at the moment,
but one thing they're doing right is announcing players for teams.
Compare this to the All Black one.
With the first pick in the 2022 NBA draft, the Orlando Magic select Paolo Bancaro.
It's in a freaking stadium.
It's a stadium.
It's a 25,000 seat stadium.
You've got music going.
You've got live crosses around the country
You've got commentators coming
Stats
It's the showbiz present
We're just doing it at the bloody Manawatu Cozy Club
I love it
I love the drafts
Because they're all in flash suits
They look cool
And then they get a hat of the team that they're about to,
like a flat cap of the team they're going to get.
They've selected them.
But then suddenly you're right, they get changed.
They're like, oh, take off that hat.
Let's get the other hat on.
Yeah, I had no idea how it worked.
I spent 12 hours watching it.
Just follow the caps.
Yeah, follow the caps.
A couple of the breakers got into the NBA.
Three of the breakers.
Yeah, one of them got number 11, who was a guy from France
who came over on this Young Stars program that the New Zealand breakers have got
and got another one into the NBA, which is awesome.
So there we go.
I know the all-blakes are dealing with COVID right now,
but maybe next time a bit more pizzazz.
Now two guys with tertiary broadcasting qualifications prove Cs get degrees.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
In about five minutes' time, we're going to talk to a lady in Rotorua
who has worked at KFC for 43 years.
Wild, isn't it?
She's like the Judge Judy of chicken.
Judge Judy's been doing that job for about 43 years on television.
But before we get to New Zealand's best employee,
we want to talk to some of the worst.
Those who have been in a job for the shortest amount of time. We're going to kick it off with you
Emily. The shortest time in a job?
Yeah.
What was the role?
It was, I think waitressing
was kind of what you'd call it. Waitressing.
Okay, I'm going to have a guess. Let's both have a guess at how short
your time in the job was. Well, I think you're like, what would
you call it? So I feel like you saying
that means that you don't really know the job
too well.
Yeah, I wasn't really that good
at it. Okay, I'm going to say
10 days. Yeah, I'm going to say
I'll say a week. I say you stuck
it out for five days. You did five shifts.
A little bit shorter than
that. I did one
shift. I finished my
shift. You finished your shift. I think
didn't you walk
out mid-shift john oh i did emily yeah so you didn't even complete the shift no i i yeah i was
a waiter and uh halfway through the shift i'm like this is not for me this is like this was
going to do terrible things to the waiting industry i was going to leave a big black mark
on it if i continued on i love the way you just, you didn't even get to the end, like, you know? Yeah, don't take me to war.
You're nice, don't fuck it out.
I'm done.
Yeah, why did you pull out after three hours?
How long was your shift?
It was just a game at the stadium, so I think three hours I was there for full time in a
corporate box.
Yeah, right.
And why?
Why were you not back?
Well, I think it was like $8 an hour,
and I kind of just thought, yeah, probably not really worth it with the hard work that it was walking around
dealing with drunk idiots all night.
Yeah, well, you know, Ben Boyce went to a corporate box,
and he wasn't a drunk idiot, so I don't know, I wasn't there with him.
But he, at the end of the night, took home the ham in his backpack.
Oh, I didn't see any hams in this corporate box.
I think I took home about $5 in coins.
That's about it.
Well, you stick around.
I stick around and got talking to this person in the corporate box
with everyone left.
And I was like, what are you going to do with the ham?
And the guy's like, well, take it.
And so I took it home.
It was great.
It was worth it.
Yeah, it was worth it.
Yeah, and then he returned home with a room temperature ham.
So I always like to try to figure out.
So it had been in the box, let's say, three to four hours.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sitting there.
People had been picking away at it.
He puts it in his backpack.
I'm saying, what, an hour or so to get home?
Yeah.
It was Matt Smart's.
It was away.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so that's just sort of a six-hour-old ham that's been stored in a backpack on a train.
Why did your family?
How did your family welcome it?
We had it for a few days.
Anyway, it's not about me right had it for a few days. Anyway,
it's not about me right now.
Emily,
well done.
Well,
there you go.
Three hours and a job.
That's fantastic.
And so did they call you
saying you're coming back,
Emily?
We loved your work.
Well,
I was getting in the lift
to leave
and they said,
oh,
yep,
so we'll see you next week.
And I was like,
nope.
And the door's just shut.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Good on you, Emily.
Go and have a great day.
Yeah, thank you.
Jake with us on 0800 The Hits.
We're talking about the shortest time you've spent in a job,
and I don't think anyone's going to beat you.
I'm looking at your notes here, Jake.
So I used to work at Pack and Save,
and I was there for 40 minutes, and I walked out.
That was it. That was it. 40 minutes and I walked out. That was it?
That was it.
40 minutes?
That was it.
Now you can't even say you worked at pack and save.
No.
Like people spend longer in there shopping.
Yeah I've shopped for longer at pack and save and won the shop.
Well so I was working and then they said to me, it was raining outside, they sent me outside
to go get the trolleys and I had my keys keys in my pocket. And I said, screw this.
Let's just go home.
So you went outside to get the trolleys and never came back with the trolleys.
Yeah, the funny thing is they paid me for 40 minutes.
And then they rung me a week later and said, hey, we actually owe you some annual leave.
And I said, oh, and I said, how much?
It was like half an hour.
Half an hour.
And then did they pay you that too?
They paid me that as well.
So they paid me about $13 extra.
What was it about Pack and Save you didn't like?
Well, it wasn't Pack and Save.
It was too many people.
So on you.
40 minutes of Pack and Save.
Well, that is tough to beat.
Yeah, it is tough to beat.
Thanks, Jake.
Appreciate your call.
No worries, mate.
With a long and extinguished career.
Jono and Ben on the hit.
Now, Lynn Ogilvie from Rotorua.
She's been working in the same KFC for 43 years.
She's just retired at the age of 71.
A remarkable, remarkable story.
Jeez, Lynn, how are you?
I'm good, thanks.
Lovely to have you on, Lynn.
Now, one of the longest running employees for the Colonel,
a loyal servant to the Colonel.
Yes.
How many years are you working at KFC for, Lynne?
43.
43 years.
That's incredible.
So you were 28 when you applied for a part-time job at KFC,
now 71.
You were paid $2.47 an hour when you first started.
Yes, that's right.
That was the rate.
That was the guy right back then.
It was fine.
Wow, it's really come a long way.
As a parting gift, do they tell you all 11 of those beautiful herbs and spices?
No, they don't.
No.
Do you reckon you've worked it out?
Have you worked it out?
No.
No?
It's amazing.
It's a secret.
Yeah.
Is it like, how secretive is it?
Is it actually, do we just build it up as this big secret or it is a secret?
No, it is a secret.
I don't know the true story about it, but I heard that one company makes half of it
and another makes half of it and then it, yeah.
Wow.
That's what I was told, but I don't know how true that is.
So neither knows, neither knows.
The full recipe.
No.
Now, we were doing a smell election on our show the other day
looking for New Zealand's favourite smell,
and the smell of KFC, people loved that.
It was one of the favourites.
I mean, did the novelty work off working in the store for 43 years?
No, I still eat it.
You still love it.
43 years.
How much KFC do you reckon you've consumed?
Yeah.
If you'd have a half-hour break, you're allowed a free meal, certain things.
Oh, wow.
And I, yeah, like the rib piece.
Oh, so hold on.
So every shift you were eating KFC?
Well, I only did three shifts there a week in the end, so yeah.
So but for 43 years, during every one of your half-hour breaks, you ate KFC?
Not every one, but yeah.
I'm trying to get you to say.
I'm trying to get you to say.
No, no.
What's she saying?
There was the opportunity to.
I'm not fat.
No.
I'm just trying to get you to say I ate KFC every day, and it's a great headline for
us.
So, if you could play the game.
I'll tell you this, my husband's a
world class runner
and he used to come in every
day and have a piece of chicken for morning
tea and he ran well.
Every day, so he is, at least someone's
eaten it every day, that's all I was after.
Yeah, five days a week
he did. Chicken every day.
A piece of chicken.
That's incredible, Lynn.
That's incredible.
And so what memories are you going to take away with you?
Oh, lots of hardworking people.
Yep.
There's another girl that's in the country.
Her name's Lynn as well.
She had done two years more than me.
And we were invited last year up to the Cheers for 50 Years seminar for KFC,
50 Years in New Zealand, and they presented us with a golden bucket.
Oh, isn't that something?
Do you remember when the KFC signs used to have the big bucket?
Yeah, that's right.
And I was so honoured to get that.
I don't think there was a week that went past that someone didn't come in and say,
oh, are you still here?
How many years is this?
You're like, 43.
I remember when mum and dad used to bring me in here
when I was a kid,
and I said, you're not meant to say that.
Wow.
What was the biggest order that you ever remember?
At the end of the year and that,
we get the odd timber mills and that,
that order like a couple of hundred quarter packs.
200 quarter packs. Jeez. I guess for all the people in the timber mill, that that that order like a couple of hundred quarter packs. 200 quarter packs?
Jeez.
I guess for all the people in the timber mill, that's a great number.
Yeah, what's the wildest thing you've seen in the restaurant?
Because you would have seen a lot of stuff inside the restaurant
and the drive-thru.
Oh, well, someone ran out of petrol in the drive-thru a couple of weeks ago.
What are you doing that for? And held everything up.
And, yeah, everyone had to back back and get out while they waited on someone to drop some gas off.
That was only a couple of weeks ago.
That's a pain, isn't it?
That poor person.
Yeah, but mind you, what are they doing?
Like, the last place you want to be doing is idling away
in a busy drive-thru.
Yeah, I know.
Oh, lovely.
As someone who's done 43 years in the radio industry,
I can respect your service, so well done.
Have you done 43 years in the radio?
No, he's done 48 years, I think.
Really?
Yeah.
Well done, you.
Thanks, Lynne.
Thank you.
It's a miracle I'm still here.
Yeah.
I try to get rid of him many times. Love you, Lynne. You're an absolute Kiwi hero. You go and have a wonderful I'm still here. Yeah. I try to get rid of him many times.
Love you, Lynn.
You're an absolute Kiwi hero.
You go and have a wonderful week, and well done.
Congrats on your service.
Okay, thank you very much.
Scrolling through your feed.
All right, the man who puts bully into bully-ton,
according to our HR department.
Now, he's not a workplace bully, is he, Belle?
Nah.
No, you're the opposite of a bully.
No, I'm very timid.
Yeah. Here's the timid. Yeah.
Here's the timid Benjamin Boyce.
Yeah, well, very, like, kind of scary news out there in West Auckland.
There's a massive, sorry, in South Auckland,
there's a massive fire this morning,
and residents in and around Auckland's Penrose area
and surrounding suburbs have been told to keep their windows closed
after a large fire opened up,
and they reckon there's toxic smoke from a factory.
It's been burning since two o'clock this morning.
Oh, yeah.
Multiple explosions, about 10 booms going off, they heard.
So, yeah, keep your windows shut if you're around that area.
A lot of industrial buildings out that way.
Yeah.
Do you know a friend, do you remember Jimmy,
who we used to work with?
Yes.
Jimmy.
He saved a family from a fire.
Really?
Very unassuming guy, Jimmy.
Yeah. He was just an internuming guy, Jimmy. Yeah.
He was just an intern at the radio station.
He was walking to work like at 4 o'clock in the morning one morning,
and he just by chance looked in this house,
and he's like, oh, that looks quite red through the window.
Went closer, and he could feel the heat radiating off the property.
Oh, wow.
And he was like, oh, my God, this house is on fire.
And went around banging on the doors and stuff,
realized there were people inside, burst, smashed the is on fire, and went around banging on the doors and stuff, realised there were people inside,
burst, smashed the ranch slider window,
put a T-shirt over his mouth.
Did he?
Restuted family.
It was mum, dad, a child, a baby.
So they hadn't woken up.
Hadn't woken up.
Got them all out of the house,
then turned up to work like a sooty legend.
Late.
He was late, though, so he got fired.
But, yeah.
You lost his job. You're just saving a family
for a fire, weren't you? Not good enough, mate. If you want to get a
full job, not just an intern.
But he couldn't save your job.
That's a great story.
And now Lorde, over the weekend, performed
at the big festival in the UK,
Glastonbury. She had bleached blonde hair,
red tights. She looked awesome. But afterwards,
there was a random pub
in the UK on the way
back from glastonbury that chris martin just stopped at from coldplay uh with his daughter
with his daughter sorry with his girlfriend dakota johnson uh they'd just been uh sort of
finishing a sunday roast in the pub they were very busy from a sunday roast he sort of rocked in
there and they were like what do we do what do we do apparently the guy who ran the bar was oh my
god what are we doing they're like we'll? The guy who ran the bar was like, oh, my God, what do we do? And they were like, we'll just leave him alone.
But then he came over and yarned some people, and they had just got engaged,
and they were about to have their wedding later,
and he played them a little engagement song.
What's your name again?
Hannah.
Hannah.
And?
Jeremy.
Are you getting married in a minute?
No, 28th of August.
Oh, yeah.
But he is doing the food.
Favorite of the day.
And that's Alfie's piano.
All right.
That's great.
Because you're a star. Oh, youie's piano. Is your a skunk?
Or are you a skunk?
Oh, that's beautiful.
Yeah.
He's playing this in the middle of the pub.
Yeah.
There'd be some salty old battler in the corner going,
shut up, mate, I'm trying to watch the bloody league.
Yeah, exactly.
Loves the sound of his own voice.
Oh, I came in here, started playing all the piano,
all the nonsense.
That's a pretty cool way.
Yeah, that's a beautiful gesture.
It just looked like the tidiest little pub.
It's a real battler pub, but he just stopped off for a pint.
Did he get a Sunday roast?
Did he manage to get a roast meal?
I think he just missed the roast time.
They didn't even reopen the kitchen.
Well, I don't know.
He had a pint.
He had a pint.
He had a pint.
But yeah.
We don't open the kitchen for anyone, mate.
Water in here.
Want a roast lamb?
You want to give a two thirties to cut off?
That's it.
The hits. The hit.
The Juno and Ben podcast available on iHeartRadio.
It's been in cinemas for only about five days now,
but it's the biggest movie right now in the world.
It's the Elvis movie directed by Baz Luhrmann,
starring Tom Hanks as Elvis's manager and Austin Butler as Elvis.
And we wanted to see what Elvis's biggest fan here in New Zealand thought of the movie.
And she joins us right now.
Kathy Finau, good morning.
Hello.
Viva Las Vegas.
Yes, you had a bit of a hound dog there.
A bit of a hound dog.
Blue suede shoes.
Oh, yeah, it's now or never, hound dog.
Oh, jeez, we can't go into an Elvis sort of song pun off with someone
who's the biggest Elvis fan in New Zealand, Jono
Now you're New Zealand's
biggest Elvis fan, we've spoken to you before
you run an Elvis impersonator
competition every year, you get people from
No, it's not called an impersonator
it's called an ETA competition
Shut your mouth then
Elvis Tribute Artist Competition
Tribute Artist Competition.
Not a person.
Not a two
bit low
brown
impersonator
business.
Sorry the
tribute and
it's big.
Australasia.
You should
come down
maybe into
one year.
I'm an
impersonator
so I can't
do it but
John O's
he's a
tribute one.
All jokes
aside we've
got a lot
of Aussies
coming over
it's in
October so
I hope you ring me closer to the time.
It's going to be amazing.
Oh, so would you like us to promote your event closer to the time?
Oh, that would be wonderful.
Are we calling too early for you, Kath?
No, no, I'm up and about.
Only just, only just.
So the Elvis movie, everyone is talking about it.
It's the biggest movie right now.
Have you seen it?
I've seen it twice. I'm going again tomorrow night. It's the biggest movie right now. Have you seen it? I've seen it twice.
I'm going again tomorrow night.
It's only been out like a couple of days.
Well, I organised a red carpet gala thing on the Thursday night
and we had an Elvis guy singing.
Tribute?
They had both.
Was he an impersonator?
He's an ETA.
Tribute.
He's a tribute.
None of this impersonation business, mate.
Okay, good.
So you saw it the first night, and then you've gone and seen it again,
and you're seeing it for a third time.
I mean, you must love it.
And then I'm probably going back again Friday.
Most of my Elvis friends have been, one of my friends went to see it five times.
What?
Already?
Well, I think the first time you go and see it, you're full of emotion and excitement
and you're not sure what to expect and everything
and you don't take a lot of things in.
And when you go back, when I went back the second time,
I saw things that I didn't see before kind of thing.
And then the third time, I sort of, oh, it was amazing.
Oh, she's so...
Luhrmann, is Baz Luhrmann delivered?
Oh, absolutely, 150%.
I'm sure that they'll all get an Oscar this year, the actors.
Yeah, probably right.
Austin Butler was beyond phenomenal.
Honestly, I cried all the way through, basically.
It was just so emotional.
I loved it.
I saw it as well, not as many times as you.
But what I found really fascinating was Elvis was so huge, so popular,
but he never toured outside
of America. Well, you know why, don't you?
Because the Colonel was an illegal
immigrant from Radio Holland.
Yeah, but the bloody Colonel was up to all sorts of
nonsense, wasn't he?
Well, pardon? The Colonel
was up to all sorts of nonsense.
Johnny hasn't seen it.
In the beginning,
he was good for Elvis. He got Elvis going and everything, but then when the Vegas years the beginning, you know, he was good for Elvis.
You know, he got Elvis going and everything,
but then when the Vegas years came along,
well, after the army and that,
you know, he just sucked Elvis dry, you know,
pushed him and pushed him and pushed him.
The colonel sort of sucked him dry,
took 50% of all his earnings and that
and pushed him and pushed him.
Looking at you and looking at Elvis,
you would have given Elvis a run for his money, Cathy.
Me?
Oh, I would have, you know have invited him to my bedroom probably.
Yeah, because it was in the movie.
There was a lot of Elvis the Pelvis.
I didn't realize they called him that when he was gyrating his hips around.
Yeah, when he started doing that thing on the Elvis back in the late 50s or something,
the people sort of thought that gyrating sort of thing was just absolutely, you know,
the churches and were sort of aghast about it and things.
But that's why he was called the oldest person,
because as he said in the movie, if I don't move, I can't sing.
Yeah, right.
Well, geez, I tell you what, have you seen WAP?
Sorry?
Have you seen the music video for WAP?
I've seen what?
The music video for WAP.
No.
I'll send it to you, Cathy.
And you tell me how much entertainment has changed now
and what we find acceptable.
So, Cathy, you are New Zealand's biggest Elvis fan.
So what do you give it out of five?
I'll put the dates of the 14, 15 and 16 in the diary in October
because that's when I've been doing the Elvis Down Under weekend.
Okay.
Yeah, okay. I got that in the diary,
but also I wanted to know first.
Kelly, he actually hasn't put it in his diary.
I'm watching it.
Okay, Elvis, I'll put it in my diary.
I'll put it in my calendar here.
In the calendar, Google Calendar.
But just before I do, what are you giving out of five?
The new movie, Elvis, Baz Luhrmann's...
No, 10 out of five.
10 out of five.
Oh, wow, Kelly.
I can't help but feel you're not that partial, though.
Yeah.
Oh, no, look, it was lovely.
I cried a lot.
Because I know Ben has written down those dates.
What were those dates again, Ben?
October.
14, 15 and 16.
14, 15 and 16.
I thought you'd written them down, Ben.
In the calendar already, Jono.
There you go.
Yeah, love your work, Kev.
As long as I can keep breathing, I'll still be doing Elvis.
Hey, this is Ed Sheeran.
Jono and Ben's five words for five Eds. As long as I can keep breathing, I'll still be doing Elvis. Hey, this is Ed Sheeran. John Wayne Benz.
Five words for five Eds.
Yes, Ed Sheeran coming back to New Zealand.
It was just two concerts.
Now four concerts.
Two in Wellington, two in Auckland as part of his mathematics tour.
It's happening in February next year.
It's going to be awesome.
You know, I was just reading about Ed Sheeran over the weekend.
He was going to call himself.
His original stage name was going to be Redwood. What was that? Redwood. He was going to call himself, his original stage name was going to be Redwood.
What was that?
Redwood.
He was going to come out with Redwood.
And someone obviously said, hey, mate, I don't know about this whole Redwood thing.
And so why don't you stick with your birth name?
Redwood Sheeran kind of works with Ed Sheeran.
I like it.
It's unique, isn't it?
Yeah, right.
But we could have been giving away 10 tickets to Redwood's show right now.
But we're not.
We're giving 10 tickets. 10 tickets. You match all five words with our five words. You get 10 tickets to Redwood's show right now. But we're not. We're giving 10 tickets.
10 tickets.
You match all five words with our five words, you get 10 tickets, Dad Sharon.
Anika, welcome.
You're 12 years old.
Yeah.
Now, if we don't give these tickets away today, I'm going to sell them on Trade Me, okay?
That's a fact.
That's a promise.
Now, whereabouts are you in New Zealand, Anika?
Morrison, but I originally come from Ireland and we just moved here.
You are an adorable little Irish child.
Raised on potatoes and Guinness.
I don't know about the...
Are you having a Guinness for breakfast?
I guess.
I guess so. Whatever guess. A guess.
So whatever you want to say.
Anika, okay, let's get you to Ed Sheeran, all right?
Who do you want to send to the soundproof booth to match words with?
Jono.
All right, I'm heading in.
Jono is going to head on over there.
Have you got anyone around that if you need any help
or are you just going to do this all by yourself?
No, I've got my mum.
Oh, you've got mum as well.
All right.
Anika, your first word,
what pops into your head when I say
Travolta? Travolta.
Travolta. John.
John? Yeah, mum's coming through
with John. That's what I was thinking.
Hula is the second word.
H-U-L-A. Hula.
Hula. Hoop.
Hula hoop. Yeah, well done.
Liquor is the second one. i q u o r liquor is in
yeah liquor store yeah beans b-e-a-n-s beans beans baked baked beans oh you're playing a
really good game and And briskos.
Hopefully you're aware of briskos.
I'm sure you are.
Briskos.
No, it's a store.
Briskos is a store.
Summer.
Summer?
Summer?
For briskos? Yes.
All right.
We'll lock in those five words, and we'll see how you go.
Try to match all five.
I think br should go with
all we've both done
and stuff
Fiddly D
Fiddly
what's going on here
I'm having some
conversation in the background
I feel like I'm eavesdropping
on the conversation
yeah
shall we be listening
to this conversation
you guys all good
yeah
yeah alright
alright Anika
let's see if you can win
$5,000
Travolta
first word I said to her
John Travolta yeah well done okay one to her. John. Travolta.
Yeah, well done.
Okay, one from one, Anika.
Let's get you to Ed Sheeran.
Hula was the second word.
Hula hoop.
Yeah.
Liquor.
L-I-Q-U-O-R.
Liquor.
Liquor store.
Oh, three for five.
Beans.
What's the next word?
Beans.
Bait.
Yes.
Anika.
We are one away.
Briscoes is the final word
Briscoes
Did Anika know what a briscoe is?
She's from Ireland
She's 12 years old from Ireland
This is where we kind of
So could you give me a clue
Is the word
No the word is just what
No there's no
I'm sorry there can't be any clues, unfortunately.
What was it?
A 12-year-old Irish girl says,
Briscoe's sale?
Oh, no.
So close.
It went summer.
Briscoe's, that was summer.
Yeah, well, listen, to be fair, you wouldn't have any idea.
No, you should have. I think you're just like, I think it's
a store. I thought it's where you get
summer stuff from.
Oh, yeah, I mean, they do
summer stuff.
They're just doing stuff.
Anika, I'm so sorry,
mate. We couldn't get you to
Ed Sheeran, but you go and have
a great day. You enjoy New Zealand.
Love having you here. Fiddly D.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Mature, responsible, and considerate.
Three words we sadly can't use here.
Jono and Ben on the hits.
Went down to Wellington, as I said yesterday,
over the weekend to catch up with some family
and hanging out with my dad, who loves a chat.
He loves a chat.
You've spoken to my dad, Kevin, many times.
Oh, Kevin and me, we both love a chat. We loves a chat. You've spoken to my dad, Kevin, many times. Oh, Kevin and me, we both love a chat.
We started a conversation in 2017.
It's still going now.
It hasn't ended.
Yeah, I can imagine the two of you together
were just like, no one would get a word in.
Like, I love Kevin,
but if I could put it in an analogy,
having a conversation with Kevin
is like trying to get your car across a four-lane motorway.
You've just got to find your gap.
Take it.
Well, actually, funny you should talk about a multi-lane motorway because we were driving from Wellington over to the Kapiti Coast.
And, you know, much like merging lanes, he merges from one conversation to another.
He talks about one thing, he talks about another.
And it's great.
I mean, you're never lost for, you know, things to talk about.
Sometimes I'm listening, sometimes I'm not,
but I'm always entertained by what he's saying.
And then we drove over transmission.
You kind of just fade in and fade out of.
But we drove over transmission gully.
He was like, we'll go over transmission gully.
We're heading up towards the end.
Well, this is the new piece of road.
The new piece of road.
Now, we weren't quiet at the stage.
We're in six lanes of the highway.
But he told me a fact.
I was like, actually, that's quite interesting.
So I got up my quarter and I was like, can you tell me again about this,
the fact I'll record you?
This is what he said.
What was the fact you just told me about the speed camera?
It's the biggest revenue earner in New Zealand for speeding.
And I have just avoided it.
How many times have you been ticketed?
But all six lanes you were saying you can get ticketed?
Absolutely, yes.
At once, they can do a speed camera and get all six lanes.
Fascinating.
So, were you recording me?
I was just recording it for radio.
I'm about to stop the recording.
I can tell the hidden recording device rattled him.
He's like, I've already told you this And now I want you to tell me
He's like I've got other stuff to say
More stuff
I don't need to go on about
But all six lanes
Boom
They can get all six
So you can get six different motorists at the same time
Or twelve
I suppose you could have
Either shot
He was like yeah
So apparently
According to my dad,
may not be trying to know why he did that.
Highest revenue earner.
How does he know what the highest revenue earning traffic camera is in New Zealand?
Who knows?
Who knows?
It's a good fact, though.
Yeah, so I thought it was a really interesting fact.
I like the good old days where each town and city just had one speed camera.
Everyone knew where it was.
You knew when you had to slow down,
and then you'd speed up after you'd passed the camera.
You know?
It was good.
There used to just be one in the entire city.
Oh, slow down at the speed camera zone.
But if you didn't know about it,
like I had mates at the Wellington Airport one.
There was one right outside the airport.
On the way there, they got it.
Got ticketed, and then on the way back,
just within the matter of picking up someone
and then coming back 10 minutes later.
Two stings.
So is this a public service announcement to those travelling down Transmission Gully?
Yeah, towards that, from going from Wellington to the Kapiti Coast this morning.
Remember, watch out.
There's six lanes.
They can get you all at once.
Boom.
Boom.
Highest revenue in the Southern Hemisphere.
We'll make it bigger than New Zealand.
Why not?
An inseparable duo.
Unless I'm on better service.
He's just going to replace with Lee Hart and or
Vaughan Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits.
We've upset someone.
Someone that we shouldn't really upset.
Well you never want to upset someone called
Karen Ben. If there's
anything we've learnt over the last five years
but we have let a
particular Karen down multiple
times. Now if we can take you back to the beginning
2014. A misguided voicemail was left particularly Karen, down multiple times. Now, if we can take you back to the beginning, 2014,
a misguided voicemail was left on someone's phone,
and her name was Karen.
Hello, this is Karen.
Rachel thinks she can ignore me and hide from me for her $20 lousy dollars
that she owes me from like well over three
months ago. She won
$600
at the pokey's at the
Stokes Valley Bar
and she said to Jade and Dion
don't tell Karen
you've seen me because I
owe her $20.
Well I tell you what, I'll get
my $20 or she's going to get 20 f***ing whacks.
So that went gangbusters.
That went viral.
Yeah, so this was a message that was left by mistake by Karen,
who's now known as $20 Karen, on somebody else's phone.
And so this went viral.
She became a viral superstar.
We've talked to her many times over the years.
And on Queen's birthday, around that time,
we were giving away green queens with $20 notes with the queen's face and we thought who better who more appropriate
for us to gift a green queen to than $20 karen so we did uh but unfortunately since queen's birthday
weekend some admin has slipped uh through the gaps and karen hasn't received her $20 over the
weekend we received something from karen wasn't money it was this message on our phone hello has slipped through the gaps and Karen hasn't received her $20 over the weekend. We received
something from Karen. It wasn't money. It was
this message on our phone.
Hello, this is Karen
and John O and Ben
think they can hide
from me for the
$20
they owe me.
Yeah, so I went on and said we're going to get
$20 each if we didn't repay
her the $20. Now, we thought
we'd better try and settle this debt with Karen.
So, get the
beat machine ready because we're going to go through live
to Karen now. Good luck.
Alright. $20 Karen.
Hello?
Uh-oh.
Hi. John, I'm Ben here
Listen we got your message
Did you like it
Well I don't know if we liked it
We were very scared and worried
For ourselves and now we're like
We need to give you your $20
I can't believe we dropped the ball on that one.
No, I can't believe it either.
No, no.
No, you could tell you couldn't believe it, Karen.
It was an administrative error on our part, Karen.
Yeah.
I did wonder how you were going to send it to me.
We're not supposed to send cash in the post, are we?
Well, no, you're not. So what do we,
where does that leave us, Karen?
How do we do this?
I suggest you come and give it to me.
Oh, no.
Don't say that and then finish
with an evil laugh.
There's more
chance of getting 20 whacks if we
come see you, even if we give you the
20 bucks.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, okay.
She wants to look us in our eyes, don't you?
You want to stare us in our eyes as we hand over the money.
That's right.
And I'm going to let you know that you just can't do that to me.
No. You're going to send me something and I don't get it.
Yeah.
How many times have we done that to you now?
A couple of times.
Yeah, yeah. Two or three, get it. Yeah. How many times have we done that to you now? A couple of times. Yeah, yeah.
Two or three, maybe four.
Sorry, Karen.
So we need to, okay, John, are we prepared to go see Karen?
I'm scared.
But are we prepared to go see Karen and give her 20 bucks?
Where are you?
I'm in Christchurch.
We've got a long way to go.
Got your swimming suits.
Okay, Karen.
Listen, we will put our word to you.
We're going to put our names.
What are we doing?
I don't know.
I don't know what you're saying.
We're going to actually say that you are men of your word.
That's right.
And you're going to pay me.
That's right.
That's what I was going to say.
$20, Karen.
We're going to bring in the $20.
We're going to drop you your $20, Karen.
That's our promise.
Okay.
Well, I'll leave the phone calls alone for now.
Okay.
No more $20.
I don't know what happens next.
I love how it came through at 12.11 a.m.
After I'd watched the league.
Oh, yeah, it was a good game too, wasn't it?
Oh, yeah, the women's was real good.
Both games were really good, you're right.
And you thought, well, I've got some other matters
I need to attend to now after the league.
You can't make a promise and not fulfil it.
That's right.
Especially to a child or a Karen.
Oh, $20 Karen.
I feel like we're going to have to go down there.
We're on a trip.
We're on a trip to give Karen her $20 back.
Baldly going where no show has gone before.
How long is it going to take for Ben to make fun of my bald head? Jono and Ben on the hits. Now Ben I got ripped off
Online
Online scams
You know how they hear about those poor elderly people getting ripped off
Well I'm one of them
Look I know this story
You didn't get ripped off
You didn't read the teaser
This is all on you
Well let me explain
And people can decide
for themselves okay uh my son oscar mentioned it an hour ago obsessed with basketball and an ad
popped up on the computer it's like steph curry nba star just won the nba championship not but
two weeks ago he's hosting a master class.
And Oscar is like, I need to see this master class.
So I do a bit of digging into what master class is.
And some, hey, I'll give them this credit.
Genius, some geniuses set up this website where they have Michelle Obama,
Bob Iger, the guy from Disney, Bill Clinton, Oprah, all of the big guys.
I've seen it pops up.
It pops up as one of the YouTube ads that comes up from time to time.
People far more successful than you and I.
And they present classes on how to be successful as them.
Here's an ad for Masterclass.
Welcome to Masterclass First Look.
Tonight, we're going to give you unprecedented access to Masterclass.
Please put your hands together for Christina Aguilera.
What you see in Masterclass is our heroes teaching us what they wish they had been taught.
Three years ago, I tweeted... Okay, shut up now, mate.
We'll get the idea
Okay
I'm a bit salty at the
You can tell bed
But it's a good idea
Yeah it's a great learning tool
And so I was like
Steve I've got to do
The Steve Curry Masterclass
Play basketball
Like Steve Curry
And I'm like okay
This sounds fine
I will buy
Just the Steve Curry Masterclass
Can't do that
Well no of course not
They're not going to give you
Just Steve Curry They're going to to give you just Steph Curry.
They're going to throw in all the others as well.
So then I'm like, well.
Otherwise, Steph Curry would be Steph Curry's Masterclass.
But why is it not just a one-off fee?
You pay $25, you're in the NBA next week.
That's not an option.
So then I go onto the website, and they're like, oh, it's $22 in New Zealand.
NZD a month, $22.
And I was like, okay, what I'll do is I'll do
a play from the Ben Boyce
Ben Boyce playbook of tight
asses where you sign up for
the 30 day trial pull out by the
end of the month no harm no foul
I don't know if that's on
the basketball masterclass or not the foul
but you'll find out so I sign
up to this think I'll just do a $22 fee
you'll get the. So I sign up to this. The girl will just do a $22 fee. You'll get the masterclass.
No.
What happens?
$396 NZD.
And they're like, by the way, we forgot to tell you. When we said monthly plans, we charge you for the annual fee.
But if you break it down, it's monthly.
Well, I don't think they forgot to tell you.
You just didn't read that.
So I paid $396.
I want bloody Steph Curry himself to hop in a plane,
fly down here and teach my son how to play basketball.
He's not doing that for three months.
For three months, once a week.
Well, you could be a better person throughout the year.
You could be passing on all these great tips.
And ever since then, I've been Googling,
can you get your money back from Masterclass?
How do you get your money back from Masterclass?
And my wife, she's like, just give it up. Let it go. There money back from Masterclass how do you get your money back from Masterclass and G my wife she's like just give it up
let it go
there might be a
Masterclass from a
business person
they might tell you that
yeah
well I'll tell you
what that was
there was a Masterclass
ripping off my credit card
that was beautiful
but that's all we're
going to be doing now
guys is watching
Masterclass on my
computer okay
there'll be a lot of
Masterclass chats
from you
did you know that
Steve Martin
the comedian
alright mate
he wrote that
movie in 1976 thanks very much oh so to make john i feel a little better this morning we want on
oh 800 the hits 4487 credit card mishaps yeah what have you paid for on your credit card that
you'd rather not be paying for we had so we had our credit cards stolen my wife's credit cards
stolen and and you could see all the places they went to
and I was just jealous that I didn't get to have
the shopping spree like them. I was like,
they went there and they spent $200, they went there and they spent
$300, they went there. I was like, they had a great
day. The only downside is they're having a great
day with your money. Exactly, but jeez, they
had a great day at the mall. They were living the life
I want to live. Exactly.
I went home to the hits, 4487, credit card
mishaps, when it's gone all wrong, you can, yeah, I've done all that.
You've got the number.
You've got the text.
You've got the masterclass on radio, clearly.
Yeah, there's the hits.
You've got Jono and Ben.
The hits.
The Jono and Ben podcast.
We're just talking about credit cards.
When you're paying things on your credit card that you'd rather not be paying for.
Which is probably everything on your credit card, to be fair.
You'd rather not pay for it, but you have to.
What has really changed the game?
The old tap and go.
Woo-wee!
Tap and go.
You couldn't get a more irresponsible feature, could you?
Push of a button, bang, you're away.
No thought can even...
What happens if someone steals your phone?
Well, they can tap and go.
Tap and go, they tap that ass all day long.
So we're going to go, oh, 800 of the hits,
what you're paying for that you wish you weren't.
Kelly?
I went out to dinner some years ago now,
and we ordered a bottle of wine, and we looked at it quickly,
and I don't know, we thought it was maybe a $100 bottle of wine.
Anyway, so we ordered it and drunk it, and it was fine.
And then the bill came in.
It turns out it was actually a $1,000 bottle of wine.
Oh no.
The waiter would have been like,
they're so blasé about this.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was when we were like,
oh, just finishing up uni,
like just starting jobs.
Oh dear God.
Even $100 at that point is a big investment for some wine.
Yeah, we were out for like a really nice meal
so we thought we'd splash out on a $100 bottle.
So, you know, credit cards are much like a night out, aren't they, credit cards?
Enjoy it in the moment, and you deal with the consequences later.
Yep.
That's a beauty.
So was it...
Six months to pay it off.
Six months to pay it off.
So was it amazing?
Like, was it worth $1,000, the wine?
No.
I mean, it was fine but it yeah you're like
you couldn't taste the difference you're like i could have done with a goon sack i was at uni
that's i remember i got my very first credit card being i was saying it was about 19 years old and
i got home from a night out and mom was oh there's something in the mail for you and it was this
beautiful card beautiful card you should just send your ones without even like sometimes you
didn't even have to like register for it.
They just sent you one.
Yeah.
You've got it.
You don't have to use it.
If you want it, you're like,
well, who would send that to an 18, 19 year old?
Well, they did.
And it was the worst mistake they could have done
because that day I had maxed out the credit card.
Within a day.
Wow.
I'd taken everyone to lunch.
We were there.
We were saying, oh, it was wonderful.
I've been paying it off for the last 21 years.
Thanks, Kelly.
Really appreciate your call.
You're going to have a great day.
Thanks a lot.
Philippa, you're on New Zealand's breakfast credit card mishaps.
What happened?
Well, there was an ad on the internet, a weight loss tea.
Oh, yeah.
I thought, oh, yeah, that's good.
You just drink this cup of tea, you know, twice a day and you lose this weight.
That's the same stuff that I advertise on Instagram.
I don't advertise that.
That's good product.
Rock solid stuff.
Yeah, so all you had to pay for was the postage.
That was $4.95 postage.
And I thought, I can afford that for this free sample.
So I did that and then I got this sample.
But then every month they kept taking hundreds of dollars out of my account.
Oh my goodness.
I went to the bank and I said,
how can I stop this money coming out?
And they said, well, you have to arrange with the person
that you got the tea from to stop it at their end
because they think you can't stop it at your end.
Really?
So month after month they were taking out hundreds of dollars.
And then I was traveling through to Dunedin,
and I stopped at the Westpac in Timaru.
And I asked them, and they said, oh, no,
the only way you can do it is cancel your credit card.
So I had to cancel my credit card and get a new card.
But meanwhile, they've just over $900 out of me.
Just for some tea that gives you the squits.
Yep.
Wow.
And you lose money from your account quite a lot.
Yeah, shredding on all fronts.
Good on you, Phillip.
You keep safe, alright?
Yeah, but a good warning to others that sometimes you've actually got to
cancel your card.
That's a good way out.
That's a great way out. That's a great way out.
Maybe you could do that with your Masterclass subscription.
Yeah.
Identity is a script. No.
His identity is a secret.
But his stories have been proven right time and time again.
This is NT.
You see more of Hollywood than that sign in the hills
looking down on Tinseltown.
How are you, NT?
Oh, look at you rhyming today.
I love it.
Listen, that looking down on Tinseltown, it just came.
That was really good, actually.
Wrap it up there.
It's not going to get any better than this.
How are you, Andy?
Hey, I'm good.
You should put that on a shirt.
Yeah, or get printing.
Get printing.
Hey, mate, some dark times in the US.
Yeah, yeah.
There's been some rulings that have definitely upset a lot of people
and conversely made some people happy too.
What are they saying in Hollywood?
We see a lot of celebrities speaking out about it
against obviously the ruling.
Yeah, I mean you had your own.
Ella Yellick O'Connor said something today actually
when she was performing at Glastonbury.
And for those who don't know, that's Lorde.
But she said something.
And I think that when it comes to protests, you know, there's this sense that Hollywood,
and I use that term generally as all manner of celebrity, says something pro forma, says
something, OK, you expect me to say something.
If you don't hear me say something, you're going to call me out.
And I think that this is a little bit different in the sense that, yes, there's a lot of that pro forma stuff.
I give you like Hilaria Baldwin, you know, filming herself on Instagram live while her kids and her protest.
But from inside their apartment, conversely, to somebody like Jodi Sweetin from Full House fame, basically gets bashed in by a police officer, you know, protesting. So that's, you know, that's
a more realistic thing. And if you go back to a Baldwin, Ireland Baldwin shared like her story of
how she had an abortion. She had an abortion because she had a boyfriend she didn't like. And
she said that she grew up with two parents who hated each other and she didn't want to put a
child through that. What I think you're hearing is a lot of these stories about it, stories that they've never shared before. You know, they're
saying, look, I've never said this before, but I think now I need to come clean and tell you this
and tell you that this happened to me and this happened to me. Hey, this is a more human thing
rather than me just being a celebrity and, you know, pontificating about something I don't know
anything about, you know about just to make myself
look smart.
Yeah, that's what we do every morning.
Just try and make ourselves look smart.
That's our only goal.
To hopefully better news, the Elvis movie seems to be the biggest movie around right
now.
People are either loving it or loathing it.
Have you seen it yet?
What's the talk in Hollywood?
I have not seen it.
You have to really commit to a Baz film, you know?
You have to kind of take your whole day to go see a Baz film.
Is it long?
Yeah, it's long.
It's long.
Yeah, but it's good.
I enjoyed it.
It's a solid three hours.
I'll tell you what, if they didn't have the Thursday preview money,
they would have lost to Top Gun 2 over the weekend.
Wow.
But because they do count the Thursday
money, then they became number one. It did okay. Most of the story is a revision of what really
happened, and most of it's not true. However, Baz said, I don't care. I'm going to adjust the
things how I want to adjust it. No, but he did a smart thing. 30% of the people under the age of 24 couldn't name one Elvis song.
Baz did something smart.
He just said, you know what?
I'm going to introduce these people to Elvis the way I want to introduce them.
I'm going to have Austin Butler, who every Gen Z and millennial knows, and we're just going to tell our story.
But it's a whole generation of people, and for them, they don't know who Elvis is.
Now, the one bad part of the movie, obviously, is Tom Hanks.
And one of the survey questions was.
You can't say one bad part of the movie is Tom Hanks.
It is.
But what's funny is that 25% of the people who wanted, who went to the movie, went specifically to see Tom Hanks.
He was that big of a draw.
And then to have him be, I mean, you're taking a chance.
Whenever you throw somebody in a fat suit and stuff,
it's not, you know, you're just taking a chance,
and he's awful in it.
It's really his worst movie of his career.
Okay, you haven't seen it.
I know.
You haven't seen it.
He was not good.
He was not good.
No, clearly you haven't seen it.
He was not good.
E.T., let's just all agree Tom Hanks is an absolute stinker in Elvis.
Aye, aye, aye.
And thank you.
Thank you for your...
He'll get an Oscar.
He'll probably get an Oscar.
He'll love your work.
He will not get an Oscar.
He will not get an Oscar.
No, no way.
See you, mate.
All right.
Take care.
Thanks, bud.
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