Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Caught Up With Old Radio Host PJ Harding!

Episode Date: September 30, 2021

PJ Harding moved back to NZ after living in Melbourne hosting one of the most popular breakfast shows. She's now living in the Wairarapa with her fiancé. What's she up to now, is she going to come back to radio? Jono also delved into some of Google's most outrageous reviews, the ultimate Karens! (Sorry to the Karens listening... you're probably not like this). Finally, we discussed at-home beauty treatments gone wrong, and how one woman's eyebrow got lasered off! Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Potty, potty, potty, can't you see? Sometimes I want you to listen to me. That's a nice start to the podcast. Thank you. A bit of Notorious B.I.G. Did you like Tupac or Notorious B.I.G. better?

Who was your preferred rapper of that genre, Ben Boyce? Oh, look, you know me. I don't pick any faves over anyone. He was Middle America. There was no beef between East and West with Ben. He was sitting in Wisconsin or somewhere. I like both, you know. Both had great songs. Yeah, they did.

Tupac was probably a little more aggressive, wasn't he, in his approach? Yeah, as far as music. I don't know a lot about... Yeah. I watched the Defiant Ones documentary about Dr. Dre and his climb to becoming a billionaire, basically, as the Beats headphones. Great doco, that series.

Yeah, him and Jimmy Iovine. But they talked through this period of where that East versus West rap feud kicked off. And it was at this Source Awards, the hip-hop magazine Source Awards in New York, and apparently it all flared up there. Oh, really? Yeah, all the West Coast rappers got on stage.

Got quite full on for a while there. Which was quite brave of the West Coast rappers because they would have been outnumbered in New York at the time. Ah. Yeah, that's apparently where all the smack went down and then there was a lot of feuding between Puff Daddy. Puff Daddy or P. Diddy. Oh, really?

Yeah, P. Diddy. And the West Coast rappers, Shug Knights was the manager of Death Row and it's all kicked off with Bad Boy Records which is Notorious B.I.G and P. Diddy and Death Row

and that's oh jeez all fled up there so it's not quite as full on with radio stations in New Zealand you know no there's not

but although there's animosity between stations right we're all friendly to each other you know we're the opposite of hip hop industry where they'll have a go at each other's faces we're all friendly to each other. You know, we're the opposite of hip-hop industry

where they'll have a go at each other's faces. We're all friendly to each other's faces, but we'll stab each other behind the back. Yeah, stab each other in the back. If you were to pick a beef with any radio station, who would it be? I've laid my claim on Gary McCormick. Yeah, you've sort of like...

On More FM. That's me. Basically Tupac Biggie of the New Zealand radio scene. Although McCormick's not biting back. No, he doesn't eat too much. No, he doesn't not a biting bag. No, he doesn't need to be. No, he doesn't. Looking at the latest results, he doesn't. I don't even think he knows we exist.

I keep firing shots at him. The audience don't, that's for sure. Do I have beef with anyone? No. No, you don't have beef because you're a lovely guy, but if you were to pick beef with someone, who would it be? Then you've taken more FM. Well, I've got McCormick

we can double we can tag team McCormick I don't have a problem with more FM they're great Tony Street you and Tony Street yeah

we could out nice try and out nice each other yeah you and Tony Street she's too nice and I want to be nicer than her it would turn into a passive aggressive thing

where you're trying to you're both holding the door open for each other. No, you go. You go. No, you go. You go. Ten hours later.

Who could you have beef with? I'm trying to think of the stations. Who's someone that would roll you up? You and Sole Mio on Flavor or something? No, they're lovely. They're lovely. Okay, they're lovely. You and Hosking?

Yeah, Hosking. Yeah, we could have some beef, me and Hosking yeah we could have some beef yeah okay alright Mike Hosking it would be lovely seared beef from the Jewboy Steakhouse with a fine red wine from Central Otago or something that would be the only beef you'd have with Hosking

yeah that's quite good okay so you and Hosking great promo beef with Hosking. Yeah. That's quite good. Okay, so you and Hosking, yeah. Great promo, beef with Hosking, and then we... That's the conclusion. Fine steak meal. They settle their fact. The finest meats this country has to offer. Yeah.

It'd be imported meats from South America or something, wouldn't it? Yeah, like Argentinian or something like that, yeah. Beautiful, beautiful. My mouth's already salivating at the thought. They love their beef, don't they, over there? That seems to be the generalisation that I haven't been in. Their colons must be clogged up, the yin-yang. Yeah.

It doesn't seem to feel like much fruit in the Argentinian diet. I'll tell you something that we want to do next week on the show is talk to our old mate, Sir Peter Leach, the Mad Butcher. Speaking of, if you do anything over the weekend, follow Sir Peter Leitch, The Mad Butcher, on Instagram because he posts every day his breakfast and we love following his breakfast. He eats like how you'd want to eat breakfast every day. How you dream of a hotel-style breakfast.

That's him Monday through Sunday. The other day, he had an entire roast chicken for breakfast. Sitting on a lion red plate. And it was just a chicken. Nothing else with it. It was like one of those chickens you get from the rotisserie at the supermarket. He's just unloaded on the plate.

All the juices and everything just slipped. It's not the chicken where if you took it on a plate it would slide around the plate. He's eating that for breakfast. Sometimes you notice there's, like, sausages, there's egg, there's, like, mushrooms, it's bacon. And then you're like, oh, there's some sneaky steak in there as well. One photo, yeah.

He had hidden, like, a sirloin under the sausages. I mean, you know, he is. It was almost like he was ashamed to have the sirloin on the plate. I mean, he's so much for the community and a great guy. But he's amazing. I want to talk to him about it. Is it every day? It is, isn't it?

It's a really. Oh, then he'll be like, oh, healthy one today. And he's lined up like 13 pieces of toast. And some cornflakes in your mouth. That's his healthy breakfast. Yeah, it's great. 13 pieces of white bread and cornflakes. I can only, both of us are like,

oh, another great breakfast for the butch today, you know? What's he had? Let's go through this week's menu because it's bloody impressive. It really is. We're jealous that he gets to do this every morning. What's he had? Okay, so we've got here, oh, here we go.

This one looks pretty good. It's spaghetti, a couple of eggs. Is that black pudding? He loves his black pudding. And, here we go. This one looks pretty good. It's spaghetti, a couple of eggs. Is that black pudding? He loves his black pudding. I think black pudding and some bacon as well. And then you scroll across these. Oh, a couple of bits of toast. Jam. It's all on the same day. So that's pretty awesome. There's the chicken one that you talked about. Just a jello

that chicken. When did he buy that chicken? Did he go out first thing? Some cornflakes and some, looks like some peaches on there as well. So it's a light breakfast. And he loves feeding the seagulls, which is awesome. That's a good one. A lot of spaghetti and a few sausages in there as well.

Yeah, he's gone your waddy spaghetti over bread. He likes a jam. And this is breakfast. Oh, no, that was dinner. Homemade hamburgers for tea look really good as well too. Yeah, we're going to get the butcher on. Yeah. We've become quite fascinated by it.

He doesn't know this, but we need to talk to him. It's our favourite follow on the internet right now. Butcher's breakfast. I mean, many question marks are hanging over that chicken for me. Breakfast chicken. Yeah, hey, let's talk to him about it next week on the show. When was it purchased? What time of the morning

was he eating it? Yeah. Because I mean, after 10 o'clock, I'm kind of like, oh yeah, I can see how you can have a chicken

after 10 o'clock in the morning. Yeah. Any time before 10 o'clock. It seems wild, but we'll talk to him next week. It's always the Mad Butcher.

Enjoy the podcast and we'll catch you on Monday. Now, PJ Harding, you remember her from Jason PJ? Used to be on ZM for many years here in New Zealand. Then they went across to Melbourne, and they did the breakfast show over there for a long time, right? Yeah, now she's back in New Zealand.

I think living in the whited upper bush. Yeah, my old hometown. Your own stomping ground, and has got on board with Wattie's new veggie-based, plant-based products, and she joins us now, usually used to sleeping in, PJ. So thanks for getting up at this hour. Must be good sleeping in, though. So good.

I thought by now I would have got a bit of shiddle, but like I'm like every day, I'm making the most of the sleep. Tell me what time you wake up. No, I actually do try and wake up around eight. Oh, that's a good day. I know that's such up around 8. Oh, that's a good day. I know that's such a sleeper. Oh, that's beautiful. Rubbing salt in the wound.

Do you just wake up when your body feels like waking up or is there an alarm? Oh my God, well funny you say that. We've just moved into this place in the middle of the bush. There's no coolings in our room, so we naturally wake up by the sun. Oh, the sun wakes them up.

The sun. Earth's lightbulb. You were in Melbourne, now you're in the Wairarapa. I lived in the Wairarapa. I was, you know, like raised there and stuff, but everyone wants to get out of the Wairarapa. You've gone back. You've done it the other way. It's really funny you say that. Everyone here is like, what are you doing?

Like, why are you... I've seen number five. Yeah, that's awesome. That you doing? Like, why are you? I haven't seen number five. Yeah, that's awesome. That is awesome. Like, it's a slow pace. People are really friendly. I just think over the last, like, year, people are just craving simple things, you know? It's been good.

And I support the Whitehead Upper Bush now. Oh, yeah, supporting the Bush. I saw you. Does your partner play? Does he play for the Bush? Yeah, he does every now and then. So, yeah, I'm a bit of a supporter now. I get my little gears on, get on the sideline, have a couple of beers.

You go sit on the back of like a flatbed ute or something, do you? Yeah. Now, have you been to Lone Star in Masterton? Because if you just peer down the wall of legends at the Lone Star Masterton, you'll see the Great Bend boys up there on that wall. Shut up. Oh, yeah, they're playing very fast. And do you exactly what the great Ben Boyce up there on that wall. Shut up. Oh, yeah, they're paying very fast. And do you know exactly what for?

I mean, don't look. No. No, you've just, you've said whatever analysis said. What for? I'm filling up wall space, that's for sure. I think I came with the frame. Oh, so it wasn't like you ate 20 steaks in one night. No, just because I'm from, you know, I grew up in Marston,

so I guess they were just trying to fill up wall space. But I'll be replaced. You need to come back. Oh, yeah. No, it's awesome to be there. And it's awesome to talk to you today because you're involved in What Is Plant Proteins with a Z at the end. Tell us about that.

But you know how radio works. We can't give you 30 seconds. You've only got 10 seconds to plug it. 10 seconds. All right. Okay, so go. Okay, here we go. What Is Plant Proteins?

Convenience. So convenient, vegetarian-friendly food, easy, delicious. What more could you want? Everyone's wanting to eat a bit more plant-based these days. Are they done? Time's up. Can't give away 30 seconds in there. This slips in under the radar.

But you've made up a word that's in the Urban Dictionary. You're part of it, and you've said it a couple of times in there. What's the word? Convegiant. Convegiant. Can I just say the pun works in no way whatsoever? You've just crammed veggie in the middle of it. I don't know what you're talking about.

Convegiant is the new word. It's in the Urban Dictionary, though, and that's what this is, I guess. It's a convenient access to vegetable-based products. That's exactly it. Basically, it's in an Urban Dictionary. I wanted to make a quick game with you. I'm going to read you our other terms from Urban Dictionary, and you've got to vegetable-based products. That's exactly it. Basically, it's an urban dictionary. I wanted to make a quick game with you. I'm going to read you our other terms from urban dictionary, and you've got to guess what they are.

Oh, God. Okay? Okay. All right, see how we go, Paige. Irish handcuffs. What's Irish handcuffs? Okay. Do you know?

Do you know, Jono? Irish handcuffs. The Irish handcuffs sounds like a... Is it something, Morty? It sounds like a manoeuvre of some description that you'd try if you're feeling adventurous. Well, it's a bit sad towards the Irish, I think, in some ways, but when a person is carrying two alcoholic beverages

in both hands at the same time... They can't use their hands for anything else. They call it the Irish handcuffs. I think a nod to the drinking. Bit of a burn on the Irish there. I've never heard that one. Let's go. Someone is going screensaver, guys.

What are they doing? Going screensaver. They're going offline. Yeah, basically they're zoning out, what Jono does in a meeting. I do that all the time. They've gone screensaver. The eyes glaze over.

That wonderful window of faraway land pops up on the screen. Are you screensavering right now? A little bit when you were talking about Convigians. You've wiggled the mouse now, and I'm back on full. Okay, screw-veneer. What's a screw-veneer? A screw-veneer? Okay, it's a souvenir, but it's like a tool.

A souvenir of a... what is this thing? A screwdriver. Oh, yeah. I'm going to go, like, if you've had a vasectomy, it's a souvenir you take. A scrovener. Close, because apparently if you're hooked up with someone, you take an item of theirs, like a T-shirt or something like that,

you've got a souvenir. Oh, like a hoodie. That's what they call it. So it's theft. A tooth sweater. A tooth sweater. A tooth sweater. Oh, man, I'm giving a lame assumption. A gold cap.

Oh, that's not bad, Jono. I'm going to go when you haven't brushed your teeth for a number of days. Yes, that's a tooth sweater. When your teeth feel like they're teeth. You're cheating. Yeah, he's not cheating. You're cheating. Hey, I'm on screensaver mode, babes.

Yeah, but you're still reading the difference. And lastly, a bro-teen. What's a bro-teen? A bro-teen. Bro-teen. It's like more male-skewed protein. Yeah, basically for guys at the gym having a bro-teen, you know, like they have a protein shake for the bros to bulk up.

What's the difference between a normal protein drink and a protein? This is for the bros at the gym, mate. They're doing shuckers. I'm on protein shakes. All right, guys. I'm with you, Peach. I didn't make that up. We're both on screensaver now, Ben.

No one does this to Bradley Walsh on The Chase. They just accept his answers. Peach, it's always great to catch up. And awesome that you're getting involved in getting your vegetarian snacks out there. Can veggie it. Can veggie it. Give it today. Anytime you want to come on here and hawk off your veggie products, mate, you're welcome back.

Love you guys. See you, PJ. See you, buddy. Like getting your news from the internet. Half-truths and false information. Joe and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Ben, I fear I'm about to be scammed on the internet. Have you heard that text?

I got that text last night that there's a lot of news articles about. That vague sort of, your parcel's arrived. Oh, yes. Pick it up from the destination. But it looks like it's from a New Zealand number. But do you know there's a link on it? If you click the link, they get access to your phone and all your apps. Really? Don't click the link on the? If you click the link, they get access to your phone and all your apps. Really?

Don't click the link on the text. That's the thing, yeah. But I mean, yeah, your parcel's delivered at our drop-off point. Click this to, you know, they could have done a bit better with the wording. Yeah. You know, it's the courier here. You know, come to our depot. It's lazy wording, but yeah, don't click on the link, apparently.

Right. Yeah, but full access to your phone i wouldn't wish that upon anyone not even the world's worst scammer they don't deserve to see what you've seen yeah that's true yeah it's why it's a scary situation when people are doing that oh yeah yeah because i purchased something online and then i got an email yesterday going hey thanks for your order we need a photo of you holding your driver's licence with your full address on it and your passport. So sort of like some sort of kidnappy photo,

and then this will be the proof of sale, and then we'll be able to release your order. But I'm like, isn't that also the great ingredients you need for identity theft? Yeah. Some of the great, some of the stock standard ingredients for identity theft. Do you do that?

Have you ever had to do that? I wouldn't. I wouldn't trust that. I feel like most online orders are pretty, you just order it, add it to cart, make your payment, and then it ships.

There you go, Juliet, the most boomer thing she's ever said. I wouldn't trust that. I wouldn't trust that online stuff. But you start to. I feel like I start to. I've reached, I've reached Pete Burma.

We got one of those. It's kind of like an Alexa type thing as well, but I don't trust it. I'm like, it's listening. It's listening. He lives out in the garage. It's almost like a guest in the house

that you don't want to have a conversation in front of. You're like, hang on, I just want to have this conversation. I'll unplug that and put that in the bedroom. All right. Now, anyway,

we can talk about that now. It's like you're bloody the common cheeros and you know the place is bugged. Yeah. You're having conversation in code. Yeah, I've got real suss on it. Okay, now you just communicate via blinking. You're like, yeah, no, I'll definitely do that.

So I'm winking away to my family. But I went on to like, you know how you can go, is this website legit? and you end up in sort of a google reviews place yeah right and the problem is they all cancel each other out you got one comment shocking service never got it following comment the most friendly stuff i got my order in two days where it's like you get tit for tat one for one and it feels like real people are writing the negative ones then they come on the company come on and go, oh, best service, a friendly smile. Didn't rip me off at all. But often sometimes, I found out when I was travelling overseas,

it's like, well, what did some of the people expect? You're not staying at the Ritz or the Park Road. Sometimes they're like, oh, it wasn't quite as nice. You're like, well, yeah, this is what you're paying like 50 euros for. You're not paying thousands for this place. I mean, the internet's enabled us to have a platform where we can all be the ultimate Karens Can't we?

And I got into a bit of a clickbait article Of some of the most questionable Google reviews Of outlets, for the most part They're kind of restaurants and things And you know New Zealanders, we don't like to complain Generally There's the odd people you go out to dinner with

And you're like, oh wow, you're saying something. Please don't. Oh, that's awkward, eh? That's awkward. As a Kiwi, you're like, oh, no. Do the New Zealand thing. Go home and bitch about the place to your friends and family behind their back. Yeah.

Don't make it public, see? No. When they come over and go, is everything okay with the meal? You say, yes. It's lovely. Thank you. Don't make a scene. And then when they walk off, Jesus, this is terrible.

I won't be back. I won't be back. But this is from a restaurant which I really enjoyed. This was a Google review. The spaghetti dropped on my trousers. Would not return. And I love that the responsibility of the spaghetti falling on the gentleman's trousers. It's the restaurant's fault.

He's placing that on the fork of the spaghetti of the restaurant. So it's like going, oh, the pokey machine took all my money. But my hand accidentally put it into the machine. Another one here. The seat was too hard at the bar. So the seats, you know, you could grow a bigger bar. That was their major complaint. The major concern.

I found a fingernail, credit card, and hair in my waffles. Okay, well, that's cool. They never stipulated whose fingernail, credit card and hair in my waffles. Okay, well that's good. They never stipulated whose fingernail, credit card or hair it was. Potentially theirs. And this is my favourite one too. The handle on the door is square. I prefer

a round handle. Oh my God. To pull the door. The most questionable Google reviews. I love it. From across the world. To pull the door. The most questionable Google reviews. I love it. From across the world. From across the globe. This is an international news update with Ursula Carlson.

Ursula Carlson joins us every week for international news. Welcome back, Ursula. How are you? Hello, boys. I'm good, thanks. How are you? Good. Now, I saw on your Instagram during the week, actually,

your mum made some figurines of some of the Masked Singer because you're one of the judges of the Masked Singer. She made clothes for Barbie dolls, but yeah. Yeah. I don't know how much she'd manufactured. Does she have some sort of copyright thing that may actually happen with Barbie or anything? Well, I mean, this is true blue, Kibiana

style. The dolls are all from a $2 shop, so I don't think anyone has any liking for those. So what had happened, because you're one of the judges on the Masked Singer Australia at the moment, so she had made versions of each of the judges of the show. Yeah, but then you can see, like, she's newly

retired, you know, so she's got all that time in her hands. You can't tell if she's making clothes for dolls. And sewing, mate. And then she was like, she's newly retired, you know, so she's got all that time in her hands. You can't tell if she's making clothes for dolls. And sewing, mate. And then she was like coloured her eyes to meet the, it's amazing, it's really good to look at, you know, that different $2 shops that structurally cannot even

sit on a toilet roll, but really impressive to look at on a photo. Yeah, and the plastic girl probably has made a nuclear waste or something. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I can see it says medical on one of the legs. I love those shops where you go in there, because there was the $2 shop that's around,

but there's now ones called the 1, 2, 3 and more dollar stores. Which, in fact, makes it a store. Yeah, yeah, it is. It's just a store. That's what every makes it a store. Yeah, yeah it is. It's just a store. That's what every store is, right? Yeah, yeah. But you can't just corner shop that. You have to come up with a name.

But that's sort of their hook. Yeah, that is their hook. But then they're like, they didn't factor in inflation when they started with the, because they started with the $1. Then they're like, we're going to have to upgrade it to $2. Oh, three times the tough. And then they've gone, oh, stuff it. We just have to slap and more onto the end of it.

No, here in where I am now, West, we've got a $2 shop that says, yes, everything is $2 in caps. Because, you know, like, we don't trust you going to go, even this? Yes, it's $2. Everything's $2. Like it says on the door, the name of the shop is everything is $2. I mean, I've gone in there and gotten stuff for a dollar. So they're liars, mate. Wow.

It's a shocking business model, selling everything at $2. Oh, mate, but you need to look past that and go, look, you can be parent of the year. You go in there with your kids. You go, you can pick five things, whatever you want, five things. You're like Richard Gere in Pretty Woman, you're like, anything in the store I can buy for you. Yeah, yeah, and then the kids walk out with a dog bowl and a dartboard and some canvas

bunnies and a wig. Yeah, dear, it's just an emporium of everything you want, isn't it? Yeah. Ursula, this week, what's been happening? What's been happening in the news? Mate, I've been sifting through, you know, just hours and hours of data. And it all comes back to this.

Like, basically all through the world, we're all still sort of in varying levels of lockdown or fatness because of lockdown. And everyone's, like, raving about their rice cooker because now this week on TikTok, there's a big thing about how to cook rice in a pie pan. And people are still on about air fryers. And I just want to speak up for the ovens of the world.

Why have we turned our backs on our ovens? They needed a spokesperson to the ovens. Yeah, they've been us proud for many, many years. You're right, it still do. I'm so sick of these people. Absolutely sick to my gut. They put this pie pan with rice and two cups of water with foil on it for 45 minutes. I'm like, you know, you could cut half that time off if you just chuck a bit of water and rice in a pot and put it on the stove top.

And you can't hoover your spots out of an air fryer, can you? Exactly. I mean, people aren't even thinking. You know how you have to bend that knife to get it in? The oven has done New Zealand well for many years. Let's get back to our roots, New Zealand. Ursula Carlson, have you been paying attention tonight, TVNZ2? You're going to have a great weekend.

Thanks, you too. Scrolling through your feed. News is what this man lives for. Apologies to his family, but you don't even come a close second to a favourable international news story on our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, in this guy's life. Well, right now we want to talk about National Party MP, Chris Bishop. Now, he's apologised to New Zealand.

So National rolled out the kind of hypothetical, this is what we'd do if we're in power it doesn't matter because we can't do it but yeah this is what we would do why do we waste time even coming up with this plan who knows yeah it's like us going this is what we'd do if we were on news talks yeah yeah well you're not going to be so just why don't you just keep doing what you're doing stay in your lane but anyway how long did you guys spend on this little project? We spent a long time, printed it out. This is great. Hey, don't you need some slides?

Yeah, but then we're talking about, obviously, over summer, whether people could go to events, because that's going to be the big thing, depending on vaccinations and the COVID outbreak and all that sort of stuff. And our National Party MP, Chris Bishop, had this to say about concerts and festivals involving drum and bass. If you're a massive drum and bass fanatic, I don't know why you would be, but if you are.

I don't know why you would be, but if you are. A little bit of a burn towards drum and bass, isn't it? Unnecessarily. Julia, you're a drum and bass fanatic. Yeah, like a little bit here and there, not too much. Do you go to Northern Bass every year? Yeah, I do. But that's like the most I would do drum and bass in the space of a year probably.

Do you take offence to Chris Bishop? No, because he's your classic national boomer, you know? Like he's not going to love drum and bass. He's not there with his jaw swinging at Northern Base, is he? And he was obviously saying it as a bit of a piss take, but he has now gone in Parliament and done an apology as well. Can I just start by begging the House's indulgence to apologise to drum and bass listeners around the country

who I inadvertently insulted? I was not at all meaning to insult them, and I will endeavour to listen to George FM more. Yeah, there you go. George FM got a shout-out there. They're going to make him a playlist, apparently, so he can at least try samples of drum and bass. So you say, I didn't mean to offend them. Well, when you say, if you even got a shout-out there? They're going to make him a playlist, apparently, so he can at least try samples of Drum and Bass. Samples of Drum and Bass.

So he said, I didn't mean to offend them. Well, when you say, if you like Drum and Bass, don't know why you would. He definitely meant to offend people. And you remember Salt Bae? Salt Bae was all over the internet a couple of years ago. Very good-looking guy with the ponytail. High cholesterol, though, with the salt intake.

Yeah, and he'd sort of sprinkle salt sort of seductively, with his hand all over his steaks and stuff, and carve the steaks seductively and all that. Yeah, it was like he was, yeah. You just wanted to make love to salt, didn't you? Yeah. Is he still around? Yeah, and he's got a new restaurant that's opened up in the UK.

So he's got lots of restaurants. And one person on Twitter shared the bill. I think a few of them went along. And the bill they racked up was basically 1,800 pounds. 1,800 pounds. What is it, like 3,000 New Zealand dollars? Yeah, 3,500 New Zealand dollars for their bill. So the most expensive thing they bought was a giant tomahawk steak, which was a whopping 630 pounds.

What? And then they go through itemized. There's like 11-pound Red Bulls as well. Coca-Cola Lights cost a, I don't know what Coca-Cola Lights are. Who's having Red Bull and steak? Yeah. I water it. Drum and bass fanatics.

18 pounds for a Coca-Cola as well. Coca-Cola, you know, like, wow. It reminds me of the time we went to that steak restaurant and you ordered the meal for two for yourself. And then we split the bill at the end. That's right. Yes, I wondered if that was that story. Yeah, he always comes out. No matter what we're talking about, it always

winds back to this one dinner that we had where I over-ordered steak. They're like, you know that's for two people. And you're like, yep. And we ate it. You did. To your credit, you ate it. And then we all paid for it. Yeah, this is the bone of...

He's always like, well, you know, you've got to split the bill evenly. Yeah, yeah. He's like, oh, I had the chips and the kumara. I had the 11-pound Red Bulls, you know. What they didn't factor into that Salt Bay bill is he comes out and makes love to each of you after the meal. Yeah. That's where most of the cost comes in. Happily pay that.

Scrolling to your feed this morning. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't save this battered-up old face. Now we play a game every morning on the show at 7.45. It's called Five Words for $5,000. It's a game of word association. You have to match five words, the first things that pop into your head with one of us.

And yesterday I got stuck in the soundproof booth until we had a winner. We guaranteed a winner. We played it for hours and hours and hours. I don't know. I think you end up playing over 20 games of five words. So hopefully it didn't sound too repetitive on the radio. Well, it sounded...

Because if we ever just clocked the concept of just doing the same thing every break, maybe this is an easier way to tackle this job. But there was a lot of disappointment. That's what we noticed, because obviously there wasn't, you know, it was one winner, but there was a lot of disappointed people,

including us, on the way. Have a listen. Wireless. Oh! Sport. Oh, Ben. Oh, Ben. Cuddle. sport oh ben oh ben cuddle sports

here here put a ribbon in your hair beer bag rubbish it's very obnoxious there. Yeah, a lot of groaning, a lot of just, oh, Ben. He hears that quite a lot in life.

Some mum phones him up, oh, Ben, what have you done now? But it was finally, it was just before 10 o'clock yesterday morning after playing from 6 o'clock that Lisa and I, we matched up. We matched up five words. It was a wonderful one. And it was, oh, Ben. Yeah. Shops.

It's the shops. Lisa. It's the shops. Oh, my God. And we did it. We've done it. Oh, my God. You can go home now.

Oh. Yay. My grand, Lisa. How's that feel? Oh, it's so good. We've got your mum's number. Susan, we're going to give Susan a call. You need to tell Susan you've won some cash, yo.

Were you listening, Susan, were you? I was. I was listening. I was like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, good on you, Lisa. I'm glad it's going to be put to good use. And unfortunately for your mum, Susan,

she can't escape Auckland to spend it with you. I know. One day, Susan. One day we'll get out of here. Yeah, wonderful winner, Lisa from Wharetoa, and teacher at Whangamata Area School, and was going to put that money to good use over the school holidays and stuff as well.

She really deserved a winner, so well done, Ben. It's like when you hear that stuff back of having to deal with the consequences of the night before. Yeah, well, speaking of which, we just ended up talking a lot of random stuff over the four hours because we're doing a live stream at the same time. Which is a bone of contention amongst the team. I've been a big backer and advocate of the live stream, and I feel like I'm getting outnumbered. You love it.

It's not worth it. It's just too much. You even tied. I felt like you tied. Your enthusiasm towards the live stream. Your feet at the desk yawning about nine o'clock. I was like, he's not worth it. It's just too much. You even tied, I felt like you tied, your enthusiasm towards the live stream with your feet at the desk yawning about nine o'clock. I was like, he's over this. Yeah.

Listen, do you want my honest answer? Yeah. The novelty wore off. But I had to keep up appearances because it was my idea. It was my idea to implement the live stream. And, you know, for those 22 people, they were entertained they're entertained non-stop for four or five hours we're just talking just when we finished talking on the

radio we talked on the live stream and for some reason we got into banter around she is a song if i could turn back time and we we spoke for a long time about it you looked at the music video i was researching online about the song i don't know why and so have a listen if you missed it because this was on the live stream yesterday she is just bloody winding up these sailors here quite seductive in the video you got them all wound up we're gonna go out to sea for the next four months it was not yet. You can't come on here and wind them all up. But a dangerous game from share hopping on that ship.

Four months at sea with these guys, you got them all wound up. Very seductive video on a Navy ship, right? Yeah, on a Navy ship, which you did further research into, and the captain of the Navy, the big head of the Navy, not happy about sheer turning up in fishnet stockings. Was he? He tried to can the chute. No, I'm not happy with their

writing the cannon as well. Oh, he's just straddling the cannon? It's like, this cannon is used to kill hundreds of people and you're just straddling it? It was a very unusual video

we got caught up in it I hadn't heard the director was like shit get up there and straddle the cannon okay it's a navy ship a working navy ship

so I thought why not Friday morning I'm going to play turn back time turn back time turn back time to the 80s

right now late 80s I mean it's a hell of a song I can't argue with that. But I might get in trouble for this. Yeah, no doubt. You're going to deal with the consequences of this. Like Cher getting on the Navy boat and getting into trouble.

I might get into trouble for this. You're going to wind up our management now. Like she wound up those Randy sailors. Oh, that's a great tune. Come on. Friday. Here we go, New Zealand. If I could turn back time.

Taking over all your favorite song intros, Jono and Matt, the hits. It is 6.29 on your Friday morning. Some really great news yesterday. After almost three weeks, the dad and his three kids, who were reported missing about three weeks ago in a small Waikato seaside township, have turned up alive and well. The kids are said to be doing fine. They spent three weeks in the dense bush, and there was a big search you would have seen on the news.

So that's really, really cool news. Wonderful outcome. Yeah. Imagine them two out the front door. Oh, my gosh. Hey! They just walked into the house. Yeah.

It's a parent's house. So it's really, really awesome that it's happening. I'm really happy. Even ending in it seems like everyone's, yeah. And I hope everyone who needs the help they need gets the help they need in this situation. I found it odd the police did a press conference. Did you see that? No, I didn't see that. All the journalists were asking questions

and the poor cop kept going, oh, we've got to do more investigation. Oh, we've got to do a little bit more investigation. Right. They should have just put out a press release. We're doing some investigation. But we're stoked and happy and the kids are good. Hey, happy outcome for all. I'm glad the kids are safe and well.

I'm glad Ben, you're safe and well. Juliet, are you well and safe? Yes, kids are safe and well. I'm glad, Ben, you're safe and well. Thank you, John. Juliet, are you well and safe? Yes, I'm safe and well. I'm safe and well. Well, someone who's not safe and well, National Party MP Chris Bishop, he upset a group of people that love a particular style of music.

Yeah, and you don't want to upset this mob, do you? No, he had to apologise. It's like upsetting the Beliebers back in the day. Oh, my God, yes. To apologise in Parliament. We'll find out what it was for next. It is the hits. You got John, I'm Ben.

Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. You know what Juliet's done here is taken your stock standard news stories and overcomplicated them by beeping out certain words in the headlines. Mm-hmm, you guys have to guess what they are. The first news story today.

The US government is expected to... I'm going to go the US government is expected to I'm going to go the US government is expected to help out President Joe Biden. Remember the name of the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. Do we have the audio around? Yes. Thank you. Over to you, Mr President. Thank you, Boris.

I want to thank that fellow down under. Thank you very much, pal. Appreciate it, Mr Prime Minister. I want to thank that fellow down under. Thank you very much, pal. Appreciate it, Mr Prime Minister. I want to thank that fellow down under. Pal. Pal, buddy. I'm going to go, the US government is expected to turn the White House into a Ryman retirement village for US President Joe Biden.

The US government is expected to run out of money on October 18. So according to America's Treasury Secretary, she has said that this will happen unless Congress raises the debt ceiling, which I don't really understand completely, but... A question for you. There's obviously reasons why. And maybe it's something we can ask the Prime Minister if it's not a stupid question.

Why can't we just print more money? Like the government in New Zealand, why can't they? The Reserve Bank, yeah. Why can't we just go more money? Like the government in New Zealand, why can't they? The Reserve Bank, yeah. Why can't we just go, we need another billion dollars for Prince of Moria. I'll just log on to the printer on the Wi-Fi here. Oh, the old brother MD35. There's obviously reasons why we can't. I think eventually it would dilute

to the actual meaning of like $1. If that makes sense, if there's more cash available, it would make $1 cheaper, I think. You know what I don't get it. You know what I don't understand is the bloody footsies and the Dow Joneses and the stock markets. Why is one country's money more valuable than another's?

What's that based on? What if you had an international currency, say like Bitcoin? Have you thought about getting into Bitcoin? Quite the investment opportunity. I still don't know what crypto means no i want to get into it but i don't even know where to start yeah like can you take bitcoin money out i don't and turn it into i don't know i don't think so i think it's more like you would invest in it if you see it as the as the future yeah you know yeah we'll get a bitcoin expert on okay okay the next news story drunk man who was reported missing ends up...

Hosting a radio show with me on the hits. Do you know? That's the exact same answer I wrote. I'm myself. Yeah. Exact same wording. It could have at least been me. And everything.

No, I thought I'd do it on me. I'm the show's resident alcoholic for whatever reason. Drunk man who was reported missing ends up joining the search party to find himself. So he was having a bit of a boozy night with some friends. He wandered into the woods and he didn't return. So his friends reported him missing. They started a search party and they kept on calling out his name until someone in the search party eventually yelled out,

who are we looking for? Because I'm here. But they haven't explained. He was searching for himself. Yeah, technically. He might have still been a little bit intoxicated. What are we doing, guys? We're looking for someone.

All right, I'll help. This guy's missing. Yeah. But they haven't explained how nobody recognised him in the search party. Because obviously, you know, you'd kind of know what he'd look like. They're blaming this guy for being all boop. I think the search party was all maybe collectively on the same level.

True. That is very true. And the final news story today. Artist who was loaned $84,000 by museum to make art delivered... I'm going to say delivered nothing until the night before and then like a school project crammed it all in because that's what you do.

I'm going to say delivered something that would be valued not at $84,000. Artist who was loaned $84,000 by museum to make art delivered two blank canvases named Take the Money and Run. So they gave him the money to recreate some art that he'd done in the past. And some people think it was actually a statement to show how little money artists make

comparing to how much effort they put in. And so he's just gone and done an absolute runner. But they reckon they'll be able to find him again and he'll give the money back. But ironically, in the art world, that will probably add value to the project. Totally. Hello in Banksy.

Remember Banksy had that auction for the art and someone paid a lot for it and then all of a sudden it started going down in shredder? Yeah. On the wall? Yeah. But then it's now worth more, right? Now it's worth three times the amount,

which would have riled Banksy. If I know Banksy, that wouldn't have made him. Yeah, totally. Yeah. Very smart play. The opposite of what he was trying to achieve. Yeah, and that is the news and beeps for you this morning. Very good.

After seven o'clock on the show, five words, $5,000. It's back. We had a guaranteed winner yesterday. We've got five grand back on the line again. It seems wild that we're putting five grand back on the line. But you can win that after 7 on the show. The Head Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes.

Listen, I know we call this part of the show Spy, but not once have I heard any news updates on international espionage, Ben, from Juliet. No, I mean, there's a whole James Bond movie out there. We've hardly mentioned it. No spy updates. Yeah, it's actually quite interesting that it's called spy. I don't know where the origins of that came from,

but it is what it is. Maybe after 7 o'clock we'll see if Russia are invading North Korea or something. So as of yesterday, Jamie Spears, Britney Spears' father, is no longer her conservator. So he will not be taking charge of her finances, which was his main role. Did you know that he was paid a monthly salary of $16,000 by being her conservator per month?

Really? Yeah, so that's what he was getting from that. But he is no longer going to be it. Did that mean he would pay her bills? Supermarket shopping, power bills, rent bills, mortgage bills? Yeah, I suppose he was in charge of that, right? So it was like admin. Admin costs he was getting.

Personal assistant admin costs. Yeah, yeah. So, okay, explain it to this. So now he's not going to be the conservator. Conservative. So a man called John Zabel, who's a certified public accountant, has been appointed as a temporary replacement for her finances. Right.

But they did say, because I was like, well, so will she still be under a conservatorship? But no. So while this man is going to be in charge of her finances for the next wee while, the court agreed that the conservatorship may be terminated before that happens. So November, I think there's another result, another court case or something, another announcement. So I think that may be where Brittany's handed back everything, I guess, all going well. Hopefully. Yeah, that's good.

Maybe Brittany, when she gets all her money, is like, oh God, I've got to pay the bloody Mercury Energy bill. Pack and save bills. She's like, it was actually easier when Dan was doing it for me. Yeah, yeah. But Jamie Spears and his lawyer did release a statement saying, Mr. Spears loves his daughter Britney unconditionally. For 13 years, he's tried to do what's in her best interest, whether as a conservatorship or her father. This conservatorship, hard to say, included helping her revive her and re-establish a relationship with her children,

although the outcome of yesterday's hearing all the more is disappointing and frankly a loss for Brittany. So they aren't too happy with it, but I think it's for the best. I mean, some of Brittany's statements were pretty sad to hear. Apparently he, according to her, loved having all the control. So good that he's no longer there uh we spoke to the two people well one of the two people actually kicked this whole campaign and movement off remember that we spoke to her a few months ago yeah and they actually said something quite interesting which you don't really think about with court cases i hope this process

goes as quickly for her as possible you know we know from the reporting that we've done around the probate court system that this goes on intentionally slowly a lot of times because the slower it goes, the more all the attorneys can get paid. So I hope that now that she's got this new guy, that it goes nice and quickly for her. And then that she has,

you know, the same freedoms that I really would hope for, for any human being. Just kind of live her life the way she wants to live it and spend the money that she's worked her ass off to earn. Very nice of them to do this off their own bat. They've committed a lot of their time to this. Yeah, they've kind of made

it. We're really passionate about it now, which is awesome and getting results like this is all because of the movement they created. Totally. I hope you'd show that same level of commitment to me, Ben, if I was ever in a situation like Brittany. Yeah. I'd send some emails. How many emails?

Oh, no. You don't want to be an annoying person. One. Who are you sending an email to? I don't know. Maybe someone else. Is there anything we can do about this? If they didn't reply, I wouldn't follow it up. At least I'd send an email. Oh, at least send an email to whoever

this person is. Julia, would you send an email? Yes. How many emails would you send on my behalf? I would send lots of emails, Jonathan. Yeah, see? You would. You would send at least six.

Ben, one and no follow-up email. And that's Spy. Thanks to McDonald's. You can download the McDonald's app to play and win prizes with the Monopoly game at Macca's. Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and's. Going hard and ooley. Go hard, go ooley. Go hard and ooley. Hard and ooley. Go hard. With Jono

and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. Hey, a lot of people have been in lockdown and you have to be resourceful, don't you, when you're in lockdown? I know those in Level 2. You maybe had to do this when you were in Level 3 and 4. Home beauty treatments, too. Yeah. Have you been home beauty treating yourself?

Not this time around. You've been giving me grief about the fact that I haven't had a haircut in a long time for me. Mm. Yeah. It's the longest I've seen your hair. I know.

It's probably the longest it's been for a while, but it's still not actually that long, really, when you think about it. It's not. I've given, like I've never really been a home beauty, I tried to peroxide my hair when I was going through an M&M phase

and it didn't work that well. Yeah, I did the same with lemon juice and ginola on a home jobby. Jeez. Yeah, I might speak volumes as to the state of my hair now actually. That's why it all fell out. Here's the results. I did try, you know, when Jonah Lomu was one of my heroes, he had that, the number 11 he would have on his eyebrow.

That was like, and I was like, oh, I should do this. But I kind of messed up the first one, so I did it again. And then I was like, oh, it looks like 111. I didn't realise the first one was as noticeable until afterwards. I was like, oh, that looks like an emergency situation. I'm a fan of the emergency services.

If anyone's in a situation, just look at my eyebrow. You know the number to call. Then you had a, what I like to label an Ellen DeGeneres phase, where he dyed his hair blonde. Did you ever see Ben in his? I did. I did. And then when I found out.

I was thinking about doing that again. Really? Are you going to go again? I mean, really. Yeah, interesting. The old Draco Mel four years. I was thinking, why not? Okay, fine.

Okay, fine. Just me. That's cool. Wasn't your hair pink at one stage too? Look, I did go through a phase of, yeah. That's cool. Bring it back. I did.

You know, like, yeah, stupidly. Like, you know, looking back, you're like, what was I thinking? No, Julia, you did some home beauty treatments on your dad, Dave. Yeah, yeah. Back in the day when my sister and I were still living at home, dad once wanted, he doesn't have a hairy back, but it's got lots of sort of straggly bits like it's quite long hairs and he was like Jillian hen I need you to wax my back

and my shoulders just to you know in summer I can show off my yep my back um and so bringing sexy back for summer and so we laid him on the couch and I think we only got two strips done because he couldn't handle the pain. It was just like at-home wax that you buy from the supermarket. He also gets me to do his eyebrows occasionally because he's got some grey hairs in there. Dave will be loving this, won't he? Davey with Vax daughter.

You know this goes nationwide, eh? Yeah, I know. Don't worry, Dave, you're looking great. He's also got a drinking problem And uh They're really gonna Expose all his skeletons This is not the therapy Yeah As much as it feels like

I I to In all honesty Have never Waxed myself Not for comical Radio prank purposes Everything's been

No radio enough So I've always Ended up with Patches of hair missing Right You know from like Singing songs And ripping wax

Strips off And things like that You got your eyebrows Like shaved For not for comical purposes though, remember? Unintentionally, yeah. It was just before the day we were hosting the musical. I was like, I'll go to the barber. And the barber was shaving my head and he's like, do you want me to shave your eyebrows?

And he said it in a tone where this was like a custom that takes place every day. You had an option there to go, no, I'm fine, thanks. That's a nice offer. I know, but you trust him. You know, he's the professional. I met you coming back in and I was like, you're like, is something different about me?

And I was like, yeah. You've got no eyebrows. I looked surprised. I couldn't tell how you looked because your eyebrows weren't there. He shaved them back to like it was almost a zero. And then he ended the process like, that's better. I feel like he was pranking me. Yeah, but anyway, you'll do some stuff.

Home beauty treatments, that's what we're... You know where we're heading. You're listening to this. You know where this is going. Yeah, has it gone wrong? Yeah, we don't really know what the stories have been going right. The more enjoyable ones are the ones that went wrong, right? 0800 The Hits is the telephone number.

4487. Have you prison-pierced yourself at home? Has tanning gone wrong? Dying? Whatever. Shaving? Waxing? Prize up for grabs.

Give us a call after this great tune. Dua Lipa, Elton John, Cold Heart on the hits. Plenty of text coming through on 4487. Yeah, there is loads of them on 4487. Loads of tanning issues as well with the old fake tan. I remember another radio stunt as well. I mean, radio has really put its foot to the floor in terms of novelty beauty treatments

gone wrong, but using them for nefarious prank purposes. They sent me to this tanning booth and they got the lady it was some game show and every question I got wrong, I got a layer of tan. I ended up getting tanned seven times over. I looked

like a road cone for about four months. You and Donald Trump would look very similar, right? Tremendous tan, tremendous. He might have gone a couple of layers above me, but I was definitely trumping. I was in the Trump wheelhouse. We'll get to Sonia from Auckland. Morena, Sonia, how are you going?

I'm good, thanks. How are you going? Yeah, the HBT's, the home beauty treatment's gone wrong. What happened? Well, this was actually something that happened at the actual laser clinic last year, and it was so embarrassing. So basically, I was getting laser done on my face, and so that's permanent hair removal,

for those who don't know. And so while they're shooting the laser beam on you, you're actually wearing these really huge protective glasses, so you can't actually see where they're lasering, but you can feel it. And so midway, the lady was kind of just sweeping away. And all of a sudden, I feel something really, really close to my eye. And so at this point, I'm thinking to myself, did she just yank my eyebrow off? And then she stopped.

And then there was such a long pause so i'm panicking um and i'm assuming she's panicking and so like any normal person i asked why she stopped and she goes oh nothing to worry about dear just trying to get those stubborn little hairs um but long story short we wrapped up i saw my face before I left. And, yeah, the end of one of my eyebrows had been lasered off. She lasered off your eyebrow? Yeah, pretty much. And it was so short. And I did not want to be a Karen in creative scene.

So I kind of just left. But it was the most embarrassing thing ever. And, like, for three months, my eyebrow had not grown back. So I was pretty much just drawing on the end of my eyebrow every morning. I love that mentality. Don't be a Karen. Don't be a carrot. Don't be a carrot.

Don't say anything. Such a New Zealand thing. You've literally got no eyebrows. I don't want to make a fuss. Hey, wonderful. How was it? It's great. It was significantly shorter as well.

So, yeah, it was the most embarrassing thing ever. But always in those situations, they're like, oh, we'll give you a voucher. Oh, great. So I can come back and get my eyebrows lasered off again in three months? Yeah, exactly. Like, my hair's not going to grow back. But, yeah, thanks for the free sessions. Hey, well, good on you, Sonia.

Good work. Great work. Great call. Tremendous. Thanks, Trump. As my friend Donald Trump would say. We'll get Tessa on the phone. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast.

Oh, it's our old mate Tessa. How are you? Hi, darlings. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, I'm pretty damn fine. Thank you very much.

Beauty treatment's gone wrong. Tess, what happened to you, mate? When I was about 12, everybody had really, really, so this was a really long time ago, everybody had really, really, really skinny eyebrows. So I got my dad's laser and I shaved off my eyebrows, and because they were really blonde, nobody knew that I had them. Hold on, your dad's laser. No, razor. Oh, razor.

Is your dad Dr. Evil? Laser. You can make Dad want to have fun with that, that's for sure. Oh, good on you, Tess. Really appreciate it. Thank you very much for all your calls and texts this morning. Great stuff. I mean, the rule of thumb in life, you know,

if there's a professional to do it, chances are they're probably going to do it better than you are. Apart from that laser lady. Yeah, yeah. She's the exception to the rule. But then you'll get a voucher,

so that's all good. Rise and shine, time to start the, um, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jono and Ben, the hits.

You're on the hits, Jono and Ben, 728. Now rapper Eminem, his huge song, Lose Yourself. You remember this iconic line? His palms are sweaty.

Knees weak, arms are heavy. There's vomit on his sweater already. Mom's spaghetti. He's mom's spaghetti. Well, now it's inspired a store. They had a pop-up store a while ago called Mom's Spaghetti. And now it's inspired an actual store in Detroit. It opened up yesterday and there were queues,

ridiculous queues around the block. It's a very simple sort of restaurant. Prices are pretty cheap, just selling sort of spaghetti and meatballs and things like that. And Eminem himself served the first 10 customers from the sort of walk-up drive-through situation. Oh, he pulled a shift, did he?

Yeah. In the spaghetti shop. Yeah. I looked at the ad of the spaghetti shop, which is online. It just looks like they just slapped down pasta and meat i think that's the kind of thing that kind of they've kind of used that trailer park inspired sort of yeah thing as well as yeah it's basically along the lines of that i mean don't expect gordon ramsay

to i mean yeah i mean ramsay would come along go this kitchen's a nightmare sort of thing you'd start swearing and all sorts of blasphemy in the kitchen at m&M. If I could know how to run an infant restaurant. Yeah, it's very small. They say inside it can only fit up to eight stands. Well, yeah, stand, obviously, one of the iconic songs. We phoned them, didn't we, the other morning and got the answer machine message. Thank you for calling Mom's Spaghetti, located at 2131 Woodward Avenue in beautiful downtown Detroit.

Spaghetti, meatballs, spaghetti with meatballs, or no meatballs, and the Skeddy Sandwich. Mom's Spaghetti, it's all ready. Mom's in the trailer, grand opening at 5 p.m. on September 29th. I want that guy to read me bedtime stories. Yeah. Little Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears. Sounds amazing, and we thought, why not, it's a great show

so let's play it right now, it seems fitting Eminem, Lose Yourself it's Friday morning, New Zealand's Breakfast if you had one shot five words for 5k on the hits, you're only five words away from a massive payday

it is our game of word association we play it every morning at 7.45 although yesterday morning we played it non-stop only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning at 7.45, although yesterday morning we played it non-stop. We guaranteed a winner by the end of September, and it happened after three, almost four hours. Lisa finally won. Shops.

It's the Shops! Lisa! It's the Shops! Oh, my God! And we did it! Yeah, it was a pretty awesome moment. It was, yeah. It felt like yesterday was a big apology from Auckland to the rest of the country. Like, you know, when someone's damaged something at a party and they come up the next day and they're like,

I'm sorry, it got out of hand. Here's some cash as a make good. Yeah. I felt like Auckland because I was locked in the soundproof booth and you guys were having a lot of fun and I felt like Auckland looking at everyone else. Just through a glass window. What are you guys doing? Don't forget about me, I'm in here. We're all together. Let's bring

Marie on. Welcome from Wellington. How are you? Hey, good things, guys. How are you? Doing well, Marie. Off to work this morning, mate? Well, a version of it, yeah. What do you mean a version of work? Working from home, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that. That's what you make of it.

All right. Marie's being very vague and suspicious about her profession. So I'm going to say she's an international trafficker of some sort, okay? And that's fine. International traffickers need $5,000, don't you? Listen, it would be helpful having twins. It would be very, very helpful. All right.

Well, this wonderful Scottish lady on the phone. It does indeed. Half Scottish, half Kiwi. Half Scottish, half Kiwi and full legend. All right. Let's decide who you're going to put in the soundproof booth today. Please be Ben. Oh, I am.

Yes, Ben is. Oh, back again. Hey, listen. He's going to get reacquainted with his old friend, the soundproof booth. And it's only a day after the big win, too. The booth hasn't had time to properly recover, has it? No booth has been working harder than that booth out of all the booths. Phone booths, private dancing booths.

That's the hardest working booth in the game. Marie, let's try and win you 5K, shall we? Let's hope so. Bee humps. Have you got the words, Jono? No. Okay, here we go. I'll pass them to you. Do I need to refresh my run sheet? Okay, all right. Sorry, a little bit of technical difficulties on my part. My Wi-Fi's playing up, Marie. It's not ideal, is it, for the pressure? You're like, get on with the game, old man. Come on, the stress is real here. Yeah, sorry, mate. First word today.

Muesli. Muesli. Cereal. Well done. Bond, word number two for you this morning, Marie in Wellington. Say that again? Bond, B-O-N-D. Bond.

Glue. Glue. Bond. B-O-N-D. Bond. Glue. Glue. First word that comes into your head when I say seatbelt. Car. Ornament. Ornament. China. And word number five.

To win Marie. The mysterious Marie. $5,000. It's Parliament, Marie. Parliament. Let's go for Auntie Cindy, Jacinda. Jacinda. Locking in Jacinda. Those are your five words.

Let's see if they're going to put... They were tough today. They were tough today Yeah it was a bit of a battle out there for you on the field Marie Here he comes for the soundproof booth How's your old mate in there? You good? Good to see it again The novelty wore off like lockdown the first time

It's like when you keep bumping into someone at the supermarket You've run out of conversation haven't you? Marie did well She said the words were very tough today It's not what I want to hear but let's see how we go okay let's do it marie got some final words for ben as he heads off on this i'm channeling you my inner thoughts and channeling she's tuned in okay here we go muesli um cereal oh okay it's good it's good Hey I've come off a win

From yesterday The last time I played this game This is good You get too cocky buddy Only one word down Okay Oh sorry Alright

Bond James He went cocky He got arrogant Early in the piece Bond James Bond Marie went glue Oh course Yeah But I know why you would have. James Bond. James Bond. Marie went glued.

Oh, of course. Yeah. But I know why you would have gone James Bond in the new movies out. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Oh, Marie, not to be today. So sorry. We'll go through the remaining. Oh, see you.

I don't want to stick around for that, mate. I was polite and pleasant. I put up with your shtick. Now I'm out of here. You don't have cash for me. The remaining words. Seatbelt. Now I'm out of here. You don't have cash for me. The remaining words. Seatbelt. Car.

Yes. Ornament. Display. And Parliament was word number five. Beehive. I see why she hung up. I would have hung up as well. Good on you, Marie.

Love your work. Thank you for listening. Ben Boyce, thank you for trying. I tried my best. Another chance, of course, Monday morning, same time. We've got plenty more winning happening after 8 o'clock. I'm trying to hand Julie at her computer, but she's trying to push all the buttons at the same time.

We're going to actually announce the name very shortly of the person who could be winning $500 thanks to our new TV show, John O'Byrne Good Sports. That's in a few moments. It is the hits. The Hit Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. All right, time now for producer Juliet to put her money where her mouth is.

Just don't put it too close to you. Money is very unhygienic, okay? Yes, okay, I will do. What's happening, mate? So Shakira Shakira says that she was a victim of a wild boar attack while she was in a park with her son in Barcelona. So the two boars came up to her and robbed her as they stole her bag and mobile phone and took it into the woods.

Who knew that wild boars... Shakira got mugged by a couple of boars. Yeah, seems so. That's been a legit story. I mean, her hips don't lie, so I'm guessing her lips don't either. I was wondering if you guys were going to make a gag of balls. Yeah, seems so. Well, that's been a legit story. I mean, her hips don't lie, so I mean, I'm guessing... Her lips don't either. I was wondering

if you guys were going to make a gag about her. Yeah, I was trying. I was trying to think of a Shakira reference. Have hips, in the history of hips,

have they ever lied? I wouldn't say it's the part of your body that would lie. No. No. But I'd say that would make her an honest person,

you know? Yeah. Judging by her hips, so, you know, I'm thinking... Although I'm pretty sure she's got a bit of

tax fraud situation. Oh really? Those aren't her hips though, that's her accountant. Just to tell the truth. Oh, that's crazy. I know, wouldn't that be scary? That would be my worst nightmare. I would hate to be in the bush and have some wild pig chase me down.

I don't know why, but that's one of my worst fears. Really? Specifically? Yeah. Pigs? Yeah, just a giant wild with tusks and, you know. Now you're going to make me do that for, like, radio stuff, hey? Jono's gone bush.

When's he going to get attacked by a pig? You can put your bets in. You can get a Bunnings voucher if you guess the right day and time. That would be quite, I mean, it would be sad to watch, but at the same time, I'd kind of love it. There we go, Shakira,

attacked by two boars. Pretty scary. What is she, does she still make music? I think so. I just looked at her Instagram. She's pretty active on there. So she's probably just

chipping away. Yeah, she had a chat for Zeus Hopia a few years ago. She did too. She sang the whole soundtrack, didn't she? And I think, you know, that her in the Super Bowl with Jennifer Lopez was massive.

I think it was the biggest Super Bowl performance not long ago. Wherever, wherever. And you may have seen the news yesterday that Britney Spears is free from her father as a conservator. He's no longer going to be taking control of her finances. A certified public accountant is stepping in temporarily until the conservatorship ends as a whole. So yay free Britney has happened. Good on her.

Yeah it's pretty awesome. We might play some Britney Spears actually after 8 o'clock. Seems only fitting. Jesus he's gone rogue today with the old songs. We kicked off the show playing Cher if I could turn back time. He's like let's play Eminem. I can play Eminem. He's playing Britney Spears.

You know this isn't a party where you can just put on music from your phone. He's going to get to the point by 9 o'clock where you're only going to hear half a song because he wants to play another one. No, no, no. Oh, no, no, another one. I feel like a disgruntled employee going out in a blaze of glory. Yeah, Ben's request line continues after, eh? And that's five things to McDonald's.

You can download the McDonald's app to play and win prizes with the Monopoly game at Macca's. We're going to play some Slayer and Sepultura as well. After 8 o'clock, we've got heaps of great prizes up for grabs, including $500 for our new TV show, John O and Ben Good Sports was on last night. If you text to win, this is the name of the person that has to call us by eight o'clock.

Vanessa Campbell. Vanessa Campbell is the name. If you're listening right now, Vanessa, if you give us a call in the next few minutes, you will win $500. If not, it will jackpot to next week on John Owen being good sports TVNZ2.

New Zealand's breakfast. This is John Owen being on the hits. It is the hits. John Owen being Friday morning. Thank you so much for hanging out with us on a Friday morning. Now, our TV show, Jono and Ben Good Sports, was on last night. TVNZ 2, it's on 8 o'clock. You can catch up now on TVNZ On Demand. A show that's very memorable for you, Jono.

Yesterday we were playing five words for 5K. We had the word good on the TV-themed round. I thought, listening back to this, I think everyone thought you were doing a gag, but you'd forgotten. I'd forgotten that we had a show called Good Sports. Have a listen to this from yesterday. I'm trying to think of a TV show called Good. I'm trying to think of a TV show.

Have you got something good in your head, Ju? I've got something good in my head. Is it a network television show or a streaming show? A network television show. head. Is it a network television show or a streaming show? A network television show. Is it still running? I think it is. Oh, um...

I had no idea. I was playing along. It sounded like I was doing a gag. You came out and you're like, did you not know? As soon as they said good, I was like, sports. And you're like, oh, I never thought of that. The show that we're on and we're doing last night. I'm really worried about my amnesia. I do something I forget like instantaneously.

My wife is constantly like, you just said you would do this two minutes ago. And I'm doing like, I'm painting the house or something now. And she's like, I just asked you to go out and get the mail. Yeah, okay, so we've got a TV show. It's on Thursday night. It's 8 o'clock. Easily distracted.

And you can win. Watch and win. If you watch the show, text through to that number. And we gave Vanessa Campbell a few minutes to call on in, and she hasn't. Oh, Vanessa, we wanted to thank you for watching and to apologise. We wanted to give you $500.

Yeah. Apologise for all the bad things we've done. But unfortunately, not to be so. Jackpot's next week, $1,000. Yeah, last night on the TV show, of course, I secretly learnt the Rubik's Cube behind your back and revealed to you in a Rubik's Cube competition it was a lot for you to take in.

Oh, that was intense. That was good. Okay. So I've been secretly trying to learn that over the last month. I can do it a lot faster than that, but I crumbled under the pressure. Have you been doing that behind my back? Behind your back? I haven't, yeah.

By myself, I had a lesson with Angela. Where? At her house. Well, I know, there's a lot to take in. I'm just disappointed. I guess that I did it under two minutes. I took eight minutes there. That's so impressive.

Oh, my God. I didn't think I was going to do that. Oh, my goodness. Now I could have probably just told you and you would have forgotten by the way i've been practicing and then i would have been surprised again yeah i told you about this but did you i'm like what's that just keep swimming just yeah quite forgetful yeah but it's great because everything's a new surprise to me it's wonderful uh yes early onset of alzheimer's thousand dollars up for grabs on our tv show the winning But it's great because everything is a new surprise to me. It's wonderful.

Early onset of Alzheimer's. $1,000 up for grabs on our TV show. The winning does not stop there. We've got some great prizes up for grabs with McDonald's. But because it was big news for Britney Spears, DJ BB. Text flowing in saying they're loving Ben Boyce's DJ set this morning where Ben is just plucking songs out of thin air and playing them on the radio. Appropriate songs. Let's crank up some Britney, a Britney banger for you.

Why not? Here are Dad's off the conservatorship. Oops, I did it again. I think I did it again. I'm not that innocent. Britney Spears for you. Friday morning, 8.11, it is the hits. What was that weird Little breakdown sketch

In the middle of that song Where she's talking To an astronaut Yeah I remember that On the music video I forgot it was part Of the song as well What's the astronaut

Got to do in there Oh it was just In the video It was yeah And it was talking About referencing Kind of the Titanic I thought he dropped

She dropped it The old lady dropped it In the ocean you know But he's in space There was a lot going on Yeah But he swam down there Jeff Bezos Up in space but he swam down there

got it for you but also great underwater but great in space that guy is very versatile wasn't he i see why he was a cat he's done some stuff he's dived to the bottom of the ocean to get that to the titanic wreckage yeah and also been in space so achieved a lot did he gather for her from the bottom of the ocean the necklace the necklace from the end of the Titanic. I should just claim insurance, mate. Get another one for Pascos. Yeah, why not? Hey, you know, the other day you were talking about what you do in lockdown

is just jobs that you don't, you probably, you've got time to do it. And you were clearing out some old stuff. And you found a letter that you'd written, or some draft drafts of the letter you sent one away to Nike New Zealand as an aspiring tennis player you were like hey I should get Nike sponsorship that was my thing yeah my thinking was get sponsored uh then get good at tennis was uh that was the theory behind it you wanted to look the part right I did yeah I needed to look like Andre Agassi to perform like Andre Agassi now I I workplace bullied you into calling Nike New Zealand, a store in Nike, and to see how,

because you never heard anything back from Nike, did they not sponsor you? No, and it was a pretty well, I thought, well-rounded proposal that I wrote as a 10-year-old child. I think it sort of went along the lines from Dear Mr. Nike I'd written, as if it's just one gentleman. Is there a guy called Mr. Nike? A little sexist too, the female could be running the company.

Can females run companies nowadays? What has gone on in the world? Anyway, so right, I said, dear Mr. Nike, or Mrs. apparently, have you thought about, can you please sponsor me? I'm an up-and-coming tennis player. Nothing. Dead silence. So yesterday I made you to bring a Nike store

and see how that sponsorship deal was coming along. Oh, mate, I wouldn't be able to even imagine. 20 years, that's a bit of a wait, isn't it? Yeah, well, the time out. You didn't reach out to Adidas, did you? I'm playing you off against each other. They're online too. Yeah, they really want him.

They want him back out of retirement to play again. Oh, no. Wow. Anyway, ended up getting a pair of socks. So you're talking to a Nike-sponsored athlete. Now, I felt a little bad, and I thought maybe I should shame myself or something because I too went through some old stuff in the weekend,

and I wasn't going to. It was one of those moments where you're going through a box, and you're like, oh. And, you know, you just shudder with embarrassment at your former self Fun thing about radio is like we don't have to tell these stories we can hold some level of credibility but you're going

okay what's this involved? And even now I'm like why am I telling this because I just, I put it in the bin, I got rid of it. I shut it away from my memory I put it in the bin, I got rid of it so what I did many years ago there was a video with LL Cool J the rapper and he had a very

the guy from NCIS yeah he's an actor as well and he had a very cool necklace in the video and it was a necklace and it was probably very expensive

it was gold and then it had like a key underneath it and I had to tie it down and I remember looking at that

as a young up and coming boy going he looks cool cool geez he looks cool I mean usually looks cool in that. I mean, his name's LL Cool J. Yeah, he's pretty cool. Yeah, I know.

But you're BB Lame J. You're not LL Cool J. Please don't tell me you had a necklace. So I wanted to get a necklace like that. And I looked and, you know, I was around the jewelry stores. You couldn't find anything like that. So I had to improvise. So I had to put a necklace like that, and I looked, and I was around the jewelry stores, and you couldn't find anything like that. So I had to improvise. So I had to put together the necklace myself.

I can't believe I'm telling this. Did you swing down to Mr. Minute? So that's what I did. And I remember buying a key, like a gold-looking key. Obviously, it wasn't real gold. A guy was like, do you want it cut? And I was like, no, no. He's like, okay.

Was it just a key for like your Lockwood sort of door. Or was it like an old style? Yeah, it was a key. A skeleton key. Yeah, but it was a key for, yeah,

it was gold, it was gold. I was like, no, no, no. Mate, I don't need this cup to open up ladies hearts.

So I got this, oh God, I can't believe I'm saying this out loud. And I got this key and then I went to like Pasco's or Jewel or whatever, got a goldish necklace to put around the key. And I remember wearing it a couple of times over summer thinking, this is cool. And then looking at myself in the mirror going, what are you doing?

Put yourself together. Put it away. And I put it away and I found it. And then over the weekend when I was going through some old stuff, I was like, oh, my God. And I got rid of it. But your Nike call went, oh, let's embarrass myself. I was like, what was I thinking?

Do you reckon LL did that as well? Hopped down to the old mall, buddy, key cutter. Grab one of those, swing by the Michael Hill. Didn't you buy some giant golden hoop earrings around about the same era as well? And you wore those? Did you have your ears pissed? I had one of my ears pissed.

And my dad, Kevin, was like, they were too big. It was fine to have an ear pierced but they were too big. I would have thought that Jono would be the one to have his ear pierced

out of both of you. You had one pierced. I did, yeah. Oh, did you? Oh, God. Yeah, I had some prison, but they were like, you know,

you put ice cube on your earlobe and put a needle through. Oh, did you yourself, did you? Yeah, shocking idea. I didn't inflate. I've still got a big, giant bit of gristle in there from the infection.

You know, a prison piercing not... Dad took it back to Pascoe's the way, because it was too big there. He was like, look, I'm a pirate. You look like a pirate

who's afraid to lose his house key. He wants to keep it close to his chest. I'm going to go back and get you. Eat the keys to me, ship. So yeah yeah I don't know why I told that story I regret every moment of my life

Hey we're sharing things with you guys Getting to know Ben Yeah that's the hits you got John on Ben Everyone else has left now Intelligent, thought provoking Stimulating Three terms that will never apply here Tunnel and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast.

8.29 on your Friday morning. Well done, we got to Friday, New Zealand. Now I was just talking about myself, or the regrettable fashion trend, a fashion thing that I try to pull off. Oh yeah, if you missed it moments ago, Ben Boyce used to roll around the big smoker masters in an LL Cool J inspired gold necklace

with a skeleton key hanging off it. Yeah, not for very long. It was for a good time, not for a long time. No, it was not a good time. He confused both the people at Mr. Minutes in the mall and Pascoe's Jewelers as to what he was doing. What jewelry he was creating. But how long did you stick with it? Not long.

I think twice. Twice. You lost confidence early. Imagine if LL lost confidence that early. Yeah, but there's a new fashion trend I'm just reading about. So celebrities like Hailey Bieber, Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid. It's called the naked cardigan. You heard about this, Producer Juliet?

No. So basically, here are the rules. The rules are these. You wear a cardigan and you wear nothing underneath. Those are the rules. Right. Yes. Very fashionable wear a cardigan and you wear nothing underneath. Those are the rules. Right. Yes. Very fashionable.

My grandmother did it for decades. What the naked cardigan? Things were swinging out of the bottom. Yeah, so it's a naked cardigan. You're feeling a bit deary. There are parts she was tucking into her pockets. So the naked cardigan. You're feeling a bit deary. There are parts she was tucking into her pockets. So the naked cardigan. Yeah, too far.

Rest in peace, Grandma. You and your naked cardigan. So there's a fashion trend that... But the cardigans go down to your navel a lot of the time. Yeah, so you kind of reveal a little... It's quite a lot this year. Yeah, you do. Too much sternum.

There's a lot going on there, but that's the new thing. If I Google the naked cardigan, will something, will it be okay? Sounds like something you do in university. Have you done the naked cardigan yet?

No, well, yeah, well, apparently it's a thing. It's a new fashion trend and a lot of the celebrities are doing it. It's going to come up. Oh, no, it's fine. It's fine.

It's the naked cardigan. Yeah, so there you go. So cardigan with nothing underneath done with the button up and stuff is the new trend. Too much scope for stuff to go wrong with a naked cardigan, isn't there? It does. You're placing a lot of trust in your fellow human being not to unbutton the naked cardigan.

Hopefully not. Pull it down off your shoulders. Yeah, I know. Hopefully not. Hopefully no one's going up and doing this in 2021. Well, I've never unbuttoned a cardigan. I'm just saying that that could happen. Yeah, so they don't get cardigan.

Hey, you could win big next with McDonald's and Monopoly. We'll tell you how in a few moments. Jono and Ben's McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and win. We've had a lot of fun doing this. We've had fun all week with Maccas, which ironically is the same amount of time Auckland had to spend in the drive-thru

when it reopened the whole week. Yeah, it was very busy. But the Monopoly game is back at Maccas, as we is the same amount of time Auckland had to spend in the drive-thru when it reopened the whole week. Yeah, it was very busy, but the Monopoly game is back at Maccas as we keep saying all week, and it's not a typo. $107 million in prizes to be won right now when you play Monopoly at McDonald's, and we're going around a

virtual board, and each day we give you clues, you've got to work out where exactly we could be, and if you win, you peel and reveal a great prize. What's the clue today, Benjamin boys? A great place to cut some shapes is clue number one. But people in the know go to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram. And you get basically a pretty good clue, a visual clue. If you've been to the Hits Instagram, Hits Breakfast on Instagram,

or heard that clue, 0800 the Hits telephone number now. I was looking into yesterday did I wow you with a new McDonald's opens every 14 hours in the world yeah it was really were you wowed

yeah have you passed on that fun fact to anyone else in your friends circle no probably because I'm not seeing a lot of friends at the

moment but I will but you'll hold on to that little gem here's another little gem did you know the queen actually owns a McDonald's restaurant

really sometimes she even eats from there. She owns it? She owns it. She invested and bought it. She's like a franchisee. Oh, my gosh. The Queen.

Hold on to that little nugget again. Feed that out to your friend circle when you're on. Oh, there you go. So, I know 800 of the Hits, anyone calling through? Oh, plenty of people calling through. Oh, we've got Claudia. Welcome from Hamilton. How are you?

Morning, guys. I'm good, thank you. Yeah, good. How's the Tron this morning, Cla you? Morning, guys. I'm good, thank you. Yeah, good. How's the Tron this morning, Claude? Oh, it's actually beautiful. Yeah, it's always beautiful in Hamilton, isn't it? That wonderful, free-flowing river. Yeah.

The cows. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What could be better? What could be better? It's a lovely spot. Where you have Field Mystery Creek. Yeah. Now, do you know whereabouts on the virtual Monopoly board we are?

I think it's the square in Pami. You are correct. Well done. Now, given the game of Monopoly, at the moment you peel off stickers to reveal your prize with the Monopoly game at McDonald's. Now we're going to virtually peel off. Yeah. This is what you've won this morning. Oh, check this morning.

Check this out. It is a shopping spree to the value of $1,000. Oh my gosh. Yeah, how's that? You've got a grand to spend on whatever you want at the shops. Oh my gosh. That is ridiculous. Happy Friday. I feel like being that rapper T.I.

when he's like, you can buy whatever you like. You can have a nice time there. He was racking up a big bill, wasn't he, T.I.? Yeah, he was. He was. You can buy whatever you like as long as it's not over $1,000, Claudia. Oh, my gosh. That is incredible.

Hey, well done, mate. Thank you so much. No, thank you for listening. Thank you. And thank you, Ronald. Thank you, much. No, thank you for listening. Thank you. And thank you, Ronald. Thank you, McDonald's. It's been a fruitful week of promotion. It's been a lot of fun. We thank them so much for that.

And you can catch... Oh, it's back next week. Oh, Ronald's just online, too. He's like, I love this so much. We're doubling down. We're doing it again. Let's go a second week on the trot. The Monopoly game is back as you can win $107 million in prizes.

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