Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 22 - Ben Got His Credit Card Maxed Out By Six60 After A Cheeky Stitch Up From Jono!

Episode Date: March 21, 2021

Kia Ora! On today's show, we discussed eloping and got Millenial Max to phone his mum and tell her that he and his girlfriend had eloped. Not something a mother probably wants to hear...! Ben also got stitched up by Jono, resulting in the boys from Six60 getting a hold of & maxing out Ben's card. We chatted about the most amount of damage people have done at work, and Jono revealed a habit that he has that is probably very frustrating for his wife! Enjoy the poddy!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 Monday, the 22nd of March. It's lovely to be here with you, Ben. How are you feeling today?

That's all right. I'm doing all right. I'm trying to multitask, trying to clear some emails as well as chat to you on the podcast intro. Now, let's see if you can continuing clearing emails while introducing the podcast. What are we looking forward to in this week's episode, in today's episode? Today on the podcast, oh, jeez, that's a great question. I can't do it. I can't do it.

And the other thing I noticed over the weekend, well, my family noticed is I'm apparently a really loud, my keyboard's loud and I'm a loud typer. You're an aggressive, I mean, when you're sending an email, they know you're sending it. Like they can hear you on the South Island sending an email. Oh, Ben's at it again. Clearing his inbox at a rapid rate of knots. Yeah, so I'm not, everyone's like, yeah, we get it. You're working. What if you didn't touch your emails for a week?

How would that make you feel? Anxious. But I do like days where I go, I'm not looking at that again. Like yesterday morning, I was like, I did my work, and I'm like, I'm not looking at emails again until the next day. 24 hours. You know, so you don't have that going. When was the last time you went a day without checking emails?

Oh, holidays. Holidays. Not counting holidays. Okay, no, I couldn't tell you. Anyway, on the show today, Mary Holmes, she's a financial expert, and she came on this morning to tell you what you're doing wrong with your money. Like if you're eating it, for example. That's it.

Then you're definitely doing something wrong with your money. That's a surefire sign. And she was like, you know, money doesn't grow on trees during our interview with her. I was like, well, when you drill down, it actually does. There's paper. There's a large percentage of it. It's not all plastic, is it? It's paper.

Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. It grows on trees. Money does grow on trees. For years, we've been saying it doesn't. Well, nowadays, they're more plasticky, aren't they? But originally, you're right. It would have been paper money.

Surely, there's got to be some. You're right. It literally did grow on trees. Yeah, there's got to be some. You're right. They literally did grow on trees. Yeah. And then my daughter said that to me the other day. It was like, we'll just plant another tree if that was the case. You know, if you're like, oh, we've run out of money, we'll just plant another one. That would be a whole lot easier, wouldn't it?

What, the households run out of money? Yeah, like, we'll plant more money trees. But you'd have to keep on top of your rotation. Kind of those Christmas tree farms they have at the end of the year. Yeah, exactly. Like if you run out of a tree and then you're like, uh-oh, we didn't plant the next one. You have to wait sort of five years until the next money tree was ready to roll. But also today, I had a very exciting program.

We threw something out there about eloping. And is it okay to elope? What does your family think when you did elope? We spoke to some elopers, didn't we? Would you elope? We considered it. I don't think, yeah. I don't have too many problems with the idea.

I think if that's what you want. I would have had a big party if we did. Like I would have gone away and done the wedding and had a big party back there. But I understand how some friends and family would maybe make them feel. Yeah, they get probably a bit offended, don't they, some people? Well, we made Millennial Max,

who's not planning on getting married yet, we made him call his mum and say that he had eloped over the weekend. And quite the honest, raw reaction there, wasn't it, from Sig, his mum? Yeah, she kind of caught her off guard a little bit. And her thought process afterwards I found really interesting. She's like, okay, well, I thought about this, and I thought about this, and I thought about this.

So that's coming up in the podcast. You guys, you go and have a wonderful Monday. Look after yourselves. We'll see you tomorrow. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, something happened last week that we weren't aware of. We brought producer Humphrey in to regale the tales of the office.

And an eloping story. Yeah, so it was just an ordinary Wednesday, a guy from upstairs... It wasn't an ordinary Wednesday. Team New Zealand were about to win the America's Cup. Weird one, five words, 5k. It was an extraordinary Wednesday. For most people. And this guy, he was he came in really

nice. He's normally quite scruffy and he was wearing really nice pants and nice shirt and you know, it was like the office gag, you know, must have a job interview. Everyone was giving him those ones. Anyway, around 10 o'clock, he left the office and he came back at 10.30 and said that he was married. He popped away for morning tea and got married.

And fit it into the work day. Yeah. Are they going to have a big, must be having a big party and celebration with family and friends? I don't know whether they're going to have a party with just their friends and family afterwards. But yeah, they went and did the actual deed as far as went to the courthouse and signed the papers. Yeah.

Wow. Now that is controversial, isn't it? Surely you want your whānau around for your wedding day. Now I know what Ben's going to do. Do what makes you happy. Exactly. Yeah, but your happiness isn't important. What is important is the happiness of your judgmental families.

The most important people they're happy are the two people getting married. That's all that matters when you boil it down. Yeah, I understand that friends and family could be a little bit like, oh, but at the end of the day, what really matters is the two people getting married if that's what they want. And the families. Think about the families. Yeah.

So what we want to do, 0800 the hits to number 4487 this morning. Have you eloped? What happened? Were the family on board with it when you told them we just sneak off to? Do you regret not having a bigger wedding? Millennial Max, we've brought you in. I'm not sure why.

This is for some champagne radio pranking and also a bit of market research. You're not married, you and Izzy. No. Your partner Izzy. But we thought. You're not married, you and Izzy. No. Your partner Izzy. But we thought well maybe you could call your mother Sig and just say that you've eloped and just get a reaction. Just see what the reaction would be if it happened. Obviously this is not

happening but can we just give a call right now? This seems like something you want to do. Okay. Okay, we'll go through we've got the number, Juliet Kia ora Hi, Mum Hi, Maxie Doodle Hey, quickly

Yeah I've got some news Okay Izzy and I are eloping Okay, where? Queenstown Okay, and when Queenstown. Okay, and when is that going to happen? It's already happened.

I can't keep this up. No, I can't keep this up. It makes me so uncomfortable. Sick, it's Jono and Ben here. He's not, he's not, Max is not eloping. Definitely not eloping. We just wanted to know what the reaction would be if it was something that was happening.

It's not happening, it's not on the cards. And the reaction was a lot of silence. Yeah. Okay. A lot to take in, Sig. Yeah, it is. We're just talking about one of our colleagues eloped last week and we just thought, what would the reaction be from parents?

Yep. What was going through your head, Sig? I was just thinking, what they dare not to invite me. So that was number one. Yeah, fair enough. Number two? And I thought, oh, grandchildren, babies. Oh, okay.

Yeah, positive. Yeah. And then I thought, really? Social media? Should I put it straight to social media? Your thought process was impressive. So offended, then jubilation with grandkids, then get the news out there.

Yeah, yeah, sort of that one. And then I thought, he's lying, because I saw him at the Crusaders game. Yeah, yeah. I thought of that one and then I thought he's lying because I saw him at the Crusaders game. Oh! And then the fourth one was I'm being pranks. Yeah, yeah.

And now disappointment that was us on the phone. I understand. A range of emotions. Sig, you go and have a wonderful week. Oh, yeah, I need it. I have a tough week

at school in front of me. All right. Hang up, hang up. See you later. Jane, you're on from Whangarei. How are you? Hi. Good to have you on. You're an eloper? Yes. Sounds like a yoga move or something, doesn't it? The eloping.

A little bit, yeah. When did you elope? So eight years ago now. We decided it was our five-year anniversary of just being together and we decided to go off and elope that day. Whereabouts did you go? Just to the local courthouse. And what was the reaction from the whānau?

Everyone was pretty shocked and I think we had a few upset people. But I chickened out at the last, because we needed two witnesses. So I called on a good friend and then searching for a second one. Of course, it was a work day. It was a Wednesday or something. And I chickened out and I did get my mum. So she came because I think she would have actually killed me. Yeah, right.

A lot of people texting in saying they've done it and the families just go feral on them, don't they? Because I guess there's a lot to take on. You're hit with the surprise, out of blue that they're married, and then secondly, the offence of, they get offended because they haven't been invited or participating in the event. I get that, I get that.

Susie, you're on from Invercargill. How's the South this morning, Sus? How are you? I'm doing well, I'm doing well. I'm doing well. You're an Elopa. Yeah, it was just 27 years ago. Oh, 27, wow.

Yeah, and still happily married. And how was the family and friends when you told them that was happening? My step-mum at the time was not impressed at all. But, yeah, hey. Did you have a big party and stuff later? Because the people that I was talking about last week,

I ended up on holiday and ended up being the witness at a wedding of people I didn't know who were eloping. And you can't even remember their names. No, I can remember one of them. What was her name? Britt. And the other guy. Yeah, the other guy.

But I was there part of their wedding, and they were going to go home and have a big, like a massive thing with friends and family and almost recreate their wedding, but they wanted something for the two of them together. Did your family eventually forgive you, Susie? Oh, definitely. Yep, yep.

Definitely. The family's eventually forgiven you. My family are eventually forgiving me for being Jono, from Jono and Ben. It takes a while, that one. A lot of years of reputational damage to the prior name. And everything's all good now, though, Suze?

Yeah, a lot of people thought that we were getting married because I was pregnant. But not the case. Five years later, we had our first. Yeah, our daughter was born on our sixth wedding anniversary.

So not long after her 21st, but it's pretty soon. Oh, good on you well i'm glad i'm glad just her wedding oh now you're going to go hook her wedding you've been invited to her wedding oh definitely yeah now how would you feel now if she eloped oh well we would have tagged along there's no way they would have got away without me hang on hang on anyway are you good on your suit hey while you're there, actually, someone's texted in saying, humans can elope, fruits can't elope.

Oh, no. Jesus, it's all going so well. Don't start groaning, Susie. Oh, God, Susie, I'm sorry. Some top quality gear there. Oh, God, the only one of the people that want to, I don't want to elope, they want to run away from this radio show, that's for sure.

Morning, this show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Very exciting news for all New Zealand. 660 are going to play the first ever concert at Eden Park. I was like, where's he going with this? I was thinking, no, surely there's been other concerts there, like True Bliss playing halftime at the rugby or something. Technically, I guess

that might be a technicality. Specifically concert-focused. First, yeah, the Helen Clark fully endorsing this. She's been a big campaigner to get 660 in the stadium playing at Edinburgh.

It's very exciting. It's happening April 24 in Auckland, so it'll be awesome. It will be fantastic. So it'll be, what, 50,000 people or so? Yeah, that's what I reckon. Now, Ben Boyce,

you do have a loose, tenuous connection to the band. Your dear friend is Christopher Mack, bass player, extraordinaire. Yeah. And... Yeah, I'm a bit nervous about this because you're like, oh, something's coming up that I don't know about. No, you don't know about it because on Friday, 660 had a press conference at Eden Park to launch,

officially launch in the media their Eden Park gig. And unfortunately we couldn't make it along. So I thought, well, what a perfect opportunity to cut the teeth of Millennial Max as a reporter, send him along to the press conference. And he caught up with Chris Mack. So I'm here because John and Ben couldn't be bothered. Okay.

And apparently they only leave the studio for people higher ranking than 616. No one lower. Yeah. So unfortunately they couldn't make it today. They didn't want to leave the studio for you. It's not like Jono did not turn up to things. Right. So...

Least sociable man in radio. Was that part of your little plan? I didn't expect that. How long are you going to get a roasting from the band? I am a hermit. I don't go out. And I am the least social man in radio. I got an award at the radio awards for least social man in radio.

I didn't even turn up to get it. That's how anti-social I am. Okay, so that wasn't part of it. That wasn't part of what you wanted Max to do? Millennial Max was 660? No, no. Millennial Max, you didn't have to tell them that we couldn't be bothered turning up.

We're actually filming something. We'd love to have been there. But anyway, that's not important. Anyway, so then I had given Max a letter which was contained in an envelope and I asked him to pass this over to Chris Mack from 660 because you had told me something in confidence, something that you had done with the band.

Anyway. Anyway. They've written you a letter. Okay. You had told me something in confidence, something that you had done with the band. Anyway, anyway. They've written you a letter. Okay. Because that's all the time they had for you. They didn't even put our names on it. Nope. Okay, here we go.

Dear 660, Jono the bald one here from Jono and Ben. It's come to my attention that my friend Ben has taken advantage of your band's kind generosity. When Ben was up north over summer, Ben arrogantly tagged along for an exclusive 660 band dinner at a Paihira restaurant. That's true, he did. Where he enjoyed a delicious margarita pizza and fine local beer. And he didn't.

Oh yeah, his meal was then covered by 660's manager's generosity. And I'd like to apologise for my friend Ben, who had no place being there. I'm so sorry that Ben ate with you and also even hung out with you. You deserve better. To make it up to you, here's Ben's Air Force card. No. The pin is...

Please feel free to put the entire bill for putting on your concert aid and park on his card. Sorry, it won't happen again, Joe. Do you know I knew nothing about this? No, you didn't. And we had got your Air Force card when you went to the Lua on Friday.

From my wallet. I was over the weekend, I'm like, where is this card? I've still got my paywall, but it's in my Air Force card. And we had got your FBOS card when you went to the Lua on Friday. From my wallet. I was over the weekend. I'm like, where is this card? I've still got my paywall, but I didn't have my FBOS card. And then I saw, I actually saw Chris yesterday, and he was like, I've got to give this back to you. And I was like, what? Why have you got my card?

Well, now it's all piecing together, because you swanned on in on the band's credit card. They're a band of struggling Kiwi musicians. They've only sold 130,000 tickets over summer. I can't afford to put food in your mouth. It wasn't the plan. I was like, no, no, I don't want to be there. I was like, I don't want to be there.

I bet you had to downgrade to a margarita pizza. He probably wanted fresh crayfish from the ocean and fine caviar. Maybe I went to pay and it was one of those situations where someone else had already paid and I'm like, oh no, I didn't want to look like the guy that just sort of come along. Well, you did.

You're a weasel. You weaseled your way in there. What, did you pretend to be a roadie or something? No. Yeah. I hope that meal left a bad taste in your mouth, and that bad taste is taking money out of 660's mouths. Oh, yeah.

So apparently this is what they're going to do with my card, according to Millennial Max. There you go. Anything you'd like to say to Ben? Yeah. Well, I'm going out for dinner tonight with my wife and her family, so cheers for that. He said he's actually catching up with you on Sunday.

Oh, yeah. This is going to be maxed out by then. Great. Yeah. So thank you, Ben, for repaying your debt. I haven't actually checked my account balance, so we'll see what's... It'll be an Eden Park concert on there,

a booking fee or something. And if you'd like to buy anything on Ben's Air Force card too, just check 8298. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this.

Shono and Pen. Breakfast on the hits. The hits. The hits. The A to Z of New Zealand. Something we do every day on the hits. We call a different town or city in New Zealand. We call one place a day.

And we're slowly working our way around New Zealand alphabetically trying to learn something about each town we call. Yes, and today we're heading to Marco. I'm not familiar with Marco, but apparently it's in the Manawatu region, Ben. And it's a bit of a, on the internet it calls it

a blink and you'll miss it town. Right. We went through a blink and you'll miss it town on Ashurst. Remember? Oh, yeah. We drove through and I was like, hey, it's Ashurst.

And Bunnythorpe was another one as well. We drove through and we was like, hey, it's Ashurst. And Bunnythorpe was another one as well. We drove through and we were like, yeah, back there. Yeah, and you really got to be quick to say, oh, we're in Ashurst. Now we're out of Ashurst. Yeah, but we're going to head through, well, we actually headed through

to Marco on Friday with the town's official game. If it's not Marco Polo, I'll be very disappointed. But the school, there's not many people you can call there. And one of the three places we could have called was the school.

Obviously, they wouldn't be open before 7 o'clock. So we called them on Friday and ended up speaking with the principal. Marco School, Anna speaking. G'day there, Anna. Hello. It's Jono and Ben. We're from the Hits radio station and you're from a school in Marco. And it's a tiny little area.

It is a tiny little area. What do you do at the school? I'm the principal of the school. And you're probably also the custodian. I am. The groundskeeper. Yes. The administration.

Yes. The janitor. Yes. What, our security? Yes. All of that. And how many kids are there? We've got 18.

18 kids, so just the one class? We've actually got two classes. We've got an amazing community that fund our second teacher for us. 10 in our senior class and 8 in our junior class. Now you're in Manawatu. Wow, that's a bit controversial.

Oh, I'm sorry. Where do you like to consider yourself? We're in Taranaki. Oh, Taranaki. So the story, our closest town is Whangamomena. Oh, yeah. And it's the Republic of Whangamomena. We've heard about this place before. Yes.

And they've got their own laws. That's right. Because back in the 80s. What a wild time. They decided that they were going to kick us out of Taranaki and put us in the Manawatu region. Oh, so that was their choice, was it? It was. So we said, well, somebody said that we're

revolting enough out here, so we may as well revolt and make ourselves a republic. So you're part of this republic, and what laws are in place there that we don't get to experience outside? Well, you have to have a passport. Have you got a passport? We have. We have our own passports to come in.

Really? Yep. We revolt against things like orange road cones in the middle of our roads. Oh, you don't like those? No, we don't like those. Okay. Well, then how do you tell people there's a pothole in the road or there's roadworks taking place? Well, you just have to be careful and you have to use your brain and look out on the road.

Fair enough. No orange road cones are banned there. That's right. Gumboots are compulsory school uniform. Oh, but kids are wearing the gummies to school, aren't they? Always red bands. And so, I'll tell you what, I wore some at the rural games the other day

and this isn't going to win you over and I had shorts on but I got quite a big sort of rash from my gumboots like rubbing like a blister. On his calf muscle. Calf muscle. Oh, amateur. Yeah, I know.

You had socks on. I know, not long enough socks. I had little ankle socks. Yeah, you've got to wear your long socks and your gummies. And my soft, you know, Auckland legs these days do not handle it. His soft, tender Auckland skin. Yeah. That wouldn't cut his hair.

No, it's still a bit sore anyway. But yeah, you don't need to hear about my problems with gumboots. And so there's Marco Road. There is Marco Road. Marco Road's a band though, right? Marco Road is a band. Is it? Yeah.

They're quite a popular band. Marco Road, the band, needs to come out and play a concert at the school then, doesn't it? Do you know the road was named after a surveyor who was killed in the middle of the road line by a huge boar? Yeah, well, you've got the story kind of right. Well, that's good enough for me. So Marco was the dog of the surveyor. Ah, the dog. And so then the dog is commemorated with the naming of the road.

That's right. And apparently the story goes that it's buried underneath the school. Yeah, so our school logo is a dog. Mate, we have done this for a long time, over a year now, and this has been the most educational A to Z. It is. And rightfully so.

You're a school principal, so you should be good at educating. That's wonderful. Do you know you feature on Wikipedia too? Do we? Yeah, Marco's Co-Educational Primary School. The principal is Anna Stockman. Oh, that's me. That's your shout-out to you on Wikipedia.

You're Wiki-famous. You're famous. World-famous in Marco. Lovely to talk to you. And as John has said, it's been really fascinating. Who's looking after the kids right now? Oh, they're just looking after themselves at the moment. That's how we roll around here.

You are an absolute superstar. Lots of love to everyone in Marco. Well, I feel like I'm talking to my mum. Lots of love. Sending lots of love. You have a wonderful day. You too. See you, Anna.

Okay, see you. That was really interesting, wasn't it? It was. I learned a lot from that. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. We want to know this morning, what's the most amount of damage that you have unfortunately created at work?

Are we talking reputational damage? Because our association with the hits, I don't know if it's doing good things for them. No, that's hard to quantify. We want sort of financial sort of damage or, you know, things that you've actually damaged. Because I was talking to a mate over the weekend and last week at work, he was doing some jobs.

He's a painter and he was painting a fence outside and he was using one of those spray, the spray gun sprayer, paint sprayer. I don't remember what it is. The spray gun paint sprayer things. I think that's what they call them in the painting game. I've seen people use them. I wouldn't trust myself to use one of those.

It feels like there's a lot of room for error when it comes to a paint spray gun. Well, he did a great job painting the fence on the property that he was meant to paint

and he was like, that's great. Did he say that to himself? That's great. He sat back and he was like, that looks great. My paint sprayer paint gun thingy.

I've done a great job with that. And then the next door neighbour came over at the property next door and said, hey, have you guys been painting? He said, yeah, I've done a great job with that. And then the next door neighbour came over at the property next door and said, hey, have you guys been painting? He said, yeah, I've done a great job

with my paint sprayer spray gun thing. Look at this fence, it's beautiful. And she said, it does look nice, it looks lovely. But unfortunately what's happened is some of the paint sort of follicles have sort of blown in the air through the gaps and gone through onto my car. And he's like, oh, that's not good.

Let's go around and have a look. She's here, just over here, and had a look at her car. It was a Porsche. Oh, no. And it sort of had this speckled sort of colour. Of the fence paint. Of the fence paint, all sort of speckled all over the Porsche. You're like, oh, that's going to be.

Did he accidentally spray paint a Porsche or give a Porsche a cool new paint job? Well, that's what I think. Yeah. Well, hey, that looks good. It speckles now. I mean, we could do the whole thing. I can bring my paint gun sprayer thingy over here and we might as well just finish the job. So obviously that's what I think. Yeah. Well, hey, that looks good. It speckles now. I mean, we could do the whole thing. I can bring my paint gun sprayer

thingy over here and we might as well just finish the job. So obviously a little bit of damage. Was she upset? I think she was actually pretty good about it and they ended up... Was it a situation of like, oh, no, it's fine, but really, you know deep down. Yeah, it's fine. It's just one of those things you have to take it in the shop, get it re-buffed and painted and what, you know, I don't need to explain more

paint stuff for you guys. You know how this works. Get to drill down on the paint stuff. I don't know any of this. I don't need to explain more paint stuff for you guys. You know how this works. Get your drill down on the paint stuff. I don't know any of this. I don't know any of this sort of stuff. You know that. Cars, maintenance, handy. How are you friends with a painter? He must be ashamed to be friends with you.

He does all my paint spray, painting gun things. Okay, so that would, let's just say, dollar value. That's probably a whole new paint job. I don't know, $10,000 or $15,000 maybe? On a Porsche? You'd think it would be quite expensive. Have you caused damage at work, Juliet? No, I'm very responsible, as you know.

You are, actually. You're a pretty safe pair of hands, Juliet. I have, you know, minor, very minor things. Have you crashed a station vehicle? No, I haven't. One time, although I was an intern and I was taking out the station car, and I'd heard horror stories about people crashing the company car

in the first couple of weeks of their job. So I was so paranoid about crashing it that I literally drove like 30 kilometres everywhere, and I came back, and actually I remember Ben Humphrey was like, where have you been? You've been like a couple of hours, and I was just so stressed. Travelling down the southern motorway at 30 k's an hour. Yeah.

We've had 900 complaints that you've been a nuisance on the road. Yeah, I know. So yeah, now I kind of take the other end. Poor intern at our station we used to work with, she was coming back into the building

and forgot about the big truck. You know how sometimes they tow around a billboard? Oh yes. Behind the car and forgot about that as she drove into the garage and got stuck.

And the roof, between the roof and the ground lodged in. into the garage and got stuck. And the roof, between the roof and the ground, lodged in. That's it. Open the door, walk out, and just head home. Oh, yeah.

I wouldn't even go upstairs and admit what I'd done. Just walk out, leave the car running. I'm done. Let's go to the phones. Kim from Tauranga, welcome.

Lovely to have you on. More what I need to know to you. Kimbo, most amount of damage at work? Two green to a company vehicle. I'd only been in the job about two months. Oh, you just feel awful, don't you? And it's human error.

It's just, you put it down to human error or the fact that you're a shocking driver. I don't know, it's one of the two. A bit of both. A bit of both. How did you crash the car and then how did you deliver the news? Well, I was going to get the car warranted and, you know, the service was due.

And I was backing into, it was a rainy day and the backing camera, I couldn't really see that there was some steel barriers that were about sort of just under a metre high behind me and I backed into it and just crunched the whole back of the vehicle. Did you lose your gig? No, no. I just, I had my daughter in the car at the time. We just looked at each other with our mouths,

and we all sort of dropped like, oh, oh, oh, heck. Yeah. You really run through your options there. You're like, could I go and drive the car into a forest and burn it? Pretend it was stolen? Can I pin it on my daughter? She's only six. Why was she driving?

We're really good about it. Not long after that, I also got a speeding ticket. So they were sort of joking with me about how they'll have to get driving with Miss Daisy for me if I continue on the path. Hey, look after yourself, Kim. Go and have a great week in Tauranga, okay? You too. Thank you. Let's head to the capital. Kate, you're on the air. Go and have a great week in Tauranga, okay? Me too, thank you. Let's head to the capital. Kate, you're on the air.

Most amount of damage at work. So I'd never used a microwave before. Okay. Welcome to Microwaves Anonymous. Yeah. A help group for those that have not used a microwave. Yeah, because my mum was afraid it would explode. And then I started a new job and there was a microwave there.

And I was like, cool, maybe I'll actually try it. Turns out you can't put a fork in the microwave. No, you can't. But you've got to put this down to bad parenting. Your mum's sheltering you from microwave usage led to this. And there's a lot of buttons on a microwave too. Yeah.

They're quite hard to figure out. Everyone's different too and you end up just pushing things and go, oh, I've got something working. Away it goes, you know?

Listen, I don't know what a microwave is or what it's putting on my food, but I trust it. I trust that there's nothing bad going on inside a microwave.

That's good. I do wonder what's cooking your stuff in here. Yeah, I do. I try not to think too much trust it. I trust that there's nothing bad going on inside a microwave. That's good. I do wonder what's cooking your stuff in here. Yeah, I do. I try not to think too much about it. You know me. I turn the PowerPoints off at night for that reason. Good on you, Kate. Thank you very much.

Someone's actually texted and saying, I want to remain unnamed, and I worked at an unnamed food factory and caused $250,000 worth of damage to a whole line of product by accidentally contaminating it. Oh, no. I mean, imagine that happens. But, yeah, you'd just be like, oh.

Still working there, though. Oh, that's good. That's good. I mean, because accidents do happen. I mean, we're all human. These things happen. But, geez, you feel so bad at the time. Are you wrapping it up, are you?

Yeah, mate. Oh, you've had enough? Oh, yeah, I think we've had more than enough. Do you want to keep going? Yeah, there's one more call. Martin's been holding for five minutes. I was using the text then if we had another call.

Martin, how are you? Not too bad, guys. Ben was trying to wrap you up. I was like, Jono's really got text. We're definitely, this is all over. That's right, Jono,

you're my favourite anyway. I wanted to hear your story, Marty. What damage did you cause at work? I just didn't want to hear Jono's text. I was like, oh. What did you do cause at work? I just didn't want to hear Jono's text. I was like, oh, hang on. What did you do, bud? So when I was a young lad and I just got my driver's licence, I just started a new apprenticeship,

and the boss got me to go down and drop some equipment off to some guys. And on the way back, I ripped a $35,000 brand new Toyota Hilux 303. Oh, goodness me. Oh, no. Very crump, I was not. Did you lose the job? No. Luckily, I kept the job, but they strictly prohibited me from driving for the next three years.

Oh, Martin, thank you very much. Appreciate your call. You go and have a good day in Christchurch. No. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.

We were away the week before last for five days and we arrived back Monday, last Monday and I, since then, have still not unpacked my suitcase.

It is just sitting in my bedroom. Have you got all the washing out of it and things like that? No, I've just refused. I pull my toilet bag out of it, to be fair. Toilet bag always gets me like, why is it called a toilet bag? I mean, I understand it goes in the bathroom

but a toilet bag... A bathroom bag works well, better for the alliteration too. I don't know, the kids are like, toilet bag? I remember, yeah, we don't put it in the toilet. My mum calls it a sponge bag for some reason. A sponge bag? I have no idea where that relevance comes from. But you ride the toilet bag out for many years

and it becomes scungier and scungier, doesn't it? Mine's falling to pieces at the moment. But yeah, no, the suitcase, on the list of priorities of things that I need to get done every day, unpacking the suitcase sort of falls in about number six or seven on the rankings. And I don't get down to even like number four or five. So it just keeps slipping off the to-do list every single day to the point where I'm like,

well, I could just ride this out until our next getaway. No one's wanting this trans-Tasman bubble to open up more than my suitcase. I'm ready to go. When's the borders going to open up? I'm ready. Come on, Jacinda, open up the bubble just so I can take my suitcase somewhere. I've got a lot of washing in there, but that's the thing. The washing's going to, it's going to start to stink. Like if it's all clean clothes, I understand. I like packing suitcases. I don't like unpacking

them. You know, when you're going away for a trip, you're excited about packing, but the unpacking just becomes such a chore, such a chore. Listen, I'm ready to go away at any point, Ben. You just tell me when you want to go on holiday and I'll jump to the airport. But they're a great place to hide all of your belongings too that you can't be bothered folding as well because it looks neat and tidy. Oh, yeah.

You just zip it up or whatever and it's in the corner. You're like, yeah, no, everything's tidy. Yeah. But yeah, I understand. The same with my washing mound. I've talked about this at home. Sometimes the washing just gets away on me. Like we wash it, we dry it, and you maybe fold it,

but you don't put washing away. Or even you don't fold it, you've just got a mound of clean washing and it just becomes bigger and bigger and bigger. And the admin of getting to the bottom of that mound is too tough. Yeah, you lost your children in that mound for a couple of weeks, didn't you?

You sent out a search and rescue party. Where'd they go? Oh, they're in the washing mound. They're hiding under nine kilograms of socks. But not enough credit is given to the folding process of washing. All the credit goes, oh, I've put these clothes in this machine and pushed the button. The washer gets a lot of credit. But folding takes a lot of labour.

That's the admin time, right? Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right. So thanks for telling me about your mouth. You're welcome. And you can thank me about telling you about my suitcase. Thank you for telling me about your mouth. You're welcome. And you can thank me about telling you about my suitcase. Thank you for telling me about your suitcase.

I will get around to it. In fact, I want to just do this quick text poll, 4487, quickly before five words. What is the longest amount of time you've lived out of a suitcase for? How long have you read it out for? I'll keep you up to date with the text poll. Is this like a suitcase as if you were travelling around? No, it has to be in your house.

You've come back from a retreat, a holiday, a work trip or whatever. And you've just left the suitcase there and you're like, oh, I'll get to that and you never get to it. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah.

She'll be right in at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. This is honestly my favourite part of the show, along with can Ben tell the correct time from a digital clock. Right now, 7.45 is the correct time, and that's when we play it every day.

A game of word association. We give you five words. You say the first thing that pops into your head. If they match with ours, you win $5,000. Now, we're going to head to Lower Hutt this morning, and welcome on in Sammy Morena. Good morning. Good to have you on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Sammy, how was the weekend, mate? Oh, it was pretty good. Yeah, what do you do for a job? I make flags. You make flags? Flags? What sort of flags do you make? We make all sorts of flags. All sorts of flags?

We make flag makers and battalions. I've never spoken to a professional flag maker before. What's your biggest seller? Oh, it would be the New Zealand flag, I'd say. That's a good flag. You make all different countries' flags? Yes. What's your favourite flag to make?

Ooh, probably the pirate. I would love making new flags and then it not working out and me going, I'll just flag it. That would be my favourite part of the job. I'd be like doing that for that reason. Remember that referendum when we all voted for a flag and then we all voted, spent $20 million on it. Just keep the same flag.

Same flag. Yeah. Did you print flags in anticipation for the new flag? No, we didn't. No, okay. Well, that was sensible. It was a good business decision. You didn't put a whole lot of Kiwi with laser eyes or anything on a flag or anything like that?

Anyway, another great business decision. You could add $5,000 to your account, Sammy, this morning with five words. You need to choose who to send into the soundproof booth. Is it going to be Ben or myself? I'm going to go with Ben today, I think. Oh, that's a good choice. Okay, all right. I'm going to send into the soundproof booth. Is it going to be Ben or myself? I'm going to go with Ben today, I think. Oh, that's a good choice. Alright, I'm going to go to the soundproof booth. If you win, you can make a special commemorative flag featuring Ben Boyce.

That would be cool. It'll just be like sort of sticky bones. Bones on a flag. Alright, Sammy, he's in the booth. And you know what you need to do? You've heard the game before. Just the first word that comes into your head, okay? And you know what you need to do? You've heard the game before. Yes. Just the first word that comes into your head, okay? Okay.

Word number one. Brittany. Could you repeat that, sorry? Brittany. B-R-I-T-N-E-Y. Spears. Locking in Spears. Juliet, you gave me a knowing glance there.

Yeah, I think that one's quite a good one. You would go on Spears as well. Word number two is fountain. Bucket. Oh, yeah. That's quite a good one because you're in Wellington too. That would be the first one that comes into your head. Oh, yeah. That's quite a good one, because you're in Wellington, too. That would be the first one that comes into your head. Oh, true.

The second one that pops in is fountain pen. Huh? Hey, I don't want to sway you either way, but your first answer was pretty solid. Let's go with that. All right. I definitely swayed you. Baseball. Cap.

Baseball what, sorry? Cap. Cap. Baseball what, sorry? Cap. Cap. Baseball cap. Word number four is captain. Captain. I'm leaning towards ship. Or Captain Hook.

Let's go with ship. Let's go with ship. Let's go with ship. Ship, okay. Who's helping out in the background there, mate? That's my partner. He plays with me every morning. Oh, what's his name? His name is Dylan.

Dylan, good to have you listening, buddy. I know. Lovely to have you here. Okay, the fifth and final word for Dylan and Sammy to win $5,000 to match up with Ben is computer. Computer. Oh, there's so many with that one. Yeah, it's quite wide, isn't it? Oh, computer screen.

Computer screen. Let's go with screen. Yeah, good option. Good option. Those were tough words, but I think you did pretty well. The first two weren't too... Yeah, that was good. That was a good session, Sammy. Well, being out of the

soundproof booth, it's a game which has been full of high highs and low lows. More low lows than high highs because if there were heaps of high highs and less low lows, fiscally, this wouldn't be able to sustain. Okay. Let's see if we're going to get a high high this morning, though. Sammy did well.

Dylan's in the background, too. You didn't meet Dylan before. Oh, okay. Right. He's a lovely gentleman. Okay. Word number one, Ben, if you match with Sammy and Dylan, the first word is Britney. Spears.

Hit me, baby, one more time. With a ding is well done. Good. Are they going to be tough words today or are we looking okay? 70% tough. Okay. Bucket. Oh, sorry.

Oh. The second word is fountain. I was waiting for this day to come. Bucket. Bucket fountain. Human error. Host error. I am a shocking broadcaster.

Listen. Who wants to be a millionaire scandal? Woman error, host error, I am a shocking broadcaster. Listen. It's worse than that. Who wants to be a millionaire scandal? Sammy, okay, our plan's working, okay? I'm okay with that. Okay, I bet you are. I don't know what I've said, but I can tell. Well, you did now.

Okay, the third word. Of course I would have said it. The third word is baseball. There's a lot for baseball. Well, I'm looking at one right now. I'm going to say cap. Oh! He is.

I am wearing a baseball cap. Okay, wow. Okay, there was bat. There was ball. Mets, yeah. The fourth word. How are you feeling, Sammy and There was bat, there was ball. Ball, mitt, yeah. The fourth word. How are you feeling, Sammy and Dylan? I'm pretty excited.

I am. Yeah, I was business-y now. The fourth word is captain. Skipper. Sammy and Dylan, what did you guys lock in? Ship. Yeah, they did ship. The fifth word was computer.

Oh, jeez, computer. That's a wide one too. Mouse, keyboard, screen. Lapse, I don't know. Mouse. Nah, they went screen. They went screen. Listen, it was a pleasure meeting you both.

Sammy and Dylan, well done. You too. Thank you. A bit of a gimme with word two there. There'll be an internal investigation launch, no doubt, by the executive team here at The Hits. But thank you so much for listening. Go and have a wonderful week.

Thank you. You too. Oh, sorry we didn't work out today but it's back again tomorrow. Five words for $5,000. Bugger. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth

of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. Spy. No WhatsApp. Spy.co.nz Alright, she's a lean, mean gossip queen. Pivotal to the team. Operating machine, wearing forest green, drinking gasoline. Here's Juliet with Spy.

So this is kind of a spin-off edition of Spy, I guess you could say. So trending at the moment, three Game of Thrones spin-offs are currently in development. Oh, well, you'll be happy with that, Benjamin. Yeah. You're a fan. Yeah. And as well as that... Loves incest and dragons. Oh, well, you'll be happy with that, Benjamin. Yeah. You're a fan. Yeah. And as well as that. Loves Incest and Dragons.

Oh, my God. There is some stuff in Game of Thrones. There's a little bit like, eh, but yeah. But it was great. An epic show. Yes. And another, do you guys remember the film Ace Ventura, Pet Detective with Jim Carrey? Yeah.

The classic. Oh, righty then. Such a good movie. Two movies. I mean, he kind of had a comedy career, obviously, before that, but it kind of launched him into being a leading man in movies. Was that his first big movie, was it? I think it was.

They had a second one as well with the animal in nature calls or something like that. And now a third one is in the works 26 years after the second film came out. So they're bringing Jim Carrey back, and it's going to be with Amazon. And I think millions of fans have been desperate for a third one to come out. They've been talking on the official Ace Ventura Facebook page, and now they're actually putting it into play.

They had to restart the Ace Ventura Facebook page. It had become a woman. It wasn't even a thing. True. Start one. True. Remember this movie? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember it.

Well, I can just hear the critics right now already writing the article saying it doesn't stack up in 2021. Oh, yeah, I know. Haven't they moved on? But that's hard

with those things. What was that latest one, the Eddie Murphy one? Oh, they did a... I haven't seen it. Coming to America 2 or something. I haven't seen it either as well,

but then all the articles are like it. It's still dated and stuck back in the 90s. Oh, really? So it's hard to probably make a leap from something that was like, how do you continue the storyline from something that stopped in 1994 or whatever, and pick it up again

and who knows? It's not my problem. The writers will have to deal with that. Yeah, and that is five or more. You can head to thehits.co.nz. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on The Hits.

Let's pay someone's bills. Don't be afraid of your freedom. The Hits live free. Bills edition. Let's smash another one. I got bills. So many people texting in bills to 4487 at 8.30,

1 o'clock, 4 o'clock each day we make a bill busting call here at The Hits and we pay someone's bill. Yes, as long as they fit in the financial restraints of allocated amounts in our spreadsheet, then we'll knock off your bill. We're basically like your parents, paying for you to live.

The Hits are your maternal parents now, and we're going to go through and bust another one right now. Have you got the number there, June? Hello, Jamie speaking. Hello, Jamie Baxter. Hello? Jamie Baxter. Do you know who this is?

Not a clue. I'll give you three guesses. Have a guess. Have a guess. Oh, it's a private number, so we've come up private number. So, okay. Have a guess. Not a clue.

Okay. We'll just check out some names. Yeah, there's two of us. You sound like radio people Oh It's radio Okay She's throwing it on us It's radio people

Yes Like a game of guess who Yeah So name all your favourite radio people That's just me Because I'm terrible with names Okay I like my radio stations

I think I listen to you on my car Oh that's good Okay So the voices sound semi-familiar. Yes. Okay. Janine.

Jamie. Janine. That's a new one. We're asking her to guess our names, not for us to guess her name. We knew it was Jamie Baxter.

Hey, Jacqueline. Well done. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Yes, that's the one. That was the one. That's the one. Now, you text through bills to our number here at the Hits. You had a bill that you wanted to be paid for the post box.

Now, there's a bit of a story around the post box. Yeah, there is. Well, my dad passed away last October on my birthday, very suddenly, and he has had a PO box for about 20-odd years, and I don't have the heart to cancel it, and I just got the bill for it the other day. Oh. I see why you want to keep it around.

Yeah, I totally understand that. It's hard to get rid of that sort of thing, isn't it? Yeah. It is. It's so hard and I just can't do it. No, I understand it. Are people still sending letters to it? Well, yes, all the time.

Really? And I use it for mine as well now. Oh, well, we're going to pay that for you here at the Hits, all right? Are you serious? Yeah, no, we're serious. That's right, Geraldine. It's Jamie. It's Jamie.

Oh, my God. We're going to pay that for you, okay? Oh, that's fantastic. Thank you so much. That's a very special memory, isn't it? It is. We'd love to keep it around. You just made my day.

Oh, that's lovely. It's nice to do, you know, we're doing this competition every day and it's nice to give it to people like yourself for meaningful stuff like this. So this is awesome. I never win anything either, which is kind of cool. Oh, well, good on you. I can tell the emotion's coming through. Yeah, a little bit.

Yeah, well, listen, your dad would be proud that you're keeping his postbox alive. Yes, he would. He doesn't want to close it either. Well, let's keep it. I've always wanted to say, or you could just send that to me at PO Box 4518. No, that's pretty cool. I've never been able to say that. I've never had to post it either. Well, let's keep it. I've always wanted to say, or you could just send that to me at P.O. Box 4518. No, no, it's pretty cool.

I've never been able to say that. I've never had a post office box. Yeah, well, thank you so much for listening to the show. We really appreciate it. And take care of yourself, all right, Jamie? Thank you so much. Good on you. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes.

Mmm. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. This weekend, we mentioned before, we put Pato in something very unusual over the weekend, we mentioned before, we put Pātuk in something very unusual over the weekend, didn't we, Jono? Yes, Ben had an orgy. It's time for us to openly discuss it. No, it was wrestling,

which I would have preferred the earlier version, actually. We took part in sort of like WWE-style wrestling. There's a New Zealand wrestling league, and it was held at the Mount Eden War Memorial Hall. Crowd of 200 there. And it was a fun night. And they're a group of lovely, really lovely people. It's an amazing community actually.

Everyone was really supportive. They're willing to help you out and kick your ass at the same time. So we did a couple of practices and then we were thrust in the ring. It was the two of us taking on one other guy, a guy, James Shaw, who's been wrestling for a while. And it was interesting because they were like, well, why don't, you know,

because you guys are filming it and because you're doing something a bit different, why don't you guys come out first, introduce yourself, say what you're doing, then walk back off and then walk in and have your ring entrance. So it was kind of like, hi, we're just John and Ben. We're going to be dressing up and coming out as alter egos and then come out wrestling. But they were like, please welcome. You've seen them on the TV.

You've probably heard them on the radio. Please welcome Jono and Ben. And obviously in wrestling, there's the goodies and the baddies. And we didn't even come out to introduce ourselves. But as soon as they said Jono and Ben, everyone went, boo. The whole crowd was booing. We're like, hey, hey, hey. That's so sad.

It was. We weren't even alter egos, hey. That's so sad. It was. We weren't even ultra egos or anything. And we all meant to be the goodies in this. And then I was like, oh, sorry, we're coming out as Hulk Bogan. And Ben, given his nervy aura, came out as the ultimate warrior. Warrior. The ultimate warrior. So I came out with a lot of safety equipment on so I wouldn't get hurt.

And then we came back out again and you've got a hat. One thing that you get flipped around, you get thrown over the ropes, you get slammed on your back onto the mat. And you train for some of that stuff. You learn a little bit about how those sort of moves happen. Thank God.

So if these things happen in a match, I kind of am semi-prepared for that. But I wasn't prepared for the slaps. No, they just said the one thing that we won't practice but we'll just do on the night are the, what are they called? Claps or something? Yeah, it was something like that. Chops. Chops.

They're called chops. Other chops. And it's essentially just an open-palmed slap on your back, on your chest, on your face. And he's like, those are the ones that you're like, you just got to take them. And all day the wrestlers have been going, they're going to hurt. They're going to hurt. But we're like, well, why do we have to do these?

And then when they happened in the match, oh, jeez, they hurt. So you've got a hand mark on your chest. I know. On my back and front. I'm like, I took my towel. Handy memento. Yeah, take it away from me. I went to have a shower afterwards.

I was like, oh, my God, I could see the guy's whole hand positioned there on my chest. Ow. Yeah, so no one told us about that. And all this while we're wrapped in Lycra. True. My body's not designed for Lycra. That was the other thing as well.

People were like, did you get a spray tan? We're like, what? No. No one told us about this. And then they were like, oh, it probably would have been good to get a spray tan. Really? To look a bit better when you come out.

I was like, oh no, I was in like little hot pants. My thighs haven't seen the sun since probably the 90s. You looked adorable. You know, I was like, oh God. And then I had a singlet on, so I was like, great, they'll cover up. He ripped that off me at some stage to slap me. He's essentially just in underpants. You have lovely lumps though.

Not my finest look, eh? Not my finest look Not my finest look Did you guys try the tactic of tickling That you always go on about I had spoken to him about that He's like listen well it hasn't been done before I didn't bring it out then I was kind of just focusing on not ending up in a spinal unit

That was the thing It was nice to be able to walk away Limping and a bit sore with some ice packs And not actually walking straight to the hospital because that could have happened. That's serious stuff. A guy was bleeding. His nose was bleeding. We were talking to him and he wiped his blood on my white t-shirt.

He's like, oh, can I borrow that? And I sort of blew his nose on my t-shirt. Oh God. Anyway, we're going to reveal hopefully in the next few days or so what exactly we were filming that for. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Our next guest is New Zealand's most trusted financial writer.

For years, she's written a question and answer finance column for the Weekend Herald, where thousands of Kiwis have got money advice from her. She's written seven books, and now she has a brand new one. It's called A Richer You, How to Make the Most of Your Money. It's out now. Mary Holm joins us. Thanks very much for joining us, Mary.

Thank you. We were actually after the least trusted financial writer, but we've ended up with the most trusted. Listen, there was a message lost in the matrix there, but lovely to have you on, Mary. So many questions do pop to mind when you talk finance. Yeah, yeah. Look, I mean, it covers so much of our lives, really, doesn't it?

The point is not that the money matters, but that there's not all that many things you can do other than lovely walks on the beach or in the bush that don't involve a little bit of money. Well, that's the thing. Money can keep you awake at night, can't it? Oh, gosh, yes, yes. And people who are scared of money

and then there are other people who are overconfident. Lately there have been quite a few, usually younger people, going hell for leather into the share market and sometimes doing quite well, which is really scary because then they start thinking they know what they're doing and put more money in.

And I think it's great in your interest in the share market, but don't do it with big amounts of money because, and don't start deluding yourself that you're really good at it because there's just so much luck in it that people don't always realise. So I guess you're saying in a roundabout way, put money in there that you're happy that if you lost it, you wouldn't be stressed. Absolutely, yeah. That's a good way of putting it, yeah. Okay, maybe John could be a financial writer. Yeah. He could be the

least trusted financial writer that I was talking about. He's a shaky bear at hand every now and then he comes out with a gem. But money at the moment, Mary, right now is pretty, I guess it's cheap to get, right? The interest rates are low. Is it a good time to be borrowing, though?

Well, look, borrowing, there's two different sorts of borrowing. I mean, most people, nearly everybody has to borrow to buy their first home. And that's good borrowing because in the long run, you can be pretty certain that the asset you're buying will go up in value. Borrowing to have a good time is, you know, putting it on pay later or on credit card or something like that. A sort of intermediate example is borrowing to buy a car. That'll almost certainly go down in value.

Sometimes, though, you have to do it if you need a car to get to a job and that kind of thing. But running up a big debt for a flasher car that you don't really need, it's not very clever. It's much, much better if you save for it first. What about retirement? Because we often talk about saving for our retirement. I mean, how much money do you actually need? Look, you know, sorry, but it's a how long is a piece of string question. But a very basic guideline for people is if you say,

if you get to retirement with $100,000, then you can spend about $100 a week, and that will use up that money until you die. That's a very rough guideline. So if you can have $400,000 at retirement, you can spend $400,000 a week. And, you know, you've got New Zealand Super coming in as well. Gotcha.

I think my parents, if I can talk personally, for example, they're fast and loose. They're out to lunch at vineyards every day. Oh, yeah, every time John tries to call them, you're right, they're out for lunch. They're out for lunch. What have you been doing? We've even been at lunch.

I'm like, hey, you're spending my money there. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. They're spending for lunch. What have you been doing? We've even been at lunch. I'm like, hey, you're spending my money there. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely, they're spending their money. You've probably heard of people talking about skiing in retirement, which is S-K-I, spend the kids' inheritance. And, you know, a lot of the boomers are saying that. You know, boomers are deeply unpopular these days, I know. But, I mean, retired people are one or the

other. Some of them are out there having a great time spending the kids' inheritance and others are being too mean on themselves and you've kind of got to strike a bit of a happy medium there. Oh, absolutely. If you reach that stage in life, enjoy it. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, it's great

revenge for the boomers because they're getting mocked by the millennials, but secretly what they don't know is that the boomers are spending all their inheritance money. That's right. Yeah. One quick question before you go. A lot of talk about people, particularly younger people, not being able to get on the property ladder,

not being able to afford a house. What is the best alternative to buying a house? Yeah, look, I think for people who are worrying about that, it's not a bad idea to just say, OK, I'm going to rent for the next while, maybe even 10 or 20 years. The secret is that if you decide you're going to rent instead, you really need to be saving quite seriously

because you don't want to get to retirement without a house and without savings. You need to have one or the other, you know, at retirement. The housing market's got so mad that it's not silly to just be saving seriously but sitting on the sidelines and just waiting to see what happens to this market because it has gone really, really mad. And Bitcoin. I was thinking of chucking everything I have into Bitcoin. What do you think? Go for it. You go for it, Jono.

No, look, in my new book that's just come out, which I hope you're going to just mention, it's called A Richer You, and it's just hit the shops. And I've got a little bit about Bitcoin in there, including a graph of what happened to Bitcoin prices, which was a huge rise and then a huge fall. They're not meaningless, but they get hyped up to the point where it's very hard for anyone to judge whether they really are worth the money you're paying for them. But look, if people want to have a bit of fun with these things, put

a couple of percent of your savings in there. See what happens. We really enjoyed talking to you this morning. You can catch Mary's new book, Richer You, How to Make the Most of Your Money. Thank you so much for your time this morning. Thanks very much. Bye. Make the most of your money. Thank you so much for your time this morning. Hopefully. Thanks very much. Yeah, bye. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed. All right, he's here to read you some stuff that he's read from the internet. Now reading that stuff for you on the radio, Ben Boyce. What's been happening overnight? Oh, black legend Richie McCaw. He's joined a new team, guys, and it's the Australian team.

The Australian team of Wiggles. Richie McCaw and Christchurch had the first performance of the Wiggles in their All Fruit Salad Tour around the country. Came out, because he plays bagpipes, Richie McCaw, and he played them in on stage. Have a listen. That's Richie. Jeez, that's very tough.

I find the bagpipes and instruments, whether you've been playing them for 20 years or you've been playing them for two minutes, they sound shaky. Anything could go wrong at any moment, but that was really good. Yeah, no, he came out in a sort of an all-black style version of the Wiggles skivvy as well

and had photos with the band, and his wife, Gemma McCaw said it was Richie's greatest achievement to date, which I thought was really good. So Richie and Gemma it's like you know Michelangelo went through the Italian Renaissance period Richie and Gemma are in the

Wiggles period of parenting they're in the trenches, you're turning up at 9.30 at the arena and he's playing them in on stage as well I hope they got a free GA pass

for that didn't the Wiggles were getting death threats weren't they I know I know they were people yeah

because I mean obviously there was that whole the whole controversy about them taking some places in MIQ because they hadn't

organised it and stuff and yeah people I mean I understand we talked about this last week I understand now it's quite a frustrating thing for a lot of people. But, mate, that bit far.

Out of anyone who deserves violent death threats, definitely the Wiggles. They'd be first on the list. They were like, we haven't had these before. Jeez. The poor people. They're probably like, we don't want to come anymore. Yeah, it's like we're meant to try and bring love and joy to the world.

And we're getting death threats. You'll be a drive-by in the big red car. And a Sydney man was on a Tinder date over the weekend and during the date,

his date went out to get some food and the cat, her cat got out and so he was like, I've got to try and bring the cat because the cat

wasn't meant to go out so he went searching for the cat. It took him hours apparently to find it. Eventually found the cat under some stairs and so he went to try and get the cat because the cat wasn't meant to go out. So he went searching for the cat. Took him hours apparently to find it. Eventually found the cat under some stairs. And so he went to try and get the cat back. The cat launched

his hand and basically stuck into his hand with his claws. And he was like adrenaline was pumping. I just ran back up the stairs with the cat still attached to his arm. Like hanging off his hand. Yeah. Got the cat back. He thought that was great. Went home and his dad for some reason decided to do a DIY sort of fix up of his wounds with some super glue went to sleep woke up in the morning his hands

about three or four sizes of what it actually should have been went to hospital and they're like we're gonna have to ambushtate from one tinder date yeah from one to the day did they cut his hand off well unfortunately in end, they didn't have to. But the guys were like, oh, my God. So the Tinder date went horribly wrong for the poor guy. Superglue. No, listen, if your dad's like, I'll operate on you, the answer's always no thanks, I'll just go to White Cross.

Yeah. A friend of mine, his dad would pull his teeth out with pliers. No. Just to save on dental costs. I guess they do use superglue of some form, don't they? Yeah, but the medical team can do that, not just... Yeah, not Gorilla Superbond from Bunnings. Yeah, so fortunately the infection, they managed to get rid of the infection and he's okay now.

What a heck of a take. Wait, what about the date that he went on? What's the follow-on there? I don't know what happened with that. Well, yeah, because he's also looking for the cat for hours. The date would have been like, I guess this is all over. That is with that. Well yeah, because he's also looking for the cat for hours. The date would have been like, oh I guess this is all over.

That is so bizarre. Well listen, he's a keeper. He's a keeper. Unfortunately his hand was a keeper as well. It was almost gone.

That is some of the more random news making news this morning. They're proud of New Zealand. Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand

was proud of them. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Spy. The What's Up. Spy.co.nz. Here to peddle some half-truths and fabricated lies about people who are more famous than the rest of us,

Juliet, come on in with Spy. Now, Pink has a documentary coming out called All I Know So Far, and it's basically going to be focusing on her beautiful trauma world tour that kicked off in 2018. It's going to be showing footage from behind the scenes, on the road, some personal footage and kind of like what goes on to make a massive world tour like that happen. It's going to be out on the 21st of May on Amazon Prime

and the director of it was the same director as The Greatest Showman. So obviously it will be quite well put together, I think. Jeez, I could never have a documentary about my... It was so boring. Today I'm off to Pack and Save to do some shopping. Got to pay... Got to take my car to get a warrant that's expired. Just online today, paying some overdue parking fines.

That would be the doco. Yeah, I guess so. But you see why they focus more on the more exciting docos. What would your do doco. Yeah, I guess, yeah. But you see what they focus more on, the more exciting docos. What would your doco feature? Not just mundane sort of things. I'd be probably just as boring as you, to be honest.

I mean, you know, the work part of it is quite interesting. I mean, maybe not the radio where you're kind of just sitting around. Today we're sitting around saying some more words. We don't know if people are listening to these words.

Now checking some news sites, just looking through. Just thought I'd clear some emails. Someone's parked in the sales manager's car park. Oh, okay. Not me, not me, so that's fine. You know Pink, when she was in New Zealand, a friend of ours,

he was walking past her, and he worked in radio, and he was like, oh, Pink, do you want to be on the radio? And she's like, no. He's like, okay. And then they just kept walking. It was fair enough too.

She was just walking down the Queen Street. I think she had a daughter and everything and he's just like, well, why would I want to be on the radio right now? I think she was quite polite about it. Oh, that's good. She's probably like, my songs play on the radio every day.

Like I don't need to come on the radio. And if I do, I'll let you know. Yeah. And Britney Spears, obviously after the framing Britney Spears documentary came out kind of detailing the conservatorship that she's under with her father, now there's rumours going around that she is considering an interview with Oprah. So like an Oprah tell-all, kind of like the whole Harry and Meghan one.

And apparently it's because she just doesn't want other people to tell her story. So if she comes out and sees everything as it is, then, you know, they can hear it firsthand from her. And most importantly, Oprah Winfrey wants to tell her story for millions and millions of dollars. Yeah. Isn't it crazy? I was just thinking as you were saying that Britney Spears thing.

Remember that was like for one week. It was all the world was talking about. And then that died down. And then there was Meghan and Harry. That was all the world was talking about. Then that dies down. Oh, yeah. Everything just moves on, doesn't it? Speaking of things that were all the world was talking about. Then that dies down. Everything just moves on, doesn't it? Speaking of

things that all the world was talking about and dying down, it's been a year since Tiger King was released on Netflix. Remember when that was the big craze one year ago? I can vaguely remember that show. Yeah. It's weird to look back on that and be like, oh yeah, that was a thing, wasn't it? Oh, the amount of comedy jokes that Tiger King provided for everyone.

We would just be like, blah, blah, blah, Tiger King? Am I right? Am I right? Carol Baskin. Am I right? What's happening? Killed her husband. Whacked him. Well, that is Spy.

For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hips. The hits. Feeling good. We end the show on a great note, don't we? And, you know, we like to give the impression to the 10 to 9 audience that this show is full of positive vibes.

Everything's all roses on this broadcast. And we are forgiven for our sins that we've committed over the last three hours. Yeah, so why is today going to be a good day? It could be big, it could be small, whatever you want. We'd love to give you a call. One of the things I enjoyed about today already was hearing Richie McCaw playing bagpipes with the Wiggles. It happened over the weekend.

Came out on stage leading the Wiggles out. Richie McCaw and a Wiggles-inspired all-black top. And his wife said it was his greatest achievement ever. So I love that. Does she not know who she's married to? Has she checked his Wikipedia? I think she was kind of trolling him. She's like, oh, rugby.

Did you play some rugby? He's in the Wiggles trenches at the moment with the parenting period. And you just tell us what's going to be a good day in your life. Listen, it started off shaky for me, to be honest, during our Five Words $5,000 competition. A bit of a faux pas, some human error. Ben had come out of the soundproof booth. He was meant to match words with Shelly, who was

on the phone. Bucket. Oh, sorry. The second word is fountain. I wasn't waiting for this day is fountain. Oh. I was waiting for this day to come. Bucket? I was very confused.

Very confused when you came out because you said bucket and then you laughed and I was like, what's going on here? And then I realised later you meant to say fountain and what she said was bucket you wouldn't get

Jeremy Clarkson or Bradley Walsh doing that sort of stuff on their shows no yes let's kick Monday off to a

let's kick it off to a good start let's approach Monday with the energy of a Friday and just imagine it's like the end of the week

except you've got instead of two days off you've got four days of work same sort of thing okay so it's all about how you approach the day.

We'll start with Antoinette in Hellensville. Why's it going to be a good day? Antoinette. No, she's gone. We'll go to Amelia. Why's it going to be a good day in Hamilton, mate? Amelia. Yeah?

Why's it going to be a good day for you? Because I'm going to get a certificate for swimming sports because I'm so fast. Good on you, Amelia. Well, enjoy getting that certificate. We're going to send you out some hell pizza as well, all right? You have yourself a great day, New Zealand. We'll catch you tomorrow from six. Want more Jono and Ben?

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