Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Gave Away $5,000!

Episode Date: September 26, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, it is 5k must go week and we have so much cash to giveaway! Ben recalls a funny story with his waiter over the weekend and Ben has done some digging on Adam Levine!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. Are we rolling? We're rolling, Ben. We're rolling. You know when you're rolling? You can't stop. Welcome to the podcast, kia ora. It's Tuesday the 27th of September, can you believe October? Knocking at the door. Yeah, we're almost there, aren't we?

My son's favourite month of October, he is, since the day he was born, well not since the day he was born, since the day he could comprehend things. Oh, this is Halloween. His favorite month of the year. He likes it more than Christmas. He is Halloween bonkers. The amount of stuff I've bought from bloody Luxor. We've just got graveyards, skeletons that crawl along,

zombies that crawl along the floor. It's an exciting day for kids. Thank you very much there, Joel. Joel gets to use that sound effect. Yeah, but the Halloween just started to gain some momentum on the side of the floor. It's an exciting day for kids. Thank you very much there, Joel. Joel gets to use that sound effect. But the Halloween just started to gain some momentum on the side of the world. It has, because we used to always look across from New Zealand and go, oh, it's quite an American thing.

We'd just put on a white sheet and wander around the neighbourhood, which is probably quite controversial anyway, but wander around the neighbourhood and just get McIntosh, you know, expired McIntosh lollies. Well, no one would be prepared back in the day. Like, I remember trying and busting it out when I was at school, and you know, very hard, you know, expired Macintosh lollies. Well, no one would be prepared back in the day. Like, I remember trying busting it out when I was at school. And, you know, people would be giving you leftover dinner that they'd just eat. It's half a chicken.

Like, you'd get a couple of coins from their wallet. Like, it really felt like you bamboozled most people you turned up to. Like a piece of chewing gum and lint. I got one of those things that you eat for heartburn and stuff like that. I think it came out with some quickies. Did you get a quickie? stuff like that. I think it came over some quickies. Oh, quickies. Did you get a quickies? Producer Joel has quickies.

He's got some quickies. You know, people were very unprepared. You know, like, yeah. Have you got indigestion? Heartburn? Yeah, mate. Yeah, kid. So it very felt like the neighborhood around Masterdome was unprepared.

It was prepared, but nowadays you would be prepared. Yeah, and it's cool. It's good to see. You got stitched up last Halloween, didn't you? Oh, no, a couple of Halloweens ago. Yeah, because I was racing. When we did the afternoon show on another radio station, it was like, oh, I've got to race because the kids are going trick-or-treating.

And then Amanda, my wife, said, oh, the adults are getting dressed up. Make sure you get dressed up. So I went past home, turned up, and was like, oh, none of the adults are committed to it. What did you come as? I made up my skeleton onesie as well. So, you know, it wasn't too bad.

I don't mind a dress up. If there was a night that you were going to get stitched up with a dress up, that's an okay one. Yeah. It's not like turning up to a party

and being the only one. Why don't you come like a skeleton? Did you trick or treat growing up, Producer Joel? I was never too into it. We used to go out. It'd be fun when you go out

with a decent group of people who actually enjoy it. Because I felt like when I just went around with my sister or something, it was pretty depressing. She was like, get it done. She had no drive to be hanging out with you. I think my parents are like, we'd rather just buy your buddy some sweets

rather than you go around the neighborhood. I think it's Seinfeld that does the comedy routine about it. But it all goes out the window. the opposite of what you tell kids. All year round. All year round. Don't take lollies from strangers, except for this one night, go loose. Yeah, no wonder kids love it so much. Yeah.

And, I mean, it must be a bloody paradise, too, if you were that way inclined. Okay, okay. They're coming to the door they're coming straight to you you don't have to wrap it up okay here we go

here we go anyway podcast today are we going to put all the five words games in the podcast I guess we will what do you reckon we might have to

because that was half the show well we played what we did if you just joined us sorry we played every day this week

doing a guaranteed five words five thousand dollars and so it's got to go maybe we'll put the two big winning ones on the podcast maybe we'll put the $500 one

and then the extra one because it was a high drama I didn't think the person was going to go for the five grand samara at the end there but it was yeah it was high drama stuff

and really lovely what they're spending it on too what are they spending it on the money the holiday yeah we can't talk about

secret holiday secret holiday for the kids it we can't talk about a secret holiday. Secret holiday. For the kids. It sounds very mysterious, doesn't it? Secret holiday. You would not be a guy who would enjoy a secret holiday being thrust upon you, would you? Wait, no. No, no.

If I, after the show today, I was going, pack your bags, mate. Don't pack your bags. I'll pack them for you. We're going on a secret holiday. How would you take that? No good at all. No good at all. Yeah. As I said, if my wife did that once, then we wouldn't do your bags. I'll pack them for you. We're going on a secret holiday. How would you take that? No good at all. No good at all. Yeah, as I said, my wife did that once and wouldn't do it again.

She learned the lesson. I was like, what? You didn't bring it? Oh, was it this thing? I didn't know about this thing. She tried. Did you bring my mozzie repellent? Oh, there's a swimming pool.

I haven't got my togs. Yeah, right. You felt wildly underprepared. That's right. Whatever you do, if you come across Ben, don't spring a surprise holiday on him. Well, have a great day. Enjoy the podcast. We'll catch you tomorrow.

And not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. But Ben, this is an interesting topic. Tracking in your relationship. Alex joins us. Thank you. We tracked you down, Alex. Thanks for joining New Zealand joins us. Thank you. We tracked you down, Alex.

Thanks for joining New Zealand's Breakfast. Morena. Oh, Morena, hi. Good to have you on. Now, a bit of an issue with the husband. Yeah, it's a weird one. So we started the app, you know, the one where you can track your family's phone?

Because I've got two teenagers and a little person. So the teenagers have phones. So when they're out with their friends, we thought it would be safest to get the app where you can just track them. And when they finish their job at the supermarket, I can see exactly where they are and know if they're on their way home. We've been doing that for about six months. And on the weekend, I was like, hey, to my husband, why don't we add yours?

And he's really, like, against it for some reason. He's like, no, to my husband, why don't we add yours? And he's really like against it for some reason. He's like, no, no, it's for the kids. I said, well, I put mine on there and so you can use it and we can all track each other. And he's like dead set that he thinks he doesn't need to. Doesn't want to be tracked. Now, this is the interesting conversation to have because now we all, and I'm sure you listening, you're jumping to conclusions. Why doesn't he want to be tracked? What's he hiding?

Da-da-da. As I'm sure you might have, Alex. Yeah, I mean, we have a really solid relationship. I mean, he does probably, you know, stay after work for drinks sometimes. Sometimes I, you know, do that angry, like, wife text. Hey, when are you going to be home? Real passive-aggressive. But this, I feel like these are, I don't know, do that angry, like, wife text. Hey, when are you going to be home? Real passive aggressive. But this, I feel like these are, I don't know,

he's really putting his foot down, and I don't see why. So what's his reasoning? Just the fact that he doesn't want to be tracked? He's like, it's for the kids, that's his only reason? Yeah, he thinks it's just for kids, and that where he goes in his time, we shouldn't have to be able to find him. Yeah, I get that.

He's a grown man. He's not a suspect in an Interpol investigation. He doesn't need to be tracked. I get it. Like, my family's on Life 360. I think I'm on it, but I'm just so bad technically, I don't know if I am on it. Right.

Yeah, I don't know if I logged in correctly. So that's just my experience with it. Or maybe you don't want to be tracked. Ben, you know me. My tracking would be so bleak. I'd be like, oh, God, he's gone through the Burger King drive-thru again. Oh, no, he's going to Carl's Jr. Oh, no, he's gone to work.

Yeah, no, I get it. It does raise eyebrows. But, you know, there is the privacy thing. Humans are, you know, they have rights to privacy. Alex, what happens if he's whipping off To get you a surprise present That gives the game away The tracking app you know things like that Yeah I don't know

I'm starting to get paranoid and it's starting to really Eat me up so I don't know Oh 800 the hits We want to help Alex out this morning 4487 is the text for New Zealand's breakfast Can you ask your partner to track them? Can you track your partner? I should just say yes.

I mean, even if you've got, we're not saying he's got anything to hide, but I get, you know, but I get the fact that he might just be like, I don't want to be tracked. Like, why should I be tracked? It's weird. It's weird being tracked. Yeah. Yeah, I know what you're saying.

But at the same time, it does raise alarm bells a little bit, like suspicions just to go oh but why don't you would you are you being tracked you would you have you tracked i haven't been tracked we actually we're talking about um you know getting my daughter on this on this app in the weekend you know just to keep it so you don't have to do that text going where you know where are you what are this you know have you left this such and such so yeah but i'm probably the same as alex's partner and going i don't need to be tracked. Like, why? Yeah, like I said, I don't mind being tracked.

If you want to track me, it's pretty bleak viewing. And poor kids these days. How are they meant to sneak around and vape and do all the fun things? We are riding them like racehorses now. Imagine if these apps were a thing when we were growing up, Ben. Half the stuff, half the shenanigans you couldn't get up to. Hey, Alex, well, thank you so much for sharing. Really interesting conundrum you got there and appreciate your time.

Thank you. Can you track your partner? Help out Alex right now. She'll be listening after this five song. Someone's already texted and saying, marriage is built on trust and freedom. Yeah. Be free.

Trust them. Is that what everyone else is thinking? I'll wait under the hits. 4487 is our text. The Jono and Ben Podcast. The world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats. Talking tracking this morning. Very, very interesting text coming through.

A load of text coming through on 4487. Can you ask your partner to track them? Can you track your partner is what we're talking about. Alex's husband, she's got the kids on life 360. He doesn't want to jump on board, wants his freedom, doesn't feel he needs to be tracked. There's no reason for him to be tracked.

Hasn't been tracked up until this point. Why start the tracking now? I get it. I get it. Maybe she should slip a beacon into his butt when he's sleeping or something. Yeah. Keep an eye on him.

Ben, you were saying you wouldn't want to be tracked? Oh, yeah. Again, I feel like Alex's partner. Like, I don't feel like I'm doing it for any reason, any suspect reasons or anything, but I just feel a bit funny about the fact that, well, why? Why?

A lot of people, so many sex, four, three, seven, it's a loss of freedom. Everyone's too comfortable giving away their freedoms nowadays. Anti-vaxxer? No, probably shows the landscape of where things are at the moment Tinfoil hat

Hey don't say that You know that's going to rock people up Tracking's wrong Poor kids and poor husband Yeah You only need to track people like criminals Not your family So there's a divided thing

Me and my husband we track happily And I guess it's each to their own I do love a find my iPhone app though When you lose your iPhone. That's great. I don't mind tracking the phone. You'll keep that on the track system. We'll get Mary on.

Welcome to the show, Mary. Can you track? Do you track? Yeah. Actually, we had a conversation with my partner about it. He works away most of the time time and he goes fishing a lot so I did have to ask him if it's okay to track him and he was like um for what I was like well gives me the peace of mind to know if we're on your own in your way home if I have to get dinner and all that stuff but at first it

was um so so and then he was like, yeah, you know what, if it gives you peace of mind, sure. Yeah, and also he tracks me, and he was just like, sometimes it's like, oh, you're supposed to be on your way home and pick up groceries, where are you now? I was just like, oh, I'm shopping a little bit. So you go shopping, you're like, oh, I don't want to be tracked. What is this, 1985 this 1985 oh that's good

that's good and I guess I guess when you're out somewhere going out fishing and things like that in the ocean you want to know

where they are yeah that's really good sometimes I was just like oh I thought you were on your way home

and he was like I just had to stop by for a little bit of the fish in the corner I was like as long as

you're not because I can see that he's in the middle of the ocean sometimes, and he's just like, oh, there's no one else in there, so... As long as he's not in the middle of a bed with another woman, you're happy. Yeah, I'm quite happy with that. Good on you, Mary. Appreciate that. We'll get Kirsty on.

You're anti-tracking, Kirsty. Yeah, I reckon it, no. That it's unnecessary. I think that it would be so boring, like those traces when you had to do with COVID. If you were in a shop that someone had COVID, you had to go, oh, I went to the warehouse, and then I went back to Kmart,

then I went to the supermarket, then I went back to Kmart, and it might lead to more questions even. And if you wanted to make something up, you could say you were at a mate's house. So I think either you trust them or you don't trust them. But tracking is so tedious. I could say I left my phone with Jono. He's off to all these places.

Did you go back to Burger King? It's embarrassing. Yeah, my tracking history is bleak. It's bleak. Hey, thank you very much, Kirsty. There is the trust issue too, isn't there? Yeah. But also, like, if you've got nothing to hide,

then you wouldn't have a problem being tracked. But, you know, if there's no – there's so many debates on this. Fiona. Fiona, would you track your husband? Oh, God, no. Who cares where he is? If I want to know where he is, I will just text him.

I love it. Who cares where he is? Who cares where he is? The longer he's away, the better. Exactly. Why? Like, the better. Exactly. Why? We've grown up. We don't need to track each other.

No, I get it. I get it. So yeah, some of the Greeks texting, tracking? What are we, dogs now? It's a step too far. So I would say the general consensus, summarising it, because I know there's been ones either way, but most people were saying don't track them. Anti-trackers.

Yeah. Yeah, they don't like being tracked out there. 70% of the text saying, no, I wouldn't want to be tracked, and I wouldn't track my partner either. So there you go. Appreciate all your calls and texts this morning. That was a really interesting debate. Jono and Ben, the bold and the beautiful.

On their heads. Note, may not be beautiful. Now, Adam Levine, the lead singer from Maroon 5, he's been in the news a wee bit for sliding into people's DMs. That wasn't his wife, his pregnant wife. You know,

it's making a lot of news out there because one of the person whose DMs he slid into, she came public and she said there was a relationship. He's denying the relationship, but there was, you know. Do you slide into DMs?

Well, I DM people. Yeah. When you say the term sliding into DMs, it's got negative connotations. It does. But we all slide into DMs. Yeah, I DM people. Yeah. When you say the term sliding into DMs, it's got negative connotations. But we all slide into DMs. Yeah. We're all like, hey mate,

what are you up to today? Yeah, yeah. I've just slid into your DMs. Or someone puts a thing and you might message them back because you know them and go, ha ha, funny,

or something. Yeah. Oh, you just slid into them. Yeah. But just the phrasing. You're right. Sounds like, what sort of suspicious,

shady business are you up to there, sliding into my DMs? Now I went, I went deep on adam levine's back catalog just to see if the signs were there he slid into his back catalog yeah i did you know and uh you know what is music back catalog yeah i was looking and i was saying maybe you know there was some signs in the lyrics of things that maybe were going to happen in his personal life later maybe i don't know is there a maroon five song called i'm going to slide into

dms and send you some saucy messages not quite that obvious uh but the problem was that adam Maybe. I don't know. Was there a Maroon 5 song called I'm Gonna Slide Into Your Ears and Send You Some Saucy Messages? Not quite that obvious. But the problem was that Adam Levine, right at the start, he was looking for some sugar. Guys. Sugar. Eddie Avila.

Yes, please. Would you come and put it down on me? So he was looking for sugar. Okay, so that was not a group of bad songs. He was looking at this stage. He was just looking for sugar. Oh, you mean he's sort of playing the field. What's out there?

He was out there. So it wasn't about chocolate bars. Well, maybe. I don't know. Or maybe he was looking at this stage, he was just looking for sugar. Oh, you mean he's sort of playing the field, what's out there? Yeah, he was out there. So it wasn't about chocolate bars? Well, maybe, I don't know. Or maybe he was looking for sugar. So not great in the current context, right? But he had been looking, you know, a bit more obvious. I mean, maybe he was just needing sugar for his cup of tea at work. I don't know.

But then he really admitted it. He was looking for a girl like you. So not great. Not great context looking for a girl like you. So not great. Not great context looking for a girl like you and what's going to happen with that girl like you, Jono? Well, she's going to be loved. She's going to be loved, guys. You've gone in

way too deep. Well, yeah. And then he admitted, this is the one. This is the most telling one. This is what gave me the idea. I heard this song on the hits of the weekend. He admitted to making... All the evidence is there. And finally, after he's made these beautiful mistakes, I imagine Adam Levine, he's been kicked out of the house

and he's trying to make a call. Where's he making that call? I'm out of people trying to call home. He's trying to call home. He's trying to call home. But there's no answer. Yeah. Why is he using a paper, though?

Can't he use a cell phone? I don't know. Same cell phone he slid into the DMs with. Maybe the phone's been taken off him, mate. Yeah, well, you can't. Yeah, his phone privileges have been revoked. So that's what happened. I've gone deep.

I kind of feel like that. What was that TV show, Homeland, where that Carrie, that character went deep on that? Yeah, with all the pictures on the wall. Yeah, I feel like over the weekend, I was like, oh, man, there's what happened. I've gone deep. I kind of feel like that, what was that TV show, Homeland, where that Carrie, that character went deep on that. Yeah, with all the pictures on the wall. Yeah, I feel like over the weekend I was like, oh man, there's another one. Why have you committed so much of your life to Adam Levine's affairs? Until I spent my three-day weekend. Well, he'll be happy we've picked apart every aspect of that. This is the Jono and Ben Podcast.

Producer Juliette was with us on the show for a couple of years, and she left us to go work on super yachts and she just ran into someone very famous. She joins us now from overseas. Good morning, Juliette. How are you? Hello, I'm good. How are you guys? What exotic European location are you in right now? Well, I am in Italia in a place called La Spezia. So it's not far from Florence, not far from Cinque Terre, all the beautiful places that you see on Instagram, really.

So you left us a few months ago now, probably a bit longer now, to go and work on super yachts around the world. Some of the places you've been look incredible. I know. It's actually been crazy. It kind of feels like it's not really work. So I was like, this is just like, feels like I'm literally on like a forever holiday,

which is quite nice. You definitely left us for a better life. Yeah. There's no question about it. I want to look at you and say, oh, things haven't worked out great for her. But no, if anything, things are just so much better without us. Well, maybe one day I'll come crawling back

and I'll be like, hey, I need a job, please. Well, listen, as a professional super yacht worker you're mixing and mingling and waiting on the rich and famous you met someone the other day oh my god I know and it was so out of the blue um it was David Beckham it was very exciting I was um just down like it was David Beckham. It was very exciting. I was just down, like it was during the work day, I was like down in the laundry, which like has no windows and you're in just like a room and it's very sad and lonely down there. And then I got a message from like some, one of my crewmates on the group chat and was like, David Beckham is next door.

But I was like, oh no, Juliet, like you need to keep your cool. You're still kind of in a new job, kind of. And then for a couple of hours passed and then um the work day finished and I was like I might just like go to the bow of the boat and see if he's still next door um and he was and he was just like looking at boats next door maybe just like looking to see if he could buy them or like I don't actually know what he was doing but he was next door and I was like freaking out, as you can probably imagine. Well, have a listen to the audio. Oh my goodness. Is that him?

It is him. It definitely is. Is that Victoria? That is definitely Victoria. Oh my God. I want to see if that's Victoria. Oh my goodness, that's great. He's very close to us. When he turns around, we'll just wave.

Just like that. How are you? Good, thank you. Oh, my God. The good thing is, Juliet, you played it cool through the whole thing. Honestly. Can you hear my giggle? Yes.

I was like, smitten, I was like smitten. Now, David Beckham, was he waiting in line? Because we know he can wait in line any, you know, 12 hours. He'd had a punishing of waiting in line to see the Queen. Was he waiting in any lines? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. No, he wasn't.

I mean, if you're in a shipyard in the middle of nowhere in Italy, and David Beckham walks through, any line just evaporates with him. But I actually nearly did, because I nearly did, I wanted to keep the conversation going, but it was kind of weird, because we were at a distance, and I was kind of yelling, and everyone else would have heard me. And I really wanted to say, oh my God, thank you so much for waiting in line to see the Queen. I really appreciate it.

And then I was like,'m like no Juliet hold it back just chill well you can't do that from like a 30 metre distance really you can't go thank you so much for waiting in line the queen oh yeah it's not really a yelling conversation

he would have been like who's this crazy woman he's just had 12 hours of punishing in a line and then he goes to buy a super yacht and he gets more punishing from Juliet. Exactly. Oh, my God. He was so attractive in real life, as you can imagine. Oh, my God. He looks great, doesn't he?

He does look great. Yeah. No, there's no question about golden bulls. His beauty regime is treating him well. So is your role washing on the boat? Do you do the washing? I do a lot of the laundry. Yes. So is your role washing on the boat? Do you do the washing? I do a lot of the laundry, yes.

So I have to iron and fold the socks and the boy knickers and everything like that, which isn't very fun. Occasionally I do the housekeeping, so I make beds, but usually I'm just stuck in what I like to call my woman cave and do the laundry. Where you should be. Oh, jeez. Yeah. You haven't changed since you died.

No, did you say you're ironing socks? Yes. You iron socks. Wow. It's quite intense. That is intense. Yeah. I've never even thought about ironing socks before.

Yeah, if they come out really, it's, yeah. And even like the men's boxes and stuff, I'm like, I don't want to be A, touching these and B about ironing socks before Yeah if they come out really And even like the men's boxes and stuff I'm like I don't want to be A touching these And B ironing them like it's just a bit excessive But nothing is excessive when you work in this job really Yeah it's very strange Yeah hey well Juliet Thank you so much for your time this morning

I'm glad you got to meet David Beckham Thank you so am I It'll live on in his heart forever as well Oh god I knew it would David Beckham. Thank you. So am I. It'll live on in his heart forever as well. Oh, God, I knew it would. Paddy Gower does a wonderful documentary on Newshub, and he's got another one that's on tonight, Paddy Gower on cybercrime. One of your favourite hobbies, cybercrime, isn't it, Ben?

I love ripping off innocent people. Paddy Gower joins us right now on New Zealand's Breakfast. Now, Paddy, you investigate cybercrime in all sorts. Yeah, and I went out in this documentary and got onto the dark web, which was a hell of a world. The first things that I came across, I just kind of went in there and had a little look around. I don't know what this says about my personality, but the first things I came across were cocaine and guns in a sort of dark web version

of Trade Me. So I don't know whether that shows sort of the kind of things I sniff out, but yeah, I have a hunt around the dark web. People will see that I nearly get scammed myself. Someone writes to me saying

that they've caught me watching porn through my own camera. It turned out that they were tricking me. So, yeah, sorry, mate. I didn't mean to send you that email, Paddy. Just thought I might be able to get some money out of you, mate. Yeah, it did come from a Jono. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've still got the footage, by the way. Well, it does seem like a big problem. Do you find there's also a bit of a stigma around that people are, say, embarrassed to admit when they've been scammed? Yeah, totally, totally. And I mean, we've got a woman in there who's been scammed in a romance scam. She's fallen in love with someone. And this is something that happens a lot. And they give away their entire life savings, their retirement savings often for these people,

and they're too ashamed when they realise that it's a total scam and they've been complete mugs to tell their family, and then they hold in that shame, and that puts a huge amount of pressure on their mental health and stuff like that. It's a really unseen, it's one of these unseen crimes that has a really unseen it's one of these unseen crimes um that you know um has a really big effect on people no nine times and they can't catch them right they're anonymous basically yeah i mean yeah

so we we actually tracked down um the scammer in one of these romance scams and you know they're in a you know people will see when they watch the documentary they're in a far off country there's no way of catching them how do you get to them and if you can't catch them you know You know, people will see when they watch the documentary, they're in a far off country. There's no way of catching them. How do you get to them? And if you can't catch them, you know, how do you stop it? And we actually tracked down, people will see it and be pretty amazed. We tracked down the person that this woman fell in love with,

who actually is a real person out there in the world, but he'd had his identity stolen to be used. So it's not just the people being scammed. It's often the identity that's being used as a victim out there as well. Oh, it looks fascinating. I saw Paddy Gower on Cybercrime, but I was reading an article you'd written the other day, Paddy, about the show,

and you said one of the greatest crimes on the internet is stealing of our time, which I thought was quite good. It takes up so much of your time. It takes it off you. You get lost on the internet, and maybe that's not a great thing. Yeah, and I go into the university. They've got these things.

I mean, they look pretty weird. They had to put Vaseline all over my head and hop me up to these electrodes. Hey, you were wearing Vaseline with that video I've got of you as well And they wear electrodes It's a high concept clip, Paddy And anyway, I've got this Vaseline on my head

and they can track your brain movement when you're watching, say for instance,, a TikTok, which looks like an absolute, you know, bowl of spaghetti of all the different lines. And when you are reading a book, which is actually just a few lines showing the brain is actually acting much more simply and easier when you're reading a book, but you're choking it up when you're watching TikTok or Instagram stories or something like that. So, yeah, you're right. You know, the thief on the internet is the thief of our time.

My phone shows I'm on eight or nine hours a day. That leaves you more open to crime as well, internet crime. You know, the more you're out there, the more you're able to fall victim to crime. The thing I don't get about the dark web is because I'm fascinated with it as well, but we tried to get onto it once at a previous radio session. I was frightened to get to go onto it. But if I buy, say, for example, a set of kidneys, human kidneys, how am I getting them to New Zealand?

Yeah, well, post them. Check them in the post. Is that all? That's right. It's pretty easy, and people see them. Chuck them in the post. Is that all? That's right. It's pretty easy. And people see on the documentary how I do that. And honestly, it looked like just like Trade Me. And

we were there at the same time, you know, perusing this cocaine and perusing these guns. And there was also a whole business from provincial New Zealand. It's an ordinary business and all of its private data of all of its private data of all of its customers was online for sale

at a really cheap price. So all of the visa numbers of people who'd gone into this place, which was actually a tyre centre, were all for sale for someone to take and rip off. And I'm presuming that that tyre centre doesn't even know that it's been hacked. Wild stuff there, isn't it? And also on there was vision of John O'Prior.

And I brought that. I'm glad. I actually put it up myself. I was just seeing if there was a market for it. Yeah, it was weird that your email address was on there. It's a bit of a buy-off. He put his own details on the dark web. Oh, Paddy Gau, it looks fascinating.

You do such a wonderful job, Patagau. We love watching, you know, the nation stops when it's on and talks about it for weeks and weeks afterwards. So, Patagau on cybercrime. We can't wait to watch it tonight on 3. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good work, fellas. If they were the internet, you'd want to clear this

history. Jono and Ben on the heads. Let's go. Five words for 5K must be won every day. It's a must win all thanks to gas petrol service stations. Jono's locked inside the soundproof booth. He can't get out until we match all five words to give away five grand.

Someone's reached 500 redials on the text machine this morning, Jono. Someone call the authorities. He's kidnapped me. I'm starting to have Stockholm Syndrome. I think I'm falling in love with my kidnapper. He's a wonderful man. What a guy. Ben Boyce. Now, four games

have played. None from four. You're a rollercoaster, mate, already, aren't you? It's all over the place. Covering some ground in here. You are covering some ground, aren't you? I don't have anything to do except be alone we could have banded about the fact

that someone had $530 but you're falling in love with me that's more important I love it alright let's get Sam on good morning Sam

how you doing good morning great to have you on Sam what do you do Sam I work we work I work for Adult Toy Megastore

the Adult Toy Megastore is the Megastore open at this time of morning? Yeah, it is. Jesus, who's swinging in there on a bloody 8.30 on a Tuesday morning? No, no. So we pack the orders and we send it from here. Ah, gotcha.

So you can get your orders. Don't worry, John. You can get your order. What's the most popular item? Have you heard of the Pro 2? I haven't heard of the Pro 2. It sounds professional. It's the upgraded version of the Pro 1.

Let's just say that's all we're going to say on that one this morning. All right, Sam. Jono, take off your headphones, mate. You won't be able to hear this, and we'll see what words you match up when I say Sam. First word, sizzle. S-I-Z-Z-L-E, sizzle. Sausage.

Sausage. That's what I was thinking. Fantail is word number two. Fantail. Fantail. Bird. Yeah, well done. Sorry.

That's a good one. I think it's a great option so far. Reading is word number three. Reading. Reading. done. Sorry. That's a good one. I think it's a great option so far. Reading is word number three. Reading. Reading. Book. This is good. This is good.

A good start. Tub. T-U-B. Tub. Tub. T-U-B. Sorry, thinking. Tub, tub, tub, tub, tub.

Ice cream? Ice cream. Oh, sorry. Can I change? Yeah. Bath. Bath, tub. All right. You change it from ice cream oh sorry can I change yeah um bath bathtub alright did you change it from ice cream to bath

dance is the final word dance um dance dance dance that's a tricky one that is tricky there's some options there

dance dance dance sorry that's alright dance party dance floor dance music options there. Dance. Dance. Dance. Sorry. That's all right. Dance party, dance floor, dance music. There's lots of options.

Dance floor? We'll go dance floor. Dance floor. Sorry, that was a tricky one. That was a tricky one. All right, sausage bird, book, bath, floor. Let's see how we go. Jono.

Jono. Waving to him in the corner. Good to go. Good to go. All right, let's try one. How's the pro two going? We're packing some orders this morning. We could be delivering $5,000 as well, Jono. All right, here we go.

Gosh. All right. The $25 word. Here we go. Word one, $25. First word I said to Sam was sizzle. What do you say when I say sizzle? Sausage. Hey, we matched up. $25. Sausage sizzle. What do you say when I say sizzle? Sausage.

Hey, we matched up, $25. Sausage sizzle. Whereas my wonderful takeaway owner likes to call it the sausagey. What? When I phone and make the order, I'll have one sausage. I'll get a deep fried sausage. She replies with, I'll get you one sausagey. It's adorable.

Okay. Have you got the sausagey at the Adult Toy Mega Warehouse? All right. Here. We want to go to the next word, Sam? Yes. Word two, $50. Fantail.

Bird. Ah, nice. Sammy, we're doing well. Two from two. Keep going. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Word three, $100. Reading. Book. Reading. Book. Yes. We're so sure about this one. Sam, we're two words away from $5,000. Yep. Sorry.

My heart's pumping. That's all right. We're going to the next word? Yes. We'll go for it. Word four, $500. Okay. Here we go, Jono.

Tub. T-U Jono. Tub. T-U-B. Tub. I'd say bath. Yes! Bath tub. Sam! You know what?

Sam had ice cream, changed it last minute to bath. Sam, the I Can See Bee Humps, producer bee humps has dusted off his confetti cannon. Oh, don't. Don't say that. Do you want to go for $5,000? Guaranteed $5,000 this morning. It could be yours. Shall we go for it?

Sorry, I'm just asking my friend. We're going to go halves no matter what we do. Go halves with your friend. Five grand is good. It's got to be one today. Thanks to guest pitchers, service stations. Okay, we'll take the money. You're taking the $500? You're stations. Okay, we'll take the money. You're taking the $500?

You're walking. Yes, we'll walk. Oh, they're walking away with $5,000. The cash, the cannon goes away, the confetti cannon. You got $500. The last word. Do we want to do this? Let's do it.

Dance. I want to see dance floor. Oh, no. Was that the word? Let's do it. Dance. I want to see dance floor. Oh, no. Was that the word? That was the word. You've still got $500, though, Sam. That's better than nothing. Yeah, I'm definitely happy with that.

Thank you, guys. All right. Good on you, Sam. Thank you for listening. Woo, all right. My drama in the booth. Keep going, Jono. I thought you were going to get out of there, but you're not.

I'll enter the hits if you want to play, another person gets a chance to win five grand next on The Hits. Let's go. Five words for 5K must be won every day. A guaranteed $5,000 each day this week. We've had a $500 winner just before with Sam, but now we want to try and give away that $5,000, and we've got Samara with us on 0800THEHITS.

Good morning. Samara. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome, Samara. Thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations. What's your bank manager's name, Samara? Oh, me.

I'm the bank manager in my house. Samara is the bank manager, yeah. I was going to say, make some room for $5,000 in the account because I feel good about this one. Fingers crossed. Any idea what you do with the money, Samara? Yeah, we have a special holiday planned and it would hugely help to go towards that.

What, is this next week? No, next year. Oh, okay. Special holiday plans. Don't say any more. Okay, Samara, you stick with me. Jono, you take your headphones off, and we'll see if we can match up some words here.

Oh, we want to hear you anyway. Okay. Okay, Samara, here we go. What pops into your head when I say Affleck? Affleck. I'm guessing like the actor? Ben. Ben, yeah.

Ben Affleck. Tomato is word number two. Tomato. Did you say sauce? Correct. Oh, sauce. Sorry, just your phone cut out briefly. Schnitzel.

Schnitzel. Fun word to say, schnitzel. What do you reckon, guys? Beef schnitzel. Beef schnitzel. All right. What do you reckon, guys? Beef schnitzel? Beef schnitzel? All right. Yeah, locking in beef?

Yeah, we're locking in beef. All right, you've got some helpers in the background. I like it. Bush, B-U-S-H, Bush. Walk. Bush walk. And the final word, insurance. Claim.

Insurance claim. All right, Samara, let's get Jono back. Jono, Jono waving to him in the corner of the studio. You back? I haven't seen my family since I went to bed last night, Samara. Mate, we haven't heard from you in a while. Normally you'd be on air. Another 20 minutes of the show, normally, anyway.

It's all about you this morning. I miss my family. I'm locked in here. All right, let's win you $5,000 for your secret holiday. Here we go, the $25 word. Word one, $25. Affleck. Affleck. Ben.

Yeah, well done. We've got $25. We're going to $50, Samara? Yes, please. Here we go. Word two, $50. Tomato. Sauce.

Oh, good. A good, quick game. Quick fire game. First thing that comes in, no thinking. All right. We're whipping ahead to the $100 word? Yes, please. Here we go.

Word three, $100. Schnitzel. Would you like some schnitzel? Oh, there's two here. Yeah. What would they have gone? Did they go one of the two? Well, they went, well, maybe.

I don't know what the two are. I think you're thinking of the two that I was thinking of, so yes. I would say yes. But I don't know. I don't know what you're thinking of. It's 50. Beef. Yes.

Was chicken the other one? Oh, it's so close to saying chicken. Chicken schnitzel. All right. We're going to the next word? Yes, please. Word four, $500. I reckon that one was the trickiest one, schnitzel, this morning.

You picked that one well. Because bush. Bush is the next word. Bush. Bushwalk. Yeah. $500 Samara. Are we going? This is the holiday.

This is the holiday for five grand. You're right. We're all in. We're all in. We're all in. $5,000. Our first $5,000 word this morning, Ben. Thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations, Jono. The word is

insurance. Insurance. No whispering from Samara and family. Insurance. For $5,000. Again, I've got two. Can we pull Samara down just in case? Can I talk them through with you?

You can talk them down as we pull Samara down. Okay, yep. Here we go. Something that I know is one of your hobbies, insurance fraud. I've had to cover for you a couple of times on that. You're like, hey, just say that I lost is one of your hobbies, insurance fraud. I've had to cover for you a couple of times on that where you're like, hey, just say that I lost my watch diving. I was like, you don't even dive. But anyway.

It's an option. And the second one is what comes before the fraud is the claim. It's another option, yeah? Either of those two, the words Ben. I'm not giving you any clues because this is for $5,000. I'm not even telling you if you're in the ballpark or not. Okay.

We're going to bring Samara back up now. Okay, they're back up now. Insurance, what are you going to lock in for $5,000? Claim. Oh, my goodness! We did it! Samara! Samara!

$5,000! We did it! Tamara! Baby! $5,000! Oh my goodness, thank you so much. Well done. Thank you so much. Thank you. Oh, $5,000 is yours for the secret holiday that you won't tell us about, but that's so awesome.

Is that because you don't want us to come on holiday with you? You've already been on it. There's your clue. Ooh! Okay, but $5 so awesome. Is that because you don't want us to come on holiday with you? You've already been on it. There's your clue. Ooh. Okay, but five grand, is that going to cover the holiday? No, it won't, but it will go a really long way to covering it. Thank you so much. Oh, you're very welcome.

You guys are the best. I love your radio station. Thank you. I love you. We love you too. Cash has that effect on people. It's great. We're buying you off. We love it. Yeah Cash has that effect on people. It's great. We're buying you off.

We love it. Yeah. Well, well done, guys. $5,000 is all yours. Good on you for stepping up and giving it a crack. You did it. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful, wonderful week.

I know. Great start to the week. Start to your Tuesday. And thank you so much to Gas Petrol Service Stations. You can swipe your AA Smart Fuel or membership card every time you time you fill up at gas petrol service stations and save every day. And, Jono, guess what? Tomorrow, one of us back in the Soundproof booth, we're doing it all over again. Every day this week, a guaranteed $5,000 winner.

And doesn't it make you feel good, Ben, in your cold, dead heart to make people happy? It does. It does. Congratulations to Mara and family. Another chance tomorrow morning, same time it is, the Hats. An inseparable duo. Unless someone better shows up. He's just going to replace with Lee Hart and or Vaughan Smith. Jono and Ben on the Hits.

It's slightly controversial that we're doing this on Tuesday. Well, usually we do Motivational Monday, don't we Ben? You're right. But today it's Turn It Up Tuesday. Because, you know, we may be a day late, but still we're all feeling the pain. We're at the start line of another week, aren't we? But easier this week.

You know, the motivation should be there because it's four days. I know. Some people, I know, just for you, you're always motivated. You inspire us all. But some people, Ben, they're dragging their gorgeous behinds out of bed right now. We need to help them out. This is what we do is we play some motivational audio that we've stolen off instagram yeah hashtag collab with instagram as well uh they just don't know about it yeah steve harvey we've found a lot of inspiration from the

american host of family feud of all shows he's really inspiring because you see a lot of the family feud clips going around and often they're often they're bloopers or funny things that people say, and he gives a strange little look back. But then he often does little talks to the audience or a lot of other motivational talks. He's actually a really deep thinker. Yeah. Have it now, fleas. You've heard of fleas? Yeah.

How can fleas be inspirational? Well, Steve Harvey will tell you. A flea has a 36-inch vertical leap. Now, if you capture a flea and you put it in a jar and you put the lid on the jar, that flea still has a 36-inch vertical leap. So it will start jumping in that jar until it hits his head. And once it hits his head, he starts making adjustments. So then the flea reduces his jump

and he jumps just high enough to where he almost touches it but he don't hit the lid and get knocked back down. Funny thing happens if these fleas have baby fleas in a jar these fleas are born with a 36 inch vertical but because their parents are showing them only a four or five inch jump so they don't get hit, these baby fleas who are born with 36 inch verticals, they jump just as high as their parents jump. And what we do as people is we do the same things. We allow our environment to dictate to us.

What legend is catching fleas and putting them in a jar And working all that out There's some other stuff you can get done with your life But a good message though Ben And it's the first time I've been emotional about a flea Yeah And if you've got fleas go to Chemist Warehouse Get some shampoo

But isn't it a good thing What you give off Your kids take immediately Really interesting Steve Harvey give him some props too what you give off your kids take immediately really interesting yeah Steve Harvey give him some props too for you know

like commanding a room with a flea story you know in his head he's probably like I'm going to go there I've got some flea facts

I might lose them I might lose them but he's made it you're right made it really inspirational that's it I wouldn't be confident if I'm like

I'm going to go stand up there talking about fleas oh yeah no you'd lose it you'd lose it in the first 30 seconds. It's the fleas, guys. They've got a big jump and they put them in there. Oh, no, don't worry about it.

Don't worry about it. I had something there. I thought I had something. But yeah, well done. Very inspirational. Good on you. So the vibe you're giving off, your kids are going to pick up. Yeah, well, there we go.

Thank you, Steve Harvey. Thank you, fleas. Motivating you for a turn it up Tuesday. Turn it up Tuesday. With a long and extinguished career Jono and Ben on the hits Scrolling through your feed And I know that sentiment will mean a lot to Harry Styles

Me congratulating him on his two weeks of sold out Madison Square Gardens You can almost smell the disorganisation In this news bulletin And that's what I love about it Ben how unprepared are you this time? Oh 50-50 I have been looking around because Costco,

the big Costco warehouse opens in Westgate in Auckland Wednesday, 8 o'clock. It's a $100 million store and basically you can get a whole lot of stuff

there for Costco. Everyone's really excited about it. Looking at some of the things, you can get everything from like bulk 48 packs of toilet paper, 48 rolls of toilet paper.

Jeez, panic buying, mate. A lot easier when you're getting 48 rolls in one hit. Or you can buy the most expensive item is a carrot, a diamond ring worth $150,000. So you can buy a range of stuff. You can get hearing tests. You can get your petrol as well. You have to sign up to be a member.

It's about $60 from what I understand. It's huge. It's 1.5 hectares. One and a half rugby fields is the size of the Costco store. 800 shopping parking spaces. Do they do petrol as well? They do. There's petrol.

Yeah, petrol's been open for a little bit as well. So if you're a member, you can go fill up your car as well. There's eight rotisserie chicken ovens. There's 300,000 employees around the world. It's a pretty massive store. And yeah, all sorts of stuff that you can get at Costco. So many people are very excited about that. There you go.

You can get bulk toilet paper and a rotisserie chicken in one hit. Well, you can do that at a supermarket anyway, so that's not that special. No, but I get... And petrol. Yeah, I mean, there's a whole lot of stuff. And a $150,000 engagement ring. Yeah, there's so much stuff you can get there as well. Feels like they've just gone, we'll just throw everything at the wall. Yeah, I mean, there's a whole lot of stuff. And a $150,000 engagement ring. Yeah, there's so much stuff you can get there as well.

Feels like they've just gone, we'll just throw everything at the wall and see what works. And it turns out it works well. Yeah, it obviously does. It's huge overseas. I remember going to the one in the States. It's massive. We try and throw a lot of stuff at the wall. A lot of it doesn't stick.

Doesn't it? On this show, we just want to cover a lot of stuff. Yeah, and the boss is like, just stick to your one thing. But your Costco, no, they're proving that they can be. Yeah, and the boss is like, just stick to your one thing. But your Costco. No, they're proving that they can be. We'll do photos, petrols, everything, chickens. They can do it all. And the social media star has given her firstborn child a very unusual name that's divided the internet.

It's not like the internet to have an opinion on someone else's business. But Trisha Paitis has recently welcomed her daughter with her husband she's a social media star as I said before and she's named their baby Malibu Barbie that's the official name

that they reckon although they are wondering whether it's a fake name given to protect the baby's identity Mel? Mel works? you're right actually

what's your full name don't worry just Mel Malibu's kind of a cool name as well there's a lot of place names for kids as well. Boo? Geez, she's a cute little baby.

It's all over. You've got her dressed up like a little pumpkin. Malibu. I love it when you dress babies up. Remember we had that beautiful period in New Zealand, Ann Giddy's. Oh, the Ann Giddy. Famous.

We're bloody shoving babies in pot parts. Pot parts, putting like sunflower things on their heads. Dressing them up like butchers, covering them in meat. It. Potpots, putting like sunflower like things on their heads. Dressing them up like butchers, covering them in meat. It was just wild times, wasn't it? Are we still doing that? I don't know.

I don't know. It was very iconic. You're right, the Ann Getty. You know what? I reckon you should dress me up like an Ann Getty's photo shoot and we can reenact the...

Oh, we can reenact the whole lot. And I'll be the baby. Yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah, put me in some nappies and oh, what is he? He's always a petrol station attendant, smoking cigarettes and stuff. No, I don't think they were smoking. No one was smoking cigarettes.

Put a cigarette in your mouth, baby. Put you in a pot plant with a sunflower hat on. They were so cute, those photos, weren't they? They were cute. They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners. Jono and Ben on the hits.

We're going to play a game now, which we started. We've only done this twice before. Ben, again, taking the media world by storm. Every game we're coming up with is just changing the face of broadcasting. Joining jobs. So what we need right now is

0800 the hits, the telephone number, someone to call up. And all you need to do is just tell us what you do for a job. All you need to have is a job. Yeah. Yeah. And to have is a job. Yeah.

Yeah. And then we start a timer and someone with the same job has to call up within 60 seconds. If they do so, if we make a professional match, you win big. What have we got this morning, mate? We've got some Hell Pizza for both callers. Thanks to Hell Pizza for supporting us. Best damn pizza in this lifetime. We're next. Now delivering beer and wine.

And a subscription to Viva Magazine as well. So we've got two of those to give away to both the callers if we match, if we join the job successfully. Now, should we go to Shelly or we'll go to Mel, okay? Mel, welcome. You're on. Where are you, Mel? I'm in Hamilton.

Oh, good to have you on from the Tron this morning. Did you enjoy the long weekend, Mel? I sure did. It was wonderful, thank you. Okay, now what do you do for a job? Mitre 10. Oh, you work at Mitre 10. All right, this is very specific.

Should we go hard? We work into like a hardware store, like in general? Yeah. Yeah, let's widen it out because they're zeroing in on my team if you do work at my attend we'll find an extra prize yeah okay so uh mel uh for some reason we doing this again in a race against time time i was thinking over the weekend with daylight savings it just creates such an unnecessary amount of pressure imagine if we didn't have time we'd be so much more relaxed, wouldn't you wait?

But we've got 60 seconds, 60 seconds from someone to call up right now, joining jobs, who either works in a hardware store, or more specifically, Mitre 10. Okay, Mel, your time starts now. Bearing in mind this is 6.24

in the morning. This is early. I don't like savings. Someone who works in a hardware shop, oh, 800 the hits, or works at Mitre 10, Mel, you can tell us a bit about yourself. Well, I've done early childhood for 13 years and recently moved to retail.

Oh, okay. Actually not retail, trade. Trade? What made you make the shift to the hardware store? I did it before early childhood, so I've gone back. Gone back, and someone has called through. No. Courtney.

Courtney on line one, do you work in a hardware shop? I do. I work at Mudpens. Well done. Yeah, represent. Here we go. Oh, well done, Courtney. Wow.

She's so good. Listen, to be honest, Mel, I had no faith. No, me too. Hey, we're all ready for work. We're excited to go. Now, you must have some team banter you might want to get out of the way. What do you want to say to each other? Oh.

Have a good day. Priceless banter. Make sure you smile. Make sure you always Smile on your face And always help the customers Now Courtney Which minor 10 are you at?

I'm in Tauranga Tauranga Alright In Mel's and Hamilton You might cross paths You might phone up And you go Hey you got a bit of 2x4

Oh you might all send it over mate Yeah Yeah yeah yeah I'm in the stock take team So I'll be able to let you know Oh that's awesome Well we've joined the jobs. You guys are going to win some Hell pizzas, some Even Magazine subscriptions,

and I promised something else. So we're going to have to look around for that one. Enjoy your day. Thanks so much for listening. Thank you. There we go. And that was a giant advert for Mitre 10 right there. There we go.

The game works. It worked well. We apologize in advance. Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry you got roped into this. Jono and Ben. Sorry. On worked well. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry you got roped into this. Jono and Ben. Sorry. On the hits. The other day, you saw it, we were talking

about how we were in the cafe and someone came in and were like, oh Ben Boyce and I was like, oh here we go. This is going to be a fan of the show, a fan of what I've done and it turned out to be... What have you done? I don't know. What would they be exactly? Who knows?

Who knows what I've done? Filled in some time, pretty much, on TV and radio. Jeez, I was a fan of all that time you filled in. But it turned out on this occasion it was someone who my dad had taught. Yeah, Kevin Boyce's celebrity principal, we call him. Taught everyone in New Zealand. Taught Maui. So that happened the other day and

so we went out to dinner on a friday night with the family and someone uh you know the guy who was serving us there came over and goes oh my god and i looked at me and i was and i was a little gun shy i was a little gun shy i've had a couple of burns recently with this one been burned by the flame and so he's pointed at me and he goes it's it's it's you and i was like yeah but i didn't want us to give away too much i didn't want to go yes i'm kevin boyce's son but looking at the age looked you know probably a little younger than maybe someone my dad would have taught and then he goes jono and ben i'm like oh here we go here we go this is this is a good little moment the table people they were with all turned around like oh it's been recognized it's not kevin boyce uh yeah He's not living in his dad's shadow.

And I was like, yeah, yeah, how are you doing? And then it was a double barrel, a double banger of two great comments from the guy, which I had to appreciate, in front of a packed table going, firstly, you used to have a TV show, didn't you? That was the first thing. Emphasis on used. I was like, oh, okay, here we go. So that already started to-

The crowd loving it? Yeah, the crowd. Crowd loving it. Yeah, good, good. R we go. So that already started. The crowd loving it? Yeah, the crowd. Crowd loving it. Yeah, good, good. Rattling my confidence just a little bit. And everyone went, yeah, he did. He used to have a TV show. Not anymore, though.

Yeah. And then the second one, the second comment was, I used to watch it when I was a little boy. And you're like, oh, nothing makes you feel older than that moment. Little boy. Little boy? Like, you know, this person's probably serving it. I think they're probably 18, 19, 20 now.

And you're like, oh, we're at that stage of our lives now, aren't we, John? Yes, yes. To answer your question, if you want an answer for it, yes, you are. I think they call it the washed up period of your career. Oh, yeah, yeah, great. Yeah, yeah. I remember we were away in Tauranga recently, and what I love about waiters, and I was exactly the same.

Seven out of, I have a theory, seven out of ten waiters don't want to be there. They don't want to be doing what they're doing. And we went out, the three of us, and producer B Humps, he's gluten free, and he needs gluten free. And the waiter, and there's a shortage of waiting staff at the moment. We all know this. Yeah.

The waiter came out and we're like, oh, he's gluten free, the gluten free options. And the waiter was like, maybe, uh, show me the menu.

You know, sort of gesture to the menu out there. I think that might be, maybe not. And we're like, oh, what's that meal like? It's okay.

Uh, maybe you're, maybe that's good. Yeah. The blase waiter, the honest waiter. What's that meal like? It's okay. Maybe that's good. Yeah, the blasé waiter, the honest waiter. What's that meal like? Oh, I wouldn't get that, you know. It was almost too honest. If I was the manager of the place, I wouldn't have been happy.

But as a customer, I was really appreciating the lack of enthusiasm for waiting. You love that honesty. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out iHeartRadio.co.nz.