Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben gets caught and Megan gets a mother's day slap in the face

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY We chat to Olympic swimmer Hazel Ouwehand Megan shames Ben Jono is a musician! Hits and misses of the Met Gala Ooo that's a sexy texty! Cars unusual quirks... Should we ban speedos? We chat friends with benefits...  Check us out! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: TheHitsBreakfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. The news before, Megan, about a zoo in, was it China? That don't have any pandas, so they're painted dogs, puppies. They're little chow puppies, they're like big fluffy ones, but yeah, they painted them to look like pandas. That is a great hack. You saw some, a painted donkey or zebra, didn't you, in Mexico? Well yeah, it was a donkey painted like a zebra, yeah. But this occasion, I mean, it's obviously not right, but they're saying it doesn't damage the dogs or anything.

Yeah. It's more the fact that they were telling everyone they were pandas and they're like, oh, no. A good solution to someone, you know, a creative person came up with it in the brainstorm room and fair play to the team. They rolled with the idea. No idea about idea.

They look really cute, actually. They do look cute. Do they play to the team. They rolled with the idea. No idea about idea. They look really cute, actually. They do look cute. Do they look convincing? Yeah. Kind of. Yeah, like as baby ones. Yeah, like little baby pandas.

So they didn't have to come clean on it. Well, no, I think people were like... As soon as the panda started barking, they were like, hmm. Yeah, maybe that's it. They're like, why can't it climb the tree? It doesn't want to eat the bamboo either. Yeah, because pandas kind of sit on their bum and stuff like that.

They wouldn't be doing all those things. A lot of butt sniffing going on. Yeah, they're having a crack hour. Now, you shamed me the other day, Megan. I was talking about one of my daughters doing a whole lot of musical theatre performances this week, like eight shows, and I was saying how I was feeling all right. I was going to three of them. Three.

And another dad was going to all eight and you were like if it was my kid I'd be going to all eight It was a public shaming like the roast of Tom Brady and Giselle Buncham I was just like one night she's going to come home being like I killed it tonight Dan, you were going to be like I wasn't there to see it But you saw her kill it the other night

that's my thing, same show same dialogue So yesterday I was like alright we'm going to go on another show. There was a show on yesterday and I was like, we're going to a show, we're getting tickets. My wife and I got some more tickets. We're going to go along again. And then we were like, Sienna, we're coming along tonight.

She's like, oh, great. But you know it's the same show, right? She was like, hey, it's good that you're going to be there. It's awesome. But she was like, you know, you're going three times. I was like, well, Megan, Sienna, what's up? Yeah. She called out his

parenting and his commitment yeah so she was like she was i mean she was stoked that we were there but at the same time same time she was also like it's the same show you know she's just playing it down deep down she was like oh my gosh my parents care that much they're coming again it's the same show nothing takes away from the fact that's the same show i'll be away from the fact that it's the same show. I'll be good on you for doing it. And so you're doing all eight nights now? No, we missed a night on Sunday. What? We couldn't do it.

Well, we had this conversation on Monday. You shamed me on Monday. Why? Is he going tonight? Well, I'm going two more times over the weekend. It was really, really good. Was the show last night better than the show you saw in the weekend? No, it was really cool. It was good. I felt like they than the show you saw in the weekend? No, it was really cool.

It was good. I felt like they were probably, because the opening night was really good, but they felt like they probably relaxed a bit more. Nerves, yeah. You know, like relaxed more. You know, so it was, yeah. It was a bit of flow on. Yeah, but it was really cool.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. AI taking over the world, and I felt like I needed to get on board this train before the train departs the station. And, you know, there's many things you can do with AI. I don't actually know what it covers, but it feels like it's just a wide spectrum of things that AI can do.

But one of them is songs, and, you know, you hear songs of artists who have been robotically copied. Yeah, I hear, like, Johnny Cash singing Britney Spears or something like that, or the Vengaboys. You're like, oh, okay. Yeah, and I was like Johnny Cash Singing Britney Spears Or something like that Or the Venga Boys And you're like Oh okay Yeah And I was like

How's this done So I got into a songwriting AI program Right And they're like We can create a song for you Or you can create something Of your own

And they're like A few tips A few tips When creating your own song AI is like Write about something That is dear to your heart Yeah

Make it personal Yeah uh and we'll do the rest so i do you sing this no i'm not singing the ai does everything yeah yeah the ai comes up with the song oh you're right you know like catchy pop love song or romantic opera song so i wrote catchy pop love song and it's also i found out probably a great way to tackle difficult subjects in your relationship as well okay so this is a topic that's very dear to my heart i spend you know minutes minutes a day cleaning up this particular item right in the bathroom floor me good i know it's a bone of contention in your household as well yeah uh i have two girls with long you And this is called Hairy Situation I love your bed and the way you smile

I love your walk at night, my style I can't stop thinking about you every hour Even when I am soaking my bits in the shower Cause when I step out from the shower door Why is there so much hair on the bathroom floor? Every time I walk in there's more than before I'm talking about hair, hair on the bathroom Oh my god. Hair under the door It's a mystery to me There's so much hair on your head So who's in his own love? This hair has been shed

Hair, hair on the bathroom floor Every time I walk in There's more than before We got a hairy situation So that's my debut single. Are you joking? It's called Hairy Situation. That's really good.

They really like, AI really make it into a catchy song, don't they? Yeah, all you do is write some dumb lyrics. Yeah. That was really good. I had very low expectations for that. That's great. That's why I set the bar low.

My bar's low. The AI bar, very high though. And then it gives you like seven different versions it's like which one of this do you which one of these do you like right so you've got a guy singing one you've got crazy wow my god it's too smart it is really too smart isn't it ai that's such a good song yeah let's not lose the message in the song you just clean up your own hair yeah i don't have any i've contributed to this in no way i don't know andrew it's a bone in andrew's life isn't it yeah yeah i mean i don't know. Andrew, it's a bone in Andrew's life, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've got very long hair, so it's hard to deny. It's not his, you know? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Tom Brady, American football legend, got roasted. A lot of jokes made at his expense on Netflix. Kevin Hart, Kim Kardashian were there.

A lot of very funny comedians were roasting him. But there was a few jokes not just made about him, but about his relationship as well. He was married to Gisele Bundchen for many years, the Brazilian model. And Kevin Hart had a crack at it. How did you not see this coming? Eight karate classes a day. Eight karate classes a day. Eight karate classes a day. And karate classes a day. Eight karate classes a day. And she's still a white belt. Yeah, she's in a relationship with her instructor. Karate instructor.

I think it was a kid's karate instructor. I mean. No, she does it. Oh, does she do it? Yeah, she does it. So apparently they didn't, she reckons they didn't have any relationship until after they were divorced,

but they did know each other. Price is advertising for the karate instructor's dojo, isn't it, on the roast? But she's come out over the last 24 hours, Giselle not happy. No. She knew what she signed up for when her ex-husband probably didn't tell her he was getting roasted. Yeah, true. She didn't sign up for anything, really, did she? Tom Brady got paid handsomely for it, I'm sure.

How do you do a roast and say everything's on the cards except my wife and my relationship and my kids yeah it went a lot three hours live they're never live like if they had pre-recorded he could have gone hey man can you leave her out of it and they could have edited it out easily yeah because i guess the jokes are on him but then at the same time with the joke, she's getting mocked as well. So you can see that she wouldn't be happy. She's also worried about their kids because they've got three kids, well, two kids and

she's a stepmom to the third. Yeah. And they're all with the teenage years as well from like 11 to 16. Oh no, are they? You know? So you're kind of like, for them- They know the internet. There's a lot of talk about their mom and with her instructor and all that sort of stuff.

It was, yeah. There's a lot of talk about their mom and with her instructor and all that sort of stuff. She thinks it's irresponsible on his behalf to put all that stuff out there and to be roasted, which I can understand. I can kind of get where she's... Well, you guys were both saying yesterday, you're like, how does she feel about this? How does she feel about this? And now we know how she feels about it. Not great. Not great.

But that's the... Can you do a roast in 2024 well this is the thing because i mean that's that's a roast what you saw that content that is your textbook roast and also i think that's one of the best ones we've seen for a while we all laughed a lot of people were saying that you know comedy is kind of back in a way because it's there was a lot of things said that weren't p you know PC and stuff like that and people were saying oh maybe it's all back

but then obviously in this case Tom Brady was open to it but other people in his life weren't quite I keep going why did he do it

he didn't have to put himself through it financially no probably right he probably doesn't need any money maybe he thought a roast was like

a celebrity cooking show or something when do we get to the meat guys yeah the hits the Jono and Ben podcast as I said before a bit of a cold snap around the country you thought a roast was like a celebrity cooking show or something? When do we get to the meat, guys? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As I said before, a bit of a cold snap around the country for the next couple of days. But right now we're going to heat things up with some sexy texies.

Welcome. Oh, that's a sexy texie. We try and just spice up the mundane messages with our loved ones. Now, Megan, actually on the Wild Wild web broadcast that we do on iHeartRadio just internet only show that we do we asked you the other day, have you ever solicited a saucy picture and you said you had.

I was driving home going what do you do with that imagery once you've received it? Is that a screensaver situation? Does it just get lost in the photo stream? No, not in the photo stream. There's a Picture Vault. It's an app you can get where you have to put in a code to get into it. And the app screen, it looks like they switch it up.

Sometimes it looks like a calculator. Sometimes it changes. I always wonder with those things, the people that work for Picture Vault. Oh, that's easy stuff. I always wonder what those things... So you don't know it's there. The people that work for Pitcher Bolt. Oh, that's easy stuff. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, Monday mornings, they're like, oh, what about over the weekend?

Oh, Megan added to her little file. That's what I always wondered about. Full access at the Pitcher Bolt. Hey, I did long distance for seven months, all right? All right. You tried some stuff. Anyway, that was in a time

where your relationship was adventurous. It was spicy back in the day. Now it's a lot of admin and basically just admin on the comms. Especially in these winter months as well,

it kind of feels like everyone's sort of hunkering down and a lot of admin. So let's read out a text, a mundane text and try and make it a bit more sexy,

a correspondence we have with our partners. Shall I start? Yeah, go on. This is a little combo. I feel like I've been, with this in mind i've been trying to like spice it up a little bit i don't think it's been working this isn't locked away in the vault no how's it going this morning was my message to my husband who looks after our two little kids uh he said good had a standoff but we're on our way now he's taking them to daycare i said oh no

what happened just lying on the floor naked but eventually had breakfast and got dressed I said oh good for you I bet that was relaxing he said no Bastion was naked

on the floor not me so you did you were all flirtatious I genuinely thought he was like I've had enough I'm just going to have a moment

I'm going to lie naked on the floor lying naked on the floor sounds very freeing, doesn't it? It does. Also an unusual scene to walk in on. Wasn't that Nellie Imbruglia? Was that one of her lines?

Lie naked on the floor. Nellie, what are you doing down there, mate? Everything all right? You're all right. Do you want to talk? Save it for your picture vault. All right, this is actually a vintage 2022 exchange. I scrolled back through this.

Now, I'm going to read out the comms. You just try and figure out what the topic was. Okay. Sexy Texties with Jen, my wife. Jen said, the doctor told me it's infected. I said, uh-oh, is it runny? She said, no, not bad, but it's quite red and tender. He just said, try and avoid rubbing.

You try and figure out the topic. Well, it's infected something, but I'm not sure what it's quite red and tender. He just said, try and avoid rubbing. You try and figure out the topic. It's infected something, but I'm not sure what it's infected. It's not your dog, eh? It's our daughter's nose. Get out of the gutter. It's cold and flu season. Middle of winter like you just mentioned, Ben Boyce. Just quickly, I sent a text to my wife over the weekend.

I got some bread from the bakery and she replied thanks Jesus and then I was like this is weird you're a god to her quickly after that

she said sorry autocorrect thanks heaps so there you go but thanks to Jesus I mean Jesus is smarter Jesus yeah

he liked bread didn't he Jesus broke the bread yeah do you know that bottle of water I've just turned into wine? Thanks, Jesus.

It's my prep. I was like, thanks, Jesus. That's unusual. But anyway. Sometimes autocorrects are like, surely autocorrect, just be sensible. You're saying heaps more than Jesus. Yeah, exactly. Maybe not.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We had to do a little bit of filming just yesterday with an Olympic athlete who's representing New Zealand in the Olympics. In Paris, yeah. Nothing like sending a couple of out-of-shapes 40-somethings to go and hang out with highly-tuned athletes.

But her name's Hazel O'Hund and a butterfly swimmer too. She qualified for the Olympics a few weeks ago. First Olympics she's going to go after, which is awesome. And we managed to catch her. So she's three hours in the water. She's been more time in the water than bloody the little mermaid.

She's fresh off a training session. And then we shove a phone in her face. Hazel, hello. Howdy. Fresh off another training session. First thing you want to do is come outside and talk to us. We're soaking wet here. Yeah, no, the weather's not the best, but that's all right.

I've been in the pool for the last three hours and I'm a little bit tired, but off to work. Is that a usual training session, three hours? No, no, it was only three hours because of you lot. Oh, so it's our fault. Yeah, normally it's like two. What do you think of? Or can you listen to music?

I mean, because a lot of swimming back and forth, obviously that's what you do. You don't need to mansplain what you do. But what do you think of or what happens? How do you keep yourself entertained oh well i have my speaker with me that i recently just bought so i pop pop some tunes on i have my um get pumped playlist that i listen to during training so you can hear that all underwater oh no not underwater only when you're at the wall right um i mean most of the time i'll just i don't know sing a song in my

head or watch the simpsons movie um you know easy stuff like that i guess warm up i might think about like things that i have to do in my daily life but by the time it gets to the main set like i'm just so in the zone and focused on what i'm doing there's no room to think about anything else so does it get lonely just staring at a black line on the bottom of a pool oh you know what me and that black line we're best friends we've known each other for like 18 years so you do butterfly yes yeah it's a tiring sport it's such a tiring stroke isn't it oh 100 i mean i haven't always done butterfly um but in the last like two or three years when i was looking at the olympic games and the qualifying standards that

was the one the hundred butterfly that i stood the biggest chance of getting so for the last two years that is literally all i have done and so so how do you qualify? Is it like a time thing? Yeah it's a time so there's a time standard and we had our national championships about a month ago that we went to and so you have to qualify there. In first Olympic Games you're saying your event is day one which is kind of good in a way. I know I'm actually so pleased because it's day one and done or you know if I get a final day two I'm done you know in that way then I know. I'm actually so pleased because it's day one and done. Or, you know, if I get a final, day two and done. You know, and that way then I can just enjoy the rest of the Olympics and bring out my pom-poms and be cheerleader for everyone else.

Why don't they lie about the qualifying times? Like here in New Zealand, you'd be like, oh, Hazel, you did it in like nine seconds, mate. You should have seen it. I mean, every federation has their own rules. Like the World Aquatics, they set the time standards and other federations can choose to adopt those times or not because i remember eric the eel do you remember eric

yeah we hadn't i don't think he'd ever swum a full length he'd never swum a full length in the pool oh yes yeah but he was like a hero you know i think i remember reading some articles and stuff about him i was like how did this guy end up at the olympics but then now you because everyone's got different standards yeah because everyone can put forward athletes. So yeah, there are some countries that just have like two representatives or something. The other thing too

is when you return from the Olympics, can you please tell us about the wild rumour that there's free McDonald's in the village, all you can eat McDonald's and a plentiful supply of condoms apparently.

That's all I hear about. Yeah, well, there was an intimacy ban in 2020 slash 2021 because of COVID and stuff. But the intimacy ban has been lifted. ban has been lifted so uh i'm single so i'll let you know when i come back oh all the best for the olympics

they say there's plenty of fish in the sea let's see how many in the pool exactly exactly race first and then worry about you got some times afterwards right yeah all the best and promise us if you win a medal you got to talk to us on the radio right 100 okay cool that's good hey so while we hand uh she's representing new zealand at the butterfly All the best and promise us if you win a medal, you've got to talk to us on the radio, right? 100%. Okay, cool. Sounds good. Hazel Owehand, she's representing New Zealand at the Butterfly. So all the very best to her. She was really cool. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. My brother's staying at the moment, my brother-in-law. He lives in San Francisco and he is telling us about this wild thing they introduced last year that I never actually heard about it. They're calling them robo-cabs. So they're taxis or cabs that drive around the city, but they're driverless.

There's no driver in it. So it's a steering wheel and everything, and it all moves while you're getting in it, but it's actually just controlled, kind of like you'd just book an Uber, but you get in there and it just drives you around the city. You're saying people have been getting, you know, canoodling and smooching up a storm in the backseat?

Yeah. When you told me that, I was like, I'm not a tech expert, but I'm pretty sure there'll be cameras up in that thing. Yeah, I imagine at night time, if you've been in the pubs and stuff and you're getting into the thing, that's probably when that sort of canoodling is happening, I imagine. But yeah, and people are not thinking about those things. But it's causing a whole lot of problems, these driverless cabs.

I did some research. Have a listen. Walking down the streets of San Francisco, you almost can't miss these driverless cabs. I did some research. Have a listen. Walking down the streets of San Francisco, you almost can't miss these driverless robo taxis. Just one day after California approved the expanded use of driverless cars, nearly a dozen robo taxis froze, creating a traffic jam. And I looked and there were no drivers in them. Then a New York Times report of one getting stuck in wet cement. Separately, a cruise taxi collided with a fire truck last week, preventing it from responding to a fire. Yeah, so there's all sorts of issues like that because it doesn't realise when, you know, the fire truck's coming along, it just goes, oh, I'm on a green light, you know, things like that.

And does it, they plough it on. Seems like some huge teething issues in week one. Well, yeah, like a whole lot of them causing traffic jams. Also, it's one of the companies, there was was two companies approved one of the companies is no longer approved uh we went too early guys i'm sorry they need to do a bit more work behind the scenes the other one is still continuing so you can still do it um but would you want to get in it after all these reports and people are not happy my um brother-in-law was saying that people are getting really upset by them being around and so they're trying to find ways like they're putting like road cones on them

because it kind of thinks it's like a collision and then they stop working, you know. So they're doing things to kind of sabotage it. Some people go into extreme lengths, like setting the light on fire and stuff. Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa. Some light arson. Yeah. The arsonist on a simple binge attack. Because I'm imagining GPS controlled.

Yeah. If it malfunctions and you're, because I'm imagining GPS controlled. Yeah. If it malfunctions and you're like, I'm just going to go to work, but end up in Cape Reanga or something. Well, yeah. You can't get out of it. Yeah, there is ways you can talk to the people, the operators.

I guess like in, I was watching one thing where a lady was, she was holding up someone who was trying to back into a park and he was getting real annoyed. He was kicking the thing and spitting at it. She was like, oh, that's not good then and then they rang her and they're like are you okay do you want anything you know so there was an operator that you could talk to

with inside the thing a real person and i love like who do you take your road rage out on like this guy's like attacking the car but the lady's like politely sitting in the back of it like it wasn't me it's eliminating road rage which is one of the best parts about driving. Well, but great for you. No tickets. They can't get tickets because there's no driver. But they can ticket the company. Well, the drivers are not getting tickets. That is a trick.

Yeah. That's wild. Yeah, it's a wild thing. I mean, a very unusual thing. And I don't know if it'll take on around the world, but it's in California right now. Well, it feels like that's where we're heading. Maybe we shouldn't start just yet. Yeah.

Okay, 0800, that's some unusual features about your car. This is what we want to get into it. You can text 4487. These are probably cars that you might have had as your first car as well. They had unusual quirks and features. I've had a couple. I used to have to push the window out on my little Barina so that it would wind up, the window,

and then sometimes you'd be driving along and if you hit a bump the whole thing would just go and slide down push it and wind it back up but you just get so used to putting that in your daily driving routine that it's not even an issue and then when you get a different vehicle you're like why did I put up with that

also just so you've got any electric windows, you're like wow that's a game changer with that? Also, just so you've got any electric windows. Electric windows. Wow. It's a game changer. A friend of mine's indicator didn't work. It just went on solidly. It didn't like go tick, tick, tick. And so he'd have to do it manually, like off, on, off, on.

It was going to go left as well. He even tried to do it when he was getting a warrant as well. They were like, put your indicators on. He's like, all right. Off, off, off. Your timing has to be precision. They're looking at the back of the car. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

I want to know your car's quirk because there's a really big quirk going on in California at the moment where cars are being, there's driverless cabs, robo cabs, they're calling it in Hoppin. No driver, they'll take you around the city wherever you want to go. It's not going well. You say it like it's a thing it's a thing yeah sometimes it goes well and other times they just stop they cause delays they crash accidents but then you say all these things about the driverless vehicles we could also list the amount of accidents that have taken place over the last you know although one person did get

hit by one and then they just kept plowing on okay so they're doing hit and run it's like 20 meters where the poor person was still getting, you know, like, it was like, because they didn't realize. And hit and runs happen in real life

too. They do, but oh yeah. So the, and it eliminates the awkward driver banter too. Yeah, true.

Does it? Yeah. None of that. What's the rules around like intoxication? If you're the only human being

in the vehicle. And what if you vomit in the back? Well, true. Do they know you vomit in the back? Then the only human being in the vehicle What if you vom in the back? Well true Do they know you're voming in the back? The next person gets in A lot of loopholes in this as well So 800 The Hits

Just want to know your car's quirks Let's start with you Jane Welcome to the show this morning How's things? Wait are you talking to me? Only if your name's Jane If not you can shush your lips. It is Jane.

Lovely. So what happened with your car, mate? Your car's quirks. So my car stopped reversing for six months. No reverse. Six months. She's as problematic. No, no.

And I literally, at the time, I didn't have the money for it. I had to wait. And I literally was driving on footpaths and everything and i changed where my son um picking him up from daycare where i put his car seat so i could pull up onto that side of the road and pick him up so you didn't have to reverse yeah i love it here like my car couldn't reverse so i had to drive all over the footpaths for six months would joke that it wasn't a feature. It's a BMW.

So I would joke that isn't a feature of this BMW. Six months is a long time. And so then I guess if you passed, if you're driving to a house and you miss it, I guess you just have to keep driving and turn around? Yeah. Or I'd have to push it out. I actually had to push my car because someone parked their car next to me. I had to push it out onto a road, and I literally held the car and let traffic go past, I indicated,

and then pushed it across and ran and jumped in and pulled the brake. Jeez, you persisted with that for probably about five and a half months, a lot longer than I would have. Grace, our producer said, you couldn't have driven into any driveways. No, at least I used to go to the top and I'd sort of shake with my seat and like rock back and forth and put it in neutral to roll down. What about going to the supermarket? Pardon? What about going to the supermarket or parking anywhere?

I was going early in the morning and I would try and get a park. I could drive around and get a park. Yeah, right. This thing was, you have to just factor that in. I would have to push it out. Every part of your life, yeah. Wow, really good. All right, I'm glad you can actually reverse now.

Thank you so much for sharing that with us. I had an old car from the 70s, a Kingswood, and very old, like King Henry, if you're going to use a king. But my son's first memory of driving me was, driving with him, was I'd go in the motorway, the door flung open. He was, thankfully, on the other side of the seat to which the door flung, and I'm fanging down the motorway trying to one-hand it. And then the window wipers would stop working,

so then you had to put your hand out and manually move the nightmare. Sharon, your car quirks. Hey, how's it going? Yeah, good, thanks. So probably in 86 when I was younger, we had a bright orange Skoda. So it always got a warrant, amazingly. The passenger seat was a bear crate. Legend.

How did it get a warrant? Where did the seat go? You've got the cousins to do that. A screwdriver for the key. Oh, my God. And it had something it would cut out if it was idling, so Mum would have to drop me at school. There was a hill opposite school.

She would have to slowly coast down the hill and go, get ready, get ready. And then when it was slow enough, I would have to jump out. And then she could, like, bump start it and carry on again. Oh, my God. This was the family car with the beer crate in the front seat. Yeah, it was. Dad was a bit of a dick, so he got it somehow. But, yeah.

Wow, I love the kids Get out Get out Different time for motoring In New Zealand Waka Kotahi Wasn't as stringent The hits

The Jono and Ben podcast It's Mother's Day After 8 o'clock We're going to find out If our mothers love us One by one We're going to call Our mothers this week

And see who's the fastest To get our mums to say I love you back Should be a redundant question Really Well yeah But All our mothersums to say I love you back. Should be a redundant question, really. Well, yeah. But all our mothers come from a period where, you know, like not very freeing with the I love you's.

Well, my mum's – I back my mum into this one. I back my mum into this. I don't back my mum at all. Yeah, it is Mother's Day this weekend. And just before I get into this, like my kids' daycare, they have the best teachers. Shout out to Cookie, the chef who listens to our show every morning. Shout out, Cookie.

Appropriate name for a chef, too. Yeah, yeah. But I was disappointed when I went there yesterday. I went to pick up my son. And on the door, they've all made little hearts where they've written little notes that the kids have said about their parents. And I was like, oh, this is so sweet. So I stood there and I read all these beautiful things that the kids had said about their mums. Some of them were like, oh, my mum always gives me a cuddle after they put my jacket on in the morning.

I'm like, sweet, I should probably do that. I don't. But I got down to my son Bastion's heart. I was like, here we go. You're looking for your feedback. I was like, yeah, great. Here we go. What does it say?

And his heart on the door for Mother's Day says, I like to dance with Daddy. Happy Mother's Day. I'm like, what? You can't make Mother's Day all about you, Megan. What is this? I like to dance with Daddy. And like I say,

the teachers are amazing, but ask him again. Or just write it yourself. Well, say that for Father's Day. That's a great one. What about Mummy? Is Daddy a good dancer, though? I bet you would be. Yeah, I'd like to dance with Daddy too. Yeah, but what about me?

I hate to make it all about me, but I'm the mother. No, fair enough. What about me? Well, you write your own compliment. Hopefully Cookie the chef's listening. She can chuck something down on her heart and biff on the door. Rewrite something for me, Cookie, please. Just make it up.

What do you want, though? What are we playing in the field of? I don't know. Hugs, stories? Mummy reads me a story every night. Mummy reads the best stories. I don't know. Anything.

There you go. You've been told what to write now, bestie. Ghost written by Megan Parvis. Not just Drake with Ghostwriters. Or just something about me would be nice. I had the same thing I think I was telling you guys the other day. Well, a similar thing where Indie, when she was younger, had drawn our whole family and up in there, up

on the wall. And it was lovely. They all joined their family. But at the time, I was wearing a lot of Absinthe branded clothing from Hellenstein Brothers and she decided to put on my T-shirt rather large Absinthe. So it just looked like a whole family and then me, Absinthe. My Absinthe father. Absinthe father.

I knew what she meant. She'd gone with the label but no one else looking at it. You must have really liked those clothes. And for her to have a grasp of what Absinthe means as well. I know. He was working the lot too so he probably was quite Absinthe. Yeah, I was of what absinthe means as well. I know. He was working the lot too, so he probably was quite absinthe. Yeah, so it was probably pretty absinthe, that's for sure. Maybe it had nothing to do with the clothing brand.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Oh, good morning right around the country, particularly in the south where temperatures are going to get zero degrees and even less this morning, so rug up warm. But right now it's the Riddler. The Riddler. Did you say that? Oh, you.

Oh, cute guys. It's around sound there, Dolby Digital. Thanks, of course, to Dilma, the sponsors of the show. We've got a hot and cold tea prize pack, including lots of great hot and cold teas for you to win right now if you can solve the riddle. We'll usually get a chance for the first one and if we can't get it,

we'll throw it out to you and if not, we'll get another one. More often than not, we end up looking like bonafide morons. Although Ben Boyce, you clawed it back for us last week. We had a win. You got the answer, right?

Oh, yeah. I can't even remember what the riddle was. Even if you asked the same one again, you probably wouldn't get it right. But Taylor, very committed to riddles. Where does the Riddler character stop when the real Taylor begin in your life? How much Rdling are you doing a day um besides this segment absolutely none none okay this is just done once a week yeah okay so you're more committed the question was

regarding eggs yep okay so i have six eggs i broke two i cook two and i ate two. How many eggs are left? Four. Oh, I just got it. No, I swear I just got it because you broke them. You cooked them and you ate them. But then it sounds like you could have had all six. I really did get it at the end. It's funny how you just got it after I give the answer. I just got this. I did.

I definitely got it before you said it. Yeah. It's those ones where she adds numbers and all these things. Bamboozling. We know your tactic, Riddler. All right, so let's get another one. We'll throw it out there on 0800THEHITS. We can't answer this one.

You can? All right. What letter in the alphabet holds water? All right. What letter in the alphabet holds water? 0800THEHITS, 4487 on the text machine. We've got $100 cash in a Dilmar hot and cold tea prize pack. Handpicked and packed at the source for freshness.

Dilmar is making the world a better tea. Do try it. Can I write it down and you tell me? Say that again. Oh, look at the phone lines. Incorrect. I was thinking the letter U. It looks like a glass.

Oh, yeah. I was thinking the letter Y because it looks like a martini glass. Think, you guys are thinking too literal. Okay. Think whatever the other word is for not literal. So is that the question one more time? I've got to have fun. What letter in the alphabet holds water?

Okay. There, like Ben said, full board. Full board for the Dilmar teaser. That annoys me because all those people know and I know It's hard because you can't guess so we can't guess so that's the threat to them. Let's go to grey mouth We'll talk to Brian. I'll tell you what, Brian's got some calluses on his hands. How are you Brian? What do you do mate? He would have calluses

How much gold do you pull out? Do you pull out gold daily Brian? gold miner. Gold miner! He would have calluses. Cool, that's so cool. How much gold do you pull out? Do you pull out gold daily, Brian? Never enough. Never enough. Yeah, I can imagine so. And then what happens to the gold? Well, it sells it.

Michael Hill Jewelry gets it. Yeah, that's right. Well, Brian, this is the first time we've spoken to a gold miner. Let's see if you can win some extra money today. Oh no, we're not giving away money.

$100 cash. $100 cash, yeah. All right, Brian, what's the answer to the riddle? Is the letter T? No, it's not T. Oh, not T. What letter in the alphabet holds water? Hey, Brian, thanks for listening, mate.

Good luck out there on the tools. Candice and Tauranga, morena. Morning. What letter in the alphabet holds water? The C. Yes, good job, Candice. Oh, yeah. It was right there, guys.

It was right in front of you. The C holds water, yeah. You're so smart, Candice. Well done, mate. Hey, the $100 and the Dilmar tea price pack, all yours. Oh, thank you. It's time on Sunday. It is Mother's Day, a special day for all the mums across the country.

And we're going to play a little game. We run a timer on all of our mothers. We phone them up and we drop the love bomb. See how long it takes them to volley it back to us. In the past, this has been very humiliating. Annie has refused to publicly acknowledge her love for me. She does it on text. She'll say love you on text, but never verbally.

All right. So you're going to go first. You're going to try and set a time to see if you can get your mum to say I love you back. You could say I love you to her to prompt her. Yeah. Okay. Get the clock ready love you to her to prompt her. Yeah, okay. Get the clock ready, Producer Grace. Here we go. Annie Pryor?

Annie Pryor? Hello? Annie Pryor? Hello? Annie Pryor. Hello? Annie Pryor. Yes, is it you, Jay? It's me. Oh, okay.

How are you? Good. We're just back into a car park. How'd that go? Well, your father does that. But he doesn't need to. It's a point of honour for him to do it. What, to park in a car park?

No, to back into a car park. I go front in. Oh, you tend to go front ways in. I do. He's got a thing. Anyway, what did you want, Ben? Just saying I love you. Oh, because it's Mother's Day.

Yes. Thank you very much. Love you, Annie. Thank you very much. Love you, Annie. Thank you. I don't know what else to say, Jay. We're actually a little bit late. We're going to a meeting. What are you meeting about?

We all people have lots of meetings. Have lots of meetings. About what? Your family is saying, come on. So I really have to go. Well, love you. Well, I love you too, James. Yay!

It was a mountain to climb. It was a mountain, yeah. We had meetings and car parks. We got there in the end. Hi, Annie. How are you doing? It's Ben and Megan's here too. Hi, Annie.

Hello. How are you? We're good. Sorry to hold you up. Yeah, no, it sounds very busy and unnecessarily backing into the park as well, John, but he's done it now. Well, it's a point of honour.

When you reach John's age, you'll have points of honour too. You can still reverse it in car parks. He's here to get away afterwards. I see his theory. Yeah, it's a good theory. Well, chaps can, but I am hopeless backing everybody's told me that for years,

even though I drove a car since I was 10 years old. 10 years old? 10? Yes. Wow. Different times. 10 years, 10 years, 10. Yes, we were on a farm.

Oh, yes. I can't hear you. We're going on a lift. All right, good luck. Age is no barrier on a farm, does it? See you, Mum. There you go. For a lady who was in a rush to a meeting,

she got into her driving career. Yeah. Got there in the end. We got there just... I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. I can think of something. I don't know what to say to this.

You really bamboozled with it. But anyway, you got there in the end. We'll get the time and we'll see if Megan or myself can beat it tomorrow. It's the I Love You game. What was the time on that one, Megan? You were taking time on that? 35 seconds. Not bad.

And three I Love Yous. From the time you said I love you, that's when we started the timer to when she replied. Not bad. Time to beat tomorrow, you two. The Hits, the Jon and when she replied. Not bad. Time to beat tomorrow, you two. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, it felt like

in your friend group when you were in primary school or even high school as well, there was one friend that was great to be friends with. They had something a little extra. The big influential players in the schoolyard.

And back then for me, it was one of my friends David he has his family owned the video store oh wow that was

you know and to be able to go around to his place was great was it there were you going to ask about the special room oh no

did you guys sneak into the special back room well we never got anything out from the special back room because we were very young at the time you just went and looked at the covers

oh what's oh is that, what's behind there? But you get to watch all the new movies when they came out. Busty Lusty's one, two, three, four. We're talking about actual new movies. Liar. But sometimes you'd be halfway through a movie. The whole franchise. One of his parents would come in and go, guys, we need that.

Someone's hired it. Oh, we're halfway through a movie. Because, of course, they'd want the sale. But it was pretty awesome to go around there. They're like, you know the rule of video club. The customer comes first. And also, if they return the video late, there's huge late fees.

PlayStation games, all sorts. It was great. It was a great friend to have. Probably not as impressive nowadays to own a video shop, but certainly back then. Yeah, true. It would have been. You're like, oh, you're a video shop now.

Come around and watch any video you been. You're like, oh, you're in a video shop now. Come around and watch any video you want. You're like, okay. I had a friend in the same sort of situation except his family owned a dairy. Oh, nice. And they had the house out the back of the dairy. And geez, I would spend a lot of time there behind. You know when you walk into any dairy

and there's always that unusual back room with the beads that sort of separate in the doorway and you're like, what's going on back there? Who's back there? Well, I was back there. You were back there. And we're feasting up a storm. So they went to their house from there.

You basically walked through and it go. Yeah, into the shop. Yeah, right. And I was like, this is a dream scenario, living in a dairy. Now as an adult looking back on it, dairy owners work very hard. It's not a dream scenario. There's not many days of the year where they're not open. If any.

Yeah, but you're right. They're pretty much open all the time. They might get a half day. Yeah. Did you get to eat lollies and stuff? Oh, yeah. The world was our oyster. If it had not for individual sale on that can,

we got to individually enjoy it. Oh, that's great. That's a great setup. What about you, Megan? We had a friend, Anna, who actually lived very close to the school and she had a pool

and a big rumpus room. Oh. So we used to go there a lot. What's happened to the rumpus room? I don't know. To be honest, there wasn't much in there.

Got subdivided into a house. But it was just the fact that we had a room to ourselves that we could rump in. What did you do in that room? Just watch TV? Yeah.

Rumpus round. My house, everyone used to sit around just watch TV yeah rumpus round but we my house everyone used to come around to my house because back in the day we had a soda stream oh you were the powerful friend yeah

and so people would come around and everyone would be like can I have a soda stream and I did feel a little bit used but everyone got a soda stream same time it's pretty cool to come around

because I always wanted growing up I always said mum we need to get a soda stream so we don't need one now everyone's like, cool, man. But back then, it was like glass bottles. It was a non-fancy.

Yeah, that's powerful. That is very powerful. Okay, 0800THEHITS. Who was your powerful friend when you were growing up? Or maybe you were. Yeah. You were the big, the powerful. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Powerful friend in your life when you were growing up. Everyone had one. Some great texts coming through here. My friend in the 90s had a small pool and her own waterbed. Oh, a waterbed. What happened to the waterbed? It just fell off a cliff pretty quickly, didn't it, in the mattress game? I think it was chiropractors were frowning upon it.

I don't think it was good for your back. Did you have to replace the water, or did that water just stay in there the whole time? How did you remove it? It would be so heavy. Chiropractors were frowning upon it I don't think it was good for your back Did you have to replace the water? Or did that water just stay in there the whole time? How did you remove it? It would be so heavy I think it just stayed in there, didn't it? I don't know, I don't know I never had one

I used to try and jump on my parents' one And they're like, get off, you're going to puncture it Because what would happen if you did puncture it? The water would go everywhere in your room It was a nightmare waiting to happen, you're right And it would be very swishy and swashy, wouldn't it? In the 80s, one in five Americans owned a waterbed. There you go.

They were popular. Yeah. Still found today, mostly online as well. Text 4407, is anyone still sleeping on a waterbed? It's side pole. Yeah, side pole. But right now we need to go, why were you the powerful friend? Or perhaps you had a powerful friend as a kid. Why did anyone want to hang out at your place? Tanya, we we're gonna get you on good morning hi is that me that's you tanya

it was your friend and what did your friend have um my friend sharon she had these cool white boot roller skates and i would love to go to her place at any um chance i could to roll around a little concrete bit at the front to have a go on that. She also had braces and I was really jealous of that. Why would you be jealous of braces as a kid? Yeah, that's weird. But she had to put the rubber bands on her, you know, to put the rubber bands on.

All the coloured rubber bands, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But we had a soda stream, we had a soda stream, so I might have been a bit of a powerful friend too. I remember that. I remember that when they did that. Yeah, glass bottoms, they were cool. White roller skates, really, that's when you need to bring the noise, don't you?

I can picture the exact skates you're talking about too. I remember those. You can? Yeah, they were badass. We had a roller skating rink here back in Gisborne in the 80s. They've filled it all in now. It's a skate park. But, oh yeah, I was so jealous. They were so cool and glamorous, you know,

when you're eight. I bet. I bet. Well, you, Tanya, are going to have a wonderful day. Julie, we're going to get you on the powerful friend in your life when you were growing up. Hiya. Yeah. So we had, it was actually my sister and I both, they were sisters as well, same age as us, and their parents were golfers, so they had, it was actually my sister and I both, they were sisters as well, same age as us, and their parents were golfers, so they were always away,

and they had this massive house on the mountain, and they had a whole upstairs section, even if they were there, it was like a teen zone only pool table, they had a massive swimming pool, it was just all the things you can think of. All the things. That's where it happened. That is powerful, yeah. Amazing. You become really good friends

with those sorts of people don't you go you go to a friend's house and they'd have like a remote control car set you know but the remote control car set never worked yeah they're like oh there's a bit missing or that you know never fully functional joe you're on who was the powerful friend when you were growing up? There's a house out in Brooklyn now it's gone from the earthquake. There's like a old man had some turret thing and at the top of this turret thing there's like

this room with a pool table and that and he had some like mounted animals in there. I think there's like a lion and a couple of deer in that. And we used to just play pool and smoke his leftover cigars and that. Very cultured. Very just gentleman-like.

Come to my room with leather-bound books and mounted animals. Smoke cigars. Talk about stock market and stuff like that. That's powerful. On many levels, too. Alana, you're on. Who was the powerful friend? Hello.

I think it's my son. Oh, okay. We own a Tesla. Well, my husband owns it. And he only wants to be picked up by my husband to go to football and school. Yeah, I imagine the Tesla's a pretty

hot property at the moment amongst the kids. Yeah. Yeah, it totally is. You and your powerful Tesla's a pretty hot property at the moment amongst the kids. Yeah. Yeah, it totally is. Well, that's good. You and you are a powerful Tesla. Have a great day. Yeah, that's awesome. Great text here.

4487, my friend and his brother built a half pipe in their backyard. Skateboard ramp. So cool. Power player. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. My family owned the movie theater in town. We were very popular.

Oh, jeez, you would be. And Brian texted 4487, the waterbed market dried out, guys. I'm very, very clever. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. A cold snap hitting New Zealand as we get into the colder months.

It meant to be in Taupo in Christchurch, meant to plummet to about negative two this morning, negative four tomorrow degrees as well. So very, very cold right around the country. Well, Kim Kardashian would have wanted to be wearing a cardi in the South Island this morning. Fresh off the Met Gala yesterday, we hand over to our fashion reporter, Megan Papaz. Good morning. No, the Met Gala yesterday.

First of all, the reason the outfits are so crazy, I feel like everyone every year is like, these are weird, this is stupid. It's a costume institute. So like everyone's kind of dressing up a costume-y. It's not supposed to be something you'd wear. I did not know this until you said this yesterday. So obviously this information hasn't been that public. So that's why the designers always go nuts.

And that's why... It's like the ultimate adult Halloween party. Yeah, it's like a high fashion dress up okay um so yeah the gardens of was it the gardens of time yeah garden of time yeah yeah uh so the idea of kim kardashian's outfit if you didn't see it she was wearing a maize and margiela like metallic uh floral dress like she would have been able to get her hands around her waist i reckon jeez is it a gusset is it called a gusset uh what's a gusset i don't know anyway so so tight it looked like you know when a clown or a magician goes to a

kid's party with those long balloons and then tight yeah to make a dog or something it was like the beginning stages of a balloon dog so she wore that a beautiful dress but then she had like this little cardi this little peeled grayie on just over her shoulders. And everyone's like, what is with that? The idea was that she was having the most wild night in the garden and stuff was happening outside, so she grabbed her boyfriend's sweatshirt and was running outside, which is why her hair was all messy and her makeup was minimal.

A lot of them have stories. Yeah, but we don't know. Maybe they should get out there and go, hey, here's the backstory to this one. They do. You just have to look into it. Oh, okay. Yeah, I was just going to say, do they do get interviewed? Don't they?

Yeah, that's why her hair was a bit messy because people were like, oh, she looked undone. She looked like she was on the verge of consciousness. That thing was pulled so tight. It felt like important organs had to be removed to get that thing tied up. They get changed for the after party, but she still would have had a few hours in there. So what's the best outfit from yesterday? I would say Taika looked great in a brown leather oversized suit. That was really cool.

Brown gloves as well? Two leather gloves? I would say probably up there he probably won for the men up with Bad Bunny. Oh, cool. He won't be peeling those pants off at the end of the night. Not very breathable. I really liked Kylie Jenner's statue. She was wearing a white outfit which was inspired by like a garden statue.

She had very pointy Madonna boobs from Oscar de la Renta. Also there was one, which I'm sure you'll both appreciate. It was like a stiff Balmain dress that was made like of sand. So it was supposed to be the sands of time, but it didn't move. So literally, Tyler had to be picked up by the waist and carried up the stairs. But everyone's like, oh, how ridiculous. But it's supposed to be ridiculous. It's supposed to be art.

I saw Doja Cat. She looked very sweaty, like she'd been drenched. It looked like a marathon runner, you know, after running. I did have a look into that, but it could be like she was out in the garden and the sprinklers turned on or something. That's a good backstory. That's a great backstory. Yeah.

So someone could, I'd just chat up with like a lawnmower or something. Yeah, that's good. I'm Jim from Jim's Mowing. Just been mowing the garden, mate. That's right. Hey, if you don't mind I'm going to do these edges soon Isn't there Are they still pink there

Or are they Oh that was higher Is it green Oh I thought it was higher As well Like a leaf blob It would have been so good

That would have been A good garden theme But no one Went for that one Well there you go There's a wrap up Of all the famous people Being inconveniently dressed

The hits The Jono and Ben podcast We're a cold one almost a negative degree temperatures throughout some regions of the country today so it's a very cold one. Tell you where you won't get negativity though on this radio show. Don't believe in it.

Sometimes there's a new app that my wife has got the family on to. It's not a new app, it's a new app for us and there's a few of them going around where you also sign up to those apps. This one's called Life 360 where you can all sort of know where everyone is which is quite a good security app to have with oh we're on there the old bloody family tracking yeah at school here's i'm not buying into it i kind of did as well i'm a grown man i like signed up for ages we had it for about three months i've signed up um but i hadn't actually signed myself up to

everyone could publicly see you know know, within my family. Could you snoop on the family? Yeah, I was getting the updates and stuff. Ideal situation. Which is quite good. It's handy to know where the kids, particularly when they're taking buses and stuff like that, you're like, oh, cool, they've arrived at school. Why didn't you want to sign up?

I was just like, oh, I didn't need it. The point of it was – Trust me. The point of it was the kids. The kids. It wasn't about where I was. It was to go, okay, the kids are home. Was your wife on there?

They were at school. Yeah, well, she had as well, but she set the thing up. But anyway, she was- Stop saying it in a suspicious tone, Megan. You're trying to lead him down a path. I feel like he's like, oh, I just went. He's gone his whole life without being tracked. He didn't want to be tracked.

So it's handy. Someone's got home, someone's got school, someone's whatever. And you are. Sometimes we like to go to burger king on the way home i finally because he was like within the family all why are you doing this i'm all right i'll do it i'll sign up nothing to hide they're fine i don't go anywhere too exciting not now yeah but i had a moment uh yesterday where you know it's been a busy day uh you know driving around doing a lot of things and i pulled into the

driveway and i just had a moment where I was like, I'm just going to sit just for a bit. You know, it's been busy. I'm going to sit and look. When you got home? When I got home and look at my phone just for 10 minutes, switch my brain off, search some social media, do whatever. Have some alone time.

Yeah, and then I get a call 10 minutes later from my wife going, where are you? And I'm like, I'm just pulling into the driveway. And she's like, no, you're not. Because I saw on the app 10 minutes ago, Ben is a ripetope. It updated me. I was like, oh, yeah. Can you log out?

Can you log out for certain periods? Yeah, I'm like, all right, I'm sitting in the driveway on my phone, avoiding coming inside. We've all done the driveway sit. Yeah, but now I'm getting tracked. Wouldn't it be good if you could put the Life 360 on a 10-minute delay? Yes. Get stuff done.

It thinks you're 10 minutes ahead, but here, no hiding now, baby. So a little trick reply. It's not doing anything dodgy or anything, but I don't want to be tracked at, but at the same time, you know? Just needed a moment. Just needed a moment. Yeah, just needed a moment. After 8 o'clock, another chance to get in the...

The vaccine's tracking you anyway, mate. Yeah, true.