Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Dear Megan my friends dating my dad!

Episode Date: March 24, 2024

Show Highlights: We get updates from our Royal correspondent Gavin Grey. Was Megan part of the mentalists trick? We call our Square One winner! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. So of course, big news over the weekend. Kate Middleton announced in the video, after a lot of speculation, a lot of rumours swirling around on the internet what was going on with Kate, she announced some pretty sad news that she's fighting cancer at the moment. Have a listen. In January, I underwent major abdominal surgery in London. And at the time, it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous. The surgery was successful. However, tests after the operation found cancer had been present. My medical team therefore advised that I should undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy.

And I'm now in the early stages of that treatment. This, of course, came as a huge shock. And William and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family. Heartbreaking. Yeah. Yeah, it felt really, really terrible, this whole situation.

It's a horrible thing for anyone to go through, and also the fact that it was so many, I guess, comedic things going around on the internet, where the Photoshop fail. The Brazilian butler. Remember the Brazilian butler? Yeah, the masked singer. All of the rumours.

I mean, we did a little sketch last week. I feel terrible about that. Even though, you know, like it was, you know, it's a good reminder you don't know what's going on in someone else's life. I don't know why we didn't think that that could be a possibility. Like, she's away from the spotlight. She wants to be with her family and we're like, what's going on?

Why didn't we consider that it could be something serious like that? I have no idea. She had major surgery. Yeah. And we're like, oh, yeah. I know all the signs were there, and now I feel really bad. Sorry, Kate. Yeah.

I feel terrible that we made. Well, rest assured, she probably didn't hear you, and she's probably not going to hear your apology. We're all part of it though you know we're all adding to that whole part of the thing you know where it's yeah you're right like that's a very sobering reminder to like not pry into other people's business because you know what's going on she did say hey i'd like to make an announcement and it was like easter easter everyone's like we need to know now and there was a talk of affairs and all sorts of horrible stuff as well just adding to the poor ladies she was like, we need to know now. And there was a talk of affairs and all sorts of horrible stuff as well, just adding to the poor ladies. She was like, I'll be back at Easter.

And we're like, no, not good enough. Who started the rumors? Where did they get all the information from? Because then we were like, well, there must be some truth to it. I don't know. A great lesson. It really is. It is.

It is a really great lesson. To not believe anything that you hear on the radio. Also, she started the statement by saying, thank you so much for all your thoughts and your well wishes. I was like, she's being sarcastic. No one was doing that. We've all been told off. Yeah.

I reckon there's a part of them finding it slightly amusing. You'd have to. I hope so. Having going through that and then just watching what the world is doing and saying about you. I don't think it would be amusing. No. No, not when you're fighting that.

But if you need to tell yourself that, you'll get it. As you go, oh, guys, okay, have your laugh because, yeah, you're not going to be laughing when this happens. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. They're happening this weekend. The weather's looking a bit rubbish around the country,

bit of rain around. It's going to be a bit cool. So that's not the greatest weather forecast for Easter at this stage. and the weather's looking a bit rubbish around the country. Bit of rain around. It's going to be a bit cool. So that's not the greatest weather forecast for Easter at this stage. And do you want my daylight savings update? Oh, you love it. Yeah, you really keep an eye on when daylight savings changes, right? Two weeks from yesterday.

Thank you. Thank you. I'd actually forgotten what the countdown was, but that was a friendly reminder there. Megan doesn't like it. She does it not just on the radio. She does it to me off the radio as well. She's like, oh, two weeks yesterday.

I'm like, okay, cool. Yeah, it'll be getting darker earlier. Do you prefer turning the clock forward or back? No, whatever spring is. You like the other way? Yeah. Not this one. This one's good.

Because it gets darker earlier. It's depressing. Yeah, it does. But you get the extra hour. You do, but only initially. Yeah, it's good for a couple of days. And then you're into winter. We do this every week. Siri Sings, we get Suri to

Well, to try and sing some lyrics Less singing and more just unenthusiastically relaying lyrics And Megan and John, I need to work out What these lyrics are for what these songs And you can play along as well If you're heading to work this morning I always wonder when you do this Whether Suri thinks to herself

This is a giant waste of my time Probably Probably What else is she doing? Yeah. So we're birding Siri with this. Have a listen to the first one. Every night in my dreams I see you.

I feel you. That is how I know you go on far across the distance and spaces between us. Celine Dion. Yeah. Oh, damn. He went old school.

Yeah, a little bit. From what's in the movie, Titanic, right? Heart will go on, Celine Dion. Yeah, just mix it up there. Okay, here you go. The next one, Siri sings. Show me the artist that you guys get first. Nice to meet you.

Where you been? I could show you incredible things. Magic, madness, heaven. Taylor Swift. Sin saw you there and I thought oh my god look at that face Quakespace I was doing the Megan got it with a little help from Jono

and finally here we go the last one pissing the night away he drinks a whiskey drink he drinks a vodka drink he drinks a lager drink he drinks a cider drink he sings the songs that remind him. It's quite cutting, isn't it?

Especially when she starts with it. You're like, oh, sorry. I don't know if we're allowed to play that song anymore. I'm not sure. No, all right. That one's just for Winston Peters this morning. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In just a couple of weeks, we're going to be playing 24 hours

of the schoolyard game handball or foursquare, depending on what you called it so we're going to be doing that for 24 hours to raise money for kids can raising funds to feed and clothe

thousands of Kiwi kids who need it across Aotearoa at the moment $350,000 is the goal that they put on for us to try and raise

yeah because there's a whole bunch of schools and students obviously and kids on the waiting list and kids can actually just they can't service them at the

moment they just don't have the the money or the resources so hopefully this 350k will go towards helping some of those waiting it's a yeah it's tough times out there at the moment the cost of living but you know i'm really worried that we won't get to 350 000 because it's a lot it's a lot of money do you know what though whatever you make will be better than nothing. Every dollar counts. We put a figure on it. The goal. This is the goal.

Amazingly, $38,000, almost $39,000 has been raised, which is incredible. It's a good start. We're still over $300,000. We can put it out to businesses. Businesses can get involved. Put a big donation in there.

Kids Can Ball. Kidscanball.org.nz. If you want to donate, you can donate for as little as $10 or you can donate to support a child for a whole year at $360. So get on there now and help me be a little less worried about it. Ben just had a donation come through from an M. Papas of West Auckland. $300,000. Oh, wow.

You are welcome. Thank you. I alleviate your concern. Don't even need to do the handball anymore. I just remortgaged my house. Oh, that's great. Megan, I need to make a public apology to you as well. Do you?

A lot of apologies going on at the moment. Apologies to Princess Kate on behalf of the world. Now an apology to you, Megan. What did you do? Well, on Friday, you had to go away for a pretty intense work meeting. Yeah. And you came back and you looked exhausted and rinsed from that

meeting. A little rattled, understandably so. They don't want to say but I had a wee cry and to your credit, both of you gave me a hug and were very comforting in that moment. And then I... There was moments after that. And then I'm like,

in my head I'm thinking as we're consol. And then I'm like, well, we've got a, in my head, I'm thinking as we're consoling Megan, I'm thinking, we've got a sketch we need to film. And to add another layer of embarrassment too, it was a sketch about us three pretending to be the royal brainstorm room coming up with excuses as to why Kate is not in public. So that's a whole other apology that we need to make. And so then I'm thinking, well, time's running out.

You're quite desperate to film it. I was like, it's going to leave Megan, it's done. But you're like, Megan, could you, I think you could film a sketch. While she was still sobbing. While she was still sobbing, I was like, hey. So I know you're feeling a bit sensitive. Yeah, and you're like, okay, I'll just go to the toilet and powder up. And to your credit, you did it.

You did it. You would have known. You wouldn't have watched that sketch. You would not have known. True pro. I've been doing this for a while now. It doesn't matter what's going on behind the scenes. We're all crying on the inside in this job anyway, aren't we?

So, yeah, it was a bit of a gear change. I apologise for that, Megan. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I mean, of course, a lot, the Jono and Ben podcast. I mean, of course, a lot of great sport on over the weekend. The Warriors had their first win Friday night in Christchurch, which is pretty awesome. And the Crusaders, oh, jeez, not a great start for them.

Lost the first five games. Five losses in a row? Yeah, sports, I know. Very unlike the Crusaders as well. First season without Scott Razor-Robertson. Yeah, they lost a few good players as well too to retirement and going overseas. But yeah, not usually what happens when it comes to rugby in Canterbury. At least Canterbury went feral on Friday night after the Warriors, no doubt. Yeah.

And then also in Canterbury over the weekend, in Littleton Harbour, there was the Sail GP. Now that looked like an incredible event. 22,000 people over the weekend. Dave Dobbin playing. Boats out there on the water. It looked good. But on Saturday, no racing at all because, well, there's dolphins out there in the harbour.

And they reckon it's breeding season for the dolphins. And so if any dolphins were spotted within where they were going to race, they were like, we can't race. And that's what happened on Saturday. No racing at all. What happens if you bought a ticket? I'm not entirely sure what happened. I guess you can enjoy it. Would it get refunded?

You can enjoy the festivities. I mean, they had Jave Dobbin. They had amazing sort of Heineken places and all that sort of stuff as well. But I don't know. It's probably in the T's and C's or something like if there was no racing due to circumstances beyond their control. I mean, don't get me wrong. It's not a great look for a boat sail jeep to mow over a pot of dolphins. No one wants that, right?

But can I just I have just googled how many dolphins there are in the ocean we wouldn't have missed them we wouldn't have missed them but these are hectare dolphins in New Zealand

oh those are endangered how many of them you know six or so there's four million dolphins in the ocean how many hectares yeah

Russell Coutts is the in charge of SailGP at the moment and he wasn't very happy about it, as you would be as the boss of it, saying there was 11 people, apparently,

that were people they had to pay to keep watch of the dolphins. So is he saying that's not enough or something? No, he was saying there was too many people involved. Once it gets handed to an independent thing, they were like, well, they're always going to be cautious about it. But does it matter, Russell, if the dolphins are there? What are you going to do? They live there, mate. So they well, they're always going to be cautious about it. But it doesn't matter, Russell. If the dolphins are there, what are you going to do?

They live there, mate. So they reckon it won't come back to New Zealand now because of it. So yeah. 15,000 hectares. Could we have lost half a dozen? Hmm, who's to say? It's not a great look though, is it? No, but it is kind of a nice look.

It was like a nice advertisement for New Zealand. Perfect conditions, dolphins in the harbour. Like if the dolphins want to race, that's great. We're in their habitat there's not much you can do you can understand

frustration on both sides exactly can't you exactly yeah old Cootsie's like mate especially when it was

perfect sailing condition beautiful day people there what are you going to do there's always going to be dolphins in the ocean they're always going to be in a shoot

he thought they would move away we've done this event multiple times around the world And never once has had anything like this happen Like where a dolphin has been injured They'll move away but obviously As you say you can see both sides of it Hate to say it

Go broke Hate to say it And he literally did Probably had to refund a lot of tickets The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course it is a short week this week with Easter coming up this weekend. But the news over the weekend, a lot to do with Princess Kate and her announcement that she is currently undergoing chemotherapy for cancer.

Well, it was with one press release that the internet and the world felt like the universe's biggest douchebags. Gavin Gray, welcome. Good morning to you guys. What a masterclass in minding our own business, eh? Yeah. Well, look, I have to say at least we weren't the ones

peddling some of these rumours from the get go and we were merely reporting what was being said but there's a bit of a witch hunt here now for those social media users who made such accusations, many of which we didn't repeat because they were just sort of too rude to do so. But yeah, I think it has made everyone think again, as Kate, we now know, is being treated with chemotherapy. We don't know if it's by pill or by drip, and we don't know what the cancer is,

but cancer she has got. It's a good reminder, isn't it? You never know what's going on in someone else's life, no matter how famous they are. They've got some stuff. And she did say, I want some time off until Easter. And we were like, no! Yeah, and the whole world were like,

just say, just release what's going on. And then when she did, everyone feels awful. Yeah, and I think the timing was interesting. I've been thinking about this, and I reckon the timing, which was Friday night or Friday early evening, our time, of her statement was time to coincide with the end of school term. Why does that matter? Well, she didn't want her three children to go to school,

basically have questions from, I don't know, other children, parents meeting at the gate, because Kate and William still dropped their children off and picked them up from school. And I just think they thought, let's get school out of the way and then we'll make this public announcement. We're hearing, incidentally, Kate wrote it. It wasn't approved. It wasn't edited.

It wasn't altered. And then spoke so truthfully to camera. We heard that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reached out as well with a message like that's a big deal considering the brothers haven't been talking at all. What do you know about that? Yeah, I think that is a big deal actually, Meghan, you're quite right. And that is because principally, Harry and William are really not even exchanging cards, let alone, you know, hello, goodbye sort of thing.

And so I think that is a very important point. They've done this. It was a simple message, just wishing Kate all the best. And one tends to forget that prior to Harry's engagement and wedding, Harry, Meghan and William were known as the sort of famous three. They were going around. There were tremendous triple act appearing at various official events. Harry extremely fond of Kate and Kate very fond of Harry as well. So, you know, it's nice to see this going forward. I hope it's being accepted in the spirit of which I think it was meant. What hasn't happened to that family?

Yeah. They have been through everything. It's been a remarkable couple of years. So not only, of course, the loss of the Queen, but then we've had Prince Andrew's disappearance from frontline duty. We've had Harry say, I don't want part of this. Love my family, but I don't want part of being a senior royal and everything that entails. So he's disappeared. And now the king's diagnosis with cancer, having waited 75 years to get onto the throne.

And now Kate's as well. It really has been an astonishing few months. And one in which, I don't know, you barely seem to catch breath and something else has happened. I know that the queen passed away as well. And that's just like a 24-month period in this family's life. You know, there's not factoring in Diana and everything else that's gone on in the past. Tumultuous.

And I feel for William because that's his dad, that's his wife. He doesn't have his brother to lean on and his grandma passed away. Yeah. Yeah, that's a lot to take out. As well, my understanding is, you'll remember that Prince William was due to speak Yeah, that's a got a cancer diagnosis. It had taken that long since the abdominal surgery that she'd had back in January to establish that it was cancerous.

Jeez, and then we're saying he was having an affair. Oh, yeah, the accusations are there. I'll make an apology on behalf of the world to Rose Hanbury, who really was unnecessarily dragged into this whole thing. Indeed, yeah. So this was the woman with whom it was alleged Prince William had had an affair. Some had even alleged there was a child that she gave birth to. Some were even alleging that was Prince William's child,

and that's why we haven't seen Kate. Doesn't that all seem extraordinary? Now, here was somebody dealing with his wife's cancer, with his wife in bed, dealing with the immun, with the chemotherapy. And, you know, I'm afraid, as I said, social media, there are still people out there refusing to apologize, still people out there peddling these mythsruths and some even doubling down on them. Crazy, crazy rumour. Hopefully there's some part of them sitting back,

finding it all somewhat amusing. Oh, I hope so. You'd have to. I wouldn't, but... You'd have to, you'd have to. Well, listen, Gavin Gray, we really do appreciate the weekly, if not daily, updates we've had during this whole rollercoaster. And, yeah, we wish Princess Kate all the best.

Indeed. And who knows what next, but hopefully it'll be better news. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben's great red rabbit hunt. Yeah, the warehouse has got the red rabbit on the loose this Easter. You can actually go in there to the warehouse at the moment. And if you find the red rabbit and saw you can win one of the 50,000 prizes. There's a whole bunch of prizes.

We went into the warehouse last week and did that. I didn't find the Red Rabbit in the lingerie section where I found my friend Ben Boyce sifting around. He's like, I'm pretty sure it's here somewhere. It's the one-stop shop. Games, decorations, and more at the warehouse right now for Easter. And every Sunday we put a picture up of the Red Rabbit outside a store, the warehouse store somewhere around the country if you know the store

on our Hits Breakfast Instagram. You give us a call right now you can get a $500 The Warehouse voucher. Gonna head to Canterbury. Chris is with us on the phone. Do we bring up the Crusaders Chris or we ignore that, smokescreen that? You talk how you like mate. You talk how you like, mate. You talk how you like, but there's consequences, definitely.

The season's not over. You can say whatever you want. Hey, it's a Warriors town now, right? Christchurch, they had a win there. Home team, that's good. Absolutely. First win of the season. Hey, Chris, you went on to the Hitsbreak for socials.

You saw the red rabbit. It was outside a warehouse. The warehouse, sorry. Where was it? Was it at the Newmarket warehouse? It was. a warehouse. The warehouse, sorry. Where was it? Was it at the Newmarket warehouse? It was. Well done. You've got a $500 gift card to spend at the warehouse.

Awesome. That's going to make my Easter very good. Now, you're in Christchurch. Newmarket's in Auckland. How long did you spend investigating online different warehouses? I don't have to do that. I have been there before. You knew the one.

Well done. Au naturel. Have a great Easter. We appreciate you listening to the show. Awesome. Thank you so much. No worries.

Now just this quickly, I just wanted to throw something to you guys. Do you guys have the sides of the bed? Yeah. In terms of where you sleep? Where you sleep.

With your partner. But it's funny, you never really had the discussion when it happens. Well, we never did. We never had that. This will's funny, you never really had the discussion when it happens. Well, we never did. No. We never had that, this will be my side and this will be.

Because Amanda, my wife, was away four nights last week. She went away on school camp. She's a teacher. She doesn't just go hang out on school camp or anything. She had a reason to be there. She's not at school. She's a teacher. But anyway.

Thanks for clarifying, Ben. I don't know if anyone was questioning, but it was good to get that clarification out of you. And then I kind of enjoyed sleeping on the other side when I came back. Do you? Well, the first time I did it because I had the bed to myself. So I was like, hey, this is it. I see what this is great. Easy access to the bathrooms, close to the door, all those things.

I was like, hey. When I came back, I tried to go, hey, could this be my side? But apparently not. No. I don't reckon there's any couple in the history of their sleeping careers who switched sides halfway through the relationship. I tried to switch sides, but no, it wouldn't happen. I don't like it, sleeping on the wrong side, the other side.

I quite liked it. It feels weird. But I never had the choice in the first place. That was the thing. When Andrew and I got together, we were like, oh, we know what it's meant to be because we had opposite sides of the bed. Oh, you navigated naturally. He was like, I'm left.

I was like, I'm right. But you do anyway, right? You navigate naturally. But you're right. Maybe it's a conversation that you do when you're starting out a relationship. Okay, there's something in this, right? Let's spend two nights, one on one side of the bed, one on the other, and then we both have an open conversation about which side we prefer.

Like more. Do you think there's anyone that just switches every night? Do people switch it up? Text 4487 if you're a switcher, a bed switcher. A monster. Tradition has it that the gentleman in their relationship is meant to be sleeping closest to the door. Well, see Amanda's by the door.

I mean, she's probably for the best. She's probably best by the door, actually, to be honest. There's nothing I can do. That's if any unwanted guests come in the bedroom. Santa Claus, kids, they're there to fend them off.

Yeah, Ben in the night is like Amanda I heard a noise Can you get up Definitely I've done that a couple of times Well then maybe you don't want to be Closed by the door then Maybe you're right

Maybe I'll stick to my side of the bed The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Of course it is a short week With Easter coming up this weekend The weather not looking too great At this stage around the country For Easter

Bit of rain Bit cool So not so great. Easter's never a blazer though, is it? No. It's kind of the turning point. But looking forward to it. A few days off and looking forward too to the mascot race,

halftime at the Warriors, Easter Sunday as well. That's happening with the Hittopotamus as well. Over to you, Megan. Some filthy animal's been sliding, slippering and sliding into your DMs again. So, dear Megan, as a segment we do where you can come to us with any issue you want us to put to the listeners. We will all judge you.

Not legal issues, though. We don't... No. No. We have no expertise in that field. You can slide into my DMs or the Hits Breakfast DMs. This is one I'm keen to hear everyone's thoughts on. Hey, guys.

Could I put this story to your listeners for a dear megan yes you can my friend of about 15 years has revealed to me that she's seeing my dad she's come to me now i guess asking for permission now that it's getting semi-serious first of all it was a major shock i had no idea and to be honest i feel a little bit betrayed i don't like the idea of them being Ooh, spicy. Spicy. Wow. So she's being asked For her blessings So she has the option to say no I'm not happy with this

And her friend won't pursue Has she been asked or is she just feeling ick about it She says I guess they're asking for my permission But they have been seeing each other It's just now that it's getting serious So but they're both willing to pull out if it's not Kosher with her I don't know

Maybe they're just hoping that it's going to be kosher with her. Yeah. I'm guessing age-wise, what are we thinking for this? Well, we don't have ages, but it's her dad, so there's an age gap there. Yeah.

Not that that matters. No, but I think with the relationship, what are we guessing? Have they been friends for 15 years? I mean... So it might be 30s, early 30s. Yeah, okay. Let's go with that one

because, yeah, okay. So there's a 30s dad maybe in his 50s, whatever. Yeah, okay. okay well good on her for politely asking her friend i mean i i've been i know when i asked you if i could date jenny boyce your mother uh you had an issue with it and so did my wife as it turns out um and you said no and i you know i accepted that uh but good on her for i guess acknowledging it because that would have been awkward for the friend to have to come to her And even have that conversation Yeah

Because she's known her dad Like she's They've been friends for 15 years So she's known her dad for a long time Yeah When did the dad meet her? But they are all adults Now

Well yeah It is an awkward one But then if it's I guess some people are going to be cool with it and other people might be a bit like. I get what she's saying. She's like, I want to be happy. You want your friend and your dad to find love and be happy,

but does it have to be with each other? I assume the dad has been solo ranger for a while. Yeah, right. There's no mum in the picture. Okay. The only sensible thing to do is for her to go and sleep with her friend's dad. Now, eye for an eye, father for a father. All said and done.

What would you do in this situation? Your best friends come to you and said, hey, I've been dating your dad. Would love your blessings. Obviously, your parents are separated for some time. Oh, no. You're not keen? Nah, I'm not keen. Not initially,

but you go six months, you know, it's like when you start a new job or you start a new company and you're all like worried to begin with and then within a fortnight it's just the norm.

I agree. Like, are they coming to Christmas and like, is she sitting on his lap and bleh. Okay, alright, alright. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

As I mentioned before, big weekend of sport. Over the weekend, the Warriors had their Ben podcast. As I mentioned before, big weekend of sport over the weekend. The Warriors had their first win. The Sail GP went to the second day. All right, the first day the dolphins got involved in the sailing, but hey. The dolphins had a win. Yeah, they did. The Hector dolphins won.

And we did do the numbers on the population, 15,000 Hector dolphins. What would happen if six went missing? Hey, you do the math. Well, that's not what you want. They're in danger. I know. It's not a great look for Sail GP to come in and mow over dolphins. It looks incredible, though, the whole set up there in Lyttelton over the weekend.

It's really close to the action. It looked amazing. It's almost like having a concert and the band doesn't turn up. But everyone has a good time there anyway. In the middle of today's Dear Megan, our DM today. Someone slid into your DMs, Megan. Yeah, so this is, I guess, a young woman. We actually don't have a lot of details, which you can probably understand why

when I tell you it's her friend getting together with her dad. They've been friends for about 15 years, and she's not okay with it. They've been seeing each other for a little bit, and now they're kind of asking for permission, I guess, now that it's getting semi-serious. I don't think anyone would be completely okay with it, right? But then it's, does time normalise things? That's my question.

I mean, initially, no one's going to be cool with that. No. The good thing is, your best friend will be your stepmother. The bad thing is, your best friend's bumping uglies with your dad. I'm grossed out on behalf. Lots of messages on our Facebook page, Megan, and some polarising opinions sometimes. Yeah, yeah.

So Pania has said, that's a hard one, the fact that it's your friend and your dad. They both didn't tell you until now, but being an adult about it and not making it more than it is, I'd find out if they really do have a connection if they want to be together.

Sometimes in life you can't help who you fall in love with. That's true. It is true. Sorry, was there more to this? Yeah, Becky. Sorry. Becky's polar opposite. She said, sorry, that's pretty crap on your dad's part.

Never mind your mate. I'd be pissed. How much time have they been spending together behind your back? Have they been lying to you? How serious is it? So many questions. She's not okay with it. So someone was okay with it. Parnia not okay with it so someone was okay with it party it was okay yeah honey was okay okay yeah um but the whole time you're thinking how long have you thought my dad was hot for i know right you've

got a lot of questions you go you travel back through time don't you we're going to get truly on the phone welcome how are you hello tully how are you good I'm good, thank you. Hey, morning everyone, morning. Morning, lovely to have you on this morning. Tuli, what are your thoughts on this sticky situation? My thing is, I just believe love has no boundaries. I mean, look at how many of us out there are lucky to even find love. If it is love, you know, and it's not just one kind of game that they're playing

or to kick off the daughter or whatever. But it sounds a little bit more serious than that. And look at how many of us, we don't care about the age gap. I mean, what is an age gap? It's nothing. Well, it's probably 16. There's a law that sort of says love does have boundaries, 16 onwards. But you're right, in this situation, they're all adults. You sound like they're in their 30s And 50s

Yeah I mean Like I think the issue is When she was growing up That was her dad And now she's got to Kind of get out of that

And think about Yes that is my dad But I'm not a little girl anymore I can think outside the square now And I can just Let my dad be happy for once. There's nothing better than seeing your parents suffer

or vice versa, seeing their children suffer. It's a hard thing. She's being happy on top of her best friend. Stop, Shona, with the images. You just said before that no one would be cool with that. Well, we've got a couple of people who are cool with that. That's fantastic. Very adult of you, Julie. Appreciate that. Sandy, we've got a couple of people who are cool with that. That's fantastic. Very adult of you, Tuli.

Appreciate that. Sandy, what do you think? You want to chime in? Sandy. Oh, hi. Good morning. Lovely to have you on your commute to work this morning. What do you think?

Is it okay for your best friend to date your dad? No, I think it's weird. I think if they got married, then your best friend is now your step-mum. And also, you've got to think about your mum's feelings as well. We hadn't even thought about that. There's another person here. Yeah, if it wasn't. Yeah, no, that's a good point.

We're infected in a mum or where she is in the equation. So let's wrap things up, Megan. We'd like to give a final bit of advice from all our pieces of advice. I mean, the immature child in me says, oh, gross, that's my dad. And again, she's going to be, you know, potentially step mum and you can't tell me what to do. But I also think everyone deserves happiness. And maybe it won't work out.

Maybe you can let your dad be happy for now. Have a conversation about your boundaries. I don't want to see you doing stuff in front of me. And maybe you can, like you say, Jono, normalize it after a while. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yes. We want you to be the hit of Padmas. Jono and Ben's mascot race.

Great win by the Warriors, their first win over the weekend. It was an ugly win, but they got the win, and it was good to see people of Christchurch having a winning team to cheer on for a change. Now, Christchurch, I know that cuts deep. It cuts deep. But you've had a good run. You've had a good run with the Crusaders.

I'm just jealous. I'm just jealous. The Crusaders have been so good for so many years. But the Warriors had their win, and on Sunday, the Warriors play again. Go Media Stadium, Mount Smart. And at halftime, we're doing our mascot race. About 20 mascots.

We did this last year. And we've got the Hittopotamus, the Hits Hippo, racing again. And we thought, well, let's put someone inside the Hippo to race. One of you listening right now. The Hittopotamus has done zero training in the preseason. No. Don't know what the opposite of match fit is, but that's what the Hittopotamus is going to be.

And Sam, up the wars to you Hippopotamus is going to be. And Sam, up the wars to you my friend. Kia ora guys, up the wars. Lovely to have you on Sammy. You want to put your name forward to put your sweet caboose inside the Hippopotamus. Oh mate, I'd absolutely love to. Absolutely love to. So you're obviously a fan of the Warriors?

I am. I've been a fan since the 4th of November 1999 actually. Oh, specific to that. Is that when

you were born? Yes. I was going to say, yeah, because it started in 95,

the Warriors. That's the reasoning behind that. What's your running credentials like? What do you like

running-wise? Well, I'll tell you what, I've been described as having the running style of a hippo. I that might help to be honest um like you guys mentioned before absolutely no pre-season training but if this is my excuse to get back into running then that could be a good reason yeah it could be a turning point in your fitness journey and a great story too for you

to tell your grandkids that you were once in a comical hippopotamus costume racing half-time at the Warriors, and there's no way you can prove it either, that it is you inside the costume. Yeah. Exactly, exactly. Oh, I've seen them photo me blowing a hammy in the 20-metre line or something like that.

Now, Sam, I know this is radio, and I'm going to ask you to do something quite visual now. I don't know where you are located, but could we get you running 100 metres now, and we'll just run the timer on you. Keep the phone close to your mouth. This is a real honesty system, isn't it? Yeah, and you just yell stop when you're done and we'll see how fast you do the 100 metres in, okay?

Perfect, perfect. Okay, give me one second to get set up. Okay, he's heading outside. Okay, you ready? On your marks, get set, go. Okay, this is probably just going as well as I thought it was going to be. Not a panting as well. Marks, get set, go. Okay. This is probably just going as well as I thought it was going to be. Not a panting as well.

How does he know when 100 metres is up? Well, true. Stop. He said stop. Stop. Stop. Yeah, I was. 8.5 seconds.

New world record. Unofficial yet. We'll get it verified. But there we go. He just standing there going. I would love the Trust Olympics where they had the Olympics and everyone was like yep did it Did you lift 500kgs?

He's like yep we'll take your word for it They talked about doing it over Zoom didn't they when COVID was on so it would be a little bit like that Alright well Sam you're one of our finalists to see if you can get inside the mascot costume this weekend I took her an Uber over the weekend and I was sitting in the front seat.

Wait, is that weird? What? You sit in the back. Was it full? Was it full? Or did you just get in the front seat? No, I just got in the front seat. Was it just you?

Oh, that's weird. You got in the front seat. You're a monster. Yeah, that is so weird. The driver's like, oh. Oh, God. Can you not? And I bet you were like Hey man How's your day going

I would never sit If I'm the only one in the car Absolutely not Because it's kind of there They're always a bit Put off by that too If you Everyone's full

Is that the So solo The protocol is I would say so But hey I might be wrong That's weird Even producing graces Like things

Yeah that's odd That really threw the team I'm sorry That was unintentional If it's full in the back seat, the family are all in the back, and Amanda, I'll get in the front. Yeah, only if it's full. I feel it's a bit more.

Do you yarn away to them too? Yeah, of course you do. Oh, yeah. God. Most of the time they'll be like, they just want the time out. Well, it seems I broke protocol on the first instance, sitting in the front seat. But then about 10 minutes into the trip,

I could slowly feel my buttocks being massaged. And I was thinking, you know when you have to eliminate things in your head, you're like, I'm pretty sure I'm not on hallucinogenics. And I'm like, what else could this be? You don't want to say anything out loud. But then slowly the massage went up the bottom to the lower back. And then I was like, this feels like this car's coming on to me right now. And at some point I had to say, is your car massaging me to the driver?

And he said, oh, yeah, sorry. Someone must have left. There's a massage function. I was like, did you sit on a cat or something? What a world we live in when the car massages you. Was this like a Tesla or something? Yeah. Was it?

Yeah, they're next level Teslas. Wow. Yeah. You can kind of see after that massage, I can see how those weird guys end up marrying their cars. You know, those documentaries you see? If that's what they're doing. Wow.

Yeah. Our friend Jess, she's got a Tesla. Do you know what it does? Farts. Yeah. Yeah. Have. Our friend Jess, she's got a Tesla. Do you know what it does? Farts. Yeah, have a listen. Yeah, it does. This is my friend Jessica, and she has a Tesla. And you've just discovered a function.

What is it? It's a fart function. So fart mode. So from your cell phone, you can control your car when you're not here. And what does it do? And you make it fart. What is the point of that? I have no idea.

Is your car doing that. You know, Elon Musk. I know. He's a weird man. Smart people came up with that. Oh, my God. And they're like, I went to university to become an aerospace engineer.

Now I've spent 12 months designing a fart for a Tesla. He's a genius, but he's still just a dude. We saw one do an orchestra. Remember? That's Tesla. He's a genius, but he's still just a dude. We saw one do an orchestra, remember? That's right. And the doors open and the close, and it does a dance part. Have you ever walked too close to one, and it tells you that you're being recorded?

No. Because it's like, just in case you do damage to the car, it's like, you are being recorded. I'm like, ah, shut up. What a world we live in. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now we had Scott Sylvan with us last week. He's a mentalist.

He does sort of illusions and magic tricks with your mind. He was incredible and we all went along to the show over the weekend but Megan, you got brought up on stage.

Yeah, that's how blown away we all were. We all went and he does parts in the show when he gets audience participation. I put my hand up being like, I'm not going to get chosen. Oh dear God. Yeah, I went to the show and I was like, well clearly it show when he gets audience participation. I put my hand up being like, I'm not going to get children.

Oh, dear God. Yeah, I went to the show. I was like, well, clearly it's going to involve audience participation. But then I spent the whole time going, please don't make me participate. You know, you're sinking to your seat. Are you a hands up showbiz person? Yeah, I was. And he was looking for a couple.

So he brought up Andrew and I on stage. The cutest couple around, you and Andrew. I know. Sickeningly cute. I'll tell you in a moment how we actually made everyone go, oh. But this has blown my mind because he asked me to write down a list of things, thinking of a moment that involved me and Andrew. So I thought about France, Paris, up the Eiffel Tower.

He made you pick a season, and it was in winter. And the moment was we had a smooch up the Eiffel Tower and he managed to pick every part of that. Sorry. I did write it down on a piece of paper but I had it very close in front of me. So he got all that stuff?

Yeah, I wrote it down and then I sat on it. So there was no way that he would see it. No way. Unless there's a camera under the seat. But I had it so close and maybe i'd put a camera under the seat just for a laugh so and i sat on it and then he managed to pick it was paris it was in winter we were at the eiffel tower it was incredible yeah we all went along over the weekend at different times and it was really really impressive to see just what he could what how he i don't know how he did it, but it was some amazing things. The thing that, yeah,

because he did that one with you the other day, Ben, when he was in the studio, where he gave you a Harry Potter book. He just said, pick any word out of this 800-page book. And he guessed what word you'd pick. And I screwed it up the first time. I'm a shaky pair of hands. So he said, like, change your word.

I was like, okay, so I found another one. And then he picked that? He picked that one. Because he did the trick to Poppy, my daughter, at the and he picked the word and he picked the word but then it was the same word the next show very confusing well obviously it's not it's not mind magic you know there's an illusion to it and obviously he's very good with his mind you know like memory and all sorts of stuff has got to play into it and being being the person that was picked, I can tell you, I had nothing to do with it.

Everyone after the show. Everyone after the show was asking me, being like, were you a plant? Yeah, are you more into it now because you were one of these people? Yeah. You know? And I know that I couldn't have been manipulated. Not that I knew of.

You know when you see those montages of people on the street and they're getting magicked, you know, on the street, and they're like, oh! Yeah. That was pretty weird. That's us. That was us. That was us last week

now the bit that made me go from the story was Andrew what uh so when I came off the stage Andrew was actually waiting down the front and like helped me down the stairs held my hand