Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Show Highlights: Jono's In Trouble With HR...

Episode Date: August 13, 2023

Jono's HR dilemma The man who got kidnapped in Thailand.. The Cakeathon! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. I hope you've run out a wonderful weekend. We spent Thursday, Friday trying to make every single cake from the iconic Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake book. And jeez, it was a big couple of days of cake making, wasn't it? It really was. And I don't know if it was the same for you, but did you just smell like cake for three days just cake seeping out of your paws yeah there's a lot of cake there was a lot of cake 106 cakes uh was an amazing team that helped us out uh through that so you can see some of our best efforts at the hitstockcode.nz or across our social media i you know we've just done this cake-a-thon you know what i reckon here's our next one we do okay the sleep-a-thon where we hire a hotel and people who really want to go to sleep
Starting point is 00:00:46 just spend 24 hours just sleeping. You'd love that wouldn't you? Wouldn't that be great? It'd be shockingly boring radio. It would be, yeah. I reckon people would be gagging for a Sleepathon. Yeah, a lot of parents out there I'm sure would love that. One of my
Starting point is 00:01:02 favourite moments, which we didn't really get a chance to talk about it, was actually someone who works at work, Kate. She came along with her child, and they were going to a school bake sale that day. And they grabbed one of the pristine cakes, one of the ones that Gillian, who's a great cake maker, made, and took that along and claimed it as their own. I'm like, well done, well done. Yeah, but then she also sent her friend down as well. Oh, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:01:23 We met Kate's friend who was like, hey, Kate told me there's some cakes here. I'm in desperate need of cakes for a bake sale. And they would have turned up. I mean, Gillian, like you say, she's a cake maker. She sells them with store quality cakes. I know. But the problem is next time they've called in for a bake sale, pressure's going to be on, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:01:41 Well, that's true. They're going to have to farm it out. They're going to have to get someone else to help them out. No, it was a very fun day. And honestly, thanks to everyone who volunteered their time, came down. You know, Andrea, Kirsty from Nelson came. Yeah. Rosie spent five, six hours at a time making cakes.
Starting point is 00:01:58 And halfway through, I'm like, why are they doing this? There was no benefit to them. They were just doing it out of the goodness of their heart. Yeah, people got really involved in it, didn't they? They swept up in it all with us, which is awesome. So we made every single one of the cakes. We have some of the highlights this hour over what was a pretty epic couple of days.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Yeah, I got home and then my son Oscar's like, where's the cake? Oh, did you bring a cake home? I didn't bring a cake home. I keep saying your cakes and you're like, no, you gave us some pigs, I think, at the end. My cakes were not safe for human consumption. You saw the state of those things.
Starting point is 00:02:29 You even got them mocked on national television. I did, actually, on Breakfast TV as well. So you didn't bring a single cake home for your family? No, no. I was like, I've really drawn the bull here, guys. Sorry. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I don't know what this is about, but all it says in the sheet is
Starting point is 00:02:46 you got lost in a toilet yeah well so over the weekend I went out for dinner with some mates and it was one of those restaurants that you don't realise restaurants are quite close together quite a few of them around so when you go to the bathroom
Starting point is 00:02:59 you walk out through the back of the restaurant you end up in a corridor and it's kind of like one of those communal corridors that all the bathrooms for the surrounding sort of restaurants cafes offices all kind of lead down the corridor to the one bathroom i see yeah i see what you got you've painted a beautiful picture here we can all yeah you've set the scene so i got out to the bathroom i left my phone back back at the uh the table just went out to the bathroom just said i'll be a minute went out to the corridor found my way down to the toilet was all good went out to the bathroom, just said I'll be a minute, went out to the corridor found my way down to the toilet, it was all good
Starting point is 00:03:26 went out of the bathroom, came out of the toilets and then I was like uh oh, there was no lights on, there was absolutely no lights down the corridor, now I don't know if the lights were on like a timer thing or someone had switched the lights off and I'm like uh oh So you were in pitch black darkness
Starting point is 00:03:42 Yeah, I couldn't see a thing and so I'm like oh je, how many doors did I come down before I came? Are you kind of just feeling your way down the corridor? Yeah, hoping there's no one else in the corridor. Hopefully there's no HR incident that I'm going to have. I'm just sort of slowly sort of working my way, hoping that someone else will come out from one of the doors and the lights will come back on.
Starting point is 00:04:02 I hope there is night vision of this somewhere on security camera slowly making my way down there was a door i might know i don't think that was the first door that i came through so they get through the second and i was like can you hear people dining and yeah and i was like yeah i think this is that so i opened the door and i'm like thank goodness after about sort of what felt like an hour but was probably only two minutes of me fumbling my way down the corridor i'm like great back in the restaurant start walking across and then the waiter comes up and goes excuse me sir can you're okay and i'm like yep just sitting over there with my and i'm like no i'm not sitting over my friends i'd gone to an indian restaurant we went in an indian restaurant i'd finally gone into the wrong restaurant i'm
Starting point is 00:04:36 like sorry i've got the wrong restaurant i'm gonna walk back out and i walked out through the front i'm not going back out towards the corridor but geez it was quite so you made your way back it's amazing how lost you can get when you're intoxicated well there was there's a couple of but it wasn't like to be fair that wasn't the reason why there was the light we had a helping hand like if you end up in an indian restaurant and you're not even what were you doing in an italian restaurant completely mixed up the international cuisines Good format for a new show We've given our contestants six beers Now they have to make their way back But yeah The light situation
Starting point is 00:05:11 It was a real stitch up But I got there in the end He's putting a lot of blame on this light If there was lights on Then I would have found my way down there It was one of those moments When you came back to the table And you told this harrowing tale
Starting point is 00:05:24 And everyone was like Didn't really care No, no one really cared They were just like Oh, you took a while down there. It was one of those moments when you came back to the table and you told this harrowing tale and everyone was like, oh, didn't really care. No, no one really cared. They're just like, oh,
Starting point is 00:05:28 you took a while. And it felt like the excuse that I'd made up because I took so long in the bathroom. I'm like, no, I was stuck there. There was no lights.
Starting point is 00:05:35 Everyone's like, yeah, whatever, buddy. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We spent two long days with a great team of helpers
Starting point is 00:05:43 as you just heard before trying to make every cake from the iconic Woman's Weekly Birthday Cake book. Everyone had it during their childhood, and most homes in New Zealand seem to have. We made every single cake from that book. Now, I'll be happy if I don't see another cake for the rest of my life, Ben.
Starting point is 00:05:58 You're not even a cake guy to begin with. No, but I enjoyed the process. I did actually enjoy the process. It was actually really fun. Lovely to meet everyone as well. And my cakes seemed to become the comedic foil for the campaign. Yeah. I was making those cakes with love.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Maybe I should be making them with the actual ingredients and the recipe instructions. Yeah, you kind of pulled it back towards the end there. What, with the number one? No, the swimming pool cake I thought was pretty good. You tuned out at the end there. But yeah, here was two days of epic cake making. We'll hit the cake bell. Because the train's been done.
Starting point is 00:06:36 You guys are in the train. A lot of pressure. A lot of pressure. I know. That's the front cover. How do you think you went? Oh, I think it looks absolutely brilliant. It speaks for itself, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:44 Yeah. Now, go from the train which you've created to over there, you see the candle that Jono did? What do we think? I don't think there's any comparison, to be honest. There isn't. There isn't. Nothing's going to compare to that candle. And let's just leave it at that.
Starting point is 00:06:58 Oh, jeez. I mean, look. I mean, come on. You're in the middle of making what was meant to be a bear. Yeah, it looks like he's fallen victim to some sort of nuclear waste attack. I love the way you just persisted. You haven't tried to fix it up at any stage. You just kept going.
Starting point is 00:07:13 We're with our second bear of the day. Jillian's coming. Jillian, I was looking after the bear category. Pretty safe for your hands. Have you seen mine? It looks like it's had about 12 bears, I think. You've made the Mary Jane doll cake. Two from two.
Starting point is 00:07:28 You've made it big. It's the size of a six year old kid. Rob's from the office. And Rob, you're a very good baker. You're bringing cakes all the time. You just came over to my cake and went, why's it wet? And laughed. And I was like, what? I don't know where you come from, but around these parts,
Starting point is 00:07:45 mate, we like our cake wet. Can I pull it back? I'm halfway through a buddy. Yeah, just pull back on the knife wetting. What the hell's wrong with this thing? This is what we call cocaine beer. It's meant to be a beer, but it's a demented beer. That thing will haunt children.
Starting point is 00:08:02 It's a beer that's just finished rehab. He's on a new path in life now. Is he? Because the size of those pupils, I'm not sure. Mum, you're in the middle of making the football field at the moment. FIFA, here we go. Is it a FIFA accredited? Would they be okay with this? Do they approve this field?
Starting point is 00:08:18 The signage, the sponsorship, everything? The signage hasn't happened yet. The lines are a bit wiggly, but we're just not sure why that happened. We've finished the castle. How are we feeling? Triumphant. It looks amazing. It's not bad, is it?
Starting point is 00:08:31 It's got the ice cream cones for the towers. It's got lots of M&Ms on it. It looks delicious. It's got supplements and everything. Yeah. Jonah Pryor, you've just completed your rocket cake. He's rung the bell. Now I'd say out of all my creations today.
Starting point is 00:08:43 This is probably your best one. The rocket cake. Well, listen, all it is. Do you want to, can I break it? It looks like there's a lot of icing on it. It's basically a cylinder of icing. But well done, that's 61 cakes for the day. We've done 61 cakes! 61 cakes!
Starting point is 00:09:01 So the number one cake, we'll be giving the number one. You've got your number one in our eyes. Yeah, that's whatever it's telling me. I mean, you're taking a lot more time with this one. Number one is very, very tricky. I thought it was the simplest one in the book. It's made news. Yeah, the wonderful Matty McLean, he reached out to you.
Starting point is 00:09:18 Yeah. And he said, hey, I'm engrossed in this cake-a-thon. Can't take my eyes off it. He's like, I need to get you on the breakfast TV show. What on earth is this? I've got a cake in the studio. What's he got? He's got the candle.
Starting point is 00:09:33 That's meant to be a candle from the book. I sent that one in to Matty and the team because I thought that needed to be in the studio. As a special treat for the breakfast viewers, Matty's going to eat some of the canned cake. Here's my rocket too, by the way. John O made this one as well too. John O.
Starting point is 00:09:52 Brilliant. Bless you. One book, 106 cakes. We've done it! Now, we're going to leave. You guys can clean up. They can clean up. We're all out of here.
Starting point is 00:10:04 All right, see you guys See you guys Great work Great work everyone Let's go The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast On a mission You know over COVID
Starting point is 00:10:11 We all started panic buying stuff And stockpiling Yeah Jeez I'm still wiping my way Through the mountain of toilet paper That we stocked up on But again with the food stuff That you could put in the freezer
Starting point is 00:10:24 You're like if it's the end of the world We've got to have fish fingers we stocked up on. But again, with the food stuff that you could put in the freezer, you're like, if it's the end of the world, we've got to have fish fingers. I want this to be my lasting memory on earth if I die, is nibbling away on some fish fingers. Well, also just because you were worried about where, you know, stocks were low in supermarkets. So you're like, well, are we going to run out of food? We're not going to be able to eat because we can't go anywhere. We can't get takeaways for that little period.
Starting point is 00:10:43 So, yeah, so we'd stocked up a lot in the freezer and i have over the last couple of weeks i'm like right i'm gonna eat my way through the supplies in the freezer clear up some space yeah because you know sometimes it just sits in there until yeah and the thing is with frozen goods you don't know how far you can push it no because the dates are all like you're like oh no that was six months ago that's meant to have expired but it's been in because the dates are all like, you're like, oh, I don't know, that was six months ago. That's meant to have expired. But it's been in the freezer, so I feel like it's fine for a bit.
Starting point is 00:11:09 Yeah, and then sometimes you're eating a corn fritter that feels like cardboard or something. But yeah, so I've been working my way through it and Jen, my wife's like, something's going to catch you. You know, stuff's been in there too long. Oh, she reckons it's bad, does she? Sunday, well, so she thinks some products
Starting point is 00:11:24 might have passed their, you know, pushed past their date. And yesterday morning, whew, tell you what, speaking of fish fingers, but I couldn't publicly, because I couldn't publicly show that I was really suffering. So I had to keep on a brave face despite my pale skin and my sweaty complexion but yeah, there's definitely some products that aren't
Starting point is 00:11:49 aren't landing too well in the old system I said it to my mum, my mum loves she loves to keep stuff in the freezer she does too, wasn't she feeding your father or stepfather wasn't she feeding him like chicken pantry chicken that had been sitting in the pantry all sorts, there's been all sorts of stuff.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Ham from about three months expired and stuff. It came from, because we used to live on a farm at the back of Marston and so we wouldn't be able to, like the nearest shop was like 30 minutes away.
Starting point is 00:12:13 So she would just, so milk was always in the freezer. You'd have to get a bottle of milk out of the, you know, out of the freezer because, you know,
Starting point is 00:12:20 she'd just stockpile a head of things. And so she, I think it's come from that. And now, even though she's, there's's shot five minutes down the road, she's like, got to keep it all in the freezer. Got to keep this fish broth. So I'm going to eat this one day.
Starting point is 00:12:32 You're like, or chicken broth. Like the leftovers from a roast or something. Oh, the juice. Oh, really? Oh, you can put it in a soup. You can put it in, I don't know, who knows what else you can put it in. But she's going to put it in something. Have you ever gone back home for a little lovely bowl of chicken broth ever?
Starting point is 00:12:49 No, I like getting rid of it. When mum's not there, I just take one out about it, much like you, just get rid of it. Yeah. Well, there we go. Jenny Boyce. And hey, thank you too to Jenny for her wonderful cake baking efforts as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Starting point is 00:13:02 A couple of moments I was thinking about over the weekend because we're tuningurning out cakes. We're trying to do it quite quickly. It's high-pressure stuff. And there was a cake. One of the cakes I made at the moment was kind of like a horse with gates around the outside and sort of a paddock and had green icing around the outside.
Starting point is 00:13:18 And in the middle, the horse was in some sort of brown sort of area. And I was like, well, sweet, the sponge is brown. I won't need to put any icing on. Put the horse in there. Put a tree. Get that get that out someone will grab it someone came and grabbed it quickly i'm like oh good it went out the door then later on i saw the person who ever grabbed it took it out and they decided they didn't want it and put it back next to the door outside in the corridor well it's because it was just a piece of sponge surrounded by a few chocolate fingers yeah and a plastic cloth.
Starting point is 00:13:45 Plastic cloth. Very dry. It would sap every bit of moisture out of your mouth. It was. So anyway, that was one of the cakes. It's funny. Producer Joel was just saying a lady came up to him and said, what is this for?
Starting point is 00:13:55 And he's like, oh, you know, we're baking all these cakes. And she's like, yeah, but why? And Joel couldn't answer the question. And that's the funny thing about radio, isn't it? A few social media likes. Yeah. Why? I mean, why do we, isn't it? A few social media likes. Yeah. Why?
Starting point is 00:14:07 I mean, why do we do anything? Shameless publicity, that's why. We just wanted to see if we could make every one of the cakes. But why though? We did. And there were some wonderful listeners that came down and helped us out through that a couple of days. Yeah, Andrea, Rosie. Kirsty came from Nelson. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Flew all the way from Nelson to bake cakes. She was prolific too. Turned out about seven or eight in a day. Yeah, it was incredible. Gillian was incredible as well. But there was a moment where Kirsty had grabbed a cake and this is the moment that's... You're saying this is the potential
Starting point is 00:14:37 cancelable moment. This is your HR moment because as she was holding up the cake, I think it was a photo we posed for because we're getting photos of all the cakes. Then half the cake sort of broke off. She's holding it. She's holding the cake tray.
Starting point is 00:14:50 Half the cake broke off and it fell towards her. Her chest. Yeah. And she was like, oh, oh. And you were sitting there and then someone went, grab the cake. And then you went to grab the cake and then you thought twice about it. Well, yeah, because nowadays you just can't go grabbing a handful can you not all the good old days mate no one would know hr departments to work through these issues because she could she had her hands
Starting point is 00:15:18 on the tray of the cake she could do anything she's like oh and you went to grab you went back with your hand you went back and forth and back again. You made it into a thing like, this guy's very grabby, isn't he? I dived in about four to six times and then back down, just going, no, no, don't. We're back again. So I had to make sure it was a consenting cake grab. She's like, grab the cake. Just grab it.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Just grab it. Yeah. But we will be going to HR at some stage today as well. Kirsty probably went back to Nelson and they were like, how was the cake? And she was like, oh, it was all right, you know. Cooked a few cakes and a guy tried to grab my blood. But the main thing, it was for what? She was like, I can't answer that.
Starting point is 00:16:00 I don't know what it was for. I can't tell you. Steve, welcome. How are you? Not too bad, thank you. Yourself? Yeah, we're doing very well. This is a cliffhanger call, Steve,
Starting point is 00:16:14 where you tell a story up until a certain point. Then we play a song, annoyingly play a song, and then the audience have to wait until the end of the story. So you set the scene. Well, I went to Thailand probably about six years ago now, and I went to meet my parents halfway because I just moved to New Zealand. And after one week, they went home and I went to do some investigation of the city. I went to a big mall.
Starting point is 00:16:46 And I was talking to, I went to Costa Coffee. And behind me was an old woman with lots of jewelry on. And she said, oh, where are you from? I said, oh, I'm from New Zealand. And she goes, oh, what are you doing today? And I said, oh, I'm going to do a bit of sightseeing. And she goes oh um what are you doing today and i said i'm going to be do a bit of sightseeing and she goes oh can i join you and we got talking and she goes it's weird because my my niece is going to a university in wellington and she's staying on courtney street
Starting point is 00:17:17 and and i've been all around the world and i didn't even twig and she had a phone call she said oh would you like to meet her? And I said, yeah. And I can explain to her what Wellington's like and all that. Yeah, all right. I went downstairs to the taxi rank where she was supposed to be, and I got dragged into a taxi at gunpoint. Oh!
Starting point is 00:17:44 Okay. We're going to leave it there, Steve. Yeah. Wow. Okay We're going to leave it there Steve Yeah Wow So you've been dragged into a cab at gunpoint We will be back With the second part of Steve's story Steve just wants to give some Wellington advice
Starting point is 00:17:57 You know It's a bit windy You might want to bring a jacket Yeah go up Mount Vic There's a great view That sort of thing Did we tell you Lord of the Rings was made there? Yeah, those sorts of things.
Starting point is 00:18:06 Bucket fountain, a bit weird, but anyway, we love it. People pee in it. Oh, Steve, listen, we'll be back with the second part of this crazy story after this. Bonkers story from Steve so far, who's still on the line. Now, just bring us up to speed, Steve. I went to visit my parents for a holiday. I met this old woman and she was saying that her niece was going to Wellington University.
Starting point is 00:18:36 I agreed to meet her. I went downstairs from the mall to the taxi rank, opened the door of the taxi and I got pulled in at gunpoint. Oh, my God, what a frightening situation. So you've been kidnapped, essentially? What are they wanting? I ended up at somebody's house. There was a young guy who was, I think he must have been in the Thai mafia, with a gun.
Starting point is 00:18:57 The guy I met in the house had four fingers cut off. He only had a thumb. And apparently that was because if you owe the mafia 50,000 every time they cut off a finger. And he wanted me to play an illegal card game, gambling is illegal in Thailand, to win the money because he apparently owed the mafia 200,000. And he's trying to play a game of illegal poker or something with you
Starting point is 00:19:22 so he can win back the money and pay back the $200,000. He's in deep. The guy is in deep. Yeah, he's in deep. Yeah, so what effectively happened, they told him they were going to kill him if he didn't make the money. He was showing me how to cheat at cards.
Starting point is 00:19:37 And effectively, this guy came in. He was a Malaysian with a big bag of money. But he counted it out, and there was three-quarters of a million dollars in there. So, hold on, the guy with four missing fingers is like, can you play this card game for me? I'll show you how to cheat. Yep.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Someone's going to come in with three quarters of a million dollars in a suitcase, and so you're going to play the guy who's got the suitcase and cards. Correct, yes. Wow. And so he's taught you how to cheat. What happens? Well, I was doing pretty well.
Starting point is 00:20:07 I was probably about $40,000 up, and then I made a mistake, and I lost something like $50,000. Oh, my goodness. I knew it was a problem because the guy went white, and I was like, oh, dear. And then the other guy refused to play. He said, I want to see the money. So I got taken into another room with a Thai Macca guy
Starting point is 00:20:27 and he got out a knife and put it against my finger and said, I'm going to start chopping your fingers off. Oh, my God. And he said, you need to go get the money or we're going to start chopping fingers off. So the money that you lost in the poker game? Yeah. They managed to get something like $5,000 out of my bank account,
Starting point is 00:20:50 and they wiped out my credit card. So they actually showed him $25,000 eventually. And so at the end of this transaction, what happens? So I thought, well, at the end of it, they're either going to kill me or whatever, but they took me to KFC, and I thought, well, that's the end of it. They're either going to kill me or whatever. But they took me to KFC. And I said, well, why did you take me to KFC? And they go, oh, because you've got to go back and play.
Starting point is 00:21:12 So keep your strength up. So hold on. They took you to lunch. They're like, you're going to need your sustenance because we're chucking you back on the field to play more. Three-piece quarterback in you and get back out of there. So more illegal gambling. Can I just ask you a question? Why aren't they playing themselves? Yeah, why are you the one? Three-piece quarterback in you and get back out there. So more illegal gambling. Yeah. Can I just ask you a question?
Starting point is 00:21:27 Why aren't they playing themselves? Yeah, why are you the one? Oh, because it's probably because he don't trust him because he's only got one thumb. Oh, so he's like, oh, he's shady. Okay, right. Yeah, yeah. So you've got to have a full 10 fingers to be trusted in the poker game.
Starting point is 00:21:43 That is correct, yeah. So they told me back. They told me I've got to win every single game, which I did, so I didn't want to lose any fingers. And when we got to about 8 o'clock, I said, oh, I'm really sorry. I can't play anymore. I'm just too tired.
Starting point is 00:22:00 So they said, okay, you'll come back tomorrow. So they gave me a lift home to the hotel, and they said, well, we're going to sit outside, and you have to go back. Oh, so they waited for you for you don't they so you couldn't run for it yeah so um i packed all my bags i escaped out the back and went to this really crap hotel which was dirt cheap and lived off their mars bars for the next week and hid and um what I would say was I went to the New Zealand consulate and they said I wasn't the first person to be kidnapped and they said that three people had actually been killed and one had been kneecapped.
Starting point is 00:22:35 So I was extremely lucky and if I hadn't given over the cash, I would have been probably dead. Oh my God. This is the most wild story I've ever heard. So you won't be going back to Thailand in a hurry? No, I went back. Oh, you went back.
Starting point is 00:22:53 I went back because I was scared. So I think if you're scared of anything, you should meet it head on. Yeah. Right. I mean, that's one theory. The other theory is never going back there. Oh, you're going to avoid it? Did you have to get therapy or anything after that?
Starting point is 00:23:08 I did. I told him my story, and it was quite funny, actually. He rang his reception and says, hold my calls. And he goes like, tell me again. Tell me again. This is amazing. It honestly is. Crazy story.
Starting point is 00:23:22 You have a good one. All right. No worries. Thank you very much. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Time for news or not. It's a very self-explanatory game where the headlines are either news or they're not. And it's hosted by producer Taylor, who's currently tangled up in amongst five different
Starting point is 00:23:39 pairs of headphones there. What's going on there, Taylor? I don't know, and I've given up. Sorry. Yeah, no, fair enough. She's got four sets of headphones attached to the headphones she's wearing. One is plugged in, but obviously not working for you right now.
Starting point is 00:23:49 So anyway. You always go on about the earbuds, and they always get tangled up. They do. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Someone's texted in, Taylor, too. 4487, Ben, we're just big-upping the Football World Cup. FIFA World Cup. Someone's texted in, boys, watching Taylor's husband
Starting point is 00:24:05 And his mates Are far more excited Than watching the soccer At the moment Tay I hope Egan's okay Oh yeah Egan got a nasty Little hit to the throat
Starting point is 00:24:13 Didn't he For the Warriors Yeah from what I know Is that was precautionary That he was hospitalised Got the inside scoop So that's good But is that part of the news
Starting point is 00:24:22 Or not We're not sure yet During our spell Well yeah well done to the Warriors They continue to win Third in the table But that's not what But is that part of the news or not? We're not sure yet. Oh, true. Well, down to the Warriors. They continue to win third in the table, but that's not what we're doing right now. We need to find out which of the following three stories is not actually news. Okay, first one.
Starting point is 00:24:34 In a world first, American couple name baby with love heart eye emoji. So they name the baby that? Yes, so like a photo, like an emoji of the love heart eye emoji. So I'm like, would they say, hey, love heart eye emoji, come here. What's love heart eye? What's the eye part? So, you know. Sorry, this is very boomer of me.
Starting point is 00:24:54 I know the love heart emoji. Yeah, but it's got the face and it's got the love heart for eyes. Yeah, you should text your wife that more often. I should use emojis more often. My mum even uses emojis. And I'm like, jeez, if Annie's on the emoji game, I really should come to the party. At first hearing that, I'm thinking that wouldn't get past the authorities.
Starting point is 00:25:13 Okay. I'm thinking that's fake. 0800 the hits to the telephone number. You can join in this game as well and win a hell pizza. All right, number two. Wife claims husband snoring pushed me into cheating with AI bot. We flirt when he's in the spare room. Well, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:29 It's possible. It's possible. It's feasible, yeah. Who's in the spare room? The husband? Yeah, so obviously like, so he's snoring, so I'm guessing once he goes to the spare room, she gets online and has a wee flirt.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Is it having an affair with a bot? Now, is that, if you found out that Amanda or Marcella was having an affair with a robot, how are you feeling? I'll probably be fine with it, to be honest. They'll be like, they can do a lot of admin. Yeah, I'll be like, yeah, great. Great. Can they pick up any of the slack that I can't be bothered to do it?
Starting point is 00:25:58 Yeah. I think that's great time management. Yeah. And number three, man hospitalised after holding in sneeze and blowing a hole in throat. Oh, geez. That reminds me of, it's a bit of a dog leg, of that one call that we had when we were on the rock. And this guy was a tradie and he was very thirsty. It was a sunny day.
Starting point is 00:26:20 And he used a water blaster to have a drink of water. Blew his tonsils clean out. Yeah, apparently. I should a drink of water. Blue as tonsils. Clean out. Yeah, apparently. I should do that because I've got huge tonsils. I don't think it's recommended. And I've been meaning to get them out for years. It's not how they do it in the hospitals.
Starting point is 00:26:33 I've got a clock. Water blast out Taylor's tonsils. Okay, so which is the not news story? Which is the fake one that producer Taylor is trying to sneak past us? We had Sam on the phone. What happened to Sam, mate? She disappeared. Call back, Sam. 0800 the hits. If you want to participate, us. We had Sam on the phone. What happened to Sam, mate? He disappeared. Call back, Sam.
Starting point is 00:26:45 0800 the hits. If you want to participate, we have Hal Pete's up for grabs. I'm going to pick the emoji one. That's what I'm backing behind. I'm going to say it's the fake one. I'll go on with the show, okay? Because I do know it is hard to change your name
Starting point is 00:26:56 to comical things. We've looked into it, but that's in New Zealand. Oh boy, we've looked into it. Sam, you're back. Welcome. What one was the fake headline, Sam? The emoji one.
Starting point is 00:27:09 That's what we're all thinking. Yeah, you're correct, Sam. Hey, well done, Sam. You're with us. You get yourself some hell pizza this morning. Awesome. Thank you very much. Where are you heading off to this morning, Sam?
Starting point is 00:27:22 Work at the moment. Yeah, well, you go and have a good day working. Thank you very much for listening, and you enjoy that hell pizza, buddy. Thank you.

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