Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben Reveals How Long He Was Engaged For + We Interview A TV Superstar!

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY Do you think Ben was engaged for too long?!  Megan blamed her kids for breaking something! Have you ever done this... We interview TV super star JONO PRYOR!!! A listeners tragic medical mishap How Jono mistook a man for a child... Why is Jono up at 2am recording audio? Stay to the end to hear us almost nail the NZ herald quiz... How many did you get?Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh. Your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Thursday, a Thursday. I was just saying Thursday morning, but it doesn't matter with a podcast. It doesn't matter what time you're listening. Little Friday. Little Friday. Yeah, heading into the weekend.

It makes you feel like the weekend starts a little bit early. You still listen to your basketball podcast, speaking of podcasts? Sometimes, yeah. Yeah, I don't mind them. Are you still podcasting other podcasts? Yeah. Yeah? Why? I was just wondering, what's the last one you listen to? Sometimes, yeah. Don't mind them. Are you still podcasting other podcasts? Yeah. Yeah? Why? I was just wondering, what's the last one you listen to?

Mamma Mia. Mamma Mia Out Loud. It's an Australian podcast. Is it about Ebba? No! It's just women jacking about. I follow them on Instagram and stuff. They're great. I would listen to that thinking I was going to hear

oh, Fernanda, you know, all the big jams. No, Mia started the podcast, so she's... Oh, is that what it is? Mama named Mia. Do you listen to podcasts, Johnno? I can't remember the last podcast I listened to. I did used to listen to Conan O'Brien's podcast a while ago. He was quite good.

Conan O'Brien needs a friend. Yeah. But we're not here to promote other podcasts. That's right. There are some good ones out there. We're on a podcast. Listen to this one only. That's right. Oh, my God. I know I started the conversation. I'm sorry. That's right, there are some good ones out there. We're on a podcast, listen to this one only. That's right.

Oh my God, I completely forgot. I know I started the conversation, I'm sorry. Yeah, right, this one, and this one starts, the conversation starts

on this podcast with how long I was engaged for. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. Big fan of Valentine's Day, Megan, you had a wonderful list

of free things. Like cheap and easy things that you can do for your partner. Here's something that a friend of mine, she lives overseas but she's very efficient. Yeah.

She's organised stuff. She's like, ticked it off the list. Knew I had to do it this week so they went out last night. Well, she is efficient. Yeah, she's like, we did our Valentine's,

she put it on social media and we're like, we got it out of the way. We made sure we do it. Do you know how I feel about the efficiency when you're like, right, got it out of the way, tick it off. Well, you need to be part how I feel about the efficiency when you're like right got it out of the way

take it off you need to be part of it to do this she's like I knew it was coming up this week I messaged you I knew it was coming up

this week said to my partner so we're like cool we'll do it this night that works for us better than Valentine's Day night so let's do it

see if you missed it yesterday Ben's like I'll participate but not on Valentine's Day he'll do it before or after I'm like I kind of like being a part of it. Oh, you can.

Going out on the day and everyone's like, aw. You do, yeah. Well, there's clearly two parties, ones who like to tick it off a to-do list and others who like to celebrate. Now, after the show, you got talking about romance, making Ben feel awkward about his relationship. Talking about our relationship.

And I guess I was saying, you know, we've been together a long time, Amanda and myself, my wife and I, over 20 years we've been together. And then we started going through, I guess I was saying, you know, we've been together a long time, Amanda and myself, my wife and I, over 20 years we've been together. And then we started going through, I guess, the timeline of stuff and I mentioned the fact that once I – because I proposed pretty early-ish on, I guess, in the relationship. How long had you been together when you proposed? I would say within the first year or so.

You know, like I guess maybe a year or – maybe around a year, I guess. A year or so. Yeah. He's like, damn, I've got one here. Ticked off the list. But then I didn't tick the next thing off the list because, you know, we were pretty young. I was like, we waited seven years from once we had got engaged

until we actually got married. I think the fact that my wife maybe thought, maybe it's not going to happen. And some couples are like that. So was she like chill about it or was it something that she brought up often? No, she never really brought it up. I think in her head she was probably like, is this going to be or is this not? I always give a grief because we got married, beautiful wedding in Fiji,

got married in Fiji. And because the people that were doing the hair and makeup that day, they were running a little bit behind. My wife ended up being a bit behind. And I was like, it was 37 minutes. I was waiting in that hot little, hot stuffy little, you know, like, and I was like it was 37 minutes I was waiting in that hot little hot stuffy little you know like and she was like I waited seven years so you can shut up so you had your you had the uh relationship on a slow cooker plan for seven years were you waiting did the itch come seven years were you like waiting for a rash to turn up where you're like

the seven-year riches turn it didn't come so you're like now we forge no I guess it was just probably one of those things that we were happy I mean some people still I mean oh under the hood it's four four eight seven maybe you have been engaged

for a long time currently or maybe you have been engaged and then you know longer than seven years longest engagement sometimes I guess it falls by the wayside

and maybe you end up with other financials like you might buy a house and then you're like oh okay we can't afford a wedding. You know? Yeah. I'm sure that happens a lot.

It's a lot of money on a wedding on one day and looking back, I'm like, you know. I've had two and it's disgusting. I could have bought like a house a long time ago. And you reach a point in a relationship where you're like, well, we're pretty much married anyway. Yeah.

And if you wait long enough, you have a party, it can also be a retirement party at the same two birds one stone knock them out so longest engagements maybe you're still in your engagement can you beat seven years

or have you been close to seven years as you said there may be some people right now still engaged for like a decade we're talking longest engagements seven years my wife and I before we got married after getting engaged. That surprised me.

We were pretty young. We were in our early 20s. Yeah, but you were so quick to propose. Yeah. And then we're happy. It was good. Yeah, you do you, boo. But I was just like, whoa, I didn't know that.

But the text machine is made exactly like nothing. He's also a tight ass as well. That was the problem. The proposing girl, that was you, boo. But I was just like, whoa, I didn't know that. But the text machine is made exactly by nothing. He's also a tight ass as well. That was the problem. The proposing girl, that was the affordable part. The weddings were against expensive. Yeah, there are people blowing you out of the water here, Ben. Shannon, longest engagements, and are you still in it? I was, yeah, engaged for nine years,

and we just got married last year. Oh, wow. Oh, congrats. I kind of wanted to wait till this year to sort of make it to that decade. Yeah, last year. So then it has a purpose. You're like, why did you wait so long? Oh, so it was 10 years.

Now, at what point do people, so what year do people stop asking you when the wedding's going to happen? Oh, I can't remember. I imagine after about a year, people will be like, oh, maybe it's not happening. Yeah, I think they kind of just move on to the next couple or something like that. It's getting awkward now. Oh, nine years. And did it make the wedding more special waiting longer? I think so, yeah.

Like, we've been together probably almost like 15 or so years now, so yeah, we met when we were like 20, so I feel like we've, yeah, we've tested it out before we got married. But here's my thing, like, you deserve a medal for 15 years, because I've done two marriages now, neither one have made it to 15 years. You could have had four in that time. I know, yeah. But, like, do you still celebrate your, like, first meeting date? Or is it purely you've wiped the slate and it's just your wedding anniversary now? I feel like because we're so far along, like, just going back to, like, first anniversary kind of sucks a bit, but we don't really celebrate when we first met and that sort of thing because we both don't really agree on when

that date was. No one does! We do that when we got engaged. Well, I'm glad you're married now, Shannon. Congratulations. Beautiful story. Amanda, can you be... Okay, so we've had Ben's seven, Shannon's nine. How long can you be... Okay, so we've had Ben's seven, Shannon's nine. How long have you been engaged for?

26 years. 26 years. Wow. We've been together 53. I can't do the math. Why have you never got round to it? Is it on the to-do list? No, it's not really. It's just a piece of paper for us now.

Yeah, right. Yeah, because I was like, at this point, do you actually still want to get married or are you just like, eh? No, well, I never, I don't know if I really want to get married anyway because my surname is actually Valentine. Oh, that's cute. And this is Britain, so, you know. That's the thing.

I've got friends like that. They've got kids and they're not married and they're like, nah, we don't really want. It is just a piece of paper. Exactly. You don't need it. And they're like, it's some cases, it's tens of thousands of dollars. It's a very expensive piece of paper. And they're like, hey, we'd rather have a holiday with the kids now than spend it.

And I'm like, yeah, fair enough. You do you. Exactly. This is a great text here. Listen, I proposed after three months together. Then we spent 10 years engaged. Married five years now. Wow, jeez.

That's a quick turnaround. You're doing a quick engagement being like, yes, you are the one, but we're not going to. We're happy. 32 years engaged, still not married. All right. Keep these coming through. These are fascinating.

4487 on the text. The longest engagements. We're going to have to come back to this again tomorrow. So many people right now have been engaged decades. Decades. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

I blame something on my children, actually, just my son. Because he can't get mad at them. So I have a little stick vacuum cleaner. It's very old. And I might have been rage vacuuming. I was rage vacuuming. You don't like vacuuming? Well, I don't like vacuuming.

And also I felt like it should have been done earlier. It's a bad story here. Okay. So I was rage vacuuming. There's tension. Nothing quite like rage vacuuming. Yeah. I had to put it up against something.

Like I had to pause for a moment. So I put it up against something and I had to pause for a moment so i put it up against something and i've snapped the part that closes that holds all the dust oh yeah because i may have rage put it up and you know like i put it up against the thing really like seems like a crucial part a part two you know like i just heard the crack and i've broken it my husband came out and he was like what's happened to the vacuum cleaner? I was like, do you know what? I was vacuuming and I turned my back for a second and Bastion picked it up and he's dropped it on the floor.

So you're rage blamed as well. You were in a rage. Yeah. Because I was like, I can't tell if I was rage vacuuming and like smacked it against the wall. So you blamed your four year old son. I did. Yeah, but you're in that golden hour. You know, that golden sweet four or five years where you can blame stuff on kids

and they don't realise that they're being framed for crimes they didn't commit. You know, you've got young kids, dogs, cats and forgetful grandparents. Those are kind of your sweet spot for blaming stuff on people. I should have blamed it on the dog actually because I did run the risk of him asking Basham, being like,

why did you play with the vacuum cleaner? He didn't, thankfully. Yeah, true. Because he would have been like, I didn't you're like don't lie don't lie mate I would have found it quite hard to be like stop lying to dad so yeah okay so Andrew your husband still thinks it was he doesn't listen to the radio at this time so he still thinks it's our son you know I was thinking about that last night things you blamed on back when my sister and I we lived on a farm in the Wairarapa and for there was a period there where people at her school wanted threads, colorful threads sort of plaited into their hair. Oh, yeah.

And she was like, can you do it? And I'm like, I've never plaited anything in my life at that stage. There's a lot of trust in that. Yeah, but I'll give it a go. And then I tied it so tight around the little bit of her hair that we couldn't undo it because it looked terrible. So we went to undo it. I was like, we're going to have to cut off like a bit of her hair.

It was near the front. We're just going to have to cut it off. So we cut it off, right down the thing. I thought it was fine, but then it started to grow back like a little storm. A little sprout. And she was like, I was like, don't you tell mum what's going on. She's like, what's the story? And at that stage, she was feeding some baby goats as part of the farm.

And I was like, just say when the goats bit your head. Good backstory. Great backstory. Goats ate your hair. She had to hold up that lie for a while to mum. Did she believe it? No, she really did believe it. Why was she holding up the lie for you?

She easily could have thrown you under the bus. I was the older brother. I was like, don't you dare. Mind you, she pitched it. She pitched the idea. You were an aspiring hairdresser or anything. Exactly. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. The Hits. What is happening? Well, you're in a bit of a bluster, aren't you? No, I don't think this is a me issue. Is it your connection? Can you plug your microphone in? I'm fine.

All the buttons are turned on. This is embarrassing because we're about to have a big TV star join us in studio. No, there we go. Go on that one. There. Yeah. There.

You can't hear yourself. We can hear you. Oh, great. Oh, that's good you can hear me. I'm very flustered. We've got a big guest coming through to the studio right now. Good morning. We'd like to welcome into the studio John O'Prior.

Welcome. Big TV star! Sorry about that shambolic start. It's not normally what happens. I walk out of the room to try and do a gag that I'm coming as a guest for two minutes. And then the gag also means to be the fact that the microphones weren't working.

My microphone just stopped working. Like just decided not to work. Enough of you. Turns off. So we've all moved around seats I leave for 45 seconds, the place falls to pieces We welcome in Jono Pryor You have a show starting tonight 8.30, TV3, it's called Vince

And we're live You just breathed yourself Made on live TV You're done Vince Vince Sorry I didn't get your name You're done, Vince. Vince? Vince. Vince. Vince. Vince. Sorry, I didn't get your name.

You make me laugh, lady. Yeah. So tell us about the show. Now I can actually talk into the microphone. Can I say I've done a few interviews with radio shows. Oh, shut up. And this would probably have to be the most shambolic one. We're having technical difficulties.

Yeah, no. Listen, I wrote the pilot for this program. It's in lockdown. So four or five years ago, locked away with COVID. Remember we used to isolate, keep yourself away from people? That's right. It's gone by the wayside. Did you do something productive in lockdown?

Well, I was kind of... Gross. I was just doing something to try and manage the alcohol intake, just to try and distract from that and eating terrible food. But yeah, I sort of wrote this weird pilot for this show, featuring a mix of events and things that have happened over the years in the industry. And yeah, it sort of ended up as a story of a self-obsessed narcissistic broadcaster. There was a big mirror in the room at the time. And he loses his job after his trousers come down at a children's hospital.

Which is, you know, like based on a real story. It didn't happen to you. Is it? Well, that part, loosely based on it, not live on television. We were at Christmas in the Park, Ben and me, and I was having a photo with two children and the mother was taking the photo and the guy came up behind and downtralled me. Oh my God.

Because we were wearing suits, suit top halves and then board shorts because it was summertime, Christmas in the Park, and yeah, wearing bottom halves. Wait, downtralled undies? Oh, both. Great, it was a textbook downtrall.

Yeah. Oh my God. So if that image ever pops up, you know there's a backstory, okay? All innocent stuff. Well, that was the, I actually got a preview of the first pops up, you know there's a backstory. Okay, all innocent stuff. Well, that was that. I actually got a preview of the first three episodes last night. It's very good.

I don't want to give you too many compliments, but it was very good. It was very funny. But like that bit where the down trail happens. What are you wearing? Oh, there's a little modesty pouch. Oh, yeah. But is that still pretty revealing? Yeah, well, no, I was like, oh, I haven't shaved.

I haven't done anything there. I mean, you wrote it. You knew it was coming out. Yeah, I did. I probably prepared more for it. Yeah. So it is blurred. Yeah, it is blurred.

It was funny because they do these privacy and intimacy coaches for TV sets and film sets. So it was the wonderful Jennifer Ward Leland, you know, who accomplished that. And she's the intimacy person, so I'm having a one-on-one, and she's like, so are you going to be having your testicles out? And I was having a very deep and meaningful, serious conversation about what body parts were going to be

exposed with Jennifer Ward-Leland. But no, Ben helped storyboard it as well. Ben cameos too as the host of a reality show. Yeah. Celebrity Divorcey Island. That's right, yeah. Oh, why was I not on this show?

We're filming it. We're like, this could probably be an actual show. Yeah, that's cool. It could have been perfect for that show. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We've been doing, you know, meet the teacher evenings a couple of times. We get to go to the school to meet the teachers and sit in the hall and things like that.

I always wonder if the teachers are like, meet the parents evening. And the parents are like, meet the teachers evening. No one wants to be there. I mean, you do get to see where your kids are going to be. Because, you know, probably during

primary school, you get to experience a lot more of the school, whereas my kids now both at secondary school, you don, probably during primary school, you'll get to experience a lot more of the school, whereas my kids now are both at secondary school. You don't see a lot of it. You just drop them off at the gates if you do, or you pick them up and you don't go in and go, oh, that's where you go this and that. So I like that part of it. What I appreciate about the primary school ones too

is they don't factor in the furniture. And so you're all huddled around this tiny little bean-shaped table with the miniature chairs and you've got your knees up by your ears. You're like, is this going to hold me? But you advance to college, you get proper-sized chairs, don't you? Yeah, that's right. Those are the high school ones.

They go into the hall, you get a talk from the principal, the head from the head prefect, things like that, you know, which is nice. You sit in those wooden sort of... Bleaches. They're bleachers.

No comfort. Oh, God. For your bottom or back. It's an assault on your butt cheeks. What are they like sitting in as an adult? You're like, oh, my back. More uncomfortable than when you were a kid. You're like, jeez, this is not ergonomic.

It just had that distinctive smell of school. It's not like a bad smell or anything. It's just like a smell of school. And then you go into the classroom and you get to meet the teacher. And then the teacher went through stuff. And the teacher's, again, probably younger, you know meet the teacher and then uh so it goes that the teacher went through stuff and the teachers again probably younger you know younger than me you know it could be your child if you start appropriating early in life now but you just feel suddenly you're like sitting in class on a on a seat feeling like you're 13 again you know like such a weird fit like and everything

seems funny if someone makes a noise or whatever you're like it feels like you're back in class you know don't laugh don't laugh and each night i've done it, I have my daughter there next to me and looking at me like, don't embarrass me. Because I have a habit of embarrassing my kids. And on this occasion, I'm like, I can't do this. Particularly Indy, she's new at high school. I can't tarnish her debut. She's starting out.

Although I did threaten because they went through with the uniform. And I keep saying, they don't have a hat. The school does not have a hat. And I'm like, my don't have a hat. The school does not have a hat. And I'm like, my kids could be the champion. A hat with a flap, maybe. Any hat. I'm like, make it cool. A bucket hat, a hat.

And they're like, Dad, please do not bring up the fact that the school does not have a hat. And every time I go to put my arm up for this question, they just look at me and they're like, no, I won't. But I was like, you could lead the way. And they're like, my kids are like, I will definitely get bullied. You don't want to lead the way.

You just want to blend in sun protection you're right bend sun protection tell you what they'll be thanking you in 40 years and get moles

cut out of their neck won't they should have had the hat with the flap well that's good that you made it through always when they're

like have you got any questions I'm always like damn it I should have thought I know because you want to seem smart

I think at one time I was like how have you been of course you did. That was my comeback question. How's the family? How's things? How's life?

That's good to know those things. So next time I'll know, have you got hats with flaps? How about that? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. About her Botox doctor. Take a listen to this.

The man who gave me Botox, if you Google his name, I'll give you his name. It came out two weeks ago that he was arrested for not being licensed to do what he was doing and no no gets better and injecting his victims i'm air quoting with counterfeit botox from china oh wow oh my god do you have some of those botox in you? Who doesn't love Chinese botulism in their face? Are you okay? When was the last time you saw this guy?

It was last March. And then I literally took all my friends there. Like 20 of my friends go. My mother went to him. And this man, I'm like, so we couldn't, nobody could get a hold of him in the fall. We were like, what's going on? Where is he? And I'm texting him because he's like my friend.

And I'm texting him like, where are you? And then he finally got back to me and was like, sorry, honey, like took took a little time off. We're moving offices, blah, blah, blah. And my friends were like, something's weird. And then I saw in the paper. Sorry, I'll stop in a minute. Then in the paper, I saw all the victims were the what they were experiencing was heart palpitations, trouble swallowing and double vision. Three days after I got it in March, I went back to look in my statement. I started getting double vision and was going to doctors, MRIs, neurologists. No one asked me like if it was like Botox. We thought it was maybe residual from the accident I had had two years ago. But Nicole, I mean, like, I don't really feel like laughing that's really serious we have to we have

to laugh or we'll cry i'm trying to sue him but do we really think a crook has insurance well it's hard to know what you are what you're really feeling looking at you on screen because your face is not moving too much i mean i like it when it's frozen just not with chinese botulism yeah it was too it was too good to be true i mean it was so cheap and i was like okay obviously it's too cheap because it's not if it's super cheap then you've got to question what's going in wild story yeah yeah it's really scary and that happens quite a lot because i know that you can buy counterfeit or dodgy you know stuff online you can get it quite easily. And people are injecting themselves. It's really scary.

Yes. If you find yourself injecting yourself with Botox that you've ordered online, you've taken a wrong turn in life. Yeah. It isn't going to work. Don't do it. Oh, 800 of the hits. We want to chuck this open.

Medical misadventures. Yeah. What is it? Have you been in for surgery and the surgeon left their cell phone in your appendix? I don't know. Things like that kind of happen though, don't they? They take out the wrong thing. They leave a sponge in there.

I mean, we all make mistakes at work. There's just high stakes mistakes. Yeah, you're right. 0800 The Hits. Medical mishaps. What's happened to you when you've gone in for an operation or something? We'd love to get your calls in. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The Hits. Talkingo, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Talking medical misadventures. Nicole, who we hang out with once a week in New York, she updates us with all the news over there. She was saying her Botox doctor is now going through the courts, been injecting people with counterfeit Botox. Giving people double vision and all sorts.

Botulism. Yeah. Heart palpitations. So, yeah, medical misadventures. Megan, you saying you had to sign something. I had to sign a form. I don't know. I didn't really read it, but they were like, sign this because they made a mistake.

So I went in and got x-rays done on my ankle and they were like, it's fine. You're chill. Go away. Walked on it for two weeks and went back and was like, it's really sore. And it was broken. So someone had looked at the x-rays. I don't know, like if they just took a glance. They were like, it's fine.

But it wasn't. I was walking around for two weeks on a broken ankle. Maybe it was a Friday five o'clock stuff. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, we all good, mate. Walk it off. It's all good. And so when you sign it, that means you can't take them legally.

Take it any further. Do they give you anything? Like what? A free pin? My seat broke on the long-haul flight, and they gave me a necklace. I got to choose something from the booklet. I gave it to my wife. No, they didn't.

I had to sit through 12 hours of an upright seat. It was tilting forward. I couldn't even go. The seat didn't recline. You should have asked for something good. A necklace. A pad with the hospital name on it or something. The seat didn't recline. You should have asked for it. You should have asked for something good. Yeah, like a... A good old necklace. A pad with the hospital name on it or something,

you know, a bit of pen and paper or something. Yeah. Now we've got Natalie on the phone. Medical misadventures. What happened, Nat? Oh, so in 2015 I hurt my lower back and in 2016 I went for surgery on the lower back and the surgeon accidentally cut the lining around the spinal cord and all my brain fluid because your spinal fluid and brain

fluid circulate it was leaking out of my back oh my god to the bed and he's like oh it's just residual and sent me home like a day later. And then like a couple days later, I went back in and I was like, nah. There's like brain fluid all over my bed. Oh. Oh, well, it's sad day, you know. We don't do MRIs on sad days. I come back on Monday.

I came back on Monday and I'm like, oh, yeah. That's not great. So we did a second surgery. That didn't work. And so I ended up going not great. So they did a second surgery. And that didn't work. And so I ended up going down to Auckland Hospital and having a third surgery, which didn't work. And they're like, well, whatever your surgeon did in this hospital, it's not what he actually did. He's trying to hide. And a fourth surgery did it. It was sealed.

It's all my brain fluid leaks into my body and collected. Then it got infected and then it was months in hospital but it affected all the infections that put pressure on the nerve called cauda equina and so I lost my bladder function. I have to catheterise. Oh, jeez, poor thing. Oh, that's a good thing. I'm only 33 at the time, I think.

And I sometimes actually wear adult diapers. I can still walk, which I'm very grateful for. But yeah, just to add in the Botox you were talking about before, in November I just had 300 units of Botox put into my bladder. Really? And what does that do, kind of try and control it? So the muscles have no nerve signal to them, but they don't collapse.

I know, it's like a balloon. Right. They don't collapse equally, so the Botox make them all the same, and they collapse, so I don't get infections so much. Mate, that is extraordinary. And so do you get compensation for something like that?

I do get ACC, weekly compensation, but I was a data analyst, so eight years I should be pretty much on double way poor thing thank you for sharing and I'm so sorry you had to go through

all this and you're still going through this we are thinking of you heavy story mate, not quite the light entertainment we were thinking of I'm sorry don't be sorry we're thinking of you Yeah Well thanks for sharing Jono, Ben and Megan

The podcast The hits The reality show on this But yeah Just want to say also Not the entire medical industry No It's just like the radio industry

Everyone's good And then you know There's the odd person like me Yeah also Yeah you make mistakes all the time Yeah We all do But it just doesn't

Mean anything serious No Yeah that's true Thank goodness So 0800 the hits David on the phone Medical mishaps What happened It does do, but it just doesn't mean anything serious. No. Yeah, that's true. Thank goodness. So 0800 the hits. David on the phone. Medical mishaps.

What happened? My father had his hip replaced, which involves, he's obviously got the metal ball, and it goes into like a plastic socket sheath thing, which is kind of like basically half a tennis ball kind of shape. Right. And he was, after the operation, he had a lot of trouble with, whenever he sat down in a low or deep couch or whatever, and his leg was sort of rotated more than 90 degrees to his body, it would dislocate a lot. Oh, really?

And after quite a while of this happening, they went and had another look and, you know, cut him open and had a look. And they'd put the socket sheath thing in inverted. So if you imagine like a tennis ball half, when you push it in, it just naturally wants to pop out. Oh, nice. What a thing. He just kept popping his hip out. Far out. How long did he put up with that for?

Oh, it must have been nearly a year. Oh, my gosh. Far out. What a battler, eh? What a battler. Hey, well, I'm sorry that happened to your father. I'm glad he's got it sorted now, and thank you very much for sharing. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. A bit of a shocker. Yesterday, we are part of, and have been for many years, I think since it started, the hits,, the Wheatbooks Kids Triathlon. Yeah. And so we're meant to be recording a commercial for the triathlon with a young little fella named Fellow. Now, we'd all been in a meeting yesterday, and we walked back into the studio, and I'm not going to lie, I completely forgot that we had to do this thing.

Even though there was probably a calendar reminder, Ali had probably mentioned it three times. It was all on me. We know you forgot because we were both sitting here. Yeah, we were waiting to see you chatting outside the studio. So then I walk in, you two are in the studio. First thing he said was, where's Jono? And we're like, he's just out there chatting.

And Ali goes, oh oh this is uh this is fellow now next to ellie was a fully grown man uh who had a hairy face yeah and then i'm going through the emails in my head going tick tick tick oh this is the wheatbix thing so i finally remember what it is and i'm thinking he seems a little over the age threshold to be a Weet-Bix ambassador. Kids are big these days. They're really tall. They're Weet-Bix, Megan. Might identify as a child as well.

You don't know these days. So then I assumed that the giant man was little fellow. I said, hello, fellow. Raised the voice a couple of times. And then Ellie had to say, no, this isn't the child you're recording with. The child's in there with Ben and Megan. Which you can see through the window. Look at the studio.

And he was a child. He was a child, yeah, you're right. He was a child. Philo was who you would imagine. Child size, yeah, looked like a child, was a child, everything. Yeah, I was talking to a grown man like he'd just finished kindergarten. There's no coming back from that.

No, no. They did a very odd scenario. Very weird start. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Collectively, I think I probably got about two, two and a half minutes sleep last night,

and that is not exaggerating for dramatic effect. There was, you know when you have the windows open, it's hot, hot weather now, and a noise starts kicking off, and you can't unfocus from the noise. It was a cricket. No. Like a ticking clock is one,

if I stay somewhere at a ticking clock. Once you hear that, you just can't not unhear it. A smoke alarm, the beep, when the beep goes off, and you're like, it's going to do it again. And it just amplifies. It's what the batteries are. That's what you mean to do. Yeah. The smoke alarms.

I'm pretty sure that's what the fire service says every day like saving. Hey guys, make sure you take those batteries out of those smoke alarms. One of them in six months time. Yeah, no.

It's your six month reminder to remove the batteries. But there was an owl and the owl just started hooting. Wow. And it felt like a one way, I'm not David Attenborough, but it felt like the owl was trying to kick off a conversation with someone, and no one was, you know, volleying anything back.

It's a moor pork. Oh. I don't care what it is, it's 1.30 in the morning with the more pork and I'm like someone talk back to this owl so then it just shh

but it just it was like when we went to a show and there was a gentleman behind us and he kept going I could not I thought he was clearing his throat but I don't know what was happening it was just constant

I didn't hear it but you guys but you guys obviously got into that and then once you you know you can't hear it you can't hear it okay so that happens I've got the owl the owl's happening for a while there and then all of a sudden someone's car alarm goes off and the owl. It's like, yeah. That's when you're like, I'm just going to get up now. It's like, yeah.

I love that you're recording it all. I was like, I might as well get some benefit out of this. But then I was like, the person who owns the car must have been in a coma. It was just going and going. Probably like, it's not mine.

If anything, I was like, the car thief, just take it, mate. Do us all a favour. Cut the wires and take the car away from the neighborhood. We had a possum outside our place. And they kind of like hiss at night.

Oh, did they? And I was the only one that could hear it. And I'd be like, it's a possum. It's driving me bonkers. And no one else in the household could. It's a possum, you know, like every night. You don't hear it. It's like a hissing.

What's that hissing at? I don't know. It's just some sort of hissing sort of noise. Just at your window being like every night. You don't hear it. It's like a hissing. What's a hissing at? I don't know. It's just some sort of hissing sort of noise. Is it just at your window being like, Ben? And then your alarm goes off. And then it's like, I'm sorry I have to do this, mate. Even the alarm feels sorry for you at that time of morning. Oh, no.

It's a shout out to the owl and the car horn. Hoot, hoot, beep, beep. Well, you look great for two minutes sleep. Or is it just a constant state of tiredness? I don't know what it says about. I was looking great yesterday Wasn't I? Jono, Ben and Megan

The podcast The Hats Now the New Zealand The Old Daily Quiz Our quiz queen Producer Ellie And we The quiz team

The quizstafaluxins Back at it for another day Had a shocker yesterday Didn't we? Yeah it wasn't great Yeah some tough questions Now I'd like you to To once attempt

Going through this Without any facials. Okay. Yep, I can. For sure. It's all on us then. Yeah, it's all on you guys. Okay. Question number one.

Which of the following languages has the longest alphabet? Is it Arabic, Greek, or Russian? Before she gave the multi-choice, I thought it was Greek. Did you? What did you think? I had no idea. No. No.

I had no idea. The Greeks. I feel like once I read there was Cambodia had a lot of alphabet, but it's not even one of the options. Thanks for your contribution. You know what they say about Cambodia? They've got a lot of alphabet. Yeah, they've got a lot of letters.abets yeah they've got a lot of letters

I think but I might be wrong but that's not an option so let's not get into that Russians do they have a lot what's the other option Arabic

okay no facials no facials we're trying hard today yeah we're going to dip out on question one yeah do you miss my facials

now guys yeah we do yeah that's right it's really a peek behind the curtain if we dip out on question one. Yeah, do you miss my facials now, guys? Yeah, we do. I know you would. It's really a peek behind the curtain. If we dip out on question one, we dip out on question one. That's what happens. Wait, are we going to use the lifeline or do you want to? No.

Oh, we could. We could. Let's go the lifeline. Text 4487. Okay. The longest alphabet. Are we the Arabic, the Greek, or the Russian? Okay. 4487 on the text.

We'll get to that very shortly. In and out. We can let producer Ellie go back to half a piece. If it's Greek, we're going to waste it. We've wasted it. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hats.

The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We try and get to 10 questions without getting any wrong. We're only at question number one. And we already went to our lifeline. If you know the rich backstory of the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz, you'll know that Quiz Queen producer Ali does sometimes let her face take over, which sometimes leads us down the path for answers today. Cold face.

Cold poker face, baby. She's got a Putin face on. And speaking of which, a question that ties into Russia So which of the following languages has the longest alphabet? Arabic, Greek or Russian? Throwing it to the text. Now Ben you said Cambodian. Well I said yeah for some reason in my brain there was

that Cambodia had the longest language sorry longest alphabet, the most amount of letters I don't know why I retained that information. A lot of people have texted and said that is the longest one but that's not one of the answers. It's not. So we're looking for the longest of these three. And that seems to be Russian. That's what's

come through multiple times on 4487. That is correct. Well done. Thank God we used our lifeline. It's all downhill from here. Alright, question number two. Who was the lead singer of the band The Who? Was it Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant or Don Henley?

It was Roger Daltrey. That is correct Johnno. Well done. Nice. Who? Every stuff comment on Stuff Not Code on his head about every celebrity. Who? Yeah, you're right. That's the name of the band actually. They put his name out. Roger's not. Who?

Alright, question number three. What spirit is used in making a Tom Collins? Rum, vodka, or gin? Gin. Nice, Megan. That is correct. Yes. We were looking at a resident alcoholic.

All right, red nose, what are we doing here? You're welcome. Thank you. Well done. All right, question number four. Thank you. Well done. All right. Question number four. Alcohol issues have paid dividends.

Which app has the most total users? Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat? Now we look to Ben on this one. Our social media expert.

Yeah. See, that's a bit. It won't be Snapchat. Instagram, Snapchat feels like it's, yeah, it's, TikTok's not,

oh, no, but there's Instagram in every country. TikTok also feels like Yeah TikTok's not Instagram's not in every country TikTok also feels like Younger Yeah A section of Not everyone's on TikTok Whereas I feel like More people would be on it

But then some of the younger people Are on TikTok and not Instagram So Oh that's a really good question It's a hard one eh Yeah I could talk I could talk myself into

You know I would say Insta. You'd say Instagram? Are we locking in Instagram? Whoa, whoa, whoa. We're going to lock it somewhere. That's the way the quiz works. You might be wrong. Let's go Instagram. Okay, Instagram. That's correct. Yay!

Well done. Alright. Which Game of Thrones character is known as the Young Wolf? Is it Rob Stark, Arya Stark or Sansa Stark? I did watch Game of Thrones but I'm just the Young Wolf? Is it Robb Stark, Arya Stark, or Sansa Stark? I did watch Game of Thrones, but I'm just telling you, there's so many characters. Oh, no, I was going to say only one of them is a guy, but then a Young Wolf doesn't have to be a guy.

Again? Robb Stark, Sansa Stark, or Arya Stark? Arya. Oh, that one, thank you. I don't think it was Sansa or Arya. So we've got Robb Stark. Starky. I never watched the show.

Ned Stark was obviously the... Yeah, okay, we'll go Robb. That is correct. Well done. Where are we at? Number six. Was that the one about incest? A lot of incest going on there.

Game of Thrones. Incest and dragons. All right, we're up to question number six and I will say I've not pulled any facials. You guys are doing well. How many plays

do people generally believe that Shakespeare wrote? Was it 37, 47 or 27? This is going to be a stab. Yeah, let's go. Take a guess. 37, 47 or 27? It's going middle of the road.

Okay. Or did he do 27? Or 47. I feel like 47's a lot. That's your options. Okay, go in the middle of the road. Yeah, go on. 37.

That is correct. Oh, Megan. Well done. No one can stop her. Maybe it's the bloody Tom Collins pumper through her veins first thing in the morning. I'm very tired. Okay. All right. Who directed, this is question number seven. Maybe it's the bloody Tom Collins Pumper through her veins I'm very tired Okay Alright who directed

This is question number seven Who directed the Academy Award winning movie Gladiator Ridley Scott, James Cameron or Steven Soderbergh Ridley Scott From memory That's correct Well done We're going to have to come back

For an unprecedented third break Oh Unprecedented Never seen before We're going to have to come back In just a second Because it's getting too long. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Speaking of fine literature and knowledge, we are in the middle of the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Question number eight. Now, thank you from the bottom of our cold, dead hearts to the New Zealand Herald for providing what has been 35 minutes of radio. Well, you really get into it each morning. We appreciate everyone getting into it with us.

All right. Question number eight. What is the longest running Broadway show ever? Is it The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera, or Les Miserables? I'm going between the last two. Yeah, it's not Lion King. No, yeah.

Oh, it's The Phantom or Les Miserables. Because Lion King feels too recent. Now, you both love the theatre. We do. You both love Les Mis. Because I think it feels too recent. Now, you both love the theatre. We do. You both love a stage. We love the theatre. You've taken your daughter Broadway. You said it cost too much.

It did cost a lot. A guy fell asleep next to us. I'm like, mate, this is a $500 sleep you're having right now. It wasn't quite that much. What do you think is older between Les Mis and Phantom? Les Mis? Been around for a bloody century. I know. I'll back off. Well do you think is older between Les Mis and Phantom? Les Mis? Been around for a bloody century. Oh, no.

Well, the story is an old story. That makes you think, yeah. I don't know. That's really... But now you've been on Broadway. Have you seen this? Are they still running? I don't remember.

No, I don't remember either of them running. But they'd not say they weren't. I'd go Phantom. I'd go Phantom, maybe. Let'd go Phantom. I'd go Phantom. Let's go Phantom. That is correct. Well done. Yes.

We didn't let down the theater kids. Good. All right. Question number nine. Where was the earliest documented case of the Spanish flu? USA, Mexico, or Spain? USA, Mexico, or Spain? Is that a trick question?

Yeah. It's like when Trump tried to label it the Kung Fu Flu, didn't he? He tried to give it a name. So you would think Spain would be the origin of the Spanish flu. That would be the obvious. But then maybe someone

was spying, went back to wherever and then got, oh yeah. Hey, where are you from mate? Spain. Yeah, did they track the bug back you from, mate? Spain. Yeah, did they track the bug back originating in Spain? Oh, jeez, I don't know. I can talk books.

Let's lock in Spain. I think the other two are there to bamboozle us. Okay, Spain. That is incorrect. It's the bloody USA. Of course it bloody was,

eh? Well, then they blamed the Spanish. Probably.