Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Cash Money & Jono's Awkward Encounter!

Episode Date: September 27, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast it is all go again as we are giving away $5,000 to one very lucky and grateful winner! Jono recalls his awkward encounter and what is making Ben Nervous!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben on The Hits. Kia ora, g'day, welcome. It's the 28th of September, Ben boys. This is our podcast introduction. You know, you get a more relaxed Ben in this part of the show, don't you? Yeah. You know, he's undone the top button, the tie's a little... The tie's just loosened, just, you know, like a businessman drinking, you know, Friday. Friday night drinks, just loosen the tie a little bit. Yeah, it's like, you know, whiskey. You'd be having a whiskey when you're talking about the stocks and stuff. The know, Friday. Friday night drinks, just loosen the tie a little bit. Yeah, it's like, you know, whiskey.

You'd be having a whiskey when you're talking about the stocks and stuff. The stocks, yeah. Imagine, do you ever wonder what would happen if you were in a 9-to-5 job and what that job would be? What would you be doing if you weren't here right now? I don't know. I don't know if I've got any skills even for the job that I'm in right now. What would I imagine you doing?

I reckon you'd be a good, like a dehumidifier salesperson. You know? Not good at sales. No, but door to door. Yeah, no, you'd be no good at it. Oh, yeah, I know what he, what does he do? Oh, he sells dehumidifiers. Oh, yeah, I can imagine him doing that.

Yeah, what do you think about having a dehumidifier? Great, your ventilation for your family. Okay, well, I'll open my door. Hello. Oh, sorry. Hold on, you knock on the door. Okay. Who's there?

It's me. It's Ben. I'm the dehumidifier salesman. You might not want to come in here, mate. Why not? It's a meth lab. Okay. Well, great.

I can work on your ventilation, you know, as well. There's obviously some chemicals that you might want to get out. Oh, okay. I'll open the door, yeah. You know, for you in particular, sir, you see that mask you're wearing right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How's it going, mate? Yeah, going all in particular, sir, you see that mask you're wearing right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How's it going, mate? Yeah, going all right.

You see that mask you're wearing right now? You may, I can't say yet. Do you smoke meth? No, no, no. Do you want some? No, geez, we're really taking a turn. Look, I'll leave my business card. If you want me to come back in.

Yeah, okay. How much does it dehumidify? You know, the starting range is anything from $800 onwards, but really good. yeah okay how much do you humidify you know we start starting range anything from $800 onwards but really good you know

do you do contra no well I haven't in the past but hey you might make a few more sales

if I get you inspired right well thanks for coming around no worries mate all the best with your business

I'll tell you you'd be good it was a weird role play, wasn't it? You'd be an approachable, like, you wouldn't put too much pressure on. Like, if you were selling me something, I think you'd be like, hey, you can have it or you can't. We had to do it at a broadcasting school. We had to go around and sell advertising for a radio station

that existed for six weeks. It was fun making the radio station, but in my heart of hearts, I didn't believe that anyone should probably be advertising on this station that was my thoughts if a station's only gonna be around for six weeks you don't hold high it was kind of something supporting you know supporting you know kids up and coming kids wanting to get into broadcast charity so yeah it was nice i guess you could probably i don't know if you can write it off i'm not no but yeah but i was no good at closing the deal but they but they they talked about the trout on the wall that was one of the salesperson deal. But they talked about the trout on the wall.

That was one of the salesperson's things. So if you see a trout on the wall when you're trying to talk to someone, you know, you would go, hey, you're into fishing. And then maybe you'd form a bond with that person and that would lead you to a sale. So I tried that once with this guy and I saw a picture, a rugby picture. I was like, oh, you like rugby? He's like, yep.

And that was the conversation we had. Where was the school? Well, this. And that was the conversation we had. Where was the school? Well, this is the broadcasting school, Christchurch. Christchurch, yeah. That's all the banter you're going to get in Christchurch. You like rugby? Yep.

That was my trout on the wall. Oh, you're a fan of rugby? He's like, yep. Did you not? Well, why didn't you go, I like rugby too? Why didn't you let the conversation stop? I lost it. Should have gone, who's your favourite player? That's why I was no good at the sales.

So there you go. So did you not make one sale? No, I wasn't very good at the sales of that. But hey, but now I'm here. A wall selling door-to-door dehumidifiers. Enjoy the podcast today. It's a bit of a shorter one. We gave away $5,000.

We're on a mission to do that each day this week. But there's some other great stuff in there as well. So enjoy the podcast. The Jono and Ben Podcast. The world's number one podcast Please don't check those stats And don't forget Ben If you've got an empty cup

That needs to be full of entertainment We'll be also fulfilling that Requirement as well today With some inane banter Now we're going to kick things off Not with inane banter Sorry Producer B

Speaking of inane Well yeah Because Patty Gower On New Sub Had a documentary on last night on cybercrime, and there was a lady in New Zealand, they didn't reveal her real name, but $422,000 is what she was conned out of by a Tinder swindler. Not the Tinder swindler from Netflix, but $400,000.

That's crazy. Well, that's, you know, they prey on the vulnerable when it comes to love and loneliness, don't they? Easy target market, low-hanging fruit for the scammers, isn't it? But scammers are everywhere, not just with the people looking for love or anything like that. They just seem to be in every facet of the internet right now. I've said it before. I don't trust any email I get now. Like any message, any text, anything.

Even if it's like, Ben, hey, bro, you came for a meeting today? I was like, who's this guy? Yeah, well, it does get you very paranoid. And producer Behumps would brought you in because your partner has just been part of something that you're like, oh, this seems like next level as well. Yeah, when I got home yesterday, she was frantically changing all her passwords across all her computer, all programs,

because yesterday morning, the head of finance from the company she works at received an email from her email address saying, I've changed my bank account. Can you please adjust my pay to go into this new bank account? What? And it had come from her email. So her actual email that exists in her company. So they'd hacked into her emails and then sent an email,

found the head of finance for her workplace and emailed them saying, hey, I've adjusted my bank account. And there was no reason why the head of finance would need to check, but she just picked up the phone and just said, hey, just double checking that you want this for next pay. And then Caitlin's like, what are you talking about? You're right. Because normally they'd just be like, oh, there's an official email come through,

the proper change. Oh, yeah, I'll change over the bank account. Listen, if the scammers are going to those links, they deserve the money. Like, that is genius, isn't it? Yeah. To work out who the head of finance, obviously, went through the email. Bit of research, bit of R&D research and development. That deserves a role.

Well, it's a lot of effort, you're right. But at the same time, that's... You like prepping. You're a prepper, Ben. You've got to admire, take aside the horrible crime. Don't make me say this is good in any shape. The preparation is... How did they get the exact same email, though?

There must have been a slight change, like an underscore or something. No, so they'd sent it from her, they'd got into her inbox and sent it from her inbox. How'd they get into her inbox? So in the sent items, the email's there. Really? So they hacked into that. Or, producer B Humps is planning on fleeing the country and is gathering all the finances he can. Who else has got access to that computer

and those passwords? But it's crazy the lengths that people are going to for that. It's sad. Has anyone actually been scammed? You can text 4487. I know what this has been. No one's going to text,

but I'll chuck it out there anyway. Have you been scammed? How much money did you get fleeced for? What happened? Text us. 4487. You can remain anonymous if you want. And we'll keep ploughing on with the show if you don't.

Well, less than average is a career highlight. Jono and Ben on the hits. 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. Makes me nervous.

Yeah, but what if we run out of hand sanitizer? I'm nervous. So nervous. What's making Ben nervous today? More nervous he is than me handing my laptop over to a work colleague to have a rummage through. Oh, that makes me nervous. It does. Ben, you said just moments ago, the three-peat of nerves.

Now, these have been building up over the weekend. What happened? Well, it was all on one occasion over the weekend. Friends of ours had like a high tea party. It was kind of like a royal sort of thing. Pay respects to the queen of the weekend. So, hey, let's have a high tea. Everyone dress up and we'll have a high tea. Everyone dress up

and we'll have a high tea party. What was the tea to alcohol consumption at this party? Just out of interest. Probably less tea, but people were drinking alcohol out of teacups, so they'd go and part the way. What a wonderful way to pay tribute to a beautiful woman.

But getting organised and getting into flash clothes, the whole family were doing that for this thing, sort of resulted in a trifecta of plugs. Now, I don't like, you know, switches. I get a little worried about switches being turned off on the wall. Mentioned before, he won't sleep with a cell phone next to him that sleeps five kilometres away in another house.

He's actually bought a house just for his cell phone. So whatever gamma rays it's emitting, they don't get into his brain. I also haven't mentioned before that sometimes I get a little worried about whether I've turned the iron off before and I've taken the iron for a drive with me in the car afterwards just to be sure that the iron's off. So on this occasion, electricity and you,

you don't work well together. Especially with things that are hot, that are heated up and could potentially burn the house down when I'm not there. So this is the worry. So we made some sausage rolls to take around so the oven was on. So that's one. One thing. One switch that had to be turned off afterwards. There's iron. I'm ironing my shirt. There's two. And then my wife

she's got her hair irons on as well. So that's three. So it's a trifecta of switches that I know had been used before we left the house to go out to the trifecta of switches that I know had been very flammable items yeah that I know they've been used before we left the house to go out to the friends and I made a point of going around myself and going around okay I'm going oh the oven's off the iron's off okay the iron's off yeah all those things has got the car and we drove down the road and then my wife asked me the question well I don't

know why but she asked me as we're driving probably a toilet case out from my house going did you turn such and such off what her hair straightener yeah she was like did you did you turn the oh did you turn the iron off and i was like please don't ask me that now because i know that i did turn it off but mentally i've done the checklist i've even talked to myself like a madman yeah i know everything's off but then i'm like well now i need to go back she's like you don't need to go back i do need to go back because you've asked me this question and so this is the thing this is what made me nervous because yeah her question after i felt like i'd done all the checks i had to go back and do it again just to check she's like you're not it was off yeah it was off as i expected because I'd gone around and unplugged everything. But just when someone plants that seed of doubt in your head, that makes me nervous.

Because in the past, you've taken the iron with you just so to settle your nerves that you've got it. It's unplugged. I thought, oh, you loaded the oven into the boot or something. Is it off? Yes, because it's in the boot. And it's an option for another time. No, listen, you're not on your own. When I go away, I have to film, because she and my wife's like you,

I have to film, like if she's left before me, I have to film video of me locking the door and shutting the fridge, just so there's video evidence. So you can check back on that, clogging up your photo stream. With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the hits. Something happened yesterday, Ben, and I've heard you do it a lot. Okay, you're guilty of this.

What's that? And I did it as well. So you bump into someone. I bumped into someone at the mall. Yep. And, oh, how's it going? Not bad, da-da-da. Oh, you had COVID. Oh, hell again. You know, you run through. Back to normal. The oh well again you know you run through the things think back to normal the checklist of you know top level conversation and light dusting of conversation and then when

i when i felt i had had enough and i wanted to move on and i felt they had had enough of our light dusting of conversation i was like we should catch up soon oh yes we'll catch up soon. Ah, yes. We'll catch up soon. And they're like, we should. But as I was walking away, I was like, we should catch up soon is the adult version of saying, I'm done here. Yeah, it is. I'm done here. No one ever in the history of saying,

we'll catch up soon has ever caught up soon. Yeah. You say it all the time. We'll catch up soon. Yeah. Do you know what I said to someone? I bumped into someone that I hadn't seen for many, many years, and I said. We'll catch up soon. Yeah. Do you know once I got, I said to someone, I bumped into someone that I hadn't seen for many, many years and I said, we should catch up soon.

Just, you know, because that's how you end the conversation. And she said, well, didn't we just do that? And I was like, you're right. Good on her. You're right. Good on her. You know, and that was the extent of like, it was nice. It was pleasant.

We hadn't seen each other for many years, but that was probably the extent of our relationship was like, oh, that's cool. It was good to see her. I just went, we should catch up soon. She's like, well, why? We just did that. It feels like we should catch up soon. The phrase is a full melody in proceedings.

Really, you want to say, I've got a lot of other stuff I want to do. I've done talking with you or I feel like we've done everything. We've had conversations, Peter. It's like when you start an email with hope you're well. Yeah. Do you? Do you really? I mean, you do hope you're're well but you do feel obligated to say that it's a filler content it's the runway into the meaty part of the email you can't just go producer behemoths where's my coffee you have to

go hey producer behemoths i hope you're well now where's my coffee you know you can't just come straight in with that it It sounds too aggressive. You're right. But if you go, I hope you're well, it kind of just eases things into the conversation. There was a great meme going around as well. That was another conversation ender when someone's telling a story

and they said basically, when I say, oh, that's crazy three times, that's the point you need to end whatever you are saying to someone. So if you're telling me a story, I'm like, oh, that's crazy. Well, crazy, crazy, that's crazy. That's the point that You need to end whatever you are saying to someone. So if you're telling me a story, I'm like, oh, that's crazy. Wow, crazy, crazy. That's crazy.

That's the point that I've had enough. No, but I feel like when you say that to me, that I haven't made the story crazy enough. So I keep trying to up the craziness. You do. And there was a unicorn. It was crazy. I'm like, I am done with this conversation.

The unicorn was fire breathing. You're like, that's crazy, bro. Hard-hitting interviews and informed opinion. Mike Hosking on News Talks at B. In the meantime, Jono and Ben on the hits. Scrolling through your feed.

Hey, listen, if you come here for your daily news update, you need to go and buy a mirror and take a good, long, hard look at yourself. What are you doing?

But Ben, what's happening with your special update? It is big news and we are talking about this morning because Costco, the big mega superstore.

Which sells big mirrors. Yeah, I can imagine. It sells everything, bulk items. We talked about it before. You can get everything from rotisserie chicken to coffins in a Costco. Everyone's very excited about the fact New Zealand's got its first ever store of Costco. It's a store that's right around the world. What if I bought a coffin?

How am I getting it home? Feels like it takes up a lot of boot space, your average coffin. Well, true. But I guess it's probably... You're right. Chuck it on the roof job, baby. They've probably got trailers and stuff. They're probably like a Bunnings. You can hire a trailer. I don't know. I imagine it's got everything. Yeah. All sorted. It's a store that's gone. Let's just throw everything at the wall and see

what sticks. And a lot of stuff is stuck. And we cross live now to Brenna on the ground outside Costco from the hits. How are you? I'm very good. How are you? Go ahead. Mad scenes, Brenna. People fighting, ripping off clothes.

What are they doing? Not just yet. It's a bit wild, let me say. A few keen shoppers. A few keen shoppers. We had heard that people have been camping through the night from about 2.30 yesterday afternoon all the way through to camping this morning. It's not open till 8 o'clock.

No, it's not. So ribbon cutting at 7.30, but I can see people trying to push past that. Everyone's pushing. Everyone gets quite pushy in those situations. Hand us over to one of the pushy people. We'll have a chat to them. I've been kind of pushed to the back with that, but I've got Chloe here, who's a keen shopper. Let's get Chloe on the phone.

Awesome. All right, I'll pass you over. Thanks, Brenna. Hello. Are you pushing and shoving, Chloe? Are you getting pushy? Not yet. Maybe after the call.

Yeah, you're right. Get your elbows in there, mate. So, Costco, obviously you're super excited that it's opening. Why did you have to be one of the first, though, to get there? I was super excited because my younger sister really loves Squishmallows. And someone put on Facebook that they had special Christmas ones. And she really wants them. But I think they would sell out fast.

So I needed to be first. They are super soft plushy toys, Squishmallows. Okay. So what time did you get to Costco? At five. Five this morning. It's not open until eight o'clock. Yeah, but there were already a lot of people there.

Yeah, and I hate to tell you this. You can shop online nowadays, too. And your website isn't up yet. No, but you can get Squishmallows on Squishmallows.com. They've got them there. It doesn't matter. She can get them this morning. She's going along to Costco.

I'm pretty excited. Now, you're after a very specific item, and Costco is over two rugby fields big. Do you know where they are in the shop? Just going to wing it and find them. Good on you. Have you got your membership? Because you've got to be a member. I think it's about $60.

So you've got your membership card. You're good to go? Yeah. All got it. How many people are outside there at the moment? They've moved a bunch of people inside, and I'd say there was about 200 people. Wow. Some camping out, what, from 2.30 yesterday?

Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, there were people with tents when we arrived. Tents? You could probably just go and buy a new one inside. I know. Yeah, right. Well, you hand us over to another shopper. Okay.

One second. Hello? Who's this? It's Charlene. Now, Charlene, how long have you been there? I came with Chloe since 5 o'clock. Oh, she's handed you over to your mate. Yeah, I'm her mum.

You'll be dragged out there as well. Are you excited you're a Costco member or are you just helping Chloe find her plushies? We are members now. We went half. Hey, well, listen, pleasure speaking to your family today. You too. I'll pass you on. Hey, well, listen, pleasure speaking to your family today. You too. I'll pass you on. Hey, boys. How are we? Brenna. Now, Ben and myself,

we were keen to give away... Oh! What's that? What's going on? I think it's a ribbon. Ribbon's just about to be part of the countdown. Oh, there we go. Look at that for timing. Do you know, I went to a ribbon cutting ceremony the other day. Jacinda Ardern was there.

But there was no cutting of the ribbon. It was just an untying of the bow. Oh, that's anticlimactic. Are we worried about, you know, like, is it wastage? I don't know. Or is it just what they do now? Maybe she's left-handed with the scissors. Yeah.

Yeah. I've had the scissors. Yeah, Brennan, well, thank you so much. I feel like a coffin picked up for him this morning from Costco. Yeah, it's not even to give away. It's just for me next week. He's a little tired. He's going to have a sleep.

Very good. Things are going well, Brenna, but anyway, you don't need to hear about my health issues. Thank you so much for getting up early and heading out to Costco this morning. No worries, boys. And not afraid to use the F word. Be family friendly for Jono and Ben on the hits.

Good morning this morning. Costco Superstore is opening in Auckland. Many people are very excited about this and in the next 10 minutes we're going to cross live to Costco and find out what's going on. And this morning we'll hear people camping outside. And as all good radio shows do, we've bullied Paul Brenner to get up early. Well, not every radio show gets her to do it.

There's a sweet girl called Brenner and all radio shows get to bully her to get up early and go out to Costco for them. So we'll be talking to her in 10 minutes' time. Hundreds of people in the line camping out overnight. Wild. Wild. The thing that always confuses me about that stuff and I know you're like

oh people like to be first in line and first in the store it's like they've built a store it's going to be there for well I'm hoping Costco's probably hoping

for quite a long time there'll be opportunities for you to go in there you know just walk through the doors when you felt like it true true but then you know

you're first you're first you've got that store you know that store I was the first I was one of the first people to, true. But then, you know, you're first. You're first. You've got that story. You know that story? I was the first. I was one of the first people to go on that story. Oh, yeah?

You know? And how long did that take you? I don't know. Wait a minute. But I was still the first. Okay. Rather than going, oh, three days later, I walked through. Did you have a job?

Where were your family? I guess so. Hey, now, over the weekend, I had a moment where I got mocked by some friends of ours. And I was holding one of their news. You're like, my mocking day is a Monday to Friday on the radio. This is something that you would do. I don't mind to be mocked on the weekend. I was holding one of the young children that one of my friends had. And, you know, sort of helping them out for a moment.

You know, there's a few of us around there. And the young child let out what happened. You know, I'm a baby. You young child let out what happened, you know babies let out a little something from it's behind it happens they get gassy and someone went what went on there and I went for a phrase

and you know me, for some reason I'm quite high brow about that sort of when it comes to flatulence he's very high and mighty I don't know why he looks down his nose at it. Yeah, but I said the thing that my mum used to say when I was a kid. I said, oh, the baby just did a little windy pop. That's what my mum used to call it.

When was it? She was probably the same as me. She was on some sort of weird high and mighty. The windy pop sounds like a new ice ball from TikTok. It does. It's very adorable. And everyone went, windy pop? Cute phrasing.

And I was like, well, you know, it was a Windy Pop. Yeah, and it was just a word that our family used when we were younger. And we got into a conversation with the other people around. And it doesn't seem like we were the only ones that done it. I think at that age, when you're a kid, a lot of other people have different names. So do you still, in your household, refer to them as Windy Pops? Do you? Well, we've kind of moved on from that. When he's making love, it's called the Gunky Bump. we've kind of moved on a little bit from the windy pop stage but the windy stop that

you had it's time the pop pop stage you know it was early on yeah but we still went round and there was lots and i started writing down some of the other names that some of the people in the in the party would use for their kids when they were younger there was a lot of cute and make it sound a lot cuter than what it is. Fluff, toot, pootie. Pootie was a good one, I thought. Some people would call it barking spiders. Barking spiders or ducks.

Why are the spiders barking? I don't know. That one made no sense to me at all. I have heard air tulip before. Oh, yeah. Panty burp was another one as well, which sounded a bit odd. I was like, I don't know if you made that cuter or just more disturbing as well. Yeah, so that just seems like something that a lot of Kiwi households do.

Yeah. Speaking of which, Ben, and I wasn't going to talk about this because I know your stance on this content, but I was in a situation. This was last week. This happened so long ago. I just know that if I bring this sort of content to the radio, it won't be discussed. I happened so long ago. I just know that if I bring this sort of content to the radio, it won't be discussed. I was in a lift.

I was in a lift. What was that? That sounded fast. Just anything. He was desperate. You said cut him off. I was in a lift and someone had done

a windy pop. A windy pop? I could feel it in the air. A pussy? A panty burp? They weren't in there though. They had disappeared. They had left the seat of the crime. But I am left in the air. A pussy, a panty burp? They weren't in there though. They had disappeared. They had left the seat of the crime.

But I am left in the lift. This sounds like somebody says that situation. You know what? This is exactly my point. And other people got in on another level. And I felt that I needed to front foot it. And go, hey, someone's windy popped in here. And they're like, what's that?

It's a long story. My mate called're like what's that oh it's a long story my mate he's high and mighty about flatulence he's called it windy pop for some reason uh and but then the problem is when you do front foot it there's two things people believe you're part of a cover-up yeah that it's you and secondly they always think it's you and it's a very unusual conversation to have. With a stranger. Hey, there's an odor in here. I just want you to know I had nothing. I'm not responsible.

Costco, the big, mega superstore. It's open 8 o'clock this morning. We're going live to Costco next. Find out who's been camping overnight to be the first in the store. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, this week is Mental Health Awareness Week. You can go to the website mhaw.nz. They've got some really good tips on how you can improve your mental health and feel a bit better this week, which is awesome.

And there's a couple of young guys who are doing a great initiative off their own bat this week, and they join us right now over Zoom. Dylan and Lewis, explain what you're doing for Mental Health Awareness Week. Oh, yeah. So pretty much what we'll be doing is we'll be running 100 kilometers each over the course of 10 days. And it's a fundraiser for the Mental Health Foundation over the course of Mental Health Awareness Week in New Zealand.

And we wanted it to be, you know, a little bit more talked about. And so we wanted to do our bit for mental health. And so we'll be running 100 kilometers each over the course of 10 days. 100 kilometers each. So how are you breaking it down over the 10 days? So we're thinking about that. We're like, do we do like a big day one day, like go do a 15 and then do like a five the next day? But we're just going to do just 10K flat each day.

And it is 10K for both of us. A couple of our mates are like, oh, you guys only do 5K each. So you're having to work this in because I can see you guys over the Zoom now and you look like you're wearing your school uniforms. So you've got to factor this in with around your school time as well. Yeah, hard out. So last week is school, you know, a bit of busy schedules. But then, like, we only have five days of this,

then holidays will start, so it'll become a little bit more relaxed. But it is definitely hard sort of bending it into life. I think we're running, what, 8 o'clock tonight, Dylan, once he's off work? So it's sort of hard getting around schedules. Tonight we'll be running at 8pm and then tomorrow morning we'll be up again at 6.30. So we're just making it work, however.

Are you juggling running, school and work? Oh, yeah, man, I do it all. You do it all? Yeah, you guys are overachieving already. You really are. What a wonderful course. Now, because we are zooming into your bedrooms at the moment, is this the first time you've done radio interviews in your bedrooms?

Because it's the first time I've been interviewing teenage boys in their bedrooms. Oh, first time I've done a radio interview full stop. So add the bedrooms to that too. You guys put out, yeah, so when did you put out the video you put it out on the internet it's it's sort of gone viral a lot of people sharing around when did it get released uh we did that i think probably the day before we released it so released it on friday um and we wanted to sort of have like a run in time just to sort of promote it a bit and then i think we expected like a decently positive reaction but it just went nuts like it like just you know people from all circles so it was real cool just yeah yeah it kind of spoke to how much of like an it is an issue that people

care about because we didn't expect it to get so much you know so much sort of traction but you know it sort of showed that people do care about this and they're willing to support us on it was a real motivation especially while we're running oh that's awesome so you're trying to raise money uh as well um but you set yourself a goal as well as running all those kilometers. What's the goal for the money? For the money? So that's 10 grand. When I checked last night, we were, what were we doing, maybe seven? About 7.5, nearly. any contributions to that. And so that's just going to go towards the Mental Health Foundation helping to just provide people and business places and schools and everything

and Aotearoa with, you know, funds to help people, I guess, work on their mental wellbeing. So you're two and a half grand away from it and I'm here to tell you that Ben Boyce is here. He's stepping it up.

Don't put me under 10k. To get you to that 10k mark. Oh, Ben, you're too nice. What a, this guy. Don't put me on the tip. To get you to that 10K mark. Oh, man, you're too nice. What a, this guy. Don't put me on the, Appreciate it, Ben. Thank you, Ben. Yeah, yeah.

All right, guys, you just, the Zoom's cutting out just a little bit through that thing, but anyway. Oh, no, what a wonderful course you're doing. And just for your generation, obviously you guys are at school, is mental health talked about a lot more?

Because we didn't discuss it at all when we were growing up. Yeah. Yeah, I guess even in my sort of five years at school i've seen like a huge increase in sort of how much it's been discussed which has been pretty cool i think there's always sort of a stigma like even if you just maybe go into like student services like the school council like aspect of things like back in my third form or year nine it was like um oh you're going to council like boys sort of had almost a negative reaction to it. But now it's pretty common. So there's definitely been a huge sort of increase in not only how aware people are,

but also how supportive people are. And growing up too in the digital age, the internet has added a whole other layer of stress to you guys. I mean, I think especially with our generation, it has gotten a bit better, but I think it's just still an issue that hasn't quite been talked about enough. It would be nice to see some education on mental health in schools, people coming in to talk about it.

I know that Louis this week, he's done some work for Mental Health Awareness Week. He's getting some speakers in for his school, and I put on a little Mental Health Awareness Week for my school a couple of weeks back. Oh, good on you, boys. Well done. Well done. Well done.

Good on you. You seem like great young guys. Good luck schooling, working, running 100Ks, doing it all. Where can people come and find you guys, follow the journey, donate if they want to donate? So I guess come to the Instagram. Each step is a good one. Just spell it out like that. In there, there'll be a link to the fundraiser just in the bio.

So go click on that too. And I think there's, yeah, primary modes of sort of checking us out. Each step is a good one, honestly. Thank you very much, guys. Good on you. What a great job you're doing. Look out!

Scary dinosaurs. Not Jurassic Park. It's these guys. Jono and Ben on the hits. Hey, we're having a bit of conversation. You say, Ben, boy, it's a rich, fulfilling conversation aso and Ben on the hits. Hey, we were having a bit of conversation yesterday, Ben Boyce. Rich, fulfilling conversation, as we always do after the show. And you were saying you had heard a rumour about Walt Disney,

and there is a conspiracy theory about the man Walt Disney. Yeah, the person who started the theme parks and everything else that's come from Disney. Yeah, so there's been a rumor for many, many years around the fact that he got cryogenically frozen after he died. So at some stage we'll be able to thaw him out and go, hey, welcome to 2048. A lot of stuff changed. A lot of stuff.

So when did he die? Yeah, a lot of stuff has happened. So that's a wild rumor, which I don't think there is any truth to this rumour. 1966 he died. Jeez, we've got to bring him up to speed on a lot of stuff. Yeah, so when science is up to speed, we'll be able to thaw him out, according to this wild, wild rumour that I don't think is obviously true.

If someone you thawed someone out and you had to bring them, you had to catch them up on what had been happening for the last 50 years, would you cut straight to the thing and go, hey, we've got flying cars now, mate. There's a phone it's chipped into your head blah blah blah or would you slowly lead them up to the transformation of how we've ended up no i just probably jumped to it because this is where we're at you know you'd imagine explaining the last couple of years and we were washing our fruit and vegetables and we were scanning into all that stuff that when no one you know is doing to that level now. But anyway, so this is the rumor around Walt Disney.

And I heard on another podcast the other day, another rumor on top of that Walt Disney rumor that the movie Frozen, you know, Elsa, Anna, Olaf, you know, the movie. Well, that was called Walt Disney. It was called Frozen. So when people Googled Walt Disney Frozen, they wouldn't get conspiracy theories about walt disney's body being cryogenically frozen they'd get all the stuff for this lovely movie let it

go and all the songs like that so that's the conspiracy theory that was going around another one it is a great conspiracy theory well i thought it was a great conspiracy theory uh and then overnight i was like well what if someone if someone typed in Walt Disney cryogenically frozen? Oh, yeah. Then that would come up. So they should have named the movie cryogenically frozen. And then it would have come at all bases. Let it go, let it go.

Yeah, just a big play, though, if that is true. Smart. To create a whole movie. I've done some research into the highest grossing movies. I thought Frozen would be the highest grossing Disney movie. You would think so right Especially in merchandise You've got Cars and you've got Frozen

Number 11 mate Frozen 2 however is at number 6 Of the highest grossing Disney movies But Ben Boyce They did a deal Mickey shook hands with Marvel Oh yeah with Marvel movies A few years ago.

Avengers and all that. Three Avengers movies are the highest grossing films in the top five. Endgame number one over $2 billion, nearly $3 billion. Jeez, Mickey would have been like, damn. It's a great deal, guys. That was a good boardroom meeting. Great boardroom meeting. Star Wars number two.

Oh, I forgot Star Wars was part of the Disney franchise. Number three, Infinity War Avengers. You know the song, I Just Can't Wait to Be King? Lion King, yeah. Yeah, Charles' favorite song as well. Lion King was at number four. And then Avengers, the OG Avengers at number five. Wow.

So those are the top five highest grossing Disney movies. It's weird because when you think of Disney, you think of the animated movies. Well, don't. Don't, mate. It's more than that. It's more than that. Yeah. You've got your Black Panthers.

Yeah. Wow. Beauty and the Beast and all that sort of stuff. That doesn't even come until number 10. Jeez. Yeah, mate. They're doing all right. Don't you worry about Disney.

I was. I was worried. Don't worry. Okay. Maybe I should worry about some other stuff. Well, something about Disney. I was. I was worried. Don't worry. Maybe I should worry about some other stuff. Well, something that I was worried about, I was worried about my house potentially burning down over the weekend. I'll tell you about it in five minutes on the hits.

Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person, but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes.

And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling members yes it was a script no his identity is a secret but his stories have been proven right time and time again this is empty yes he's here to give us our daily dose of vitamin g gossip ent come on down hey guys how guys. How are you? Oh, great, buddy. It's good to hear your voice. How's the week been? It's been good. Now, has Adam Levine from Maroon 5, has he been sliding into your DMs as well? No, no, no.

But there's nobody else that he doesn't. That's for sure. But, you know, this shouldn't come as a surprise that he was cheating. I mean, he was cheating on his girlfriend at the time when he got with his wife, right? He was cheating, I think, on Nina Agdell. I think that's who he was dating. And then ended up with Bahati or whatever. And, you know, the guy's a jerk going back to, do you guys remember when he dated Maria Sharapova? Did he date Maria Sharapova?

Way back in the day. The tennis player. Yeah. So they dated way back in the day. And then they broke up. And, you know, most people say, oh, we broke up. You know, it just didn't work out. What he did was he said she just wasn't good enough in bed.

So I had to break up with her. Oh, well. And he said it publicly. Really? Did he? Really? I mean, people say that about me. But I'm not Maria Sherriff over him.

To be fair to Adam Levine, there are a lot of hot babes out there. There are a lot of hot babes. And do you think the marriage will be over after this, Henty? Oh, no, not at all. I think that she's in it for the long haul. They've done the fake paparazzi photos. Have you guys seen? This was so funny.

There was a picture of Pete Davidson without his shirt, and one of the comments was that it looks as if somebody had tried to draw Adam Levine's tattoos from memory. And it's so spot on if you go look at Pete Davidson's chest and then you look at Adam Levine's and it's just, everything's a little bit

off. It's like somebody saw Adam Levine and go, okay, Pete, I can do this. I can recreate it. And it is so spot on and I can't stop thinking about that. Jono and myself have got a few terrible tattoos, so we're not ones to judge Pete Davidson's choices.

Listen, sadly, my chest looks like Pete Davidson's. Jono's looks like we've tried to trace Pete Davidson's tattoos from memory to somebody else's. Very funny, very funny. But then a question that I have, NT, is I don't know how famous people think

they can get away with philandering in this day and age. You would think so. Honestly, I think that people get away with it because of the fact that either they'll sign a non-disclosure agreement, or they don't want to be considered to be like the other woman right she this woman acted like a victim but all you have to do is kind of google and see that adam levine is married um you know it takes two to tango in this kind of situation so do you want to be famous for being

the other person and then so i think that that keeps a lot of them from, from coming forward. Do you want to be that person that caused the split in a marriage? Do you think some, some celebrities out there would be in open relationships to those? Some might have arrangements with their partners that, that this sort of thing could happen from time to time. Yeah.

And that's one of the things that you need to think about is that the way that Behati Prinsloo is acting, it kind of feels as if perhaps there is an open relationship. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have an open relationship. So it's really when you're a gossip guy or, you know, writing gossip, it's really difficult sometimes because, OK, that person is married, but they're they're sleeping with somebody else. But then you hear, oh, it's an open relationship. The way that they're acting, it feels like open. It must really take the wind out of your gossip sails when you're like, oh, they're in an open relationship.

Everyone's fine with that. They're all considering adults. Enty, thank you very much for your time. Always appreciate it, and we'll catch up with you very shortly. All right, you guys. Take care. There you go, Enty Lye from Hollywood, our Hollywood gossip reporter. Mature, responsible, and considerate.

Three words we sadly can't use here. Jono and Ben on the hits. Let's go. Five words for 5K must be won every day. It's all thanks to Gas Petrol Service Station. It's a guaranteed winner every day this week. We started at $7.45. We're still here now, but we're determined to give away this $5,000

before we leave. When does the novelty of this game wear off, Ben? Playing it on repeat. Well, you know, it's exciting, but for me, probably just after eight. Oh, right. Well, you've been on the front line battling with the cash battlers for a long time. Well, let's get Stephanie on from

South Auckland. How are you, Steph? I'm good, thanks, guys. How are you guys? Oh, we're doing well. It's lovely to have you on this morning. You've been listening to everyone losing. I have, I have, and been calling back like crazy every time someone doesn't. Someone actually texted in 4487 and said, I'm going to have to put the $5,000 towards RSI treatment after my thumb has been doing overload this morning, and the phones have been overloaded. So it's a pleasure to have to put the $5,000 towards RSI treatment after my thumb has been doing overload this morning

and the phones have been overloaded. So it's a pleasure to have you on, Steph. 5K, what would you be putting this money towards, mate? Well, actually, we have a baby during December via surrogate. So I would love to use this for the adoption fees because you have to adopt your own child, unfortunately, when you're using a surrogate to have a child. So yeah, that would be very handy.

Oh wow, this cash is going towards something very How much do you have to pay? All up throughout the process is probably, yeah, $5,000 to $6,000 lawyer's fees. Wow, this would cover a large part of those costs. Alright Ben, hashtag no pressure.

But a lot of pressure. Just an adoption on the line here, mate. Taking the headphones off. All right, let's do it. You can't hear a thing. Let's win you $5,000, Stephanie, okay? Okay. What do you think of when I say

miso? Soup. Miso. Lovely soup. Lovely soup miso. Soup. Miso. Lovely soup. Lovely soup, miso. Yeah. Do you know, when I was smoking for a while there, I heard some rumour on the internet

that miso soup threw away any chances of getting lung cancer. So I just drink miso soup every single day. Well, I'm not sure if you should believe everything on the internet. No, no. I see time will tell on that one, I guess. Clap was the second word this morning for you, Steph. Oh, say it again. Clap. C-L-A-P.

Oh, clap. Hands. Hands. With the plural there. Lace. Coming in at word number three. Spell it for me, sorry. Lace. L-A-C-E. Oh, lace. Oh, God. Material.

Material. There's footwear you could do. There's anything we can... Yeah, lace, lace. Yeah, I'll go with material. Material, all right. Curly, coming in for the fourth word this morning. Curly hair.

Curly hair. And the fifth and final one. Property. Property. House. Those are your five words. You did a great job, Steph. Thanks.

And let's get Ben back on. Can we put his headphones on? We'll signal to him, wave frantically. Ben. Yes. It's me doing the arms like the guy with the blow-up arms outside the tyre shop. Yeah. All right.

Five words have been locked in. Let's win, Steph. Okay. $5,000. Don't forget an adoption on the line here, Ben. I know. I haven't forgotten that, Jono. Here we go.

Word one, $25. Word number one, miso. Soup. One for one. Going up to the $50 word there, Stephanie? Yep. Word two, $50. Clap.

Clap. I've been stitched up by the plural Or the singular version of words This morning Hands He got the clap Well done, hands Are we advancing on there, Stephanie?

Yes, please Word three One hundred dollars Lace L-A-C-E Lace Yes, please. Word three, $100. Lace. L-A-C-E. Lace. I'm just going to go generally speaking on this one.

I don't know. That's a bit... Oh, this could be wrong material. Oh! Shoelace was the other one I was thinking. That's what I was trying to lead Stephanie down, a shoelace route, but thank goodness I didn't. Stephanie! Oh!

Thank God. You know what? I never thought of shoe the whole time. How embarrassing. Yeah. Here you go. Listen, both of you went for the completely unobvious one. Okay, word number four, curly.

Got 50-50obvious one. Okay, word number four, curly. I've got 50-50 on this one. I've got hair. Oh, thank God. Curly fries was the other one as well. We've made it. Are we leaping up from 500 to 5,000? Do you know what? I thought if I ever got

to this position, I would take the 500. But at the same time, if I didn't, I would absolutely kick myself. And I'm sure you guys don't want to keep doing this game. So for all the listeners out there, I'll keep going.

Word five, $5,000. Adoption fees on the line, Ben. I hope you're feeling every ounce of pressure. I am feeling pressure. Producer B helps us standing outside with a cannon to fire at. All right. The fifth word was property. What would Stephanie have said to property?

House? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Have we got it? Have we got it? Have we got it? $5,000. With an F-bomb as well, Steph. I said, oh, my God.

Did I swear? I'm sorry. Don't apologise, mate. Celebration. It washes over us all. We never know what we're doing. You've just won 5K. Oh, my God.

Thank you guys so much. I'm dying. Oh, my God. Thank you guys so much. I'm dying. Oh, my God. I'm crying. Okay, I'm sitting in a car park looking like an absolute egg right now. This is amazing. Well done. $5,000.

We know what you're spending on it. It's going to a great course. Oh, yeah, it is. Oh, thank you guys so much. Oh, my God. $5,000. Well done. It means a lot.

It does mean a lot. Thank you guys so much. Honestly, wow. Thank you for thinking the same as me,000. Well done. It means a lot. It does mean a lot. Thank you guys so much. Honestly, wow. Thank you for thinking the same as me, too. We did it. I can get it out of the Soundproof booth. I'm happy, too. Woo-hoo.

Go, Ben. The only condition is you have to name your child Jono and or Ben, okay? I'm so sorry she's a girl. I don't care. I don't care. Those are the T's and C's. Oh, well done, Stephanie. You guys the T's and C's. Well done, Stephanie. You guys are amazing.

A deserving winner. Well done. And it doesn't stop there, Aotearoa. It continues on tomorrow and Friday, thanks to Gas Petrol Service Stations. Must win five words. Steph, you're a legend. Have a great day.

Our second winner this week. Oh, thank you so much. You guys are legends. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. Wall-to-wall talking without the niggly popular songs in between. Just gave away $5,000 with our game Five Words for 5K. It's all thanks to gas petrol service stations. Yeah, but great winner before Stephanie.

We'll get Stephanie back on, actually. Stephanie, welcome back from South Auckland. You there? Yes, I am. Oh, three minutes during that deeply depressing Benson Boone song to come to terms with $5,000. What do you reckon? Oh, honestly, it's just unbelievable.

I'm still shaking. My makeup's gone to crap, and I do need to go to work after this, so that's hilarious. But yeah, just unbelievable. Incredible. Listen, through the powers of creepy investigation, producer Humphries has got your husband's number, Matt Because we know you're putting the 5K towards the adoption fees

For your child Let's give Matt a call And you can tell him you've won the $5,000 Okay, this is going to be great What does Matt do? He fixes garage doors Fixes garage doors? Yep You know, we had a garage door guy come round to our house What does Matt do? He fixes garage doors. Fixes garage doors? Yeah.

You know, we had a garage door guy come round to our house. You always leave yours open. You get in trouble, don't you? I do. It's not another. Hello, Matt speaking. Matt, it's Jono and Ben on your favourite radio station, The Hits. How's it going?

Yeah, good. Polite laughter there. Top five favourite radio stations? Yeah, mate. Yeah, mate. Yeah, good. One of them in the market? Yeah, good Polite laughter there Top five favourite radio stations? Yeah, mate Yeah, mate One of them in the market Yeah, yeah, we are We exist

Hey, we've got Stephanie with us She's got some news to tell you, bro Hey, guess what, Dad? What's up? I won the five grand Oh, you Isn't that amazing, isn't it? Oh, well done, darling.

That's so cool. She just won $5,000. Yeah, it was a really emotional moment. It was lovely to be part of. Oh, that's so cool. I'm just pulled over. There's a garage door that needs to be fixed. Oh, that's cool. Thank you so much, mate. No worries, mate. We know what the money lot going on. There's a garage door that needs to be fixed. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's cool.

Thank you so much, mate. No worries, mate. And we know what the money's going towards. It's a wonderful life moment, and glad we can be a part of it in some way. Yeah. Oh, awesome. Awesome.

That's just awesome. Thanks, mate. Lovely, lovely. We'll be at the first birthday. We'll see you there. Absolutely. You guys can come along. Do we want to pitch the name yet?

Oh, we'll pitch it again later. That's fine. We'll do it afterwards. Hey, you guys have a along do we want to pitch the name yet oh we'll pitch it again later to Matt that's fine we'll do it afterwards hey you guys have a great day enjoy that $5,000 thank you guys so much honestly

incredible as John I said before another chance for someone well someone is going to win $5,000 tomorrow so tune in 7.45 it is The Hits

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