Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: We Spoke To The Voice Of Lisa Simpson - Yeardley Smith!

Episode Date: August 4, 2021

Kia Ora! On today's show, not only did we speak to the voice of Lisa Simpson (so cool hearing Lisa talk back to us!), but we also spoke to a man from the state of Georgia in America, to see what really is so good about the peaches there. Because Justin Bieber has a whole song dedicated to the peaches out in Georgia, so they must be good! Finally, Ben found something old of his that he realised was suuuuuch a fad. So, we asked what fads you got swept up in and my god there were some goodies! And some fad-obsessed people! Enjoy the show.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

new to your mornings friends of skinny new zealand's most recommended telco just when you thought you couldn't get enough of jonathan then you can have them anywhere anytime welcome to the jonathan ben podcast hey guys welcome podcast fourth august wednesday ben jono uh still an introduction there. I thought you were off guard, didn't I? We were just discussing the discontinuation of Bernardino, the Spumanti wine.

That's the rumour, right? So that is circulating around. There's going to be no more of it. So we're investigating to go, is this the case? Is this the wine case? As the case may be. It feels like one of those things when it's announced that it's ending, everyone's like, oh, I love wine, keep it going, Georgie pie,

and, you know, all these things. But there's a reason that it's ending, and it's because none of us, you, me included, have bought a bottle of Spumanti for years. Yeah, well, you're probably right. You've got to keep it going. You can't get rid of that. A bloody guy making Spumanti is like, yeah, I've been're probably right. You've got to keep it going. You can't get rid of that. The old bloody guy making Spumanti is like, yeah, I've been chewing this stuff.

Yeah, you're not buying it. You haven't been buying it. Yeah, it's probably... That's why it's discontinued. It's probably very true. Then we'll start a petition, we'll do this thing. That's the thing. And then he's like, okay, well, I'll bring it back then.

And then that novelty wears off. Yeah. And eventually the business slowly fades out. Oh, we got thousands of people. Someone very kindly started a petition for us when our TV show was ending. And I'll bring fades out we got thousands of people someone very kindly started a petition for us when our TV show was ending and I was bringing it back

and thousands of people I think it was 6,000 or something people signed this thing and were like bring it back and it's all gone where are those people now

it was lovely but they probably moved on with their lives and they probably thought oh well we found something else there's these small shows on Netflix

and other platforms actually they're better yeah they're better so what will we do anyway? Yeah, it's easy to get swept up in that, especially nowadays. It's lovely, though. Social media, you can just like it

and you can back a full campaign, can't you? Yeah, yeah. There's been many social media campaigns where you're like, well, whatever happened to that? And that was like the... That was the thing, and you're right. That was dominating the world for at least a week. But Georgie Pie is a very good example of that.

You know, like I loved Georgie Pie. I had mates that would go across, because we didn't have it in Masterton, so they'd go across to like Palmier, Wellington. They'd bring it back. They'd freeze the pies. You know, it was a thing. It was iconic. But then we came back, and I don't think I had one.

You know, and I loved it. Yeah, because McDonald's had bought, I think, the rights to it, hadn't they? So they're like, okay, we'll put it back on the menu. $1, $2, oh, not anymore. Well, yeah, but I'd rather them not be $1 and $2 when you think about it. Yeah, because it'll concern you as to why they're so cheap, given inflation. But eventually they've discontinued those as well, because McDonald's are like, well, we bought them back for you.

Yeah. And no one wanted them. No. You all made this fuss and this noise. That's what we do. And I blame the media. We have a no one wanted them. No. You all made this fuss and this noise. That's what we do. And I blame the media. We have a huge part to play in that. Don't we? It's all our fault. But anyway. I bet there's many radio shows right now trying to

bring back a spew-manty and a Bernardino petition. But they'll move on. We'll all talk about it and then we'll all move on, won't we? But not the poor old Bernardino guy. No, let's think about that. Now, today on the podcast, very cool, we talked to the voice of Lisa Simpson. Yardley Smith is her name,

and you can see why. It's almost like her voice is so close to Lisa's. It sounds like her real voice is trying to do an impersonation of Lisa Simpson. Yeah. And then when she slips into Lisa Simpson, you're like, ah, there she is. It's very cool.

I mean, so many questions you've got about a TV show that's been running for so many years. I found it interesting because she said Dan Castanella, who is the voice of Homer and a whole raft

of characters, isn't he? Dan Castanella? Yeah, he does a whole lot. And Nancy Cartwright, she's the voice of multiple characters.

Well, Yardley only does Lisa. Yeah. But they all get paid the same. Oh no. The other two are playing, you know, all the voices in their head, but she just gets focused on one.

I found that quite interesting. Yeah, it was really interesting. Yeah. So enjoy her today on the podcast. Please welcome an actress who you know as Lisa Simpson. My interests include music, science, justice. The Emmy Award winning voice. Banal podcasting superstar.

I'm Yardley Smith. Yes, Yardley Smith, the voice, the actual voice of Lisa Simpson. I think she's joining us over Zoom right now. You there, Yardley? Hello. I'm good. How are you? Very well.

Do you mind doing something? My daughter, Sienna, ironically is at work today. She's a massive Simpsons fan. Like many people around the world. I'm sure you've encountered many crazy Simpsons fans. It kind of our thing we will do at night we'll watch an episode of the simpsons i love it she doesn't know that i'm talking uh to you today uh right now actually come over here sienna we've got a special treat for you hi sienna it's lisa simpson what's the weather like there today it's sort sort of cloudy. We have some unusual rain for July here in Los Angeles.

We have. It's just kind of cloudy too. Thanks for that vague weather report. No muscle in her body is moving right now. She's just like sitting there shocked. Her face is open. This is the voice of Lisa Simpson. How cool is that?

And how old are you? I'm 11. Oh, you're 11. I'm not sure I'm actually ever going to reach 11. I think I've been 8 for like 32 years now. What's your favorite episode on the show? Oh, my goodness. That was the hardest, hardest question.

I love the Bleeding Gums Murphy episodes. There's a great episode called The Summer of Four Foot Two where our family goes to Flanders' beach house. I remember that, yeah. Love that one. I love the episode where Milhouse buys Bart's soul for a dollar. I love that one.

That's one of my favorite ones. I love that one. And then there's what? Over 700 that I've completely slipped my mind. What's your favorite episode? One of my favorites is Bart vs. Australia. I actually love that episode. We weren't very nice to Australia, I don't think.

And we don't mind that. That's why we love it in New Zealand. Yardley, thank you. This is your Christmas present too, by the way, Sienna. So don't expect anything from Santa. Bye, Sienna. Bye. So great to meet you.

Thank you. You too. Bye. Oh, wow, that's pretty awesome. We've got more with Yardley Smith in just a few moments. We're going to ask her plenty of questions if you're a fan about The Simpsons, how they make the show, or has she got the job? All that and more in just a few moments on The Hits. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. how they make the show, or has she got the job? All that and more in just a few moments on The Hits. We've got on Zoom Yardley Smith.

She is the voice and has been the voice since day one of Lisa Simpson from The Simpsons. I understand you didn't even really care about the simpsons audition when you first went to it you weren't thinking you weren't putting too much gravitas on it no no gravitas at all actually i i didn't have a voiceover agent um i only had a voiceover agent after the simpsons a very brief time and they used to send me out to audition for commercials you know like let's sell some soap some cat food whatever, never got those jobs. Never. I never, I didn't have my eye on voiceover at all.

For me, it wasn't even part of the equation for world domination. So I remember when I got the audition, I was like, okay, all right, whatever, because I pretty much never said no to an audition. Yeah, and, you know, that niggly job keeps going 30 years on. Every year you're like, not another year. I mean, no one could have predicted. I mean, that was incredible. But you also auditioned for Bart Simpson as well as Lisa.

Is that right? Yes, yes. But, I mean, I think it is true, but I think sort of over the years way too much importance has been put on that it really was more like we always have women do the voices of young boys because our voices don't change so i think it was just like sure you should try out for that one and then when that was a bust right out of the gate they were like well how about the sister well where did the inspiration for the voice of lisa simpson come from i mean obviously it's your voice but it's you know it's close so

this is me this is lisa simpson as you can see we're quite close yeah um honestly it just came out of uh having no idea what i was doing and um having been told all my life that i sound like i was about 10 or 12 years old so if lisa simpson is eight then it seemed to make sense that it would go a little higher but honestly if they hadn't taken that, I'd be like, okay, that's it. That's all I got. Yeah, I know. You're like, I'm no good at voices. I could go a little bit higher than what I'm doing now. That's about it. Pretty much it. Yeah. And she's been eight. I mean, the good thing is she's been eight for what? 30 years now, Lisa Simpson? Yeah, 30 plus years. And I like to say, you know, every time she's eight,

every time she has a birthday, she turns eight. We just don't talk about that. My son actually, he's just got into it. He's actually binged every single episode now. He's like, they just don't age. Yeah. They don't age. It's a beautiful thing about cartoons.

And my grandpa, grandpa is knocking on death's door the whole time. So is Mr. Burns, right? He should be. about grandpa grandpa is knocking on death's door the whole time so is mr burns right how long does it take you to voice an episode of the simpsons are you going in there and knocking out six in one go or oh no uh-uh so doing an episode of simpsons is incredibly incredibly labor-intensive not really for us the actors but takes eight months to animate one episode one episode wow yeah oh my god so for us though we do a table reading of the script it's the first and only time the writers hear the script all together with the actors based on how that goes they then go away for 10 days and do a rewrite now that i go in and record my own just by myself i can knock it out depending on

how heavy i am in the episode, you know, an hour and a half. Really, it's the best job in the world. Yeah, it's awesome. Great job. So you would, I guess technically the production team are working what? Stuff we're watching now has been made two years ago. Probably not that long ago.

But, for instance, the season finale that would have aired in May here would have very possibly been recorded a year prior. You guys get together. It was almost like a radio play, all the main characters and voice the characters. Is that right? Yes, that's exactly right. And that's actually quite unusual in voiceover. Usually you go in and do your part just yourself.

It's just you doing your lines. So I stand between Dan Castellaneta, who does Homer and a thousand others, and Nancy, who does Bart and Nelson and Kearney and Ralph Wiggum. So it's really the best place in the room. I have a question. You mentioned Dan and Nancy, they're doing multiple characters. Are you getting a pay packet per character? Sadly, no, for them. Luckily for me, sometimes I'm the highest paid person in hollywood

because i only do one now you're also um you're an actor you've got a podcast as well a true crime podcast is that investigating things like who shot mr burns or what's it getting into or more grim crimes it's a bit grimmer yeah right um it's called small town dicks uh dicks of course being the noir slang for uh detectives although it sort of depends on how old you are the the younger ones like the millennials like the what oh that's good when when ben was like oh yeah he's got a podcast called small town dicks i was like oh she's heard about me she's made an entire series that's his only fans account as well your partner of many years he's a former detective is that right yeah yeah so when i met dan i was at a simpsons event and dan was my security he was like the off-duty cop who was going to keep an eye

on i think i watched the story yesterday you're in springfield ironically of all places in america yes yes so dan was my security detail and then he didn't live in the same state as i do so i would commute up there for about two and a half years about every other weekend and his brother dave identical twin brother dave also a detective would come over to dan's house and they would just download their day, their Thursday. It was jaw-dropping. When you explained how you met Dan, you also explained the plot line of Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard.

It is the best story ever. You're right. And, hey, Yanni, thank you so much for your time. Lovely to meet you, and we hope we get to meet face-to-face in the future. I'd love it. That would really be fantastic. I will go, go, go. You know the Goldilocks thing which scrubs your pots and pans?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's like a sort of a coarse metal fibres. Yeah. Just a bunch of stuff that gets all, you know, baked on stage. It's like your iPhone headphones when you try and get them out of your bag. It's all sort of tangled up. Tangled up, yeah. But that's the way it's designed, right?

Now, I had to go and buy a new Goldilocks yesterday. And on the packet here, I've taken a photo of it. It's got, you know, seven alternative uses for a Goldilocks. Oh, really? But my fear is that someone on the Goldilocks board member team was like, we need seven alternate uses for Goldilocks. And so then some poor team of people at Goldilocks have had to come up with seven alternate uses for Goldilocks.

And the last three are kind of reaching a little bit. Right, so obviously scrubbing pots and pans, is that one of the seven? Removed baked-on food from casserole dishes and inside the oven. That's a given. Okay, so is that one of the uses, or is that the alternate use?

No, that's put in as an alternate use. So what's the first use there? Well, they're kind of blended. I mean, it's a hard task. Yeah, sorry. I feel sorry for the creative team that had to come up with seven. Maybe there's space in the box. Seven uses, you know, to be honest, there's a hard task to do. I feel sorry for the creative team that had to come up with seven. Maybe there's space in the box. Seven uses,

to be honest, there's only two. And so then they've obviously gone around with the Goldilocks and gone, okay, what else can we do with this? Do you know it's also good for removing glue from jars? Why would you have glue in a jar? That was my first question.

Yeah. I mean, at school, maybe you put the PVA glue in a jar and you have glue in a jar? That was my first question. Yeah. Where is the... I mean, at school, maybe you put the PVA glue in a jar and you have the... Well, it's good for... Or maybe if, you know, sometimes if you have a sticker on like a glass jar and you peel it off and it hasn't fully come off, you can like scrub the sticky stuff off it. But you're right, we're already reaching that. We're reaching number two. The first one, the first alternate use was the actual main core use for the Goldilocks.

Second one was cleaning root vegetables. So you can scrub your kumara. Oh, yes. I've done that with potatoes before. Yes. Yes, okay. I'll get that one. Oh, getting mud off shoes or something like that.

You could keep one in the laundry or something. That is the 50th. You should have been at the Brainstorm. But obviously you're not going to mix it with the kitchen one. No. Once you sacrifice that for the laundry, you're not bringing it back in. Same as the glue one. I'm not using that on my...

Here's my favourite one with the Goldilocks. Making puppets and or decorations. What sort of puppets are you making? Why is your Christmas tree covered in Goldilocks? Oh, they said I could use it as a decoration. I love it. And so I can imagine what eight and nine and ten were used as an intense face exfoliator.

Put a leash on it, pretend it's a pet. Put it on your head, it could be a funny wig for a dress-up party. A little toupee or something like that. So many uses. It reminded me of when Jacinda came up with the nine rules for lockdown. Yes. And her last four were like. Really filling out the numbers. for lockdown. Yes. And her last four were like. Really filling out

the numbers. Be kind. And then number eight was be kind to her. She'd already used be kind at number three. It's the problem when you say we're going to come up with seven. Goldilocks just stick with the core use. It's a useful product. It is a useful product. You're right.

That was the uses for Goldilocks this morning. That was really interesting. Well, yeah. Interesting they went to that much trouble. That's for sure. Justin Bieber, Peaches. We're just actually talking while that song was on. Justin Bieber, if you hear it on that song,

he's talking about where he gets his peaches, obviously. Georgia. Georgia. Georgia. Now, I imagine he lives sort of, you know, West Coast, Los Angeles, Hollywood area. Yeah, California, right? Yeah. California. So he's placing a lot of importance on peaches in the southern states there.

Are they really good? It's like us getting our carrots from Invercargill. You hate peaches, eh? Yeah, not a peach fan. That's the furry. Oh, my skin's crawling right now But I don't know I mean, I haven't

I don't know too much about the peach game You know, like But maybe Maybe the Georgia peaches are so good Well, clearly For him to have a number one hit Based off Talking about how good he gets his peaches

Georgia's peaches I mean, he's essentially just Singing his shopping list, isn't he? I get my peaches in Georgia You get my weed out of there Weed in California I gotta bring my bags When I go to the countdown. I've got to get some foot powder from Pack and Save.

Maybe some asparagus. Let's call Georgia. Yeah. Okay, see if they're worthy of these peaches of having a whole song dedicated to them. Is there a number there? There's a farm here I think we found on Google. Dickie's Farm.

Okay. Let's give them a call, see if their peaches are really good. Dickie's Farm. Okay. Let's give him a call, see if the pictures are really good. Dickie Farms. Oh, hello. Dickie Farms. It's Jono and Ben. We're calling from New Zealand, all the way over the other side of the world. Oh, my goodness.

Yeah. How are you going over there in Georgia? Good. Lovely stuff. Now, I imagine you're wearing overalls Georgia? Good. Lovely stuff. Now, I imagine you're wearing overalls right now. No, just a regular. What are you wearing? More pants and a Dickie Farms polo shirt.

Oh, Dickie's polo shirt. Are you wearing a cap? Tell me what else you're wearing. Are you wearing a cap? Not usually a cap. I'm not a hat guy. Not a hat guy? I at least put some sunscreen on. Do you have shoes on? Are you wearing a cap? Not usually a cap. I'm not a hat guy. Not a hat guy? I at least put some sunscreen on.

Do you got shoes on? You wearing shoes? Yes. Oh, yeah. Okay. Keep talking. Now, we're just ringing because we've heard the Justin Bieber song here in New Zealand, and he sings about the peaches in Georgia.

Now, you know, for a whole song to be dedicated to a peach, Georgia must supply some pretty good peaches. They're known as the best. And why are they the best? I think for how long the peaches have been grown in Georgia, the varieties that we grow, the climate, the soil, there's just really very few places that peaches can be grown even, or grown well, I guess. I mean, you can kind of grow, just like

you can about grow anything anywhere, but, you know, grown well. Yeah, the climate's right. Everything, the conditions are perfect. I'd imagine they grow some amount of peaches in New Zealand, right? We do, yeah. Not good enough for Justin Bieber to sing a song on our radio station about it. Do they import peaches from China? Yeah, we probably get some Chinese peaches in. Yeah, we probably do.

I know they grow a lot of peaches in China now. Now, it would be very expensive though if Bieber was getting his peaches out in New Zealand. You know, the travel costs associated with, you know. Even George is probably in an inconvenient location. He's in Los Angeles. Yeah, but they're good, though.

Are you supplying Justin Bieber's peaches, or you can't talk about that? Not that I'm aware of. I don't know that he hasn't been here, but I guess made the song or whatnot. He did make the song. He's got his peaches out of Georgia. I don't know. I mean, I know some amount of famous people probably order, because we ship, you know, you can order peaches and have them shipped to your home or whatnot, or at least in the

United States. Yeah. Could you ship international? Like, could we try a, like, if we paid for it, could we get a peach shipped to New Zealand? I don't think they could get there quick enough. That's a problem. They would spoil, you know, and they might not even let you import them. Yeah, that's true.

We're very strict. Even in the United States, like, say, California, they won't let you ship produce into the state. Oh, really? So there's so many laws, yeah. So how's Bieber getting his battle away anyway? He must be smuggling peaches into... California.

I guess so. I guess so. Yeah. So now you've got a peach smuggling ring happening from Georgia to California. Well, no one's looked into this but us. Hey, thank you so much for your time. You're a good sport.

Nice talking to you. Good. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Tonto and Ben, the hits. I get swept up in a fad. We appreciate it. You're running late, stuck in traffic, and now you have to listen to this. Tonto and Ben, the hits. I get swept up in a fad.

It does happen from time to time. And I was clearing out the garage over the weekend and I found something that I got swept up. Like a lot of people, sometimes you go to the supermarket and they have those deals where you spend over a certain amount of money, you get something. Well, a few years ago, was the disney dominoes oh i remember this countdown i remember your domino your domino period and i was like i need

to get the set of disney dominoes and i got so close i think i was like another and one of the incredible characters you were like gollum with the ring on lord of the rings weren't you with these domino you went to a swap meet or something on the weekend i got carried away i had people other members of family and friends you're going i've got yeah the the dad from the incredibles am i great this is awesome we put it to the set i even bought the book you know that you can put them all away and then i was so proud i mean the kids were probably at the age where they were too young to really care about it this was more for me and i got so and i completed the set and it was a great moment and how many years of joy have you got out of those dominoes since

you tell me like i was so stoked i was like yeah and i put it in the set and it was a great moment. And how many years of joy have you got out of those Dominoes since? You tell me. Like I was so stoked. I was like, yeah, and I put it in the set. It was all there and I closed it and then I put it away and I have not looked at it since.

But I was so proud when I put it all together until the weekend I found it in the garage. I'm like, well, what do I do now? I've got the full set. One of those swap meets,

he shanked a fully grown man for one of the members, one of the frozen ones, I think it was like i need this i need elsa yeah yeah and have you played dominoes no i didn't or you wouldn't play dominoes with these oh these are collecting i mean the cast off the ones that were the double ups yeah maybe fine but these are the ones you were like well they were in a special booklet so yeah so are you throwing them out now after all i remember this. Like, you were very dedicated.

It really took over your life. It did. It did. It would have been easier to get over a meth addiction. And now, looking back, you're like, wow. I let it get away on me. And so, you know, and I imagine I'm not the only one that gets swept up in a fat. You know, whether it's collecting and things.

And you're like, man, I just started collecting these things and they just got away on me. Or, you know. I had my Livestrong bracelet years. Boy, I love my Lance Armstrong Livestrong bracelet. People did, though, eh? People did. He sold so many of those. It was for a charity, too, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was, yeah. Oh. It was a lovely thing. Lance Armstrong's career obviously didn't live strong after that scandal, though, but the bracelets lived on. Yeah, they did, eh? You're right. Juliet, you been swept up?

Oh, many, many fads. First of all all baking in lockdown baking bread everyone did that i got amongst that the new world um little gardens i will i'll show you a photo when we go into this next song of how excessive this got it got to the point where we had so many pots in our garden that mom's like right i'm actually just gonna have to install like an actual veggie garden with the wood she got someone in to make me a veggie garden now you've got a forest yeah literally but then they all died and then i moved out and mum and dad are like well what's this veggie garden for now my son got hooked on pokemon but then it kind of became my problem

and we'll go away and work and you'd collect them on the phone oh that's right you were wandering around the streets going oh this pokemon go the app this Pokemon. Oh, this Pokemon Go, the app. Yes. You were. I was like, oh, we're in Wellington. Apparently there's some great ones down on the waterfront. And they're like, God, we're actually here filming a TV show. I wouldn't see you for three days. Come on a Pokemon hunt. Is he going on an event?

No, no, he's just collecting Pokemon. So 0800 the hits, telephone number. Should we get this? You're fans. What did you get swept up in? What have you got a giant collection of? We'd love to get your calls and texts this morning. Give us a call, 4487 or 0800

the hits. It is John O'Bien. Yeah, we want to know if you've got swept up in something, if you've collected things. What are your collections? Love to hear from you on 0800 the hits. Ben's dealing with a huge dominoes addiction that he had from Countdown. A domino effect that has left me. It's now collapsed.

But if you throw out the whole thing in 30 years, they're going to be worth at least $22 or something. Yeah, probably. They're probably worth more when there was the frenzy around the time. But anyway. You end up chucking out so much stuff. But if you just hold on to it, like one of those hoarders on the tv and z shows could be worth millions of 50s juliet you wanted to show us your garden from little

garden that got out of control i can't find the photo for the life of me i wish i could a lot of weed plants on there though excuse me no there we are teddy there we are teddy classic radio stitch up there yes uh your daily drug test after nine o'clock 9 o'clock Let's go to the phones We'll start with Susan in Wellington What did you get swept up in? Well Way back when I was working

And I had to go And get papers every day for the office And there was this little kiosk Next door So I went to go and pick up the papers I used to pick up Kinder Surprises Oh, to get the little toys Yeah, and I used to buy about four or five at a time

How many Kinder Surprise toys did you end up with? I don't know, I never counted, it'd be hundreds Hundreds? The life cycle of a Kinder Surprise toy is really it started in my household in a week because you inevitably just chuck them out then I got it down to two days. Now it's about seven minutes. I open the thing, I'm like,

yeah, well, you're never going to play with this. It's gone. Fill up the land. Fill up the good earth with that. Oh, yeah, it's more land full. More land full, yeah. Hey, good on you, Susan. Have you got over your kinder addiction? Well, at the same time, I was doing McDonald's as well. Oh, for the Happy Meal as well,

the toys. You know, the 101 Dalmatians, I clicked the whole 101. The whole 101. Did you get all 101 of the Dalmatians? Yeah, I used to go to McDonald's. Wow. I used to get them out to bring out the whole bar, and I'd go through and store which Dalmatian I didn't have. I'd have a list of them.

Wow. Susan, you've got a problem. You're like me. I love it. I love it. All right, we're going to keep going Can we beat Susan's call I don't know if we can

Now we've got Kyla on from Nelson What fad did you get swept up in Kyla So I have three school aged kids And they did the countdown insect cards So obviously I had to get Three separate books for them to click Oh three of them And so you got three complete sets

Of all the insects Yeah and then what's the worst now Is I've got three complete sets of all the insects. Yeah, and then what's the worst now is I've got a toddler, so he goes to the bookshelf and pulls them out, and they just fall out, and there's so many of them. You've got to put them back in the right place. You're like, I hate insects. I just drop them back into random slots. Good on you.

The supermarkets have got a lot to answer for, because this is one that a lot of people will be familiar with. Natalia, what did you get swept up in? What fad? The Smeg Knives. Oh, the Knives. The New World Smeg Knives. They were so popular, eh? The Knives, yeah. Yeah, I ended up with three sets. Oh, three sets!

So some people couldn't get the whole set. They were almost knifing other people if they could find the Knives. The problem was I'd stopped drinking and I actually started drinking again just so I could click That's your commitment You're like my commitment to the knives Thanks to those knives

I'm now a rampant alcoholic But I got those knives I'm drunk and I've got lots of knives That was great New World just sort of became Altair Noah's biggest weapons dealer Didn't they? Overnight

For a while there So many knives Really appreciate that You love some knives? I guess so. All right, Natalia, it's five o'clock somewhere, mate. You'll be due a drink. See you, mate.

Cool. And we'll get Joss on from Invercargill. What fad did you get swept up in, Joss? Is that me? Oh, yeah, sorry. It's what's done. When I was younger, I used to collect erasers, actually. I've still got them to this day.

Rubbers? Yes, rubbers. Oh, erasers. So how many have you got? Oh, I had about 500, I think. 500? Mm-hmm. Were you using them or were you like, no, these are for the best?

No, I've got them actually in a display now, and they're in a big box frame, all bunched in there. You collected all of your rubbers. Mm. Wow. Yeah. And you're also from Bill Richardson's Transport Museum, we're told. Oh, I am.

What's in there? Yeah, well, you'd have plenty of collections in there, wouldn't you? There is a lot of collections in there. The latest one has been a McDonald's toy collection, which has just gone in. It's probably around about 1,500 of the Happy Meals toys. 1,500? Yeah, it's a good display.

Hey, Joss, can I just say, we said, you know, what fad did you get us to be coming? And you started with, oh, I've got 500 rubbers. But then you backed up with thousands of McDonald's toys. Are these all from one person, the McDonald's toy, or are these from a whole lot of people donating them? They were actually from one person. So they were advertised on Marketplace.

Wow. Yeah, the lady that was selling them wanted the money for her mother's Alzheimer's treatment. So that's something fairly was for her Alzheimer's treatment. So that's something fairly close to her heart because, sadly, my lovely father-in-law, he died of Alzheimer's. So as soon as I saw it, I was like, right. So I gave it. So you got it. Yeah, Mariana rang, and, yeah, we have it now in Trentsville.

Oh, that's awesome. So we can go check it out in Macargo. Sounds amazing. Yeah, yeah. We've got also, we've just been donated, which is lovely, some pre-electric ions. So there's about 100 of those. 100 ions, jeez. Again, you started with the rubbers.

They're amazing. Jules, love your call. That's so awesome. She's been swept up in multiple fans. I know. How cool is that? Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben

breakfast on the hits the A to Z of New Zealand something we like to do on the show is call a different town or city in New Zealand

since we started on the hits we've been working our way slowly through all the towns and cities and doing it alphabetically and we're in the M's

that's right we're heading to Mori, which is a lovely town in Northland. It seems like the sort of town where you can hide away from your worries. Unless one of your major worries is wanting to live in a built up urban area, well then you're going to have

a lot less, a lot more worries because Morewa has only got 2,000 people. Tiny little town. Small, isn't it? Yeah, near the Bay of Islands and largely a farming town. They've got a freezing works. And yesterday we called Morewa School, which has 100-odd students, and spoke to the principal.

This feels like the same piece of hold music Hello, kia ora, is that Maya? It is Maya, it's Jono and Ben here from the Hits Radio Station We got swept up in your jazzy hold music I don't know, have you ever heard your hold music before? Have you ever been on hold on your, but it's wonderful Oh my gosh It's wonderful Do yourself a favour today Maya and call yourself you ever been on hold on your... But it's wonderful. Oh my gosh.

Do yourself a favour today, Maya, and call yourself. And put yourself on hold. It's worth it. It's wonderful. I wouldn't know this because, you know, I don't call myself, but now I'm going to be changing that up. That's great. It's lovely. It's lovely. It's really good. Now you're the principal of the school, Moriwa School. I am.

So whereabouts in New Zealand is it? Somewhere near the Bay of Islands, right? It is. It's in smack bang in the middle of Koitukero State Highway 1. Can't go around it either. You've got to drive through it.

Can't escape us. You're one of those ones. So what's this? There's plenty of stuff to do up north, but what's one thing you'd recommend if we ever came up your way?

Oh, you have to stop in at Hattie's Cafe. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mac at Huttie's Cafe. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Max Meats on the way into town. They have some really good Thai there, so you must stop at Max Meats. Oh, look, we have a lot of cyclists that travel through our town too on our cycleway.

That's another attraction. I did the railway cycle around there. You do it out just by Russell And I smashed up my face Ben landed on his face when he fell off the bike And a very slow fall too, it was all my own fault too And I looked like I'd been in a big fight or something But no, it was just me falling off a bike

Our kids can teach you a thing or two about handling bikes Yeah, I know Pretty good Now, gee, there's a lot of famous people from Northland Our kids can teach you a thing or two about hand-me-nikes. Yeah, I know. It's pretty good. Now, gee, there's a lot of famous people from Northland. So many famous people. Winston Peters, obviously. Oh, yes.

Winston Peters. Billy T. James. Oh, of course. He's from... Anika Moore. She's from Northland. Keith Urban, the country singer. Oh, of course he is. Yeah.

Never knew that. Yeah. No, hey, they're all? Oh, of course he is, yeah. Never knew that. Yeah. They're all from your slice of paradise. Maya, the principal from the Moiroa school? Yeah. Hey, right, right. We have a lot of, there's a lot of really amazing people that have come out of Moiroa and still continue to come out of Moiroa

doing really good things. Our local people who have been here for years and years who are making sure our whānau are well and doing really good mahi deserve to be acknowledged as well as those who are out there in the political landscape, in the medical field, you know, doing radical things for our people.

That's awesome. So, yeah, we're quite lucky to be where we are. Oh, that's awesome, eh? It's been so nice talking to you today We really appreciate it And letting us know what happens in your little I imagine it's a slice of paradise It is, it is

Now, I'll tell you what we can do Here's the thing Why don't you stay on the line We will call the school And you can hear your own hold music Oh yeah, let's do that, okay Because I can't leave you without Yeah, no, it's really good

Okay, we'll call them again. Hold there. Oh my gosh. I've got a school to run. Yeah, there's 140 students. Here we are, Maya. Here we go. Listen to that. Hey, what's up with that? Oh, no, someone's answered.

Oh, sorry. Are we able to be put back on hold? We've got Maya on the phone. We're just playing her your cool hold music. Hold on. Nothing wrong with that. She's actually on the phone. Yeah, she's on the phone to us. Yeah, but we're just putting her on hold so she can... It's a weird story, but...

Yeah, great. So if you could chuck us back on hold, then Maya can hear her own hold music again. So you want me to put you on hold? Yeah. Okay, hold on. Very confusing. Listen, wait till the pipes and the horns come in, Maya.

It's good, hey? It's really good. We told you it was good. All right, we've held up enough of your day. We really do appreciate your time and take care of yourself, all right? Yeah, thanks, guys. Jodo and Ben, the Hex. So what game have we been playing around the Olympics?

Yeah, it's my son Oscar. Describing Olympic sports he's watching on TV at the time, and he thought very hard about last night's one to present to you this morning, Ben. Okay. He's taken this almost way too seriously, this role. What other stuff is he not doing in his life? To concentrate on this His school results are really flailing as a result of this But he was watching and he was like

I'm going to describe it so it could end up being Two or three different sports Have a listen So in this sport You wear tight clothing You race around a track It can be on concrete or indoors, and you usually have up to a few teammates in it. It can be singles though, and you have to try and beat the other person's time.

So I mean it could be, there's a lot of tracks that are very stoned. Yeah, you're true. A lot of options in this one, what it could be. We'll find out in a few minutes time, see if you can work out what it is. You can send us a text as well if you think you know. 4487, it is the hits. It's Dua Lipa, levitating, it is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben.

Alright, this is scrolling through your feed. When his mother, Jenny Boyce, birthed him all of those years ago, she would have never known that she brought a man into the world who would read news stories off the internet. That's right. I've cut and past some of the best news stories from around the internet to bring it to you this morning. So, big day in the Olympics yesterday for New Zealand.

Blair Tuke, Peter Burling, won silver in the 49 class yachting. David Neeker won bronze in the boxing, which is awesome. And Lisa Carrington, how good is she? I mean,

won two golds yesterday. Just with ease as well, just like she's going out for a Sunday kayak. She does make it look so easy. Single kayaks race and then in the K2 with Caitlin Regal as well.

And cool rash shirts I'm hoping I can borrow for summer as well, you know, because they're very sun protective I thought as well. You're a big fan of a rash you know yeah that's when you know you're an adult we're doing that yesterday yeah i'll put a rash it on because the sun's very harsh yeah no one looks cool in a rash shirt you could think of harry styles you put harry styles

oh my gosh he just ruined it for me he couldn. I know. But he's cool because he's looking after himself in the sun. Yeah, I mean, nothing uncooler than melanoma. Dylan Neeker, imagine him in a rash shirt. I was just going to say, he would look really good in one, I think. But he looks better with it off. He followed Ben

on Instagram yesterday after you congratulated him. And Juliet's like, tag me in. Post me on your story. Post me as a post. He needs to see Instagram yesterday after you congratulated him and Juliet's like, tag me in! I was like, post me on your story, post me as a post. He needs to see who I am. So after the show, Ben's going to have a weird photo shoot with Juliet, just getting the right angle, right lighting. She's like, that's the one.

I need to book my hair and makeup. Book your hair and makeup. Solisa Carrick did, though, five medals. How cool was that? She's amazing. She's up there with kayakers Ian Ferguson and Paul McDonald and equestrian legend

Sir Mark Todd for five-time Olympic medalist for New Zealand. So how cool is that? Is this our greatest hall of medals at the Olympics?

We do it really well. Because we're 11th overall are we on the leaderboard? It's all not even per capita. Normally we break it down to the population

size and we're like oh per capita we're doing it. Per capita we're 10th and then producer Humph size, and we're like, oh, per capita, we're doing... Per capita, we're 10th. And then producer Humphrey Behumps was like, well, let's celebrate the 11th of overall. Overall, yeah, it's incredible. There's more today.

A little bit of a quieter day, but there's still plenty of Kiwis in action. Lydia Ko in the Gulf, David Leite in the weightlifting, more cycling, more equestrian, and more canoeing going on as well. So it's pretty awesome. Did you see diving last night? Anton Down Jenkins, New Zealander. Oh yeah, he did really well. He made the final and finished 8th

in the Olympics, which is awesome. First male Kiwi diver to be in the Olympic diving competition since 1984. So even making the top 12 finalists was a huge achievement. And I'll tell you what's a huge achievement. He had COVID not too long ago.

Remember we spoke to him about COVID and how much it really knocked him. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I was pretty shocking, eh? The effect that it had on my overall health. And then coming back to training, that was probably the worst part of it because I noticed a pretty significant effect on just my overall fitness, eh? I couldn't really do anything without running out of breath after, you know, 15 minutes.

And the commentators are saying it's even more remarkable he made the final because, as you mentioned when we were chatting to him, he's at North Carolina University diving for their university team. But they've had no competitions because of COVID. So he's had no competitions leading into the Olympics. Jeez, he did well, didn't he? It's a very, like, it's a sport, I find it a little bit quite invasive, you know, because they're wearing, like, Speedo,

it's nothing, there's so many slow-mo shots of it. And then afterwards, when they get off, they have a shout, and then they're filming them having a shout, you know, like, it's a public shout, it's not like they're stripped right off in the changing rooms. But it's still a bit weird, you're like, well, let them have their shower, why do you need to focus on them having a shower

underneath the diving boards? I find it a bit weird, but anyway. Mike, give them a moment. It's weird when they do follow them in to get changed. Well, that's what it feels like the next step. We watch them sleep at night. Yeah. No, we were just looking at a photo of a still of a diver.

And there's a wonderful, do yourself a favour today and Google divers, divers' faces when they're diving. Because people have taken shots of them upside down but their knees are up by their shoulders so they've kind of got, they've pulled their legs up and their faces like really high fibre diet they're working through it, trying to push

and very unflattering sport at times. It is but well done to all our athletes over there in Tokyo. Next on the show, Eat Well for Less. It's a huge TV show, and they've got a book out. And Ganesh Arash joins us in the studio next. Hopefully he can talk well for less as well,

because we're not paying him a cent for this interview. It is the hits. You got it, Jono and Ben? We're at five on your Wednesday morning. Jono and Ben with you on the hits, 640. He's the host of the hugely popular Eat Well For Less on TVNZ. Ganesh Raj, how's it going? Yay!

Yo guys, thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. Now, I have a question. Now, because obviously the show, you monitor what people are buying at the supermarket. Yes. And what they're doing as far as cooking, guys. But do you feel pressure now that shows a big show when you go shopping at the supermarket? They're like, oh, he's put that in his trolley.

Well, you know, if you're walking around naked, people are going to look at you. That's how I feel about myself right now. Oh, really? People are like, what's this? Basically, I've accepted. Plus you're naked. Yes. I've accepted it.

It's how you got to roll with that, right? So for me, it's like head down, get what you need, get out. And the way I shop too is really for that day. I'm not a... You won't go a week. No way. Who knows what they're going to do for a whole week? Really?

That's so much pressure. So what people do, well, this is one of the things that came up on the show. People buy way too far in advance because they think they can run their lives so tightly. And then they spend the money at the supermarket for seven days worth of stuff that they think they're going to have. And nobody has a tight recipe for seven days worth of food that they think they're going to have and nobody has a tight recipe for seven days worth of food so you're always going to be over over because you didn't calculate properly who does that then you buy it all anyway because you feel you have to yeah so you'd say how many days a year three max three max three max well that's really interesting yeah and then you actually don't save you don't waste money on that goes

bad in your veggie bin or things that just live in your pantry in the back. Plus, you don't feel like a piece of shit for wasting money. I'm just saying, the guilt when things are being thrown, we all feel it, right? Yeah, you do. We all feel it. Tell you what, you would love Ben's mum, Jeannie Boyce. Oh, she rides stuff way too far, like Christmas ham in February and stuff. She's got a container

of cake crumbs. She's actually after a vaccine by doing that. Just put in there somewhere and the ham is a vaccine. She's pushing stuff to its boundaries and I'm like oh, you shouldn't be doing this. The ham's started talking to her now. I always also wonder about the show because this is a great show, Eat Well for Least. Thank you, bro. I appreciate it.

How do you get people to shop like they would normally shop? Because they know you know, because I because i would be like oh i definitely don't buy these biscuits i'm buying this this carrot stack or whatever because part of the research to get to the point where they're actually in the show meant we learn everything about them what we learn about the people is what they shop and then when the team get there and start shooting as well you've gone to the supermarket so you kind of know what they. So when you look them in the eye and go, today's the day Mike and Ganesh are coming, go and shop and shop normally.

Yeah. Cause I know if you don't, and I'll tell Michael and Ganesh and be like, this is not your normal shop, is it? And they'll be like, Shane. And there you guys got a book,

uh, based on the show, which is awesome. What a blessing, bro. So last year we were able to put that together. The team were able to put that together and it's just a cool book two seasons worth of recipes plus all the beautiful families that we've met along the way and a little bit about them a little bit of stories around them because that's what came out from all the

chat that we get is how people relate to those families yeah like the recipes are cool and all but it's not just a recipe book you can relate to those people and also our people continuing to eat well for less like are they taking on your advice or do things to slip back they are look out for something that's coming out second half of this year where we go back and visit families and oh do you surprise them knock knock knock it's like in your pantry and then we show them the footage because we've been recording them for the last year and a half. The teddy bear and the little cat. Don't forget the cat, bro.

The lovely gift that they gave. The lovely Chinese New Year cat. The swinging arm. That's got the camera in the forehead. That wasn't just a nice gift from Ganesh. It's like a we're watching, baby. We've got Ganesh Raj with us. Eat Well for Less is now a book, which is awesome.

Now, there's some polarising food debates I found online. I might throw them out to you really quickly. Sandwiches. You've got a sandwich. You're cutting it down the middle or are you cutting it diagonally? Diagonally. Oh, diagonally. Because the handle requires two hands and then the cone needs to go into the mouth.

The triangle creates the perfect holding slash spatial structure for your mouth. Come on, think about it. And it feels like you're getting more sandwich. It does. It does. Because the other way, how are you holding on to it? Are you holding it like this? It's like a harmonica.

Do you know his friend? His friend eats a banana from the middle. Yeah, which is odd. Is he still a friend? I say dump him. Okay, making a burger, where does the meat go? Near the top or near the bottom if you're putting like a beef burger? I always do it near the bottom because I lather the base of the bun

with the butter, the mustard, the sriracha mayo. I like to drop the meat on that because I like to give it a little press into that juice. Okay. Rub that around. Get a bit of that sauce into it and then I build off that. you're building from your foundation foundation you know how this works i like it okay let's go real quick eggs fridge pantry where you're keeping them pantry okay uh pineapple and pizza yes or no no uh mac and cheese eating it with a fork or a spoon fork

and we're sharing fish and chips. Am I okay to put ketchup or sauce all over all other chips? 100%. We're only sharing because I like you. And for that reason, I will allow anything you do. Ganesh Raj, you are hilarious. From Eat Well, Felicia, get the book at all good bookstores. All good bookstores. You know, we're really proud of it.

Hope you like it. Toto and Ben, the hits. Uh-oh, he's not only lost his marbles, he's also lost on the internet. Lost his marbles. Tend to get into a bit of a loss,

a bit of a black hole on the internet every now and then. And these, Ben, you'll appreciate. The world's greatest facts. All combined in a list of 98. 98 of the world's greatest facts. All combined in a list of 98. 98 of the world's greatest facts. Oh, okay. As per, I'll keep reading until you're bored.

Okay. A bolt of lightning, so just a single bolt of lightning, contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread. Wow. One bolt of lightning. But although only one piece of ogles, probably. 100,000 pieces of bread. Wow. One bolt of lightning. But although only one piece of Vogel's probably.

100,000 pieces of bread. Oh yeah, okay. Is that one of the world's greatest facts? That's a good fact. That's quite a thing, yes. Subway footlongs. Not actually a footlong. I had heard that. Yeah, they did an in-depth research project into it.

They're missing an inch. And Subway then defended themselves saying, well, the footlong's just the brand name. It's not an actual measurement of... I gotcha, yeah. But I've never got to the end of a footlong and gone, I could go another inch. There's enough sandwich there to satisfy.

Yeah, right. Instead of saying cheese before taking a picture, in the Victorian period, they would say prunes. Prunes. Because smiling in photos was frowned upon. So if you say the word prunes, your mouth is pierced. Oh, my goodness. But cheese, you're going up.

Cheese, you're smiling. That's so interesting. I wonder if they did a silly one in the Victorian period. Right now we've done our prunes one. Allow themselves to say cheese. You're like, oh're smiling. That's so interesting. Yeah. I wonder if they did a silly one in the Victorian period. Right now we've done our prunes one. Allow themselves to say cheese. You're like, oh, okay. Is it one of the world's greatest facts? It's a good fact.

It's a good fact? I don't know. I mean, it's hard to say when you say the world's greatest facts, but they're really good. Yeah. Like I haven't... Yeah. Okay. What did I say?

This room's greatest facts? Yeah. They're really interesting. Okay. The average person will spend nine months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green. Except for you. I'll wait probably about a month.

Nine months of your life sitting in an intersection. That's so sad. Doesn't that put it into perspective? Yeah. What would you do for nine months if you had the chance? Oh, yeah, there's so much stuff. Nine months? Nine months is a long time, right?

There's so much you could do. You could really better yourself, but I guess that's what this part of life, isn't it? Having to sit there and wait for the lights to change. Listen, I'm going to end on a high. You've been impressed with the facts. I think if I go any further, I'll only leave a bitter taste of disappointment in your mouth. That was interesting. We've got some spy entertainment news up next, though.

Yeah, one of the best moments of the Olympics, and it involves Snoop Dogg. I'll fill you in next. Spy. The What's Up Spy.co.nz. Now to a lady who has dreams of marrying Harry Styles but had nightmares about reading light celebrity stories for us. She's here, Juliet with Spy.

So Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV series, which has been filming in New Zealand for the past 18 months, finally has a release date, which we have to wait a while for. It's the 2nd of September 2022. And I was looking into this. The budget for this TV series was $1.4 billion. All filmed in New Zealand. Crazy, eh?

Pump that into your stimulated economy. I know, I know. And so this TV series will be set thousands of years before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and it will be on Amazon's Prime. That is amazing. There's a wonderful industry conversation going around, because for many months, almost a year, it was a secret project. That everyone kind of knew about.

Everyone knew about it, but they were like, I'm working on an unnamed Amazon project. I know, I know. Is that the Lord of the Rings thing? No, no, it on an unnamed Amazon project. I know. Anyone would go, is that the Lord of the Rings thing? No, no, it's an unnamed Amazon project. Or is that the name of the new Lord of the Rings show? Unnamed. Yeah, yeah. Or I'd bump into someone and be like, oh, so what are you up to these days?

They're like, oh. I'm on an unnamed project. I work on a TV set. I'm like, what set? And they're like, oh, I can't really tell you, but keep it on the deal. Oh, it's the Amazon Lord of the Rings. And I'm like, whoa.

That's awesome, eh? It's when Juliet's asked, what does she do for a job? It's an unnamed project. She doesn't want to be associated with this project. Yeah, for different reasons, right? And one of the great part of the Olympics is watching all the sports, but my new favourite part is seeing Snoop Dogg and Kevin Hart commentate it. So they teamed up and did for like a TV show.

They were presented with a random sport. They just had to go ahead and commentate, and it is one of For like a TV show They were presented with a random sport They just had to go ahead and commentate And it is one of the greatest things Horses, I like this, this is equestrian This is Pranton By the way, look at that horse Oh, the horse crip walking, you see that? That's gangsta's look

Come on man This horse is off the chain I gotta get this in the video I need that Come on, man. This horse is off the chain. I got to get this **** in the video. Oh, you see that? I need that. Horse Crip Walking is officially in the Olympics. Man, you see that?

Play it one more time, man. So that's the dressage, which is the horse is kind of dancing. And I reckon... Thankfully there's no drug testing for soup bowl with their Olympics. There was a photo of him getting ready for the show. Did you see that? And they've got like a team of makeup artists on set Oh yes, I did see that And he's just smoking a giant blunt

Like enormous But I mean, who's going to tell Snoop Dogg he can't? Yeah It's probably legal over there, right? True, yeah But in the studio, you know, it's just like Having to do that It must function so well, you know

It goes through an enormous amount of day Doesn't he pay someone like $50,000 a year? He's functioning so well, you know. It goes through an enormous amount of day. Doesn't he pay someone like $50,000 a year? It must be just like if someone would have a coffee or something like that. You're like, oh, I'm going to have a coffee. And it's like, yeah, it carries on. He's a professional roller that does it for him. 81 blunts a day. Are you joking?

Wow. That's what he goes through. How does he not like fall asleep? I think at this point in time, if he he stopped He would probably feel Yeah Under the weather Yeah that's so true His body's probably Like immune to it Remember that guy

That we spoke to Who has like That truck driver That we spoke to once And he has like 30 coffees a day Or something That's right

We spoke to someone Who didn't drink water And he had And it's probably Just his body Because he's so used to it That it's just normal Well that's why

Theory on lip balm The more lip balm You apply The more your lips Become addicted theory on lip balm. The more lip balm you apply, the more your lips become addicted to the lip balm. I'm that person. That's why I wander around with cracked, dry, shriveled up lips. These will never be balmed. And that is five

and we can head to thehits.co.nz. Sun-dried tomatoes. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben. We work in a building with a whole lot of other radio stations and yesterday after the show we went across the road. We just had a quick breather before we had to do some work

and a little break and we bought a couple of smoothies and then we got shamed by another radio station for buying the smoothies. Oh, Jeremy Wells said... Yeah, Jeremy Wells, you know, from Steve's Up and Radio Hauraki. Nice children's drink. Yeah, he was like, oh,okey nice children's drink yeah it was like oh how's your children's smoothie

but yeah he thought we'd bought like little kids like but you don't like especially you your body frame

look at you it's like there's a little child dad's taking him out he's got a little smoothie yeah come to work day buy you a little smoothie

for morning tea mate but yeah so now I hide my smoothie if I'm walking out of there now. A little child, yeah. He's like, oh, you're a little child. It was a proper sized drink.

Yeah, but he's right. You did. You did. I look like a little child if you want a little drink. Yeah, I put a little leash on you as well just so you don't run away from me.

I'll go back to my box juice with a little straw. Oh no, it's probably more good luck. Well, when you wander out with a Toy Story 4 backpack, it does not help your cause. It's true. Does it? And I have to cut the crust off his sandwiches too, don't I, Jude? Oh, no, it's probably more good luck. Well, when you wander around with a Toy Story 4 backpack, it does not help your cause.

It doesn't. And I have to cut the crust off his sandwiches too, don't I, G? How much I love my little boy. Hey, next on the show, Johnny, you've been caught in a lie. And you want to confess or what? I don't think I'm the only one who's probably lied to this person, though. Oh, we'll find out. Do you think you have? Well, I've definitely lied to these types of people before.

Put it that way. That's for sure. I can't say I'm innocent of that. We'll talk more about it in just a few minutes. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of.

Now, I lied to someone yesterday. And it's someone that I've lied to previously. And I think you've probably lied to them too juliet yeah the doctor so the doctor they run through you know sometimes they just do a bit of a war in a fitness and see where you're at in life and they're a bit worried about you one time is like one time i went in there it was a few years ago he's like you are the skinniest fastest person i've ever obese person i've ever come across as in my frame was small but what was going on inside that body is uh you should be dead now but he said yesterday the question of how many drinks do you have a week now you don't want to you know you don't want to out to yourself

do you so you always take your number and you have it. Do you reckon they know this? That's what I was wondering. She's like, how many drinks would you have on a night? And I'd be, oh, two, three, you know, about that. He's like, how many nights a week are you doing that? Oh, one or two, you know? And you're only lying to yourself.

So in his head is he like i'll double that double that yeah so i'll double the amount and i'll double the days and that's the exact figure that i'm being do you think they know that we're lying to them i wonder yeah over time are these medical professionals that are very smart and studied so they probably know they probably can see right there's probably a different scale of measurement isn't there for a doctor when they have to interpret those figures um but you don't want to yeah it's like if you're too embarrassed to ask the doctor i always say just go and ask google yeah and nine times out of ten you'll have cancer and then you just work

your way through okay that's how you can avoid going to the doctor have you lied to a professional oh definitely uh with uh the one that pops into my mind was when i put the wrong petrol in the lawnmower and it was you know like i'm not a person that you know knows about those sorts of types of things i shouldn't have had any really i should have no place even lawnmowing especially when you put it was coca-cola it wasn't even petrol and then i took it into the the shop and the first shop i went to and it's like and the guy said do you have any reason why it could be working it's not working i'm like no no no i don't know why he's like did you put the right picture yeah yeah yeah you know and i knew in my mind that i definitely put the wrong one in and they probably knew that you put the right i haven't filled it up i know someone else must have done it

someone else took this brand new lawnmower and the monster put oil in instead of petrol i don't know I don't know. I don't know who's doing that. It happens all the time. Yeah. Juliet, have you lied to a professional? I will say yes, I have, but I can't think of a specific example.

Take your word. No, actually I have, but it probably is not a safe story for the radio. So maybe I'll tell you. Tell us during the song. Do you know what? With the alcohol thing, something that I struggle with

when you fill out questionnaire forms of like, how many times do you drink a week? It's like one to two or like three to four, but there's no option for like once a week. But like when you drink, you go hard. You know what I mean? There's no binge box. Yeah.

There's the thing I take text binging once a week, but when I do, I make it count. I make it count. So it averages out over the month. But geez, I'm a high impact player. Okay, so this is what we want this morning on 0800THETHAT. So you can text 24487. When have you lied to a professional?

You can call us. You can text us as well. Another one that involved a plumber that I must share. Then he found out the answer immediately that we were blatantly lying to his face. Just a matter of minutes later. We'll tell you about that shortly. We apologize in advance.

Sorry about that. Sorry about that. Sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this. Jono and Penn. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads.

Anyone want to know, have you ever told a little white lie to a professional before? Just a little something that they probably can see right through, like you with the doctor saying how many times a week you drink or how much you drink on those occasions. Yeah, and they can see, yeah, can they see right through it? That's the only thing.

Julia, you said you lied to a Cairo. Yeah. Yeah. So I could claim it under ACC and get a bit of a discount there. Oh, you lied for fraud purposes. Is that allowed? I don't know. I don't know. We'll let the investigators decide.

All right, we'll get Rebecca on from Christchurch. Morning, Rebecca. Morning. Good to have you on. You lied to a professional. Yes. I think there might be a couple of people who've done this but i lied to the plumber he came around because i had a nasty blockage and he said have you flushed any um like

wet wipes down there i got all flustered and said no and then once he unblocked it a bunch of wet wipes shot out and i went bright red i've've done exactly the same thing. We were staying away and it was during that period when they had on the packet these are flushable. Remember they had that wild branding time. And he came over and he sort of said it in a tone of like, you've been flushing wet wipes down here.

No. What are you talking about? And then literally five minutes later he came around with a sort of like a soccer ball sized clump of wet wipes. Just holding them in your face. He's like, must have been someone else. He's like, yeah, must have been the previous person that was staying here. So that must have happened a lot to plumbers.

You never want to give the real reason why you've caused an issue. No. No. Yeah, some of that could have come in through someone else's drain into up the drain into your, you know, bathroom system. Happens all the time. I'm sure it does. You can give us a text to 4487. Someone's texted in here saying,

I lie to the dentist all of the time. Oh, yeah, that's a given. But the dentist was, you've got the evidence in your mouth. Yeah. And they're staring right at it. They're the professional. They know if they're like, you've been flossing every day? You're like, yeah.

I didn't just floss before I came to see you. You clearly haven't because I can see it right here. You're right. That's a common one as well. And I lied to my boss. I lied to my boss when I was applying for a job and said I had a university degree. They've never followed it up. Okay.

That's a great love. But if you have to ever get in a position of like if you're an accountant and now it's time to get Barry. He's got the skills. He studied at what year were you in? No one ever checks those, though. We can all get away with bluffing our way into jobs. Well, yeah, not so much.

Ben said he had a journalism degree. I said I did a five-year course in radio. It was six months in Tawa. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, thoseawa. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Ben, we're just talking about, have you ever told

little white lies to professionals? They're not so little and white, they're just sort of blatant lies, aren't they? I like it when you call it a little white lie. It makes you feel better about lying to someone. Sarah, you're on. Yes, good morning. Who did you lie to? What professional? The physio.

Oh, the physio. What did you say to the physio? Oh, going for the return visits and they say, so have you been keeping up with the exercises I gave you? Every day! Someone's texted too, Sarah. They're a paramedic and they said, I get lied to almost weekly about objects

and how they get stuck in certain places. Oh, no. Not good. Not good. But they would have heard everyone too. Yeah, you're right. You're going to have to start getting creative, aren't you? So good.

Hey, we're going to send you out an Everblue hair and body kit, all right? It's valued at $50 from Countdown Supermarkets. Great. Thank you very much. We've got five words, $5,000, not too far away, but next. I've noticed something that my kids do all the time, and if you're a parent, I don't know if you've got these suffering the same thing.

We're going to talk about it in a few moments. It is the hits. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. I don't know if your kids do this, but it's something that my kids do. Love me unconditionally?

Oh, yeah. Because, yes. I'm hoping they do that. But they love taking their shoes off in the car. Like, it feels like it's one of their hobbies. And it doesn't matter if you're going on a 20-second car ride or a two-hour car ride. It's like, as soon as they get in the car,

they take their shoes off. Now, is this, because you are a germ guy guy is this a prerequisite when you enter the rolls boys no no no it's not and in fact yesterday like i picked them up from school and then we stopped at the road it was literally like 500 meters up the road with a pull and all right guys we're getting out we're just gonna pop in here and they're like oh god it's gonna get my shoes on i was like why did you take your shoes off in the time you got in the car to it's just like they just decide to take the shoes off it's a wonderful combination of politeness and inconvenience at the same time because you're like oh you know this is a polite thing to do you do all your walk to people's houses but then you're like put your bloody

shoes on i know it's like kids getting to put their shoes on there's a pain but then when you when they don't have they take them off it's like come, come on, guys. Come on, just give up. Have they told you? Sorry, do you go? Did you hand up politely? No, you go. No, no, no, you go. No, you go. I was going to ask, when you flew to Queenstown, did they take their shoes off in the plane?

Probably. Because I always have a huge urge to want to take my shoes off on a plane, like more so than a car. The rule of thumb should be if you're travelling anywhere under an hour, that's shoes on at all times over an hour yeah okay yeah i understand that but it's like this is about the kids it's like we've got the car like oh i can take these shoes off the things i've been i've been walking all day i don't know i don't know what it is maybe it's just my kids i don't know four four eight seven if you

if your kids just love taking their shoes off in the car and then it's like having to find the shoes put them on it becomes a whole i always like to leave my shoes on just in case i need to run from the cops can't do that you know putting on you can't put that into a police chase hold on i'm a shoes off guy yeah yeah thanks or if you get called up for the olympics you're like oh hang on i wasn't ready for the 100 meters with that one you're a shoes off person in your household yes i told you that the other day and you were like oh are you because i've been having for years i've been going over there but you don't say anything no no but it's a bit awkward um yeah it becomes an awkward thing like we have a whole lot of shoes you kind of just leave shoes at the door so i kind of

there's the passive aggressive way i forget that people will you know it started when the kids were little and they were sort of crawling around the house and we're like oh maybe we should take our shoes off because you know they're crawling all over the floor and you're putting the hands you know like so it's like oh maybe it's more hygienic to not wear your shoes inside but yeah i've been invited back in a very long time and uh it was only after he dropped the bombshell on me just a couple of months ago you know we're shoes off family i've known you for years and you've just known found out your shoes sometimes the kids will come up to you quietly and go, John, I've got shoes on. We're like, yeah, it's okay.

It's fine. It should be moral. Should we be telling him? It's like, we won't invite him back. It's fine. We just wait. He'll never come back here again. He'll never come back again.

Rest easy. Rest easy, kids. Now take your shoes off. We're going to the car. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It's our Game of Words Association. We play it every morning at this time.

And we're going to see if we can win someone $5,000 by matching their words with our words. It's been a dry spell lately. It has been drier than my mouth after I accidentally leave on the dehumidifier overnight. And Daryl, you're on to end the spell. Oh, Daryl? Hello. hello sorry i gave you a weird intro that was on me i kind of rolled all my words together and then expected daryl to know when he was meant to come in that was on me daryl how are you i'm good thank you john and ben lovely to have you on new zealand's breakfast you run a fishing charter yeah i do, yeah. Every time I've been on a boat for like a work thing and stuff, and I say every time,

the one or two times, the fishing charter person just seems so relaxed. Are you relaxed, Daryl? Well, always. It's always, you know, it's quite a stressful job, but yeah, you've got to know how to relax, yeah. Whereabouts in New Zealand are you

taking people out fishing? Oh, from West Haven in Auckland. Oh, nice. Oh, there we go. How's the snappers? Good reference there, Jono. It's always been good. I mean, we fish right through the air, so yeah. That's where my fishing banter begins and ends.

Well, Darrell, now you need to decide which one of us you want to put in the soundproof booth. Jono, Ben, or Producer Juliet, are your options? I've got with Jono, please. Okay. Yeah. This is our 10th day in a row heading into the...

Mate, you've got to win. You're in a slump, but you'll get out of there. This is it. This is today. Listen, if I don't win, I promise I'll hack into Ben's ASB online account and wire you some money, okay? All right, Darrell. Jono is in there right now.

Here is your first word this morning. What pops into your head when I say Donald? Donald. Duck. Oh, duck. Seafood. Number two. Oh, appropriate word for you this morning, seafood.

Number, oh, what's that, food, is it? Seafood. Oh, seafood. Yeah, seafood. Yeah. Geez, geez. Seafood. Normally you can go fishing, you get seafood.

I don't know if you're aware of how it works. I'll say fishing. Yeah, I'll say fishing. Fishing. I love it. Telescope is the third word this morning. Telescope. Telescope.

Sky. Sky. Oh, yeah, nice. Good work, Darrell. That's a good option. Snap is word number four. S-N-A-P. Snap.

Snap. Snap. Break. Break. Oh, yeah, break something. You snap it. Snap. Break. Break. Oh, yeah, break something. Snap it. Yes. And the last word this morning is video.

Video. Video game. Game, yeah. It's hard. There's some options there. Producer Juliet, how are you faring with those words? They were mixed for me. Yeah.

Some were hard, but some had plenty of options at the same time. I know that's the hard thing where you've got too many options that makes it really difficult. Well Darrell we're going to get Jono out of the soundproof booth right now and hopefully he'll match up all five words with you this morning. Oh good, thank you. And this won't be the one that got away. No.

If it doesn't work out for you there's plenty more fish in the sea. I'm just trying to think of fishing fishing band to have with Daryl. That's what I was doing in the soundproof booth. All right, the first word this morning, Jono, is Donald. Donald. Donald's duck? Oh, nice.

I thought maybe you might go Trump. Just as I said Donald then, I thought maybe you'd go Trump. But duck was a good option. It's amazing how quickly he's disappeared from reference. Donald Duck? Donald Trump. Just as I said Donald then, I thought maybe you'd go Trump, but Duck was a good option. It's amazing how quickly he's disappeared from reference. Donald Duck? Donald Trump. But then for some reason I've referenced Donald Duck, a cartoon character from the 1960s.

Okay. Seafood is the second word. Seafood. Appropriate because of what Daryl does for a job? Mmm. Seafood. Fish? Fish? Oh! Seafood Fish You're so close What did Daryl do?

Fishing Daryl I thought you would have thought of that one too Can you stop groaning it makes me feel bad The more you groan Daryl The more Daryl goes ah Throw him back in It's undersized It makes me feel bad. The more you grow, Daryl. Do you know? The more Daryl goes, ah, the more words. Oh, I'm sorry. Throw them back in.

Throw them back in. It's undersized. You're doing well. That's good. I'm so sorry we couldn't come through for you, Daryl. We might as well go through the process. Let's whip through these. Telescope.

Stars. Sky. Snap. Snap. Fitness. Place you've never been. It was break. And video was the last word this morning.

Video easy. Ah! Oh, Daryl. Daryl, stop going ah! I'm disappointing him even further. Yeah, I know you are. Even when he has an already one. It's all on you, Jono.

I'm so sorry, Daryl. Hey, but we do appreciate you listening to the show. Tell you what, we'll send you out a hair care pack. That's what a fishing guy would want. We've got one of those. Hair and body pack from Everblue. Yeah, pretty sure. We'll find out.

We'll find something. Yeah, why not? Need some grooming, Jono. Need some grooming. Yeah, you can hide the fishing smell, fishy smell with some wonderful shampoo. Hey, Daryl, you sound like a great sport. And hopefully we get to do this all over again. Awesome mate, lovely

listening to you guys. Thanks and have a good day. Thanks Daryl, you too mate. Spy, the what's up spy.co.nz Alright, time now to hand over to the wonderful producer Juliette for another edition of Spy. Ju? Yes? If you put more effort into reckless

partying than you do researching inane celebrity stories, then we could play beautifully on millennial stereotypes. But you won't do that for us. Instead she knits, walks through parks, and is in bed by 8 o'clock on a Saturday night. Yeah, very true. So, Rita or

Ntaka Waititi is the relationship that we love to follow. I always patiently wait for news to come out about them. They made their... I always even look as if they like each other's posts. How in depth am I getting? Oh, Taika likes this post. You sound more invested in this relationship than Taika does.

But they've made their red carpet debut at the Suicide Squad premiere, holding hands, looking happy as they're in. And this is their first time, obviously they've been spotted together in public by paparazzi, but this is like official red carpet, dressed up, linked arms. It is very cool and very official.

I think he's got a wee part in the movie as well. Yeah, he's the voice of Starro, I think it is. Which is a villain in the movie. But. Yeah, he's the voice of Starro, I think it is, which is a villain in the movie. But yes, very exciting.

If you're Lincoln Arms, it's official, baby. It is official. He's looking fantastic too. He does look very good, doesn't he? He's a very dapper gentleman, isn't he?

Yeah, yeah. Very classy. And she's got a jacket on. Okay, thanks, Joyce. Love this commentary. It was a nice choice for the jacket, too. Yeah. It's summer over there as well, so she's wearing nothing on underneath.

Because it would be about 45 degrees. True. Wonderful fashion decision. And Bruce Springsteen's daughter, we talked about this a few weeks ago, we discovered that she was featuring in the Olympics this year, which was her debut at the Olympics. She does equestrian for the individual jumping,

and so she unfortunately failed to qualify for the final. How brutal is this? So only do the top 30 riders for individual jumping from the first round move on. She got four penalties and ended up in 31st place. So if she got one place better,

then she would have made it into the next round. So she's unfortunately out, but that doesn't necessarily mean... And Bruce Springsteen will be no longer talking to her. No, I'm sure they're very proud. Even to get to the... Yeah, I mean, it's such a huge achievement, right? I mean, yeah, you look at even like a 35th placed person

in any event. Oh, yeah. 35th in the world. You've got to qualify, you know, that's... You forget about that, don't you? Yeah, I know. These are the best of the best in their countries and then they get through

into the whole world of like, pretty much 200 countries. They are the best of the best in the world, but they're not the greatest because, you know,

first, second and third are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that is five and more. You can head to thehits.co.nz.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. You just outed your children, Ben, for every time they're in the motor vehicle moments ago. They take off their shoes. Yeah, they love taking their shoes off,

which is frustrating for me if it's a short journey. But I see why they... You know, shoes on, shoes off. It's always more comfortable with shoes off, unless you're walking over hot coals. But I see why they do the option, but it's the timing, isn't it, for you? I don't mind, as you say, on a long journey, but yesterday it was a little bit like, we're only five minutes.

If they're at their own, it's, oh, sorry, I've taken my shoes off. The amount of time it's taking you to take off the shoes and put them back on is the travel time. Exactly. Annie's joined us from Bulls. Your kid's doing the same, Annie. Well, just my son. Oh, okay.

He's a shoes-off type person in the car, is he? He's a clothes-off type person in the car. What, as in to the point of nakedness? Yeah, yeah. So my son's always hated clothes, and when I tell him that he has to get dressed to go out somewhere, I get, oh, mum, you know, clothes are my enemy. His enemy.

Honestly, it's a 10-minute drive between the bus stop and our house and I do a double take in the mirror as we get home and he's completely naked in his car seat in the back. I love it. Kids get away with murder and all these unusual quirks and you're like, oh kids. It's either kids or really rich billionaires who are like, oh they're eccentric.

Everyone in between, us normal people, we have to answer to a judge. He's lucky we live in the country because I told him off. He had to wear at least shoes and a helmet while he's riding his bike outside. So I look outside and he's got exactly shoes and a helmet. You're like a naturist from Nelson. Those ones you see on the news who do all those weird activities like tennis and lawn bowls and things. I love it. Let it be my son. Hey, good on you, Annie. That's great. Thank you for

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