Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben's cancelling fire alarms!

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Shocking big spends! We chat to British singer Griff about opening for Taylor Swift We need to get this back to Jacquie! How Jono's crotch ended up in Ben's face... I will always defend this celeb... no matter what! Ben's hack to get the gift you want A true fan of the show 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. No Jono today, Megan, but you're enjoying that song. I never noticed at the end there, does Zane say, go give love to your body? It does sound like that, right? I love that song and I've heard it many times and I've never noticed that before.

Go give love to your body, okay. Now a big month, National Panini Month today. It feels like we have a month or a day for everything. And I mean, paninis are fine. I don't know if I need a whole month. I don't know about you. Why is it not just a day? Yeah.

It feels like it's a whole... Again, it feels like the people that make paninis are like, hey, let's get this to become a thing. Yeah. And National Panini Month. Been around since 1960s, which doesn't probably surprise you as well. And then they got a whole press named after them.

You got like an actual panini press. Oh, yeah. You worked in a cafe. Yeah. Would you make many paninis? We did, actually. People love a panini. My mum loves a panini.

I don't want to stereotype the boomers, but a little bit. A bowl latte and a panini. And my mum has single shot bowl latte, too, which seems like not. Oh, that's a milky coffee. Exactly. Don't want my coffee too strong but I'll have a huge bowl of it

and then a panini and that's what she'll have she'll love it I always love when your parents are like I need a big one today I'm going to get like a single shot

whole bowl and you're like no that's not as much it's just a soupy coffee yeah exactly speaking of the all things toasted sandwiches,

I tried to do a tie in there. It didn't quite work. All things toasty related? Yeah, there you go. The Great New Zealand Toasty Takeover, they do that every year. It's just been announced. The winner, a little cafe just out of Rotorua

has taken it out, the O'Kiddy Falls store. Looks really good. Is that the fig? Yeah. It's got figs in it? Yeah, it's got bacon, walnuts, rocket, sliced figs,

Swiss cheese, pickles, blue cheese, and chilli honey. Sounds good, eh? Oh my God, that sounds amazing. Yeah. So that's the winner of this year's Toasty Takeover.

Because I know it's quite, you go to places and they need to vote for this. It's quite a big deal, right? Yeah. But like, it's hard to recreate. I want to just make it, you know.

Ah, you want to, yeah. Can't go past like a cream corn cheese toastie. Oh, is that, it's hard to recreate. I want to just make it, you know. Ah, you want to, yeah. Can't go past like a cream corn cheese toastie. Oh, is that, yeah. Or like just a ham and cheese and a little bit of relish. Or a spaghetti. I'm not going to lie. I had a spaghetti toastie recently. Oh, that's good. That's an old school.

Like canned spaghetti. That's good. Do you eat the spaghetti first or just chuck it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. Hey, something weird that's happening at home, and I just want to mention it briefly, is I don't know if you know where you've got like Netflix

or Disney Plus or whatever streaming account you've got. You can sign up to your own little, you get your own little profile within, you know. Yeah. I've got my account, but then I've got my account, and then my daughter's got an account, and the other daughter and my wife and stuff like that. Yeah.

So my daughters will update the names on their account and profile pictures, which is nice. But they've updated mine to daddy which is fine I'm their father but it's weird now because I get these emails from Netflix going hey daddy hey daddy there's a movie you might like and I'm like oh this is a bit weird like you know they email because it's my accounts so I'm getting multiple things from Netflix just calling me hey daddy there's another show you might enjoy I'm getting multiple things from Netflix just calling me, hey, Daddy, there's another show you might enjoy. I'm starting to get a little creeped out by Netflix. It sounds very seducive every single time. Yeah, it does.

Hey, Daddy, do you want to watch a movie with me tonight? What's this movie that you think I might like as well? So I think I might have to change the name on that one. Not so keen on Netflix calling me Daddy. The Black Lively has been in the news quite a lot recently. I have to change the name on that one. Not so keen on Netflix calling me daddy. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. To Black Lively has been in the news quite a lot recently. Obviously married to Ryan Reynolds.

Been in big, big movies over the years. Gossip Girl as well. And a big movie that's getting a lot of attention for a whole lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. But we don't want to focus on that right now. It Ends With Us is the movie. Which is really, it's a really good movie. Based on the book, successful book, but we want to focus on something else. And we're not bringing this up to try and cancel Black Lively.

Sounds like you are. No, I'm not. I was just, I was astounded by the amount of money at her pair of jeans that she wore the other night to the premier cost. Now this is, to be fair, she probably didn't pay for these. She probably got these gifted or worn.

She probably wore them briefly and then had to hand them back. But they were, okay, Valentino means something to you? Doesn't mean something to me. Yeah, Valentino. Italian fashion house? Yeah.

So $19,000. A pair of jeans that she was wearing. Now, that's American dollars, which is probably like $450,000 New Zealand dollars or something. Are you sure it wasn't $1,900? According to this $19,000. I don't know how reputable

CNN is at their website, but they're saying $19,000. I've looked up a picture of these jeans. Are they the ones that have flowers on them? Yeah, they're like fully cut out. They've got cut out, yeah, cut out things throughout it. Denim pants, they've got thigh to heel cutouts.

Hibiscus shaped embroidery on there. Flowers, because flowers is a thing with that movie. But they're the type of jeans that if you wore them to like Christmas, your parents and your grandparents are going to be like, oh, what happened to your jeans? I love that classic. Caught up on the washing machine. Do you want me to fix them?

Where's the rest? Yeah, that kind of thing. It's really hard now, the older you get, to resist saying that. No, can't do that, can't do that. They are pretty, but who in God's earth is paying $19,000 for a pair of jeans? Even if you're rich, even if you've got, how can you justify walking around in a pair of $19,000 jeans? The fedora from Indiana Jones, I was reading that early in the week.

Someone bought that for a million dollars. Oh, God. The iconic fedora as worn by Harrison Ford. I mean, that's a lot of money. And it's, you know, but you can go to Hellenstein Brothers and get one for probably $39.99. It hasn't been worn by Harrison Ford, but hey.

Maybe you can go and meet him in the street, pop it on his head real quick and be like, yes! It's worn by Harrison Ford. So we want to know this morning, what have you splashed out on? Now, obviously, no one's paying a million dollars for a fedora from Indiana Jones. Not anyone I know, that's for sure. No, but what have you splashed out on? And, you know, if you can afford it and you can do it,

now and again it's nice to treat yourself to something, you know. Big occasions, special moments, things like that. Not any time recently. I think since I've had kids I've stopped splashing out on myself. But I used to, shoes was my thing. That was your thing? Shoes, yeah. You won't mean it.

Oh, no. Just describe one pair. I have one pair. It's Christian Dior that I bought a long time ago, and I splashed out on those. And to be honest, I never wear them. Oh, really? I'm scared.

I'm too scared to wear them that they'll get wet or something. My wife had a big birthday a while back and she got a handbag, like a deadly ponies handbag, which is not, I actually made out of ponies, I've discovered.

It's not. No, it's not. No ponies perish to this. And she protects, I mean, it's an expensive handbag and it won't touch, she's not allowed to touch the ground. It's like the floor is lava with that. I have to hold it and stuff.

She's got a little handbag hook that puts on the table. Yeah, good, good. Now and again when she's out of the room, I kind of drag it along the cup, just a little bit. But don't tell her that. That's the thing, if you buy something like that, you use it every day, but you don't want to put it anywhere. Like, don't touch it.

What's the point then, you kind of wonder? That's like, we go to the like that, you use it every day, but you don't want to put it anywhere. Yeah. Like, don't touch it. What's the point then, kind of wonder? That's like, we go to the movies sometimes, I have it on my lap. We're watching, I'm watching The Last of Us with a handbag. So we want to know this morning, are we under the hits, 4, 4, 8, 7, what did you splash out on? You know, I guess, you know, times are tough right now, and maybe you're not doing it right now, but what did you splash out on? It might be an item, something from a hobby.

Yeah, and your partner's like, what are you doing? Yeah. The weirder, the better even. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I want to know the thing you've splashed out on the most. And you were saying Post Malone, great song there. He splashed out on something kind of nerdy, and I like it. I listened to a podcast recently.

He's a big Lord of the Rings fan and he splashed out on a card. I bought the Lord of the Rings magic card. $2 million. $2 million. And he doesn't regret it. It is like framed and everything. That's cool. And Post Malone's probably got, you know,

I don't think he's worried too much about the cost of living crisis at the moment, is he? He's got a little piece of cardboard that probably costs more than most people's houses. Yeah. Wow, when you think of it like that. So we want to know on 0800 the hits, 4487, what's the thing that you splashed out on the most? We've got some great calls coming through on 0800 the hits.

Good morning, Delta. What did you splash out on? Delta. Hi. Hey. Hey, Delta, good morning. What did you splash out on? Delta. Oh, hi. Hey, Delta. Good morning. What did you splash out on? I just sent an email. That's all good. I have a big birthday coming up this November. Yeah.

Being a 21st. Nice. You know, it's big and all. I'm really crafty. So I could have actually made my own invites for maybe $10, but I think I spent over a hundred on two things to put together as invites for maybe 10 to 15 people. $10 an invite.

Are they nice looking invites though? They look good? Yeah, they are. They're really nice. They look good? Yeah, they are. They're really nice. They're actually laser cut, which I could have done with a cardboard cutter and an art mat.

Well, hey, no, anyway, you saved yourself the advert time. See you on 21st, mate. That's right. Splash out. Yeah, more time getting lit on the dance floor now. You've got more time for that. We're going to send you out some hell pizza.

Thank you for your call. Not a problem. Thank you. And Ryan, good morning. What did you spend $14,000 on? Yes, I was living in the suburbs, and I just moved out to the country a couple of months ago. And we've got a few makers there.

But the missus wanted me to keep all the grass for her horses, but I got in a bidding war on trade me and spent 14k on a tractor 14k on a tractor yeah i've always wanted one i've got my i've got my uh company vehicle to drive around and so i've got to look after that and i've got nothing to play around with so i'll get a tractor so uh she doesn't know yet but i should pick her up this weekend. Oh she doesn't know. She doesn't know. You're like surprise I bought a 14k

tractor. I mean I'm sure it's a nice tractor. Oh it's a beauty. It's a beauty yeah. How do you tell if a tractor's a lemon?

Do you take it for a test drive? Well it's from a dealer. It's like a used one from a dealer so I'm hoping it's all good.

I don't know that much about them to be honest. I just want to drive around in a tractor. I love it. I love it. Hey you so I'm hoping it's all good. I don't know that much about them, to be honest. I just want to drive around and track them. I love it. I love it.

Hey, you spent $14,000 on it. It's so awesome. It's made you happy. We're going to hook you up with some help pizza. It made us happy as well. It's a great call. There's even a great text coming through as well. My partner spent over $7,000 on a watch that never gets worn.

It's still in the box with protective coverings on it, watch collector. So there you go. Used to splash out on, this is relatable, how's this? I used to splash out on Drunk Elephant skincare. We've got this person on the phone right now. I think it's Hannah. Good morning, Hannah.

Hi, good morning. Was this you, you used to splash out on Drunk Elephant? Yeah, that was pre-Mum Life. Yeah, because it didn-mum life. Yeah, because it didn't used to be in New Zealand, am I right? So you would have to source it from overseas. Yeah, so I would take some trips over to the States and I would just buy up heaps of Drunk Elephant and then my girlfriends cottoned on to it

and so they would get me to also source for them. So yeah, we'd go to, I think the last trip I did was in 2019, I went over to the States and it was probably about almost $500 US I ended up spending on the Drunk Elephant beauty product. Wow, you're like your own little mecca, aren't you, when you come back? And so what are you, what are you doing now still? No. Because being a mum, you know, priorities are changing. Yeah.

But last night I washed my makeup off with a bar of soap. I was going to say, full disclosure, I've used this big tub of fatty cream. It's called fatty cream. It's called fatty cream. That my kids got for like some rash. I've used that on my face. So, you know, I feel you.

As soon as you become a parent, you are not the same person anymore. Yeah, that's true. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. This UK artist has blown up huge recently. Her name is Griff. She's been touring with the likes of Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay and Dua Lipa. And she joined us in the studio yesterday.

Griff, very nice to have you in the studio. Welcome to New Zealand. Thanks for having me. I'm so glad to be here. We got a request saying, do you want to interview Griff? And I was with my daughter, Sienna, at the time. And it popped up. She was being nosy next to me.

And then she started talking and I was like, I need to record it. So here's my daughter Sienna when the request came through. So Sienna, you've just seen that we might be able to interview Griff. Oh my God, Dad, you have to interview Griff. You always say you're not cool enough,

which is pretty true. Hey, I am cool. She's so cool. She's open for Dua Lipa, also Taylor Swift. I love that she knows this. So that helps with my cool fact just to thank you.

Sienna's for my whole cv yeah that's great it's great for research for me I was like all right what did you say again pretty wild ride for you though because you know it's pretty much COVID lockdowns things just really escalated for you just making music putting it out to the world in your room yeah basically I really got going in COVID I had no idea if people were listening the brit awards in the uk was kind of like a really big moment for me and then after that i just went on a lot of tours that i couldn't really say no to it was amazing so yeah you've really summarized you've summarized your meteoric rise to fame and a very condensed that's basically how it happened yeah i was just in my bedroom and

here i am in new zealand i filmed a lot my bedroom. It didn't go quite as well as yours. I hope it wasn't even that long ago that we were all in our bedrooms. And then suddenly you're like, there is a meteoric rise to fame. I guess so. I don't know. It's been a minute, though. It's hard to put anything into perspective. What do your family think?

Are your family happy? My mum is notoriously unimpressed with my pop career. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, yeah. So she's like very stereotypical, like Asian mom. She like immigrated from like after the Vietnam War over to the UK. So like pop culture just like is not a thing for her. Parents fostered a lot of kids.

Yeah, mom fosters kids. Yeah, yeah. So she's like a good woman. She's like looking after kids. And I'm there just like, I want to be a pop singer. I want to put on makeup. It just doesn't really compute for her. I think the other day I was like, you know, I'm supporting Taylor Swift. like I want to be a pop singer it just doesn't really compute her I think the other day I was like you know I'm supporting Taylor Swift you want to come she was like

what time you want like do I have to I was like no mom it's fine it's cool I was gonna say it was the Taylor Swift moment maybe the moment that turned her but she's not even impressed no no I think I tried to tell her I was supporting Coldplay she was like Chris Martin is he the one that dated Gwyneth Paltrow I was like yeah it's kind of good it keeps you humble yeah it's great yeah yeah she has no idea what's going on because we're like wow Ed Sheeran you talk with them Dua Lipa yeah it's pretty because you you know the era's tour you're opening for Taylor Swift and then performing with you know well writing a song with Chris Martin as well yeah you've got your album that's amazing yeah that was a real dream come true I mean I've only just again I've been writing songs for years but I only managed to put out my

first debut album like a few weeks ago it's kind of like the ballad on the album and it's like such a beautiful moment live as well so I feel very lucky what is it like writing a song you know you put something out there and you just never know if someone's gonna like it but what's it like writing a song and then going to someone like Chris Martin being like, can you help me work on this? Do you get self-conscious about what you've done and if you'll like it? Yeah. Yeah, it was awful. Thanks for bringing it up.

Yeah, thanks. No, like one of the first nights I was on the tour, he was like, Griff, we should listen to some of your music. I was like, we should not do that. I don't want to play you any of my songs. And I honestly, I just thought he was being nice. And I'm like, Chris, you're so busy. Like, you don't have time to do that i don't want to tell you any of my songs um very and i i honestly i just thought he was being nice and i'm like chris you're so busy like you don't have time to do that um but he managed to find time on tour and we sat down in the studio and honestly i spent the whole

day just like so stressed like breaking out into sweats like not sure what to say not sure what to play even when i was in the studio with him i like couldn't make eye contact do you reckon he'd like us to uh play some of our radio breaks to him? Oh yeah, I knew he would. He loves it. No, but he actually does just love it. We'll get his email off here and say when you're free we'll come and play some radio breaks. Yeah, I'll text him. I'll say, look, I've got another A&R meeting for you. When you are

writing a song with him, and he might suggest something and you're like, hmm, not on board with that. Like, how do you tackle that? He's like, I'll play piano. You're like, oh, will you? No, no, he was actually weirdly just like, because I asked I'll play piano. You're like, oh, will you? No, no. He was actually weirdly just like, because I asked him to play piano and help me finish the song

and he kept asking me how to play it. I was like, honestly, I don't care, Chris. Please, play anything. This is amazing that you're here in the studio. So he was like, Griff, is this okay? I'm like, yes, it's fine.

Stop. I, you know. You're Chris Martin. You're Chris Martin. You know what's good. So no, I was just taking all of his suggestions, to be honest.

Hey, well, thank you for gracing us with your wonderfully quaint British accent for the last... Oh, don't say that. We need it. Really? Because the New Zealand accent is, we find, very plain and boring. No, it's not at all. Do it, Jono. What?

My British accent. Oh, do it. No, don't. Oh, no, don't. This is not pre-planned. Do you have a good British accent? No. Hello, Governor. No, okay, we're wrappinganned. Do you have a good British accent? No. Hello, governor.

No, okay, they're wrapping up. Dude, Griff, you never know if people are going to go for the really tight accent or going to go for the Queen's accent. I'm sorry. I was meaning go for Griff's beautiful accent. Okay, Griff, album's called Vertigo. So lovely to have you here and congratulations on all your success. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

The line-up for Rhythm and Vines announced yesterday. Breaking news on the New Zealand Herald banner. Yes, the website. It was a breaking news. Ice Spice, New York rapper. She hangs out with Taylor Swift as well. Yeah, she's huge. Grammy nominated.

Ice Spice is coming. I was like, is this breaking? I mean, I guess it's big news. I don't know if it was breaking news, but it was big news. You know the little rolling banner they have on the website. I know, it's always... We're in lockdown or something drastic like that. I don't want to speak ill because we work in the same building, but

I'm always surprised at some of the things that pop up on that banner. Yeah, I've never been to Rhythm and Vine. It looks like a heck of a time. I feel like maybe now I'd be a bit sad if I went there, you know, like, oh, Grace, our producer at Gen Z. Oh, you're allowed there. They'll be like, who have you come to pick up? I said you're allowed there and she cringed so maybe you're not were you crocs you'll be fine go around say things like

skivity and riz and stuff okay hey the torch two weeks ago it was two weeks ago today we turned on a torch now this is just uh it's a dolphin torch a yellow one you've seen it you know your households around the country. And we turned it on. The batteries aren't even new. And we thought a couple of days max and the batteries would run out. We were like, this will be a fun thing to do coinciding with the Olympics. Yeah.

Full disclosure. We're like, we can have our own Olympic torch. It'll take a couple of days. It'll go off. We can give away some money. And people would predict when the batteries run out and it hits breakfast. All you had to do. And then we're like, it's run out and we're going to give the money away.

But this thing is still going. We've left it with reception, the security team that work here 24 hours a day to keep an eye on it. And this morning before the show started, you and myself, Megan, we went over and we checked it out. What is it? It's two weeks today, Megan. It is two weeks today that the torch has been going. Is it still on is the big question. The security team have been looking after it nonstop for us. Is it still going? It big question. Security team have been looking after it non-stop for us.

Is it still going? It is still going. Are you turning it off in the night? No. No. Oh, my goodness. This is unbelievable. When's it going to run out?

I just want it to end. Where we left the hits for the time that the torch will still be going. Oh, okay. It lives another day. So you can still predict at the Hits Breakfast on Facebook, and the $500 is still up for grabs. It is. And there's probably less people predicting now because it's going on and on.

So your chances are high. It's still $500. It's $500. I'm having a battery issue at home. And the last couple of days, you know when a smoke alarm runs out? And they start beeping at you? It just does that little beep. Which is great to know it's run out but it

just doesn't and you go is that the smoke alarm and then you lie there and you like wait for it and it seems like an eternity and it comes back on again yeah a little trip yeah i got so annoyed the other day that i i put it out like i got to talk it out and i put it outside the window because i could see outside like towards i don't think that's what you're supposed to do. And then I... Yeah, this was, like, at night, you know, because we need... Our sleep's kind of, you know, important

when we get up at a time. It's annoying. It's cheap. It's chirping away. I don't have batteries. I'm going to put it outside. So I open... How many days has it been doing it?

Well, it's probably, like, a day or so. It's been... Okay. First night, I was like, is that the smoke alarm? I think it is. Not sure. Second night, I'm like,

definitely the smoke alarm. So I open the window, put it outside, closed the window. Oh, my God. And then I could still hear it, you know, but you know when you're listening for it and you're like, oh. And so then I got outside and I sort of ended up, I don't know why I did this, but I kind of put it under some dirt. And then I was like, I look like I'm burying a body in the front yard.

You're burying your smoke alarm. So for anyone who's walking past, they're like, what is he doing in the middle of the night? Can you not take the batteries out? Well, I probably shouldn't do that to me. I felt like in this particular one, I don't know. I needed a screwdriver. I needed to go in there. And I was like, yeah, I should have done that.

I should have done a lot of things. So what are you doing today? Today I'm going to go unbury the smoke alarm, put some new batteries in there, and hopefully it's still working. My house isn't burnt down in the process. batteries in there, and hopefully it's still working. My house isn't burnt down in the process. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Speaking of something that you didn't have and now you've got.

Yeah, it's a parcel that arrived in my mail. I am aware that it's illegal to open other people's packages, right? I opened it. I think it's frowned upon. It's frowned upon. It's probably the least cool thing in jail, though, if you do go to jail. I know, yeah. What did you do?

You're like, oh, I opened up a letter. So I got a little parcel. It was from the courier, a little package. It was a bubble wrap package, very nondescript. It had nothing on the outside to show me what it was, but it was addressed to Jackie. I actually can't remember her last name, which is not helpful. So it had a phone number on the front, which I text and said, Jackie, I believe I have your package. Can I get it to you? They said, not me. Wrong number.

So not only was the phone number wrong on the front, so was the address because it came to my house. It was my address. But now I have Jackie's inside was her phone case. And I brought it with me today. It's a nice phone case too. It's a Samsung phone case. I've looked into it. But it is blue. It's got, see the sunrise over the ocean?

And it's got a little panda riding a bike. That's cute. That is cute. Jackie would really want that. Now, we need to try and connect this to Jackie. Now, I know it's a long shot, but we're going to put it up on our social media. Yeah. So we're going to put up a video of the picture of what it looks like, the phone case.

We know her name is Jackie. Jackie, do you know the spelling of Jackie? I believe it was J-A-C-Q-U-I-E. The one that always trips me up. Jackquee. Yeah, okay. But we want you to tag in Jackie's. Tag in other Jackie's. Maybe they got that wrong as well. Maybe Quee. Yeah, okay. But we want you to tag in Jackies. Tag in other Jackies. Maybe they got that wrong as well too.

Maybe they got it wrong, yes. Tag in all the Jackies you know because we need to find who this case belongs to. Phone cases aren't cheap. No. And this looks like it's some kind of brand, some kind of character. Was it sent from any company that you could see on the packaging or nothing? No, very nondescript. So it could have been like a trade me sort of.

It could have been, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So you've got it. And you've lived in this house for a while now i feel like i'm interrogating you now i've lived there for three years i don't know gotta get your story straight if people come to you asking did you open the mail and stuff like that you don't want to go to jail the address on the front was my address so i don't know how jackie messed that up or was it miss puppets uh do you normally get packages sent to your house? No. You don't know about it, do you? No.

Okay, it's the first time this has happened, has it? Actually, I'm like, I wonder if I can send packages, like actual packages that I've bought. I wonder if I can just change the name on it and be like, I don't know, to my husband. Oh, Jackie's bought shoes in my size. Oh my God. Poor Jackie.

Jackie again. I guess I'll have to keep them. You've just found yourself a hack online shopping. All right, we'll get ahead to the hits breakfast on Instagram and Facebook. We'll put up a picture of the phone case that belongs to Jackie. We'll try and connect it to Jackie. So tag in the Jackies, you know. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

There's a debate raging online, Megan, about something that people are saying you shouldn't do in the aisle seat of the plane. Is it stick your leg out? You shouldn't really do that anyway. But you know how sometimes if you like to stretch out and you put your foot on the outside of the seat in front of you? And then people come walking past the aisle. No, it's not that, but I don't think you should be doing that.

But some people are saying online you shouldn't go to sleep in the aisle seat if the plane rides less than seven hours they're like no you shouldn't you should be awake so people can get up seven hours this is americans though right because like nowhere in new zealand everywhere is less than seven hours and i'm definitely falling asleep well you you fell asleep the other day on the plane didn't you open mouth open mouth i hate it when you suddenly become self-aware and you realise your mouth's wide open. You're like, oh!

And I think I was on the aisle seat as well. Yeah, well, apparently according to this debate, I mean, not everyone's agreeing with these people, but they're saying you shouldn't fall asleep in an emergency as well. You're a bit drowsy. Excuse me, I get up at 3.45 and I have two toddlers, so I will fall asleep when I am alone and it's quiet.

I remember being on the aisle seat once, it was a flight overseas for work, and Jono was next to me, and he obviously decided to try not to wake me up to go to the bathroom. Right. And so for some reason, he clambered over the top of me, but his sort of crotch was towards my face,

so that way, and he stood on both armrests as he sort of walked across over the top of me. So I woke up to basically his crotch in my face as he was straddling the seat. Well, that was his story anyway. He was going to the bathroom. What way are you supposed to go? Because when you climb over someone, you're like, is my bum either going to be in their face or?

Confronting way to wake up in the middle. You're a little drowsy. You're like, what is going on? So Jono's face directly in my... Jono's crotch directly in my face. At least you knew him. Yeah. That's true.

It wasn't a stranger. Familiar crotch. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Tonight was the first of four consecutive super moons. We were saying this morning when we got up, it was very bright, wasn't it, Megan? Do you mean consecutive as like four nights in a row?

Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's once a blue moon? Do you mean consecutive as like four nights in a row? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's a blue moon once in a – they always say once in a blue moon, but it's four times in a row. That makes sense. What they're having. Maybe this doesn't happen that often, what we're getting at the moment.

So, yeah, there we go. Kind of cool. What we do get quite often, though, is everyone piling in on celebrities. Cancellations. kind of cool what we do get quite often though is uh everyone piling in on celebrities cancellations uh i didn't know that blake lively was going to be cancelled in 2024 it wasn't on my bingo card but um after it ends with us which is in cinemas at the moment and i think it's a very good movie based on the book by colleen hoover um and blake blake lively stars in it all the drama started happening when there were rumors that that her and Justin Baldoni, who was the male lead in that movie, had creative differences and didn't get along.

They weren't doing press together. And suddenly there is a pile in on Blake Lively and her behaviour now and in the past. There's an interview that's gone viral from 2016 where she's being interviewed. And she is pregnant. It's just come out that she announced her pregnancy and the interviewer said, congratulations on your little bump. She took offense to that and said, congratulations on your little bump to the interviewer who wasn't pregnant. And it's come out she has fertility issues. So I don't think you should ever comment on a pregnant woman's body.

I don't want a woman's body in general. So she might have taken offense to that. But I don't think, I think maybe she clapped back a bit hard. It feels like a huge pile on though. It does. And going, we're now trawling through, not us, I'm saying out of it, but it feels like people are trawling through old interviews and things that are said. And yeah, you could say that they shouldn't have been said,

but these were said a long long time ago and she's not saying these things now also i just think that movie's about domestic violence violence against women and now we are all piling in and really harshly bullying a woman yeah so is it fair yeah no you're right we got talking about yesterday the celebrities that you defend like you're getting paid for be Bev called up and hers was Will Smith. Right. So Will Smith, I think it was at the time. Oh, yeah, Will Smith.

Yeah, well, yeah, Will Smith, I'm a massive fan of Fresh Prince. I've got Will Smith shorts as well. Yeah, we need to talk to you about those. And then the slap. And then obviously the slap at the Oscars, I imagine, was something that a lot of people went, well, maybe he went too far. What were your thoughts? Well, no, not at all.

I mean, he was quite rude and, you know, you don't know why someone's got their hair real short. It could have been a sickness. He should never have made any sort of comment against his wife. That's Bev saying, defending Will Smith there for what happened with Chris Rock. So, oh, 100 of the hits. We want to know celebrities.

Let's keep these going because there's plenty more celebrities that people defend. So 0800THEHITS. Fran, good morning. How are you? Yeah, good. Thank you. How are you? And now you have someone in your life that defends a celebrity. Who is the celebrity? It's Lance Armstrong.

Oh, okay. I know someone that defends Lance Armstrong. Family friend. The same would defend him. We weren't there. We didn't know about all the stuff that was going on. Is that the same for you? Yeah, my dad, he loves the Tour de France. He was big on the Armstrong bandwagon.

He had the Livestrong band. He was fully committed. And then when everything kind of went down, we were kind of like, well, Dad, are you rethinking that a bit now? And he was like, oh, but to put his body through what it went through, he will still perform the way he did. Honestly, I think he's probably even more on the bandwagon now. He's more impressed.

He just doesn't talk about it as much. Oh, he had cancer as well. He came back from cancer. You know, I've heard that. That's true. Yeah. I can't believe we're all defending last. Oh, yeah, cancer as well. We came back from cancer. You know, I've heard it all. That's true. Yeah. I feel like we're all defending Lance Armstrong now.

My dad had cancer as well. So I think he's like Lance and I, you know, we're brothers. We've got to stick together. Well, it felt like maybe they were all cheating on the Tour de France. Maybe he just was the best at it. Or not the best. I mean, on my view from the couch, I don't see how you could do that without cheating quite frankly. Yeah, exactly. You know, I think it's just who che not the best. I mean, on my view from the couch, I don't see how you could do that without cheating

quite frankly. Yeah, exactly. I think it's just who cheats the best really, isn't it? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The celebrities that you defend like you're on the payroll. Blake Lively, a lot of stuff said about her. We even talked about her $19,000 jeans

this morning, didn't we? But that wasn't really a pile-up. We were trying to cancel her for that. I'm a big Gossip Girl fan from back in the day, so maybe I'm swayed by that. But I just don't think we need to cancel human beings for things we've done in our past. We make mistakes. Yeah, it would be nice to give people the opportunity to learn from it.

If she's going around saying some of these things now, then that's a different story, I always feel like. But to trawl back through old stuff, everyone makes mistakes. Yeah, they do, don't they? And her in the grand scheme of things. I mean, there's been some atrocious mistakes made over history. And I don't think what she's done is anything there in comparison. No.

People that deserve to be cancelled on this occasion, in my opinion. Maybe not so much Blake Lively, but we wanted to know on 0800, the celebrities you defend. Matty, good morning. Morning, how are you?. The celebrities you defend. Matty, good morning. Morning, how are you? Now, celebrities you defend. Apparently, you're a big backer of someone that I'm a big backer of.

I am, Ben. I'd back The Rock to the day I die. Oh, yeah, you've got to love The Rock. Megan, you love The Rock? Come on, please tell me you do. I love The Rock. Maybe not as much as you do. I don't have his signature tattooed on my butt.

Would you? Would you? No. I'd get a tattoo on my back, but not on my leg. That's what I'd say. Yeah. So you would get a tattoo for The Rock? Yep, I would.

Yeah. I mean, yeah, there's so much about him. Where do you start about all the good things? I don't feel like you need to defend him that much. He doesn't seem to pop up. He seems like a nice guy. But every now and again, like Megan, we're like, oh, there was trouble on a set with a movie once and stuff,

and I felt like I had to defend him. Yeah, well, that thing with Jason Stratton, actors always seem to have problems with one another eventually. True. It's called creative differences, right? Yeah. And sometimes I'm like, maybe they're just trying to promote the movie in the best way

they know how anyway. Yeah. Oh, hey. You back the right person in the rock and you know, you can't argue with that. All right, next time he's got a movie out, we'll go to a movie. We'll have a boys night at the movies, all right? I'll hold you to that one. Okay, sounds good.

I'm down. All right. On the text machine as well, a lot of people are jumping to the defense of other celebrities. Sean Johnson, Kiwi. Someone said, I hate people bagging him when the Warriors lose. It's true. We all feel that sentiment. Yeah, they say there's 13 players on the field.

That's true. I feel like, yeah, Sean Johnson, legend of the game. We're all going to miss him when he's gone. And someone else with Nicki Minaj. Throughout all my afterlifes, they'll defend Nicki Minaj. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Megan, the weather's been terrible of late.

Shocking. Polar blasts and all sorts. We're trying to work out, just as the song was playing, when spring's kicking in. Now, you're saying you've got some good news, do you think? I always say it starts the 1st of September. I know it's something to do with the equinox. Yeah, I saw 21st and you're like, no, it's not. It's earlier. So I was like, another month of winter. you're like, no, it's not. It's earlier.

So I was like, another month of winter. You're like, no, no. Just go from the 1st. It's the start of March, December, September, and I can't remember the other month that the seasons change. You love your countdown to daylight savings too, don't you? So you might have thought that I haven't been doing this, but I have been doing it behind the scenes. I just haven't punished you in person.

The countdown's been happening. Oh, really? Yeah. So as of last Sunday, it's eight weeks until Daylight Savings. How's the countdown happened? Oh, it might be less. Wait, do you want an actual update? I'm here now, so why not?

How does it happen behind the scenes? Six weeks. Oh, that's a big jump. No, because I literally always count down. And so I've been telling my husband, I was like, it's two weeks until spring, and it's six weeks until Daylight Savings. so you have one of those calendars that you sort of like x off the dates and stuff i have a blackboard in my pantry that i write things on and it's got like a little i don't know why i'm so obsessed with this just because i love it when the the

daylight changes i do love it and you love christmas too like what date are you putting up your christmas tree 1st of November. So that means at the start of spring, it's only two months until my Christmas. 1st of November? Yeah. Wow, you've gone early. Now, I think I've gone a little bit early because I bought the other day. Now, I love, you know, those little, you probably don't even know what they are. And good on you if you don't.

Those little Funko Pop, little vinyl dolls. You get them with famous people. They're a little, they've got some large heads. Are they in a little square box? Yeah, they're kind of. Pop vinyl. Pop vinyl, yeah. Yeah get them with famous people. They're little, they've got some Are they in a little square box? Yeah, they're kind of Pop vinyl. Pop vinyl, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I do.

And you get them with sort of famous people whether they're athletes, musicians. I've always wondered who buys those. That's me. And I feel like

it could really get away on me and my wife, all of a sudden, like I put them up, I'm allowed one shelf in the lounge, that's my shelf and they go missing.

They just go missing. They mysteriously go missing. She claims she has nothing to do with them, but she gets rid of them. I'm sure she does. So anyway, I'm allowed this one shelf. And every now and again, I see one and I want to buy it. But I know that it's not going to go down well. So what I did the other day is I bought one.

And then I was like, I can't just put it straight onto the shelf. Because I'll get in trouble. It'll go missing. So I was like, Father's Day is coming up in a couple of weeks. And I saw one of my daughters. I was like, hey, guess what? Got you your Father's Day gift already. And I handed it over to my daughter to give to me on Father's Day.

It's genius. As long as she doesn't tell your wife. Well, that's the thing as well. Because now I just hold it over you for a moment when she wants something. Yeah, because she knows that I'm going to get in trouble. And now I know I pass the blame on the thing as well. Because now I just hold it over you for, you know, a moment when she wants something. Yeah, because she knows that I'm going to get in trouble. And now I know I pass the blame onto them as well. But they're at the age now where they can shop for me, right? Yeah.

Whereas for you, you know, you and your husband, Andrew, you probably have to buy presents on behalf of the kids, right? One-year-old and three-year-old. Yeah, they're not going out with the cards and buying anything. So we would buy the present for each other yeah sure would andrew like a funko pop vital toy he usually just gets like best dad ever pajamas that's the extent of it i always get now you get that from time to time i'm like i'm not i know i'm not the best i'm not i want i like i love my kids that i want to be a great dad but I know there's probably better dads out there. We know you're not the best dad either.

We just give it to you. They need a little asterisk on those, eh? Not technically the best dad. We all know that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You could be winning $500 for yourself and $500 for someone else. Thanks to our friends at Dilmar T. They've had the catchphrase, do try it for many years,

and we thought it would be cool if people could try our radio show. People that maybe didn't listen to our friends at Dilmar T. They've had the catchphrase, do try it for many years, and we thought it'd be cool if people could try our radio show. People that maybe didn't listen to our radio show, listen for a week and then we'd ask them a quiz at the end of the week. Things that had happened throughout the week, and if they get it right, they get $500, and the person that nominates them get $500 as well. Does sound a lot like a bribe. Now that you say it, yes.

It's okay. It does. Anyway, people that have agreed to our bribe at the start of the week was Andrea and her husband Nartama. And yesterday, we spoke to him because we set him the task. He would normally listen to audio streaming services, you know? That shall not be named. Exactly. And we were like, how's it going? Day two, listening to our show. And he picked some things that we were talking about, like the phone case that you found in your mailbox from Jackie. Things like that. He'd been listening.

This was him yesterday. You're very funny. You've actually got a lot of good sense of humour. I never actually didn't know that you had. Oh, that's good. That's a positive. That phone cover you were talking about this morning. What's her name? Jackie? Has she rung up yet or not? He's been listening.

You've been listening. You have been listening. You're hooked. So it sounds like he's been listening, but we wanted to know, wife, if he had been listening or maybe she'd been taking notes. Yeah, exactly. So she joins us right now.

Good morning. Good morning, Ben. How are you? I'm doing all right. How are you going? Good, thank you. Now, you set your husband a bit of a challenge at the start of the week, didn't we? To listen to our radio show.

How much of a burden has this been on his life? I don't think a burden at all. I think he's embracing it, actually, to be fair. Has he come home? At night, yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, does he come home and he's like, no, you'll never guess what Ben said today. He goes, they're on the radio.

They're running me out. Listen to the radio. 97.4. I don't know what station it is, honey. I listen to it all the time. Because yesterday we just played a little highlight before we spoke to him, and it felt like he had been listening, like he was definitely remembering moments.

I was quite surprised myself, actually. I was going, what? You know that Jackie? I know. So you're feeling pretty good. I mean, he what? You know that Jackie? And, oh, darling. I know. So you're feeling pretty good. I mean, he's got to listen to the end of the week. Then we're going to give him a bit of a quiz. Then if he gets it right, you'll get $500.

He'll get $500. Are you feeling good? I'm feeling amazing. I'm feeling very positive. Oh, good. Yeah, bring it on. He was very complimentary to us, but I'm just wondering, like, was it just to our faces?

Do you think he's going to continue on listening, honestly? I hope he does, and I think he will, because he works with, you know, automotive trade, and he's the car parts man, so it's a very busy environment. But he has the radio on all the time. Well, now he does. So I'm hoping, and I'm pretty, you know, I pray that he will, because you guys do have a good show show and I listen to it every morning. So let's hope that he does the same and I'm sure he will.

Are you feeling like you need to listen and take notes for him too to go, oh, did you get that bit in case we ask questions about that or are you leaving it all to him? It's a group effort. It's a team effort and I listen to you anyway. So I take notes because I'm getting old. I do forget things. So I'm thinking, I need to take a few notes. We talk about it in the afternoon on our walk and I go, remember? Yes, I listen to them

every morning at the moment. Okay, you've got this. Jeez, we really, we have burdened you both with a lot of homework listening to the show. Taking over your lives. Yeah, like writing notes.

It sounds like our boss taking notes from the show too. He normally comes in with notes. Yeah, so yeah, feel free to hit us with constructive criticism. You know, anything you've got, we're open to it. No, it's all good, guys. You're doing a great job. As my husband said yesterday, very complimentary, wasn't he?

He was, actually. All right. Yeah, okay, good. Okay, so you've got a couple more days, hopefully, on Friday. Natama comes through with the $500 for you and him. Good luck. Awesome. Thanks, guys.

Have a great day.