Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - May 19 - Today We Found Out Whether Ben Made It Onto Dwayne Johnson's Instagram...

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

Hello hello! Today was a very big show. It's Wednesday in NZ, which means it's "Teremana Tuesday" in America. Meaning, the day Dwayne Johnson reposts videos of his fans enjoying his tequila. This morning we made sure Ben wasn't checking Dwayne's Instagram account, so Jono could reveal the news to him live on air! We were also joined by Jacinda Ardern, desperate for some more scoop on her wedding. We asked you guys how you were a little bit naughty at work, and we also had an interesting win for 5 Words for $5K! Enjoy the podcast.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. Hi, guys. It's Wednesday the 19th of May. Kia ora. Lovely to have you here.

I'm Jono. And I'm Ben. Welcome along. This is our podcast. Why don't we start the podcast like every time? I'm I'm Ben. Welcome along. And this is our podcast. Why don't we start the podcast like every time? I'm Jono. I'm Ben. And this is our podcast. I'm Jono.

And I'm Ben. And this is our podcast. I like that. It sounds a little cheesy, but it probably does work. I am cheesy. Yeah, no, true. We are. Well, might as well just, you know. What is your favorite cheese?

If you're going to lock one in. Ah. Let's not go too bloody hoity-toity I know you've got quite the distinguished palate I do enjoy cheese we did have a night

for friends of ours where you we were to bring a bottle of wine and a cheese and a company cheese for that wine oh my god

could you get a whiter evening I know and by the end of it you're like did you watch the yachting and listen to Coldplay everyone bought platters

you know platters with their cheeses by the end of it you need're like, it was because everyone... Did you watch the yachting and listen to Coldplay? Everyone bought platters, you know, platters with their cheeses. By the end of it, you need a lot of cheese, like a lot of cheese. Too much, yeah. I know, you can get a cheese overload. What was incredible though, and sorry, just to dog lead this one second, but a friend of mine, he works at a winery. And so we would put the wine in a brown paper bag to pour it out, just to not knowing what it was.

And he was really amazing at going, that's a wine from Marlborough, or that's a such and such, and that's a Sauvignon Blanc. It was amazing how he knew. Because sometimes you're like, oh, that's all a bit of a dance that these people do, and maybe they don't really know what they're doing. But he could tell the type of wine, the area it was from, and then often would go, oh, I can get hints, blah, blah, blah. And you read the back of the bottle, and you go, wow, it's like he wrote that.

That's his job, though. Yeah, no, but it's pretty impressive. It's like you going, if I'd played you the first two seconds of a radio commercial, you'd be like, that's a premature ejaculation ad. That's a good Bunnings Warehouse. Yeah, I suppose. Tony's Tire Service. In your job, that it is.

Yeah, yeah. But you're right. That's not quite as impressive. I don't really have any use for that on a day-to-day basis. That's not going to impress people at a party. You play me any commercial, I'll tell you what it is within a half a second. But no, anyway, Edam. I'm knocking in.

Oh, Edam's a good cheese. Or Colby. Edam Colby's good. Tasty's too much for me. Oh, I don't mind a tasty even though. Too crumbly. It gets crumbly in your mouth. I like a bit of a tasty.

But it is a strong cheese. A strong cheese. Hey, we've got a strong show for you as well, full of cheese. Five words for five grand. A contentious game today. Yeah, we had a winner, but did we have a winner? Have a listen to the podcast, make up your mind and tell us what you think

of that one, as well as the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. She has a scoop for us, a big scoop, so check it out. Jono and Ben, or as they're known in the office, those two. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast on the hits. Please welcome Dwayne the Rock Johnson. Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne the Rock Johnson. For 10 years, Dwayne the Rock Johnson has been Ben the Pebble Voices hero. He inspires me.

Now, Ben's challenge. Can he get on Dwayne the Rock Johnson's Instagram? We've moved on from this. No, we haven't. No, we haven't. No, we haven't. Why do we have to keep... Last week, I began a jersey... Jersey.

Journey. Began a jersey. That's his one. It's going to take him six months, but he'll get there. He'll get it to you by Christmas. Thank you. Began a journey to make my friend Ben Boyce's dream come true, and his dream was to be featured on his hero's Instagram account,

Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Well, yeah, my his hero's Instagram account, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Well, yeah, my dream was to be noticed by Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Just so he knew he was aware of me. And you have now decided that the only way to do that is for him to post something on the Instagram account. Long story short, you got me to get a tattoo of a love heart with Dwayne The Rock Johnson on my behind. And you're like, this is a fail-safe way of getting on the Instagram account.

Well, it hasn't been so far. No, no. It's been a quiet week and I can tell as each day passes, your resentment grows towards me. As I say, I'm an adult and I made that decision on my own, but I was, you know, look, this is going to work. Now, good things take time. Good things take time.

Much like the tattoo removal process, which I've researched takes three to six months, just by the way. If you're interested, there's an unrelated note. Oh, you're good. But yesterday, US time was our, I felt, last chance to get on Dwayne,

the Rob Johnson's Instagram account. Now, I know you've been waking up every morning. You've been checking it, haven't you? Oh, yes. So this morning, it've been checking it, haven't you? Oh yes, so this morning it's Tuesday over there. He does his tequila Tuesdays. Tequila Tuesdays, you had a bottle of tequila when you were getting the

tattoo. And so he posts people that are enjoying his tequila on a Tuesday over there. So right now in America it would be Tuesday, wouldn't it? And we told you don't check the Instagram account this morning we want to make this a surprise. I haven't gone on there, but I'm like,

here we go. And now is the moment. Well, I like to think that Dwayne The Rock Johnson has just been holding on to this hot fire content to release it at the exact moment

he knows the world is prepared to take it in. Okay. Hit the music, Judy. He has posted... Jeez, what? Are you dragging this out? What are you, Randall and the Masked Singer?

Another Terramana Tuesday. A selection of his fans enjoying his tequila. Right. Are you in there? Let's find out. All the way from Ireland Sludge us It's not us You're Irish

I tried this Terramana For my wife's graduation It doesn't sound like you It's not me It's smooth Dwayne Thank you for this

Terramana That could be you Is that you? No Terramana Ain't getting my work done No it's not me It's not me

So we're not there You're not in the So we're not there. You're not in the montage. You're not in the... You're not going to do what we'll find out after the break. You're not going to do one of those moments.

You're not in the montage. What I will say is after that video, Dwayne posted a solo video, a video that stood on its own. Not down with the montages. Right.

Not in with the collection of other people. And I would like you to look right now on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram account. This is going to be like... Has he made... This is going to be... His friend's dream come true. Has he featured on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram account?

Dwayne The Rock Johnson's Instagram account. I'm going to it now. He has not checked it this morning. Uh... No. No. No. No, I can't see it there. Is it there? No, it's not there.

I'm like, well, there's another. There's this one here that's. A cardboard cutout of him. Yeah. Yeah. No, so that's not you. No. No, that's the video I was talking about. It's quite good. Yeah. It's a cardboard cutout one of him Yeah. Yeah. No, so that's not you. No. That's the video I was talking about.

It's quite good. Yeah. It's a cardboard cutout one of him and someone's holding that. So no. Yeah, no. Yeah. Okay, that's quite a big build-up for...

Listen, I'm going to go out there and say I'm dark on Dwayne Johnson. I am no longer going to list The Tooth Fairy as my favourite film. I'm going to go something else, like maybe The Pacifier with Vin Diesel or something. No, we're not. It's not there.

It's not there, no. Okay. The dream is over. Is it? It's over. Oh, yeah, it's over. It's over. We're done.

So what I'd like to open up now is an in-memoriam phone line. Anything that can make Ben feel better. Please, anything, because there's nothing I can do now. 0800-THE-HITS-4487. The dream's over. Anything you can say to make Ben feel better. Please, anything, because there's nothing I can do now. 0800 The Hits, 4487. The dream's over. Anything you can say to make Ben feel better right now that he's got a tattoo of Dwayne The Rock Johnson emblazoned on his body.

I mean, I still love Dwayne The Rock Johnson. But the dream's over. The dream's over, okay. What can you do to make him feel better? 0800 The Hits, 4487. We've got a load of listener friends who have phoned through to 0800 The Hits. They're on this journey with you.

You know, they're part of the whanau. And we'll hit the music, June. We'll start with Trudy in Auckland. What do you want to say to make Ben feel better? Hi, Ben. Hi, Trudy. Don't worry, my friends also make me do silly things sometimes. The things that I don't want to do.

You've got friends like John, I understand. What do they make you do? Well, you know, I'm really tired sometimes and they make me go out for dinner, which I don't always want to do. But we all do things, don't we, that we're not proud of.

Yeah, true. When you just want to be at home and you go out for dinner. To be fair, going out for dinner is a lot less worse than having a permanent tattooing done. But I appreciate the sentiments. Yeah, thank you, Trudy.

That means a lot. We'll go to Mike in Tauranga. Welcome, Mike. How are you, my friend? I'm all right, Mike. You're not a quitter. What we're going to do is we're going to get a video. You're going to be in a wrestling ring with a Mexican wrestler.

The coach is going to be in the corner. The wrestler is going to slam you around, put you in the corner. The coach gives you a shot of tequila. You take a shot. You look at the camera and you go, come on over, mate, and I'll give you a shot. And my specialty is the tequila slammer. You're not a quitter. He's like he's pitched us a movie.

It's like, I can see it in my head. You've got to take it to him. You've got to give him something that he wants to come over for. Okay, you're not a quitter. Tequila slammer. This is all we did. Listen, he's picked up spirits, Mike. It's literally the tequila ones. And I reckon you'd love it

if the rock picked you up between the legs and dropped you on the ground and flat. That would be a dream come true. He would love to be picked up between the legs by Dwayne the Rock Johnson. That would be... Anything between Dwayne's legs, Ben will be there.

You have a lovely day, guys. Yeah, thanks, Mike. I appreciate you calling. It's made me feel better. It was like a halftime speech. It was so good. We'll go to Jane your call. He's made me feel better. It was like a halftime speech. That was so good. We'll go to Jane in Hamilton. Things to make Ben feel better?

I'm a massive fan. I thought you might feel better just by looking over at John. I was just throwing away the least annoying one. I can almost take some solace in the fact that I'm the least annoying one of John and Ben. Yeah. Oh, that's great. That means it's so far. So far.

You can still win back the annoying stakes, but at the moment, I'm in the lead. Yeah. Oh, that's great. So far. It means it's so far. So far. You can still win back the annoying stakes, but at the moment, I'm in the lead and I'll take that honour. I'll take that honour. Thank you very much and thank you, New Zealand,

for making Ben feel better. It was heartfelt. It was lovely. Warning! This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The Hits with Jono and Ben

for breakfast. We catch up with her every month and it's been a big week for the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. Are we talking to Forbes magazine? Fortune magazine.

Most powerful leader in the universe. Number one world leader. Is that who we got on? Well, I'm personally disputing the list because Dolly Parton at 11, totally off there, I would have thought. Oh, right. Why is Dolly Parton in the list of the world leaders? Dolly Parton, she is, A, amazing,

but, B, been doing a lot of philanthropic work around COVID vaccines. She's donated a lot of her money as well, right, towards the other cause. Yeah, absolutely. So you feel embarrassed you've beaten Dolly Parton? There's a whole list of people there that I, as I saw the list, thought, well, that's wrong.

Oh, well, it is nice to talk to you. How's the season's been now, Jacinda Ardern? Oh, yeah, busy, busy time. It's Budget Week, which is a really big deal for us here in politics. So just getting ready for that tomorrow. And, of course, we're hitting some great milestones this week we've got 5,000 people trying to be vaccinated for our vaccine rollout

so yeah, it's a big week. Are you vaccinated? No, not yet but I'm going to be very very soon I wanted to wait until we started moving out into the general starting to do parts of the general population because no one in New Zealand likes a queue jumper.

Oh, that's true. We all moan, but we don't confront them to their face. We bitch about them behind their back. Yeah, exactly. A little passive-aggressive. Yeah, like you can do it, but we'd all moan about it behind your back. Yeah, and I'm a little aware of that,

but I also know that I need to demonstrate that I'm totally confident in the vaccines. I will be doing it shortly. Now, just an idea, on other radio and TV shows recently, you've dropped some scoops, you know, announcing your wedding in Gisborne on a radio show. Not on purpose.

Now, where's your favourite radio show, your favourite, you know, people, John and Ben, what have you got, what scoop have you got for us on the wedding? Anything? You're my favourite prankster. That's good, we'll take that. You know, like what, you know, wedding date, wedding venue, what colour the dress is going to be.

I mean, give us something. None of the others have been on purpose, I should add. Those were all things that I thought, well, the summer thing I thought was pretty vague and I wouldn't have called a scoop. But I thought I'd already told people we were getting married in Kyrsten. So that was a mistake for which I had to apologise. So what else have you thought you've told other people? You just list some stuff off there

and we'll find out if you have or you haven't. Yeah, I think I'm going to just not go there. Okay. Now, you know, there's a lot of the invites are interesting, aren't they? And there's a lot of members in the Labour Party. At what number do you cut off the list of MPs? Are you like, oh, is it cabinet only

or are you stretching outside the cabinet? You may think that this is a joke, but this is actually a real-life dilemma. Yeah. Because I have a lot of colleagues. Yep. And so thank you for raising that. Yeah, no.

I reckon far four you'll be scraping in. Hipkins. Oh, no, he's not. He's up there, baby. So Mike Hosking on ZB, and now he, of course, used to catch up with him weekly, and now you don't do it as regularly, but he's almost like a jealous ex.

He's listening to you on every other radio station. He's like his Facebook stalking, you know, the ex-partner. He's picking apart all of our questions to you. So, you know, budget tomorrow. Here's a question for Mike Hosking. As we know, Jacinda, running a surplus for the government's budget effectively takes money out of the economy

as more money is taken out in taxation than injected into the economy without spending. So many argue it's essential giving the government a credit card with no limit.

The surplus tomorrow in the budget, is there going to be one? Did you practice that? Yeah, I did a little bit and it was all from an article somebody else wrote, but anyway.

And do you know the most impressive thing was he was reading it and didn't mess it up. I plagiarised that. But anyway, the question. Don't dance around the question, Jacinda. The surplus, which I vaguely understand. I'm going to be completely even-handed and give the same question I would give anywhere. Everyone just needs to wait one more sleep to see not only our fiscal position but the announcements

that we're making around the budget. Why won't you answer this question, Prime Minister? Because she's saying wait till tomorrow. What's she hiding? It was if I close my eyes

it was like I was right there again. Before you go too, just some wedding songs we want to pitch to you, okay, when you walk down the aisle or maybe your first dance?

Go for it. Okay, so we've got one. We've got a classic New Zealand song. Icy Red. Icy Red. Yeah, Icy Red. The lesser known wedding aisle song, I would have thought. We thought we'd go with the colour scheme, you know,

like Icy Red, Labour. It's a party, not a cult. It's a party, okay. We've got option number two. What do you think of that one? Yeah, it's so the same. Blue Lady. Okay, and this is one not to put on the wedding list,

thanks to J.K., I think it's from. It's just more of a warning. I know you don't delve into national stuff, but would you roll, would you roll Judith if you're in the National Party? Yeah, I actually, do you know, I think from having been in opposition, I've just, since I've been over here,

I just, I don't speculate on their leadership challenges or what's going on over there. And a lot of times that's just because the job of running the country is big enough as it is without becoming a commentator on them. So I leave them to it. She doesn't put her sticky beak in their business. I like it.

She doesn't give us any scoops either, but we'll keep talking to you every month. We all enjoy catching up and I'll look forward to finding out about the surplus tomorrow, basically what it is and what you've got to do about it. Well, all I would say is,

it's COVID times and that means it's not easy for anyone at the moment. Thank you, Prime Minister. Take care. Talk soon. We apologise in advance. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry Prime Minister. Take care. Talk soon. 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. Shoto and Penn. Breakfast on the heads. The heads. The heads. Now, Millennial Max, we've brought in... Yeah, lovely to see you.

You turned up at 7.35 today. What's going on? Yeah, about half an hour late this morning. Yeah, that's all right. That's all right. It's lovely to see you here. I'm here. Well, I'm glad you are here though today,

Millennial Max, because we wanted to discuss. Yeah, because you wanted to get the fact that you were late out on the radio. Yeah. Thanks for that, John. Hey, thanks for coming in, Max. That's all I wanted to say.

Play the next song. So it's noted on the record now on podcast form as well on iHeartRadio. You're late. Ben, I noticed you were seven minutes late this morning as well. Get out of there. Juliet, you're on time. Well done. Thank you. Ben, I noticed you were seven minutes late this morning as well. Get out of there.

Juliet, you're on time. Well done. Thank you. No, I wanted to have a chat with you because... You're late. You're late, number one. I thought this would be an appropriate platform to discuss your tardiness. This is going to be a habit.

Oh, no. No, no. Hey, I'm sorry, Ben. No, it's fine. Where do you see yourself in five years? Because it's not here, no. No, no. Hey, I'm sorry, B. No, it's fine. Where do you see yourself in five years? Because it's not here, mate. You really derailed the chat. This wasn't what we meant to be talking about.

I love Millennial Max. Now, Max, you mentioned something in passing recently that I'll let you pick it up, but I'll tell you what it is. It involved cooking rice in the workplace after hours. Yes. What happened? So I was at home, I was making dinner, which involved cooking rice in the workplace after hours. Yes. What happened? So I was at home, I was making dinner, which involved cooking rice,

and I completely stuffed the rice. I overcooked it, and then it just took too long to make another thing of rice. Yeah. And I knew that lovely Countdown, who sponsored the three-pimp pickup, had given us some sachets of rice, which were in the office.

So I thought, I'll just take one of those. But then you cooked the rice here as well. Yeah, because I don't have a microwave. So he came into work. I mean, back in the day, the 90s, we'd come and we'd steal all the equipment out of the studio. Now millennials are coming in and just cooking rice. That's the dark things they're doing in the office. A little bit naughty. a little bit naughty.

A little bit naughty. But the problem I have with this is that the rice, when you returned home, would have been dead cold. Oh, no, no, no. It was still pretty hot. It was still nice and warm. Yeah, right. It tasted delicious.

I love the fact, because we talked about this the other day. We're like, why don't you have a microwave at home? And the reason for this is? Aesthetically, it doesn't work with our kitchen. So they had a microwave, but it didn't quite work in with the colours. It just sat on the kitchen bench. That's what they do. That's what microwaves do.

So now they don't have a microwave because it doesn't fit in with the house. Well, listen, he's committed a rice crime. And I hope it was combination fried rice. I hope that combination was guilt and remorse, Max, when you tasted that. So we wanted to open up this morning on 0800. It's why are you a little bit naughty? Now, this is going to be, we're going to make this anonymous. You don't have to, no names, no names.

But what little bit naughty thing have you done or are you doing at work? It could be something you've done in the past. Yeah, like you say, Ben, it's anonymous. A lot like Alcoholics Anonymous. And coincidentally, we have to be out by 8.30 because they're coming in for the meeting after this. So we'll make this quick. Make this quick.

Juliet, what have you done that's a little bit naughty? Not me, but my sister used to steal the milk supplied at the work office. Take it home. Take home a couple of bottles to fill. A couple of bottles? Yeah. We're not talking about the full-blown theft. Too heavy.

Reel it back a bit. Okay, okay. Four litres too heavy. Okay, okay. Four litres too heavy. Wow, okay. We're not talking about, you know, crimes you'd be sentenced for. Shoot. Jeez, okay.

Can we erase this? Yeah, okay. So give us a call right now, 0800-THE-HITS or 4487. No names, but just why you're a little bit naughty for what you may have done at work in the past. Okay, 0800-THE-HITS, 4487.

Anonymous, welcome on 0800-THE-HITS. Are you there? Anonymous. Hello. Yes, 0800 the hits, 4487. Anonymous, welcome on 0800 the hits. Are you there? Anonymous. Hello. Yes, it takes a while. It does take a while. There could be quite a few anonymous already waiting.

Yeah, there is. Everyone's anonymous. I made it anonymous. I made it weird. But anyway, I just thought it would help get calls because people don't want to throw themselves

under the bus. But what have you done at work that's a little bit naughty? I've learned my whole theory for a Certificate IV Diploma while working. Oh, you studied for a Diploma? Yeah. And you did all your theory while working for the job? Yep.

On their time. A little bit naughty. Yeah, it's a little bit naughty. Slash fireable offence. That's why they're anonymous. Exactly. Okay, we'll go to our next anonymous. Anonymous and Nelson, welcome.

Hello. How are you? A little bit naughty at work, we understand. Yeah, so I actually use the work shower like morning and night before I start working, after I finish or I'll go to the gym and then go back to work and use the shower. When was the last time you used the shower where you live?

Like quite a few months ago just because I was going to go out. So I very hardly use my own shower mainly because I absolutely hate cleaning it. Oh, she has to wash all the bad ass off her. And she's doing it in the work shower. A little bit naughty. I remember there was a guy I used to work with

many years ago. He'd built a little secret bed so he could go off behind like a bookshelf. He'd put a little bed so he could go off and sleep during the day for a little bit. Have a little nap. Remember that guy at work? He was like he was almost living in the toilet, wasn't he? I think his wife had kicked him out and you'd walk in on him having a shave and stuff and you're like, oh, things

aren't going well. Felt sorry for him. Or maybe and you're like, oh, things aren't going well. Felt sorry for him. Or maybe he was just like, oh, maybe he just... I made it through those tough times though. You did. And that's why you're back. And that's why I'm here today. Yeah. With a smile on my dial.

Patch things up. We'll go to Harwita. Anonymous in Harwita. You're a little bit naughty at work. Yeah, just call me Rat Bro. Rat? Yeah, yeah. I suppose I was a bit of a rat for what I'd done.

Yeah, I used to groom cars and they had polish, car polish and stuff like that. It was quite expensive. Big litres of it and I used to take a one litre bottle of coke and when the boss wasn't there I'd pull it up and then just top it up what I used

with water and shake it up so he wouldn't recognise. I did that for about a year. Oh, so you could go home and clean your car? Yeah, save me buying it, bro. That's why they call me Rat. That's why they call him the Rat. And he went home and polished it. I suppose I was a Rat.

Thank you. Rats get out and sneak around and pinch things. And also give everyone the plague as well. Yeah, they do. Thank you very much. Yeah, I was a bit of a big wreck. I love the fact you're really throwing yourself under the polished car there. And we'll take one more caller, Anonymous.

You're on the line there. Welcome. Welcome. You're a little bit naughty at work. So naughty that they've had to hang up. They might be being traced. Are they gone? And that was an awkward fade out and a fumbly end

to what was a pretty solid segment, and I ruined it. It was going great. Yeah, and I win one more. I always do. I made it tough because of no one's names, but anyway. Listen, we'll talk about this in the post-match. Yeah, we will. To everyone pulling a sickie today, you're not fooling anyone.

Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. That's a wee game we love to play here on the Hits, our Game of Word Association. We tell you five words, you tell us the words that pop into your head after those words, and if they match with ours, you win $5,000. Now, don't forget too, you can play online, thehits.co.nz. We're always forgetting that, but don't you forget that,

because imagine that's what you're doing all the time on your computer. You're furiously typing away there, aren't you? No, I'm always playing five words, that's what I do, yeah. If on your computer you're furiously typing away there aren't you? No I'm always playing five words that's what I do if you match online it's all in my history if you

check it out show us your history oh no just take my word for it do you want to see his history

too? yes no actually I probably don't no it's actually very Blake it would be like stuff.nzherald.co.nz

exactly yeah that's all and other various news sites and the hits.co.nz those are the two websites he visits I haven't got time for more than those two websites Thank you, yeah. Yeah, that's all. And other various news sites. And the hit stock, Conan NZ. Those are the two websites he visits. I haven't got time for more than those two websites.

I've got all the information that I need. That's all I need. John, you're on from Christchurch. How are you this morning, mate? Yeah, good day, John. How are you, pal? We're doing really well. Lovely to have you on, John.

What's the morning like in Chichar today? Yeah, not too bad, mate. It started off a little bit fresh, but it's actually not too bad. What do you do? Truckie. Ooh, nice. Round the streets. A beautiful city, Christchurch.

It is. Come down. I love all the new artwork. We were in there last weekend and all the little artwork on all of the buildings. It's really cool in the centre of town. But that's not what we need

to talk about this morning. We need to talk about five words for $5,000 and who you want to send in to the soundproof booth. It's got to be Jono. It's got to be Jono to send into the soundproof booth. It's got to be Jono. It's got to be Jono. It's all right, mate.

It's got to be Jono. We can do it. Come on, Jono. You can do it for Jon. Okay, all right. I'll head into the soundproof booth. Also known as the naughty corner when we see it and be it after the show.

Just get in there. I don't even know anyone that takes so long to walk across to the edge of the studio. All right, he's in there, Jon. The first word this morning is H2O. Water. Water, yeah. Nice.

It's heavy on that one. Second word this morning is triceratops. Triceratops. Dinosaur. Dinosaur. Good. Both of those have been exactly what's popped into my head as well. I can't think of anything else.

No, I think you've done well with those first two. The next word is visitor. Visitor. Guest. Guest. Nice. That's really easy. Guest.

I'm like, yes. He's matching all with me so far. Oh, that's good. Email is your fourth one, John, this morning. Email. Email. Yeah, that's a bit tricky now. There's some more options for that one. Yeah. Email. Email. Yeah, that's a bit tricky now. There's some more options for

that one. Yeah, email. Computer. Computer. And the final word this morning is stage. S-T-A-G-E, stage. Acting. Acting. I think you did a pretty good job there, John. Not sure about the computer one. Do you want to have a, oh, John, it hasn't quite got it. You happy with computer? Email? Message. Message. Okay, you going to change it to message?

Yeah, I think so. Okay, lock in that. Almost got John out of the soundproof booth. Now he can come out. Sorry, John, we just had a little bit of a, oh, hang on. Just a little redo on one of the words. I always come out of the soundproof very relaxed and calm. Now, I don't know if that's because it's a relaxing

environment or there's a gas leak inside there. But I'm feeling great, John. I'm feeling relaxed. I'm feeling calm. Not all jittery. That's good. You've got it, mate. You've got it, John. Positive thoughts this morning. Come on, John. You can do this.

I think you can do this, too. The first word we said to John this morning. Five on, Jono, you can do this. I think you can do this too. The first word we said to Jon this morning, five words, $5,000, H2O. Water. Well done, well done. One from one, Jono. Good start, good start.

Awesome. Next word was triceratops. Triceratops. Dinosaur. Or dinosaur. Dinosaur. Or dinosaur. Dinosaur. I'll take that one. He said dinosaur.

Brilliant. Two from two. Dinosaur, yes, is the second word. Two from two. Good start. Visitor. Visitor was the third word. I'm going to lock in guest.

Oh, yes. Nice. Good work. Nice, mate. Oh, gee. Okay, these are the turning points here. This is it. I feel good. I'm going to look and guessed oh yes good work oh gee okay these are the turning points here this is it I feel good okay okay fourth word this morning

email email take your time it's a wide one it is it is it is I love John's John's live commentary as well.

I'm loving it. It is, it is. This is the one that John had an answer, then changed at the last minute because... So he wasn't confident on his first answer. There is a lot of options for this one. This is the tricky one. Well, I'm just going to go,

because, yeah, there's about half a dozen floating around in my head. I'm going to have to lock in the first one, which was message. Oh, yeah! Oh, John! Oh, gosh. Go on, mate. Good work, mate. Okay, John! Oh, gosh. Go on, mate.

Good work. Okay. Johnny! Good work, mate. We are one away from 5K. Oh, good stuff. Good luck, mate. And we'll find out how you go after the break.

Always wanted to do that. Always wanted to do that, like they do on The Masked Singer. Are we coming back up? We're coming back. We're coming back. Just to prolong this pain. New Zealand's sitting around John. We'll find out in just a second on the Hits.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Instagram. I've really made this game more complicated this morning because I have dragged out five words for $5,000. Five words for 5K on the Hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. We've got John from Christchurch.

He's a truck driver. And previously on Jono and Ben on the hits, he had matched four out of five words with Jono. I tell you what. And Ben's dragged it over an Avril Lavigne song. I am. And I tell you what, there's more tension in here

than a stressed out, overworked trampoline. Well, no one's talked to you since that song was going on, Jono. We weren't looking at you, we weren't talking to you. But you don't usually talk to me anyway, so there's no difference.

We made sure that Jono didn't check his phone, didn't check the computer. He's pretty much, we've sat here in silence for that last couple of minutes because, Jon, this is the moment right now

you guys have matched four out of five. We have. Yeah, you got this, Jono. Okay. You guys have matched four out of five. We have. Yeah, you got this, John. Okay. So far, we've had H2O water, Triceratops dinosaur, visitor guest, email message, and the final word. This morning, if you match this, John, gets $5,000, John. The final word this morning.

Stage. Stage. Stage. S-T-A-G-E Stage There's a few Can I name what I'm thinking? Yeah I might put John down

Because we can't have anything influencing anything Okay so I've got Stage door Stage play Actors Those are what's sort of floating around Tickets maybe No I don't think I'm all words prior

Snacks Tangy fruits I'll give you a clue. I'll give you a clue. You didn't say Tangy Fruits. Okay, thank you. So you can rule that one out. Stage.

I'm going to go... Actors. Why are you piercing your lips like you've got constipation? Why are you going... What's happening? Okay, John, the word you said was... Acting. Acting.

You said actors. What happened? I don't know. That's... Oh, like, Jussie Juliette normally plays the winning or the losing Xenobix. What do we do? Was Boss Todd at work?

Same thing, isn't it? I would like to think it's the same thing. John's like, can I put my vote in? We've got an early vote through from John. Whoa, this is contentious. Can I go grab Boss Todd from the office? Grab Boss Todd? Well, we'll have to play news.

We'll come back after news because we're running late. Okay. We'll get Boss Todd. There'll be a meeting. John we're running late. Okay. We'll get Boss Todd. There'll be a meeting. John, I'm sorry. This is really dragging your morning out. I'm sorry, John. Yeah.

You can text 24487. Actors, acting, do you give it to them? It's the same thing, isn't it? It's the same thing. It's the same thing. But it's not exactly the same word, but it's the same thing. Yeah, yeah, nah. Yeah.

Nah. Yeah, nah. The whole movie. Yeah, nah. She'll be right. And at the end of the day. Jono and Ben. Breakfast on the hits. If you just joined us, we've been playing five words for $5, nah. The whole movie, yeah, nah. She'll be right, and at the end of the day... Jono and Ben, breakfast on the hits. If you just joined us, we've been playing five words for $5,000.

We do it every morning on the Hits at 7.45. We had Jon from Christchurch. Jon and Jono matched four out of five words. Then it got to the final one, and this is what Jono said. Stage. Stage. S-T-A-G-E. Stage. Ta-da! stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage stage

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Tickets maybe Now in the end you locked in Jono Actors Now Jon said acting Now we weren't sure what to do Acting or actors Now the text machine is blowing up. Give him the money, don't give him the

money. Karen's on from Whangaparoa. Welcome, Karen. Hiya. What do you want to say? I did say I'm giving the money because it's Friday. That was wishful thinking. It's Friday. It's Friday somewhere, eh, Karen?

Is it? No, it's probably, if anything, it's Tuesday somewhere. I love that, though. I love that attitude. Give them money. And lots of texts coming through. What would you say the majority of the texts have said? It's honestly, it's split 50-50. A lot of people really sticking to the rules,

saying it has to be word for word, and others saying it's Friday. Others are saying it's kind of the same thing. Actors and acting. Now, Boss Todd, I'm sorry to drag you into this, but you are the boss of the station. Yeah. This is why. This is why you're named Boss Todd.

We'll bring John back in. John, you're there. Sorry for keeping you on hold for so long. I am. I am. What's your ruling, Boss Todd? John, good morning, mate. How are you?

Good day, Todd. How are you, pal? Yeah, look, I'm really good. Now, here's the thing. We love this game and we have to protect its integrity. And so a good part of my mind says we just can't go down the slippery slope because what if it was you'd said kid and he'd said kids? So we've got this, one's a noun, a thing,

and the other's a verb when you're doing the thing that is said. So, I mean, the text is split down the middle. But a part of me is a pure populist who just wants to be liked. So I'm going to... I will certainly like you, that's for sure. Look, mate, no, I'm not going to... My decision isn't going to totally make you happy, but I say this, and I'll tell you in a moment what we're going to do,

but this is now a precedent. Moving forward on this game, it must be the literal word match. Oh, the exact word. Yes, yes. Okay, so no more slippery slopes. The slope is no more slipping. So it needs to be, if someone says kids, it's got to be kids. It would have to be kids.

Exactly. Technically, Ben, you could have just called that out on the spot, but you didn't. I didn't. Now we're in this complicated situation. All right. John, I hope you're happy. I'm going to meet you halfway and give you $2,500.

Two and a half grand? Yeah. That's fantastic. Good on you, Todd. Appreciate that. Two and a half grand. Two and a half thousand dollars, Josie. That's fantastic. I do appreciate that. That's fantastic. Good on you, Todd. Appreciate that. Two and a half grand. Two and a half thousand dollars, Jossie. Good on you, team.

That's fantastic. I do appreciate that. That's awesome. I think it's fair, right? I think that's fair. That was a good result, I think, there, John. You played a great game. Yeah.

And now we've got a rule going forward. Yeah, it's fantastic. And I think we really wanted to give you something. And it's great that Todd's cut through. Tell you what, this is a... Oh, that's awesome, guys. I really appreciate that. It's very cool. What are you going to spend the money on cut through. Tell you what, this is... Oh, that's awesome, guys. I really appreciate that. It's very cool.

What are you going to spend the money on, Johnny? On my daughters, mate. Actually, I've got a young one down in Dunedin at uni. Mum's going down to see her, so she can look after her down there. And my other daughter as well, who's working pretty hard in this area. Good on you, John.

Wonderful guy. Tell you what, this is a fair radio station. You wouldn't get McCormick doing that over on More FM, would you? He would have put the money in his back pocket and taken it himself. That's why we don't listen. That's why you don't listen. That's right.

You listen to a fair station. Look after yourself, John. Well done, mate. Thanks, mate. I appreciate that. Well done. You're a great winner. And five words, $5,000.

We'll be back again tomorrow. And we've set the rules down in New Zealand. We know what we're playing for. Add these two men together and somehow you get three quarters worth of a normal man. The Hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast. We had a bit of an issue yesterday where a group of people were coming into the radio studio and we had no idea who they were or what their names were. And so I thought about this over a 25 minute period across the road

and then I came back in with an app idea. And then I pitched about this over a 25-minute period across the road. And then I came back in with an app idea. And then I pitched it to the gang. And I'd like to get your thoughts on this on 0800THEHITS. Yeah, you pitched it to us and we were a little bit hesitant. Well, yeah, anyway, we won't influence it. This is like that program Dragon's Den. Yeah, so it's an app, Julieta. This is the first time you're hearing about this app.

And it's an app where you think you know someone, but you can't remember their name. We've all been there. All been there in this sticky social situation. You secretly film them on your phone. This is where this is. No, I'll stay out of it. I'll stay out of it.

You secretly film them on their phone, you know, down like an upshot. So you've got your phone and you're secretly Filming that, it's capturing their face And then it just sends you a silent A little notification of like Oh that's Dennis Johnson You met him in 1992 His wife

And kids names are And you get all the details, you get all the stats on them Now you said This delves into privacy issues his wife and kids' names are, and you get all the details. You get all the stats on them. Now, you said this delves into privacy issues. Yeah, and also really weird sort of like weird filming. Oh, well, is secretly filming illegal or not legal? That's for the courts to decide. It sounds odd. I like the principle of the app.

I like the fact that you can find out people's, because there is nothing worse when you're having that. We talked about it the other day when someone's like, hey, the app. Like, I like the fact that you can find out people's... Because there is nothing worse when you're having that. We talked about it the other day when someone's like, hey, good to see you, and your brain is like opening a filing cabinet and quickly rummaging through files to try and find the right piece of paper that suddenly goes, oh, yeah, that's right, that's how I know them. But sometimes you have a whole conversation, you're like, I don't know who this person is.

Well, Julia, what do you think of the idea? I think... Be honest. Don't be nice, Julia. Just be honest. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if a hundred years in the future when technology is out of this world that we somehow have a thing

that automatically does it. Like a microchip in your head. A microchip in your head and then suddenly it's kind of like the Terminator when the thing comes up on screen and they're like, they're like, Jono Pryor, stay away from him,

he'll punish you with conversation. Like you see in movies. You know, I can see that being a thing. So, I'm a visionary. I'm a visionary. You know, when they told Elon Musk you can't name your child Moonboot Powerpole,

did he listen to them? When they told Bill Gates, hey, don't have affairs with the engineering lady in the Microsoft office. Did that stop him? Did that stop Gates? Yeah, but this is the thing.

You have something that's loosely based on an idea. This is like I invented Apple TV. No, this is what he says. He invented all streaming services, he says. And I've explained it to you before, Duke, where it was a system where it was back in the day where all you had was Video Easy and United Video and the video shops. And I was at home one day, as many of these

great ideas come, and I was sitting on the couch and I was like, I could really watch Titanic right now. But that only means I have to drive to Video Easy and get it. And I said to myself, imagine if there was a tubing pipe system from my lounge to Video Easy

and I could just talk in their pipe. Can I get to Taito? And the Video Easy representative would be like, yeah, no worries, mate, just put it through now. They put it through the pipe. And then you're like, when Apple TV and all the streaming services came out with the function to download, you're like, that's my idea. But your idea involved pipes and a phone call to just video easy.

A whole piping system installed under the whole of New Zealand. I'd imagine them above the ground. But under the ground is even better. Actually, probably even a better thought. It's too late. It's too late. The thing is The piping system's Where you'd start the brainstorm

And then other people Would be like Hey what if we streamed it What if we invented Something called the internet What if we streamed You know It's the seed planter

It's where the idea You know He never acknowledges it Wrap it up Broadcasting live And mostly awake Jono and Ben New Zealand's breakfast

On the hits Now One of the joys working in a radio studio and on this show is, you know, we get to hear every commercial, don't we? And eventually, the jingles, they sort of get ingrained in your head, don't they? They become like, you become very,

very familiar with the commercials. You just find yourself singing them at random times too. That's what I find. The downside is you, you know, you wander around public singing jingles

about discount tyres and affordable sushi and you look like a lunatic. Yeah. But we do like, St. Pierre, you're gonna love our sushi. Yeah.

And so I want to play a little game with you both. Oh, okay. Juliet and Ben because we all sing, we all to fill in silence in the studio, we all just end up singing jingles don't we you had one in your head in the weekend when we were filming

like a one that I don't know if it goes all over the country but the grab one grab one grab one new deals every day and once you started singing it and I was like well it's strange that you've got that started singing it And then I was like It's strange that you've got that in your head

And then I found myself half an hour later Going grab on Damn you Jono You've got that stuck in my head now What was that other song I always sing From the Huggies commercial Must be love That's your go to in awkward silence

That's your go to I've noticed You're filling an awkward silence situation You're doing something by yourself and it's a bit awkward. You're like, must be love, love, love. You do. From a nappy commercial from like a decade ago. I love that nappy commercial.

I love those babies. You look like a big baby, that's why. So I'm going to play a game with you. Okay, this is called Jingle Bells. And producer Juliet and Ben, I want you both to listen to the jingle. When you hear the bell, I'll pull the music down. And I want you both to continue on singing the jingle.

Oh, okay. It's like the masked singer without masks. Celebrities in their... And say proper songs. Yeah, they just carry on with jingles. There's nothing like the masked singer. And Rhys Darby's not here. No.

So, yeah, no, that was a shocking comparison. Okay, here's the first song. St. Pierre's. You're going to love our sushi. St. Pierre's. It's always fresh and healthy. So much fun. We'll make it our way.

Take all the sushi. You're going to love the day. St. Pierre's. You're going to love our sushi. St. Pierre's. It's always fresh and healthy. No other sushi quite compares. So come on down to St. Pierre's.

I think in fairness I jumped ahead to a later bit of it. It's so hard when the music stops because you know the words when it keeps going. But I jumped ahead to a later bit, so apologies. No, that's okay. Do you know there's a full three-minute version of that? That's great. She gets it to number one on iTunes, I think. It's a great tune.

The Patriot Sage of Sushi, Mr. Sam Beer would love that. Here's the next one. Here's the third one. We're proud of our country, mountains and streams. We're proud of our culture, one nation, one team. We're proud to own our Jenny and home. We're proud to own our Jenny and home. That's a fun game.

We've got more jingles or we've done enough? No, we've probably done enough. We've probably done enough to be honest. Because I've got another 15 we can roll through we might just drag it out longer than a commercial break real kiwi blokes with soy lattes mmm

Shona and Ben breakfast on the hits scrolling through your feed he has been busy scrolling through your news feed he's also been busy worrying if he left his hair straighteners on

when he walked out of the house this morning what do you reckon hone her off oh yeah don't do that don't plant seeds I hate that when you're Onyew's feet. He's also been busy worrying if he left his hair straighteners on when he walked out of the house this morning. What do you reckon? Haunt her off? Oh, yeah, don't do that. Don't plant seeds. I hate that when you're driving away and then someone like my wife will go,

oh, it's just a feeling I've left something. You're like, oh, no, don't do that. No. You don't need that anxiety, especially with me. I don't need that creeping around. It's a turnaround on the motorway situation for you, isn't it? Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

Absolutely. Have you left hair straighteners on in your house before producer Julian? I don't think I have but it's a real issue. I always forget to turn the alarm on or off. I'm like,

did I turn the alarm on? And then I get in my head and then I have to turn around and then often I haven't and so then I have to turn it on. Every morning

Jen comes into work, my wife, she works upstairs here in the marketing department and she's like, I think I left the hair straighteners on. I'm like,

well, just unplug them. One day, just unplug them and go, I've unplugged the hair straighteners. And then take a photo

like I do. Of handbrakes. Yeah, or the iron, I take a photo of the iron unplugged. I'm like, oh,

if I left the iron unplugged, I'd take a photo. And then you're like, did I? Oh no, this is the lovely photo evidence that I did. All the sexiest photos

of appliances around the house, he's got them on his photo stream. Now, here's an interesting debate. I was just looking at the Sydney Morning Herald because that's what I did. All the sexiest photos of appliances around the house, he's got them on his photo stream. Now, here's an interesting debate. I was just looking at the Sydney Morning Herald, because that's what I do. You know, I like to be across all New Zealand. Higher level of journalism, yeah.

But it was an interesting article, an opinion piece to do with, and I imagine that most of us would experience this, a bathroom in the workplace. And the article basically delved into etiquette in the workplace bathroom, whether you should have a conversation with your colleagues in the workplace. And the article basically delved into etiquette in the workplace bathroom, whether you should have a conversation with your colleagues in the workplace,

or whether it's just like leave everyone alone, it's their own private time sort of situation. So I mean, some people in this article talk between cubicles. I mean, that's a whole nother step. I had this incident with Boss Todd the other day. I was washing my hands. Boss Todd walked in and said,

Hey, Toddy, how are you? He said, good. Maybe that's where I should have stopped the conversation. But then he emerged into it. He went into a cubicle, shut the door. I kept the thing rolling. Hey, are we still on for that meeting at 10.30? Oh, is Craig joining us via Zoom?

And I could tell Todd, yep. He was trying to shut down. Oh, gosh. You sat there and waited was trying to shut down. Oh, gosh. You're like sitting there. You're standing there waiting for him to face the camera. No, I slid my head under that gap under the door. So, how do you reckon the show went this morning, mate? Just my head in between his legs.

See, what I always want to talk about, people often have a conversation like that, which I find odd. But then there's often other people around in Cuba. And they're sitting there going, well, I'm just hearing this whole, like I'm an innocent bystander to this conversation. You know what the thing with me in there

is I never want to emerge from a cubicle when someone else is in the bathroom. I'll hide and wait in there until I think the door's been opened and shut. Really? Yeah, that's a common thing. Why? I don't know.

I'm just like, well, you know what I've been doing. You know, it's embarrassing. I mean, it's every human's weak point, isn't it? Everyone is very vulnerable when they're in that position. You find the world's most dangerous person, even them sitting down, they're vulnerable.

They're open. Yeah, you're right. Liam Neeson, you know, who has a special set of skills. Even he's like, get away! Leave me alone! Leave me alone! And that is Scrolling Through Your Feet this morning.

Want more Jono and Ben? You can catch up with the boys anytime. Just search Jono and Ben on Facebook. I was walking my daughter Indy home from school yesterday. Nine years old. She's got a school disco tomorrow night. Do you walk every day to pick them up, do you? If I can, I try to.

You know, if the weather's nice. And also, you know, because we've got that big giant dog that needs to get out of the house. You kill two birds. It's quite a good way to try and do both. Every time you put the kids up, they're like, you know, like if the weather's nice and also, you know, because we've got that big giant dog that needs to get out of the house. Oh, you kill two birds. It's quite a good way to try and do both. Every time you put the kids up they're like,

have you got the car? You can't be bothered walking. Does that happen? Sometimes. Yesterday it did start pouring with rain and I was like, this is a bad idea. But before it started raining

we got talking about her school disco. Very excited. She's very excited about her school disco. It's happening tomorrow night. And I offered my services as a parent to the disco and it didn't go down well. So Indy, you've got your a school disco. It's happening tomorrow night. And I offered my services as a parent to the disco and it didn't go down well. So Indy, you've got your big school disco Thursday night, right?

Yes, I do. What's the theme? Movies. And what are you going as? Hermione Granger. That's good. Now I just offered you my services to come along and do some of my sweet dance moves on the D floor. What do you think? No, thank you.

It's just no. It's a no. Why is it a no? Because you've got cringy moves. I've got cringy moves? Yeah. You're cringy moves. I was a bit confident about that.

Why didn't you offer our services, Ben and Jono, the DJ BJs? That we could do our double, we're like Peking Duck, come as a duo? It'd be quite fun to DJ something once. Juliet, don't say, oh, God. What? Oh, God. Aren't you guys just so, so aware of, like, your lack of, like. Just lack of what?

Like a musical dancing ability? Yeah, I know. That's pretty much what Indy said. It's like, it's cringy. She's like, if you took lessons, maybe I'd consider. I mean, parents aren't allowed in there anyway. No, what I love about the school disco, she's a high intensity environment, isn't it?

But you get them in there, slam them in the room, shut the doors, and there's just a, the room condensates up and it's like a horror movie. You see hands on the windows sort of coming down. It's great. Because last year was the first year you could drop them, you know, drop them at the thing. It was like no parents. It was great though, because last year was the first year you could drop them at the thing and it was like no parents. It was great and then all the parents were like,

well, we've got an hour 20 to go to the pub. Got to be back by age or whatever and everyone's like coming back down the road, walking to pick up their kids. I was like, oh, that's it. I'm looking forward to the disco. That works. That works very well. As we walk down the road to the pub with the parents. You need something to calm

them down afterwards though, the kids. Because they're just running at 130. Back to the pub the road at the pub with the parents. You need something to calm them down afterwards, though, the kids. Because they're just running at 130. Back to the pub. Back to the pub, yeah. They just, they can relax while you have a sedative. We'll sit here and drag this through till midnight. Well, good luck then. Thursday night's odd.

Thursday night? Oh, yeah, they seem to do it Thursday night at the kids' school. I mean, it's not like, it's finished at eight, so it's not like it's... It's not like kids wake up hungover or anything. It's three in the morning on a Wednesday at the school dinner. It's not like Juliet

after a work Christmas party. Yeah, so I think they're okay. Paid to talk words and stuff into a microphone. It's New Zealand's breakfast. Jono and Ben on the hits. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees

and this is The B**** News. Rachel Jackson-Lees is our newsreader and I walk across from the car park every morning with Rachel Jackson-Lees. We have a wonderful conversation. You know, she spent many, a couple of years living in Sydney with her and her husband Tom McRae, both newsreaders. Right, that's nice. Yeah, he was over there reporting for TV3 and she worked for Channel 9, hosting the news. Oh, that's very cool. Yeah, and now she's lowered herself.

I know, I know. Throwing her morals out to partake in news and beeps. How does this work, Ju? I find quirky little news stories beep out a word or two and you guys have to figure out what the headline is.

And you ready for your first story? Here we are. And it's teasers. They've made shapes flavoured... I reckon they've made shapes flavoured body wash and exfoliating scrub. Oh, I was thinking the same thing. Maybe like a cologne or deodorant or something. Yeah, spray it to barbecue shapes and chicken crimpy.

Arnott's teasers, they've made shapes flavoured protein powder. So they posted on their Facebook page, no way, get it? W-H-E-Y. Nice pun. Introducing a flavour you can get in shape with. Shapesware would be good too. Yeah, true, true.

Shapesware. And the barbecue, chicken crimpy and pizza flavours are what they teased. Everyone got very, very excited. But then, upon further investigation, they had to add the hashtag, sorry, not a real product. But I reckon they'll get backlash for this and then they'll have to actually follow through.

Do you remember a few years ago, they changed them all. They adjusted it slightly, the shapes, to make them even healthier. They tried to make them healthier. And everyone that was like a backlash, we want to bring the old shapes back. Yeah, like bring the Western barbecue shoots.

They were already trying to look after everyone, you know. We were doing something with them at the time, remember? Yeah, that's right. And every time we'd post something on our Facebook page, that had nothing to do with the new flavours. Yeah, it would just be like, where's the old barbecue shoots? And so in the end, I think they had to bring back some of the old flavours as well as the new healthier ones just to make it soft.

Anything that made it doubly worse for the production line, I imagine. Yeah, I was like, we've got these ones, but then because... I was like, just bring them in, I don't care if they're not as healthy. I want to clog my arteries. But to be fair, great marketing campaign, because everyone was talking about it. It was, it was. Very popular in the States.

Totally. And the new flavour, it wasn't the same. No, it wasn't. Let's be honest. But they're a wonderful company, aren't they? Very friendly. And the next story. Googly-eyed marine scarecrow could stop seabirds from...

Seabirds from stealing your fish and chips at the beach. That's what I was hoping it would be as well, actually, because that's the most annoying thing at the beach. I know. Googly-eyed marine scarecrow could stop seabirds from drowning in fishing nets. Probably more important than stealing. Bring your scarecrow along so you can enjoy fishing trips at peace. So how it works, basically, it's just like this googly-eyed looking thing that sits on top of a buoy,

which is above where commercial fishing nets are sitting. So then these birds see this massive googly-eyed thing just sitting in the water and it makes them less likely to go around that area. Of course, they'll dive bomb all the fish in the nets. Yeah, yeah. That's what saves them from dying. We can afford to lose a couple of seagulls. It's a nice idea, though.

It is lovely. And the final story. Teenager accidentally moves into... after skipping flat viewing. I'm thinking it's a teenager accidentally moving into a nice Dunedin property. So, whoops, I was meant to move into a scudgy one. That's what everyone else does.

This has walls and doors. I'm going to say a teenager accidentally moves into our soundproof booth that we use for five words. Wonderful tenant, he pays his rent on time. Looks like we've kidnapped a teenager, though. Teenager accidentally moves into retirement village after skipping flat viewing. So I don't know how she messed this one up,

but she signed a tenancy agreement, didn't go and visit the property. She turned up and realised all her neighbours were over the age of 65. Not a bad option, though. I know. You ever get all your meals provided? Oh, yeah. What?

Well, that's what she said. It's like having extra sets of grandparents around all the time. Although the thing is, though, by 6.30, if she's still making noise, they'll be like, keep it down, it's too late! Yeah, watch the chase and news and go to bed.

She'll be doing that wonderful run of the chase news. Maybe even a fair go on a good night. On a good night. That's pushing a bit late though, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, we can just get to 8 o'clock. Thank you, Jude. We're proud of New Zealand.

Go New Zealand. If only New Zealand was proud of that. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's breakfast. On the hits. By the WhatsApp. By doco.nbed. All right, let's discuss the private lives of people who couldn't care less about our opinion. What's happening in Spy, Ju?

So we all know Gwyneth Paltrow's famous candle, the one that made all the headlines a couple of years ago. The Vagandal. Yeah, yeah. She has branched out and done different things as well, but the classic candle has caused some problems. So a man who bought the candle lit it for a few hours and then it basically exploded in his room

and he's now suing Gwyneth Paltrow trying to get $5 million from Goop because of the candle exploding and claiming it nearly killed him. Now, we don't, I don't, that's basically the story in a nutshell. We don't know all the details, and they're probably going to investigate those details, but... Listen, if I went down to Farmer's and I purchased Gwyneth Paltrow's vagandal and came home with it, and Jim was like,

what candle did you get? So I purchased this one. She would judge. She would judge. Oh, but I think there's a lot of curiosity involved. Yeah, it's great marketing, isn't it? And even if you have guests over to your house, they're like, oh, what is that odor? Oh, that's Gwyneth's.

Yeah, that's her. Yeah. And what was the research and development on that program? I think we came together as a bit of a joke. I think it wasn't the intention to do that. So would she go into the laboratory and be like, that's it? And she was like, that sounds like it. No, I think it was

that they made a smell and they made a candle that smelled. We sent a candle and I think they were like, ah, that smells like blah, blah, blah. And they were like, ha, ha, that's a great marketing thing. Let's go with that. And so that was the thing. It was not the intention to do that. So it's not Gwyneth going, I want a replica. No, no. And it's done very, very well, as you can imagine.

I think I'm pretty sure it's always sold out or something along those lines. Oh, good on her. I'm looking on her Goop website here, and it's a website where they also hock off clothes as well. And they're clothes, some of our favourite things. How much do you think you're getting just a stock standard crew neck jersey for, mate? Oh, I don't know. I'd say, I'd say, I'll

go 80 bucks, because I know it's going to be more than that. 600 US. Wow. I was going to say like 200 or something. 600 US. Okay, I'm going to chuck out a Merino cardigan. 9,000 US. Yep. That's less than that, right? Nope. He tried to overshoot the mic. He tried to cancel me out. 9,000 US. Yep. That's less than that, right? Nope.

He tried to overshoot the mic. He did. I went under. He tried to cancel me out. It's 9,000 US. Well done. You got it this game. It's not. It's not.

It is. It's not. I know it's not. And in other news, the MTV Movie Awards were on. And you know how in a lot of awards shows and ceremonies, they do an in-memoriam segment where they honour people who have passed away maybe in the last year in that particular industry. In front of a stadium load of drunk people.

It's a wonderful place to honour them. So at these awards, the host decided to have a little bit of a jab at old mate Ellen DeGeneres and say, you know, rest in peace to the Ellen show and feature her and her show in the memoriam. Now, not sure if it was, you know, rest in peace to the Ellen show and feature her and her show in the memoriam. Now, not sure if it was, you know, rest in peace, Ellen, because you're maybe evil Ellen or rest in peace, the Ellen show. It must have been the Ellen show. Yeah, yeah.

But it kind of, all the headlines are like, oh, it's kind of taking a jab at her as a person and maybe an employer. The MTV Awards, they usually have a stunt, an associated stunt, you know, when it's like, oh the celebrities didn't know it was happening, like when Kanye stormed the stage with Taylor. Well, yesterday they had Scarlett Johansson getting her award from home, and her

husband came out and slimed her, and then she was like, okay, well, that's the Nickelodeon Awards that normally happens. Yeah, I was going to say. That's what she said. That's not normal. I don't know if that was staged or whatever it was, but he came in because she was at home in her house, obviously,

because she could be there. And her husband was like, I don't know, I've never seen any awards ceremony. I just put some green goop all over her. She's like, well, this is a convenience. It's all over the laptop now. Yeah. And it smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's candle. And that is fine.

Wonderful. For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. That's our show. Join us tomorrow. We've got Susie Cato. We've got Delta Goodrum, the Australian singer, as well as five words for $5,000. We had a winner today.

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