Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Ben's Favourite App... P***H**B

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Spring yesterday, question mark? Well, a lot of people were saying it was, so we'll go with it. But a wild start on the 1st of September, over the weekend, 90,000 lightning strikes in the North Island alone. 90,000! It was wild, and they reckon the next couple of weeks are going to be

really messy and unsettled weather-wise around the country. Yeah, I got woken up by a thunderstorm. It was loud. I was playing netball over the weekend on Saturday and my daughter, and it was like you could hear lightning and thunder and you're like, jeez, are they going to stop? Netball shall not stop. No, they just keep going.

Did it start to rain? Because sometimes it doesn't rain. It was a torrential rain. And it kept going, lightning, thunder going on all around. Yeah, you're like, I'm standing by a tall metal pole. Yeah. It was torrential rain. And they ploughed on. And it kept going, lightning, thunder going on all around. Yeah. You're like, I'm standing by a tall metal pole. Yeah. I'm not down for this.

I was like, and I felt like a bad parent. I'm like, I'm going to go stand under the shelter and watch from quite far away. Sometimes it's great if you can get a car park just on the edge of the court. You know, you look through the wire and you think. I'm definitely watching. Just in the car. I'm singing. I'm singing.

Yeah. Yeah. No, a good sport. And, you know, God forbid netball falls behind a weakened schedule. I love it.. I'm singing. No, a good sport. And God forbid netball falls behind a weakened schedule. I love it. They plough on. And the thing was, too. Okay, sorry to go on this rant.

But going inside, you've been to the netball courts before. There are three courts inside and no one was using them. Yeah, but those are for like premieres. But it was like it was lightning and thunder and there were three courts. But how are they going to decide who gets the three courts? Oh, she's like, pull the name out of a hat. Like, I'm not using you. Some lucky souls get to stay dry. But anyway, a devil.

Great sport. No rubbish bins there either, I thought. No. There isn't. You've got to take it with you. Cafe. Cafe. Oh, is that the trick?

That's the trick. But then I was leaving the other night and people had just left mountains of rubbish on the court. Oh, guys. That's not right. There's no bins. You're supposed to take it with you. People are like, well, buy some bins then.

I'll just leave it on the court. Hey, well, speaking of all things daughters, my daughter Poppy Pry, she just comes in sporadically and rearranges my phone from time to time. So about six or seven months ago. Was it colour coded last time? Yeah. Yeah, colour coded all my apps. So they all sit in little folders under different colors,

and it really threw me out because you're so used to your automatic response just clicking on an app for where it is located. And some of them, like the Photos app, is multiple colors. So you'd be like, where did that end up? She's got all the grays together, which are camera, settings, calculator. That's aesthetically pleasing though, isn't it? That's what she said. She said, so aesthetic.

That's her word. Very mindful, very demure. Demure's another one. That's the one they keep saying at the moment. What is demure? It's a TikTok thing. It's gone from a viral trend. What does it mean though?

It's just one TikToker did a video saying, this is how I do my makeup. Very mindful, very demure. It's become a big thing. You know how hot it was. The phrase very mindful, very demure is at the moment. So now I just know apps by their colour, not by their design. You name an app and I'll tell you what colour it is.

Porn Hub. Do they have an app? Of course they've got an app, mate Porn Hub. It's an app. Of course he's got an app, mate. Very handy, user-friendly app. Sorry about that. I was just right at the buzz. Everything's categorised. User-friendly experience.

Sorry. Hey, Nick, speaking of social media, I want to play this to you from UK Comedian Next, which will explain. I think the rabbit hole we all go speaking of social media, I want to play this to you from UK Comedian Next, which will explain, I think, the rabbit hole we all go down in social media. That's in three minutes on The Hits. Megan, you've just been targeted by something. You've done a bit of digging, and there's a scam going around at the moment. Yeah, this is Aunty giving you a PSR.

Oh, no, PSA. Public Service Announcement. What's a PSR? I don't know. Public Service Review.ments. What's a PSA? I don't know. Public Service Review? Recommendation? These are Facebook ads that go around and I've seen them.

Nothing to do, like no disrespect to the brands I'm about to mention because it has nothing to do with them. But like Peter Alexander and Country Road are the two that I've seen and they have like a homeware sale or like a sale on pyjamas and you go through and it all looks legit so you're like

thinking you're gonna get all these things for like ridiculously cheap um and then the only thing that alerted me was that the url has nothing to do with the brand it'll say like store closing sale or something nothing to do with the shop that you're in so i just did a wee google search and these are scams that are going around these days. These websites are, like, created a month ago. The reviews are all fake. So once you go through and put all your credit card details in, you think you're getting all these things,

and the stuff never comes. Well, they've really levelled up, haven't they? It is hard to predict now, especially when you're, here's old mate back to, where's he going? Hey, I'm. We were talking with one of our bosses, Craig, and he said he gets tinnitus. Is it tinnitus in your ear? Tinnitus.

Tinnitus. Sorry, it's tinnitus? Yeah. Ringing, ringing. And so he was fed an ad with Bruce Springsteen talking, going, hey, man, after all my years of rocking out to Born in the USA, I got tinnitus. Whatever it's called, yeah.

And he's like, oh, wow. And he had a solution that you could put your credit card in, and there's this wonderful medicine you can take. And Craig's like, oh, that's interesting. Next day, Mick Jagger's doing the same thing. And then he's like, hold on. Why would Bruce Springsteen and mcjago two of probably the wealthiest musicians on the face of the earth have to resort to doing a influencer campaign

then he looked closer and the lips the movement of the lips was just slightly off but he said you had to look really hard deep fakes yeah deep fakes you're right yeah it's kind of scary what's happening now i mean many people like you know Craig he's smart guy almost gonna be a smart girl yeah you're smart too yeah well you get scammed no almost yeah almost clicked on my details in there I just don't trust anything no nothing that comes through yeah texts any emails bingo make you late for a meeting. Am I, buddy?

Yeah, who's this? In general rule of thumb, if it looks too good to be true, like a cure for his tinnitus on the internet, it probably is. Yeah. All right. Well, that's your lesson this morning. Hey, next, why toast was banned and caused an uproar in Wellington just a couple of days ago.

Would you have eaten toast in this situation? Absolutely. Well, apparently you weren't allowed a couple of days ago in Wellington, but it's back. We'll tell you why next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Wellington Hospital, in the news of the last couple of days, they got rid of toast.

It wasn't their decision, but they got rid of toast for mothers who had just given birth. It was off the menu, and it sparked a bit of public outrage, and now toast is back on the menu. Why did you say it wasn't their decision, but whose decision was it? They said it got advice from dieticians, because someone asked for a toast after they'd given birth, and they said, oh, sorry, we can't do that anymore.

We've had our bread supply taken off us. Good luck saying that to a woman who's just given birth. Yeah, and she was like, like Oh I'd better love toast And I was really sorry And then obviously It went out on social media And now they've gone Okay it's now an option

If you want Yeah I love social media A bit of a social media backlash And bitching Does get results Does it It does

Sometimes it does Companies buddy Or organisations They totally Parts of their body Really shrivel up As soon as the social media Campaign starts to get underway Oh god Those are women That have just spent nine months organizations, parts of their body really shrivel up as soon as the social media campaign starts

to get underway. Oh, God. Those are women that have just spent nine months being deprived of so many things. And then you're like, we just want just a piece of toast. You're allowed toast while you're pregnant. Exactly. So give it to them afterwards, too. Just give them what they want.

If that's what they want. Yeah, you're right. But a lot of people have that meal or that one food item after giving birth that they haven't been able to have. Yeah. What was it for you? Mine was like poached eggs, runny eggs. You're not really supposed to have those.

Some people are very strict. A glass of bubbles and a cigarette. Have a ciggy and a beer. I know Producer Taylor, much like my wife, sushi was a big thing. She wants salmon sushi, is what Producer Taylor wants after she's given birth. And I just wanted hummus too.

You're not supposed to have that. How do you know? Who knows? Who knows all this stuff? Hopefully the doctors. It's like foods that can harvest some sort of bacteria. Oh, I see. A lot of stuff in the deli section and stuff.

Some people are a bit more strict on it than others, right? I know someone who ate raw seafood all the way through their pregnancy. No issues. I guess it's a gamble. Yeah. The risk is there. Yeah. I mean, you look back probably to when our parents were,

what sort of wild stuff they would have been. People were smoking and drinking. I know. But it's not. What have we turned into? Is it organised? Is it? Careful.

Mindful. If it's for the best. Stimulus. Exactly. If it's for the best you know for exactly if it's for the best for you know for a number one child then you know you're gonna do it right what's the one food that you would go into bat for you're like i would i would fight for that food what do you mean like the my favorite food or i feel like soup i feel like soup gets a bad soup no isn't like i feel like I need to bat for it. Like, soup is legit, and people don't give it enough credit.

Oh, there's not enough respect for soup. Oh, right. So it's not like the one food you're like, geez, I could do with soup right now. But I do like soup. That's such a random thing. I mean, I don't mind soup, that's for sure. It's not a guy thing, because my husband's like,

it's just watery. Oh, I know, but it's not a guy thing because my husband's like it's just watery like it's great you know yeah but that's you know it's either like an appetizer or like i don't know i'm trying to think i like lots of different types of food yeah you're going to bet for hummus yeah do i love hummus if you had to fight to the death it would be for a snacking nuts or something i feel like soup is more broad and delicious you went in for hummus and nuts he always gets those mini little packets of nuts you can't even put your fingers into

yeah at home we get bigger ones I can snack all day on snacking nuts that's for sure these nuts love these nuts okay

I went home with the hits okay let's check this out there maybe you did come off pregnancy what was the one food that you craved or the one food that you would really go into

come off pregnancy or like give birth come off did come off pregnancy, what was the one food that you craved or the one food that you would really go into bat for? Come off pregnancy or like give birth? Come off it. It's not an addiction. Did you come off it? You were cured of your pregnancy, of your sex germs. How under those, 4487. The one food you'd go into bat for that you would want.

I would love to hear from you this morning. 4487, we've got some hell pizza for you next. That's some great food. It is the hits. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Jono and Ben with you on the hits. So we're just having this debate off the radio,

and we thought, well, maybe we should throw it out there. I don't know, 100 of the hits of 4487. If New Zealand had a Mount Rushmore mountain, and that's obviously when they have presidents, so let's take it away from politics. Let's just say four famous Kiwis carved into stone into rock who would those four kiwis be well i'd say it's a giant waste of taxpayer money yeah that would be the first once we get past that yeah and then we'll have a referendum we should do the thing with millions on that and now it's happening okay so we've worked through those through those 12 months of argy-bargy. But you're right.

It's not going to happen, okay? All right. We're not going to carve some mountain, Mount Cook or something up like this. No, it's not going to happen. Does it have to be a person? Could we put like a sheep on there? Because I feel like the sheep is...

Oh, you could do a sheep. Shrek the sheep? Shrek the sheep? Yeah. Remember from years ago, we frothed a celebrity sheep. He was found overgrown, wasn't he in the in the highlands and it's been shorn for ages yeah and then we put him on an iceberg for some unusual reason remember that to share it yeah yeah they flew him out to an iceberg that was off the coast

of the south it was like a superstar was it like yeah why did they do that many questions because as soon as they shave off he's gonna be freezing be freezing. He's going to be cold. Let me put you on ice. They put him in a helicopter. We did some wild things. And then he met Orlando Bloom, didn't he? I think all sorts of famous people came to New Zealand. Like, you must meet the sheep. Oh my God, what an embarrassing time. New Zealand, you're weird.

You're weird. Okay, we'll put it on our Hits Breakfast on Facebook as well. Lots of comments coming through. I'll read you some of the names. Judy Bailey, Mad Butcher, Briscoe's Lady, and the Neck Minute Guy. That was four. Lots of comments coming through. I'll read you some of the names. Judy Bailey, Mad Butcher, Briscoe's Lady, and the Neck Minute Guy. That was four.

Briscoe's Lady. Ed Hillary's coming up a lot. Superman Hillary. I feel like he's got a note, but you'd probably want to put the people that are on the notes, right? Kate Shepard. Kate Shepard. Yeah, coming up a lot.

Michael Joseph, he's a savage. Coming up. Colin Meads. Good old Colin Meads. Good old Colin Meads. Ernest Rutherford. Yeah, lots of... Billy T. James.

Oh, that's a good show. Briscoe's Lady is coming up lots too. Top Twins. You're going to have to carve her in there. What about like a big old jar of Marmite? Well, yeah. Chuck up that item. A bucket bong.

Very popular to New Zealand culture. Marmite's more... Vegemite's Australian. Marmite's ours, right? Right. To be honest, Vegemite's a little bit more palatable. Really? I find it's a bit softer.

Really? Not as harsh. I like both, but at the moment we've got Vegemite. Marmite all day over Vegemite. Really? I don't get to eat either, but yeah. Well, then we'll put a jar of Marmite up on there. No, I don't want a jar. I don't want a jar. I want people. You can't do Vegemite. It's't get to eat either, but yeah. Well, then we'll put a jar of Marmite up on there. I don't want a jar.

You can't do Vegemite. It's Australian. Joe's put through Ed Hillary. $20 Karen. Is this a mistake message? Okay, Joe's come through and gone Ed Hillary. Great. Lisa Carrington. Great. John Olomou. Great. And Ben Boyce. Yeah, chuck him up there.

I'm like, you had me and then you lost me. Okay, 4487, 0800 the hits. What would you chuck up there on the New Zealand's Mount Rushmore? Could you put a jar of, I don't think you could put a jar of Marmite up there. I feel like it needs to be people. You could put up iconic things. Well, yeah, we've got the carrot and stuff like that, don't we?

Yeah. L&P bottle. That's already got a statue. Yeah. 0800 the hits. Can we only put four things up there? Four people. That's how got a statue Yeah Oh 800 of the hits Can we only put Four things up there Four people

That's how they worked In America But hey Four people Stick it to the American Carving format Yeah

Marmot Ridley From England There you go So yeah We can't do that Take Marmot off We have a different Label though

Why did I think It was ours Ridley from England Sanitarian Bought the rights To distribute In Australia And New Zealand back in the 1900s. First person you're chucking up on New Zealand's Mount Rushmore, who's it going to be? Hi, I reckon Footrock Flats with Murray Ball.

Oh, Murray Ball's a good one. You're thinking the dog character from Footrock Flats or Murray Ball? The dog character. I think everyone will be like, who's that? Oh, it's Murray Ball. And you'll be like, who's that? Oh, it's Murray Ball. I know what he looked like. Who's Murray Ball? Who's Murray Ball?

Oh! Then you'd be like, oh. It's a cartoon. Go love the cartoon. Oh, great for a flat. You're right. Dog would be a lot more sensible. Yeah, great, great suggestion.

Murray Ball, great though. Keep them coming through. No 800 The Hits. You can text as well, New Zealand's Breakfast, 4487. 640 on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking about if New Zealand had a Mount Rushmore, four iconic faces.

I know in America it's presidents, but we thought, why don't we see who would be there if we were going to do this mountain? Iconic Kiwis. Lots of calls, lots of texts coming through. Here's four on the Facebook page as well. Briscoe's Lady, Patrick Gower, Dave Dobbin, and the Blow on the Facebook page as well. Briscoe's Lady, Patrick Gower, Dave Dobbin and the Blow on the Pie Cop Guy. But again, you're great.

I love the Blow on the Pie Cop Guy, but you're looking at a mountain of a face carved. You're like, who is that guy? They have to be instantly recognisable, right? If they're going to be on the mountain. He once said to a guy, Blow on a Pie, you're like, oh. And how long did it take to carve his face?

Oh, it was about 12 years, actually. So you're going to commission this work, Ben? No, well, I don't know. I just think they're all great suggestions. You said Marmite before, so yeah. Well, Marmite's out of the mix. We found out it's from the UK. Originally, yeah.

Yeah. We kind of claimed it. It feels like we have kind of claimed it. What about Weet-Bix? Weet-Bix, yeah, were great. I love Weet-Bix as well. But again, a giant Weet-Bix poking out of the side of a hill. You're like, what is that? Yeah. Oh, that's a Weet-Bix as well. But again, a giant Weet-Bix poking out of the side of a hill. You're like, what is that?

Oh, that's a Weet-Bix. Someone text in the Buzzy Bee. It's a good option. Oh, the Buzzy Bee. Very iconic. Yeah. Carol with us on the phone. Carol, morning.

Billy T. James. Oh, yeah. What a treasure. National treasure. You'd have to move the yellow towel around, too. You'd have to carve all the yellow to the iconic yellow towel. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, Billy. And the jandals. Oh, now you want jandals as well. Check out some jandals. We didn't stipulate there had to be people. I probably threw the spanner in the works there. I was thinking just people, but, hey, we've now got Marmite and potential Marmite and jandals. Yeah, jandals are a great item to chuck out there.

Anyone, I would want to know, is there anyone from this era that you're like, you know, over the last 10, 15 years that deserves a spot on there? Because you naturally gravitate towards the older. Ed Hillary is the Kate Shepard. What about Peter Jackson? Oh, Peter Jackson, great. Michael Waititi.

Yeah, Dame Lisa Carrington had come up a couple of times, but our greatest ever Olympian, you know, Peter Jackson, great. Like a Waititi. Yeah, and Dame Lisa Carrington had come up a couple of times, but our greatest ever Olympian, you know, would have to be a contender for this huge waste of taxpayer money that we're not going to do. 4487, 0800 the hits. Who would you chuck up on there

on New Zealand's Mount Rushmore? Go and have a great day, Carol and Thames. Are you on the... Oh, I have a Hurricane Carol. I'm just driving home from work. great day, Carol in Thames. Are you on the hurricane, Carol? I'm just driving home from work. Do you work overnight? No, I go to

a gentleman's house at 6.30 every morning. And we will ask no further questions. You have a great day. Okay, you too. See ya. Thanks, Carol. Billy T's laugh We just loaded that This is iconic

Iconic I think Billy T Deserves a slide on there Great text here 4487 The Foursquare man Oh yeah Big thumbs up

You need a big thumbs up From the Foursquare man The inter-islander Splashing into the rocks Jacinda for locking up The whole country It's gone very well with Texas Sheen. Yeah, I was waiting for that.

The two sexiest radio hosts of the morning. I don't know who that was. I don't know who that would be. Fletch and Vaughn. You'd vouch for that, wouldn't you, Mia? It's debatable. Korg was the tightest character, I think, on the Marvel movies. Yeah, beautiful.

David Tua. Oh, that's a great suggestion. Someone also suggested broadcasting broadcasting legend, Paul Holmes. Paul Holmes, remember Holmes? He also had a song, Until You Release Lying in the Sand. Do you remember that? Oh my god, that's right. Holmes was a legend.

He was. He was a legend. He was radio broadcasting in an area where you'd walk in here with a ciggy dangling out of your mouth. You wouldn't leave the studio. You'd just fill it up with nicotine and cancer. So if he was on Mount Rush'd walk in here with a ciggy dangling out of your mouth, you wouldn't leave the studio. You'd just fill it up with nicotine and cancer. So if he was on Mount Rushmore, you'd want a ciggy just out. Just dangling out. Holmes in a ciggy.

This song's quite good. He's got a good voice. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. According to some of us, including this show, we're going to say we're in spring right now. But as I mentioned earlier this morning, spring arrived over the weekend with 90,000 lightning strikes in the North Island.

And some unsettled weather over the next couple of weeks as we slowly creep our way to summer. Spring's always a bit tumultuous. Yeah. And some of the lightning strikes are so loud, you as the elder statesman of the household, you need to hold your stuff together. Sometimes it's like, crack!

And you're like, woo! And they're like, is everything all right, Dad? No! Gives you a fright, right? It does, yeah. There's some loud ones over the weekend. But I've been spending the last four days at a basketball tournament.

It's been really fun, actually. You know, those times we're driving out to stuff and sometimes you can go, oh, I could be doing other stuff now. But actually, you really enjoy it times where you're driving out to stuff, and sometimes you can go, oh, I could be doing other stuff now. But actually, you really enjoy it, and you've got to appreciate it, because one day you won't be driving out there to sports games. So no, I've really

loved it. Oscar, my son, plays basketball. But then I've realised, I'm one of these people on the sideline. Not just on the sideline of the court, these are like, they've got grandstands where they're playing. So quite far removed from the actual court. But I'm sitting up there yelling advice down. Get the ball in the hoop.

Stop them from getting the ball in the hoop. Defend. I can tell everyone's like, yeah, well, that's the idea of the game. You know, and I'm just yelling advice. And then I asked him on the way home, I was like, can you hear what I'm saying? He's like, no. I can hear shoes squeaking.

I can hear basketballs bouncing. I can sometimes hear the crowd cheering, but not specific bits of it. And I'm like, who's this advice for? I'm just yelling out of my live commentary of the game to the people in the grandstands. Is it aggressive or supportive? No, it's supportive. Okay. But then sometimes you're like, ah! Okay, so it's a little bit aggressive. How's or supportive? No, it's supportive. Okay. But then sometimes

you're like, ah! Okay, so it's a little bit aggressive. How's that supportive? It's theatrical. Oh, right. Yeah, but then

halfway through a game I was like, this is a very redundant exercise. No one can hear me. But I guess when you, well, maybe on mass and sport,

you know, biggest sporting games as well, no one's going to hear specific things. This is the thing, people yelling out at a Warriors game or, you know, Silver Ferns. Collectively, you know, biggest sporting games as well. No one's going to hear specific things. This is the thing. People yelling out at a Warriors game or, you know, Silver Ferns.

But collectively, you can hear them. Oh, the good one is defense. That's a nice clear. Or do you start some charts or something? Parent charts. Risky. Oh, dude. Next time you're there, record it on your phone.

Please try and start a chart. I am 100% not going to do that. Because you think it would be more awkward than trying to start a chat. Come on, just stand up and go, defense. And then wave your arms like everyone's got. Oh, please. And then start a time after how quickly you sit down and chat. I might even bring a keyboard along.

Yeah, so I've stopped screaming advice to no one now. Have you been asked to leave? No. Oh, yeah. Try the chant. Do that, defense. Hey, next, someone's got some feedback on our show that we're going to hear.

They've only listened to the show once and they've got some constructive criticism. That's after Miles Smith stargazing. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits and Dilma, do try it. Giving you the chance to convert someone

to our radio show and you could win between the two of you $1,000. That's the Dilma challenge. We want you to do try it much like Dilma's famous catchphrase.

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It is. Proven to even lower your blood pressure. And the three pillars of this radio show as well, we also stand beside those. So if you'd like to nominate someone, the Hits.co.nz, which Nadia, Nadia Gibson has done this week.

Nadia, good morning. How are you today? You know, I'm good. Yeah? Our old mate Gibbo back at it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know, I have to spread that name around and see if it catches on. Have you warmed to Jono's nickname he's given you yet?

Yeah, I have, actually. I was telling my mum about him. She's right here, though, by the way. Oh, yeah. So just before we chat to her, how is she finding listening to our show on the hats? Well, I didn't get up at six. Six, because I'm not up that early listening to the show.

I get up a bit later. But when I Googled what time your show is and I told her, I was like, oh, it's from six to nine. You're going to have to get up really early. But, yeah, she can just listen to the podcast if she misses that morning. I heard it from six to 30. Oh, she only missed half an hour. How much of it – well, we can talk to her about what a burden

it's placing on her day. I had to turn the radio down just now. Oh, you're still listening Now Marianne what have you given the show This was day one of the show yesterday That you had to listen to Really good I've got lots of comments Lots of suggestions would you like to hear them

You love to Let's go a couple today a couple tomorrow I can't work with too many No you're good Only when you have your topics of discussion, I've got plenty to say, although I never ring in. Okay, well, now what do you want to say now? Because what did we cover off yesterday?

Oh, there was a Dear Megan. Someone had written in to Megan about their wife not wearing her wedding ring at work. Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah, no, absolutely. She should put her ring on and just, you know, she's married. Just wear it. Yeah, what's the point of being married?

Exactly. Good point. I agree. I totally agreed with you. What other topics did we cover off yesterday? I'm trying to remember. Oh, after 8 o'clock, it was the most amount of damage your kids had done? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I'd say that they sold my vintage cane pushchair at the side of the road when they said could they get rid of all their toys. And I said, yeah, go on then. And they threw all these toys into a vintage cane doll's pram and went out the front of the driveway. And somebody came along and said, I'll give you $20 for the whole lot. Pram and all.

Oh, no. She was $20 for the whole lot. Pram. Pram and all. Oh, no. She was so mad. I was mad. Does that constitute breakage? I have got the radio playing everywhere, even in the car this morning. Yeah, she's got a radio in her tool shed. She's got a radio in the spare room and a radio down by the deck area. She's covered.

Yeah, I'm covered. What are you making in the tool shed there Marianne? What isn't she making? I like repairing things. Do you? I like fixing things. She's a DIYer. Yeah, and I like making things but I've got to repair so much I never get the chance to do anything

new. She's meant to be slowing down after a stroke but she's not. Well, I love you too. You're amazing. Hey, well, we're going to catch up with you throughout the week. Thank you so much. Are there any work-ons for our show, Marianne, that you've listened to after day one? You're good, except that

you could let me know with good time now that I'm on to the Ed Sheeran thing. Can you kind of give us a bit of a way before he's coming on? Oh, I see. It's not their flaw. Oh, no, that's not yours. No, no, they do.

They are now. You want a heads up with the bounty artist? That's insider trading. Well, just keep listening, and now I've got my mum on to it, we'll have double the chances. All right, hey, well, we'll catch up with you guys soon. Have a lovely day.

Keep well. Thank you. Bye. If you want to nominate someone who doesn't listen to the show, you can head to thehits.co.nz. Next, the tricks of the trade. Yeah. What are we saying in radio regularly?

And it's a complete lie. It's a complete lie. We're going to come clean. All right. That's next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And, of course, the Paralympics are on at the moment in Paris. Some amazing, amazing performances going on.

And one of the athletes that's got a lot of attention over the last couple of days, she's 17 years old from India. Shetil Devi is her name. But she does archery with no arms. Incredible. With her feet, it's just amazing. And just so incredibly good at it. She's very accurate.

Yeah, very accurate. So, yeah, she's creating a lot of attention for how amazing she is. Sometimes you look at her and you're like, this is more impressive than the actual Olympics. Gripping the arch with her toes and pulling it back with her right leg. It's just, yeah, a really amazing feat as well. Put her on the bloody Cirque du Soleil circuit. Yeah.

This type of stuff you see in Cirque du Soleil. It's impressive. Yesterday we had a DM Megan Someone slid into your DMs Megan They were a bit concerned Their wife was going to work

Taking off her wedding ring Because she was in the role Of sales She reckoned It boosted her sales So It seems As though she's going to work

And like There's some flirting Happening or whatever And it was getting her More attention And more sales Those monthly targets through the roof. And she's not the only one. Have a listen.

Well, I had my diamond fall out of my wedding, so it was sent in for repairs. Right. And as I was calling on my clients, they would notice it, and it was like a total different person on the other side. I work predominantly in the mail industry. The sales came in

twice as much, even more than ever. I've been in a sales role before in a male-dominated industry and I think as long as you're um, this is going to sound a bit shallow, a good-looking woman with a bit of charisma and personality they don't really care about the wedding ring. Yeah, male-dominated

industries, eh? Not a good advert for male-dominated industries. Is radio a male dominated industries, eh? Not a good advert for male dominated industries. Is radio a male dominated industry? Jono. Split, mate. BS. 70-30. Sorry, I can't hear you underneath that glass ceiling of yours there, mate.

We're up here having a good time. Yeah, you're right, Megan. There could be a lot more females on there. And maybe in management. Maybe behind, yeah. Yeah, true. Maybe just all over. Yeah.

Thanks for bringing up work. You asked. I did ask. Didn't expect you'd get all salty about it, though. Have a laugh move on, mate. Give us a smile. Yeah, give us a smile, sweetheart. Anyway, tricks of your trade.

That's all we want to know this morning. Like taking a wedding ring off to boost sales. It's quite a clever ploy. If you just work, because I don't think this lady had planned on doing anything. She wasn't going to have an affair. No, and the husband said that too. He was like, I trust her. I don't think she's going to cheat, but made him feel uncomfortable.

So what are the tricks of the trade? Maybe in your industry, little things that you say, and they're not necessarily huge lies or anything, but just little things that help you get some sort of advantage in your line of work. Yeah, we always say, and I'm going to peel back the curtain again on the radio industry. He's really going doubling down.

Do you want a job in radio? Doubling down. You phone up sometimes and you say, hey, man, can you play us a brand new song from Mark Amble? And we're like, yeah, we'll get that on soon. Now, can I be honest, full transparency, I have no intention of getting it on soon. It's probably coming up, though.

It probably is. Mark Amble, he's very popular, so he probably is coming up. If they ever get a song on for you, it's because the song is coming up anyway. Sometimes, though, to be fair, there are request shows. There are. There are, yeah. There are request shows.

But in general rule, we don't have any control over the music. We don't. We can call. We can give Matt Anderson our boss's number. We can ask. We'll give a direct line, and he'll say I'll get that on soon or not. Yeah. So that's the thing.

You would make a request. Teddy Swims, play some Teddy Swims. We'll be like, hold there a sec. I'll just email our boss. He'll come. He might be in a meeting might come back it'll be 45 minutes later and we'll may or may not

get it on depending on when the last time Teddy Swims played I'll tell you what right now for you Jono do you want some Teddy Swims I'll get some more for you

yeah I'd love some Teddy Swims because it was coming up anyway right it was actually but I'll get that on for you Jono this one's going out to Jono little tricks of the trade though we want to know

on your industry are you in sales, car sales, whatever you're doing, a shop retail, what are tricks of your trade that you do every day? This one's for Jono, Teddy Swim's the floor. Oh thanks, play my song mate. You're welcome, The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and

Ben podcast. Talking about tricks of your trade, what you do to make the sale, get the customer across the line. Remember a few years ago we it was about eight years ago, I went and bought a car for my wife, and after the process, the back and forth negotiation, sitting in his office, hands behind the head, asserting full power dominance. This was the guy selling the cars. Power star.

Yeah, isn't it? Not you, not you. Not me. We had a boss who used to put his feet on the desk too. That was full power dominance, wasn't it? But yeah, he's searched on his hands behind the head and he's like, as we're just about to buy the car, he's like, why use your money when you can use ours?

And then he slid over a piece of paper for a wonderful loan that we could take from the car. Very high interest. High interest loan. But that's right. Why use your money when you can use it? Poetic. Yeah, and he was dead right.

And so we used his money. It was the hands behind the head. But tricks of your trade. Great text here from Richard4487. Obviously works in the baking game. What we do is we open all the windows in the shop to make it colder inside and then people buy more

pies. When it's cold they buy pie sales through the roof. Cheeky. That's genius. Now Grace, producer Grace in a former life you were a retail manager. Yes I was. You're playing all sorts of mind games with us aren't you? 100%. We had a similar one to Richard where we'd have the AC so cold in summer

when people would walk past, they'd feel it, and then just come in because it was so hot. And then from there, they'd look and then buy stuff. Oh, to get them in the store. That's a really good little trick, isn't it? I sold so much stuff that way. We were having it on like nine degrees or something. Yeah, it was freezing for us.

Yeah. Good for everyone else. And so what, like when someone's trying something on, you in your heart, you know that doesn't look good on them. Did you lie to people? No, I always said I would never lie. I would suggest other things. I could never do it.

I could never do it because that's just me. Were you told, like, you just tell them it looks bloody good on them and make that sale? Definitely. Were you? Yeah. I've walked out of a shop with a lot of stuff and I've got home and I'm like will they see something different to me that looks great on you you can always do that oh like maybe

buy it take it home and think about it you can always return it but people wouldn't have the effort to come back I always did that always suggesting returning so easy but people never would can you do you know if the mirrors and changing rooms are concave are slightly curved because sometimes you look and you're like, I look great. It's like a skinny day. Oh, really? And then you get home and you're like,

this looks different at home. I think it's a lighting thing. For us, we didn't have them. But I don't know. Maybe they do. Now, is it worth when we get to the counter trying to haggle you down? Oh, my God, no.

Do people try and haggle? Yes. And I can't do anything. It's the price but some places i'm going to say clothing stores some places do go i'll give you a bit i'll knock something off now yeah yeah now is that item already gonna be you know it's already on the books is being sold for that price is that the lowest price you can do yeah what i used to do it was if you spend a certain amount you could get money back so if you had a big transaction i would split

it split it into two transactions so you do the first transaction then i'd get you that money back to use on the second transaction you're very very nice i did it to everyone yeah you're a retail person with a heart for the conscience just so you could sleep at night uh some great texts coming through four four eight seven i always say when someone asks for a lower price, let me just go out the back and check with the manager. I go out the back, have a vape, come back and say, the manager said they'll knock it off. Look like you're really doing things there, eh?

So good. Thanks for all your calls and texts. We appreciate it. Next, your chance to win $1,000. We've got the Alpha Quiz next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits, $20,000 bounty. New target acquired.

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So when you hear L.A.B. between now and 4 0800 the hits. Thanks to The Good Home of course. I'm going through a bit of a rigmarole that I'd like your assistance on if you could.

At home we're trying to get our toddlers passports. One is three and one is one. So we've actually managed to do the three-year-old. Amazingly, I had a photo that they accepted. You know, you have to go and it's like, it needs to be this high.

Nothing in the background. They need to be facing directly at the camera. And you upload one and you're like, this is the one I've nailed. They're like, not compatible. So I actually, I managed to upload one and then I got the email like the next day being like, no, no.

No, no, no. Not okay. System does not accept. You'd appreciate this. So I found a picture of my one-year-old. It looked like it was going to pass, but it was busy in the background. So I used AI to clear the background. Oh, did you?

Yeah. I felt real clever. And they accepted it on the website. And then I got the message being like, it seems that this has been altered by artificial intelligence. I was like, oh, they know. I love our sound effects. Gossipy session, eh? They know.

I was thinking if it couldn't detect AI, that's a big flaw in the passport system. Yeah, it does. They do. So now I have to try and get a photo of my one-year-old, who is, this is not happening. They have to be face on. And if I manage to get her looking at the camera, it's chaotic. Everything has to be right, particularly at that age. It's so tricky.

It's almost worse just leaving them at home. Just like, you stay here. We can't get your passport. So, because last night you were just showing us, you had quite a good hack. So she was at her high chair. She was eating dinner. I was like, distracted, great. And so one of us was leaning over the dinner table to get her face on, and I was holding up a white board behind her

because the background has to be clear. Can't do it with AI. But I still haven't managed to get her direct facing the camera. Oh, it looked pretty good to me. But, hey, I'm not the New Zealand past. I'm not real me. That's what it is. Real me, yeah yeah i had to remember when andy was young uh my daughter um going into the chemist and we had to lie her down they put the sheet down you know the the gray background and

lay her down on the floor of the chemist and then stood over the top to try and get that done but that was a shambles like we would have like 20 minutes trying to get a look at the camera it would have been easier if they were like babies. Yeah. Because now it's just. The thing that always blows my balls is the passport thing. You have the photo as a baby. That lasts for five or six years.

Yeah. They can travel on that photo for. I know. I know. And they ask you their height. I was like, well, give it a couple of months and it'll be. They look nothing like the photo. You're right.

In a year or two, you're like. But my friend said to her, she was like, I covered myself in a white sheet and I sat my toddler on my knee and held onto them. So the white sheet, she was the white background behind. Oh, wait. She looks like she's having a photo with a KKK member. Are your parents in the Klan? That's my next option.

Wow. Look at my passport photo I took. Doesn't that look very like, what is this? Oh, that's not your part. Did you get arrested? No. That sounds like a mugshot. Do you have options to redo that again?

You've got hair, though. Yeah, no, it was back at a good time. Like I said, it lasts for years. But that was. Not much hair, but he's got a little disheveled, eh? You look like. I definitely look like I've been caught doing some

One of those articles You're like You'll believe what this guy's doing now Yeah yeah yeah And you're like Oh I vaguely remember the hymn I'm in a singlet too Oh god

Anyway Gotta accept it for real mate Oh god Can't say that for you You won't be allowed In any countries though Yeah Turning up looking like that

We'll put it on there The hits breakfast social media My passport photo And your favourable comments only Thank you The Hits The Jono and Ben podcast We want to track down

Brian Adams Canadian Rocker Superstar Coming to New Zealand In February next year Because he won The Hits best song ever

Summer of 69 Voted best song Now producer Taylor She wrapped up on Friday And so then you thought you would burden a young 22-year-old. 23! 23-year-old. Thank you, Ben.

I just know every time Johnny says 22, someone goes 23. How many times has he said 22? Gen Z, Producer Grace, to track down a man she's never heard of and three generations apart from. How are you going? First 24 hours down. Because we need to give him a certificate for winning the best song ever.

I'm actually feeling very confident. Spent all afternoon tracking him down, and I have a number for you guys to try. Oh. Okay, Brian Adams. Now, I'm looking at the number. It's a local number. Oh, okay. So it may not be.

Let's see how you may connect through to. Okay, well, let's call Brian Adams then. Brian Adams. Hello? Is that Brian Adams? Adams. Oh, we're after Brian Adams, you know. You're not Brian Brian Adams by chance?

Yeah, that's me. Oh, Brian! It's Jono, Ben and Megan here from the Hits Radio station. We're trying to track down Brian Adams' pop star because he won our best song ever and we want to tell him that he won the best song voted by the listeners, but this was the number we got given for Brian Adams.

Oh, that's hilarious. Unless this is Brian Adams doing a bang-up job of a Kiwi accent. Yeah, it is Brian Adams, mate. I'm just over from Canada for a little while. Currently sitting in Northcote Point.

What does Brian Evans do? What do you do? I look after a team of professional boxers out in Swanson called Peach Boxing. Oh, Peach Boxing. You guys have got a great boxing gym there. Yeah, we look after Miyamoto and Andre Mikhailovich. She's about to be on Celebrity Treasure Island, I see, as well, too.

Yeah, mate. Well, look, you're always welcome to pop out and hop into the ring with our friendly killer. Thank you, but no thank you. Now, Brian Evans, I'm very scared of you. Yeah. Well, apologies for interrupting your day. No, mate. Thank you so much.

It's all good. All right. Thanks, Brian. See you, buddy. See what you did there, Grace? See how we ended up with Brian Evans? I tried, guys. Okay, I'll keep going.

I will keep going. Okay, well, Brian Adams, maybe tomorrow this time on the show, but next, Megan, you want to talk about boring adulting you love. The things that get you jazzed. It's a little bit embarrassing what gets me excited. And, well, we're heading into the season for it as well. Yeah. It's next.

We'll find out in three minutes on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Megan, you were saying your old self. Well, you are your old self. You've made me self-conscious now because you were like, what would your youngest self say about what I'm about to talk about?

Did you just hear his little dig there? No. He said, you are your old self. Well, that's what my mates always say to me. They're like, you want to do this thing? I'm like, no, no. The old Ben would have. I'm like, I am the old Ben.

I'm the oldest. I'm the oldest version of Ben. That's right. Yeah, my younger self would cringe at this and probably call me a loser. But at this time of the year, it happened at the weekend, nothing gets me more jazzed than having washing on the washing line, drying in the sun i imagine you're very methodical too with your placement of all the garments you know oh yeah are you color coding

pegs they're all same color they're all that they're already all the same color right yeah you've only got a unified right yeah i do yeah unified peg system and big things on the outside smaller things on the inside wow like it's i have very methodical about the way i hang the washing there's a system there's a system but like when it's sunny your washing's on the line and there's a gentle breeze i just sit there staring at it being like this is good you're saying younger megan would call you a loser oh john is calling you a loser 42 years old forget about the washing and then it rains and you leave it out there oh god no

That happens all the time I judge people that do that Oh it happens Do you Then you have to Sometimes rewash it Or like leave it overnight Yeah

I'm like what are you doing Just get your washing in Oh but you forget though You forget And then it's not clean anymore It's all like dewy And like the name is Smoke

Life happens Yeah People have stuff to do Megan Yeah that's right But it's like my husband When the lawns are fresh Like when he's done them Not when I've done them like my husband, when the lawns are fresh, like when he's done them, not when I've done them. He loves a lawn, yep.

The lawns are freshly mowed. He would sit there and be like, yeah, that's good stuff. Oh, yeah. Amen. Crack a beer. Yeah. Beautiful. Even have one while you're doing the job, too.

That's one of those versatile ones, isn't it? I must admit, when it comes to adulting, vacuuming. Love it. Do you? Oh, yeah. Love it. I hate it. Even to the point where there has been occasions where I've, vacuuming. Love it. Do you? Oh, yeah. Love it. I hate it. Even to the point where there has been occasions

where I've started vacuuming the driveway because I like the sound of the stones going up the thing and I'm like, you look like a maniac. If any of the neighbours look at you right now, you're going to look insane. Stop vacuuming the driveway. So I had to pull myself out of that. Yeah, it was a bit weird.

Well, I'll do your washing. You come and do my vacuuming. So we're talking this morning about adulting things things that adulting chores that get you jazzed yeah

maybe boring things that get you tell you what I don't enjoy the process of putting on fresh sheets but I love it when you've got fresh sheets and when you've just

shaved your legs oh tell me girlfriend then you get in and it's like maybe I haven't shaved my legs but I could do you should try it yeah I will just for that just for that tell me girlfriend. Then you get in and it's like, oh boy. Maybe I haven't shaved my legs but I could do it.

You should try it. Oh, I will. Just for that. He's shaving his legs now. Just when I get fresh sheets. But going in the bed

with fresh sheets is a good feeling. Yeah, yeah. Honestly, shave them and blow your mind. God,

we sound fun. But we all have to do the job. Some of you appreciate more than others. Okay, 0800 the hits. What boring adult tasks do you others. Okay, 0800THEHITS. What boring adult task do you actually really love? Low-key love.

Give us a call. You can text too. 4487. Get a hold of New Zealand's breakfast. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The boring task that you actually really love doing and you're comfortable enough.

You're comfortable in your own skin to admit it publicly. Megan, you just... Well, I was until you took the piss out of me. But I not i'm not alone a lot of people no hard feelings in radio mate a lot of people you say on the text machine when people are coming at you they don't know when you're joking or not joking no they don't i said something the other day that really wound up you said you say for years you know it winds up people let's not go back there because if you tell me i'm like why yeah anyway sorry me Megan. No, I don't care. No, I was saying the adulting things that really get you jazzed for me,

it's getting washing on the line and watching it in the sun with a gentle breeze. I could sit there with a wine and watch that. Really gets me going. What is the one thing that you love? I must admit I do love cleaning a toilet. Once you're fully clean, you know, it's fully nice and you just, oh, oh, I do love that clean love. I must admit, I do love cleaning a toilet. Like the, once you're fully clean, you know, it's fully nice and,

you just, oh, oh, I do love that clean toilet. And you like vacuuming. Yeah, I do, do,

yeah, love it. So 800 of the hits, put your creed on the line today. What boring task do you love doing as an adult, Casey? Being cleaning the couch

and getting like a good before and after photo of it. Oh, you even do your before and after photography shots? Yeah. You've got to see the difference. I'm borrowing a Bissell, and if you know, you know.

What's a Bissell? I'm borrowing a Bissell this weekend, and I'm going to steam clean my couch and my rugs and stuff. I'm actually quite excited about it. It is. It's super exciting. Yeah, it is super exciting. Is that like rug doctoring? Is it, basically?

Yeah. Yeah. Although the old rug, did you Is that like rug doctoring? Is it, basically? Yeah. Yeah. Although the old rug, did you ever hide a rug doctor? Every time I use a rug doctor, I'm like, how much vomit and just university stuff has been sucked through this machine? You don't want to think too hard about a rug doctor. Does anyone clean the rug doctor? Yeah. Well, I imagine it would do, right?

All the things would go through. But I did remember reading the instructions, and it was like, all the things that could clean it had blood and i was like well jeez good to know though good day leanne how are you hello i'm good thanks how about yourself yeah we're doing well uh boring adult tasks you just love doing oh this is not boring water blasting oh my god it's so good is that your thing getting the, it's getting the dirt. You move into a new property and a lot of people didn't do it properly and you get the water blaster and you get all the crap off everything. It's satisfying, but then I get a little bit bored after, you know,

after like 10 minutes. Oh no, no, no, because you always find there's something else, there's something more. Yeah, that's when you start, it's everywhere. I'll admit, I've not done it myself, but I have watched people do it on social media. It's quite cathartic. They do like a time lapse of them waterblasting.

It's good stuff. And then you stand back and see those clean fences or I use the waterblaster on my horse float and just get all the crap out of there. And it's, oh. I can tell it's doing things to land. She's like, keep talking to me me keep talking water blaster to me uh but that's i'm with you ben i start with great gusto i'm like this is going to be great and it is great for about 30 minutes yeah let's take these sore hands

my husband has to tell me to stop he'll keep going for hire? Do you want to come over? Yeah, I'm right up for hire. Anytime. Good on you, Leanne. Really loves a water blast. You can keep doing the water blasting for another 32 minutes. We've got a mate of ours that loves flat packs. Loves the thing. He's like, anytime you want a flat pack, just give me a call.

I'm like, okay. No one loves a flat pack. He's like, just love it. Just love the process of putting it together. Does he do it by himself? Yeah. Yeah, don't do it with a partner. No. He's like, just love it. Just love the process of putting it together. Does he do it by himself? Yeah. Yeah, don't do it with a partner. No.

Not if you want to stay married. Great to know that someone likes doing that. Yeah. I don't think we've ever put, we put one thing together, which was our bed. And I was like, we did it without even, I listened. I listened. I followed instructions. Oh, wow.

Yeah, no arguments. It was probably the only time we've assembled a piece of furniture and the marriage didn't unravel. But great test here coming through. Love ironing. 4487. Very rewarding ironing. Mowing the lawns has come through multiple times. It's the ones where you can see the change. Like mowing the lawns or the water blasting.

We'll keep it coming through. 4487 on the text. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.