Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - March 29 - Ben Has An Issue With A Shania Twain Song!

Episode Date: March 28, 2021

On today's podcast, Ben dissected Shania Twain's song That Don't Impress Me Much. And he has some thoughts, which are very valid! We also discussed when you misfired a text message or email to the wrong person & the consequences you faced from this. The list for the world's sexiest bald men came out, and Jono is shocked at who made the top 5. All that and more on today's show!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. Hello there, it's the 29th of March. Welcome.

Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. I think at the top of there, my voice just broke. It did sound like it. So congratulations, you've joined me for my transformation through puberty. Oh, and you dated it too, the 29th of March. So there we go. 2021, I'll remember this day for the rest of my life. Wonderful. Hey, fun show this morning, wasn't it, for a Monday? It was, it was. And a short week too this week. Short week this week, a short week next week.

For most people, I understand there are people that have to work through the weekend. But it is a short four-day week and a four-day week this week and next week. For most people, I understand there are people that have to work through the weekend, but it is a short four-day week and a four-day week this week and next week, right? Every time you say short week, you always get people going, well, not for me, it's not. And you did a good job of trying to cover all bases. We went and filmed with some dairy farmers the other day.

But they're like, well, the cows have got to get milked. You know, things like that. There are people and you forget about that. Your basic nine-to-five Monday to Friday work week structure, it's not a thing now, Ben. And it probably never has been about that. Your basic 9 to 5 Monday to Friday work week structure, it's not a thing now, Ben. No. And it probably never has been a thing. Yeah.

But that's what we live by on the radio. You sort of celebrate Friday, don't you? Yeah. You commiserate Monday. Yeah. But people are working outside of those hours. You're right, especially with COVID and stuff. We're working outside of those hours at the moment.

I know. It's all over the place. That's right. So work. It's always there. It's always a thing and we should be blessed to have it. Yeah, exactly. Especially in this day and age. That's right. So work. It's always there. It's always a thing, and we should be blessed to have it. Exactly.

Especially in this day and age. A lot of people without work, so you've got to appreciate it when you've got it. Hey, we had a fun show this morning, as we mentioned. Ben Boyce was, I tell you, he was not that impressed with Shania Twain's song, That Don't Impress Me Much. She calls out some people through the song. Yeah, some impressive people. So we had a chat about that today I heard the song play on the radio

And I was like, oh, you know Yeah, with a song that's been 25 years In the making, this feedback on Shania Twain's song Released in 1997 And Ben Boyce thought, no, today Today on the 29th of March 2021 Was the day that he was going to take down Shania It's a very mild takedown.

It was a light patting, wasn't it? Yeah. Not so much a takedown, so that happens on the program. Also, we talked to a lady who keeps her boyfriend's tonsils in her fridge, and he keeps her tonsils in his fridge. And when they miss each other,

they look longingly at the tonsils. Yeah. I know, very unusual thing. We opened up. We didn't expect any calls on that. It was just off a Brooklyn Beckham story about wearing a wisdom tooth. Flung something out there at 6.30 in the morning, Ben. Yeah.

Barrage of texts. And it came through. On a Monday. When some people are starting work for the week, but others may just be continuing on because they've been working all weekend. So that's all on the podcast. That and Jono's voice finally breaking as well. Yeah.

Well, what you're about to hear, I haven't gone through a few, but you remember. But now I have. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. The Saturday night pop party is the mix, the music mix that I was listening to on Saturday night on the hits. Had it on at home.

You're never not listening to the hits, are you? That's right. He's a company man. Even on Saturday nights when he could be doing anything else, he's tuned in. Just listen to the hits. And this song from Shania Twain came on. It's a banger. It's an old school banger.

That don't impress me much. So you got the brain. That don't impress me much. It's a great tune. Such a good song. But I hadn't listened to the lyrics for a while from Shania Twain. And then as it sort of played out over the song, I thought it was worth probably reflecting on again. Well, sometimes with lyrics, you don't listen to them.

You just sing them blindly. And then like almost nine years later, you're like, oh, actually, there's a meaning to the song. So the whole song is obviously about things that don't really impress Shania Twain much. And we'll start with this. So you're a rocket scientist that don't impress me.

So she's not impressed at all by a rocket scientist. With an aerospace engineer who sends rockets from Earth into space. I know, that's their job, that's what they do. That's impressive. Basically Elon Musk. I was reading the other day, So it takes you four years to obtain your bachelor's degree.

Then you need two to three years to earn a master's degree and then add anywhere between four to six years to become a PhD. That's 10 to 13 years of study to become a rocket scientist. You haven't even launched a rocket. That's 13 years. You haven't launched your rocket. You haven't launched your first rocket.

You launch your first rocket. Shania comes in and goes, well that doesn't launched your ride. You haven't launched your first rocker. And then you launch your first rocker. Shania comes in and goes, well, that doesn't impress me much. It should be impossible judging America's Got Talent. Yeah, so apparently she's not impressed by that. I'm like, okay. All right, and the song carries on. Okay. So you're Brad Pitt.

That don't impress me much. I have a real issue with that lyric. Yeah, Brad Pitt's come along. He's like, hey, I'm Brad Pitt. Five Academy Awards I've been nominated for. An illustrious acting career. I've got a production company. There's won Oscars.

Yeah, I won a couple Academy Awards myself. You know movies such as Seven, Fight Club, Ocean's Eleven. I've been voted sexiest man alive many times. Many, many times. Net worth, $300 million. $300 million. See, that's impressive. And that don't impress you, should I?

Don't impress her at all. I'm 59 years old. I've been acting for 30 years. Yeah. $300 million in the bank. She's like, no, not impressing.

I'm not impressed by that. And then finally in the song, she sort of trails out with a few other things that don't impress her. Okay. So what do you think? You're Elvis or something?

So Elvis is there now. Elvis is coming. He's sold over a billion albums. Having a crack at it. He's not even alive. One of the biggest cultural icons of the 20th century. He survived from the dead. There's another line about Tarzan as well right at the end.

I mean, this guy was raised by gorillas in the jungle. He went to civilization, managed to adapt. Wonderful washboard abdominals too. Swings from vines with one hand. Shania Twain is like, uh-uh. I tell you what doesn't impress me much, Shania Twain's attitude. Now, a friend of Meghan Markle,

this was a few years ago, apparently sent a WhatsApp voice recording saying how annoying it was that Megan was always using emojis. I'll tell you what's annoying is WhatsApp voice recordings. Yeah. They're so convenient. No, it's like, what are you doing? It's like, hey, just replying to your text.

And then you awkwardly have to listen to it on speaker too because you've got no other option do you? Yeah exactly. Oh true but it's just so efficient you can like do other things while you're listening to the voice message.

It's efficient for the person sending the message but not so much when you receive the message but anyway a friend of hers back in the day sent her a went to send it to

some other friend saying it's really annoying she sends all these emojis oh it's so annoying but sent it of course to Megan. Oh no. And the one person that you probably didn't want to send it to.

You do that a lot, don't you? Because you're thinking about that person as you're bitching about them behind their back. And then inevitably you end up, you did that with an email, didn't you, about a guy? I did, yeah, that's right. About something that was, I was like, getting a quote for something.

I said, oh, this is ridiculous. They're completely dreaming. Rip off. Rip off merchant. And sent it straight back to them. Sent it to my wife. And then had to go, oh, yeah. When did you realize you fired it straight back to the person who gave you the quote?

Oh, pretty much. I felt kind of good because, you know, I kind of got off my chest. Oh, yeah. Big man ears. And then I went, ooh. And then I was frantically trying to Google how to retrieve an email and it couldn't and there was no way to do it. Now I've got a thing set up on my email that gives me like a 30 second window.

Are you sure? Are you sure? Yeah, yeah. It wasn't the first rule. Now be calm. It was. The first thing to do was calmly take a breath and decide whether you want to be calm. It's like, well, I've sent the email.

I'm past that step. But anyway, that's the way you're meant to do it. A lot of people do misfire messages. Let's open this up, eh? 0800 the hits, 4487. You can text us as well on 4487. When have you misfired a message? I know a dear friend of ours,

she got a group email at work from her boss, and it was something she disagreed with. And so she went to forward it on to her colleague going, this guy's such a wanker, like literally using these words and all sorts of other profanities. Can't believe he's still got his job. Reply all straight back to him. Not just to him, to the whole company.

And then she just heard bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing around the office, realised what she'd done. He stood up. He's like, I think it's best you, and she's like, yeah, yeah, I'll leave. And then walked out on the spot. What a way to go, though. Misfired message. Let's go to Julie in Hamilton.

When you misfired a message, Julie? Yeah, yeah, just actually last week, which was not great, but I had emailed my boss. It's a classic thing, I guess, email my boss. I was sick, but when I went to send my friend a text saying that it's all good, I accidentally sent it back to my boss instead as well. So then he knew you were blatantly lying.

That's right, yeah. And what happened from that point? Actually, he was pretty good about it. I think he was like, well, maybe you needed a day off anyway. Oh, that's an understanding boss. Yeah, actually. I wish this had a better ending, where you're like, oh, he fired me or something like that.

Just a reasonable boss. Thank you very much, Julie. Yeah, thanks. Have a good week in Hamilton. Charlotte, you're on from Christchurch. More misfired messages, Chas. Yeah, I accidentally ended my friend's relationship. Well, she was cheating on her partner and I was messaging another friend about it.

Accidentally sent it to the girl who was cheating and her boyfriend had her phone. That is wild. And it was all over? Yeah, all over. Probably a good thing. That is wild. And? It was all over? Yeah, all over. Probably a good thing. Yeah, it's going to come out at some point.

Hey, guys, we're all going to find out one day. At the time, though, a little bit awkward, I imagine. I really appreciate it. You have a great day, Charlotte. Thank you, too. Someone's texting, Jono and Ben just make me want to melt my ears off with the rubbish they speak.

And then they've followed on. Sorry, that wasn't meant for you. And then directly after that, they've got the guilts and gone, oh no, sorry guys, I actually do love your work. Keep up the great stuff. Let's go to Alex,

you're on from Tauranga. How are you? Hi, how are you? We're doing well. Misfired messages. Yes, yeah. So I had a trade me sale and I had messaged this particular person

and I messaged them, what's your addy? Like, what's your address for pick up? But it had auto-corrected and I didn't realise until about half an hour later to who's your daddy. It was really bad. I've got like the screenshots went viral.

Like, it was horrible. So you're like, oh, what is this? Yeah, awkward. This was meant to be a bump board trade me situation here. Thank you, Alex. And we'll go to Anonymous on four. Welcome. How are you?

Hey, good. Thank you. Misfired messages. Something happened to you? Oh, yeah. So I was a manager of a local establishment of a bar in Hamilton, and we had quite a lot of mismanagement of funds. So in other words, you know, money was getting taken and all that.

So I had the security code to the cameras and all that, and I knew, you know, obviously people being let go with that. And then on my very last day, you know, I finished, walked out of the job, and then I get a text from the secretary, and she says, oh, what's the security code to the cameras? And then I text another girl, and I said, oh, obviously so-and-so's been dipping in the tills again and betting on the TAB, but they're not going to sack him

because they need workers, and I screenshot the message and sent it back to the secretary. Oh, no. Oh, no. I'm, like, in the middle of packing, because obviously I'm leaving town and all that. Well, because you sent this message. I'm like in the middle of packing because obviously I'm leaving town and all of that. Well, because you sent this message. I've got to get out of here.

I've got to go. I was like screaming to my daughter, how do I unsend it? How do I unsend it? And she said, you can't. It's too late. I know. And it's 2021. We should be able to unsend.

Yeah, the unsuck brother. We should. Thank you very much for your call. Appreciate it. Someone's texting actually saying, my husband was texting his mistress, but then got his wife and his mistress mixed up and sent me the text that was meant for the mistress. Well, there you go.

It can happen. Turns out he's not texting me anymore. They give you a call. 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. Jono and Penn. Breakfast on the Heads. The about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry to rope you into this. Sorry you've been dragged into this.

Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Now, there was a bit of a battle of the bald online over the weekend. Basically, they announced the sexiest bald people. Bald celebrities. I saw who was number one.

You sent through the link. And then on our group WhatsApp chat, he's like, Jono, this is something you could pick the ball up and run with is what he said, quote unquote. I do. Pick the ball up. Pick the ball up. Oh, it was meant to be pick the ball up. It was meant to be a pun. Must have autocorrected the ball and run with it. I would have to say number one.

Controversial. Well, because Prince William was crowned the world's sexiest bald man. Now, what they've done is they've gone through various blogs, articles, webpages, and seen the number of times the word sexy has been associated with this particular name. Well, do they factor in question marks? Do you think he's sexy?

Prince William, sexy question mark? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he's a good-looking guy. I mean, he is a good-looking guy. He's fantastic. But he's really, what he's done is, I don't know if it's part of the royal rule book or something, that they're allergic to clippers.

But he just has to ride, he just has to let nature ride out the haircuts, doesn't he? He's letting what bits he's got go and he can't shave it off. Yeah, well, he's got the side curtains running at the moment, doesn't he? And, I mean, does it get to the point as a royal where you're not allowed to visit the barber and you've just got one strand of hair at the end of life, holding on

like a parking ticket under your window wiper on the motorway, just holding on for dear life at the end of it. I wouldn't have made him the sexiest though. You'd say top ten though? He'd be in the top ten. Oh, absolutely. He deserves a top ten placing. And it's not to say, you know, these people aren't, but I want to know right now because you only in the top 10. Oh, absolutely. He deserves a top 10 placing. And it's not to say these people aren't, but I want to know right now

because you only know the first one. Can you round out the top five? Six is bald. Bing, you know, our bald expert on the show. Crossing over to our

baldy locks over here. Just FYI, you're not on the list just in case you're wondering if you snagged it. Not even top 10? Not top 10. Top 20?

I mean, maybe New Zealand's six years ball... Slash only? Well, there's probably a few radio people that would... Everyone on radio loses their head, don't they? Give me a run for your money,

wouldn't they? Yeah. Good-looking ball people, yeah. Murray Deeker. Yeah. He'd beat me. Yeah. No, I'm not going to say that.

I'm not going to... What were you going to say? I was going to say that you'd be up there. I'm going to be positive. It's a Monday. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Would I be top five of the New Zealand? Top ten. Top ten. That's great. I can't even name ten bald people. Some of the ten. Yeah. Okay, so I've got to get the other four famous ones that were on this list around the top five.

You've got Fiji Bourne, you've got Lee Hart, you've got Murray Dick. Oh, there are some sexy bald people out there. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. All right. I wouldn't make top ten now, actually. I'm letting all that sink Exactly. Yeah. Okay. All right. I wouldn't make top 10 now, actually. I'm letting all that sink in.

Yeah. Okay. I'm going to say Putin. Vladimir Putin. Oh, no. He was in the 10, but not in the top five. Was he? He was in top five.

Yeah. Have you seen him straddling a white horse with a shirt off? Yeah. Yes. Does that not demand power and sexiness? Okay. So he's not top five. No, not top five. Gandhi. No, not in the top five Okay, so he's not top five. No, not top five.

Gandhi. No, not in the top five. Gandhi's not in the top five. No. The dude from The Wheelchair and the X-Men. Oh, no, no. Patrick Stewart. No, Patrick Stewart, not in the top.

Yeah, no, he's a good-looking guy. No. Gollum. No. I think these people are currently alive at the moment. Oh, they're alive. Okay, so Dwayne The Rock Johnson. No.

He's not in the top five. He's not in the top five. No, not in the top five. This is a crime. You know, he's actually commented on that, Producer Julia, right? I think he was outraged. It was an internet outrage as well as The Rock. Yeah, I know.

I think he took a jab at it. I hope he's demanding a recount. Yeah. Is he on the top ten? He's in the top ten. I think he scrapes into the top ten. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Vin Diesel. Vin Diesel, not in the top ten. Not in the top 10. I think he scrapes into the top 10. Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Vin Diesel.

Vin Diesel, not in the top 10. Not in the top five, sorry. I can't even name any more hot ball people. Bruce Willis. Okay, here's your top five. Prince William, Mike Tyson, Jason Statham, Pitbull, and Michael Jordan. Pitbull? Pitbull?

Pitbull. Mr. Worldwide. Juliet's scoffing at Pitbull. Pitbull's always having the time of his life in his music videos. Pitbull. Pitbull. Pitbull. Pitbull. Mr. Worldwide. Juliet's scoffing at Pitbull. Pitbull's always having the time of his life in his music videos. He is. He wears the iconic

dark glasses that always has sunnies on, doesn't he? And then he's got the little goatee. Yeah. And Tyson. Tyson's a controversial

number two as well. Well, there you go. Dwayne The Rock Johnson snubbed Ben. You would be completely disheartened by this. Well, wasn't he like the sexiest, voted sexiest man alive or something?

But he won't make the top 10 sexiest bald people. Can we have some consistency in these lists that mean absolutely nothing to us? That's what we're demanding. That's right. Yeah, Dwayne The Rock Johnson on his Instagram said, how the cinnamon toast F, obviously swear word, does this happen?

When he, yeah, when he was said, basically when he was snubbed in the top five. I think he speaks for the people on that one. We'll get a recount on that vote. And we'll start

the top 10 sexiest New Zealand bald guys as well. Run by me. I'm the judge of jury. I'll be doing the official rankings. Okay, and I'll have

no questions asked. It'll be like North official rankings. Okay, and I'll have no questions asked. It'll be like North Korea. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone. Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Now, Brooklyn Beckham and his fiancee, Nicola, they are, of course, Brooklyn Beckham's the son of Victoria and David Beckham, he's wearing a necklace.

Well, both his partners are wearing necklaces with their wisdom teeth. Nothing says I love you like wearing a plaque and tartar-laden stinky wisdom tooth. That's love. I've always said it to you, Ben. Well, they've obviously got it professionally done

because the wisdom teeth have been dipped in gold and are on matching necklaces, so it looks pretty professional. Oh, it does, yeah. And the always reasonable internet is taking this with a pretty professional. Oh, it does, yeah. And the always reasonable internet is taking this with a level head. Obviously, no one's judging. No, and if they want to wear their wisdom teeth,

who are we to say? Exactly, yeah. So, yeah, so an unusual thing for some people that they are wearing around their neck, but, you know. Have you got anything of Amanda, your wife's? No, not like that. I was trying to think of that as that Benny song was playing. I was thinking Nothing that could compete

With a wisdom tooth Around the neck Sometimes I steal Jen's socks When my socks are all in the wash But her feet are a bit smaller And they end up rolling Halfway down my foot Yeah

But that's That's something I do True That's what I've got of hers Remember Angelina Jolie And Billy Bob Thornton They were all the rage Weren't they

And they had vials Of each other's blood hanging on a necklace too, which was very hepatitis-y. Yeah. Yeah. But that's fine. That's right.

I've mentioned this before, but a friend of mine, his mum carried around a necklace, a little locket with something that he had chopped off as a baby. What's the number after three? And if you put skin after it. Yeah, so she announced that as his 21st.

And she held it up. Like some sort of prize trophy. Like a piece of Ross and Calamari. Oh, gross. It's very Lion King, isn't it? And he hasn't lived that down after that. I mean, the amount of times we've mentioned that story on the radio. I'd like to thank her.

Again, thank her and Brooklyn Beckham very much. So 0800 the hits. What have you got of your partners that might be able to eclipse David Beckham's wisdom teeth? Sorry, Brooklyn Beckham's wisdom teeth. Ashley, you're on. Morena, how are you in Auckland? Good morning. Good, thanks. How are you guys? We're doing well. You off to work this morning, Ash?

Yeah, stuck in motorway traffic. Did you say stuck in motorway traffic? Yeah, but it sounds like something else. And either way, well, one would be more appropriate for the radio. All right, Ashley, what have you got of your boyfriends? So I've got my boyfriend's tonsils in my freezer, and he has my tonsils and his freezer. What a lovely memento.

Okay. And then every now and then if, like, we're apart, then we just have a look at each other's tonsils. Oh, listen, what do you keep them in? Like a little plastic container or something? Yeah, so they're in like a plastic container inside a biosecurity bag. You don't want to mix it up with the lamb chops. Stay alone on Wednesday night, end up eating tonsils.

And so you seem like one of those people that I'd watch a documentary about on Crime and Investigation Channel. Who pitched the idea? Well, he got his tonsils out first and he wasn't going to keep them. And I was like, oh, no, no, keep them. I'll have them. And so he kept them and then I got mine out and I just gave them to him. You're treating them like an old pair of shoes.

Oh, no, no, keep them. I'll use those. Yeah, you do. And are you going to hold on to them forever? Well, I don't know what, like, he says that we could plant them under a tree, but... Oh, okay. I think that's a bit weird.

You think that's weird? That's gone a step too far. Oh, no. What happens when, hopefully you never do break up, but if you do break up, do you have to, like, awkwardly hand each other's tonsils back to each other? Oh, I would hate to think what would happen if...

You've still got my tonsils? Send a friend around to pick up the tonsils? Oh, that's awesome, Ashley. Good on you. And hey, as long as you're happy, something Ben would say. Exactly. As long as you're happy.

Exactly. What does it matter what anyone thinks? That's awesome. Yeah, thank you so much for your calls. You're cool, but can we beat it? 0800 the HATS or 4487. What have you got of your partners? Can you beat the tonsils?

I reckon we've started with the bag. Yeah, I don't think so. Can we beat that? I don't think so. Let's go to the phones. Crystal, you're on the air. What have you got? Hi, I've got my auntie's canine teeth.

Oh, and that is love, isn't it? Where do you keep the canines? They're actually in a gold little box on my dresser. Is your auntie still around? Yes, yep. She's alive and kicking up in Auckland. Did you ask for the teeth? Did the auntie gift them to you?

It was more of a gift. And were you like, thanks? The story behind it is that I am really interested in horror makeup and I wanted to do the whole mouth thing, but with, I thought, real teeth would be real cool. And so she was like, oh, hold up. And she just gave me the teeth. Hold up, I've got some of those.

There you go. That's good, Crystal. Thank you very much. I've got a text here. My mum kept my stepfather's finger after he had to get it amputated. It was in a jar with green liquid. Okay, all right. I guess it's one of those things

you wouldn't, do you throw it out? It's a good conversation piece too. Someone comes around, hey, look at this. It's old mate's finger. You know, there's at least 10 minutes

of banter around that, isn't there? Danny, you're on for, sorry, Nick, you're on from the Waikato. How are you this morning, Nick? Yeah, buddy, how are you? We're doing well.

Your partner has something of yours. Yeah, she actually has two things of mine. And what are they? Bicep tendons and an appendix. Oh. Does she like collecting your body parts? Does she? I think she's making a voodoo doll.

I'm pretty sure of it, eh? Slowly, Nick starts dismantling, and it all ends up in the deep freeze. Yeah, yeah. So if you have any operation, are you like, I know who will love this body part? Yeah, exactly. She's already marking out the next part. Hey, that's equal parts creepy and adorable. Nick, thank you very much for your call.

Appreciate it. No worries, buddy. Hey, and thank you very much for your call. Appreciate it. No worries, buddy. Thank you very much for all of your calls. Really appreciate you phoning through to New Zealand's Breakfast. Thank you very much. And let's go to the phones right now. We have Jack on the phone. Jack, what have you got of your partners?

Oh, who's? Jono. Yeah, good morning, Jono. Caught you off guard. Sorry, Jack. How are you? No, I've got about a five or six year collection of toenails in a jar. I'll tell you what, I grow the buggers quite fast. Quick turnaround.

He's a prolific toenail grower. Why did you start collecting them? Well, I mean, because I'm a blues musician. Right. Well, I mean, you know, if you want to play the blues, you have to have lived a blues. So if you want a real blues name, you've got to have a real reason for that blues name.

Oh, right. So what are you, like, Toenail Jack or something? Is that what they call you in the blues world? No, I'm Toenail Johnson. Jack Toenail Johnson, yeah. Oh, it is your blues name. Okay, so that's why you need to clip your toenail. Have you bought any of my CDs at all?

Oh, no. I must buy your CDs, Toenail Johnson. I'll have a look. Well, I haven't made any yet, so you might just wait. But he's got the first step. He's got a good name, a great blues name. And he's got toenails to back it up as well. You're like someone who can back up their nickname.

Good on you, Jack. Have a wonderful day. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. 7.45 on your Monday morning, which means it's time for... Five words for 5K on the hit. You're only five words away from a massive payday.

This is becoming the most popular part of the show, just behind how many times will Ben say, we'll flick you out something and not elaborate on the specifics referring to the prize. That's right. I like to keep those things generic because I don't know what people... We'll flick you out something.

That's right. Now, five words, $5,000. It's a game of word association. We say five words. You tell us what pops into your head. If they match up with ours, you win five grand. We'll head up north, Whangarei. Eve, you're on.

Welcome. Thank you. We'll flick you out something, regardless of what happens with this competition this morning. How was your weekend, Eve? Not too bad, actually. Busy. Off to work this morning?

Off to work this morning, yes. What do you do for a crust? Well, pardon? So what do I... What do you do for a crust? Well, pardon? So what do I... What do you do for a job? At the moment, I'm doing part-time work and also voluntary work. I'm a retail salesperson at Miller's in Whangarei. Shout out to Miller's in Whangarei.

Oh, nice. And what volunteer work do you do? I do voluntary work at the North Haven Hospice, one of the biggest op shops in Whangarei. Oh, what are you? I do customer service here. Oh, listen, a good person like you deserves to have $5,000. That'd be fantastic.

Yeah, what a wonderful person you are, and sorry for really grilling you early in the morning on your job. No, that's okay. No, that's all right. Okay, who are you going to send into the soundproof booth this morning? Um, Jono. Oh, okie dokie. All right, Jono's going to make his way.

Why did you decide to send Jono in there, just to get him to shut up for five minutes? Because that's what I would send him in there. It's just nice to have a break from him. Okay, Eve, you know how this works? I sure do. I'm going to tell you five words. You tell us the first things that pop into your

head. Producer Juliet's along to encourage you and to see if we're on the right track. Hopefully. Eve, your first word today for five words is hot. Hot. Hot water. Water.

Hot water. Okay, yeah, nice. Next word is Monday. I'm going to go Tuesday. Tuesday, following along with the days of the week. Producer Juliette. Yeah, that makes sense for me as well. Okay, she's okay with it.

And the next word this morning is public. Public. Public, yeah. I'm going to go figure, public figure. Okay. True. Fingers crossed. I know, fingers crossed.

So we'll go with the first thing that pops into your head as always seems to be the best option on this game. The next word this morning, Eve, is roller. I'm going to go blade. Blade, okay. Roller blade. Yeah, no, that makes sense again. Yeah. Nice.

And the final word for five words for $5,000, curtains. Curtain. Curtains. Oh, that's hard. Might go with rail. Okay. Ah, yes. Put them on a rail.

Yeah. Okay, makes sense right now. But some of those words are a little bit tricky, I'd say, today, Eve. Yeah, they were. Definitely. There's a couple of options that popped into my head, but hopefully you're thinking the same as Jono. That's all that really matters.

We'll get him out of the soundproof booth. Oh, God. And we'll see how it goes. It's time to get real now, as Jono makes his way around. Did you know the soundproof booth, the interior of the booth, has lovely velvet walls

that I like rubbing my hands up and down. Like when you give me that special fairy dust on a Friday night, Ben, I end up rubbing the walls. Alright, well Eve, we said five words to Eve. Some of the words, again, you had multiple options that popped into your head, but Eve

played a quick, fast game. I hope I don't let Eve down. She's a volunteer. She's a wonderful person. All the things that you're not. So true. I've never volunteered. And I'm a despicable human being. Okay, today's

words, the first word I said to Eve was hot. Cold. First off the bat. Okay. Alright, that was a quick game. Really? They do was a quick game. Really? They do say a quick game's a good game, but not in this instance. It wasn't a good game at all. Eve, I'm so sorry.

Water was what Eve said. Water? Hot water? Yes. I suppose, yeah. What do you mean, I suppose? Cold. Hot water.

Okay, let's go through the other words for you. Monday. Sunday. Okay. Public. What did Eve go? She went Tuesday. Right, I was working a day either side. Okay, public? Toilet? Figure?

Public what? Figure. Public figure. Roller? Coaster? Can we get zero from five? Curtains. Blinds. Curtain rail.

I thought he had really good words. I thought she did a great job. It was comically atrocious for me. We've got to send you out something, right? Not a problem. We are going to flick you out something because that's what we said we were going to do, right, Eve? Hey, thank you so much for playing. We're so sorry.

We didn't win you $5,000. Started so well. What did it? It didn't start or end well at all. That was terribly bad. Oh, jeez. 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. Daylight savings, producer Julia. You were just saying it's happening on Sunday. Yeah, Sunday morning. We have to change our clocks and I always get confused on whether it. Daylight savings, producer Julia. You were just saying it's happening on Sunday. Yeah, Sunday morning. We have to change our clocks

and I always get confused on whether it goes forward or backwards, but all I know is that it's darker during the day. No, it's backwards, isn't it? You get another hour of sleep in. Oh, yes. But then it's darker earlier. Fall back, spring forward, I think is, yeah. Daylight savings.

I've been through 39 of them, but they still confuse me. They're so confusing. I know. Is this the one we get more sleep or less sleep on? Oh, yeah. Anyway, it's all happening on Sunday. Buy the What's Up by Docco.nz. If you like poking your sticky beak into the private lives of celebrities

from the comfort of your car while you're stuck in traffic, well, then this is the part of the show for you, Juliet. So, Piers Morgan, who famously stormed off Good Morning Britain after getting into a bit of an argument about Meghan and Harry, he's obviously gone very publicly against Meghan and Harry post their Oprah interview. But he's now written in his column, his only regret about leaving Good Morning Britain

is that he'd finally, after four years, secured an interview with Boris Johnson next month. And he hadn't done the interview yet. No, hadn't done the interview yet, and now can't do the interview. But he also said that he... You'd think Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, would be on their show all the time.

Yeah, I think there might have been a bit of like tension between or something. Between the two. He kept on, like, didn't want to go on, didn't want to go on and would always kind of avoid it for some particular reason. It's a Jacinda Hosking combo.

We've seen it before. Happens with the big guns. Yeah, and Piers said that he left after being told he would have to publicly apologise for slamming and Megan and Harry, and obviously he was very adamant on not apologising, so he decided to leave the show. He's like, well, what about privately apologising? Just not on a public forum.

Yeah, true. He doesn't seem like the sort of person that would back down, though. No, he'd be a nightmare to live with. Imagine that. Any relationship argument, he would just say he that would back down, though. No, he'd be a nightmare to live with. Imagine that. Any relationship argument, he would not back down. And he'd be one of those guys who, in the moment of the argument, would raise such good points that you'd end up agreeing with him.

Yeah, true. And just quickly, Emma Stone, our actress, has given birth to her first child with her husband, Dave McCary. I actually forgot she was pregnant. I remember she posted on Instagram ages ago announcing the birth. Oh, announcing the pregnancy, sorry, but she's now given birth. Bindi Irwin also gave birth. A lot of pregnant birth.

And you were saying someone broke into a Shawn Mendes' house. Oh, yes, Scott. There's been also a few thieves and robberies amongst the celebrity world. Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's house was broken into. What did they steal? Shawn's G-Wagon car. Not his G-Wagon. Not into. What did they steal? Sean's G-Wagon car. Not his G-Wagon. Not his G-Wagon.

What's a G-Wagon? It's like a big, it almost kind of looks like a flash Jeep. Oh, a G-Wagon. It was quite the craze a couple of years ago. I think Kylie Jenner had one. Oh, it's a nice G-Wagon. Yeah, yeah. What's the...

It's a Mercedes. It's a square box lookinglooking Mercedes sort of ute, sort of truck sort of thing with a steering wheel. Oh, hey, good description. That's great. We can all imagine it. Painting pictures. And then also,

Beyonce's storage units were targeted by thieves who stole a million dollars worth of her things. So the robbers are really just getting around the celebs right now, aren't they? What does she keep in the storage unit? The remaining members of Destiny's Child. She just wants to dust them off. In case she needs to go,

oh, yeah, we've got Callie Rollins. I forgot I put you in there. It's also got Jay-Z's problems in there. Need a big unit for that. So I always wonder with those things, do they target the celebrities or is it just by chance? And you break in, you're like,

uh-oh, this is Beyonce's. Let's take full advantage. How many Grammys has she got? She's got 28 Grammys. target the celebrities or is it just by chance and you break in and you're like, uh-oh, this is Beyonce's. Let's take full advantage. How many Grammys has she got? She's got 28 Grammys. There's probably a lot of those in storage as well, right?

Yeah, very true. And that is Spy for More. You can head to thehits.co.nz. Add these two men together and somehow you'll get three quarters worth of a normal man.

The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. It's time to pay someone's bills. The Hits live free. Bills edition. Let's smash to pay someone's bills. The hits live free. Bills edition. Let's smash another one. I got bills. If you've got a bill that you want us to pay,

then text Bills to 4487 at 8.30, 1 o'clock and 4 o'clock. We make a bill-busting call. It's pretty fun, isn't it? We're letting you live freer than 65-year-old naturists sauntering through the Coromandel. And as Ben said, 4487, just text Bills. Just need the word Bills.

Producer Humphrey keeps going, just get them to text Bills. Just Bills. I don't know why they need to just text Bills and nothing else. Because then it goes through and then you allocate what the Bill is. But just Bills to 4487.

Just Bills and it's his big bugbear and he comes in every morning and he's like, just text Bills. And since that moment I haven't... Yeah, just text Bills. And since that moment, I haven't... Yeah, just text Bills. I don't know, we're trying to collect a database or something, are we? So we can bombard you with hits propaganda. Just text Bills.

Let's make a bill-busting call, eh? We're going to go through to Kim Walker. Hello, Kim speaking. Kim Walker, Texas Ranger. Maybe, no. What's that say? Who's phoning in the background? Where are you?

I'm at work. Hang on a moment. What are you? Answer that phone. Oh, no, it's the gate. Can you pick the... Oh, can you pick the... A lot of stuff going on here. Busy.

There's a lot going on there. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. Oh, hello. How are you, Kevin? Jeez, you're running a busy operation. What are you doing? What am I doing? I'm paying some wages.

Oh, I see. Very busy. Well, we also want to pay something. Oh, okay. So you're very busy. Well, we also want to pay something. Oh, okay. We want to pay your daughter's football fees. Oh, my God, really? That's awesome. Yeah, the hits.

We've seen that through. You text through our bills to 4487. Oh, yes, I did. I'd forgotten. Well, there we go. Well, isn't this a nice surprise? We're not only paying your daughter's bills, we're paying you some attention as well.

Yeah. Yes. $250 we want to pay for your daughter's bills, we're paying you some attention as well. $250 we want to pay for your daughter's fees. Oh, thank you so much. Under one condition. What's that? That when she becomes an international football star, we will collect

10-15% of her earnings. Okay, just make that agreement right now. I think I should get that. Oh, you're going to get that. No deal then. How often does she play football? Every Saturday? I think I should get that. Oh, you're going to get that. Oh, you're going to get that. Oh, no deal then. All right, no. How often is she playing football? Every Saturday?

No, she plays on a Sunday. Oh, nice. Okay, I don't know why it matters what day. I don't know why you're concerned about the schedule. I was looking for a football-based question. I didn't really have one. What nights do they train? Wednesday. Oh, good to know.

Oh, good, good. Okay, and sort of boots? You've got the sprigs of shoes? They have the moulded ones. Yeah. That's all the football questions I've got for you. Good questions, though. Good questions. Hey, good on you. Thank you so much for listening to

the hits. No, thank you so much. Good on you, Kim. There we go. Thank you very much. And, jeez, we've had a medley of fantastic winners, haven't we, so far? Need to book EFS. We're going to pay that bill for you. Oh, my God, that's amazing. We're going to pay off your bill, Hayley.

Oh, awesome. $300, just like that. I bloody love you guys. Joanne, we understand you've got a massive energy bill. We're going to pay it for you. Oh. $250 is off your credit card. Perfect.

Thank you. Your car repair, $210. We want to pay it for you. Oh, sweet as. Your daughter can go along to camp and it's all on us. Oh, yay. She'll be thrilled.

We want to pay your bill. Oh, for real? Yeah, we do. Great one. Tell us, who's your favourite radio show? Ben and Joel. Ben and Joel.

Ben and Joel. Love them both. Close enough. Close enough for us. We love it. Broadcasting live and mostly awake. Jono and Ben, New Zealand both. Close enough for us. We love it. Broadcasting live. And mostly awake.

Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. Short week this week. Oh, of course, Easter coming up. Oh, yeah. Oh, June, four days. Oh, yes. Don't you look, isn't that a great start to the week?

Yeah. That's almost as good as when you're sleeping and you wake up at 11.45pm thinking it's time to wake up. It's almost as good as that feeling when you've got, that's four days in a row, Juliet, sleeping in for you. Yes. God. On Friday we were in Tokoroa. It was wonderful, wasn't it? It was nice. I had not spent enough time there.

We went there for the Coca-Cola Good Buggers promo. Remember we swung into town? And that was really lovely as well too. There was a couple doing wonderful things for the community. Yeah, they have a community centre where all the kids go along and hang out and play music and box and work out

and things like that. But we're there for other purposes. Woods chopping based reasons. That's what we do now, woods chopping. Quite a heavy timber industry around Tokoroa. They've even got a giant statue in town of a man holding a chainsaw. Yeah, that's how much they love their wood sports and timber.

I guess it's a forestry town, isn't it? Yeah. So the stressful thing, though, was on the way there, we left Hamilton where we did the show on Friday morning, driving to Tokoroa. It's about an hour's drive. And we ran out of petrol, almost, didn't we, in my car, Ben? Well, this is the thing.

And I didn't say anything at the time. No, you say it now. So we left the cafe. We're doing the show out of the cafe in Hamilton. Yeah, so that's great. And then afterwards, we go to drive off. And John was like, oh, I'm just going to whip into the bathroom. I need to go for a pee.

And I was like, fine. So we went to BP Connect. And you went inside the BP. You parked the car and went inside there. So we went to a BP Connect and you went inside the BP, you parked the car and went inside there. So we're at a petrol station. Yeah. And I willingly chose not to fill the car up.

And I was like, oh, he's obviously got it all under control. I won't say they got back in the car. And then we drove half an hour out the road and you went, uh-oh.

I'm like, what? What does uh-oh mean? And you're like, oh, it's really low on gas. I was like, what? And we were in the back roads. We were on old,

old Topo Road. Yeah. Just went to the back roads. We were on old Topo. Just went to a petrol station. We stopped at a petrol station. Yeah, I could tell you were thinking that. He wasn't saying it out loud. And you even made up a park at the petrol station because there was no parks. You even parked somewhere that wasn't a park.

You could have parked. It had yellow lines on it, didn't it? Yeah. I mean, anyway, I was like, okay, I'll just shut up. The car was running on pure adrenaline. And I've been a public advocate for driving down the motorway on E. It's a thrilling experience. But it's not as, well, you'd think that's thrilling.

You get even more of a kick when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere. And you're like, are we going to make it? This road had nothing around, right? There was no real houses for ages, no shops. We literally rolled into Tokoroa. Just made it. That is the most stressful thing ever. Well, it wasn't too bad.

Okay, I was low-key stressing. I could tell Ben was low-key stressing. I could feel his vibes. I was just wanting to say, hey, we're out of petrol station. I would have put a spanner in the works. You chose not to fill up, but anyway. Life lessons, life lessons. The good news is that, jeez, we're driving back.

I don't know what happened on State Highway 1 on the way home. Everyone was sitting on their bonnets. Yeah. All cars were at a standstill. What? We luckily veered off through Tikofara, and there were people reversing up the motorway trying to take the turn off. Yeah, this was like an unusual time to have been in traffic, right?

Yeah, there were people sitting on their roofs out having conversations. That's bizarre. Yeah. Maybe they thought, hey, this is a nice place for a stop. Not Friday afternoon. Why don't, you know, let's say 300 cars, let's all stop and have a chat to each other. Real Kiwi blokes with soy lattes.

Mmm. Shono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Kia ora, I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is The B**** News. All right, time to figure out what headlines have been unnecessarily beeped by producer Juliette. And there is no odd news website that this lady hasn't visited over the last 24 hours. That's very true. I go through a lot of them. You do. And you do a good job.

Your emails always come through at like 10.30 at night. I'm like, you're putting too much into this. I know. It's too much effort. It's only on at 6.16am. A little less effort, Juliette, from you're putting too much into this. It's too much effort. It's only on at 6.16am. A little less effort, Juliet, from you, thanks. The first one. Scientists confirm cats recognise their owner's voice,

but just don't **** to respond. I'm going to say cats, they just don't give a crap. That's the thing. Cats, their attitude is they just don't care. And I said over the weekend with my dog and the cat, the dog, you could not give the dog more pets. He's just like, what's more attention? The cat's just like, stop touching me.

I forgot you had a cat. That's how independent cats are. They're so aloof, aren't they? They just say, come on. They're like, hey, I want to be fed. Thanks for feeding me. Off I go. It's a business.

It's a business arrangement with a cat, isn't it? They keep it all business. Where dogs are very needy. Oh, yeah, totally. They're the opposite. But they also give back. They make you all business. Where dogs are very needy. Yeah, totally. They're the opposite. But they also give back. They make you feel good. I'm going to say scientists confirm cats recognise their owners' voices,

but just don't give us the basic human respect to respond to us. Scientists confirm cats recognise their owners' voice, but just don't care enough to respond. Oh, there we go. We're both right. There we go. But apparently, historically speaking, cats, unlike dogs,

have not been domesticated to obey humans' orders. So they'll listen, but they just won't obey. It's very true. It's just in their genetics, basically. Yeah. It's like a husband and wife have been married to each other for too long. They don't listen to each other, do they?

Selective hearing. They pretend not to hear. Yeah. Next news story. A man gets paid final paycheck, but is sent it as... They don't listen to each other, do they? Selective hearing. They pretend not to hear. Yeah. Next news story. Man gets paid final paycheck but is sent it as... I'm going to say sent it as a giant oversized novelty check. You know, the ones you get on game shows?

Yeah. Can't cash those into the bank. No, what if you can? I'm just going to say, oh, let's just go Westfield vouchers. Maybe we can spend it on Westfield. Man gets paid final paycheck but is sent it as 90,000 oily pennies. So he left his house and saw... So basically he left his job and he was hassling his employer

to get his final paycheck. And obviously there was a bit of tension there. So he left his house and saw just a pile of oily, greasy pennies at the end of his driveway with just like a ruthless note being like, here's your final paycheck, mate. Why did they have to be oily and greasy pennies at the end of his driveway with just like a ruthless nose being like, here's your final paycheck. Why did they have to be oily and greasy? I don't know. Does it make them hard to pick up or maybe

it just makes it more of a pain, doesn't it? You'd have to clean them, wouldn't you? How to clean off. Leave a grease stain in your pocket, I guess. I want these coins oiled and greased. Someone had to do that job. The boss made someone do that job. You'd be questioning your life, wouldn't you,

as you were greasing up coins. Yeah, quite literally. A lot of effort to go to. And the final news story, stolen *** sparks police investigation in Michigan. Okay, something was stolen. I'm going to go hotel shampoo and conditioner. Everyone always steals that, right?

Now, I'm going to say a stolen comical item. Sparks Police Investigation in Michigan. Okay. Stolen Ronald McDonald statue. Sparks Police Investigation in Michigan. There was a $1,500 reward. You could say it was a McVestigation. That's what the news headline said.

She's like, I will not own that. You know credit is where credit's due. But it has now been found and returned, and someone got $1,500. We don't have your classic Ronald McDonald statues now at McDonald's. Remember, you could hang off his arm and climb up on his head. We used to have them. Did every McDonald's have one?

Every McDonald's used to have a playground. Yeah, that's right. It was an Osh nightmare. They had those bouncy sort of, it was locked inside the Hamburglar. And you could rock it side to side, remember? And they just had like cast iron steel bars. That's right. You'd run some kid's face into by accident.

Yeah. It was fun though. And they had a ball pit. Yeah. And it had sort of the, I don't even know what character it was. It was the hamburger face. And you climbed up the little tube. And you got to the top and it don't even know what character it was, it was the hamburger face and you climbed up the little tube and you got to the top

and it was a bit, you had a little more room at the top but you felt like you were going to be sucked. But it was quite tight. Am I going to be locked in this hamburger for the rest of my life? You had to navigate your way back down the little tube afterwards,

the ladder, and I was like, oh, I'm never going to get back down there there's other kids coming up. Yeah, it was. It was a fun time. Yeah. And Grimace,

what was Grimace, he was something on the playground. I think it was a swing like situation. Would you rock back on board like a horse? Yeah. And those horse things

that you'd ride would go right back about 180 degrees and they'd sling you forward like a slingshot. Bring back McDonald's playgrounds. They were so good.

They were good. They weren't very sanitary but boy, they were fun. And that is the news and beeps for you. Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram.

Time for a new game we like to play. It's called the Google Games. Google Games, Google Games, Google Games. What we need to do right now is warm up our fingers. Stretch those index fingers. Do you just do a one finger type or your multi fingers? Multi fingers. Yeah, me too.

Me too. For many years I was one fingered and people judge you, don't they? That's so slow. That's one of the few things I learnt at school was typing. Really? Yeah, it actually really comes in handy. Touch typing? A lot of the stuff, yeah, without looking and stuff. But you find a lot of what you learnt at school wasn't that handy. Touch typing? Not a lot of the stuff, yeah, without looking and stuff.

But you find a lot of what you learn at school wasn't that handy. Oh, like maths. Maths is good, but some of the things, you know. What was that language? Oh, Latin. Everyone's learning Latin for some reason. Oh, why? Does anyone speak Latin?

I don't think so. I think it's more of a historical language. Historical thing, yeah. Oh, it's good. It's great if you travel back 100 years. You'll be able to fit in. Let's go to Daryl in Te Poi. Morena, Daryl, how are you? Oh, morena, boy.

Lovely to have you on, Daryl. This is the Google Games. Pretty simple format. You just need to ask us a question. We've got 10 seconds to find the answer on Google. Alrighty. All right, Ben, you're up first. Okay.

Oh, okay. Okay, so Ben, first you've got to put your hands up in the air. Yeah, he's got his hands in the air like you're at a concert. Yeah, I'm holding a gun against you now. I'm holding you up for your pizza, really. But who was the first woman inducted into the rock and Roll World Hall of Fame. Okay. And 10 seconds starts now.

Rock and Roll. It is hard. We'll see you on a Monday morning. Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll. Oh, geez, that's hard. Come on, come on, come on. Oh, a buzzer's out. Was it Aretha Franklin?

It was Aretha Franklin. But I didn't get there. The buzzer went off, so congratulations. You're winning some Hell Pizza. Oh, thank you. Fresh off him bragging about how he was taught typing at school. Yeah, it was quite hard. My arms were in the air, and then it was down, and then, yeah.

Well played, Daryl. Well played. Hell Pizza, all yours, okay, mate? All good. Thank you very much. We'll head to Morrinsville. Sue, you're on the air. How are you going on a Monday morning, Sue?

Good morning, John. I'm Ben. Lovely to have you on the air. How are you going on a Monday morning, Sue? Good morning, John. I'm Ben. Lovely to have you on, Sue. Where are you heading to? Crossing guard this morning. What, sorry? Crossing guard for a David Street school. Oh, nice.

To go out and help people cross the road. That's awesome. Yeah, it's dead in the rain. Oh, do you get a cool high-vis vest? I sure do. Yeah, you. Signs out. Cross.

Now that's a thing. That's always a lot of fun. That's the one. A lot of pressure. A lot of pressure. Do people go. Signs out. Cross. Now that's the thing. That's always a lot of fun. That's the one. A lot of pressure. A lot of pressure. Do people go slow generally around school? No. Don't they?

No. I've had about six attempts at having my life taken in the morning. Oh, jeez. That's not good. My daughter did that for a whole year. She did the crossing thing and you'd have to take us to work like an hour, us to school, sorry, an hour early. But we do it.

We do it. On a Thursday we get pizza at the end of the year. I was like, I'll buy you pizza if we can sleep in every day. Let them cross themselves. But no, she was committed to it.

She got her pizza at the end of the year. I mean, her dad gives away free hell pizza. No, I could have given her some. Pizza every day. Yeah. All right,

so what's your question? I'll get Googling. Okay, what year was the first lighthouse built? What? First? the first lighthouse built? What? First? It was the first lighthouse built.

It's a long sentence. Here we go. The first year was between 300 and 200 BC. What? Between 300 and 280 BC. You mumbled that. Yeah, well, it was because of... Sue, you plagued me. Because the answer that. Sue, you played me.

Because the answer isn't clear when it comes up. You've got to read about two paragraphs and well done, Sue, you got hell pizza. But apparently between 300 and 280 BC. And it stood 450 feet high. It's been around for a while, haven't they, lighthouses?

There you go. Why on earth do you know that, Sue? It was just part of a random question. Well done. Well played to you. Well done, Sue. You've got some Hell Pizza. Of course, you can get beer and wine delivered with your Hell Pizza order right now.

You sure can. You sure can. Sue agrees with that, and that's what she's going to be doing. You go and have a great week, Sue. Thanks, guys. You too. Lots of fun, the Google Games. Made to talk words and stuff into a microphone.

It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, there was a bit of news around a couple of weeks ago that her regular Monday morning interview with Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB wasn't going to happen as regularly as it has been in the past.

Prime Ministers have always talked since probably, I think, before John Key, right? Every Monday morning. Since Michael Joseph Savage, they've spoken to Newstalk ZB. Well, probably right. Some of the callers are still as old as Michael Joseph Savage. But at Hosking, Mike Hosking heard our interview with Jacinda. Because we got an interview now. And he didn't have an interview, Mike Hosking.

And believe it or not, we can retire, Ben. We got a kind of compliment. We got a kind of compliment from the one Michael Noel James III Hosking is the actual middle name.

Yeah, he reflected on our interview as part of a wee package on his News Talk ZB show. Have a listen. After the housing announcement, this is the day after the housing announcement, arguably the government's biggest of the year, she lobbed up to the music stations, a repository, of course, of kindness and giggles. However, I might be wrong. She got what seemed like a genuinely solid question on houses.

What are you going to say? We've got wonderful millennial producer Juliet here, fuelled on avocados. She's 23 years old. She doesn't have a house. What are you saying to her right now? That's exactly, it's for her. And it's everyone who owns a home now

who wants their kids to own a home. Not a bad question, not a bad answer. Not a bad question, not a bad answer. We got, that's the only reason Ben, myself and producer Juliet get out of bed in the morning is so we can get some level of affection from Mike Hosking upstairs. He knows we exist.

And he also knows we exist because when we had Jacinda Ardern on the phone, we pretended we were going to calls online and what we did was we played her a question from a Mike Hosking interview that she'd previously done. Sadly, though, the hard-hitting stuff sort of ended at that point. Then, of course, I had to get dragged in.

We've got some callers right now. We have a Mike from Matakana. What's your question for the Prime Minister, Mike? The bubble will Australia. The pressure's got to be on you now to do something by way of a two-way, doesn't it? Quite a serious question there from Mike from Matakana. He really had a real voice for radio.

He did. Best question of the morning, I'd argue. Best question of the morning. Then Hosking comes back and gives it a good old dig, doesn't he? Thankfully, he didn't hear us ask what her Netflix profile name was and what her favourite colour is. Well, no, because we've asked her some pretty softball questions in the past, haven't we?

But on that occasion, we had her with a hard-hitting question about the housing. What a great day to start the week. A kind of compliment from the great Mike Hosking Mum will be very proud They're proud of New Zealand If only New Zealand

was proud of them New Zealand's breakfast Alright she's here to give us all the hot goss and if the goss is not, she'll put it in the microwave on high for a minute just so we can say we've got all the hot goss. Juliet, what's happening? So Megan Markle's father, who lives in L.A., was photographed driving to Oprah Winfrey's house in Montecito in California

with a handwritten note that he then left with the security guard, supposedly with that note saying, requesting if Oprah could interview him so he could tell his side of the story after she obviously interviewed Megan and Harry. So he's hand-delivered this note to Oprah, which, I mean, she's probably not going to get because the security guard's probably going to throw it out.

What confuses me about this story is why hasn't he just posted it? Has he not heard of a postal service? He clearly knows her address. Why is he wasting petrol and driving over? That seems like that's the personal touch, right? It's like dropping a CV in yourself. You know? It shows that you really want it.

You've made an effort. Look, Oprah, I'm willing to come to you. We wouldn't be talking about it if he just put it in an envelope, would we? No, you're right. And also he wouldn't be talking about it if he just put it in an envelope, would we? Yeah, exactly. And also he wouldn't be photographed delivering it at the house. That's not part of the show. He's putting on a performance. It's a hand-delivered note.

And when it's hand-delivered, you know it means business. It means something, yeah. So what does he want to tell his side of the story? Do we care about his side of the story? Well, he does interviews all the time, I think. Well, it seems like he's all over the news and his sister. Not his sister, sorry, Meghan's sister, half-sister, is all over the news, always doing interviews

whenever Meghan and Harry make some sort of public move. No matter how famous you are, everyone's got that family member, don't they? Everyone's got that, and you're just like, shut up, Dad, Dad, Dad, shut up, she'll be having her head in her hands. Yeah, quite literally. And also, regarding up, Dad, Dad, Dad, shut up. She'll have her head in her hands. Yeah, quite literally. And also, regarding Harry and Meghan,

their split from the royals is going to be made into a movie called Escaping the Palace. Great title. And I feel like movie makers, Netflix shows, The Crown will be dialing in on this soon. It's a great platform. It's a good launch pad to create some stuff. It wasn't so much of an escape, though, was it?

It was all done quite amicably. I think so. They got the movers in. Yeah, true. They weren't having to jump fences. Yeah, you're right. They moved into a lovely mansion. Yeah.

They weren't imprisoned. And then did a public interview that made the whole world go crazy, basically. Yeah, a convenient move between countries, it could be called. Well, I can't wait to see that on a Wednesday night on TVNZ2. We don't know it'll be any good. Not sure, I mean... It'll be a 9.30pm jobby, wouldn't it? On TVNZ2?

Oh, 8.30, I've got to go. You're going to pick an 8.30 time slot for that one. You know, just in the current environment. I mean, everyone wants to hear about this sort of news. Yeah, true. I'm skidging on at 8.30, guys. Okay, good work. There we go.

TVNZ 2, 8.30, Wednesday night, coming soon. Escaping the Palace. And just quickly, Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, his daughter has given birth to her first child, Grace Warrior Irwin Powell. And she also revealed that one of her pregnancy cravings was lettuce cups, which is a very healthy pregnancy craving. But yes, a healthy baby girl.

The middle name Warrior is kind of a tribute to Steve Irwin being a wildlife warrior. So very happy for her and her husband Chandler. I mean, I feel like the last time I remember Bindi Irwin, she was about seven years old. She was very cute. Now she's married with a baby. I know. I'm sure she's done other stuff in between. I just haven't been keeping up to date. I know. Time really does go fast. How old is she now? with a baby. I know. I'm sure she's done other stuff in between. I just haven't been keeping up to date.

I know. Time really does go fast. How old is she now? 22? Yeah. Oh, they grow up so fast. Did she win Dancing with the Stars in Australia or something like that? Or some reality show or something, I think.

Yeah, she was. Multi-talented girl. Her husband looks like a little sweetheart. Yeah. Oh, look at his smile. He's got a big smile like Steve Irwin. He's American. Did you know?

Did I? Yeah. Well, I know nothing about her. So no, I didn't know. He's got a big smile like Steve Irwin. He's American, did you know? Well, I know nothing about her, so no, I don't know. I've done my research. And that is five more. You can head to thehits.co.nz. Ben and Jono call this show Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the Hits. The Hits.

All right. A filling. I would like to end the show on a positive note. A load of text rolling in after they released Prince William as the sexiest bald man on the face of the earth and I said that I was going to take the bull by the horns and run a unsanctioned

sexiest New Zealand bald man competition and I'm going to put myself at number one. Okay, because I can. It's my tournament. It's my tournament. Someone's texted in saying

I'm desperately trying to go bald just so I can put Jono in his place. Another person's texted in saying, Jono, you are New Zealand's number one sexy bald DJ. That works on the hits. In the morning. And as lucky, Ben isn't bald also.

So some wonderful market feedback there. Yeah, so I'll enter the hits. Why is today going to be a good day for you? We'd love to hear from you on the phones. Juliette, it's going to be a good day for you. She's just gone, yuff, my headphones I won off Instagram have arrived. I won headphones off Instagram and I'm so

excited they arrived. They are lovely looking headphones you've got there. They're the old wireless ones. They're wrap-brandy earlobes. Yeah, see you to the cord earphones that I currently have. Tell me, does Dr. Dray and Beats have a problem with the design of those? Because it seems like they're really teetering on intellectual copyright stuff going on. My brother said they looked like ovaries. problem with the design of those because it seems like they're really teetering on intellectual copyright

stuff going on. My brother said they looked like ovaries. Wrapping up our show, it's going to be a good day for you Nikki Wai in Pukano. Hi, and yeah, I finally spent my Christmas I'm wearing new clothes today and I'm feeling great. Oh, well you got those prezzy cards out

of your wallet. You always forget about them, don't you? Yeah, we had planned girls trips, but thanks to COVID, they'd been postponed. So finally we got there. And you spent your Prezi cards from Christmas. Well done, Nicole. That's lovely. I always forget how much you got on them, so you spend one.

And you can never tell how much. It's kind of a bit of a game of Russian roulette at the counter, isn't it, when you're using it for the second time? Yes, that's true. Well, enjoy your day. Thank you so much for listening. Enjoy your new clothes. We'll catch you guys tomorrow, 6 o'clock,

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