Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Can Matty McLean commit to the game?

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

ON THE SHOW: Megan's alarm just about ruins the Mariah Carey game! We hear your Parents worst food trends We talk to Jack Tame live from the USA! What have you made from scratch? We have Donald Trump (impersonator) on the show! Can Matty McLean commit to avoiding his favourite Christmas song? Ben's wife has a habit on their long walks See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Jono and Ben podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. On a Wednesday right now, we're playing a very fun game to play for Christmas. And Megan, you'll hear in a moment, we thought you got us out of the game. Yeah, it's a little sound on my phone. You thought I was playing you Mariah Carey. Terrifying. Yeah.

I honestly, when you were doing it, I was like, what are you doing? You actually went, oh. Yeah. I thought it was like an accident.

Yeah. Every time I hear it too, you play it a number of times throughout the show and you'll hear it in just a second. I'm just like, I'm still like, what are you doing? Stop. It's triggering.

And I'd like the song, but it's just, I'm trying to avoid the song and you'll hear why in a a second. I'm just like, I'm so like. What are you doing? Stop. It's triggering. And I like the song, but it's just I'm trying to avoid the song, and you'll hear why in a second if you're like, what are they talking about? But the rules are we're not trying to get each other out, eh? No. We're all trying to stay in this together. Not trying to sabotage. Although I feel, and I don't want to be that person to do that,

but I feel once one person gets out, then they'll start. Yeah. I feel like those things are there. But I'm trying to. I'm out. You're coming out with me. Yeah, I'm trying to think, well, maybe I'm trying to think. I'm out. You're coming out with me. Yeah, I'm trying to think. Well, maybe I won't, you know.

I'd like to think I won't do that, but maybe I'll be tempted. A game of hide and seek where you're like, well, I'm out. There's no point in me. Yeah, I see you. But yeah, it's a really fun game. You can get involved and we'll explain what's happening right now. Less than 50 days to go to Christmas. Yes, already the year.

It feels like it's already filling up fast. And we've got a little game that we decided to play because the malls and shops are starting to get into the Christmas spirit. So we thought we would see how long it is. We could avoid hearing Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas. Now, usually we'd play the hook of the song here,

the chorus, but we're not even doing that. We're avoiding it. So if you hear just a split second of the song, waiting rooms, malls, cars, other radio stations, whatever, you're out of the game. And you've just got to dob yourself in. You can text 4487. We started this Monday.

So if you have fallen victim to a Mariah Carey All I Want Is Christmas-ing, then text 4487. Let us talk to you. But you can start playing right now, even if you didn't start on Monday. That's okay. We're kind of making up the rules as we go along with to you. But you can start playing right now, even if you didn't start on Monday. That's okay. We're kind of making up the rules as we go along with the game. But it's a fun game.

You've just got to avoid it. And when you hear it, like Jono said, just let us know when you're out of the game. The idea is that we're working together and we're not trying to sabotage each other. But yesterday, Jono and I were both in the studio together. Ben, you'd gone somewhere. Right.

And suddenly I played... Toilet. I think you had explosive diarrhea. That's right. Yeah, that was yesterday. Yeah. And I played Jono something on my phone. This gave me... I wasard, I think you had explosive diarrhea. That's right. Yeah, that was yesterday, yeah. And I played Jono something on my phone. This gave me...

I was like, what are you doing? What? And it's not the song, though, but it's the first couple of... Oh, my goodness. I thought you just did it then, too. Exactly. I was like, what are you doing?

It's the alarm on my phone. Oh, I feel like they've got some copyright issues that Mariah Carey, she might want to talk about. So my alarm went off and I was like, oh God, hang on, no. That's exactly Mariah. Yeah. Wow. Okay, so we're not, we're still in the game. Jeez. Yeah, I know. A little bit squint.

Bits of you tighten up, don't they, every time you hear those first little two. Oh, that alarm does sound alarmingly like it. Is that what you wake up to every morning? Yeah. That's a sweet wake up. That's nice.

Does that give you a little bit of post-traumatic stress when you hear it? Yeah. Yeah, I hate hearing my alarm if someone's got that as a message. What's your alarm? It's a really obnoxious sort of thing. I switch between that and the birds tweeting. How do you test your alarm? How do I display it now?

How would I do that? You'd go to your alarm. Yeah, how did you just test your alarm? How do I display it now? How would I do that? You'd go to your alarm. Yeah, how did you just play your one? Are you using the sleep mode? No, it's an alarm mode. Okay, so just go to like edit your alarm. Is there an edit button? And then just turn it on now.

Yeah, just go to select the alarm sounds. Yeah, that one. It's just like talking my parents through stuff on the phone. There's a place to select what alarm you need. Oh, I say now I've got it. Oh, now it's not playing. I think I've just got just classic. Just classic of mine, I think, which is, yeah.

Anyway. Rippeting. Oh, that's me. That's me. Is that what you wake up to? Oh! Yeah, when you hear that, You just got it, yeah. And so anyone else that's got it as the message or anything like that,

you'll be like, oh, shuddering along to that one. Okay, so everyone's still in the game so far? Still in the game. No one heard Mariah Carey throughout yesterday? No, didn't put myself in any volatile situations either. Dave, I was in the mall and chemists and all sorts, but no, avoided that. You? I had to go to the supermarket the day before I sent my daughter in to get something.

I had to go in yesterday, but it was okay. It was okay yesterday. Yeah. You did send, you sent into you. Can you go to the supermarket and get some milk and bananas, please? Why? What? I'm just going to sit here because I don't want to hear Mariah Carey's All I Want for

Christmas. This is so random. It is random. Okay. It's what we're doing, but thank you. All right. Here we go. They were playing it. Were they playing it? It's what we're doing, but thank you. All right. Here we go. They were playing it.

Were they playing it? Yeah. They were? No, they weren't. Why? It's only been December yet. I know. Well, that's why I know.

Good gag from Indy there. It was a good gag. Actually, I didn't expect it, but she was like, why are you doing this game firstly? And secondly, it's November. I'm like, that's the point. We're just trying to avoid it. I need to teach those girls. You hand over your card so often

and they're always like just buying what you ask them to yeah if my dad gave me his card woo wee oh yeah tap and go nowadays

yeah no that's the thing and they've done a good thing I think I was telling you about the other day where they'll come back and they'll go oh like I was at the show

I was telling you and they were like bought some M&M's and they were like they were $20 I'm like $20 and I'm like what and they're like no it was $8 but don't you feel better now you only spent $8 I'm like well still that's quite expensive but yeah but I think you feel better instantly so

that's their little thing now the hits the Jono and Ben podcast go to our parents last night now John Pryor he's a very stoic old British Air Force man, my father. And jeez, he's stuck with the same love of foods from like pre, from the Cold War it feels like. Yeah, right. I phoned him last night and he's like, I'm having kippers on toe. Kippers. So kippers are fish, aren't they?

Fish, they come sort of squished in a can. And like some briny oil situation. So kind of sardine-y sort of thing, aren't they? It looks like they're trying to reenact a group photo when you open up the can. In like some briny oil situation. So kind of a sardine-y sort of thing. It looks like they're trying to reenact a group photo when you open up the can. But then he spreads them on toast. I've tried it because I had it many times as a kid because he would eat it regularly. It wasn't that bad.

Yeah, right. But I was like, geez, mate, there's been other foods. There's other meals have come forward. Wayne, your dad's the same. Yeah, it's like a comfort thing for him. He likes sardines on toast. Oh, yeah, John Boyle would do a sardine. Him and Wayne would have a massive feast.

Like, every time Mum goes away, he, like, eats these weird meals. Or he loves lambs fry. Is that liver? I think it is along those lines. Loves a bit of, like of liver, just pan fried. So when Ray Ray's out of the house, Wayne just gets, he's get free reign of the cuisine, does he? Yeah.

Well, your parents into like, and they probably got me into it as well, mince on toast. Yeah. Mince on toast is not too bad. But you'd have like a bolognese or whatever it is the next day, mum would be like, mince on toast? Sometimes at breakfast, which is a little confronting for me,

I was like Probably a lunch time Or a dinner thing Yeah It's not bad It's not bad It's just Yeah The poor Italians

We've taken their spag bowl And then we've made it Minced on toast 24 hours later I'm sorry We've really taken your cuisine And run with it there Italy So I went under the hits

This is what we want to open up Parent meals So when you were growing up The champagne dishes That your parents would cook up. Yeah, or just what they loved. I'll tell you something about next about my dad, what he loves. He'll have in the freezer. He still would have it in the freezer from about 30 years ago. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking about unusual things that your parents

like to enjoy. The foods that they like. A fruitcake for my dad. Just loves like a fruitcake that he'll keep in the freezer. Oh, it's a fruitcake. Get out and you're like, how old is this thing? Yeah, fruitcake really does stand the test. Cockroaches and fruitcake, the two things that will survive

a nuclear explosion. Just loves it. Does he have to thaw it out? Yeah, I don't know how that, yeah. But then he'll cut some off, thaw it out, and then put the rest away back in the freezer.

It's like a meal for cake. It is. Incredibly dense. It's got like alcohol and sugar, so it just survives forever. I can handle a slice of fruitcake, but I don't like it when they start contributing nuts to the recipe. Right. Oh, I love nutty ones. I knew you would be a nutty fruitcake person.

I knew it. Bit of nuts in there. I knew it. So 0800 the hits, 4487. The unusual meals that your parents like to enjoy. Kipper's on toast for John Pryor. Sardines on toast for Wayne. Wayne-o loves it.

You were talking about ham steaks to us just before. Oh, ham steaks. Do you remember those in the 90s? My mum would fry up a ham steak. Like not cutting it or putting it in. It's just like fried in a pan. Sometimes you'd get a pineapple ring on top. Ooh.

Yeah. It's feeling faint. What happened to the ham steak? I think we probably like learnt there was other meats. Yeah. But then we decided to start shaving the pig, didn't we? Oh, yeah. Well, because it's really salty when you have a chunk of ham steak.

It was like half an inch thick, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Those are great memories. Great times. James, morning were great memories, great times. James, morning to you. Your parent meals that take you back. Ah, morena, boys.

Morena. Canned corned beef, bruschetti, and a bread and butter salad. Canned corned beef, that, another John Prider favourite, the corned beef. Did you say bread and butter salad? Yeah, yeah, yeah, bread and butter. That's my way of eating something, just calling it a salad. Oh, okay. A salad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bread and butter. That's my way of eating something that's called a salad. Oh, okay.

A salad. I like the way you get it. That's a great idea. Just say something's a salad even when it's not. It's a burger. What are you eating? A salad.

McDonald's salad. McDonald's salad. It identifies as a salad. That's great. Hey, James, we've got some Gladiator 2 tickets we're giving away this week. Some of our favourite calls. We're going to hook you up, all right? Massive boy, thank you.

Enjoy. That looks really good. Sue, you're on. You're loud. There's a lot of noise coming to you, Sue. Good morning, good morning. How are you, Sue? What's your parent meal to take you back?

So my dad loves tripe. Tripe. And mum would cook it up under duress and the rest of us could not even go in the kitchen. It was that smelly and we just couldn't go there. It's like stomach lining. Yeah, I'm just Googling it. I mean, if you've got a queasy stomach, then maybe you don't want to hear this.

Tripe is the type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals, mostly cattle, pigs, and sheep. And you're making it some sort of dessert. Is it a dessert, or have I got that wrong? No, you're thinking trifle. Oh, trifle. No tripe in trifle.

It's a little bit different. No, she'd cook it up in a pan with milk and things like that on the stove, and its smell would just permeate, and it was awful. He'd also like things like black pudding and liver and bacon and things like that on the stove and that smell would just permeate and it was awful he'd also liked things like black pudding and um liver and bacon and things and we could stand that and actually but it was okay and quite good for you but the tripe was just said no old school i'm happy that we're using all of the bits yeah i just want to eat all of them all of your favorite stomachs of the cast of Old Macdonald's Farm. Yeah, impressive, Sue. Could have been too bad for you because he lived to 88.

Oh, yeah. There you go. Might be something in it. Might be something. Hey, Sue, good on you. Well, there wouldn't be all the chemicals that we're devouring nowadays. Now, Jackson will take one more, shall we? Your parent meals, Jackson.

What takes you back? Daddy so far, mince with cream. Mince and cream? Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, and what would

he eat that with? He'd just have it on its own. Okay. Just mince, put a little

bit of cream in there. It's an unusual combination, isn't it? Yeah, I'm trying to think of...

The whole thing would be covered with cream. Wow, did you just grab the first two things you saw in the fridge? Yeah.

No, I think it was like one of his faves. Yeah, true. He ate it quite a bit. Okay. Oh, that would be unusual. Mince and cream. Megan would like you to try that tonight and report back tomorrow. Oh, yeah.

Well, maybe your dad was the pioneer of what would eventually become mince and cheese. Oh, true. Started with mince and cheese. Oh, true. What's that beef casserole that you put sour cream with? Oh, yes. That's, I guess. There might be something in it. There might be something in it, you're right. I mean, put sour cream on nachos.

Yeah, I mean, lasagna's cheesy. I mean, but you're right, we're judging. We should know who are we to judge. She's on to something, yeah. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just can't avoid the American election. It's the biggest news story in the world right now. Trump, Harris, one of them will be president by all accounts at some stage over this week.

And from One News, TVNZ, Jack Tame is with us in America. Howdy, Jack. How are you doing, guys? We're doing all right. Now, whereabouts are you right now? I am standing outside Howard University, Washington, D.C. This is Kamala Harris's alma mater, and it's where she's going to be having her election night party tonight. I say party, but I've been at these things before when they have not been celebrations, so we will have to

wait and see how things turn out. A bit different from the New Zealand general election. We're usually standing outside the RSA in Te Ao Muru. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Massively different vibe. I would say that one observation I have, and this is really profound, is that there's probably a slightly higher level of security here. I mean, I haven't done all of the numbers,

but the Secret Service is blocked off about five square kilometres and you've got every possible bulletproof vest and sniper set up and all that kind of thing as they wait for her to appear. So what are the odds of you giving her a congratulatory or commiseration? Zero. Zero odds. I'm not even going to let you finish the question. Okay, so what are we thinking? Because everyone says it's very, very close.

Any indication of which way it's going to go i okay this is my fourth one of these right and um the polls have never been closer than they are right now and i think anyone who can speak with confidence is just like bsing you like i just don't think anyone can really have any confidence at the moment what i would say and i think this is really interesting is that there's a huge gender split right now. So women massively favour Kamala Harris, men massively favour Donald Trump, and that split is bigger than it's ever been in modern US elections.

Now, who's more likely to vote? Women or men? I reckon women are more likely to vote. Even though Donald Trump often defies conventional political wisdom, I would look at those numbers and say maybe that bodes well for Kamala Harris. But honestly, it's a coin flip.

Have you asked any of the politicians the big questions? You know, the price of a block of cheese. I notice they don't cover that in the... They do that in New Zealand. How much are you paying for a cage of your Colby? What I'll do is, if I do get a question to Kamala Harris, even if she's just either been confirmed as winning

the presidency or losing it, the first question I'll ask is, what do you think of New Zealand? That's the question we want to know. That's the answer we want to know. Every celebrity ever. Because it was interesting. I went and visited family a couple of months ago in America and just talking to the people on the street, because obviously we see a lot of Trump over here and we see his gaffes and we see what the outrageous things he says.

But talking to a few people and not everyone, but some of them were like, my bank accounts were better when Trump was in, I had more money, petrol was cheaper. That's the way a lot of them felt on the ground, which made me go, oh.

I also think it's very easy for us to ridicule Donald Trump and like to parody him and stuff. And obviously he says some pretty outrageous things. He's not what you would describe as a conventional politician. But, you know, I was speaking to a friend the other day, super well-educated, who's a Donald Trump supporter, and I was like, what is it? And he's like, Donald Trump didn't start any wars. Honestly, the world was a more peaceful place when Donald Trump was in charge, maybe because he was a little

bit unpredictable, and so other countries didn't want to try anything on. Yeah, and I was like, well, honestly, yeah, that's true. The world probably had slightly less conflict when Donald Trump was in charge. What's worse, a politician starting conflict or one that's like going and hanging out with Vladimir Putin? I don't know. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of picky poison on that front, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, it's funny. Like for voters here, this is one of the big questions.

Like to what extent does an individual's character matter when they're running for president? Because I think heaps of Trump supporters would say like, yeah, I don't love that he's friendly with Vladimir Putin. Yeah, I don't love that he's been married three times. He's got all of these accusations. I don't like that he's a convicted felon. However, I actually liked his leadership. And maybe the fact that he has, you know, probably 70, 75 million people voting for him tells us that the way they've been doing things for decades here actually isn't working for people. Maybe there is something kind of deeper in that.

I've got Jack Tame with us live from Washington, D.C. That felt flash saying that, didn't it? Yeah. Washington, D.C. I don't know if you guys have heard of it. US Capitol. It's good. It's good.

Now, what's the most American thing you've seen while you've been over there? Like a bald eagle in a leather stars and stripes vest riding a Harley or something? Yeah, good question. No, it's probably a meal. My cameraman yesterday had a Philly cheesesteak, which is because we're in Philadelphia last night for Kamala Harris's last rally. And that is like bowel cancer for lunch. You know what I mean?

It's so... Look at it. I don't know lunch you know what I mean it's like it's so like look at it and you're like I don't know if you should eat that man like I feel like that's gonna take like three

months off your life in ten minutes you know Jack thank you so much for your time we really do appreciate it all the best over

there when were you expecting a winner Jack? New Zealand time honestly like in three days oh really could take could take I mean that's what how long it took last time it was Sunday morning our winner, Jack? New Zealand time? Honestly, like in three days. Oh, really?

Could take. I mean, that's how long it took last time. It was Sunday morning, our time. Wouldn't surprise me if it took that long this time as well. Say Kamala wins, what do you think Trump's reaction's going to be? I think he's immediately going to suggest that the election was rigged and stolen, and you're going to have tens of millions

of people who think it was, and I think it's going to be a disaster. Oh, OK. That's something to be a disaster. Oh, okay. That's something to look forward to. That is. On that cheery note, lovely to talk to you. We appreciate your time. Thanks so much, man. All good.

Take care, guys. It's Jack Tame. The US election will be taking place about four o'clock New Zealand time. I think we'll get some results through it. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Megan loves to make things from scratch. I like to cook. You really go one extra step. and Ben podcast. Now, Megan loves to make things from scratch. I don't like cooking,

but you really go one extra step. It's really, I keep telling you, it's not that difficult. It feels like it's a lot more work. Especially the one that you're about to make

fun of me of is really not that difficult. We should give you history, though. You make homemade pasta. Does your pasta taste any better than my wadi's spaghetti and sausages?

It tastes so good. Does it? Homemade pasta. Time-wise, how much labour are you putting into homemade pasta? Oh, the pasta's a lot. And I use dried pasta as well. It's just if I'm feeling like it or if I have people over, I'd make some pasta. I get it.

But now you're making what? Yoghurt. Oh, Jesus. You know who else is making yoghurt? Fresh and fruity. They're doing a great job of it. So what I tried to do was make coconut yogurt

because you know that that's so expensive in the supermarket. And I was like, I'm sure I can do this myself. It's so, Jono, stop rolling your eyes. It's so easy.

Coconut cream in a can. Yeah. Chuck in two scoops of yogurt that you've had. Oh, so you're using other yogurt to make babies for new yoghurt. Yeah. It's got the prebiotics or whatever,

the bacteria, I don't know, whatever it is in it. Chuck two tablespoons of that in and put some sugar or whatever you want to flavour it. Put it in a little warm bath for 12 hours and you've got coconut yoghurt. Now, here's my issue. Why is the yoghurt taking up the use of the bath for 12 hours?

Hey, kids. Sorry, you can't have a bath tonight. The yoghurt's making a bath. How long for, mummy? the use of the bath. Hey, kids, sorry you can't have a bath tonight. The yogurt's making a bath. How long for, mummy? I'm covered in filth. No, just give the yogurt 12 l. It's a 12-l bath. No, it's not going in the bath.

It's going in a bath, like a little warm. Oh, okay. So you can put it in a little bath. Take up the entire bath. No, because the bacteria needs the warmth to grow or whatever, I think. I do remember my dad speaking of making things in the bath for a while. He was like, I'm going I do remember my dad, speaking of making things in the bath, for a while he was like, I'm going to brew my own beer. Oh, God.

In the bath. And so we had to clean all the bottles. Like, you're going to help me. I'm like, am I? I couldn't drink any of the beer. But I was like cleaning the bottles in the bath and all sorts and then made beer and put it in the garage. I think some exploded.

Some he ended up drinking. And I remember him tasting it. It was a big moment He was like Yeah Yeah You can tell he was like Not as good as the stuff

I'd just buy from the shop And all that work Had gone into it I have met people Since they brew their own beer And theirs is incredible But for him I think First try

He's like I could just whip down To get a dozen From Super Liquor or something Sure it's a long road To brewing your first batch Heineken are probably Doing a bang-up job

or Corona and things like that. So this is, yeah, we'll check this open, shall we? Oh, 800, that's 4487. What are you making from scratch?

Doesn't necessarily have to be food or beverage. It doesn't necessarily have to be any good either. No. You tried to make it and you were like, no, never again.

Now you're making your own bloody Wi-Fi with tinfoil, a golf club and a can-do attitude. Yeah, you could do anything these days. That coconut yogurt

is legit though. Was it good? Yeah. Did you hear her food the other day? So she makes this overnight oats and she's like, oh,

it's been sitting in the fridge for three days. I opened it and it went, literally went, now generally, when I'm eating, I don't like my food

to be making sound effects. Yeah. It fizzed. Hey, but I was fine. I ate it and I'm fine I don't like my food To be making sound effects Yeah It fizzed Hey but I was fine I ate it And I'm fine Imagine that's what Like when the astronauts

Come back from space And they open up the capsule Like yeah There we go That's what it sounded like In the studio Alright I'll add to the hits

4487 What are you making From scratch As Megan said It doesn't have to be any good But we'd love to hear What you're spending your time on The hits The Jono and Ben podcast 100th of the Hits, 4487. What are you making from scratch? As Megan said, it doesn't have to be any good, but we'd love to hear what you're spending your time on. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Megan, well, you can share what you're doing from scratch amongst many things. Mate, I've just made coconut yogurt from scratch, but it was like really easy. Add little two scoops of whatever yogurt you're rocking at the moment that's got the bugs in it, and then you put it with a can of coconut cream. Give it a little milk bath. I mean, a the bugs in it and then you put it with a can of coconut cream give it a little milk bath i mean a hot water bath and then you've got yogurt we we used to have a yogurt maker um you can put it in there yeah a little cylinder thing i think one year when i was writing ads they had a just an abundance of them at work they're like take a

whole lot like take heaps and so it was that manner and my wife and i was the yogurt christmas we gave all the family yogurt makers i don't think any of them used it. Oh, the yogurt Christmas of 2002. The memories. We gave everyone a yogurt maker because we got them free from work. Did they all open them together? Yeah, we were like, hey, we thought this would be a great idea for you. I didn't have a lot.

We didn't have a lot of money. Everyone's like, oh, yeah, I guess. I guess we could make our own yogurt. Did you make your own yogurt with it oh like a couple of times made little pottles it was okay it was

okay yeah but yeah like I said stick with it yo play fresh and fruity even anchor these guys have done a bang up job of producing yogurt over

the years that's cool I must get some sort of sick joy out of like just making it myself you would have been good in the colonial days wouldn't you yeah you would have been fantastic even with your top myself. You would have been good in the colonial days, wouldn't you?

Yeah. You would have been fantastic. Even with your top on today, you would have been good. I literally was like, I wonder how long it's going to take. About an hour and a half, two hours, before Zoe makes a joke about my doily top. It's a nice colonial top.

I just made that from scratch as well, too. This morning, got up early. From my mum's doilies. What time does your shift at Motet start? All right, let's go to the phones. What are you making from scratch? Good morning, Jo. Hello, how are you?

We're doing well, mate. How are you going? Yeah, not too bad, eh? Oh, yeah? I'm better than I was. What happened, Jo? Hospital, I had an operation. What sort of operation, Jo? Yeah, do I need to tell you where?

No, you don't. No, we're not trying into her details. We're not asking what you made. At least you did your operation from scratch. That's all we want to know. Yeah, I made muesli once, and I put lots of seeds in, flax seeds. I thought, oh, yeah, I'll put them in. Lots of seeds and stuff. It made me sick, eh?

It's not why you ended up in hospital, was it? It made me sick too much. It made me sick as hell. I gave it to my mum. Did she stomach it okay? No, she stomached it okay. Oh, Jo, overdosed on the seeds in the muesli, eh, mate? Yeah. Jo, we love your call.

We're going to hook you up to Gladiator 2. It's the new movie and cinema is November 14, so enjoy that. Say that again? We're going to give you some movie tickets to Gladiator 2. Oh, that would be awesome. Enjoy. Have a great day. There's heaps of Gladiator 2. Oh, that'll be awesome. Enjoy. Have a great day. There's heaps of great text coming through.

Yeah, great text coming through. I make my own rum on 4487. I've currently got a 200 litre barrel aging. Wow. That feels like it would take up a lot of garage space. Two years now. Two years now. Two years it's been aging.

Yeah. I pickle everything from scratch. Onions, pickles, etc. That's about it. Just like that, to be fair. Onions, pickles, yep. Everything from scratch. That's great.

I was reading an article about a guy in the Czech Republic. You were just talking about the Czech Republic. Yeah. Built his own plane from scratch. Who's getting in that? He is, daily. 24 minutes was his commute to work at the local... Oh, right. So he made driving. Who's getting in that? He is daily. 24 minutes was his commute to work at the local. Oh, right.

So he made a plane. Made a plane and he shaved seven minutes off his commute time. Does it look like a plane? Yeah, it looks like a plane. Does it look like a plane you'd get into? No. He lands on the road and then just picks it up and rolls it into the work car park. Seven minutes a day, it's saving him.

What? It only cost him four grand. Really? The cops are not like no one's pulled, has he got a licence? I reckon they're fast and loose with their laws in the Czech Republic, aren't they? The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Talking about what you make from scratch.

Megan attempting yoghurt from scratch. I still think it's super easy and you should try it. It doesn't sound overly complicated. No, and most of the things, you always tease me for this, most of the things I'm making are pretty easy. It's just I find it fun. And who are we to mock your fun? Well, we're two hosts on a radio show that work with you

that just try and get a bit of content out of you. That cottage cheese bread, you liked it, didn't you? Yeah, it did. Yeah, it was nice. You make bread out of cottage cheese, Jono. I think you were away. Bread out of cottage cheese? Yeah, I wouldn. Yeah, it was nice. You make bread out of cottage cheese, Jono. I think you were away. Yeah. Bread out of cottage cheese? Yeah, I wouldn't have known it was made out of cottage cheese.

It's very dense and seedy, but it was nice. It's a workout for your jaw. It was really nice. I do like it when some people are like, you give me three days, some flour, salt and water, and I will give you something you could buy for $2 in the supermarket. But I guess it's the satisfaction. The process.

Yeah, the journey. Now, we've got Marco with us on the phone. We're talking about what you've made from scratch. This is an incredible story that you've text in, Marco, so I'm dying to know more. What was it? It was a Heimlich valve to close off a hole, to make a valve and a hole in the chest so that the

lung doesn't collapse. So you've done this on the spot. In what scenario are you having to make a Heimlich valve from scratch? Well, early morning, I just started work. I was a motorcycle medic in Bangkok, and we got a call for a shooting and a guy being shot in the chest three times, some gang-related activity. And when I got there, we could see that he was having difficulty breathing. So I had a valve, a proper valve on me and I put it on, but it didn't seem to work. So the other two holes, you seal off completely.

So I unsealed one of them and made, because I couldn't reuse the old valve, and I closed off the old valve and made one out of duct tape and a piece of semi-rigid plastic so that air could come out but not back in again, and that would reinflate the lung in theory. To do this on the spot, obviously you've had extensive training, but what is it like? You saved this person's life, I'm gathering?

Well, it's debatable whether it saved his life or not, but, yeah, it certainly helped him, and he survived, so yeah. What is it like saving a life? What is that feeling? Surreal, I imagine. When you're working, it's just part of the job, and yeah, you feel good. So yeah, it's, yeah, yeah, of course,

it feels good, yeah. Mark is just like, it's all in a day's work. Is it like when I talk right up until when the singing starts in a song? You're like, yeah. Yeah, that feels good. Yeah, no. I guess it's when you make so much cooking that making yoghurt's just a normal thing. Yeah, like when Megan makes nice yoghurt.

You really put my coconut yoghurt to shame. Mark, you might not appreciate this, but Ben, you show them what it's like. This is life or death as well. You do it. Oh, when I'm like talking up here and I'm like, it's, you know, it's on the hits. Oh, yeah, she's not talking. I screwed it up there, guys. Let's go.

And then I'd stop talking now. My girl is bang. Oh, hit the post. There we go. Yeah, not quite the same as your cool story, actually. It's all I got in my job. Hey, thank you so much for your cool, Marco. That's an incredible tale.

You're welcome. You have a good day. A load of good text coming through too for what people are making from scratch. I make my own ricotta cheese. Wow. Oh, it's Daniella, our friend from the Quest Hotel in Tauranga. Italian.

She's making ricotta. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. She's making ricotta. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Very hard to avoid at the US election. It's going on today. It's the biggest news story in the world. Will it be Trump? Will it be Harris?

We'll find out. Some of the results come through later in the day and potentially across the next couple of days we find out who the next president's going to be in America. And obviously this show we strive for the best. We tried to get Harris and Trump on the program. Quite busy. Politely declined the request.

So then we went to tear below and got the best impersonators. We reached out to them. Unfortunately, Harris, again, politely declined our request. But the world's number one leading Donald Trump impersonator, John D. Domenchio, he said, hey, yeah, I'll do it. We talked to him. He's the guy that makes a living dressing up and making fun of Donald Trump. It does a bang-up impression of him.

Yeah, and how you get... He gets in quite deep, doesn't he? Like, it's like we're almost talking to the real Donald Trump, but it's not. It's not. Remember? It's not. Here we go. Some comedy jokes.

Okay, here's John. How you going? Well, I'm absolutely fantastic. I'm going to win. It's going to be incredible. This is it. Now, thank you so much for taking time. I imagine it's a pretty busy day today for you. Well, it's incredibly busy because I'm so fantastic. It's really gonna be amazing, I have to tell you. I'm doing so many amazing things, but you know, the problem is they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs. That's what I heard.

They're eating the geese too, but I don't mind them because they poop all over my golf courses. So you can have a geese buffet. What happens though if you don't win? Like, what happens? Well, that won't happen because if it doesn't happen, that means they're cheating. That means they're cheating.

We're going to stop the steal. Stop the steal. I want certain places to stop counting and other places to keep counting. That's what we're going to do. Where do you think you're doing the best at the moment? Donald? Say that one more time. Say that one more time.

Your accent is fine. I wish you people spoke English. It would be so fantastic. I have to translate everything you say. Everything you say. By the way, I just want to say I love, love, love New Zealand. I love New Zealand. I love anything new. I love anything new.

I love anything new. If you were just Zealand, I probably wouldn't be on the radio with you right now. I was asking, where do they love you the most? Oh, in America, they love me. Well, they hate me in New York, but they love me. They hate me in California, but they love me. But, of course, they love me in the flyover states because the Democrats ignore the flyover states. I go to Iowa.

I go to Iowa. I go to Kansas. I go to all the places where there's twisters. I love tornadoes and mobile homes. It's really incredible. Now, is Melania ready for another four years? Yes, she signed the prenup. She says she's in. She says she's in.

She says she's in. I get one kiss a year and one conjugal visit if I go to prison. If you win, are you going to say you're fired to Joe Biden? Is that something that's on your list? Oh, Joe Biden. Oh, come on, man. Oh, what are you talking about? Can you believe this guy's president?

Can you believe this guy's president? He fought in the War of 1812. It's unbelievable. He is so old, his memories are in black and white. Some people say that about you. They can't believe you were president. Are you kidding me? My memories are in vivid color.

I went to promos. Come on, they love me. We did The Apprentice. We did The Apprentice, the number one reality show in the history of television. Greatest ratings ever. We had like a plus 100. We had a plus 100. Now, Kamala, are you worried?

No. Why would I be worried about her? What does she have going for her? She's an attorney. She was a district attorney. She was a prosecuting attorney. She was the DA of San Francisco. And she was the attorney general of the state of California.

She was a U.S. Senator. And she was Vice President. Other than that, she's done nothing. The merchandise. Now, no one has been a merch to you. Oh, the merchandise. Let's duck merch. No one knows merch the way I know merch.

I practically invented merch. No one was doing merch before I did merch. Try to find a Richard Nixon hat or a Reagan hat or anything. I really redid merch. Listen, the list is so long, but let's go. We got the hats. Make America Great Again hats, obviously, but for

this campaign, I changed it, as you know. It's Make America Great Again Again. So the new hats are MAGA GAGA. MAGA GAGA. Changed it, as you know. As you know. It's make America great again, again. So the new hats are MAGA GAGA. MAGA GAGA. Look at the MAGA GAGA hat. I know how busy you are.

We really appreciate your time. Actually, I'm not that busy. I've got nothing to do but campaign. I call it campaigning and complaining. I call it campaigning. Thank you, guys. It was an absolute pleasure, and it's going to be huge. We're going to have a Trump slide if we can get my people to vote five and six times.

We're handing out mustaches, fake teeth, sunglasses, Biden hats. We got it all. We got it covered. That is John D. Domenico, the world's number one Trump impersonator. He's got his inflections and everything just bang on, right? He has nailed it. No one will be happier that Trump's back in the news than John. I'm back, baby.

I'm back. The Hits, the John and Ben podcast. Less than 50 days to go to Christmas. It already feels like the end of the year. Someone was saying yesterday, already the emails are starting to come through about, let's circle back and deal with this in the new year. Oh, wow.

Circling back already, are we? 6th of November. It feels like it's way too soon for that, right? But have your weekends just filled up? Suddenly, just everything's filling up with stuff. It does get pretty busy, yeah. A couple who had been at the races yesterday and they were having a conversation in the petrol station

and they're like, well, there we go. We've done the races. This is the official time we check out. They check out. They check out. They've got social stuff now. Don't expect much from them productivity-wise in the office. And then New Zealand, we really do check out. I was talking to someone who's from Scotland who comes to New Zealand

who's living up with my mum. She's like, what happens? New Zealand just shuts down. For like weeks. It's like you can't get a warrant. You can't get anything. It's like, what is this country? It's just like.

It's summer. Leave me alone. We do just turn off New Zealand, don't we? Yeah, we'll deal with that in a couple of weeks. A couple of weeks. Especially in America because it's winter, so they just do Christmas and then they're back at it. No, stop.

Yeah. We'll circle back to you late Jan there, America. I know. We really are. We'll have a circle back. I know. But this is a Christmas game that everyone can play. You can play right now. You can play right now.

You can start right now. You've just got to try and avoid Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas. So not listening to it. And if you get caught out, if you go somewhere and it's playing, you are out of the game. When everyone's out of the game, we can officially play the song and we can start Christmas. We love the song, but it's just a fun little game.

It's the most iconic song, so we thought it would be the hardest to avoid. We need to clarify, too. We're not spreading hateful, anti-Christmas hate speech here. We love the song. We want to play the song. You won't find anyone that fizzes Christmas more than me. It's just like a little fun game to play. It is.

But it becomes very difficult over time. It's like when you bump into someone you know at the supermarket, and you're like, God, I hope I don't see them again for the remainder of my shop. It's like avoiding that scenario. You know, inevitably it's probably going to catch up with you maybe in the frozen section or something. So, Janay's phone through. You're already out of the game, Janay. Yes, I am, mate.

I'm out. What happened? Talk us through it. I was scrolling through TikTok yesterday afternoon. And the next minute I scrolled up and there was Mariah Carey all I wanted. TikTok got you. That's the thing.

There's no warning, is there, on TikTok or Instagram? Suddenly it's there. I was doom scrolling last night too. I feel like that's going to trap me. I'm going to get caught on that one. I really feel like it's going to happen. Well, you're out of the game. I'm sorry.

It might not be long until we're all out of the game though. It's all good, mate. It's all good. It's all good. He's like, I'll live. Life will go on. Yeah, true. There's some things to get worried about.

Yeah, okay. You're right. You're right. Good on you, Janai. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kate, you're out of the game. I am out of the game. Blimmin' TikTok got me too yesterday.

I feel like that's how I'm going to get out of the game too. Just scrolling and you don't, you're not getting any warning. It's just going to pop up, right? Totally was no warning at all. I was like, damn. Yeah, the talk got you hard again, Janaye. We spoke to him just moments ago too. He was a victim of the talk as well.

So I appreciate your honesty. And as soon as we're out of the game and also Maddie and PJ in the afternoon here on the hits, we'll start officially playing the song on the station. But shall we circle back around in January on that one, Kate? Sounds like a plan. Good luck, guys. May the force be with you. Thanks, Kate.

Thank you. Stay strong. Kia kaha. Kia kaha. Kia kaha. Now, Matty McLean joins us. A bit sweaty. Have we got a sweaty hue on, do we, Matty, fresh off a workout? Yeah, look, you know me, guys.

I just shift and turn day in, day out. Is it leg day today? What are we working on? Pecs, tris? What's going on? Yeah, we're doing the lats. Oh, the lats. You just ran a bloody marathon a couple of days ago, didn't you?

Look, we're not here to talk about my Herculean efforts. Yeah, we're here to shoot, okay? Let's all agree. Matty's physique, outstanding. But you're a huge fan of Mariah Carey, and PJ signed you up to this game without any of your knowledge. Yeah, I was away for one day, and now I find out, first of all, that I can't listen to my favorite Christmas song.

I have to steer clear of Mariah in general, which is very, very hard for a gay man to do. And I'm obsessed with Christmas. It's like a triple whammy. It's so cruel. Well, no, you can just play the song and you're out and then you can enjoy it. But I know how competitive. I've seen you on Celebrity Treasure Island

and shows like that. You're very competitive. And this is the thing, because that was my first instinct, was bugger it, I'm just going to put myself out on day one so that I can embrace Mariah the way she's meant to be embraced this time of year.

But my competitive spirit, I think, will win out in the end because I hate, hate to lose. Yeah, I know. It's a conflict. Now, Mariah, I'm just looking through. She's got some bangers, doesn't she? I'm taking a risk here.

Taking a risk here. Maddie McLean, some jamming hits. But I won't be playing all I want for Christmas. Can I tell you, for about five years, Always Be My Baby was my alarm. It was what I woke up to. Oh, was it?

Do you hate it now? No, I love it. No, I love it. It got me in such a good mood. Every day I woke up to blissful meetings. You're like, ah, Mariah. It's a nice song to start the day with. It is. It was even in the brutal breakfast hours of TV, you were still waking up to blissful Megan. You're like, oh, Mariah. It's a nice song to start the day with. It is.

It was even in the brutal breakfast hours of TV. You were still waking up to that? Yeah, I truly was. It really put me in such a good mood to start the day. I'm lying, of course. Well, Matty, okay, you're deep in the game once we're all out. You and Peej and the three of us will start officially playing the song on the station. But good luck.

No lying, Maddie. Bring it on. Bring it on. Someone's just texted in, 4487, saying, I work in retail and I still haven't heard it. Plan on going for as long as possible. The Mariah Carey Christmas game will continue. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Played this audio last week. Hugh Grant was promoting a movie. You just have a look at the trailer for it. It looks really good. Heretic. He's like a creepy dude and he invites two younger girls into his house, but he sets up like a maze they have to get out of the house.

This is Hugh Grant. It's like a psychological thriller. He's got that cheekiness about him, but he's creepy as well. Is it a fun game or is it more a... No, they don't look like they're having fun. He does. He looks like he's having a great time. Well, he's not having a great time in real life,

I don't think so. Because Hugh Grant has really slipped into his grumpy old man era and I'm all about it because he's quite funny. Have a listen to this. One enormous pet peeve that's all I do, I walk around the streets peeving. I don't like people walking slowly. I don't like people with backpacks. I don't like people with backpacks.

I don't like people with backpacks on their front. I don't like people with backpacks and water bottles. I don't like water bottles. What's the whole water bottle thing? Why do my children have to go to school with a water bottle? They have to cart water across London. What's wrong with a drinking fountain? I mean, don't get me started.

Or I don't like leaf blowers, roadworks with no people working on them. And then you just keep going. And then you just keep going. I think he's still talking about things that wind him up. Why is that so endearing? I know. You've been endearing about even his grumpiness.

You're right. But when it comes to walking, I'm a big fan of walking. My family, you ask my family, they get frustrated because I'm like, it's just a 2K walk. And they're like, it's a 2K walk. I'm like, I'll make them walk everywhere. Even when we were on the Never Have You Ever tour, I was like, okay, so I'd find a restaurant and Ben would be like, ah, it's 15 minutes walk.

It was walk. It was walk. I feel like we sit down a lot of the day, so I'm like, any chance I get to walk, I'm all about it. It's half an hour out of my evening just to get there and back. But I'm like Hugh Grant. You never want to arrive at dinner sweaty, do you? No.

And your shoes look wildly different than my shoes. Yeah, I guess so. But I get frustrated where other people, like Hugh Grant, slow me down when I'm walking. Now, I walk the dog. It's a big bugbear of mine as well. The rest of the family

are like, oh, he's too big. He can't do it. I've got stuff on. So I have to walk the dog. You get home late at night. Is anyone walking the dog? No.

So I'm with the dog. I'm like, go do it. I've got half an hour for 40 minutes. I'm walking the dog. But the dog, being the dog, it's like he's got to pee

97 times. He wants to sniff this thing he wants and i get it it's his time out of the house but i'm like mate we're on a walk he stops when he's had enough and i'm like we're still okay away from home carry him home megan coming back from the restaurant i'm not walking anymore so i was like get frustrated and i always talk about that to the family about my frustration about how the dog's slow and i just want to walk and they're like yeah whatever they don't really care but then in the weekend my wife was like shall we go on a walk should we go out on like and go on an actual there was a few tracks and

sort of you know little bushwalk things that she wanted yeah and i was like that sounds great and i was thinking this is great we haven't got the dog we're not allowed to take the dog to the cereal like we're just going to keep going. But my wife, she's a teacher. And every sign that you come along, it could be talking about the coyote trees. It could be talking about bunkers from World War II. She doesn't read the dog signs, does she? She's a sign reader. And I'm like, oh, my God.

She's like, isn't this fascinating? This is a bunker from the war. I'm like, God, I just want to walk. This is an old cupboard. Every word she's reading, she's taking photos for school because she wants to talk. Oh, good on her. I'm like, the volcanic soil here is, I'm like, I don't care. Keep walking.

It's like, this is our walking time. I always wondered who stops and reads all the days. She does. That's so great someone does. I know. No one else does. She does and 85-year-olds do as well. People who just need to fill in valuable minutes in their day.

Yeah, so I'm with Hugh Grant now. Let's just walk. If we've got to walk, let's walk. Maybe on the street too you need like a slow lane, fast lane, and a Ben Boyce lane, which is just get stuff done. Just keep going. Just keep going. Not stopping.