Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 16 - Should You GPS Track Your Partner?

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

Hello hello! On today's show, we had a juicy story about a woman who wanted to set up "live locations" on her and her partner's phone, for ease of figuring out where each other are & coordinating their lives. But her partner refuses. Should she be suspicious of him because of this? Should she even be allowed to set up live locations on his phone? We dove into this! We were also joined by Riley Elliott - SHARK GUY! He's a marine biologist who swims & works with sharks, and he's hosting Blue Planet 2 live in concert. It was really interesting to catch up with him, his goal is to educate people on how sharks aren't as scary as they're made out to be. Finally, Jono did a VERY CHARITABLE ACT over the weekend in Palmy North!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Welcome to the podcast. It's the 16th of March.

Oh, you like to say the date. I do, I like to timestamp it, because at some stage when we're old and senile, we'll listen back to these and go, those are the days. Old and senile We'll listen back to these And go Those are the days No you probably won't Listen back to the

You wouldn't listen back To every podcast would you I'm going to go back And podcast my whole career Go back to Illustrious Broadcasting Binge listening

Who's binge listening Our podcast But no it's It's important to Time stamp things Ben it's like a journal. People are journaling nowadays.

They tell us it's a Karen Walker, fashion designer, and also Nick, who we're working with, our boss, he's journaling. He is at night.

He writes down stuff and he finds it really good. Therapeutic. What do you do when you put in a journal? I'd forget what I'd done that day and then I'd feel obliged to just

write something. I don't know. I mean, you can do that. I don't think there's any right or wrong answers. But I think you could also just write in your feelings, your goals, your things like that. You're like, okay, today, tomorrow I'm going to do this. I'm going to, you know, these are the things I'm going to work on. This happened today, so I'm going to.

You know, it could be more about motivation and goals. I had a Roald Dahl diary that I was gifted when I was 10 and I started with all guns blazing. Religiously filled it out day to day and then that was Jan sort of by fair bit it peed it off and it was like

good day it's quite hard I did one when I went travelling to Maui for sort of five six months I did one every day

that day because you know you're doing something you're documenting that but yeah when you're just living in the wall of life it's a bit boring

got a parking ticket yeah it's a bit boring got a parking ticket yeah it was a bit annoying had a breakfast had a microwave meal and it goes back

to the obligation of like I've needed to tell this book when am I going to read this back of what I've done phones kind of

take the place of that now don't they photos any event that happens boom the phones are out

quick it's like a country and western style shootout Yeah, you're right, actually. Any event that happens, boom, the phones are out. Quick. It's like a country and western style shootout now. Yeah, I'm not as good with that now. I keep going, I should take more photos. Around work I do, but then outside of work, you're like, I'll leave the phone away. And then you're like, you know, how many photos did you take over the weekend in Palmy? None. Ah, there you go.

No, I'm not a photo person. Yeah, there you go. But there were so many opportunities. We did some amazing things. I mean, we were working and filming, but there were so many things you'd never done before, so many amazing people, but you didn't. Oh, well, thankfully there were, you know,

three industry standard cameras capturing. Yeah, I know. It's going to be seen at some stage, but you know what I mean? Yeah. Like I was the same. I took very little photos, you know, across that weekend. Well, because I was like,

I've never gone back and looked through photos. Every year I print out a book. Oh, do you? Every year. It's my thing I do over Christmas and it takes me a long time. Halfway through, you're like,

why am I doing this? But I've committed to it ever since the girls have been born. Every year I've made a book and I get printed out online and every year, because I'm like,

you never print out photos and it's the burden of everyone gets sick of me moaning about this in the holidays, but I do and I send it away online and every year it arrives

and I put them up on the shelf oh you do it do you do it through Apple and they I used to oh that was all I'll tell you what I'll moan to you about this

so you used to be able on your Apple computer you'd go have your photos there and you used to be able to click through and get them booked you know you basically make your little book

and then you go yep print and you get a hardcover book back yeah I ordered it away I did that one year like I've been doing. It took me days. I went, go for it. Send it away.

And they went, we're not doing this anymore. Oh, how many days of labour was it? Yeah, what? Why would you not send an email? Now you can do it through there and it goes through to another site that basically will take your photos and put it through to another. Just, we're not doing this anymore? Yeah.

Do you know how long I've been trolling through the years for this? Oh it was just like but I've made the whole book the book's good to go. I'd placed everything, designed it and then in the end it was like oh but now you can do it through your Apple photos and it will go through to another like Milk Books it's another

site that will do or Snapfish it can take those photos through to that site. But at the time, I was like, oh, jeez, I was not... Oh, that's a good thing to do. That's a cool thing. Does it do it automatically, or do you actually have to select them manually?

It can do it automatically, but you just... Then you end up with a whole bunch of blurry... You've got, like, so have photos of your handbrake in your car, but you want to have photographic evidence that you've left it on. Yeah, exactly.

So you do have to... A year's worth of handbrake photos. You do have to do it. But it is one of those things. And I mean, we do from time to time, you look back on them. The kids get it down. You look at it and you go, oh, that was cool. We did that.

And that's kind of something I'll burden my kids with after I'm gone. You can have these 32 books. Oh, thanks. And not even two copies, too. So two kids. Yeah, you can fight over them. You have 2020. I have 2021. You can fight over them. Probably the fight will be which one's going to be burdened with too. So two kids. Yeah, you can fight over them. You have 2020. I have 2021.

You can fight over them. Probably the fight will be which one's going to be burdened with them. Exactly. Exactly. Enjoy the podcast. A lot of fun stuff on the podcast today. We got talking about whether it's okay to track your partner on their phone. Oh, so we've got some headed calls on that, don't we?

Yeah, Carolyn from Taranaki was awesome. She was awesome. She wound up. And also, Trish. That's right. Trish, who we work with. Doesn't have a middle name. Yeah.

Crazy. Why not? We'll get that on the podcast. Two dads just trying to fill some airtime. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some airtime for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. The A to Z of New Zealand.

We're going all around Aotearoa, phoning every town and city. It's been a wonderful journey so far, a journey of discovery. Ben, you've learned some stuff about yourself, haven't you? Mm-hmm. Zaris is taking a drink of hot water. He's got a sore throat, which is fair enough.

Well, not a sore throat. Actually, it's fine. It's just I've just been talking nonstop for five days and, yeah, I'm just losing my voice a little bit. Yeah. Anyway, you sound good. I like it. I like this husky, Ben.

It's an air of mystery. Just trying to be a bit more sexy, guys. He's a bit badass. Like a renegade or something. Anyway, we're heading today to Maraitai. It's just out of Auckland. It's a beachside town. It has 831 households, 1,170 males, 1,176 females,

with a ratio of 0.99 males per female. The average age is 42.4 years old in Maraetai, and if you want any other stats, then you can go onto Wikipedia yourself. And I think Millennial Max has teed up someone at the petrol station to talk to, so we'll go through now. Hello, Gas Maraetai speaking with Liz.

Lizzy, Lizzy, Lizzy. Oh, my God, I'm so nervous. Oi, oi, oi. Why are you nervous? Don't be nervous. It's just us. There's no one important. I know, but I don't want to sound like a dickhead on the radio.

We do that every day. That's our job. Oh, my God. I'm shaking. Nobody ever rings us out here in Maraitai. We love Maraitai. When was the last time you had a phone call in Maraitai? Yeah.

From anyone on the radio station. Hardly ever. Never. Well, listen. Can we say that, you know, the Hits is the official station of Maraitaiai. Yeah. From anyone on the radio station, hardly ever, never. Well, listen, can we say that, you know, the Hits is the official station of Maraetai now? Yes. I love the Hits. We listen to it.

Good on you. Good on you. Now, Liz, how long have you, how long have you worked at the petrol station there? Well, I'm actually the owner. Oh, really? Yeah, and we've got three businesses in Maraetai. What else do you own?

Well, my husband owns the workshop mechanic and my daughter runs the, we've got a little cafe as well. Oh my God. So somebody calls me the, I shouldn't say that on radio, don't say this, but the Queen of Maraetai.

I don't actually think I am. Well, I will call you the Queen of Maraetai. You don't have to say it. I will say it for you. It's a very small community, even though we're expanding. It's like still being in a little country town. Everyone looks after each other, which is absolutely fabulous.

Now, it's a wonderful little beachside situation going on there, just south of Auckland, would that be fair to say? Yeah, yeah, the best place to be. How long's the drive from Auckland City to Maraetai? 40 minutes, depending on the traffic, which is always bad, but about 40 minutes. And what's there to do there? Everything.

You can go to the beach. You can have really yummy ice creams, lovely food. Sit on the beach and enjoy yourself. There's a jet ski hire place out here. I've never been on a jet ski. They look fun. They look really fun, the jet skis. Yeah, they are awesome.

You've just got to know what you're doing. Some people go out there and don't actually know what they're doing on a jet ski. They look fun. They look really fun, the jet skis. Yeah, they are awesome. You've just got to know what you're doing. Some people go out there and don't actually know what they're doing on a jet ski. Do you know, I saw an almost shocking jet ski accident over New Year's where a child was on a jet ski. The throttle was down and he was hurtling towards the beach. And you know when you're in that situation, you can't figure out where the brakes are or you start panicking.

Well, you panic, yeah. Yeah, we're flying into the beach, but just slid in between two people sunbathing. Yeah. I was like... Well, they do, and we've got a boat as well, and sometimes they head towards us, and we're like, do you know how to turn that?

Because they're going at such a great notch, you think, oh, they're going to come straight into us. Now, Liz, you own half of Maraetai, you and your family. Oh, my God, not half. The trumps of Maraetai. Yeah. I don't know if that's what you want to be called. Yeah.

But tell me, working and owning a petrol station, at a petrol station it says, don't use your cell phone on the forecourt. Oh, my God, people always use their cell phones. So what's the reason behind this rule? What can happen? Well, it's never actually happened to us. So what can happen, it can interfere with the computers from the pump to come inside to our screens.

And I think it's just not really that. A safety thing from the, yeah. You shouldn't really be using a phone anywhere near anything like that anyway. But fumes from the petrol and also I imagine they could set a light and all sorts, right? Well, let's face it, we don't know the long terms of mobile phones. I mean, I love

my mobile phone. I wouldn't be without it, but if they say don't put a cigarette light, don't light your smoke by a petrol container or an LPG, probably best not to do that. That's one of Ben's big bugbears, cell phones. He's like, he reckons it's going to be one of those things in 20 years that we look back on,

like we look back on cigarette smoking now. Oh, yes, definitely. And I totally agree with him. Yeah. I'm a bit worried. I don't sleep with it near my head. No, but you know some people do, and that's the saddest thing.

Yeah, but I just, I don't know, it might be fine, but I just get worried and I'm like, I'll put it, and it also helps getting up in the morning because you have to get up to turn off your phone. Well, when we all grow second heads, it'll mean we can have two phones. Two phones. Ben, you got your hand up politely.

Oh, I was just saying that, yeah, like in America a few years ago, so someone answered their phone while next to a car while putting gas into it and suddenly it did catch a light. It's a very scary situation, yeah. I don't know what the long-term effects of doing that, but usually when you're in a petrol station, if there's a warning sign that's sort of next to you while you're pumping gas, it's probably good to follow those warning signs. Yeah, as you say. If something does go wrong.

You're not putting them up there as a fun prank, are you? No, no. No, we try to do it quite literally as in, you know, like someone tried to light a cigarette up not far from staff. Probably not a good idea to actually smoke near that or... No, that's probably a good idea. Yeah, you're right. You know what I mean? How desperate are you for lung cancer that You need to smoke right there and then. Yeah, well, exactly.

Like, can't you just wait till five, ten minutes later when you actually leave the hospital? Liz, listen, it's been an absolute pleasure talking with you. Hopefully we'll get to meet you one day. Tell you what, your name will never escape my heart. Liz, thank you so much for your time this morning. You look after yourself in Maraetai. Thank you. Thanks for talking.

Experts in semi-accurate, half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Hey, we've got Tanya on the phone. Welcome to New Zealand's breakfast, Tanya Morena. How are you? Hey, guys. How are you?

Good to have you on. You've got a really interesting issue that you want to bring to the breakfast table this morning. Yeah. It involves your partner of three or four years. Yes, yeah. So I've asked him if he wants to join a GPS tracking app so we can, you know, I'm happy for him to track me as well, but it's just for a bit of security. And so when he's, like, on his way home from work or something,

I know when to get dinner on. But he's flat out refusing. And so it kind of makes me worry what he's hiding. So, you know, is this something that I, do I leave it? Or should I, you know, kind of dig a bit deeper as to why he doesn't want me to know where he is? Oh, so you've pitched the tracking app. He's gone, no, no, no, we don't need that.

And so now you're suspicious as to why he doesn't want to join you. I get why you would be suspicious. Yeah. So basically this is something on your phone and on his phone that you guys can see where each other are at all times, right? Exactly, yeah. And you're thinking, what, it's good for security, it's good for safety, it's good for logistics?

Yeah, so I can see when he's leaving the office so he can have a nice hot dinner on the table when he gets home. Did you say that to him? So you can have a nice hot dinner. You don't want a mildly cold one. Tanya, I'm going to ask you this question, and I want an honest answer. Is there a little bit of mistrust there? A little bit?

Maybe on his end. Definitely not on mine. So did you feel a little bit like, ooh, maybe there's something going on? Not saying there is, but I'm just saying, did you feel that when he was like, oh, no, I'm not keen on that? Yeah, I definitely do now. What were his reasons for not wanting to do it? He said he just wants to, he needs his own space sometimes, I guess, when he's at the

office and hanging out with his mates. So, you know, I get that, but it does make me wonder if he does have something else to hide. Listen, I kind of see his point. I wouldn't want to be tracked. I don't want people tracking me. What if I want to go to Scotty's Gold Emporium across the road from the casino

and buy a chair for some jewellery? I don't want her knowing that I'm at Scotty's Emporium of Gold. Buy, sell and exchange? Well, yeah, that's true. You could be doing something like you could It's actually a nice thing. What if I'm secretly going to Burger King and having Whoppers in my car

that I don't want my family to know about? I don't want that. It's your business, right? That's right. If I come home with Whopper sauce on my chin, I can deny that right now.

But are you saying, on a more serious note, would you say like, just trust should be the thing in a relationship? I think it's a trust thing. It's like, yeah, if you want to know where I am, call me.

Where are you? I'm at Scotty's Golden Porium. Buying you a sweet as gold necklace, you know? See, I don't have this with Amanda, my wife, in our relationship, but I wouldn't have a problem with it because, you know, I guess it makes sense on a security level, on a logistics level. It's probably handy for safety. But at the same time, I get your point that you're like,

well, hey, trust me where I'm going to be. But then it kind of cuts out the text of like, how far away are you going to be? And you're like, well, you can see how far away I am. You know, I'm this place. Listen, the only person I want tracking me is the communist Chinese government via TikTok. Okay?

Not my wife and family. Okay, Tanya, so you're wanting just some advice from the audience. Should you pursue it? Should you hit them up about it? Should you make them do it or just back off? Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Let's go to John. You phoned through first from Christchurch. We know where you are. Tracking, are you for it or not? Yeah, well, it has its purposes, guys,

I reckon, but we got the Find My iPhone app for when our kids got their cell phones and especially when they sort of started going out to certain things and you can actually

if the phones got lost or stolen, you can find out where they are or if they get in trouble, you know, if something wrong happens, goes wrong and you can actually find out where they are pretty quickly. Mate, tracking kids and teenagers, that's another argument. They should all have

GPS chips on them. Well, yeah, I don't know. I don't know everything they do, John. Anyway, that's why we got it. It's for a safety aspect, and if they did lose them or they did get stolen, you know, way back, that was happening a hell of a lot

and yeah I think it's just a good security thing but yeah you should have trust in your partner often I have had so much with him

So you're for it John's for it it's got it's practical uses in John's fun Yeah I understand that it does make a lot of sense in that regard John cracks up

in a beer min conversation we all heard it we all heard it we've been hiding his drinking problem for a long time but it's time to address it. Okay, just for the record, it's a soda water. It's a soda, but it did sound like a can of beer.

It did sound like a conversation. Let's have more FM, mate. Okay, let's go to Caroline. Welcome, you're on. Good morning, how are you? Yeah, very well. What should she do? Should she say we're tracking, or should she back off? First of all, anybody can set their iPhone to find my iPhone and completely white all its data.

That's a no-brainer. That's very easy. But the thing with this is that she clearly doesn't trust him. He doesn't want to be tracked. And do not dare

hide under the guise of a little house frown trying to cook a meal and have it hot on the table. So I can assure you, she's not one of the answers. She's the one that has hide. I've had a carpet layer at not one of the answers. She's answered her time. I've had a carpet layer at my house for the last two years

whose wife turned up outside the house because he hadn't answered her texts. And he's closed his office. Oh, no, it's utter rubbish. She's just fronting him down. Oh, Carol. I like Carol's. I like Carol.

You're awesome. You've come in with a strong argument. Getting hot in here. Carol, we're going to send you out some hell pizza, all right? We really enjoyed your call. Thank you so much for getting involved. Thanks. If he wants his dinner hot, put it in the microwave.

That's what Carolyn says. Gee whiz, that was wonderful. Elizabeth, you're on from Auckland. Tracking or no tracking? Absolutely not. I'm with Caroline. That's just no way. Yeah, why not?

It's just too invasive. And I wouldn't be home checking when dinner should be ready. So do you think the temperature of the dinner is very important to her? We're focused on a lot of the hot dinners, aren't we? Maybe they didn't have a salad or something cold. So, but you understand from a safety and logistics point

of view, it's got its merits, right? No. Like everybody said, you can track your own phone and no, no, no. That's a stupid question. If she feels unsafe, then fair enough, she could be tracked if she

wants to go down that path. But no, I'm certainly on. She needs to move on. Yeah. And you with your watery argument, you get the hell out of here, Ben. I thought, okay, no, no. You got nothing there. I appreciate your call.

Thank you so much. Marina, welcome from Auckland. A lot of people phoning through for this. Should Tanya be tracking? Should he say yes to being tracked? Yeah, I think we're almost all thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, it's not a very strong argument. And to tell you the truth,

the relationship is based on trust and maybe she has a problem with trusting. And I wouldn't take his freedom. That's his freedom of movement. Is that a dictatorship? I'm not so sure. Thank you very much, Marina. This has been some amazing calls this morning.

The award for best accent of the morning goes to you as well. We really do appreciate your calls. They're so good. Everyone getting involved on the text machine. So I think I know where the argument has concluded. It's 90% in favour of if you don't want to be tracked, you shouldn't be tracked. Yeah, no tracking to take place.

And I tell you what, a lot of hot dinner debate there as well. More arguments about tracking than I've had hot dinners in Tanya's house. That's a lot. From stealing Mike Hosking's car to stealing the hearts of New Zealand. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Actual hearts being not bested. We've got a very special guest in the studio now.

He's a respected marine biologist, Kiwi guy. He's done TEDx talks. He's hosted many shows for Discovery Channel Shark Week. And now he's doing a live show in Auckland very shortly. It's going to be quite special. Riley Elliott, shark expert. Good morning. Yeah, good, boys.

Good. Last time I spoke to you, you were trying to put a dinghy or something across the Cook Strait and wondered if there were sharks. I was a banana boat. A banana boat. Oh, that's better. A banana boat. Yeah, that sounds safer. I was so worried that day because we were getting towed across the Cook Strait and wondered if there were sharks. Or was it a banana boat? Oh, that's better. A banana boat. Yeah, that sounds safer. I was so worried that day because we were getting towed across the Cook Strait in a

banana boat and then we were taking some things for listeners and one of them was a big sort of teddy bear, a giant teddy bear. It was brown and we had that in the back of the banana boat and it was just dragging on the water and I think, it's going to look like a seal. It looks like a seal in the water. There's going to be a shark that's going to come up. And at one stage our crew saw a shark circling,

but they didn't tell us, thank goodness, because I was very frightened. Oh, that would have made much better entertainment. And yeah, that was a bad idea, towing a carpet-looking kind of thing, because that's what we use to attract seal decoys for sharks. Oh, really? Yeah, so you guys are doing pretty well without knowing it.

Your fascination for sharks started when you were, what, free diving in South Africa? It sounds terrifying. Oh, yeah. Well, actually, that was trying to get my answer about my fascination for sharks started when you were free diving in South Africa? It sounds terrifying. Oh, yeah. Well, actually, that was trying to get my answer about my fascination about sharks. My first question that popped up

was when I was at university in Dunedin studying dolphins, of all things, in Fiordland, which is an intimidating place. And a shark came up from the depths

100 miles an hour at me. You know, I braced myself for Jaws impact and it was a one foot long school shark. And I laughed and then I kind of felt ashamed because I judged the book by the cover. Yeah, I got back to university on the, on the wall was a flyer to go to South Africa and study great whites. And I was like, boom, there's my answer. And that's been my mentality ever since I was a kid. You know, I wanted to ask, you know, how things work, why things do what they do and

inevitably became a scientist because of that. And ultimately that put me on a path of realising they don't have a voice. They get judged a lot. They're having a real tough time in the world and they're awesome creatures and that's my slogan, why fear turned into fascination and why I'm still a nature kid who somehow makes a living by swimming with sharks and doing science with sharks and educating the public about sharks. Now, you're doing something pretty cool at the moment called Blue Planet 2 live in concert. And it's going to be like a mix between a live orchestra and something you can watch

as well at the same time, right? Oh, dude, this is my dream gig. I mean, I got into what I do and my recipe that I use using stimulating visual imagery to communicate science is because at university, they literally put David Attenborough on for classroom lessons. And David Attenborough on for classroom lessons. And David Attenborough and the BBC are a master of that. So to be asked to speak David Attenborough's words and have the music live played by the Auckland Orchestra

is just an incredible opportunity. And all my instincts right now are tingling because it's got vision, it's got sound, it's got drama, it's got everything. And it's all about the ocean. It's all about communicating from the poles to the tropics, to the surface waters, to the deep sea, how it all works. And that's 9th and 10th of April

and I couldn't be more humbled than to speak the words of David Anbrough. That's a dream. And who would have thought when you're in Dunedin drinking out of a shoe, burning couches, vomiting on Baldwin Street. I don't think Riley was doing that sort of thing, mate. You would be reciting Attenborough's words with an orchestra.

Who would have thought? Dude, who would have thought? Now, many people have questions about sharks, but we thought, why get questions from us when we've got our kids? So we've got a couple of our kids, our daughters in particular, to ask shark questions we might put to you right now, if that's okay. Mate, I do a lot of school talks and you get blindsided by these, so I'm

kind of prepared, but not really. But yeah, let's go. Hopefully these are the ones you can handle. Who are we going to first? The first one's from Ben's daughter Indy. Here we go. Do sharks sleep? In all honesty, like, we don't know. Oh, you don't know if they sleep or not? We don't know. So, in my history of studying dolphins, which is where it all started,

we know that the dolphins, they all go into a sheltered bay and they turn off half their brain and they swim in circles guided by one dolphin that isn't sleeping. With sharks, sharks have to swim to breathe. We think that they glide out in the deep ocean and they kind of wake up before they hit the bottom

and come back up. A lot of the big sharks have to swim to breathe. So we just don't know because you can't just stop and have a sleep then. So I can't answer that question. Science can't answer that question. It's a great question. Okay, this is from my daughter Poppy.

Why are sharks' heads so big? The head starts big and then it shrinks down as it goes down to the tail. Now, is she actually... Where does the head stop or begin on a shark? Yeah. Honestly, I've never, like, this is why

I love kids' questions. That's great. I never thought of that, the tapered aspect of it. I mean, you know, to one point, it's because stuff starts bigger when you eat it,

so you probably want a big thing at the start, not a small thing. And then they've got to be hydrodynamic, you know, at the same time, so that's why they taper off. I've never really thought of where the shark head is and where it finishes.

So, like, I've got a really thick neck. Maybe I should play rugby. Yeah, no, that's great. And the final one from Sienna, Ben's daughter. What do I do if I see a shark in the water when swimming? The best thing you can do is eye contact. It's like a dog. Like, if you've got a dog that's kind of nippy or bad, you know,

bad behaviour sometimes, you look at it in the corner and you point at it it's going nowhere. As soon as you look away well that's when he's going to cause a mischief. So eye contact is the keyest thing and it's the hardest thing to do. Well yeah, it feels like you're going against your instincts. That's it and that's how weak humans have become is that we've lost our instinct, you know, like

so the best thing you can do if you're in the ocean and you see a shark is look at it. Riley, thank you so much for your time. Really do appreciate it. It's always really interesting catching up with you. It's awesome. I just want to really share that message that if you're a nature kid or you're a kid with a passion, everything is possible if you're passionate about it because you'll persist over the hurdles, you'll overcome the challenges, and your passion can be something as silly as swimming with sharks like mine has.

And it's been a fantastic career that I've been lucky to have I'm humbled by it I'm stoked to be a Kiwi and be in this beautiful country and to speak Edinburgh's words at Blue Planet you know two live in concert is is is an ultimate reward for me you know to validate that and and ultimately that reflects the message that I try and do which is speaking for animals without a voice and uh something as scary as a shark, people can still love it. Good on you, Riley. Sounds awesome. Blue Planet 2 live in concert April 9 and 10.

Go check it out. Sounds amazing. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. Now, we just spent the last few days in Palmerston North. Woo, Parmy! It was a really, really cool time down there for the rural games over the weekend

and meeting some amazing people. But one night, we, our producer Juliet, we were going out for dinner, a few of us and the crew down there, and we're walking down the street. And I hadn't actually noticed at the time, but we walked a few paces past someone who was wanting some money,

had a little sign up wanting some money. And Jono made, you made quite a big movement. You sort of stopped, even though we're five to 10 metres up the street. And you sort of walked on back. I'm like, oh, wow, this is a nice, this is a lovely moment. Jono Pryor is going to go back and give some money. You'd notice this person, you were going to give out money because, you know, you're a generous person.

And then you sort of had your little bag, your kangaroo bag with you. I had a man bag, which, you know, judgment. You can feel the judgment as I walk through parties. I'll tell you that for free. But you were rustling in the bag for like a long, long time. And I even, I prefaced it with him. I was like, hold there, mate. I was like, have I got something for you?

And you turned around and you're like, here he is making a production. I was like, someone phone the Manawatu Standard, get a photographer down here. for you and you turned around you're like here he is making a production low level celebrity generosity at an all-time high so I was like you wait there mate I have I got something for you but then you just like it felt like five to ten minutes what he sort of got the stage where you're facing the person and then you sort of I turned away and I was digging in my bag I was like I thought I had $20 in there I couldn't find bag. I was like, uh-oh, I thought I had $20 in there,

and I was like, I couldn't find it. And I was like, oh, no, I can't. And it got more and more awkward as we sort of watched on. He wasn't even getting to the stage. I was like, it's all right, mate. Listen, don't worry. He's like, no, no. Because I didn't have any cash, but I'm like, oh, Jono's got cash.

I knew there was a crisp green queen in there somewhere, and I was digging. And I was just like, oh, no. I was going to walk away and go, sorry, mate. Sorry for that. 10 minutes I stood in front of you. Taunted you with $20. Oh, no, but in the end you found it.

I finally dug deep and pulled it out. And it was a nice moment and good on you for, you know, for giving out some money. Did it make the papers? No, but it made a radio break. Yeah. But, you know, he was appreciative and it was a nice thing that you did.

I've tried to do that with Oscar too. My son, we drove past a guy once and he was appreciative, and it was a nice thing that you did. I've tried to do that with Oscar, too. My son, we drove past a guy once, and he was down on his luck, and he was like, oh, what's with him? I was like, oh, he won't have a home, mate. There's a lot of people. He's like, what? So I was like, I'm going to take him to town, and we'll get him to hand some money over to a person who's living on the streets.

And so we're driving around, and we're looking for someone, and I was like, oh, there's a guy. He's in a bus stop. I was like, yeah, Oscar, here's $10. Walk on over and give it to him. And I was like, standing from a distance, very proud. I was like, this is a good parenting moment here. Yeah, this is a good thing.

Someone phoned Nigel Latter. Stop trying to make it into a media story. Like, why are you? You're like, someone phoned the press. Just have a nice moment. Someone phone. What does Nigel Lattel be like? Yeah?

What do you want me to do with it? Oh, I just did a nice parenting thing. Okay. Put it in your TV show or something. Yeah, get Matty McLean down here with Breakfast TV. Just have a nice moment. Yeah, so anyway, so Oscar was like, he was talking to this guy. He's got kind of back and forth for a while.

I was like, this conversation's going on for quite a while. And Oscar's sort of like handing the money over and then he's got his arms up there like doing the waving, like no, no, no, no, no. And Oscar's back and forth and then he came back with the money. And he's like, I was like, what happened there, mate? And he's like, he's not homeless.

He's just a young guy dressed just to university students. He's like a homeless man. And politely declined the money. He's like, I'm fine just to university students. Just a student. A homeless man. And politely declined the mail. He's like, I'm fine. I've got a hot card. I'll be fine. I'm just going home. Want more Jono and Ben?

You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Just gone 7.45, which means it's time for... Five words for 5K on the hit. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Word Association. We say five words. You say the first things that pop into your head.

If your words match with ours, you win $5,000. I tell you what, and we are going to make it rain. We're going to give away more cash than a financially successful rapper in a nightclub. They always throw their money away. I know, they don't. You said to David Bl financially successful rapper in a nightclub. They always throw their money away. I know, they do. You said, who is it? David Blaine, you were in a nightclub in Las Vegas and he came in throwing money around.

No, Chris Angel. Oh, Chris Angel. Chris Angel, mind freak. Yeah, he was a magician. And he started throwing money out and all. It was very exciting, though. $100 bills. $100 bills?

Did you get a $100 bill? No, so close to getting one. It was in slow motion. We came near me, but then someone else jumped over and got it. The best in humanity comes out when there's money falling from the sky. Doesn't it? Don't you find that? Fight, fight, fight!

Now I tell you, what's got a mouth and some words in it that could win them $5,000? Debbie in Te Araha, come on down. Hi, how are you guys? Good morning, Debbie. Lovely to have you on. You having a good morning? Yeah, not too bad things. Not bad at all. The's a sunshiny, lovely day. Oh, good on you, Debs. Now, you could win $5,000 here right now. You've been listening to the game?

Yes, I have. You know how it works. We've done the research. It's the 20th most popular game on radio, this one. Oh, is it? Is it? Yes. It's moved up from 25. We're slowly going to take over, beat the bomb. Watch out, McCormick, we're coming for you. Debbie, who's going to go into the soundproof booth this morning? Ben, please. Okay, I'll head on in there. Lovely, polite Ben heading into the SPB, as we call it in the industry.

It's the most enjoyable part of the show. It's the most enjoyable part of my miserable mornings, Debbie, is doing this competition. Okay, I'm going to list five words, the first words that pop into your head, okay, Debs? Yep. Floss. Dental.

Dental. Or candy. Candy. You're locking candy? Yeah, I'm locking candy. Okay, alright. Alarm. Bells.

Bells. Downward. Under. Under. You want to lock an under? Yep. Sushi. Fish.

Jew, has she matched with your words so far? Some of them, yes. Yeah? But they are quite hard words. They are difficult words this morning, Debs. Yeah. The odds are stacked against you, but you never know. And the fifth and final one,

break. Dance. Dance, nice. Alright, let's get Ben back out of the SPB. Come on out, my little friend. Audiences are raving about Jono and Ben's five words for 5K. You know like when they come out of live theatre shows

and they've got those commercials and they bully people into being on the ads and they kind of catch them like possums in headlights and they're like, this was the most magnificent performance I've ever seen. That's what they're saying about this, Ben. That seemed like I was only in there for a very short amount of time. Yeah, Debs went quick, played a quick game.

Out of 10, how happy are you with your efforts, Debs? Oh, maybe eight out of 10. There was a couple in there that I wasn't sure. A couple of curly ones, but hey, that's five words for you. And let's hit the music. If you were there, you'd remember. What?

I was going to say some stuff. Was that one of the words? Was that the first word? I don't know what you're saying. Neither do I. I think I suffered a mild stroke. Floss. Oh, okay, I've got two.

One's to do with the mouth, one's to do with the body and the dance, but I'm going to go dental floss. You can hear Debbie's... That's your disappointed voice, just to be sure, Debbie? Yeah, never mind. Yeah, that wasn't her happy voice because she locked in candy.

Oh, really? Candy floss. Oh, of course. I knew you would go dental floss because Ben's oral hygiene is second to none. Sorry, Debbie. He has got the cleanest mouth in radio. I didn't even think it didn't pop into my head, but now you say it. Of course, candy floss.

I had some at the Royal Games the other weekend. Why did that even pop into my head, but now you say it. Of course. Candyfloss. I had some at the rural games the other weekend. Why did that not pop into my head? I knew you were going to go gentle. I knew it. I love your mouth. It's a wonderful, clean, hygienic mouth. You can eat out of that mouth. Let's go through the other words. Alarm. Ooh, alarm. Alarm bells.

Well done. Downward. Dog. Debbie, what did you go for downward? Under. And sushi. Oh, sushi. Rice. Fish.

And break. Break. Dance. Okay, three out of, or two out of five. Yeah, no, not bad. Okay. Not bad. Hey, Debs of, or two out of five. Yeah, no, not bad. Okay. Not bad.

Hey, Debs, today wasn't your day. That's right. But hey, at least you can say, I got to have a crack. And what price do you put on that? Thanks, guys. Another chance tomorrow, 7.45. Five words for 5K is back. We're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand. Go New Zealand.

If only New Zealand was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. No, I sounded a little bit croaky, a little bit husky this morning. Five days in Palmy will do that to you. I tell you what, Palmy chewed him up and spat him out. He's a different man. Something changed inside of him. But we did that.

I love that. Who loved that awkward little bit? Of course a little bit of awkward silence. Why did we. I love that awkward little bit. Of course a little bit of awkward silence. Why did we make that awkward? I blame me, I'll take that for that. We're having a make of things awkward. We had a lot of fun down there filming something that we can reveal at some stage later on this year, but we were taking part in the rural games and a few other things with an

awesome production crew, including Trish, who we're about to talk to right now. Oh, it wasn't what you were saying on the flight back, but anyway, publicly. Publicly, I like to look like a good guy. You know that. Now, Trish, welcome. Thank you. Hi, guys. How are you feeling today?

We're feeling good. Love working with Trish. Wonderful. And we, being from production, you run a tight schedule, Trish, and Ben booked you in for 10 past 7 on the dot, and it is 10 past 7, not a minute over. You'll be happy with that? I've been waiting.

Now, as we're filling out forms for the rental car at the airport, we noticed something about your driver's licence. Now, you can pick it up from here, Trish. Oh, yes. So, I've got, I don't have a middle name like everyone else. I do not have a middle name. She does not have a middle name like everyone else. I do not have a middle name. She does not have a middle name. Now, why?

Well, my dad's a very practical Scottish man. And when we were born, me and my three brothers were born, he just decided that it was just not necessary to give us all a middle name. Yeah. Yeah. The more you think about it, with your dad's arguments, the more you go, yeah, why are they a thing?

Because you don't really use them. I mean, it is nice to keep some family names alive. I get that. But you're right, you don't actually really need to use it other than filling out forms. That's true. Actually, I was thinking about it, and I'm named after my grandmother,

so I guess they've kept the family name within the family. And also my other brother's named after another grandfather. So I guess they kept some of the family names, but then just thought, no, that was enough. But it does get confusing, though, because my dad is Brian and his firstborn, so my other brother is Brian, so they're both called Brian

Phelan, so it's a little bit confusing for the bank. So you've got to, that is confusing, then that's when you want the middle name to differentiate. That's when it comes in, but I mean it does just provide you a hassle of having to remember another name along with your first name, doesn't it, your middle one, and when you're filling out custom declaration

cards, there's never enough boxes for your name. So, I mean, Trish is all right in that instance. Well, Trish, thank you very much for sharing that story with New Zealand this morning. Yeah, you're welcome. Thanks, guys. That's a good one. Look after yourself, Trish.

You don't like your middle name, do you? Well, I'm not, you know, like it's fine, but it doesn't have a meaning behind it. That's the thing. My dad's middle name was Ross. It doesn't seem like it's a family name. And then he decided to call me Benjamin Ross. I was like, well, why? Ross. It doesn't seem like it's a family name and then he decided to call me Benjamin Ross. I was like, well, why?

Well, if it's his name, it's a family name. I guess it is now. Which is his name. But anyway, I mean, Ross is a fine name. It's good. I'm not saying anything against it, but it's just like there's no meaning attached to it. Yeah, it's a sophisticated name. Ross, isn't it? Benjamin Ross. Ross. You're not a Ross guy.

You don't look like a Ross. I don't know what a Ross. I'm probably like the Ross of friends. I'm a little bit like him in some ways. Actually, Laura's just phoned through live. Welcome, Mauden and Laura. Don't have a middle name either. No, I don't.

Me and my brother both don't have middle names. Wow. Why? Pretty much the same reason. Like, my mum and dad didn't feel like we needed to carry the name of someone else, and they just thought it was impractical. So we both just don't have middle names. Makes it really easy when you're filling out forms and stuff.

Just saying that. Just saying that. That's where you win. We hit the jackpot with our kids because Jen's dad's name's John, my dad's name's John, Jen's mum's name's Kathy, my mum's middle name's Catherine. So we just go Oscar John and Poppy Catherine. Oh, so you're coming at bases,

you're not playing favourites or anything, are you? Won the middle name lottery with the grandparents. Yeah, well see, in that instance it's good, but we did think about not giving a middle name for our girls as well. We did in the end, but it was one of those things where we're like, why are we doing this? You know? Because it's an obligation. It's what we do.

Don't ask questions, don't go against the norm, mate. Follow the sheep. Be the sheeple. Take the injection. Have the vaccination. So what we want to do, 0800 the hits, telephone number. What don't you have that would surprise us? Much like Trish and Laura with no middle name. Maybe you

don't have clothes anymore and you walk around in a suit made out of leaves and twigs. I know that's an extreme example. Yeah, but wouldn't it be great to call up if you don't have that? Maybe you don't have clothes anymore. And you walk around in a suit made out of leaves and twigs. I know that's an extreme example. Yeah, but wouldn't it be great to call up if you don't have that? Maybe you don't have a cell phone. In that instance, you probably can't call us. But maybe you know someone who doesn't have a cell phone.

Maybe you don't have a surname like Beyonce. Maybe you don't have an email. Maybe you don't have a junk drawer at home. I've got whatever in mind. Third drawer down was always the junk drawer. And I was like, no, I'm not going to have a junk drawer. You know, stuff you just put in. So I got rid of the junk drawer. And I was like, no, no, I'm not going to have a junk drawer. You know, stuff you just put in. So I got rid of the junk drawer in the kitchen.

Where's all the junk? That's just another place. Throughout the house. I haven't got rid of the junk. It's just spread out in other places. Okay, so let's go to the calls. Speaking of phones, Katie, you're on one. Hey, guys.

What a segue. You're in Wellington and you don't have what? So I live in a two-bedroom flat and we don't actually have a kitchen in our flat. Oh. What, are you making food in the toilets or whereabouts? Yeah, what's going on? No, so we have a barbecue

or we just, like, eat out or overeat. Wow. I suppose the barbecue, they call it the kitchen of the outdoors, don't they? Is that what they say? I don't know if anyone's ever said that But you've said it So yeah I guess in a way

You can kind of cook quite a lot on there Yeah no well that makes a lot of sense Why does the place not What is in place of the kitchen in your flat? It's just kind of like a bench space And like there's this sort of old microwave Not microwave Microwave and a sink

But yeah Oh so you've got a microwave, you've probably got a jug and a toaster and things like that, but you don't have a kitchen per se. Yeah, no oven, no stove. Ah. Yeah, right. When do you wash your dishes? Sorry?

Is there a sink? There must be a sink in the house, just not a kitchen sink. Oh, he's washing the dishes in the bath or something. Okay, there we go. Hey, good on you, Katie. Appreciate that. Jew, you were saying you I know you dishes in the bath or something. Okay, there we go. Hey, good on you, Katie. Appreciate that. Jew, you were saying you were... Oh, no, you told that story, mate. Oh, my God, me Alzheimer's. Literally. We could ask her about that.

I was. I was going to ask you about the TV thing again. Do you need to go to a retirement home? Are you okay? Someone phone a Ryman. Book him in. It's time. I know you've been talking behind my back.

We're on. I'll give in. What you don't have is a memory. That's what you don't have, mate. We got Hannah on from Christchurch. Welcome, Hannah. Hiya. Please tell us we haven't spoken to you before.

No. Oh, good. Great. You're new to my life. What don't you have that would surprise us? Well, the thing that I don't have is a mobile phone. How are you speaking to us right now? So I'm using a landline.

Oh, keeping it old school. Yeah, real old school. It must be quite freeing to not have a mobile phone. Hugely, hugely. So I used to have one. And just like massive screen time. And I just was on it all the time. And then I smashed it and

didn't want to replace it did you smash it in anger? in frustration? no I was out on a run and I just tripped and went everywhere and I was like

well that's that then well that's that they haven't made any more cell phones that I can buy do you know we were in a house yesterday and the landline rung and it really catches you

off guard when the landline rings especially in the middle of catches you off guard when a landline rings. Especially in the middle of the day. It's like, oh, landline. Yeah. Who's going now? That's the thing. When a landline rings, you're like, who's that?

And you're like, well, I don't know. Answer the phone. And find out for yourself. But everybody's like, oh, who could that be? Every time I go to my parents' house, they're like, well, who's that? There's one way to solve that problem. I guess we'll never know. Hey, good on you, Hannah.

Really appreciate it. Thanks for all your calls, people. Good on you, Hannah. I really appreciate it. Thanks for all your calls, people. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz.

Crossing live now to our Auckland newsroom, a.k.a. a cupboard with some mouldy old expired promotional goods. Here's producer Juliet with Spy. So the Grammys were on yesterday, and there were some big winners. Beyonce, she made history and won her 28th Grammy, making her the most female, or the female artist that has held the most Grammys, which is an incredible 28.

Who's won the most Grammys? It would be Jackson, wouldn't it? Michael Jackson? I'll do some research. Yeah, you do some research. And Lizzo, she presented some awards and she accidentally swore on stage when she was presenting one.

She also accidentally hugged Megan Thee Stallion, who is sort of a new artist and kind of forgot that there were COVID restrictions. So as soon as she hugged, she's like, oh, sorry, my bad. And then she swears. And my three shiny Grammys that I got last year. Woo!

I'm back oh god oh I'm so sorry she had a couple of mirrors in the space of 30 seconds I tell you what did you see Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion

their performance of Whip I didn't see it it's a real eye opener yeah real eye opener I tell you what I'm no prude

but I tell you what I think I've become prudish. I've seen the video before. Was it like the video? It was a live rendition on a giant bed. Yeah. Okay. But they censored a lot of words, so it was like the song basically didn't exist. Half the song's in mute.

Yeah. Half the song's in mute, and I'll tell you what, their hips, they've got to work out. They've got to work out. Now, George Salty has the most Grammys, they're hips. They've got to work out. They've got to work out. Now, George Salty has the most Grammys, 31 of them. He conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Oh, wow. Well done, Salty. Salty? Don't get salty with me. And Tiffany Haddish, she learned that she won a Grammy while filming a TV show. So she had her producer

in her ear, a little earpiece. She's a comedian, right? She's been in lots of movies. Yeah, so she had a TV show. So she had her producer in her ear, a little earpiece. She's a comedian, right? She's been in lots of movies, yeah. Yeah, so she had a comedy show called Black Mitzvah, and she won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album for that. And this is how she found out that she'd won a Grammy. I'm just happy with being nominated, personally. But I just won a Grammy.

And I love, I just, what? You just won a Grammy. I just won a Grammy? Are you serious? I'm not lying. I'm telling you the truth. Wait, wait, wait. I just won a Grammy? Are you serious? I'm not lying. I'm telling you the truth. Wait, wait, wait. Y'all see this thing in my ear?

Tell them all you just won a Grammy. Congratulations. Isn't that quite cool? How cool is this? She was obviously, you know, very emotional. She started crying. Recording another show. So obviously it means so much to her.

So it's awesome that she won it. She did a great on the spot inspirational speech for all the kids on stage with her because she's filming Kids Say the Darnedest Things. She'd be a kind of in hindsight

she'd been in an audience she didn't get to go to the Grammys. Yeah, I'm going to hang out with these kids. She was filming a TV show. You're like, oh come on guys,

give me the day off. I'm nominated for a Grammy. Yeah. But in the end she's doing the show and she found out what a lovely moment. I know.

And that is Spy for More. You can head to the hitstock.co.nz. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes. Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Don't be afraid of your freedom. The hits live free.

Bill's edition. Let's smash another one. I got this. Such a good feeling every day, paying off someone's bill. And if you want a bill paid, you can text Bills to 4487. Tell us the bill you need paid. And at 8.30, 1 o'clock, 4 o'clock each day, we'll make a bill-busting call.

We're going to make one right now. Speaking of bills and stuff, you know, Sweden, I was just reading here on the news, in 2023 is going to become the world's first cashless nation. In 2023. Cashless. No cash, all cards. Wow.

Let's just go Sweden. I was hearing them on another radio station today talking about, like, where was the last time you wrote out a cheque? I was like, are people still doing that? Was that on ZB? Yeah, it was. I was like, oh, it'd be a good year since I wrote it.

Yeah, it was even a year ago. Who wrote the cheque? I think Phil Given. Phil Given. Yeah, he'd still write cheques. A year ago. Not anymore, though though He's moved on But I was like a year ago

Jeez I remember Dad used to carry A cheque book around In his back pocket They don't accept cheques now Do they? I think they're starting To get phased out

Aren't they? Yeah anyway We're going to use our cheque book And pay someone's bill I think this is a tyre bill So we'll go through Joe if we can mate Hello Megan Harrison speaking Yeah g'day Megan if we can, mate.

Hello, Megan Harrison speaking. Yeah, g'day, Megan. Grant here from the tyre shop. Are you better? Oh, I'm good, thanks. Oh, wait. You're phoning up about your tyres. Yes, what about my tyres?

You spent $300 on the tyres. Yes, I did. Yeah. Listen, we had a call from a radio station. Oh, jeez. How long are we going to commit to this? You could have come at any moment. I didn't know where you were going with that. I was going nowhere.

You don't interrupt a play when it's on stage. You go, are you finished? Are you finished? Is this where I pop in? You know? It's like start clapping before it's over. I'm like, I'll wait for the end scene and done. Yes, Megan, it's John. I'm like, I'll wait for the and scene and done. Yes, Megan, it's Jono and Ben calling from the hits.

I don't know what that weird little role play thing was that Jono was doing. But the main thing is we're going to be paying your tyre bill. That would be very, very appreciative. Thank you. $300 on the tyres. Been doing some burnouts, babes. I know, I know. Well, the warrant place did one, but then the tyre place did two.

They buzzed me 150 each. Now, tyres, they're not cheap, are they? You don't think about that. No, but safety is important, so you've got to look after your car. Safety is actually the backbone of this show. Isn't it, Ben? It is.

We come to work today, we're going to be safe. And we're also going to do weird tyre dramatisations. That's the two things we talk about each morning. And today we've achieved both those things. I enjoy listening to your guys' radio show. It's very funny. Oh, thanks, man. Now, listen, did you believe the tyre character when he phoned through?

Barry? No, didn't you say Grant? Oh, he did. Oh, I did. I can't even remember. Grant's left for the day. Barry's in... It's Barry, yeah.

But that's all right. Listen, okay, next time I'll put a little more preparation into the character. Sounds good. Hey, good on you, Megan. So that's knocked on the head. You can live free. Don't worry about that tyre bill, all right, and have a great day. Awesome.

Thank you so much. And if you'd like your bills paid, just text through bills what it is to 4487 and another one with Hilary Barry HBaz knocking a bill on the head at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. John Owen Bean, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. This afternoon, well

hopefully will be the final races of the America's Cup. It's bizarre races yesterday and commentator Scotty Stevenson felt like he called it a little bit early with this quote. Team New Zealand will know now that barring a catastrophe for the Italians, this one is gone in a flash.

They were right on the tail of Lunarosa. One jibe, one mistake and that is curtains for this race. And he said it at the very final wasn't it? A big full stop. It was curtains at the rate. We're going to call Scotty now. Hopefully he's up and at him,

but we'll see if he regrets the curtains call. Morning. It's curtains. It's curtains. It's curtains. Oh, curtains. We're not ringing back your curtains. It's John O'Byrne, your old mate's calling here

Unless you're selling some drapes But I wouldn't mind a couple of verticals actually You would You called it, and I understand why you called it But what a race yesterday Yeah, well, two races It was full noise, wasn't it? Yeah, first race, I think, Emirates 10 years on

Showed their superior boat speed, boys But there's nothing like a bit of a come from behind. And we were introduced to some wonderful nautical terminology. Yeah, which was on our family-friendly station. We've been dancing around this morning. Don't bring your smutty yachting comedy into our show, mate. Those filthy-mouthed sailors. Mouth like a sailor, that's what they say, right?

That's exactly right so yeah that was great and the second race yeah I think it was fair enough everyone saw Team New Zealand did a big belly flop

and think well that's that it's curtains it's curtains we got out to about 2,000 metres lead for and then

they two came up one bad manoeuvre and that was them they were stranded so exciting though Scotty. So it's been so exciting. Now, a quick question. So when Lunarossa decided to take that penalty

and to go out of the area, what was the idea behind that? Well, they just needed to keep going because if they had to turn around again, they'd lose any speed that they've created. So those boats need around about 16 or 17 knots of speed before they pop up on their foothills. So, you know, they're doing about 13 knots going, you know, in one direction, but the boundary's coming up, and they're saying to themselves,

well, if we have to turn here, we lose all of that, and then we've got to start again. And so it didn't just cost the boundary once. It cost the boundary three times, so they ended up getting two penalties and then a double penalty, not that it mattered it was pretty academic at that stage for them Now I don't want you to put yourself in a position where you're making an early call again

Scotty, but today What's happening today? What are your predictions? Might be curtains for the whole regatta today actually There was always a risk that it wouldn't be a lot of wind today and I haven't poked my nose outside, let my finger in, poked it in the air at times.

So, look, I'm not too sure, but hopefully we get some racing away. But I know that the race through to Ian Murray was a little concerned that we'd have very light conditions today. Yeah, hopefully we get some racing today. If we do, two races, and if we watch 10 years on win both, then we'll reclaim, we or defend the America's Cup. And if not, we'll go to tomorrow.

And can I say, a lot more croakier than you are when you're commentating the yachting. I was here in the morning. We've really woken poor Scotty up here. And you're doing a wonderful job commentating, mate. Honestly, like this is, you've obviously commentated rugby before and other sports. And cricket and all sorts. This is your first time doing yachting and you're doing a wonderful job. Oh, you're very kind.

I just, I haven't had my morning whiskey, so I'll go get that down so my voice gets a bit better. And then we'll crack into it. But no, I've got great guys to work with, Phil and Peter. You know, Peter's been involved with America's Cups for 30 years. And Phil's a great sailor. You know, he's so current. He does this for a living. So, you know, you learn a lot from those guys

and every other guest that we've had through TVNZ's coverage. So I'm very lucky. I feel very privileged to be lending my croaky voice to this. We can't wait to watch this afternoon on TVNZ. Nice catching up with you, Scotty. Cheers, lads. Good to hear from you.

The coverage starts after 4 o'clock this afternoon. Emirates Team New Zealand are taking on Lunarossa. What's your prediction, Jono? What are you throwing to me? I'm no yocking expert. It's curtains. Go on, call it early. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime.

Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Jeez, yesterday I was saying before that we spent the whole day in Palmy with a wonderful family who they do strong men and strong women competitions and just basically lift 180 kg rocks.

Enormous. Yeah, it's just incredible what they can do. They've got a whole set up at their house. These massive big boulders, these massive stones, these massive weights. You kind of feel sorry for the neighbours because probably all they hear is, these things falling and hitting the ground. Just sounds like a quarry exploding in the backyard.

So with their bare hands, they just squat down and pick them up. Bare hands. Yeah. Bare hands. Crazy. And then we witnessed her tow a truck. Yeah. Towing a truck.

Like a nine, ten ton truck. Put a strap around a harness around herself and just walked it about 10 metres. She's making tow truck drivers very nervous. She could put them out of business. She can just tow people away if they're broken down. And the other incredible thing, she had this sort of,

it was almost like a special squatting bar called like a yoke system or something like that. So you imagine it's kind of like a weight she put on your shoulders. It's 100 kgs. 100 kgs. 100 kgs. She got us to stand on each side.

So the two of us on each side lifted it up and walked like 10 metres with that. Wait, you guys were on top of the bar? We were basically standing on the side of the system. So we were on top of this 100 kg thing. Oh my goodness. I mean, we're not the biggest people, but still, there's two human beings. She picked up Ben with one hand

and started to do bicep curls with him. That was amazing. No, I've seen a lot of stuff in my life. Some of the stuff I wish I hadn't seen. But that toe in that truck was the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. That was pretty incredible. We had a fun few days in Palmy, of course, as we mentioned yesterday, down at the Rural Games.

Yesterday, broadcasting out of Robert Harris Cafe. So thank you to everyone in Palmy. Sorry for being the loud people shouting in the corner at the cafe. There was a lady there who wasn't too happy. She was getting a little bit salty. She was waving her arms around. Someone we know came down as well. I forget that radio is just people shouting in the corner and laughing loudly

and no one knows why they're laughing. They're like, yeah, that's what this is. Well, when you take radio out of the radio studio, your eyes are very obnoxious, very intrusive. Are you yawning, Jupe? Are you just yawning at me? Yes. Have we lost you?

It wasn't a boring story. This is a great chat, guys. We've lost the test audience. You know when they do that worm thing with flatlined? No, it was a great story, guys. Trust me. Yeah, you just yawned quite a lot throughout. She says the opposite.

I apologise. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees and this is the B**** News. So if you like news stories that the actual news would only use if they were running under time, there's filler content at the end of the bulletin. Then you've come to the right place. Juliet, how does this work?

So this works. I find a bunch of quirky news stories around the world, but interesting ones nonetheless. And beep out a certain word and you guys have to figure out what that headline is, essentially. All right, let's go with the first one, mate. Restaurant in Toronto renames menu items as office supplies so they can be...

Ooh. menu items as office supplies so they can be... Ooh, I'm going to say so they can be an establishment that provides a stapler diet. Oh! I was thinking pretty similar. So they can be in a staple relationship is what I was thinking. So there we go. Both staple buns. Restaurant in Toronto renames menu items as office supplies

so they can be expensed. So when you bring your... So, for example, let's say, Jono, you wanted to go out on the company credit card and you go to this burger restaurant. You will order the basic steel stapler, which is actually the Fortune burger, and on the receipt it shows up as Jono has bought a Basic Steel Stapler.

So you can expense it at your company. It's a bit cheeky. So essentially committing fraud. Yes. I guess they're not because they're saying, it's just their name for their burger, but I guess you will be. Yeah, but they're going to be like, why is this Bic pen worth $35? Yeah, it's a good point.

Surely questions are going to be asked. Yeah, exactly. But it is very cheeky. And now everyone knows about it because it's a news story. Well, that's what I was. Surely questions are going to be asked. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but it is very cheeky. And now everyone knows about it because it's a news story. Well, that's what I was thinking as well when I was writing it down. Yeah. But, I mean, you know, maybe it was made as a news story just for a quirky news story. Yeah, that's probably right.

Next one. Texas man drove BMW dealership loan car to rob bank, tried to use stolen money to buy Oh, I imagine he's in a bit of a panic. He's panic bought toilet paper. That's what you do, right? You rob something, you're panicking, you got money, you're buying toilet paper. I'm going to say use the stolen money to buy a novelty personalised plate, which is the ultimate crime.

True. True. Texas man drove BMW dealership loan car to rob bank, tried to use stolen money to buy back BMW. So he took the car, he was in the final process of buying this car, but obviously he didn't have the money, had this plan in his

brain that he was going to take the car for a drive, and then he went to this bank, tried to rob the bank, and then it all kind of pieced together just so he could pay for the car. But that didn't work in his favour because he's now in 20 years. So he kind of got himself into a hole from the Grand Theft Auto side of things and then he's like, oh, I'd better pay for this.

I've got the gilts, but I've got no money. Yeah. So I'll double down and go and rob a bank. Do you know, I heard a crazy story that this guy walked into the Ferrari dealership in Auckland and he was like, oh, can I sit in the car and test drive the car? And the guy's like,

yeah, no, that's fine, that's fine. He was in a suit and, you know, a very high end. Sat in the car and he's like,

oh, do you think I can turn the car on? Hear it, just feel the engine. The guy's like, yeah, no, no, fine, he's fine.

So he turns the car on and he's like, said to the dealer, oh, can you just look behind the car? I just want to hear, you know,

what you think of the exhaust sound as it's coming, and he's going, ring, ring, ring. And the dealer went behind the car and he just want to hear, you know, what you think of the exhaust sound as it's coming. He's going, ring, ring, ring. And the dealer went behind the car and he just drove out

of the dealership. But didn't factor in that I had a tracking device on the Ferrari. And lots of cameras probably inside. Lots of cameras. I mean, great play.

Great play. Very, very tricky. And the final story, wild Australian sheep get s*** of wool. I'm going to say scratchy jumper. Nothing annoys me I'm going to say scratchy jumper. Nothing annoys me more than a woolen scratchy jumper.

I feel you. Yeah, I know. I feel you. And mum would always put you in them. Yeah. Who enjoys those jumpers? No one. And the blankets as well?

Blanket versions? Sorry, rant, but yes. No one does. I'm going to say wild Australian sheep gets given a free lifetime supply of wool. Wild Australian sheep gets shorn of 34 kgs of wool. Is that more than Shrek? It is more than Shrek. Shrek was about 27 kgs of wool.

And this sheep, you'll love this, was named Barak. Isn't that a good name for a sheep? Now, Shrek became a national icon, if you can't remember. Remember? It was this sheep that they found wandering the hills in the South Island. And for some reason, we flew Shrek to an iceberg on a helicopter. Like a promotion, eh? It was like, look at it.

I think he got shorn on the iceberg or something. I don't know. There was something to do with it. It was a big promotional thing. He was shorn on TV, wasn't he? Oh, maybe that was it. We just swam the iceberg. I don't know why he's on the iceberg or something. I don't know. There was something to do. It was a big promotional thing. He was Sean on TV, wasn't he? Oh, maybe that was it. We just swam the iceberg. I don't know why he's on the iceberg.

I mean, a lot of things didn't make sense about that iceberg expedition. Yeah, now we think of it. Why did we do that? Yeah. But he has met the Prime Minister, did national tours. It was a national treasure.

We really got away with it. We had half the popularity that Sheep would be having. Oh, my God. Hey, well, thank you for those, Jews. No worries. Great news and beats. Yeah, yeah, no. Yeah, my God. Hey, well, thank you for those, Jews. No worries. Great news and beats. Yeah, yeah, nah.

Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The home of yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. Hey, thanks for hanging out with us this morning. Lovely to have you with us.

And I'll tell you what, there is no news publication that this man hasn't read. He even read the Classifieds of the Herald and New Zealand Home and Garden magazine to bring you today's news. Great stuff, guys. We'll talk more about planting your daffodils after 8 o'clock this morning. But America's Cup yesterday, a couple of wild races, weren't they?

They were crazy. We were at the airport. We were kind of watching it on mute and we couldn't figure out what was happening in race two. We were like, oh, the team New Zealand stopped. Yeah. And then it looked like the race was over. It did look like it was over

and then all of a sudden Luna Rosser stopped and Team New Zealand came roaring back and then Luna Rosser kept going out of the boundary. What was happening? I think they were trying to get, even though taking the penalty, but basically looking for better winds to try and get the boat to go faster.

Oh, so if the wind dies down, the foils don't work. I think so. I think that's the way it works. I mean, everyone pretends to be an expert. I'm clearly not, but I think that was the case. So they were happy to take a penalty for going outside the boundary area just to try and get better winds to come back in at more speed.

But it didn't quite work out for them, but I loved it. The commentators called it early when Team New Zealand came off the foils. They were like, it's over. Team New Zealand will know now that barring a catastrophe for the Italians, this one is gone in a flash. They were right on the tail of Lunarossa. One jive, one mistake, and that is curtains for this race.

Curtains, they called curtains. But it wasn't curtains, was it? Because then the catastrophe happened. And I saw on the news at the end, they had the commentators going, and so they've gone, it's curtains, and then they've gone, now the kids, this is a lesson in not giving up. Don't give up, even when you think you're losing.

Even when your commentators are telling you it's over. Yeah, don't give up, guys. So 5-3 to Team New Zealand, which means today, today potentially it could be all over, but who knows? I mean, America's Cup. I've been very excited. Those races yesterday were so exciting. I know last week we did a poll, cup or nup,

and I was in the nup category. Now I'm swept up in the cup. No more nup, I'm in the cup. It was curtains for you last week, but now you've come around, haven't you? It's very exciting. Isn't it? Do you like it, do you?

I do, but I'm just so useless at trying to figure out how it all works. Like you say, it comes around and everyone is so invested. Like, yeah, sailing, sailing. But no one gives a crap about sailing on any other day. No, but you went out on a boat to watch it the other day. Yeah, I did on Sunday. So you must give some crap. Well, I just wanted to see the boats flying.

That's all I really care about. But yeah, no, the winds were too light, so we didn't end up going out. Listen, I think you were more focused on the entertainment on board your vessel. Yes. So light winds again today, they reckon. 4.15 that starts in two races today, so

will it be the day Team New Zealand take it out, or will Luna Ross come back? Who knows? And also in other news, the Lion King. Ah! The musical is going to come to New Zealand in June this year. Disney are putting this on. This looks incredible.

The overseas production. I've heard of Disney. I've heard of Disney. And they're coming back in to... This looks incredible. So this is the one that's been on Broadway. Yeah.

And we're talking the big show. I saw... I don't know if it's the same actors. Probably not. But I did see it it in the UK at West End. What do you mean actors? They're all lions. Oh, sorry. They're just talented lions.

I saw the talented animals perform in London. Talented singing and dancing lions. Really great show, although I did see it the day after arriving in London and I was quite jet lagged. But it was amazing. Did you sleep? No, I didn't sleep because it was so good. But I was like, I could have slept.

Like I would have loved to have a sleep. The theatre is a very sleepy environment. It is a sleepy environment. Yeah, but producer Humphrey said every movie he's gone to, he's fallen asleep in. Turn off the lights. It's kind of, you know, nice and warm and cosy. We always wanted to do the Mad Butcher musical,

The Loin King, didn't we? The musical of the Mad Butcher's career in life, the life and times. So maybe we can run that in conjunction. Maybe it can be the opening act. Oh, that's true. Tickets would have to be something 99 a kilo. $5.99.

And that is the news from New Zealand and around the world. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Spy, the what's up spy.co.nz. Welcomeo and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Spy, go WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz. Welcome to the most professional part of the program, presented by Juliet, who's half our age and twice our intelligence.

Come on in, J-Dog. So today is the Grammy edition of Spy. The Grammys were on yesterday, and Taika Waititi, our very own Taika Waititi, won a Grammy for Jojo Rabbit's soundtrack, which now means he's halfway to what they call EGOT status, which stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. So he's now won an Oscar for Jojo Rabbit and a Grammy as well. Wow.

So that's pretty incredible. That's so awesome. John Legend has EGOT status. He's won all four of those. It's very rare. It's like when you have EGOT status, you're like the greatest of all time. I tell you what, that'll take you into some pretty special lounges with club sandwiches, asparagus rolls, as far as the eye can see.

The Tonys are sort of musical, aren't they? Yeah. Was Jojo Rabbit a musical? No. So he can't win that. No, but he could win it for another one. So if he went into the musical category

in the future and won a Tony for that. Oh, so it's not for the same project. No, it's just for him. Ah, I see. I thought if he missed out on the Tony,

he's just got ego. He's got the MS Grammys Oscars. True, true. And Beyonce, she made history and won her 28th Grammy, which is crazy.

Wow, that's insane. And she now holds the most Grammys won by a female artist ever. Did she even do anything last year? Oh, God knows. I think she just wins every year. I don't think she really wins. We've got to give her a Grammy anyway. Wow.

For just being here. Yeah, 28. I mean, obviously they're amazing and prestigious, but where would you keep all those? I know. You'd need like a special room for all of your awards, I think, if you got to that level. We spoke to 21 Pilots. They won a Grammy. And you get the Grammy that you hold on stage is like a...

Is it like a fake one? No, it's a prop one that they just hand out to all the winners on the evening. And then they're meant to send you the proper Grammy. It was like a year later and they were still waiting on their one to arrive. No one had ever posted it to me. They're like, we're still waiting on our Grammy. Imagine if like a year later and they were still waiting on their one to arrive. No one had ever posted it to me. They were like, we're still waiting

on our Grammy. Imagine if it got lost in the post. It's like checking the track and trace online for the Courier Company going, oh no, it's coming,

it's coming. And I landed here. Wow. It's with the Courier. Did not know that. But then they were like, well, to be fair on us, we probably should have

followed it up. We haven't done any admin. Like if my Grammy hadn't turned up in I'd say two days, I'd be asking questions. Yeah, you'd be gutted. You'd just be constantly waiting for it. I've still got my seven-year-old certificate of merit on the admin. Like if my Grammy hadn't turned up in, I'd say, two days, I'd be asking questions. Yeah, you'd be gutted. You'd just be constantly waiting for it.

I've still got my seven-year-old certificate of merit on the fridge. And Beyonce's daughter, Blue Ivy, also won a Grammy for best video for Beyonce's song, Brown Skin Girl. Wow. And she's nine years old, but she's not the youngest to ever win a Grammy. Someone else, a little girl who is eight years old has once won it. Really? Yeah, which is crazy. So I think Blue Ivy got writing credit for that music video, which is why she won.

Which is obviously crazy as well. That's just a very talented family. She's already achieved more in her life than she's nine years old. Literally nine. Even when she was inside Beyonce, she'd already achieved more in her life. But at nine years old, you probably won't even remember that. Do you guys remember when you were nine? No.

That's crazy. I wasn't writing Grammy Award winning songs. I remember that. Thankfully, there'll probably be high definition footage on the internet forever so she can relive the memory. I remember seeing an image of her. She was at some award show with Jay-Z and Beyonce. And she looked like a kid who had been dragged out for the night.

She was a bit younger, that's right. She didn't want it like when your parents were like, we're going over to Aunty Joan. Oh no. We're going to the Grammys. Oh, I'm just going to stay here and play Angry Birds. That got turned into a big meme, didn't it? Harry Styles, he also performed

his hit single Watermelon Sugar and as soon as he performed it, guess what started trending on Twitter? Watermelon sales. Went as soon as he performed it, guess what started trending on Twitter? Watermelon sales. Went through the roof. No. The meaning... I was trying to figure out what you were saying there. That's quite a sensible answer.

I've been, oh, jeez, I could go watermelon. I haven't had a watermelon in a while. The meaning of Watermelon Sugar started trending on Twitter because people on the internet only sort of recently found out what that was. And so everyone was chatting about that

and I was frothing over his performance as you can imagine. It's interesting there's obviously terms for things that you don't know. I mean the yacht racing yesterday they had

something else that they mentioned that was obviously a yachting term that sounded a little. Yeah, obviously we can't talk about too much on radio but if you know you know.

Yeah. I mean there's some formats who will be talking about that lowbrow stuff but not on the sophisticated program. And that is Spy. For more you can head to the hits.co. I mean, there's some formats who'll be talking about that lowbrow stuff, but not on the sophisticated program. Not us.

That's right. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. Hey, tomorrow again on the show, we've got $5,000 up for grabs.

Five words for $5,000 happens at 7.45 each morning, so hopefully we can give away five grand then. Nearly did it this morning, Ben Boyce. Yes, we'll join you tomorrow

from six o'clock. Thank you for listening to New Zealand's Breakfast. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Catch you tomorrow. Want more Jono and Ben? You can wake up with the boys' weekdays from 6 on The Hits and via the iHeartRadio app.

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