Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben gets out Dad'd

Episode Date: May 5, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY A Kiwi hacks a million dollars! Handle the scandal Producer Tayla is mum obsessed Friend stays in her towel?! The everything shower WE chat to Vince Harder How to not get the day off work... 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. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Kiwi became a millionaire over the weekend. You might have seen him on social media. Very funny guy. Tim Nacky is his name. His name is Tim. He's from Taranaki.

But he lives in Canada. And he started just over 80 days ago a little thing on Instagram where he bet 10 cents for every Instagram follower that he had. And at the time he started, he had about 15,000 Instagram followers. So I think he was making like a $1,500 bet. And so obviously the more Instagram followers he got, the bigger the bets went to, and his goal was to get to a million dollars. And over the weekend, he cracked it.

Have a listen to this. This is how it works. It's day 83. Going to Blackjack. Hand-betting 10 cents per Instagram follower. I've got there are 1,150,000 of your weapons in here now. So $115,000 bet coming up. 20!

20! We're a chance! We are a chance! Brace for impact! We stand and I need this man to go anything but. Don't you dare, please, for the milli and history yes yes yes yes yes yes wow he's a very funny dude so again just over 80 days for him to do that obviously he's making like uh he's doing it online uh on blackjack online and he's making over you know a hundred thousand dollar bets now because he's he's got over a million followers and now over

a million dollars 80 days to earn a million bucks what a what that is a great advert for gambling i feel like i need to get into gambling that is the quickest million dollars you'll lose it's amazing how invested people are in his journey like because it's not going to charity i was gonna say what's the millie for it's his money to charity. I was going to say, what's the milli for? It's his money. Fair enough. He's put the money on the line. He's put his funds on the line.

And then he's only betting what he's got from the winnings. So if it goes down, you know. So it hasn't gone down below zero. So he's only betting from that. And with a million followers on Instagram, all the promotional deals he's going to get now. What happens to the house always wins? Well, not in this case.

This is what I'm saying. Great habit for gambling. This is inspirational. He's had some losses. He's had some losses over the time, but overall, he's come out on top. I'm inspired to put the kids' school funds

onto gambling now. That's incredible. So congratulations to Nicky. Like you say, it's been an inspirational journey. Oh, so many people invested in it. They love it. Where is it?

He's not in New Zealand, though, is he? No, Canada, I think. He lives in Canada. Yeah, I think he's at the moment he's back home. But yeah, he lives in Canada. And yeah, now I've become a social media superstar. A million dollars would really just, that's just going to set him up for life. Is he 20-something?

I'm not sure exactly how old he is. Yeah. Incredible, incredible story. We were just saying the other day, imagine having a million dollars, you'd just be like... Yeah, I don't even need to win the Powerball. Like, just one mil. That's all I want. I reckon that would be great. You can't just say just one mil, because it's a million dollars. But you can do it in 80 days.

Yeah, okay, right. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Mother's Day on Sunday. We wanted to know, could anyone beat Producer Taylor? She talks to her mum every day for quite a long time. Hour at a time on FaceTime. Then if something else pops up later in the day, they're back on the FaceTime.

Yeah. FaceTime too. That's a commitment. Like you say, you don't like it because then people can see that you're not focused or present because you're doing other stuff. You can get stuff done while you're talking as well. I find you can multitask when you're talking on the phone. So you're not really listening. No, you're listening.

I'm listening, but I also can do other stuff at the same time. But with FaceTime, you can't be wiping the bench and doing the dish. It just feels rude. Yeah, you are. I'm probably talking to Annie every two or three days. Annie Pryor, her text game's very strong. A lot of emojis.

Heavy on the emoji use. Mine too. But they're never relevant to what she's talking about. She just picks symbols. It's a lucky dip of emojis. Tennis ball, you're like what? I like that. Why is it raining with an egg plug? Oh we're having vegetables tonight.

When I talk to Dad, he's not much of a conversationalist on the phone. Air Force man. Phone communications are purely for accepting navigation on where to take down the enemy. That's all he wants to talk about on the phone. Let's get Cathy on. Do you talk to your mum more than producer Taylor, Cath?

Yes, I do. Do you? I talk to my mum every morning. She's in England, so we've got a little tiny bit of a time difference. So I talk to her every morning morning call her after my flight lands or when i've got the kid up at school for about at least an hour just random stuff and i do multitask i do my watching every morning in england are you doing what's happening please tell me what's that are you doing whatsapp WhatsApp or is it an actual phone call? Oh, no, it's FaceTime. Oh, FaceTime.

Yeah, well. And then she'll, I'll always, you'll probably call her most of the times at night as well. So, yeah. Two times a day. But my night, her morning, her morning's my night. So we've got different days. So, you know.

Right. Are you a pilot or something, are you, Cathy? Yeah, yeah, I'm a flight attendant. Oh, a flight attendant Right. Are you a pilot or something? Are you Cathy? Yeah, yeah. I'm a flight attendant. Oh, a flight attendant every time they're plainly. I see. That's incredible.

She has to track me to see where I am so she knows what time she can call. Oh, wow. She wouldn't have enough to say to talk to him. I don't know.

I love to gossip. It's all in the podcast. It's all in the podcast, Megan. You can be any person in the podcast. iHeartRadio. It's all there. Good on you, Cathy. I appreciate it. Di, you're on the podcast. It's all on the podcast, Megan. Conveniently parents of the podcast. iHeartRadio. Good on you, Kath. Appreciate it.

Di, you're on. Welcome. Are you talking to your mum more than producer Taylor? She's doing a FaceTime for an hour a day. I talk to mum every day. And she lives in Ahope and I live in Whakatane. And we talk for about 15 minutes. Again, what are you covering off though?

Every day. What changes from day to though? Every day. What changes from day to day? Just stuff. I don't know. Just everyday stuff. Yeah, that's fair enough. What have you been doing and what have I been doing?

Yeah. That's really sweet. Do you ever reach the point of having to discuss the weather? Does it ever get that? Oh, sometimes. Because she lives at the beach. And so she looks out at the beach and tells me what the waves are doing or what a beautiful day it is

and she's been for a walk down the beach. Daughters are a lot better at keeping in touch with their mums and sons, I think, generally speaking. Tanya, thanks for your call, Di. Tanya is going to take it out. You talk to your mum how many times a day, Tanya? Once, maybe twice.

Sometimes if she forgets it, I phone and she'll ring me three times. If she forgets that you've had a conversation. Well, you know, like if she's busy during the day, she'll sometimes ring me back at night time. And so that's pretty cool. But I ring her once a day too. Aw. Do you find that you get the same stories?

yes sometimes and sometimes you can't be bothered you're like I've heard this stop stop stop I know but you know your mum is a special person and so

once she's gone, she's gone. And so you've got to make the most of it, even if you've got to hear the stories a hundred times, right? Don't say, yeah, Ben. Call your mum today. Now you make us all feel bad, Tanya. Yeah, good, good, good. If I say to my husband, have you talked to your mum this week?

And he goes, not today. Not tonight. Not last week. But a lovely sentiment there Yeah That was lovely Mother's Day The hits

The Jono and Ben podcast Before it's Mother's Day Coming up this Sunday as well So don't forget about that This thing that really impresses us About Producer Taylor Obviously you're away From your family

There in Australia Is the consistency And the length That you talk to your mum Yeah How often? FaceTime every day Minimum once But then if something happens Oh so minimum FaceTime The consistency and the length that you talk to your mum. Yeah. How often? FaceTime every day, minimum once.

But then if something happens. Oh, so minimum FaceTime. Minimum once, yeah. And if something happens since that phone call, I have to FaceTime her again and tell her. Jeez, you must be running the trans-Tasman cell networks to its limits. How long does your one FaceTime last? The one's like an hour, 40 minutes to an hour, easy. Every day?

Yeah. Really? What are you talking about? Oh, mate, you guys hear half the stories. Yeah, true, you are. You're a good talker. Yeah, there's always chaotic stuff going on in Cronulla with them. Is it set time every day or just kind of varies?

Nah, but she knows when I finish work, so she'll ring me around like 2 p.m. in the Arvo, which is midday in Sydney. Are they the sort of parents that when you're talking to them, if she's Sue Lombardi, if Sue Lombardi's telling a story, will Angelo, your dad, will he chime in from the background? Yes, absolutely. No, George wasn't wearing the brown boat shoes when he was here.

And then if our chat for some reason gets to be R-rated with me and my mum, my dad will be in the background going, Oh, Jesus, I didn't want to hear that. Mum goes, well, F off then. Why are you around? I love it when your parents start bickering and you just become like a spectator on the sidelines. And then when he tries to talk to me, he yells.

Because dads don't understand that. My dad thinks he has to yell because I'm in a different country. So then mum will, like, slap him across the face and go, my bloody ear! You don't have to talk louder just because she's three hours away. Okay, this is what I want to chuck out here, heading into Mother's Day, 0800 the hits.

Do you talk to your parents more than Taylor? I reckon that's hard to beat. No one would, obviously. You'd be like a once. The only reason Jenny gets any information on you, your mum, is because she listens to the podcast. She loves listening to the podcast. She has all the stories there.

Do you not talk to her on the phone? How often? Not that often, probably. I probably go every couple of weeks on the phone. Maybe a text, probably text more than that. But everything she needs to know, she can get on the podcast. Yeah, we get on great.

She was here on the weekend. She was here on the weekend. She was staying on the weekend. Did you talk to her then? It's not like I don't talk to her. I do find, and I love my mum in that, but I find the more they know, the more they get into your business. You know, it's like when you get in there, they start going, oh, you know.

The less they know, the better for you. Well, just the more less opinions of stuff I love my parents opinions I love you when I do but then sometimes

it's you know it's everywhere I love to you told me a story about when we were about to go work at the edge and she was giving

her opinion on the broadcasting I thought I'd give her you know I could talk to mum about it I love her bless her and I was saying you know it's the edge

of office office and job you know I don't know what to do and she's like she's about it. I love her, bless her. And I was saying, you know, it's the edge of officer's job. You know, I don't know what to do. Oh, hush, hush. She's like, oh, too edgy. It sounds too edgy. And I'm like, no, that's the name of the station, mum. It's called the edge.

It doesn't mean it's all edgy. You don't want to be edgy, do you? And I'm like, no, it's, yeah, bless her. The hits. It sounds too hits. It's like they're hitting things all the time. Megan, how often are you talking to your parents in Nelson? Probably once a week.

Probably once a week. Probably once a week. Sometimes more. It depends, yeah, what's going on. Cold one around the country is going to get to zero degrees in a lot of places, particularly south. Although your wife Amanda calls Teddy Swim's... Jimmy Fish. Jimmy Fish.

Ben was trying to find a song for them to play. She's like, play Jimmy Fish. Who's Jimmy Fish? Teddy Swim. So I can see a Jimmy Fish. Close. You can see play she's like play Jimmy Fish Jimmy Fish Teddy Swim so I can see Jimmy Fish you can see how she's ended up there

exactly Jimmy Fish now a good reminder over the weekend the way of what you're doing there's always someone doing more that's why

and you don't like to think this because you do a lot of stuff and I felt like for once in the weekend I know you were the same over the weekend by the sounds of it Johnny doing a lot of driving around

you know like kids you know kids activities you had to drive around a lot of places. Wild, yeah, wild, all over the place. Three basketball games, music band practice, dance competitions. I'm like, where's some time for me? Dance competition was for me, by the way. That was your time for you. I was the same over the weekend. One of my daughters was doing School of Rocks. rehearsals she was like 10 30 on friday night

and then just show night saturday she's doing like eight shows over the week and then she wanted to fit in like drama camp as well on saturday so i'm driving you know out to that pick her up take it back we've got family staying there's also netbook there's a whole lot going on that sounds busy i was like once you know how there's the world's greatest dad mugs if i was like well maybe i could be a front runner this just on this particular day because normally i'm like not even close there's a lot of great dads out there yeah but that mug could be that's a well-earned mug this father's day but i was like oh you know like i'm doing a lot particularly on saturday i was like man i'm doing a lot driving out you know like i am parenting hard and then i was talking to one of the dads after their school of rock the first opening performance which was awesome it was really cool to see you know when you are driving

around and you're doing all that stuff and then you have a moment where you're like actually it's really cool to see them do their thing and you're loving it they're in their in their element she's doing a great job the show was great and I was like I hope you stood up halfway through the show do you know how much driving around I've done I thought about it but I thought no it's the kids time and they'll do a great job but afterwards I was no, it's the kids' time. And they were like, you know, great job. But afterwards, I was talking to one of the dads. I was like, oh, busy, you know, driving around and having that conversation. You know, it's a lot of late nights, 10.30s, the rehearsals and shows are finishing.

They're doing eight shows over the week. And then I went, how many shows are you going to over the week? You know, he asked me this. And I was like, oh, you know, I'm going to three of them. I thought three was a good amount of time. Eight shows over the week. I said, you know, what about you? And he went, I'm going to three of them. I thought three was a good amount of time. Eight shows over the week. I said, you know, what about you? And he went, I'm going to all eight. Oh, wow.

I was like, oh. He's out-datted you. He out-datted you right there. When I asked you how many shows you were going to, I feel like I would go to all eight. Oh, well. Three's a good number, though. Yeah.

He's seen the show. But what if they do something amazing on the night that you're not there? What if it's the one night where she nails the song? Yeah, well, it's the same. But yeah, it's the same show. But what if they do something amazing on the night that you're not there? What if it's the one night where she nails the song? Yeah, well it's the same show. Yeah, it's the same show, but you're right. There could be some. Okay, well I've missed, there was two over the week. Yeah, I've missed one of them. So yeah, I already can't. But I can make up

the other six. Do you have to pay for tickets to all of them? Yeah, pay for tickets. It's not a freebie. How much are tickets? It's about 25 bucks. Oh, ouch. Break the bank. It's your daughter bank it's your daughter he's been driving around yeah more reason for you to watch i'm gonna go okay every show oh there you go you can hear him die inside every show no it's great it is a great show and i want to enjoy it but at the same time you got my daughter's going to camp you got things

to do you know. Okay, mate. She's not listening to every radio show of mine, is she? That's a good point. She'll tune in for bits. You go, what if I do the greatest bit? Let's spit right now.

It could be the greatest bit I've ever done. She won't hear it. She'll hear it replayed over and over and over again throughout the day. Well, it sounds like you need Friday off, mate. Okay, and we've got a game plan to get your Friday off. Oh, Friday would be nice, actually. Yeah, you deserve it.

All right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Clickbait headlines. Clickbait, baby, one more time. We missed a trick, didn't we? Yeah, I thought we could re-record that. Yeah, okay. Three headlines from the internet you try and lure us in,

and one of them ends up being mildly interesting. And we save you precious data on your phone so you don't have to look at these stories. Yeah, there's no other way to find out what these three stories are. You can only pick one. Monster in toddler's room was real and terrifying. Oh, I'm interested in that. Most of us will never experience what happened to this woman twice in 10 weeks.

And man removed from stadium after sausage fest. I'm interested in what the monster was. Are we going to be disappointed when we click on the monster story? Often you are with clickbait. No, it was something that could potentially be quite dangerous to the toddler. But not humorous. Not humorous. Yeah.

Do we want lighthearted stuff, do we? I don't know. It's up to you. I mean, they clickbait headlines. I'm interested in the monster in the toilet. Should we click on that? Yeah, sure. All right.

Monster in the closet. So this was in, it says NC. Where's that? North Carolina? Oh, North Carolina. Nailed it. Was it? This was a three-year-old daughter's room.

She was complaining that there was a monster lurking behind her bedroom wall. Obviously, the mum's like, no, there's no monsters for ages. Shut up, silly kid. No monsters. Finally, she was like, okay, well, let's investigate. Her and her partner, I don't know if they, they must have knocked down the wall or they put their ear to the wall and they could hear that there was indeed a noise coming from behind the wall do you want to have a guess as to what it was rat no possum no snake no um diddy yeah that's the thing Oh, I hate to think. Don't answer that. No, in fact, 50,000 bees had made a home behind her wall. 50,000?

Yeah. Jeez. So when they knocked a hole in it and just a swarm of bees rolled out. Did they film it? They did. Please tell me they filmed it. They did. We'll put it up on our social media, the Hits Breakfast.

50,000 bees escaping. But then they'll just fly around the house, won't they? Yeah, I guess they had to get someone to come and take them away. That's probably an open the window situation. Out this way, guys. Yeah, but initially they were like, no, there's definitely something behind the wall. But they couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was because the sound was so loud and weird, I guess. I hope their kid was sitting there with folded arms with that look on their face.

Told you. See what I've been dealing with? 50,000 monsters. Well, there you go. Clickbait headlines. It was a good one this week. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Vince Harder from songs like this.

And he joins us in the studio right now. Vince Harder, lovely to have you in the studio. What's up? Thanks for having me, man. It's very exciting time at the moment. You've got a new single out with Kings. I think we've got a little bit here, a little taste of it. Johnny?

Yeah, we do. He's pointing at me. You look very bubbly. There we go. There we go. Click, click. Mamacita, a very, very cool song. So you and Kings, you've collaborated a couple of times, right?

Yeah, yeah. Well, this is actually our first, I guess, official kind of collaboration. We've done some stuff before, like in the past. We did a Te Reo song with him and that. But this is actually like a first kind of Vince Hida, Kings single. And this song in particular, I actually started writing it when i was in la working with um sheila e who's someone that most people don't really know her name but she just got a star on the on the um hollywood walker fame and yeah because she she's done so much for i guess the latino community and she used to um perform with prince like she was on the purple rain tour so her and prince used like if you look up sheila e and

you look up prince they were engaged to get married like yeah yeah yeah so sheila e's like huge anyway i did two songs with her and her songs on a salsa album and that was the time that i was writing these songs and so it was like i was kind of learning a bit of spanish and kind of writing in that that sound and um this was one of the ideas that i kind of came up with and it didn't really land but when i got on the studio with kings it just kind of happened and I was like we're just flowing with it and we loved it so this is it. That's incredible and what an incredible experience for you to have on your your songwriting resume before you know working with an artist like her. Yeah no she's yeah she's incredible she's a yeah man she's just like one of those like old school artists who are still

like doing it today she's on tour right now always performing like done a lot of big presidential kind of events and things like that. Did's yeah did she have any stories to tell you about Prince yeah I mean can I say any of them man it's buzzy eh because like you know like Prince like if you're if if you're an artist who grew up listening to like Stevie Wonder Prince like you kind of just go man this is just unreal you you know, because I went to her house, I saw like all the plaques on the wall, nearly all of her first records that she wrote and produced were with him, like he wrote the songs with her. So one of her biggest songs is called Glamorous Life. And if you're a fan of J-Lo, J-Lo is a huge fan of Sheila E. And actually performs the song, like she performed Glamorous Life at her Vegas stint that

she did so she's like one of those artists that like everyone looks up to the artists artists artists artists yeah yeah man so I like it was yeah it was incredible being able to work with someone like that who was just like so huge in Hollywood and so yeah so and it all kind of stemmed from that writing the song we've got a silly little game I want to throw at you Vince Harder and I'm gonna going to say, what was harder? Okay, this is the game, okay? Which was harder, getting a number one single,

which you have with everything in New Zealand, or starring in the Lion King production of Simba in Australia, which is a huge production. Oh man, Lion King was very hard. Doing musical theatre

is one of the hardest things because there's so much discipline involved, full on. Do you ever forget your lines? I have. I remember one time like Pumba farting,

like actually farting that was really bad so i actually forgot my line like but the funny thing was like i went to go crack up like i was just like holding it in and then i cracked up but then i looked at the crowd and everyone just laughed because they knew what we were laughing at oh okay one more watch was harder going on reality show australian x factor which got very far on or going on power rangers on netflix you and power rangers oh yeah power Rangers was, yeah, that was a little bit tough because from doing stage performance and then, like, having to go in front of a camera, it's so different, like, for me, role.

What was your role on Power Rangers? The funny thing is I was just playing a pop star, but, like, it was hard. It was hard. I was like, damn. You know what you do every day? Just do that. Finn's harder. Legend. Always love hanging out with you, mate. was like, damn. You know what you do every day? Just do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Vince Harder, legend.

Always love hanging out with you, mate. Thank you, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Dear Megan. This is where people slide into my DMs with conundrums in their life, and we chuck it out to you, and we all get to judge and throw our two cents in. But they've opted the information out there for people to judge.

I would like some follow-up sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. We've handed out our advice. All care, no responsibility. We'll get some follow-up on some of these. What's today's? Hi Megan. I don't know if I'm

being unreasonable. I love it when they start like that. Which means you are. Wow, is she. My friend stayed with me and my husband over the weekend, and she had a shower. And then she came out and sat with me and him on the couch in her towel. Is that weird? I felt uncomfortable.

My husband also felt weird about it, like she is naked under the towel. We are good friends, but she can be pretty free and easy when it comes to how she acts around our group's husbands. What do I do? What would you do? Well, if we look at a towel, I'm assuming wrapped around underneath the armpit, it's just really an absorbent dress, isn't it? Really, when you put it in that fashion, it's like that. But she's naked underneath.

She's not wearing a flannel. Then there'd be questions. That's only just wrapped around. Naked underneath she's naked underneath. She's not wearing a flannel. Then there'd be questions. But we were naked underneath. That's only just wrapped around. Naked underneath our clothes, technically. We're all naked underneath. Yeah, but that's not, clothes aren't at risk of just falling off.

Right, I see what you're saying. And also, you imagine the towel's short, right? She's sitting down on the couch. What does she want to do? Also, get off my couch if you've got a wet towel. You're damn, you've got a damp towel, you're right. That's not the issue here, Megan, though. That's the more important issue, though.

So is she wanting to know, does she confront her about this? Yeah, does she say, oh, you know, I guess next time, oh God, that's an awkward conversation. The husband's definitely eyes up situation then. No, yeah, the wife brings it up and he's like, oh yeah, I was weird, I was uncomfortable. It was awkward, it was awkward. Oh yeah, I didn't like it. Okay, well let's bring this to home. It's probably a little bit awkward.

Yeah. But I don't know if it's super awkward. What if you were swimming at the beach, then she'd be in a towel and togs. What if your wife Amanda's friends comes over and stays, then suddenly after the shower, comes out, sits on the couch with you in the towel, naked underneath.

This is the beginning of a movie. Has a yarn. Careful, is your wife listening? Yeah, maybe a little, I don't know. Okay, would you need to bring it up with her after? Like if she walked straight out of the shower, no towel, and sat down, that would be awkward. That's an awkward situation. Or wandering around the house with no clothes on.

Would you confront your friend? She's toweling up a storm, again, moistening up your couch, which is... I'd probably be more annoyed about the moistening up the couch, to be honest. I'd be like, yo, the couch is wet. I'd be more awkward if it was a bikini. Because I feel like a towel covers up more. So I'm like, you know, like, if you walk there,

I'd be like, I don't know, you know, like, what a look. But you go to the beach with your friends. But, you know, but right next to, you know, we're having a conversation with, you know. There's more real estate covered with a towel. Okay, so I went over that. Does this lady confront her friend or does she let it slide? The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Dear Megan. This has divided everyone, which I thought it would be more cut and dry. So a woman has said her friend stayed over. Her friend stayed over, had a shower, came out in a towel, sat on the couch with her and her husband, and it made her feel uncomfortable. Should she say something? What would you do?

Is it appropriate? Now we're giving her a toweling down. Ben, you don't see anything wrong with it. You see that it's covering up 80% of her body, a towel. I don't think I've got a huge issue with it. It hasn't happened to me, the situation, so maybe it would be awkward in that moment, but I'm kind of like, it's not like it's a flirtation.

It doesn't feel flirtatious. How can we set this up in Ben's house and see how he feels about it? We send over someone in a towel? Yeah. Mate, what if I turn up in a towel on your couch? Yeah, that's fine. Anyone can sit on a towel on my couch.

He's probably seen more of you. Yeah, to be honest. And a lot of great texts coming through, but we'll get to the calls first. Casey, what are we doing? Burning at the stake here? What's going on? No, I sort of see it as, you know, like if she wasn't sort of sitting there and showing things,

then I don't see the problem with it myself. And I do feel like you definitely see worse things out and about, even at the mall these days. You do. Some people are wandering around in pyjamas out there. Crazy stuff, mate. Yeah, no, you're right, Casey.

There we go. I appreciate that. Great text here, 4487. Would you answer the door in a towel? Go get dressed, you floozy. Well, I probably wouldn't, but people do, right? You floozy. Love the word floozy Well I probably wouldn't but people do right? Floozy

Love the word floozy, Paul you're on Welcome How are you Paul? Yeah good day, how you going? What's going on mate? It sounds to me like she doesn't actually trust her husband I would say Oh yeah Might be right

I'm going to see more in a bikini down at the beach? What's the issue? I don't see those, Paul. I kind of took it that she just kind of felt uncomfortable. But you're taking it from like she was worried her husband was eyeballing the situation. Yeah, that sounds like what it is to me. Yeah, well, Paul's brought trust into the, when you start dropping the T-bombs it's a bigger conversation. Text here, 4487 just come through. What's the

point of saying, make yourself at home if they don't feel comfortable to make themselves feel at home? Do you know, the main problem I have with it is I wouldn't sit on my own couch in a wet towel, let alone like my mate. Keep coming back to this is the real crime. It's not about the wet towel, okay?

But I know what you mean. Also that you just wiped yourself with. Can you get off? Yucky. Yeah, Tammy, you're on. I'm coming back to this is the real crime. It's not about the wet towel, okay? Also that you just wiped yourself with. Can you get off? Yucky. Tammy, you're on. What are you doing? You're sitting in your lounge. Your friend comes out in a towel and starts having a conversation with you and your partner.

Well, it's pretty disrespectful to both the wife and husband. I mean, you'll often tell your husband or wife off if they come in on your couch with no underwear, with the moistness from not their towels getting all over your material. And when somebody spreads moistness on their couch. She said it twice. You've got to stop saying the word moistness. It's making us

feel uncomfortable. But you're right, Tammy. It's disrespectful to the couch. People worry about the couch. The couch is like, help me. And it's micro-flirting, let's be honest. Micro-flirting? You think? It's micro-flirting.

Who would, if you're respectful of your friends, male or female, who would do that? I wouldn't sit on your couch in a towel, Ben. Like, that's weird. That's weird. That is weird.

You're right. That is weird. Now, Producer Taylor, you're coming. I probably wouldn't stay the night, though, at her house, though, too, right? Oh, ouch. Well, you know, like, it's a mega thing. Now she's having a shower.

You know, like, all those things. I know. You know? This is obviously a friend, a close personal friend. I'm not saying not be that relationship coming up to you know i know you say yeah that hypothetical was a weird one yeah taylor i've got plenty of um good female friends that i would never uh do that to and for my professional life i do coaching and that as well and when i talk to people yeah no that's uh

that's crossing lots of people's boundaries. It's really ick for your friends both sides. I agree with all your points. What do you want to say, Tame? I don't want to be dramatic or speculate, but I think she was putting the feelers out to see if they were in an open marriage and seeing

if there was any chance of hooking up with them. Oh, jeez. You guys read a lot into these situations. Maybe I don't. You guys read a lot into these situations. Maybe I don't. You don't read enough. Someone's just texted in 4487, I once answered the door to scare off a naked Jehovah's Witness. What a treat.

There you go. That can be. Wait, the Jehovah's Witness was naked? Or they answered the door naked to scare off a Jehovah's Witness? I think they answered the door. I don't think the Jehovah's Witness was naked. I think you read that wrong. Joe, would you like to witness this?

The Jono and Ben podcast. A bit of cold weather around as we head into the winter months. It's going to be a chilly week. Auckland had its coldest night in six months yesterday, and Christchurch is looking like it'll be negative degrees a couple of times this week as well. Starting to learn some home truths. Sorry, you were still giving the… Oh, no, I was going to say, you know, Auckland's sitting around seven degrees the coldest,

but then you go down the Marston Christchurch it'll get into like 0 degrees Yeah Well you're saying Taylor in your hometown of Cronulla

11 degrees Yep every day huge showers winds yuck Global warming What's a global warming? What is this?

Yeah Winter Oh yeah Winter A season that seems To surprise us every year It does It was cold

Now Megan Taylor And producer Grace You shared something On Friday Something that you It's a bit of a routine In the household

Which is what It's called The everything shower I'd never heard Of an everything shower No I'd never heard Of it called that

But I do it. Is that just a full blast of every part of your body? Mate, everything you commit to the cause. So my everything shower consists of shaving, exfoliating, washing my hair, another exfoliating after all that. Then I also have to leave my toner in my hair for 10 minutes as well. So I'm standing in the shower for 10 minutes on top of all that. Oh, you're sitting in the shower for 10 minutes as well so I'm standing in the shower for 10 minutes yeah and I leave the water on because it's too cold otherwise um and then you come out of the shower so that's all that's about an hour then you come out of the shower

then I have to spray tan and I have to blow dry my hair and straighten my hair and then after that that's another hour I'll be time to go back in the shower and wash the tan off and then moisturize so this is how long is this process? It's like a three and a half hour process That's like a missing person situation And would you do this if you were going Out somewhere Or would you just go do this as part of your week?

This is like a once a week Non-negotiable for me Yeah Your shower thoughts must turn Very philosophical over three hours They actually do That's why I'm most creative Because you're just sitting

You're relaxed And you've got nothing else to think about. Yeah. Do you put music on? No. I do. It's a game changer. Sometimes I have a drink in there.

Do you? You haven't been there for a while. You've got whiskey in the shower. I'm surprised you don't have a couple of meals while you're in there as well. I'll say, like, yeah. Jeez. Oh, well, yeah, because Jen does the same, but I don't know what's going on in there.

We're clearly drinking and bloody thinking and drinking. But then I go and have, like, because Jen does the same, but I don't know what's going on in there. Clearly drinking and bloody thinking and drinking. But then I go and have like, I do my everything shower, which is not much. Just blasting underneath the, you know, the undercarriage. Oh, God. Give it a good old water blast. Do you do that just once a week? Just once a week.

Clear out the week's worth of backup. Blasting the undercarriage. But then I'm like, if I'm in there from anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes, she's like, what were you in there for so long? What's taking so long? Well, look at you. What are you doing? There's no hair.

And you don't look like you exfoliate or moisturize. Guys, you are just telling us you're coming off a three, three and a half hour shower. How long is your everything shower? I don't know if I have An everything I don't go Today's the everything shower But I kind of just

Shower regularly Does it happen on the Same day every week Yeah mine's usually Sunday But I got quite busy yesterday So I missed it Mine has to fluctuate now Because I've got kids

So I'm like I literally will say To my husband Today's I shorted I don't have to do anything I'm like you know But other days You're like okay Today's everything So it might be a little bit a short day. I don't have to do anything. I'm like, you know. But other days you're like, okay, today's everything,

so it might be a little bit longer. Okay, the everything. Well, what we want to do, because no one's going to be three and a half hours in the shower, and the water conservation program is going to be pretty happy listening to this segment.

The shorter showers, how quick can you get in and out of the bathroom? Yeah. I reckon you'd be a pretty prolific, you have five minutes? Will you be five minutes in and out? Yeah, pretty quick. Particularly in the mornings. Yeah. I reckon you'd be pretty prolific. You have five minutes? Yeah, not too long. Pretty quick. Particularly in the mornings.

Every minute counts in the mornings, it feels like, right? So, yeah. It's like a rinse. Yeah, get in, get out. Can we get down to a 60-second shower? Oh, what are you doing in 60 seconds? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's a wonderful one of those emotional Instagram videos

at the weekends that he was part of, you know, when someone comes up and they're like, I'm hungry. Do you have some money? And then the person rewards, you know, gives them some money and then they've got a big surprise planned. Little girl who'd been actually

raising money for her cancer treatment. She'd raised over $100,000 for her treatment, her own treatment by selling lemonade. She was on her way to Luke Combs concert and she gave money to this guy who was just filming it for Instagram. Next thing she's meeting Luke Combs to Luke Combs concert and she gave money to this guy who was just filming it for Instagram. Next thing she's meeting Luke Combs and Luke Combs on stage gives her a shout out and

doubles their money. She says, I'm going to give a hundred grand. Which is pretty cool. Combsy. Which is pretty impressive. What a guy, what a story. I know. Almost like it was written for social media. You're a real cynical today. Beautiful though, beautiful. Lovely, lovely story. Alright, Handle the Scandal.

New game we've been playing where we fire out quick fire scandals. See how many you can name in 30 seconds. You've done a good job of handling the jandal over the years.

Ben Boyce, you haven't got it caught in your accelerator in the car, the jandal did? No, no I haven't, no. And Megan, you're going to go first

this week, okay? Okay, okay. Can I just say too, Trump, jeez he handles a scandal, doesn't he? The stuff that that guy's He just Sexual misconduct, vote tampering Inciting riots

He's just petulant and dismissive And he's like, whatever Yeah, incredible Nothing sticks to that man And he can still be president God bless America Alright, let's start the timer Here we go

2010, a reality TV judge was accused of copying her husband's style Accused a contestant of copying her husband's style And then the next day they were chased out of the country Oh, Natalia Kills? Well done America's version of the Briscoe's Lady was sentenced to prison for insider trading. Now has electric chemistry with Snoop Dogg for some reason. Oh, what's her name?

Martha Stewart. Yeah, well done. 2018, sandpapering some balls. Sorry, didn't get your answer. That was Aussie cricket. Aussie cricket scandal. Oh, yeah, right. Ball tampering. Ball tampering, yeah. The ball tampering one, yeah. Two scandals you got. didn't get your answer what was he cricket you know was he cricket scandal oh yeah right ball tampering

ball tampering yeah two scandals two oh she's again three alright here we go the Natalia Kills one

took me a while to get to that one too yeah I can remember the names yeah alright start the time of grace 30 seconds

grumpy old man turns on sprinklers on protesters oh 2022 Trevor Mallard Trevor Mallard correct the Mallard, correct. The ultimate boomer power play, that one.

One testicled cyclist. Oh, Lance Armstrong. Well done. Had a secret love child with the maid while married. Did a good job of terminating his marriage. Oh, no, that's not fair. Well done. Feeding the witness. Shut up.

Stage the racist and homophobic attack. Still don't know For what reason The empire crumbled You could say Oh Something to do with Star Wars

No it was Jussie Smollett Remember Oh Jussie Smollett Remember from The empire From empire Yeah

Isn't he in prison now Is he For doing that I think so Yeah Four scandals Ben Boyce Oh no Hey No it was three.

And you gave him the Terminator one. So technically it's two all. I was about to get to the question. He keeps reading. Producer Taylor's coming in. She's finger pointing. Oh, the adjudicator. What's going on, Scrutineer?

Last week you did the same thing when I took on Ben. He got like two right and you were like, Ben, you've got four. Feeding the witness. No, guys, I'm reading questions. I got like two right and you were like, Ben, you've got four. Feeding the witness. No, guys, I'm reading questions. I can't keep a telly. We're telling you it was three and we're telling you

you gave him one of the answers. He was like, oh, oh, oh, you're like Terminator. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just reading another story from the internet

that goes, what are people doing? Someone in Miami tried to, it was not quite snakes on a plane, but it was almost snakes on a plane, had two baby snakes in a small little pouch inside their trousers, trying to get onto the plane with the baby snakes.

Pets or smuggling? Well, I think more of a smuggling situation. They were tiny, small enough to fit into almost like a sunglass sort of bag. So really, really small. Please tell me that the journalists have taken full advantage of the snakes' trousers. The trousers, yeah. The headline, have they?

No, the snakes almost on a plane, I think, was the headline, which is good. But yeah, the trousers. Surely if you're going to lead with the headline. Yeah. It seems risky, though. Like not only just to take Something like a snake On a plane But also just

To put it on your trousers That's why I asked If they were their pets Because you trust them More than like A stranger snake For the whole For the whole flight

Easier smuggling cocaine Or something isn't it Yeah Something to bite you I know Yeah Remember we did a segment Overseas

When we were filming in London And they got some snakes For us We had to be like Bee feeders And so that You know not meant to move, you know, those. Royal guards.

The royal guards, yeah. And so they got some snakes for us, the TV production crew, and put them around our necks. And this lady turned up and we're like, oh, who's this lady? And she had them in her backpack

and almost like a little click-clack sort of plastic container. Yeah. Like a backpack's a better option than your trousers. Yeah, but putting them in there and then she clipped them back in. They're quite big. Yeah, they're like python-y. Yeah.

They're big. And she just took them on the tube. Tube. So it's amazing what you could just be on the tube and you wouldn't know what the person next to you had inside their backpack. Oh, my God. Anyway, we did it. Reptile people are a, it's quite a bit

They're a little interesting, aren't they, reptile people? Anyone who has weird, strange pets A little bit And they're always insistent on putting them on your face or your shoulder Can I put my rat on your face? Yeah I'd rather not I don't need a skink crawling out, you know

Yeah Hey, well then, good luck to the trout What happens to them? Do they get fined? Do they get arrested? I imagine they would get, yeah Probably both of those things Smuggling snakes? And then what luck to the Trouters What happens to them? Do they get fined? Do they get arrested? I imagine they would get Yeah Probably both

Smuggling snakes And then what happens to the snakes? They take the snakes Don't they? Yeah Flush them down the toilet That's what you do With all good snakes

The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Vince Harder From songs like this And he joins us In the studio right now Vince Harder from songs like this. And he joins us in the studio right now. Vince Harder, lovely to have you in the studio. What's up? Thanks for having me, man.

It's very exciting time at the moment. You've got a new single out with Kings. I think we've got a little bit here, a little taste of it. Jono? Yeah, we do. He's pointing at me. You look very bubbly. There we go. There we go.

Click, click. Hola, mamacita, yes, you, girl. Que pasa, now, where you gonna be? I know you don't play, cause you come from the streets. Green lights when you cross town with me. Mamacita, a very, very cool song. So, you and Kings, you've collaborated a couple of times, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, this is actually our first, I guess, official kind of collaboration.

We've done some stuff before, like in the past. We did a Tereo song with him and that. But this is actually like a first kind of Vince Harder, Kings single. And this song in particular i actually started writing it when i was in la working with um sheila e who's someone that most people don't really know her name but she just got a star on the on the um hollywood walk of fame and yeah because she she's done so much for i guess the latino community and she used to um perform with prince like she was on the purple rain tour so her and prince used like if you look up sheila e and you look up prince they were engaged to get married like yeah yeah yeah so sheila e's like huge anyway i did two songs with her and her songs on a salsa album and that was the time that i was writing these songs

and so it was like i was kind of learning a bit of spanish and kind of writing in that that sound and um this was one of the ideas that i kind of came up with and it didn't really land but uh when i got in the studio with kings it just kind of happened and i was like we're just flung with it and we loved it so this is it that's incredible and what an incredible uh experience for you to have on your uh your songwriting resume before you know working with an artist like her yeah no she's yeah she's incredible she's a yeah man she's just like one of those like old school artists who are still like doing it today she's on tour right now always performing like done a lot of big presidential kind of events and things like that so she's yeah did she have any stories to tell you about prince

yeah i mean can i say any of them man it's buzzy because like you know like prince like if you're if if you're an artist who grew up listening to Stevie Wonder, Prince, you kind of just go, man, this is just unreal. I went to her house. I saw all the plaques on the wall. Nearly all of her first records that she wrote and produced were with him. He wrote the songs with her. So one of her biggest songs is called Glamorous Life.

And if you're a fan of J-Lo, J-Lo is a huge fan of Sheila E. And actually performs the song like she performed Glamorous Life at her Vegas stint that she did. So she's like one of those artists that like everyone looks up to. The artist's artist. Artist's artist. Yeah, yeah, man. So I like it was yeah, it was incredible being able to work with someone like that who was just like so huge in Hollywood. And so, yeah, so it all kind of stemmed from that writing the song. Got got a silly little game i want to throw at you vince harder and i'm going to say what was harder okay this is the game okay which was harder uh getting a number one single which

you have with everything in new zealand or starring in the lion king production of simba in australia which is a huge production oh man lion king was very hard doing musical theater is one of the hardest things because there's so much discipline involved, full on. Do you ever forget your lines? I have. I remember one time Pumba farting, like actually farting. That was really bad. So I actually forgot my line. But the funny thing was I went to go crack up,

I was just holding it in and then I cracked up, but then I looked at the crowd and everyone just laughed because they knew what we were laughing at. One more, which was harder, going on a reality show, Australian X Factor, which you got very far on, or going on Power Rangers on Netflix. You were on Power Rangers. Oh, yeah, Power Rangers was,

yeah, that was a little bit tough because from doing stage performance and then having to go in front of a camera, it's so different for me, role. What was your role on Power Rangers? The funny thing is, I was just playing a pop star, but it was hard.

It was hard. I was like, damn. You know what you do every day? Just do that. Vince Harder, legend. Always love hanging out with you, mate. Thank you, guys.