Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Jono's Kids Want Him Dead..

Episode Date: March 15, 2023

Jono's kids want everything in his will! Cash N Car winner Jo from Upper Hutt! Beat The Parents game vs Jono See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kia ora, welcome, this is the John on Ben podcast. Thank you very much to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Do try it. You know, we actually met the Dilma team yesterday from Sri Lanka. Oh, it was awesome actually. They came to the studios. Dilhan and Amrit, their father-son combo. Family business, learns a lot about what they've been doing. They do some incredible work, not just with making the teas, but helping out people over there. Building hospitals, building schools for people so they can get educated free of charge. Even for animal welfare over there as well,

they do amazing things. The elephants as well. Oh, jeez, I tell you what, we were drinking from the company Kool-Aid and it happened to be a delicious cup of tea. I was drinking from the company tea, that's for sure. And they even can make cocktails with tea and stuff as well. Yeah that's yeah. Amrit's come in the sun and uh he's a young guy he's all over TikTok and uh Dilhan the dad's like he's always

filming me for bloody TikTok he's like all the time always TikTok TikTok TikTok videos just the generation uh and he makes cocktails and stuff on TikTok.ck i know it's great i was thinking we could you know if we build the relationship which is great hopefully they stay on board because it's awesome having them part of the show we can make our own tea but we could call it john i'd be not everyone's cup of tea and in a real life yeah but whatever you know flavored tea or something well you know something that maybe well that's well something that people are going to like. You don't have a flavour that's controversial. Yeah, but... Molasses flavoured tea.

No, but something that people are going to enjoy. You don't want... Oh, some people enjoy molasses. Yeah, well, I guess the cows enjoy molasses, don't they? What is molasses? I remember that we were on the farm, they always talked about molasses for the cows. Molasses.

It's a sugar substitute. Oh, okay. Molasses is a thick, dark syrup made during the sugar-making process. First, the sugar cane is crushed and the juice is extracted. The juice is then boiled to form sugar crystals and removed from the liquid. The thick, brown syrup left over is called molasses. Molasses. Who knew that?

So you could have a molasses flavoured tea. Do they give it to cows? Molasses for cows, I'm sure. It's really interesting. Anyway, a wonderful Dilhan from Dilmar. Yeah, obviously it helps improve the digestion of the cows. There we go.

Cows are probably like, what is this? Increasing milk productivity and leads to extra days in milk. There you go Yeah Increasing milk Cows are probably like What is this? Increasing milk productivity And leads to extra days in milk There you go So I did learn something On my years Living on a farm Out the back

In the Wairarapa Did you ever ride an animal? No Oh No My sister laid Like a horse And stuff

That was That horse was You know Well looked after What was that? Better looked after than me You know at the time I was probably just a moody teenager.

All you're giving me is a bowl of molasses for breakfast. What animals did you have? Could you have covered the cast of Old MacDonald's Farm? Yeah, we had some. I used to have to feed the pigs and stuff. You had pigs? We had pigs for a little bit there. What are pigs like eating?

They're adventurous, aren't they? They'll eat some all sorts of stuff. They've got no morals when it comes to food. Apparently, if you stand in the pig pen long enough, they'll start eating you. Oh, really? Yeah, funnily. I used to have to clean the pig pen.

Yeah, that was one of my things. It's a pig sty, though, isn't it? Yeah, it's a pig. It was a literal pig sty. You don't need to clean it. But I had to go out there and clean it. What do you have to clean out? I just remember having to hose things down

and clean the things. Make you know they're eating out a nice nice containers uh i also had to get the chicken the eggs from the chickens and i yeah chickens yeah i was so i'm very frightened of like putting put your hand under the chickens and get the beer because they'd sit on the eggs i don't want you know and you go on tentative and they they pick it they can feel it yeah yeah see this is why you didn't make it on the eggs. And I'm like, I don't want, you know, and you go on tentative and they pick it. They can feel the, yeah. See, this is why you didn't make it on the farm. Yeah, so it wasn't really my, it wasn't my happy place. So you feed the pigs, you feed the chickens.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it did. Some sort of, anyway, we're better than that. I'm not. So what else do you have? Pigs, chickens, cows. Yeah, we had some cows, sheep and stuff. Yeah, as well. Jeez, you had a big farm.

It wasn't a massive farm or something. It wasn't like we were doing it for beef or export. So the eggs were just for personal use, were they? Yeah, for personal use. Is there a difference between eggs straight out of the... Fresh out of the... Is there? We had a couple of geese.

I mean, sometimes they would lay eggs as well, but not lay in there. They just roamed free. They all kind of roamed free, you know, and stuff. Jeez, I love, you know, I love keeping boys to dad. School principal, I can't imagine him running a farm. Oh, no, it wasn't him. It wasn't him. Yeah, so when mum and dad, you know,

thanks for bringing up my childhood issues, mate. They separated, new relationship, stepdad, new farm, mum out there, dad. And so how were you feeling at this time? Oh, like, you know, things, you know how were you feeling at this time oh like you know things you know difficult time

in any teenager's life you know going through that you know going through oh you know I was in the sleep out at the back

of the foot you know but you know there was some good times there was some good times talk about the bad ones though with me

this is what this is therapy yeah so Kevin Boyce would see him in the weekend you know that was the arrangement dad on the weekends farm during the week um and so yeah the farm not for you no but i did really enjoy it was a beautiful part of the country to live on and as

i said i've said to you before we used to like in there i was such a like a nerd for making stuff and i would make video camera so i'd make these sort of home videos with my mates. I'd write little scripts. And we'd go out and I'd get my mates on the holidays. Not a lot to do in the Wadadap. I'd be like, hey, we're going to film this thing over three days. We're going to stay here. We're going to play and make these little movies. Three-day shoot.

Three-day shoot. Some of them would tap out midway through. I don't blame them. I don't blame them. No, no, you've got to say this line. And they'll be like, I don't want to get into acting stuff. I just want to be a farmer. To be fair, the acting was a bit average from a lot of my mates.

But to their credit, they gave it a go for me. It was lots of stunts jumping into the water and things like that. But yeah. Just like bloody old James Cameron over here. All we wanted to do was ride around on bikes to the school holidays. Because I was trying to work out the system of how to make them. The thing's, again, saying old men ranting right now, but it's a lot easier to put graphics and music behind stuff.

Oh, yeah, the TikTok generation don't know how good they've got it when it comes to content creation. I thought I'd crack the code because doing the credits, the opening credits, I would have a Word document on the computer and film that, and then on the side, I'd be scrolled down with a mouse. So that would be the credits. I thought it was good. Play the music live, so I'd have a ghetto blaster on one side,

on one shoulder, a camera on the other side as I was filming the scenes. But then the scenes would go on quite long, so I'd have to edit. There was some terrible musical edit jump cuts between the one song as well, and I used to have to edit them on two. We had two VHS players that I'd have to edit them on two we had two vhs players that i have to edit on if you screwed up an edit you'd lose some of the scene before and you couldn't go but there was no or redo so i was like oh that scene's got a lot shorter than so yeah these were terrible but but hey it was so you know it was it was a start and when did you lose your It was quite late To be honest

It was weird I'm just I'm just editing this scene Hold on I'll be with you Sean I'll be with you Hold on Play the music

Play the music Look I've got this thing You can scroll down on You can scroll down On a word document Off of the credits It's like wow Yeah he's a real catch

This guy At the farm So that's me I don't know how We got talking about this Anyway Who's the weird Farm kid making movies

They go into swan dry Or bread bands Or anything like that But it just Very funny Did you incorporate The animals in your movies Not really

The scenery The scenery Should have used the animals Yeah no It was more the scenery And stuff in there But yeah It was Yeah They weren't good movies But they were fun They were fun Have you still got them We should The scenery. The scenery. Should have used the animals. Yeah, no, it was more the scenery and stuff in there. But yeah, it was, yeah, they weren't good movies.

But they were fun. They were fun to make. Have you still got them? Oh, maybe on a VHS. Oh, you've got a hundred now. I don't even know. To be honest, I don't know because they were on, you know, who's got VHSs these days? Oh, mate.

Well, listen, you put. Killing in the Name Of. They were all named after songs. Killing in the Name Of was one of them. You had Rage Against the Machine. Body Count was another one, which was. Oh, Ice rage against the machine body count was another one which was ice tea yeah which is another one i think uh and regulators so regulators was like a cowboys and a western one oh yeah it's called regulators uh body count was just uh like an an all out action sort of

a lot of body people bodies everywhere so I was killing in the name of to be honest high action it was one of those

straight to DVD you know now they'll go oh well there's no cinema releases you know it'd be the equivalent of where they get all

you know what was that movie they got all those sort of the superhero the action stars and they all got together like you know and they get them all together and it together like, you know, they're,

yeah, and they get them all together and it went straight to, you know, straight to DVD. It was one of those sort of things. It's no real script, I mean it was a script

but no one learnt lines. To be honest, I'm surprised about the Child, Youth and Family service that wasn't called out. Like, who's the weird kid making movies

about body counts on the farm? He names all his movies after hip hip-hop songs yeah very good very unusual for that yeah i remember those the three movies like a trilogy but they they didn't all tie in together what was your role in the way director stars yeah it was kind of directed now and again i put myself in in the scenes but a lot of time i was trying to just trying to wrangle, you know, the script runner, the director, the producer, mate, we're on the budgets, you know, the catering as well. There's a lot to juggle.

All at my house, the catering bill. Mum was helping me out with that as well, but yeah. Gee whiz. I don't know how we got talking about this, so anyway, sorry. Taika doesn't know how good he's got it. He's got all these people doing these jobs for him. You were doing them all. I was doing them all there.

Anyway, enjoy the podcast today. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. In the New Zealand Breakers basketball team late last night, unfortunately just lost to the Sydney Kings. It was a very, very close game. The problem with doing a breakfast show getting up early and loving my sport and even mates were like, come around, we're going to watch it.

9.30 start you know like no thank you I feel like such a nerd so I'm like oh just it's quite but how much better for it do you feel right now

probably no better to be honest you're always tired like I feel like that you know you should just live your life now I've decided so but yeah

but you can't live your life until 11 o'clock at night well you can you still go crazy yeah but the break is a great season for them. Last year, of course,

they were last. Things went great and they've really turned things around. So we're really proud of the breakers, even though they didn't quite make it in game five. They're still incredible, incredible season.

So well done to them. Yeah, good on you, breakers. Well done. They won't ever hear this. This will never get back to them. This message. I mean, it's a lovely sentiment from the pair of us

coach did a shoeie from the opposition team after the game too you know Aussies and their shoeies they love their shoeie hey just

how many shoes have you drunk out of producer Joel I'm going to bring you in here for a conversation 42 I think at the last time are you a shoe

are you a shoe person I'll do a shoe he's drinking his Del Marti out of a shoeie yeah I'll do a Del Marti shoe right now just for the breakers. They just use it as vessel.

I thought it would be quite a good design to come up with actual cups. They look like a shoe. They're in the shape of the shoe. So that, you know, you can clean them, you do whatever. You don't have to have someone to wear them around, but they're actual shoey. And that probably encourages binge drinking and all that sort of stuff. That's what we're all about. That's what we're all about in this country, aren't we?

Yeah. What happens after you do it? Do you have to put your foot back in the soggy shoe? Yeah. And that's it. Just don't care. Mow on with it. Just count, mate.

You know what it's like when you're that age. Why am I worried? What an old man just worrying about comfort. Comfort and the reliability. Hey, big moment yesterday on the hits, actually. Speaking of you, Producer Joel, we had a winner for Cash and Car. Yeah, we're going to play this in about 10 minutes' time because it's worth playing the whole thing again.

The whole thing? Well, the winning moment again. Not the whole seven minutes. No, but a little cut down. Yeah, but a good reflection because I listened to the replay last night after we won. I sat in my car, listened to it. I had tears in my eyes listening to it.

It was really, really emotional radio. Someone walked past, old Ben's crying in his car again. Another bad day at the office. I'm listening to it. It was really, really emotional radio. Someone walked past, old Ben's crying in his car again. Another bad day at the office. I'm listening to Cash and Car. And I think we can tell you what's going to be the new, the brand new thing. Very exciting that's happening. We're doing more winning. Oh mate, this is pretty cool.

Honestly, you, I'm talking to you listening. We're just give, give, give. Win this, win that, win that. You can win this. Not once has a listener phoned up and gone, hey, do you guys want to enter this competition? Oh, that's true. Never heard that from a caller.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, sorry, we usually get to talk before the song ends about what we wanted to discuss. And we're in the air. I was like, I've got this thing about my dad. But you might have some topical gear. Mate, you know, the teacher's strike can wait.

Well, it's happening anyway, regardless of whether I talk about it or not. No, let's go teacher's strike. You know why I'm saying let's go teacher's strike? Because in this job, you have 36 bits of radio you have to make every morning. And we call them chat bits. And we come with little personal chat bits. And both of us are like, I know I can hold my chat bit.

Because, you know there's only so much stuff going on in your life yeah yeah and so if I can hold my thing about my dad for another day I really

I feel like we really want to hear about your dad actually 4487 on the text do you want to hear about Jono's dad or could Jono save this content for tomorrow

okay and help himself out after work today he's got one less 4487 let's take let's take one text first text through producer Joel he's got one less thing to worry about after work today. Do you want to hear Jono's story? Or the teacher's strike, which is of the moment.

We're not going to ignore the teacher's strike. I mean, that's happening today. 800,000 students from around the country are going to be affected today. 50,000 teachers. Thank God no texts have come through. Keep rolling with your teachers, Gare. That's all I've got on that. But it'd be nice if you could come in.

Speaking of your dad, no. Yes, so the teachers are happening today. So there are some schools not actually striking today. They've applied for exemptions as well just because of the disruption and stuff of the kids over the last couple of years, which I get. And they're not saying they're not supporting the teachers that are striking. And that's how good teachers are.

They've got the students front and centre, don't they? They're like, no, too much disruption. We can't have any more. But also in the same breath, they don't have to make placards go walk down the road. And they still get the benefits. If there are results, they get the benefits of the people with the placards walking down the road.

Yeah, I see what they've done there. They've done a Jono pride. They've saved a bit, haven't they? Well done. Well done to you. But I don't think there's anyone in this country not behind the teachers. No, no. So how hard is it to give them more money?

If we can easily flutter away, we can explode $16 million on a TVNZ-RNZ merger that never happened. Give a few bucks to the teachers. Yeah, it feels like it. Chuck a few their way. Yeah, no, I think you're right. You've got teachers all through your family. Yeah, parents are teachers. That's how they met, Teachers College.

My dad's a principal. Being married a teacher? Yeah, like Mike. That wasn't his teacher. It was his wife's teacher. But where's... He was 16. They couldn't deny it. Yeah, the worst. He was 16. They couldn't deny it.

Undeniable chemistry. Jeremy Kyle. It was all a day. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits. Cash and car. A brand new Skoda Kamek Monte Carlo car and a whole lot of cash in the back of the boot

was to be won by someone who guessed the correct amount of the cash. In the back, only cash keeper Joel knew how much cash there was inside. And there was over $60,000 worth of prize in the whole thing, the whole package, the kit and caboodle. And last night, the competition came screaming to a halt. We slammed the brakes on the Skoda Camel Monte Carlo. And they're good brakes too. It'll go... You'll stop dead in the middle of the Škoda Kamek Monte Carlo and they're good brakes too. It'll go,

you'll stop dead in the middle of the motorway and you had a winner, Joel. It was amazing. It was a great winner. Jo from the Upper Hutt, she was just, yeah, great winner.

They had a spreadsheet, her and her husband had a spreadsheet they'd been following along. They'd been trying to work out their guesses and yesterday with Brad and Laura

in the afternoons, she got it correct and jeez, it was emotional. Okay, my guess is $20,413.56. That's a nice number, isn't it? Feels nice. Oh, I hope so.

Got a ring to it. $20,413.56. So you've been following along with all the clues? I see there, Jo. I have. I have right from day one. It's a lot of money. It is a lot of money.

It's a lot of car. Plus the car, which is worth $47,990. Go to Camac Monte Carlo. That's a nice car. It smells good. Joe from Upper Hutt with a guess of $20,413.56. That is correct.

You've just won Cash and Cash. Congratulations. Oh, no! Congratulations. Oh, my gosh. Are you serious? Oh, my gosh. Oh, no! That's like over $60,000 worth of stuff right there.

Sean, you can fix your leak. Oh, my gosh. You can fix your leak. And then go to the shop and your brand new scooter came at Monte Carlo. Well done. Congratulations, girl! Oh, my gosh! Wow! Are you okay?

Thank you. I'm running upstairs. Oh, my gosh. Here we go. We've just won the car! It's a yes! Oh, my God! Oh my gosh. Here we go. We've just won the car and the gas. Oh my gosh. We've just won. We're live on air.

Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Oh my gosh. That is absolutely incredible. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, that is absolutely incredible. Oh my gosh. Oh my. Jo from Upper Hutt, you are the winner. It's all yours.

Congratulations to you and your husband. But your husband's not allowed to send it. Oh, you guys are absolutely amazing. Thank you so much. We'll let you go are absolutely amazing. Thank you. Thank you so much. We'll let you go and scream together. We have to scream. We're screaming. No!

Yay! Oh, how epic was that? Congratulations to Jo from Upper Hutt. We're going to catch up with her at 8 o'clock. How's she feeling now? Has it all sunk in? And at 8 o'clock, I'll tell you exactly what the next huge thing you can win on the hits is. It involves, well, let's just say it involves going overseas and it involves one of the biggest

artists we play here on the hits. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday, we were talking about gym sedants, things that have happened, embarrassing situations at a gym because Jono, you forgot to cool down the treadmill. Well, you forgot that the treadmill was going into cool-down mode and some... I didn't realise it had to. I thought you could just turn it off and on. It's a treadmill.

Why does it need to cool down? I'm the one who's done. I need to cool down of anything. Well, I guess you're meant to be on the treadmill as it cools down. But anyway, someone else got on as the thing was moving and had an unfortunate wee accident. Yeah, they really took the legs out from underneath them face planted onto the the tread part of the treadmill and not pretty not pretty and you never want to see those people again in your life do you pray

that uh you feel awful obviously and you're just like we can never um this is i need to change gym i can never see you again please don't tell this story to anyone. Not the only gym incident that we heard yesterday. We had some great calls coming through. Oh, I had like a bit of a bloated stomach, eating way too much gluten that day. I've had a bloated stomach for about three years. And I hopped in the car after gym and realised that I was going to run out of petrol before I got home.

So I had to stop and at the petrol station. But I only realised that after I'd gotten out of my car and taken off my pants to be more comfortable because of my bloat. Oh, so you'd taken your pants off to drive home in the car and then forgotten all about it when you got out of the servo. Oh, no. Luckily, I didn't get out. So how did you, because when you were filling up your car, you've got to go out, you've got to put the bowser in the hole? No, I sat in my car uncomfortably

while the attendant inside was watching me very suspiciously. What's this trouserless lady up to? Yeah, and then phoned my husband to come down and help me out and put petrol in my car because I couldn't get my pants back on. You couldn't get your pants back on? How bloated was your stomach? Well I was all hot and sweaty from gym so

Ironically the biggest workout was trying to get your pants on from the day. Thank you very much for the advice. I didn't realise taking my pants off was an option for my bloated tummy. Okay so I went to do a handstand and my top fell down. Fell down? Because you were upside down.

So your T-shirt's down by your wrists? Yes. Jeez, you're in a vulnerable position, aren't you? Yeah. And what do you do to save that? How do you like, do you have to just flip down, cover up, run away, change your name, move countries? No, no, no. Just get on with it. cover up, run away, change your name, move countries?

No, no, no, just get on with it. Guts it up and get on with it, don't you? Next time you got your bits out of the gym, Ben?

Just keep going on. Finish your sets, that's what they say, finish your set. Finish your set, like dead devs, finish your set, topless,

and stads. Such a great call, so we thought we'd keep it coming through. I know, 800 the hits, 4487. Jim Sedence, what's happened at the gym? And Margot Robbie, famous actor. Something's happened to her at the gym in front of the world's most elite.

We'll tell you what happened next. It is the hits. You got some Harry Styles. Oh, jeez, it was good when he was in the country, wasn't it? It's late night talking, 6.36, that's. Things happen. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. when he was in the country, wasn't it? It's late night talking, 6.36, that's... Hard luck to the Breakers, the basketball team from New Zealand last night, just losing their game five against the Sydney Kings.

But what a season. Great season, turning things around from coming last last year to almost winning the title. So we're really proud. Proud of the team. Yeah, would you be? How much prouder would you be if they had won, though? No more proud of that no more proud

same proud I'm proud like I said to my kids you give it your best you give it if that's all I can ask for and this is wrong

what's wrong with kids nowadays they're not being challenged to win they're trying to win but I'm just proud that they gave it everything they've got you're not proud of them

of course I am of course I am I was trying to check it out the hits five words for five pink tickets. Match all five words to see pink live in New Zealand in 2024. You'll be proud of us if we can win you these pink tickets, that's for sure.

And just as proud if we just do our best right now and try and match five words with you. See, again, that doesn't work. Your theory. Let's get Ryan on. He's in the hut. Welcome. How are you? Yeah, good. Can you hear me? Loud and clear hut. Welcome. How are you? Yeah, good.

Can you hear me? Loud and clear, Ryan. Can you hear us? Yeah, yeah. I've got to stand in one spot because our reception up home is packed. Oh, okay. Ben, can you do it? I can hear you.

I can hear you loud and clear. You sound great. Now, Ryan, you work in asbestos removal. Yeah. Nothing like asbestos running through your lungs, is there? Oh, it's great, mate. I'm sure you try and avoid that on a daily basis. Back in the day, they really nailed their foot to the floor with asbestos.

We had it everywhere, didn't we? We sure did. I remember at a school that we used to, actually, I think the school we used to live at, which is worrying, they used to sign going, warning asbestos. That was the kind of step they'd gone to. I remember a friend from america come over and go is that what you guys are doing about that just hold your breath just a warning get probably should get rid of that well ryan is ryan is doing that now we understand

your mum's just kind of bolting into your house ryan to win these tickets yeah yeah she did she came running the house me and my wife were getting the kids ready and she goes ring the hurts ring the hurts, ring the hearts. We're going to pink. And I got through. Okay, so you want to try and win these five pink tickets. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? Can I send somebody else?

Yeah, Jono or Ben? Who do you want to do it? Oh, sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Jono. All right. It's made out of asbestos in there too. Hold my breath.

So let's make it quick. Can't be in there for too long. All right, Ryan, he is in there right now. What pops into your head when I say nostril? Nostril. Nose. Nose, yeah, exactly what I was thinking. Expiry is word number two.

Expiry? Date. Date. Drumstick is word three. Chicken. Chicken, yep. Bunch is word three. Chicken. Chicken, yep. Bunch. Bunch is word four.

Group. Group. And cord, C-O-R-D, cord. Oh. Yeah, yeah. Cord. Vacuum. Vacuum, cord.

That's a tough one, the last one, isn't it? But we'll get jono back out of the soundproof booth and we'll see how we go matching five words and see if you want to play for these pink tickets or not he's back all right let's do it ryan what's going on the back room a lot of commotion happening in the household this morning hanging out for their pink tickets i think hopefully which hopefully you're going to win for them right now. Let's get to the $25 word. Word one, $25 cash. First word I said to Ryan was nostril.

Nostril, what did he say back? Nose. Yeah, well done. $25, Ryan, do you want to risk it for $50? Yeah, go on, I'm a gambling man. Word two, $50 cash. Oh, you're just going to hold fire. Don't even bother asking me, we're going all the way.

I won't ask unless you stop me. I'll keep going. Okay, expiry was word number two. Expiry. Expiry date. Yeah, well done. Let's keep going. Don't ask him. Word three, $100 cash. Drumstick was word three. Drumstick. What would I say to drumstick? Chicken.

Well done. Don't even ask him. Keep going, Ryan. What was the fourth word? Oh, now he's starting to... I don't need $100. Keep going, Ryan. What was the fourth one? Oh, now he's starting to... I don't need $100. Just go for it. We'll either go in the pink or we're not. Okay.

All right. Here we go. Word four. $500 cash. Bunch. Bunch. Bunch. Flowers.

Oh, you're not going to pink. It was group. That's a tough one. Bunch, to be honest. And the last word was cord. What was it? Oh, you're not going to pink It was group that Ryan went with That was a tough one, bunch, to be honest And the last word was cord What was it, extension? Yeah, that was a hard one The last two were hard

Ryan, you played a really good game I'm sorry we couldn't get to the pink today But you can try again another day Sweet as, thank you Have a good day Yeah, thank you for listening, mate Appreciate it Hey, coming up next Sunday

I'm doing something And it's involving basically harassing a large group of people, which I do Monday to Friday as well, Ben, on the radio. You like to do it on your weekends now, do you?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What doesn't get you in a great mood? Weather, a warning of South Island the next couple of days. It's going to be

a wet end to the week around the South Island. West Coast is going to see a lot of heavy rain. And large gale-forced winds expected for Canterbury. So, yeah, just another great, great weather forecast for summer. Well, I hope it's okay Sunday because I've been locked in to hock off a marathon meat raffle bonanza. Fundraising for the school, Oscar's school. Joel used to go to the school. The fair, huge day.

So you go along and what do you have to do? You've banged on about this before, but I've half listened. Yeah, I know. Like the people on the day probably walking past you. Well, you just hold a microphone. You basically bully people into buying raffle tickets to meet raffles and other things that you know they're probably not going to win that's your main and you keep going does

the raffle just keep going that's not just one i think it went for 23 hours a 23 hour raffle bonanza and you know how much i love talking i had a microphone too we're at some sports awards the other day the rural sports awards and you you grabbed the mic and it was all making noise and you pulled it across to yourself. I'm like, oh, here we go. Someone's taking over the show now. It was making feedback noises and you grab it. We talked to the audio guy afterwards.

He's like, oh, jeez, when you grab the mic. Look at you now. You've got your mic up and about. I do. Just love it. Mic at my hand. So, yeah, come along and just basically accost people into buying meat raffle. But the other thing about the humble school fair in New Zealand

is they're just doing anything to make money, right? They sell wonderful samosas and all sorts of food. The United Nations of food. But also there's that thing of, oh, bring in your old stuff and we'll sell stuff,, oh, bring in your old stuff and we'll sell stuff. Bring in boxes. So I've unloaded a bootload of crap from the prior residence, taken it all in. But what I know, and this is where the ratio always falls off, is that once the kids go there,

we're going to come back with a bootload of new other people's crap. You know? Yeah. You just need to cut the cord. It's this life cycle of just plastic bits and pieces. They're pretty good like that, the schools, aren't they? Yeah, I remember the chocolate one the kids would go. They were like, take a box of chocolate and sell that around the neighbourhood.

They give you all the chocolate. I mean, in the household, in the end, I'm like, all right, how much is the box? We're going to pay. Because everyone's like, I'm just taking one out. I owe two. I'm like, what is it? What is it? I guess we're just going to have much is the box we're going to pay because everyone's like I'm just taking one out I owe two I'm like what is it what is it I guess we're just going to

have to get the box great play from the school it is yeah they all know that eventually one poor relative is going to end up paying for the whole box

of fundraising chocolate and the other thing is too Oscar he's been sorting out the stuff that people have been bringing in so he has to organise it into boxes and things.

Already he's come home. This is pre, this is the entree before the main event. Already he's come home with a Guinness World Records book from 1979. Oh, yeah? 44 years ago, the records would all be broken, but he's like, it's vintage. It'll be worth a lot. And he's also come back. I've got a video here of a banana holder.

Oh. So if you've ever a video here of a banana holder oh so if you've ever wanted anything to hold your banana oh yeah I just had one before what could I be doing that's the banana holder it's a plastic

you sure that's a banana holder that's I hope it's a banana it's got a it's got a battery insert okay it's a big plastic and felt

alright the hits the Jono and Ben podcast of course big teacher strike going on in the country which we're going to get You've got a battery insert. Okay. It's a big plastic and felt. All right. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, big teacher strike going on in the country, which we're going to get into talking about very shortly. But right now, yesterday, Cash and Car was won, the brand new Skoda.

And all that cash in the back of the boat was won by Joe from Upper Hutt. Hey, Joe. How are you? Welcome. Here's the audio of you winning yesterday. That is correct. You've just won. There she goes.

Congratulations. Oh, my gosh. Are you serious? It was pretty surreal, pretty amazing moment. How is it for you right now, like less than probably 12 hours after? Oh my gosh, I'm still floating on cloud nine, but it's absolutely surreal and it hasn't hit home yet. It does not feel real at all. Doesn't sound like there was much sleep in Jo's household last night, if you know what I mean.

No, I've been awake since 3.30 and I think it was the first thing I thought of when I woke up. What do you do after that? Like, you hang up the phone from Brad and Laura. What do you do? What's the rest of the night like? Are you popping open some bubbles, or are you having dinner?

What do you do? Oh, my gosh. Actually, we were laughing about that last night. I totally forgot to even eat dinner. I was just buzzing all night long, and I don't think I could wipe the smile off my face. I rang Mum and Dad, and, of course, I told all our kids. And there was just so much excitement.

We were overwhelmed, and we really just can't believe it. Up until this point, what's been the biggest thing you've won, Jo? Oh, my goodness. You might laugh at this. The biggest thing I've ever won was about 40 years ago. I was a child in a design and ad competition and I won movie tickets to go and see the Foot Rock Flats movie. So it's been a while.

She's taken us back to the old school there, Jo. That was the last time you won something? A little bit of a step up. I mean, Foot Rock Flats was a great movie, but this is a bit of a step up. It's for sure. It certainly is. I have been trying for the last couple of years

to get through the cash in car, and I am just stunned. I'm totally gobsmacked that I even managed to get through. Yeah, because we understand you and your husband had a spreadsheet going on. Oh, yes, he was manning the spreadsheet, and he was the one keeping an eye on the clues on Facebook, so it was absolutely a team effort. I was listening to all the guesses throughout the day, writing them all down, and then at the last minute yesterday, I almost gave a different number.

So it was just my lucky day that I changed my guess. Oh, well done. Well done to you and your husband manning the spreadsheet or womanning the spreadsheet as well. It's 2023. Personning. Personning. Anyone can look after a spreadsheet in this day and age. Well, wonderful stuff.

So you've got a brand new car. Have you ever owned a brand new car before? Brand new Skoda? Never in my life. Wow. Never. So this is just going to be life-changing. Amazing.

Oh, it's pretty incredible. Yeah, that car is amazing. The Skoda Kamek Monte Carlo. It's an incredible car, a whole lot of money as well. What are you going to do with it? Oh, gosh, we've got, it will go to good use. We have had a major leak in our bathroom. My son put his foot through the floor. Oh, jeez.

We didn't know it was happening so that was unexpected. We've had other things that we need, that house needs urgent attention and we just found out our cat needs dental work. All these bills just keep popping up

and we were starting to wonder how on earth we were going to pay for it and for now we don't need to worry. Oh, that's awesome. Well, congratulations. Thank you so much for listening to the show. And thank you for taking part in this amazing competition. Thanks, Shushikata.

Thank you so, so much. We are both so incredibly grateful. You guys are amazing. Just awesome. Yes, we are. Yes, we are. Don't you know? Don't say it.

She said we're amazing. Why would we not agree with it? Yeah, well, the amazingness doesn't stop. Tell your cat to floss as well. Amazingness doesn't stop there. The next big competition is happening Monday on The Hits, where we could be sending you and a friend to Pink and Hyde Park in London, including flights, accommodation, and spending money.

It's incredible, and that's starting Monday on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A huge teacher strike going on around the country today, which is going to be impacting more than 800,000 students from preschool all the way up to year 13. 50,000 teachers going on strike. Some schools have decided not to strike, but they're still supporting the teachers' strike as it is.

They just think there's been a lot of disruption, and there has been as well. Don't these teachers get enough holidays anyway? Come on. Come on. No, we're fully behind you. And Hippo, just give them the pay rise. Hippo's mum, she's up there in the bloody...

Chris Hipkins. Chris Hipkins. He's saying Hippo, but I don't know if anyone knows who you're talking about when you say that. Chris Hipkins Chris Hipkins you keep saying hip hop but I don't know if anyone knows who you're talking about when you say that Chris Hipkins' mum she's the chief researcher for the council

of educational research is she yeah she's up in there nepotism at it's finest no she's been there for a while so surely she's putting the acid

on her son surely listen to your mum Chris give the teachers what they need hopefully hopefully they do

because they are very underpaid the teachers what they need. Hopefully they do because they are very underpaid. They're the teachers and they work really hard. My daughter Poppy, she's on school camp at the moment. What happens there?

I hope they're striking. Sticking to their guns. It'll be 12 hours like Bear Grylls. The kids will be out in the wilderness. Kids fend for themselves, builds character.

Yeah. What happened to you, Poppy, over the camp? I killed a wild pig with my bare hands just to survive. Because that's what you had to do. As you, Poppy, over the camp? I killed a wild pig with my bare hands just to survive. Because that's what you had to do. As you said before, my wife's a teacher, both my parents teach my dad a principle.

We used to live at the school back in the day. Jeez, you must have let down the family. Yeah, I know. I didn't get into teaching. But I remember Dad going into Dad's office when he was the principal. And he had in his desk drawer, back in the day, i don't know if he ever used it but the strap i think it was just that and that was back in the day where kids could get the strap on their hand with like a leather a strap on hand a strap you get like a strap yeah it was like a leather thing that would fall and you'd wake your hand yeah i

don't know if it yeah as i say used it but that was a threatening thing back in the day i remember giving it a go and going what is this like but not not putting my finger my thumb down and just straight on the, yeah. Very painful. So I'm glad that stopped. I bet that would get cancelled if it was around today. Oh, totally. It got cancelled years ago.

Everything's getting cancelled. For the right reasons. PC madness. What did I do? That feels like that was pushing things too far. You know, you let this other person, you discipline your kids in that way, yeah. And if you're having a bad day as a teacher, you're just like, whack!

Whack! Did you look at me sideways? Whack! Really take it out on the kids. Yeah, I just think the strap. Okay, so we're going to run our own educational program. We know some schools aren't happening today, but you still need education in your day, kids. Or you've come to the wrong place.

Yeah, we've got a few board games. It's called Beat the Parents. It's a really fun board game that kids and parents and grown-ups can play. And if you want to take Jono on, if you're a kid. I'm playing a different game about beating with the strap back in the day. Yeah, it wasn't Beat the Parents, was it? But if you want to play, you want to take on Jono, you've just got to basically ask your question, ask Jono a question.

There's kids' questions and there's adult questions. We do this game called Man vs. Child from time do this game called man versus child from time to time. Ben wheels it out from time to time. I've never once won it. The odds are stacked against me. No, it's not. I know how you want this to play out. I haven't made up the questions.

I haven't pre-given anyone answers. We haven't got 100 of the hits if you want to play against Jono. We'll play it this year. You can't talk to any callers before you talk to them on the radio. I promise. I promise. Okay. Next, you could be beating Jono or not beating Jono on the Hits.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Teachers strike going on around the country today. We're supporting the teachers and hopefully they get better working conditions and more money. But the teachers are not going to be there to teach the kids today. So we thought we'd step in really quickly with a game of beat the parents Okay students, time for the beat the parents class

No you're right, this is not part of the traditional curriculum but at this school we throw that out for shameless product placement Ben asks easy low hanging fruit questions to the kids and John O'Hard questions You're the adults, you've got years fruit questions to the kids. And Jono, hard questions. You're the adult.

You've got years of experience on the kids. You should know these things. Carlene, you're on. Welcome. Nine years old, we understand. Yes. All downhill from here, mate. All downhill.

Okay, so, Carlene, I'm going to ask you one question, Jono one question, and then if you both get them right, we'll go through to the tiebreaker question. But if you get it correct and Jono gets it wrong, or Jono gets it correct and Carlene gets it wrong, then Jono will win. Okay? Okay. Are you home from school today, Carlene? Yeah, I am. Yeah.

What do you want to say to the teachers out there, mate? Touching words. Good luck. Okay, Carlene, your question from the kids section of Beat the Parents, the board game. What time of the year are hot cross buns usually eaten? Easter. Yeah, well done. So Carleen's got one on the board.

Well done. Over to you, Jono. How often does Sloss go to the bathroom? Once a day. No, once a week. Once a week. They're very backed up, aren't they, the sloths? Things are moving slow.

There you go, Carlene. You've got beat the parents. Some more kiwi fruit. Kiwi crushing your diet. Yeah. Well done. You've got the board game. That's how it works.

Good on you, Carlene. Well done. Well done on saying when hot cross buns were eaten. Hey, mate. Congratulations. Congratulations. Let's get Ashley on. You're 11 years old. Welcome.

How are you? Good. Mate, let me guess the question. At what time of year does Santa come round? Okay, we'll go with you first. No, let's go with you first, Jono. What do you call a male duck? Male duck?

Yeah. Don't Google it. It's a mellon. The word that we're looking for was drake, but it's also a mellon. Okay, all right, you Googled that. I didn't Google it. You did. Okay.

You did Google it, didn't you? You did. No one said no Googling. Okay, what lives in an aviary? Birds. Yeah, well done. One all. I heard whispering in the background.

You were Googling. Okay, no Googling. All right. So first, we're going to tie-break a question. First answer this. Which pop star has a cat named Meredith? Taylor Swift. Oh, you monster.

Who? Give me that board game. No. I'm going to give you the board game. Jono, we're taking it off you. We're going to give it away. But Jono, you chalked up a win. Well done.

Hey, Ashley, do you have to go to school today or are you at home? WFH. Hi. I'm going to work with my mum. Oh, good on you. Well, you have a lovely day. Make sure you get more than minimum wage for your time in the office We'll send you out the board game, beat the parents

Thank you There you go, a lot of kids coming to the workplace today I imagine too as well Have you ever been part of a strike or have you been part of a protest? We did go down to the one outside wrapped our tinfoil around our heads and slept outside Parliament for a couple of weeks. It was the only one.

But apart from that, really. You got a little wet when the sprinklers came on it. Yeah. It did some wild stuff. It did some wild stuff. We'll forget that. Hey, thank you very much for listening.