Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: When You Accidentally Buy 1,500 Chickens On Trade Me

Episode Date: January 31, 2022

We spoke about accidental online purchases and listener Steve accidentally ordered 1,500 chickens when he was meant to order just ONE. Hilarious story! Jono also showed us something that blew our minds. Let's just say that it wasn't just The Simpsons and Bill Gates who predicted Covid... Finally, Wordle is all the craze at the moment. But what is it? Is it worth playing? Our Drive show, Brad and Laura, even got Charlie Puth hooked on it! And now we think Ben is hooked. Enjoy the podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, brought to you by Resene, New Zealand's most trusted paint. Kiwi made since 1946. The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome along to the podcast. First of February, eh? Yeah. Well, you're a pincher and a puncher and a first of the month back in the school days there, Ben Boyce. Back in the school days, yeah. Some of my kids are always like, oh, a pinch and a punch, first of the month. And my daughter's like, oh, I'm not going to see you in the morning. So she did it last night.

And I'm like, you can't. That's not the rules of pinching and a punch. She got one ahead. You can't do it, like, beforehand. You can't go, well, here's one for March 2024, you know? Well, it's not like you assume you're going to see her today. Yeah, I know. But she wanted to get in there first before I bet her to it.

Not that I had planned to do it. But a good little, like, you know, UFC, the sort of diversifier. They can have the pinch to do it. But a good little UFC, the sort of diversifier, they can have the pinch and the punch on the first of the month, the competitions. Have you seen that wild competition? I don't know what sort of post-Soviet country it takes place in, but it's like face slapping.

Have you seen that? Oh, yes! It is wild. So you imagine there's two people standing next to each other, almost like a face-off situation You know, standing there And they just get to slap each other one by one You know, I'd slap you as hard as I could on the cheek And then you either like fall over

And there's an audience there And it is the most And then you get to do it back to me Until someone like either pulls out or they fall over Or it's just brutal I'm watching it going Is what I'm watching legal? It was wild.

And you kind of got all these skinny European guys chanting on from the other sidelines. Oh, no, it's brutal. But these are big, big people, like big, muscly people. Yeah. And one of them I saw rendered unconscious. From a slap. From a hand slap. I know.

Just, there's some sports out there, Ben Boyce. Yeah. Pillow fighting has now had its first competitive fights in Florida over the weekend. So there's people in a ring now, like a boxing match. Can you imagine it? But they've got a pillow in their hand each. And that's a proper thing. Actually, every time I pillow fought, I always ended up with quite the groggy head afterwards. Because some people do want a pillow at pace.

It's not quite the slumber party, that's the giggle and have popcorn sort of thing that sometimes the movies lead you to believe. Sometimes it's like alright guys, I'm going to... You can get knocked out with a pillow. Yeah. And you tell people they'll laugh at you. I know. It'd be one of those stories. You get the wrong Egyptian thread count. You know, you're really good.

What are you running on your bed? What sort of count do you run? I don't know. I just see it when you go into the shops. You're like, ooh, what's the thing here? Not that I counter are you running? I don't know. I just sit when you go into the shops. You're like, ooh, what's the thing here? Not that I know what that means. I haven't slept under my sheets for, I would say, since the beginning of December. Oh, you're straight on. I can imagine, too.

I'm on top of the bed. And the good thing about it, too, is you don't have to make the bed the next day. Well, you're half of it anyway. So you don't get cold in the night or anything like that when the temperature dips? You're just like, no. No, I've got the windows open as well, just blowing a sweet breeze on this carcass. This half-naked carcass. But it is hot at the moment at night.

50 degrees in our roof yesterday. Wow. We've got an attic. And I just took the temperature gauge in there. 50 degrees. 50 degrees. Just taking two steps in there. And I started, it felt

like my attic was Dubai. I started dripping just two steps in. Yeah, it was like the World Expo there. Yeah, so there we go. That's a bit of stuff. But no, do you sleep under the sheets at the moment or are you going over the top? Are you hooking a leg over the duvet?

Yeah, sometimes I will but I kind of fold off the sheet, so I give them the option of pulling it over in the night and putting my legs out, you know. You like to know that it's available. Yeah. But I see what you're doing, because it is very hot. But sometimes I'm like, oh, I'm getting a bit cold in the night.

I'll put it over. But keep my legs out, you know. Keep your legs out. It's a little bit of a breeze. Yeah. You're not windows open, though, are you? No, no, no. No, you wouldn't be windows open.

You would not be windows open. No, no, not at all. Is that for security reasons or bug reasons? Yeah, but both, really. I just feel like, who's going to come in the window? What's going to win? No, no, too much going on for that. Now, this is the man who turns off all the plugs in his house before he leaves.

The cell phone, I think, sleeps in another room. It does. The cell phone goes to bed in another room. It's like a marriage that's dead. That would make me very uncomfortable, probably, the window open. But that's fine. And he's also on his cell phone. He's turned off Siri.

Yeah. He's turned off. It's shut down Siri. At night, it goes on flight mode. Siri's off. It goes in another room. I'm off the grid. Anyway, coming up on the show today,

we had a fun broadcast today for a Tuesday morning. Spoke to David Seymour. He phoned through. Not happy with MIQ Seymour, is he? No. No, he wants to shut it down. I think they've started a petition, which is getting a lot of traction at the moment

because you hear stories, you know, like Charlotte Ballas, the reporter, who's stuck in Afghanistan, she's pregnant. But there's so many other stories of people just, you know, heartbreaking stories of people that can't come back into New Zealand for various reasons. And we got talking about accidental online purchases, AOPs, and spoke to someone who accidentally purchased 1,500 chickens. And actually, they had to do what they had to do with 1,500.

A wonderful thing. They were only trying to buy one chicken. It was a great result. It's a lot of chicken. It's a lot of chicken. So that's the podcast. Have a great day. Jono and Ben, the hits.

Jeez, have you ever... Last night I got up in our usual morning routine, up as I was getting the coffee, poured the coffee and drank the coffee. This is last night or? Just the night that's just been, overnight. So in the morning, but it's still the middle of the night for you. Yeah, but you know, something didn't feel right as I just finished a coffee.

And I looked over the clock and it was 1.30 in the morning. Oh. Not ideal coffee consumption time. Had your alarm gone off or you just got up in time to get out? I thought, yeah. I don't know what ago. Maybe I was half asleep. Have you done that before?

I did that as a family, Mum. But Mum got us all up because we kept missing the bus. And she's like, we're all going to get up. We're not going to miss any more buses. She got us all up. And no one actually looked at the time except for her. And then we all sat around going, it's 2.30 in the morning. Oh, my God.

Why are we all sitting at the breakfast table? Well, you weren't going to miss the bus that day. I was like, I may have got the timing a bit wrong. Ironically, I went back to bed and slept in. Yeah. I tell you. Did you eat breakfast at 2.30 in the morning? No, I just kind of went back to bed.

We started to. This is madness, Jenny. Way too early. What are you doing? Yesterday, actually, I was speaking a bit of dramas at home. I'm going to sound like a bit of a boomer here, but back in the day, keys, you had a key, you put it in the ignition, you put it in the lock, and they open. That's how it worked. You had to physically put a key in something.

Yeah. But now we've got keyless entry, which is great. Don't get me wrong, but yesterday, I had a bit of a dilemma with it because I didn't realize the keys to the car were in my wife's handbag. So we drove away. We're driving somewhere. I had to drop her off. I didn't realize the keys to the car were in my wife's handbag so we drove away we're driving somewhere I had to drop her off she went off with the keys is the car still running the car was still running still go without it does a beep thing but we're kind of messing around with some stuff in the back giving you like what's that beep I don't know I'm too busy messing around with stuff in the back here yeah to worry about a beep it wasn't till I got to the location it turned off the car fine you can turn the car off fine and then I got to the location. It turned off the car, fine. You can turn the car off, fine.

And then came back to the car. And you can't. So you're stranded. You can't start a car. What did you do? How did you solve this? I had to call her and get her to come out. She didn't have the car either because I was picking her up.

So is she quite a distance from where you ended up? Yeah. So it was like an Uber trip to get to me to pick up the car. But I'm like, yeah, that's when modern technology doesn't work for you. No, it didn't work for you. It was beeping. It was clearly saying, hey, mate. There's a lot of stuff going on.

Just so you know, she's leaving with the key right now. I'm beeping and telling you. Yeah, but it gets to a point in your life where you start ignoring the beeping noise. You're like, if I have the fridge at home, is that beeping? You're like, yeah, I'll get to you, mate. It's like me. As soon as I start talking, he just switches off. Next on the show, Wordle.

You may have heard about Wordle, but you may have no idea what the heck it is. So I initially asked you yesterday, producer Juliet, to investigate, and then Jono's like, why are you delegating it to Juliet? Well, because he was all hot on this thing. He's like, we've got to let people know what Wordle is. And then I just see him walk next door, he's like, hey, Juliet,

can you let people know what Wordle is? And then I just see him walk next door. He's like, hey, Julie, can you let people know what Wordle is? And I was like, no, this is you. It's your responsibility. All right, well, next I'm going to tell you what Wordle's all about. It's the game. The biggest game of 2020. Is that sort of attitude that you're just stranded with a key fob? Biggest game of 2022.

If you haven't heard about it, I'll try to explain next. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits. You've got to know to understand. Something we like to do from time to time on the show where you hear something a lot, but you don't really understand what it's all about.

And it's kind of those sort of things when you walk in on a group conversation, everyone's talking about it, and you politely smile and nod and pretend you know what they're talking about. This happened to me the other day. I went across to another office here at work, and someone's like, oh, you're playing Wordle.

I was like, what? You know Wordle? And I was like, I had no idea what Wordle was. And ever since having a quick look at a screen there and seeing what Wordle's all about, I've seen it pop up in news feeds. I've seen people talking about it. It's the biggest game of 2022, and I had no idea. It just wasn't even on my radar.

Yeah, so Ben yesterday, he said, it's my civic duty to inform the masses about Wordle, this new trend sweeping the internet. Yeah. And so this is what you're going to do now. You're going to explain to us what it is and how it works. Yeah, well, firstly, let's let a news reporter, who can explain it better than me explain it.

Have a listen. Twitter users to celebrities, everyone seems to be bragging about their scores playing a game called Wordle designed by a software engineer named Josh Wardle for his partner

because she loved word games like the ones in the New York Times. So it's a word game you play on a website. So you don't need a PS5, an Xbox, a phone or anything like that. You just go to a website.

Not an app as well. Well, you can can use an app version but that's not the one that you use you go on to the website so go on wordle and every day taking it back to 2002 yeah it's a little bit like that every day it's a free game you're playing a website every day there's a new five letter word that you need to guess and you've basically got six attempts to guess the word as fast as possible that's the gist of it i'm not going to go into detail. Yesterday I tried to go into detail on the podcast intro, and John's eyes glazed over, and he was like, oh. Oh, no, I just don't like. Learning about stuff.

Learning about stuff. And I don't like activities that make me feel like a 15-year-old in class, and the teacher just handed out some filler content. Do this word puzzle, you know, sort of November, December in the calendar. Right. So you're not you know until yeah it was because i was created by a guy as we heard before in brooklyn who was just a word game for his wife and last year so it was in the last year it was created

and initially around about 100 people were playing it and then new zealanders we actually helped make it popular because our sort of twitter community uh got the always positive twitter community they kind of discovered it and they started sharing around their scores because you can share it with emojis and stuff like that

and everyone was like what the heck is this and it kind of snowballed from there and now last weekend 2 million people were playing it on one day wow

so it's gone from 100 people last year to 2 million people all thanks to New Zealand yes so it's just a simple word game every day there's a new word and you just go to the website

and you can try and look at the word one thing that I do quite like about it is that it's not like TikTok, where you just get into a hole, and you can endlessly play until you're like, oh, my gosh, I've been on this for hours. It's just one word per day. So once you've done it, you're like, sweet. You've done it. You can't do it again.

You can't do it again. So then you wait for the next day. So it's not a huge time waste, but it makes you think. You had a crack yesterday, Bea Hampston. Yeah, I did it as well. And I thought, yeah, it was cool. I could see how people kind of go there for a day. It's sort of like a 10-minute thing you might do,

and then you kind of go on with your day. I did it as well. Yeah. Did you? Yeah, you did. I did. Did you? Yes.

The answer was light. Well done. Well done. Did you actually do it, or did you get people to help you? No, well, no, I did it. And then by the sixth attempt, I finally figured out how the game works. Yeah. And that was the things I was trying to explain to you yesterday

when your eyes sort of glazed over. I was like, if you get one letter in the right spot, come up with this colour, you're like, whatever, mate. And then the other one will be like, oh, no, I don't care. So I was like, oh, well. So basically, you've just got to solve the word, six attempts, and then it's a new word today. Yeah.

I was thinking on the radio one time we could try and do it with the audience and see how quick we do it. Okay, nurdle. Hey, next, the show. We made news yesterday. Yeah, we made news. Pretty big news. And you've got audio evidence.

I do. You haven't heard this? You haven't heard it. We made news. I'll tell you very shortly on the hits. Let's put some news and information in your pipe and smoke it, shall we? Ben, what's happening?

Well, yesterday, a lot of talk about the government. Firstly, the good news, the Prime Minister doesn't have COVID. That was announced yesterday. She was a close contact, someone on a flight, had Omicron. So she's done the 10 days. I think she's still doing a virtual hosting of Cabinet today or something. So yeah, I think she's had a negative test and she doesn't have it. There's the boss on Zoom today, WFH.

They can put her on mute. That's true. I don't want to hear from her. Big five here. Tell me about that mute. Yeah. But that was the good news for the government yesterday. There was a little bit of bad news floating around yesterday.

One poll said Jacinda Ardern had been passed by Christopher Luxon as preferred prime minister. Now, was this a one news poll? Yes, it was. They only did a poll about three or four days ago. That's what I thought as well. Which had completely different results. So, yeah, maybe wait for the next one to come out to find out if that's actually true. But the government's under a bit of fire all about the MYQ system.

And it seems to be all kind of ignited from Kiwi journalist Charlotte Ballas. Now she's stranded and she's pregnant in Afghanistan and she can't get home and we actually spoke to her yesterday on our show really really interesting chat. You sort of really really feel for her in her situation and she had this message to say to the Prime Minister. I think

it's just kind of like can we look at the big picture here. I mean what would she do if she was me? And where does she expect me to give birth? That's a very fair point that she raised there. We've put all our chips in on Bellis, haven't we? We were talking to her. She's based over in Afghanistan for Al Jazeera.

Remember when the Taliban were taking over Afghanistan? Shit, we had rolling coverage of that. Jeez, we were blow by blow. We're on the phone to Bellis every day. Yeah, so we talk about it because it's the things that Kiwis, you know, it's one of the biggest, well, it's probably the biggest news story.

Topicality. Yeah, right now. So it was great for our show to cover that. And we were all talked about yesterday on Newstalk ZB because, you know, the bits from our audio with Charlotte Bellis was used up there. And Andrew Dickens,

who does the midday show on New Silk ZB on a Monday, you know, he gave us a great little shout out because she was on our show. Have a listen. I was just reading about her. We actually talked to the hits this morning for some reason. Not only to the hits and her, but there we go. For some reason. For some reason.

As if it was like charity. That's for some reason. I don't know. Maybe. You should talk to the host. Yeah, it's for some reason. I don't know. Maybe she had nothing else to do with it. And to be fair to Andrew, why would she talk to the host? Why? We're New Zealand's breakfast.

Because Ben Boyce wanted to jump on the issue. We're New Zealand's breakfast. That's right. We want to talk about things that New Zealanders are interested in. This is a lady who's pregnant. Why would she talk to the host? Jeez.

For some reason. All people. Now there's a bit of back and forth going on between Charlotte Ballas and Chris Hipkins as well. So we'll see how that plays out. Because a lot of Kiwis, she's not the only one that has a situation like this where they can't get home. No. We've put that video up yesterday and hundreds of stories of Kiwis trapped abroad. And to be fair, and it's kind of selfishly and probably ignorant of me,

you know, up until this point, I'm like, why aren't they just back? You know, it's been on for nearly two years, this whole situation. Why haven't these Kiwis stuck abroad? Why haven't they just flown back? But then you hear these stories of just completely unique and, you know, some really sad situations of why people had to leave and come back. You know, there's the Hoskings of the world who've dotted over to the Gold Coast for a weekend

and then managed to come back, you know, sort of thing. But there are people who legitimately had to go somewhere for personal reasons or whatever and they're stranded. Yeah, you really feel for those people right now not being able to get back into New Zealand through the lottery system. So we'll give you more in-depth coverage of that and being able to get back into New Zealand through the lottery system. So there'll be more. We'll give you more in-depth coverage of that. We'll get talked about on Newstalk ZB later on today, I'm sure.

Don't know why you'd bother with that, mate. Hey, next, Ganesh Raj. He is our food expert, and apparently he's been lying to us. Yes. This whole time. About his profession. Yeah. We'll get him to explain all next. We'll do that after the new Ed Sheeran. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits.

From the Humble Yum Yum podcast on iHeartRadio. Please welcome to the show the one and only best chef in Aotearoa. It's Ganesh Raj at gmail.com. Yeah, baby. Not a chef, not a chef. The number one not a chef. Are you not a chef, not a chef. The number one not a chef. Are you not a chef? Nah, bro.

I have never been a chef, and I actually wear that as a little bit of a badge of honor, bro. Jesus, why do we talk to you every week? We've been cooking questions towards you. Look how far I've come pretending to be a chef. You've been a fraud this whole time. So you're not like classically trained, as they would say? No, no. I'm not classically trained, but you know what?

I didn't meet any chefs in my life when I was growing up, and I can tell you their food was really good, and it was all the moms that I met growing up. So for me, cooks are where it's at. For me, chefs are like classically trained people, but secretly between you and me, don't tell anyone I said this, but I feel like chefs sometimes have too many rules.

Right, and if you're a chef, you have to abide by those rules. Because it's like a code of conduct. You've been through the school. You've done your time. You've actually put in a lot of hours. It's hard work. So you respect the rules. You want to follow them.

I don't have that, which means I can have random ideas, combine things, and not feel like, oh, that's breaking the rules, you want to follow them. I don't have that, which means I can have random ideas, combine things and not feel like, oh, that's breaking the rules. He's a lawless society. Ganesh Raj. It's like when you go to the middle of the ocean and you can marry your dog. That's what it's like. You know what? That's exactly what it's like.

Now, this week on the Humble Yum Yum podcast, thanks to Countdown, Holly Smith. Oh, bro. I mean, look, thanks to Countdown, Holly Smith. Oh, bro. I mean, look, she is a class act unto herself. Yeah, awesome. Yeah. There's only one Holly Smith. You know, she's still our number one female artist in the country.

You know, all the stuff that she's been through, and apart from that, of course, the music is just still incredible. So it's quite an honor for me to hang out with her. Yeah, I bet it was. Well, you do get to know all the famous people in New Zealand and what makes them drive on many levels, but all centred around cooking and stuff. I might just correct

you actually, a clarification there. You did say there's just one Holly Smith. There's actually another one in Tarka Cup. Oh, I apologise. Thank God you're checking. Yeah, just fact-checking. And they are a classically trained chef as well, too. Oh, Ganesh Raj, love having you on.

Now, every week, thanks to Countdown Ganesh, we get someone on to ask for your advice, and we give them a $200 Countdown voucher. And a lot of questions come through for you, my friend. And we're joined today by Ray in Dunedin with a buttercream-based question. We understand, Ray, for Ganesh. I do.

It's like birthday season in our house. We've got three birthdays coming up, so it's going to be a mammoth cake baking mission. My question is how do I keep buttercream? Because obviously if you put it in the fridge, it makes it hard. Well, leaving it out, it goes off. Yeah.

So there's one little step after you take it it in the fridge, it makes it hard. Well, leaving it out, it goes off. Yeah. So there's one little step after you take it out in the fridge that is compulsory and that is leaving it to come up to room temperature. There's no other way because you're dealing with raw materials that are basically dairy-based. So you do have to store it cold, but you can bring it back to life by leaving it out, get it up to room temperature, and then whip it again, you can bring it back to life by leaving it out, get it up to room temperature, and then whip it again, and it will come back to life again. Ben does that with me.

He stores me away, and I'm all dead, and he lets me thaw out. And then I whip him, and he's back to life again, yeah. Well, the last part is questionable, Ben. I think you need to whip him a little bit more. Whip him more. But, no, that's what you need to do with buttercream. You know, you can to do with buttercream. You can also do cream cheese icing if you

like. That's a little bit fresher. If you like it a little bit tart, a little bit sour. I'm just thinking you just want to make one cake, don't you? And then just smash out three versions. Damn straight. Yeah, easy as a bitter. That's a mother right there who has too much on her plate.

Too much cake on her plate at the moment. Now, Ganesh, thanks for the countdown. We're going to give Ray a $200 countdown voucher, Ray. Oh, that's how good. Thank you. That's going to be a massive help. It is going to be a massive help. Oh, my goodness.

That's a lot of cake. You can have your cake and eat it too. Now, Ganesh Raj from The Humble Yum Yum, you can catch the podcast on iHeartRadio now, thanks to Countdown. And you have a lovely day, my friend. You too, buddy. Enjoy your day, gentlemen.

Take care. Oh, it was always fun hanging out with Ganesh Raj. Now, next, I've got some audio that I want to play from a movie from 2014. And this will send shivers down your spine. It will rock you to your core. Oh, really? If it's not a core rocker i hope you've got a strong core because it's about to be rocked

now i don't want to start the day on a depressing note but i'm gonna okay if you don't want to do it, don't do it. Yeah. I do want to do it. Can I rephrase that? I want to start the day on a depressing note

and I want to send you into Tuesday feeling glum about life. What's going on? You've said, you've come out and you're like, there's a movie I watched

in the weekend and it predicted the future. Yeah. So Oscar, my son, he was, he likes to, when he watches a movie series series he likes to knock them all out right so he's found himself knee deep in planet of the apes so it was an original movie years and years ago but they've remade a whole series of them right yeah he watched the og one yeah right that's how committed i was like shit

this is slow mate trust me, special effects get better. Yeah. But he's watching the dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and I'm fossicking around in the kitchen, and I'm overhearing the opening sequence of this. Now, bear in mind, this movie is from 2014. Okay? Have a listen to the first sequence.

If you have fever and cough or sore throat, stay home. I'd say 95% chance this was manufactured, came out of a laboratory. The source of the virus was traced back to drug testing done at Gensys Laboratories. A lab technician now known as Patient Zero was accidentally exposed to retrovirus ALZ113. I'm thinking, dear Jesus, is this a documentary of what's happening in real time? That could be a doc on the pandemic or something potentially. 2014. Now, obviously, bearing in mind everything minus the vengeful apes,

who they had a bit of a problem with us. And fair enough, too. They deserve to have a problem with us. Have a listen to the next bit. Emergency rooms are being overwhelmed with patients showing signs of what's being dubbed the simian flu. The CDC is projecting a fatality toll ranging from 5 million to as many as 150 million in the next 6 to 8 months. Anyone showing signs of a contagious illness will receive special treatment here.

The airport's purpose-built quarantine centers. Stop it. Oh, my God. Eh? No. Stop it. You're crazy. Oh, my God.

I feel like between this and, you know, we played that audio of Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, doing his TED Talk, and he was all saying, basically saying we need to prepare for a virus five six years ago the universe has been trying to warn us yeah you know what else could the universe have done and we have just gone don't worry mate she'll be fine yeah fascinating i won't play you the last bit because it gets kind of terrifying okay good yeah i don't want to fully like send you into a dark hole for a Tuesday morning. All right.

Well, there we go. There you go. 2014, Planet of the Apes. Next, we've got some spy entertainment news. A celebrity. Is she pregnant? Pregnant, yeah. First child, and it's a big dog celebrity.

I'm so excited about this. This is very cool. We'll find out who it is next on the hits. Zuck. Spy. The What's Up by Docco.nz. She's hopped on her bike and ready to peddle some gossip Juliette, what's happening in Spy?

So some big news this morning that we've all probably woken up to Is that Rihanna is pregnant with her first child And this is with her rapper boyfriend ASAP Rocky They were photographed out in New York over the weekend Where Rihanna debuted her baby bump She was wearing this sort of big pink jacket, and I assume in New York it's quite cold at the moment, but she had it unbuttoned where the baby bump was starting to show.

And Pavarazzi were obviously lapping that up, and now we've got the photos to all see, which is very exciting. Isn't it lovely? Isn't it lovely? I'm happy for her. And Mr. Rocky. Flawless skin, ASAP, Rocky. Have you seen his complexion? I know. Just a beautiful face.

Oh, yeah. Oh, just have a look at his face. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what his skin care regime is like, but... And Rihanna's, you know, Rihanna's probably got quite a perfect face too, so that child will be hashtag blessed. Yeah, that's a good-looking, that's going to be a good-looking baby. I know. You know couples, you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're good.

The genes are going to work well there. Yeah. Oh, that's very exciting. And if you don't, because ASAP Rocky, he's kind of big in the rapping world, but obviously not super, super mainstream. He is that guy that did wear the full-blown sort of quilted blanket to the Met Gala, if you remember him. That's right, yeah.

So him and Rihanna showed up together. But they've been friends for years, and they only started dating at the end of 2020. So when they finally got together, I think everyone who was fans of them was very excited by that. Oh, now I'm watching this. I'm looking at this photo that you've just been speaking of, of her debuting. So, you know, bearing in mind New York's snowing over there at the moment. Yeah, there's a big cold snap going on. Minus four, minus ten sort of degrees, temperatures.

She's got a big pink jacket on, but she's just done the top button up. And then just running a bare belly underneath. In snowy conditions as well. That baby might be feeling the chills a little bit. It's a good looking baby bump though. Yeah, it is. Do you find it weird when people want to rub a pregnant person's belly?

No, I don't. I'm a rubber. I'm a rubber. I'm in 2022. I'm probably someone that doesn't realise and I'm like oh my gosh can I please feel your baby butt but then now I'm kind of like oh I know that I should ask before I just go and do it

I remember my wife when she was pregnant there's some interesting people who come up and they're like oh you wouldn't do that normally I would rub my belly I mean for some reason when there's a human growing in there, rubbing is fair game You wouldn't do that normally. I wouldn't rub my belly. I mean, for some reason, when there's a human growing in there, rubbing is fair game.

Everyone can put their hands on. If I walk past Rihanna in New York, I'd be like, hey, mate, give it a cheeky little rub across the belly button. Hello, little belly. She'd be like, what are you doing, you strange, bald man? Yeah. And another few articles have come out about Adele and her cancelled Las Vegas residency. And this reason is one that could be very much rumours.

And I think I say that because I really don't want to believe it. But a spy. A spy is always half truths and rumours. I know, so I'm probably contributing to the problem. But apparently her relationship with Rich Paul potentially is on the rocks, which is another reason why she decided to go back home. But I don't know. Just take that with a grain of salt.

Okay. I don't want to believe it, but I just thought I would let you guys know that. All right. Trouble in paradise. I know. That's what they say. Is that why she cancelled her Vegas residency? Well, maybe one of the contributing factors, we could say.

Yeah. And that is Spy for the South. And we can head to the hits.co.nz. After 7 o'clock on the show, Jono, you've got wild accusations of something we see every day. That can now go 130k's an hour. 130? It feels wildly irresponsible. I'll tell you what it is shortly.

It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. I'm going to shed a light on something that's got wildly out of hand. I know there's a lot of conversation around the MIQ situation as well, but this is a more important issue being voiced. Your humble

electric scooter really rose to fame didn't it over the last five years? Kicked off with Lime Scooters That's right. Which was the official mode of transport for every drunken office worker after a Christmas party. That had a rough start, didn't it?

Lime scooters, people getting mowed over on the footpath. Well, I even remember just the push scooters before that. Remember when the adults were getting on kids' push scooters, you know? And that was even causing accidents over Christmas. Yeah, ACC claims and stuff. Because all it takes is just one little stone, one little glitch in the footpath, and boom. You're very vulnerable, yeah. Head over heels, you are. So the electric scooter, it's really advanced in technology

over those five years. You like to use it. We were talking yesterday where your kids go for a bike ride and you take an electric scooter. Yeah, my legs have done enough work over the years. They don't need to do any more work. They've walked enough kilometres. But what I did discover Yesterday

Because my electric scooter had a punctured tyre On it and I needed to replace The guy came over and he's like Do you know what My electric scooter goes 135 kilometres an hour What That is dangerous

That is for public consumption. A hundred and thirty-five kilometres. Now, am I becoming old and boring, or is an electric scooter you can take on the motorway wildly irresponsible? You wouldn't be able to do it legally, but yeah, a hundred and thirty, yeah. That is outrageous. Well, it's not like you've got a full-face helmet, leathers, and you've just got Jandall shorts and a singlet.

At 135 k's an hour. That's outrageous. It's gone out of hand. It's got electric scooters are getting out of hand. I'm pretty sure it was old Franklin. Did he toot around with electricity? Benjamin Franklin? Yeah, maybe he did.

It was his game, wasn't it? Yeah. I was like, wow, I never thought 130 k's on a scooter is where it ended up. Did I create this? Yeah. Yeah, amazing, isn't it? So I just was like, wow, I never thought 130 k's on a scooter is where it ended up. Did I create this? Yeah. Yeah, amazing, isn't it?

So I just wanted to open up this morning other things that have got out of hand in this wild society that we live in. You can text 4487 0800, that's the telephone number.

Can I throw one out there? Oh, apples. You go to the supermarket there is so many varieties of apples. Yeah. Too many.

I love apples, don't get me wrong, but there's just so many to choose from. Back in the day, you had red or green. Those were your two options. It was like your wine variety. It was a red wine or a dry white wine. It was wine.

That was it. That was it. And you got in a cardboard box with a goon sack, and that was wine. I had a look after we went to the supermarket the other day. There are 7,500 different varieties of apples. 7,500. That's crazy. The breeding program's got out of control, Ed.

You've got your Jazz apples, your Enveys, your Granny Smiths. Your Royal Garlic. There's so many different brands of apples. The Pink Ladies. Yeah. Or the Pink Apples. Yeah. I think Pink Lady might be something else.

Another establishment. They keep popping up on your receipts. Yeah, so so many. Too many. Too many. I love apples, but it's really on your receipts. Yeah, so so many. Too many. Too many. I love apples, but it's really got out of hand. Yeah, you know what, Juliet, and this will probably resonate with you. I'm going to chuck one out there as well.

Your pre-mixed drinks. Oh, yes. Yeah, I know what you mean. The pals of the world. Yeah. Healthy RTDs. Very popular. Yeah.

Back in the day, you had purple go up, and no one questioned how or why it was purple, but you dealt with the consequences the next day. That's very true. But to be fair, you know, with all of those sort of healthy RTDs, it's overwhelming when you go into the store, but then when you figure out the one that you like, that's when you're like, okay, grateful for all the options.

It's overwhelming when you're in the chiller section as well. So you're cold and you're trying to look around for the thing. You're like, which one is it? They all look so trendy and youthful. So 0800 THE HITS 4487. Love to hear from you this morning. You can text us anytime or call us. What's getting out of hand?

What are there too many of? We'd love to hear from you next on New Zealand's Breakfast. The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben. We want to know this morning on 0800 THE HITS or 4487 on the text, what's getting out of hand? What are there too many of at the moment that's just getting overwhelming? Yeah, look, great text here on 4487. Streaming services.

Yes, can agree. An insane number of streaming services. Now you're kind of, there's more streaming services than there are TV stations. I forget what ones I've signed up to sometimes as well too. So many options. When you go to try and pick something that you want to watch, it's hard to do. It's like picking a favourite child. It takes you a while, but eventually you get there, don't you?

Eventually it hurts some feelings. We're going to kick it off with you, Kate Norkland. Morena, how are you? Morning, team. I'm great. how are you guys? Oh, we're doing well, Kate. What's got out of hand? Burger joints and the options to go on your burgers.

Oh, yeah. Busy market, busy market, the old burger game. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes you just want a cheeseburger, but then you pull up at the Golden Arches, and now there's even three choices of Big Macs and things. Yeah. Smaller size or and things. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, like, am I going to have a smaller size or a big size? Oh, actually, I go a super big size. Yeah, you're right. Burger joints, burger options, a lot of burgers. A lot of gourmet burger places now, too, which are great, but you're right, lots and lots of options. Yeah, we're going to get Tina on from Hamilton. What's got out of hand, Tina?

It's a bit of a joke.? It's a bit of a joke. Well, a little bit of a joke, but vaccinations, especially for COVID. Yeah, too many vaccinations. And one second, one booster. Yeah, we'll probably have to have the booster on the booster soon, won't we? Yeah, I imagine at some stage, right? Well, the main thing is we're all about 9% covered from Omicron. We just got a text through saying about craft beers getting out of hand, right? There are so many different craft beers.

There are, yeah. In the hundreds in New Zealand. Would you think of hundreds? So many craft beers, so many sleeved tattoos and trendy looking faces and beards and stuff. Now, we've actually got a number here of a craft beer supplier. We'll find out how many they are if we can go through, Drew, if a craft beer supplier is up at this time of morning. Yeah.

Hello, Daniel speaking. Daniel, it's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Hello. Hello. No, sorry to catch you off guard. We were just talking about it. Hold on. Have we caught him off guard?

Were you on guard or off guard? I'm way off guard. Way off guard. to catch you off guard. We were just talking about... Hold on. Have we caught him off guard? Were you on guard or off guard? I'm way off guard. Way off guard. Oh, he's way off guard. Sorry to catch you way off guard. Have we caught you mid-bath? Maybe he's having a shower or something. Maybe he won't pick it up, Ben.

We were just talking about... I'm not even going to say. You don't want to know. How many different types of craft beer there is. And you've got a company that distributes different types of craft beers all over the place but um yeah this is it has it got out of hand oh it's gone out of hand there's um there's over 200 craft breweries in new zealand oh my god yeah 200 and and i know everyone might each one might do say 10 to 28 so you do the math wow i'm just doing the maths on how many trendy beards there is.

Yeah, and imagine how much flannel has to be worn. So you're saying 200 times how many? I'm trying to do the math. 20. 4,000 roughly. 4,000. In New Zealand alone. And that doesn't include the corporate,

so that would be, you know, there's corporate beards there as well. Do you know another fact about the New Zealand craft beer industry as I'm looking at New Zealandcraftbeerfacts.co.nz? Yeah. It's a $2.3 billion industry for this country. Yeah, it is. It's massive.

And, you know, as I said earlier, there's 200 locally owned craft breweries. So when you're buying those craft breweries, you're supporting New Zealand businesses and it stays in our economy. So it's actually an awesome industry to get behind. Oh, there we go. Well, listen. I caught you way off guard there. And you really stepped up to the mark for a man who was off guard You even got your website in there

as well, bearhug.co.nz We turned it into an ad somehow You did well, maybe we were off guard Yeah You were waiting for this call your whole life, well thank you very much for your time, Really appreciate it. You have a great day.

Thank you, guys. See you. A couple of quick texts to go out on 4487. Things that have got out of hand. Vape juices. Oh, yes. A lot of vape juices, and they all smell incredible, don't they? Not a good message to get out there, is there?

The only pro-vape radio show. No, we're not. Controversial stars. And road codes. There are a lot of road codes. There is a lot of road codes everywhere. 9-12-3-3-T-4-4-8-7. Next, the frustrating reason

I couldn't watch a movie with my wife last night. I just couldn't do it. We had to turn it off, I'll tell you why. Was it having to get up at three in the morning? Yeah, probably that.

It is. She got Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben. Over the last couple of weeks, for some reason, my wife and I decided we were going to, at night, start watching the Die Hard movie series. Oh, okay. Take it back to 88. Yeah.

You know, we're action hero Bruce Willis. He's John McClane, and he's fighting heaps of bad guys. First in a really tall building, then the second one's in an airport, and then there's more and more movies. And so we're sort of slowly chipping away at at that almost like we're watching a series but just watching in little installments yeah right do you know my can i just butt in here with the only two facts that i might know in relation to cinema yeah that frank sinatra at age 73 was originally offered that role of john mclean can you imagine a sinatra hobbling hobbling around really yeah

i was offered that i don't know for some reason he turned it down and then they took it back 30 years to bruce willis and then the other cool fact that i know about that is sam neill was originally offered the role of the bad guy hans oh hans that went down alec rickman oh wow alan rickman how far that's that's really interesting well yeah because uh the movies are set around, you said, you know, like early 90s. I mean, the one we were watching last night was 1990 and they were in the airport and nothing screams the 90s.

He got a beep on his pager and then he had to go to the pay phone to call the person back. I mean, that's not, and this is what happened. Who are you doing? Where are you? Did you land yet? Honey, it's the 90s, remember?

Microchips, microwaves, faxes, air phones As far as I'm concerned, progress peak with frozen pizza Yeah, so he's calling his wife who's on a plane He's like, whoa, you're on a plane You're talking on the phone Because there's a phone on the plane It's like a major killing And she's listing off all the great technology of the 90s

But I remember the pager You either had to be like a drug dealer or a pimp, didn't you, to have a pager? To get a pager, yeah. He has to go at one stage and ask someone to borrow, at the airport,

to borrow a fax machine because he needs to fax the police station. I mean, that's how, you know, but... God, life is inconvenient. He just had any movies. The other thing I noticed

about this, before I get into the frustrating thing about watching it with my wife, is he's always smoking. Like, he is smoking cigarettes and you can smoke anywhere back then. He is smoking in the airport. Oh my God. He's smoking, wife, is he's always smoking. Like, he is smoking cigarettes. And you can smoke anywhere back then.

He is smoking in the airport. Oh, my God. He's smoking, like, constantly the whole time. I counted five cigarettes throughout the movie. He lights up five times. And it's a two-hour movie. The only thing he's dying hard of is lung disease. That's what's going to get him.

Does he want to respirate it out? Yeah. But the frustrating thing that you know because you watch these action movies and you need to suspend reality i mean that's the thing you know there's one stage he's like he's on the top of a skyscraper and he can't like he has to get off because he's like they're shooting at him so he ties around like a hose like a fire hose and he jumps over you know then he gets through a window shoots the window to jump back through and watching him although he's got a ciggy in his mouth.

Yeah. He's got bare feet on as well and all that. I was like, oh, that wouldn't happen. Like, oh, this is unbelievable. I'm like, this is the point of the movie. It's not meant to be. It's not a documentary. This never happened.

But watching a movie like this, you know, it's just like, ah, that wouldn't happen. You'd never be able to do this. I'm like, yes, I know you'd never be able to do it, but this is the point of the movie. It's like suspend reality. You're not allowed to smoke in a plane now either, but he did that.

He falls down an elevator shaft and he catches, you know, by his fingertips. He's like, oh, he'd never be able to do that. I'm like, yes, I realise he'd never be able to do that, but that's why we like the movie. Listen, I feel like a lot of your content that you bring to the radio comes from disagreements over viewing in your household.

There's a real stress point in your relationship. Yeah, well, you're watching a movie. You're going to die. There's 15 times you're in the movie. It's like, oh, you'll never be able to do that. I'm like, I get it. I get it. So we had to turn it off last night.

I'm going to continue the Die Hard franchise without him. I want to see if he dies of lung disease or if he manages to get out. He might get a transplant. I'm going to do that by myself now. That was a wonderful review of the new movie Die Hard. Some topical new content for you. In cinemas now. You can get it from your United Video

store as well. We've got David Seymour, ACT Party MP, joining us next. Apparently he wants to unload on the Prime Minister. MIQ, there's a lot of horrible tales happening of people can't get back to New Zealand. He wants to talk more on that next. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB.

In the meantime, here's Jono and Ben. The Heads. We've got ACT Party leader David Seymour with us. G'day, guys. How you going? Always lovely to have you on, David. I sometimes see you driving around the city in your car, and it's got David Seymour on the side, and it's got the ACT Party and stuff. I would hate to drive around in a side-written car.

You can't run red lights. You can't park in P5 zones or anything, David. You've got to keep your nose clean. Oh, no, you can. It just depends on your demographic. And also, the reason I did it was that I always lost my car at the supermarket. That never happens now. Well, because you parked your car at Auckland Airport, you flew to Wellington for work, and then the country went into lockdown. So you had an exorbitant car parking fee, didn't you? That's right.

You couldn't get your car back. Yeah, well, happened is um it was the last time i believed jacinda because she she said oh look you know just everyone go home it'll just be a nice short sharp lockdown um so i thought oh yeah fine i had to go to wellington you know everything will be over in a week yeah three months and four4,000 later. $4,000! Jeez! The nice people at Auckland International, they felt so sorry for me. They just waived the whole thing. Now, of course, speaking of the government, MIQ, is it time to scrap the system? Yeah, it is. Look, MIQ might have been there for a reason a while back, and I mean like last year and earlier,

but a couple of things have changed with Omicron. Because it's so much more infectious, MIQ doesn't keep it out. I mean, it only took a couple of weeks to break through MIQ. And second of all, there's so many people in New Zealand are going to have it. And thank God it's milder. You know, we're going to find ourselves, if a few people come to New Zealand, isolated home for seven days, it's not like they're going to really give it to more people than already had it. Of course, we all know, you know, how much pain it's causing for somebody that you might know.

As a local MP, people come and see me, and I'll give you one example. People that have actually never met their kids because for whatever reason their kid was born and they either can't go overseas because they won't be able to get back to work or they're overseas and they can't come here. The real obvious one. But get this.

I know you guys do a bit of comedy, but tell me if this is funny. New Zealand women are now relying on the great feminist organisation that calls itself the Taliban to give them asylum from Jacinda Ardern's policies. Well, there's some irony in that, because we spoke to Charlotte Ballas yesterday on the show, and we actually posted that online, and since then a whole flood of similar stories coming through. There's people living in their cars in Australia because they can't get back nor afford accommodation over in Aussie. There's some heartbreaking stories, David.

Oh, look, no question. And, you know, the government's basically said people can come from Australia at the end of February. And I just say, well, actually, why wait? What difference does it make if you do it now? Omicron is just about everywhere in the world. What's different about Australia? I guess the hesitation is you're saying, you know, we're trusting people to self-isolate at home. you can't like i'm a human i'm a terrible person

i can't trust myself to self-isolate at home can you actually leave that responsibility with people well you can and you know different parts of the world that actually use technology to do that so they say look you know if you want to do, you've got to put this app on your phone and it traces you and it's a bit creepy, but not as creepy as, you know, being locked out of your country or forced to stay in a government hotel with the military guarding you for two weeks,

which is the current policy. You know, you've got Omicron spreading very rapidly. And if a couple of people do decide to be dickheads, I mean you can't stop dickheads they're just an unstoppable force around the world. Dickheads are I mean work's tried to stop us for a long time. Yeah we're still hanging in there.

Yeah well you guys are just old thrusters for a while now. You know if one or two of them do, the point is it's spreading widely. And by the way, the idea that people in New Zealand

that do have it, or they don't isolate because people don't tell them, for example, I know a woman I work with actually. She was a close contact with a COVID case on a plane and the Ministry of Health was supposed to contact her

and tell her to isolate. But actually, it took them seven days. She went all around the country kissing babies. You're talking about the Prime Minister there, are we? Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the time the Ministry of Health told her she needed to isolate, her isolation period was nearly over. And I just think when stuff like that's happening,

how can you justify keeping that border closed? That's a very good point. David Seymour, thank you for your time this morning. No worries, guys. Thank you. We've got $5,000 up for grabs very shortly with our game Five Words for 5K. It is the hits. You grabs very shortly with our game Five Words for 5K. It is the hits. You've got John on, Ben. Word for 5K on the hits.

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Now let's go to Morrinsville. Sue, you're on the air. Good morning, boys. Now, have we spoken before, Sue? We have, and we've met even as well. I would have thought so. Otherwise, there's a very high population of Sues in Morrinsville. Imagine every second person is called Sue in Morrinsville.

Probably, yeah. Now, Sue, 5K, have you played this game before? I have, but I haven't done very well. Okay, well, today's the day we turn things around. You obviously know how it works. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Jono, please. All right, about to change Sue's life.

Yeah, Sue from Moran's Moran. You're going to the World Expo. After this, maybe we'll head to the World Expo. He is in the soundproof booth now and uh here is your first word this morning sue it is bieber bieber justin justin yep not many other options popped in my head for that one so that seems good nostril is the second word nostril n-O-S-T-R-I-L. Nostril. Nose. Nose.

I'm matching 100% with you so far, Producer Julia. Yeah, me too. Okay. But this is always where it gets tricky. Yeah. Round about word three. Casino is word number three. Casino.

Las Vegas. Oh, Las Vegas. Ah, Las Vegas. I like it. Las Vegas Casino. Las Vegas. I like it. Las Vegas Casino. Slide is word number four. Slide. What was the word?

Slide. S-L-I-D-E. Slide. Yeah, lots of options for that one, Sue. What's popping into your head? Hot. A hot slide? Mm.

Oh, like from the temperature? Yes. So, okay, hot slide. And vegetable is word number five. Vegetable. Soup. Vegetable soup. Nice.

All right. You happy with your words there, Sue? Sure am. All right, Sue. I like the confidence. I like the confidence. John, he's burst out of the soundproof booth. Boom, here we go.

I got the wave from you. You know, through the soundproof booth, all I can see is the back of Ben's head. You have a well-shaped head. Oh, thank you. I imagine it was an easy head to remove from Jenny, your mother. Oh, God. I came from the sunroof anyway, so it that say? Came up through the sunroof. Oh, did you?

Yeah. Yeah, right. That's why you've got a beautiful shaped head. Thank you. You should be proud of the back of your head. All right, here we go. Let's try and match five words for Sue. Let's try and give her $5,000.

First word, Bieber. Justin. One from one, Sue. Feeling good. Ring everyone in Morrinsville. Tell them you've nearly won $5,000. Nostril is word number two. Nostril.

Nose. Nice. Here's where things get a little bit more tricky. We said that to Sue. We'll say that to you too. Casino, word number three. Casino. Sky City.

Oh, Las Vegas is where we went. Oh, Sue. Nice. Oh, Las Vegas is where we went. Oh, Sue. Yeah, Sue. Now, last time you played five words, who did you send into the soundproof booth? I had Ben. Yeah, so we've both bitterly disappointed you now. We say that to our boss every day, too.

Maybe it's time you move on. No, no. I want Juliet. Juliet next time. We're going to get back with Juliet next time. We're going to win you $5,000. Let's go through the last two words. Slide was word number four.

Playground. And vegetable was the final word. Vegetable soup. What did we match on soup? Not bad, Sue. Three from five. We almost got there, but not quite this morning. Almost.

Hey, Sue. Let's do this again, Sue. Yeah, sorry. We were talking over each other, mate. Did you go to radio school, buddy? You're the first rule of radio? Don't talk over each other. Sue, have a great day. We've got Spy next.

You guys too, thanks. Now I'm talking over Sue. Julia, you're coming up, mate. Yes, Joe Rogan has responded to the Spotify saga. I'll fill you in on those details next. It is a hit. You've got John O'. My dad's a talk. If you don't want to see me. Spy.

Know what's up. Spy.co.nz. Now for the most scandalous copied and pasted stories from the internet. Here's Juliet with Spy. So the Joe Rogan Spotify saga continues. So you would have heard

that a couple of artists took their music off Spotify to protest sort of against Joe Rogan's podcast because in the past some of his episodes have spread a bit of misinformation about COVID. Now it was Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, two big bangers, who pulled their music off Spotify and Spotify let them do it. They happily let them walk away. And just for a bit of context which is quite interesting,

Joe Rogan has approximately 11 million listeners per episode, and Spotify lost more than $2 billion in market value after Neil Young pulled his music from the platform. So with all the talk about this, Spotify has now announced new rules for COVID coverage in the podcast on their platform. So they're now including content advisory warnings on any podcast that discusses COVID, where they encourage people to go and look at their data hub with coronavirus facts. Now, Joe Rogan has sort of responded to all of this.

He posted about a 10 minute long video on his Instagram talking about this. The podcast has been accused of spreading dangerous misinformation, specifically about two episodes, one with Dr. Peter McCullough and one with Dr. Robert Malone. Both these people are very highly credentialed, very intelligent, very accomplished people, and they have an opinion that's different from the mainstream narrative. I wanted to hear what their opinion is. One of the things that Spotify wants to do that I agree with is that at the beginning of these controversial podcasts, like specifically ones about COVID, is to put a disclaimer,

which I think is very important. Also, I think if there's anything that I've done that I could do better is have more experts with differing opinions right after I have the controversial ones. I would most certainly be open to doing that. It's a really, really reasonable sort of, I thought, little conversation from him on his Instagram. Do you know how much Rogan's making off his podcast a year, mate?

285 mil. Wow. 100 mil that Spotify pay him to do it, and then there's obviously endorsements that they put within the program as well. Yeah, he was saying he just likes it. He likes to have conversations with people. He likes to get all sorts of opinions and stuff. And yeah, and obviously now there's some steps in place to make sure that, you know. But the information, as he said, as well, has changed so much through this pandemic.

At one stage, it was like you couldn't spread. Everyone thought you couldn't spread COVID if you got vaccinated. And then suddenly, oh, no, you can, but you're less likely. But, you know, all these things have changed. We're all making it up as we go along, baby. Really interesting. And he smokes quite a lot of weed before he does that. Maybe that's another thing he could look at.

Yeah, true. You know what? I might just button off the bucky box. Maybe just a little bit. Just a touch. That's a fine update for this hour. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, my kids That's a fine update for the South. You can head to the hits.co.nz.

After 8 o'clock on the show, my kids cost me a whole lot of money yesterday. And I want to see if anyone out there has also had accidental online purchases. We'll do that after 8. It is the hits. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

On the hits. A lot of kids around the country going back to school today. Starts from today. So I think the last part of the country going back to school today. Starts pretty much from today. I think the last part of the drop-dead day is fair bait. The schools really want to push out that Christmas holiday. My son's going back to school today. Put a note in his lunchbox. Is that the done thing?

You never want a note to slip out, though, do you? Well, true. Depends what the note it is have you shamed him or not it's got all my important credit card details and let's hope that doesn't get out in the school yard i'm kind of glad uh in a way that the kids are going back to school i must love them being at home but yesterday i had a wee incident where i was you know doing some stuff at home and i was like oh hey guys you know just get you know one of those parent moves the champagne parent moves you're like use my phone use my phone while I'm doing this just you

know keep yourself occupied while I do some important stuff what was the important stuff so much important stuff so you're not fully engaged with the parenting side of things more focused on what's happening on your computer clearing emails yeah doing some work related stuff and they were playing

Ben boys clears a hell of an email doesn't he Julia she's prolific at clearing emails i do like doing that they're playing roblox and uh many parents listening right now will know all about roblox mainly for the fact that the kids are being saying can i play roblox yeah can i that's the probably the one most regular thing i say every day is no you can't have robux oh robux can i have robux can i have some robux no you can't have robux oh robux can I have robux can I have some robux no you can't have robux well that's what they kept saying yesterday to it and I was like oh yeah yeah no you can have you know this whatever whatever to keep them sort of occupied while I was doing some stuff and they're just consistent with it aren't they can I have robux and they just know

they know it's a numbers game eventually one day they're going to catch you at a weak point yeah yeah like when you're clearing emails yeah yeah, yeah. Yes or whatever. So afterwards, after I'd finished clearing all my emails and doing some work, I thought I'd focus a little bit more on what I should have done

before doing it. To go, what the heck, firstly, what the heck is Roblox? You know, I've seen it before I've played it, but I wanted to, you know, to explain to people

that maybe wouldn't know. And what are Robux? Have they been costing me something? Have a listen. Okay, so basically Roblox is a virtual app where you can play with other people around the world and there's thousands of games that you can play all afternoon you've been saying can i buy this with robux which is money you spend in the

game yes basically and it only costs like a couple of bucks they're not real dollars though no totally not hang on you're saying they don't, what are you saying? They do. Well they cost me real dollars. Yeah, I'm telling the truth, the other one isn't. So there you go, they're costing me real dollars. These Robuxes, I don't know what the currency rate on xe.com is for Robux to New Zealand dollars.

Is it like Bitcoin? Have you made quite a wise investment here? I don't know if I have. Apparently I bought food for a pet, I bought a new avatar. You know, like, the stuff that I don't benefit from. Yeah, like the giraffe needs peanuts. It's like, what? Why am I paying for this giraffe?

Giraffes don't eat peanuts. Elephants eat peanuts. Yeah, so. So there you go. So how much did it cost you in the end, Ben Boyce? I don't know. I have to look at my credit card statement. Apparently only a couple of bucks, but I'm not sure.

So it cost me money. And I want to know today, surely I'm not the only one that have had accidental online purchases like that. Yeah. I imagine it happens a lot, but it would have to take a calamity of errors and probably a certain level of intoxication to accidentally buy something online.

Because the hoops you go through. Yeah. Sometimes your credit card details are all in there. Like I just have to do my fingerprint And it's all in there There's a guy we used to work with Who bought a light winged aircraft And he woke up the next morning Won the bid on Trade Me

Forgot that he bid on Trade Me the night before We're not even a pilot Now the owner of a light winged aircraft So accidental online purchases If you've got one for us we'd love to hear from you this morning four four eight seven is the text number oh eight hundred the hits make me feel a little bit better next it is the hits rated m for mildly amusing new zealand's breakfast first of february today we start our 28 good deeds in 28 days if you've

got a good deed for us head to the hitstockco.nz. That's right. Or you can text 4487 as well. We need to mow a lawn after the show today, Ben Boyce. Yeah, I'll have to do that. An out-of-control lawn. Yeah, that's our first good deed of 2022. Hey, we're just talking about accidental online purchases, AOPs, as they're known in the game.

Ben Boyce sucked many dollars out of his account yesterday. Accidental Robux purchase there on Roblox. Yeah. The kid's game. Yeah, so apparently I've helped out in this virtual world, but not so good for the real world. And I like the age of the internet too. It's really opened the door for accidental purchases, hasn't it?

Yeah. Back in the day, there was probably not that many intoxicated people wandering into shops and buying six-foot lava lamps. No, but if you can do it online. You can do it online. And you have to deal with the fallout in a week's time when it turns up at the door. We're going to go with you, Jordan.

What did you accidentally buy online? My little sister bought a wedding dress. Your little sister bought a wedding dress? What, for herself? No, for my mum, but she's not getting married. So she didn't need the wedding dress. How did she do this? She was just online on the computer,

and she was just looking through, and she saw a wedding dress and purchased it. That's how you do it. I mean, is your mum married, not married? She's already married. She's already married? Well, I guess she could wear it to work, take it to pack and save for meat week. Really dress up for meat week. Yeah, that's already married. She's already married? Well, I guess she can wear it to work, take it to pack and save for meat week.

Really dress up for meat week. Yeah, that's great. Thank you so much. That's such a great call. We appreciate it. Steph, you're on from Wellington. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. AOPs, Accidental Online Purchases.

What was yours? Um, so me and my ex broke up and I decided I was going to have a few drinks and sign up to Tinder. Yeah. And I thought, oh, while I'm at it, let's just go premium for a year. You know, you get some, you get some. What is Tinder premium? Better options?

Do you get better options or something? You get a little bit further than your location. Oh, okay. Outside your area. Oh, okay. Outside your area. Okay, yeah. So I decided, yeah, I was going to do premium, charged it to my account. It ended up being like $100 and something, and I'd accidentally charged my ex's credit card.

Oh, Tinder. People are like, I didn't get Tinder. Tinder deluxe. What am I getting in deluxe? Oh, that's unbelievable. That's so good. Thank you for your call. Appreciate that, Steph.

On the phone right now with an accidental online purchase is Steve. What happened? Oh, well, it was just sort of like a mistake, really. Like I was bidding on a chicken. You were bidding on a chicken on Trade Me? On Trade Me. And I didn't realise I was bidding. Well, I knew it was a lot of chickens, but I thought you could.

It was one of those multi-auctions where you just. Right. You bid and you're the highest bidder and you take one or ten, you know. I didn't realise I was ending up with over a thousand. It was 1,500 in the end. 1,500 chickens. Now, do you obviously live on a farm or someplace with a bit of land? Just a lifestyle block.

Yeah, right. So you were just after the one chicken, just for, you know, add some lifestyle to the lifestyle block, add some pizzazz, and you've ended up with 1,500, a flotilla of chickens. Yeah, that's it. Jeez, what happened? Did they arrive, or when did you realise that you'd bought 1,500 chickens?

Well, when I rang the liquidator, he rang me and said, what are you going to do with all the chickens? You're like, no, just one. He said, what do you mean, all the chickens? I said, I only want like half a dozen. And he goes, mate, he says, you've got 1,000 chickens. Now, the only man who would be happy to receive that phone call is Colonel Sanders. That's it.

You got it. So what happened? Oh, well, I ended up, I said, I'll leave it with me. I'll have a think about it. And then I put it on Facebook and it just went viral and all these people got involved and Auckland Animal Sanctuary got involved and in the end we ended up dealing with it all and we had to get some vets involved in that,

and then after that, they all rehomed. That's awesome. So Steve, from a man who just wanted one chicken, has also lumped with the responsibility of finding homes for 1,500 of them, and you did it. Yeah, I got 20. Oh, you kept 20 in the end. Yeah, right.

That's amazing. Yeah, I ended up with 20. How much did you buy the chickens for? $1. No wonder you thought it was just one chicken. Jeez. Yeah, right. That's amazing. Yeah, I ended up with 20. How much did you buy the chickens for? $1. $1,500. No wonder you thought it was just one chicken. Jeez. Yeah, well, because I thought it was a multi-auction.

You know, like they trade me, they have a multi-auction. Yeah, I get it. And then you're the highest bidder, so you take as many as you want. Then they offer the rest to the other people. Oh, Steve, this is... Well, good on you. Lucky everyone came to the party, you know, and it all worked out good for the chickens in there

Yeah geez it would have been a couple of sleepless nights Steve Was it a matter of counting your chickens before they hatch Or not There was 1500 of them You probably heard them all Two scrambled eggs They had already hatched

Unfortunately no one had counted them before telling Steve Oh Steve thank you so much for your time. What a great call. You have a good day. Yeah, you too. You're on the hits, 8.30. It is Sia Chandelier on the hits. I had a dream about Sia that she had webbed feet.

Oh, really? And then she did. I Googled it. She does. Really? I don't know what it was. Maybe you read it subconsciously. Maybe your dreams are like predicting what's reality.

Maybe she didn't have COVID. All of a sudden I dreamed it. Hey, on Friday, we've been set a really exciting challenge. Thanks to Razine Paint Cans. We've got to stack some paint cans as high as we can. Each can is $250. And the higher we get, the more money we have to give away. But if it all falls over, we don't have any cash.

So we've got to know when to sort of decide to stop stacking cans. I can see where the jeopardy lay in that challenge there, Ben Boyce. We've actually tracked down some world record holders, Guinness World Record holders for stacking cans. And they join us now on Zoom in Hobart, Australia. Scott, Nathan and Chris. Very good. Good morning, guys.

At what point in your life did you decide we're going to get a world record stacking cans? About a month into COVID lockdown. Oh, so out of pure boredom. So this is the world record for cans. Now you guys did sweet corn. Is that the criteria? Do you have to have sweet corn

for your cans or can it be any style of can for this record? It can be different cans. There are certain rules and regulations with what sort of can you can use, and that needs to be approved beforehand. You must have decimated Hobart's sweet corn supply. Panic bought. Yeah, we went around most of the supermarkets and cleaned them out. Yeah, right.

And so you got 36 cans high? Yep. How did you get up to that height? Did you have a scissor lift? Did you have a scaffolding set up or what? That's why we picked the sweet corn cans, I think. Just a step lower. Just a step lower and reaching up.

Yeah, right. I tried to really upsell the attempt there. You're not doing the Eiffel Tower or anything like that, are you? Yeah. So what was the previous record before you guys had a crack? 28. I think it was someone in Mexico, I think, had it. That seems like something that someone in Mexico would do.

Did you do it just one on top of the other, or did you form a pyramid? What was the structure? Just one on top of the other. I think there is another record for the largest pyramid can stack as well, which is something like four metres. It's massive. Have riches come your way following this corn stacking record?

It's just started right now. What price do you put on an interview with Jono and Ben? And news from all over the world, I dare say, reached out to you? Maybe now that we've spoken to you guys. You guys are really hinging a lot on this interview. I feel like it's not going to work out as well for you as you hope. No, it's so good to talk to you guys. I don't know who you think you're talking to right now.

Or what Sal, our producer, did on you. Because on this Friday on our show, we're taking paint cans, and for every paint can that we stack on top of each other, we get $250 to hopefully give away to someone listening but the problem is if it all falls over we lose all the money so we've got to kind of be strategic about when we stop any advice for us like you know like putting cans on top of each other just be steady just steady hand make sure it sits perfectly on top and And then I suppose once it starts leaning over, I'd probably pull the pin from there.

Yeah, well, because you guys did 36 cans. At what point was it starting to get wobbly or lean? It would have been in the 30s. That's when everyone just has to be ultra still, no movement in the room. The floor could slightly move if someone steps. So, yeah, it starts to get a bit hairy after 30. Yeah, and i think we're

outside as well so i imagine wind conditions could also play into it definitely absolutely how big are the paint cans it's a four liter one oh wowzers that's sizable is it is it going to be they all give us more of a sturdy base though won't it then maybe your sweet corn cans yeah yep have you got a crane once you start getting up to that? Yeah, we've got a scissor lift. That's why John asked that before. Sorry, I thought everybody had a scissor lift, but apparently not. That's so nice to talk to you. Congratulations on

your world record. Do you get like a certificate? Do Guinness send you that? Yes. Yeah, we get a nice certificate and a nice folder and everything. So yeah. Well, congratulations guys. Wonderful effort. 36 cans of corn stacked a Guinness world record. certificate and in a nice folder and everything so yeah well congratulations guys so wonderful effort 36 cans of of corn stacked a guinness world record uh and we'll send you an email and tell you how we get on this friday eh sounds good sounds great don't even have their email

address not sure we can get it but that's friday tune on Friday we're going to be stacking Razine paint cans you can win a whole heap of money Friday morning on the hits I don't know if you do the same in your household at night

but it's a family ritual where we all eat dinner and watch people nearly drown on Bondi Rescue no I don't have that

rich tradition in our household do you watch Bondi Rescue I have watched it I haven't watched it for a while so household. Have you watched Bondi Rescue? I have watched it. I haven't watched it for a while. So it's the show that basically follows the surf lifeguards on the beach in Australia, right? Yeah, that's right. And there's just always loose Australians swimming and, you know,

and they get regurgitating and frothing up half the ocean. What I really like watching that show from having done TV shows before, I always go, when do they ask? Because obviously they ask permission for people to be on the show. But while they're mouth-to-mouth in between, when they're just recovering from drowning, I mean, when do they ask permission to put them on the TV show? Inviting a couple of the pumps of the heart.

Hey, can you sign this release form? Yeah, I always wondered that. But anyway, yeah. Yeah, it's a really good show. It's quite a graphic show, though, isn't it? You see some stuff. But mind you, I'm not her. Who am I to judge?

We hosted a show with dogs on a novelty agility course. So I'm not going to throw stones about TV formats. Yeah, true, true. It wouldn't be for me to say. But the kids have become, strangely, huge fans of bondi rescue they love bondi rescue right and so then whenever we're in a swimming situation we have to play bondi rescue where i am are you the victim i'm the drowning swimmer yeah and they and they rescue me but the problem is when you're in a public setting you know is that guy? Like his kids are trying to pull him into shore.

Like how committed to the role are you? Are you really committed to it? Mouth to mouth. They're like, oh, this is getting a bit awkward. But your kids play News Hub at home? Yes, they have. They play the News Hub? They have. Really?

Yeah, they dress up and read the news. That's so funny. The news is all a bit light though. It's great in a COVID world where you're sick of the, it's like, oh, such and such, I wore roller skates to the mall today you're like oh okay

it's basically like our radio show we just pretend nothing serious is existing out in the world nothing big's happening at the moment and it's quite a selfish

bulletin too isn't it yeah it's all about them I mean Mike Roberts doesn't get on Newsub every night and go well today I parked my car well outside a cafe

you know that's not the sort of stuff he's doing in the news got 45 likes on Facebook today. It was a big day for me. What about you, Sam? Hey, we've got a big day actually on the hits, though.

A new member of the team starting on the hits this afternoon. We're very, very excited about this show. If you haven't heard about it, we're going to have them joining us next to tell you about the big show

starting today on the hits. The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Ben Boyce, very exciting to have you today at the hits. We have on The Hits. The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben. Ben Boyce, very exciting to have you today at The Hits. We have a new staff member. We have a new accountant. Her name

is Deidre and we're going to talk to her right now on the radio. No, it's not often that you do welcome in the accountant to the radio station. No, we should do that more often actually. We're not kept abreast of the accounting positions around the company, but we do know that today Megan, actually. We're not kept abreast of the accounting positions around the company, but we do know that today, Megan.

You'll know her from many years with Fletch Vaughan and Megan on ZDM, but now we're very excited to have her, Megan Pappas, here on The Hits. Yeah, that's very exciting. Good morning, guys. I was like, oh, my God, you know who the accountant is? I don't even. Yeah. Now, Megan Pappas, what I'm going to do right now is,

I'm going to say this on the record, every new staff member to the radio station on or off air will be greeted with an on-air interview. It's part of their induction to the company. I think so, yeah. Oh, no, it's lovely to have you on the team now, Megan. So you're going to be hosting the 3 p.m. pickup across the country every afternoon and also hanging out with the Hits Auckland audience every day, mate.

Yes, so this afternoon is my first show and I actually haven't played with buttons because I'm like working all those buttons. Yeah, a lot of buttons. I haven't done those for like eight years, so it'll be interesting. I'm excited. I have to push the buttons periodically every day, and I still haven't nailed it. No, it's not good. So many buttons, so many buttons.

Now, Megan, are you prepared to hear Adele easy on me 29 times a day? Yes. I've also come from somewhere where we played Adele 29 times a day, so I'm ready for it. I think Adele's played everywhere 29 times a day. So everyone's mentally prepared for an excess of Adele. And what's coming up on the show this afternoon, Megan? Well, I thought because I am not known to the Hits audience

and we need to get to know each other, so I thought maybe we could do like an Ask Me Anything. Oh, okay. First question, what is your F-poss pin? I was about to say, and I will endeavour to be truthful, but no. No F-boss pins. Oh, that's very cool. Now, we are so excited to have you on the hits.

It's really cool. We can't wait to hear you on the radio this afternoon. Oh, thanks so much, guys. Here's some questions. I've Googled while we've been talking. Break the ice questions. Oh, okay. Let's do that.

Some ice break. We're on a first date. Okay, cool. Okay, it's a first date. Yeah. Are you currently seeing anyone else? I am married. You're married.

Okay, so how do we end up in this? Anyway, I want to ask you. Yeah, you're also married. Anyway, this is weird. Okay, right, next question. Who is your hero? Who's your hero is the first ice breaker question. Oh, Michelle Obama.

Great answer. I love her. Okay, if you could live anywhere, where would it be, Megan Pappas? Thailand. Been to Thailand before or just a place you've gone, I'd love to go visit?

No, I've been a couple of times, but I'm unsure of what I'd actually do there. She hasn't been eating a pad thai and gone, you know, this tastes like a place where I could live. You know there's places I would love to go that have never been alright. Okay, and let's go

what makes you angry? People who click their fingers at waiters. People. That is a really good one. That's how you can tell if someone's a not very nice person on a first date. That's how they treat the wait staff. That is a really good tip,

and I'll use that in my dating career there. Yeah. All right, are you swiping right for Jono now after that? Hold on, let me just get a drink. Hold it up. Oh, you! Oh, Megan, it's really cool to have you as part of the Hitsfano, and I look forward to hearing you today on The Wireless, mate. Oh, thanks for having me on, guys.