Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Who Knew Ben Sounded Like Seal When He Sings?

Episode Date: August 7, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, we talk about our favourite Karaoke songs and even get a bit of a demo from Ben, Jono chats about his fraudulent credit card and we want to know which parent has the busiest schedule with their kids!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast. never bought them no you bought them one i think after a while yeah i thought that would be quite funny yeah it was funny yeah uh but i've also got a tangelo tree out the back and my parents when they come and say they're like oh jay you've got to use the tanger i'm not a garden person you know yeah right i generally let the tangelos fall off the tree some rat will come along and nibble them and then i mow over them with the warm up that's the life cycle of a tan and i was like no no you're annie and john are like they're beautiful tangelos you know juice them eat them so what are tangelos it's kind of like an orange because there's tangerines as well there's a whole must be a whole lot of yeah yeah the uh the whole i've never heard of a tangelo so yeah citrus family they had many offspring didn't they uh but yeah tango quite a sort of bit more bite to it than an orange right a bit more sour slightly and my mum every time i phone her have you because her big thing is like well if you're not going to use them then pick them off put them in a bag and give

them to the neighbors a nice neighborly gesture but the problem is and i did this yesterday the problem is once you front a neighborly gesture the neighbor then feels obliged to return with a gesture right and we have lovely neighbors blessed to have beautiful neighbors so i handed a bag of bag of uh tangelos or tangerine whatever they are yeah and i got on with my day and then i heard and then he's gone out and he's picked some lemons and he's like here's a return the favor with some lemons so now it's about he just wanted to even like, here's, I'll return the favour with some lemons. So now it's about, he just wanted to even,

you've given me something, I've given you something, let's call it. It's like you with the coffee situation here at work when you don't like it when one of us goes, I'll get coffees for everyone because then that puts us

in this thing of, yeah, then you've got to do that and then we get into the system of, yeah, which is, that's right, then I'm like,

oh jeez, I need to pay for coffees tomorrow because I produce the bee humps. Yeah, that's right. So that's, it's on my mind. Yeah, you can't that's right. Then I'm like, oh, jeez, I need to pay for coffees tomorrow because I produce the bee humps. Yeah, that's right. So that's... It's on my mind. Yeah, you can't let it go. Yeah.

It's the same thing with an able gesture, isn't it? You're either, you're either even the playing field immediately or you're in debt, aren't you? Or you just have a, let's not give anything to anyone. Yeah. Deal. Yeah. Across the fence.

Yeah, you're right. It was lovely that they did that. Yeah, and they drop off, well, that was the other thing because they're very generous with lemon curd. She makes lemon curd delicious on toast.

We get a jar of lemon curd. I'm like, oh, I can't make preserves, so I go and buy like a box of roses and I chuck that on their lawn. So it's a tit for tat, but you just want to, you need to keep it

to that even keel. Yeah. I had an awkward encounter, I but you just want to, you need to keep it at that even key. Yeah. I had an awkward encounter, I told you about that before, with new neighbours, didn't realise they were new neighbours, and my wife had been across the road, their car was parked, or I think the lights were on or something, and she'd gone across to go, hey, knock on the door, just so you know, the lights have been left on outside, and they're like, oh, thank you very much. And while my wife was there at the door, she's like, oh, your dinner smells delicious, whatever you're cooking.

And then my wife had gone. She was heading off. I didn't realize this whole conversation had happened. I get a knock on the door 10 minutes later with a lady with plastic containers. Oh, a Tupperware container. I'm like, here you go. I'm like, no, I didn't order anything. Thanks very much.

And I was in the middle of something. I think I was at the final. I was like, no, no, I didn't order anything. You must have the wrong house. Slam. Okay, so bye. And you go, all right, have a great evening. Did you shut the door on him first I was like, no, no, I didn't order anything. You must have the wrong house. Slam. All right, have a great evening.

Did you shut the door on him first? I said, have a great evening. All right, goodbye. And then later on, when my wife got home, she found the same containers

left on the doorstep with little notes saying, this is from your neighbor, because she thought that I was a, oh, what a monster I look like. So I haven't returned

the favor since then because I was like, I don't know how to pull that back. Well, it's too long now. You can't even think about pulling it back. Well, I'm not going to make my day. Hey, you know seven months ago I slammed the door in your face and you were just trying

to give me a lovely hot meal. Yeah, I made burgers tonight. Here's an extra one. Would you like one? You know, like, oh, okay. You can't claw it back. No. You just got to, just don't look them in the eyes.

Yeah, I know. It's pretty much it. I just smile and wave and that's it, you know. It's fine. And then she was like, oh. And so she would have had to go home. Get a pen. Get a note. Get a eyes. Yeah, I know. It's pretty much it. I just smile and wave and that's it. It's fine. And then she was like, oh. And so she would have had to go home, get a note,

come back. It's so much effort to go to. You're like, I've got some stuff happening, lady. There's a lot going on. No time for your generosity.

We didn't order anything on Uber Eats. What an idiot. Hey, podcaster, had a fun chat with Paul Cole's mum. Julie Cole, gold medal winning athlete.

What does it take? What parenting does it take, what parenting does it take to actually have a successful child not like all these other children we've got you know, ones that actually win on the world stage, she joins us on the show, have a great Monday Warning, this show contains Jono and or Ben

Jono and Ben on the hits I had a pretty shocking end of the week last week, well thanks to you it wasn't what we were doing What we were doing was actually quite fun Going around and talking to some people About the Hits radio station

Yeah so you go around You know agencies And inside these agencies Are very very trendy Good looking sort of Gen Zers People like We stand in front of them I'm like well

we don't deserve to be in this room this is all beaten up withered old face doesn't deserve to be mixing and mingling with this blemish free skin in this room but one thing you

we got up to talk to everyone and then you were like let's do a big introduction this is what you said in front of everyone well I was like this can't get any more awkward

there's a room of sort of a dozen of these people sitting in this room looking at us. And I was like, well, there's no way I can make it any more awkward than it already is. Well, you did. You managed to do it. You're like, there's still a big introduction. Ben, you leave the room and I'll introduce you. I was like, please don't.

Please don't, Jono. Please don't. I could see you dying inside. It felt like a scene. Which is bringing me much joy. From David Brent in The Office. And then you're like, all right then. I was like, good.

He's not going to do it. Then you go, I'll go. Then you're like, I'll go outside and you introduce me. Yeah. I was like, oh, okay. So you're like, ladies and gentlemen, here's Jono Pryor. And I was like, bam, bam, bam, bam. I had to make the music with my mouth.

We didn't have any pre-prepared music. No one had thought you were going to come back in. Like you were Tony Robbins doing like a business talk or something the thing with those and like you say we had a lot of fun doing them but they get so awkward where you're like we've just got to plow on you just plow it's like Putin in the Ukraine it's an absolute disaster but he's plowing on and that's the same theory that you have to apply for those if you wanted to put it into real life terms of how awkward those things are just imagine having dinner with your new partner and

your ex-partner sits at the table next to you i i like we brought a guy up for a for a bit of a game that we played and i was you know trying to make banter trying to make you know small talk filling in time because we said you have a lovely shirt You're wearing a nice shirt And I have a shirt that I thought was very similar to it And I was like I always have to iron that shirt It's always constantly It's kind of always getting crinkled

It's kind of like a linen shirt So bear this in mind Ben saying my introduction was awkward He then comes out with Oh you must have to iron that shirt quite a lot And he replies with No Never have

And then dead silence That was the end of it And you were like great shirt banter there Ben Oh, you must have to iron that shirt quite a lot. And he replies with, no. Never have. And then dead silence. That was the end of it. And you were like, great shirt banter there, Ben. You must have to iron that shirt a lot. Well, it did look like the shirt that I, and as soon as you start talking about, how would you have been from the hit?

So they talked about ironing linen shirts. One of them made the other one do an introduction. Very weird. But you did it because you were going to half a dozen, you know, throughout the week. And you felt like a door to door Tupperware salesperson. Didn't you? You'd do your presentation, you'd pack up your plates, on to the next one. Alright, no sales there.

Away we go. Old Gil from the Simpsons. Scrolling through your feed. Right, what are we doing? Are we bloody mowing into the All Blacks? We're kicking these guys when they're down? Get the good old New Zealand battering machine out? We need to ease back on that though, don't we? You know, I mean...

I was hoping I was going to come in here with no expertise and shove my opinion down everyone's throats. I mean, they're out there trying. They'll turn things around. They have in the past. They'll turn things around. But it was, unfortunately, the biggest loss in 94 years for the All Blacks, losing their first game of the Rugby Championship opener in South Africa, 26-10 over the weekend. Do you know what?

I saw articles pop up yesterday. I mean, it's almost like the media salivate. They're almost wanting them to lose. It feels like, to me. I'm not a journalist. But there were articles yesterday saying, he must stand down immediately. And I'm thinking, do you know the consequences of that? It means next week we've got no coach.

Yeah, that's true. Stand down immediately. Oh, we just turned up to think, who's your coach? I don't know. The media made him stand down immediately. Left us empty. I know. So let's turn our attention to other sporting things at the moment.

You know, we used to be a nation that supported rugby. Now we're a nation cycling. Cycling. Cycling is our thing. It's always been our thing. It's always been the thing. And Aaron Gate over there. Four gold medals in the Commonwealth Games.

How good is that? He got three on the track, and then he got another one on the road yesterday. Four gold medals in the Commonwealth Games. Magnificent. Now, where are we sitting on the medal hall? Because I know Aussie, they're just dominating. I think we're fourth. I think there's Australia, England, Canada, then us.

Okay, it's time to start breaking down per capita. Well, it's still very good. Now, we made a whole lot of predictions for the year. We made 22 predictions at the start of the year for the year 2022. And one of our predictions, it's never been done before, was this many medals at the Commonwealth Games. New, was this many medals at the Commonwealth Games. New Zealand will win 50 medals at the Commonwealth Games. If we don't, we'll break it down per capita to make ourselves feel better.

Now, we never won 50 medals before. We're at 47 medals right now with another game like a squash game going on, double squash, where they're playing for gold and silver. So there's another one. I think you were saying, Producer Joel, there's another. Yeah, the squash doubles Joelle King and another lady tomorrow morning as well for the gold and silver. So there's another one. I think you were saying, Producer Joel, there's another. Yeah, the squash doubles Joelle King and another lady tomorrow morning as well

for the gold medal match. So that'll be 49. Okay. So then one more and we've got 50. We picked this. No one win any more than 50. That would be amazing.

We also predicted that Pete Davidson would move. This was at a time he was with Kim Kardashian. They just got together. Now they've just broken up over the weekend.

And have we got that prediction? Pete Davidson to date another famous woman. Probably the Queen. So he's broken up with Kim Kardashian just as of this weekend. He's moving on to Lizzie. He's moving on to Lizzie. I don't know if he's moving on to Lizzie. But yeah.

So it's interesting. We made a couple of couple other predictions like the Warriors to win like the New Zealand Warriors or the Golden State Warriors I think we got some audio of that

we don't have any audio of that oh you were nodding I mean Golden State Warriors he was nodding in agreeance he was like yeah

I thought it was that's what producer Joel was doing just take my word for that one as well but well done to the Comm Games team phenomenal effort it has been incredible over the weekend as well we had a couple more one as well. But well done to the Comm Games team. Phenomenal effort.

It has been incredible. Over the weekend as well, we had a couple more bronze as well. We've got one in the netball, one in the women's cricket as well. So, yeah, some really, really amazing efforts over there in Birmingham. Watching the squash right now,

the double squash, it feels like four people are too many people in a squash court. They keep banging into each other and then putting their arms up and going, oh, he banged into me. Yeah, I don't know yeah like

one's wearing like one of those COVID face masks with the shield you know how you sometimes see people in the shield and you're like well they're taking this seriously yeah well it does look

like they're all wearing eye protection so obviously a lot could go wrong yeah at it right now we'll keep you up to date with that hopefully we'll get another gold if you're here for advice on life you're in big trouble

Jono and Ben on the hits. We're talking getting free stuff this morning. I had a great call from Fiona just before. Yeah, free stuff you got from companies. Mike, welcome. How are you, bud? Free, we're doing well.

Free stuff from companies. What did you get? Every Friday I went to Countdown at 5.30 and they didn't have any chickens and their promotional thing was if they didn't have any hot chickens, they'd give you a little certificate to go and get another one at a different time. So I went back Friday the following week. Oh, no more chickens.

So they gave me another little certificate to say here's a free chicken, right? So I kept going back every Friday. I had about seven of them. Seven free, winner, winner, chicken dinner. Not only that, it got to the stage where they knew my name and they had the sticker waiting for me. This guy's going to come along. He knows we're out of chickens.

That's something Ben would do, eh? Yeah, I like that one. I'll try that one next time. That is beautiful, Mike. You're going to have a great day. You too. See you, buddy. Much love to you guys. Take care, eh? Yeah, I like that one. I'll try that one next time. That is beautiful, Mike. You're going to have a great day. You too. See you, buddy. Much love to you guys.

Take care, eh? You too, buddy. See you, Mike. Vanessa, welcome to the show. How are you, Vanessa? Good, good. Really good. Good morning.

Lovely to have you on. Vanessa, free stuff you've got from companies. What was it for you? Well, years ago when perms were into fashion, I won't name the hairdressing salon, but I got burnt at the back of my neck from the perming solution and my T-shirt also got ruined from the perming solution. And they gave me free hairdressing for a year

and also a free T-shirt. I love a free T-shirt. I love a free T-shirt. I know, and I also had this scar to remind me of it. I forgot that as well. Nothing seems sorry like a free T-shirt. What was the T-shirt? Was it for the salon in particular or was it just like a? Oh, on the T-shirt?

It was a replacement Country Road T-shirt back when Country Road was all in. Oh, that's nice. High class. Oh, geez, you're talking about a wonderful period in time where Country Road and perms were at the forefront of fashion, probably around about the same time we were having apricot chicken. Exactly, and you looked like Annie. Yeah, you looked like Annie.

Now, did it hurt? What do you mean, the perming solution? It really hurt. So it was like a chemical that was festering away on. Now, did it hurt? What do you mean the perming solution? It really hurt. So it was like a chemical that was festering away on your skin, was it? The thing is too, but again, we've mentioned it before, New Zealanders, they're not one to complain. How long did you sit with the burning sensation before you actually said something?

Probably a good 20 minutes, and I was like, oh, something's not right here. This is not going down well. Oh, jeez. I go to my local suburban mall and I get massages, and they're really good, but they go so hard, so hard. Do they ask you, like? No, they just go, and I'm too polite to say,

can you button off a bit? It's like to the point where it's torture. Right. No, it was all good. We don't like to say anything. Hey, that was a very funny call. Thank you so much for your time, Vanessa. No problem.

You're going to have a wonderful day, okay? You too. Thanks very much. It's just another Motivational Monday. Yeah, that's right. That's what we do. Isn't the internet a wonderful tool, isn't it? A tool where you can just Google something to motivate yourself.

Or you can spend three hours scrolling through Instagram to unmotivate yourself. I mean, it's amazing what you can get on there. Oh, yeah, because I find on Instagram or social media, sometimes you read something or you hear something or a motivational quote, you're like, oh my God, that's so motivational. But then you continue to scroll through Instagram and by the time you leave Instagram 10 minutes later, you've lost that motivation. You know? But at the time you're like, oh my God, that is so good.

Was the motivation to keep scrolling through Instagram? Yeah, well, maybe I used that motivation to do that. Beyonce, you heard of her? I have, yes. Queen Bee, new album out. She's got a new album out at the moment, yeah. Very popular. So she's not only Queen of the Bees, Ben,

she's also queen of inspiration and this morning jonah and ben present for your motivational monday uh beyonce now if beyonce can't motivate you there's nothing else we can do yeah is there have a listen be excellent there's so many different ways to be brilliant i believe you and every human being is born with a masterful gift now if if you've ever been called dumb, unattractive, overweight, unworthy, untalented, well so have I. Whatever you do, don't let negativity of people projecting their own self-doubts on you deter you from your focus. I know those moments are painful and you're human and it hurts like hell but now is the time to turn those criticisms into fuel and

motivation to become a beautiful beast. I'm often asked what's your secret to success? The shorter answer? Put in that work. There may be more failures than victories. Yes I've been blessed to have 24 Grammys, but I've lost 46 times. Please don't ever feel entitled to win. Just keep working harder. Surrender to the cards you are dealt. It's from that surrender that you get your power. Losing can be the best motivator to get you even bigger wins.

So never compare yourself to anyone else. Thanks, Beyonce. Thanks, Beyonce. even bigger wins. So never compare yourself to anyone else. Thanks, Beyonce. Thanks, Beyonce. She's lost more Grammys than she's won. She keeps plowing on. She's also won a lot of Grammys. I mean, you know,

we've won no Grammys. Just bearing in mind, you listening, you've won no Grammys either. Unless Joel Little's tuned into the show this morning. Oh, Lord. But yeah,

none of us have won Grammys. So she's won more Grammys than we have. But she's lost, the show this morning. Oh, Lord. Yeah. But yeah, none of us have won Grammys. Yeah. So she's won more Grammys than we have. But she's lost. The point has been, she's lost. You know, the motivation is, I've lost, you know, double the amount of Grammys that I've won. But I keep going.

But she's still won Grammys. She's beyond. Anyway, that's motivation. That's great motivation. Don't compare yourself to anyone. That's right. Thanks, Tom. Even Beyonce's not doing that. Yeah. Especially don't compare yourself to Beyonce. That's right. Thanks, Tom. Even Beyonce's not doing that.

Especially don't compare yourself to Beyonce. Because that's never going to work out well. The Hits. Looking for a pair of below average husbands? Ta-da! It's Jono and Ben on The Hits. We parked the car at the airport a couple of weeks ago during the holidays, and as

things tend to happen, Jen's car, my wife, there was a bit of an accident. We picked it up. Airport's been fantastic. They're paying for all the repairs. So there's no issue on that end. That's not my issue. Just in case you were wondering.

I'm glad you covered all that off. That was my issue. But my issue is... The fact that you never pay for parking out of the airport for ages. Did they pull you up on that? No, no one's mentioned that. No, I...

I'd like to mention it to them. Next time we talk to them, say, all that parking, because you had a card, a faulty credit card that just kept giving you free parking. It did. What? No, look, you're making it sound like I've got some sort of fraudulent, multi-purpose credit card.

Okay, explain the situation. I had a credit card. Yeah. And you and me would go to the airport for work, and then we'd go away, and then we'd come back, and then we'd go away and then we'd come back and then I'd go to pay for parking like an honest citizen and I'd put my ticket in and I'd swipe my credit card and it would say, this credit card's not working.

Faulty credit card. Faulty credit card. And you knew this. And it would spit my parking ticket back out and it would say, have a nice day. No charges on the credit card. Bang, I was out and I ran off that for about 12 months and it was a very sad day because that credit card expired therefore it was very faulty and i couldn't use it and i even tried to offer to i would pay for

you i said i'll pay for your parking you're like i won't do it i don't want to be part of your scam it's not a scam i'm trying to pay it's not like I was anyone. That was besides the point. So we're taking the car to the panel beaters. And so she's handed me her car keys. Okay. Now, my problem with Jen's car keys is she has the car keys of an overnight security guard. She has about, honestly, I counted them, 37 keys. It's like they're all dangling and there's other key rings attached to other key rings to form

a big multi iceberg of key rings. Has she just let it get away? She has. It's like a kettlebell in a CrossFit class now. It's so heavy. You get to that stage too where you're like you don't know. You're like, what's this key for? 85% of them we don't know what they unlock. But you don't want to get rid of a key

in case you need it. You're right. We're in a big deep abyss of keys at the moment. And the problem is it takes you don't want to get rid of a key in case you need it. You're right. So we're in a big, deep abyss of keys at the moment. And the problem is it takes you about 15 minutes to find the key that you're looking for. Especially if you're just trying

to open a door or something. Okay, we'll go through this. You have to go through methodically and find them. I don't reckon you'd find, you wouldn't have another New Zealander out there with more keys on their key ring.

36 keys. If you do, you can text 4487, but I guarantee we won't. Look out Scary dinosaurs Not Jurassic Park It's these guys

Jono and Ben On the hits It's a big day on the hits We're looking for the best song ever The best The first battle Happens after 9 o'clock But we were

Right now We thought we'd focus things What's going to happen To all the other songs Are they going to have a complex That they're not the best songs At the end of it all Possibly

Yeah possibly Yeah when we announce the best song ever of all time, I can't wait to get into that. But right now we thought, let's do the best song ever. Our own version right now, but the best song ever to sing

if you're going to do karaoke. No, that's not my happy place. Karaoke. Yeah, tell the people love it or they don't like it. I can't dance, can't sing. I'm not comfortable there. I spend the whole time sitting in anxiety going,

are they going to ask me to do it next? You know how they go around. But what you're banking for if you're too scared or petrified to get up and sing karaoke is that there's people up there who love it. They love the limelight. And you just hope that they're hot. You keep going. Put on a whole concert.

I don't care. You go after one of those people. Oh, yes. We used to work with a lovely lady, Steph. And she's a whole concert. I don't care. But then if you go after one of those people, oh, that's. We used to work with a lovely lady, Steph, and she's a great singer, beautiful voice. She even went to a, she loves karaoke, but she even went to a concert. It was All Saints or Sugar Girls or someone. Are the Sugar Girls?

No, no, it was something like that. The Diabetes Girls? Yeah, yeah. And so she was up the front and she grabbed the microphone off the lady instead of singing. Yeah, because the lead singer went down to sort of go hey you sing along as they would

she's like yep I will and grabbed the mic and they had to wrestle it back off her so there's people out there who love it yeah there is

now there was an article I was reading on Friday New Zealand's best karaoke song now there's a lot of songs that are the most popular ones that people sing Robbie Williams

this one I mean great song yeah I know but you can imagine a lot of pitchiness through that oh popular ones that people sing. Robbie Williams, this one. I mean, great song. Yeah, I know, but you can imagine a lot of pitchiness through that. Yeah. Valerie from Amy Winehouse as well is one of the most popular songs to sing on karaoke. And you shouldn't probably be surprised with this, particularly in the South, but a little bit of Wag and Wheel as well.

But that seems like an easier song to sing, you know? Yeah. And I guess if you're not fully confident up there, you just want the whole crowd singing along with you. So they drown you out. I got up there one night, same as you, I'm not a big fan of getting up, you know, because I can't sing.

I know I can't sing, but I got up there and someone was like, get up there, get up there. I was like, oh no, I don't know what to sing. And someone put on a song. They were like, we'll put one on for you. Oh, dear God. And I remember remember and it was this song from seal and it's so hot like it's now we need to because you don't have audio come on you're gonna do it it was like i was going for your puberty like all the way through the song because there's some high bits and there's some low bits and I was like, why did they put on,

dear God, why couldn't they put on like Ice Ice Baby or something that I could just sort of rap? Baby! And I remember every time I heard that song

I shudder now because of my experience. I guess the good thing about karaoke is that, you know, it's performed in an environment where, you know, people wake up the next morning

and have hopefully forgotten what took place tonight. It's like Drunk drunk X Factor. Yeah. Was Ben singing really totally clips of the heart last night? All right, so under the hits, 4487, we've got some hell pizza up for grabs. We want to know, before we look at the best song ever of all time, the best song ever to sing karaoke.

What is the song? An inseparable duo. Unless someone better shows up. He's just going to replace with Lee Hart and or Vaughn Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. song. After nine o'clock this morning, we're looking for the best song of all time. But right now, we want to narrow it down to best song to sing with karaoke. Karaoke, a tough place. It is a tough place.

And you know, karaoke is one of those things that's generally only fun after drinking. It's like going to your partner's work, too. But even Ed Sheeran, I mean, Ed Sheeranan one of the greatest singers ever we got him to sing karaoke remember we rang a like a sports bar in the party that do karaoke we said what you know don't say who you are but see if you've got the chops to enter their thursday night karaoke competition so we made him call this place very degrading for ed sheeran have a. Place your head on my beating heart. I'm thinking out loud. Maybe we found love right where we are.

Wow. What do you think? That was a really good attempt. But I'm pretty sure the participants at our karaoke on a Thursday night would surely give you a run for your money. Oh, a run for your money. Oh, a run for your money? I wrote the song. This is Ed Sheeran. This is actually Ed Sheeran singing this. Really?

Yes. Legitimately is. But thanks, thanks. But I wrote the song. Alright, so under the hits, the best song to sing if you've got to do karaoke. Let's get to Auckland. Sarah, you're on New to do karaoke. Let's get to Auckland. Sarah, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast.

What's the song? Best song ever for karaoke. Hello? What is it for you, Saz? It is Dancing Queen, ABBA. Oh, ABBA. Now, Ben, doesn't your mum love ABBA? Oh, yeah.

Mama Mia is one of his favourite movie series. Yeah, it's a good song. Is this a song you would sing yourself? Yes. Can you give us some now, Sarah, please? First thing on a Monday morning, some Dancing Queen. Dancing Queen. Young and sweet, only 17.

But we're singing about the young anyway. It was a different time. Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, Yeah, I do. Yes. You must see some stuff. Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes, definitely. So the most popular song, well, it bears the cue, but the most popular one is Have You Ever Seen the Rain by CPR. I don't know. Oh, yeah.

Have you ever seen the rain? Yeah, that's a, yeah. Have you ever seen the rain? Yeah, that's a good song. Do you think anyone can do karaoke? I mean, it's your bread and butter. Can anyone get up there and give it a go? Anybody can get up there and give it a go. And I tell you what, the people that can't sing are the ones that get the dancers up.

Because they sing popular songs songs and for some reason everybody will get up and dance to someone who can't sing but if you can sing it's like oh okay it might be a bit threatening or you know like so the crowd favourites are the ones that can't the battlers like Jono and I that can't

sing. Yeah and they get the biggest around applause, like the ones that, you know, because they just give it their all. It's the opposite to Simon Cowell, isn't it? Oh, yeah, definitely. And you've got to make a big deal over them every time they sing.

You know, you make a big fuss over them and they feel like, you know, American Idol. You feel like you've won something. Oh, you make a big fuss over them, and they feel like, you know, American Idol. You feel like you've won something. Oh, you're a wonderful human being. Good on you, Melanie. Now, we're going to go to Marcel, who apparently is Palmerston North's drag. Dresses up in drag and sings karaoke.

Marcel, good morning. Oh, that depends on the crowd, my friend. Oh, you like to work the audience. Okay. The crowd's going, eh? Bohemian Rhapsody, hands down. They get into it, and, yeah, you just to work the audience, okay The crowd's going, eh? Bohemian Rhapsody, hands down They get into it And, yeah, you just can't beat it

Tough song to sing, though Because it's got operatic parts It's got rocky parts I mean, it's a tough song Yeah, that's why I put cows into it Just cows Yeah, right So, Anso, can you

Can you do us a favour, Marcel? Can you just do the little bit of I see a little silhouette Can you do that little passage for us? Oh, yeah, okay, I you do us a favour, Marcel? Can you just do the little bit of, I see a little silhouette, can you do that little passage for us? Oh, yeah, I'll give it a go. Okay, here we go. I see a little silhouette of a man, sacre mousse, sacre mousse, will you do the fandango? Thunderbolt of lightning, very, very frightening. Very, very frightening me, got a little... You're right.

Got a little... Got a little... Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right. But if they're not into it, that's a long song to be up there for. Yeah, yeah. What Queen did there, what Freddie Mercury and Brian May did there, it was beautiful. They put about seven songs into one song, didn't they?

Yeah. I'm already trying to lift the tempo of the place whenever I have a go. Good on you, Marcel. Love your call. You go and have a wonderful week. I'll make sure of it I have a go. Good on you, Marcel. Love your call. You go and have a wonderful week. I'll make sure of it. You too, mate. See you, mate. Well, that is some of the best songs to sing on karaoke,

but what is the best song ever of all time? We get into our first battle on the hits after 9 o'clock. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt.

Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes. It was a script. No. His identity is a secret.

But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. From the bleak lights of our radio studio to the bright lights of Hollywood, NT, how are you? I'm good. We've got you a bit early this Hollywood, NT, how are you? I'm good. We've got you a bit early this week, NT, because big news over the weekend in America. Well, it seemed big news to us. Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson.

No more. Yeah, and it's a very interesting kind of scenario because Kim Kardashian showed up in Australia where Pete Davidson's filming. And this was just a few weeks ago. And the reason we knew that, again, is because everybody's tracking with a private jet. all of a sudden we get this announcement now there's a couple of different things there has been the try and convince the press she's been trying to be nicer to kanye and stuff she did a little kanye endorsement of some yeezy products but she owns 90

percent of yeezy so that was kind of self-serving. She owns 90 percent of his business. Yeah, pretty much. Kanye got in a lot of financial trouble. Remember when he was trying to get loans from Mark Zuckerberg and stuff? So he was selling off pieces of his company to Jay-Z, to Kim, whoever. It could have been loans at the time. And hey, I'll pay you back. But until you do pay me back, you know, we're going to basically own everything that you're out there selling, which I think also added to the misery and fight this confrontation with Kim and the family and why he thinks sometimes that they're super evil. Pete Davidson may have seen that.

Now, I have always said, people go, well, NT, is it a PR relationship? I go, it's not necessarily a PR relationship as it is a storyline. So that is slightly different than a PR relationship? I go, it's not necessarily a PR relationship as it is a storyline. So that is slightly different than a PR relationship because a storyline would be, okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to say we're in love. You know, we can have sex together a few times just to make it look real.

It's the same relationship Ben and me have. Pete Davidson's got the tattoos. He's got the tattoos. He's aimed at love you know what I didn't see this coming no you well cause

NT and me NT to our credit you and me the whole time we're like this relationship's gonna last for the ages and we said it

in a sarcastic tone and Ben would go hey hey hey you guys and who was right NT exactly us because he's already got a thousand tattoos

on his body what does he care if he throws Jasmine and Aladdin on there? Or some kind of initials that be, you know, he can't convert her kid's initials to something else. What a bizarre life to lead. It's like the whole operation, whether it be on screen or off screen, personal relationships, everything's a business. Yeah, I think I've told you guys that Kardashians were at the very beginning of their fame, and the director met them in Europe, and he said, oh, you know, your reality, your family, or whatever.

And Kris Kardashian goes, no, no, no, no. We're a marketing family. You know, everything's about marketing rather than, it's just, what can we sell? How can we make more money? What can we do here to sell another product? And if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And we say, look, we've got this other bright and shiny object that we want you guys to look at.

Yeah, well, you know, you've got your skiing families, your beach families, your marketing families. It's all normal. And hey, at the end of the day, Pete Davidson's probably had a win out of this relationship. Profile-wise, he's probably been exposed to an audience who didn't have any idea who he was. I don't know about that because he was with Ariana, so that's going to get you the Gen Z crowd. Now, what it is very interesting is that Ariana was younger than him,

but everybody else that he's dated recently, whether it's Kate Beckinsale or Kim Kardashian, has been much older than him. I saw a meme with him and the Queen, Queen Elizabeth has a potential next. Maybe she's after Dame Helen Mirren. You guys have a great week. You too, NT.

Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash or play on to win more. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning at this time on The Hits. Your chance to win $5,000. We've got one job today, Ben Boyce, and that is win someone $5,000.

And also don't forget to pay for your parking at 9 o'clock too out there. Yeah. That's our second job. But not as important as Sherry and Georgie as winning you $5,000. Good morning. Winning you $5,000 How are we? We've got a mother-kid combo going on here Yeah

Wonderful, how old are you Georgie? Nine years old What do you want to be when you're older? I want to be a singer Do some singing now, let's have a go Okay Happy birthday to you. Stop there.

Happy birthday. Stop there. I love it. All right, Simon Cowell. I love it. You're very good. You are very good. You're through to boot camp.

Yeah. We'll put you through to loot camp. There's a little pun there. We'll see if you can win $5,000. Who do you want to pick to go into the soundproof booth? Jono. All right. Oh, well, here we go.

I couldn't think of a better way to start the week. Okay, guys, when he heads into the soundproof booth, we'll say your first word. All right, here it is. Pistachio. Nuts. Nuts with an S? Yes.

Okay. Tomato. Sauce. Yeah, good option. Giraffe. Animal. Animal. Good option. Giraffe. Animal. Animal. That's good.

Blackboard. Blackboard is word number four. Blackboard. Chalk. Chalk. That's a great option. And gym. G-Y-M.

Gym. Fitness. Fitness. You played a really good game this morning there with some tricky, tricky words. We'll see if Jono can come out of the soundproof booth and see if he can win you some money and not look like a monster. Oh, did Georgie just play? Georgie, you just play on your own?

Yep. Oh, well, it's going to say a lot if I match five words with a nine-year-old. It's going to speak volumes. Now, what would a nine-year-old do with $5,000? Georgie, what do you want to do with it? I would pay myself on a shopping spree. Oh, yeah. What do we need, mate?

What do you need? What does the wardrobe need? More clothes and more toys. Yeah. All right. $5,000 worth of clothes and toys. And when you become a famous singer, Georgie, can you promise me one thing? Yes. You'll give me a ticket

to your concert. Okay. Just a GA ticket's fine. Nothing. No VIP access. It's fine. Just a GA. Okay. Just happy to be there at Georgie's concert. But right now, let's go to the first word. Word one. $25. This is for $25

for Georgie. That's a lot of money for a kid even $25. Pistachio is the word. Pistachio. Pistachio nuts. You got it. I was wondering if it was nut or nuts, but you said nuts, so it's good. I do love a pistachio, but there's a lot of labor to get into them, isn't there? They're very good.

They're very good. Hey, Georgie, you've got $25 now. Do you want to play for the $50 word, but if Jono gets it wrong, doesn't match, you get nothing? Or should we do it? Yes, do it. That's right. That's the reckless abandon we need, Georgie. Let's go.

Word two, $50. I feel good about this one for Georgie. I do. Tomato. Sauce. Tomato sauce. Yeah, well done. Channeling a nine-year-old.

$50 is like $5,000 to a nine-year-old. Yeah. You've got a lot of money right now, Georgie. Are we going on through to the third word? Yes. All right, Georgie, this is for... Word three, $100. Giraffe.

Giraffe? You know, as in giraffe. Like a tall giraffe? Oh, no! giraffe. Like a tall? Oh, no. What did Georgie say? Animal. But tall, see how you got to tall as well. I'm so sorry, Georgie.

It's okay. Mate, I'm very sorry. Now, do you want to go through the final two words, see how we would have gone? Yes. Blackboard was the next one, blackboard. Chalk, I'd say. Oh, see how we would have gone? Yes. Blackboard was the next one. Blackboard. Chalk, I'd say.

Oh, I thought you would have brought that one back. And gym. G-Y-M. Gym. I'll go fitness for gym. Oh, Georgie, four out of five. Georgie. If I hadn't fluffed up the third word, mate, it's all on me.

I'm so sorry. It's okay. You might not give me a GA ticket to your concert now. The ticket's not working. Hey, well, you guys go and have a wonderful day, and really thank you for listening. Appreciate it. It's okay.

Thank you. Thank you. The Hits. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. I reckon this week's going to be the coldest week of the year. A cold snap in the South Island, a lot of snow, roads closed, some schools closed down in the South. Producer Behelms just showed us a photo his mother sent from Fairleigh.

Jeez, it's so white. Isn't it whiter than me down there? It is. White everywhere. Now, over the weekend I did A friend did a mid-winter Christmas dinner on Saturday And I've never been to a mid-winter Christmas And it was actually like

Look it's the perfect time for New Zealand to be doing Christmas celebrations Well yeah because when we do celebrate Christmas We're trying to mow through a hot ham on a 35 degree day And some turkey which saps every bit of moisture out of your mouth. So it was nice to actually have a meal like you would have on Christmas at night time when it's cold. And I wore, you know, because I've got my Christmas jerseys. I've made, I burdened you with those in summertime. Yeah.

But we need to put on our Christmas jerseys. And they're all woolly and they make my neck all red and rashy. But I wore my one on, because I wear mine at Christmas time, but you put it on for a bit and you're like, oh, it's too hot. Gotta take it off. But great. Wore it all night. It's great. It was perfect conditions.

Did everyone else come in Christmas attire? No. Did you make the whole family come in Christmas attire? Yeah, I did. We did. It's a thing. But you're right.

You never get that wear out of them during the December Jan nights, do you? No. This is the time to be wearing the Christmas jerseys. How many Christmas, like you've got a lot of

Christmas paraphernalia. Clothing. How much do you think you have? I've probably got four or Christmas jerseys. How many Christmas, like you've got a lot of Christmas paraphernalia. I have a lot. Clothing, how much do you think you have? I've probably got four or five jerseys now in my collection. He's got a Post Malone one, which says Home Malone with Post Malone on it. Yeah, which I think they probably had no, I don't think Post Malone is signed off on this,

or the Home Malone people as well. It feels like this. Preaching copyright all over town. But then, so we went to Midwinter Christmas. It was cool and it was a great time and then left the car at our friend's place and the next morning i got up sunday morning i was like hey i worked out it's about five k's from our place i was like why don't you just drive because i had a couple of drinks mate oh yeah did the responsible thing left the car there uh took it over home uh but i thought the next morning i was like get up and i. And I worked it out, 5K.

I was like, this is a good walk for me and the dog. Let's go. It's raining a little bit, but we can do this. Let's go, dog. We can walk 5Ks. So it took a while. It took about 40 minutes. But I was like, this is a good walk.

And felt the satisfaction of getting there in the rain, getting to the car. And I was like, that's good. That was good. Good way to start Sunday morning. And then I went, well, I haven't bought the keys. So I hadn't bought the keys so i hadn't bought i hadn't bought the keys there's the dog looking at you like buddy buddy buddy i knew this was a bad idea yeah the weather yeah because the dogs yeah and then you're like well i can't get an uber because you can't take i guess you can get a pet uber or something

like that maybe you can but i was like can you tell when a dog's disappointed and did he have that look on his face? They were like, we're going to walk. Hey, you like that walk? Because we're walking all the way home again. We're going to do a 10K loop. It's a big walk for me and the dog on a Sunday morning. So yeah, not a great start.

And then did you walk back? Nah. I'd given it the first years of it waned. That stage is like, Amanda, you dropped me off. She was out, unfortunately, she couldn't come pick me up, so we had to walk back, and then I was like, when she came back, I was like, oh, we'll pick it up. It's a shocking start.

I should have done this at the beginning. I know, what was I thinking? Just a couple of dads screaming on the sidelines of their kids' sports games. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, it's a good morning for this lady, because her son Paul has just won another medal, this time with Joelle King in the squash. Oh, they've done it.

They've done it. Paul Cole and Joelle King have got the gold in the mixed doubles. They lost out at the Gold Coast. Yes, and Paul Cole's mum Julie joins us. What a good morning! Good morning! Do you get nervous when you watch him play? Well, I'm pretty sure

I was a wreck. Yep, absolute wreck. Heart was pounding. I actually was physically shaking. And he would have been on the phone quickly with some good... No, usually we didn't talk to him because obviously he had quite a few interviews to do and things, so he usually waits till all the

has all died down a bit and then we spoke to him. What we thought we'd do this week is a lot of kudos, a lot of camera time, a lot of FaceTime, a lot of interview time given to the athletes at the Commonwealth Games and deservedly so. Yeah. But these are the forgotten ones.

The people who took to, you know, the rainy afternoons on a Monday, dropped them off, packed them up, fed them, trained them to make them the people they are today, and those are the parents, Julie. Yes, yes, it's very much like that, yes. And I can imagine you're a very proud parent right now, your son winning gold medal.

It's pretty unbelievable, actually, yeah. It was quite emotional when you see your son standing on a podium and the National Anthem is playing. Oh, I imagine. Now, has anyone called you, Julie? Have you had some face time? A little bit. Okay, so we're not the first.

Okay, we hoped we would be. But anyway. Take us back to the beginning. Squash, I imagine a demanding hours, demanding schedule. Yes, yeah, he played a lot of sports too. He didn't just play squash. Take us back to the beginning. Squash. I imagine a demanding hours, demanding schedule. Yes. Yeah. He played a lot of sports, too. He didn't just play squash.

So, and his brother, they both played sports. So, yep, it was a lot of getting him from league to hockey to soccer to basketball to squash to tennis. Yep. The whole lot. So, who decided on squash? Like, were you guys squash players? My husband.

My husband was a squash player. I was a netball basketballer. I didn't even know about the sport until I was about 20, and then I met my husband, and who knew that squash was going to become such a big part of my life? I mean, gosh, you've got a lot of sport going on in the week to week. Did you ever go, hey, gosh, we dial it back? Because I know Ben.

Ben's actually talked his children out of doing sport because he can't be bothered dropping them off No, no, because it's just like it's like two a term, we're focused on two and then the next term you can change those out to two other ones as well, this is outside of school hours during school they can do as many as they want but outside school we're doing two a term In the summer we used to say

no weekend sports because we used to go to the lake and do water skiing Which was another sport. A bit more sports. Yeah, another sport. A family sport. That was more a family-orientated one, yeah. Wow.

And so when did you know he was really good at squash? When were you like, geez, we can make some money off this kid? If I had a thought, Dad, he would have been playing golf, which I tried to get him to play. You got your kids to play literally every sport under the sun. Yeah, yeah. That's the way to go, isn't it? It's beautiful. So how many squash games do you think you've had to sit through over the years and watch?

Oh, I couldn't count them. It's so many. Millions. We've got Julie Cole, mother of Comm Games gold medal winning squash player Paul Cole on the phone with us from the West Coast. I was reading that he lives in the Netherlands. Is that still the case? Yes, yep. How's that? It must be hard, you know, being on the other side of the world.

Real hard, especially with COVID. So we didn't get to see him for about three and a half years, which was really hard. He lives with his girlfriend Nayla over there. What do you think of Nayla? Is she all good? Yeah, she's actually pretty good. Yeah, she's good.

Are you going to welcome her into the family? For sure, for sure. What does Nayla do? She's a squash player. Oh! She's ranked number 12 in the world. Oh, really? Far out.

That's cool. So has that been really good for Paul, obviously playing over there in the Netherlands, being on that sort of circuit? Yep, and having her involved in the same sport, it's been ideal. Hey Julie, so nice to talk to you. Congratulations. I mean, it's such an amazing achievement for your son, Paul.

Thanks so much for your time this morning. It was really awesome. If you're here for parenting advice, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben likes to confine the extracurricular activities for Sienna and Indy, don't you? To a term. To a term or outside of school hours. They can do as many as they want at school because otherwise you spend your all week in there.

And then you get to the stage where some of them, they get midway through, they're like, I'm not as into that as other ones. You're like, well, you've still got to commit. I've decided I'm not an acrobat. Yeah. So we're doing to a term. You can change them out each term as well. Same with Oscar. My son signs up for everything.

He's like, you remember back in the day when Sonny Bill Williams was doing rugby and boxing and we all turned on him? Well, geez, they'd turn on my son Oscar. He's doing three. I've signed up for table tennis. Now I'm doing chess. I'm doing all this stuff. Table tennis is a wild sport. Just like normal tennis on caffeine.

Crazy sport. So he's doing it anyway. Oh, 800 of the hits. We're after a busier schedule than Paul, Cole's mum, Julie, with the kids. We've got Yvette on the phone. How are you? Oh, not bad. Not bad for a Monday morning. Yeah, great.

We're just talking about busiest drop-off schedules, okay? We're going to have a gold, silver, and bronze awarded. So you kick things off. Okay. I'll tell you about my most busiest day of the week with my 14-year-old and my 12-year-old triplet. Oh, triplets. Wow.

Jeez, you got busy, you bet. Okay, what have you got? What's going on? Okay, so I work full time. And so Zan, my 14-year-old, I call him Mike Tyson. He's got boxing that's 5 to 6.30, and then I've got my little Lennox, which I call Bowdoin Barrett, and he's 4 to 5.30, and he's at a different location.

And then I've got my twin girls, which I call my little Black Sticks members, and they do their little hockey development. So I go three different places, and it's just crazy times. Sometimes I don't know how I do it. Oh, it's crazy. Speeding? What's it like if you turn up at a place, and then they're like, oh, mum, I've forgotten my boxing gloves or my hockey stick.

Does that ever happen? You're like, oh, my God, not now. Many, many times. Yeah. I'll tell you what, I always say I'm going to put my head in the oven, but I'd much rather be good at sports and want to do sports rather than the head in the screen. So yeah, it's hard work,

but I just think it's only going to be a moment in time. Although it is easier to hand them an iPad though, isn't it? Absolutely. How much more relaxing your afternoon would be they're all sitting around the ipad and quiet too you don't hear anything from them yeah oh that's awesome well well done on what you're doing for your kids that's amazing good on you well rochelle we'll get you on from wellington we're after the busiest schedules uh you think you've got it yep i reckon what are you doing week to week so we've got on a Monday, we've got piano and then table tennis

and then math tutoring. And then on Tuesday, I have to look over to horse riding, which is a long thing out in the country with no reception. So I have to pre-record something to watch. And then I have drums and math tutoring again on Tuesday. And then on Wednesday, the kids have got art extension and then more tutoring and then rugby practice. And then we have Thursday we're actually free.

Do you know you've made me exhausted and we've only hit, you know, we've just got midway through the week. We haven't got to the weekend yet, have we? And I'm sure there's a whole lot more happening in the weekend. I know. It's actually kind of a full-time job, like outside of running the business. Damn right. Like I said, like outside of running the business. Damn right. Like I said, it should be a Commonwealth sport.

You have parents from 77 nations competing in the kidathlon. Oh, you know, it looks like she's running 10 late for hockey. Hopefully she can pull it back and get the kids to soccer by five. That could be a whole sport. Yeah, you're right. And then you've got all the mad parent drop-offs, you know. They get a bit precious about how close they can get in that. Good on you, Rochelle, thank you Now I

was involved in some credit card fraud over the weekend, Ben, it's always fun, it's good to front foot these sorts of situations before the media grab a hold of it, you know, and turn it into spin it whatever they want to spin it but it was, you know when you're, you hand over your credit card and

every now and then, some monster behind the counter will go, I need you to sign for that on a receipt. And you never give it 110% when you're giving your signature on it. It doesn't happen that often anymore, does it? No, it doesn't. So I was a little rattled when it did come up. But you never fully commit to your signature, do you,

when you're writing it down on a receipt? You're like, this is just for melodies. Get on with the day. Take the paper. So I did that same thing. A signature that looks not even 15% like my actual signature. And the person behind the counter, very fastidious retail worker,

was like, can I see your card, please? Oh. very fastidious retail worker was like can I see your card please and did the comparison signature to the credit card this is old school I feel like we've gone back in a time warp like 10 years so did I so did I did you get your checkbook out as well

my dad kept a voice left carrying around a checkbook in his back pocket do checkbooks still exist who's still writing checks My dad kept a voice left carrying around a checkbook in his back pocket. Do checkbooks still exist? Who's still writing checks? I mean, surely they've been phased out by now. Yeah, a lot of people writing checks at their body can't cash. I know that's happening nowadays.

But yeah, so anyway, I got the old signature comparison. The problem was that both signatures looked nothing alike. And rightfully so she was like well this is whose card is this I said oh it's honestly mine I just I didn't fully commit

to the receipt signature again I haven't done it in a while you know it's kind of do you need to do it nowadays just let me get on with my let me get on with the day

and there's people starting to back up behind me going what sort of scam is this guy trying to pull this is surely an identification like surely do you have your licence that you could pull out in this situation?

To prove that you are? Yes, I did, but I didn't. I said, print out another one, and I'll do it properly. So then she printed out another one, and jeez, the pressure on that signature to try and replicate the one that's sitting on the card. Nothing compares to it.

Because you get huffing and puffing from people behind you. I always remember, too, when you're like people would – you used to be able to swipe your own card, and that was all, you know, when you swipe – and that was always a 50-50 of like which way you're going to do that. Yeah. And you just get that wrong for some reason. But they have great joy, too, when you're going to swipe it the wrong way and you just slot it into the little crack and they're like wrong way you could have told me as i was

putting it towards that thing as i was looking at my card going which way does this go and which go in the machine yeah why am i doing that well that was nearly as embarrassing as dealing with the fbi handwriting expert that i had to conjure but the other you know the other shocking thing with the f-pos terminal and it's all our fault is when you're like you're tapping your card you're like tap and go tap and go

pay wave pay wave pay wave and then you see the piece of printed out sticker which is attached to the terminal no pay wave and you've spent five minutes

just slamming but no one tells you that again no again they find the retailer says it's like look at this schmuck

everyone on the sidelines is like he's still tapping. Clearly says, yeah. They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners. Jono and Ben on the hits. A big issue that we've been trying to navigate our way around

is playing Commonwealth Games coverage. All of these massive events, they get very protective over their content, their footage, rightfully so. It costs multi-millions of dollars to put on an event like this. And us sewer rats, all we try and do is find a way to broadcast that stuff. And I think we've found a wonderful loophole. Well, is it wonderful? This is Common People Commentary with people outside Sky City.

Across live to our commentator on the scene, Jacob. Tell us what's happening. Yeah, so me here is just spinning round and round. I don't know what this thing's called. I think it's like a saddle. Cross now to the swimming with shield. Oh, wow. These amazing guys that look fabulous doing the backstroke.

I think New Zealand's in the mix. I can't quite see them. There's a lot of splashing around. And we cross live now to Rex. Come on in from Birmingham. Oh, yes. G'day there, John. And hello, everybody.

How's everybody out there? Oh, we just come to do that. Give him back this thing. Oh, look like he's going to get a bronze. Maybe he'll get a gold. But we'll see about that. Anyway, back to John. Thanks, Rex.

Okay, come on in from Birmingham. Yeah. Oh, they're getting their a** kicked. Look at that lady in the yellow. She's got the ball and she's moving down to score. What's happening in the swimming there, Cam? A** knows, but doing pretty good. And we cross live now to our Spanish commentary team.

We have Pablo and Ana. Aquí estamos en el concurso de spinning. Está dando vueltas de lado a lado. Cuidado, se pone arriba, baja. Y landa, perfecto. So that was us harassing innocent people as they went about their day outside the Sky City. Yeah.

There was actually some really good commentators in the back. Some honest commentators, too, that didn't know what the sports rule was. Oh, they're getting their ass kicked. It was good. They were watching an iPad and watching the footage down and having to commentate too that didn't know what the sports rule was. Oh they're getting their ass kicked watching an iPad and watching the footage down and having to commentate it was lovely meeting all those people. We're going to have

a wee video of us getting these people outside Sky City. Yeah we'll put that up tonight on the Hits Breakfast Facebook and Instagram Very humbling though isn't it when we're outside a place like that and you're standing there with the camera and essentially you're just going up badgering innocent people aren't you? Trying to get them to be part of your whatever it is we're

doing yeah is this for tv you're like uh no no the thing is that the public no one no one wants to be approached no one wants to be questioned or pulled out in front of a crowd and if i was in their position neither would i like if i was coming up to me just going about my day i would like turn away and but you'd always go he got to go hello my good lady like some sort of like 1950s sort of salesperson on the street and they would they would they clearly have heard you but they would try their best to just ignore the fact that i mean nothing humbles you more as a human being when people like try to wide berth you and turn

and like look the other way and you're directly talking to them you're like hello my good sir would you like to be part of our

one guy walked into a pole just so he didn't have to deal with us anyway that'll be on the hits breakfast socials tonight the hits

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