Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BEST OF THE WEEK: Ben Flirts With Hotel Staff And We Chat Megan's Backup Option

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Wanting to save time and have a laugh this weekend? Listen to our best bits of the week! Ben's surprise sock poster... Was it worth the money> When kids go quiet! Rooms get painted! Please watch out for this new scam Ben's wife reveals something embarrassing about him! Why do remotes have SO MANY buttons? Megan's daughter can't pronounce sock... She says *ock See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Apparently there's a surprise for me, I don't know what that is. It always makes me nervous. A surprise on the radio never feels like a good thing. This is a good thing. You're going to love this. We're on The Hits now, all surprises are family friendly. Wholesome, wholesome surprises. Ben, you mentioned something on the show just in passing on Friday

about something that was missing from your life. Have a listen. Single socks. I've got one at the moment. I've just noticed it's been gone. I don't know how long before. And I brought it in because my wife's like, get rid of it. I'm like, no, it's my lucky sock.

And it's a sock right here, a black sock. It's got a little green four-leaf clover. I don't know how lucky it is, but I was just kind of like, well, it's got to be lucky because it's got a four-leaf clover on it. So I refused to throw it away. So that was on Friday. Okay. well, it's got to be lucky because it's got a four-leaf clover on it. So I refused to throw it away. So that was on Friday. Okay. Now, Megan and we've been talking. And we want to help you out.

We want to help you retrieve this orphaned sock of yours. So we've launched a bit of a campaign. To get my sock back. Okay. So you need to take that little broadcast equipment there. Hopefully it's working. And make your way out to the street. Now, you know where we park the car?

You know where we park the car? Just opposite the driveway where we drive in to park the cars for work, okay? Yeah. Can we hear you? Have you found the sock? There we go, yeah. Can you hear me? We can hear you.

Okay, I've got... Have you found the sock? You don't need to yell at the microphone. Yeah, just be... Don't turn back on the levels, baby. It's a bit hot. I wasn't yelling. What's the matter?

It's like you're going... We haven't found the sock, no. Okay, sorry. You need to run to where we park our cars. And there's something, a bit of a surprise for you there, which is emblazoned on the wall, a bit of a campaign of sorts, if you will. Okay, well, I'm out on the street right now.

I'm trying not to yell for you. Yeah, no, that's good. You don't have to, like, whisper. I felt like I was speaking at a reasonable level, but obviously not. There's an eagle helicopter out. Yeah, are they looking for my sock? Yeah. You've hired a helicopter to look for my sock?

We've got the best search and rescue operators onto it my friend. The police? Heat seeking and everything. Yeah, that helicopter isn't coming down until your sock is found. Okay, that's across the main road right now. Yep, okay and then there's on the wall opposite the car park we park. I'm almost there, sorry Jesus taking ages. I thought you guys said this car park was close. Yeah. Oh this is where we have to walk every morning Megan. I can see producer

Grace about a far 50 meters up the road. Yeah great okay now on the wall there's something very special there for you. There you go I was just standing there mate. Just running up towards it right now. Okay now you just have to describe what you can see as was just standing there mate. Just running up towards it right now. Now you just have to describe what you can see as soon as you get there. Okay, we're getting up to the wall. Producer Grace is filming me. There's an ad for Auckland Transport. Not that one, next one along.

There it is! There's a big, okay, there's a big sign, four signs, huge signs saying, missing, have you seen Ben Boyce's missing sock? We've launched a street poster campaign to get the sock back. Oh yeah, you have, you've got a picture of my sock there. Call 0800 THE HITS. Have you seen the sock? Wow, I've been very targeted to one area of town. I mean, I don't want to be unappreciative. The nationwide sock hunt has begun.

Wow. You've got to be careful when you're saying those words. You scared me. It's a good sound of it, doesn't it? I might put a two-second gap in between those words next time I say them. Reward? No, no reward. Nationwide sock hunt.

Okay, well, there we go. Okay, so we're looking for my sock. Have you seen my sock? I'm missing the other one. I'll 800 the hits. Reward? Are we go. Okay, so we're looking for my sock. Have you seen my sock? I'm missing the other one. I'll 800 the hits. Reward? Are we putting any money up for grabs? Now take a photo next to your missing person's poster

and we'll put that up on social so the people know what the sock looks like. You may have it in your collection. You may have the same fate. You've only got it floating around as a single. We'll rejoin it with one of its brothers or sisters. Can I just make a suggestion? Maybe we could have used this on marketing for the show.

Like, this could have been much better. Huge waste of, sorry, I made a negative decision this is there, guys. I'm appreciative of it. This is great. Okay, well, thank you. Are we seeing it as a huge waste of time and resource on my part, are we? It could have been better spent. Okay, we won't stop until the sock is found, okay, Ben?

All right, okay, can I come back now? You can come back. The sock hunt is on. We'd love to know on 0800 THE HITS or 4487, when your kids went quiet, what were they doing? Terrifying, isn't it it when kids are on mute never equals good results like the moment in a horror movie where it goes silent you're like some bad stuff's about to happen even like i was saying to you guys walking through the park the

other day with the dog and a little kid a little toddler fell over and just that when it's quiet for a second before they you know the cry is gonna happen i just kind of look at you am i hurt yeah is it okay it took me back there and i was like oh that feeling as well when it's before the cry's going to happen. They kind of look at you. Am I hurt? Yeah. Is it okay? It took me back there and I was like, oh, that feeling as well. When it's quiet for a second and they finally work out.

Yeah, this is hurting a lot. Yeah. There was that theory of like don't react and then they won't react. I tried that a couple of times, but definitely doesn't work. You're all right, mate. No, I've broken my leg.

No, you're walking off. Well, I've got a three-year-old and a one-year-old. So when it goes quiet in my house especially when they're both quiet you're like oh no grim stuff's happening yeah so couldn't find my three-year-old uh and went looking for him when it was really quiet he was in his bedroom um but we found him with his pants off so he was Donald ducking he had nothing just a t-shirt on um and he was just standing there and we were like you're okay mate what's you're right we just said the same thing to ben we walked in to the office standing there in the meeting room you're right mate

um yeah so he's standing there quiet just staring at his books and we were like what's you're right um and he's like i need a book we're like great but like why why are the pants off um and he's like no i just need a book for a second turns out he's getting a book to go and do his toilet pollutions yeah he goes and sits on the potty and he sits there just don't wheeze um but he sits there for like 10 minutes and he takes a book now to read bit of peace time yeah maybe he needs his first smartphone

yeah I don't know where he gets that from though because like neither me or my husband read a book on the toilet

we're both like get in get it done kind of people got stuff to do as an adult you are a get in get it done that's not a

yeah although my grandparents had a full bookcase in the toilet yeah and carpet too and carpet and toilet and now looking back I'm like there's something get in, get it done. That's not a, yeah. Although my grandparents had a full bookcase. In the toilet. Yeah. And carpet too. And carpet and toilet. And now looking back,

I'm like, there's something all kind of wrong. Yeah, yeah. But at the time, you're like, oh, it's all older books. People were touching

those books. Yeah, I know, I know. And like flushing the books. But it's not like you're getting all through Ernest Hemingway. And that's the thing, someone would start reading

one and then take it out and carry it over. Like, I've got to just carry on reading this one. You're like, yeah, come thinking back to it. It's not a great thought. No, I'm not down for that. No, neither. And if you're short on toilet paper, you can rip out pages.

Maybe there's another use for them. At least it was like there wasn't any damage to the house. You know, he hadn't done anything nefarious. But there's been times where I've left my daughter and she's got, like, my makeup all over her face, ruined my, you know, lip liners and everything. That's always a fun time. When kids are silent, they're either asleep or destroying something, aren't they?

And then you walk in and they have the innocent look of, I haven't been feeding the keys to the heat pump or anything. Looking completely angelic. I can't remember any crazy things from our kids, but I do remember the, maybe I blocked it out due to trauma, but I do remember the Wattie Sauce incident of 1993 that I caused. Sauce massacre all over Annie Pryor's lovely cream couches, the cream walls.

That's nice. It was like that room in Willy Wonka. What's that white room in Willy Wonka that he has? Oh, yeah. With Mike TV that Mike TV goes into and I just sprayed sauce everywhere. Not intentionally, it was just shaking the bottle,

mix it up, but the lid wasn't on properly. Yeah, right. So what happened when it went quiet? The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I don't know when

things went quiet as a parent. Never a good thing, usually. Usually they're up to no good. Yeah. We're going to get Janae on. How are you, mate? You doing all right today, Janae?

Not too bad. And you, though? Yeah, we're doing well. Lovely for a Monday when things went quiet in your household. Yeah. It was Sunday afternoon. We put our daughter down for a nap and we thought we'll also go for a nap. And about half an hour it was

quiet and we went to go and see where my daughter was and she wasn't in her bed and we went through to the the kitchen and there she was on top of the counter she had got the permanent marker from the kitchen cupboard and she had put makeup on with a permanent marker. Oh, all over her face. All over her face, mate. Dangerous colour to be painting your face, too. There's relief, though, when you're like, is it on anything else? No, it's just them.

Yeah. It's just them. Why always with the permanent marker, too? Maybe that's a lesson to the household owners. Let's not have permanent stuff in there. Like, you have half an hour to yourself. As an adult, that could be, like, there's so many ways I'd rather spend that than going to destructive mode, drawing on things.

Love your call. Tina, you're on. Welcome. Hi. How's things, Tina? I'm all right, thanks. How are you? We're doing well.

We want to know when it went silent in your house. So my husband and I were actually asleep. It was about 5.30 in the morning on my daughter's birthday this year in June. She was turning two. We'd laid out all of her presents. My three and a half year old son had snuck out of bed, gone into the lounge, ripped open

every single one of her presents, including the packaging so that he could play with her toys. And we had about an hour to salvage what we could with the wrapping paper that wasn't destroyed because we had no more left in the house. Great play for the brother. And that was premeditated too. He's like, I'm getting up early

tomorrow, fools. Well, it's definitely premeditated. Well executed plan. Bruce, oh sorry, no, Bruce, we've been told to come to you later, mate. We're not ready for Bruce. We're not ready for Bruce? Oh, we're not ready for Bruce? Shelley, good morning to you.

Hi. How are you? When things went silent for you, Shelley? Yeah, so an open home environment's quite silent. My brother and I were at an open home, and the owners had just freshly painted and left a paint potter with a paintbrush in the laundry, and little six-year-old brother decided it would be a good idea

to give them a hand with the renovations. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Are your parents in another area of the house, the real estate agent? Yes, yeah. And how'd they find out? Well, we just kind of carried on and acted as if nothing happened. But our own house actually got a bit of karma later on.

My father was preparing for an open home at our house, washing the exterior windows. And that same little brother decided that he'd get the hose and the car chair and bring it all indoors and wash the interior windows. Needless to say, no open homes when it is that day. Water blast the inside of the house. What a menace. I love this kid. Hey, Shelley, we're going to hook you up with a Cadbury price pack. It's valued at $30.

Enjoy. Awesome. Thank you. We'll keep these coming through, shall we? We'll see what we get to Bruce. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Megan, you were saying there's a bit of a scam going around. And when you explained it to us yesterday after the show,

we were like, oh, my God, I would fall for this. Yeah, so a lot of them, you get a scam and you have to put in your car details. So there's a moment for you to go, should I be doing this? With this one, a lot of people are going to fall into this trap. And I think that's why the police have sent out a message. It is elaborate. I saw this on Facebook, but also I got a message, a private email yesterday from people being like, watch out for this.

So at the moment, it seems like it's happening overseas in Australia. I don't think it's happened in New Zealand yet, but this is how crazy it is that they're warning us. This is like COVID. It started over there first. It comes here eventually. Yeah, you're right. So the scam is that they will send you a package to your door. It looks like some sort of parcel, which you'll open.

And inside, it's not clear who it's for or who it's from. So there is a QR code for you to scan to find out who sent the present. As soon as you scan the QR code, this is from the police, it allows the offenders to then access any and all data on your phone or device you use to scan the code, including financial information

like your bank account, login details and personal data. Just from scanning the code. To be honest, if they are, you know, that's elaborate. And if they're going to that length, they deserve full access to our bank accounts and phones. Well, especially if they've bought some sort of gift for us as well. They're investing.

They didn't say what the present is. That's a huge investment. That's a present. How many of those? Yeah. So you're allowed to keep the present, but don't scan the kiwaka Do we have any idea what the present is?

That's what I want to know No Like what sort of gift am I getting? Oh so sweet A new vase or a Yeah I'm like You know

It's almost worth giving over your details If it's a good gift It is hard to know what is authentic And what isn't nowadays You know back in the 90s You just had your humble Nigerian prince Yeah Who was just looking to, so trusting,

wanting to deposit all of his family's fortune into your bank account. And that's all we had to deal with. And we're like, oh, easy. Now, text messaging. You're just getting flooded with them every day. I do get phone calls. I get phone calls every single day. And now I'm worried because there was that one where they were like,

if you talk to them, they record your voice and use it in AI. So now I don't answer anything that's not a phone number I know. All your conversations are like, hmm? But you are. You're paranoid about legitimate things, legitimate texts coming through and messages. You're like, oh, I don't know if I should trust this. You don't want to be that idiot that goes, oh, why did you click on this?

We're riddled with misinformation. Do you know a to be that idiot that goes, oh, why did you click on this or do that? We're riddled with misinformation. Do you know a frightening one that I saw yesterday was that on Instagram, they are, you know when you pinch in on photos and zoom in? Yeah. That person will now be alerted when you've been pinching. Oh, no. Are you joking?

Isn't that frightening? What have you been pinching? What have you been doing? How do you know? Isn't that frightening? What have you been pitching? How do you know? What have you been pitching it on? It came up as a social video, and then I did some further digging. And no, it was just an absolute elaborate prank. But it had a lot of people very worried about it. You've been pinched?

Oh, okay. I see. Megan's been pinching Ben there. Oh, my God. Does it show you which part you're pinching it on? Yeah, all the stats. All the stats. But you two look pretty frightened then.

David Neeker, the boxer's going to be worried about him. You mean pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch? Getting a few alerts over the last couple of days. That was Ben yesterday. It was, definitely me. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, am I the only person in the world who picks up their television remote? And I realised yesterday as I picked it up, I've gone through my entire adult life

not knowing what I would say 30% of those buttons are doing on that remote. You know, I've got the numbers, I know where I'm at. I'm comfortable there, the power on and off. AV, I can switch around with that stuff. But then there's, honestly, there's about a dozen buttons on there. Maybe they just pad it out. Maybe they rack the remotes big and then they just put more buttons on there. I was thinking.

Why don't you go rogue and see what, maybe your TV does more than you realise it does. I'm too scared. Too scared now to push them. You know when you've gone too far gone that I don't know what happens if I push them. But I had that theory too, that the remote architects were like, oh, well that's all the buttons we need. And they're like, there's a lot of empty real estate on here, team.

And they've just filled it up with unnecessary buttons to confuse. I'm so glad that you're the buttons guy here at the show. Do you know what all the buttons in front of you do right now? Honestly, no. You sit in front of them all. We'll push one at random. No, don't actually. No, don't. Because our boss, Matt, will come in. There's probably 90% of them, I don push one at random actually don't die because our boss matt will like

there's probably it's 90 of them i don't know what they do good yeah i like all those ox scenes and what's all this stuff going link what is it linking to options you've got one it gives you options maybe options for a better radio show so many great buttons. I didn't know there was options in that one. Freeze. What is the freeze for? Crazy stuff.

I kind of want you to push freeze. I know. I know, but we can't. Our boss, Matt, will be very nervously listening to this for good reason. But yeah, do you know all the remotes on your button? That's what I want to know. All the buttons on my remote. No, definitely not. But I feel like if my remote only had three buttons,

then it probably would be as impressive. I've taken a photo of mine. I want to know. No, definitely not. But I feel like if a remote only had three buttons, then it probably would be as impressive. I've taken a photo of mine. I want to know these ones. See, you go along the middle patch there. There's just colours. Red, green. I don't know what the colours are. I've got colours too.

All right, text us. 4487 on the text this morning. And then they've got letters on top of them. R, G, Y, B. What is this? What? Red, green, blue, yellow. There's probably a way you could find out, but let's go.

Yeah. The R is above the red and the G is above the green and the Y is above the yellow. I got you. But then why would they need? I don't know. We're not going to solve it right now. After 8 o'clock as I said before.

Options, options. Better show, better show. Yeah, definitely. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What have you thrown out of your partners? Or what is your partner? Basically, what have you thrown out or have we had thrown out for you? Because I think my wife may have thrown out something of mine,

my sock that has gone missing. Oh, there you go. Accusing Amanda because we are on the hunt, nationwide hunt. A sock hunt. Of course. For Ben's missing sock. It's his lucky sock. We have missing posters out there in the streets, don't we?

Yeah, we're getting the word out there. We're trying to find a match. It's like sock Tinder around the country. I'm glad I'm the one that stumbled, not you, on that before. Under the Hits, though, what have you had thrown out or what have you thrown out of your partners? And we've got a Cadbury pack to give away, which is pretty awesome as well,

because Cadbury are doing Cheer on Tour by any Cadbury confectionery product. But for the 6th of October, you could win two trips to see the All Blacks Northern Tour Games in Ireland or France, which is awesome. Would you like to go through and accuse your wife of throwing out the other sock? Yeah, let's give her a call right now.

Good morning, Amanda speaking. Good morning. We're just calling about the sock. The sock. Have you thrown it now? It's your chance. You're live on the radio right now. Seems like a good chance to come clean.

Yeah, have you thrown out the sock? It's on its last legs. Oh, that was a good one, wasn't it? That was a good one. But it'll be a monstrous act to just throw out one single sock. I'm over it, though. We've got a whole bloomin' container

of missing socks or lost socks. I'm really hopeful they'll come back, but they don't seem to come back. We don't really match them up. But, Mandy, you've thrown out stuff of mine in the past, haven't you? No, not me. Never. No, don't do that.

I feel like a few of my figurines and stuff like that, toys, sometimes go missing. No, no. They just maybe just, I don't know. They dog ate them. There's a history. There's a checkered history. What Funko Popper figurine did you find in the bin? I found a few in the bin.

I found stuff. I'm pretty sure I had Woody from Toy Story and things like that, but they're gone. They're gone. And I mean, I know in the movies Woody from Toy Story gets up and walks, so maybe that's what happens in real life. Yeah, so pretty big accusation. He's downloading content that his wife I can't handle here,

accusing her of throwing out one sock. Why wouldn't she throw out a pair if she was – I guess they're probably not. I'm just trying to go through – just tick off everything. To be fair, there's probably things higher up in the list that she'd throw out first rather than your sock, which can be hidden. Are you talking about me? No, I was talking about some of your matching suits. Oh, right.

It sounded like you were talking about me there, Megan. Your fresh Prince of Bel-Air suit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got some shorts and stuff like that. You love all that sort of stuff, Amanda. Oh, my God. He's got like 13 pairs of swimming shorts. 13 swimming shorts?

13 pairs. I counted them one day. You never know when you're going to go swimming. You've only got one body. And if you do, what are you going to wear? I mean, what sort of conditions is that? You want options. Yeah, you're going to go swimming 13 times in a day.

Do I want swimming dogs with bananas on them? Do I want swimming dogs with Will Smith's face on them? See, that's what I mean when there's other things to throw out. It should be those first. Then get on to the sides. You don't know what mood you're going to be in when you want to swim, do you? That's right. Yeah.

Okay. Well, I can tick that. Sorry, cross that off the list. Amanda hasn't thrown out the sock. You'll keep an eye out for it though, Amanda? Okay, great. All right. Let's try to wrap this up.

Okay. All right. Have a good day. Oh, 800 of the hits. What you've secretly or not so secretly thrown out of your partners. Maybe there's a holy T-shirt that all of a sudden disappeared from your circulation, a metallic one that you loved. Sounds like something of yours.

Does it sound a little personal? It does. It sounds like for the best. Oh, 800 The Hits, 4487. We've got a Capri prize pack valued at $30 to give away for our favourite cornex. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits, Jono and Ben, 8.48 on your Tuesday morning. We want to know on The Hits, what did you throw out of your partner's

or did your partner throw out of yours? Well, you are on the hunt for a sock that's gone missing, your lucky pair of socks, and you're accusing your wife, Amanda, of throwing it out, which seems like an unusual accusation, to be honest. Yeah, especially one sock. You're right. Especially when there's so many other things of yours more offensive that she could throw out. I know.

A holy sock, though. It could be. But this one wasn't holy. So you're probably right. Probably wasn't Amanda. So the nation needs closure. So we are on a nationwide hunt for the sock. And there's missing posters out there.

If you have the matching one, there's a reward. $100, a bit of washing powder as well. Chuck that in for good measure. Exactly, but we wanted to know what you've thrown out at your partners or had thrown out for you. Great text coming through. My partner has an ACDC t-shirt. This is one that you'd appreciate, Jono.

Had 10 holes in the front of it, holes so big his nipples would stick out. Oh, come on. The other day I told him we needed to get rid of it. He declined, so I stuck my finger in the hole, ripped it some more, and guess what? He's still wearing it. Legend.

That just needs to go missing. Yeah, my wife threw out a pair of my Levi's. I had for over 35 years. She denied it. And then one of my daughters told me it was her. That's the thing. That's the thing. There are those items that secretly irk you, aren't they?

Have you got anything of Andrew's that you'd like to? No, but my ex-husband, he used to always wear this. You threw him out. Right. Do you see? He had a bright green jersey. I called it his Kermit jersey. And one day I just put it in the wheelie bin. Oh, really?

Did you say a word? No. It just disappeared. No, it just disappeared. This is the thing. People just, yeah, we're going to get to these calls now. Catherine, you lost what? Or you threw out what?

Sorry. Good morning. No, it wasn't me. It was my husband. So about eight, it was eight years ago, my dad wrote in the last card he'd ever write in, and I'm quite sentimental because he passed away five weeks later. But it ended up in the kid's,

must have been in the kid's crafty drawer, and my husband thought he'd throw it out. Oh, no. It was devastating. He didn't actually know at the time, but he kind of let me completely clear out the shed. It's gone and it was really quite upsetting,

but I love him so I forgave him. That's the problem with husbands. You have to love him and you have to forgive him. I'm the thrower out of it in our house. When anything goes missing, yeah. Dad threw it out. I'm like, no, I didn't.

Like, I'll vehemently deny it and then just go and sneakily check the recycling or the general waste. But yeah, 100% of the time, I probably have thrown it out. I just, you know, in a frenzy. Just cleaning stuff up in a frenzy. I don't picture you more as a hoarder than a cleaner-upper. No, no. The opposite of. Now, we're going to get Kirsten on.

How are you this morning, mate? I'm good. How are you? We're doing well. Box of fluffies. What was thrown out of yours? Oh, I threw out my husband's manky pillow. It was about 15 years old, and it was brown, and it was revolting.

But it had a washing machine accident. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, fair enough. It's amazing how many things have accidents. Yeah. Things that you don't like. Had it gone enough. It's amazing how many things have accidents. Things that you don't like. Has it gone from yellow to brown? Yeah, it was brown.

And when all the foam came out in the washing machine, it was brown as well. It's like biohazardous, really. Yeah, it is. 15 years of the same pillow. He's sleeping on that pillow. And every pillow I've bought since, he just complains. It's just not the same.

We're going to hook you up with a Cadbury price pack. It's valued at $30. Enjoy that. We'll keep these coming through, actually, shall we? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Frightening statistics that 50% of women, women have a backup option. So they're happily in a marriage, happily in a relationship,

but in the back of their mind they're like, if this all turns to custard, I know who I'm going to go and pursue. So is this like if the relationship ends for whatever reason, like sadly someone passes away or things like that, or just if it doesn't work out? That's what I take it as. It's not like someone's like, I've got a guy that I'm thinking of that I want to cheat with.

No. It sounds more like they have someone that they would if it ended with their partner. So like a second place. But it's not, yeah, and does the backup option know they're a backup option? Probably not. I don't know, I don't think so.

It sounds like someone you'd pursue that you kind of know. Yeah, and it's nice to know that I could be the Walmart for another bloke down the track. It'd be the entree who admitted to this I don't know like it must be anonymous yeah

surely honestly I don't fit into that category because I always say to my husband you can never leave me because no one else is going to deal

with this scenario maybe it's like one of those work surveys we have to fill out that are anonymous but then they reply back with like great feedback

or we're working on it. Thanks for your feedback, Ben. Now we do fill out anonymous staff surveys. Does the email come to your email? Yeah, the reply comes to your email. It's encrypted. I've got a backup option. Oh, that's good to know.

Survey's done by your husband. You're like, ah! So this is what we want to chuck out there. We're not going to put anyone survey done by your husband all the ladies who said they had a backup option so this is what we want to chuck out there we're not going to put anyone throw anyone in the fire and say oh I'm in a relationship have you got a backup option

but the question is this morning and we might not get anyone have you ended up with your backup option so you were in a relationship in the back of your mind you're like hey if this doesn't work out I will pursue plan B and you're in that plan B option now.

Maybe it wasn't like a high school sweetheart. You know, like they were like, you were together, and for whatever reason it didn't happen when you were younger. But then, you know. It's smart, too. It's like having a spare phone charger, isn't it? You know, if that one plays up, you've got another one you can plug in. I did meet my current husband when I had my last husband.

Oh, yeah, I was going to say the timeline. Was he kind of a backup option? Did she want to talk about the timeline? Maybe he was. Was he? Well, no, no. I've just,

we'd met. Okay, let's move on. Okay. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Great topic we've opened up this morning. Is it?

Because there are people in the cars now driving with their partners the stat was 50% of women have a backup in their mind And I'm like I reckon 100% of people wouldn't want to admit to it There's people in the car that are like

You have a backup? No, I'm the 50% that do not Maybe it was in the latest census these figures have squeezed out of those stats But yeah, 50% of women have a backup option Now this is not saying there's infidelity, they're not cheating, there's not extramarital affairs,

or they're not straying, but they just have this person that they know, maybe at work, a personal trainer, or someone that they come across who they would... It'd be a good number two. Who they'd pursue. Should number one, I don't know, something happen. And these are people they know,

that's not like, like Hey Brad Pitt's My backup option Yeah This is real life Right Gotcha This is close to home stuff Yeah

Now We have an anonymous caller on Now we didn't say Are you currently in a relationship And you have a backup option We threw it out Were you in a relationship You had a backup option

And now you're with Yeah Plan B Maybe you should have Been with that person in the first place I guess in a lot of regards now Anonymous can we front this by saying thank you so much for coming on and sharing your story

no worries how's it going? yep we're doing well I thought we were going to be talking to a a lady yeah unfortunately definitely not a lady the same situation, yeah. I was in a relationship for, I suppose, five years or so

and always had the same person in mind as a backup. Nothing ever did happen as well, you know. Yeah, gotcha, yeah. And then I guess things didn't really work out. And then now I've been with the backup happily, as happily as could be for coming up nine years. Oh, awesome. Awesome.

So maybe in the first instance, you should have been with that person, I guess, in a lot of ways. But maybe you had to learn that the hard way. Exactly. You sort of met them both around the same time. One just stayed a good friend and obviously the other one ended up getting one. Did your former partner have any suspicions that you had feelings for this lady? Yes.

Ah, they always know. They know. We always know. Do you want to know about Megan's timeline too with her relationship? No, because I feel like we just brushed over that. Anonymous is pouring out his life story on the radio. He's not even getting paid for this. He's getting nothing. You need to be vulnerable, Megan.

Share your time. Time, line. Time, line. Time, line. We thank you, Anonymous. It's wonderful. Was this the right life decision for you? Definitely, 100%.

100%. I suppose it's an impressive water even just to change a person changes the lifestyle and i didn't really i suppose i didn't really have much ambition previously and you just just take it along with life and now obviously i don't know just just inspire each other when you're with the right person that's awesome well you're obviously with the right person did That's awesome. Well, you're obviously with the right person. Is your ex-partner like, I knew it was that bush all along? Yeah, yeah.

Hey, well, thank you very much. The best thing you can do for your ex-partner as well is set her free, you know? Yeah, true. Yeah, you're right. Sorry, unfortunately, I mean, I do have kids with the ex-partner, so there is a still communication constant there.

Yeah. Well, I hope, hope listen what I hope is I hope she's happy with a new person and I'm glad that you're happy yeah exactly

definitely oh well thank you for sharing your story now Megan we'll share hers okay hey Anonymous can we get a timeline chart from you

timeline timeline timeline timeline he's I told you I met him and I was still wet. It's a mystery.

It's a mystery. Who will know? Who will know the story of Vegas? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Who can find my missing sock? Don't know where it's gone. Much like everyone has around the country.

We have socks that go missing. You just don't know where they are. You wait and you keep the other one. A lonely sock hoping it'll find its partner. But it doesn't always happen. Really good tip this morning before 7 o'clock, someone phoned through, his name was Ben as well, he said, check the back of your washing machine.

You can actually undo the panel, the back wall, and sometimes the socks flip over the top. During the spin cycle. During the spin cycle. So yes, they are eating your socks. They fall down. See, he's found countless socks behind there. So that could be a place you could

look tonight. Now, yesterday you told me to retrace my steps over the last few months. We've been away for work and stuff.

So we rang Hotel Christchurch. We rang another one that I'd stayed at in Tauranga. That's funny. If I found

the socks, I will call you straight away. Can you do us a favour? Of course I can. Can you say us a favour? Of course I can. Can you say, Mamma Mia? Of course I can, Mamma Mia.

Mamma Mia. Okay, and the second favour was someone have a look for the socks. If you come back, I promise you I'll buy you one and I'll give you one. I need fine and brown socks, okay? This is my lucky one. Yeah, so I got a text after we made that call yesterday to the quest in Tauranga. That was Daniela. And I got a text saying,

I tried to call you back at the HITS number about the sock. I'm like, oh, has she found the sock? Is the case about to be closed? Oh, Cherie, how are you doing? It's Jono, Ben and Megan from the HITS radio station. I'm very well. How are you? We're doing all right.

Now, I missed a message from Danieliella yesterday, we had a wonderful conversation with Daniella. I've heard that she's had phone calls and all sorts from some lady in Gisborne that heard her on the radio. Oh really? Oh man, local superstar Oh she is. That's what we do we just like to give people the

opportunity, put them on the platform start a new career, who knows what could happen now to Daniella. Absolutely. That beautiful Italian voice. Yeah. The sky's the limit. She's not working there today. She's been snapped up on a radio station somewhere.

Well, she is working today. I can put her through to you, Jono. Okay. No worries. Okay. Just a minute. Hi, Daniella speaking. Ciao.

Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. Ciao. Jono Benembegan from the Hits. How are you doing? How I can forget your voice, guys. We hear you. We hear we've turned into a bit of a local celebrity there, Daniela. Oh, well, this morning I received so many calls thanks to you guys.

Oh, lots of calls. Fan mail. Yeah. I had a beautiful lady from Gisborne driving a car, and she said, I made that day. And I said, no, actually, you made my day with this call. She was so cute. Oh, you made our day.

Now, you messaged me after our call, and it was from a number that was only four digits, so I couldn't message you back. Oh, sorry. That's our quest number for messaging our customers. That's why. Yeah, gotcha. It says, ciao, Ben. This question number for messaging our customers. That's why. Yeah, gotcha. It says, Ciao Ben, this is Daniela from the Quest.

I tried to call you back regarding the sock, but you didn't answer Mamma Mia. That's what you said at the end of it. Correct. I was just worried that you're thinking that I was flirting with you, but actually no, it was work. You just wanted to clarify you were not being promiscuous Yeah, just in case

You know, my husband could listen to the radio station In case, you know Do you know what? Do you know what happened down the aisle? We hung up from your knees like I reckon she was hitting on me No, I didn't Oh, here we go

No, I did not No, I did not You promised me you'd have a look for the sock in room 215. Now, did you have a look at the brown chair around there, around the floors, the bed? I checked everywhere. And I even checked the footage, Ben. I'm really shocked with you because you're wearing white socks. How come you're losing a black sock?

I was. There is a little bit of trigger there. I'm a little bit confused. I'm just Italian, okay? Stop flirting with me. She checked all the footage. Yeah, correct. You're wearing white socks all the time

and now you're claiming for a black one. What's wrong with you? Look, I'm just going through all the places. Now, I don't remember having them there. I just thought while I was ticking off, they're like crossing things off the list. So it's not in the hotel? No, sorry sorry i did my job properly i checked everywhere i'm so sorry for your lucky socks no time you're coming here make sure that i give you the my vip upgraded okay

cold behind the fridge now maybe she is Just to do a good customer service There is not much around And I'm trying to Thank you very much for checking for us And we'll keep looking for the sock Thank you guys, thank you so much for Making our morning so pleasant

Also This year, now Megan you sent something to our group chat the other day Very very funny video because I'm on the lookout for a sock. I've lost a sock right now. We're doing a nationwide sock hunt to try and find the sock. And so far, not great.

No, you've got till, your wife and man has given you till Friday all the sock has to be thrown out, okay? It's a black one with a four-leaf clover. There's pictures, there's wanted posters out there in the street. Head to the Hits Breakfast on social. Although I did get a message just before from a hotel that i stayed in in tauranga so we

need to call them back in the next 20 minutes so maybe maybe it's just a message maybe it's come through so we'll do that in the next 20 minutes yeah lots of sock banter at the moment i think we're lucky i just say after this week we're done with socks yeah i think so yeah i don't want to say that every day uh week. My daughter is one and she likes to help me hang out the washing at the moment. So she will pick stuff up.

Yeah, it's very cute. She'll pick stuff up, hand it to me. But every time she picks up an item, she has to tell me whose it is and what it is.

So she'll be like, mummy's top, daddy's shirt. She goes around and then if she gets the wrong eye corrector, it's very cute. Yeah.

But there is one particular item that she can't say, and it is the humble sock. So she was picking up socks and struggling to say it. This is talking about Andrew, your husband, and his socks. Okay, let's have a listen. Daddy sock. And Aya? Daddy cock. Daddy cock. Daddy sock. And Aya? Daddy cock. Daddy cock. Daddy cock. Yeah.

Daddy cock. It feels to me like there's some diction issues there around the letter S. Daddy sock. Can I hear it again? I thought it was pretty good. Daddy sock. And Aya? Daddy cock.

Daddy cock. Daddy cock. Bastion's trying to help her through it She really needs to hammer home that consonant That's good though, I like it The enthusiasm on her face as she says it Because she's like, I am nailing this I get nervous every time we say sock hunt Let alone that, we couldn't have Iyer on the programme

It'd be a nightmare So what we want to open is 0800, it's 4487, it's a text for New Zealand's breakfast. Kids mispronouncing words. Happens all the time, doesn't it? Especially under the age of five, we're like, oh, look at you silly kids, you're not nailing this one. Sometimes you don't want to correct them.

For years, you know, my daughter Indy, you know, film name Indiana, Indiana, we told her her middle name was Copacabana. You know, just as like,, you know, film name Indiana. Indiana, we told her her middle name was Copacabana. You know, just as like, yeah, Indiana Copacabana. And she would go out and say it. Then one day she came up and she goes, that's not my middle name at all. I was like, oh, we thought that, you know, if they get to an age where they work out, it's like, you've been lying to me the whole time.

Did she go to kindergarten and tell all the teachers what she, you know, what you're doing with Daddy's sock? Oh, she's folding it. She's putting it in the drawer. She's putting pegs on it. They'll be like, wow, that sock's being put through the ringer. Hanging it out on the line. What did your kids say?

Maybe they were saying something wrong, like sock, like I was as well. Sock was the word, yep. 4487 on the text. One of my daughters which was good actually used to say son of a mitch which I'd say

self censoring which I was like great if anything keep it that way it's good the hits the Jono and Ben podcast

want to know the words that your kids got wrong or continue to get wrong right now very cute video that we've been playing from your daughter. My daughter

Aya. She was very excited. She just heard herself on the radio but she was trying to say Daddy's sock. She wants to hear it again. Aya? Daddy's sock. Daddy's sock. Daddy's sock. Yeah. Daddy's sock. Are you holding the thing

up? Are you holding the sock up? Hopefully you are showing the sock in the video. Yeah. Okay. You did great, Aya. We didn't see Andrew, your husband, in the video, so I don't know what was going on. I presume he had a sock.

There was some sock there. Yeah. You are doing beautifully, Aya. She's filled out a wonderful eight minutes of radio too, so extra points for you, mate. Now, kids mispronouncing things, that's what we're going to get onto this morning. We'll go to Sarah first.

Good morning to you, Sarah. How's life on a Thursday? Oh, it's stunning here in Taupo. Oh, lovely. Good spot. It's great to have you on, Sarah. Okay, what did they mispronounce? My daughter says welcome wrong.

She says you'll come well. Okay, okay. Bit of a mismatch of the syllables. Yeah, moving the syllables around. It's very good. It's a good promise to make, too, isn't it? Hey, good on you, mate. Have a good one.

See you, Sarah. I love your work. This is teetering. This is teetering. Okay, Hayley, you, mate. Have a good one. See you, Sarah. I love your work. This is teetering. This is teetering. Okay, Hayley, you're on. Good morning, guys. How are you? Great to have you on.

How far can we push this? Hayley, what did they mispronounce these kids? I've got a three-year-old, and he used to say bum-goots instead of gumboots. Thank you. Bum-goots. And walkie instead of coffee. I don't know how that one is. That's so wrong. Have a walkie instead of coffee. I don't know how that one is. That's so wrong.

Have a walkie and your bum goos. That's very cute. Well, you put them all together, it sounds a bit. Yeah, thanks for your call, Hayley. Appreciate it. Molly, you're on. How are you? Good morning, guys.

How are you? Yeah, good. Just playing with some broadcasting standards this morning. How are you going, Molly? Yeah, great up here up in the bay. It's a beautiful day in the Bay of Islands. Oh, you've seen Ben's mum up there, Jenny voice? Yeah, and I can't say I've ever bumped into her on the other side.

She made national news. There was a Kiwi wandering around inside her house. Yeah. Oh, well, we don't get that in our place. Oh, she doesn't normally get that either. You guys have got wallabies too in the news today. Yeah. Oh, really? Pretty exciting. But either. You guys have got wallabies too in the news today. Yeah. Oh, really?

Pretty exciting. But what was the word that your kids said, Ro? So it's my younger brother mispronounced my older brother's name. And my older brother's called Russell, but my younger brother used to call him asshole. In life, you know, you walk around the supermarket and he's shouting, asshole, asshole, and it got a bit awkward at times. Love it. That's good.

I don't know if Russell has turned into one later in life. No, I'm sure he hasn't. I'm sure he hasn't. I really appreciate your call. We'll take one more on this. Stacey, the kid's mispronouncing. What was it for you, mate? Yeah, morning.

So my two-year-old couldn't pronounce the T-H sound or the S-T sound. And one afternoon we were out printing our roses. And afterwards he grabbed all the sticks, waltzed into the house and pronounced, here are my horny dicks. What was he meant to say? We had our whole lounge full of guests and absolute stitches. And we managed to catch it on video. So it was meant to say we had our whole lounge full of guests and absolute stitches and we managed to catch it

on video so it was meant to be thorny sticks was it thorny sticks yes and he said

horny dicks ok and you're like and we got it on video we sure did