Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 23 - Don't Ever Wish To Sit Next To Jono On A Plane...

Episode Date: March 22, 2021

Hello! On today's podcast, we discussed how Jono is a grade-A punisher on a plane. He's someone you DO NOT want to end up sitting next to. So if you ever end up next to him, we recommend asking to move seats! We also chatted about people's smart pets and went on a mission to find the smartest ones in NZ - and it seems that cats are smarter than dogs. Finally, Jono got into an internet wormhole about Coca-Cola (when is he NOT in an internet wormhole!?), so he decided to present some interesting facts about the drink. Enjoyyyyyyy!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 Tuesday, the 23rd of March.

Lovely to have you here, Ben Boyce. You're looking bright. You're looking sparkly. All right. Look at those dreamy little eyes of yours. Oh, have you here, Ben Boyce. You're looking bright. You're looking sparkly. You know, those dreamy little eyes of yours. Oh my God, I'm good. Why am I looking bright and sparkly? I don't know. Have you done something different with yourself? I don't know where that compliment came from. If it is a compliment, hard to say. I'm not sure. He never knows how to take a compliment from me. No, I'm not used to them. They're very unusual. So I'm just like, yeah, okay, he's mocking me somehow. He's setting me up for something.

I'm not saying that. Just take a couple. Okay, from one guy to another. Hey, it was Chip and Dip Day here in New Zealand. Boy, oh boy, I tell you what, the public stops, the country stops for Chip and Dip Day. Overseas, if you're trying to do business with New Zealand today, sorry, sorry, we're chipping and dipping.

So we celebrated that today. Also, tell us something interesting about your job, which I found. Did you find that interesting? Did those calls play out how you wanted them to play out? I found there were some interesting things about that. I mean, that's the thing. When you start talking to someone about their job, and you're great at doing that with people.

We talk about your light banter quite a lot on this show. You do get some nuggets out of that chat. Yeah, I do get a little bit of nuggets. But I always like when you're having that convo, I'm like, I don't realise that's going to end lot on this show. You do get some nuggets out of that chat. Yeah, I do get a little bit of nuggets. But I always like when you're having that convo, I'm like, I don't realise that's going to end up on the radio. Yes, and they always do. They always do. I'm always thinking, oh, what's this person going to say to Jono

that Jono's going to go, oh, you know, I was talking to someone the other day. Yeah. Well, you're just constantly mining, aren't you? Constantly mining for this job. Yeah. The interesting fact I found out, you know, overseas apples that you might buy, how do you like them apples? Yeah. The interesting fact, I found out, you know, overseas apples

that you might buy, how do you like them apples? Yeah. Well, you're probably enjoying them, but did you know from the time they're picked to the time that you're crunching into them,

sometimes can be up to a year. Which seems like an extraordinarily long amount of time. I guess they're kept in storage, you know, chilled storage containers and stuff.

But apples, for a year. It's a long time. And then you keep them in your fridge for another. Whatever, you know. Two weeks or so. Yeah.

Yeah, that's comparing apples with oranges. Oranges don't last as long, though. Oh, no. Yeah, just this sort of six-month period. And lemons? Oh, you're going to leave me in trouble? No, I was just asking about lemons, because every day I'm like, Jono, he's going to bring in, today's the day he's going to bring in his lemons.

Yeah, I've got a lemon tree at home oh so many lemons he keeps saying oh not now because the lemons are there oh I see

conveniently they've gone but he was trying to give away lemons on the radio and I said no no no do stop because you haven't brought them in

when they bring them in we'll give away lemons for all and you're like I've got so many lemons I've got a bit of a checkered history with bringing in

personal prizes Julia did you get any lemons from Jono you've never got any no but I actually really would like some because they're so expensive at the moment. Well, you can't because there's none on my tree at the moment.

Yeah, right. Well, don't blame me. Blame the cycle of nature. You could have brought some in when you had all this. Oh, so many lemons. That's not that. Big lemons, too. I'm so jealous.

I would love some big lemons. Well, you didn't bring them in, so we'll never know. Well, I will bring them in one day. One day. So that's it on the podcast today. Tell us something interesting about your... What else? Oh, your will bring them in one day. One day. So that's on the podcast today. Tell us something interesting about your... What else? Oh, your smartest pet topic

that you brought to the show. Oh, so cats. Amazing cat stories today. Cats are doing some incredible things. I wouldn't have thought the cats were doing. Opening doors, playing hide and seek.

There was a lady who came on who repeatedly fat shamed her cat. Yes, she did actually. Thankfully the cat can't... I don't know, maybe the cats are so smart now they can listen to the radio. That's all did actually. Thankfully the cat can't, I don't know, maybe the cats are so smart now they can listen to the radio. That's all on the podcast,

so enjoy. Two dads just trying to fill some air time. Some may say it's pointless, but the main thing is it fills in some air time for us. That is the main thing. Jono and Ben,

breakfast on the hits. Yesterday, Jono, you ran your own text poll during the show, a rogue text poll. It was unsanctioned, but it was an interesting result was, how long have you lived out of a suitcase for?

Now, the rules for my text poll were your suitcase had to have arrived back from a vacation, a work trip, or whatever. It was in your house. How long did you ride it out until unpacked? And we had one from 2018. I know. Someone who hadn't unpacked their carry-on luggage from 2018. A couple of years, so it was actually quite fascinating.

So I want to run my own rogue text poll this morning. Oh, I see. You want a text poll. I thought it was quite interesting. When you're on a plane and you're travelling around New Zealand or when we're lucky enough to travel overseas, are you a talker on the plane to the person next to you or not? Like, what is the etiquette? Because we've been travelling around

with making a film on this new TV show and our director James his thing is you don't talk to the person next year, he's a really friendly, lovable guy but you don't talk to the person next year until you land and then you go so where are you going and you have a nice polite conversation because otherwise you get yourself in

potentially too deep into just chatting the whole flight and you don't want to be that person who just talks non-stop. Yeah, now this is a hole that I've found myself in on many flights. You just, from where to go, you will just keep going. I'm a talker. You're the plane punisher.

I'm a talker from pre-takeoff, takeoff, during the flight, landing, descending, even when we're off the plane and we're walking to get our luggage still talking away. Because often I'll sit next to you so sometimes it's just the two of us and we've had every conversation there is and we have a bit of a chat

I like to talk at the start and then I'm like I'll put headphones on watch something or whatever but even with you I have to keep pausing it and I'm like what's that? Oh yeah take my headphones, oh yeah, no, yeah, yeah and then we're back into it. My favourite thing is when I sit next to him and he'll be watching a movie.

I don't have headphones on. I don't watch movies. And I watch the screen and I'm like, what's happening there? What's happening there? Oh, here's the thing,

but you can watch it and be like, no, no, no. I've been on overseas flights where you refuse to wear headphones but just watch the movie

that I'm watching and then ask me what's happening. What's Dwayne the Rock Johnson doing there? What's he doing there? Oh yeah because this thing, oh okay he's avenging some sort of thing, oh okay yeah No I'm definitely the person

if you sit next to me you'll be like what are my options to put on an emergency parachute and jump out the door because I'm seriously considering that. There are three types of traveller aren't there you've got the quick greeter. Hello. Yep, that's it.

Yep. That's it. You've got someone who's going to blatantly ignore you through the whole flight. And then you've got me, the prior. Who will punish you. But that's led me into some interesting conversation. I sat next to a Kiwi lady from Wellington.

She's the chef at Buckingham Palace. Really? He gets deep, though. He gets deep. I remember we were flying back from Aussie. He sat next to the lady from the coffee club. She ran all the coffee clubs in New Zealand. And then the guy who's been in prison for 15 years.

Yeah, you do get into some really deep conversations. Really, really good. It's just like flying next to Oprah Winfrey. You're like really good. Yeah. It's just like flying next to Oprah Winfrey. You're like, really delving deep. If you want to be interviewed on a domestic or international flight, then yeah,

I'm the person for you. So 4487, I'm going to run a text file. Plane talking. Do you talk? And by talking, do you talk the whole flight?

Or just a little bit of light banter in that sense. Love to hear from you this morning. Experts in semi-accurate half-remembered information. Vaguely known information, but maybe not correct.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Now, my dog, Bo, we've talked to him many times about the dog, Bo, big, white, fluffy Samoyed. I love it when you're like, have I got anything else to talk about? Bo, what have you been doing today? Bo provides a lot of great content for this radio programme. In fact, we brought him in probably about a year ago when we announced we were doing a dog show, Dog Almighty

looking for New Zealand's most talented dog Now Bo's not talented enough to be on the show but he was talented enough to help us make the announcement Here we are looking for New Zealand's most talented dog $100,000 up for grabs and for the benefit of the dogs the dog community that may be listening right now, we thought we would get Bo to announce

Head to tvnz.co.nz $100,000 prize money TVNZ2 Loves a bark He should have been on the show if he can voice a promo like that, tell you he's got a talented dog. But one thing I did notice

that Bo's very good at picking up on, that when I go home after the radio show or even in the weekends, as soon as I put on sunscreen, he'll just be lying down, he'll be asleep. As soon as I get sunscreen, he's up and he's like, it's walk time. Oh, he knows you're heading

outside. He's either that or he's very passionate about skin cancer prevention. Might be, yeah. Hey, good, good. You don't let those melanomas get you. But it's funny. He'll be like lying in and be fast asleep and I'll try and secretly put on sunscreen. He's up and he's next to me. So you'll be at the other side of the house?

Yeah, well, no, usually in the same room. So he can smell it? I don't know. Yeah, he's like, oh, the sunscreen's out. It's time for a walk. Well, that was quite, yeah. Smart. That is smart.

And sometimes you have to go, oh, sorry, mate. It's not. I'm just putting sunscreen on. Dad's just putting sunscreen on, internal sunscreen, just in case you get burned with the lights. But I was, yeah,

I was telling this to someone in the weekend. I was talking to her at a barbecue and they were saying their dog, they pick up on something quite, what I thought was quite interesting. So when they bring out a bottle of wine,

the dog will look up and go, oh, it's just a normal bottle of wine. But when they bring out a wine with a cork, like a bubbles, the dog's like, oh, here we go, cork. There's a cork and a pop.

I get to play the game of chasing the cork around the backyard. Wow. And so the dog will know. The time-honoured game of a dog chasing the wine cork around the backyard. The dog knows it's a fun game. It's, oh, it's a Bubbles. Oh, here we go. So can he predict that it's a cork wine before they even pop it?

Yeah, so just looking at the wine and you'll go, oh, no, hang on. Oh, that's a screw top. That's a saffron. Hang on, champagne. Oh, here we go. Maybe he knows his owners get fast and loose with their dog caring once they pop that one.

That's quite impressive. So I wanted to open up the phone lines this morning. The smartest pets. What is the one thing that your pet does that would impress us and you go, oh, actually, your pet does that? That's pretty impressive. So I wanted to open up the phone lines this morning. The smartest pets. What is the one thing that your pet does that would impress us? And you go, well, actually, your pet does that. That's pretty smart. Yeah. They don't have to do it on the radio, obviously.

We won't pressure them to do it on the radio. It's an honesty system. We'll take your word for it. Like, yeah, oh, hey, my dog can solve a Rubik's Cube. Okay, thanks for your call, mate. No questions asked. My cat can recite all of Shakespeare's literature. Cool.

That's good. We won't get you to do it now. We won't get them to do it. We might ask a few questions, but we won't pull it apart. I have a weasel that can name all 50 states in America. Okay, great, that's good. You're a weasel.

I am a weasel. And every call that gets on the air today because we are celebrating Chip and Dip Day with Original Kiwi Dip, we'll give you some chip and dip to celebrate that with us. So give us a call right now. It's 0800 the hits. That's the phone number.

We'll get to Funopai. Cherie, welcome. How are you? Good, thank you. Good to have you on. I grew up in Funopai. Wonderful place. It's all housing out there.

I was on the Air Force Base when I was young, no? Oh, yeah, I worked there. Oh, you worked there? You're in the Air Force? No, I'm a civilian. Oh, worked there? You're in the Air Force? No, I'm a civilian. Oh, okay. But you worked at the Air Force? Yeah, I've been there for about 15 years now. What do you do there?

Stock controller for, yeah, aircraft and that. Oh, good on you. That's awesome. Anyway, we've figured out what you do for a crust. What's the special tricks your pets do? Got a golden Labrador called Lady. She was a rescue.

And if you say tēnā koe to her, she'll put her paw up and you can shake her hand. Oh, Lady. Oh, that's cool. Can you do it now and we'll just imagine what's happening? Oh, no, she's not at work with me. Okay, can you do it now? We'll pretend there's a dog there

and then I'll imagine what's happening. So if you just say tēnā with me. Okay, can you do it now? We'll pretend there's a dog there, and then I'll imagine what's happening. So if you just say tēnā koe. Okay, go for it. Lady, tēnā koe. Oh, adorable. That's awesome. That's awesome. We're going to send you out some Maggi onion soup

and Nestle reduced cream, so you make original kiwi dip with some chip and dip, all right? Okay, thank you. You would have thought Jesus Christ himself had invented that onion dip, but in fact it was a lady called Rosemary from South Auckland. Yeah, we spoke to her, didn't we? It's like heaven in your mouth. We'll head to Hamilton, Morena. Tina, welcome.

Hi. What does your cat do? I understand something very special. He plays hide and seek outside. Is this a game you've taught the cat to play, or the cat's just kind of... Yeah. So he's kind of an obese rag doll. So when he was young, he was really unwell.

So he's just followed me everywhere and then I'd go and hide. So he's just carried it on. But he probably weighs over 5kg. Oh, you fat shamed your cat? You fat shamed your cat twice now? Poor cat. When he runs, his moobs come out the now. Poor cat. We run to move

to come out the side so it's quite funny to watch. Oh yeah, we're really dirty but the hiding and seeking part. Yeah.

What's your cat? So if I go and hide somewhere he can't see me I just call him and he'll go running and looking for me. If he can't find me he has this

really pitiful like cry. He's like, I'm too fat to find you. I'm too chubby, mum. Adorable. Once he finds me, he acts dumb and then I go and hide

somewhere else and then he'll come find me again. That is very cute. We're going to send you out some chip and dip, alright? Thanks. Hey, good on you. Misha, you're on from Taranaki. Your cat, another cat. Cats are smart. What's your one doing? Hi.

Good morning. My cats like to knock on the door, and they open the sliding doors as well. I've got two cats and my sisters, and, yeah, they will knock at the door until I open it for them. Just knock, knock, knock. You'll be sitting there, like, what's that? And it's the cats knocking.

Hold on. How do they knock? Their paws traditionally are quite knock, knock, knock. Like you'll be sitting there and be like, what's that? And it's the cats knocking. Hold on, how are they knocking? Their paws traditionally are quite soft. Soft, yeah. Yeah, they will scratch and yeah,

I don't know how they make it knock but they do. You're like, the cats are the cats. Yeah, and then you'll just hear the sliding,

like you'll be sitting in the lounge and you'll hear the sliding doors just open and it's like, what's that? And it's the cats opening it to get to their food

and stuff like that. If they knock and you're not opening the door, they're like, oh, we'll just do it ourselves. Go around the side. Yeah. And they will, like if I go from the kitchen to the lounge, where like, because there's a sliding door in the lounge, they will run around to there and knock there

until I open it for them and they won't stop. Gee, cats are smart. Yeah. I feel like they've got something. They know something's going to happen. They've got something planned for about five or ten years, the cats, and they'll get revenge on us for feeding them whiskers for all this time. Hannah, welcome. We'll take one more from Christchurch.

Your dog does what? Does what? Knows about umbrellas and rain. So wherever it's raining, he runs up to the door and then grabs an umbrella out of our little umbrella stand and just runs around the house with it. Awful. With the umbrella in his mouth?

Yeah. Well, I tell you what, he can spit the umbrella out, put some chips in his mouth, then dip those chips in the original Kiwi dip because that's what we're going to give you for chip and dip day, okay? Oh, awesome. Thank you. 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 bestowed. I was at the dairy yesterday afternoon and something that all small dairies have done for many years, for generations. Rebelliously sold cans

of Coca-Cola, which clearly have not for individual sale on them. Oh, you see that a wee bit, right? And you're like, I don't know what the punishment is for this despicable crime. Is it death? Is it a crime? I don't know if it is.

Because obviously they've got rights to sell Coke and Coca-Cola products and things like that anyway. Yeah, but they choose to be bad to the bone and sell... You can sort of almost taste the rebellion, can't you, when you have a not-for-individual sale can of soft drink? But yeah, no, apparently... Now, producer Humphrey's done a little bit of digging into this. The reason that they have not-for-individual sale...

So maybe the owner of the dairy's gone to the supermarket, bought them as a bulk, but they don't have barcodes on them, the individual cans. Ah, right. So they can't be traced back if there's any product malfunctions or anything. Obviously, the barcode would have been on the cardboard box,

which was housing the dozen cans or whatever. Gotcha. So you could put its own barcode on it in the dairy, and it's fine. So they're not breaking any laws or anything like that. No. I had a friend who worked for Coke and apparently their phone lines every day are flooded up with people wanting to knock on dairy owners

selling not for individual sale. And they're like, how much free Coke can you get if I give you some Intel on a dairy that's peddling you not for individual cans? And they're like, oh. That's what I'm saying. We don't really know. No. Yeah.

It's kind of a, this is what it's come to. Jacinda, she launched it in COVID. We were meant to kindly narc on everyone. That's right. Now we're a nation of narcs. Even narcing on poor dairy owners. Just selling coke like they normally would. I've gone into another internet hole.

Oh, you love your internet holes. This is an internet wormhole on coke facts. Would you like them? There are 25 of them. I'll front foot it. Producer Juliet, can we just have a moment with me and Juliet

just for a second? So how many are we going to go with? 25's a lot, right? Let's go three. Three, okay. Three. I could hear you the whole time. That's all right.

I've got headphones on. When you say 25 facts about Coke, we both go... As long as they're quick facts. Sorry, they have to be quick as well? Yeah. Or just don't dawdle too long. Okay, this is quite interesting.

Coke was originally marketed to cure many ailments, including low libido. Okay. Really? One of you's impressed. Ben's like, hmm. It's a low libido, okay. Yeah, give me a bit more pep in your step, all right?

Yeah, speaking of pep in your step, cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola. What? In 1903. It was one of the main ingredients. That was a wild, wild. They were all moaning about sugar levels, but gee, what was the alternative? Was that actually legit? In 1903.

Wow. That's good. That's good. And did you know Coca-Cola's in every country in the world, apart from two? North Korea. Right. And Cuba. Cuba?

Yeah. Cuba. Okay. Now, were they interesting facts or were they not interesting Coke facts? No, two were good. Two were good, yeah. What do you mean two were good?

The first one was watery, but... It was sugary, actually. But you pulled it back for the next test. There you go. That's interesting. Next, we want to road test a brand new game. It's the Google Games. Basically, it involves the three of us speed Googling

and you trying to catch us out. And I think we've got some prizes up for grabs. Yeah, we've got Chip and Dip to give away. So give us a call right now. 0800 the hits. Play the Google Games with us. Should we go to Leanne in Wellington? How's the capital this morning, Leanne?

Hi, how are you? We're doing well. What do you do? Oh, I'm just on my way to work. Oh, very nice. Now, oh, sorry. I made this awkward.

Unnecessarily so as well. Hey, Leanne, sorry. How did I make that awkward? I don't know. It was pretty textbook up until then. And then for some reason, you stumbled. It made Leanne stumble.

It was like the office was having free-flowing banter and I popped along and everyone went, oh, okay, he's here. I reason you stumbled it made Leanne stumble it was like it was like the office was having free-flowing banter and I popped along everyone went oh I'm sorry about him Leanne let's go back to work okay alright

what do you want us to google we'll see if we can do it in 10 seconds is this you or me yeah I'll have a crack okay Jono first what's the question Leanne okay how long

does it take to make an episode of The Simpsons to make oh good question I want to know the answer my son's obsessed with The Simpsons? Oh, good question. I want to know the answer. My son's obsessed with The Simpsons at the moment. I don't care about your banter.

How long does it take? Around six months! Around six months! We just got it nearly in. That's six months. Apparently the animation's still hand-drawn instead of being drawn by a computer. So it takes that amount of time. We're going to send you out some chip and dip.

Yes, we are, mate. We to send you out some chip and dip. Oh, no, no, we're not. Yes, we are. I've got the answer. Everyone that got on the chip and dip, we'll send you some as well too, Joe. He feels guilty about the fumbly start there. Okay. Okay, Joe, you're up next.

The Google Games. Ben, boys, warm up those fingers. Those bony little fingers. All right, they're on. The Google is open. What's the question you want to ask me? Are you ready? How much did E.T ET earn at the box office?

How much did ET earn? ET. Worldwide. At the box office. Stop saying more things. Worldwide. Worldwide. It's such a four.

Oh, no. Oh, jeez. Worldwide. $792 million, I think. But I didn't get there in time. Joe, can I just ask you, what other important life information have you dropped out of your brain to remember the international box office earnings of ET?

I know, right? Only $435 million at the domestic box office, but a lot more at the worldwide. Well done, you've got some chip and dip coming your way. We'll take Nicole from Auckland. How are you, Nicole? Good morning. How are you?

We do well. It's the Google Games. It's high pressure. Listen, Juliet, you can have a crack at this one. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. All right. She's young.

She's nimble. And she's got quicker fingers than us. So what's your question, Nicole? What city crosses two continents? What city crosses two continents? What city crosses two continents? Istanbul. Istanbul? I'm just going to, yeah.

Nicole's holding off giving us the answer, so we reach the 10-second mark. Was it Istanbul? Oh, Nicole. That's a good question. What's our river? Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the fifth largest city in the world by population,

is considered European, yet it occupies two different continents. Wow. What did we do before the internet? What did we do? You tell me what we did. Yeah. Well, you couldn't.

I read something yesterday that said if you wanted to see a photo of a raccoon before the internet, you'd have to go to the library. And if you want a raccoon and a silly hat, forget about it. You could never see that photo until the internet came along. That's right. And I was like, it's very true.

I read that yesterday on social media. So thank goodness for the internet. Thank you for playing the Google Games. It'll be back. It was a good road test. I think we'll bring the Google Games back. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits.

The hits. Five words for. Breakfast on the hits. The hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our Game of Words Association. We tell you five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your head. If they match up with our words, you win five grand. It is.

People come up to us and say, like, you're the hosts of their game show. Five words. We're like, no, we do other radio either side of the game show but this is quickly taking over as the most popular part. We'll go to the Hawke's Bay. Nikki, you're on. Oh, hi guys. Good to have you on. How's Hawke's Bay this morning? It's good,

Johnny. I'm just up here looking to buy a house and relocating from Wellington. Are we even in the Hawke's Bay? No, no, no. I just know what time you guys play so I flew to the phone. Oh, you just fluttered. Yeah. You fluttered.

You listen on iHeartRadio, Jono. You're everywhere. So, yeah. Oh, there's options nowadays, aren't there? You're right. Yeah, okay. That's a good play, though, Nicky. That's impressive.

Our renegade listener from the Hawke's Bay, Nicky, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth? I'm going to play Jono. Oh, Jono. Oh, Jono. Yeah, Jono won the last person to win anyone any money. Was that with Jono? Was it me? I think it was.

Please don't answer. Oh, was it me? Yeah, you did. Just try and give me some confidence. Oh, that was me. Oh, sorry about that. Yeah, no. Oh, sorry.

That's right. You'll now have to mention I was the last person. Okay, Jono making his way into the corner of the studio, into the soundproof booth. He's shutting in the door behind him. You know how the game works, Nicky? Yeah, I do. Okay, here is your first word this morning.

It's bulb. B-U-L-B. Bulb. Light. Producer Juliet. That's the one I had. Okay. Promising.

Your next word is alphabet. Alphabet. Soup. Alising. Your next word is alphabet. Alphabet. Soup. Alphabet soup. Yeah, nice. Oh, yeah. I've never had alphabet soup, but I've always wanted to have it. Neither.

It looks like a lot of fun. The next word, Nikki, is roast. Chicken. Okay, that's good. Oh. Oh, she's thinking about it. Yeah, now I'll go. Chicken or lamb boy. Oh, no, go, go, go. Chicken and a lamb boy.

Oh, John, he hasn't got a very advanced palate. Yeah, he doesn't. But Roast is in his wheelhouse, so that's fine. Whistle is the next word. Whistle. That's tough. Umpire? Okay, that's a good idea.

And final word this morning, Nicky, some tough words for you this morning. Office. Office. Desk. Office desk. Those are your five words, Nicky. Yeah, some tough ones there,

but we'll see if he can connect up with Jono. He's looking away. He's quite dazed. I'm giving him a big wave. He's coming back out now. I did my hip. How did you injure yourself going into the South Perth booth? I did my hip, and now I'm running like Joe Biden

trying to prove that he's physically able to be a president. How did Nicky go? They were pretty good. She answered quickly, but there's some very tough words in there too. So not what you want to hear coming out. Not what Nikki wants to hear. But, well, you never know.

Okay. Well, Nikki's come in the back door for five words from the Hawke's Bay. Yeah. And it's wonderful to have you on. Let's see what we can do for you. The first word I said to Nikki was bulb. B-U-L-B, bulb. B-U-L-B bulb. Did he make a cheap gag that my head looks like a light bulb, Nicky?

You can be honest. No, you don't say anything, Ben. Did he say anything like that, Nicky? We're all thinking it. Light bulb. Yeah, he's right. It's lights. Yeah, well done. No, don't go there. He looks like a light bulb. Oh, the bald emoji. It's lights. Yeah, well done. No, don't go there. He always looks like a light bulb.

Oh, the bald emoji. That's what I send you. On the phone, just a light bulb. Okay, the next word we said to Nicky was alphabet. Alphabet. Alphabet soup. He's got two. Even though I've never had alphabet soup, I don't know what...

Oh, that's what we were saying. No, neither have I. We've never had it, but it looks like a lot of fun. Well, I guess so. In the world of soups, it's probably the most exciting. It's not every day you can write stuff with your meal. Okay. Roast was word number three.

Roast. Oh, that's a wide one. Yeah. I know. I'm just going to go roast meal. Oh, no, Nicky. Oh, no.. I'm just going to go roast meal. Oh! No, Nicky!

No! I know. The team of five million are upset. Again, old hips McGee. Joe Biden over here. Put it on my old age, Nicky. What did you go? Chicken. Roast chicken. Oh, there was lamb. Yeah, there's a lot of options for that one. The next word was whistle. Blower. You're letting the other team again, there was lamb. Yeah, there's a lot of options for that one. The next word was whistle.

Blower. No, you're letting the other team again, Pryor. And finally, office. Supplies. Okay, it started so well. You don't need to make the sound effect with your mouth. Juliet's playing it. That's degrading enough.

Nicky, I'm so sorry I couldn't come through for you today. Oh, good. That's a tough word to play again, though, Nicky. That was lots of fun. Good on you. You look after the Hawke's Bay for us. It's all on you, okay? Yeah.

You're our only listener in the Hawke's Bay, the renegade listener listening on iHeartRadio. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. Bye. No, what's up?, spy.co.nz. If a celebrity slips up, she's there ready to catch them on the way down and then rub their face in it with spy.

What's happening this hour, Juliet? So Orlando Bloom has been mercilessly mocked online for his daily routine or his morning routine, you could say. Now, he did an interview and was asked about what his, like an average day in Orlando Bloom's life would look like. He went into a lot of detail and everyone was like, this is the most unique day anyone could have. So he wakes at 6.30.

He checks his watch to see the quality of sleep he's had that night. Then he ingests a concoction of green powders and octane oil, or whatever that is, for his health and brain power. Wow. He then goes for a hike, listening to Stone Temple Pilots or Nirvana. He spends some time each day building Lego. He also, because he's a practicing Buddhist as well, he spends some time doing some Buddhist chants.

Yeah. And he's also, you know, you need to remember, he's also got, I think, a seven-year-old with Miranda Kerr and a seven-month-old, or a young boy with Miranda Kerr and also a seven-month-old with Katy Perry that he has to... So no parenting's kind of squeezed into the daily routine. No, it's not that. When you're a Buddha and then you've also got to, you know,

walk through the hills listening to Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots, you've also got to walk through the hills listening to Nirvana and Stone Temple Pilots. You've got no time for your kids. Well, I think a few people have said that checking your sleep app to see how well you've slept when you've got a seven-month-old is not normally getting great results. But for him, obviously, maybe he is. Jeez, I feel he must burn a lot of energy, though.

Have you seen the paddleboard photo? Oh, yeah. Lugging that thing through the hills. Gee whiz, you'd be burning some cardio, wouldn't you? Even getting out of bed would be a... He's having a drink. You're right, getting out of bed is enough. There's no type of parenting when you're managing that.

Oh, dear God. But, yes, I mean, when you're that famous and rich, you can kind of get away with doing everything. And he probably has nannies. You'd think so, because they both lead, well, he sounds like he doesn't lead much of a busy lifestyle, but Katy Perry certainly... Maybe they should have picked a day when he was working on set,

but he decided to pick a day where he was just sort of hanging out at home. Yeah, yeah, true. And trending now at the moment are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. They're currently battling in court over custody of their six children. Now, there's some heavy stories coming out around this that she has allegedly said that there was some abuse involved, whether or not that's going to be, that's true,

or it's probably being investigated at the moment. But their son, Maddox, has now used Jolie as his surname amid this custody battle and has testified against his father in court, which is a bit interesting. So I'm not sure how much of this or how much more of this will get published to the media, but I feel like this might just be the beginning.

Oh, listen, a breakup's not fun in any sense, whether you're Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or whether you're Brian and Jeanette from Hokutika. Sorry, Brian and Jeanette, for hearing your dirty laundry. But, you know, splitting up a family, the kids kind of going back and forth. And playing out all through the media like this as well. It's horrible for everyone.

That's the tough thing about being in the public eye. Everything just gets made public. It feels like that's dragged on for quite a while, though. They've been apart for about three years, haven't they? Yeah, so the divorce has been settled and that's all final, but now it's just the custody over the children that's being decided. So, yeah, we're not sure how that'll

all pan out, but that's kind of all in the news headlines at the moment. What would you do? I know you said one of the silver linings of a family that was apart, Ben, was double Christmas presents. Well, true. Yeah, well you do get that as well. And in the end, it works out for the best, I think, as well. And hopefully in this situation

it is. I mean, people don't need to stay together if it's not working out. No. There's no rule to say. You know, sometimes people are a lot happier when they do go their separate ways. What do you mean? I thought, looking at old sort of 80-year-old couples, you're meant to stay together. You dig it in. You dig it in. You detest each other for 40 years

and then it all ends. Yeah. Well, that's the roller coaster. Oh, no, no. It can be. No, you're right, though. But if two people don't get along, then it's no good for the kids anyway. No, exactly.

They're like, oh, our parents are miserable. Yeah, yeah, exactly. They can be a lot happier sometimes. For sure. And that is Spy. For more, you can head to the hits.co.nz. They're proud of New Zealand. Woo!

Go New Zealand! If only New Zealand was proud of them Zealand go New Zealand if only New Zealand was proud of them Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast on the hits it is chip and dip day we're celebrating all day

with original kiwi dip a perfect excuse to gather with friends and family treat yourself to the ultimate snack combo and every caller that calls up will get

themselves some chip and dip today you're always saying treat yourself to the ultimate snack combo it's vernacular you're always using in conversation but it is the ultimate snack combo. It's vernacular you're always using in conversation. But it is the ultimate snack combo.

Your chips almost feel naked don't they when they emerge from a packet and there's no dip covering them. The chips are probably like ooh. Well yeah this morning right now we wanted to know a bit of a fact about your workplace or somewhere that you work that would wow us. And actually speaking of chip and dip we still have Rosemary

around. Now Rosemary was the inventor of chip and dip and we still have Rosemary around. Now, Rosemary was the inventor of chip and dip, and she, many, many years ago, she was working for Nestle, she combined the two for the first time ever. I tried it with cream first. It wasn't very good. And then I thought, well, this is crazy, because we've

got a cream, the reduced cream, so I put it with that, and it just happened. Just happened. Yeah. Rosemary around. Mist with that and it just happened. Just happened? Yeah. That was a mistake. Mistake that happened and what a great little combination. And we're honouring that mistake with National, oh no, Chip and Dip Day. Not National Chip and Dip Day, but it is International Puppy Day as well.

A lot of stuff. Don't dip puppies in onion dip. No, don't get them confused. Yeah, in the original Kiwi Dip. But we wanted to open up the phones right now. Oh, 800, the hits. You tell us something about your job that would make us go, oh, yeah.

Yeah, like to impress us, yeah. Yeah, something mildly interesting. I was talking to a gentleman yesterday who works for Pack and Save. And did you know Pack and Save and Palmerston North have a giant warehouse? It's enormous. Don't tell Palmerston North this, but I think Palmerston North is just one big warehouse. They're all living in giant warehouse. It's enormous. Don't tell Palmerston North this, but I think Palmerston North is just one big warehouse.

They're all living in a warehouse. But this is a transit centre for all the items that go to pack and saves around the country. Oh, wow. And the trucks go in, he said, it goes on as far as the eyes can see. For the whole country. Everywhere the light touches.

Just goods. It's like a car. And this will be yours all one day. This giant Pagan Saint warehouse in Palmerston North. Little stick man. But yeah, I thought it was amazing. So all the trucks go there and then they distribute it around the... In Palmerston North.

And he said during... He's like, it's usually just, as you can imagine, just full to the gunnels with product. But he said during lockdown, the first lockdown last year was wild. You couldn't even move in it. Wow. As far as the eyes could see. So that made me go, oh, yeah.

So that's the sort of thing we want. I know 800 the hits are, 4487. There's something that made you go, oh, yeah. Your job. Radio's not really one of those jobs that has a lot of things that make you go, oh, yeah, is it? Really? Well, the main one would probably be if you phone up and request a song, we're never going

to play it. Well, we can't. We can't. Yeah. Some shows have request shows. Yeah, we'll lie to you and say we will play it. Well, no. But then we never get around to it.

But we were not a request show, but we don't have any like we don't get to pick the music that we play because obviously someone who knows people that know what they're doing a lot more than us

get to decide on it yeah a lot of people think that we just roll in here with our compact discs we're like oh yeah we'll play some Betty right now

and they'll play some Lady Gaga it's all very heavily researched the music isn't it to see what people are liking what trends are

happening exactly but yeah if anyone ever tells you they're going to get your song on next, they're not. And also, have you heard of Spotify? So give us a call right now, 0800 THE HITS. You can get some chip and dip if you give us a call.

What's a fact about a place that you've worked or you're working that would impress us and make us go, oh, yeah. We'll go to Stephanie. Welcome from Auckland. Morena. Morning. Make us go, oh, yeah. We'll go to Stephanie. Welcome from Auckland. Morena. Morning. Make us go, oh, yeah, about your job. Okay, so I

work at Macca's. It's a great place to work at. It has its perks. Are you loving it? Definitely. Definitely. We've had, like, it's kind of like from buying Definitely. Definitely. We've had like, it's kind of like from buying food to when you're actually behind it all and seeing it made. It's really fascinating seeing the patties and the nuggies and all that.

I can imagine it being, yeah. Because it would be a military operation, McDonald's, behind the scenes. Yeah, it's like a, because I work at one of the franchises that basically, like, it's kind of like a busy place. Like, in Auckland,

it's probably, like, one of the busiest ones. And so, like, I just finished a, like, an overnight shift, I think. And so, basically, like, the Nuggies, like, it's just, like, an overnight shift, I think. And so, basically, like, the nuggies, like, it's just, like, how many people order, like, so much, like, nuggets. Like, it's just, like, wow. Yeah, right. Producer Humphrey's saying you've got something about onions

that'll make us go, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, basically, how the, um, some of the, hopefully hopefully the viewers who are listening don't feel disgusted after this. So basically the onions, they're like bought in like in a, you know how you do like an onion chip dip type thing? Yeah. You basically put it into like a bowl or something like that. Yeah. And you put water in it and you let it sit for about like an hour and then it dissolves magically into onions.

Oh, so it's kind of like dried and then they kind of... Okay. Oh, yeah. Thank you, Stephanie. Yeah, it makes sense. Appreciate your call. Thank you very much. Laura, you're on from Wellington.

How are you? Good. How are you? Good. Thank you very much. Can you tell us about your place that you work that would impress us? So I'm a professional dog walker, as they say, and I walk about 20 k's a day with dogs.

Oh, yeah. That is impressive. I even get like regular free active wear. Oh, why do you get free active wear? Because you're so active. The dogs, of course. Oh, the dogs. Uniform.

That's awesome. You must be super fit from doing that job. Yeah, sure, but yeah. Ben, you're an unprofessional dog walker. Laura's in the professional category. I'm having to do it because no one else does at the end of the day. Anyone walk the dog? Okay, oh, wow.

Sometimes he gets home at 10 o'clock at night and they're like, who's walked the dog? No one. And he's out there loving life. Now, have you ever lost a dog, Laura, in your job? Not yet. Okay. Well, that's ever lost a dog, Laura, in your job? Not yet. Okay. Well, that's good because it wouldn't be a great advert. And do you walk like multiple ones at the same time?

Yes. The most I've walked is 12 at a time. It's usually like five. At that stage, they're pulling you along like Santa on a sleigh, I imagine. Yes. Yeah. I mean, I imagine. Yes, yeah. I mean, I'm trying to get into the training as well

so I can try to get them to heal, but it is what it is. Hey, good on you. Thank you very much, Laura. Appreciate that. We'll take one more. Tanya, you're on from Christchurch. Make us go, oh, yeah, with your job. Hi.

Yeah, I used to work at a service deli, and we used to get, like, all the different dented cans and things like that that was around the supermarket. And I made pizza, and one day I made pizza, and I put fruit salad on it and put it out to sell, and someone brought it, and afterwards I felt a bit bad because I don't think it would be very nice. Oh, you sold someone a prank pizza?

Yeah, a fruit salad. Yeah, I would have liked to have seen their faces after when they cooked it up. Did they order it? What did they order? Well, we just used to make them up and put them in like the chillers. And they would just look at them and buy them. Oh, right. So this was, they took it home.

Look, family, what I provided. They're like, oh, yeah. Oh, well, chip and dip coming your way for your prank pizza as well. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, we're reading some news out of the US that if you get your COVID-19 vaccination, Krispy Kreme, the donut store, they're sweetening the deal, literally. They're giving free donuts to anyone with proof of vaccination. Now, it says all year long.

All year? What? So if I get a jab, I can have a donut a day for an entire 12 months? Surely that's alright. It's a shocking promotion. From a business point of view, it's a shocking promotion. Can go back every day and continue getting free donuts throughout all of 2021? Surely not. That seems too many donuts. Well, listen, if you

don't die of COVID, you might die of diabetes. Yeah, should we give Krispy Kreme in America a call? Krispy Kreme. Hello, how are you? I'm fine. Now, listen, I heard that if I can prove that I've had the vaccination, I can get free Crispy Cream Donuts for an entire year. You get one, you get just one donut to show your vaccination card. Oh, not a year's worth. The program is going on for the whole year.

Oh, the program. But it's not like you come every day and every day. Oh, yeah, because we're ringing from New Zealand, the radio station in New Zealand. We just heard about it. We're like, wow, this is amazing. But it makes sense now. Thank you.

Yeah, my friend was like, everyone gets free donuts for an entire year. And I thought this is going to sink the Krispy Kreme donut empire. No, I don't think so. Now, maybe I need to read it again. My impression of when I read it was it lasts

the whole year no matter when you get vaccinated within this year. That makes sense. We get it now. Thank you for clearing that up.

I'm looking on your website. You also get a free donut on your birthday as well. But you gotta sign up for the reward. You gotta sign up for those Krispy Kreme rewards.

Are you actually selling any donuts or just giving them away? You wouldn't believe the amount we sell. That's why we're so freely to give. Oh, that's lovely. It's a lovely thing you're doing. You stay safe, and, yeah, we'll talk to you soon. You have a good day. Thank you so much.

Bye-bye. Yeah, we'll talk to you soon. You didn't believe what you were saying. She didn't believe what you were saying. Bye-bye. Yeah, we'll talk to you soon. Oh, I can't wait. You didn't believe what you were saying. She didn't believe what you were saying. No one in that conversation involved were like, I didn't know how to wrap it up. We will never talk soon again.

We'll never even talk again. You know, when will you speak to that lovely lady again? We never. She was lovely. She was. I would like to speak to her again, but we all know we won't. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes.

Mmm. Shona and Ben, breakfast on the hits. It is chip and dip day today. We're celebrating chip and dip day today with Original Kiwi Dip. Oh, summer, summertime, Original Kiwi Dip. Who knew there was a chip and dip day? Why is it randomly on a Tuesday? I don't care.

I don't want to ask any questions because finally there is something whiter and squidgier on the show than me. That's all I'm happy about. Of course, original Kiwi dip, Maggi, onion soup and Nestle reduced cream make up a delicious combination. And we, in fact, spoke to Rosemary Mount, who was the lady who invented

this taste sensation many years ago. I tried it with cream first. It wasn't very good. And then I thought, well, this is crazy because we've got a cream, the reduced cream, so I put it with that and it just happened. It just happened. Oh, no. It just happened. Yesterday we did a Funwheel thing, actually. You'll be

able to see it later on the Hits Breakfast Instagram and Facebook. We had two remote control trucks, one with chip and one with dip in it. And we drove it around town and drove them up to people and if people scooped a chip in the dip, they won a thousand bucks. Well, we didn't, I know, it was a lot of money.

It was wild. We gave away three grand in the park. Yeah, that's how much we're celebrating chip. We were sort of lurking around trees and it was an odd scene, but then once the money was handed over, all was forgiven. But what we didn't factor in is where we were filming,

it was under trees and a lot of twigs and leaves ended up in the dip. So it was chips and dip, twigs and leaves. But it was worth $1,000. Oh, totally. How amazing is that? So how are we celebrating today? Every caller that gets on the show today

wins chip and dip for chip and dip day. Every single, so you could say right now, 0800 the hits, call right now, and we'll give you chip and dip. We could, but will we take a call right now? Yeah, well, let's just see if anyone phones through. Oh, we could do. We'll pad for some time, and Brian's come through from Greymouth. Thanks for saving our ass, Brian.

Yeah, very good. Yeah, good. Wonderful save. How's Greymouth this morning? Another beautiful day down here in Paradise. I tell you what, it's got a whole load better because you've just got some free original Kiwi dip, Brian.

Sounds lovely. And some chips. Do they like that in Greymouth? Goes good with a beer. They probably use rocks. They dip rocks into the dip and eat the rocks. That's how hard they are in Greymouth. Have a great day. We appreciate you listening to the show, my friend. Cheers.

Thank you. Do you know I've got the uncanny knack of being able to clear a whole bowl of dip with only three or four scoops? I could take three or four chips and just load it on. I'm a dip hog. You always know there are those people

that are dip hogs. They are a dip head. The ratio is not... Hey, I'm not being racist. No, sorry. The ratio of dip is too much for the chip. Yeah. And you people judge.

I judge those people. I like to weigh it down. Oh, mate. I like to have my mouth wide open. I like bits dribbling down on my chin. Yeah. And then someone will go, I need a bit more chip with your dip there, mate.

You know, there'll be someone saying that in a passive-aggressive way. I'm just saying, hey, just watch it, mate. There's dips for everyone. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits.

Now, yesterday, actually, we mentioned we were walking around town just by chance holding a couple of instruments from the show that we'd borrowed for something we wanted to use. I was carrying a saxophone case. Ben, you were carrying a gat, as we call it in the game. A guitar. It was my daughter's. It's what us musos call them, Juliet.

You wouldn't understand. Right, no. See, underneath the guitar bag, it was my daughter's pink guitar I was carrying around for her. But from the outside, you know, we looked like we were musicians. Someone came up to us and goes, hey, I know you guys.

And we're like, yeah, yeah. And they're like, you're musicians. And magicians. Magicians. John, I can make his hair magically disappear. It's his favourite track. So we got a bit more respect, didn't we, for being musicians? We did, yeah.

People confused us for being in a band and it felt good, although that respect in a 24-hour period quickly diminished, didn't it? It went, didn't it? Yeah. So, person, we're very desperate for any attention. Yes. You know, low level crap liberties. Yeah.

And when someone says, hey, can I have a photo? We'll move in. We'll move in. A lot of the times they're like, can you just take a photo of me next to this monument? But we've bullied our way into the photo. And so then we're having a photo with this person and we do a thing that we've done for many years.

We've traded off it. Ben points at them. I either do a peace sign. Oh, that is so classic. Or a double thumbs up in the photo. Big, big crap eating grin. Smiling ear to ear. And take the photo, move on with the day,

get on to the next one. Although this person after the photo reviewed it, didn't they? Yeah, they said, can we get one more when you're not being dicks in it? I was like, uh-oh,

I've done this for like a decade. We're dick pics. Yeah, this is what they were like. This is what they talk about. It's us two in a photo. I think that's right.

Yeah. So we're like, oh, okay. So we took a photo a bit more responsibly, I guess. So you guys pointing and doing the peace sign makes you guys look like dicks.

It's the basic silly photo, you know? It's a thing that traditionally the white person for some reason decides to do a serious photo and then we're like, shall we all do a silly one? And like a second one. Why don't you just take either a silly one or whoever goes back and goes, here's the serious one.

Wait for it. Wait for it. They all get crazy in this one. This was just moments later. Look at everyone's expression, James. Look at Jeannie. She's got her tongue out. Oh, look.

Someone's got nanner in her headlock. Nanner in her headlock. So, yeah, now it's got us second guessing our photo technique. I felt like when your mum would say that to you as a kid. You know, and you're like, oh, okay. Didn't really realise I was doing that.

Yeah, so we're going to be deadpan straight. But you know the favourite photo I have ever seen of someone was a friend of ours worked for a record company and had a photo with Eminem. Remember that? Oh, yeah, that's right. And Eminem, it was before his show in Wellington,

and they kind of presented him with a plaque of, oh, well done, you've sold X amount of records in New Zealand. And he's holding this plaque. Everyone in the photo is smiling. Everyone's beaming record company people, like, loving it. They're meeting Eminem. I mean, it's a great moment. I mean, you feel obliged. Everyone in the photo is smiling. Everyone's beaming record company people like loving it. They're meeting Eminem. I mean, it's a great moment. I mean, you feel obliged to smile in a photo too,

but let alone when you've got Eminem there. And he is standing there like he is hating life. I don't know what the opposite of smiling is, but Eminem is somehow managing to do it. I don't know if it was Slim Shady or Marshall who turned up that day, but they were not in the mood for a photo. It's a great photo though,

because he's just like... You've sold a million records. It's almost like it's made him upset. Not good enough. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. Scrolling through your feed.

Alright, it's time for the hardest hitting news update on radio. That's right, Mike's Minute can be heard right now on Newstalk ZB. In the meantime, here's Ben banging on about some news he kind of knows about. Yeah, well, there's some terrible flooding going on right now in New South Wales. We're really feeling for our Aussie neighbours over there with all that going on. Jeez, they get fires, floods, crazy climate. It's horrible. Many residents have had to escape their homes because of the flood water.

Thankfully, no one has perished from the floods. But what has happened also, because the residents have left and because there's a lot of flood waters, it's not just people fleeing, it's the wildlife as well. You've got thousands of spiders and snakes in particular basically trying to go to higher ground and going into people's houses as the people leave them. And there's this video during the rounds

of just thousands and thousands of wolf spiders calling up this garage in New South Wales, just trying to get to higher ground. You're like, oh, oh, oh, oh. Just kind of gives you, ooh. Jeez, the clean-up's going to be a nightmare. Imagine the insurance companies over there. They'll just be paying out for...

I know, but imagine coming home to your house and it's full of snakes and spiders. Actually, we spoke to a lady, Suzanne, who used to live in Darwin. Oh, yeah, Suzanne's phoned up a couple of times. Nothing fazes Suzanne. No, she lived in Darwin, and I think this fell from her roof.

Have a listen. Well, whilst I was living in Darwin, I was fast asleep, and next thing all I heard and felt like when I turned on the light there was a three metre python laying on my bed.

No! Oh my goodness. So what happened after that? Well, I grabbed my cat so she wasn't dinner and called the snake catcher and he came and caught the snake and got rid of it.

Yeah, she's also been in a plane that was about to go down and crash, and she had the same demeanour there too. Yeah. Very relaxed individual. But you would be if you're surrounded by them all the time. I guess you become used to it. We're just not used to that sort of thing in New Zealand.

It's like us with, you know, kākāpō. People might be like, oh, my God, you're next to a kākāpō. No, it's not the same. No, it's not the same. And this is, we've been talking about this off-air, not on the radio, but about Krispy Kreme in America. Now, they're running a promotion at the moment. If you get your COVID-19 vaccination, you get a free Krispy Kreme donut.

By the way it's worded, we're trying to work out, is it free donuts every day for a year? Surely it's not. So everyone in America who gets vaccinated gets free donuts every day for an entire year. It's giving away free donuts to anyone with proof of vaccination all year long. All you need to show your vaccinated card to redeem your donut. And you can go back.

Vaccinated individuals can go back every single day and continue getting free donuts throughout 2021. Surely not. It's like this seems, whoever came up with this idea is probably going to be fired in about a month. Yeah, there's so many donuts. A year of donuts. Like Deirdre. You're sinking Krispy Kreme. All we're doing is giving away free.

Can we go through, Jude? Yeah. To Krispy Kreme. I've got a number here for Los Angeles. So we'll just dial through and see what the T's and C's are with this. Hello, how are you? I'm fine. Now, listen, I heard that if I can prove that I've had the vaccination, I can get free Krispy Kreme donuts for an entire year.

You get just one donut to show your vaccination card. Oh, not a year's worth. The program is going on for the whole year. Oh, the program. But it's not like you come every day and every day. Oh yeah, because we're ringing from

New Zealand, a radio station in New Zealand. We just heard about it. We're like, wow, this is amazing. But it makes sense now. My friend was like, everyone gets free donuts for an. We're like, wow, this is amazing. But it makes sense now. Thank you. Yeah, my friend was like, everyone gets free donuts for an entire year. And I thought, this is going to sink the Krispy Kreme donut empire. No, I don't think so. Now, maybe I need to read it again.

But my impression of when I read it was, it lasts a whole year, no matter when you get vaccinated within this year. That makes sense. We get it now. Thank you for clearing that up. I'm looking on your website. You also get a free this year. That makes sense. We get it now. Thank you for clearing that up. I'm looking on your website. You also get a free donut on your birthday as well. But you've got to sign up for the rewards.

You've got to sign up for those Krispy Kreme rewards. Are you actually selling any donuts or just giving them away? You wouldn't believe the amount we sell. That's why we're so freely to give. That's lovely. It's a lovely thing you're doing. You stay safe and we'll talk to you soon.

You have a good day. Thank you so much. Bye bye. We'll talk to you soon. I don't know how to sign off some of these conversations. We'll probably never talk again. We can call it back tomorrow. We'll talk to you soon. Sometimes I just don't know how to wrap these things up. We can call him back tomorrow. We'll talk, do you see? Yeah, okay.

Sometimes I just don't know how to wrap these things up. You can just say goodbye. You don't have to be your name until I have an obligation to form a relationship with this person. That is scrolling through your feed on a Tuesday morning. 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.

Alright, the only thing that has more beeps than an episode of Police 10-7, Jew, what is this game? Please tell listeners who might be new to the programme what it's all about, the formatics. Basically, I find quirky little news headlines from around the world. I beep out a certain word, and you guys have to guess what that word is to complete the news headline story. We're not very good at guessing, though.

We haven't had a very good track record of getting them correct. I think we've been doing it coming on a year now. Maybe twice? Yeah, a couple of wins. But when we do win, it is a good feeling, isn't it? It's a good day, yeah. And it's a long bow to get to the story as well. I mean, we could cut out the middle man

and just go straight to the story, but no, no, we're sticking with this. What's the first headline? First one. People are legally changing their name to in exchange for $350 worth of free sushi. Changing their name to something for free sushi. I'm going to go St. Pierre.

St. Pierre, you're going to love our sushi. Probably the best jingle on radio, I'd say. We've got a full-blown and 60-second a cappella version now. So good. Yeah, that's right. They've stripped out the music and it's just the pure harmonies and it's so good. They've got like three verses and things.

I didn't even know you could sing a three-verse song about sushi. I can. Is it Saint Pierre? Listen, I'm going to go. People are legally changing their name to something associated with the Japanese cuisine of sushi or a proprietor of a sushi outlet.

Oh, that's covering your bases. To win $350 worth of free sushi. People are legally changing their name to Salmon in exchange for $350 worth of free sushi. It's a win for prior. Oh, I'm not aware. It's a win. No, I'm not aware. It's a win.

No, I'm not chalking that one up as a win. It was too broad. Your answer was too broad. But what's happening, it's in Taiwan, and a chain of sushi restaurants have offered an all-you-can-eat sushi for anyone who changed their name to Salmon. And more than 130 people legally changed their name to Salmon to get All You Can Eat

and now Taiwan officials are saying please stop changing your name. Like this is just not normal. This is when those promos backfire. Like the Krispy Kreme one we were just talking about giving away donuts

for an entire year. They don't realise how idiotic your average human being is. I'd change my name to Salmon for $350 with a free sushi. I know.

What is it? That's probably what? How much sushi? That's quite a lot. It's probably $10 a box of sushi. So you've got your lunch for a couple of months. Yeah, if it doesn't go off. And the next story. Donald Trump would consider running for president

in 2024 if he ran against him. Whoa. I'm gonna go with Lady Gaga. He loves saying Lady Gaga. Remember'm going to go with Lady Gaga. He loves saying Lady Gaga. Remember when he was talking about Lady Gaga? Oh, the things I know about Lady Gaga. I could tell you stories about Lady Gaga.

I know a lot of stories. Lady Gaga. Please say hello to Lady Gaga. What am I calling you, Stephanie? Lady Gaga. Whatever you like. My name is Bradley Cooper. And I'm Lady Gaga. Gaga.

Gaga. Yeah, I'm hoping he'll be running against Lady Gaga so he can say the name. That's what I think he'd want to do. And finally we might get to know all the stuff he knows about Lady Gaga. Listen, I'm going to go Donald Trump would consider running for president in 2024 if no one else ran against him. Oh, yeah, I mean, that's very valid.

Donald Trump would consider running for president in 2024 if Meghan Markle ran against him. Oh yeah, I mean that's very valid. Donald Trump would consider running for president in 2024 if Meghan Markle ran against him. And so there are rumours going around that Meghan Markle has been meeting with senior Democratic members. And so everyone's like ooh, does she want to be president? But obviously probably not. Like that's just super

far-fetched. But he said... Oh, how nice. I know, true. He said, I hope she runs because then I'd have an even stronger feeling about running so if she ran he'd be like

nah screw her is he actually going to what's he doing what's he doing with his life I think he's in Florida at the moment

and he's talking about starting up his own social media like his own because Twitter banned him so yeah he's talking about starting up

that and I think he's thinking about running again because he can run one more time because he can be president twice I think over the year in two terms

so I think he's thinking about the next term because he only served one term I see but I don't know I mean that's still a few years away

so we'll find out and the final story Finland voted world's country for the fourth year in a row listen I'm going to go

Finland voted world's best dishwashing tablet country for the fourth year in a row. They make a wonderful dishwashing tablet, the Finnish. Oh, that was actually quite good. I could see it coming from a mile away. That was well done. I can't compete with that, to be honest, guys.

Most ticklish country? I don't know. What are they? Finland voted world's happiest country for the fourth year in a row. You know, to be fair, I still prefer Jono's answer over this real story. I love a dishwashing tablet. My son accidentally ate a dishwashing tablet thinking it was a bar of chocolate the other day. It happens.

That's unfortunate. So what were they voted for? Happiest country for the fourth year in a row. New Zealand came in at number nine, I think we did. And it's all the sort of Finlands and Denmarks and Switzerland. What? We're only number nine? Yeah, well, this is why we get upset. We get outraged.

So we bet Australia. We bet Australia. They didn't make top ten. I don't know. I just looked at the top ten. They didn't make it. We're best per capita. I don't know. I just looked at the top 10. They didn't make it. We call our best per capita. We like doing that, eh?

Breaking down per capita. And the Olympics always do that. But the amount of medals per capita of our population. Very true. Let me just look at the population of Finland, see if we can't even rate. No, they're 5 million as well. Damn it.

So not per capita either. Not the happiest per capita. And that is the quirky news headlines making news today. 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. By the WhatsApp. By doco.nv. All right. Proudly presents Juliet Rothel, semi-professional gossip monger. What's going on, June?

So Kylie Jenner has come under fire recently over the last day or so. So she has obviously worked with a bunch of different makeup artists over her career, but one of her makeup artists that she's used a couple times was in a car accident and had to have brain surgery, right? And there was a GoFundMe page that was set up to help cover the costs of his brain surgery. Now, Kylie posted on Instagram asking if fans could donate money to help cover the cost. But everyone's saying, mate, you're a billionaire.

Fair call. She's got enough money to buy him a new brain. Literally, she does. And so she then, after all of this feedback came through, Fair call. Fair call. She's got enough money to buy him a new break. Literally, she does. And so she then, after all of this feedback came through, she then donated $5,000. 5K? Mate, we give away 5K every morning at court time.

5K? Wow, really? Yeah, I know. I mean, it is a very sad story that this happened to this man. And I mean, she doesn't, she's no obligation that she has to give to us. No. I mean, still, it's a very generous offer. She could have done nothing, I guess. And she was obviously trying to promote it.

But when you put it into perspective, how much she, you know. Yeah, yeah. So I think she just did the whole Instagram swipe up. This is what happened. If you want to donate, you can. But everyone's like, what the hell are you doing then? So that's what's going on there.

But then to pull out $5,000 too. I know. She might donate more or she might do the whole, you know, donate more without the public knowing. And hey, who's to say

you can't become a billionaire by throwing your money around the place, can you? That's true. You've got to be some of the richest people in the world or some of the tightest.

That's very true. That's what they say. Jeff Bezos, apparently tight. Really? Yeah. Really? I just made that up to back up my claims that some of the tightest. That's very true. That's what they say. That's very true. Jeff Bezos, apparently tight. Really? Yeah. Really? I just made that up

to back up my claims that some of the richest people in the world are the tightest. True, true. And Johnny Depp's Hollywood home was broken into by someone. The intruder was a homeless man, but he made himself very at home

when he entered Johnny Depp's house. He helped himself to a shower in his bathroom and helped himself to a drink after entering Johnny Depp's home. I mean, someone, I think it was a neighbour that noticed this guy come in. But, you know, this poor man's probably just like, I just need a shower

and a drink of water. You've got to be pretty confident to break, so I'm looking at a photo of it, to break into a mansion. I imagine it's very difficult to get through, over fences, through security systems. What are the signs if it's in the middle of the bush? Oh, wow. He probably just walked through some trees and was like,

oh, I'm in Johnny Depp's house. I mean, he's probably going, oh, the house is so big, no one will notice me in this bath. True. Has anyone ever broken into your house? No, fortunately, no. No, I haven't had that happen. I imagine it's a very scary, invasive feeling.

Has anyone broken into your house, Drew? No, I haven't had that happen. I imagine it's a very scary, invasive feeling. Has anyone broken into your house, Jo? No, I haven't. But I think a couple of my friends in the past have had their house broken into. It makes you feel very, very uneasy. Yeah, you feel violated. The closest thing I had was I woke up in the middle of the night when I was living with my parents and I had my car parked in the driveway and I looked out the window. It wasn't there.

And so I walked outside and I was like, oh, the car's halfway up the driveway with all the doors open. That's unusual. I can't remember leaving it there. So then I just shut the doors. But then the other guys, the people pulled up at the end of the driveway. And they're like, oh. And I'm like, oh, were you? And they're like, yeah, sorry, and just drove off.

Oh, were they in the process of? They came back. Obviously, they couldn't get it out of the driveway. But they apologised. Oh, lovely. Oh, sorry. That's okay. Next time.

You'll get me next time, guys. You'll get me next time. Better luck next time. You're friendly neighbourhood car thieves. Good on you for waking up at that time as well. Yeah, no, it was a pure fluke. Well, because the reason they couldn't get it out of the driveway, and this is a boring story, so I'll tell it anyway, was my dad, when I was a teenager, he installed this magnetic

system so the car wouldn't start unless there was a magnet attached to this thing underneath the steering wheel. So they couldn't figure that out. Oh. 30 bucks to get that done. Best security a car can ever have. Really? Yeah.

Okay. So interesting. And engages the engine. Cool story, Jono. That is quite interesting though Let me tell more About that magnet story More coming up after 7

And that is bye for more You can head to Thehits.co.nz To everyone Pulling a sickie today You're not fooling anyone Jono and Ben Breakfast on the Hits

That is our show For a Tuesday Thanks so much For hanging out with us On Chip and Dip Day Yes the Ben I noticed you The other day

You bumped into someone From your school that you introduced me to. Yeah. Isn't it funny because I had the same incident where I bumped into someone on Sunday from school

and you haven't seen each other since school but you're like, what have you been up to? And I said, not much. He sort of looked at me and was like,

over what, 23 years? Yeah. You come back with not much. But then you're like, you don't want to drill down too much. But where do you start in that conversation? Where do you start and where do you stop? It's nice to catch up with someone.

You're right. But when you've only got a really fleeting amount of time, a small amount of time, you can't really go, you can't dive too deep into it, which is a shame because I'm sure I'd love to catch up with people like that. I tell you, 2013 was a shocker of a year. I mean, you're covering a lot of ground, but then you still haven't seen each other for such a long time,

but you still run out of stuff to talk about because you're not diving in too deep. Oh, right. There's no real conversation to have. It's better to dive on in. I see what you're saying. You sort of spend your time deflecting onto, oh, have you caught up with old, have you seen them?

What are they doing now? I think we've spoken about this before, but it's one of those things when you bump into someone at the supermarket and for some reason you feel like you're always like, well, we should catch up soon. And then, you know, that's how I often would end that conversation. You just did it before. You said, we'll speak soon

to the crispy creamer. I had someone say the other day, I hadn't seen someone for probably five, six years you have a conversation. I'm like, oh, we should catch up soon. And they're like, well, we just did that. To be honest, I've been avoiding you this whole time in the Zoom bar. And then you see them on every other aisle on the rest of the supermarket. Hey, listen, thank you so much for tuning into the program this morning. Tomorrow, back at 7.45 with 5Wiz 5K.

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