Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben has the best trick to embarrass your kids!

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Megan has pink eye?! Jono got a Rolex! Funniest names for inanimate objects We are loving Katy Perry for this! Megan's son ate WHAT?! Crazy things parents collect...  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. Welcome to the podcast. Oh, funky. We're just, you know, we're experimenting with a few jazzy-like intros for this part of the program. That's nice. It's loungy. Wait, where did it go?

My king. My king's way between the windows. Where we sit at work, I know we don't want to bang on too much, but we are like a fishbowl to the reception area at work, aren't we? Yeah. You know, so look through. It's like one of those signs

that say, do not tap glass. You do feel quite exposed here, do you? Megan, you've taken the wonderful position of putting your back to the window,

not to ignore people, but just where you're positioned. It's to ignore some people. It is to ignore people. Yeah. Is that what it's for? Yeah, it is. There's a few people I'd like to ignore. Oh. Was that what I was for? Yeah, it is. There's a few people I'd like to ignore.

Oh, is that why you're sitting there? I was like, oh, Feng Shui, it's better this way. I'm like, we all know what's going on, mate. Feng Shui is better this way. Not all people. I'm not a snob. Just some people. You sold me on the Feng Shui angle. It's a real fun

podcast, you know. Very panicked text from your babysitter we talk about, right? Yeah, when I went out last night, she text because my son ate something. It's quite entertaining what he ate, but I hope, you know, now he's okay. He's fine. Now he's okay. It's quite entertaining what he ate. As well as that, a mean game that I'm playing from time to time with my kids just to get a little bit of...

It's a great game. It's very original. I haven't heard of it before. It's a Kevin Boyce. It's my dad original. I'm going to definitely try the Kevin Boyce. No, I don't. It's really mean.

I mean, it's just... At the end of the day, it ends up with someone looking at another person. That's all it is. I know, but that is for them quite possibly the worst thing that could happen in a pre-teen slash teens life. Yeah, exactly.

Someone they vaguely know. As well as what else? Well, next we're going to talk about the elephant in the room or the gunky eye in the room. The pink eye elephant in the room. Megan's currently mopping her eye out. I prefer conjunctivitis to pink eye because pink eye suggests

poo particles. What's going on? We'll tell you next. Message through on our show WhatsApp group. Very early this morning, Megan up and about. Well, Megan, yeah, the message. So I just messaged saying, hey, I have a bit of a gunky eye. I've got conjunctivitis. And I was just checking that everyone's all right for me to come in because it is contagious.

Now, very polite of you. Very polite of you to check. We all said we're fine. I demanded that. I was absolutely fine with it as long as you came in like a pirate in a nine patch. You said no, but I will wear designer sunglasses. Which makes you look real kind of cool. It does. You don't really care about the show today.

Makes you look like an a-hole. Looks like you're our guest that we're interviewing, like a pop star. But you don't really want to be here sort of thing. We're like, we're going to have to work hard to get some banter out of it. You know,

someone in Suncloak, I mean, people do it, they look cool, but same time inside, you're like, oh. It's a real douchebag move.

But it looks cool. I don't have the confidence, I wouldn't have the confidence to pull it off if I didn't have conjunctivitis. Well, I was, I got up and I was,

my, literally my eye was stuck together. And I tried to do makeup and I was like, oh, this is just a bad idea. So I don't have any eye makeup on, which for me, that's a big thing. Is that a big deal? Yeah. Have you had conjuncti before? Oh, years ago when you were a kid. And it's very frightening when you wake up and then you can't open your eyes.

You're like, oh my god, what's happened? What's going on? Don't you squirt breast milk into it? That's apparently the... Maybe we need to find a pregnant lady. Get the... Oh no, not pregnant. You would have given birth to a lady. Get them in the studio. Problem solved. Bada boom, bada bang.

We could do that if you want. Probably okay just with the eye drops, I think. Oh, you've got the medication Yeah No it's an alternative I do remember one time You had it We were doing 24 hours Of interviews on TV

Like it was a live Non-stop TV thing We were doing 24 hours And Jono's like I've got conjunctivitis And we're like I turned up This is the beginning of the thing

You've got some medication You're going to do I think you'd had it Oh you had it before And then you'd stopped Taking the medication And then it came back And you didn't go through the full course

of the antibiotics or whatever you needed. And every guest, because you're sitting next to guests on the couch, you're like, by the way, I've got conjunctivitis. And everyone's sliding along the couch. It wasn't good. And then Jacinda Ardern was one of our guests. And she told you off. She's like, you can't stop the full course of antibiotics.

And it was just, it was like the same week, because remember she got like, she got ripped off the bench to run as leader of the Labour Party in that election, remember? Yeah. It was that same week. Like we had booked her before when she was just a lowly MP. She's never going to turn up, but she did. Yeah, she turned up and she gave me a roasting

about not finishing the full course of antibiotics. And she too slid away. She didn't get it? Well, I don't know. It was a big couple of weeks for her. Yeah. I think she was a bit like, bro, I'm about to run for prime minister. You're sitting here with conjunctivitis next to me, you grump.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Yes. Well, how do I start this? I bought myself a watch. I'll start it. You've been banging on about this website. Illegitimate website that's selling stuff that, you know,

big brands, think of all the big, but at prices that they can't be the big brands. It's a knockoff site. Well, all these people are just having a magnificent sales. Okay. And one of the great. Hang on. We can't talk about your sale.

This is the greatest sale of all time. Okay. So what would someone pay for this item? $28,000. So I've never worn a watch. I was like, well, geez, I'll get a watch. And this particular brand of watch, Rolex. Okay.

Now I'm looking at this watch. I'm like, this is 21 bucks. NZD. 21 NZD. For a Rolex. For a Rolex. That would be, what, $28,000? And I looked on the, I was like, like oh the good people at Rolex obviously just doing

Everyone a solid selling their watches At bargain basement prices $21 I was like I've never worn a watch so I thought What a great way to debut my wrist Into the watch game with a $28,000 Rolex for $21 I died when you

Told me you'd ordered this. I was like, you need to go entry-level because no one is going to believe that you've bought a legitimate Rolex. No one is going to believe that. I know because it doesn't match with the rest of it, does it? You want to keep it within the realms of reality. Yeah. If you came in wearing a suit or something, you'd be like,

okay, maybe it's, you know, fits a watch. I know. It's like wearing a Louis Vuitton suit with a mullet, isn't it? Yeah, it's not going to match. Anyway, the Rolex turns up. I've since found out they're called Folexes, F-A-U-X. Right. So does it look, oh, wait, you probably haven't seen it.

Could not tell the difference. Honestly, could not tell the difference. But the problem was, you know, sometimes the wrist thing, what do they call that the strap the strap was too big right so i was like well i'll take it to a jeweler now i'm like oh god i'm thinking well let's not go to the big bangers you know you don't want to take it it's like i take it into rolex and go hey i bought this the name got the receipt hey you guys can you fix this for me uh actually can i get a refund? Don't really like it anymore.

Yeah, 28 grand, put it to my account. So I was like, well, what I need to find is a bit of a, you know, more of a suburban jeweller, a bit of a battler jeweller. So I found one that you could also sell stuff to as well if you want to. They sell gold and whatever you want to sell, you can sell. And I took it to him. He's like, no worries, mate. I'll sort it out for you.

Did they know it was fake? Well, I didn't say anything. When he bought it back from me, he was out the back for about five minutes. He's like, here you go. When he bought it back, he's like, here you go. And I said, well, did you actually know that it's not real? He's like, yeah, I kind of gathered that. Yeah, right.

Straight away, aren't you? And I said, could you tell by the quality of the watch? And he said, no, I can tell by the quality of you. What does that mean? Oh, look at you. Again, if you walked in wearing a suit. So anyway, do you want another real kicker? I put on my Rolex and I'm feeling like a million,

I'm feeling like $28,000. The thing falls apart. By 5pm that night. Oh, really? How did you know it was 5pm? She just combust. Wearing a watch. Who knows what the time was? He looked in the microwave. parts by 5pm that night. Oh really? How did you know it was 5pm? You weren't wearing a watch.

Who knows what the time was? He looked in the microwave. No idea what the time was. Oh there you go. Lesson learned.

Lesson learned. So now you're going to spend $28,000 on a watch? That's the only solution. If you want to

watch that works the only solution is to spend $28,000. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. You're one solution is to spend 28 grand. You're one that loves to name her cars.

Yeah, I've had three cars in my time, and I've named all of them. They've all been, I think, females. So my first car was a Holden Barina. I called her Lily. I used to have a trend where I would call them after, like, songs. So it's pretty niche, but there's a Smashing Pumpkins song called Lily. So she was named after that. And then I had a red MX-5.

I called her Ruby. That's a racy little number. Yeah. Red MX-5, convertible type one, was it? Yep. She's like, I could get me one of those about now. You know that song, Oh, Ruby, Don't take your love to town It was named after that

Right okay And then this one My car at the moment Do you hear the song When you're in the car And you're like Oh this is the song For the car

No I don't know I don't know Where it comes from It just comes Yeah Yeah And what's the latest one It's Muffy

But that's named after It comes from the number plate Oh is the letters That kind of Or is that your personalised plate? No, it's not. Muffy the Vampire Slayer. Muffy sounds like a really cute little name for, this is what I would have called a muffin to my four-year,

when they were four years old, the kids. What a little Muffy, what a little Muff. It's not exactly what I was thinking, but anyway. How many people have you had in Muffy. Little Muff. Oh, yeah. It's not exactly what I was thinking, but anyway. Let's go with the Muffin. How many people have you had in Muffy? I feel like she's been full. Yeah. How many people can you fit inside there?

Like five. Five? Yeah. At once. You mentioned this, and I've never named a car, and Jono's never named a car. Although my wife, we used to have an old silver car that she used to call Sylvie. Oh, cute. But that was only because I never really got on board with the name situation.

Because my husband's car doesn't have a name. I was like, it must be a female thing. We've just never named that car. But my car has a name. Does it make it more difficult to sell the vehicle? Because you're emotionally attached. You've named the car. It does, actually.

I was devastated when I sold my little mx5 producer ellie and producer grace have both come in here they were in trouble or they've got something they want to contribute i'm gonna pick i'm gonna pick we're in trouble uh what's happened ellie producer ellie hello we just wanted to come in and say we've also named our cars what's your car yeah my first car was freddie after freddie mercury because i'm obsessed with freddie mercury we know that um my second car we've also named our cars. What's your car? My first car was Freddie, after Freddie Mercury, because I'm obsessed with Freddie Mercury. We know that. My second car, I inherited from my grandmother,

who was called Margaret, so I called her Maggie. Oh, that's nice. That's a nice tie-in. Was there anything to do with Freddie Mercury with the car? Not at all. It was actually a pretty bad car.

Like what? I don't know, a moustache or something? Yeah, it had real bad what? I don't know, a moustache or something. Yeah, it had real bad teeth. Bad teeth? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, what about you, Grace?

And Grace, producer Grace names her cars. My first car, her name is Bertha because she's got a big butt. She's a station wagon. Oh, yeah, nice. I remember Bertha. And now I have moved on to Valerie the Vitz. So I just name them whatever. It doesn't have any emotional attachment.

So I guess you're probably not the only ones out there Listening right now that's named like a car Or maybe you've named something else Just inanimate objects You name a lot of body parts don't you We've called Ben's arms the spaghetti strings Haven't we Yeah have you named

Toasters, kettles, TVs, laptops I used to name my pot plants Because that was my tactic Not to kill them But then yeah it was really sad Because they still died And I was like oh RIP Ed Oh and under that it's 4487

Give us a call right now What have you named And we're celebrating 65 years of Barbie At the warehouse this week With $65 gift cards The hits The Jono and Ben podcast What did you name Have you named a car like Megan's name to her cars?

R.I.P. Ruby, Lily, R.I.P. No, we're taking names for cars or any other inanimate objects, throwing that out there this morning on 800 The Hits. You can text 24487 as a number. I'd say probably the most, I haven't really named anything, but the most inanimate thing I could name would be the Wi-Fi network at home. Oh, yeah, that's always fun to name.

Yeah, tell my Wi-Fi I love her sort of thing. But I still have it. Pretty fly for a Wi-Fi. That's a popular one, isn't it? I do like them. They're like FBI's Wi-Fi network. Well, firstly, the FBI's not in New Zealand. But no, I've still just got the boring D8Z428.

I know. I've got that too. I've never changed it. Out of all the people in the room who would have a cute Wi-Fi name, you'd think it would be you. Let's go to Alison. Welcome to the program. Oh, no.

Is this our mate Barb? Barb? Hello, Barb. Oh, no. We've got Alison. Jesus, what am I doing? What am I doing, Alison? I don't know.

Sort it out. What a fiasco. Great to have you on. Yeah, how are you guys? You don't get this on another show, mate. We're doing all good. What are your names? I've got a car.

I've got a Ford Laser and I call it Fraser. Oh, Ford Laser. That's a good name. I like that. Fraser. I do remember my friend had Gord Oh, Ford Laser. That's a good name. I like that. It's Frazee. I do remember my friend had Gordie the Fordie. He had a Ford when we were growing up. Yeah, Gordie's it.

And like the question I asked Megan, would it be hard to on-sell Fraser because you're so emotionally attached to him, named it? No, not at the moment because it got hit at work and it's seven years old. So I'm sort of thinking I'm going to have to start looking at another car. Well, it's a great car.

Don't tell Fraser that, but yeah. Oh, so random to Fraser. How rude. We're going to hook you up with $65 to spend at the warehouse celebrating 65 years of Barbie at the warehouse right now. Enjoy that. Jeffrey, good morning to you. Good morning, boys.

Well, we're doing wonderful. Well, you didn to you. Good morning, boys. Good morning, boys. We're doing wonderful. You didn't even ask us how we were. Are you okay? It's just good to get that out there. Geoff, what have you named? My 1978 Moto Guzzi Le Mans is called Mari Aliche. This is a motorbike?

Yes. It's called what? Mari Aliche. Mari, after my favourite recording artist, Maria McKay. And Aliche after Pavarotti's daughter. Oh, you've really... Goodness me!

You have gone deep, baby. Pavarotti's daughter? Not Pavarotti. Are you a Pavarotti fan? No. I heard him interviewed on the radio years ago. And the DJ kept calling his daughter because she'd only just been born. Alice, this, Alice, that, Alice, that.

And he came back in top Rocky style. It's not Alice. It's Alicia. Alicia. She's Italian baby. Jeez, this has been niche. I love it. I love it.

I love it. It's a great complex picture. Name is Motorbiker Pavarotti's daughter. I wonder what Aliccio's up to nowadays. $65 to spend at the warehouse. Thanks so much for your call. Appreciate it. Good on you, mate.

Have a good day, mate. You too. You too. Very confused about that whole section there. Barb, how are you? Morena, guys. Morena, Barb. What have you named?

My car is named Envy. Envy? Envy is an envy because everybody envies me because I have a green car that matches my green fence. Oh, matching fence. Have you ever put the car through the fence or have they stayed away from each other? No. But if you park beside it and take a photograph, it's pretty hard ever put the car through the fence or have they stayed away from each other but if you park the side and take a photograph it's pretty hard to see oh camouflage is into your green fence big color love that barb i will uh i also have a robot

vacuum cleaner named steve oh steve the vacuum cleaner any reason why you call it Steve? with a pedestal leg, it will ride up and down. See? Did he go at you like a rabbit, did he, Barb? That's not going to get into that. It was my friend's boyfriend. Oh, Stephen. Yeah. Wonder if he's still got that life in him nowadays, Barb. Oh, Barb, such a great call. You've got $65 to spend at the warehouse as well.

Appreciate your calls and your texts. Just so you know, Alicia Pavarotti, an actress, still going strong. Oh, there we go. That's good to know you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Good morning, Katy Perry. We're going to be talking, actually, to our entertainment reporter live in New York about Katy Perry very shortly.

She's been hanging out with Katy Perry in the studio. Just released a new album, hasn't she? And it's been, we feel bad for her. She's been getting savage reviews from the critics who have never a new album, hasn't she? And it's been, we feel bad for her. She's been getting savage reviews from the critics who have never recorded an album themselves, but they feel they should take it upon themselves to give it a one and a half star review. Yeah, one of the critics though, it's

Rolling Stone, so they've been around forever and slammed it one and a half stars. She was in Australia at the moment. Katy Perry, she just announced yesterday that she's going to be performing in Australia at some big concerts ahead of the she's doing the Aussie Rules final this weekend as well. Oh, there was a news story yesterday that the Australian Rules are like, mate, we don't want to hear your new music. Come out and just play five bangers.

Play your bangers, yeah. Well, Katy Perry had a bit of a theory on the project about concerts. And even her concerts, she's like, they start too late. Now that she's a mum, she's like we need to start concerts earlier i've got a couple of kids so my idea of a party is being at home in bed at 9 p.m now that you're a mom four-year-old my concerts will start at eight o'clock sharp yes so she wants earlier concerts eight o'clock sharp be done by 10 everyone's down they can do their own thing it's's still late. That's still really late.

You say that's late, though, because you get on the time you get up. No one else in the, you know. In the world. Yeah. Well, but isn't that just the normal time that concerts are? No, they start till like 9, sometimes 10 o'clock. You know, they get on later and later. Well, you're on the musician's clock.

You know, you're on the international musician's clock who's a nocturnal beast. And they're going to wake up at midday the next day. The rest of us have sensible nine-to-five jobs. You're right. They've got nothing to do the next day until the next concert was in the afternoon evening. Fornicate with someone for nine hours overnight, wake up, catch a private plane, and get on to the next one.

Yeah, you're right. So maybe we should have, particularly the weeknight concerts, have a little earlier. I don't think anyone would mind, because if you want to go out, you can still go out. But then everyone else would be like, great, great night. Okay, all right, we'll bring it early. She starts at 7.

Would you like to start at 7, done by 9? Great. That would be ideal. And while we're there, comfortable seating for all, okay? No one's standing. Everyone has a nice, comfortable seat. There's a moment, too, where you get to a certain age and you don't stand at concerts anymore, eh?

Because now it's like, oh, G.A. standing. I love standing. I love standing. Do you? Yeah. He's an active guy, though. Yeah. The difficult thing about sitting down is, hey, I love sitting down, but there's always the awkward one where you're like, well, there's songs that you stand up for and songs that you sit down for. But the problem is, people are

standing up and sitting down for different socks. Yeah. You can't complain about people standing up in front of you. Then you go to a concert and someone in front of you stands for the whole thing and you're like, why did we get seats? We were standing the whole time. Sit down. I do sit down.

The awkward thing is trying to slowly fade back into your seat. Because if you've stood up for a banger nine times out of ten, they're not following up with another banger. They're going to go to some obscure B-side. And you need to slowly fade down halfway through that song. Or the weird word. Remember when Bruno Mars, you went to Bruno Mars and someone was next to you and go,

Jono sat the whole time at Bruno Mars. The only person that he saw sitting the whole concert. Bruno Mars was incredible. No one was more entertaining than that. He was like, yeah, we're there next to Jono. Jono sat for the entire thing. Like grenades. What about locked out of heaven? Everything. It was Bruno's whole stage was moving.

It was up and down and the person was like, Jono sat for the entire concert. I didn't enjoy it any less because I was sitting. I would have enjoyed it equal amounts if I was standing. So all I do is save my leg energy. Bruno doesn't know that. His leg energy. There's one person just sitting there, mate.

What was that guy, Williams, our friend, he went to a Kanye show in Sydney. And Kanye stopped the show. He's like, I am not continuing this show until everyone in this stadium stands up. And there was one person left. And he's like, mate, you, you, you're holding up the show, not continuing until he's standing up.

And the audience are trying to get Kanye's attention and yell, mate, mate. And he's not, mate, you, you, we're not, you're holding up the show. Not continuing on until he's standing up. And the audience are trying to get Kanye's attention and yell, mate, mate. And he's not, he can't hear them. Eventually, after a bit of back and forth, it's passed on to him. The memo is passed on to Kanye that that person's in a wheelchair. Oh, yeah. What did Kanye say? I think he was like, oh, we'll kick back into it now. Unless you can do it.

Oh, we'd better kick back into it. No apologies. I do any of this. Oh, we'd better kick back into it. No, no, no apologies. I try to wrap this up by nine o'clock, you know. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. I think last night you had babysitters around? Yeah, so last night, first of all, shout out, I went to see

Matilda the Musical, which is on at the Bruce Mason Theatre. It's just started, it was opening night last night and it was incredible. It's on for the school was opening night last night and it was incredible. It's on for the school holidays, so go along, check it out.

Yeah, it was really amazing. Everyone did such a great job. But we had a night off and often we stagger it. So either my husband will go out or I go out. It's kind of rare that we'd both go out together. Perfect married life. Although two in a row because we took Ben out the night before. Oh yeah, you took me out. I was third wheeling on the other date night. Yeah. But last night we went out and we left them with the babysitter that always looks after them.

She's very capable. But we never hear anything. She always looks after them fine. It's the ideal. That's what you want from babysitters. Yeah. And then we were in the theatre. Of course, you're not supposed to use your phone.

Frowned upon. And I could feel it. I had my bag on my lap and I could feel my phone vibrating. Oh, yeah. Vibrating, vibrating. And I was like, oh, I need to check it. Because, you know, I could be the kids. So I look and it is from her.

And I was like, oh, my God. So I turn the brightness right down and I'm sitting there looking at my phone. And she was like, I don't want to panic you, but your son Bastion, he has eaten the bath bomb that you left him. So it'll be bombing inside of it. We were like, oh, this will be like a cute thing to do because so, you know, while we're away, we'll give him a cute bath.

Like he doesn't have bath bombs every night, but we were like, we'll give him this as a treat. Yeah, we're trying to pull back the South Island now, aren't we? away, we give him a cuper. He doesn't have bath bombs every night, but we were like, we'll give him this as a treat. We're trying to pull back the South Island now, aren't we? No, no. We don't bath bomb our children. It's a kid's one. It was like a Hot Wheels bath bomb. If he had water, does it mean it would bubble?

Stop trying to give credibility to the bath bomb. It was a Hot Wheels one. It had daggers and stuff on it. It was still a bath bomb. I mean, it did look. I think he thought it was like a lolly or something. Yeah, they probably do look quite enticing.

So I imagine the bath bomb, is it like frothing out of his back end? Exploding inside of him? That was the first message and I'm like, oh, okay. And so I look and she sent a photo of how much he'd eaten.

Big bite chunk out of this bath bomb. And she's like, next message, I have managed to get most of it out of his mouth. Next message, the ingredients on the back of the packet. Because she's like, do I need to take him anywhere? And I was like, oh, she's really panicked. But I was like, he'll be all right. You're watching Matilda.

I know. I thought, it's just a bit of soap, right? And he's just spit it out. I was like, honestly, thanks for all the panic. But I think he'll be all right. He'll be fine. Yeah, they used to make you, back in my day at school, they used to make me eat soap.

I know. I was like, dude, he eats worse on a daily basis. Can I just clarify, I wasn't in the education system when they were making us eat soap. I don't know. Well, you're hard to say. It sounds like you were. So yeah, crisis averted.

But I'm sorry to anyone who was sitting around me while I'm, like, lighting up my phone, trying to figure out if he needed to go to the hospital. He's got a squeaky clean mouth. You can't argue that. He had a squeaky clean butt. Look at the positives. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Talking about Katy Perry playing at the grand final on the Australian rules over the weekend, which song she's going to play. She's got five songs, $5 million. 5.5. She wants to play some of her new stuff. They've said only bangers. I think they've agreed one new song and four older songs,

but there's also a bit of uproar. And that's a that's a good pun uh about the song roar because the Brisbane Lions are one of the teams in the final and apparently they use Katy Perry's song as one of their songs and that was a big thing and then they're like oh she sings that is she backing the Brisbane Lions yeah too and also if they play it is she gonna want royalties if they keep playing it? Gee, she does have some bangers too. Credit Katy Perry. Let's... Yeah, she's got some great tunes. Oh, then what about a bit of Uh-Oh?

Yeah, there's two songs if you want to play with her. Uh-Oh, Ben. DJ Jono's back. Do you want to hear her Or did you just say I got the eye of the time I mean there's four great songs

That she can play right now And she's got more She's got more Do you want to hear more Well we can We can go with it You know what Oh do you want to hear

California girls California girls We're all together Yeah Bang us Bang us Bang us And if you're paying

Five million dollars For Katy Perry Yeah no5 million for Katy Perry. Yeah, no, good on you, Katy Perry. Great career. Yeah, very great career. Now, there's a little game. I remember my dad used to do this to me, and I've just got onto it now because my kids are getting a little older

than your kids, Megan. So they're at the age now where you can do things to embarrass them, and you get a reaction. And as a parent, there's no greater joy than getting that reaction from your kids pick them up from school without your pants on gets them every time also gets the police involved

yeah but one of the things I like to do and I remember my dad doing this to me the other day is when you're driving them back from

pick them up from school whatever driving them home there'll be other kids from their school walking on the street and then you always say something like

oh is that such and such or is oh do you know that person and then they'll look and just as you're looking you give a little, is that such and such? Or is, oh, do you know that person? And then they'll look. And just as you're looking, you give a little toot toot. And they're looking. The kid looks up.

They have direct eye contact. You never look. You never look. You carry on. But there's just direct eye contact between them and the kid. That's cruel. That is beautiful bullying there. Ben.

And they're like, oh. Oh, they're like that awkwardly. You know, they have to wave and stuff. It's looking like, who's that? Like, what are they doing? My dad did it to me all the time. And that would get you 100% of the time as well too. Yeah, he'd be like, oh, is that your friend?

You'd be like, what? And then doo-doo. And then you'd be looking directly straight into their eyes. Don't ever do it if it's a boy they like. No, that's where the most joy would come in. Creating some lifelong trauma here. Kevin Boyce would even do the one where sometimes he would wave, but then he'd just pull down the sun visor.

So his wave would turn into a sun visor pull down. So it was like, he'd do that to me as well. We'd toot and wave, and I'd wave at him and he'd pull down the visor and he's like, not waving. Well, you should give that a go today, actually. If you're driving with anyone in the car, uh text 4487 gives give us the results that seems like some original content there from kev too i haven't heard of it before it actually works quite well yeah you don't want to all the time like you say you don't want to bully bully your kids too much but it's just a little light bully the hits the jonathan ben podcast okay megan your mum uh and

this is i think reflective of that generation. They don't like wastage. And shout out to them, too. Yeah, it's good. It is great. We've become a wasteful society. If we were going to generalise, probably not the generation that is doing too much for the environment. Probably doesn't care as much as maybe Gen Z does.

But she is backing the trend. But then you ask Gen Z does. But she is bucking the trend. But then you ask Gen Z where they're getting all their clothes from. Where are they ordering all those from? Where are their phones getting made? Fast fashion. Yeah, true. Although some Gen Zers are dead against that, you know, the fast fashion and stuff like that.

They're not all going down that road. Well, my mum is bucking the trend for the boomers and she is saving water. She goes to the greatest lengths to, I think it's less about the environment and more about she doesn't want to pay for like grey water. So she collects water in the sink in the kitchen. When you run the tap and it runs for ages, she'll put a bottle under it to collect all the cold water.

There is buckets in the shower for the same reason. Oh, so before it turns warm, she's collecting the cold stuff, okay. I'm just throwing that stuff down the sink. I've adopted that too. I've got bottles in my kitchen. It takes ages. She's over your shower with sort of buckets and tubs around you because that goes out

in the garden and stuff. Because I would fill a three litre easily and otherwise that just goes down the drain. Mum's on tank water too up north. So that's when you're like, geez, everything, every drop counts. And she would also, when the washing machine is draining, she'll pop the tube and put it into a bucket

and collect that water. The soapy water? The soapy water. What does she do with that? That goes on the garden and stuff. I guess so. So she doesn't let, she tries to not let anything go down the drain. Well, she's cancelling out me just standing in the shower at four o'clock in the morning,

staring at the wall for 15 minutes. Sitting in the shower. Sitting in the shower, yeah. So thank you, Rayway, for doing that. I think that balances it a little bit. I don't know if that's how it works. My dad, I remember, speaking of trying to conserve water, he stayed once and I saw him emptying the bloody dehumidifier water container into a jug.

I was like, John, what are you doing? He's like, this is perfect. He said, perfectly good water. It looked like, you know, when you're painting at primary school and you wash your brush in that water. Oh, was it milky? It was milky, yeah. That's the worst of it.

It's like all the stuff I've taken out. He's like, it's gone through a filter. Oh, grim. I had to remove of it. It's like all the stuff I've taken out. It's like it's gone through a filter. Oh, grim. I had to remove that from circulation for his own safety. So what are your parents collecting? My mum, the little sushi, you know when you buy sushi and the little fish that come with soy sauce? Yeah, yeah.

She collects those. She loves these. I won't throw out anything. And she's like, I'm going to find a use for it. Now she takes her own little bits of mouthwash with her in her bag. Little droplets. Little fishies of mouthwash with her in her bag. Little droplets. Little pushies of mouthwash. She doesn't want to throw them out.

She's almost got enough to open up her own St. Pierre's in Northland. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Your parents collecting in order to save on some pennies. The kitchen appliances that are sort of there from 1981, like a blender that looks like it would be at the beginning of a fire service PSA commercial. My mum has just got stuff everywhere.

A couple of days, I'm like, I just want to clear all this. It's her house, but I open up drawers, and the bread tags are in little containers, or those silica gels, do not eat. For moisture things, she keeps those things. She keeps just everything, just everywhere. She must have a very moisture-free household if she's got thousands of silica gel packets. She's got them good to go.

If you want something, she's got it. It's on hand. Do you sort of person that little wrapping paper? Would she flatten out wrapping paper and reuse? Oh, definitely. Yeah. Crumbs from a cake? She keeps cake crumbs.

Is she making cake pops? I don't know what she does. She sprinkles it on. The kids have their ice cream. She might sprinkle little cake crumbs from a cake. She keeps cake crumbs. Is she making cake pops? I don't know what she does. She sprinkles it on. The kids have ice cream. She might sprinkle little cake crumbs on as well. Chicken broth, fish broth, you name it. You can tell it winds them up too. I'm just like, every time I start looking,

I'm like, one thing is going to go down. It's going to go down. She won't know. Chutney from 1943 is like, it's gone. Do you slowly get rid of stuff? I do. Every now and again, I get winds. But then I'm like, her house. No, it's gone. Do you like slowly get rid of stuff? I do every now and again. But then I'm like, her house, and then I'm like, no, it's all got to go.

I can't get stuff in the fridge. Yeah, but then you know when you're not there, she's just adding to the... Yeah, exactly. One day that's going to be your burden. I know. I'm like, Mum, I don't say that all the time. I'm going to enjoy clearing all this out one day, Mum.

Get the movers. You're like, see everything in here? Don't say that. No, I'm telling you. It's like, you'll see everything in here. Don't say that. It sounds like you're going to enjoy it. She'll be gone. Well, one part I'm going to enjoy is that of my mum, is that I'm going to just clean it up. She is a good lady, but jeez, I'm going to enjoy throwing everything out.

There's a kitchen bench we can see. Mum might be gone, but at least I can see the kitchen bench. So what are your parents collecting? We're going to start this morning with Caitlin. How are you? Hi, I'm good. There's some ducklings walking past, so I'm in a great mood. Oh, cute.

Not near the road, though, eh? No, no, they're in a little grassy area. We do need to teach them about the road rules, the ducklings, though, don't we? Road safety. But, well, that's cute. Start to the phone call. Caitlin, you've already warmed our hearts, but what are your parents collecting to save money?

So my best friend's mum, I don't know if it's to save money, but she is obsessed with pigs and she collects everything pig. So she has a whole shelf in the living room full of pigs, statues, figurines, plushies. There's little ceramics on the kitchen bench. It's everywhere in the house. You'll open a door and there's a pig door stopper's little ceramics on the kitchen bench. It's everywhere in the house.

You'll open a door and, like, there's a pig door stopper. There's pigs on the windowsill. They are everywhere. And once you notice them, you can't unnotice them. Everything pig related. I often think people like that because my mum collects chickens, sort of. But I think she might have just said she likes a chicken thing once and then everyone's bought her chicken.

You see something and you're like, oh, Ray Ray will love this. And she'll be like, oh, do I? Yeah, now I've got everything chicken related. Yeah, maybe that's happened with this pig, poor pig lady. Yeah. Now there's an obligation to put it all on display as well. And she's now known as the pig lady. Well, Caitlin, great call.

$65 we're going to give you from the warehouse celebrating their 65 years with Barbie. Oh, thank you. Maybe I'll get her a their 65 years with Barbie. Oh, thank you. Maybe I'll get her a little pig plushie. Yeah, we can. There's probably pig-related stuff at the warehouse right now as well. Pig-related. Good morning to you, Adam. How are you?

Yeah, not bad, mate. Yourself? Yeah, we're doing really well. It's lovely to have you on this one. We're not doing too bad. Megan, the poor thing's got a gunky eye running conjunctivitis, don't you, Megan? No, thank you, Jono. Yep, I've got a bung eye.

She's been wearing sunglasses all morning like a pop star. Like a scaffolder. Yeah, exactly. Now, what are your parents collecting? Well, they're not collecting things, but ever since I've had kids, they've been saving all my logon credentials for Netflix, Sky Go, all of them, Neon, Disney. So, yeah, they're just stealing all my logon credentials for Netflix, Sky Go, all of them, Neon, Disney. So, yeah, they're just stealing all my logon details to scrimp on that.

They're doing it, are they? I thought Netflix stamped down on the old bloody, the mooches. I thought so, too. Yeah, but it still works. It's still working. They're still getting a free ride. You've got to work around. Yeah, but Dad had the hump last Saturday because they were obviously watching the game

and then I logged in to watch the All Blacks with my mates and then I got the text saying, are you watching Sky? And I was like, well, it is my Sky. Yeah, you mean you're watching my Sky. Yeah, I am. That's great. Cool, Adam.

Really appreciate it. $65 for the warehouse for you as well. Champion. Cheers, Dono. Oh, yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah, thanks too. Now, I'm getting confused.

Is it the warehouse of 65 years with Barbie, not Barbie's 65th birthday? Celebrating 65 years of Barbie at the warehouse. One of the warehouse stores in Albany painted pink at the moment on the outside.

The whole outside of it is pink Barbie warehouse. It's pretty awesome as well. You've got to spare a thought for the poor soul who has to undo all that next week. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

We want to know what your parents are collecting, the unusual things they like to hold on to. Yeah, some great stuff coming through here on 4487. My nana, she cleans out all the bags that come in. We'll take the Glad Wrap, wash the Glad Wrap, then hang the Glad Wrap on the washing line. Oh, yeah. Reuse the Glad Wrap. Okay hang the Glad Wrap on the washing line. Oh, yeah. Reuse the Glad Wrap. Okay. Good on you.

Yeah. My mum used to reuse those Glad Bags because we'd get them in our lunchbox and we had to take them home and she'd wash them, hang them up. Yeah, mum does that too. The zip box. Hangs them always, puts them over the top of the taps. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To dry.

But if you guys keep reusing them, what are those cute little dolphins meant to be eating out there in the ocean? Why are all the dolphins eating Gladirap anyway? I don't know. Why is the turtle snorting straws? Yeah. Or getting their head through six packs of beer. Yes.

Don't do it. How do you get your head through the six pack container? Well, I guess it's enticing for the poor thing, so yeah. Yeah. It does look like one of those ones where an adult might go, do you reckon I can fit in this child's swing at the playground? Maybe the turtles are like, I reckon I can squeeze my head through poor thing. Yeah, it does look like one of those ones where an adult might go, do you reckon I can fit in this child's swing at the playground? Maybe the turtles are like,

I reckon I can squeeze my head through that. Bit of a challenge. Now, we'll go to the phones. Joe, you are on. How are you? Good, thanks. Great to have you on, Joe. Parents, collecting things to save cash.

Yes. My dad used to collect aluminium cans to take to the recycling depot to get some money. Now, do you get like a centre can or something? Oh yeah, this is going back a while, I mean I'm in my forties now, but there used to be like a weekend thing, he'd say, alright kids, get in the car and we'll treat it, and we'd have to drive around blocks looking for aluminium cans. How many cans would you collect in a day? Oh, he'd end up with bags of these things and we'd have to crush them so, you know,

you can get more in a blank sack to take to the station. But my brother and I used to dread it because, you know, he'd pull up and there'd be people walking around, he'd be like, quick, run out and pick up that can over there. It's like they're drinking it. Sometimes they'd wait until someone had finished their can. Oh, wait, quick, go get their can. They're like stalking people on the street. And so at the end of the day, you've got sacks and sacks of crushed cans. How much was he pulling in?

Maybe he'd get like $30 if he was lucky. It's pocket money. I remember doing a master's in. Yeah, maybe he'd get like 30 bucks if he was lucky. It's pocket money. I remember doing it at Masterton. Yeah, we used to do that. My friend tried filling them with sand and then crushing them

and putting them through because I used to weigh them and they were like, no, no, you can't fill them with sand, mate. They were onto that one. Oh, Joe, did you try the sand trick?

Oh, we tried chucking some stones in the bag. They're onto it. They're not fools. Can you still do that? I don't know. Yeah, cash for cans.

Text 44070. You're still collecting cans and making money out of them. You can give us a call. Hey, Barbie, the warehouse is celebrating 65 years of Barbie, mate, and you have got yourself a $65 voucher there, Joe. That will buy you a whole bunch of cans. Awesome. Thanks, guys.

Hey, you have a great day. Appreciate you listening to the program, and thanks to all the people who texted through as well, to 4487. My mother, she irons out tinfoil once it's been used. Oh, really? So if it's been wrapped on a sandwich. So there you go, some good cash-saving tips there

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