Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW :Can AI Beat Humans? We test An AI Café!

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

On today’s show: The boys heap praise on Producer Troy… but throw shade at Megan! Why is your teacher the ultimate legend? Can AI outperform humans? We put it to the test at our very first AI café! Megan’s must-watch pick: The Biggest Loser documentary The smartest way to QUIT your job  Stick around for the alpha quiz controversy... do you think he nailed it? Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cook Easy, Delicious Dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Hey, welcome to the podcast today. Great to have you with us on a Wednesday. We'll talk about your favourite teachers in regarding to the teachers' strike, which was a lovely, wholesome thing we did today. Yes, some wonderful teachers out of there. Teachers just message us. I'm a teacher. It's so beautiful to hear positive things about teachers.

Yeah. So much of the time we looked at a negative way. I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say they looked at a negative way. No, I don't think so. I think everyone's really appreciative of all the work the teachers do. we love our students at the heart of them the heart of all this is them

and their well-being and their future and we just want to do right by them as well as our very contentious alpha quiz that we've sorry I'm just going to grab something one sec you guys go that's okay

are you all right do you want us to keep Ben's I'm gathering it's his new high-fiber diet okay that catches you do you keep going as well

Also the contagious alpha quiz where there was a question mark hanging over a medieval death device. Was it the gallows or the guillotine? Yeah, guillotine. Well, it's actually, I think it's French. The whole morning you're like, it's the guillotine. Well, no, it's just, how it's just like that? I've never heard guillotine. How have you not?

No. It's, okay, guillotine. I was like, you're saying guillotine like a wanker. Didn't you say that on the radio? You save your insults for afterwards. Yeah, I do. Yeah. So anyway, there was a lot of texts on that, hundreds of texts.

Because we weren't going to give it to the listener. Gelatine is what we had is the answer. But they said gallows. And then there was a whole argument on whether it's medieval. Two Alpha Quiz winners this week. I can't help it if everyone listening is really smart. No, he was, and geez, I wouldn't even got seven out of ten with those questions that we asked him. Yeah.

Hi Hello mate Hi You have a Yeah Can I be on it Can you be on it Can you be on

Sure mate I guess so Yeah What's your name Herman Yeah Hey Nice to me

This is Megan Here we go How's it going Yeah good So I just take a seat Someone What do you want to say In the podcast

We've got Herman Who's just walked in You have great hair Herman You do have great hair Yeah Yeah, yeah, just sit down there, mate. Do we need that, Mike?

How did you get past security? I just walked in. Oh, did you? Very relaxed security. What do you do, Herman? I don't know. I just live life, enjoy every day. Yeah.

And wanted to be part of this podcast. Yeah, I just thought it would be cool. I mean, I've never been on like a podcast like this before. I feel like this is very extreme. It looks really cool, a little high-tech equipment. I just feel be cool to jump on and say hi, I guess. Oh, hi. You can say hi to the three people who are listening to this right now, Herman.

We do usually have a third person, but we'll just, I don't know if he's gone to the toilet. Oh, here he is. It's Herman. We've met Herman. It's Herman. Don't say it like, it's Herman. It's Herman. It's him and me and Herman go way back, like, like two minutes back, you know.

Now, Herman does a really, really cool thing. He's buying up big on the internet called rejection therapy. Now, he goes around each, well, I don't want a mansplate. You explain what you do. So this year, I started doing. rejection therapy so I'm doing 365 days straight of just going out and asking strangers different things facing rejection and a lot of the time

actually being accepted for the crazy things I ask kind of like this I wasn't expecting a yes for this either to be honest it was to be honest Herman you got us at a good time it was the podcast intro I was hoping it was going to be live on radio but we just missed that window there so the podcast you're like well let anyone on we'll take Herman when you do a far better job but podcasting intro than we would.

Yeah, bed and gone. I was like, well, we need a third. Yeah, great. Actually, I think I've been replaced now. I think that's what's happened. So, yeah, so some of the things you've done are pretty incredible. Played football and you're just telling me, a football in a stranger's backyard. He'd been on fire trucks before, and by the fire department.

What other things? Oh, man. Well, I've done, I think today is like day 232. So every single day I'm doing something different. There's just been a wide range of them. Let me think. What's some of my best one? So I went bungee jumping with a stranger.

I went up to like a random van and I asked if they wanted to make smalls with me and we did that inside the van was really fun um nothing's off nothing's off the cards nothing no yeah I'm just trying to see how far I can really push the limits do people say no to you though they reject you yeah but not as as much as you would think really yeah I think from doing this 230 something days there's been a lot more yeses and knows. I think it's like 140 years, 90 knows. It's something like that. It's really brought a lot of people together. Like it showed like a great human spirit out there. You know, people will help out

other people. Yeah, 100%. And that's kind of like the biggest reason I'm doing it. I feel like people are very scared in today's age to just speak to people, especially with all the media and news where we're kind of seeing all these crazy headlines about how bad the world is and how many crazy people there are out there. But in reality, most people just want to help you. So if you ask them something, a lot of the time, they're going to do what they can to help you. And I think that's just one of the most beautiful things about that human connection that you kind of have with someone. Are you surprised? You're storing my faith in humanity.

Are you surprised how big it's got on the internet? Because I look at, you know, your posts. You've got like close to 800,000 people following you on Instagram and stuff. But the engagement you get, so many people, you know, like commenting and sharing. Yeah, no, definitely. It's definitely built a bit of a community by itself. I was just filming it and documenting my kind of progress because I thought it would be really cool to look back on

and, you know, for some of my friends to kind of see and they'll find it funny or whatever it might be. But a lot of people just love the videos and it's inspiring them to kind of start their journeys as well, which I think is the coolest thing ever. So people want to give it a follow, rejection therapy. Can I bring a little secret about how you do some of the filming? Are you allowed to talk about it?

Yeah, yeah. So those glasses that Herman was very... Oh, those glasses? They, yeah. Because I was talking about there. I was like, well, he's a real relaxed filming environment. He's like, yeah, the glasses are filming. Yeah, so.

Well, they're like the ray bands. Have they got cameras here? I was talking about those. So you're just wearing what looks like, just, you know, your average pair of spectacles that you've got on and they are filming, yeah, for you. Yeah, because I mean, I feel like if I had a massive camera and I was asking people's stuff, I feel like that would kind of affect how valid their answers are to my questions. Yeah. Whereas this, you know, they don't really know, and then I'll film it and then I'll tell them, hey, I'm doing this or whatever. And they're like, oh, okay.

And when you say, I've been filming you with my glasses, they're like, what the fuck? What? You went, what? Majority of people think it's really cool. A lot of people are very surprised that there's even a camera in this. I mean, it's tiny. Yeah.

It's wild. Well, if you want some more rejection therapy, you can come into a meeting with our bosses and we'll ask for some more annual leave. Yeah, that'll be good. They can be humans next one. Get some more annual leave for us. Really nice to meet you. Oh, that's so cool.

And I'm glad you got onto our podcast. It was great. were a little confused but hey it was good you came through yeah you've come to the right show uh we're desperate well honestly if anyone walks through the door we'll put them on microphone he looked friendly enough i was like okay let's hang what a great story to tell uh herman people want to check you out uh ticot instagram uh it's just at daily rejection across everything awesome god it just sounds like my worst nightmare been on you herman yeah john oh ben and megan the podcast the heads

this is it it is a bone i have to pick with john on Ben and everyone else will be aware of this to a point as well so I like to cook things I like to make things from scratch I made butter from scratch out of cream and we're last night or something so last night I made um little dinner rolls I made the the buns oh you're talking about the jellies yeah it was a jelly protein jelly and mango coconut your husband Andrew posted it and was like yeah is anything that you can't do and then I dropped it in the bed did I was going to reply each stuff of sugar in it because you can't do that in the moment.

I was like, anything this woman can't do? I was like, well, yeah, like she's intolerant to a lot of foods, actually. There's quite a lot of she can't. I was like, I don't know if it was late. I was not ever forget the joke. I might take a fence door. I just had in my head and I played it out.

It was funny. It was a funny joke. So, yeah, like I make a lot of things. I made jellies last night. I made some dinner rolls. And we like to mock you for it. We love to mock you for. Mocking from these two

Even though I brought you in scones We brought us in the blandest pancakes that I've ever had They made my heart sad Those pancakes I'm with your son who was like These are all Yeah I'm with you bestie

Is there anything she can't do Like pancakes? I made you full sugar scones One time They were good They were good You are honestly No

Don't try and Like brownise me now It's what he's trying to do It's too late We're trying to back pedal now Yeah that horse is left Here's my issue, is that producer Troy, lovely producer Troy, has started with us. And we are kindred spirits because he loves to cook and he makes beautiful food.

He does. From scratch. It's a foodie. Impressive. And when he's brought it in, the boys are like, wow. Troy, that's amazing. Oh my God, it looks delicious. Good on you.

All of the praise. Is anything Troy can't do? I can't think of anything. he gets all of the praise looks incredible good on you how long that take you oh get have a taste all of it

and then I don't get the same I don't get the same treatment you're right you're 100% right that's exactly double standards and it's double standards but yeah

but you know in fairness Troy's new we've got to pretend to feign interest in his hobbies for a little while anyway you know like a month or something then eventually be like

oh look at this cockovana maybe yeah right Troy brought in at Rose dinner yesterday and both of you guys are like oh that looks like, man, man. It did look good. But it was your base level roast. You're right. It's not like you've, you're like

a hand-reared jelly. Am I wrong, Troy? Would you agree? There's a bit of a double standard going on? Well, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There is. Yeah, there is. You know, admit it.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but you are very impressive. Can't say that. I made him a little pizza bun, but I didn't bring you any in. No, I noticed that. You go and you're like, yeah, you just cut us out of it. Cut us out of the loop now.

Fair enough, though. Can I just say, a bit too peppery. A bit too much peppery. I found another thing she can't do. Pizza buns. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

The teacher's strike. It's on today. The secondary teachers strike. Over 20,000 people on strike today we say then. And wanting a pay rise, the union said we want 3%. The government's giving them 1% at the moment. And I think better work conditions. and pastoral care as well for the teachers

and one of the most important jobs in any country. Educating our future and just dealing with some real, you know. There's a lot that they have to deal with. I mean, there's some failures of the system. Look at me. I mean, not everyone goes through the system a winner. Some of them turn out like me. But for the most part, they do a magnificent job.

Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think you're the teacher's fault. No, no, definitely not. It's fault, too, boy. I'm not going to blame this on So this is what we want to do We've said the most wholesome thing

This program's ever done Kids Are you listening 0800 the hits their telephone number You can teach 4487 You can nominate your teacher If you think you have the best teacher in New Zealand That's right, primary schools

Secondary schools A teacher that, you know Maybe it's your current teacher Or one you've had in the past That's left a real lasting impression On you because they do I mean my dad You know like I've got

Surrounded by teachers My dad and my mum were both teachers my dad a principal for many years, my wife's even a teacher as well, but amazing the amount of people that come up to me, and you've been there many times, come up, and they'll be like, oh, they must recognise me from the radio or TV. It's like, you, and I'm like, yeah, you're Kevin Boyce's son. That's, yeah, and you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, they all love Kevin Boyce. And really has left a lasting impression on so many kids right around the country. Mr. Boyce, they say, Mr. Boyce's son. Yeah, I know, and it's amazing the people that come up,

and that's pretty cool, you know, it's cool. Well, do you know what's like, it's quite sad that the teachers that look after my children, spend more time during the week with my kids than I do. Yeah, true. They spend more time looking after them than I see them in a day. Yeah, you're right. You're really sad. You're a shocking period. No, no, that's just the case for everyone.

You're right. Yeah, so they do make, you know, an impression on them. They help shape your, you know, you. It's not always reciprocate, yep, because I had a teacher, Mrs. Lindelik. She was our deputy principal. but she also was like a teacher and she was so

she left such a big impact on me she was so lovely caring she always encouraged me and then years later I was like let's get in touch with her and we called her and I was like oh my god you're amazing and I remember you and she was like who are you

she was just great and inspiring so many kids you're just a number to her yeah to be fair she'd seen a lot of kids in her time but that's I mean she obviously you made a lot to

me inspired thousands of kids I imagine over the years That's what we'd love to hear this morning A teacher that's left a lasting impression on you We did, as you said before It's probably the most wholesome thing that we've done New Zealand's greatest teacher The prize, I mean an ideal pirate prize

Would probably be a pay rise for them Yeah, yeah Well let's hope that gets sorted out by someone else Like the government Jono Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Where the teachers are striking

The secondary school teachers Right around the country And we thought we'd do something a bit more Wholesome Yeah because it feels like They deserve it, the teachers deserve it the best teacher. Oh, 800 the hits, 4487.

Kids, if you're listening right now, we'd love to hear from you. Let's get Josh on the show. How are you, Josh? I'm good. Yeah, how old are you, mate? I'm 11. Right, okay.

The school? Name and shame, the school? No, not shame them, really. Just name them. What school do you go to? St. Francis. Okay, St. Francis. Who's the teacher?

The New Zealand's best teacher is who, Josh? Mr. Truon. Mr Trin and why why is Mr Trun so great And while I was doing school work He always gives us a brain break Like playing outside at the back paddock Okay Gives just the time off

I'd love a break break break Yeah Good show wouldn't that be nice Yeah That's close Is he allowed to give you brain breaks For about hiding out the back paddock Or is it more of a break for him

You think Josh I think it's both Yeah I need a breather from this environment That's great Sometimes those are good reset, come back into it. It's a great plan. Hey, well, thanks to giving him a shout

out this morning. You have a great day. Yeah, beautiful. Rochelle, welcome. We're nominating New Zealand's greatest teacher. Good morning. Hi. Who are we nominated? Well, her name's Mrs. King, and she's actually my son's teacher aide, or was his teacher aide for all the way through primary

school, and she is amazing. And we're just so humbled by the special teacher aids that look after our special kids. And like she even, he was choking one time and she saved his life and he wouldn't be here without her so we we just like I think emotionally talking about it because having a child with special needs the teacher aids they're just such a special group of people just a shout out to all of them but especially

mrs king she's our oh that's lovely biggest person in the world geez yeah that's above and beyond really you know saving a life you know geez yeah yeah it was pretty emotional but like even like it's been a few years but even now like we still reach out to her and she's still video chat him and that's beautiful she's family now that's the thing not only are they teaching our kids

they're taking care of them yeah yeah yeah yeah and you know I should shout out to my youngest son's teacher as well because he's a hard nut and you know that you know he's a bit of a betler

yeah yeah but no teacher age teacher aids are top of our hearts we love that lovely thank you so much calling up we really appreciate it some great shoutouts here coming through on the text machine I want to nominate Mrs. Bowden and Mrs. Mimilo from Hub 3

Maritai Beach School for New Zealand's greatest teachers. Steve Parent from Manuatu College. He made me the man I am today. Oh, that's cool. Wonderful text there. We'll go to Siena. Good morning to you. Good morning. Good morning now. How are you? I'm eight.

Well, thank you so much for calling. Who's your favourite teacher? Mrs. Delima. Mrs. Delima. Okay. Why is Mrs. Delima so good, Siena? She has high expectations. Okay, good. Okay, that sounds tough, but we don't get there every day.

But that's okay. Strives for excellence. Okay, and do you think you get there? Do you think you meet her expectations? Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah. What are some of her day-to-day expectations?

Like working hard and finishing your work all the time. Working hard? Okay, yeah. And what school do you go to? I go to St Mary. Do all the other kids love Mrs. DeLeste. Mr Leema? Yes.

What do you want to say to her? Mrs. Delema's listening now. She's probably not. What do you want to say to her? Mrs. Delema, she just cares for me and she works very hard. Do you think she deserves a pay rise? Yeah. Yeah.

Sounds like that. I think everyone agrees. Play that to bloody to Judith Collins. Yeah. Oh, that's like you. Crushy Collins. We've got a cute kid on the phone, Crusher. Hey, thanks so much for calling up.

You have a wonderful day Thank you John O'Benn and Megan The podcast The Hits Thousands of secondary school teachers striking today over stored collective agreement

negotiations with the government so hopefully they get things sorted Yeah you're saying Give them more money But they want 3% But when you also said The government's struggling too It's got to be a balance

Doesn't there But 1% is an offering Doesn't well it's nothing It's nothing That's we're asking Kickin the precious parts Isn't it So we are nominating

New Zealand's best teachers this morning That's what we're doing and we're having a blast doing it fern good morning good morning welcome how old are you nine nine years old you want to nominate new zealand's greatest teacher yes okay who is that mrs bowden from marita beach school okay why do you love mrs bowden she's always there for me and she's always ready to help oh good on you that's awesome what's the nicest thing mrs bowden's done in the last week um she when I didn't understand equation that we were doing a mass

she helped me and helped me until I finally got it. Oh, good on you. What was the equation? It was long division. That's a tricky one. I can't do long division now, so you're smarter than me, fun. She's like, yeah.

Why do they have to have long division? I just have just normal, just one off, just... There's a lot of mass goes quite deep, eh? It goes very deep. I didn't need to go that deep. No, you do, Fern. It's good to know. Don't listen to Jono.

Good on your firm. Great nomination. You have a great day. Thank you. Megan, you were saying your son. Bassi says something very cute. Yeah, so every night before we got, like, I carol him in bed and I'm like, good night best friend.

And he says, you know, not my best friend. Kylie's my best friend, which is his teacher. It is young and cute. I mean, not so cute for you. I'm like, I made you. Keep for Kylie in it. I made you. You are literally nothing without me.

You don't want to be best friend. the person that made you. Yeah, you're like, Kylie's cool, man. Kylie, I like Kylie. Yeah, great, cool man. No strings of tan. She's not yelling at me. She's not stress out.

She hasn't break me to brush my teeth and all that sort of stuff. Busted my chop. His admin, I've got to get through, okay? Lorenz, good morning. You're nominating a teacher for New Zealand's best teacher. Yes, I am, Miss Royal from my target primary in Christchurch. My wife, about two years ago, my wife had cancer, and she had to go for surgery. and so I went to the school

and the surgery was going to be a long recovery and I went to the school and said well listen the kids are not going to do any homework and they might be out of routine and everything as I left the school the school already called back and said this and Ms Royal called back and said don't even give the kids breakfast in the morning I will take care of them here at school

Oh my gosh Oh my God Yeah and they put so much effort into helping us during that time It was amazing That's going above and beyond isn't it? No, they did everything they could. And, I mean, the kids was, the whole time the kids was just taken care of. It just took so much weight up our soldiers.

And how's your wife? Well, she says way better. She just comes through their recovery and she's cancer-free. Oh, that's amazing. Happy ending. Yeah. Yeah. They're just incredible teachers, right?

Like, what? Oh, they're awesome. That's above and beyond their job. And what do they get from that? And I'm mentioning my role because she was my boys' teacher, but actually the whole teaching team there was just all of them together. was amazing. Doing stuff that sometimes even your friends wouldn't be able to do, you know, these teachers.

Well, but they, I mean, to be fair, they probably know the kids better than the friends do and they spend more time with them, you know? Yeah. John O'Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Talk about artificial intelligence. AI at the moment, chat GPT, lots of people using it to help out with assignments, help out with their jobs. There's fear that could take over a whole lot of jobs.

Yeah, I was watching a clip before of a teacher. I should try and find it because it's probably better than me, regurgitating it but she was going well you can't stop the kids from using it to write essays what you can do is go okay well bring your chat gpt essay into class where there's no ai and you try and improve it oh yeah yeah with your with nature's chat gpt your minds it's not a bad take on it we spoke to justin flitter who's the uh the founder of new zealand ai ai new zealand one of the two can't remember which way it goes around uh and he was really interesting podcast if you head to i heart and his take on AI and how it's really going to better the human race.

What about the please and thank you? You know, when you ask GPT to do something, do we need to say please and thank you? No, there's no need to be polite to AI. In fact, you know, your pleas and thank yous are just taking up more data center, processing time and energy supply to complete that request. It's moving faster than anything else ever has. It is creating tension and anxiety because it is hard for people to keep up with this. He's just like, get on board.

Get on board now. Don't be left behind. Yeah, yeah. And we thought this week, well, let's go out and let's go out and see what a threat these robots are to us. That's right. So if you do know of any AI around the place, let us know 4487 on the hits that we can go test out. Because we heard about a robot cafe, a little place where they make hot drinks. and you can go down a robotic arm or make the hot drink for you?

No, not a human inside. No. Only us. We were the only humans. On our quest, road testing the robots this week, we've arrived at what claims to be the world's first robot cafe? Yeah, the world's first AI cafe. Now, there's a robot arm, and that's going to make a hot drink for us right now.

The music is blaring in here, though, isn't it? Who do we complain to about the music being so loud in the cafe? I don't know, but it's not very social. It's just us in the cafe. Well, I guess it's just like take it and go. Alright, so we're going to order something for the robot. So we're looking at a giant glass box and inside the machinery but I assume makes whatever drink you want.

It's got a robotic arm that looks like it's going to do all the work. It's like a giant vending machine, you're right, but making hot, hot drinks and it's going to come out, I guess, through the little, well basically like a vending machine. Okay, so we'll press order. What do you want to get? We'll just go a tea, shall we? Okay.

$3.80. Swipe your card. Oh great. Accepted. Oh, good on you. You got money in your account. Oh no, I can answer the arm is... Oh, oh, the arm got the arm. Oh, dropped the cup in the arm. He's caught the cup.

Oh, it's frozen. Oh no. It moves over to the coffee making machine, I assume. It's exciting the first time round. I don't know about, you know, if you hear every day. Yeah. If the novelty ever wears off. Yeah.

You know, right, there's no sort of conversation, is there? There's only drips of liquid coming out. Should there be more than that? No, it's going, it's going. Woo! Maybe it's got a little prostate problem. We're just dribbling out. Would you say a barista, a human barista, would be beating the robotic barista

in terms of a time trial? I don't know. Maybe, but it's hard to know. The hot water's going in. Oh, someone's coming out. Are you guys coming to use? The World's First Robot Cafe, are you? Yeah.

How do you find it compared to a human? Better? It's all right. Yeah. It's coming, it's coming. We dropped in. Oh, where's it going now? It's putting a lid on it.

Look at this. The robot arm puts it onto a stage which then... It's hot. It's with a lid on there as well. Yeah, the lid's secure. Wow. Which is genius. Now Tate's skullet.

Very hot. So what was your... What was your... It was... Yeah, it did a good job. It did a good job. Yeah. Like you would say sort of mid-level job compared to other hot drinks you get from around the place, right?

Yeah, as long as you're not expecting too much. Yeah. So low his expectations, you'll be happy with the robots. Like, imagine if it was quick in-and-out sort of thing, you know? It wasn't that quick. So, yeah. The cafe across the road is quicker. You don't have to have banter as well, I guess.

Yeah, that's true. But it would be nice to have banter, wouldn't it from the robots? Yeah. Pretend it cares about your day and things. As being mentioned, if you are using AI robots in your place of work or even at home, day to day, apparently there's a farm dog. Someone's texting there's a robotic farm dog. Oh, we'd love to see that.

We want to check that out. John O'Benn and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Reality TV show The Biggest Loser, 17 seasons that ran. The whole concept was people that were, a larger people, obese people, they would call themselves. They would see who could lose the most amount of weight by the end of the series, right? and you win $250,000.

That was a very popular show. It was on TV. It felt like for, you know, five to ten years, the biggest loser. 17. 17. 17 years. 17 seasons, yeah. Poor.

Yes, they brought it back momentarily in 2020, and everyone at that point was like, ah, I don't know about this. We've come a long way. Actually, 18 seasons, a bit, yeah. Well, there we go. So, there's some backlash happening on Netflix. The Netflix team, they love.

a doco years after the fact. Granted, whip up a bit of backlash. They nail docos. They do, yeah. And they've managed to get one of the producers, they've managed to get one of the trainers, and the doctor from that show, plus multiple contestants over the years,

some which I remember watching, to talk about their experience on the show. And obviously the producer is still defending yourself, defending themselves. And you might wonder why anyone would want to go on that show and why they haven't sued them. Did they win money? 250,000.

Yeah. Well, so that's why you go on. Yeah. Plus, a lot of the people just wanted to stay on for as long as possible to lose as much weight as they could. They're huge transformations to people right at the end of the series, like massive, but they were obviously pushing themselves to the limits and more. Yeah.

So one of the contestants has spoken about the signing of the contract. It was a very thick contract. It pretty much covered every base you could cover. It's one of those that say, oh, you could even die, you know? I mean, you won't sue us. I remember. sitting in my room and reading it and thinking, I am not qualified to read this

and thinking to myself, I need an attorney and actually asking for one. Sure, we can get you an attorney. No problem. But I got 10 other people waiting for your spot on the show. So sign it and move on. Oh my God, it sounds like radio. And when they were like, well, you could actually die.

It shows a woman who did such an extreme exercise right off the bat that she pretty much did die. She said she saw her grandad, she saw white light, she got taken to hospital, they managed to bring her back, and then she went back on the show. Oh my gosh. Did they have all this? Do they cover this storyline on the program that she died? I remember seeing her collapse and then come back on the show,

and they missed out all the full-on details. But the important detail that she was dead. But I remember that she wasn't exercising for a couple of weeks, and all the contestants are like, you're ruining it for us. The trainers are calling her lazy. Because they were just pushing themselves to the limit. Yeah, there was a guy who won the first series. He was on, I watched a little bit last night,

and he was saying he basically didn't eat for three weeks because, you know, like he had blood in his urine and stuff, you know, at the end of the thing, because his body, he put, just to win, just to win. It's not natural and not right for you to do that, right? That whole last week before the final way and he was on the lemon detox diet while exercising his brains out, which is just, it's not healthy.

No. But they do have a doctor on the show, and he wasn't always on board. I pretty much said I was going to quit unless I got to talk to the trainers. So they would force them to come in and I'd give my little half an hour speech and maybe some things changed, not as much as I would like. You know, he was the doctor of the show. No one was going to tell us what to do when it came to diet and exercise.

It was our meal plans. It was our exercise program. So the trainers and the doctor were always at odds. But you also realize... The doctor sounds like it was a box ticking exercise. an ass coverer. Did you have a doctor on set? Yeah.

But they were doing challenges without telling the doctor and he was like I would never evocate those. But they also, you didn't realize when you were watching it, they were just, they were fat shaming all these people. They were ridiculing them to the point where they'd fall off a treadmill and they would shake the camera to make it seem like they had made the ground shake. Oh, for dramatic effects. For dramatic effects.

Showbiz, resmateras, all right. But one of the contestants did actually realise at one point that she was like, you guys making fun of it? us we were up there trembling falling and i felt like were they intentionally trying to do that and i now understand as part of the good for tv are you trying to make me look like a loser oh poor people yeah yeah no you can't make fun of people's bodies we've learned that since then haven't we getting healthy and doing the biggest loser i think are two different things yeah because there's something quite you know good about so the concept of people losing

weight but but doing it in the right way. Yeah, but that's not fun television, is it? No, then that's the thing, right? You said they had a challenge where they had to take fast food in their mouth from one location to another. Yeah, there were all these sort of ridiculous challenges that have to do that. We kind of took them away from actually losing the weight that were there for, but just to add some pizzazz to the TV show.

And also the temptation challenges where they just put a whole bunch of like caloric food in front of them and it was like, if you're the person who eats the most calories, you'll get to see your family. but they don't know how many calories everyone else is eaten it's just that it's just like that's not cool dastardly

I'd like to say we've learnt from it I mean a little way we have but we haven't there's still some reality shows out there you go the care for people is not the duty of care is not there I'm going to start a new one

where I go on a big weight loss thing it's like two years it's like oh I lost point five there oh now put on another two and the show just keeps like rolling Christmas time oh he put a little bit more he came back in

he dried July Yeah, good work. Oh, smashed a few heinies over New Year's. It's probably pretty true. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, The Hits. Just watching, I think it's a lovely bit of footage. A lady came home, she was like, why is my washing? Not wet.

He put it out on the line. The poster had come in, went to deliver a package. It was sheets before you kind of jump to anything that, you know, and he took it up, put it in a basket and left it on the doorstep as well. She said, who did that? She looked back at her cameras and really. Wait, did they get the washing in? Yeah, it took it off the line.

It was on an outside line. And as he walked past, he was like, oh, I'll take it in because it started to rain and put it on the doorstep as well, which is pretty nice. Oh, that's the New Zealand Posts have so much time on their hands. Why don't you have to make it a negative? Oh, it's lovely. It's a positive.

It was actually in Australia, but anyway. Well, I should New Zealand Post have folded, put it away for you as well. Because they've got the time. Yeah, exactly. That is sweet. Tell you what sweet, too, the shortest commute to work, Ben Boys has not stopped banging on about what he believes could have been New Zealand's shortest commute to work.

Last week, you know, we're in Tauranga, we stayed at the Quest Hotel, and we're in Florence Bistro in the morning for the cafe broadcast. We're just a little meander across a little road. I reckon it took me eight seconds to walk across that street. You know, like it was, no cars, no traffic at that time of the morning. I got an hour sleeping. Yeah? Because I live out in the whops, usually.

It takes the ages. I was like, this is great. We just all wander across the road. and it was like eight seconds. Yeah, that's great. So the novelty, though, but if you don't like your job, then you're like, I live in hell every day looking at my job across the road. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, 800 hits one, check this out. New Zealand's shortest commute. Probably not going to beat eight seconds. No. Unless you're one of those places that have, you know, because you said it couldn't be in the same house, but whatever you're attached to the house.

Friends of mine used to run the video store, the video easy master them. You know, it was next, there was a door from their kitchen into the, As a kid Was it all as one was it? It was their kitchen And then it opened up into that life And they're like, they've got the world on video Yeah

And I have a couple of like Hairdresser friends Who have their salon like in the house What a place as a kid Although you'd be halfway through Somebody E-T or something And then they go Ah someone's rented that

You have to like Give it back to the shop The dad would come back in or get it out Yeah And wide range of snacks And confectionery too at the video shop Were you allowed to just like go in And like grab some snacks

No not so much sex now and again like it was there wasn't a free for all they were trying to turn a profit it wasn't just

another room in the house wasn't just a glorified patchery okay I wait under that New Zealand's shortest commutes you can text us too

4487 we've got to already got a quick call on Chase you can start the chase what's your shortest commute well back in the day I used to live

on second half and Tarringa there and there was second have motel across the road and I was working at cash converters at the time on Devonport Road so I'd literally get up in the morning walk out my front door through the motel car park into the old PathLab car park

there was a gate in between and then I was literally on the back door of work it was just so easy and it was just so convenient at the time how long how long so give us the time how long between rolling out of bed to being at work oh like two minutes Two months.

Pretty good, Chase. Literally through the car park, through the gate, through the next car park, yeah. And you were ready to convert stolen Louis Vuitton handbags into cash. That's the man, you know it. Good on, Chase. Chase to beat Chase. There we go.

20 minutes, 20 seconds. Have you, I can beat under 20 seconds the shortest community. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Happy birthday. Taika. Tika Waititi, 50 years old.

I had a very lovely looking party in Ibiza. over the weekend sasha baron colin was there bat damon was there sarah baron kara delavine was there um rita oro posted some lovely pictures on social media including one of uh like it was like help yourself to a siggy's table oh a tray of cigarettes yeah haven't seen one of those since the 90s it's cool they're bringing it back old school as well so no happy birthday that happened new zealand's very proud of what he does yeah you know you're in a you know you're in a good place when there's a tray of cigarettes we're giving the cost of cigarettes too

Then throw another tray next to it with butter. Take yourself a block of butter home. Grab a knife. Party favours. We're just talking about New Zealand's shortest commutes. Great messages and text coming through. The text number 4487, if you want to get in touch with us. 0-800 hit the hits, which B's managed to do.

Good to have you on this morning, Bee. Good morning, how are you? We're doing well, mate. Shortest commute, that's what we're after. Right, well, I currently, is a whole two and a half to three minutes. Literally, I'm not normally here, but I normally live in work in Christchurch, but I'm over in Hokka Ticker for a few weeks. And my commute is two and a half minutes.

So yeah, I'll take that any day of the week. Have you ever turned up late? No, I haven't turned up late. No, I haven't turned up late. No, there's no real excuses there, wouldn't you? I'd still find a way. Absolutely not. It's like, it's a straight line.

Like, I can't even get lost. I don't even turn. I go in a straight line. So you drive? Yeah, I do drive. because I sometimes have to go and move animals and things around, so I need to have the vehicle with me. What do you do?

I actually work at SPCA. Oh, good on you, B. Yeah, I'm a vet nurse, and normally working cross church, but helping out over in Hokie for a while, it's magic. Oh, well, you look after yourself and look after the animals while you're looking after yourself. Have a good one, B. Thanks, guys, you too.

See you, mate. James, shortest commute to work. What are we talking? Well, my mum texts me to tell me my employee is on his way, and I just have to walk from my back large slider to the gate. Forty seconds or a minute. Oh, how good.

Forty seconds, yeah. So if you forget something, you just went back home, you need lunch, just go back home. Yeah. Is it nice working that close? Well, yeah, it's good because I can just,

I can play video games and listen to you guys right up until my worker arrives. Yeah, right, right to the, I guess so, too, but you would always feel like work was with you, wouldn't you? Yeah.

That's quite a good thing. thing about having the separation. Well, I am a business partner in the business, so it's kind of with me all the time anyway. So, yeah. I know what do you actually do, James? I've spoken to you multiple times. Human traffic, how are you doing? I am, I run a delivery company in the middle of two.

We deliver for Harvey Norman and lifestyle. Oh, good idea. So I deliver fridges and stuff. I'm going out to Well, I eater today. So, yeah, that's going to be fun. Drive safely. Drive safely over there. James, the delivery man never knew what he did.

And we'll take one more, shall we, Catherine. Oh, hi. Shortest commute. Um, yeah, across the road at the back of the mall, um, from Westfield at, um, in Cushet. Um, I lived, um, literally backed onto the, um, back driveway and I worked at the, it came out. As long as I had an early start, I could go on the back door, which was half a minute across the road. There we go. We've got a win out.

Yeah. That's pretty impressive. Yeah, I would, um, get a lot of, um, last minute calls and get a lot of extra shift. Because they know you're there You're like, damn it I can sneak out without I'm seeing me Out of bed Into the clothes and across the road

When did you say you worked at the Kmart? Yeah I went at the Kmart At Westfield Rickerton When I was at When I was working at university Do they give you a discount Staff discount? At university

Yeah Get a lot of the last Phone calls But also spend a lot of the money Yeah That's dangerous Well Keth Lovely to have you on the show

this morning and you go and have a wonderful day and chitia all right look after yourself John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The Hits So yeah we're just Off that Reminiscing about a teacher of mine

Who's a South African gentleman I remember him leaving the job In an absolute blaze of glory Back in the day We really pushed this poor guy And looking back on it Horrible Horrible teenagers

Which is why teachers need more than one Horrible teenage boys And teenage boys on mass too Oh yeah You've been one Ben You've been one. Diabolical. Diabolical.

Yeah, and we push this poor fellow. Like, he would even go out for, like, stress cigarettes midway through the class. And you'd see him sort of hands on, head down outside, like in the courtyard. He wouldn't even go and hide in the bush. He was just, like, a place of it. But then one day he's like, I'm done. Slammed the duster down. We had a duster back there.

Grace, we had chortboards, and just threw the duster down on the ground, and he never came back. Never came back. Pushed him out of the later. What was the breaking point? Do you remember? Oh, I think it was, because we did this silly thing where people would, like, chew up little bits of paper and then, like, put it in their mouth and saliva and then get rulers and like, so when he had his back turned on the blackboard. Oh, someone did it. Not me, not me, not me.

Was it not you? You knew exactly how to do it, but you didn't know that. I was with the bloody compass doing the thing in between my fingers, remember? That's what I was focusing on. So, you know, when did you leave in a blazer? Lori, leave your job. That's what we'd like to know. On 0-800-7 is our text number because Beth, she works, well, she worked in Walmart in the

States, and she's become quite famous online for her exit from the company. On the store PA system. So she did this in Surround Sound. Attention, Walmart Shoppers and Associates. My name is Beth from electronics. I've been working at Walmart for almost five years, and I can say that everyone here is overworked and underpaid. And customers poorly every day.

we have a problem with it. We're told that we're replaceable. I'm tired of the constant gaslighting. This company treats their elderly associates like shit. You're going. Wow. So you imagine someone from Walmart, the managers is running towards the VA system at her stage.

Cut it off, cut it off. And then I think she even has a go at the manager. I have a problem with it. We're told that we're replaceable. I'm tired of the constant gas lighting. This company treats their elderly associates like to Jared, or store manager, you're a pervert. Oh, wow.

So he's going to go, he's a whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You can imagine all the other staff are like deflecting Jared? Oh, Jared's fringing across from betting. They're all standing in his way. Let us speak. That is powerful. I mean, we've got that powerful tool right in front of us. Go on there.

I'm sure radio hosts. Go on then. Matt Anderson, our boss, you're a pervert. He's not. She's a lovely man. It's my friend. So I ain't under the Hits. You can text us two, four, for eight, seven, get in touch with New Zealand's breakfast.

We want to put you on here. Did you actually leave your job in a blazer glory? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. To know how you quit and did the best way possible after a lady from Walmart's Beth. Oh, really? She did it over the PA system.

Attention, Walmart shoppers and associates. My name is Beth from Electronics. I've been working at Walmart for almost five years and I can say that everyone here. say that everyone here is overworked and underpaid and customers poorly every day whenever we have a problem with it, we're told that we're replaceable I'm tired of the constant

gas lighting. This company treats their elderly associates like shit to their store man and you're a pervert. Oh, I miss the bloody. You definitely missed that one. A lot beep is not a good idea. Timing was awful on that one guys. It definitely was awful. I might have to announce my resignation. He might have the blazer glory.

I didn't really quit a job at a Lays of glory. Oh, that was me swearing away. But I took a month off to make a TV show. So we took a month off without pay, but they paid us, you know, which was great because we weren't making any money for the TV show. When we came back to our job, we decided we wanted to quit to go do more TV. And we're thinking, oh, geez, hopefully they'll not know about the fact that they only

paid us for a month. But they knew about it. Did you have to pay it back? That's fine. Yeah, well, basically, they made us work for the next month before we could leave. Well, essentially, that paid us. That was a tough month. You weren't getting money for it.

No, we'd already spent that money like a month ago. You'd had a fun month. Yeah, well, yes. So, it's usually felt like you're working for free, so they got their own back. Suzanne, welcome to the program. Good morning. Great to have you on. Did you go out in a blaze of glory?

You left your job in a blaze. I did. I got a job, and the staff there weren't that friendly, so I asked if I could go for a smoke break. And 23 years later, I'm still on my first. smoke freak They're like Oh she's coming back Yeah she's coming back

She's weird Suzanne didn't even smoke Yeah You just ghosted the job See you guys I was I'd been there for two days And the lady kept yelling at me

Because I didn't know All her prices off by heart So I thought Yeah Pug of this I'm out Good on you Sometimes you're like

Life this isn't what life's meant to be Yeah Yeah minimum wage And I was like Yeah nah I'm out I did that Yeah I did that halfway through a shift as a waiter, too, I've spoken about previously.

You were a waiter? Yeah, not a great one. Yeah, I don't think that's in your wheelhouse, not offence. I'm the opposite of waiting. I'm very impatient, to be honest, but it was a bad track record, Suzanne. In previous nights, I'd spilt champagne, a tray of champagne over a poor customer. And then halfway through a shift. I'm like, this is not for me.

Like, I'm doing damage to this restaurant, this industry. So I just walked out. Yeah, done. And then they scheduled me on next week for the next shift. high impact player good on you Suzanne some great text coming through here on 4487 that's come through

found a new job, gave notice when it came to quitting I stayed calm and uncaring I killed them with kindness Oh okay Oh that's not really a blaze of glory That's just a sensible departure I asked for a 10% pay rise

The boss said no So then I went and crashed the company car And walked off Wow We went from one extreme to another on those texts. I feel like they kind of know who's done that, though. Yeah, it feels like it, eh? Yeah, that's going to catch up with you at some stage.

I just started crying and it made everyone awkward. Yeah, I can imagine this point. He is a good option, aren't they? Few of those. Yeah. Beaver Daisies, it is the Hitsbreakfast 837 on your Wednesday morning. Justin Bieber impersonator. Got up on stage at a Las Vegas nightclub.

And some photos, I'm like, oh, he looks like Bieber. in the wide shot video, I'm like, he doesn't really look like that. I didn't hear him saying. Did he sound like it? Well, I don't know how much of the background was actual Bieber or not. Yeah,

because it didn't sound terrible for what I heard, but then I was like, did he just lip sync it or what was going on? I don't know how he ended up on stage, how he got past security. Beautiful play. Yeah. Up close, I'll put a photo up

in the Hits Breakfast story because there was a photo. I was like, oh, that's Bieber, but then in the wide shop footage I might, that's definitely not. It'll be to me like going, hey, it's Vin Diesel. Can I come into your nightclub?

Yeah, come on in, I don't think you're passing for Vin Diesel. You're both bald and that's about it. Yeah, thank you. That was the analogy. Yeah, there you go. See, here you go, there's a photo right there. You can see, like, okay.

Oh, from here? Yeah, like, okay. But then further away, yeah. So, Beavers got the haircut like that at the moment, shaved head. If it was five people deep, too, surrounded by a team of people, you'd be like, oh, yeah. Yeah, it's Bieber. That would sell.

Let chuck him on stage. Yeah. Wouldn't you also go, why does Justin people want to perform on our stage? Yeah, I know. Like, oh, can. Surely that's a red flag. Yeah, that's true. Took a photo yesterday with a group of people.

Now, these people, Gen Z, producer, Grace, this will come in here, mate. These people were over the age of 40, okay, and we stood around for a group photo, arms folded. Were you taking the photo? No, I was in the photo. Oh, okay. And firstly, the person taking the photo, this is my core issue, but it was like, oh, couldn't find the phone app. They were using someone else's phone, which is a classic. Which one's the thing, you know, dumb?

And then they're like, oh, put it on selfie mode. That's another one. And they're like, you don't want a photo of me. And then, I'm sorry, Grace. Grace is already cringing. And then took the photo. And then we're like, cool, is that good? And they're like, let's do one more.

But I'm thinking, if Grace was behind the camera, she would have fired off 96 shots. Yeah, true. Without even, even, you know, a second, let's do one more photo. A burst. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Done. Okay.

And I was like, damn, we're in a, we're in a demographic with, photo taking now. Your first mistake is saying you were looking for the photo app. Yeah, that was bad. You just swipe and it. It wasn't me. Don't even go with me. Why are you angry at me? It just seems like something you would do. Yeah, it does. The other one is to that, let's do a silly one.

A silly one. Everybody say cheese. It's so icky. Everybody said, have you done a silly one before? Oh, what is, I know. It's like to know what out of, you know, in someone's photo string takes preference. The normal one or the silly one. I mean, you've got two options.

What are you hanging up on the... It's all back of the day we probably did have. That was the two options. Serious one, more serious. Maybe light smile and then a silly one. What would you do for your silly? The serious one for LinkedIn. I mean, the silly one for...

When you're like, do a silly one to people, it really throws them. Like, what's the silly one? My version of silly is, well, I have certain body parts hanging out. Yeah, how silly do you go? What do you do for a silly photo? Like a tongue out or something. Yeah. Peace sign.

But it's weird, then I'm like, you know, if no one knows the context of a silly one, they're just like, why does he look like that in the photo? Like, what's he doing? Jono, you should have suggested a 0.5 and they would have been like, what? Yeah, yeah, and then you see it really cool. Yeah, okay, what we're going to do during the age,

okay, we're going to do a serious photo, and we're going to do a silly one. I'm going to post them on a hit's breakfast. Okay, we get to do a silly photo. What are you doing for the silly one after? I don't know. I don't know. Do we need to blur anything out?

Take full creative control. John O'Bennon and Megan. The podcast. That's a morning, we just had the alpha quiz. There was a question that was been called into question. From the alpha quiz, G was the letter this morning, the question that we're all talking about. A medieval machine used to execute people. We had Andy on from up north in New Zealand.

Now, he said gallows. The answer that we had was guillotine. Now, we have put it to the text, put it to the people, as well as putting it to management. Some fantastic engagement on the text machine. Four-487, a lot of people chiming in on this one. sending Wikipedia links. People, it's quite disturbing to know how much people know about medieval death as well. And the detail surrounding it, too.

The text machine is blowing up. So the medieval times finished around the 15th century. And gallows were used from the 16th century. Oh, so you're saying no. I'm just putting that out there. But then you look it up and it says a medieval structure. But it technically wasn't during medieval times. So I don't know.

We're going to go to Carol. She's chiming in on this one. What are your thoughts there? Carol and Masterton, come in live. I absolutely agree that they are definitely medieval. They've been used around for 3,000 years all over Europe. So I would go for it. You're right.

As soon as you put it into AI, I mean, we all talked about AI. It's AI week. But medieval times. Yellows were medieval. They finished in the, they started from the 16th century, which is past medieval times. Carol Carol No I'm just playing devil's advocate

If we're going to The Wikipedia thing I looked at Is saying that they've been around For over 3,000 years Wikipedia can also be edited by anyone Yeah I love this drama Okay so many texts coming through

Agreeing with you Carol Saying most people saying They're thinking it should be Yeah I know We're through it to the people But let's be honest We're not listening to the people We're listening to the management.

No, we want to take it into regard. If everyone said no, then we'd be like, okay, well, there's no case here for Andy. Andy, you join us back. So the first mention of a gallows is actually in the Bible, which predates medieval times. He's been doing some research during the buddy. Where you go, Megan? You heard of the Bible, Megan? One of the biggest selling books of all time, baby. Beat Harry Potter.

The guy that created the first gallows was hanged by his own gallows. Did he take a break with medieval times? guys we can't do this for a bit then they brought it back Andy's done his research it really it doesn't matter what it doesn't matter what I say it doesn't matter what you think it doesn't matter what all the texts have come through at the moment we've talked to our management right now

and we think you're not not going to walk away with money you won the thousand dollars you got a thousand bucks you've got it Andy oh my goodness what an awesome way to start the day oh well done well done on some really tricky questions throughout that whole alpha quiz.

So you did really, really well. Wow to Andy. My work team are going to be so proud of me because we're the quiz champions two years running at work too. Oh, geez, you could have told us that before you came on here. You and your Galapalus turtles and all sorts. I never even heard of that. Galapagos.

Well, well done, Andy. You got yourself $1,000. Thank you so much, guys. You're very welcome. Thank you for listening to the show and well done on getting that. That's really impressive. Our second winner this week. We've had two $1,000 winners.

Man, that's the end of the alpha quiz. Could be. It could be. Sports and bloody counsel.