Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben's daughter thinks he works in food service...

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Why Ben will never hold the lift... Did Megan's hubby fake his sickness? Kid tech fails -My son embarrassed me by showing my c-section photo to everyone! What Graham Norton thinks of New Zealand! Hacks to have a cheap wedding Megan's what to watch: "I was diagnosed with a stage-four brain tumor" Stay to the end to play the NZ Herald quiz with us! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganInstagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast. On a Tuesday morning, Megan back. Sorry, Megan, you're just getting something out of your teeth, aren't you? I'm trying. I'm tempted to pull one of my hairs out like you did that.

You got some. I've got my toes to my teeth. You need one of Ben's bloody placards. I'll give you mine, but I think they're used. It's annoying when you've got something in your teeth and you can't get it out of your head. Were you pausing to see if I'd be like, that's okay? No, I wanted to give you the option, but I don't know.

No, it's fine. Okay, let's see what alternatives right now, if we can get something out of your mouth. That knife is too thick. Okay, all right. I did try the car keys. They're a bit thick, the old car keys, to get in between your teeth.

Surely I'd have something in here, I thought. Oh, what about like the edge of that? Have you used... What about the edge of like a... Oh, yeah. Cod roll. The whole country is just... I've given Megan a packet of cold and flu medication, which, you know, has the flat sort of silver edges which could work. You might want to cut it

so you get a... There's actually a court case. It was in the news last week. Did you hear about that? No. And about cold and flu medication, some brands... They don't work. They don't work. Yeah. What? It actually a court case. It was in the news last week. Did you hear about that? No. In Dunedin about cold and flu medication, some brands. They don't work. They don't work. Yeah. What? It's a court case.

They're saying that according to this court case, placebo, basically. Yeah. They're not actually. Yeah. That's what the court case. I would attest to that. I imagine there's obviously some bait going in. Don't take my word for it.

There's obviously a big class action lawsuit going on about it at the moment. Interesting. You know how Seymour brought back the pseudo-effort during one? That sounds crazy, but I was excited to try it when I had a cold. Did nothing. I expected it to, like, you know, help me soldier on. I do feel something when I take them. So, yeah.

Well, yeah. According to this. Well, it's still got paracetamol in it. It's still going to get rid of your headache, you know. Yeah, right, but you could just have a Panadol. Well, that's, I don't know. I mean, as I say, I don't know enough details about the cork case, so I'm very nervous about what I say and what not.

Let's go deep dive into the cork case. There's 17 different products that they're taking to it. Wow, okay, and Dunedin of all places. That's done a lot for me this morning because I got the stuff out of my teeth. It's got stuff out of of your teeth so that's good Now first up, a bit of an incident in the elevator Enjoy the podcast Now I feel terrible, guilty actually

I pulled something in the elevator game that I like to say are Ben boys Now this dates back to uh we're working another company and we'd finished our radio show and uh me and our co-host we were walking towards the lift now ben's in the lift the doors are open and we're like hold hold the lift hold the lift and he sort of half-heartedly goes to push the hold the door open button he's like i don't think it was any hold the lift but they were definitely coming and I definitely saw them and then the doors just shut and he's like oh sorry

there's no hold the lift button but you put your hand in the door sometimes you can push the button that opens the doors back up reverses the back open and other times you're like well you didn't get there in time that's just the way the lifts work how long do we need to wait?

You know, like, there's another one coming. If you could hear someone saying, hold the lift. No, I don't think there was any hold the lift. I definitely didn't hear a hold the lift. But I saw them coming towards it and I was like, oh, you know. I saw them coming and I was like, yeah. Pleasant to see that. It's just so awkward.

Like, a lift's the most awkward. If you can ride aft by yourself compared to riding with other people 100% of people would rather ride by themselves I was going to say babes we're taking

the piss out of you but we've all been there no one wants to ride a Lyft with another person no it's the most for some reason it's the most awkward

because you're in a tight spot and then someone sparks up a conversation with other people around you like I'm listening to this conversation now it's just awkward

we all need to ride in silence yeah right no talking in Lyft should be the rule exactly I don't know why we all get awkward in there though I know yeah it's just awkward. We all need to ride in silence. Yeah. Yeah, right. No talking in lifts should be the rule. I don't know why we all get awkward in there though.

I know, yeah. It's just another box. Either you have to suffer through weird silence or you have to talk in a weak, like a contrived conversation. The best lifts are the one

with music. Like if there's putting some music on. It really changes the atmosphere but this morning I was in the garage and there was one of our colleagues

was like, Which one? I'm not going to name her but she was like, Tony! Hold the lift! And I was like holding the lift and then halfway through she was walking, she was like, I've forgotten my swipe card and then turned around to go back to the car and I was like

oh, I've got to be here, you know, there's stuff to do and then I let go of the button that holds the doors open. And they're shutting. I'm like, the doors are shutting on me. And I'm like, pretend I'm feigning that I'm trying to push the button. Again, you can just put your arm in the door. The buttons aren't working.

Yeah, she knows that. I know that. So then I left. And I tell you what, it was an implacable experience going on my own. I can't believe you sassed Tony Street like that. The nation's sweetheart. As Ben said, there's always other lifts. That's right, there's another one coming.

Going up and down all day long. There's a pub in Wales where they have a parrot. So the person who works behind the bar and also lives in the establishment has a parrot. So the parrot sits in the bar all day long and listens to the patrons talk. Now, what this parrot has done is taken on board all of the blasphemy and foul language that the pub patrons have been using

and now swears at the people who are inside the pub. Now, obviously, this parrot, I've had to, there's only certain things I can play on the radio. Now, obviously this parrot, there's only certain things I can play on the radio. There's a go there, does it, the parrot? Yeah, there does. I tell you what, it's not much from the English language that this parrot doesn't know in terms of swear words. I think it probably knows swear words in other languages as well. But this is the parrot saying banker.

Okay, so a word that rhymes with banker. Wanker. Wanker. Wanker. Wanker. Parrot. Wanker. That's a parrot, so yeah.

It's... Kids, aren't they? They pick up on everything, don't they? Now, Megan, you weren't here yesterday. I wasn't. But a drama in your household.

Your husband, Andrew, was very sick. Yeah, so I had to take a sick day even though I wasn't even sick over the weekend. We had a very busy weekend and then Sunday he wakes up and he actually slept in. I let him have a sleep in.

After a night out too, might I say, which I think probably helps your story here a little bit. Thank you. To make you less like a monster. Yeah. So he gets up and he's like, man, I'm not feeling very well. And we've got two kids, like a two and a four-year-old, and they all go in the weekend. So I was like, cool, bro. Okay, you sort yourself out.

So you're thinking this stuff, aren't you? You're not saying this out loud. Yeah, so none of this stuff came out verbally, keep in mind. A little internal monologue. Although I probably was like a little bit like icy. But anyway, he was like, I'm not feeling very well. So he opted out and he had a wee sleep and everything. And I'm like, look, and I was with kids. He comes back from his nap and he's like, yeah, I'm not feeling very well. So he opted out and he had a wee sleep and everything. And I'm like, look, and I was with kids.

He comes back from his nap and he's like, yeah, I just don't feel good. And I was like, okay, man, we all went out last night, you know. He's made a great long play to have a day's rest. I think I'd say to have a Panadol and, you know, sort yourself out. So it gets to the afternoon and he's still not feeling good. He ends up ringing Healthline and he was off in the bedroom by himself. What are you thinking now? At this point, I'm like, you've got a cold.

Like, come on. I've had a cold, I think, for two weeks. Yeah, you have. You push through. I mean, this is not what we're supposed to be doing after COVID. But we do it. We all do it. This was my inner monologue.

He comes back from the Healthline chat with this woman. And she is apparently quite worried about him and i so he's getting sympathy from a complete stranger on a phone line she's like you need to go to a doctor now and i'm like it is sunday afternoon the kids need dinner oh i was like okay you're like put me onto this health line lady what you know i literally was like okay well i'll do all this you you head off and he was like no she said i can't drive myself and i think at this point i didn't say anything but i think i rolled my eyes oh okay i was like oh my lord i can't drive myself and so i love the health line lady though she seems like a nice lady kind caring lady and he sat down on the couch and he looked

really like he looked not great so i went over and i felt his head and he was like burning up and then he started vomiting and i was like oh i'm a bad person so what do you have so he's got strep throat and it came up in like a rash and stuff like quite bad you're overdoing it with the rash now buddy yeah we're saying things like this yeah he's on antibiotics he's doing great but yesterday I did feel so bad I made him like chicken soup from scratch and I made sure I turned up the you know did it taste like guilt

Jono, Ben and Megan the podcast the hits she started a new school now isn't she yeah she started high school my youngest daughter Indy and I asked her yesterday after I picked her up well you know i was school with going through a school day talking about stuff and she had business studies she was learning business studies and she said she was she was like well there was a question about you about my parents and it kind of confused me a little bit what service do your parents provide if they're

employed right and so she was i was like okay so she was like well mom you know you know my wife amanda mom is a teacher so she was like i put mom down as a teacher that's her job and you know her service was educating you know young people i'm like great and then i was like what'd you put down for me she said oh radio announcer i was like good and then i said well what'd you put down for the service and she said i i didn't know what to put uh well indy if you're listening what price do you put on entertainment? That's what I said. Free entertainment. Entertainment is what the service we try and provide.

And she went, ah, yeah. She went, oh, that's what I should have put down. And I said, well, what did you put down? And she went, well, I didn't know what to put down, so I said food. I was like, what? And she goes, well, you know, you do the supermarket shopping, you cook most of the meals at home, you make our lunches, so that's the service you provide.

That's a great service. Unrelated to your job. He talks rubbish in the morning and then he goes to the supermarket. His job serves no purpose, but he serves me food. And that's probably true where our job sits in the grand scheme of things. I love how you said entertainment and that was a

revelation to me. She's like, oh, is that what you're trying to do? I didn't really think of that. Intellectual highbrow entertainment. Yeah, so she's got on her form, dad radio announcer, service provided food. So I don't quite marry up in the tournament, but anyway, it's

fine. She's summed up your day though. Yeah, exactly. And it's probably true. She's very correct in a lot of ways. There are those. I always feel like I haven't fully grown up as an adult. You know, you do run into people who are the same age, sometimes even younger. And they're wearing suits and

things, you know. There's people out there doing jobs that are respected jobs. They're like help society. Yeah. What are we doing here here guys? We were dubbed an essential Service during lockdown Which was, I mean, it was good because you had to get out Information obviously to people

Essential? Look at me Ben, it's a scream essential Look at me Megan, am I screaming essential? No It's not really essential, no you're right Could do without Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast, the hits My son's got a little

like tablet thing, a little kid's tablet thingy, but his new favourite thing to do on it is take pictures. They're grainy. Like a boomer. They're not great. What a tablet. They do love the iPad pics, don't they? He's like walking around, not great with his composition, just takes pictures

of whatever's in front of him. But he has figured out how to set a picture that he's taken as his wallpaper screen. Pretty cute. So he has been walking around taking pictures. And then me and my husband went out, babysitter came over. And the next day after she'd spent the night looking after our kids, we noticed that he had changed the picture on his tablet. So Andrew, my husband, had been doing the gardening in his Speedos.

Wow, okay. That's controversial gardening attire. He's like, I'll get a tan while I'm doing it. He's got one of those bodies. He'll be a Speedo body guy. I'm not a Speedo body. Put me in Speedos. I look like I'm being rescued from the beach.

He would look good in Speedos. It's a little bit dangerous. But anyway, he was doing it and our son had taken a photo of him. Again, composition not great. So he had gotten mainly the speedos as the main part of the picture. So just the groin.

And then he had set the picture of Andrewrew as his wallpaper when we saw it the next day he was like how long has this been on here and when did you learn to set wallpaper so he said he changed it the day to the gardening couple days ago so it had been on his tablet for a couple of days a groin shot of my husband in Speedos. However, the babysitter had been playing with our son on the tablet the night before. Uh-oh. She's seen the full buggy being smuggled.

She has been staring at a picture. And also, why? She would have been like, why is there this image of your dad on your tablet? And Bastion was just like, I just wanted a picture of daddy on there. I wanted a picture of daddy. Very sweet.

He got all of daddy. He was like, you need to put faces. Concentrate on faces, buddy. So no one's brought it up. I didn't want to bring it up with the babysitter and be like, I'm so sorry. Like, did you see a groin shot? Remove that from your memory.

Like, she was very quick when we got home to leave. She was like, okay, see you later. See ya, see ya. Yeah, it's a front foot situation. Just go and, hey, listen, sorry. I know you've seen my husband's groin. I mean, it's awkward for her if I'm involved. Why was it on the tablet?

Put it at ease. Take the awkwardness out of it. Okay, 0800 the hits. Kids getting a hold of technology when it backfires. And it does backfire because they don't fully grasp the consequences, don't they? Often handing them your phone or whatever ends up with them buying something or purchasing things, you know?

There'll be people out there with thousands of dollars of app purchases accidentally made by children to Unicorn Hair Salon number four or something. Talking about kids and technology when, you know, it can go wrong. Went wrong on the weekend for you, Megan, with your son. Playing on his tablet, taking photos.

He had taken a photo of my husband doing the gardening in his Speedos. It was a croc shot. A croc shot. Croc shot. You almost said it. You almost said it there. It was another shot as well, wasn't it? Yeah.

You almost said it. Yeah, which he said is a wallpaper on his tablet, and then the babysitter has inevitably seen it. I had one when we used to do the afternoon show, so I used to help get the girls ready, take them to school in the morning, and I wasn't very good at doing their hair, and this was when they were quite young, so they used to Google. We used to go on YouTube, and then you'd just type in what you want to do with your hair.

There's always demonstrations and stuff like that. And one day they wanted to tell me with bobby pins. One of the girls typed in girls' bobbies, but spelled it slightly wrong. Girls' bobbies wasn't the search that she looked up. So, yeah. I was like, oh, whoa, okay. Is that still in the search history? Girls' bobbies?

Yeah, it sounds like Google suggested it. It's like, oh, do you want this again, Ben? It's always auto-correcting from bobby pins. Bobby pins, yeah. I don't know why. That's a great excuse. I'm sick of that. So kids on tech, when it's gone wrong, let's get Brooke on the show.

How are you? Hi, good morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well. It's lovely to chat with you this morning, Brooke. What happened? So my son, just like yours, had his little tablet going on and it was my old one and it had Trade Me on it. And all of a sudden I was getting phone calls after phone calls after phone calls after

phone calls claiming that I had bought a brand new Lexus 4x4. No! You just hit buy now. Who was calling you? phone calls claiming that I'd bought a brand new Lexus 4x4. No. Yeah. You just hit buy now. Who was calling you? The car owner. The car dealership dude was saying that the payment wasn't processing with the car that was on the thing and all that sort of stuff.

I had to accept it because it was an instant buy now. And he had gone full price. And all he wanted to do was buy his Hot Wheels car. Oh, buddy. How much are we talking? I imagine it's over sort of 50 grand. Yeah, $67,400 and something. Oh, my gosh.

And so how do you weasel out of it? It took us months. Really? Months and months and months of going backwards and forwards because it was like an official you can't go back out once you hit buy now sort of thing. So it was legal. It was like it took months. I feel like that button needs to have like a are you sure.

A little code or something that you can put in that you pin yeah exactly and when the guy said yeah the card on the on the thing isn't going to accept i'm like yeah 67 400 is not really a number you really go for it's kind of stretching the limits of the credit card oh that is so you got the you did you have to provide evidence or anything to get out of it um yeah and it's really hard to prove that a three-year-old Has pressed the button when he shouldn't have They were like, oh yeah, you did it, didn't you? You did it

Really? Blaming it on your three-year-old That's sure Far out Well, they've got to make those sales, don't they? They do Monthly sales That is brilliant

Hey Brooke, really appreciate you sharing the story this morning You're going to have a great day Let's get Cody on Good morning to you Hello guys, how appreciate you sharing the story this morning. You're going to have a great day. Let's get Cody on. Good morning to you. Hello, guys. How are you? We're doing well, Codes. Kids on Tech, what happened?

Oh, yeah. A few years ago, my daughter was about two, and she was showing a family friend some photos on my phone of her, and she swiped a bit too far, and it revealed my C-section scar showing a little bit more than just that. Oh, no. I like it. The funny thing is he hasn't got kids, doesn't like kids.

Yeah, so it wasn't a good time to start with, but we still laugh about it to this day. She's nine. Cody, but also, why is that sitting on your photo stream? I had it so I could show my midwife if it looked right. Oh, yeah. You need to give someone a swipe allowance. Yeah.

Or there's a little vault you can store photos in. Megan knows all about it, apparently. Oh, she's got that now. The budgie smuggler shots are in the vault. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Graham Norton, the talk show host from the UK.

He's coming to New Zealand for the first time in March, April this year. An evening with Graham Norton if you want to see him in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Final tickets on sale right now. All the details at thehits.co.nz. Lucky enough to catch up with him yesterday. He just rang through. This is Graham Norton yesterday.

He was meant to call after our show. He just called through to producer Ellie. She answered the phone. It's like, hi, it's Graham here. No person. No connecting person. Oh, wow. Incredible as that.

It really threw Ellie. She's like, I hope I played it cool. It's like you expect someone to go, hey, I've got Graham. Are you ready for your interview? No, it's Graham Norton calling yesterday. Which is a nightmare for us because now he's got our hotline number. So he can ring up for all the prizes and things. Yeah, but this is what happened when we caught up with Graham Norton calling yesterday. Which is a nightmare for us because now he's got our hotline number so we can ring up for all the prizes and things. Yeah, but this is what happened when we caught up with Graham Norton yesterday.

Nice to talk to you again. Hi, Jono. Hi, Ben. Hey, now an evening with Graham Norton. Most of the show's already sold out, which is pretty cool. But I want to know what a typical evening with Graham Norton is like at home. Well, at home, I think a crowd of people might be quite bored. It's not that thrilling.

Yeah, I stare at a wall. There's normally a glass of wine for company. Well, speaking of which, you do make wine with a New Zealand company, In Vivo. So have you been to New Zealand before? I'm embarrassed to say no, I have not. So this is my first time. I will be kind of wandering the uh

through the vineyard that checking out grapes and meeting the people who actually make the wine and i feel like i've done the work yeah you've had enough of the wine really haven't you better go check where it's made so if you do is this essentially just a wine meeting trip that you've taxed some shows on to it'll be fun to see to meet the people and see where the wine actually comes from apart from that apart from visiting wineries you got anything else uh that you need to do people keep giving me advice kind of oh you must do this you must do that milford sound oh yeah nice yeah beautiful spot i think i'm going to milford sound i'm going to a bay of something bay of size bay of islands bay of islands yeah is of islands, yeah.

Is that a thing? Yeah, it's a thing. It's a great thing. Who has to book all this? Do you book your own tourist attractions, or do you have people doing it for you? Weirdly, there's a guy I met back in the 80s called Stuart, and it's what he does.

He runs a kind of travel company out there. A high-end one, let me ask a high end one not your run of the mill public bus one yeah please that I could do by myself he's signing all the five star and it has boutique in front of it

I'm in it I was very surprised to learn that Graham Norton not actually your real name when I was looking last night you changed it very early on I did I was very surprised to learn that Graham Norton, not actually your real name when I was looking last night. You changed it very early on. I did. I was Graham Walker. And then when I was leaving drama school, yes, I trained.

I discovered there was already a Graham Walker. And they're very strict about that. I thought, well, I call myself. And I thought, left to my own devices, I'd be called something like, you know, Graham Run River High. Norton was just a family name and it sounds a bit like Walker so now honestly it really does feel like my name because it's been 40 years. So on your driver's license your passport and stuff is it Norton? Yeah it's all Norton now all Norton. Now of course we love your show the Graham Norton show here in New Zealand and the red chair segment. Was it true that was meant to be just a one-off segment?

Yeah, it was a one-off thing because Ronnie Corbett, the comedian that was on, and we were doing a bit about telling stories in chairs because that was his thing. And it was only after we did it, the line producer kind of went, you know that chair? It was quite expensive.

Is there any way to could use it again? And dear God, we've made money out of it now. Mostly it is fashioned by New Zealanders. There's so many Kiwi people on that chair. Well, we were lucky enough many years ago to go over and do it. That was early doors. That was early doors. You got that chair fresh.

You were so lovely to us. You and your team were like, you didn't, you had, honestly, you had Tom Cruise, Coldplay, Emily Blunt, Seth MacFarlane. They were all there. And you spent some time with us, which you shouldn't have. You and your team were lovely. So thank you so much for that. Well, not at all.

And also, like those guests are going to spend time with me. I was just talking to the people who are willing to talk to me. John O'Bannon Megan, the podcast, the hits. I was just talking to the people who were willing to talk to me. That was us. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Graham, a couple of years ago when we had our TV show, we were lucky enough to go to the UK and to experience the red chair to get on the show.

The guy who created Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, he was trigger happy that night and he was on the sort of flip the people off. Now, Jono here here is this the shortest ever red chair experience from jono have a listen hi there graham how are you nice prep school uniform so that was it hi there graham how are you mate and he said nice prep school uniform because we're wearing sort of matching jackets and he flipped them straight away that was all three four seconds now that is poor normally people get to say their name. We didn't even get a little Jono out of you.

So, I hold the record for the shortest appearance on the red chair. And also, I think distance travels to get to chair. I got to tell my story. I told a story about my granddad. And I accidentally super glue in his eye and you know instead of eye drops and told the story then got to the end and normally that's when you walk off but then Seth MacFarlane flipped me again now is that a win or a loss I mean where does that leave me I'll tell you what a lot of people even if I say do you want to you know you walk they want to be flipped because you can get out of a chair and walk away from it anyway I think it's the full

full Graham Norton show experience if you get flipped. And a little behind the scenes too, as your team say, if you do get flipped, you've got to lift your legs up in the air. It's key. That's why it looks so dramatic because, you know, you've done it. You know it only really goes back about 15 degrees. It's a lean, lean more than a flip. Really looking forward

To having you out here Graham And extra shows on sale now Are you coming to any of the shows? I would love to come on Definitely coming mate Okay Okay I was so surprised

Because they sold out So we put on these extra dates So I think there's only tickets now For Price Church and Wellington Only on one night in each place It's pretty incredible As you say Most of them have sold out apart from the new shows.

Are you across all the bottom line of the tour details, Graham? All over it. I intend to go home with a large bag of money. Oh, Graham. Hey, listen, it's been lovely catching up with you, mate. Can't wait to see you here throughout March and April. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. out with you mate uh can't wait to see you here throughout march and april john o ben and megan the podcast the hits talking to a friend his parents had a knock at the door and it was a

young real estate agent and the real estate agent had an apology bottle of uh wine oh really and he's like i need to say sorry to you and these people are like why why do you need to say sorry to us he's like there's been a terrible mistake that's happened today. So the real estate agent was sent by, you know how some of them have teams, the real estate agents? Like, you know, team boys can trust us

to look after your future, that sort of stuff. Yeah, they sort of tag team it and stuff, which probably makes sense as well, right? Yeah, because obviously there's multiple houses that they might have on their books. So the head real estate agent had sent this young real estate agent to go and show three couples through a house. Okay?

So he's like, just so you know, the key is left under the barbecue. And he's like, let yourself in. So he got the key from the barbecue, opened up the house, and he showed three couples through this house. Textbook. Textbook real estate stuff. He's doing the job. Yeah.

And the owners of the house that was for sale got in touch with the head real estate agent. And he's like, did your person take people through today? Because we prepared the house for reviewing. And he's like, yeah. The key was under the barbecue. He said he took three couples through. And they're like, we've looked back on the cameras. No one's been in our house all day long.

So what transpired is this poor young fella. And in a pure coincidence, the neighbor's house, which is my friend's parent's house, they also keep their spare key in the barbecue. He had taken three couples through their house, which was not on the market. Oh, so this one wasn't for sale. This one's not for sale. It's the direct neighbor's house. And so he's like, I'm so sorry.

I've taken like six people through your house today and they've all been judging your house and making critiques on your decor and things. And your house isn't for sale. It's the place next door. Oh, no. Oh, my God. So people just walk into it.

Randomly. What stuff did I have out? What was I? I know. I was like mortified if you're not prepared for that. You're like, was there dishes in the sink?

Like, were my undies out? All that stuff is running through your mind. And you know, is an apology bottle of wine going to do it? I mean,

you see the fun. They saw the funny side of it. It's probably quite good for them to front foot it. They could have just never seen this again. I wouldn't have said anything. He did they saw the funny side of it. It's probably quite good for them to front foot it. They could have just. Yeah, I would never speak of this again. I know, I wouldn't have said anything. He did say on the plus side, there's a couple of people interested in your place if you

want to sell it. Imagine if they had cameras and you look back through the cameras that day and you're like, what is happening? People just rifling through. Parading through your house. You're like, oh, it's a bit messy. But anyway. And hugely convenient for any burglars who stumble across that street.

Everyone leaves their key underneath the barbecue. Moral of the story is if that's you move your key jono ben and megan the podcast the hits married at first flight with tourism fiji still can't believe this is happening this is just something we were talking about last week and i got engaged uh to my wife amanda we waited seven years until we got married we got married in Fiji and we talked about the longest engagements and then for some reason Jono blurted out that we should get someone married like me in Fiji someone who's been engaged a long time and it's happening thanks to Tourism Fiji. Married at first flight now you know I mean it would be ideal given the name of the campaign that it it is your first flight, but it's not an absolute deal-breaker. But if you are

engaged, you can enter at the hitstockcode on your Z. And as we said yesterday, it's almost worth, if you're married, getting divorced and getting re-engaged, just to win. Pretty incredible, getting married in Fiji, just a three-hour flight away. Tropical wedding at the Outrigger Fiji Beach Resort. So if you want to

say I do over there, you can register right now at the hitrigger Fiji Beach Resort. So if you want to say I do over there, you can register right now at the hitstockcard.nz. Don't get a cheaper wedding than a free radio wedding. Yeah. Actually, that's very true. The only thing is we'll probably make, you know, being a radio wedding, get married on rollerblades with juggling fire poisons.

No, I feel like Megan's here. She'll stop, you know. Yeah, and also rollerblades aren't going to work on sand. No, true, true. Maybe we should invite All their exes Just to add some spice To the ceremony

That's what radio would have done But not nowadays Nowadays And they keep it classy Yeah cheapest wedding This is what we want this morning Because yeah You don't get much cheaper than free

0800 the hits 4487 Some people just go To the registry office Yeah Head down to Denny's Yeah I was thinking the mall

Would be the ideal wedding location Two Why? Because you've got aisles In the supermarket Oh yeah You can marry in the supermarket You can take the reception

To the food court Yeah All the guests can go And buy your presents From around the shop Oh that's quite funny It makes you have the mall All to yourself

At your wedding party Yeah That'd be great Buy a wedding ring there You've got it all sorted At the mall Get it all sorted That's a great idea Free venue Yeah It there. You've got it all sorted at the mall. Get it all sorted. That's a great idea.

Free venue. Yeah. It is expensive though, isn't it? And that's a lot of reason why some people, you know, get engaged and don't do the wedding because it seems to be, and I mean, people can do what they want, but there's some sort of expectation sometimes. You can pay yourself to other weddings. Yeah.

As soon as you mention it's a wedding, suddenly the cake is expensive. The dress is more expensive. It feels like there's a whole other price list sometimes, right? Yeah, you're like, you need to just say, I need a white dress for just a dinner. If you broke it down to like an investment person, the return on investment from a wedding is shocking. The amount of money you pour into one day. Especially if you get divorced and do it again.

Yeah. Your first wedding. I mean, why are we looking back at that? Could have had a deposit for a house if I didn't get

married twice. Exactly. So you drop a bomb on one day. Many of the people you don't see later in life too. That's true.

Now, 0800 HATSK, the cheapest wedding. Can we get, can we get to a free wedding? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

I'm going to play everything at once. Could be getting married in Fiji, married at first flight. If you've been engaged for a while and you never actually got around to getting married, well, we want to make it happen. You can elope in Fiji. It's just three hours away. The Outrigger Beach Resort in Fiji, the perfect place to say I do if you want to register you can do so right now

at the hitstop code at NZ yeah we've been told we can be involved in the wedding planning as well going to be like J-Lo in that movie the wedding planner remember she'd planned all the weddings but she hadn't had the wedding herself

that's going to be us guys cheapest wedding well we figured there's no cheaper than a free radio wedding Janay good morning to be us, guys. Cheapest wedding. Well, we figured there's no cheaper than a free radio wedding. Janae, good morning to you. Good morning, guys. How are you doing? Lovely to have you on, Janae.

You had a cheap wedding, did you? Yeah, I did. Fifteen years ago when my wife and I got married, we did it on a Sunday morning, so it was during service, the Sunday morning service. And then afterwards we had some eats at the hall with the members that were there, so it cost us about $30. I had to convert it back from

rands to New Zealand dollars. Wow, so people were already there, there was already guests, there was already food, you kind of just jumped in, just piggybacked on it. I love it. Genius. Yep. Yep. Perfect. Did you know any of the people, Jene? Or you weren't too fussed? No.

We knew everybody that was there. Oh, there you go. We're from the church because we are church people. So the congregation that we got married in was the church that we went to every Sunday. So we knew everybody there. So we invited a couple of our other friends, which came there as well, and we all enjoyed it. Knocked it off.

$30 winning. Wow, that's a bargain. That is a real bargain. Make me feel like a chump. Even our people don't have to pay $30 for parking at the airport. Anna, you're on from Taranaki. Good morning to you. Hi, guys.

Hold on. I'm just going to turn my radio off. Good on you, Anna. That's a responsible listener right there. She knows the rules and then she's just hung up on us. She didn't turn the radio off

but she obviously turned her phone off. Anna, if you could call back, you really left us in a bloody hole here. There's some great texts coming through on 4487. Yeah, so our wedding

ended up costing us $750. It was pretty good. That's not a bad deal. What did they do? Town hall, all the families brought food, bring a plate sort of thing. Alcohol was donated from a mate as a wedding gift. Decorations were all secondhand and cheap. So there you go, $750.

It's pretty good. It's pretty good. It doesn't matter about the razzmatazz. At the end of the day, it's just about hanging out with people that are special to you. Yeah, that's true. And if you can do out with people that are special to you. Yeah. You know, and if you can do that for $750, Anna, you're back. What a rollercoaster. I know.

It's just one of those mornings, guys. That's right. These things happen. The radio's turned down. Anna's back on. And how cheap was your wedding? It's actually a friend's wedding that I rang about. They were in Oz, and they decided a while ago, we're going to get married.

Both of them speak in marriage. It wasn't about the drama or the event. And they got married at the kitchen table. The celebrant came along and did this thing. So they just paid the fee for the wedding. And the only person present was her mum, and she's been told to just come for lunch. She didn't even know why she was coming.

Oh, she didn't even know? At the kitchen table? Wow. Then you'd be like, who's this other weird person? Oh, they're about to marry us. Here we go. Coming for lunch. Wow.

So there we go. So what do you reckon it would have cost them? A couple hundred dollars? Oh, not even that I wouldn't imagine. It was just, it was in the Sullivan's lunch break. They were doing a favour. That's incredible.

That is a cheap wedding. And you've got another example. Well, we had a relatively cheap wedding. It was his second marriage, my first, but I already had a daughter. And basically we had two houses going to one, so we thought, we don't need prison.

So people still wanted to do something, so we suggested that they pay for things. So his sister paid for the hire of the jukebox. Somebody else paid for the carpet, the roll of carpet for the aisle. Someone paid for the tablecloth. A friend of ours did the catering. Oh, that's smart. Yeah, get everyone some toys.

Pay your way. That is genius. John O'Bannon and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. To watch with Megan. Haven't done this in a while. Megan uses her eyeballs to watch stuff so you don't have to use yours.

Yeah, I end up watching a lot of stuff because I've got two toddlers, so I'm home every night with nothing to do. Consumes the content. Something you're watching at the moment, my wife's watching this as well, and she's hooked. You've been watching little shorts on the internet about this because this is based on a true story. On Netflix, it's called Apple Cider Vinegar.

I have recently been diagnosed with a third of cancer. It has 90,000 likes. She does not have spleen cancer. Always know what you're putting in your body. Now, it's a simple question Do you have cancer? So it's the number one show on Netflix I see at the moment

And there's a documentary coming out in the next couple of days On Netflix as well about it Yeah, so this is about Belle Gibson You might know, 2013 she blew up with an app called The Whole Pantry And it was basically eat well and cure what ails you with your food. The issue with this is she told everyone she had initially four weeks to live or something like that. And she had terminal brain cancer. She did not.

She spent her entire career lying about what was wrong with her because nothing was wrong with her. And so she got a huge fortune she ended up this whole pantry app became one of the first to be launched as a like a an app that you got with your apple watch all right so it's just already on the so it's a big deal it was a huge deal she'd done well it was beautiful it had like recipes and everything um but yeah she never so a whole lot of people would obviously like trying to follow in her Huge deal. She had done well for herself. It was beautiful. It had like recipes and everything. But yeah, she never had cancer. So a whole lot of people were obviously like trying to follow in her footsteps. Including people who were actually very ill.

And they stopped taking treatment from what I understand. Yeah. Because of what she said that could potentially cure them as well. Yeah. So there was a famous documentary or a famous interview she did for 60 Minutes where they asked her, and you may have seen this clip, how old she was. You're 23, right? Well, actually, how old are you? I've always been raised as being currently a 26-year-old. How old are you? Well, I live knowing, as I've always known, that I would be 26. Okay, Bill.

This is a really, really simple question. How old are you? I believe that I'm 26. So do I. Wouldn't it be great if we all believed we were 26? Yeah. The average age of Megan's partners? So is she a pathological liar?

I think so. So that was the real Bell Gibson in a 60 Minutes interview. Watching those clips, I kind of, I feel sorry for her. Because obviously something traumatic's happened in her childhood, as is always the case when people end up like this. Yeah. And it is a fictionalised drama series, so it kind of goes into a backstory,

but you don't know if it's 100% real. But she has had a rough time with her mum and I think she used to make up stories to get sympathy. Right. It just kind of carried on. So worth a watch? Definitely worth a watch. Okay.

We do have the scale of how many papas? Do you give out of five papas for this? Well, I mean, it is very sad because it's based on a true story but I, at the moment, would give it 8 out of 10. Wow, is that good? Yeah, it is good. And then the documentary, as Ben said, coming to Netflix true story. But I, at the moment, would give it 8 out of 10. Wow. Is that good? Yeah, it is good. And then the documentary, as Ben said, coming to Netflix as well.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Something that I realised yesterday, I didn't even know, but my son has size 13 feet. Size? He's 15 years old. Now, I've said it all along. The kids are getting bigger and freakishly taller

and I turn up to school and I look at like 16 year olds at a school with beards and they're taller and I'm looking up at them and I'm like you should have a mortgage and a family. And I looked into the phenomenon and actually each generation does get slightly

taller. Oh really? But as it happens it's starting to plateau out now. I think Mother Nature's gone okay we need to pull the plug on this or else we're going to just have giant freaks of human beings like 10 foot tall. We're nearly at the point where someone's going to give birth and someone

the size of LeBron James is going to come out. It's getting to that point. We're going to have to have Musk invent some sort of shrinking pill for the kids. But he. Well, I mean, for every tallie, there's someone like me. So, you know, we're averaging it out. You're right.

You know, I mean, that getting taller thing kind of skipped me. You seem quite tall. And then one day you took off your shoes in here. Yeah, I know. And Ben was like, who's this little child? But in the Wizard of Oz, when the Wicked Witch starts melting, it's like that. It, I know. And Ben was like, who's this little child? It's like in The Wizard of Oz when the Wicked Witch starts melting.

It's like that. It's the illusion. But I took him to Travis Scott and one of the security guards came up to him. Enormous, enormous security guard.

Hey Oscar, how you going man? I'm like, how do you know this fully grown man who's a security guard? And he's like, he's in my class at school

They're so big now they're doing security at concerts These kids So yeah size 13 feet But he reckons a lot of his friends have size 13 feet What size feet do you have? I'm just 11 US 11 I thought I had cute little feet

What are you Ben you're 10 aren't you So what we're going to do Right now The biggest feat Listening to the show Right now Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast

The hits I think Post Malone was Part of the all-star line-up Celebrating 50 years Of the American TV comedy Saturday Night Live Over the last couple of days He teamed up with

The remaining members of Nirvana Oh yeah So did a whole members of Nirvana. Oh, yeah. So did a whole show as Nirvana. What I did appreciate, too, is he manages, he does multitask post-mortem. He's managed to smoke cigarettes, sing and play guitar at the same time.

And he was smoking a cigarette up until he had to start singing the lyrics of Smells Like Teen Spirit. And then just casually popped the cigarette in his guitar so the guitar was smoking. I was like, that is possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen. The timing required on that. Exceptional stuff. New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz.

Now yesterday, Megan, without you, we thought we were really going to struggle. I don't know, it felt almost like it was written for us, but you see, Ali, wasn't it? It was. There was a Simpsons question, like question two. It was like, wow, this is none of that boring science, nerdy stuff. So we wanted Front Footer to say there was a few lowball questions.

Yeah, but we still got 10 out of 10. I thought you were going to apologize and say you lied to me and you didn't get 10 out of 10. No, we did. We did, actually. We smashed it, but we phoned you early in the morning to take it. We got swept up in the celebrations. It was 6.27am and we called you.

And now you've just cleared the voicemail. Yeah. We got 10 out of 10 and you were the only one who could. Now, we're not going to say it's because you were here. I mean, some of the questions went harder towards us. It felt like, as a start, with Warriors and Simpsons. The easy questions. Oh, Warriors and Simpsons. We just call you. I'm not going to do it today. We'll see how they go without me again.

There we go. So sorry for the early morning phone call. Are you reneging your quiz answering duties today, are you? Well. Seven go two in a row. Should I just be a lifeline? Okay, alright. Let's get into a Bruce Alley.

Question number one. Who played the role of Joker in The Dark Knight? Oh, that was bloody old Joaquin. Jack Nicholson, Joaquin Phoenix or Heath Ledger? Dark Knight was Heath Ledger. That is correct. You were going to go with old Joaquin. I was like, hang on, there's been many jokers over the years.

Well done, Ben. That's why we always go with Ben. Dark Knight, oh my god. Alright, question number two. What is the official language of Ireland alongside English? Gaelic. That is correct, John. Well done. Alright.

Which actress won an Oscar for her role in Black Swan? Ireland alongside English? Gaelic. That is correct, John. Well done. All right. Which actress won an Oscar for her role in Black Swan? Natalie Portman. That is correct. Well done. Okay, three from three. How are we sitting over there, Megan? This is how it's done, baby.

These are easy, though. These are easy. We don't write the questions. All right, question number four. Who were the co-founders of Instagram? Was it Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom? Was it Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone? Or was it Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger?

Well, old Zuckerberg acquired Instagram, didn't he? He didn't actually start it. Yeah, because he owns it now, right? That's a good one. Megan. Megan. Bring Megan in for a lifeline now. Megan.

Do you know Megan? Kevin. Oh, mate, Kevin mate Kevin Oh Kev Kevin Mike That is correct Yay Thank you Can we have Megan back in now?

Megan's back in Yeah okay Okay question number five Which country originally created the reality TV show Married at First Sight? Was it the United Kingdom, Denmark or Australia? I feel like it was Denmark That is correct Oh Ben's voice Well done Wow okay Man I've never watched an episode No no I haven't United Kingdom, Denmark, or Australia? I feel like it was Denmark. That is correct. Oh, Ben Boyce.

Wow, okay. Man, I've never watched an episode. No, no, I haven't. I don't think I've watched a full episode of the show. Nice work. It's very popular, I understand. It is. All right, question number six.

What does the acronym SEO stand for, a crucial concept for Google search results? Is it simplified end user operations, secure electronic operations, or search engine optimisation And this is when we throw it to the audience Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz

We're back as we call ourselves the Quiztifer Luxons That's our quiz team and Quiz Queen Ali. Question number 6 We're stumped on, we're through to the audience The question was what does the acronym SEO stand for? A crucial concept for Google search results.

And the options were simplified end user operations, secure electronic operations, or search engine optimization. So search engines come through the most on the text machines. I guess that was our lifeline. That is correct. Yay! Nice work. Seven. Yes.

All right. What district does Katniss Everdeen represent in the Hunger Game movies? District 9. District 12? District 6? Or District 1? None of those districts. It's District 9.

District 12. Locked in 9. District 12? That's correct, Liam. Thank goodness. District 9 is its own movie. I think it's its own movie. It's not Hunger Games related.

Okay, sorry. She's just saying stuff. Throwing it out there. All right, question number eight. What large river runs through Seoul? As in Korea. Is it Han River, Nile River, or Yangtze River? Yangtze's in China.

So what were the other two? Nile or Han? Han. Nile runs through. Yeah, that's Africa and stuff. Yeah, right. So you're locking in Han Yeah That is correct

Well done Yeah here we go Question number nine Jacinda Ardern was born In which region Bloody Maramara Yeah Morrinsville No Morrinsville

Morrinsville Morrinsville Oh Matamata I'll give you the options Northland, Waikato Or Tararaki Oh Waikato

Correct Well done. Christian Teague. Oh my God, guys. There's two in a row. Yeah, wow. Okay. Which global sporting event did Russia host under Putin's leadership in 2014?

Was it the FIFA World Cup, the Summer Olympics, or the Winter Olympics? I think it was the Winter Olympics. Yeah, I was trying to think. It definitely wasn't the think It wasn't the football Wait read the question again In 2014 which International sports event did Putin Host in Russia

They wouldn't have hosted the Summer Olympics No you wouldn't have thought No it's not the Summer Olympics Let's go the Winter Olympics That is correct Oh my god Oh my god No, because we... No, it's not the Summer Olympics. Let's go to the Winter Olympics. That is correct. Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Nice work, guys.

There we go. Two. Wow. Never unhurdle. I know. Absolute scenes. We already know what to do now. It doesn't know we haven't.

Thank you so much for all your help.