Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Is It Like Being A $1 Million Lotto Winner?

Episode Date: September 29, 2021

Recently we've been speaking about the best things you've ever won, and we had a late contender on the show today! Melanie told us about how her and her workmates won $1 million from Lotto. What happened when she found out? What did she spend the money on? We delve deep! Jono tried to also fulfil a childhood dream of being sponsored by Nike. A big stretch, but we reckon it paid off. We caught up with Toni Street to talk about her new book Lost And Found, and we also spoke with a woman who saved a 6 y/o girl from a burning house. Incredible story. Enjoy the podcast whānau!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings, friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, it's Jono and Ben here Wednesday, the 29th of September, today, Wednesday. And, jeez, preparation's in place. It's like ahead of a big inauguration or something. Preparation's in place for the 5 Words 5K Must Win Thursday. It's happening tomorrow, being Thursday.

Yes, as you said. Yeah, so we're going to keep playing the game. I think from 6 o'clock in the morning, we're going to start playing our game, 5 Words for 5K. We ain't going to stop until we get a winner. Now, Juliette's over there setting up her tripods. Juliette, you're looking for a live streaming situation. How's that going?

Yeah, just in the progress of doing that. Have you found out if we can live stream Facebook or Instagram? At the moment, I know that we can do Facebook, but I'm just inquiring in the middle of finding out about whether we can do Instagram. We haven't heard a reply just yet. It's our preferred platform, isn't it, Instagram, for a live stream, Ben Boyce?

We have this discussion. I've kind of checked out the Facebook page Facebook is just for you know Facebook's not a cool thing anymore but it was massive

wasn't it it was it's like when we started saying let's go it killed it it killed it it's going to be

the new MySpace eventually I reckon but it's still very popular I think Zuckerberg's doing fine but doesn't he own Instagram as well?

Probably. So we're not offending him in any way. No, we're using one of his platforms more than the other. Yeah, he'd be happy. You're right. So it's all happening tomorrow. Maybe on Instagram Live. Maybe on Facebook Live.

We shall see. Maybe not live. Maybe who knows. We shall see. Yeah, we'll find out tomorrow. Do you have a Facebook page? No. Don't you?

No. No, I never have had a Facebook page you're the same right yeah so I did it for oh no sorry I tell I did for a very small amount of time and then I just know it wasn't it wasn't quite for what was it for you I don't know it was just kind of I kind of got into awkward combo you know like when someone would go out is the only man who can make Facebook awkward I was trying to make it not a public, because I'm on Instagram,

if I post anything on Instagram, I kind of like, it's public, whatever, it's out there. I've thought about it, it's out there. But this was like, I'll try and keep it just for like, you know, things I might not do. But you get someone going, I kind of know them, but do I know them well enough? I kind of feel like I was...

Not sure where, it's a bit of a grey area on who you want to experience. Yeah, people on the Hunger Games going, you're through or you're not through or whatever, you know. Oh, so you just wanted it for, you know, your Jennys and your Kevins and your parents and... I'm friends with your dad on Facebook. Did you know that?

He loves it. He loves it. Kevin Boyce's prime Facebook. Prime. Does he update you on what he's doing on Facebook? Yeah, well, my wife, she's on Facebook, and she'll often go, hey, there's a friend's page. That's the one thing you do miss out on,

is you miss out on functions, because people will put invites on and go, oh, such and such is having a party this weekend. Oh, okay, that's good to know, or whatever. Do they do that on Instagram now, Julia? No, not yet. So the only reason I use Facebook is for Facebook groups that you want to be part of or for events.

And also Messenger. But I guess you can get around Messenger by texting if you wanted to. Yeah. Yeah. Events and groups. So they've got the market well cornered there. Yeah. It's a very good market.

And memes too. You endlessly scroll through the memes. Yeah. And so did you have to kill people from your list? And do they know when you've killed them? No. I started just leaving them on not accepting their group. And group and i did and then i'd run into the pit you know and i was like i haven't you know because i was just gonna keep it private you know and so then i was

like get rid of it get rid of it it's putting me in complicated social situations social media is doing the opposite for him it's making him not want to be social you imagine someone who's, let's say it's your boss and they're like hey I want to be friends and you're like well this is my get loose lit in the weekends I remember oh my goodness on my birthday there used to be like a trend of people would post really embarrassing videos

and photos of you and one birthday my friend she actually works at a company, I won't name and shame. Is it Anastasia? No, it's Bryony. She posted a few very less than favourable photos and videos of me after a really big night out by the toilet bowl and my dad messaged me, he goes, you want to take that down

because it could affect job opportunities. And I was like, oh, but it's funny. He's like, Juliet, trust me. It's funny. That's what your generation thinks. But yeah, now employers look at that stuff. Don't they go deep into your... They probably do.

But I've tried to make my Facebook account private if I'm not friends with someone. Yeah. So they can't see. Yeah. That's why I've never done social media. Right. Well, there you are.

You're in the crap now. I've dipped my toes into the Instagram poll now. I'm not doing it well. I'm on my learner's license. No, You're in the crap now. I'm dipping my toes into the Instagram poll now. I'm not doing it well. I'm on my learner's license. No, you're in the crap. It's quite complicated, some of the Instagram posting. The videos. The worst thing about it, I just get lost.

You're just scrolling through stuff. Yeah. And my son has to pull me out of it. He's like, you're in a hole. Really? You're in a hole. You're right. Dad's down.

I'm out. I have to literally put my hands in the air and walk away from it. Yeah. Yeah, it's like that. You go into a room and then you're like, oh's down, I'm out. I have to literally put my hands in the air and walk away from it. Yeah, it's like that. You go into a room and then you're like, oh, just have a quick. And then you're like, why am I still looking at this? So much time. I came in here to do something else. You're going to do another chore, but then you end up picking it up, just scrolling.

You're like, oh, I've got to text. And then you're like, oh, just check it a little. And then two minutes later, you're like, yeah. That's why you're looking at your phone. I'm like, no, no, I wasn't. They're like, yeah, I got a text. And you're like, oh, just check it. All right. And then two minutes later, you're like, yeah. That's when you look at your phone. I'm like, no. No, I wasn't. They're like, yeah, clearly I was. All right.

Well, have a wonderful show today. Enjoy. No, you're not doing a show. We did a show for you. Do whatever you do. And join us tomorrow because we're going to give away $5,000 live on the radio. Five words, 5K. Non-stop.

Yeah. And today on the podcast, it's a huge show. We talk to a lady who saved someone's life in a fire. We talk to another person who won a million dollars from Lotto, and we also try and get Jono some Nike sponsorship. Yeah, dating back 20 years. Yeah, which didn't go... Oh, anyway, enjoy the podcast.

From a socially distantly safe two metres... Don't go there. Stay away. This is Newaland's breakfast with jonathan we're talking about the best things that you've ever won this week we had some great calls come through someone's just texting 4487 i won a 500 pack and save voucher oh sweet uh which is a great prize but yeah the uh the degrading part was she had to be pushed around in a trolley by Harold the Drath around the Pack and Save car park.

What? Oh, okay. As a celebratory. Here's our first place winner. Like a little Christmas parade. A Christmas parade. And then all the other shoppers were like applauding her. And she's like,

It was a low. It was a low. So we got to Ono 800. That's the wonderful Melanie. How are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you? Now we've been done.

We're good. We're talking about people that have won some pretty impressive things, but we understand you've won something quite impressive. Yeah, it was pretty impressive, actually. About four years ago, a group of friends and I won Lotto. Oh, we're talking, you know, not just the, wow, Dan, you've got a bonus ticket. You know, every week I'm getting bonus tickets. Right. Yeah, those are, wow, Dan, you've got a bonus ticket. You know, every week I'm getting bonus tickets.

Right. Yeah, those are, anyway, so it's better than a bonus ticket. Well, actually, we did win $15 and a bonus ticket at the same time. Oh, that's good. So we don't want to forget that. But, yeah, it was the big million. Oh, you won a million dollars? We won a million dollars.

Wow. Between how many people in the syndicate? There was eight workmates. Wow. So you're 200k each. Wow, where did you go to school? I'm starting to question it now. 1.6 million, that would be.

That would be more than that. So scale it back a little bit. What is that? 1.125. Yeah, that was what I was going for. Not to be sneezed at, I must say. That's pretty awesome. And if you did, you'd have to go get a COVID test.

So what did you do with the money? Can you tell us? I put mine towards a house. Sensible. Yeah, we had other people put theirs towards holiday homes, paying off mortgages, holidays, helping family out. Yeah, it was an amazing experience. Talk us through the moment that you do win a million dollars on Lotto.

How's the communication shared? What's going through your mind? Can you sleep? Yeah, it was a crazy experience. When we found out, we live in a small town, and we had heard that the local supermarket had sold a winning ticket. Oh, they're always in these obscure small towns, aren't they? Yeah, yeah. So I was actually out with the girls at a local sports club,

and one of the girls had the Lotto app on her phone. So all of us, or anyone that had purchased a ticket from the supermarket, we were checking them online on her phone. And like I say, the first one that came up was my $15 win, which we're all very happy about. You got a bonus ticket. You're having a bad week at Lotto if you don't get a bonus ticket. And then the next ticket we scanned, which was also mine,

came up with major prize. And the whole room went silent. And we were like, oh, my God also mine, came up with major prize and the whole room went silent and we were like, oh my God, oh my God. So we went on to the Lotto app then and took the numbers and one of the girls were reading all the numbers out and as they were all matching, we were all sort of getting more and more excited

and then when she read out the last one the whole room just screamed and yelled and everyone was dancing around and I fell to the floor in a pile of tears. Oh my God. It would be surreal. You would almost, you'd be like, this isn't happening, surely. Yeah, totally.

It was completely surreal. I didn't believe it. And yeah, it was incredible. So because none of the people from the syndicate were actually there, I had to sleep with the lotto ticket on my person. Oh, yes. Where do you keep it, dear? Is it shoved down the brass?

What are you doing? Almost, but not quite. Yeah, that would be the nerve-wracking time, wouldn't it? Honestly, I thought I was having a heart attack. My heart was just pounding so hard. And then the next day at work was one of the most, probably the best things I've ever done was telling these people that we had won.

Yeah, and they knew by the time we all sort of walked into the same office they looked at the group of people in there and it was the eight people in our syndicate and someone just said, have we won? And I just burst into tears again. Oh my goodness. What a wonderful story.

Yeah. So what happens from there? Like, do you have to take the ticket? Did someone have to take it to Auckland or to a major city or anything like that? Or how's it happen? We had the option to. So because we were a syndicate, Lotto don't really see it happen very often. So Lotto said that they would come down.

So they took us out for lunch at the local eatery here and bought us some couple of bottles of champagne and interviewed us all and made a bit of an afternoon of it really so it was super fun well they're like by the way you're footing the bill for this they just won a million dollars They shouted us, which was nice. They shouted you, okay. Jeez. And we'll give you a million. That is really cool. And did it change lives, the money? Yeah, I think it did.

You know, it wasn't a huge amount in lotto standards, I suppose, by the time we divvied it all up, but it was life-changing for us, absolutely. Do you still play lotto? We do. We've still got the same syndicate, yep. Now, were you all in the same numbers week to week? No. No, we actually won on a bonus ticket.

You know, those bonus tickets that you all think of, we won on a bonus. Oh, you won? Oh. There you go. Jono's back in. He's back in again. I've been speaking ill of those bonus tickets. There you go. Hey, well, that is a really cool story.

Thank you so much for sharing that with us. No worries, guys. Yeah, that was amazing cool story. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. No worries, guys. Yeah, that was amazing. Awesome. Thank you. Kids, keep up that learning or you'll end up like these guys. Trono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Now, a lot of people clearing out stuff for their houses, aren't they, at the moment?

It's just a good time. You were waterblasting over the weekend. You never wrapped your hands around a waterblaster ever. I know. You do some unusual things in lockdown, right? Yeah, i was clearing out uh just some old knickknacks you know the stuff that your parents they palm off to you for some reason yeah and i'm like why have you held on to this and then they what they don't want to throw it out so they burden it with you now sort of ends up on you and then i'll burden it with the next generation it just gets burdened

on for hundreds of years for no point like why do I need my year seven 1B5 maths book? I can guarantee there is no point in my life where I'm going to go, oh, I should go and have a flick through that again. Yeah, you're trying to add up. What was that equation again? Oh, I know where that will be. I'll go back to my math. We've got the internet in now.

Jenny, your mum, she tried to unload a whole lot of stuff on you. Yeah, two box loads loads and she's like going through this you know like you've had it for years you need to be in charge of that i had a quick look and went i don't need any of this i'll put it out throw it in the bin and then she's like you can't throw this stuff out and put it back in the car it was a great party why do we feel obliged to keep school books yeah i know what is it anyway i uh i came across some draft letters from when I was younger that I'd written to Nike. Oh, like Nike, the shoe manufacturer. Clothing, everything, yeah.

Yeah, now I did play tennis as a youngster. Yeah. And I thought, well, every good tennis player needs a sponsor. Oh, God. So I had written a proposal to the Nike Corporation to sponsor me. Oh, really? Were you good? No.

But you wanted the clothes, right? That's right. And that's how sports works, right? You get the sponsor and then you become good at the sport? Yeah, I think the clothes help because you look cool. When you look great, you're like, wow, this guy's going to be awesome. It helps, right? And I was like, well, you know, Nike have sponsored kids for years.

They make their shoes in the factories. So clearly they were open to it And so I wrote off this letter And in hindsight, you'd think, well Why would Nike want to sponsor some kid Who gets knocked out in the first round of school holiday tennis tournaments But I had hope Did they get back to you? Never got back to me, no

Well, hang on You still don't know I mean, you may be a potential nike endorsed athlete you may have been for many years and not none i do know because they never got back to me but maybe not maybe there's been a glitch that we need to call we need to call someone at nike listen i know let's just find out i've been in the real world for a long time now and i know that a lucrative sponsorship of a 10 year old jonathan pryor was not high on their t you know they opted for a lebrron and a Michael Jordan.

They went down that path. That's their decision as a company. Have they missed a trick? Maybe. Who knows? You've retired now from tennis, pretty much. No, I think we should call. I mean, this is radio.

I know it's not the real. It's radio. We need to give them a call and find out. That's cool. But you know the answer. This is just going to be degrading for me. Yeah, well, that's not call head office. Let's just call a Nike store somewhere in New Zealand

and then see if they'll tolerate you for a second. But you might be able to get something out of this. Make a call. Go on, give it a shot. Nike Rickerton speaking with Matt. Oh, Matt, it's John Owen being calling from the Hits radio station. How are you doing? Good, good. How can I help? This is Nike, right? Yeah, Nike Rickerton. Oh, Matt, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. How are you doing? Good, good.

How can I help? This is Nike, right? Yeah, Nike Rickerton. Oh, great. Well, I'll just pass you over to Jono. Jono's got something he wants to ask you. Yeah, yeah, go for it. Hi, man.

How are you? Yeah, good, mate. Listen, about, would have been 20 years ago now, a little 10-year-old Jonathan Pryor sent off a sponsorship proposal to Nike New Zealand. Yeah. To sponsor me as a young up-and-coming tennis player. Just wanted, you know, free socks, shoes, shorts, maybe a nice shirt.

Did you want a bandana as well, like an Andre Agassi? Yeah, a lovely cool tennis bandana. Yeah. And I heard nothing back from Nike, so I was just wondering where you're at with that sponsorship. Oh, mate, I wouldn't be able to even imagine. 20 years, that's a bit of a wait, isn't it? Yeah, well, the time out.

He stopped playing tennis. You didn't reach out to Adidas, did you? I'm playing off against each other. They're online too. Yeah, they really want him. They want him back out of retirement to playidas, did you? I'm playing you off against each other. They're online too. Yeah. They really want him. They want him back out of retirement to play again, but, you know. Oh, no.

Well, I mean, that's always a hard comeback, isn't it? I know you're not the boss of Nike worldwide. I understand that. Absolutely not. No. So probably these decisions are out of your hands. But what about a pair of ankle socks or something for him? A pair of ankle socks?

Just ankle ones with a little swish on the side. Oh, you can't do ankle socks in tennis. Come on. Okay. I'm sorry. How about some full length socks? Full length. Oh, well, we could possibly.

No, I can't offer anything. But I mean, look. You sound like you're going to if you if you if you come in i could personally maybe purchase a pair for you but it might cost you maybe some banoffee pie tim tams as a signature for the team okay hold on i don't know if you know how sponsorship works basically i wander into the store and you give me you know you've got to have that return if you go you go You've got to have that signature. Right. Okay, so Tim Tams. Jono has a house.

Sorry, we'll just give us a moment. Give us a moment. What do you reckon? Tim Tams is not a bad offer. You're getting some socks. But then I personally have to purchase something, so I'm taking an investment chance on you. Oh, so you're personally investing in the sponsorship deal.

He's part of it, yeah. Adidas wanted a cake from the cheesecake shop. What did Puma want? Puma. We haven't gone to Puma yet. Oh, well, I think you need to try them first. I hear they're signing athletes. Let's run.

We don't want to play you off against each other. No, no. Nike was his preferred brand was Nike. He feels like he's a Nike athlete. Let me ask you this question. Go for it. What did Emma Raducanu get you when she got her sponsorship deal? Did she get a pack of M&M's or something?

I don't know, but I never saw any of them. You've never filtered down? So Raducanu's given you nothing. Well done. We'll do the biscuit deal. All right, it's a deal. It's a deal. I can do that.

I can personally purchase some for some signs sometimes. And I can now officially say I'm sponsored by Nike. Oh, I don't know if you can say that. You can say sponsored by Matt. Matt, who works for Nike. And hopefully still will continue to work for Nike. No, you, Matt, you'll probably just give me some of your old socks. It did cross my mind, but those would be a bit nasty.

Let's not do that. Matt, you're such a good sport. We really appreciate you talking to us on the radio this morning. Thanks for your time, buddy. No, no, quality banter is key, team. Have a good one, Matty. Cheers. Thanks, team.

Bye. Wow. Oh, wow. Can you make Catawin Van go? Wow. Wow. Wow. It's Oh Wow Wednesday.

Yes, these are the most jaw-dropping calls on radio. If you aren't phoning your plastic surgeon to book in for a jaw reconstruction after this, well, then there's nothing else we can do. But if you think you do have a story for Wow Wednesday, feel free to text it through. 4487. And you can join us next week on the program because today we're heading to Motuaka, just out of Nelson, and the wonderful Emma from Motuaka. Hello.

Hi, how are you going? Lovely to have you on. Mott, bloody great place. I remember I once did a radio promo in Mott about 10 years ago, and I still haven't recovered. It was wild. Were you there that night? Oh, gosh, no.

Yeah, no. Listen, I wish I wasn't there either, but I tell you what, stuff went on in Mott. Yeah, well, stuff went on for you, Emma. I mean, you. Tell us about how you made news last week. Yeah. Well, I guess I woke up to some screaming outside my window,

looked out my window, and my neighbour's house was on fire. Oh, dear God. Really? I'm looking at the footage of it. They've got some online. There's huge flames, dear God. Really? I'm looking at the footage of it. They've got some online. There's huge flames, like massive. Yeah, when I woke up to it, there was a screaming woman outside screaming for a child.

So what I did was I ran out in my pyjamas. Did you have your good jammies on? Yeah. I did. I had pink and grey. They were beautiful. I hope you weren't wearing those bloody flammable jobbies that you buy, you know? You buy pyjamas for kids and they're like, these are highly flammable.

Well, not the situation for these, I imagine. I didn't have the opportunity to change into my fire attire at once. But what I did do was run out of the house without any shoes on as well. If you're going into a burning building, do please put shoes on. So I ran down the drive and ran up her drive and she was screaming for a child. I decided that since I was the only person there, I'd go look for her. You went into the burning inferno, bare feet.

Yeah. With your pyjamas on. Talk us through what it's like being inside a burning house. It's not like the movies. They make it look quite easy. It sucks. I imagine smoke would just fill your lungs. It's horrible. The smoke's hot.

Well, yeah. Yeah. You don't really think about that. And I imagine it burns your lungs, burns your eyes, and your feet would be burning as well because you're barefoot. Did you crawl along the ground, Emma? No. I didn't know the layout of the house.

So you just went in cold. There was no direction as to where the child might be? No. I went into the corner bedroom window because that was on the latch so I climbed up and pulled myself through there. I just went into the hall and stayed next to it so I didn't lose my bearings. And so you found the child. Was the child asleep? No. She was actually on the phone to the emergency services down the bottom of the hall. So what I did was I called

for her. As I bottom of the hall so what i did was i called for her um as i went into the hall for the left of me was a door and the flames started to come underneath it and you could hear the roar of the fire and so what i did was i just thought if i go past that door i don't know that i'm getting out i need her to come to me because I don't know the layout of this house. If I get stuck down there, well, I've got my family, I've got my kids to consider as well. And so I just stood there, called her, she came to me. And as we got into the bedroom and got to the window,

the hall filled up with flames. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, this is a crazy story. And so you're by the window where you entered now with the girl. Yeah. How old is she? Six. Six?

And she's on the phone to emergency services. That's very smart. I know, wasn't it just? Well, you're a hero. Yeah, you saved her life. That's incredible. Yeah. I know, wasn't it just? And you're a hero. Yeah, you saved her life. That's incredible. Yeah.

And so you climbed out of the window with the daughter. Yeah. What's the first thing the mum says to you at the end of the drive? She was a bit incoherent. She, I think, was in shock and stuff. I took the phone off the little girl I gave my kids the responsibility You go take her into the house, she doesn't need to see her house burn My kids went and took her into the house and looked after her

And I took the mum down the bottom of the driveway And I just carried on talking to emergency services And the house just burns down in front of your eyes as you're watching from the end of the driveway. Yeah, yeah. And we got the police and everything there. I think what was hard is we had to leave our house as well and we were just like, oh, my gosh, is that our house gone as well?

And so they don't obviously know the cause of the fire as well, I understand. No, no. Jeez, you are a Kiwi hero. Yeah. I'm going to download the form for the Kiwi Bank New Zealander of the Year. Yeah, deservedly. That is an insane story.

And I imagine after it's all happened, what do you do? What's the first thing you do after you've saved someone or someone's child from a burning house? How do you decompress from that? I don't know. Honestly, I don't know. I'm still, I think I'm still processing. I don't feel any different.

My 15-year-old son is amazing at keeping me real. He said, don't let it go to your head mum stay humble do you know what i have just done i just went into a burning house stay humble the old new zealand tall poppy chopping machine it's alive and well isn't it but you do you find that did you kind of just go into i guess autopilot in a way because i guess you wouldn't have time to really think about things too much you just kind of just you know just kind of just go into, I guess, autopilot in a way? Because I guess you wouldn't have had time to really think about things too much. You just kind of just, you know, just kind of go with your instincts. Yeah, I went with my instincts.

I was really pleased that I had fear, though. I was able to think logically whilst I was in there. What did the emergency services people say to you? They said to me, don't jump into burning houses. We advise against that. Yeah. And you're like, oh, my bad. Do you know what I've just done? don't jump into burning houses. We advise against that. Yeah. And you're like, oh, my bad.

Do you know what I've just done? I did say I hadn't planned to. Yeah. But also, he did say as well that I'd saved the little girl's life. My God. This story just could have been so tragic. I don't know what to say to someone. Either in those situations, you either step up or you don't.

And you certainly rose to the occasion. Congratulations. That's phenomenal. The mother must just be, she must owe you her life. With the mother, I think, I'm not sure if she's still in hospital or not because she had burns and that. So, yeah, I'm not quite sure. All I'm pleased is that that little girl gets to live another day. And to be honest with you, I'd hope that there'd be people around to do that with my kids.

Oh, you're a hero. You really are. Emma, thank you so much for sharing that story with us. And, yeah, just incredible what you did for that family and putting yourself out there so wow just I'm lost for words which is not ideal when you're a radio announcer can you wrap

this bit up for us Emma? can you say some stuff? oh I don't know there we go that'll do thank you so much for your time. Your essential listening for non-essential banter. I thought I was saying something meaningful there, and then I backed out.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand breakfast. Hey, I was talking to you. I was out on the street yesterday. The kids were biking up and down. I was sort of standing there pretending to be a good parent, keeping an eye on things, you know. But then a guy lives around the road he brought his kids there too because we're at the dead end streets it's a bit quieter for cycling and one of the

kids goes oh i forgot my thing he's like i'll just go back home i was like well do you need to give them the key he's like we don't lock the door they don't lock the door i see we ever when we go away on holiday we might lock the door otherwise it's an open door policy at this house well it's a closed door but it's unlocked yeah potentially yeah and i thought in central auckland that's very trusting very trusting of a city that can't even be trusted to sneak off to wanaka for a cheeky night or two away you know you're trusting all these people and he's like well the good thing is no one's ever locked out of the house. And I said, yeah, well, the bad thing is everyone has access to your house.

But they didn't seem too fazed. Well, yeah, because you know now as well, too. Yeah. And he's like, well, if they're going to get in, they're going to get in. I was like, yeah, fair point. If they're really good at their job at robbing houses, they're probably not even going to go through the front door, are they? Well, no.

They'll probably break through a window and then go, oh, this guy's got the thing unlocked all the time. Why don't we check that first? It never works. Producer B, you're from Fairleigh, and that would have been like a regular there, right? Yeah, totally. Growing up, we didn't even have keys to our house. And if we did, my parents certainly didn't know where they were.

The poor Fairleigh locksmith was out of business, though, wasn't he? Yeah. No, we went, the house concert, like I never remember having Dad having keys to the house at all. When we went away on holiday, we used to go to the neighbour, it was someone's job. Oh, you better go tell the neighbour we're heading away so they can keep an eye on the place.

So the house was unlocked even when you were on holiday? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, like I say, I just don't think we ever had keys to the house. It's different now, but yeah, growing up, it just wasn't a thing. Keys were left in cars. My mum still leaves the keys in the car. When you go home and you want to borrow mum's car, you're like,

oh, where are the keys? And she's like, I don't know, in it. Where else would they be? Although one time, you know, the cars these days are a bit flashy. You don't put the key actually physically in there yeah so i've had the occasion where it's been in amanda's handbag the keys and she's left and i've carried on driving oh it's well yeah normally it gives you a little beeping noise but i must have just ignored it that's a good thing with beeping is you can just ignore it and eventually it'll go away

and then i got to somewhere like 10 k's out the road, turned the car off and then came back to, and I was like, oh, I don't have the key. I didn't have the key. Yeah, because she had the key, so you can turn it off and you can't turn it back on again. It was probably beeping at him for about 20 kilometres. Just like singing away to probably Pink

and just cranking up the hits. Yeah. Yeah, I was like, oh, that's what that was all about. Do a leaper, dun, dun, dun. Walk away. Don't start now while the car wasn't starting, yeah. That's for sure without a case. So I want to check this open.

Are you living in a house where you just don't use the key? The door's permanently unlocked? It'd just be interesting to know what the ratio of New Zealanders who are, you know, it's old school New Zealand, isn't it? Back in the day, every time we go to the beach over New Year's, I'm like, we don't lock the door, but this is old school New Zealand. And then one time my sunglasses got stolen off the bed. So apparently they still steal in old school New Zealand. They do it the old school way, though.

Do you not lock your house? Do you not lock your car? With the doors that aren't locked, we'd love to hear from you next 0800 the hits 4487 on new zealand's breakfast intelligent thought-provoking stimulating three terms that will never apply here juno and ben new zealand's breakfast people not locking their doors or their cars is that still a thing it seems to be like old school new zealand or maybe even flats in dunin. I had friends that lived on one of those streets in Dunedin and they would sometimes get, you know, they look quite similar, especially after you have a few drinks.

They'd get all sorts of people sort of ending up sleeping on their couch that would wake up in the morning and go, oh, I was meant to be in the flat next door. Very accommodating, aren't they, the students in Dunedin? We walked into the 660 flat when we were down there. We were like, oh, we'll go and have a wander around. And then we knocked on the door and no one said anything. The door was wide open.

We said the whole hello, you know, voice, you know. It's a friendly one. Hello. You know, non-threatening. And we pulled a Goldilocks, didn't we? We walked on in there. The three bears were out of the house. We just kind of wandered around.

And then some scruffy little guy came home and he's like, hey, brah. And we're like, hey, brah, is this your house? He's like, yeah, brah. He's like, have a look around, dude. And he was pretty relaxed about the whole thing. He didn't even ask who we were, what we were doing there. He's just like, go, help yourself. Have a look around.

Yeah. Yeah. So that was lovely. So we're going to go to the phones. 0800 the hits. Are there people in Aotearoa not locking their houses? We'll kick it off with you, Alicia. Welcome from the Tasman area.

Yes. Hi. Great to have you on, Alicia. You don't lock the door? No. Never? I never have ever since I've been a kid. I've never just bothered.

And never had anything taken? No one turn up? Nothing like that? No. We live in a small town so everyone knows everyone so I don't think we'd do that. Follow up question, what is your address? Nice one. I know, that's really cool. And was this just something passed down from your parents? Yeah, I suppose. But my partner, he growls at me a lot, like when I don't knock the door now.

But it's just their old habits, I suppose. Yeah, they die, don't they? Die young, what do they do? It's old habits do something, don't they? Yeah, I mean, the key is a lot to remember. It's one more thing to lose. And sometimes I forget to take them out of the door when I get home.

Yeah, I do that. And when you wake up in the morning, you're like, oh, they'll be in the door all night. Conveniently. Yeah.

That happened to me at our old house. We got woken up at three in the morning, Alicia. Oh, that's right. Remember? And it was like,

the keys were jangling and Jen, my wife, classic things, there's a noise and then, I've said it before, for some reason, the investigation

of suspicious noises falls on me, it's my department in the household so I tentatively go to the front door and then the keys are jettied, like someone's trying to get in the front door. Oh my goodness And you'd lift the keys in there, right? The heart sinks, yeah, and I hear this, and it's like, who's there? Who's there?

I put on a voice, she's like, I'm trying to get in they're chasing me, they're chasing me and I was like, who's chasing you? And she's like, the people across the road And I look out the window, there's no one across the road There's no one And I was like, who's chasing you? And she's jangling keys

And I'm like, whose keys are those? And she's like, they were in the door I had left the keys on recklessly the night before And I was like, okay, what do you do? And I just kept putting on a scary voice And she's like, okay, what do you do? What do you do? And I just kept putting on a scary voice. And she's like, me kids love your show. And I'm like, oh, Jesus.

Not one of these. You had to get a selfie and stuff in that situation? Yeah, I did. I was like, I thought I'd put on your meter fan. Open the door, come on in. I was like, I've only got one fan, so it's a pleasure to meet you. But anyway, the police were called and she was taken away. But terrifying, Alicia. That's what happens if you don't leave the keys in the door, fans. It's a pleasure to meet you. But anyway, the police were called and she was taken away. Terrifying, Alicia. That's what happens if you don't leave the keys in the door, mate.

I suppose, you know, you guys are in a big city. Yeah, that's true. You could have a Jono and Ben fan on your door. I wouldn't wish that upon anyone. Have a good one. We'll go to Kate and Tauranga. Welcome. How are you? Good, thanks. Alright, locking the door. You're not doing it?

No, never really have. Same as the lady before that. Yeah, my parents never really, we never really locked the house, so just never really done it. And, yeah, so we actually moved into the house about three and a bit years ago and only just found the front door key about two months ago. So you haven't used it the whole time no at all and then um one time we went away on holiday and we had all the kids asleep in the back seat of the car

got home late and we went to get into the house and it was locked and we were like what the what's going on and my mother-in-law who had been like the cat, she actually had a key, which we didn't know, and she had locked the door. She left. And so we had to go wake one of the kids up and get them to squeeze through the bathroom window to get in to open the house. This is the problem with not locking your door.

It takes, you know, three seconds, doesn't it, to lock a door? Yep. Hey, well, good on you, Kate. That's good. New Zealand, what a trusting country. Yeah, it's nice on you Kate That's good New Zealand What a trusting country Yeah it's nice Yeah It's good to see

That it's still kind of happening You know And we can get away with it These people have no problems with it Except when the mother-in-law Locks the door Tested safe for listening from home Keep safe

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Don't you sleep Don't you sleep Don't you sleep Don't you sleep Don't you sleep Well everyone knows Tony Street as this amazing person Bright, bubbly, friendly, awesome on TV and radio But I didn't know about the many tragedies and hurdles That she's personally faced and she joins us right now Tony Street, you've got a book out, Lost and Found What's it like to have your story out there in the world?

Morning guys It's actually quite unusual because I started writing this book With a ghostwriter 18 months ago. And you sit down and you go through the big process. And then you almost, you know, you put it to the side. And now people are actually going to read it. And that's quite a weird thing because you forget. Oh, people will actually read it and respond.

Yeah. You've had such a tragic story, Tony, in parts. You know, you've lost your part. You've lost siblings. Three siblings, yeah. Just been an emotional rollercoaster, no doubt. And you never told us about this. I didn't know about this. We work with you in the same building.

You're bright. You're bubbly. And you've had this whole story, which you've never told anyone publicly before. Yeah, well, it's one of those things, and I've talked about this in the book. When you've had that much tragedy, you almost, when you meet someone, you don't go, hey, just FYI, I've lost three siblings and my poor parents. And, you know, you can't go into a big sob story unless someone asks. And even then, and this has happened many times over my life, and particularly for my mum, you know, someone will ask her, oh, how many kids do you have? And she has to make a decision at that moment.

Does she say, oh, I've just got the two girls, which is my sister and I, or does she go into this big, long-winded explanation of every one of her three children that have died and it's actually really hard to decide what you do at that time because you don't want to also ignore that three children have died but you also don't want to burden people with such a sad story either i saw the uh the story on you on sunday uh on the tv show on sunday night and yeah and i just really yeah it hits home when you talked about the responsibility that you felt growing up uh towards your parents as well you know you didn't want to be causing them any more pain and suffering and the way that you acted and acted. And that's a huge burden for a kid to take on. Yeah, I guess I had no choice, really, because when my brother died when he was 14, and that was the third child that mum and dad had lost, I was 18 and my little sister was 11. And I was about to leave home to go to university. And she was now suddenly the only

child at home with grieving parents and I thought well you know my parents aren't exactly in a state to recover well from this when it's their third loss and I just felt like I needed to you know it was a pivotal time in my life as a teenager and I felt like I needed to not be a screw-up in any way to make their life worse than it already was and I think over the years my sister and I have brought them happiness and they love their grandchildren now and I think that helps a lot when you have had really extreme loss. Yeah well listen if it comes as any consolation my mum wishes I was the broadcaster you are so you've probably done your parents proud I've done the opposite to my parents but hey consolation, my mum wishes I was the broadcaster you are.

So you've probably done your parents proud. I've done the opposite to my parents, but hey, that's not my book. That's so funny, Jordan. You know, one of the things mum said to me, because after she watched the Sunday piece, you know, she said, oh, you know, I'm surprised that you felt that way, wanting to, you know, make us proud. She said, oh, when are you going to start doing that? Beautiful, Ben. Great, Ben. make us proud, she said, oh, when are you going to start doing that? Beautiful bird.

Great bird. How do families, you know, like I imagine it's different for every circumstance, but how do you deal with grief like that as a family? How do you get through that? I mean, where do you start? It's a really hard one to answer. I think we all dealt with it in different ways, and the way I chose to deal with it

was probably not advised really. I pushed on and made myself really busy and at the time I'd just moved to Christchurch to play cricket and to go to uni and we all kind of got on with our lives but it all comes crashing back to you so every university holiday

I made sure I went home to New Plymouth to be with mum and dad and it's a pretty sorry state of affairs when you're all in the house that you grew up in with your brother. And at Christmases and Easters, it's pretty depressing, to be honest. I think what we did was we just made sure we celebrated the good times more than perhaps what we would have. So we made birthdays a huge deal. Every holiday we went on, every moment was really celebrated. Everything my little sister achieved during high school, you know, it was a big family deal. And I think eventually the happy times start outweighing the times where you're not feeling great.

It must, like having something monumental like that happen in your life, not once but three times, it must prepare you for other hurdles that you have to cross. Because I know you had health issues with Churg-Strauss syndrome as well. So do you approach those moments in your life with maybe a different manner than someone would who hasn't had that loss? I'm not sure because on one hand, I guess you've developed a certain amount of resilience because you've been through bad times before. But on the other hand, you know, for my parents, it was like, here's another child of theirs that's sick. And so it also gives you a bit of a doomsday approach that, oh no, what's going to happen here?

So I think what it does do is it makes you come together as a tight-knit family. That's certainly what it does, because you've only got a couple of you left, and you do cling on for grim death. How's your husband Matt going? Because over New Year's, I went for a run with Matt unintentionally. It's not in the book Jono. Is there a chapter on Jono and Matt's great run around Whangamata?

No it's not in the book. All I'm going to say is I think he need a rematch because since then Jono, I don't know if you know this, but he's actually done the coast to coast. Oh he did. You need to up your game boy. That's what he was in training for and I talked with him the whole way around and punished him for 10 kilometres. It was 10 kilometre punishing, and I apologise.

Now, quickly before you go, the most Googled questions about Tony Street. Can we get these answered? Oh, gosh, yes. Is Tony Street a sailor? That must have been America's Cup time, right? I'm glad people think that. No, although I have won a couple of sailing races before,

but no. Also, a lot of swearing. She swears like a sailor as well. No, I'm kidding. And is Tony Street good at basketball is another question. Well, Jono, I'll have you know, I played rep basketball at school. Did you? I actually did.

It wasn't my main sport. I couldn't claim to be, you know, NBA styles, but I definitely played rec basketball. Well, you'd made a fatal mistake in this interview as well. I'm not sure if you're aware of it. Admitting that you used to play cricket because Ben Boyce is a domestic cricket fanatic. And I'd be avoiding him

around the office. He can steam in at me any day. Well, Tony, thank you so much for your time. We really appreciate it. And well done. It's such a brave thing that you've done and such an awesome thing that you've done putting this book out. And I think, you know, while there's so much tragedy and so many hurdles you had to go through there, at the end

it sort of talks about the hope and, you know, your positivity that you have and the outlook. And I think that's really awesome as well. So well done on that. Cool, guys. Thanks so much for having me. New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on the hits. Good morning, thanks so much for having me. New Zealand's Breakfast. This is Jono and Ben. Good morning New Zealand. Welcome along to the show. Wednesday morning, hump day

as they like to call it. We've all just been moaning about daylight savings still on a Wednesday night. We've got to stop it guys, honestly. Because then we start each show with like, oh we're so daylight savings has ruined our body clocks. It's like, get over it guys. We need to apologise to the audience.

This will be the last time we moan about Daylight Savings. It was three days ago. I know. Like, tell our bodies to get used to the new regime. It's one hour. It's one hour. It's not a huge difference, really. Do you know, we have to come where we are at work.

There's a pretty strong protocol around mask wearing outside of the studio. Yeah. So we all have to come to work in masks, rightfully so. But what I didn't factor in is I cooked fish fingers last night and my mask was on the kitchen bench. And the fish fingers, very distinctive odour at first

thing in the morning. It's kind of seeped into my mask, you know? The sea lord fish fingers. So I'm just walking around all morning just getting nasal loads of fish fingers. That's been a wonderful start as well. And this has just been three people moaning that they have to be up at this hour. Well, we got the moaning out of the way.

That's it. Just done now. Looks to some positive things. And 7.45 this morning, five words, $5,000. If it's not one today, the five grand, then we guarantee you it's going to be one tomorrow. This is our last chance, Charlie, to actually not have to stay in the soundproof booth for long periods of time tomorrow. So that's coming up at 7.45. Very big show. Tony

Street. Former broadcaster he's, not former broadcaster. Oh really? What do you know? Have you heard what's happening to Tony Street? Yeah, yeah, no. Big job losses on the horizon. I'm sorry, Tony. It's not the ideal way to find out. 6 o'clock in the morning on the hits. From Jono.

From me. But yeah, we've been part of some pretty big exec meetings lately and decided to sever our ties with Tony Street. No, she joins us. She's got a book out. Yeah. She's going to join us after eight o'clock as well. It's a heck of a story. Yeah, that she's going to join us to talk about,

as well as a lady who won $1 million at Lotto joins us after seven o'clock on the show. And a lady who saved a child from a burning house. It's almost too much. It is too much. I said it before the show. It's too much. Anyway, we're rolling with it.

Like getting your news from the internet. Half-truths and false information. Joe and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. Ben, I'm up to date with this information. Yeah. I follow Benny on Instagram. And did she have a birthday the other day? An exorbitant amount of balloons.

A lot of balloons. Did you guys see that post? I don't think I did. I might have missed that one. It was almost like an up situation. Was this going to take her off into the stratosphere, you know? Was she going to be the next person in space? Bezos, Musk, Benny, holding on to 320 balloons.

I guess it's possible. Cheaper way, too. Cheaper way to get up there, right? It is. All these guys, all these billionaires wasting millions on space rockets. Hold on to 300 balloons. I saw the movie. Now, we've been working together for many years, Jono, and, you know, you've got me.

You know, I'm a very probably, like, a nervy person at the best of times, but now you've got me quite nervy. When I first started with you, you weren't so nervy, and I'm just starting to wonder, is it my fault that you've become on edge all the time? No, I'm worried about getting pranked left, right, and centre, just out of the blue. Often it happens out of the blue, and I got a package sent to me yesterday, arrived in the post. And what had happened is I had, long story short,

I had ordered the package ages ago, and it's taking a while for post to arrive. But I thought it was a prank package when it arrived because it had one of the company's names. It was Heroes, but the way I held it with my hand, it looked instead of the O, it looked like a P, so it looked like I had some sort of H-E-R-P-E-S. And it had that quite big on the side of the package

and I was like, oh, Jono sent me a package. It's the old burpees package. It's chapter one of the prank book. And you're like, why are you sending me a package of it though? I was like, oh, this is going to be something. And I laughed and then I put my finger away and then I realised I was just like laughing out loud at nothing because it just said heroes. And then my daughter Indy, she was like, what's so funny?

And I was like, it's an adult thing in my head. And she's like, I like laughing. Tell me, I like laughing. I was like, I like laughing. Tell me you're laughing. Tell me we're laughing, mate. And I was like, I can't tell you this one. But yeah, you've got me nervous.

You've got me nervous. Mate, you know when you get home and you hang up your prank boots for the day, it's, you know, tools down. Tools down. You know. Is it? Well, no, apart from the time I put a digger into your house

with actual tools. I can't believe you did that. But you've woken me up many times, woken me up many times in the night and things like that, so now you've got me running scared. Oh, no, the prankies. I'm too tired to prank you. I've left the prank game behind.

Daylight savings came along. It's made you too tired. Too exhausted to prank. Yeah. Oh, come. I retired. One day they'll come knocking on my door. Prior, we need you back in the prank game.

I left that a good. Left that long ago. But you know, you're safe, Ben, okay? Okay. But that's what you'd say to sort of. That's what a pranker would say. You'd lull me into a false sense of security. So even when something comes legit in my life, you know, a parking ticket.

I thought you got a phone call the other day and you thought it was me pranking you. What was that? Yeah, it was just that. And I was like, oh, here we go. It's a prank. It's a prank call. You know I've got a life outside of this.

I've got a family. A lot of things I need to tend to. I can't be pranking you 24 hours a day. I just don't know anymore. Yeah, so there you go. I'm always on edge. Hey, next, All Black Aaron go. I'm always on edge. Next, all-black Aaron Smith. He's making viral news.

And what happened to James Bond? How many injuries has he had filming the latest movies? Scrolling through your feed. All right. Usually the only headlines I have at this time of the morning, the ones that my pillowcase leaves on my forehead. Do you wake up with those? What's that?

Lines down your head? Oh, no. On your pillow? Do you get those? Yeah. Especially after naps for some reason. More so than overnight sleep. Do you wake up with those? What's that? Lines down your head? Oh, no. From your pillow? Do you get those? Yeah. Yeah. Especially after naps for some reason. Yes.

More so than overnight sleep. I find. You're sleeping on corduroy or something. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, here's some headlines that have been beeped out. We're going to try and figure out the stories. Jew. No, this is scrolling through your feed.

This is scrolling through your feed, mate. Don't like savings. It's really putting him out. Really putting him out. Well, this is where Ben brings you up to speed with some news. Thank you, though. Thank you for that wonderful introduction, but not for this segment. I threw it over you so confidently as well.

You even played the thing going scrolling through your feet. Yeah, we're all like, well, that's what we're doing. But anyway. Anyway, my apologies. All Black Aaron Smith. It's really, really cool. He's playing for Manawatu at the moment in the NPC, basically. That was his first team, right?

Yeah, and it's really cool. It's such a big deal to have an All Black playing a full season back at Manawatu, you know, and getting lots of photos with people, doing great things, mentoring the young. And something else that's really awesome that he did yesterday, it was on TikTok. And showed off his impressive passing skills so he had another teammate standing there probably say 10 15 meters away from him with a cone on his head and then holding out two drink bottles either side with his arms stretched aaron smith picked up a rugby ball passed it knocked the cone off his head then knocked proceeded to throw other rugby balls, knocking over the two drink bottles, and then another teammate throws up a drink bottle in the air,

and he hits it again with a rugby ball before it hits the ground. Incredible, eh? Yeah, I watched this video last night, and they're all going, yeah, yeah, celebrating, but then there's a mob of, they look like the forwards, walking towards camera, showing no emotion about it. Are you not entertained? mob of, they look like the Fords, are walking towards cameras showing no emotion about it. Are you not entertained?

But just like, how could that, that could go so wrong too. Like a guy standing with a cone on his head as I pass it towards my head. I mean, you know. He's great to live with too, Chuckie. Chuck has the remote, Aaron. You know, Chuckie, anything around the house. And it would be pinpoint accuracy. So yeah, well done.

Good on him for going back to the table. Why is he not with the All Blacks? What's going on there? I think he's just had a baby. So I think he's decided to spend some time with his family because obviously they're away for a long time at the moment. They're based in Australia and, you know, hard to get home with the MIPQ as well. And I think it's been just awesome to have an All Black, you know, playing in Manawatu, you know, for the local region.

So it's pretty cool actually. The turbos. Yeah. The turbos and all their fans wear green buckets on their heads. Yeah, that's right. It's kind of their thing. And tomorrow, it's in cinemas, the 25th James Bond movie. Daniel Craig's last is James Bond.

Apparently, that famous scene, there was a famous scene in his first movie where he was in his togs in the water just looking ripped. And that was the moment that everyone went yeah he's the guy because before that i was reading 15 years ago he got the job as the as bond people weren't weren't that into him i was saying yeah it's a longer blonde hair they were like oh no he's not quite right uh more like blonde yeah am i right yeah uh but yeah so basically he turned up and he trains so hard for it. He turned up and he met his guy who was a former Navy guy who was his personal

trainer for the Bond. So apparently he turned up with a ciggy and a bacon sandwich. And apparently the guy's like, alright, we're doing this, we're going to do this together. I'll train with you, we'll do everything together. And he's trained him for the last 15 years. And basically he's got him to that ripped physique.

He turned up with a ciggy and a bacon sandwich. Yeah. So is he eating a bacon sandwich while smoking a cigarette? Yeah. And so he turned up to meet the training guy before the first Bond movie. Seems like an odd combination of things to be having at the same time. But apparently it's brutal. The filming is six days a week.

There's some amazing action stunts, as you imagine. And this is some of the injuries Daniel Craig had as James Bond. So he's torn cartilage in his shoulder filming one of them, ruptured both calf muscles in another movie, snapped a knee ligament in another movie, and underwent minor ankle surgery during another Bond film. So that's just from him. Filming is James Bond.

So incredible, incredible what he puts his body on the line for. I'm looking at his torso right now. I mean, if I was him, I would save money on shirts and just not wander around with a shirt on. Wander around with a ciggy and a bacon sandwich. Ciggy and a bacon? He'd turn up with a ciggy and a bacon sandwich. To meet the guy in the personal trailer.

All right, mate, what's going on here? Put one of them away. Yeah. It's the personal trailer guy. maybe I'll finish my ciggy. I'll have my sandwich in the car, then I'll go in. And then he can go, do you smell of ciggies and bacon sandwiches? Time to get to work, buddy. Do some burpees.

Every time I see an interview with Daniel Craig, it seems like he has disdain for the Bond project. Do you find that? Yeah. I feel like he's like, oh, I'm done with it. Oh, no, but yeah, there was an emotional thing I saw on the news last night where he said it's been such a huge part of his life and he's honoured to be it. He was talking

to the crew and he had tears in his eyes. So I think it's become a really big, well obviously he has 15 years of his life he spent as James Bond. Which is incredible, right? And now there's rumours about who's going to be the next Bond. Everyone's talking about that. I'll put your name forward.

You're in the mix. And broadcast to Tony Street, because apparently, according to Jono in the show, she's lost a gig. Yeah, it's a tough game being on the board of this company, but you've got to make some big calls. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning, or whatever Jono introduced it as before.

Taking over all your favourite song intros, Jono and Mad, the hits. Day 42 of Auckland's lockdown, and maybe Monday, maybe Monday, things might ease up to level two. The announcement's happening on Monday, so Wednesday would be the day that any changes could be happening around the country. Imagine if you're in the South Island right now.

Oh, you'd be like, we haven't even, they haven't even had a case. Not for a long, long time. They haven't, have they? No, they have, like, there was They haven't, have they? They have. There was a whole cluster, the bluff cluster and stuff. But that was last year. Yeah, not for ages.

Lucky buggers. Can I apologise on behalf of Auckland to the South Island? You've done nothing to deserve this. This is all our doing. Your collateral damage. And the South Island already had disdain towards Auckland to start off with, right? Bee, I'm sure your lovely mother's in Fairleigh. And she's like, why are we in Fairleigh?

Fairleigh isn't even a... Yeah. Yeah. It does seem they need to regionalise the levels. You know? Yeah. It really does. Well, I know everyone's on different levels, but But if you're like The South Island hasn't had it

Just put them back to normal Go back to level minus one They've done nothing wrong I know It'll be a frustrating thing But we find out on Monday Four o'clock After levels will change again

Next week Tell you what Driving around Auckland You wouldn't know No She is like No A packed Friday afternoon

Motorway out there At the moment Back to normality It feels like it It does feel like it Apart from the fact You just have to wait at the moment. Back to normality, basically. It feels like it. It does feel like it. Apart from the fact you just have to wait at the door to get a coffee, everything else is normal.

Yeah, it does feel like it. It's a wild time out there. It's not the level three I remember from last year. Maybe we've all got different memories of it. Maybe it's part of the new rules. Next, we're going to beep out some headlines, news headlines from around the world. Producer Juliet, you're in charge of this? Yes, you guys have to guess what the

news headlines are. I'm very excited for this. I'm so excited I teased it as the thing we did ten minutes ago. That's how anticipated this is. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B*** News. Yes, the news and beeps where headlines are censored. It's much like getting your news in China, isn't

it? And Producer Juliet, what have we got today, mate? I've beeped out some headlines and the first news story is... Mother who lost her eye to cancer can... through her empty socket. Honestly, I saw this one before on the... I don't know. The only people I know with one eye are the Canterbury rugby fans um so I don't know she can support Canterbury through one other so maybe maybe she can see through her eye I'm thinking if we actually have a genuine guess at it I'm gonna say

mother who lost her eye due to cancer uh through her empty sockets can do something truly remarkable through her empty socket otherwise Juliet wouldn't bother putting it on the radio yeah true mother who lost her eye to cancer can blow out candles through her empty socket. So she has a hole in her socket that essentially is connected to her lung somehow. She's currently awaiting surgery to fix the hole. She's had her eye removed, but there's a hole there. But in the meantime, she's gone viral on TikTok for blowing out candles with her eye. And so what she does is she holds up like an empty toilet roll up to her eye to sort

of direct the air to the candle and she'll go and sort of blow and it can blow out candles. And people are going crazy over it on TikTok. It's a really cool little trick. If you went to a birthday party, you'd be like, what are you? Probably a bit more hygienic than maybe out the mouth. It's a great COVID alternative. I always love those people who turn up to a party and they're like, watch what old scrumples can do out of his eyes.

And they can squirt milk or something out of his eye. Watch what he can pull out of his mouth and nose. This is going to mean badly. That's gross. The next news story. India to replace ambulance sirens with... I'm going to go toddlers crying. The noise of a toddler crying would make a good siren, yeah.

I'm going to go India to replace ambulance sirens with a loud siren that just shouts, get the F out of the way. Oh, that's good too. India to replace ambulance sirens with traditional flutes and tabla music. So this is happening specifically in New Delhi and they're opting for softer sounding instruments because obviously what it

seems is because of the COVID pandemic the normal sort of siren sounds that you'd usually hear were just blasting all the time so it's a bit of a change and I reckon it's quite a good idea like obviously the normal sound of a siren you're're like, oh, get out of the way. But having something slightly different while still alerting people that it's coming is quite a good idea. The Mr. Whippy one could be a nice little softer alternative as well. Oh, right.

Either they're rushing off to someone who's had a heart attack or they need to get an ice cream to a child. Always when the siren comes up behind you, for some reason, all knowledge of the road code just escapes me. I just panic, you know? You do panic.

You do get quite flustered. I do. Yeah, I'm the same. I'm like, I've got to pull over. We've all got to pull over. Yeah, and then there's nothing wrong. If you're stuck in the intersection, they're like, and they put the horn on at the same time as the siren.

You're like, this is all on me. Yeah, you don't want to be the person that's like the prime reason why you're blocking the ambulance. There's just no higher stress than that. And then I saw it in a poor lady, poor lady. She didn't even know it was behind her. You know, it was a sweet old lady. You wouldn't even see her head over the headrest if you were

driving behind her in her little Suzuki Swift. And she was just oblivious to what was going on. And even the ambulance guy had arms in the air, you know when you're a frustrated driver? Arms in the air, yeah. Oh no. Oh, that's so sad. Yeah. And then the final news story for today.

Huge queues form as hundreds line up to... I'm going to say hundreds are queuing up to not be the leader of the National Party. It seems like everyone doesn't want that job at the moment. Well, according to the media, Lola. No, I'm not putting my name in. I'm going to say a huge queues form as hundreds line up to get their vaccinations to reach our goal of 90% by New Zealand, fully vaxxed by Christmas. There's your daily dose of

vaxxed propaganda for you. Huge queues form as hundreds line up to meet Santa Claus in September. So this is happening in England. A Christmas shop opened up early and allowed people to come and meet Santa. People were queuing from 8 o'clock. They, you know, they put the barriers up to control the lines.

Looked like a very happy day out for some people, and I think we should do that in New Zealand too because it's been a shocking year. Yeah, we had a lot of optimism heading into this year, but then Delta strain comes along, and it kind of knocked everyone back a bit, didn't it? I know, very sad. Delta's tour of New Zealand, not a memorable one.

But anyway, yes, Christmas not far away, and for some reason we think as soon as Christmas comes, it's all going to be over. And it worked last time. Yeah, well, I heard Jacinda Ardern yesterday on the news go, we need to save summer, guys. We need to save, like, it's the big thing. We need to save our summer.

And everyone's like, yeah, we do. It's the time that we can go out and about. What do we do with winter then? I don't know. No regard for winter. No, exactly. We're in lockdown. And that is news and beeps.

Rated M for mildly amusing. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. We show Jono and Ben good sports. It's back on TV and Z2, 8 o'clock. And we try some more unique sports in New Zealand, including this week. We go speed cubing. We also do RC car, remote control racing. And we try roller derby, roller derby, roller...

I should have asked that question on the day. Is it derby or derby? Yeah. Is it cauliflower or collie-flower? Oh, yeah. Is it cauliflower? Yeah, is it just cauliflower? Yeah.

Is it neither or neither? Tough sport, roller derby, though, isn't it? Because, you know, it's just... It's one of those things when you're doing it, you think you look cool. And then when you look back at footage, you're like, Jesus, isn't it? Because, you know, it's just... It's one of those things when you're doing it, you think you look cool, and then when you look back at footage, you're like, Jesus, it's like Pinocchio learning to walk. Pinocchio learning to walk?

I guess, yeah. He was right, yeah. He was a bit all limsy, wasn't he? He was a bit fumbly to begin with. Then he found his way. You know, Geppetto taught him the ways, didn't he? Yeah, you're right. And we're joined right now on New Zealand's Breakfast

by one of the wonderful tutors we had for Roller Derby slash Derby. Her name is Ruth. Welcome, Ruth. How are you? I'm very well, thank you. How are you guys? We're good. We're still probably recovering from our time together doing Roller Derby.

Yeah, sometimes it hurts. It does. A lot of the dignity, actually, more than anything else. It's a wild sport. As you know, that's assuming you had some. It is a wild sport. I mean, what got you into the sport? I just Googled it.

I was just like, oh, I want to do something. I want to meet some people. I want to meet some people. I want to try something new. And I Googled it, and it turned out that Auckland Roller Derby League was about five minutes from my house in Glenfield. So, yeah, I just rocked up to a rookie's course, and that was it. I was hooked. So it was more convenience of the location than anything that won out the roller derby.

Yeah, but, you know, when you just want to do something new, you know, when you're like, oh, I want to do something new. I want to learn something. I want to start something. And so, yeah, that was it. And then convenience, you know. It's crazy. Once you get into it, I mean, it is a lot of fun,

but it is like a rugby game almost happening on wheels. I mean, so much can go wrong. It is a pretty intense sport. You know, like it is like rugby. And that's why we train a lot. But I think that's just with any sport. And there's a lot of strategy to it because there's a lot going on. But yeah, also you're on rotorskates.

One of the things we loved was the names. Often you guys would have clever names on the back of your singlets based on your name. You, Ruth, what's your name? Yeah, I am Ruth O'Dare. I just thought it was fitting. It was that or the Ruth Hurts. That was a bit too close to home. A bit long in the Ruth? Ruth's a very versatile pun name for your sport as well. Ben, what were you? I was the jammer when I got to play, so you made me.

Oh, Ben Jammer, that's right. That's right, because there's a position called the jammer. Yeah. And then I was, who was I? You were Kid Block. After my favourite redneck rapper, come rock star, Kid Rock. But Alan, who plays in your team, we nicknamed her Ellen DeGemaris. Name of the night.

Has she stuck with Ellen DeGemaris? She hasn't, unfortunately. Ellen is, she's Mackenzie on the track. And, you know, that's her brand. She's like Cher, you know, she only needs Mackenzie. But Mackenzie's just her last name, right? Yep. Yeah.

So Ellen DeGemris is... It's clever. I'm still... I'm bewildered as to why she didn't pick that up. That hurt me more than falling on my tailbone multiple times. Yeah, but only one of those hurts last thing. Yeah. Her passion for that project, Ellen DeGemris,

it was waning, wasn't it? She's amazing, though. She is. She's played for New Zealand in roller derby, right? Yeah, yeah. She has represented New Zealand. We are very lucky to have her. I'm assisting my daughter at the moment, Poppy.

She's wanting to learn how to roller skate. And I tell you what, that's a journey, isn't it? It's a journey to get to your stage, roller skating. But I find as a parent, you're doing a lot of work, aren't you, with the roller skating? It's all on you, really. There's a lot of holding up of hands, a lot of catching as she slips over. So you've got to be on your game. You have to be like a ninja. You have to be so fast. Have you hurt yourself in learning how to roller skate, Ruth? I did fall over

once on my side hip upper arse. Got a bruise. Yeah, that was the worst of it. Felt very sorry for myself. Flash, super proud. Took some photos. Yep. You know.

The old side hip upper arse. You never want to be landing on there, that's for sure. Yeah, yeah. It was really cool meeting you and the whole team, actually. It was a very fun few sessions we spent with you. If anyone listening right now wants to get into roller derby, A, for convenience of location, but B, for the passion of the sport, what should they do, Ruth?

Yeah, just follow us, Auckland Roller Derby League, on Instagram and Facebook. And we're hoping to have a new rookie intake in February because we need level one really to train rookies. So we're holding out for that. Awesome, Ruth. It was a really nice meeting you. Thank you for everything you taught us.

You have a great day. You're all good. Take care. Bye. And you can catch us attempting to do roller derby tomorrow night at John Ong Ben Good Sports, 8 o'clock TVNZ 2. And you can win $500 just by watching the show. It's real easy.

Just text in when you watch the show, and you can win $500. It is the hits. You got John O'Bien. The Hit Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Feel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. I tell you what, a few love celebrity gossip and three people fumbling around the topics. Then have we got the segment for you, Juliet? Come on down.

Trending now, I should probably mention that R&B artist R. Kelly has been found guilty for racketeering and sex trafficking and faces life imprisonment. Thank God. Good riddance to him. And also he's got other... He's been trialled in other states as well, so they're going to add potentially more years

onto the sentence. Yeah. Thank God for that. And something I found quite interesting. So there's been a little bit of news about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle recently. They've been doing a bit of a New York tour. They visited the 9-11 memorial and have kind of been having a few sort of public appearances. It's now been revealed that Taylor Swift was the one that gave up her own bodyguards for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to use while they were in New York. We were talking about this the other day.

Yeah. Because the royal family wouldn't pay for security. Technically not. So hold on. If Taylor's given them her bodyguards, who's guarding Taylor's body? Oh, yeah. Maybe she's hired. Is her body just roaming around unguarded?

Or is it like the All Blacks where they've got the top team and then they've got the other one? You're off the bench, mate. B-Squad. I've got the call-up. What? I was just playing in Taranaki. I don't care, mate. You're out there. Yeah, it might be.

Someone might have got a call-up. Yeah, but she's probably just... I mean, Taylor's probably got more bodyguards that she can hire for herself. Yeah, true. Taylor seems like the type of person that would probably do that, though. She seems like a nice kind of person,

so she'd be like, yeah, have my bodyguards. It'd be a cost I'd like to trim on my budget if I was a celebrity, the old bodyguard stuff. Yeah. You know? Not having any? Not having any. I'd be like, how much are we paying you so much?

What? Annually? Yeah, no, I'm sorry. This is going to be your last gig. Being a bodyguard, though, if you think about it, is actually a really interesting job to do because most of the time you'd kind of just be doing not a lot, but then the stakes are so high if something did happen.

Yeah, let's talk on a different scale. The security guards here, they're like 99.99% of our job is doing nothing, but it's that 0.1% that you need to jump into action for. Yeah. And that's what being a bodyguard's about. And Cameron Diaz. Whitney Houston had a good bodyguard, didn't she?

Yeah, old Kevin Costner, he was great, wasn't he? And Cameron Diaz. She's a retired actress. You kind of sometimes hear about her, but I didn't realise until not long ago that she'd actually retired from acting. She was like one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. She was in so of the biggest movie stars on the planet.

She was in so many great movies, and then she just decided off her own bat she didn't want to act anymore. I know, I wish she would come back. But she's married to Benji Madden, one of the guys in the band Good Charlotte. He's got a twin, Joel. And she kind of explained,

she did a podcast with Anna Faris and sort of explained how she met him. And that she's not, while she's obviously attracted to her own husband, she's not attracted to the twin brother. I was like, how come I didn't see him before? Which is funny because you saw his twin brother. Oh. But.

Wasn't the same. Yeah. It's not the same. They're not the same. Totally different even though they're identical twins. So she saw both of them in the same room Saw the twin brother first, nothing And then saw Benji and was like You're the one

Interesting eh, because they are Identical Sometimes their facial hair and hairstyles They literally look the same It's crazy Do you know any twins? I do, yeah I know a few twins, yeah. Yeah, I knew some identical twins.

Boy, they'd pull all sorts of shenanigans. Because you can get away with it, too. They would go into different classes under each other's names. Oh, really? Yeah. And I know another set of twins, and the twin brother went up on the wedding day, went up to the front of the altar, and then the bride walked in. She knew, obviously.

She's like, you're not the... Ah, you got us. Twins, baby. That's like Rami Malek who played Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic. He's got a twin brother and he shared a story that his twin brother is not an actor or anything but needed to pass an assignment for performing arts. And so Rami turned up and did the performance for him or did the assignment for him

and got like A grade on behalf of his brother. Genius. So good. Listen, Tom Hanson's got a twin, doesn't he? Does he? Yeah. Oh my god. Scarlett Johansson's got a twin. What? Yeah. What? I'm rattling through a list of celebs with twins.

You know, those are all the interesting ones. And that's five for this hour. Thanks to McDonald's, you can download the Maccas app to play and win prizes with the Monopoly game. New Zealand's breakfast. It's Jono and Ben. It is the hits.

Jono and Ben on your Wednesday morning, 7.06. Now, of course, a lot of frustrated Kiwis trying to book spots overnight on the government's new managed isolation lottery system. Seemed like it was really frustrating. I imagine it would be because you try to book tickets and things like that. It can be quite stressful and there were people going on. Oh, yeah, you tried to get tickets to Bruno Mars. You were stressing out.

Same sort of thing, isn't it? This is even more, I imagine, because people have big reasons why they want to get home. One lady whose dad sadly passed away from cancer about a year ago wants to come home and see her mum. She was like 606th in the queue, and then for some reason the computer just froze and booted her off, and then she had to join the back of the queue all over again. So that's just heartbreaking, those sorts of stories.

Yeah, that is heartbreaking. That's like someone coming up to you and tapping you on the shoulder and going, hey, are you getting a parking ticket? You're like, oh, will you save my place in the queue? And they don't. And they don't, yeah. It's a shocking analogy. It had nothing to do with anything.

But it seems like the system's been flawed from the get-go, and that every time they come out, they're like, old hippos out there. Oh, guys, we've just done some adjustments. We've got a new thing as a, what do they call it, a waiting room now. Yeah, you've got the lobby. You've got the lobby, yeah. The waiting room.

What happens to the lobby? The virtual lobby. This is the virtual lobby. Oh, is this the lobby? You're in the lobby and you're waiting to get on in and it's like the lottery at the moment and it's really, really hard. Is the lobby just a giant long-ass line?

Yeah, pretty much. It's just like a little holding. It's basically the equivalent of calling up and being on hold, you know, and you're on hold for hours and hours, you much. It's just like a little holding. It's basically the equivalent of calling up and being on hold. You know, and you're on hold for hours and hours and you know. It would be frustrating. That's the sad thing, isn't it, when something like this happens and stories like this emerge. People haven't been able to go to funerals,

tangis. Yeah. And you really feel for those people. Especially in a moment of loss too. And people can't travel overseas as well now for New Zealand because you can't get back in. You can't get MIQ spots to come back in. It's easy to sit here and judge, though, isn't it? But the government are doing their best.

It's not like, oh, we'll do a half-assed job on this and see how it goes. They're giving it their all. Yeah, it's just the way you try to fine-tune things to make things a little smoother for everyone. Tell you who's half-assing it, us. We are. Proudly so, too. We're not out here giving it our all. We're just turning up, selling some stuff every day.

Like that weird analogy about someone parking a ticket or something. 7.45 this morning, your chance to win $5,000. It's got to be won by tomorrow. And if it's not won, basically we're sticking around tomorrow until it's given away. So your chance to win is about 40 minutes away. It is the hits you got, John and Ben. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday.

It's our final chance right now to give the money away. If not, we're going to play it tomorrow morning and just keep playing it until it is given away. It's got to be won $5,000 by the end of the month. Five words for 5K. I was reading a lovely opinion piece from Sir John Key written about our five words rollout and just his thoughts on it.

And he's chalked up all the recent losses to Jacinda. But we've opened up our cash borders and it's all got to go before the end of the month. Let's welcome from Taranaki, Daniel. How are you, mate? I'm good, thanks. How's it going? Wonderful to have you on.

Daniel, you're a water blaster. Yep. Best in town, they say. Best in town. Best in good, thanks. How's it going? Wonderful to have you on. Daniel, you're a water blaster. Yep. Best in town, they say. Best in town, best in the knacky. Ben Boyce, you dabbled in a bit of water blasting over the weekend, didn't you? Oh, it's quite a satisfying... Is it still satisfying after doing it for many years? Oh, it is. It is. It is. I've told this story before.

The guy we spoke to who he was thirsty, he was a water blaster and at Smoko, he had a drink He was a water blaster at Smoko. He had a drink out of the water blaster and blew out his tonsils, Daniel. Have you done that? Tonsils. Yeah, not recommended. Yeah, no, I haven't tried that one yet.

Yeah, you're not a real water blaster until you water blast it out of your lungs or your tonsils. Hey, you want to send one of us into the soundproof booth? Who's it going to be? Jono Bennett? Jono. All right, I'll head on in, Danny. Let's win you 5k. Beautiful. Alright, here is your first word, my friends.

It is vending. Vending. V-E-N-D-I-N-G vending. Machine. Machine, yep. Seemed like the obvious one. Fano is the second word this morning. Family. Yep, family. Nice. Producer Juliet nodding away. Motorway is word number three

uh cars or car cars or cars what are you gonna lock in buddy uh car cars sorry cars with an s uh number four this morning is scone scone s-c-o-n-e scone oh hell that's a hard one yeah um i was going well with you i was like yeah these are good and now i'm like scone okay uh scone uh okay Bacon Bacon? Oh no Can we come back to that one? Yeah we can come back to that one Vegas is the final word this morning

Vegas Casino Casino good And yeah Scone Were you saying baking or bacon? Bacon but I'll go Baking Baking

Alright well let's see how you go Ah, baking, but I'll go baking. Baking. Okay, well, I'm not trying to, I was just trying to, okay. Nah, that's all right. All right, all right. Well, let's see how you go. Let's get Jono out of the soundproof booth. It all started so well, didn't it? But the last couple were very tricky. Yeah, pretty much.

Daniel, the best water blaster in town going. Yeah, well, we water blasted solidly at the top, Jono. Yeah, good blasting at the top. And in the end, you know end the water pressure wasn't quite as strong. It just dribbled out at the end. Yeah, because they were tough words. Really tough words. We'll see if we can blast you over some cash, Daniel.

Here we go, matey. Okay, Jono, let's rip into this vending. Vending. First word? I'm going to lock in something that you never let your daughter go to when she comes and visits us at work. The vending machine. Do you know Sienna? If Sienna's visits us at work, the vending machine. Do you know Sienna? If Sienna's listening too, Dad uses the vending machine every day when you're not here.

I caught you the other day. I brought them home something because they were like, can you bring home something for the vending machine? They love that vending machine. They do love that vending machine. We're one from one, Danny. More than me.

Whanau is the second word. Family? Correct. Well done. Motorway, number three this morning out of three, third word. Motorway. There's two. There's two.

There's traffic or cars. Yeah, okay. It's clearly one of them. It's clearly one of them. It's clearly one of them. Okay. Now the acid's on. Yeah, yep. A lot of pressure on you now.

Cars? Well done! Oh, we're still doing this. We're still doing this, Daniel. When did it start dribbling? Around about now. Got a bit tricky. Yeah, scone is the tricky word we

found because there's a lot of options for scone. Cheese scone? We went baking. That's a tough one, Daniel. And Vegas was the final word. Vegas. Casinos?

Casinos? Casinos? Ooh. Casino. Casinos. So you could have been an S away from winning. Hey, Daniel, listen, sorry we couldn't do it for you this morning. Why don't you give yourself a plug for your business, mate? Pardon?

Give yourself a plug for the water blasting business. Oh, I will. I will. Good plug. If you want to get a hold of Daniel, you'll find him. If you want him, he'll...

What's that, mate? Presco. Presco. Presco water blasting. There you go. The best blaster in town and the best listener on the hits as well. Thank you, Daniel.

Have a great day, man. Beautiful. Bye, mate. That means tomorrow. That means tomorrow we play the game. We'll give you an update before the end of the show

what time we'll start playing the game, and I guess we just keep playing it. It's non-stop. A guaranteed winner before the end of tomorrow. You join us. Oh, you know what to do. Yeah, $5,000 tomorrow. What was I talking?

New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben just got on 8 o'clock. We've got a big hour for you later on this hour. We talked to Tony Street, broadcaster Tony Street. She's got a new book out. And, jeez, it's a heart-wrenching story, isn't it?

So she'll join us just after 8.30 this morning, as well as someone next who's going to be joining us for our Well Wednesday call. Yeah, now, we like to do this. It's just a story that, well story that makes us go, wow. And you know, these aren't to take away from the calls that we get Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. I mean, they're all great calls, but they're not just calls that you'd go wow with, are they?

This only works on a Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. And this particular call. They're calls you'll go, oh yeah, but not wow. It involves a New Zealand hero joining us in a few moments, but just quickly before we get there, Greta Thunberg, she's spoken out again. She's also making global leaders accountable for what they're not doing. They promised a lot of things on climate change,

and now they're doing basically blah, blah, blah, as she put it yesterday. There is no planet B. There is no planet blah. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050.

Blah, blah, blah. Net zero. Blah, blah, blah. Climate neutral. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, well, there you go. She is. Sounds like she forgot to write the rest of that speech.

Jay, it's one of those ones. Have you done that speech, Greta? Oh, yeah. She's awesome at making them accountable and doing great things for the planet. But next, someone who... You can see why Trump thought she was a pain in the ass. Oh, sure.

Yeah, but he was out there, buddy, you know, doing great things. He was blah, blah, blah-ing. Yeah, for the planet. Now, the Monopoly game is back at McDonald's and there's over $107 million in prizes to be won right now at Macca. So many prizes, and we're doing our own version of it each morning on the hits. We're going around a virtual board. You know, we're traveling around the country virtually,

and you've got to guess where, in fact, we are on the Monopoly board to win a prize. That's what you do when you're not allowed to leave the location you're in. You travel around virtually, pretend you're in these wonderful places. And I'm loving it. You loving it, Ben? Yeah. I'm loving this more than I love my children. I have to say that this week.

Okay. Yeah. Do you love Big Mac more than you love your children? Do I have to say it, do I? Yeah. Okay, yes, I do. Good call. It's a big call, but Big Macs, you know, they're very tasty.

There was that ad on the TV where we talked about looking very seductive to Big Mac. Ben left his wife for Big Mac. That's how much we love McDonald's. I want to return my call. But clue one this morning, originally intended to be called Ridley Square. Remember, each day you can head to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram and you'll get extra special clues, a visual clue to maybe help you out a little more than the first clue we give on radio.

Now we're going to head to the Tron this morning. How are you, Fiona? Hi, good morning. I'm great. How are you? Oh, loving your energy, mate. Yeah, thank you. I'm loving being here.

What do you do, Fiona? I am a mum and I'm self-employed. I own my own business. Oh, yeah? What's your business? It's called Hugh and Co Party Hire. All things party. Oh, you sound like a party, too.

You sound like you'd be the perfect person to organise us. Thank you. Permanently in party mode. Yeah. Always. Always ready to party. All right, Fiona. Well, let's see if you can get the answer correct,

and we'll peel back a prize on the McDonald's Monopoly board. Let's go. I believe you can get the Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Correct. Well done. And that's a appeal and reveal. We'll find out where, well, what in fact you've won. Oh, that's very cool.

You've won a brand new set of wireless headphones. That's coming your way. Oh, my God. Thank you. That's amazing. Good on you. You are great. That's bloody great.

You need to come here every morning And wake us up Sure thing, why not Thanks so much for listening to the show And for playing the game And you enjoyed those headphones Thank you Did you know in Japan I've really got lost in a hole of McDonald's trivia this week

In Japan it's not Ronald McDonald's Did you know this? It's Donald McDonald's Donald McDonald in Japan I did not know this? It's Donald McDonald Is it? Donald McDonald in Japan I did not know that See he's got two same names Donald McDonald

Donald Mc.. Yeah It's like you being Ben McBen Yeah, Ben McBen I don't know why they decided to go against the grain in Japan, but hey, it's a wonderful country You've been there the toilets have, they treated you They changed me, those toilets. That's for sure. They did.

And they changed Ronald's name. I regaled many tales about the toilets. Hey, next, Tony Streets joining us, our beloved broadcaster, Tony Streets. And she's got a new book out, and it's a heck of a tale. It really is. It's an emotional story, isn't it? You might have seen some of it on Sunday, on the TV show on Sunday evening. It'd be weird if it was called Wednesday or something. But Tony, with us very shortly.

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