Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Jack Johnson Calls Ben's Wife...

Episode Date: July 11, 2022

The boys are on holiday this week, so we are replaying some of our favourite moments of the year! Listen to this mini episode where Jono and Ben chat to Jack Johnson about his upcoming tour of New Zealand, and he even leaves a voicemail for Ben's Wife!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jack Johnson, we love him in New Zealand, as I said before, and he's coming back at the end of the year. Two concerts, one in Auckland, one in Napier, and he's on the line right now joining us. Jack, when you come back, what are you looking forward to most doing in New Zealand? Oh, man, it's hard to say so many. It's just when we're there, the last time around, we got to do a nice camping trip. We have friends kind of all around the country from the surfing world

and just from music and whatnot. So I would love just to see all our good old friends. them all around the country from from the surfing world and just from music and whatnot so i would love just to see all our good old friends so i miss a lot of them getting in the ocean's always front it's always a little cold i gotta acclimate again but the waves are good enough that it's worth it i should know the proper name for it but the hot water beach where we dug a hole and we got to sit in like a little boiling hot tub on the beach i think we call it hot water beach yeah we're not very inventive with some of our names sometimes. North Island, South Island, things like that, you know.

I got it right. And I heard in New Plymouth last time you played there, everyone went a bit crazy and ended up in the duck pond. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was fun. My favorite part of that is my good friend who's actually on tour with us, one of my best old friends. He's our promoter down there. So he was the one who had to get on the microphone

and tell everybody to get out of the pond, you know, and then everybody started getting back into the pond again, and I would just look over at him, and he would kind of raise his eyebrows, like hoping that maybe I would say something. I would just shake my head. I was like, I'm trying to act cool up here, man. I'm going to make you be that guy that has to get everybody out of the pond, and he'd have to be the bad guy again.

I'm not doing the public service announcement. Mate, I'm the rock star here. It's not cool if I'm telling people to get out of the duck pond. I leave all the PSAs to him. Yeah, I've seen their duck pond before. It looks toxic. Yeah, it's not a good idea to get in the duck pond to begin with. You know what I mean?

Oh, now you say it, Jack. Now he'll say it. No, he won't say it. That's all. You've got teenage kids from what we understand, and they were very stoked. One of them was stoked that one of your songs blew up on TikTok the other day. Is it kind of weird having your kids find your music and be impressed that way?

I don't know if he was stoked. It was kind of like, you know how teenagers are. It's always hard to tell if they're stoked or not, but he informed me. He kind of like you know how teenagers are it's always hard to tell if they're stoked or not but he he he informed me you know he like he kind of just like at breakfast time as if it was anything else was like oh dad uh one of your songs is viral on tiktok and uh i'm not sure if he was stoked or disappointed in his father hard to read aren't they the disgruntled teenagers yeah do they think you're cool yeah surely they think you're cool? Yeah, surely they think you're cool. I think they do think I'm cool,

but not in the way of, like, how we all define the word cool, but I think they think I'm a pretty, I'm a hangable dad. Like, they like hanging out with me. But they also, like, they quite often, like, point out how dorky I am,

or, like, they think it's pretty funny that I can gather a crowd of, like, 10,000 people in one place, you know? They just, to them, I'm just the dorky, normal dad who kind of hangs out with them, and we surf, we jam music around the house, funny that um that i can gather a crowd of like 10 000 people on one place you know they just to them i'm just the dorky normal dad who kind of hangs out with them and we surf we jam music around the house and whatnot and then when i go on tour and they see it actually happening they're like wait that's not just something you tell us you can do you can actually people show up you know i think it's pretty funny my dad my dad plays the guitar and sings not to the level of you but he enjoys it

but i knew as a kid whenever he brought out the guitar and you're at someone's place it was like oh we're sleeping the night on the couch here because he's going to be playing it till two or three in the morning is it the same with your kids like the guitar you're like oh here he goes again jack's got his guitar out that's really funny yeah you know um and i i make my kids sleep in a lot of weird places not only for that reason but just when we're on tour sometimes. And kind of your question earlier, you're catching up with old friends. They were in New Zealand and we're out to dinner. We're having a few drinks or something.

And you don't want the night to end when they're real little. I would kind of just tell them, baby, I'm tired. And I would say, all right, there's a good spot under the table there, you know, whatever. So that sounds horrible. I don't always mean it's what you're having a drink but it's just more about when the times are fun we kind of make home wherever we are that night you know and they just they'll find a good place to crash you know and if you're sleeping under the table of a restaurant it's not in the bar very often no you probably get

this all the time jack but but one of your songs better together was uh one of my wedding songs uh with my wife amanda which is such a such a cool song and uh i don't know if you're okay with this but um like even though i've got it tattooed on my on my arm i've forgotten my wedding anniversary once which is not a great look my wife's a great a big fan can we give her a quick call right now she's a teacher and one of your answer just to say maybe for this year's wedding anniversary you can say happy wedding anniversary so i've got that covered with the man who has our wedding song can we do that oh yeah easy uh but wait to clarify you have the date of your of your

wedding or my words tattooed on your arm the date i didn't quite go to your words but we had a good good good okay you're okay with that he's like good you're not a you're not a freaky fan. In that case, go ahead and call your wife. All right. Will she answer? I mean, you must get that all the time. Hi, it's Amanda's phone. Do you need a message? Thanks.

That's not his wife. At the time, record your message. That's one of my kids. Amanda, Amanda, you really blew it. I was hoping you'd answer. This is Jack Johnson. I was calling to wish you a happy anniversary. I was really wanting to chat for a while,

but I guess we're just going to have to leave it to the voicemail. Until next time. Aloha. Oh, Jack. Yeah, she is a big fan, although we had a moment, and she'll hate me telling you this, that we're in Fiji, and she's like, oh, my God, can I get a photo? I love.

We went out to the person. She was like, I love you. This is great. And then she said at the end, you're Jack Johnson, and it was Kelly Slater, the surfer. That's really funny. You know what's funny, though? Kelly and I have talked about it, and I think me and Kelly get mistaken

for each other all the time. Yeah, but you all just politely answer to each other. You've had photos with each other's fans. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, totally. Oh, Jack. Are we still on your wife's voicemail? I don't know.

She's going to clear this message in about four years. Oh, Jack Johnson, we can't wait for you to come back to New Zealand. We love you here. It's going to be awesome. We'll hope to catch you soon when you're in town as well. Yeah, hopefully we can meet up when I'm down there.