Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: A Cockroach Went Where....?!!

Episode Date: September 6, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast we chat about horror stories involving cockroaches in mouths, what is the biggest age gap?? and Megan Papas is back with What To Watch!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome to the podcast. 7th of September, Benjamin Boyce, a good friend and colleague, also joined by Joel Harrison, a good friend and producer. I don't know if we're good friends after today. Joel's been working hard behind the scenes, mate. Are you stressed, Joel? We've made him hate radio today.

He's stressed enough. No dramas, man, seriously. He came into this industry He studied it He's like This is what I want to do And today was the day We made him hate radio We broke him

There was a lot of stuff going on We do that to a lot of people Love it No dramas Behind the scenes It was a lot Because you're Logistically it was just difficult

You're in Tauranga I'm in Auckland Here in the studio We're trying to get things connected You couldn't hear stuff Things People couldn't hear There was a lot going on

And poor Joel's Having to deal with it all You wouldn't hear stuff. Things were, oh, it was, there was a lot going on and poor Joel's having to deal with it all. You wouldn't tell Front, you wouldn't tell Front to shop though, would you? Seamless production. There's a couple of times we had a few seconds of dead air, but hey,

hey. You wouldn't have told, you wouldn't have known though, would you, John, in your hotel room, not listening to a broadcast out, but hey.

I didn't know. No, no. To me, it sounded like a seamless production. Yeah. Well, hey,

you know, like the podcast is all seamless. Yes. We'll go back in Pro Tools, make the podcast sound completely seamless and no dramas. Good on you guys. Now, Joel, you did say you posed a question to the office yesterday that you'd like to throw out to us for the podcast intro. I did, yeah. It was actually a bit of a throwaway question in the office and it turned into about a 30-minute roundtable discussion and a lot of mixed opinions, mixed thoughts.

So I pretty much had this in a few days ago. I was talking to my girlfriend and we were talking about potential ideas for dates, like rather than just going out and having dinner or having drinks, like something making it a little bit more interesting. And we saw someone that said, like a painting class for couples,

you have a few wines, you go there and you're painting. But the thing is, the whole schmuzzle, the sting, is that you're painting a naked man. And I was like, oh, I didn't really think too much about it. And then I kind of came. So it's a life drawing class that you do all your life. Yeah, a life drawing class. And then I came in and I asked,

there was four girls in the office, all under 25 as well. And I said, how would you feel if your partner said, let's go and do, they're all in straight relationships as well. So their boyfriend said, hey, how would you feel if we went and did a live painting class

with a female, a naked female there? And they all instantly pretty much said no, like no chance I'd go, no chance I'd go. No chance I'd feel happy with them going with their friends as well. Is it a first date? Not a first date, no. That's because I know it was a first date. It'd be a bit interesting.

Okay, but you know, I mean. Yeah, what do you guys think about that? I would love to go along, but then you're like, I'm not a good drawer, so I'd be worried more about my art skills than any issues about a naked man being there and Jen maybe ogling. Because she's got this to look at every day,

so she's not going to ogle that. I mean, obviously everyone's comfortable. The person's obviously happy to ogle that. I mean, obviously, everyone's comfortable. Like, the person's obviously happy to be there that's getting painted, or everyone else is happy to be there. But I would always feel like, you know, look, what's the heading like for this person in the room? You know, like, is the heading cranked up?

You know, is this person... I don't know. I would probably feel a little self-conscious for the person out there, even though that they were keen to... Like, I wouldn't have a problem going along with my wife, but I'd probably in my head go, is this guy okay?

Is he all right? Am I looking in the right regions? Am I doing this artistically? Am I giving, you know, am I helping him out? The problem is when someone's on display, you can't help but just look at it. And that's the point too. You're looking, you're staring in detail to draw in detail. Every pubic hair you were drawing.

Yeah. I think that'd be kind of a fun thing to do as a couple though. Yeah. What about a team bonding experience for the four of us here on the Jono and Ben show? What happens if we were like hey we're going to do this thing and then we popped up and then it was like oh it's Jono. And we didn't

know that Jono was doing it. That was one of his things that he did each day. Side hustle. Side hustle. He's like I'm making bank off being a life drawing. Why am I doing it each day? I'm out there working hard. Oh, you make a lot of money on the side. You're like, mate, we've got to get him.

He's our best one. Well, I'm out here. We've got to get him back. You know, I always look at the wonderful Michelangelo sculpture of David. And David's not in his best form. You know, have you seen that Google David? Well, maybe it was. I mean, who knows?

But anything, that's what I was like. I was like, help the guy out. You know? Just add a couple of inches. You know? Yeah. Look at it. Poor David.

Like, the air con must have been on when Michelangelo was sculpting David like cold not on the warm temperature but yeah and now don't worry no one's going to see this mate it's not going to be around for long

it's just I'm sitting open about what I'm doing yeah that's right don't worry it's been what it's been picked up and it's still

oh it's still around today like I'm looking at David and you can tell he's not that confident in his eyes yeah well there we go I don't know if we've answered your question it's still around today like i'm looking at david and you can tell he's he's not that confident in his eyes yeah well there we go i don't know if we've answered your question uh today joel i i think i'm look uh i don't know we probably wouldn't go as a team i think that that's probably

the thing i said i said i said how about maybe we do it as like a whole the hits team building experience and um that was shut down pretty quick oh yeah so maybe yeah well that's a nice state idea you guys you guys go as a couple and then report back on your way. Yeah, or feedback. Yeah. Yeah, hopefully it's not too confronting. Enjoy the podcast today. And we're back all together in the studio tomorrow,

so Joel can hate radio a little less tomorrow. Enjoy the podcast. Mmm, coffee breath. Jono and Ben on the hits. Cold snap again hitting the country this morning. Zero degrees temperatures around many of the regions, so take care out there on the roads. Snow yesterday in Christchurch and a little bit in Wellington as well.

Gee whiz, so much white powder out there. More white powder than trying to get through at the ports here in Tauranga, Ben Boyce. Now, it was freezing yesterday, as you just mentioned, and we did a wonderful show walk up Mount Monganui, didn't we? It was beautiful. Yeah, lovely, wasn't it? But it was icy cold, and I was walking along the beach to meet you, and I saw these three lovely ladies in power suits at the beach,

and next to them was a book stand. And it said, free books. And I'm like, well, they know my weak spot. They know my weak spot. Well, you don't read. I love free books. You don't read, though. You've always said that The Witches by Roald Dahl

was the last book. Yeah. You proudly claimed that for some reason. I don't know why. Well, maybe this was a sign that I should get back into reading free books. And they welcomed me in with open arms. Their friendly, welcoming demeanour lured me in. And then as I got closer and I picked up one of the books, the title of the book was,

Why You Should Convert to Jehovah's Witness. And I was like, Jesus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, sure. Now, you love a chat, though. You love a chat. And you know, you're often Catholic. You always talk about, you know, so this is in your wheelhouse. Yeah. I love engaging in conversation with complete strangers. They saw me coming a mile away. Next thing you know, they're like, hey, have you thought about coming over? And I'm like, I've already signed up with another team, mate. I'm with the Cathos. And then the conversation kind of stopped there. Now, Ben, I don't know how you

would get out of this conversation because you you're a free agent. I'm on the open market. Yeah, like, hey. I mean, the only way you could get out is go, oh, I'm a practicing Satanist or something. that could be the conversation but you know, alarm bells should have

been ringing when I saw power suits at the beach no one wears a power suit to the beach so yeah so how long were you chatting to them for you think? it was about 10 or 15 minutes yeah and the whole time you're not listening to anything they're saying, you're just thinking how can I get out of this conversation

I was certainly not engaged but anything they're saying. You're just thinking, how can I get out of this conversation? I was certainly not engaged. But, hey, they were lovely. And when you dropped me back to my car, I said, oh, those are the ladies. And didn't they look, just a very warm demeanour. They did. I don't know who they're trying to turn at the beach, though. What sort of rays are the plugs emitting?

I'm nervous. Now I take photos of the handbrake on in my car. Don't even get me started on whether I left the iron on or not. I turn my phone off at night. I just don't know what it's doing.

It makes me nervous. Yeah, but what if we run out of hand sanitizer? I'm nervous. So nervous. I'm nervous. Now I'm also nervous that, yeah,

Shawn Mendes, he didn't want any part of this and now is he going to start being part of this intro? Yeah. He's more nervous than me at a Shawn Mendes, he didn't want any part of this, and now is he going to start being part of this intro? Yeah, he's more nervous than me at a hair growing competition, this guy. Every day there's something alarming him, and we've just, we could do this

segment every hour of every day if we wanted to, but we've just confined it to once a week then where you can unload like a therapy session. Yeah, now, this is actually something, not something I'm nervous about, it's something that I do to appear less nervous and I'm not the only one that does it.

I saw a meme the other day and it was very, like it spoke to me. This meme spoke to me literally. It said when I say no stress if you can't, when someone's texting or emailing, I don't mean it. In fact, there's more stress if you can't do this thing, you know.

And I was like, I do this all the time. I write, no stress, no worries, no dramas, all good if not. I do this. I write this on texts and emails all the time. And this meme is like, I don't mean this at all. In fact, there's more stress to me if, you know, if this thing doesn't happen. Yeah, I know.

When you're like, no drama, you're like, it's going to be a complete drama if you can't do what I'm asking of you. Yes, but I do it to appear less nervous. I'm like, no dramas. I'm casual. I'm cool, but I'm not. All good if not. My wife's like, why did you write

all good if not? It's not all good. Because it's not all good. No, exactly. I don't know. I try to appear like I'm calm and casual, but I if not. It's not all good. Because it's not all good. No, exactly. I don't know. I try to appear like I'm calm and casual, but I'm not. I do the same thing. Oh, no, good. No, it's all chill.

It's all chill, bro. If you can't do this really important thing that I'm asking you of, please chill, man. No stress, baby. It's funny that answer. No stress. No worries, no dramas.

And there's a lot of dramas, you know. I have a lot of dramas. So, yeah. The thing I like about you, if you've sent an email, a 10-page email, and then at the end you're like, but no stress if you can't do it. Yeah. The other one is front footing.

This might be a crap idea. I do that as well. But blah, blah, blah. Just hoping that you guys, you know, I'm really behind this idea. I like it a lot, but I've just given it a little bit of an out in case you guys are like,

oh, that's bad. I'm like, yeah, I knew it was bad. I knew it was bad. That's why I sent it at the top of the email, mate. This might be a terrible idea. But no stress if it is

a good, bad idea. No worries. No drama. All good if not. Mmm. Coffee breath. Jono and Ben on the hits.

I would love a really raw, honest radio show where if things were falling apart in the host's life, you'd hear them be like, yes, I'm sleeping out of my car at the moment, guys. Not good, not good. Just trying to make it through each day. That would be the bleakest, yet most entertaining radio show ever, Ben. Well, we've been wanting to know this week what has happened

and the amusing things that have happened in a hotel room or someone doing a radio show on the hits breakfast early in the morning next door. I mean, maybe that happened to you. Or maybe that's happened to you this morning. 4487. I had a friend, I forgot to mention this to you yesterday. He fell asleep. So he started the bath and he had a long day of work,

lay on the bed waiting for the bath to fill up, fell asleep, flooded the entire floor. Like water was coming through the ceiling, like it was raining in people's bedrooms. His work insurance had to cover it all. Wow. Lisa, yesterday, she also had the whole hotel evacuated when she was smoking in the bathroom. So I decided to have a little smoke in the bathroom of the toilet. And so I went into the bathroom, put a towel against the door,

and I decided to blow the smoke up the extractor fan in the bathroom. Oh, yeah, I guess that makes sense. I can see what your thought process was, yeah. Totally, totally. I was on the ground thought process was, yeah. Totally, totally. I was on the ground floor of like a 10-storey hotel. It was a big hotel. So I did that, sort of finished what I was doing, had enough, put it away, went back out and sat down on the bed and the fire alarm went off.

And the whole hotel had to evacuate. And it was all thanks to someone else, I'm hoping? I ran away for the night. I didn't come back to the hotel the next morning. All my stuff was there. I hadn't been asked to leave. I wasn't kicked out. So I feel like I got away with it.

And did you come back the next morning and go, what's going on here? Total innocence. Just complete like, what happened? What's going on? So good. That's what happened to Lisa at a hotel on 0800 The Hits. We want to know what happened to you.

Casey, welcome. Hi. Good to have you on the showcase. On the case. On the case. With Casey. What happened in the hotel, Casey? It was quite a few years ago,

and I had a pretty big night out in Queenstown, and, yeah, I went back to the hotel pretty early in the morning and got for the half-arm dress. I'd taken everything off the top and then needed to pee, so went through the door with my eyes half shut, thinking I was going into the bathroom, and then the door shut behind me, and I'm standing in the hallway of the hotel.

Oh, no. So you've got no top on? No top, nothing. Nothing? Nothing. Just what do you do in that situation? Well, fortunately, I had, like, a 24-hour reception. So I kind of covered myself with my hands

and kind of like scuttled along the hallway, you know, hiding behind the corners and things, making sure no one was around. I had to go down the spiral staircase to get to reception. And I walked up to the receptionist and I was just like, hey, I've locked my keys in my room. And she went to get me another key. And then I'm like, can I please have a towel

to cover myself up? And so I got back to my room, obviously went to sleep, woke up in the morning and thought, jeez, that was a bad dream. What happened last night? Looked over on the bedside table

and there were two sets of keys. So it wasn't a dream and it was highly embarrassing. Oh, mate, and the good thing is, too, I would always think in those moments, I'm like, well, this is all being captured on CCTV, and this is going to be emailed around the staff.

Yeah. I think there wasn't as much social media back then, so I think I was saved, but I was waiting for it to pop up somewhere. That is incredible. I'm sure it happens all the time. Didn't it happen to your friend Chris? Yeah, I think it did.

Same sort of situation. In the middle of the night, walks straight out, and it happens all the time. Didn't it happen to your friend Chris? Yeah, I think it did. Same sort of situation. In the middle of the night, walks straight out and thought it was the bathroom. Wasn't the bathroom and had to go downstairs. Same thing, fully naked. Sometimes they have, you know,

conveniently placed pot plants and things you can put in front of. Bits and pieces. You were good on your... Thank you so much for your call, Casey. Have a great day. No, thanks, mate. I've just checked. I've just checked.

I've just checked, guys. He's 10 centimetres dilated and ready to give birth to another news bulletin. Ben Boyce, push, push. That's the weirdest intro we've ever had. Now, Adele, is she secretly married? Now, she's with sports agent Rich Paul. They're in a relationship. But fans think Adele and Rich Paul might have got married.

There's a sneaky detail in the background of her latest Instagram post. Now, she won an Emmy the other night for her one-night-only concert. Remember that amazing concert she did up at the Griffith Observatory in LA? Well, she won an Emmy. Oprah was there. Seth Rogen was there. Remember Seth Rogen went along and he just thought it was a small little concert and he got very high

beforehand and he was sitting front row and he didn't realise Oprah was going to be there and he said it was quite a lot to take in. I can't imagine. But she's posted a photo of her Emmy and on the coffee table behind is a set of dominoes like a game like a board game situation and it's

got the Pauls written on it. And everyone's like, oh, the Pauls, Rich Paul, are they married, are they the Pauls? But then there's a few other people from the punctuation police have weighed in saying, well, it shouldn't have an apostrophe if it is the Pauls relating to the two of them. I vaguely know how apostrophes work, but apparently it shouldn't have an apostrophe if they are married.

Yeah, well, Jesus, we need to pull ourselves out of this hole, guys. We have gone in deep analysing a Pictionary board in the background of a photo. This is, I think, when you say the Paul's house. So they have ownership over that house.

So you're talking about an object or an item they own, I believe. And he's always rich, Paul. You know, that's his, it could have been his thing he brought from his family into the relationship. It's not saying it's there. Anyway, I'm sure they'll come out and tell us rather than just a subtle little Domino's, you know, sort of thing in the background.

Oh, sorry, Domino's, not Pictionary. Maybe it's the thing, you know, when you do get into a new relationship, you like to claim ownership over the items you did bring. And so he's like, you know, these Domino's, they're mine. There's a reminder. He's probably got his name on the fridge. You know, she's got her name written on the bedside table.

Yeah, he knows if they break up, she'll probably write an album about him. It'll be a big hit, big album, you know. But he'll get his Domino's back, and that's the way it'll work. Now, she's doing her Las Vegas shows again, isn't she? Yeah, those are the ones that have been cancelled, well, cancelled at the last minute, so she's going to put those on at some stage, which is good to see.

And I also need to quickly mention this. Now, a blunder by a government worker. Now, remember during lockdown, there was a couple of ladies from Northland, well, basically got into Northland, they put Northland into an 11 day lockdown and it's now been discovered. The prostitutes.

This is the thing. The whole country owes these people an apology because under the Official Information Act, all this information has come out and the women were blamed for giving false information. They didn't do that. This is not true. They were also, even Chris Hipkins came out and said they gave false information. That was

not true. It's now been, they were approved to go there. It was a mistake to approve them, but it wasn't their fault. They had no links to gangs. They had no links to being sex workers. All those things that were talked about in the media were all not true. There was no deception from the people.

There was no offence or anything that they did. And so you feel really sorry that these people had to go through this whole thing when all this was all based on a blunder from getting approval. They shouldn't have been given approval, but they had their right paperwork. Isn't that crazy? Why wouldn't they just come out at the time and go, let's knock off a few things. A, we're not sex workers.

B, we've got paperwork. Why wouldn't you come out and say that? Paul, do you want your name everywhere, though? Do you want your name all over the country? I do, personally. I do. I love it. Because what if it's people don't hear?

You know, having your name all out over that puts more attention on yourself. So I feel really, really sorry for these people that have come out like that. And just another wild thing that happened during lockdown that we look back on and regret as a country. Do you remember the Wanaka Cup? Oh, yeah. Yeah, there we go. Another thing we got wound up about.

And that's what's making news this morning on the Hits. We apologise in advance. Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry you got roped into this. Jono and Ben. Sorry. On the Hits. I've got cold legs. this. Jono and Ben. Sorry. On the hits.

I've got cold legs. Very cold legs this morning. How are your legs? Not too bad. Not too bad. Chilly. Chilly out there, baby. Now, Ben, I have been hiding a secret shame over the last two weeks.

And it's probably the worst possible thing anyone could do in 2022. I've had a cough. Oh, everyone knows about that. yeah. Everyone knows about that. Yeah. Everyone knows about it. You haven't really been hiding it particularly well, to be honest. But you have been testing yourself. So that's everyone's, yeah.

I know. But the thing is, I know I'm negative. I know it's just some sort of seasonal cough. But people that I come into contact, they don't know this. They don't know this. They don't know this. And so I was in the mall yesterday in Tauranga, Ben, and I couldn't suppress the cough any longer. Like I wandered around in public just trying to keep it contained.

And every now and then it just has to come out. It has to come out. And nothing clears a room quicker than a cough. Well, yeah, you're right. You probably should be home, to be honest, even if you haven't got COVID. You probably should be, you know. Have we not learnt anything from this pandemic? Yeah, I've learnt to just get back into life now.

Well. That's what I took away from it all. Well, I think you're right. A lot of people want to be like that now. Well, that's what I'm doing. I'm being honest. You know, you're the same. You know, we're all the same.

Everyone's like, yeah, I've spent enough time at home over the last two years. If it means going out and coughing and clearing a room every now and then. Oh, jeez. But no, I do try and keep it contained. And when I do it, I've, you know, I've got a mask on or I put my mouth under my jersey as well, which makes you appear more COVID-y though.

Yeah, yeah, you're right. Yeah, sneezing, coughing, all those sorts of things in 2022. Well, maybe not 2022. 2020-21 was a bad year for sneezing and coughing. 2022. You would just look like you'd committed the worst crime. Remember in the office when people say coming back in the office, if one person coughed, get out of here.

Get out. You're sacked. You're fired. Yeah, I know. Wild times. We've talked about it a lot this morning. We've got to look back on this. We're already starting to look back on these times and going, oh my god. Oh my god. But anyway. So basically the theme of this

was if you like your personal space, you don't like people crowding around you, just go cough. You don't actually have to have a cough, but you can just mimic it. And I tell you what, people keep this safe social distance all right. Look out! Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park.

It's these guys. Jono and Ben on the hits. But we're talking a wee bit about insects on the show this week. If you missed it the other day, we spoke to nine-year-old Barnaby from Christchurch. He's adorable. He's been all around the world on the news in New Zealand. CNN talking about discovering a one- one metre long worm in his backyard. And we asked Barnaby what it was like. What's the worm like that's over a metre long? Well, it was

big and long, of course, and kind of freaky because I'd never seen a worm so large. you know. I was like, what? Because, like, I didn't know if it was a normal worm or something different or, like, not a worm. It looks like a snake, but it's a worm that would look like a snake. It's incredible.

Have you been putting sneaky anabolic steroids into your soil? Like, how has this thing got so big? It's the Dwayne the Rock Johnson of worms. Yeah, it's incredible. We'll put a picture on the hits breakfast on Instagram. Bugs, insects, not my thing, Jono. Not my thing. No, not your thing.

Yesterday we had a really funny moment. We were walking up the top of Mount Maunganui, and I took us off the beaten track. Yeah, the whole walk. The whole walk around that lovely region. Because I hadn't really been there before. We were down there for the Ames Games, and we're walking along by the beach, walking around there.

You're like, I thought, this is beautiful. It's nice. You're like, oh, yeah, been here before, done it before, run up here, done this. I'm like, oh, he knows what he's doing. He knows where he's going. And so I was just following you, and you led us in all sorts of random directions. You're like, there's the track. I was like, pretty sure it's not the track.

Anyway, we went bush. We went bush. Ben went full Bear Grylls. He needed to get the fluids up, and I provided those for him. But you walked in face first to a spider web. Yeah. You couldn't have been more uncomfortable about the whole situation. Oh, yeah, because I found a spider, like one, yeah,

a spider crawling down by my neck after that. And then you're like, was there more? Is there more spiders? Yeah, all the rest of the day, I was like, just like, oh, there's spiders on me. There's spiders on me. It's all because I followed you. That's the thing.

Well, you followed me into my web of lies, the actual spider web. I didn't know where I was going. I'll be open and transparent about it now. I didn't know where I was going. I'll be open and transparent about it now. I pretended I knew where I was going. But you never like, it's so sticky. Like how do they get it so sticky? What is it the spiders are making? You feel violated once it's hit your face.

I don't know. I don't know. But all I could think of yesterday was get this off me. And even when it was off me, I still felt like it was on me. Like Spider-Man when he's going around out of his hands. He's creating a right royal mess around the city. Yeah, you're right. To clean that up afterwards, what are they doing with that?

It's not putting it in your recycling bin. It's going in the general waste. It's not great. Well, your face felt what it's like to be a fly for a brief moment. This is what we want to open up this morning, the bugbear line. Yeah, no, I've got bugbear with you, literal bugbear with you, because you walked me into a spider web. But we want to know what was your bug encounter.

Did your mate walk you into a spider web? Did you find a metre-long worm in your backyard? What was your bug encounter? We'd love to hear from you this morning, and we'll find some hell pizza for you on 0800 The Hits, the best calls and texts on the bugbear line. We apologise in advance.

Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that. Sorry you got roped into this. Johnno and Ben. Sorry. On The Hits. We're opening up the bugbear line this morning. Your encounter with bugs like the boy in Christchurch, Barnaby, nine years old, who found a one metre long worm. I mean, that's pretty impressive.

And a cute eyewitness account. You wouldn't get a cuter eyewitness account of the one metre worm, would you? No, you're right. That's adorable. The Bugbear line is open. Let's get to the phones on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. First up, we're going to go to, who do you want to go to

first up? Ben, I'm not with you this morning. I feel naked. Should we go to Amanda this morning? Yeah, let's get Amanda on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Amanda, how are you? Hi, I'm good, thanks. How are you? Oh, so much, you know, honestly, so much better for talking to you, Amanda. It was a miserable

morning up until this moment. Mate, what's your bug beer? Oh, well, cockroaches, I absolutely hate them. I was lying in bed one morning and I felt something tickle on my leg. Thought it was hubby, you know, coming over for a bit of a morning hello. A hanky-panky? Yeah. He was in my eyes and he's still out to it. Whipped the blankie

back and there's a cockroach climbing up my inner thigh. Jumped out of bed so quick, stripped fricking naked and hubby wakes up laughing thinking did the cat bring you a present? Jeez, you've got a wild house with the cockroaches and the hubby, the cat, it's all going on. Oh no, the cat's always bringing me unwanted

gifts. That's the thing, the cats, the cats, they do bring a lot, but you never want any of the gifts that they give you, right? Definitely not. And so what happened with the hanky-panky in the end? No, the cockroach ruined it. Yeah, no, killed the moment. The cockroach probably got more hanky-panky than anyone else that morning.

I appreciate your call, Amanda, so good. I will send you out some hell pizza now, delivering beer and wine. You have a great day. You're welcome. Thank you. I think we got it. The only fact I know about cockroaches

is they can live without their head for a week. Really? An entire week, because they've got like an open circulatory system. And that's how they can survive, mate, without their head. Oh my goodness. We've got Andrea on 100 of the Hits.

I don't know why we're doing this. I don't know why we're opening up the bugbear line. But, Andrea, what's your bugbear? What's your bug story? Oh, wow. So, hi, guys. How are you? We're doing all right.

How are you? I was doing well. You know, I said I was doing well, and then I was better after talking to Amanda. Andrea, you've doubled it, mate. Well, I was just asked to sleep in bed and I must have been snoring on my back with my mouth open. And anyway, you know, you've got that bit of a reflex of something sort of in your mouth. I don't know how it went down.

I must have either just closed my mouth with something there feeling and next minute woke up to the most disgusting trickle of stuff going down the back of my throat. Oh, no. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. About something in there. Turned the light on. Oh, no.

Looked it out and here's half a big black cockroach with a spear in it. Oh, Andrew. Oh, Andrea. John, you said you were feeling better before talking to Andrea. Now I'm feeling worse. This is, oh. Where's the liquid? Oh, don't ask that. Oh, God, I don't know.

It must be white gooey. Oh. So what did you do? Did you pull it out, obviously? Yeah, and just, oh, I just felt sick. Oh, so what did you do? Did you pull it out, obviously? Yeah, and just, oh, I just felt sick. Oh, my God. It's making me sick listening to this. Oh, Andrew, do you know what?

You really do need to think. When you're asleep, there must be all sorts of stuff crawling over you. No, it's not my only experience I've had with a creepy crawly. Another time, this was over in the hearth when I was a kid. Do I want to hear this story, Andrea? Do I want to hear this story? This one didn't get on my body. Okay, this is worrying me. But I woke up and turned my head,

and right on the pillow was, I'm not sure what they're called. It's not those big weka beetles, but it was one of those, I think they're still called a weka or something like that. They look like they've come back from the dinosaur age. You know, those horrible

big things with the sitting right on my pillow. The cockroach one was the most disgusting. Well, Andrea, a cockroach in the mouth with some suspicious liquid dribbling down his neck. We're wrapping this up right now.

We'll bring you some happier stories very shortly. Baldly going where no show has gone before. How long is it going to take for Ben to make fun of my bald head? Jono and Ben on the hits. Wednesday morning, you've got Jono and Ben on the hits and joined from the 3 p.m. pickup is Megan Puppers. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

Megan, you were just saying off air, this is the first time words have come out of your mouth today. Yeah, I realize I haven't actually spoken to anyone but you two. You're sounding 70% awake. You are. I want to, you know, when you're like drunk when you're younger and your parents ring you and you're like, yeah, I'm totally sober. I want to sound like I'm totally awake.

You're working hard. Megan, you're so good at just watching everything. I mean, how much do you watch on an average day? Hours? Hours? Oh, do I want to admit it? Probably two hours. Right.

Two hours. That's normal, eh? You've dedicated a huge part of your life to watching stuff. And thank God you do, because Ben and me aren't that committed. So you can come every week and provide us with stuff that we need to watch. And you're going to kick it off with a controversial documentary, House of Hammer. In the beginning, I felt like this was all perfect. This was amazing.

He would say things, God, you're so perfect. How could you be this beautiful, this smart, so funny? It's like you were made for me. But then things changed. Ooh, so this is a documentary on the actor Arnie Hammer? Arnie Hammer, yeah. So you'll know him from, he was the Winklevoss twins in the social network. He was in Man From U.N.C.L.E. and then Call Me By Your Name.

So he is attractive. He was, you know, pretty a big movie star. And then all these rumors started coming out about these controversial DMs. And the thing was, Pete Davidson's taking the piss out of him on Saturday Night Live. And it's on TikTok and everyone's making jokes. And you're like, oh, yeah, he's into some weird stuff. But it's actually so much worse than that. So this is a three-part doco. It goes into not only him, but he comes from a very rich, very wealthy family in New York.

And all of the men in his family have had very dark pasts. Lots of things I don't want to say on the radio. But when you look at this man, he is a famous movie star. There is videos. There is receipts. There is DMs. There is evidence of what he's been doing and saying to these women. And it doesn't seem real.

Now, I was reading an article this morning before the show, and he goes on about cannibalism. He wants to eat people. So he admitted twice to two different women in DMs, and they have the DMs, that he is a cannibal. And he said that once he ate a deer heart after he killed it while it was still alive, that He's into some weird stuff. Right.

Listen, the House of Hammer, I thought it was a home renovation show. Does sound like it could be, right? Where can we check that one out, Megan? That's on three now. It's three parts. Don't watch it right before bed. It feels very heavy for my liking,

a bit too heavy for me. All right, let's go something a bit lighter. Let's go something on the lighter end of the scale. MeTime. It's the new Netflix movie with Mark Holberg. Love it. Love it. Kevin Hart. Yes, love it. Thank you, Megan. Here we go. Play something. There's no life on side of your

kids. Well, my wife is an architect. We've made a decision that's best for me to take care of the kids. It's called a system which works. You know, prison system. That's what it sounds like. Yeah, I've seen this. I've seen it. I loved it. Well, you know, I like anything with Kevin Hart. He's very funny. A lot of slapstick moments. I don't know what you thought. Yeah, so, I've seen this. I've seen it. I loved it. Well, you know, I like anything with Kevin Hart. He's very funny. A lot of slapstick moments.

I don't know what you thought. Yeah. So, I mean, you know what you're getting kind of thing. It didn't rate too well on Rotten Tomatoes. It's got the lowest score that the two actors have ever had of 7%. But they call it like a self-care comedy. So, you know, you're not going to get anything Oscar worthy. But it's funny. And you do get to see Mark Wahlberg's butt pretty early on. So that's a high point.

Very rapt, isn't he? Very cut. Yeah. He runs a very psychotic regime. He's up at 1.30 in the morning working out, doing all sorts of business. Hey, mate, what time are you up every morning? You know, like, come on. An hour and a half later than Mark Wahlberg. But everyone's like, you're up at 3.30? What are you, like, of all people, you cannot mention,

no one knows why you're up at 3.30, and no one knows why Mark Wahlberg's up early. So you, the two of you, cannot talk. I mean, at least Mark Wahlberg's ripped. You know, at least we can go on. At least he looks like that. Oh, he's working out. I see what he's doing.

I'll happily get my butt out on camera. What are you doing? What are you doing, eh? But do we want to see it? And are you going to get paid for it? It looks like two soggy bio buttons, mate. Now, Megan, this is, you know, every week we say, well done on watching all this stuff.

What is the worst thing you've watched recently? Something you wouldn't recommend. Every week we're recommending stuff. Something you'd say, don't bother. I was trying to branch out because I realise, like I bring you a lot of thriller stuff

because it's what I'm into, but I watched Inside the Mind of a Cat on Netflix. First of all, I'm a dog person, so I was like, ugh. But it actually goes into like

the psyche of the cat and how to meet a cat and have them like you right off the get-go. Apparently you're supposed to do slow blinks and then they're like, oh my God, friend. Oh, really? Okay. Don't sound interested. It's stupid.

Cats have been playing hard to get. We've all given those relationships. Hey, if you are a cat person, maybe you'll be into it inside the mind of a cat. Cats have been playing hard to get. We are all given those relationships. Yeah. Hey, if you are a cat person, maybe you'll be into it inside the mind of a cat. Inside the mind of a cat. Hey, big and puppers, we'll catch you this afternoon back on the 3PM Pickup. Sweet.

See you guys. Let's go. Jonah and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our Game of Word Association. We play it every morning on the Hats.

I'm in the Auckland studios. Jono's yelling loudly in a hotel and joining us on the phone right now is Mia. Good morning, Mia. Good morning. Lovely to have you on, Mia. Now, first question, what's your bank account number? Because we need to wire transfer some cash to you today, mate.

Yes, I'm a broke uni student, so it'll go a long way. Okay, well, yeah, you want to go to the Gold Coast for a bit of a holiday, so this will be spending money. Yeah, it will be. Yeah, love the Gold Coast. Everyone over there who lives on the Gold Coast, you know, you're a retiree boomer. The leatheriest skin you'll find on any human being. You make handbags out of that skin over there who lives on the Gold Coast, you know, your retiree boomer. The leatheriest skin you'll find on any human being. You make

handbags out of that skin over there, Ben. You can. Alright, Mia, because I'm the only one in the studio this morning, I'm going to go into the soundproof booth. I won't be able to hear anything. Over to you, Jono. I'm heading in there now. Okay, Mia. Are you ready for your life to be changed, okay? Hopefully. In a good way. You know how the game works. First word you think of when I say lotto.

Ticket. Lotto ticket. Question is word number two for you this morning, Mia. Question. Answer. Beautiful. Great answer to the question answer. Sprained.

Word number three, mate. Can you say that again, sorry? Sprained. I'm going to say ankle because it's the most common. That's exactly what I was thinking. Basin is the fourth one. Sink. And the fifth and final word for you, Mia,

who's about to head to the Gold Coast As a poor uni student but potentially rich one now Brush Either tooth or pink I'm going to go with tooth Toothbrush You played a beautiful game We'll release Ben out of the soundproof booth from the chamber of dark secrets

and dark thoughts he's thinking of in there. Ben, Mia. Oh, I'm back, I'm back. You played really well. You did well. All right, let's get into it. Let's get into the first $25 word. Word one, $25.

Okay, Ben. See if you can play word tinder with me or a match up here. First word you think of when I say lotto. Ticket. Yes. Nice. One from one. One from one.

Now, Mia, big decision. Are we advancing through to the $50 round? Yes. Word two, $50. Question. Question. Mark. Oh, no, I'm so sorry. It's okay.

Question mark, what, question answer? Yeah, damn, sorry. Oh, I'm so sorry. Now, this is the painful part, Mia, where you find out how agonisingly close you could have come or not. What would you have said for sprained? Sprained? Ankle?

Got that. Basin? Sink? Oh, no. And brush. What would you have said for the fifth word, brush? That's what they hear. Tooth.

Oh, no, man. Oh, you monster. I'm not just playing the game. Like, I didn't know. You could have. Why didn't someone text me? You know, it would have been nice to get a heads up. I'm so sorry, man.

We need to get you back on and play again, all right? That's okay. Thank you. Have a great day. Hey, next, what Jono did in front of some kids yesterday. I was there to witness that. It wasn't pretty scenes. And I'll tell you about it next on The Hits.

Now, two guys with tertiary broadcasting qualifications prove Cs get degrees. Jono and Ben on the hits. We've been spending a couple of days down in the Tauranga region. The Ames Games are on down there, which is a wonderful tournament. What a difference the weather makes, though. On Monday, shocking weather. Felt so sorry for my daughter's netball team out there. And, you know, freezing conditions, rain all day.

Yesterday, beautiful day, and they played so well yesterday. Just made such a difference to everyone's morale as well around the whole tournament. And we went out there. We were walking around the streets down over by the mound, weren't we, Jono? And we ran into a few kids' teams around, and it was a kids' team.

It was a foosball team that came. Young, so 10, 11-year-old kids came up to us. It was Futsal. Sorry, yeah, it was Futsal. Yeah, it was a Futsal team that came up. Yeah, no, so we started talking to them. You know, hey, kids, must be great to meet your heroes, that sort of thing.

Do you want a selfie? You know, we start bombarding people. Have a photo with us. Do you want us to autograph anything? We signed some foreheads. So it was champagne stuff. Champagne, low-level, crap liberty, meeting some kids. Couldn't have gone better.

Textbook. Yeah, so there's about a dozen kids there in this team, the Futsal team, and we're chatting to them, and then this other guy comes over, like one of the parents, and he went straight up to you and he goes, hey, Jono, it's Jimmy. Now, I'm not going to swear on the radio, but obviously, so I'll just say the F word.

And you can use your imagination there. But we're standing right next to this team of kids. We're still there. And one of the dads come over and goes, hey, Jono, it's Jimmy. He takes off his glasses. So you go, he recognised, you know, that you knew Jimmy from, you know, he was Jimmy from the D4, actually.

One of New Zealand's best rock bands. Now, to my, in my defence, he had a beard, beanie, glasses. He took his glasses off and it blindsided me. It took me by surprise. I did not expect to see Jimmy. Haven't seen him in over five years.

Yeah, and you went, oh, F word Jimmy. Yeah, there you go. Oh, yeah, there we go. Oh, Jimmy, how the are you, mate? Good to see you. Oh, geez. It's been a while. Now, in the space of a sentence and a half,

there was four F-bombs from your mouth, and we're sitting right next to another F-word of a football team, you know, like they were right there as well, of young kids. And I was just like, oh, my God, you've just transitioned from talking to these kids who are still there, still standing there, and then just unleashed a barrage of four swear words in the space of 30 seconds. Listen, the kids, they learned a valuable lesson that day.

The lesson wasn't from me. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the world's most famous actors, and again, sadly, his relationship has ended, his recent relationship ended. And a lot of people making jokes about the fact that he never seems to date anyone over the age of 25. Yeah, well, as soon as they do hit 25, he shifts them off to the Ryman Village. But he's 47. Yeah. So he's

probably, I was thinking about this overnight, maybe he's wanting to cut them off at 25 so then he can always say he's dating someone half his age. That might be the logic behind it. But then we also don't know if he cuts it off as well. Sometimes, maybe, you know, maybe. We've all assumed. Yeah. We've all assumed, haven't we, Ben?

But yesterday we spoke to NT. He's our Hollywood insider. And he has hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio many, many times over the years, especially in his early days. What's Leonardo like to hang out with? Yeah, you said you hang out with him. What's he like? He is, well, we had a long kind of history together.

And he was way different before he got up to a list and stuff when he was much younger he was much more fun and much more uh outgoing he would go out to clubs and things like that and then as he got older say like in 2010 2011 which is probably about the time we stopped hanging out is that uh he was much conservative. He was paranoid that, you know, people were following him and stuff. It was very much more, hey, I only want to hang out with a few people because of the fact that I don't really trust a lot of other people. But he's always picking up the check, a really nice guy in that sense. It was also weird.

That was Inti yesterday. Had you had enough of him mate yeah well you're going to catch up more of that on the podcast you want to hear that but he's great

I love Enty but then at the same time he was like Leo didn't know who to trust I mean Lenti dishes the dirt on celebrities

every week on our radio show I mean out of all people he's probably top of your list of people not to trust he did say that Leo was a lot more fun when he was younger.

Hey, we were all a lot more fun when we were younger. We all get old and boring, mate. That is life. That is life. But we wanted to open up this morning. The biggest age gaps in relationships. Listening right now. Are you dating someone who's a lot older than you or vice versa?

Maybe you're in a marriage. You know the situation, so I don't need to explain them. And do whatever makes you happy. If I can quote my dear friend, Ben Boyce, do whatever makes you happy. Whether that be dating someone who's older than you, embezzling money, online scamming. If it makes you happy, do it.

Yeah, we went into age gaps this morning. My wife, she's 10 months older than me, but I love going, yeah, she'll go, oh, you remember that song? I'll go, oh, no, I'm a bit younger than you, I don't remember. You know, I just love it. She's like, you're only just 10 months. It's not even a year. You know, all those, I was like, oh, yeah, sorry, I mustn't, nah. It's probably

because I grew up in Marsden and not Auckland, so I don't know the references, but I'm like, oh, yeah, it was probably an older thing. Vaguely. Probably an old person thing. Yeah, it's your generation. Yeah. I get great joy.

Jen's a couple of years older than me, my wife. I get great joy. I'm 1981, baby. I'm 1981. I am a millennial. I am the oldest,

baldest, most weathered looking millennial there is out there but jeez, I'm the same thing. I was like, ah, millennial.

We're a different breed. We're a different breed. We're a different breed. You boobers. So I uttered the hits this morning. 4, 4, 8, 7, age gaps. Would love to know.

We'll do that next. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're talking about Leonardo DiCaprio,

one of the most famous actors in the world and he's 47 years old and he's just broken up with his partner who was 25 years old. So a bit of an age gap there. Yeah, quite an age gap. I imagine they're probably getting to the stage with Leo where they're having to teach him how to use new technology.

Yes, yeah. He's probably teetering on that. What's all this TikTok stuff you're doing there? You're like, oh, look, it's really, you know, yeah. It's funny, I always find like the interests of people with big age gaps.

Like you must have common interests to continue on a relationship, obviously. But I imagine at first you'd be like, he's probably like, oh, you know, I'm

into, you know, watching The Chase. He's not 65. I mean, The Chase is a great show, don't get me wrong. It's a good show. Yeah, everyone can enjoy The Chase. I mean, the chase is a great show, don't get me wrong. It's a good show. Yeah, everyone can enjoy the chase.

I like to get 5.30, watch the chase, have the news, have some dinner and go to bed. Have a microwave meal in a sec. That's it. So we are doing the biggest age gap this morning on New Zealand's breakfast. We'll go to the phones. Michelle, you're on the air. Can you believe it? I can believe it. I can believe it.

You can believe it when you're here. What's the age gap we're talking this morning? 11 years. 11 years? Yeah, so over a decade. That puts them in a different generation to me. Yeah, right. Has it had complications throughout the years, Michelle?

To be honest, not really, because we don't have kids. So neither of us are grey. And when I tell people that he's 11 years older than me, nine times out of 10 the reaction's been, really? But, you know, it is kind of noticeable because he is 11 years. Sometimes it's noticeable. Is that the secret? Is it no kids not going grey and not losing your hair and stuff?

If you're going out with someone that's even years older than you, yeah, help, they'll be honest. Are you saying with all our kids, do we just put them back where they came from? Yeah, return them to sender. They're an expensive investment. And no necessary return on investment either. Well, I agree to disagree on that one, that's for sure.

Especially if my kids are listening. I know, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My kids are listening. Hey, love your call, Michelle. You have a great day. You too. Cheers.

Let's get Jackie on. You're on the air. Can you believe it, Jackie? You're on the air. Hello. Hey, Jackie. How's things? Very well, very well.

Now, Jackie, what's the age gap we're talking? 30 years. 30 years? What? Wow. 30 years. Is he older than you? And still going strong.

Still going strong. Are you older than him or he's older than you? Sorry, say that again? Are you older than him or is he older than you? He's older than me. 30 years. And how long have you guys been together, you said? About seven years now. Oh, wow. And does it cause any complications at all?

Not at all. To be honest, he's more of a Prince Charming than I've ever had before. Oh, that's so adorable. Joy was saying before, you know, sometimes there might be different interests, a different age. Do you find that at all? No, he's quite a young man at heart. So he's got a very young personality. I wouldn't have liked to have met him when he was younger, that's for sure. Because I'm pretty sure he would have been up to a lot of mischief. I don't think you can hear Jono, and I'm not going to repeat his question.

How rich is he? Can you hear Jono? She can't hear me. Ben, repeat my question. How rich is he? Can you hear Jono? She can't hear me. Ben, repeat my question. How rich is he? Sorry, you're breaking up there, Jono. I can't hear you. How rich is he?

What's that, Jono? Can't hear you, mate. Sorry, Jackie. You have to have a great day, Jackie. We're not going to ask any awkward questions like that. This is great. Jono's on Zoom. Jackie, can't hear Jono.

This is ideal. How rich? How rich is he? He's not. He's not. Oh, she heard. Mmm, coffee brand. Jono and Ben on the hits.

Now, Marlon Williams, incredible musician, started with a real country vibe. Now, branching out into a bit more pop music as well. He's got new music coming up very shortly we're very excited about. And just announced four concert dates around in New Zealand. Pre-sales

start tomorrow at midday. You can catch him in January next year. He is incredible. And he joins us right now in the studio. Hello. It's great to meet you. Jeez, you, can I say two things about you, Marlon? You may. Yes, I thought you were going to say, you be careful. I'll also be careful. I'll also be careful. I'll say

be careful. First one, very fashionable. I've always admired your fashion, Marlon. Thank you. And second one, you're a lot taller than I thought you would be. Do you get that a lot? I do get that a lot. Would you be about 6'9"? No. I'm 6'3". That's a

wildly... That's 6 inches off. I'm no good at guessing heights. I'm an NBA player. I mean, I wish. Do you love your basketball though? I do. Every morning I wake up and cry because I'm one day further away from getting in the NBA.

I'm now 31. Oh yeah, like the gap is closing, your time is, you know, it's running out. But fortunately you've closing your time is you know yeah it's running out but fortunately you've got your music you know to fall back on

dare I say it it's my it was music your backup player NBA was the first when did you discover because your amazing voice like incredible voice

when did you really discover you're like hey actually I can sing and I've got a really unique voice I think I was about eight or nine and I think I

was sitting in maths class and the choir master came around and was like, would anyone rather be in the choir than do maths? And I was like, okay. I don't know what the choir is, but I'm sure it's much better than this. So the choir master sold it well too, would rather.

Yeah, if you're going to give me an either or like that. And so as soon as you started singing, you're like, man, I love this. Yeah, I just found that I could, it was something I could do. And like some of the other kids were having a bit of trouble. It's like, oh, I know what's going on. I can hear what, that sounds horrible. Like, you know. Yeah.

So obviously, you know, you've had a bit of a country vibe to a lot of your music. But this new album, I understand, is sort of a mix. You've got sort of new people. You've got sort of new people, you've been working with new people, and some new sounds as well. Yeah, I mean, it didn't feel like any sort of new, drastic new direction while I was doing it, because, you know, I was the one doing it.

But, yeah, it's got some, it's a poppy little, fun little pop record. That's cool. Yeah. Because you've had such huge success, not only here, but overseas as well. In the States, you must play some shows and you would see probably famous people

turning up to your concerts? Sometimes, yeah, yeah. You know, you go and tour the States and sometimes you have a little weird little Hollywood moment. There's an amazing story. I was watching an interview from Kate Roger talking to Bradley Cooper. Obviously, you know, from A Star Is Born, which is the movie that you were in. But this story, this is him talking about you, if we can just

play a little bit of that, Jono. Oh, it was amazing. How did you come across him? I was driving up to PCH and on NPR, they were playing this song and it sounded reminiscent of Roy Orbison a bit but so unique. And then it said, that's Marlon Williams, he's playing at the Troubadour Tuesday night. So I bought tickets He's playing at the Troubadour Tuesday night. So I bought tickets and I went to the Troubadour. And I saw him play and he blew me away. And then I said, because I knew there was this part of the movie where I was going to write this super group thing at the Grammy.

So I thought, it's a Roy Orbison tribute. That way I can get Marlon Williams to come and do a cover of A Pretty Woman. And that's how it all started. And he was kind enough to meet and we recorded it. And by the way, he's a very good actor I know he's acted a lot but we had a lot of fun in fact there was

a much longer scene in there and Marlon I'm sorry I tried to keep it as much as I could but we had a great scene between Jax and him on the stage

he was wonderful sorry that's probably awkward for you to listen to but it's amazing for us to listen to I mean that's Bradley Cooper talking about you

not only your amazing singing talent, but also as an actor as well. Yeah, buzzy. Cut your scene though, cut your scene. Now, what was the scene that he cut?

I can't even remember. He said that, and I was like, when I saw the film, I was like, oh yeah, that's exactly what happened. You can't remember doing the scene.

I don't remember any other bit. He turned up at a gig of yours, is that, yeah, so how's that? Yeah, he just like, I was playing in Hollywood, finished the set, and it had been an incredible show, like one of the best shows of the tour and then came off stage and my tour manager was like, I think it was Bradley Cooper.

And I was like, thank God I did not know that he was in here. Yeah, yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, so you've been to and from the States for a long period of time now. We're just talking before turning on the mics. You've seen some parts of America. You've seen all the dark areas. I've seen all the, yeah, well, not all of it, but probably a good 45 of the 52.

Imagine when you're starting out, you know, trying to make a name for yourself in the States, you're playing some bleak gigs. Have you, no, what's been the bleakest gig you've had to play over there? Oh. We're talking about Cooper's there.

Yeah, that's great. Kansas City, Missouri. I turned up at this bar to play and there was precisely zero people at the show. So we started playing and about two songs in a hen's doo came in.

Not ideal conditions. Just like that's the only, and they were like, they were quite happy to pay the money and that was about it. They were like, put the money in as long as we can be here to make our noise, you know. So they did and they came in and they made a lot of noise and then they wanted photos with us. Are you sort of starting to play Girls Want to Have Fun

and other sort of, you know. I was just playing the darkest murder ballads I could think of. I'm going to get this vibe down. Yeah. And then they took

photos with us afterwards and tried to grope us. And then we, so we just got rid of them and that was, yeah, that was the worst. That was Missouri.

That was Kansas City, Missouri. Oh, Marlon Williams, thank you for coming in. Lovely hanging out with you and congratulations on all your success. My Boy, the new album, is out now, and you keep doing good, my man. Oh, well, thank you, boys.

Incredible. Catch Marlon Williams on tour for New Zealand shows in January. All the details at marlonwilliams.com. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono and Ben on a very cold morning right around the country, very frosty morning, but fortunately no snow as it was yesterday in Christchurch. Even Wellington had some, Wellington of all places,

had some flurries of snow. I like that word, flurry. Yeah, you've been saying flurry a lot. It's a lovely word too. It covers a lot of ground flurry too, doesn't it? Reminds me of the McFlurry. Yeah, you're always in a flurry. If someone was to tell me what's Ben's demeanour like, I'd say he's a flurry too, doesn't it? Mine's a bit of a McFlurry. Yeah, you're always in a flurry. If someone was to meet

what's Ken's demeanour like, I'd say he's a flurry-ish. Yes. He's a flurry-ish. Yeah, you're right. Just kind of sprinkling myself around everywhere,

but not quite. It's a combination of being flustered and worried at the same time. A flurry, a flurry, yeah. I'm always in a flurry.

Minus 4.5 in Christchurch though, waking up this morning. Oh, very cold, very cold. Yesterday though, as we said before, we were down in Tauranga I'm always in a flurry. Minus 4.5 in Christchurch they were waking up this morning. Very cold, very cold. Yesterday though, as we said before, we were down in Tauranga for the Ames Games, which was awesome.

An intermediate school age sports tournament. Both our kids are performing down there. It was awesome to see and the weather yesterday was incredible. Like incredible down in the mountain region. Yeah, so good that we thought we would climb to the top of Mount Ponganui after the show, didn't we? Did a bit of a show walk up there. Although producer B Humps, he turned up in running gear

and he was like, I thought we were running up the mountain. I didn't get that memo, did you? No, no, he was in shorts and T-shirt. It was quite a windy day, that was sunny. He was like, we're running up the mountain. Although before, as we planned to go up there, he was like, hey, we should do a brainstorm, come up with some ideas for something we're doing.

And then he turned up in running gear. I was like, well, are we going to come up with ideas and run? I totally missed that memo. He looked very fit. He did. And I was like, oh, listen, you run, you run. We'll just hold you up. And like we're in jeans, inappropriate clothing. So we strolled. And what happened was we were walking around the mountain

and I had told you, I was like, I've been up here before. I know where to go. And you're like, do you? I was like, yeah. Because I've never been up there. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. The whole place is incredible.

But I've never been up there before. So I was like, I'll trust you. You're like, mate, I ran up here a couple of years ago. Wouldn't run here today with B-Hubs, but I ran a couple of years ago. A couple of new years back, I ran up here. So I was like, oh, it's all on Jono. It's all on Jono. And three quarters of the way into the walk,

probably about half an hour into the walk, I noticed that we weren't elevating in any way. No. We were walking. We were on a leisurely stroll around the bottom, the circumference of the mountain. And I don't know much about mountains, but I'm gathering you sort of need to get on some form of an incline

to climb up the mountain. Yeah, I don't know if Ed Hillary just sort of wandered around Everest for a good couple of hours. I think he just sort of went, oh, we'll go, start heading up. I think that's the tactic if you're trying to get to the top. But I don't know. I was trusting you. I was thinking to myself, this really isn't that tough a walk, but hey, I'll go with you on

it. And then we saw this lovely lady walking in the opposite direction, and I said, excuse me, this might sound like a stupid question, but are we currently climbing the mountain? And she said, no, no, you're just walking around the bottom of it. She said, but there is an entrance 100 metres ahead. Climb up there. And she laughed as she left. And so we walked and it was off the beaten track. You imagine vertical.

We were climbing vertical stairs. Yeah. It went from zero to 100 so quick. You're like, oh my God, this is tough. And I was just halfway through, I was just like, I've just got to power through. Forget about John, I'm not walking them. I'm not brainstorming any ideas.

I'm just going to walk to them. But even I lost puff for that one halfway through and had to stop, you know? You were 25 metres ahead and I was happy I was lagging behind because all I was doing was wheezing and puffing and I was like thank God he can't hear me doing this. It was brutal. Sweaty we were in urban clothing

going bush. Oh there's an easier way to get up by the way. We should have run with bee hubs. It is the hits you got Jono in bed.