Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What The Heck Is An NFT?

Episode Date: February 1, 2022

You've probably heard about them everywhere, but what even is an NFT? We caught up with Brooke Howard Smith who sells NFTs, and he explained to us what they are. It's pretty bizarre! We've also learnt that Jono is an over-thanker, and Ben is blaming Jono for the fact he can't get his car in the garage. Enjoy the poddy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. Welcome back to another podcast. Second of February. I'm having a difficult time speaking at the moment. I feel like I've had a mouth transplant because I've decided to go on the journey of having Invisalign in my mouth. Is this a hashtag ad?

Are you going to disclose it? It's the opposite of an ad. Take a bloody mortgage out. I'm like, am I plugging your Invisalign? No, no. I'd just like to know if you know,

if you could disclose to me and the podcast audience what it is. No, no. I don't know what the opposite of an influencer is, but I'm paying every dollar for this interview.

Okay, well, yeah. No, so you've got Invisalign, which... It's straight in my teeth, but I sound like a snake. The clear alternative to braces. There you go. There's the end. That's what they say.

Can you... So it's like wearing a mouth guard, basically, on your top and bottom teeth. And every mouth guard... Every two weeks, you get a new one. It sort of slowly sort of pushes. Like Connacht braces, but you can take it out and put it back in again.

Yeah, I could safely walk into the UFC ring and they're like, have you got your mouth guard? And I'd be like, yeah, check. Check that box. Oh, he's got a bottom and a top. Okay, he's good to go. Oh, you're doing him, isn't he?

How much is that? Is it an ad? Oh, no. Yeah, no. You know, I did it for a while there too, and I do know what it's like to try and speak. You know, you feel a little bit. Very self-conscious.

Yeah, you feel like everyone's looking at you as well too. Everyone's looking at your mouth. well everyone's looking at your mouth and it's like what's he what's he got going on his teeth are like they got a little bit

shiny what's he he's got shiny teeth you can see people sort of like you talk to someone in the supermarket this is before masks

obviously I had mine you just see the eyes sort of just rolling down sort of sit on like a little what's he what's going on there?

And Melissa, maybe they weren't, but in my head, I'm like, they're definitely looking at my... You almost want to have your hand over your mouth. Like, you know, you're talking with your mouth full. You just want to do that the whole time. But I have never been so conscious of my lips and where they sit and how they're currently sitting on my mouth. Gene said, Gene said yesterday,

well, yesterday I was just obviously coming to terms with it and getting used to it. I was like smiling like a psychopath. The whole time smiling. Pretend like a Donald Trump, pretending everything's fine. But yeah, that's I honestly, I put them in yesterday and I was like, what the fuck have I done?

You know? But then Jen, my wife, has done it and she's like oh, you get used to them, you end up you wear them, you sleep with them, you know, But then, Jen, my wife has done it and she's like, oh, you get used to them, you end up, you know, you wear them, you sleep with them, you know,

and you don't. Better than braces, are they? Well, I've never had braces, but I guess as an adult, it's quite nice to be able to, you know,

to take them out. You're not having braces all the time, but they are, you know, they come with, as you're realizing, after your price tag, you know?

I didn't realize what the price tag was. Yeah. So I've sold some kidneys to get these teeth straight. But, yeah, well, at least I'll be known for something else apart from being bald now. I'll be like, oh, this is the guy with the lisp on the radio. The lispy guy. The lisper.

Anyway, old Lispy and Ben had another great show today, didn't we, mate? We did. We did. We had a lot of fun today on the show. Yeah, but we're – sorry, what do we have on the show? Good deed. Spoke to the truck driver guys?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, we spoke to a lovely story of a guy who's a truck driver, been truck driving for 30 years, and he's taking animals with him, the people that are rescuing dogs and stuff that need to have them dropped off. He's picking them up free of charge and taking them on their journeys to drop them off as well. Because they couldn't transport them under lockdown rules, etc.

So he's been doing that. What's that, mate? Just before you go, our boss has just said you've just got to read this at the end of the podcast. It's just a little Simple Simon tongue twister.

Let's just see how you go this morning. That's interesting because I haven't seen the boss. Just put through it. Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair says Simple Simon

the pieman. It's good. Let me taste your wear says the pieman to Simple Simon. I see what you've done there. Workplace bullying, I think they call it. Enjoy the podcast.

I got Invisalign put in yesterday. I wondered what that select list was. I was trying to figure out if you did have Invisalign. I'm a snake. I had them for uh yeah for a while too because they're like if people don't know what they are they're instead of braces they're kind of like braces you can it's like a mouth guard you can take in and then pop in pop out so i could play a game of rugby in an instant if i wanted to and they slowly mold

your teeth but i i struggled to talk with them uh yeah so i used to take mine out for radio i don't think i can yeah well i couldn't do it either. It was just another distraction. I don't need another distraction. As long as I've got someone else's lips on my face and I can't control them, I'm going to take them out. Yeah, but they're a great idea. When you remove them, there's just this giant line of slobber. There's no sexy way to pull off an Invisalign. Every time I take mine out, my wife would go,

God, you're sexy right now. As I take it out, a big bit of drool. It was like an old person taking out their dentures. And even if I just go, oh, yes, that's exactly. Turn those teeth out again. I'll pull them off. Actually, it leads us into, you want to have a crack at the elder community. Yeah, I do.

I'll have a crack too. Yeah, you've had a crack as well. So I'm waiting in line yesterday. And there's half a dozen people, socially distanced. And an elderly lady, sweet, sweet elderly lady, walks directly past us all to the front of the line. And no one says a thing. That's New Zealand.

No one really does. Everyone gets really wound up inside, but no one really does anything. And everyone's like, oh, it's a sweet elderly lady. How do we know? Just because she spent more days on this earth than us, does it make her a nice person? Well, no, but you kind of go, oh, maybe

they didn't know. Maybe the person didn't know. It's an entitlement thing, isn't it? You reckon it's entitlement or she didn't know? Or she didn't care? But the good thing is, also, being elderly,'s entitlement or she didn't know or she didn't care but the good thing is also being elderly you can pretend like you didn't know yeah

oh I didn't realise it was a hard line oh and then everyone's oh get in yeah you sweet old because your grandad came back from the war and he had speed

oh yeah and then he'd get pulled over by a cop and he'd go you know which I mean amazing sacrifice for your country

don't get me wrong but he'd often use it to go I fought in the war you're like well you can't use it to get out of speeding, I fought in the war. You're like, well, you can't use it to get out of a speeding ticket. I fought in the war

for people like you. Yeah, well, you've got to drive on the right side of the road. That's right. Yeah. People just feel because they're over the age of 80.

Oh, everyone goes, oh. I reckon you're going to milk that, though, when you're 80 plus. Damn right I am. I can't wait. Yeah, you're going to be

like that lady. Look at that hunched over man with his drooly mouth. Yeah, like if the Queen shot me in the middle of the street, I would get blamed for getting in the way of a sweet old lady's bullet. Everyone would be like, how did you get in the way of that lovely old lady's bullet? And everyone would be like, oh, are you okay? Meanwhile, I'm bleeding out because she shot me in the shoulder.

They get away with murder. Elderly people. Well, not technically, but I know what you mean. Hey, next, speaking of sayings like get away with murder, raining cats and dogs. We say it all the time. What does it actually mean? We're going to find out next. It is the Hits. You got Jono and Ben.

Jono and Ben, the Hits. What do you mean? This is What Do You Mean? We did this last year. It's really interesting. It's looking at sayings that we all say, and you don't really know the origin, the backstory of the saying,

or why you even say that saying. Yeah, you just do it blindly, don't you? And one that we talked about yesterday after the show was, it's raining cats and dogs. It's supposed to be wild weather coming to the West Coast again in New Zealand, and everyone's like, oh, last week it was raining cats and dogs, you know? And it's like, well, what does that actually mean? Now, that is a freak weather incident.

That Dan the weatherman. Oh, geez, he'd be frothing like a dog over that, wouldn't he? If it actually started raining cats and dogs. And they've got a lot of weight behind them too, probably more so the dogs. Yeah, a couple of the sky. But if they're falling from from a great height and you feel for the dogs more than the cats because cats are going to land on their feet yeah but the dogs you know you're like oh yeah you know i love that joke that comes from that you know like how do you know it's raining cats and dogs when you step in a poodle uh so i like to think maybe that was the reason why uh they

you know so that's you you're going to say the origin of the reason why they, you know. So actually, you're going to say the origin of the saying, because this is what we do. We try and figure out the back story of it. I'm picking it was a phone conversation. Someone phoned another person, and the phone line was bad. It was a bit shaky, given the weather. It's raining lots and lots over there.

It's raining cats and dogs. No, no, I said it's raining lots and lots over there. Oh, like it was a miscommunication thing. Tony says it's raining cats and dogs over there, and it's raining lots and lots over there Oh like it was a miscommunication thing Tony says it's raining cats and dogs over there And then it just spread like wildfire You kind of know Yeah I thought that it's possible To know you know

But I guess this is where we look online right now And we find out exactly Because none of us have done it What does it actually mean? Yeah so I've got the window open here Yeah Okay there's two

Looks like two options Oh yes There's a false theory apparently That stated cats and dogs used to cuddle under the thatch roofs when it was storming. So if it was raining that hard, the dogs and cats would seek shelter. It's raining, the cats and dogs are hidden away. And then I guess potentially if they're up high under the roof, then they could potentially fall.

Hopefully they wouldn't. But if they did, it's raining cats and dogs. But apparently that's false. Is that not true? That's not the true one. The Norse god of storms, Odin, was often pictured with dogs and wolves, which were the symbols of wind. And then witches, who supposedly rode their brooms during storms, were pictured with black cats, which became the symbol for rain for sailors. So it was raining cats and dogs if it was windy and pouring. Ah. Okay.

You guys are giving the reaction of, I've explained something, and you still don't understand what I've said. Oh, it still makes sense. Yeah, no, it's exactly what I was doing, Juliet. Juliet. Oh, yeah. It's really interesting. I don't know what it means. It's really interesting. I don't know what it means.

That is so random. So random. That's a good response when you don't know what it's really saying. They also said it's raining men as well, too, in the past, haven't they? That's true. Now, men are heavy. I'm a man. I'm not a man falling on you from above.

That is this morning's What Do You Mean? Coming up very shortly, Charlotte Ballas. It's been the biggest news in the country for the last three days. Has she got an MIQ spot or not? We'll tell you very shortly on The Hints. This is no frills news at its finest. We don't have your fancy graphics, your fancy news studio, or even your fancy news readers.

Just a guy out here giving it a bash and here he is, Ben Boyce. Yeah, well Charlotte Bellis, this has been the biggest news story in New Zealand for the last three days. Of course, she's the New Zealand reporter who's been stuck in Afghanistan. She's pregnant and she couldn't get home, couldn't get an MIQ spot and so she's sort of been taking on the government and talking about how unfair

the system is. Well now, she's been offered a spot. Funny enough now she's been offered a spot funny enough she's been offered a spot uh the government but nothing to do with what's going on great robinson yesterday as well no nothing you know she just won the lottery yeah nothing's timely uh but so it's awesome news that she's going to return to new zealand march to give birth to her first child uh and she's also going to continue to fight for others uh locked out of new ze well. Well, you know, if anything, this whole saga has really shone a light on the MIQ system and just some of the terrible situations some families and whānau are dealing with at the moment. Many of those stories weren't being broadcast or printed in paper.

So, yeah, it's quite nice, isn't it? And I'm sure Grant Robertson will be glad that that headache has now gone. Because it was dragging. It was dragging on and off. It was getting very messy. David Seymour from the ACT Party. We love his little new sound bites last night on the news. He had this to say.

The mask of kindness has slipped off the Ardern government. We're now outsourcing our maternity care to the Taliban. Yeah. I mean, it's not a great look when the world's biggest and most popular terrorist organisation are being more kind and caring than the MIQ system. Yeah, they were kind of giving a refuge

in Afghanistan, weren't they? And something else that was a bit of a slap in the face for Kiwis overseas, Tourism New Zealand adverts have just started up over a guy in America who's wanting to get home to New Zealand. He's saying, oh, there's tourism. Come to New Zealand, Ed. Starting up over there. And he's like, well,

firstly, you can't really. And secondly, I can't. He couldn't physically come to New Zealand. Can I come to New Zealand first? Before other people come to New Zealand? So there we go. That's a saga there. Hopefully we'll go away at some stage. I think the government meant yesterday to try and sort out a new plan for NYQ systems. Well, they're just saying scrap it, aren't they?

I think eventually that might happen. And I don't know if you're the same, but I feel like just give me Omicron. Let's just get it over and done with. I know. I agree. I'll book it in next week. I know. I'll do, you know, whatever.

I'll do my hard yards, get it done and move on with life. Are you the same? I'm the same. Yeah, but then there's the, it's not good for everyone. So that's the worrying thing in the healthcare system. Put it in my calendar. I'll block it out. I'll take some annual leave.

Oh no, it's a little bit of a scary thing. But yeah, I see what you mean. And this just quickly, the Winter Olympics is happening very shortly in China. And seven National Olympic committees have warned their teams not to take their own phones over there and to use burner phones. Because they're worried about the government over there hacking into their phones. So they're like, yeah, take burner phones over there. That's a good excuse for you to use now. You're like, oh, it's Chinese government.

It could be looking into it, you know, to be hacking. I remember going through the airport in China on the way as a stopover and not being able to, on my phone, not being able to use Facebook or Instagram, just like it didn't exist over there. Well, they've got their own internet, don't they? Own social media. Yeah, so it's like a platform that doesn't exist over there.

Also, a wonderful tale that you regaled from your journey to China was that they served raw octopus for breakfast. Just an octopus on a plate. And everyone did Tai Chi. The plane lights came on and the screen in front. It was actually really cool.

On the plane? On the plane, yeah. Everyone in your seats. And it was like a nice little way of waking up. Oh my goodness. It was quite a cool, unique experience as well. Way to start the day. A bit of Tai Chi and some octopus.

Yeah, exactly. That's great. And that is Scrolling Through Your Feet this morning. Hey Yeah, exactly. That's great. And that is scrolling through your feed this morning. Hey, next, on Friday it's happening. We're doing something, thanks to Rosene, where we could win you thousands of thousands of dollars. Yeah, we've got to stack a whole load of paint cans on top of each other. And next we're going to talk to a Guinness World Record stacker. This gentleman broke a record stacking M&Ms.

Yeah. The little chocolate treats, one on top of another. How many did he stack? And can he help us with our mission on Friday? He joins us from the UK next. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, Resene have a full range of paints, ideal for decorating everything from roofs and decks to ceilings and floors.

And they've set us a bit of a challenge to do with their paint cans. On Friday, Jono, you and I are going to be seeing how many paint cans, Resene paint cans we can stack, one on top of each other. Each can that we stack is worth $250 that we'll eventually give away to someone listening, but if they all fall over we get no money, so we have to work out

where to stop. Yeah, starting to stack ourselves over the stacking challenge, but that's going to be the point where if we push it too far, it's all gone. All the cash is gone, but we'll go be the point where if we push it too far, it's all gone. All the cash is gone, but we'll go to the first caller if we manage to pull out in time and get a whole load of money. And we're going to talk right now to a world record holder. Now, this is a Guinness World Record holder,

not our sham records, Ben, when they print them in the paper and they've got quotation marks with world record. Yeah, next day comedians, John O'Bier, they also have quotation marks. No quotation marks around this world record. His name is Will Cutbill and he joins us from the UK. Hello, Will. Hiya, how you doing? Or as they say in the UK,

hiya, how you doing? Wonderful language. It's a beautiful language. How are you, Will? I'm very well, thank you. I'm very well, how you doing? It's a pleasure to talk to a record holder, the only person on the face of the earth to ever stack five M&Ms, one on top of another. I know. What I claim to say, mate, I'm on

a par with Usain Bolt now, I reckon. Both world record holders. Now, when did you first discover that this was a record that you wanted to beat? Yeah, so I've always wanted to break a world record. Got the book for Christmas every year and wish my name was in it. And then we had a lockdown over here in England. It was rainy, miserable. Sunday afternoon, I thought, what a bad time to give this a crack. Gave it a Google, saw it was only four, and there we are. The rest is history. That's the thing. Like, when you look through the Guinness World Records,

you're like, oh, I'm never going to be able to grow my fingernails five kilometres long, or I'm never going to be able to swallow a car. Stacking M&M's on top of each other, it's achievable. It seems achievable, yeah. Yeah, definitely. And I was just eating a bag and messing about on the kitchen table started stacking them and i thought you know what there might be a record in this so four doesn't like four was the previous record you've now got five

it doesn't seem like not to talk down your record doesn't seem like quite a lot but i imagine it's quite tricky because the shapes are all you you know, not quite the same. Yeah, it's a bit like I would imagine balancing rugby balls on top of each other because they're not easy to stack. But I thought it'd be quite easy as well, which is why I gave it a go. And a couple of hours in, maybe I was regretting that. I was just going to say, how long did it take you? How many attempts? Yeah, it took me hundreds of attempts. It took me, I was saying going to say, how long did it take you? How many attempts? Yeah, it took me hundreds of attempts.

It took me, I was saying to my friends, I reckon if it was a bit later and the pubs were back open, maybe I wouldn't have spent so long trying to stack it. Yeah, well, you achieved something through lockdown. You and Boris, you both had fun during lockdown. Me and Boris, yeah. Wish I was doing what he was doing, though, by the sounds of it. What was that moment like though you you i imagine you would have stacked four and you're like hey i've equaled the record what was the moment like when you had to put that final m&m

on top were you nervous was your hand shaking oh yeah i'd stacked four i think it was twice and then knocked it over trying to put my fifth one on. So I didn't have very high hopes. And when it went on, I was, yeah, ecstatic, charging around the room. Now, being M&Ms, were your palms sweaty? Did you have vomit on your jersey, mum's spaghetti, that sort of thing? Yeah, delved into some mum's spaghetti, yeah. All good, though. I was shaky hands, but I managed to pull it out. Well, we are stacking.

We've got a far easier challenge, to be honest. We are stacking paint cans as high as we can, each can worth $250. And we need to pull out before they fall over. And then however much money we get, we give away to the audience. Being a stacker, a world record stacker, what is your one piece of advice? Oh, good question. Patience, I reckon. Don't be too quick with the

cans. Make sure you take your time, that's all I've got to say. Slowly balance them on. One on top of the other. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Absolutely, take your time. Oh, well, listen, pleasure talking to you. Thank you for your time. Patience is the key, Ben, boys. And slow placement of the cans

On top of each other Congrats on the record Will you keep safe Over there in the UK Alright mate And you guys And you And good luck

For your challenge Thank you very much Will that challenge Of course happening Friday Thanks to Rosene We can win you Thousands and thousands Of dollars

Friday morning Or not Yeah It is the hits The hits With Jono and Ben. Today we're talking about accidental online purchases and we had some great stories

you just heard before about the lady who signed up for Tinder. Tinder Premium. Who knew there was a premium option and accidentally billed it back to her ex-boyfriend's card. And Ben, this came off the back of your kids committing underage fraud on your credit card, buying Robux from Robux.

I didn't realise that Robux cost me actual bucks and not just the virtual dollars. Well, you'd assume, you know, if they said Robux, it kind of, it sounds costly to me. How about you, Juliet? Marginal, marginal. Yeah, I'm not entirely sure. Did you sort of factor it in the monopoly money category? Yeah, I kind of thought it was part of the game. I was like, yeah, get some Robux, get amongst it.

Buy a pineapple, whatever you need. But we had some great calls, as Ben said. Oh, well, it was just sort of like a mistake, really. Like I was bidding on a chicken on Trade Me. You were bidding on a chicken? I didn't realise I was ending up with over 1,000. It was 1,500 in the end. 1,500 chickens.

And he managed to house them all as well. Yeah. It took him weeks to find a home. Many homes for 1,500 chickens. And after the show we actually got a text and we thought we can't pass this opportunity up. It was tickling our commercial radio

udder, wasn't it Ben Boyce? That's right. I was tickling your udder And you were like Please stop doing that But we've got Amanda on the phone How are you? I'm really good How are you? We're doing well

You sound bright and bubbly For this hour Do you run a bright bubbly operation The whole time do you? Oh I try to I endeavour to So yeah She's 24 hours like a radio host

Listening to you Suddenly puts me in a good mood In the morning Oh thank you You're permanently living the life Of a breakfast radio host Where Listening to you certainly puts me in a good mood in the morning. Oh, thank you. You're permanently living the life of a breakfast radio host. Oh, bless your heart. We have to pretend to be upbeat and happy the whole time.

But Amanda, we're talking about AOPs, accidental online purchases, and you've got one, not involving you though. No, no. So I used to work for a great company in my previous life, and I was the contact center manager, national contact center manager. And one of our responsibilities was to look after, you know, online auction purchases, customers calling back and, you know, just concerning stuff. And this guy ran in absolute panic, asking us to reverse an online purchase we made. And we said, well, the T&C state that it's fine. Well, you can't do that. And he goes, oh, but I had a problem.

And we go, oh, tell us. And he goes, hey, look, I was watching a car and my dog accidentally pressed the buy now button. The dog? We're like, what? We asked him to explain and the dog was sitting on my lap and, you know, just sticking his paw out and when the dog

saw the picture of the car, he must have got excited and pressed the buy now button. Dog's like, we've got to get it now, it's a hot price! So it's definitely a dog's day, but no, obviously we couldn't reverse that sale because it was We've got to get it now. It's a hot price. So it's definitely a dog's day. But no, obviously we couldn't reverse that sale because it was, you know, he's the owner of that dog. So I tell you, we've heard some funny things, but that was by and large the best.

So the dog was the proud owner of the car. You couldn't reverse it. That's impressive, a dog buying a car. Yeah. Amanda, really appreciate your time. You have a great day. That's okay, a dog buying a car Amanda, really appreciate your time, you have a great day That's okay you guys, stay doing the good things and be awesome There you go You would assume that the mouse was hovering over the buy now button anyway The dog just forced the purchase The dog just scrolled up and sort of, you know, there you go

That's why you never take your dog dog shopping with you, Ben. I guess he's taught an old dog new tricks, though, so that's pretty good. Next, we've got Spy and Ricky Gervais wants to get cancelled. Yeah, it's one of his missions to get cancelled. I'll tell you. It seems to be the opposite

of every other comedian these days. Yeah, I know. But he is something special, isn't he? We'll tell you how next. Spy, the WhatsApp Spy I know. But he is something special, isn't he? We'll tell you how next. Spy. Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. You can put your device down and save your data because we've wasted our Wi-Fi

to bring you these meaningless stories. Juliet, what's happening in Spy? So Prince William has revealed a little parenting struggle that he has with George. Not quite Charlotte and Louis yet, as he says they're a little bit too young. But George has a sort of minor addiction to gaming. He just

loves gaming, and they find it hard to peel him away from the screen. And they have to try and regulate his screen time, but you know. Make him king now. That's what I say. We're playing Fortnite! Or can you just run the, you know, the colony? Yeah. No, it'll be Fortnite. I got second. Yeah,, you know, the colony? Yeah.

No. No, it'll be Fortnite. I got second. Yeah, so. Can I have some Robux? Robux. But I assume probably, I mean, George is probably, you know, he's just like any other normal kid,

except I think they've told him now that he's going to become king. They waited, I think, until his maybe eighth birthday or seventh birthday before they told him. But he's probably still just a kid, just wants to play Fortnite. they waited I think until his maybe 8th birthday or 7th birthday before they told him but he's probably still just a kid just wants to play

Fortnite and it would mean nothing to him like it's his family yeah as a child that's so true it's like when your dad

sits you down he's like one day all of this will be yours and George will be like okay I don't care yeah he's used to it it's his environment

he probably doesn't understand the mess, like how big of a deal it actually is. But as he grows up... One day you will have to sweep Prince Andrew's affairs under the rug. It'll be on you. I mean, he could use it to his advantage at school

if he was that way inclined. Oh, yeah. When I'm king, oh, but... He's got a lot of sway. He does. That's what one of us would be doing, but he's probably not.

He's probably far more... On that note, I wonder if kids in his class know or are aware what that would mean or if they're just as unaware as he is. It's a great power play, isn't it? With the teachers like I'm going to keep you to detention. Oh, okay.

Are you? Are you? The future king. You're going to hold behind after school, are you? But they do seem pretty down to earth so I imagine they're not that way inclined. They definitely do. And Ricky Gervais is kind of on a bit of a mission to try and get himself cancelled. So he has got a new stand-up show coming up called Armageddon

and he says he's treating it like it's his last one ever. It won't be, but he wants to put everything into it and actually just not hold anything back. Well, in the past, he's made some jokes that you're like, whoa, jeez. And this next one that I'm about to play is probably quite minor for him. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton, basically. What? Bit louder, bit trashier, bit drunker. And more easily bought.

Savage! I love people in those situations they don't know whether they should laugh or not. They have cameras on the people. Don't put a camera on me. I love that. They've cut back to George Clooney as he said that joke

and they're like, oh my God, gobsmacked. But he's worth $140 million, so he can afford to get cancelled. Yeah, true. 60 years old, he's probably going to go out with a bang. Can retire. He's 60,

Jesus is ungrowing. He looks good for 60, doesn't he? He does look fantastic. Have you seen Afterlife? No, but I really want to watch it. It's a really good show.

Yeah. Really heartfelt show, in the mix. You know, some funny jokes. Very dark. I remember seeing the first trailer, when he walked,

I'm not going to obviously say what he says, but he walks up, walks past a school. I remember seeing the first trailer when he walked, I'm not going to obviously say what he says, but he walks up, walks past a school. Oh, with the redhead child. Yes. That was shocking. Rupiah Skaggler.

Outrageous. So good. That is outrageous. And that is your Spy Update for the South. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz.

After seven o'clock and about seven minutes time, I'm going to put you to the test, Jono. Well, you've already put me to the test. He made me call Laura McGoldrick,

our afternoon host, after the show yesterday. Now, I have to loan something off her, to borrow something. To borrow something off her. Now, I have a professional relationship with Laura,

but it's not a phone up and ask to borrow something. What did you say when Jono asked to borrow something quite important to her? We'll find out after seven on the hits. 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. Yesterday I got hit up about something. Someone we work with who had been a mate of mine for many years. I borrowed something off this person years ago and it's got to the stage where i actually forgotten that i had this thing it's still my garage it's

a cricket helmet we use for a sketch for an old tv show how many years ago did you borrow this helmet like i'd say almost 20 years ago 20 years oh my god and the helmet's owner hasn't let go of it no it's got it's like i saw it last night in the garage. I still didn't bring it in though. It's got as far as my doorway, but it's still got his name in it. It's got his name. Is that inside? It's definitely his property.

I mean, it's getting to the point where you almost either just need to change your name and get a new passport and leave the country, or you're going to have to murder him. I've had it longer than I think he's owned by a long stretch. 20 years. Yeah. 20 years. 20 years, yeah. Yeah, we're going to get to murder him. I've had it longer than I think he's owned. 20 years! 20 years, yeah. Yeah, we're going to get into longest loaners. 0800 the hits, 4487 on the text machine as well. Longest time maybe you've lent something out and it hasn't returned,

or you've held on to something. Can you beat Ben Boyce's 20-year cricket helmet? I mean, when does it become yours? I thought it was mine now, but obviously he doesn't think it is. But yesterday I thought I'd put you to the test and see if you could loan something off someone we work with at the radio station.

Now, Laura McGoldrick, Brad and Laura, they do a great job on the new afternoon show here at the Hits. Yeah. And you know, you get on with Laura, but it wouldn't say you're like your best of mates. Yeah, no, we're colleagues. Not because you don't like, because you don't, you know,

but it's just because you're not mates. You know, who wants to be mates with you? No one. No one wants best of mates. Yeah, no, we're colleagues. Not because you don't, but it's just because you're not mates. Who wants to be mates with you? No one. No one wants to be mates. Like I've only got her on my phone as Laura and there's no text messages. There's no previous communication in there. Lovely lady.

We've got a professional relationship. And you said, why don't you phone up and see if you can borrow her car to transport compost. Oh my God. Yeah, I do compost. Our relationship's great, but it's definitely not said why don't you phone up and see if you can borrow her car to transport compost oh my god yeah you know we're doing compost yeah relationship's great but it's definitely not at the borrow your car to transport compost status yeah so we thought i did not feel 100%

comfortable asking this question our relationship's not even can i borrow your swipe card to go to the toilet you know we're not even that that little yeah so you plugged my phone in to uh to a cable so the call was coming straight from me. It didn't even look like it was coming from the studio. And we found out that she drives an SUV, so we thought, well, that would be great for picking up compost. The ideal car wasn't ideal. Have a listen.

Hello? Hey, mate, how are you? Good, how are you? Good, good, good. Sorry to interrupt you. Have I got you at a good time, bad time? Yeah, no, you're absolutely fine. How are you going? Yeah, Good, good, good. Sorry to interrupt you. Have I got you at a good time, bad time? Yeah. No, you're absolutely fine.

How are you going? Yeah, no, good, good. Sorry, this is a really weird question. Go for it. Have you got an SUV by any chance? An SUV? Like, I have a Ford Everest. An Everest.

Is that an SUV? Well, yeah, yeah. I was just, because I've just got a tiny car, and I was just needing to pick up some compost from the garden center this afternoon. So I was just wondering if I could borrow the car, and then I'll drop it back before the end of your show. Yeah, that's fine. Is that okay?

Yes, my car's a pigsty, and I don't have time to clean it to pretend that it's not. Sorry, no, that's fine. It was just people around the office said you it's not. Sorry, no, that's fine. It was just people around the office said you had the SUV. So, yeah, that's awesome. Thank you so much, Laura. It's all right. Laura, it's Jono and Ben here. Jono doesn't need to borrow your car.

We're just saying if you'd line him a car, if you'd let him borrow it, you would. It was too easy. You were sweet. Yeah, I would, but I was genuinely looking at the car thinking, oh, shit. Yeah, no, but there's no questions about that. I was going to get a load of compost in there. Compost in your car?

You're like, hey, whatever. No. What a wonderful, lovely person you are. Don't get me wrong. I was going to hang up the phone and ring up and go, the weirdest thing just happened. Jono wanted to borrow the car. To transport compost. I don't even think he knows my surname, but that's okay.

He's going to take the car. No worries. There you go. You can borrow Laura's car for compost. There you go. There's Laura Goldriddle. Thank you for your time, Laura. There you go.

So very generous. It's a reflection on how generous and lovely she is and also a reflection on how random you are. I guess it would be something Jono would do Okay, so loaning The longest loaners, that's what we're after this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast How long have you lent something out for? How long have you actually had someone else's item for?

Get in touch with us now Rated M for mildly amusing Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast We want to talk about the longest time you've either given something out to someone, loaned it to someone, or you've had something, loaned an item off someone. Longest loaners. I don't really like loaning things to people, because you know, I always know

you're never going to get back. No, well that was my mum, I just had one message throughout my childhood, and it was, never a borrower nor a lender be. And you know those things your mums just say over and over that it just eventually turns into white noise. Yeah.

But now as an adult, I fully understand what she's saying. It's because if you do lend something out, don't expect it back. Look, I love being generous to people and I love to help people out, but I know that nine times out of ten when you go, hey, yeah, have this. And for some reason it's always awkward for you to ask for the item back. You're sort of almost apologetic. You go, yeah. Listen, I know it's mine, but sorry, have this. And for some reason, it's always awkward for you to ask for the item back. You're sort of almost apologetic. Yeah.

Listen, I know it's mine, but I'm sorry. Have you found it? I had a hoodie that I wore when you went home last time. I was like, can I have it? Can I just, you know? You hope that the person would go, oh, here's your thing back, you know? Yeah, but they don't because they get on with their life. Yeah.

And that's how you've ended up borrowing a cricket helmet for 20 years. Yeah, true. Ollie, you're on from Christchurch. Longest loaners, what have you got? Well, I borrowed a book off one of my school friends back in primary school in like 2006. Well, that's a good stint. And then the next year I moved schools

and forgot to give it back, and I still have it. Still got the book. Well, you hear those stories of libraries who are like, we've got an overdue book for 45 years. The late fees are in the thousands. And I imagine that sort of thing, too, also happened with video shops back in the day. People would still have Top Gun on VHS from United Video or Video Easy.

Do you reckon they want it back now, United Video? They've just written out the technology. That's a huge win for the renter there, isn't it? Because you get banned for the DVD. Remember you get banned for shamed on a wall on the DVD shop? Margaret hasn't returned five DVDs. And the biggest

problem was not rewinding it as well. Oh my god. There's some old men rambling about old technology, Ollie. Did you enjoy that mate? Yeah. You don't know how good you've got it these days. Have a good one.

Thank you. Appreciate it. You're on from Taranaki. Emily, how are you? Good, thanks. How are you guys? We're doing really well. It's great to talk to you.

Longest loners? We lent out our spare car to a guy, a friend of ours, for a weekend so he could go do a job. It took us over six months to get it back because he passed it on to somebody for drugs and we had to get the cops to help us. Oh, no. So he loaned it to someone else and then it got used for illegal activity. Were they good drugs? I'm pretty sure it was meth or something. Not a bad deal.

Not a bad deal. That's all right. Keep you going. Productivity is something. Oh, yeah, not a bad deal. Not a bad deal. That's all right. That's all right. Keep you going. Productivity is up. Oh, jeez. So you eventually got the car back through the police or not? Yeah, yeah, we did.

After trying to contact them for months, I reported it stolen, and it got picked up on a security camera at a Zed station, and we had it back within a couple of weeks. And you had no idea. We had no idea. It was like he just kept spinning stories. He's like, yeah, yeah, nah, nah, yeah, I'm going to come out this weekend, mate. I just broke up with my missus.

I'm just moving. And eventually he just stopped replying. Some good delay tactics. When anyone starts with, yeah, yeah, nah, nah. There's questions to be asked. There is. Well, I'm glad you got your car back. And it was very generous of you to lend it out for six months to God knows who.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. I appreciate it, Emily. Zoe from Tauranga, welcome. Longest loaners, what is it? Address to my sister in 2011. And now it's 2022. Oh, that's 11 years later. You're like, are you going to get back in 2011. And now it's 2022. Oh, that's 11 years later. You're like, are you going to get back? Yeah. Are you ever going to give me my

dress back? Yeah, it's probably gone out of fashion now. Yeah, probably. Yeah, right. Beautiful dress. We'll make a public service announcement. Let's call her out on the radio, Zoe. Well, if Jacinda ever lets her in the country to visit me, she can bring it. Oh, yeah. She's got a good option with the MIQ thing at the moment.

Can't get in, can't get in. Thank you very much for your calls, New Zealand. Really appreciate it. Hey, Nick, so we're talking a wee bit about the biggest game of 2022, Wordle. It's been sold. It's already been sold. The game has been sold.

How much did it sell for? We'll tell you in just a few moments. Scrolling through your feed. This news bulletin was prepared just 30 seconds ago in a mad rush. And I tell you what, listening to it, you'll definitely know that. It's been boys with scrolling. It's been at least 45 seconds I've had this prepared. Now, the creator of the online viral game Wordle,

where everyone's talking about at the moment, we talked about it a lot, like what the heck is Wordle? We have to guess. We talked about it once. A couple of times. He's trying to make the show sound in touch. Yeah, but it's now been sold to the New York Times. So Wordle's been sold.

So I'm not sure if it will continue to be on its own website or if they'll be the only place that'll have it. Or part of its charm was that it was so underground. Now it's gone to the big leagues. Is it going to be bigger and better and more popular? Well, I think it's probably a cool idea for the New York Times. You know, people will go to be bigger and better and more popular? Well, I think it's probably a cool idea for the New York Times. People go to their page to play the game,

but over seven figures is the amount that the creator got. Was it a Kiwi creator, did you say? No, Kiwi's help made it famous. Oh, that's right. By taking out, we're kind of the first to embrace it on Twitter and share it. And I think in New Zealand they added an extension to it where you could post your scores. Share it, yeah. Yeah, so New Zealand's paid a pivotal role in this sale.

If anything, he should be giving New Zealand at least a quarter of that money. The team of $5 million can have a dollar of his $5 million or whatever he earned from that. And one of the greatest sports people of all time has retired. Tom Brady, American footballer. He's been playing for 22 seasons. Jeez, he's 44 years old. 22 seasons. He's 44 years old 22 seasons He's 44 years old

It's incredible They call him the goat One of the greatest Footballers ever And have a listen To this little bit Of commentary I mean this screams

America Throws it to the end zone For Ken Broughton He's leaping He's got it He's got it He's got it Brady's back

That's your quarterback Who left the building! Unicorns! Show ponies! Unicorns! Unicorns! USA! USA! They definitely jumped in their tank and fired some machine guns after that game. Tom Brady, of course, married to model Giselle Bündchen as well.

44 years old, as you said. But this is an amazing tale, I think, about never giving up. He was drafted, obviously, 22 years ago. 198 players were ahead of him, were chosen ahead of him. Six of them play in the position of quarterback that he played in. And when he first started on the team, he was their fourth-string quarterback when he played for the Patriots at the start. And eventually it took a few injuries for him to get his first start.

And from then on, he's gone to be one of the greatest players, if not the greatest player of all time. Now, you do wonder, how can someone play that game for so long? He's quarterback, right? So he's not getting tackled. For the most part,

getting tackled and beaten up is... He's kind of protected. I mean, if his defense doesn't do a good job, he still gets tackled, and he's obviously kept himself in amazing condition. But he's the guy that throws the ball to get all the touchdowns. So he gets all the glory, doesn't get

hurt, that's my kind of position. Other people take the hit for you. Put me in, put me on, coach, put me on. No, but well done. That's a great career. That's like Richie McCaw still playing at 44 years old. Yeah, and he's kind of like the America's Richie McCaw. I mean, very

incredible, so yeah. Unicorns! Beautiful photocopiers! Windows and rubbish bins! I'm naming things I can see. And that is scrolling through your feed. Next on the show, Jono, you've been accused by something. Yeah, I've been accused of something by my wife. Now, clearly it's not going to be too serious or personal,

or else I wouldn't be sharing it after this three-minute song. Is Jono having an affair? We'll find out. He's going to tell us next. It is the hits. Welcome to Two Half-Assed Dads to a Half-Assed Job. Official title, Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast.

Now my wife, Jen, she's been accusing me lately, over the last, been going on for the last couple of months, of something. And it's overthinking. Now I don't know if you're in this position as well, Ben Boyce or Julius as well, where you get supermarket shopping delivered.

Sometimes they turn up in the truck, you know. And given protocol nowadays, you've got to stay indoors while the person in the truck unloads the items next to the front door or whatever. Well, it's probably like we get a courier package and things like that. Now, you probably shouldn't take it off the person. You probably should let them put it down, right? True, yes. Now, this is, you know, one of my life's joys was light banter with the delivery driver.

You know, the truck delivery driver. I'd help the driver take stuff out of the truck. Hey, Mo, you done all busy day today? That's so classic. You love all that stuff, eh? Honestly. Love the light banter. And now I've been locked inside. I've been locked inside. This will be your worst night. you know you love all that stuff honestly love the light banter and now

I've been locked inside I've been locked inside this will be your worst night we've been held back from light banter and then if someone saw it and goes

oh there's Jono inside oh he was a bit of a dick he didn't come out and say anything that's what you'd be in your head yeah my insecure narcissistic side

and so Jen's like don't go outside and so I'm like a dog whose owners have left for the day and he's just waiting at the window for them to return and he's just waiting at the window for them to return and i'm just waiting at the window watching the delivery guy and i can tell

he's kind of going he's like kind of looking at me a little strange and each basket he drops down i'm like thanks mate just try i'm trying to get some conversation going through the window and the first two baskets when i go thanks mate thank you thanks thanks every basket The first couple, he's like, yeah, great, great, great. And I'm just trying to get some conversation flowing through the window. But then he starts to pretend that he can't hear me. Oh, my God, John. Why don't you just pretend you're not home at that moment? Just take yourself away.

What, like lie on the floor or something? Just don't even be by the door. You don't have to be by the door. They'll put it there and then they'll go. She's like, stop thinking. Jeez, you've thanked this guy like eight, nine times. On any day, a two to four thank you is probably my average. But you get to hate it.

Oscar, my son, he's also inherited the LB chromosome, the light banded chromosome. Yes, it's so funny. Yeah, and I've come home over the last week or so. We've got a tree by the fence. I see him hanging in the tree just talking to strangers. He was talking through his ultimate Avengers with the road worker the other day. And then Jen came out and she was in the tree and was talking to the rubbish worker about his favourite NBA teams.

So he's engaging the public as they're walking past random strangers pedestrians you name it it's like going out with Jono going out with Jono it's like going out

with a politician you know that is so true you go walk into a cafe or something and he's like get out mate how you doing

get out do you ever get tired of just like constantly talking that's why he goes to sleep straight away as soon as he stops talking he goes to sleep

you must get exhausted you're like I just can't be bothered talking to people shaking hands kissing babies a lot of times people are like probably why you don't go out

I'm done I'm talking if you're like just space that out across the time so good we've got $5,000 for grabs very shortly

it's our game five words 5k it is that five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association. We play it every morning at this time on the hits.

We need a winner this year. We haven't had a winner so far. So hopefully today we can match five words and give someone $5,000. This is our wordle. Isn't it? It is our daily wordle. And just as popular all over the globe too. Welcome Tanya and Whangarei.

How are you? Hello, I'm good. How are you guys? Oh, good. You sound like you've had your Weet-Bix. You've had your up and go, and you're good to go. I'm apt to play. How many coffees under the belt, Tanya?

None. I'm just about to order one before I order. I'll give them a call. Oh, nice. Ben, boy, you're tipping the seven or eight coffees a day at the moment. I'm very concerned. Pulled it back. Pulled it back.

But a single shot seeing you never more. That's scum. This consumption is out of control, Tanya. Anyway, $5,000 up for grabs. Who would you like to send into the soundproof booth to match words with? Producer Juliet. Oh, Juliet. All right, hopefully she's your lucky charm for 2022.

She comes off the bench every now and then, Juliet. Yeah, Tanya. All right, hopefully she's your lucky charm for 2022. She comes off the bench every now and then, Julie. Yeah, all right. Now, we'll see if we can suck some words out of your mouth and Juliet sucks those same words out of her mouth and win you $5,000 cash. Okay, Tanya, your first word this morning is bacon. Bacon. And eggs.

Are you going and eggs or just the eggs there, Tanya? What are you locking in? Bacon and eggs. And eggs. So are we allowed to say and eggs, producer B Humps? It's okay? So and eggs has to be what? Okay, yeah, and eggs.

All right. It's a wonderful combination of food, isn't it? I would put that out there as one of my top five combos of food, up with ham and mayonnaise. Ham and mayonnaise. You're a food bugger, aren't it? I would put that out there as one of my top five combos of food. Up with ham and mayonnaise. Ham and mayonnaise. You're a food bugger, aren't you? Dyson. Dyson is word number two.

Dyson. Vacuum. Vacuum. All right. Speaking of sucking words out of mouth, the vacuum cleaner would suck some words out of your mouth. Indeed. All right.

Laugh is word number three. Laugh. L-A-U-G- of your mouth. Indeed. All right. Laugh is word number three. Laugh. L-A-U-G-H. Funny. Funny for that one. T is word number four. T. T.

T. T-E-A. T. Coffee. T, coffee. What you haven't had already. Hopefully that's in the producer. Producer Juliet heard that conversation.

Hopefully she's thinking the same. And P is the final one. P e oh peel sorry there's a typo on that okay peel okay sorry p e e l peel p e e l peel um as in peel did you say t or P? P for Peter. P-E-E-L. Yeah. Oh, P, peel. Peel, yeah. Sorry, I made this way more confusing than it needs to be.

Jesus, Ben. Peel. I just said peel. Peel. Orange. Yeah, I heard that as well. Yeah, peel and orange. That was fumbly.

That was some sloppy work from all of us there. I'm sorry. Come on, Juliet. All right, Juliet is back out of the South River. Juliet, we weren't great during that. You guys weren't? No, we weren't great. We won't chalk this up as one of our finer episodes of Five Words.

We'll be hearing about this in the post-show meeting. But you, right now, you can be great, especially for Tanya, okay? Yeah. Here we go. Let's see if you can match with Tanya. The first word we said to her was bacon. Bacon. Eggs.

What did you say? She said and eggs. Oh, you're joking. Now, this is where we had a debate. We did. We talked about this to Tanya, didn't we? Gosh. Tanya. Yes.

Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, that's so rough. That is so rough. That's not to say that you would have had an absolute shocker. Okay, can we go through the rest? Even though it started like that. Dyson was word number two. Vacuum.

Well done. Laugh was word number two. Vacuum. Well done. Laugh was word number three. Smile. Tea. T-E-A, tea. Coffee. Ooh, and peel. P-E-E-L, peel.

Orange. Oh, not bad. Oh, what is that? Was that three? That was not bad, Tanya. Three, almost four. Damn. Oh, I'm so annoyed.

Tanya, you have yourself a great day. Tanya's so angry she's not even saying anything. I can barely speak at the moment. Oh, I'm so annoyed. Tanya, you have yourself a great day. Tanya's so angry she's not even saying anything. I can barely speak at the moment. I'm sorry, Tanya. I'm so sorry. Let's just all agree, no one's more gutted than Tanya this morning. Oh, I feel so sad. It's a dark day, Tanya.

Taking the wind out of her sails. I'd rather have lost by two than just by one. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Hey, Tanya, thank you so much for playing. Someone has another chance tomorrow. Have a good one. Well, I'll tell you what, that's true. That's true. Hey, Tanya, thank you so much for playing. Someone has another chance tomorrow. Have a good one. Well, I'll tell you what,

you just broke Tanya's heart and now Dua Lipa. Spy. No, what's up? Spy.co.nz Here's some stories about people whose faces don't move. Juliet.

So yesterday we talked about Joe Rogan, how he posted a sort of 10-minute long video on his Instagram yesterday responding to all the controversy around his podcast about Joe Rogan, how he posted a 10-minute long video on his Instagram yesterday, responding to all the controversy around his podcast and how a couple of episodes have probably given the wrong information regarding COVID. I was getting the impression, I haven't heard the podcast, so I haven't delved too much into it, but just when you hear the news, I was under the impression he was full anti-vax

and peddling anti-vax misinformation. But then when he broke it down in his video yesterday, it was like, it's two episodes, I had two doctors on. And to be honest, I'm not a doctor. I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, he's like, they're well-respected doctors. And he was getting their opinion in amongst other episodes where he was getting opinions from other people by the sound of it

who were also pro-vaccination. Yeah. So he has different episodes with lots of different perspectives. And he kind of said, maybe from now on, if I have someone who's got one perspective, the very next episode,

right after it, maybe I get the complete opposite perspective rather than sort of spacing those episodes out. But one of your favourite people, Ben Boyce, has voiced his support

for Joe Rogan, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. So on the Instagram post that Joe Rogan posted, Dwayne said, great stuff here, brother. Perfectly articulated. Look forward to coming on one day and breaking out the tequila with you. And I

can agree with The Rock. It was quite well articulated. It was really well. Yeah. Dwayne Johnson and Joe Rogan in the same room, that is too much protein. Too much protein in one room for anyone to handle. Can you imagine the testosterone pouring out of that podcast, Ben Boyce? That would be dripping all over you, Ben.

You would love it. Joe Rogan, Dwayne Johnson. I know. That would be quite a good podcast episode, though, I must say. And David Beckham has revealed that Victoria Beckham has eaten the same meal every day for 25 years. Oh, my God. What? So she hasn't really, um, she hasn't

really branched out much. The meal is grilled fish and vegetables, and the only time she's probably ever shared something that's been on David's plate was when she was pregnant with Harper. I think Harper's maybe like 8 or 9 now, um, and he said it was the most amazing thing that she could actually enjoy a meal that was the

same. She's eaten grilled fish and vegetables every day for 25 years. So that means that's dinner every night. Yeah, dinner. Or if she doesn't have it for dinner and she goes out for dinner, then she might have it for lunch. This is what I'm assuming. But she makes sure she always has it. 25 years. I know.

That is outrageous. Have you eaten the same? You eat quite irregularly. You eat a lot of hummus. We joke about that. Not the same meal. I mean irregularly. You eat a lot of hummus. We joke about that. Not the same meal. I mean, she's killed more fish than Clark Gayford. Although I wonder if she varies it.

Like, she has salmon one day, then teraki another day, snapper another day, or if it's just the same fish. I don't know, but that's unsurprising. That's incredible. Yeah, I'm surprised. Well, someone should educate her. There are other meals out there. Yeah, I know. You know, consistency, I guess. There are other meals out there. Yeah, I know.

You know, consistency, I guess you probably don't have to think about it. Healthy meal too, healthy. Probably a busy person, busy schedule. Yeah, she's great, yeah. Doesn't have to think about what to buy from the supermarket because she always knows what she's going to get. It's probably quite easy. HelloFresh or something.

Turn up your door, mix it up. Exactly. That is Spy for the South. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we're doing 28 good deeds in 28 days for the month of February. We did our first deed yesterday and

it was dirty, dusty, hot and that was just Ben making love. What? That was after we'd done the deed. We did the deed and then we did a good deed. Please stop talking now. We'll tell you our actual good deed after 8 o'clock. Stick around.

It is the hits. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right and at the end of the day. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. The hits were all cool.

Thanks to Singshot, we call out a bunch of names at 8 o'clock. We do it throughout the day. You can register at thehits.co.nz. You have one song to call back to be in the draw for an amazing price. That's right, $5,000 and some four Chromebooks. And Jackie Sampson from Nelson, you could be getting your fingers in amongst those Chromebooks. Sounds good.

Doesn't it? And I tell you what, we're doing good deeds. We're doing 28 of them over 28 days in February. We're going to give you $100 cold, hard, throbbing cash there, Jax. Fantastic. Thank you very much. Good on you. Another chance at 10 o'clock.

You can register at thehits.co.nz. Now, we're in February, and every day this month, we're trying to do 28 good deeds in 28 days. And yesterday, we did our first deed. We went and mowed the lawns at Lana's place. In Onihanga. Yeah, it was a moment of realisation for me, Ben,

and I don't know if it was the same for you, where have we just created an entire month of work outside of our work? Yeah. Unpaid work outside of our regular day job. Is this what we're doing?

Yeah, this wasn't what I was thinking when we thought we'd go into the good deeds, but you have got a job for us. You can hit us up at thehits.co.nz. But here's what happened. We went to mow the lawns. This is Lana's house. And Lana, the lawn, a bit overgrown.

A little bit. Just a little bit. A little bit overgrown. What's the back story of the lawn? Someone had an injury, right? Your husband? My husband needed surgery on his shoulder. And he had that in October.

And then on Christmas Eve, he had a car accident and pulled his shoulder back to basically what it was before. Oh, so the lawns have been unattended for a while now. And I noticed a car there with a bit of the grass growing up on top of it too. So do you want us to work around that? Yes, please. Okay, we'll do that. We've got the weed whacker. Is there anything that we need to look out for down, because we can't see what's in the grass, what could be in there?

A cat. A cat. I'll say that now. Okay, we'll do this very carefully. How's it going? You know how I said at the beginning of this, it was my dream to own a lawn mowing business? Hopefully everyone can hear you right now. I'm struggling. But yeah. It's no longer my dream. Do you ever wonder if anyone will drive past and go, I wonder what ever happened to those two guys from TV?

And then they'll see us do that and they'll go, yeah, I picked it. Then we'll end up doing something like that. So we've always said we're grassroots, Ben, and we lived up to it yesterday. We've got Lana with us on the phone. How was the work, Lana? Were you happy with the job? Oh, absolutely. It's brilliant. Thank you very much.

You do realise there was a car in your backyard, eh? You know that, because we discovered that. Yeah, I know that. I tried to convince my husband that it was me that did all the lawn mowing, but he didn't believe me. Well, Alyssa, I must admit I was a little concerned when we turned up

and the grass was taller than Stephen Adams. But we got through it relatively quickly. It actually didn't take that long. So, we hope the deed helped you out,

Dara. Absolutely. I really appreciate it. It was a brilliant job. Oh, thank you very much. And Jono, now we've booked you

in Fort Knightley to go back and do it for Lada. Yeah, there you go much. And Jono, now we've booked you in Fort Knightley to go back and do it for Lana. Yeah, there you go. If only my hair grew like that grass. Then I'd have a lot of weeds as hair. But anyway, Lana, it was lovely to meet you. You're an absolute champion.

Thank you for having us at your house. Thank you again. Only 27 days to go. Yeah, we really appreciate you listening. Thank you. Thank you. Keep safe there, Lana. So if you would like us to do a deed, we're doing 28 in 28

days. Just text 4487 what the deed is. And next, in fact, let's get some good deed stories on. On the air. 0800 the hits. Have you had someone do a good deed for you? Do you want to nominate someone who's been doing good deeds? Yeah, let's get one of a Kiwi Hero on next.

Or a couple that are doing good deeds helping out. Just up the guts. Good old heartfelt radio, Ben. Yeah. All right. It'll be nice if there's a lot of bad news going around. It's one of the cockles of that cold Ben Boy's heart. Yeah, stick around because we are going to feel good next.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Warning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. It is The Hits. Jono and Ben, throughout the month of February, we're trying to do 28 good deeds in 28 days, and we wanted to know on the text.

And we're going to do six bad ones as well, like terrible, terrible things. But 4487 on the text, who's been doing good deeds for the community, or maybe for you? Some great texts coming through. There's some good people out there, aren't there? And this man was actually nominated who we've managed to track down. His name's Morgan.

How are you? Not bad yourself. No, good. Now, I understand you've been a truck driver for what, like 30 years? 31, coming up 32 this month. Rubber ducky. Truckies say rubber ducky. 10-4, that's right.

Now, Morgan, this is some heartfelt stuff going on here You're doing a good deed Out of the goodness of that big trucking heart of yours Yeah Well, I'm cutting rescue dogs all around the country I guess Ever since COVID hit Just to help out

Not many people could travel at the time So basically I just got into it, and it's just carried on from there. So this isn't your, like, your job is to drive, you're driving trucks. You're doing this on top of driving trucks. You're transporting dogs to new owners. Yeah, yeah.

During level four, when no one could travel, I was still, you know, going on the anti-is island ferry and so on so i could get these um cool little animals to all their um new owners or humans as i call them how many dogs have you carted around the country i i'm not too sure but it's it's somewhere in the range of 150 to 200 oh my god yeah yeah it's a few. How many days would they travel with you in your truck? It's generally only for 12 hours, although I have had some stay one or two nights at home with me. The great thing about dogs is every dog's

got a different personality. Do you bond with them? Are there some that are harder to let go of than others? Absolutely. I bond with most of them but yeah, I've shed a tear for the odd one. Aww. Yeah, of them, but yeah, I've shed a tear for the odd one. Yeah, I know, I know, but it happens, especially if they're overnight with us. Oh, it's a wonderful thing you're doing. It must also keep you company, though, in the truck as well.

Yeah, it's really good. A lot of people only see the good side of it, but I do end up cleaning up ones and twos and threes. Oh, nice. There's a dark side. It's not publicly talked about, but we know what goes on, Morgan, and we take our hat off to you. Thank you. It can be a challenge. Has it happened inside the cab? Yes, it has. I mean, all these dogs and pups are cuddled inside my truck, in the cab, in the sleeper, on the bed.

But they're generally in crates. But I have had the odd incident that's wound up on my driver's seat and so on. Well, to me, those dogs feel better, so have I. And I don't have a dog in the car. I'm all in the truck. What a wonderful thing you're doing for people. That's so awesome. Thank you.

Listen, you're just a better human being than I'll ever be. Yeah. And it's great to have New Zealanders like you in the country. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Just doing my part. These are the stories we need at the moment, aren't they?

Yeah. It's not hard to do this when you're an animal lover, is it? So, as I say, it does come with its challenges. aren't they yeah yeah it's not it's not hard to do this when you're an animal lover is it so um uh as i say it does come with its challenges but at the end of the day it's um it's rewarding so yes i'm happy great so why don't we have more of these stories pretend covert's not a thing yeah then we'll wake up one day and we'll just be gone yeah that'd be nice oh wouldn't that be nice that'd be nice all right morgan well like i like some of the animals we're gonna have to say goodbye now it's gonna be hard but we're going to say goodbye. That's fine.

You're not going to shed any tears if I say goodbye to us at all? I'm going to have to fight them back, but I'll do my best, Dave. Well, I noticed, actually, Ben, you might just want to, before we hang up, clean up after Ben over there in the corner. Just give a little. Yeah, yeah. Done it again, Morgan. Always new ones in here, eh?

Hey, Morgan, lovely to talk to you. And yeah, it's amazing what you're doing. So keep it up. Thank you. And good to talk to you guys too. Have a good one, eh? Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB.

In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The hits. Now, you might have seen a lot of talk in the news or in your social media feeds about NFTs. All the celebrities seem to be buying NFTs. And we're like, what the heck is this? NFT to me sounds like an energy drink Bogans would consume. Yeah.

We had no idea. We still had no idea what it is, but we wanted to find out together. So at least when the conversation is going on, you're like, okay, I kind of understand what this is all about. You just don't know, smile and nod your head. And we're joined now by a former broadcaster. He's an entrepreneur, he's a businessman. His name's Brook Howard-Smith, and he's also an NFT expert. Brook, how's it going?

Listen, I'm fantastic. I'm standing on beautiful Waiheke Island. It's lovely. And just enjoying a great Kiwi, probably the best weather Kiwi summer I can remember. Oh, yeah, man. got you guys back at the grindstone, eh? Back at the grindstone, yeah. Back to it, yeah.

If you can call talking words into a microphone the grindstone, that's what we're doing, mate. Hard labour, hard labour. Hard labour. Hey, Brook, I wanted to talk to you about NFTs. Now, it's an acronym I keep hearing and I keep smiling and nodding politely, pretending like I know what it is and what I'm talking about when people mention it.

And it keeps popping up on my feeds on the internet. Oh, I've just signed up to the NFT universe. Yeah, you see celebrities doing it. Justin Bieber, Jimmy Fallon, Paris Hilton, they've all got their NFTs. And we're like, what the heck is this? What is it all about? Do I need to get that injection? Will it keep me safer?

Well, yeah, it is. It's like, it was the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year in 2021. And if you remember like about seven years ago when people bored you with CrossFit at a barbecue and then about four years ago it was cryptocurrency. This year's barbecue bore us. It's important, if you're out there, to be able to kind of at least recognize a couple of the key terms and feed something into the conversation so you look like you know what you're talking about.

That's all I'm wanting. I'm just wanting to dip Mateo into the chat. Oh, he's across it and then back out. Dumb it down. So, NFTs. So, what I know, NFTs stands for non-fungible token. Is that right? Fungible.

Fungible. It's an interesting word. It's actually a word that's been around forever, but no one had ever really used it and then boom it's this big word fungible just means interchangeable right so now non-fungible tokens do you want me to do this like the way that i do it when i'm explaining it yeah and any boomers and a boomer as well yeah exactly nfts are the building blocks of the metaverse. That's all you need to say at the barbecue, and then just, like, drift off.

I heard NFTs are the building blocks of the metaverse, and I'm out. Boom, done. That's the only sentence. From what I've kind of gathered is you can buy, say, a piece of art, and it's a digital version of that art. So it's not art that you're hanging on your wall in your lounge. It's living in this digital space and you can collect various pieces

and does it just stop with art or does it go on to other things like... Yeah, collectibles, anything. And so you have a wallet, a digital wallet, and you can see what you've collected and everyone can see what you've collected. And the only way to own an object, a digital

object, is an NFT. That's is an nft that's why nft supply that's why mark zuckerberg has gone all in on metaverse and nfts it's why google and amazon and all these people are freaking out the the name metaverse freaks me out it's a wild name and all i know is that the uh you know the blockchain is is available uh all I know is that the blockchain is available. All you know is... He didn't quite get it right, did you? You've forgotten what to say. Everything in the metaverse is an NFT. Everything in the metaverse is an NFT.

So Justin Bieber's got, I saw he bought one of those board apes, a picture of like an ape. So he put that on his Instagram and stuff. So he owns that one. That's his one. Now, what does he do with it? Does he just hold on to that? Or could he sell it off to someone else? Yeah, you can always sell them. But now here's another part of this. It's about flex. Now, remembering that this isn't

anything new. We're always flexing. Everything in the real world or a lot of our objects are flexing, whether it's that nice jacket you bought, the handbag or the car, we are constantly impressing on other people our decisions on what we're purchasing, our tastes, just in spending over a million bucks on this Bored Ape. And there's only 10,000 of those. They're an elite group and they're all talking to each other. The moment they own a Bored Ape, they've got something in common with the other 6,000, 7,000 that are silly enough to spend a million dollars on a Bored Ape, they've got something in common with the other $6,000, $7,000 that are silly enough to spend a million dollars on a Bored Ape

or rich enough or interested in technology enough. They're kind of like personalized plates online in this regard. Boy! Let's get the plates out there. There's a lot of judgment cast upon plate owners when they're personalized plate owners.

But you own an original thing, that's yours, and you can sell it or you can keep it for value. Is it kind of like that in a way, online? Well, it's a little bit like that. So, yeah, listen, I've had the luckiest year of my life. In August, we released Fluff World, which became the largest selling NFT in history on the day. It was really, really a lucky day.

People all over the world are buying the NFTs. We're really supporting a lot of musicians and artists and their efforts to get into the metaverse, which is kind of our thing. Well, I'm looking at now, there's a whole lot of the NFTs of like a cool-looking rabbit in different sort of costumes and outfits. That's us.

That's Fluff World. Yeah, that's right. They're rabbits. And then we've also got Party Bears and Snoop Dogg. We collaborated with Snoop Dogg. He's got his own Party Bear. Wow. Metaphone face.

Now, Brookhouse Smith, I thank you for your time. I've understood about 59% of what you've said. Long story short, is it something people should be investing in? You think this is going to blow up? Well, I would never use the word investing. This is a, listen, you should be interested in this. You should be following it. It is where technology, communications and commerce are going. All of entertainment, all of social, everything will overlap in the metaverse. And so you can just say, put your head in the sand and say, it's not going to happen and stay on Bebo or whatever you want to stay on.

But for the most part, within four or five years, this is where the whole world will have gone. And so try to get in there a little bit early. I'm going to say again, like, don't think of this. I hate people thinking about this as a lottery investment thing. It's more about investing in your brain to start learning about where technology is going. Ben and Jono call this show

Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hets. The Hets. Jono, as a mate, you've let me down. You've let me down. You've caused it. Multiple times. This shouldn't come as a surprise. It shouldn't surprise me. We worked together for a decade, Ben Boyce. I can't even remember the amount of times I've let you down.

Forgetting items for shoots for a turn up. He's like, did you bring those pants, the blue pants? I went, ugh. That's true. I shouldn't be surprised, but I was surprised. Unwittingly, you've caused the bone of contention. There's bone of contention in my marriage, and you've added fuel to the flame. Cracks are starting to appear.

Okay. So a quick back story. We have a single garage at home. Now, I've filled this garage with stuff. Over the years, I have filled this garage with stuff. Mostly a huge collection of props and costumes from failed TV shows that we've done. You want a gingerbread? You want a dog costume?

You want a Chewbacca? You want a Dory? Where's Wally? You name it, it's in there. You too. Yeah, he just... It's in there. I can't throw it out. I'm like, I could use this one day.

He could never let go of these weird costumes. He's like, I'm going to keep them in storage. So it's like a sort of a costume hire shop, isn't it? Yeah. So the garage we have at home, single garage, it's filled with that. Then you add in your bikes. You add in a few tools, some sports gear, some old books you keep for some reason from school. The garage is full. And my wife is like, ever since she got the garage, she's like, we old books you keep for some reason from school. The garage is full.

And my wife is like, ever since she got the garage, she's like, we've got a garage to park the car in. And I've never once parked the car in the garage because it's full of mainly my props and costumes. Yeah. But I've been saying for years, I'm like, the garage, people don't park their car in the garage. It's a place, it's an extra storage facility. That's what people use it for. I was always led to believe garages housed cars. It's a place, it's an extra storage facility. That's what people use it for. Like, you don't need to park it. I was always led to believe garages housed cars.

It's a storage facility. That's what we're saying. And then we go around to John O'Shaughnessy. I know where this is going. I know where this is going. An old mate's got a double garage parking two cars in his garage. Nice and snug. Both cars fit, like, very snug together.

That's what I was taught. I was brought up, you know, use a garage to park a car and carports as well would you call a carport i'm like get a carport and park the car in there all day i can't get my props and costumes and you know that but i'm like a garage this is a great storage facility and now it's like oh jono's parking two cars yeah but this is i find this really funny because for years ben is always having to go at his mum, Jenny, for hoarding. Hoarding cake crumbs in the hope that in 2042 she'll have enough crumbs for a cake. And now we find you hoarding novelty costumes. Yeah, I know.

Have you got a couch costume? Because you're going to be sleeping on it. Ironically, I'm sleeping in the garage at the moment. It also doubles as a garage space. Your kids are going to, you're going to be on some reality TV show in about 10 years

where your kids come, they ambush you with a camera crew and your kids come around and they're like, you just won't throw out this ATM machine costume. We could use this one day, guys.

There's a hot dog, throw out the hot dog costume and you get all toey at the people trying to clean up your house, you know? That's me. So you're on the hits, Jono and Ben.

Oh, sorry. Scrolling through your feed. That's a lovely apology for you, Juliet. I zoned out for one second there. You need to apologise for scrolling? I do that. This is news and information you need to know and sometimes stuff you couldn't care less about. Ben Boyce.

Well, the big news over the last few days has been all about the pregnant Kiwi journalist Charlotte Ballas who's been stranded in Afghanistan. She sort of had help from the Taliban to be there because she couldn't get back to New Zealand, couldn't get an MIQ spot. And so she's really been sort of, I guess, fighting for other Kiwis that couldn't also get an MIQ spot. She's described the experience as a circus. But the good news is for her that she's got a spot from the government.

She can come home and have her baby. And she is going to continue to fight for other her that she's got a spot from the government. She can come home and have her baby, and she is going to continue to fight for other people that haven't got a spot. Yeah. I reckon there was conversations behind closed doors. Do you reckon Ardern was like, mate, this ballast headache, go away? Do you reckon they say things like that behind closed doors?

Absolutely behind closed doors. Robertson, mate, this ballast headache, go away. We've tried, we've tried. But it is good she's coming back. And David Seymour, ACT Party, he had this to say. The mask of kindness has slipped off the Ardern government. We're now outsourcing our

maternity care to the Taliban. You can tell he's happy with that too. Great work David Seymour. So I'm glad she's coming back and I hope that all of the other families out there who are suffering the same sort of fate with MIQ get their problems resolved as well. Yeah.

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