Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Why David Walliams Is Nicer Than Ben...

Episode Date: August 24, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, we recall the difference between Ben and David Walliams when it comes to responding to fans... The Caker Jordan Rondel joins us to preview The Kiwi Bake Off and we chat technology disasters!    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome, this is the podcast, 25th of August. It is a wonderful joy to have you with us, joining us wherever you are in the world. To our international audience, hola, hello, g'day, konnichiwa. You've made this really, anyway. Hi, Ogizamas.

It's good that people are listening, that people do listen from around the world, so we do appreciate that Yeah we do Now producer Joel You said you've got a question That you'd like to lead The podcast with

Yeah I've got a bit of A hypothetical scenario For you guys It actually happens To someone I know They have been put down As like a job reference For someone who's

Pretty much on the same level About it So they've essentially Been lied To the new employer So someone said Like me saying that Oh Jono can be a referee For me Yeah it's employer someone said it's been like me saying that oh john i can be a referee for me yeah it's like you saying it's essentially like saying he's

my boss john is my manager john is my boss um and they're going for a new job and so it happened to one of my friends and like they got a call the other day from someone just saying hey um i've heard you you were ex's manager and um like can i have a chat with you tomorrow? And did that person know that they were being put down as referee? I think they, it was briefly brushed across. But not in the way that they were, they've suddenly,

general manager of a multinational company. It's like, hey, I put you down, is that all good? And it's like, oh, you can't really say no. Like, can we like, hey, take it off.

Great role play situation. You really do your acting while you're talking. Sorry, I'm just got my secretary yeah all of those things i'll be in the board meeting soon yeah yeah great employee oh sorry i've got uh you know bangkok online too i'm just gonna take the you know like you can have a whole lot of you know look make yourself look like a wheeler dealer you could the thing with referees though is how much do you trust them? This is case in point.

Yeah. Like, do they even, have you ever been called as a referee? Producer Juliette used to work here. She wanted us to be her referees for her job on the boat she's working on. Written letters. I've done the letter situation. But no one's ever called you to back up your words? No, no, never called up for the words.

But yeah, but I guess it was a thing that was done quite a lot before. Now people probably just Facebook stalk everyone. Like, if i ran a business and someone's and i didn't like one of my employees they weren't they weren't up to scratch weren't hitting monthly targets and they're like hey uh i'm going to apply for another job will you be my referee i'll be like absolutely knowing damn well they're useless the new place phones me up best employee i've ever had shocking i'll lose them you, just so you can get them off your hands. Yeah, well yeah, because I guess the people that you're always going to choose are going to be

people that are obviously going to say favourable things about you. Absolutely You're not going to choose a boss that you're like he or she did not like me a lot But I imagine there's some disagreements in workplaces where the employer will go, okay yeah, I'll leave, I'll leave. I won't make a fuss.

But you be my referee and you say nothing but good things. I'm sure that's happened. You reckon? I reckon, yeah. I reckon that's a great example of something that, yeah, that's happened many times before.

Businesses will be like, oh, get rid of this dead weight. Yeah, yeah, we'll say whatever. Say whatever to the next. Oh, man, we're so sorry to lose John O'Prior. Speaking of dead weight. Yeah, you can have him by the hits.

Yeah, yeah. We're sorry to lose him. Who would you, okay, so who would you be a referee for out of Ben and myself, Joel? If I had to be a reference for you guys? Yeah. I could probably be either. Okay, that's good. So you'd say some favorable things about us as our manager?

Yeah, just try to ship you off. Just try to ship you off. Yeah. So if we said, hey, there's a new job. Hits don't want us anymore, hypothetically, which probably could be true. Can you be our reference? As our manager, would you be okay doing that? Yeah, I'd do it.

Well, yeah, because the thing that happened to my friend, it was like he got on about a 30-minute phone call. He thought it would just be like say a few things, take a few boxes. And it was literally a 30-minute phone call. And they just asked like, oh, what are they like as a person? Are they creative? Are they articulate?

Can you name some examples of like creative ideas they've done like have they made i'm not applying for the job i know yeah there's a job interview for you yeah oh crazy scenario hey on the show today we've got sanja bullock she joins us uh yeah sanja bullock she's selling graham norton's house all that is true all that is true but there's a lot. There's a lot of conclusions you'll be jumping to, and you'll end up being bitterly disappointed. As well as that, we talk to a Kiwi baker who is a judge on a new baking show that's on tonight, but also has impressed Chrissie Teague and John Legend

for their legendary pun intended baking skills. So that's all on the podcast. Enjoy. When have you ever said pun not intended in your career? Yeah, I always attend to pun. Pun always, you're right. Pun intended. Two semi-competent dads handing out semi-competent parenting advice.

Jono and Ben on the hits. A friend of mine suffered a huge tech mess thanks to the kids. One of his children purchased a nearly $2,000 iPhone. What? $2,000? $2,000. Not accidental. I think wanted the iPhone.

But that's what you can do now. You can just hop on anyone's phone. I could grab Ben's phone right now. If your credit card's obviously hooked up to the Apple website, buy anything. I could get me a new laptop. So this is what happens.

So what, the kid had the phone or the iPad Or something like that And just purchased this Yeah I mean jeez If you're spending $2000 on a phone

I want a direct line To Jacinda Ardern I want that phone To be able to call Every world leader Imaginable Wow And turns out

Apple don't have a Child accidentally Or on purpose Slash on purpose Bought an iPhone Refund policy No Right So they've got this lovely They're like Not our problem mate child accidentally or on purpose slash on purpose bought an iPhone refund policy. No. Right.

So they've got this lovely. They're like, not our problem, mate. You've got a lovely new phone. Good quality phone. Jeez. It's an accidental purchase, of course, by the kids. Because you hear that happening when the kids are younger and they're playing around on iPads and phones and things like that.

And it happens and they order food and all sorts of stuff. But I thought maybe as the kids got older it would stop but now the kids are so smart that you know because i've got a little a fingerprint little thing on my computer which i can use instead of putting in my credit card details just remembers and then my daughter the other day was like oh i've ordered my school lunch because i said oh you can order it and i was like well how'd you pay for that she's like oh the fingerprint thing okay but that's my fingerprint she goes i just went in and set up my one as an option when you said it's okay for me to do it.

But I was like, well, hang on. Now your fingerprint is recognized on my computer. Because for ages you thought the fingerprint technology was redundant. You're like, anyone in my family can just put their fingerprint on my fingerprint thing. What I didn't realize was my wife, my kids, they've all set their fingerprint on my thing. I was

besmirching the good name of Apple. You had to make a public apology. I was like their technology is terrible. Any fingerprint will do. No. And then they had to come clean to you. My family hoodwinked me. So what we want to do, oh 800 that's 4487

a hot tech mess with the kids. Because they don't understand the ramifications of what they A hot tech mess with the kids. Because they don't understand the ramifications of what they're doing a lot of the time, do they? They're just like, great, I could buy more Robux. I'll spend $1,000 on Robux. That's a great deal. I just want to keep playing this game with this app or whatever I'm playing. Yeah, I mean, there's a period there where Oscar would come in and be like, mate, I have got to get this gun on Fortnite. It's only $599 and you'll turn me into the greatest Fortnite player ever.

He's like, it's a huge investment into the future of my Fortnite career. Come on, mate. You have got Masterclass, haven't you? You've signed up to that. But now you keep banging on about it because you feel like, yeah, that's the one if you go to YouTube and you get served ads going, oh, I'm Steph Curry, NBA player. Oh, I'm Oprah Winfrey.

You can watch my masterclass. And I, yeah, sorry, don't get me started. How long have we got? Okay, it's three minutes. Not long, not long. But anyway, your son wanted it. He wanted to learn basketball. I thought let's buy one masterclass from Steph Curry, okay?

He'll put him in the NBA next week. Then I buy one masterclass from Steph Curry. Okay? He'll put him in the NBA next week. Then I buy this masterclass from Steph Curry. They're like, oh, you've got to just sign up for a month-by-month thing. Okay, I'll do four weeks of masterclassing. What they don't tell you is they charge you for the entire year, 12 months of masterclassing. They've just given you the average month-by-month rate when you go to buy. So now all I do is watch masterclasses. And now he comes to work and goes, oh I was watching the thing

with James Cameron director the other day. Okay mate. What he does is this great thing you like. I'm watching Steve Martin's, literally this morning I'm getting my money out of this god damn Steve Martin teaching comedy. So you wait, the comedy on this show is going to elevate by next week.

This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Nikki with us on New Zealand's Breakfast. It was your daughter who created the hot tech mess. Yes, yes. Our air conditioning unit, she kindly changed the language to Portuguese. Oh, I hate it when people do that on your phone as well. Yeah. They turn it to Spanish or something.

And you can't. Yeah. It's very hard to work out how, if you don't know how to speak the official language, you don't know how to go, you know, to go back and change it. No, yeah, definitely a tricky one. It was a bit frustrating. Unless, are you fluent in Portuguese? No.

No. Okay, okay. I don't know any Portuguese at all. So were you Googling, like like hot and Portuguese, cold? Yeah, I actually Googled language. Oh. Language. And then just went through all the menu items until I found that word.

Oh, that's a smart way of getting back there. That's really clever. Oh, I learned that after my other daughter changed her dad's Kindle to another language. What is wrong with your kids? Why aren't they pranking you? They just want to learn other languages, I think. That's amazing. So now, if anyone listening is dealing with a Portuguese aircon unit,

we've got the right person to call, Nikki. What would you have done before Google? You could not have undone that. No. what would you have done before Google you could not have undone that no you'd have to go and find you'd have to go to a Portuguese language school and get the teacher to come or get the air conditioning people you know that's another option

must be trained in it I'm sure they've got a manual I'm sure they can work things out short of the system but yeah that's another option, Jono. Portuguese language. Oh, good on you, Nikki. You go and have a great day, okay? Thank you, you too.

All right. Thank you, Kelly. As with us from Greymouth, kids creating a hot tech mess, Kel. Yeah, sure was. It was your friend's child. Yes, over staying at our place, and my son and him were out in the sleepout playing music using my iPod. And then they were mucking around on it.

It was an iPod Touch. And found games. And so they started playing games. So my friend's son was playing games. And you can buy gems. And so he clicked buy and he got the gems and he thought, oh my God, I'm getting these for free. So he kept buying them and then kept going

and even bought a life membership for $450, which apparently was free. And then I got a $1,300 bill on my Visa account because he didn't realise it was connected to my Visa account. It was horrifying. And my mum said, can't you return what he's bought? visa account because he didn't realise it was connected to my visa account. Oh! It was horrifying and my mum said, can't you return what he's bought? And of course, no, it was all virtual gems. It wasn't real gems.

For that money, you can get some great gems from Michael Hill Jeweller. That's right, yes. Well, that is amazing. Over $1,000. Really do appreciate it. Thank you very much for your call, Kelly. Oh, thanks. Alright, Mel with us. Kids creating a hot tech mess,000. Really do appreciate it. Thank you very much for your call, Kelly. Oh, thanks. All right, Mel with us. Kids creating a hot tech mess, Mel. Well, so my son, as a parent,

you put your credit card details on the iTunes store, and he was happily playing along, and I'm not sure what game it was, and he just kept pressing buy, buy, buy, buy. Oh, no, oh, no. Yeah. Why is that a oh, no. Yeah. Why is that a function? Why?

But anyway. Yeah, I know. And it got to $600, and then the bank rang up and said that they'd put a hold on our credit card because there'd been too many purchases on the iTunes store. What was he buying, sorry? It was a game that he was playing and he must have to obviously buy things to

either move forward or I'm not sure. It was to do with the game. I was reading an article that Apple actually, they had to settle out of court with a mother who filed a lawsuit against them

for this exact thing. Her son, I think, racked up about $3,000 of in-app purchases. Oh, and they're like, it's all your fault. Yeah, and she's like, well, why have you got this thing where no one is to... Like, you've got face ID. Surely their phones would recognise the face and go, that looks like

quite a miniature face to be purchasing $600 from the app store. Yeah, to be fair, this was probably about seven years ago. So did you have to pay the money? No, I actually, the bank said to get hold of Apple, and I did, and they refunded all the money. Oh, that's really good. Oh, Apple.

What a great company, Apple are. Just out there for the people. Mate, you were just saying before, why is this a thing? Why has Apple got this? It makes messages, mate. Now I feel bad because they did something nice. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I take everything back. Thank you very much for your call,

Mel. Really appreciate it. No worries. You have a good day. An inseparable duo. Unless someone better shows up. He's just going to replace me with Lee Hart and or Vaughan Smith. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, I mentioned something after the show yesterday. Acclaimed children's author David Walliams. Oh yeah, because I was looking at some footage of David Walliams

hanging out with Sir Elton John. He was in the club when Sir Elton John was playing his new song there. David Walliams was right in there. They're good mates. And he was filming Sir Elton playing his new song with Britney Spears. Oh yeah, we've got that new song with Britney Spears. We'll see if we can get that, Producer Joel. This is going to be released on Friday.

Yeah, so David Walliams, he's an author, he's a comedian, and he's hanging out with Sue Elton John. I'm like, man, this guy's, yeah, he's a superstar. Is this the actual song? This is the, yeah. Sneak tease, mate, sneak tease. Oh, is this the tease? Oh, yeah, like I was like, this sounds really good.

Maybe we should just play the whole thing. But yeah, so David Walliams, we were I was like, this sounds really good. Maybe we should just play the whole thing. But yeah, so David Williams, we were watching this video, and I said, oh, man, David Williams did the most generous thing for my daughter's primary school. Tiny little primary school in New Zealand. They had their book week, and I think the teachers or the librarian messaged David Williams on social media and said, hey, we're a small school in New Zealand.

We're having our book week. Just wondering if you could do a message. And he filmed a video message. What incredible. Hey, kids. And it just blew their mind seeing David Williams. And we're just like, wow, what a generous guy. And then it reminded us of...

This is where you could have left it. And we just were like, wow, that's amazing that he did that. And he is an artist. We've spoken to David Williams before and he's just a genuinely nice person. He just likes making children happy with his books when we spoke to David Williams.

It's just such a delight to hear. You know, it's a special thing. If kids like your books, that's a very special thing. You know, it's like they don't fake it, kids, do they? I'm a parent myself, my son's seven. And, you know, if they're not enjoying something, you know it's like they don't fake it kids do they i'm a parent myself my son seven and you know they're not enjoying something you know about it don't you because they don't hide it there you go david williams and so then someone brought up

oh ben you had a similar situation with producer joel now this is producer joel in a former life before he was producer joel he has a student job Joel. He was a student Joel. Student Joel, yeah. How old were you, student Joel? 17 years old. Can you explain the story? Yeah, yeah. We've talked about this before. We don't need to explain it. We've talked about it before,

but yeah, we were looking to put together a bit of an end of school video, you know, legends, celebrities, people we look up to. Legends, yeah. And then we messaged you guys as well.

And yeah, so Ben Boyce, I said, hey man, we'd love to do like just a quick video just wishing us a good luck in life. Well done on completing school. Good luck on the next chapter.

It wasn't like I ignored that. I don't check my direct messages of people that I don't follow. Ignore, seen. But then I need to do that more often because finally when I started following Producer Joel because we know each other now, this message popped up. I was like, oh, I got a message from Joel. What's this?

I was like, oh, that's from a while ago. From seven years ago. Going, hey, can you do a message from my leaving week? So David Williams has sold over 50 million books. Two million followers as well on Instagram. Two million followers. He's got people doing it, mate. Imagine how many messages.

What do you reckon, David? He's taking time out to fill everything. You couldn't even do a well done on finishing school, Joel. I did not. Well, well done on finishing school job. I did not. Well, well done on finishing school job. A lot of St. Peter's Year 13 people with no direction in life after that. They were hoping that you were going to be the thing

that would kick them into the next gear. Oh, I'm so sorry. David Williams is a lot better person than me. After seven o'clock, do you snooze? Or are you getting straight up? What is the best for you? What are people doing? And is it annoying you if your partner's doing the opposite?

We're going to get to that in five minutes on The Hits. We've been saying we need to get that made for four days. We've done nothing other than just say we need to get that made. How arrogant, too. We just assume, oh, we need to get that made. Someone's going to go, oh, we better go make that. We better go record that. Here are my good men.

Yeah, true. Here are our good men. Yeah, true. Here are our gentlemen. Here is your sting. But this boy, he's a magician and his only magic trick is pulling a news bulletin out of thin air.

Ben Boyce, what's going on? Tupperware. Tupperware. Now the Tupperware party unfortunately is all over. The brand will no longer be on sale in New Zealand. Now the exclusive importer

of Tupperware to New Zealand says it's closing its business on October 13. Blame me things on COVID, because a lot of their business was done from the iconic Tupperware parties, where people would go around and try and sell Tupperware to other people. Now, please explain it for me, because I am confused as to what Tupperware... I know it's a plastic container, but does it differ from your GLAAD, SnapBlock jobs?

I'm guessing it probably doesn't but maybe it was the first of that sort of kind first player in the market it was a pretty iconic thing you know I guess sometimes you probably just call things Tupperware but they might not be the Tupperware brand so a Tupperware party essentially was you had a plastic container you'd bring along some food

and everyone would share right I think no what was someone would come along and go come around here and I'll show, and basically you can see the new wares, you can see what you, maybe you want to buy some, you take some away. Oh, right, like a salesman.

Oh, that sounds like a giant nightmare. Well, you still have drinks and you can still have a bit of fun evening. You have drinks and you buy plastic containers? Yeah, everyone needs this stuff. You probably need to keep yourself in. Now they do it with Bloomin' adult toys, don't they? Yeah, well,, everyone needs, there's stuff you probably need to keep yourself in. Now they do it with Bloomin', they're old toys,

don't they? Yeah, well that was another name for the such and such party. But yeah, in the late 2000s, get this, the company,

the Tupperware Party was held somewhere in the world every 2.3 seconds. Every 2.3 seconds. That's how popular it was. 2.3 seconds, there's a, bang, another Tupperware Party. Bang,3 seconds. There's a bang, another Tupperware party.

Bang, another Tupperware party. Bang, another Tupperware party. Yeah, that's a wild amount of Tupperware. That's a lot of Tupperware. That makes no sense to me. I feel like that's a misquote. If you said to me, hey, come over. I've got a sales representative coming over.

We can answer to you. No, but it was you. You were the sales representative. You were like going, hey, mate, come over. I'm having a party Friday night. I'm like, oh, what's going on? We're having Tupperware. Come around.

I'll show you some stuff. But I've called you, and you're inviting me. But we're both inviting each other to our table. I'm like, oh, what's going on? We're having Tupperware. Come around. I'll show you some stuff. But I've called you and you're inviting me, but we're both inviting each other to our table. No, no, no. You're not calling. Someone's coming over. You are the sales rep. You're the sales rep.

And you're getting a commission off the thing. So it's like a pyramid scheme. Yeah. Well, I guess in a way. It's like a way you can make money. It's like that Arbonne. You see Arbonne online? You seen that?

Oh, my mate Michelle got a white Mercedes. Have you seen that? No, but I've heard about Arbonne. You see Arbonne online? You seen that? Oh, my mate Michelle got a white Mercedes. Have you seen that? No, I've heard about Arbonne. It's like makeup. Makeup and stuff like that. Yeah, and awful health products or something. But it changes people's lives. And you get on Arbonne and then you get all your mates on Arbonne and you get a cut of all their things. Gotcha.

And somewhere a white Mercedes comes into the mix somewhere along the line. And just quickly, Sylvester Stallone, you know, iconic actor, likes of Rambo, Rocky. Him and his wife are calling it quits after 25 years of marriage. Fans started sensing there was a bit of trouble in the relationship when they noticed that he'd covered up a tattoo of his wife's face, which he had on his bicep, and they covered it up with his late dog. To be honest with you...

Deceased dog. Well, honest with you. A deceased dog. Well, that's really a surefire song. It probably is a telltale time. His manager has said, no, no, no, to be honest, the idea of covering it up wasn't because there was problems. He wasn't that happy with the tattoo. He wanted to get another one of her that looked a little better. This one he wasn't that happy with.

But, yeah, amazing cover-up. I'm sure I'm taking it. Of his late dog. Into the late top. Well, why didn't he get with. But yeah, amazing cover-up. Of his late dog. Well, why didn't he get another one of it? Over the top? Instead he focused on his dead dog. Yeah, anyway, so that's what he's done now, but they are filing for divorce.

Yeah, maybe that was the catalyst. You replaced me with a dead dog? A late dog. Yeah, that's what's making news right now. Oh, that's sad, isn't it? Even after 25 years of marriage. Yeah, that is very sad, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I bet they'll bounce on. Yeah, well, that's right. She may be selling, they might both be selling Tupperware. Out there hustling, maybe. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits. We've been talking the last couple of days about what is your earliest memory. What's the thing that you remember the most?

There seems to be something that stands out in your life, but how early back is it? Yeah, now you have a theory that you don't want to start paying for kids to have memorable moments if they can't remember them. You know, you don't want to take them to theme parks and stuff when they're two years old because you're like, this is a giant waste of money. They're never going to appreciate slash remember this experience.

Yeah, but people have remembered some stuff at two or three years old, but it doesn't seem to be the sort of things that parents are paid for. They often seem to be, you know, like slightly traumatic moment in their life or something pretty full on that they've gone, oh, I just remember this.

Yeah, so we tried to actually implement a law yesterday in Parliament that adults don't have to start paying for children's memories until they can officially start remembering them. Jacinda was like, I would get onto it, but this Goograb guy is sucking a lot of my oxygen at the moment. There's a lot of stuff going on.

We'll try and get to it next week. Talk to the new Speaker of the House and maybe we'll get that through. Yeah, so we tried yesterday to settle on a definitive age that people could actually start remembering things. Now, Michelle phoned through. Her earliest memory was at age three. Wild story. Have a listen. Remembering things. Now, Michelle phoned through. Her earliest memory was at age three. Wild story.

Have a listen. My earliest memory is actually I was about two years old, sitting in the middle of the road screaming because a car was coming. Oh, my God. I didn't move. The driver had to stop and pick me up. Years later, I worked with that lady. Oh, my goodness. In the middle of the road.

So you can vividly remember a car coming directly at you as a child, as a toddler. Yep, and screaming, and apparently it was something I did on a regular basis. What, went out to the middle of the road? Went out to the middle of the road crying. Did your parents ever think about getting a gate? Yeah, yeah. They were keeping an eye on you. There was eight of us, I think they were

trying to get rid of some of us. That is, wow. What a, jeez. And you can remember being picked up by the driver? Yep. And obviously, you know, you ended up working with this person later. And how did you realise that you were the same, that it was the same person? Well, we were just talking one day at work about the neighbourhood I lived in.

And she said, you know, years ago she was driving along there and had to stop and pick up a child that was sitting in the road screaming. So we're just assuming it was me because it wasn't that common a thing. Yeah, there weren't many babies just mingling in the middle of the road. No. Wow, incredible story. Two years old, that's an early memory. Yeah, that's a very early memory.

Now, we've just had a text here. Hold on, Michelle. We've had a text, 4487. Someone can remember coming out of the birth canal. Oh, what? No, they can't. Yeah, I'm not going to go back with that one. Maybe they've seen the video of their parents videoing that.

Well, that's what I think, too, is are these memories, or have they flashed up in photos over the years or stories that you were told as you were younger as well? That's dead right. Some memories are planted and then you do believe that they're real memories. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Who knows? Who knows? Life, Michelle. Yeah. Who knows? Michelle Yeah Who knows Well I love you Michelle Oh You have a great day guys

No Michelle The rule is on this show If I say I love you You say I love you back Love you Michelle Love you too There you go

That's all I want You know that's what I want Hey thank you very much mate You have a good one You too. Okay, bye. There you go. So Michelle, sorry, I said that was three years old.

Two years old. Yeah. Crazy story. Yeah, so let's throw it out there one last time. 0800 the hits, 4487 is our text number. Love to hear from you this morning. What's your earliest memory? At what age was it?

Experts in giving out inexpert advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're talking earliest memories this morning. How far do you want to remember back to? I don't want to go way, way, way back. I want to pump the brakes before Annie and Jon started creating me. Well, hopefully you don't remember that part. You weren't there for that one.

I reckon if you got hypnotised too, you'd probably, your mind subconsciously would be sitting in there somewhere. You could take you right back. Maybe not back before you were around, but you're right, back to other stuff. Probably inside the womb, maybe. Maybe. Maybe.

Probably not, I don't know. I have no experience. As I say, I remember hitting my head on the bed and a lot of blood when I was about three years old. And my sister arriving when I was about three years old, you know, going to hospital that day. Well, Elaine, from the Waikato, your daughter can remember from when? Ten months old. No.

What does she remember? Sitting in a backpack on her father's back, going for a bushwalk. Really? That's impressive. Yeah. That's very impressive. That's pretty cool,

because sometimes you wonder if you remember something because of a photo or someone tells you a story but that's very cool But also as a parent that makes me very nervous because the stuff we talk about I don't know

the kids can't understand swearing and all sorts Well thanks Elaine That's impressive You go and have a wonderful Thursday Thank you for listening No worries

See ya We're going to head to the South Island now Melanie with us from Mochiwaka. How are you? I'm pretty good. Pretty good. Wild, wild place, Mochiwaka.

Love it. Ah, yes. Very wild. Yeah, very wild. What's the most wild thing you've seen in Mochiwaka, Melanie? The most wild thing I've ever seen in Mochiwaka is a man walking naked down the street. I told you it was a wild place. Yeah, it's wild.

Very, very wild. It's wild. Out in the wild. That was on a quiet day. Yes, very much so. Now, we're talking earliest memory. What's your earliest memory? Oh, my earliest memory was on my birthday when I turned three.

Three? Okay. Yeah. So my brother and I were at Play Centre, and he's a year older than me, and he got put in the naughty corner. We had a cake made, and they wouldn't let him have a piece of cake, so I gave him my piece of cake.

Oh, what a sweet sister you are. So that's your earliest memory So age 3 is pretty young It seems to be the average Of the memories for the first memory That you have age 3 Yes I think so I looked into it online as well

And there was a Sorry where was my extensive research notes There Ben Boyce Where is it here There's my extensive research notes there, Ben Boyce? Where is it here? There's some scientific research there. Oh, there's some scientific research. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.

It's coming. Science, science. Where's my science notes? Oh, here we go. Here we go. This is why I'd be shocking on Newstalk ZB. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, memories, everyone develops their cognitive side at different rates. Right.

So some people can remember earlier events. Oh, so your memory might, oh, okay, gotcha. But, you know, the cognitive memory. Jeez, you've spit it out, mate. I'm trying to go with you and support you here. No, you're not. The only one suffering memory loss is you right now.

But the at 10 years old everyone's evens out. But up until 10 years old everyone develops at a different rate. But a lot of it, Melanie this might be you as well, a lot of it might come to you or you think it's a memory but it's actually just been a story that was told to you that your

mind, your cognitive mind, has developed a storyline to. How do you forget about a story that's been told to you? Is there any way you can not remember the last three minutes of your life? Well, I remember... Melody said well. Melody said well.

Oh, you're too polite, Melody. Do you like that science, Mel? I do, I do. But yeah, mine's a definite memory because I remember the lady called Mrs Day and I wasn't very happy with it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Are you sure it wasn't your subconscious fabricating the memory to fit the story and your cognitive side? No, no, definitely not. All right, well, Melanie, you're going to have a great day. Keep away from those naked walkers, all right? I will, I will. If you're going to have a great day. Keep away from those naked walkers, all right? I will, I will. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, now, we're talking about sleeping. Yesterday we were talking about sort of, oh, I've been sleeping on the couch lately. Yeah, things aren't going well, huh? Yeah, no, I think my lower back will pay the price for this in a couple of years. But, you know, when you go to bed with someone, if you're in a relationship, for whatever reason, you've got your side of the bed.

And it's one of those things that's never discussed either. Like, did you and Amanda go, okay, you're going to go left, I'm going to go right, or vice versa? No, not really. I guess you stuff, we probably mix it up, to be honest. We don't always stick to the same side. But then you kind of Have your side Where you have stuff

Oh we do swap sides Sometimes Do you? Sometimes Oh yeah Sometimes you kind of You know It's musical beds

In the house sometimes Where kids come along And you know But we definitely Have my stuff Over one side Yeah right You know

There's one container So that would be More likely my side Well I know There has been An intense study done into personality types of the different sides of the bed and which one you sleep on now i couldn't figure out with this article which way are we looking at the bed like which is the left and

which is the right am i lying in bed then i'm on the left yeah or am i staring at the bed yeah this research is really going to cancel itself out. Yeah, a really good point. But people who sleep on the left? Okay, let's say they're asleep on the left. Let's just go with that. In bed. Okay, in bed.

They've got a positive outlook on life. What side are you? Well, you're all over the show. Well, yeah, but I would be... Favouring the left? Left is the side that I've got my stuff on. Yeah, so you're more likely to be cheerful compared to your right hand sleeping

counterpart. But you are easily fazed by a stressful day. Yeah, that sounds like me. That does sound you. But you'll help your partner in a time of crisis. Are you a crisis guy?

I like the idea of that. I feel like you would create a crisis. I don't think I'd be a safe pair of hands in a crisis. Yeah, and they're also reported to have a greater level of job satisfaction, the left-handers. Okay. Yeah, how satisfied are you on this job? I'm pretty happy.

What about the right-hand side people sleeping on the right? The right-hand side, they earn more money. Oh, really? Yeah, they earn a lot more money than the left-hand side sleepers, and they have a less positive outlook on life. They're rich and miserable. But they're also likely to be more grounded, the right-handers.

Okay. So now people that'll be sleeping on the left will probably be like, you know what, I'm going to start solving sides. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how it works. As soon as you switch to the other side of the bed, you just make more money. That's how the universe works. Yeah, that's really fascinating stuff. Time soon as you switch to the other side of the bed you just make more money. Check your account. That's how the universe works. Yeah, that's really

fascinating stuff. Time to look at the big news. Small town. Town, town, town, town. Yeah, these are the bigger news stories from the small towns we just did it

in the intro. Thanks for explaining that. Over explaining. So the big news out of Karaka is the fact that Sandra Bullock yes, Sandra Bullock

real name Sandra Bullock is selling Graham Norton's again real name Graham Norton's house. Sandra Bullock, yes, Sandra Bullock, real name Sandra Bullock, is selling Graham Norton's, again, real name, Graham Norton's house. Sandra Bullock. Selling Graham Norton's house. Real estate agent. Yes. Selling Graham Norton run-of-the-mill homeowners.

Well, yeah. Well, he's not run-of-the-mill. No, that's what I'm saying. Not to say he's not a talk show host. Put it that way. House. Another great one. And that's why this is big news from a small town.

It's come across our desk. Sandra Bullock, welcome. Thanks. It's great to have Sandra Bullock on the show. We've been telling everyone for the last 24 hours, we've got Sandra Bullock on the show. Not lying, not lying. Not lying, and we're not lying, are we? No, absolutely not lying.

Not the actor Sandra Bullock, though. The real estate agent. The better version of Sandra Bullock. Yeah, the real version. The real one. The more successful Sandra Bullock though? The real estate agent. The better version of Sandra Bullock. Yeah, the real version. The real one. The more successful Sandra Bullock. Let's just say you're both successful. Sandra Bullock, obviously

your name, but when did you know about the actor named Sandra Bullock? Probably once I started selling real estate in 2010, it became quite apparent because every time I'd go out to sell a list of house, you know, people would go to me, oh, Sandra Bullock, Sandra Bullock.

It's really cool. Sandra Bullock's selling my house. Hearing you explain it, it sounds like it's wearing you down. No, it's a great thing. It's a great thing. It's a memorable, you know, memorable name. I'd love to, you know, be called Sandra Bullock if I could, but I can't. I've just got old Ben.

Oh, Ben, but does that help? I know we can change your name to Sandra Bullock, if I could, but I can't. I've just got old Ben. Oh, old Ben. I know we can change your name to Sandra Bullock. If you want to really commit to this, Ben, you know there are ways. Does it help you? Like, I guess it helps. It makes your name memorable for people that want to buy houses or sell houses? Oh, look, without a doubt it helps, you know. Without a

doubt. Because, you know, I work for Ray White, but, you know, you might forget Ray White, but people never forget my name, you know. Yeah, well, at least you haven't got like, you know, worked for ray white but um you know you might forget ray white but people never forget my name you know yeah well at least you haven't got like you know who's a horrible person that you could be named after john o'price yeah at least you're not named john o'price that was a low blow for me has it helped you out like when you're booking a restaurant or something like that and you're like put the table under the name saja bullet you'd be like they always have a bit of a laugh. Probably the funniest one was when I went to Fiji,

and they actually thought I was the real Sandra Bullock. And one of the ladies, when we pulled up at the airport there, she just about fainted. Really? Did you get some VIP service in Fiji? Well, as best as they could do, yeah, they did treat me quite well, yeah. Now, you're selling a house at the moment for Graham Norton. I mean, Sandra Bullock's selling Graham Norton's house, but again, not the Graham Norton we may know from TV. No, but what was it I'd say?

Graham Norton's house. Well, what we thought we'd do now is give you a chance, because we don't have Graham Norton on the phone, give you the chance as a real estate agent to advertise the house. Yeah, I mean, I've got ambient jazz or I've got sexy jazz. What do we want to roll with? Oh, you choose.

Okay, well, treat it like one of those real estate videos, Sandra Bullock. Okay, here we go. All right, okay. So 13 Corsica Way, Caracah Harbourside. If you're looking for something really special, this would have to be the one. Graham Norton's house is the one you're buying.

Come along, bring a glass of wine, bottle of gin, off we go. Is it an entertainer's delight? Sure is. Entertainer's delight, and it's got two offices, so you can work from home and you don't need to see each other. Oh, so two offices. Okay. We've got sexy music.

That's probably the wrong thing to say. I don't want to work in the same office. When are the open homes there, Sandra Bullock? So there's an open home this Saturday, and you've put me on the spot because I'm driving and I don't know what time it is. You'd have to look it up. Come along, visit an open home, and bring your checkbook.

Bring your checkbook. Good time to buy. That's what they always say. Time to buy. Great time to buy and crack it up the side. Yeah, there we go. Sandra Bullock's selling Graham Norton's house Who

Would have thought Geez Now Skinny the mobile company We used to work with them a bit Yeah They had a whole campaign Of people with famous names Like Lewis Hamilton

Yeah They must have been Knocking on your door baby They were But I'm going to leave The acting To the other Sandra Bullock Fair enough

Yeah You're prime territory for a skinny campaign. Yeah, they have contacted me, but that's not my game. Real estate. Real estate. That's all you. And they do a bloody good job of that. Lovely to talk to you, Sandra Bullock.

Lovely to have Sandra Bullock on the show. We can say that now. You can. All right. Have a good day. Jono and Ben, the bold and the beautiful. On their heads. Note, may not be beautiful.

The brand new season of The Great Kiwi Bake Off is on tonight, TVNZ1, and one of the new judges is already world famous. She's called the caker, Jordan Rondell. The caker. The caker. Jordan Rondell began the caker. Jordan Rondell, and she is the founder of the caker. Jordan Rondell from the caker, fresh from LA.

Creating the tastiest treats in Tinseltown. Yes, she's a Kiwi doing big things abroad. And one of the judges on the Great Kiwi Bake Off tonight, TVNZ1, Jordan Rondell. Good morning. Good morning. Lovely to have you on live from Los Angeles. It's great to talk to you. Just before we kick off, I was given one of your wonderful Black Forest cakes for a birthday.

Oh, I love that. Yeah, it changed my course in life. It did? That's how good it was. How did it change your course? Sorry to, you know. It changed my course in life because I sat down, and this is embarrassing, and I ate an entire cake by myself. I see. Got it.

Yeah. Well, because I understand, Jordan, you've always been obsessed with baking. You know, like every day after school, I understand you were baking. But who ate all the baking? Like, were you giving it away? I mean, what happened there? Yeah, good question. Yeah, I was just giving it away.

I think eventually, like, you know, it was mostly to my family and stuff. But eventually, they were done. They, like, you know, it was mostly to my family and stuff, but eventually they were done. They, like, didn't need more cakes. And then I was like, I started to think about, well, maybe I should, you know, start selling these, and that's how it all kind of took off. Oh, good idea. It's been such a success story as well. I mean, do you have your cake and eat it too?

Or are you sick of cake? It's kind of like art to you now. No, I still love cake just as much as the day i met it i really do it's a wonderful relationship yeah i love to like sit down and have like a proper slice on a plate with a fork and just like actually enjoy it you know rather than like stuffing my face in the kitchen yeah i'm a stuff i'm a stuffy face in the kitchen kind of guy well what made you decide to you know to start up a shop, which obviously here in New Zealand, then you started one in LA.

I mean, what inspired you to do that? Well, I guess at the time, like when I first started the paper back in 2010 in Auckland, there really wasn't anyone doing this kind of homemade style of cake. So you could get something pretty like mass-manufactured kind of commercial tasting. But I really did see this gap in the market for a bakery selling cupcakes that really focused on how they taste and the ingredients they contain. So it was kind of a no-brainer. You're like 18 or 19 and going, there's a gap in the market.

I was learning a story to do the alphabet at 18 or 19. That's not a good reflection, though, is it? Because it's done so well. I mean, Chrissy Teigen, she basically gave you a shout-out on her social media. There's a photo of John Legend with his face next to one of your cakes. I mean, that's pretty wild. Yeah, I know. That was a good day, actually.

Does that boost sales when celebrities do things like that? Yeah, totally, it does. And it just kind of gives you some more credibility, you know, like moving to LA has been this breeze that I anticipated, you know,

with such a small fish in a big pond here and it's kind of the opposite of what it is in New Zealand. So it's been an interesting journey and when people like that

notice it, it feels good. You've been asked to host alongside Hayley Sproul and Pax Asadi, the Great Kiwi Bake Off. Yeah, you're judging on that one. I mean, it must be kind of inspiring for the contestants on there to see someone like yourself, because

you've got no professional experience, so you didn't train, but you've made such a career out of it. Yeah, totally. I think there were definitely a few contestants who, you know, they brought my books and stuff to the show. Oh, wow. Yeah, you're right. Like, I do love to push the self-taught baker side of the brand

because I think it's important to show people they don't need to be afraid of baking. Like, anyone can actually learn how to do it and push the boundaries and be creative with it. Because, yeah, as a judge on the show, how much cake are you eating a day? You know, baking and stuff. I mean, it would be a lot, wouldn't it, over the period of shooting?

You have no idea. It would You know, baking and stuff. I mean, it would be a lot, wouldn't it, over the period of shooting? You have no idea. So much. It would just be like pies and scones and cake. Amazing. Yeah. And, like, I really wanted to, you know, I wanted the contestants to see that I was properly going in for it and trying it all.

And so I would go back to seconds and thirds sometimes. And, like, it was a lot. Imagine you get home at the end of every day and go, whew, whew. No, I was just eating like salads for dinner because I was like, I'm done. You know when you're so full you can't breathe? That's how, yeah, I've been that full before.

I imagine you'd be like that after a day of filming. Yeah, obviously the contestant numbers got smaller and smaller over the course, but I remember on that first day of filming yeah obviously the contestant numbers got smaller and smaller over the course but i remember on that first day of judging when they were all 10 people it was a lot now jordan i know uh cakes they're your life you know they're your reason for being but what would you say if i told you ben who i'm looking at over here he's not a fan of cakes not your cakes just cakes across the board it No, it's not that I dislike. I just always feel obligated to have a cake. You know, someone's like, oh, it's such and such's birthday

and such and such made a cake. Do you want some? And I'm kind of like, if you can't say no in that situation. Yeah, I don't know what went wrong in his childhood, Jordan, but he doesn't enjoy cake. It's very sad. Maybe I'll be able to change your mind one day. Oh, yeah, that's a good point, man. very sad. Maybe I'll be able to change your mind one day.

Are you sure? Yeah, that's a good point, man. He's like, when you have your morning tea and it's someone's birthday here in the office, he's like, oh. And it kind of feels like the cake's being forced onto him

and he doesn't want to. Jordan, we'll team up and we'll turn him, okay? Yes, that's my goal. That's my new goal in life. Yeah, great. Hey, congratulations on all your success.

It's amazing that you're out there doing what you're doing and long may it continue. And good luck for the great Kiwi Bake Off. Tonight it starts on TVNZ1. Very exciting. Thank you so much.

Let's go. Jonah and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our Game of word association. We play it every morning at this time.

Match all five words, get $5,000. But you can win money along the way and tap out if you want. You know, we haven't had a winner for a very long time. Long time between drinks, Ben. $5,000 winner. My mouth is dry. A bit of a deal we had with management. Head to the Hits Breakfast Facebook page.

They said if we get 5,000 likes on a photo, the moment that happens, we're locked in the studio and playing this game till someone wins $5,000. But we could give away $5,000 right now. Yeah, Acacia in Rotorua. Welcome. How are you? Morning, Uncle. Thank you. Morning to you.

Now, I hope you're not opposed to winning a butt-ton of cash, are you, Acacia? I mean, like, that'll help. Hey, who's not? And what would you spend it on, mate? Oh, I definitely need a washing machine because no one's done cacked it, so let's go. And that's an annoying appliance to cack it.

Yeah, it's like one of those ones that, do you really want to take all your washing to the laundry or not? Do you want to spend money on it? You don't really want it, but you need a washing machine. Yeah, you definitely look at it. It's a necessity. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

Unless you wear your clothes, because you could win $5,000. You wear clothes once, throw them out. Yeah. I mean, buy a new wardrobe with that cash. Yeah, exactly, Acacia. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth to match words with? Can we please send Jono? All right.

He's going to head on in there for you, and we'll see how you go matching up these words today. He's in there now. Here we go. Here is your first word. What pops into your head when I say unleaded? Unleaded. Unleaded.

So, sorry, real quickly, I've got my students in the background. Are we all allowed to play? Yeah, absolutely. You can play together. Yeah, a group consensus can play together. A group consensus is fine. So the first team is unleaded. Petrol? Petrol. You're locking

in petrol? Locking in petrol. Seems good to me. Inter-Islander. Inter-Islander is word number two. Inter-Islander theory? Seems good. Seems a good option. Everyone's okay with that one. Icing. Yeah. Icing is word number three.

I-C-I-N-G. Icing. Cake. Cake. Confidently. And disgusting is word number four. Disgusting. Disgusting.

Team, what are we thinking? Gross. Gross. And finally, I. E-Y-E. I. Ball. Eyeball. Eye eye. Ball, eyeball. Eyeball, yep.

Yeah. All right, well done, well done, Acacia and team. Jono, out of the soundproof booth. We had a bit of a group session going on. You had Acacia and team. Yeah, yeah, there were students there with them. It was a group scenario, so we've all, there's a lot of pressure on you now, Jono.

You're not going to disappoint just Acacia, but a whole lot of other people. Acacia, put the kids on. They'll want to talk to the heroes. Okay, you guys say hello. Ready? Hang on one, two, three. Say hello.

Hello. Hi, kids. Why don't you all say, I love Jono and Ben? Are you on TV right now? Yeah, you're on TV. It's all live. All live on TV. Now, if we can get all in sync, I love Jono and Ben.

They want you to say, I love Jono and Ben. Ready? Go. There you go, yeah. Some muffled sort of thing. It's kind of vaguely here. Definitely bullied some kids into saying that. Okay.

Here we go. Let's see how we go this morning. Let's head to the first word for $25. Word one, $25. Jono Pryor, what pops into your head when I say unleaded? Unleaded. Petrol. Yeah, well done. Okay, so you've got $25. John O'Prior, what pops into your head when I say unleaded? Petrol. Yeah, well done. In case you've got $25, do you want to risk it all to go to the $50 word?

We've got $25, do we want to go to $50? Yeah, let's do it. Word two, $50. Feeling okay about this one, I am, I think. Interislander. Interislander. Fury. Yeah, well done.

That's $ bucks, team. So now, you need to explain to the team that if you risk it all, the next word, that's $100, you get that, but if Jono gets it wrong, you get nothing. So what do you want to do as a group? So are we going to risk it? So we're on $50. If we risk it for our third word, we get $100.

If we don't, we lose. They want $100, they said, John. I just said, when do we start fading out of the team? Because you can pretend that you've lost, but then you can take all the money. Yeah, true. They can't hear everything. All right, here we go. Word three.

Word three, $100. Icing. Icing. I'd go cake icing. Oi! There we go. Well done. $100. I'd go cake icing. There we go. Well done. $100.

Now, big decision. Do you want to jump forward to $500 word or do you want to take your $100 and go? I think I'm going to step in and take one for the team. We'll take the $100. Take the $100. Smart play. What was the next word?

Disgusting. Disgusting. Disgusting. Ooh. Yeah. Disgusting smell? Ah, yes. That was a tough one. Gross.

Gross. And the final word was I-E-Y-E. Eyeball? Ah, so four out of five. You didn't do too bad, but you played a really smart game because you tapped out before you lost the money. Awesome. Thank you guys so much.

They're always getting listener compliments. You happy to be on the radio with your hero? So yes, yes. Jono and Ben on the hits. Ben, we were talking yesterday after the program about how we all wake up. Are we snoozers? Do you hit the snooze alarm 23 times?

Or do you just rip the plaster off and start straddling the day to get into it right yeah yeah what do you do i have my phone in in the bathroom so i i got no choice like i just get up turn the phone off you know as quick as i can and get into it but that's also mainly because you're paranoid about the uh the phone waves giving off yes he's got a he's got a reader that he goes around the house don't tell tell anyone about a reader and he just does he measures what's it measuring

anyway like his stuff that it got into a hole a while ago I put it away that part of my life I've closed the door

on that part of my life when I was walking around the neighbourhood with a reader measuring electronic waves I'm like what am I doing I checked myself I was like what am I doing? I checked myself.

I was like, what am I doing? He actually brought it into the radio studio one day. Boy, oh boy, that thing was pinging. You're hollering over something and the waves are going. And I'm like, yeah, it was not a good thing. Put it away. We are sizzling in here at the moment. But yeah, so Ben, you leave it in the bathroom.

That's how you wake up. So does it annoy the household? Because it would be echo it in the bathroom That's how you wake up So does it annoy the The household Because it would be echoey In the hollow room Well that's why I'm pretty quick to get there Because I'm conscious

Of trying to not Wake anyone else up So you put the pressure On yourself Yeah Because you know Otherwise I might Be encouraged

To just wake up Or snooze Or something like that I'm the same as you You've got to get up Just rip the plaster off I'm like one of those Jack in the boxes

Bang Springs out of the box. And it's just the bit because otherwise you just kind of... You're delaying the inevitable, really. You are. That's what I think. But maybe some people like to sort of ease themselves into the day with a snooze or two. It feels like you

wouldn't gain much more... Like you'll feel the same. Whether you wake up then or you snooze 18 times, you're going to feel the same either way. wake up then or you snooze 18 times, you're going to feel the same either way. Producer Joel, you're shaking your head. Are you a snoozer, Joel? I feel like it's easy for you to say this now, but at like 20 past four in the morning,

you have some dark thoughts at that time in the morning. Yeah. A lot of them are, do I have to get out of bed? What day is it? Can Jono do this if I don't turn up today? What we could also invent is the spring-loaded timer bed where you set the timer on the bed the night before and it just, boom, catapults you out of bed,

launches you out like an ejector seat. So 0800 the hits, this is what we're going to do. Are you a snoozer or you're not a snoozer? Yeah, maybe it's better to snooze an easy way into the day or maybe it's better just to get into it. If you snooze, you lose. Well, we want to know, are you doing it? Are you losing?

Are you finding you're winning? No, 800 the hits, 4487, we'll get to that. With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the hits. So you're snoozing the button or not snoozing. Sade Morena, how are you? Yeah, I'm really good, thank you. How are you?

Yeah, good. We're just saying off air. My mum Annie Pryor, woo-wee, she loved some Sade Morena. How are you? Yeah, I'm really good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, good. We're just saying off air. My mum Annie Pryor, woo-wee, she loved some Sade back in the day. Smooth operator? That was the big jam, wasn't it? Yeah, oh gosh, bit of a tune, I think. Definitely. It is a tune. Sade, I'm sure, had an illustrious career, but smooth operator was the

smooth operator. Anyway, Sade, snooze or not snoozing? You're a snooze operator. What are you doing? For me personally, I am definitely a not snoozer. I'm up first hit. But my partner, he's a serial, serial snoozer.

He's the snooze operator. All right. So how many times is he snoozing? I would say at least two to three times, definitely. Now, you're just delaying the inevitable, aren't you? Oh, 100%. And it's not just him that's suffering. It's everyone who's also here to snooze each time.

We're all privy to it. But that's the thing. If you're having to get up before someone else, I feel like it's only courteous to get straight up, not to just keep snoozing and snoozing for the other person that's trying to it. But that's the thing, if you're having to get up before someone else, I feel like it's only courteous to get straight up, not to just keep snoozing and snoozing for the other person that's trying to sleep. Exactly that, because I'm entitled to my

extra half hour of sleep because he starts before me. So he'll snooze, you know, it's a 30 minute snoozing period. Well, no, so he's probably across 15 minutes that I'm awake at the same time as him. What's the noise? What's the noise? Is it like a standard alarm on the phone, or what is it?

No, it's that horrible siren iPhone one, and it shocks you to life. It's that horrible one. That one. Oh, that is. And you never, like, does he actually snooze in between their snoozes? I think so, and that's why he keeps doing it, because he goes back to sleep for a couple of, I think it's eight minutes or something,

and then the next time it goes again, and it's awful. I couldn't think of a worse way to wake up. Absolutely painful. I like it, though. Some people, you know, and they do, maybe it eases them into the day, but I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's a great call, Shade. I really appreciate it. You go and have a wonderful day. Thank you don't know. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's a great call, Shade.

I really appreciate it. You go and have a wonderful day. Thank you so much. You too. Kassania, welcome. Hi. Nah, Kassania, buddy. Yeah.

What an intro. I think I got the appropriate response. I used to get that quite a lot when I was working in the supermarket. People were busting out Lion King in the supermarket. Anyway, Kassania, we're talking about snoozing or not snoozing. What do you prefer? Snoozing. But I've got quite a job.

I have to get up about 5 o'clock in the morning sometimes. So I have about three alarms. So these are three alarms that you'll snooze, or are these three separate alarms? Three separate alarms. One in my bedroom, one on my phone, and one in the lounge. And the one in the lounge is quite loud, so I really need to get up.

Oh, so you force yourself. So you really would love to be a snoozer, but you can't, so you set three different alarms, including one in the lounge, to get yourself up. That's right. Wow, geez, you bully yourself into submission every morning. That's incredible. And is there anyone else in the household who has to put up with this?

No, just myself. Just yourself. Well, that's ideal. And it's a clever way to wake up. If you find yourself not being able to get out of bed, having alarms all over the house is firstly probably a giant pain in the ass when it's happening, but secondly it'll get results.

Get you out of bed. Yeah, exactly. What's the one in their lounge? That's Alexa's one. Oh, Alexa. So you have to go and basically get Alexa to wake you up and tell her to stop every morning. No, Alexa, shut up. So you start abusing Alexa? Shut the hell up, Alexa.

I'm up, I'm up. What more do you want? Geez, I reckon Alexa cops a lot, eh? Yeah, I know. Siri and Alexa, they're getting... They're just trying to help you out. They're like, all right, mate. Alexa's like, well, you bought me.

You set me. That's how you're waking up every morning. Really appreciate your call, Kassania. You're going to have a wonderful day in Wellington. Thank you. You too. Jono Pryor presents the guessing game. Back again where we just throw you on the spot.

You cannot turn up to this game prepared. That's the only rule. You must arrive unprepared. Okay, okay. And there's a 60-second timer. I'll throw out a question And you have to get the result Within the 60 seconds

Ben you can Phone a friend 0800 the hits If you feel you can help Ben out Yeah help me out right now Because it's to do with The world's most Just populated countries

The world's most populous countries It's the guessing game Now the deal is You need to get them in order Top five Top five Producer Joel You can help out here

this morning as well too. Yeah. Everyone's welcome to. Although you were no help to me yesterday really. Geography is actually my massive strong suit as well. So I think we're good to go today.

That's your massive strong suit, geography. Sort of. Radio, not radio. Definitely not radio. We got him here for his geography knowledge. For this moment right now

So I'm going to start the timer 60 seconds Most populous countries go I'm pretty sure it's like China and India are near the top India's number one China's number one

1.44 billion China So China, India, is that right? Yeah, 1.4 billion in India. Are we going United States somewhere in the middle? Are you looking at your computer? Not right now. Were you looking at it before I asked you were you looking at your computer?

Yes, the US. Yeah. No, but that's all I know. I don't know any more under that. No, I do know that those are up near the top. What about Russia? Would Russia be close to this? Russia's only number nine with 146 million.

Number four. What would it be? It's a conglomerate of islands. Oh, like a... United Kingdom? No. South America? 279 million people live there.

Producer B Humps is saying Thailand Indonesia Yes Oh nice Okay and then number 5 5 seconds 229 million

229 million Pakistan Pakistan 229 million Wow There you go That's the guessing game today That's the China India

The States Indonesia And Pakistan So what's running out the top 10 then? Top 10, Mexico at number 10, Russia number 9, Bangladesh 168 million at number 8, Brazil 215 million, Nigeria 217. Oh, Nigeria. Look at China.

Have a listen to this. 49,000 births a day. A day? A day. Wow. They are just pumping them out. I like the guessing game. A day? A day. In China. They are just pumping them out. I like the guessing game. It's tough, mate.

We do 57,000 a year in New Zealand. 49,000 babies a day in China. Damn Microsoft. Can you please make order correct for audio? Jono and Ben on the hits. Yesterday was a bit of a rush. I had a rushing situation. I don't like being in a bit of a rush. I had a rushing situation. I don't like being in a bit of a rush.

No, you don't. Ben loves turning up 15 to 20 minutes early. I like to be early. And parking four streets away from where he's located. I like to be early. It's a thing. And so yesterday I was in a bit of a rush. And it was like a meeting that I needed to go to.

And I was like, well, I need to probably make a good impression in this one. So I was like rushing around trying to get there with some things. And I was like, oh, the shirt I was going to wear. I was like, I need to probably make a good impression in this one so i was like rushing around trying to get there with some things and i was like oh shirt i was going to wear i was like i need to give it a quick iron so i'm trying to do this i'm like i'm already panicking i'm already running late and uh and then i like went to switch off the iron and i did what i've done before uh when i go well leaving the iron on the bench it's hot i haven't given it time to cool down it might melt the bench who knows a cat might cat might knock it over. It might cause a fire. Oh, wow. You end up in full disaster zone.

I just grab the iron, take it for a wee drive with me. I've done that before. Taking the iron for a drive. It's a thing. So it's like you're not worried about it. You're not like, did I leave it plugged in? Did I leave it on? No, it's in the passenger seat next to me.

I can see it there. You and the iron on another fun trip. Yeah. But then what I did yesterday, because it was traffic, it counted traffic, and this was adding more to my flustered nature. As I got towards this meeting, I'm like, I'm already late. You're like, iron, this is not ideal. Running late.

I'm getting more and more late. I'm getting more and more flustered. By the time I found a park, I was like, just grab the stuff. And I had to take some stuff from the passenger seat with me to the meeting. And I grabbed the stuff. And then as I got to the meeting, all flustered. You sound like a battler door-to-door salesperson. I felt like that.

Would you like to buy some of our finest knives? Well, the problem was I turned up at the meeting. I was in such a fluster. I didn't realize I picked up the iron with me from the car. And so as i walked into this meeting i'm holding an iron i'm like oh my god and i can't put like i didn't have a bag to put it so i just walked in with the iron well it's not a bad little hook for meetings to go hey guys is anyone after a mid-afternoon iron of the shirt you know you can get a bit wrinkly about two or

three o'clock i imagine if you're wearing a business shirt because no one brought it up but you could tell everyone was kind of looking like why is he carrying an iron like what scenario you're carrying an iron is he moonlighting is it dry cleaning not even iron man's carrying an iron around all the time and that's in his name so yeah i was thinking midway through i was like maybe i could say it's broken i'm gonna get fixed from the iron store which is also in town or something but i don't know but luckily no one brought it up but you can tell when everyone's like... I don't know what that meeting was about

or what you were trying to get out of it, but you're definitely not going to get it now. No, no. Do we get the crazy iron guy? No, no, no. Did you see he brought an iron? That would have been the topic as soon as you walked out of the room.

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. As soon as you walk out of the room, everyone's talking about me. Did you see that iron? Yeah. Where'd you put it? On the desk. Next to a glass of water.

I'd just bring the line. Very, very unusual. So I don't even know why I shared that story. But hey, here we are. Look out! Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park. It's these guys.

Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, Ben, I suffered an unfortunate incident yesterday, and I know you have been the victim of the same attack. What happened? It was a wayward spray of the hand sanitizer bottle. Now, I squirted the bottle, and some of the one-litre tubs. The big ones that sit around office places. The commercial ones.

Yeah. For some reason, maybe the hand sanitizer dries up at the spout, but when you push it, it misfires the direction of the hand sanitizer. It can go everywhere. First time we went to the Whangarei office of NZME, remember that? I went in there and I sprayed it in the studio. It went up on the wall. In the studio.

And it all come off. It didn't. And I'm like, oh. It was like a murder scene except with hand sanitizer. Yeah, I've had that before. I had it go to my crotch. I had it go to my face. All sorts.

Everywhere. Yeah. But anyway, I squirted it yesterday. Boom. Straight in to my left eye. I've done that to myself. This is what I mean. Because I remember you came back in one day and you were crying.

You guys are like, what's wrong? You usually cry in the car on the way home. It makes us weird when you're crying. It makes me feel awkward what's wrong? You usually cry in the car on the way home. It makes us weird when you cry in front. It makes me feel awkward. I'm like, guys, I've just,

yeah, it really hurts. Now, I've never been in a position where I've been, you know, the victim of a mace spraying. I've never put myself

in that position, Ben. But I imagine this is the closest thing to having a pepper spray or a mace in your eyes. It is just. I was like, I'm never going to be

on sea again. This is it. This isn't the way it's going to happen. But in your eyes. Brutal, yeah. It is just... I was like, I'm never going to be able to see again. This is it. This isn't the way it's going to happen. But eventually your eyes work out. And you're really self-conscious about seeing other people because they're like, well, what's... They have to ask you what's wrong. Are you okay?

You do look very sad. I'm okay, yeah. So it's more of a public service announcement, actually. Just be careful when you're pumping because we do go in with a lot of gusto, don't we? Pump, you think it's just going to go straight into your hand, boom, it catches you in the eye. And that was my

story that I wanted to get across, okay? You've been listening to a podcast from The Hits. For more audio, search up Megan Pappas on the 3pm pickup or Brad and Laura on The Hits. Available now on the iHeartRadio app.