Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Have A Massive Complaint From A Listener...

Episode Date: October 24, 2022

Today on the podcast we chat to Pierce Brosnan from the new DC Black Adam film, we have a complaint from a boomer listener regarding Jono's claim old people only eat ready salted chips and we ask why are you an ashamed adult!    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome to the podcast. It's the 25th of October. We said today, Ben, 61 days till Chrissy. I know. Rolls around, doesn't it? Rolls around. Really does catch up on you, the year.

Now, did we have a lockdown this year? Yes. On me career, DJ Omicron came and he... It's so hard to remember We did when we returned back from holiday From New Years I think that whole period Jan, Feb, March

Tail end of Jan I think I don't think it was a full level 4 lockdown though It was level 3 And you could hang out with like 10 people Remember those limits You could have picnics outside and stuff like that. Oh, you've got three more people

over here. And then they weren't allowed to come in and use the toilet. Yeah. We're going to look back at this time. That's right. You're like, yeah, come over.

You can hang outside. But I've got a bucket for you. But I'm your mother. I don't care. You're squatting on the bucket. Well, yeah, it was a wild, wild time. And then who was deciding

like how many people you could hang out with? And how could you tell that not one of those five people you could hang out with didn't have COVID? Now, the risk of, I don't want to get political there,

but I can understand how there's a lot of distrust around people for feeling like they were like saying, because they were making it up as they go along because no one had done it before.

Everyone was. We all became experts. But when you look back now, you're like, oh yeah, that was a bit weird. And we all narked on each other. Jeez, we loved narking. We did. Just loved narking. Oh, they've gone to such and such.

Oh, they shouldn't be doing this. I remember we had some friends, they were sitting on the boom, and we were sitting on the other side of the fence, because we needed to keep a safe distance. Someone said, you've got too many people here. And we're like, thanks, mate. Just go walk to your house and just let people be.

I know, I know. But it was a wild time. But anyway, hopefully we've moved on from that. How was your weekend? It was good. It was good, yeah. Weather was lovely.

Highlight, low light. Highlight, low light. Give me both. I'm trying to think. It was actually quite good spending a bit of time with the family because we've been away on the road quite a lot. So that was nice.

It was nice to put on movies and fall asleep during movies. Dad's home. Yeah. I find, you know, I'm like you in the car trip when it gets to the end of the day with a movie, like at 8 o'clock or whatever. I'm like, you know, because if we go, I just keep moving. I've got to keep moving. But when we're like relaxed on the couch, I'm like, guys,

you know I'm going to fall asleep right now. I know. I pick it. And I do. And what do they wake up? Or you like relaxed on the couch I'm like guys you know I'm going to fall asleep right now I know I pick it and I do and what happens do they wake up or you wake up on the couch at three in the morning

I usually wake up on the couch do you yeah let the old man sleep let the old man sleep producer Joel yeah

oh you didn't give me a low light oh probably me waking up at three o'clock on the couch lonely on a couch yeah that's a low light

the touch of another human being yeah Joel low light high light producer Joel it was a weekend

full of highlights I think the Black Caps Black Caps beating Australia first time in 11 years I think it is and not even beating them just giving them

an absolute hiding was a massive highlight what was it one day a T20 test T20 first game of the World Cup in Australia too

so we don't normally do that in Australia but I mean Australia will probably come back now and win the series. Who are the guns in the world of T20? Well, team-wise. Pakistan.

Pakistan were actually the favourites, but then they actually lost to India. And funnily enough, apparently that's the most watched game of sport around the world, India-Pakistan. Really? Just because of how many people from both the countries. Population, yeah the countries People love cricket And it's like a tribalistic hatred between

descendants and countries and stuff and there was 92,000 people at the MCG at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 92,000? 92,000

and it was like India came back and won and the crowd was just going crazy Yeah right So probably that Does it fit 92,000 people? Or does it

cram another 22 in there it fits 100 000 i think as well and like the yeah the afl grand final had 100 000 if you could be a professional in any sport what would it be not no not factoring in who you are now what skills you have your body type or whatever because you could play a flagpole they're giving you a build yeah you could play a flagpole, given your build. Yeah. You could play one of those, you know, when you watch football or something, there's the flag on the line.

Yeah, I could be the flagpole. Yeah, what would you do? You could pick your perfect sporting vocation. See, I'm tempted to go something like, oh, I'm an amazing basketballer or a tennis player or something like that. But I might go golf because i reckon the you could go for for years and years and years smart yeah that's the one that would you be good at golf like you could be number one in the world but i don't play i don't play golf

so let's say i'm really good at golf yeah like i'm just that's interesting yeah only because i'm just like the lot it's not like you know know, tennis or whatever, you get to, you know, Federer played to what is he, was he late 30s? 40, I think. Yeah, 40, yeah. And that's it. You know, that's very late for a tennis player to be,

you know, but golf, I'm still playing at the Ryman. I'm sticking it in. Yeah, I'm sticking it in. It is one of those sports where you're like, are you actually, are you,

is this, you know, are you burning calories? You're walking around, but they're probably not, they're probably hopping on the money golf cart aren't they

yeah that's the thing so what about yourself what would you do that was just off the top of my head yeah that's good probably look back at it later

and go oh why didn't I pick that what would I like to be I wouldn't like to do like a boxing or like USC or something like that nah too hurty too hurty

ouch yeah although you do look at them you're like oh like Conor McGregor or someone like that. You're like. The muscly fit.

That makes a lot of money. People love, you know. But they have to get punched in the face. Yeah, no, that part of it. I don't want to be punched in the face. So even if you're not good at that, you're still going to get punched in the face. Sorry, even if you're the best in the world, you're still going to get punched in the face. That's it.

You know? You're going to work to get punched in the face. By another guy who wants to kill you. You're in a ring with a man who wants to murder you. You could be the best in the world, but you're still probably... You're going to get hurt. You're going to get hurt.

Not at golf. Not at golf, mate. I mean, now and again, someone will go, you're dark, and hopefully it won't hurt you. But, you know. You might do a little hip injury or something.

I don't know. Something at golf. It's not a punch in the face every weekend. No, no. I'll go like Formula One. I'll be like an arrogant Formula One driver. It's nothing like golf. It's not a punch in the face every weekend. No, no. I'll go like Formula One. I'll be like an arrogant Formula One driver. It's a pretty intense season, the Formula One. Yeah.

And also, have you seen- How much time was I dedicating to this? I think it's almost like nine months. I don't watch it too much. Too much. They sit in those little cars and they sweat more than marathon runners. Yeah. Driving 300 k's an hour.

What if you crash? What if you- True. A lot of danger. That's worse than being punched in the face. It's like driving 300 k's an hour. What if you crash? What if you don't make it out, man? True, a lot of danger. That's worse than being punched in the face. It's true. 100 metre sprint, I reckon. Oh, that's good. That's good.

Usain Bolt looked like he did not much. He was just naturally easy. He made it look easy. I can't imagine him out there training every day or anything. But he must have. But he just had that effortless thing. And he was always so much better than everyone else. It's over in 10 seconds.

That's not bad. And then you get to 40, 40. Mate, you're not going to keep going. You don't want to be doing that your whole life. He went and played soccer in Australia. He's probably made enough money. He's just cruising now. Football would be good.

Football's not a big injury sport, is it? No, you know. They get paid a lot of money. Who did we talk to the other day? Oh, I can't remember. Probably a lot of people. We talk to a lot of people, we do. We do talk to you, do talk to a lot.

And you forget who you speak to as well. I don't know if that's the amount of people we're talking to or the early Alzheimer's I'm sitting. Well, enjoy the show today. Do you remember we spoke to Piers Brosnan? He's on the show today. He was lovely. He was lovely.

I did forget the other name of the other gentleman we spoke to, though. Aldous Hodge. Aldous Hodge. I did forget Aldous' name. Live on the moment. Yeah, he plays Hawkman in the movie as well. So, yeah, he's on the podcast today. Both of them on the podcast.

Enjoy. They're not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and's on the podcast today. Both of them on the podcast. Enjoy. And not afraid to use the F word. Be family, friendly, fun. Jono and Ben on the hits. We've always said the backbone of this program is education. When we started working together, Ben, we're like, well, one thing we want to do with that, you know, you've got to have a higher meaning as to what you do in this job, I find. You know, there's got to be another purpose.

And education was it from the forefront for us. You never told me this because it hasn't really been for what I've been going for, but anyway. What have you been going for? Mildly entertaining radio. Mildly entertaining? Oh right, I thought it was all education based, but anyway. We have been touring around the country, selling off

our Heartland chips at supermarkets right around Aotearoa and we were accosted, weren't we, by a customer who said, you owe me an apology for something that you said on the radio years ago. And her son and her had a very awkward mother-son moment. And, well, we said, can we record you firstly? And this is what it was. Karma, you're just sharing a story of an education that Ben and myself gave your son.

You did. So when he was six years old, I was driving him to school. And just out of the blue, he just goes, Mom, what's a b****? Okay. And I was a little bit stumped. And I said, where did you hear that word? And he goes, Jono and Ben. Oh, it'd be Jono.

Definitely, it's a Ben thing. That's a Jono from a Jono. Whose mouth did it come out of? I don't know. No, no. It's definitely a Jono. Definitely a Ben thing, yeah. Did you find out what one was?

Okay, no, no. So there we go. That's on us, apparently. And it's one of those things that you don't, there was no specific day, time, things. Oh, come on. I don't know. Like, I'd like to think we didn't.

Well, I'd like to think it probably did happen. You know it probably happened. It probably did happen, you're right. There's moments like that that you realise we have great responsibility to teach all children about irresponsible words. That's our job. And for parents to have to then explain what those words mean. There's nothing worse you're like

let's beep that let's beep that because he doesn't want any you know language didn't want to do it again ben yeah beep the word i beat the word it made it sound 10 times worse it actually it's not actually as bad as you would imagine far more incriminating they're like wow what were they saying they had to beep it but you know you're right i didn't want it to go out there and then someone else's kid goes oh you taught my kid how to say such and such. The hits. Scrolling through your feed. All right, I hand you over to our newsman with a few less HR complaints

than Kamal Santamaria. Ben Boyce, come on in. Now, the Kardashians, they had a big chat about death on their TV show during the episode, and they talked about some of the things that we're going to do after some of the Kardashians pass on. I think Producer Joel's found some audio. Have a listen. Kim asked the doctor to save her my bone

so she can make jewelry out of it. Like what kind? That's weird. It's creepy. Remember when you wanted your ashes you wanted to be cremated and made into necklaces for us? That's a great idea. That's weird. No it's not. So Kris Jenner requested that necklaces be made out of her ashes when she passes on.

Presumably keepsakes for her children to wear. Some of them, not as you heard, going, that's weird. And then Kim had proposed the idea of turning her mother's bones into jewellery that they wear after. Oh, I suppose so. And then Kris was like, oh, that's weird. Hold on, mate, you want us to wear your ashes? Yeah. What do you want me to do to you when you pass away, Ben?

Is there anything like that you'd like me to do? Like, wear your teeth as... Shall I swap? I'll tell you what. Shall I take your teeth out? Because you've got better teeth than me. And put them in my mouth. Yeah, help yourself to my teeth.

Okay, I'll bang Ben's teeth. What do you want, Producer Joel? Or Ben's? Body. Hey, look, I'm not going to need any of it anymore. You've got a good torso, actually, Ben. There's not a lot there that you'd really want Yeah it's not bad You know my liver

A lot cleaner than mine I'll give that to you A lot of people do put those requests in early We have a friend Sharon who we work with For many years has already written the script For her funeral From start to finish of what people need to say about her. The playlist, everything, the songs.

The running order. It's all organised. It's all written for you. And Matthew Perry, of course, he was Chandler on the hit TV show Friends. He's got a book coming out and he talks about getting sober. He spent $9 million on trying to get sober throughout his lifetime. He had some horrible drink and addiction issues that he was battling with for many years. At one stage, he was taking 55 Vicodin a day.

A day is what he was saying. Jeez, that sounds fun. Sounds terrible, but if you could not get addicted to them. Oh, man, he had a near-death experience when his colon burst. He talks about that in the book. Five months in hospital using a colostomy bag. And there was one year, season nine, where he was sober through the entire series,

and I think he won Best Actor. He was nominated for Best Actor during that entire series, but just through the rest of it, the poor guy was battling with a lot of demons. And a lot of it was anxiety, wasn't it? Yeah. Around the fame and being catapulted to superstardom from the TV show, From What I Gather.

When you watch the original episodes, they're up on, I think, Netflix. I was watching some of them the other day with my daughter. He's so funny. Like, he is hilarious. Like, he seems to be the guy that they go to for the laughs and the comedy. And then I think that pressure got to him, he said.

Right. He was like, I knew every scene that I had to be the funny one, and he felt that. That was piling on him. Yeah. And it led to that, which is. Right. He was like, I knew every scene that I had to be the funny one, and he felt that. That was piling on him, and it led to that, which is very sad. Is he sober now? I think so, yeah, but it was sad to see him not quite himself when they did the reunion, you know, like a little while. He didn't really say much, remember that, when they all came together and stuff?

You can tell they were all trying to just cover for him, weren't they? Yeah, which was really, really sad. Poor fellow. Well, that'll be a great book. Proud to be Kiwi Jono and Ben on the hits we want to join

a couple of jobs right now on 100 of the hits yeah it's a fun game we play here and basically what you need to do is tell us what you do

for a job hi I'm an Italian gigolo and then we start the clock 60 seconds another Italian needs to call up

go bonjour no ciao and then you guys talk about your job we give you some hell pizza and and i wish you bon voyage chris you're on from temaru welcome how are you get over here mate chris sounds like a rock solid human being what do you do mate bonjour i'm an italian you sound like one too A romanticist Okay well that's one option

Far more romantic than that I'm a rubbish truck driver Oh he's a rubbish truck driver Okay They do go hand in hand The two professions Don't they They do

Okay so 0800 The hits of the telephone number We've got 60 seconds The clock starts Chris Another rubbish truck driver To call up What's the best and worst part about your job, Chris, while you're there?

The best part's Monday to Friday. And I'm usually home around 3 o'clock. Start pretty early. The worst bit is probably knocking a bin over accidentally and having to climb out and take it all home. Oh, yeah, and that would happen. Oh, there must be the... Someone's called through, actually. Sorry.

Lee, let's go to Lee. Lee, are you a rubbish truck driver? I'm not a rubbish driver. I'm a semi-driver with steel. Oh, no, we haven't made a match. Oh, you're not going to take this one? You're not? Okay.

He's a semi... What is a semi-driver? I'm the one who drives those really big trailers. Both truck drivers? Yeah. You got me on a Tuesday. I'm feeling weak. We're going to give you both hell pizza.

Thank you very much. Fantastic. All right, have some trucking banter. Go on. The earwaves are yours. What do you want to say to each other? Oh. Morning, brother.

How are you going today, bro? Anybody can come to your feet? What part of the country are you in? Auckland. Auckland. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've got a big CBD out there. All right, we'll put these guys on hold so they can talk to each other.

Rich, rich, rich. But I like the brotherhood. Morning, brother. Morning, brother. You don't ever call me brother, Ben. No, don't. Good on you guys. Thank you so much for listening to the show.

We really do appreciate it. Very good, mate. It's all thanks to Hal. Pete's now delivering our beer and wine. Great we think to get for Halloween, which is coming up in the next week or so. The Jono and Ben Podcast, the world's number one podcast. Please don't check those stats.

Pierce Brosnan. Now, he was James Bond. Bond. James Bond. For many, many years, he's in Mrs. Doubtfire. He's in the brand new movie Black Adam, starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

We were lucky enough to talk to him this morning when we went to Los Angeles. And he joins us at 8 o'clock but a very surreal moment we had with Piers didn't we? Yeah, we were just sitting at a table in a waiting room like just a big round table you know, think of your classic conference

facility. That was the room. He strolls in, James Bond strolls in, Piers Brosnan. Now he was the first he was one of the actors coming into the room with just the media people sitting there so we were like hang on. He's taken a wrong turn. Yeah. There's another, surely there's another better room with better class of people, better

curtains, better food, better everything No, he was mixing it with the slum, with us and he came and he walked up to the buffet and Phoebe buffet He was, I could tell he had something in his mind that he was definitely wanting he went to the buffet and phoebe buffet yeah he was i could tell he he had something in his mind that he was definitely wanting he went to the bar looking for something specific and that thing

was a dessert yeah he didn't want the meats we sat next to a brazilian chap heavy meat diet up there with the argentinians the brazilians love their meat yeah watched him honestly he came back with a mountain of meat on his plate. Nothing, not a green thing inside. And just devoured. He did. It felt like five kilograms of meat in front of our face. But anyway, Pierce wasn't there for the meat. He got a tiny little jar, a little chocolate dessert.

And then he walks over to us, Ben. And he's like, hello, chaps. And he sits down next to us. And at that stage, I was like, are we in the wrong room? I said that to him. I said, should we leave? Do you want us to not look you in the eyes he said no you're fine and we had a lovely lovely conversation with pierce brosnan as you could tell all the rest of the media in the room were like why are they talking to why is he talking to those those guys yeah he was great he

was saying he lives off an island off hawaii of course looking at pierce brosnan i don't think pierce brosnan has been stressed one day in his life he's one of those people that all comes up Pierce you know he's relaxed he's not he's not worried

about a thing his charming sort of Irish British accent as well you know it was great and then he left the room and we got to talk

to him later but it was a great moment like a really surreal moment that we got to hang out for 10 minutes with him and I've been telling everyone about this story every time I'm going hey'm going hey this great story pierce bros and oh this is incredible he's got a lot of chickens he feeds the chickens he reckons every day that's his big

big job he's got to do on his island yeah i've talked about all sorts of stuff i was telling this i was telling to a mate and normally i get this such a great reaction like oh my god this is incredible yeah you're like once you've got some content in your arsenal where you get that result, then you're just going to copy and paste that story to every person you meet. I understand. Yes, I told that to my mate the other day, and it didn't get the reaction. He just looked at me, and he went, oh, he's a dick. That's what my mate said.

I was like, what? I was like, Piers Brosnan. He's like, oh, yeah. Follow him on social media. Some of the things he says. I was like, Piers Brosnan? I was like, what? The guy that we spoke to, the charming guy.

The one that your mum, Jenny Boyce, is in love with. Oh, yeah. And I was like, you sure, Piers Brosnan? Yeah. Oh, horrible human being. Horrible human being. I was like, what? This is just, this is right up my world.

I was talking about this more. I was like, you sure, Piers Brosnan? This is right up my world and I was talking about this and I was like you sure? Piers Brosnan? This is wrong by world. I was like this seems totally off you know what we Maybe they know something about Piers Brosnan

that you don't. And then he went yeah you know he quit that job in the middle of the thing the big reporter and he just says and I went

no no you're thinking about Piers Morgan. He's like oh my mate's like yeah you're right. Piers Brosnan lovely guy James Bond oh he's incredible I my mate's like yeah you're right pierce brosnan lovely guy james bond oh he's incredible but yes now we're back on track now this is the reaction i took the wind out of my

sails morgan yeah well you couldn't get some confusion for more two more polar opposite personalities could you yeah so pierce brosnan the guy who was bombed lovely chap he joins us at eight o'clock pierce morgan i't know, we probably won't talk to him. Well, it's fair thought too for St. Pierre too. The Baron of Sushi is probably also copying a lot of Piers Morgan heat as well. That would happen a lot, I imagine. I saw Piers Morgan was going in on Kanye. They were having an interview.

And I found it interesting that Piers Morgan of all people was calling out Kanye for controversial comments. True. You're like, mate, you've been, anyway. Anyway, he's a horrible human being, Ben, as your friend said. Not Piers Brosnan though. The Hits. She's in New Zealand next week. That's very, very exciting. It is Dua Lipa. You're on The Hits. Jono and Ben

on your Tuesday morning. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Is she a diva? Yes. Yelling at cast members? Yes. It was a script. No.

But his stories have been proven right time and time again. The celebrity's faces might not move, but his lips certainly do every week for our segment live from Hollywood. Come on in, NT. My goodness, do you sit at home at night and come up with the introduction every week or does it just come to the top of your head? No, listen, let's pull back the curtain, NT. I lead a black life and I do sit at home and I think about this for a good 10 to 15 minutes. I'm a lonely, sad, bald man man nt i apologize to you in the audience

no i think it's great i the intro is is incredible and you know thank you for that every week hey nt wild week last seven days in hollywood it's all go james corden being accused of being a cretin of a man uh youusing waiters' staff at a restaurant. He's phoned up. He's apologized to the owner profusely. Your thoughts? Yeah, I think everybody in Hollywood already knew that James Corden was probably the worst boss this side of Ellen.

Really? He treats all of his employees. Oh, my gosh. He's a horrible human being. And everybody in Hollywood knows that. I think it was just finally the whole world got to see it when he got banned because it's such an interesting story getting banned from a restaurant. He is a small man with a big ego.

He seems so lovable on Carpool Karaoke, though. He seems like he's having a happy time singing with celebrities. Well, so did Ellen. Ellen always seemed happy when she was out there dancing and everything. I don't like this, NT. I want to know everyone is as nice as they seem on TV. It's hard to get away with being an ass nowadays, isn't it, NT? Yeah, it's very interesting because the whole country didn't really know that Ellen was a horrible human being,

but everybody in Los Angeles did because it's a very small community of writers and staffers and things like that. And so word gets around. Same with James Corden. But then when you get some kind of unique story, then the whole country realizes what everybody in Los Angeles or New York already knew, that somebody is, you know, horrible. I was just going to say, what happens if it's just a bad day from Corden? You know, like it was just a bad day at the restaurant and, you know, things were going

on and maybe he said something. You know, it all happens. It bad day at the restaurant and, you know, things were going on and maybe he said something. You know, it all happens. It happens to us all. It sure does. However, if you're having a bad day, I think you guys are nice enough and respectful enough where you're not going to take it out on your waitstaff. You're not going to say, OK, well, there's a little bit of egg white in my yolk. Bring me some champagne right now and take this back and whatever. You're not going to do that.

And that's just one restaurant. you some champagne right now and take this back and whatever you're not going to do that and and that's just one restaurant so think about how many times a week this guy goes out to eat and how many experiences waiters and waitresses have had with him over the years has this done damage to brand cordon you know probably over here a little bit but you know he's quitting anyway he wants to go to graham norton's job so i don So I don't think in England that they care. Is he taking over from Norton? That's the rumor, is that he wants Graham Norton's job. I want Graham Norton's job.

Can I put that out there, that I want Graham Norton's job? Does Graham Norton know that everyone wants his job? I think Graham Norton's extremely unique in what he does. And I think that Graham Norton, I don't know, I really enjoy watching Graham Norton's extremely unique in what he does. And I think that Graham Norton, I don't know. I really enjoy watching Graham Norton. He's very good. That would be, yeah, and the format and just his style of delivery and his interaction with the audience.

And Corden's not that. With the indie, live from Hollywood, Taylor Swift are making a lot of news. She put new music out for the first time in a wee while. It was massive on Spotify. Now, everyone, as they like to do, they like to pick the lyrics apart and try and work out if she's talking about certain celebrities and what things she's reflecting

on. Do you have any inside word on that? I think that she needs to find some new people to pick on. First of all, the album's not that great. There, I said it. Unpopular opinion. Oh, 80s. He is on fire. It's not that good. Great. There, I said it. Unpopular opinion. Oh, 80s. He is on fire. Oh, jeez.

It's not that good. I mean, there's probably like five skips on it. There's the songs where, okay, oh, is this about Scooter Braun? Same thing. John Mayer, same thing. You find somebody else who has irritated you, so we don't have to have the same people over and over again. Maybe it was a waiter at a restaurant who didn't separate the egg whites,

didn't give a bottle of champagne, wrote a song about them. Yes, exactly. It's kind of like Adele, right? Adele's last album didn't do all that great compared to the rest because she had already run out of material from that boyfriend that dumped her 15 years ago

that she wrote her first four albums about. So she had nothing to be angry about anymore. Andy, do you need a hug. Are you all right? Have you met Taylor Swift? Yeah, I've met Taylor Swift. And her publicist and I have had conversations in the past and stuff. So, yeah, I've run into Taylor.

The music people, I've run into almost everybody. There's very few people in music that I haven't run into. No, okay, we'll run through them. Michael Jackson. I met Michael Jackson, yeah. You've met Michael Jackson? Wow. Damn!

I haven't met Michael Jackson. What was Michael Jackson like? Very quiet, but very, oh, hi, how are you kind of thing. Nice to meet you. And, you know, very good at small talk. Talked to me for like three or four minutes and then moved on to the next person that wanted to have a small talk. Wow. That is cool.

Yeah, Auntie. Ah, Kelly. Oh, jeez, I was stopping you there, Jono. Okay, Auntie, you're our champion. Thank you very much for your time. You go and keep safe over there in the United States, okay, mate? All right, you guys much for your time. You go and keep safe over there in the United States, okay, mate? All right. You guys have a great week.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast, wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. We've been traveling everywhere, as you mentioned, taking around our out-of-this-world flavored chips. Thanks to Heartland Chips, they're in supermarkets around the country. A crazy mix of maple bacon, sour cream and chives, and salt and vinegar all together. I was in the lift with someone at the casino on Friday. Lady walks in. Bought you crazy flavoured chips, she said. Oh, did she say that?

I said, what do you think? She's like, I'm too scared to open them. Too scared to open? I said, open them. You'll be pleasantly surprised. That's where most people are. They're like, oh, this sounds terrible. But then they open them, and they're like, hmm, not bad.

Yeah. Not bad. We're going to be too – you can be going, hmm, not bad today at the Mount Albert Pack and Save if you want to join us from 12 to 1. Free taste testing. The chip salesman. They'll be out there hustling. The chip game.

Always hustling, baby. We have been going around the country, though, getting people to try the chips. And here's some of the feedback that we've got. Jono and Ben's $10,000 out of this world chip pick with Heartland Chips. Good evening, shoppers. Welcome to Pack and Save. We are special today on Heartland Chips. Jono Bonds Heartland Chips.

What do you think, honestly, about the chips? Give it to us honestly. Good, it's fine. Okay. I'm not the fan of salt and vinegar, but my mum said grab me a bag because she loves salt and vinegar. Your honest reaction? It's okay.

It's okay? Okay and a head nod. Do we have it there? Yeah. Would you come back for more? Would you buy more? Probably not. Kay, is there anything your mouth's experienced before?

A bit salty. A bit salty? Now I'm salty at that comment. Alright Hayden, you're trying the chips. What are you thinking? I like the blend of flavours. Love it. Sounds like we made it, say that. Would you like the gift of eternal youth? Sure. Then you need to try some chips.

You're overselling the... It's quite tangy. That's a good thing though, eh? It's out of this world, man. You just read that off the bag. It's the chips for the kids. For the children. For the kids.

If you're here for parenting advice, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. I did something on Saturday night, Ben, and, you know, there's... Yeah. I saw someone else on Saturday night also in the parenting phase of their life, in that chapter of their career, same one I'm in, and I went supermarket shopping at 8.30 on a Saturday night.

Right. Okay, pack and save. Now, as I was going out to do this, even my wife, Jen, said, just do it tomorrow. You know how this looks. You're going supermarket shopping on a Saturday night. Was this like a big shop?

This wasn't just going and getting a dozen beers and some New Heartland John O'Byrne chips and off you go to a party, that sort of thing? No, this is the full shop. Speaking of which, the chips were still there, and I bought two packets. Weren't you on an anniversary weekend? Yeah. So what happened to this?

When did things take a wrong turn? Anniversary was on a Friday night. Things took a turn back to normality on Saturday. Jeez, you really did, didn't you? But my 20-year-old self would have sat there and gone, looked at that, and gone, is this all I've got to look forward to? Supermarket shopping on a Saturday night. The aisles were

there's hardly anyone else in there and I saw someone else I knew from kids school and he looked and he was like, this is a low. Both doing your full shop? Yeah, both. I mean, great to get it in I guess, but it's great. But at what, you know? You even feel sad for me, don't you? I do, yeah. But at what, you know? Yeah.

You even feel sad for me, don't you? I do, yeah. Like, I want to say some positive comments, but I don't have to. I know Ryan Bridge from the AM show, he pulled you aside and said, oh, is Jono okay? Because he saw a photo of me looking homeless, holding a dog, like late at night. He saw a photo of me. He's like, is everything okay in his personal life?

Well, if Ryan Bridge was there on a Saturday night, he would have gone, oh, no, it really is not good. Yeah. So, oh, 800 The Hits. This is what I want to open this morning. Are you an ashamed adult? What do you want to admit that you're doing or have done as an adult? And let's see,

I have a therapy session. Make ourselves feel better. Right, something that you've done. Look, to be honest, once I went to a chemist that was up north, and I had to get, you know, I'm not going to delve too i had to get no i'm you know i'm not going to delve too deep into what i was but you know a personal thing that i had to get something you know like yeah and i was at one of those occasions where i'm like good i'm away from home i'm going to go up there the chemist they're not going to know me and this is great hand over the

prescription not wanting to look people in the eye you know the eye that situation as i came back to collect it the lady went i just want to say I love your radio show in the mornings. I'm like, oh, here we go. Just give me the incontinence nappies and let me be on my way. Exactly. So 800-THEY-HITS, ashamed adults. Let's get on it. Text 24487.

Mature, responsible, and considerate. Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. Are you an ashamed adult? This is what we're opening up this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast. Are you doing things in your adult life where maybe a previous version of yourself

would be heavily disappointed? I went supermarket shopping 8.30 Saturday night and I've done a self-service checkout on where things are at in life and it's not looking good. Although it's very empty. I will give it that. Like you're not...

Yeah, but you're saying that the shelves are empty because no one can be bothered putting stuff out there. I did buy two packets of their Heartland chips, and I took them to the checkout operator and was low-key hoping that he would notice that I was the same legend on the packet of chips. And I was overly, like, too interested in how the sales of the chips would be going.

Oh, these? How these be going? Yeah, they're on today. And he couldn't care less. He just wanted to finish his shift. So we're going to go to the phones right now. Sophie, you're on from Taranaki. How are you? I'm good.

Thank you, guys. How are you? Oh, we're good. We're good. What are you ashamed to admit as an adult, Soph? So my adult confession is I still take around with me my stuffed animal toy that I've had since I was four years old. Aw, that's cute, though. Cute, but also a little weird.

How old are you now? I'm just turned 20, so I guess it's not too bad, right? 16 years. Well, you keep telling yourself that, Soph. That's fine. What is it? What is the cuddly? It's a dog.

It's a little dog. He's got a little squeaker on one of his feet. So this is obviously something that was really important to you as a child and you've just gone really attached to it. Yeah. I always say if you have a fire in your house and you can take one thing, what would that thing be? And it would always be, it would be my dog Doodles. Doodles. I love Doodles. Now uh what about family members and stuff well my my my my whenever my and my partner go away we like to travel a lot and um if we travel around in new zealand i'll take him with me and he'll sit in the front seat with us and my partner loves

him just as much as me i was gonna say how did you introduce Doodles to your partner? He sleeps in the bed with me. And so what happens when Doodles is there? I love the name Doodles. It's great. Maybe there's other stuff happening with Doodles. Where does Doodles go? He comes when we go into a hotel or something. I'll put him in the hotel window

and so when we're on the street we can see where our hotel room is that is adorable he's a turtle from the window waiting oh I love turtles that's great

hey we're going to send you out something we really appreciate you sharing that with us this morning oh I'm so sorry no don't apologise mate

we thank you you filled a break on our radio show good on you Sophie you go and have a great week you too thanks great text here too 4487 I'm an ashamed adult thank you. You filled a break on our radio show. Good on you, Sophie. You're going to have a great week, eh? You too, thanks. Great text here too, 4487. I'm an ashamed adult. I like to

leave concerts and events five minutes early to beat the rush. Is that you? Is it you texting? Someone else does it too. That's what I do. I'll admit it. I love beating the rush. Yeah, but you might go to a concert then. That encore song comes on. I made you beat the Rush

at a sporting event recently and you're like, oh, this was good. Well, yeah, because we had somewhere we had to be. Yeah, you appreciated the Rush. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Scrolling through your feed. Now, this is the news they'll look back on in years to come and this is the part of the news

they'll want to cancel, Ben. This stuff right here, you're enjoying it. What's happening in scrolling? Well, the UK, they've got a new Prime Minister. Now, Liz Truss, she was in the job for six weeks. There's a new PM that's come on in now. They've announced it this morning. And we always go, you know, for pronunciation, we want to get everyone's names and places correct.

And there's a guy, very good, all over the internet. I was just like, hello and welcome to... Yes, so have a listen. Here he is, the new Prime Minister of the UK. We are looking at how to pronounce these names. Rishi Sunak. Rishi Sunak. Rishi Sunak.

So there you go. Congratulations to Rishi Sunak. And that guy... Jeez, he gets on to those quick. He does. Yeah. Anything you want to know how to pronounce, you just type in and the guy,

we are looking. It sounds like he's in a dungeon with 30 victims hidden away. But British tabloid newspaper, The Daily Star, came up with an idea a few weeks ago of seeing if the Prime Minister Liz Truss could last longer than a supermarket lettuce after someone wrote that she would basically be around for the shelf life of the lettuce.

So they set up a live stream, had 1.7 million views, and when she resigned on Thursday, unfortunately the lettuce was still good. The lettuce, after six weeks? And the lettuce has outlasted, yeah, the British Prime Minister. Refrigerated? I don't know if it was. Just room temperature lettuce.

Six weeks! It's been a long time for the lettuce to be still good. They have no plans to eat Lizzie lettuce, they say, but the Lizzie lettuce outlasting the British Prime Minister. And if you're sitting down at work for a lot of the day, if you have to do that in your job, there's groundbreaking research revealing that there's a wee small exercise you can do while sitting down

that burns fat fast and is good for your metabolism. Metabolism, sorry. Tough word. Tough word to tackle first thing on a Tuesday. Major health benefits can basically happen by called soleus push-ups done by lifting the heel off the ground repeatedly. If you do that, basically 25 participants who did it for 270 minutes just continually try to do that while sitting down. Improves blood glucose levels and your better metabolism as well.

So while you're sitting, it reminds me of that Kubi off TV. You know, the bike. You can ride the bike while sitting on a couch. Yeah. Love that. So just raise your calf muscles up a little bit throughout the day and try and do that quite a bit. And that's apparently not as good as obviously running around or walking around.

Feels like a great option for me. What did you do? Raise my ankles a couple of times? We went to the gym with producer Bee Humps last week. He walked into the gym. You saw him. I wasn't there. What did he do?

He stretched his calf muscle and said, ah. He was very busy. Like he came on in. He was busy, busy. He was texting as he came in. He replied to emails. His phone rang. He took a call.

He looked like he was frazzled. A lot going on. Came back in. Then another text. He goes, oh, I, he took a call. He looked like he was frazzled, a lot going on. Came back in, then another text, he goes, oh, I need to reply to this email, and then he left. So he stretched his Achilles, sorry, not his calf, stretched one Achilles, took some emails, and then left the gym. And that was going to the gym. Well, maybe you can do these little heel raises, mate.

Yeah, mate, do some heel raises now. There you go. Warning, this show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. TVNZ1 tonight, there's a doco, Need vs. Greed, focusing on white-collar crime. And a former detective and investigator is hosting it. His name is Tim McKinnon, and he joins us on New Zealand's Breakfast Now. Good morning. Good morning. How are you guys?

How are we going? All right. Now, this is about white-collar crimes. This is not about the time that I accidentally put the red T-shirt in with the whites at home. We're talking about more fraud. Although that was criminal. Yeah. You mixed colors with whites. I know. I did that.

But white-collar crimes, there's something there, you know, not as publicized as the ram raids and everything else we're hearing about in the media. No, exactly. I mean, we've heard all about ram raids recently. Early in the year, there were shootings, and the documentary's not making the suggestion that those sorts of things aren't serious and don't need to be dealt with. But what we want to draw people's attention to is that there's a massive amount of money

that goes missing from the public purse and from victims' pockets through white-collar crime, billions of dollars a year. Now, this comes back to your point, need versus greed. So I guess your argument is that maybe the people that are doing the ram raids, that are having to rob shops, they're doing it for need, out of necessity, whether it be addiction or financial necessity, whereas the opposite, the white-collar crime, they're already quite successful and wealthy. Yeah, that's right. So those types of drivers are pretty important, we think, when you look at how we prevent this crime

and how we reduce the harm that it causes. So white-collar criminals tend to be pretty comfortable already, and yet they still want more things, more stuff, more money. Need vs. Greed, it's on TVNZ1, 8.30 tonight. Tim McKenna with us right now. Are you suspicious in your life? You're a former detective, you're an investigator. Are you suspicious of most things going about day to day?

Because I would be if I was in your job. Yeah, there's a little bit of that. You become pretty cynical pretty quickly. The worst thing in the world is to be tricked or fooled, and so you doubt and don't believe anybody about anything. Yeah, like even at meat week at Pack and Save, you're like, is this really a saving? Do you think the prison system works, Tim?

Well, I think the evidence points us towards the answer of no. We've got real issues with recidivism. So people go to prison, they come out, and within a short space of time, the majority of prisoners are back in there. So what is it we think prison is doing? It's certainly not making us a safer society, in my view. I guess what is the alternative, though?

Well, that's right. I think we can be a little bit creative about that. How do we deal with crime? I think we can have more input from victims. You speak to most victims of crime in this country, and most of them are pretty dissatisfied with the criminal justice system working as it does. Oh, Tim, it looks like a really fascinating doco. It's on tonight, TVNZ1, as you said before.

I was doing a little bit of a private investigation on yourself, Tim. Oh, here we go. You know, like delving deep into the internet. This is troubling. So one thing I discovered, and this is troubling for us, that you spent a long time on a very high-profile case, Tanapora, for many years, and you drove between Hawke's Bay and Auckland.

Over 50 times you drove for the case. Now, the troubling thing for us is you never listen to the radio. You drive in silence, apparently, according to my private investigation. What is going on, Tim? You've done your due diligence. I'm guilty as charged. You don't want to hear our advanced hair commercials?

The John O'Byrne podcast. When briscoes are having a sale, we've got it all, Tim. You're doing a pretty good sales job. That was years ago. Maybe I've changed my way. Actually, I drive in silence as well. He does, actually. You're right.

There's something quite nice just being alone with your thoughts. Sometimes. Sometimes that's troubling too, though. Now, am I just getting swept up in the media sensationalism, or does it feel like there's more crime being committed at the moment? I think you're being swept up in the sensationalism. Undoubtedly, the RAM rates are something that is new, and those numbers are up.

But overall, crime is trending down, and has been for a long time, except for white-collar crime, which is trending up. Who do you think would be the better criminal out of Ben or me? Who would be more successful? More runs on the board? Hypothetically speaking. Well, hypothetically speaking. One of us, I will say, one of us has been to court and was on trial.

Hey, hey, hey, let's just say for breaching security. Which means he got caught, right? He got caught. Alright, so we're wrapping you up now. It looks like a fascinating documentary tonight, 8.30 on TVNZ1. Need vs. Greed, thanks so much for your time this morning, Tim. Thank you. That hits.

Let's go. Jonah and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning on the hits. And travelling around the country last week,

so many people come up to us and say they love listening to this game, which is awesome. Yeah, the most popular part of the show alongside What Harry Styles Song Will We Play Next. But Trina, you're on from the Wairarapa. Good morning. Good morning to you both. Now you're in your dressing gown currently.

I am on the side of the road, yep, and hoping no one stops to see if I'm okay, because I am. She's doing school drop-off in her dressing gown, and it is disturbing. I know that level of information about you, Trina. I'm comfortable and warm, so it's all good. Although, be careful. Ben's friend had an incident in a towel.

He was in nothing but a towel. Yeah, and then he had an accident. He dropped off his partner in a towel. He was just like, I won't even get out of the car. But then he had a wee accident and he had to get out of the car. And that's not a great look for a dude just having a towel wrapped around your waist. Absolutely. Okay if you're at the beach, but otherwise, yeah, no.

Trina, 5K, a lot of money. What are we doing with it if we win? Oh, look, I desperately need four tyres on my hands so that the back brake's done. And I'd love to go and see my little grandson and daughter in Nelson and take my son there. Bit of admin in the car and a trip to sunny Nelson. Well, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth this morning, mate? Let's send Jono. Okay, I'm off.

Trina, he's going to head into the soundproof booth in the corner of the studio. He's inside right now. So here we go. What pops into your head? What's the first word when I say H2O? H2O, water. Water. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

Kleenex is the second one. Kleenex. What was that? Kleenex, did you say? Yeah, Kleenex. Tissues. Yeah, tissues. Ironing. I-R-O-N-ues. Yeah, tissues. Ironing.

I-R-O-N-I-N-G. Ironing. Board. Running board. Blueberry is word number four. Blueberry. Blueberry. Oh, blueberry.

Can we come back to that one? Yeah, there is. Yep. A few options for that one. And cartoon is word number five. Cartoon? Cartoon. Oh, we could go for cartoon movie or TV program.

Cartoon. Cartoon. Tough, tough. Movie? I don't know, but it's not really. That one's a bit tricky. Cartoon magazine? Cartoon... Tough, tough. Movie? I don't know, but it's not really... That one's a bit tricky. Cartoon magazine? Cartoon magazine?

Okay. Cartoon magazine, a look at magazine. And blueberry is word number four. Blueberry muffin. Blueberry muffin, that's a good option. That's one of the ones that was popping into my head as well. Yeah, the cartoon one's a bit weird for me, though. I'm like, a little bit unsure.

Oh, well, we might not. You can pull out before you get that far. So let's bring Jono back out of the soundproof booth. All right, Trina, let's match words like Adam Levine matches with babes on Instagram. Let's do it. All right, here we go. $25 word. Word one, $25.

I said to Trina, H2O. H2O, what would you say to that one? Water. Water. Well done, Trina. You got $25. Do said it's a Trina. H-2-O. H-2-O. What would you say to that one? Water. Water. Well done, Trina. You got $25. Do you want to go to $50?

Oh, yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Word two, $50. Kleenex. Kleenex. Tissue. Tissues.

Okay. Okay. All right. I said tissues. You said tissues? You love to say tissues? Okay. I know you use a lot of them after our performance review on the garage there, Ben Boyce.

I do a lot of crying. Yeah, I do. All right, Trina, you got $50. Controversially, some would say, but anyway. Do you want to go for the $100 word? Yes, please. All right. Word three, $100.

All right. No more shenanigans from prior. Ironing. Ironing. Board. Yes. Here we go. Trina, you have $100.

Now, do you want to jump up to the $500 word, risking it all? Or do you want to take your $100? Look, I desperately need some tires on my car, so I'm going to say yes. All right, this is for $500. Jono, let's do it. Word four, $500. Blueberry. Blueberry?

Blueberry, yeah. Blueberry muffin. Oh, yes! Trina! Trina! Cooking with guests. You've got some tread on them tires. $500 is yours, and your dressing gown in the watered-up

on the side of the road. Now, do you want to jump up to $5,000? Bearing in mind you weren't that confident with the last word. Over to you. Yeah, the next one, it's pretty tricky because the next one was a bit tough for me, and I'm kind of like, yeah, ooh, yeah. Far better for me to make the decision for you,

but if you're having this hesitation, I would walk away. But that's just me. You've got $500. If you risk it, you will get nothing if Jono gets it wrong. So what are you going to do, Trina? I'm going to take it. Take the money. Well done.

$500. Thank you guys so much. You're welcome. $500, Trina. That'll get some. $500. Thank you guys so much. You're welcome. $500, Trina. That'll get some. $500 is great. How's that spin your wheels? Good. Good on you.

I thought you were on the road already. What was the fifth one? It was cartoon. Oh, jeez. Simpsons? Yeah, it was a lot of options, that one. Woo! Trina, well done.

You got $500, and that's how we do it every morning, 7.45. You could be playing tomorrow Just like Trina And walking away With a whole lot of cash Baldly going Where no show Has gone before

How long is it going to take For Ben to make fun Of my bald head Jono and Ben On the hits Now I just walked past Someone in the office Ben

Someone we see every day And they were in a suit Suit and tie Not usually a suit and tie sort of individual this person i said whoa looking flash there he said thanks i'm off to a funeral all right i've made this mistake multiple times throughout my conversation career have you done that one before i have i have i think we remembered mocking someone didn't we were like oh mate after a job interview today you you're looking good.

It was the wonderful Mark Ellis. I remember it. I was there at the airport. That's right. At the airport. We saw him. We don't really, you know. We don't know him.

We've met him many times. He's always lovely to us, Mark Ellis, you know, from the TV as well. And so we saw him. You know, he's a larrikin. So we're like, if anyone could have a bit of banter without knowing them that well, it would be Mark Ellis. So we're all like, hey, mate, you look good in your tie. So, yeah, thanks, guys.

I'm off to a funeral. And you're like, oh, that really takes the winds out of your compliment sails. Yeah, I know. Because he did look very flash, too. He had a little scarf on. We're like straight out of a catwalks in Milan, but he was off to a funeral. So, yeah, it kind of brings the vibes down a funeral, doesn't it? But anyway, so this person goes, oh, I'm off to blah funeral so yeah it was so it kind of brings the vibes down a few more doesn't it but then anyway so this person goes i'm off to blah blah blah's funeral now this is someone who

used to work in the industry many many years ago and i went oh he was a wonderful wonderful person great human being and there's not often that when someone passes the only response you come back with is they were a wonderful person. They were a really good person. Ben, when I die, I want you to promise me this. Go, he was okay. He did some stuff that, you know, he did some stuff. So it's not close to me and goes, hey, sorry about Jono.

He was a wonderful person. You want him to say, oh, look, he was okay. He was okay. No one ever comes out with brutal honesty in that situation. Come on, no, stop the time for that. For once, I'd like to go to a funeral and be, oh, you know, Jeff was a wonderful man, dedicated his life to charity. Someone pops up and goes, no, no,

he ripped me off in a Ponzi scheme, this guy. Terrible person. Just for some reason, when someone passes away, we all feel like we're obliged To say good things about them Yeah well I think we should change that Alright More honesty I think

Change it for your life For the deceased Hey after 8 o'clock this morning This is very exciting This is just moments away A trip A family trip to Anaheim Includes flights

For four accommodation Passes to Disneyland And $10,000 cash This is incredible The hits boarding call Can I thank too Producer Joel For that wonderful jazz piano music

that was playing under that entire... Sorry, I just typed in funeral music, didn't even listen to it. Joel, wonderful person. He was a wonderful person, wasn't he? No longer on the show. And as you got, Joel, I'm Ben. A-grade celebrity chat

with C-grade celebrity hosts. Jono and Ben on the Hits. Black Adam. He becomes a superhero in the movie. It's a DC comic book movie. It's out now starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson

also Pierce Brosnan he was James Bond and Mama Mia Mrs Doubtfire we mentioned earlier today that we were lucky enough to go over and interview

Dwayne Johnson and the rest of the cast of Black Adam in America and Pierce Brosnan just walked into the room that we were in sat down and ate

a little wee dessert next to us and had a chat for 10 minutes it was a wonderful surreal experience for us it was incredible. Yeah it was just watching famous people eat it's just it's better they eat better than the

rest of us they really do yeah so we had a few moments with Pierce and Hawkeye the guy who plays Hawkeye so Pierce plays a doctor who can see into the future in the movie and there's Hawkman as well, Aldous Hodge as well. So we walked into the room with Pierce Brosnan and Aldous,

and I recounted our wonderful weird dessert session. We had a very surreal moment with Pierce. He just sat down before at the table we were waiting at. Was it a chocolate parfait you were eating? It was a chocolate parfait, yes. I don't know whether we should talk to you or like what. No, no, no. Like leave? I'm just craving for some chocolate. There you go. I thought it was a chocolate parfait, yes. I don't know whether we should talk to you or like what, you know. No, no, no. Like leave?

I'm just really craving for some chocolate. There you go. I thought you were the gatekeepers or something like that. We can park your cars too. Yeah, we can park the cars.

Yeah, because obviously you're Hawkman, great character, but you were telling us you've got chickens. So, you know, the better bird... Okay, I live in Kauai

out there on the North Shore so we have wild chickens I love my wild chickens Do you love it as much as Hawkman? Hawkman I adore He's my brother Boom, exactly My brother

we became good friends on this movie I admire this man's work from before and then to work with him day in, day out and see the work that he did was so impressive it just takes a discipline and a courage and a strength. So thank you.

And also a message for The Rock. He rang you and you didn't know it was him and you almost hung up on him. Almost hung up, yes indeed. Is that to say you got the role? Yeah, exactly, yeah. No, I just didn't believe it, cuz I mean, how often do you feel like, yeah, I'm just gonna get a call from Dwayne Johnson. And it would have been an unrecognizable number.

Yeah, exactly. I thought somebody was prank calling me. Somebody's playing on my phone. So I was just telling him, I don't have time for this. I'm in quarantine. That's what we felt like when he sat next to us at dessert. But I was reading that you were surprised that Pierce still gets excited making movies. Yeah, it's more about the fact fact that like you know pierce came

to set such warmth and uh such just grace and gratitude and i was just really you know i wouldn't even say surprised i was just impressed with you know just how you carried yourself and the fact that you were still able to appreciate all of what we were doing and i was like you know for all that you've done in your career, up to this point, you still get to a place where you can really fully enjoy and get excited about it. And we were talking about how to keep joy, how to keep wonderment in your being as you go from job to job

to still truly love what it is that you do. What is the advice? Because I'm dying. I'm dead inside. Can you pass on the gratitude? Gratitude. And my mum is grateful every time he's in a movie too. Oh, Jeannie.

If there was another universe and there was some undeniable chemistry he could be calling you dad right now. Oh god, let's not go there guys. Now what sort of doctor's doctor fake? Because I put my neck out on the flight over there. I was just wondering if you can... I'm not that kind of doctor.

I'm just trying to work out what you just said. There you go. There's rash down here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a moment. One in the morning, one in the evening. You'll be right as rain. Don't worry.

I won't knock a feather out of you. Sorry. Because in the movie, you can predict the future. Yeah. Yeah. Did you predict this? I could not predict you two guys. I could not predict you two over a pavlova or whatever I was having for lunch.

Pavlova is a very New Zealand thing. Yeah. Is that a pavlova? Yeah. Is it? Yeah. Well, Australia and New Zealand, we debate over who had the pepper. Anyway, that's not important right now.

What is important is the movie is awesome. We can't wait for Kiwis to see it, and we loved you guys in it. So thank you for your time. Well, yep. Wednesday night. Yeah. Times Square. We shall be there.

Are you inviting us? Yeah, sure. The wrong signal is on the list. There you go. Shut up. Okay, we'll see you at the premiere guys Jono and Ben, see you there yes that's Pez Brosnan

and Aldous Hodge they're in Black Adam inviting us to Times Square to hang out with them I think were they? You can go catch the full interview with Dwayne The Rock Johnson at the Facebook page for the Hits Breakfast Look out! Scary dinosaurs Not Jurassic Park It's these guys Jono and Ben on the Hits Breakfast. Look out! Scary dinosaurs.

Not Jurassic Park. It's these guys. Jono and Ben on the Hits. Now, we've had a complaint come through to the show and this person's made a lot of effort to get the complaint through. Well, we're broadcasting in Whangarei on Friday, weren't we? And the cafe that we were in,

Kee, the poor barista came up holding a landline, a portable phone, a landline. I hadn't seen a landline in years. And Ben, you were outside. She looked a bit confused. She looked rattled. There's a phone call for you.

It's a complaint about something that one of you said. And I said, oh, that'll be Jono. Jono's the complaints department. You literally didn't even give me a chance. You said, He'll take it And you walked off Someone has said something and it would be you So we're in the middle of the show

Songs are playing and I'm on the landline With a disgruntled listener Who had gone to the lengths She's like I've tried to Facebook you You haven't replied I've tried to Instagram you You haven't replied Tried emailing no reply

So she then tracked down the cafe that we're in and phoned their landline and I said listen I'm too busy to deal with this now too busy but it's around the chips I said we'll call you back on Monday morning Heather and you can get your complaint on so we'll dial through to her now Joel Hello? Is that my mate Heather? It is. Heather. It's John O.

It is, my old mate. Oh. Oh. Yeah, you're in for it, boy. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this, Heather, because you rang up, as we said before, the cafe that we're at in Whangarei on Friday, and you had a complaint.

Can I thank you, Heather? That's the first time I've spoken on a landline since 2003. No, we cracked you down, eh? You said you went to London. You wind up the boomers. They'll go to Great Leagues to get their complaint to you. Good cheer. Good cheer.

All right. So I passed you on to Jono because I didn't want to talk to you. The complaint, something someone, one of you said, it would be Jono, and on to Jono because I didn't want to talk to you. The complaint, something someone, one of you said, it would be Jono. And it was Jono. You were upset about what Jono said about you liking reddy salted chips,

the elder. Yeah, but he generalised. He does. Retired people only like reddy salted. You can't prove I said that. We can. Oh yeah. Hey, hey't prove I said that. We can. Oh, yeah. Hey.

Hey, sunshine. I taste it. All old people. I'm talking, you know, over the age of sort of 70. The boomer community, they're stuck in their ways. When it comes to chips, they're like, ready salted. They're like, I've lived long enough. I like what I like and I'm not changing my opinion.

I don't know if it's all old people. All of them. You've made a huge, huge... Nah, you're wrong, sunshine. You're wrong. You're lucky you didn't get upset with me. Why do we record everything? So, Heather, you like to taste other chips that aren't ready salted?

Chili. You like chili chips? Anything but ready salted. Any flavour. Any flavour? I hate ready salted. Oh, okay. Well, you're the one exception to the rule.

And, hey, sunshine, I'm not quite 70 yet. Sorry, sunshine. Not quite. He's not a ray of sunshine, that's for sure. I am. When you think about it, you're that annoying sunshine that something comes to you, you'll have to cover your face, you know, because it's shining in the eyes. That's the sunshine he is.

And so did you go and buy our chips, Heather? And so what I did, I thought, bugger you two, I'm going to go down the supermarket, get a packet. And I actually bought two packets. Oh, you did? Wow. Thank you. Yeah. Trusting you that you

were talking BS, right? So I got them home. My daughter was here, my granddaughter, who lives with me, and my grandson. We tried them. Yum-oh. You like them? Loved them. Will you be back for more, Heather?

Good on you, Heather. Good on you. When I spoke to you on the landline on Friday, you said, God, you talk a lot of crap. Yes, you do. And you have been, you too, ever since you started. That's true, actually. I can't deny that one.

Good shit. Heather, you're awesome. Loving to talk to you. We're going to send you out some Hell Pizza as well. Oh, no, no. She's retired. Too much flavour on Hell Pizza, I think, for you. As long as they've got jalapenos on them. Oh, no, no, she retired. Too much flavour on Hell Pizza, I think, for you. As long as they've got jalapenos on them.

Oh, I hear that. We'll spice things up with some jalapeno. They have got some with jalapenos as well, delivering beer and wine as well. We'll send that out to you. Oh, cool. The reason coal screening was invented. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Now, we're looking for New Zealand's best of voice to voice the commercials. Our commercials are for Skinny. They'll do anything to keep our prices low and customers happy. So if you think you've got a good voice or someone that you know that can voice a radio commercial for us, for Skinny, five grand. Five grand is what we'll pay you.

A lot of money. You can text 4487. There's also the details at the hits.co.nz. And someone who has been nominated is Bruce. Bruce has phoned through this morning. Good morning. Good morning. How are you?

Oh, good, good. All the better for hearing your voice. Oh, thank you. That is the voice of a thousand angels right now I'm listening to. Oh, wow. Okay, well, I'll take any compliment I can get. You've been nominated for New Zealand's Best Voice, and I can understand why right now.

Amazing voice. And I even understand through the person that nominated you that the Wiggles, you met the Wiggles once in Australia. Yes, back in Sydney, yes, I went to a Christmas party, friends of mine, and it turned out their son-in-law was one of the founding members of the Wiggles. Which one? I'm not sure.

I can't remember their names now. But he sort of left fairly early on. And, of course, the Wiggles became what they are today. But I don't – he's still into music, very much so. But Gerard, was it? Gerald? Oh, so he didn't ride the – There was an extra Wiggle, yeah, at one stage.

Well, geez, he'd be the bitter and twisted Wiggle now, wouldn't he? I would – well, I don't think he was. That was my first thought, but I think he's quite happy with what he's progressed on with, but he obviously can see, you know, if he'd stayed with the wiggles and continued on, how big it would have grown. Did he want

you in the wiggles, did he? No, no. There's a lot of musos at this Christmas function. It was a Christmas Day dinner, and I was friends with the family, and I just happened to be at the daughter's place, and a lot of musos at this Christmas function. It was a Christmas Day dinner, and I was friends with a family, and it just happened to be at the daughter's place, and a lot of musos were there, and they all said, oh, have you ever done singing? I said, no.

Oh, you've got a natural bass. And one guy said, oh, he said an advert for 4X beer. He said, just say that. And I said it. He said, oh, you've just earned yourself $13,000 if you were doing it for a living. Really? Well, you have.

You've got an incredible, incredible voice. It's commanding and comforting at the same time, Bruce. Oh, good. What do you actually do for a job? I've got a, I just started up a year ago, a marine trimming business, which means I make canvas covers for boats

so maybe my voice helps get customers into the door I don't know Oh I tell you what well we've sent you a script because your voice

could earn you $5,000 this week with Skinny That'd be nice Yeah so we've sent you a script we'll just get you to do a little read

of it Bruce Yes Take it away mate I've got some music too. Okay. To keep prices low, Skinny has published radio scripts like this one across the country in the hope that normal people like me will record them on their mobiles for free, saving Skinny thousands that would otherwise have been spent on some expensive celebrity.

I'm also live on the radio auditioning for Jono and Ben's Hunt for New Zealand's Best Voice. As skinny we're judging, the best voice would be the one that doesn't cost money. Get the skinny. Oh, wow. Very good. Like Ben's complexion, your voice is flawless.

Flawless, Bruce. Oh, Bruce. Well, you're in the draw. Thank you so much for chatting to us this morning, and hopefully you can be taking home that $5,000 when we pay someone to do the voicing for our ad for Skinny. Well, let Amelia know that I would share the money with her because she nominated my voice without me even knowing, so I think she has some rights to that as well.

Oh, that's very kind of you. Nice to catch up with you, Bruce. Appreciate it. Yep, thanks very much. And if you think you or someone you know has New Zealand's best voice, head to thehits.co.nz and thanks to us, our fee for Skinny for voicing the ads. You can be voicing an ad

and winning $5,000. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network, check out ihardradio.co.nz.