Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Do We Finally Nail Our Trick?

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: How Netflix narked on my ex boyfriend! Jono and his loose lips... Info dump relationship HACK! Best excuse to being late. Consentino Reassures us ahead of the trick this weekend! Mariah Carey doesn't baliee in bills? Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John O'Bend podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. Hey, welcome to the podcast on a Wednesday morning. You look, what were you reading there as you were introing? You had your eyes on something there. What were you having a look at? Oh, just an email from our boss. Our boss, there's lots to do. I was looking at that too. It said high importance. Oh.

Yeah. Three. Yeah. I don't like it when they put the importance level on emails. Gets the anxiety going. High importance for you is not as high on my importance. What's the gauge? Yeah, you're right. We got a message from one of the kids' teachers at primary school.

It was like, this is concerning or whatever, you know, because Messina had taken some time off to do some filming stuff. I was like, concerning for who? It's not concerning for me. I'm the parent. And I allocated the time off because she was filming some stuff. I'm not concerned at all.

I thought it was great for her future. Have you concerned this on you? It's on you, yeah. You're right. It's all about how it's... They're like a weird boss, like teachers that you deal with. Yeah, I think a lot of it

they have to they have to you know all through the Ministry of Education and stuff yeah they have to have concern

they probably to be honest they probably go home and slam back a bottle of salve and forget about life it's probably the same email and they're like dear Ben

dear Mary this is concerning anyway podcast I hope you enjoyed the show and we'll be getting concerned about stuff. Now, Netflix. I'd say most households around the country would have Netflix.

It seems like they got in first. A lot of people have it and continue to have it. And it's provided great entertainment. I'm not taking that away from it, but it's a bit of a narc. It's a bit of a narc. Is it tracking you? Well, no, this is the thing. And it was actually, it played into my benefit last night

because I've got the standard Netflix as many people have. So you can watch two screens at the same, you can watch, two people can watch the thing at the same time on the same log. And so my daughters have been doing their musical theatre stuff quite late nights and we're like, hey, it's time. You guys need to get to bed, get an early night. Both of them went to bed.

I said goodnight to them and then I went to the bedroom and I like to watch something on TV to go to, you know, and I started to watch, watching Sprint. Wait, so you watch TV in bed?

Yeah. But you can't have a cup of tea in bed? No, I don't like a cup of tea. I don't like food and stuff like that. He's just like, that's putting him in Cliff Richard's age demo. Yeah, yeah.

Come and see him bed. No, my wife tries to do that. I'm like, no, no, that's not. I love it. Mind you, I got us a double pass to Cliff Richard next year. Yeah, it'll be great. So I'm watching at the moment that Sprint,

the second series of Sprint, which is really, really good. So I started watching that, and then all of a sudden it stopped. Netflix stopped. I was like, oh, this is weird. And then it went too many devices. So it came on my screen. Too many devices watching at the same time. It is gnarking.

And then it went through, and it named the show gossip girl indie in brackets ipad and then sienna prison break sienna in brackets laptop i'm like oh and this is all happening in real time real time by the way two people watching it then it's like if you want to upgrade for seven dollars more a month or you can have four screens going or you can go and rinse your daughters. Yeah, and I was like, oh, I'm going to go rinse the daughters. I always found it dodgy that it told you what it was because when I used to share my family's one,

it used to be like, your brother is watching this, and you're like, is he? Yeah, that's what I thought. Or your parents are watching this, and you're like, oh. It's dark in there, and I'm like, hey, we're watching something in there. What? No. Gossip girl on the iPad, eh?

Prison Break on the laptop. Thank you, Netflix. To season four, episode three, I see. That's an interesting little thing. I hadn't had that before. Especially, I paid the bill. Why did it throw me off? Anyway, I felt like I was first on there.

But anyway, it threw me off for some reason. But then you got upset with your extended family mooching off the account too, didn't you? They used to have my account details. They don't anymore. But they'd be watching it. And you couldn't get on. I'd be like, hey guys, I want to watch something. They're like, oh, we're halfway through a movie.

I'm like, so pay for Netflix. But anyway, we've sorted that out now. So just be careful. Netflix is a narc. Yeah. So, yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben, you were just mentioning just before 8 o'clock,

Netflix narced on your daughters last night who were sneakily watching some shows in their bedroom. It told me because I was trying to watch the show as well and it kicked me off. Yeah, you're right though. But the person, you. You've got the credit card. I feel like I was the first on there.

But anyway, it was like, they were trying to upgrade me. $7 more, you can upgrade to what? You should be able to register the Prime account. Yeah. So you're like, I pay the bills on the Prime account. I can never be kicked off. Everyone else. Someone else just texted her as well.

Yeah. Now, Kelly, morning to you. You had a Netflix password issue. I did. What happened? I couldn't remember it, and I got a new laptop. And I was like, oh, I'll just reset the password. It's easy.

So I reset the password. I got in. I started watching something, and then a couple hours later, I got a text message from an ex-boyfriend from three years prior, and all it said was, oh, I guess I have to pay for my own Netflix now. Three years he'd been mooching off it. Yeah. It had been logged into his TV from when we'd been living together,

and we obviously went our own ways. And I never logged out of it because I didn't think of it, and it was before the Netflix multi-screen thing happened. And he'd just been watching Netflix and, of course, tried to log in, couldn't get in, and went, oh. Great. Hey, three years, great run from him. Yeah, good run.

There was never anything like continue watching some show that you'd never watched? No, and it didn't sort of really dawn on me that he was watching things, and if it was in the list, it wasn't that I wasn't paying attention, it was just I never thought someone else was watching. No, you'd think once the relationship ended, he would have logged out of that TV. But no, no, he was still logged into you. Also, you wouldn't say anything.

You don't text them three years later and be like, no. Very funny. I'd got married by then. I'm pretty sure I had a new partner and I got married. And then that happened. What the hell? Well, I appreciate your call, Kelly. You were on my bloody hotspot for about nine years.

Yeah, kept logging into the hotspot. On my personal hotspot. Okay, well, I don't know if it was nine years, but it kept coming up. You're like, oh, okay. When you're on the other side of the fire pipe, it often just would connect automatically. And then I'd be like, oh, yeah, I am too. Oh, well. Sure.

Would you like to connect to Jono's podcast? Yes, please. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's going to be muggy in the next couple of days right around the country. Bit of a heat wave coming over from Australia. 31 degrees in Marlborough today.

31. That'll be good for the vineyards. I don't know. We're there on Friday. Do you know the funny thing I learned about vineyards is there's an old wives' tale that they plant rose bushes,

one rose bush at the end of the row of vines. Right. And that can tell if there's any diseases in the soil. Because the roses will start to wilt. And then they bang onto the vines.

But then the guy I was driving with, he's like, nah, people still do it, but it's not. There's science involved now. Now, yesterday, unintentionally unloaded a secret. I think I witnessed this Sensitive What kind of secret?

Any information You pass to Jono He will say To someone at some stage He will And I know that Every time someone I'll tell you a secret

I'm like This is going to end up Somewhere on the radio Talking to someone I always give you secrets And I'm like Jono Oh you can't

Unless you want to What did you unload? What was the one You told me?, you can't. You can't. Unless you want to. What did you unload? What was the one you told me? There's something about someone. I can't even remember it now. It's obviously not meant for the radio. But he'll tell it.

He'll tell it to someone. There's a sensitive bit of information about a celebrity which I was not allowed to tell. And I haven't. Maybe not. To no one? No one.

Anyway, so I'm talking to this guy yesterday. Okay, and I'm talking away and when in light banter mode, you think, okay, what's a connection I'm talking to this guy yesterday. Okay, and I'm talking away. When in light banter mode, you think, okay, what's a connection I can make with this gentleman? And I'm like, oh, I heard a story about him. Sensitive business information, not like scandalous personal stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, hey, I heard blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah, blah. And then as I'm halfway through this, I can see a look in this man's eye of like, how does he know this information? Yeah, it was kind of almost like an announcement, a thing that could happen. And for some reason, Jono knows it. So someone's obviously said something to you. But why? Why should you know this thing?

I'm just the type of guy people want to say stuff to. What if you overheard a Zoom around or something? And then he volleys back with, where did you hear that from? And that's not the first thing you want to hear back when you say a piece. I'm like, I'm just trying to start a conversation here. And then I was like, oh, I can't remember where I heard that from.

I can remember. I know where I heard it from. But I'm not going to say where I heard it from. And then so he did tell me, he did the thing on the nose. You know when you tap your finger on the nose? It's like a secret. He's like, yeah, it's happening, buddy.

But let's not say any more about it. So he swore me to secrecy. I'm sure the first person probably swore me to secrecy too. I didn't think that you were going to go straight to the person and give all the deets. My loose lips tell you what, they have sunk some shit. I was actually back on the Titanic back in the day. Went to the captain. I was like, hey, that guy Leo down there, he's told me about climate change. Apparently there's no icebergs.

Keep ploughing on, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I wanted to know if this was something particularly probably Ben would do. It's something that me and my husband started doing every single day, and then we've named it now. So we often end up being like ships in the night. So he finishes

work at 3.30, and then every day at 3.30, he calls me as he finishes work at 3 30 and then every day at 3 30 he calls me as he drives to the gym and we do what we now call our info dump oh yeah so because then when he comes home from the gym tonight i'm leaving again to go to a function so we don't like see each other a lot so it's a five powerful five minute phone call of information 15 15 and it's like right you start the info dump with what you've got today. This is the key points that happen. These are things I've got coming up.

And then he'll go, right, my turn. He dumps what he did for the day and then what he needs to tell me in terms of information with the kids or like anything. And then he's like, I'm finished my info dump.

Right, good. Sounds like an executive board meeting you're running here. Because then you don't bog up, like say if you get free time later, once the kids are gone to bed and you get like an hour Because then you don't bog up, like say if you get free time later, once the kids are gone to bed and you get like an hour before I have to go to sleep, it's not bogged

down with your info dump. Yeah. And it can be like fun times. You wouldn't info dump, you'd have a spreadsheet. I do, to be honest, it's embarrassing to say that I have a little whiteboard. Do you? And because I don't see my wife, I can't call her during the day because she works at school, she can't take phone calls. And there's so many things throughout the day I'm like, I need to talk to her about this, I need to talk to her about this because I'd like to say I don't see my wife I can't call her during the day because she works at school she can't take phone calls

and there's so many things throughout the day I'm like I need to talk to her about this I need to talk to her about this because I can't just go yeah yeah yeah it's all these decisions

that could be wrong so yeah at the end of the day I'm like hey I just need 10 minutes just to go through that's your info dump just 10 minutes

and just go through this list on this whiteboard and just go you do the info dump yeah without calling it the info dump I love it usually it's me

just coming with the list. I think she's well capable, but, you know. You just write it down in preparation. Yeah, but I do. Yeah, that too, with a little whiteboard. Because I don't usually talk to her until like once a day. I'm like, all right, here we go. This is what I need some answers for.

That's quite sad when you break it down like that, eh? You're like, I don't usually talk to her. Well, because I can't. I can't. She's working. Ships in the night sometimes. Marriage. You just talk about administration. Do you do an info dump? No, I don't usually talk to her. Well, because I can't. I can't. She's working. Ships in the night sometimes. Marriage, you just talk about administration. Do you do an info dump?

No, I do like to dump information about AI on people. You do your info dump on strangers. Yeah. Throughout the day. Throughout the day. I was watching this docker on AI and I was like, you should be worried. It knows some stuff.

But yeah, I mean, that's a lovely thing you do, isn't it? Yeah. No other time you can do it. And that's the same time every single day I get a phone call, 3.30, once he finishes. I'm like, all right, here we go. John Aiken, who's the, you know, married at first sight, the expert with relationships.

Oh God. No, he would always talk about, he does with his wife, he'd have a glass of wine every night and that's when they would kind of connect and talk about stuff. But somehow it's pretty hard to try that in the car but it's probably

not going to work. As he goes to the gym yeah it's probably not going to work. Don't have like more than four or five glasses of wine as things start getting a bit finger pointy Hey what other thing are you doing? There's more on my list than yours The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's a TikTok going

around that's left a lot of Kiwis stunned. In America, someone talking about how much annual leave they have to people on the street. Here in New Zealand, everyone, as we know, we're heading into the holidays. People get like four weeks annual leave is sort of the standard, plus 12 public holidays throughout the year. Well, in America, there's no law around holidays, and it's up to the employer as well. And so one person was saying 15 days was what they had, and they were saying that's the most they've heard of in their business.

Other people got zero. Zero. They work hard over there, don't they? Not a single day of annual leave to them in their whole contract, which is incredible. So what happens if they need or they want to go on holiday? They just do it without pay. Yeah, which is pretty.

We spoke to a guy who'd never had a day off. Remember? The guy I used to talk to every week. He's just like, we'll just work through. It's just the culture over there. We've got it bloody good here, eh?

Yeah, well, you look at that. Four weeks plus 12 days of public holidays as well. We're not even getting, we're very lucky to get 15 days. That's the most. And then shut down over Christmas. And then we start moaning

about the gap between Easter and Labor Week. Yeah, I know. Come on, New Zealand. We've got Matariki now. Yeah, true. Queen's birthday. We chatted that one earlier. King's birthday.

Now, yesterday, and I appreciated this, that I was running late for an appointment for a meeting, and I messaged the person and I said, sorry, mate, I'm 10 minutes late. It's a standard one. 10 minutes buys you 20. Everyone knows it. Everyone knows it.

Now, the problem was the person I was meeting also knew someone at the building. They're like, oh, that's funny because I was just off the phone to someone who you work with and they said you've just left the building. Now, by my estimation, I've just looked at Google Maps, it says you're 23 minutes away from here. So got called out. Oh.

Because the 10-minute one, listen, we all know 10 minutes, when someone says I'm running 10 late, everyone knows in that social transaction, nothing's to be true. Yeah. It's 20, 25 minutes. It does go like that. It has been. It's only like a five-minute late.

It's never five minutes, right? Yeah, you're right. Five minutes is 10 minutes. Just park in the car. Five minutes, just always has been. It's always like a five minute late. It's never five minutes, right? Five minutes is 10 minutes. Just park in the car. Five minutes, just two minutes away. Does five buy you 10, 10 buy you 20? Two buys you five, I reckon, at least. Two minutes. I said that to my daughter the other day.

I was like, just text and say I'm two minutes away. She's like, well, we're not. I'm like, yeah, I know. It sounds better. It makes you believe that you're not as late as you actually are. She's like Well it'll be five minutes I'm like yeah

Let's just say two minutes Why can't you just say five minutes I don't know Just was like Hey two minutes away Well we're close We were close I reckon even

Jesus was like Hey guys Sorry running ten late To help you carry that cross up the hill I reckon he was doing it Back then as well He probably had more Of an excuse than you

Yeah So anyway I did appreciate The Google Maps too Once Sat Navs bought into it as well You can't argue that No an excuse than you. Yeah. So anyway, I did appreciate the Google Maps too. Sat Navs bought into it as well. You can't argue that. No, you're right. But then I was like, I was very late. 23 minutes late is very late for an appointment. So this is what we want

to open up. Is there one great excuse? What's the best excuse you've heard for someone being late? Well, I used to be an employer because I used to have a cafe. So we had a lot of people like always calling sick in the weekends. And my favorite was after they'd literally gone out the night before, they had food poisoning the next day.

I was like, I don't think that's the reason why you're vomiting. Did you get a lot of food poisoning cases? A lot of food poisoning on a Sunday morning. What can you do? You just have to be like, well, okay. Either way, you're vomiting and you can't come in. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Chris Johnson was in the country yesterday, the former British PM. to be like, well, okay. Either way, you're vomiting and you can't come in. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

Boris Johnson was in the country yesterday, the former British PM. I think he was actually in the building that we work in. Was he? Yeah, there was some security around before, apparently, we were talking about Boris Johnson coming in. I noticed, I was just reading before,

how he said he spent his day doing a bit of swimming in Mission Bay in Auckland, which I probably should have told him. Did no one tell him you don't swim there because of the poos. Contaminated water. But anyway, that's how he spent his day as well. And looking as dishevelled as ever, I see. Have you seen his head? It looks more rustled up his head than when he was

Prime Minister of Britain. Is that gel? Like, is that purposeful? No, I think he just wakes up and he's like, that'll do. Yeah, and then he's good to go. Yeah, rustles it around. 10 minutes late, I said I was yesterday. I got called out for it.

Someone looked on Google Maps like, no, no, it says you're 23 minutes late. The travel time between point A and point B. And I thought that wonderful excuse of just running 10 late, everyone knows. They're going to be a bit later than 10 and everyone's accepted it over the years. I used to work with Guy Williams for many years, and he would always name a particular street, a busy road. He was like, just on this road. No matter where he was, how far away he was, he'd always say it.

The text would just come through. Sorry, guys, just on this street. You're like, but that's nowhere near where we are. Sometimes it was close, sometimes it's further away. But we're meant to read it and then go, oh, he'll be 12 minutes away. I guess that's a good way to go in transit. Yeah. Yeah, and moving.

We've got Anon joining us on the phone right now. Anon, birth name, or you want to remain anonymous? I'd rather not say my name just in case it works for me. Fair enough. The best excuse that you've used or it's been used on you, what was it? I used it. I went out on a night out and i usually start work at 4 a.m and i kind of was just like it was too late it was 2 a.m i was

too still too drunk so i wasn't able to drive and then i got home then i walked out to go get ready for work and someone had hit a car in front of me that looked exactly like mine. So I took a photo and I sent it and so my car got hit and I can't come in. That's really great. That's clever. That is really great. Was it you driving the car that hit the other car? No, it was already someone had backed into the door and had dented in and I was like, well, that's my excuse for today

and I managed to get work off for four days to get it fixed. Four days? Dream result. I can't climb in the passenger seat? No, no. Well, it's just what I wanted to hear. I appreciate your call. Thank you so much.

You got on your mate. Tyrone, good morning. How's it? How are you, buddy? Lovely to have you on. I would love to have you on, and it's lovely to have you on. Both of those things. Best excuse you've heard, Tyrone?

Grommets falling out. From an adult? Growing-ass man. Growing-ass man. So what happened? He was late and turned up to work, and asked where he'd been and why he was late, and he said his grommets fell out and he couldn't hear his alarm. Well, except when your grommets fall out as soon as you like turn 10 or something.

Yeah, pretty young, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'd say so. So I sort of set him up a little bit because we were in a cow shed. So he was like right in my face pretending he couldn't hear what I was saying. He was committed to the role. He was committed to it. So I walked out of the shed and I was about, I was committed to the roll. He was committed to it. So I walked out of the shed and I was about, I don't know,

50 metres from him, I suppose, at the gate. And I said, bro, I'm just going to go change the gate. And he goes, yeah, bro. I hear that. You hear it right there. Oh, that's good. It's a one and done with the grommet excuse, isn't it? You can't pull that out for a second time. We rolled with it, though.

We didn't say anything to him. Oh, good on you, Tyrone. Appreciate your time, mate. You're going to have a great day. Good as God, mate. You too. Cheers. Wouldn't it be cool to learn a party trick for the, you know, for these next couple of weeks? Be able to perform at a party. And now

it's really got carried away, has it? We're now performing something in a magic show this weekend with Constantino. Sold out magic show. If you'd like to go along, actually, we've got a few tickets. Magic to 4487. Because I was just saying it would be nice if we could have some hits listeners. Because I realise that people going to his show are not necessarily going to know what we're doing there. No.

Or care. No, we're like, boo to the opening act. No one wants to see the opening act today. You guys suck. So he's going to bring us on at some stage amongst his amazing show. And he's taught us a trick. It's a card trick. It involves a blindfold, a knife, and us trying to get the card that someone will select.

Now, so far, we have not nailed it. No. And it's been a week and a half. And we keep saying, hey, we must practice that. And then we never get around to practicing it. But yesterday, we were like, no, no, we must practice it because we've had multiple failures. Even with the Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, who was trying to make us feel better about it afterwards. He was like, oh, it's okay.

You got it on the third go. So yesterday, we pulled in Maddy, who works out in the HITS office, and it's a three-prong attack. Megan, you started off, don't you? Just quickly explain what you do. So basically they pick a card from the deck that I'm holding and they remember their card and show it to everyone and then I shuffle the cards and pass them to Jono. Right, and then I then spread the cards around the desk.

Ben's blindfolded the whole time. He removes his blindfold. I hand Ben a knife, and the knife, full of the magic powers that Cosentino bestowed upon it. That knife yesterday was magic, because, yeah. It just felt like it was drawn to one particular card. The magic vegetable knife. And this is what happened.

Is this your card, Matty Langlois? It is! Yes! We know this! Yes! We did it! Yes! Magic! Magic this! We magicked it!

Oh my God, I wasn't sure it was your card. That feels real good. No, I swear. Were you blown away? So blown away. I was not expecting you guys to do that. To be honest, not at all. I wasn't either.

I'm more surprised than Maddie. Now, I'm going to get a little team talk here. Maddie's great. It feels like one of those things where they get microphones in your face outside a theatre show. She's like, oh, it's blowing away. It was like one of those great moments. I reckon on the day we just need to chill a little bit with the reveal. We were surprised.

Because we need to be like, yeah, no, we can't be like, what? We can't be blown away by the magic. You know, we're doing the magic. Also, can I just say something? So Maddie was engrossed in the trick, right? But there was also other people in the studio. Yeah. can't be like what we can't be blown away by the magic you know we're doing the magic also can i just say something so maddie was engrossed in the trick right but there was also other people in the studio yeah watching and the other people watching were like oh i know how you did it i saw what johnno did yeah yeah larissa larissa works for the office yeah you're right larissa was like oh i see that but they're what's up with that but we're like get out get out she was trying to launch a

bloody royal commission of Inquiry. Larissa, and you were shooing her out of the room like a cat, the neighbour's cat that's got under your kitchen. Shoo, shoo, shoo. No questions. No questions. If you are coming to the show on Saturday, text MAGIC to 4487. What's the trick?

Be amazed. No follow-up questions. Okay? That's the deal. That's the only deal as well. And I'll try and be a bit more chilled about it. Sorry, I get quite excited. I mean, it's great when we nail it,

but let's just keep that internally. We can celebrate backstage if we nail it. Yeah, okay, great. Because you don't see like, you know, Constantino Dynamo, David Blaine go, oh, but what, what, what? Yeah, normally it's the audience, not them. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Fourth of December, not too long till Christmas, just over 20 days. It's the holiday season. We wanted to learn a party trick to impress people over the upcoming parties. We're going to do a magic trick live on stage this weekend. Yeah, a Constantino show. If you'd like to go along to any of the shows he's touring around the country, Magic to 4487 is the text. We just want to know, has anyone like us, have you been dragged up on stage to any show?

It doesn't necessarily have to be a magic one. Dan, good morning. Good morning. How are we? We're good. Now, did you get dragged up on stage, did you? I did. I went to a hypnotist show.

Yeah. And I got pulled out of the crowd. There's 11 other people. We all rode up and sat down in chairs. He did his whole spell and started, you know, clicking his fingers and said, sleep. And everyone around me started, you know, dropping their heads and falling asleep.

So I was like, what's going on? And I had to act it out. So, yeah, I pretended to be hypnotized. And that's nice of you. You don't want to ruin the illusion for the poor hypnotist. Yeah, yeah, I pretended to be hypnotized. And that's nice of you. You don't want to ruin the illusion for the poor hypnotist. Yeah, yeah, exactly. But these guys, they were. They were going around like chickens and dancing.

And, you know, we had to dance with each other and all sorts of things. And I just had to act it out until halftime. And, yeah, at halftime, he comes over and he starts clicking his fingers and yeah he goes okay okay well played good on ya. Yeah just left me sitting there. Oh so he knew that you were putting it on? Yeah he knew. Well you're like mate I was trying to help you. I didn't want to. You look like less of a hypnotist. It was very embarrassing. Well, I know you would have been hyper aware of having to act like everyone else was.

Yeah, I was. I was sort of sitting there with my head tilted, looking sideways, trying to see what they were all doing. Some people are just not hypnotizable though, right? Surely the hypnotist knows that, right? Yeah. If anything, you should go, hey, thanks, mate. You did me a bloody solid, yeah.

Good on you, Dan. Appreciate your time. Have a good one. Cheers. Have a good one. Nikki, good morning. Good morning. You were dragged up on stage.

Worst nightmare stuff or you actually enjoy that? Actually, it was quite revolting, to be honest. Oh, really? Then we understand this is a magician. So what happened? Okay, so I literally got dragged up on stage and pretty much came down, dragged me up on stage. So I had no idea what I was supposed to be doing. And then he pulled out a hammer and a nail.

And so things got a bit icky from there. And he proceeded to hammer this nail up his nose. And that was pretty gross, actually, at the time. And I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing until he indicated that I needed to remove this nail from his nose. And I thought, well, that's no problem. I can do that. But he said, no, no, not with your hands, with your teeth. And he pointed to my teeth.

And so I stood there, frozen, actually, not knowing what to do. And then the crowd starts chanting. So, you know, I started... Pull the nail out with your teeth. ...pressure. And so, you know what? I did it. I closed my eyes.

And you pulled a nail out of someone's nose with your mouth. I know. It was revolting with my teeth. I tried not to use my lips. I just got in there with those suckers and yanked it out. Oh, my God. That's the problem when you're on stage, though. You get the showbiz razzmatazz.

Yeah, the crowd. Very awkward. I would have been very embarrassed. I would have sat down and felt ashamed. That's the problem when you're on stage though You get the showbiz razzmatazz The crowd It's very awkward, I would have been very embarrassed I would have sat down and felt ashamed So you know I did my job Yeah and that feels like a one and done scenario You've done that, ticked that off your bucket list Yeah that was definitely up the top there Well hopefully no nails in the nose on Saturday

Yeah we know things got desperate if we start doing that We start hammering our noses The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Wanted to learn a party trick and magician Cosentino, who's travelling the country right now, taught us a magic trick. You can catch him in New Plymouth tonight as he heads to Auckland as well. He is incredible

and he was very kind to teach us a trick. Our trick involves cards, a blindfold, a knife and to be fair, we haven't nailed it every time we've done it. No. Have we done it twice out of all the times we've... Have we succeeded?

Yeah, we've probably succeeded twice, I think. What's that wonderful song with Miley Cyrus? Wrecking Ball? No, that's a good song. The Climb. Part of the USA. The Climb, yeah. It's all about the journey, you know.

It's all about the... What's she saying there? I don't know. It's the Climb. Let's get about the journey, you know. It's all about the... What's she saying there? I don't know. It's the climb. Let's get Cosito on because he's kindly joining us once again. How are you doing this morning? I'm good. Thanks for having me.

Hey, Cosi. Cosi, I don't know if you come out. It's a crime if you don't come out to this song. It's a kind of magic. Do you come out on stage to this banger? I used to when I was 12. I don't anymore. Now, I don't know if you've followed our journey.

We've been trying our best to learn our trick. It's making us all very nervous ahead of this weekend to perform at your show in Auckland. How do we keep our nerves under wraps? Oh, you know what? Being nervous is part of the game. I mean, I get nervous before I come out In every show, because you guys You care about doing a good job So to be honest, you just

I don't, you just get used to it, same as Being on radio, you're probably Are you nervous when you're on radio? No, you don't feel nervous? Well sometimes you do, I guess for some time Guests come in and things like that, yeah But you're probably right, you learn to sort of work with it You work through it, now hang on Did I say something?

Did you perform for the Prime Minister? Yeah. We did. We did the trick. Actually, we've got the audio here. Just the end of it. Because he was walking through the building, and we were like, oh, maybe we'll step things up

and perform the trick. Prime Minister. And here was the end of it. Is this your card, Prime Minister? No. No, it's not. Was this your card, Prime Minister? No.

Okay, we've got more to do. What is this? Yes! Yes, very good. Very good. Well, you got it on the third go. It was a 52 in a pack. So, I mean, that's not too bad.

So, yeah, not great getting it on the third go. Okay. Okay, okay. Was he good. So, yeah, not great getting it on the third goal. Okay, okay, okay. Was he good about it, though? Yeah. But, I mean, nothing makes you feel worse as a magician when someone's trying to console you with, you know, patronising thumbs up. Also, he's seen you.

So, he was like, oh, he's amazing. And then he saw us and was like, oh. Yeah. But, you know, it's a lot harder than you actually, like when you watch a magician perform or even do a card trick, you think very often it looks simple. But there's a lot of mechanics and moves and psychology involved to get it right.

So there's a lot to remember. So it's just practice, guys. It's more and more practice. So how do you, when you are nervous and then you nail a trick, like how do you, because we got quite excited with ourselves and really stoked. Maddie in the office yesterday, we did it on her and we actually succeeded.

Have a quick listen. Is this your card, Maddie Langlois? Yeah, but the energy level is a bit, you know, 120 there. I love that, though, because when you get it right, what a great feeling it actually is. But the more you do it, unfortunately, the feeling kind of diminishes. But, you know, inside you feel very accomplished. So you think, you know, it's pretty cool.

It's a pretty cool feeling. Well, I tell you what. Constantino's not yelling, magic! Magic! The very small taste we've had of your job has made us, we say it daily, so impressed by what you do.

Like over an hour or an hour and a half long show. There's, like you say, so many working parts and mechanics and we're just struggling to split one trick up into three. Yeah. And look, there's a lot that gets involved as I said, but the more parts and mechanics and we're just struggling to split one trick up into three. It is. And look, there's a lot that gets involved as I said, but the more you

do it, the easier it gets and the more fun it actually becomes because it doesn't become necessarily about actually doing the trick, it becomes about the reaction from the other person. That's a really beautiful thing. It's not when you go out and make people laugh. It's such a good thing. Such a wonderful thing. Now, on to important things now. Costumes. We haven't a wonderful thing. Now, on to important things now, costumes.

We haven't got costumes sorted. Do we need to sort costumes? Well, do you know what? I was thinking about that the other day, like what we can do for your costumes. But I think you need to just be yourselves, like who you are. That's the last thing we want to be. Very underwhelming. All I'm hearing from you is costumes, costumes, costumes, more costumes.

Okay. Look, you guys do whatever you like. I don't want to put you in a position where you feel like you have to be like Sinclair and Roy. So, I mean, unless you guys all want me, but it's up to you. Whatever you feel, whatever you're feeling. I'm feeling Criss Angel. Criss Angel.

Oh, yeah. Do that. Do that. You can have David Blaine, Criss Angel, and who else can we have? We need a female magician as well. Are there any female magicians? There's actually a lot. There's a lot of female magicians at the moment.

Oh, good. Because they're very dexterous. They think they're much better with actually using their hands. Yeah, so there's actually a lot coming out now, and that's because I think the internet has opened it up for young girls in the beginning to get into magic and then, of course, grow into women and become female magicians. Last question.

When you were teaching us the trick, who was the best? Hey, don't answer that. Let's wait for Saturday. No, I think you said Megan. No, I didn't. Didn't hear you. Don't answer that. Just wait for Saturday. No, I think you said Megan. No, I didn't. Didn't hear you. Don't answer it.

We'll see you Saturday. Magically disappear, Costantino. We'll see him at the show. If you want to go, text MAGIC to 4487. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We have been playing the Mariah Carey game, trying to avoid listening to Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas for as long as possible. We started it, I'd say,

three or four weeks ago, and Megan, you were the last person in the game. Now, we've said the game is done on the hits. It's no longer a safe space, but there are still people playing the game. So if you are, you might not want to hear this next bit because we're going to play some. We are going to play a little snippet of how I got out,

which includes Mariah. So Tash, the evil mastermind behind Maddie McLean's elimination, Ben Boyce's elimination, and now Megan's elimination. She phoned up under a different name, a completely unrelated topic. Let's get Mika on. Morning, how are you? It's Tasha. Megan is out! Megan is out of the game!

It's Tasha. I love that, just a boss move, it's Tasha. And then she hung up. Hung up. Oh! Megan is out! Megan is out of the game! It's Tasha. I love that. Just a boss move, eh? It's Tasha. And then she hung up. Hung up. The amount of people that are asking, they're like, what's Tasha's deal? What is, I'm like, I don't know.

I don't know. And the amount of people that are like, oh, I'm still in the game even though you're out. So many people are still playing. I know. Jeez, yesterday was bombarded. When you actually pay attention to it, you hear that song an abnormally long amount of, what am I trying to say?

You piece that together. You hear it a lot. You hear it a lot. That's a great way to say it. I have not heard it since Tasha, just by the way. So I would still be, I'd still be in the game.

I know, so Bill, like a Bill. So this is an interview that stumbled across yesterday. And a guy's interviewing Mariah Carey, who's, she's, you know, very famous. Obviously, they label a diva. That's just another word for a hustler, so they tell me. But this guy's interviewing Mariah Carey, and she doesn't comprehend what a bill is. Have a listen.

Bill who? I know, so a bill, like a listen. So she thinks the electricity is free. Now you, Billy, is it a sketch? Yeah, look, I was looking into it yesterday. There's a lot of it's kind of mixed. Some people thinking it's she's definitely like having fun with the interviewer. Other people thinking that maybe she is a bit ignorant. She was poor. She was very poor.

Grew up with a poor family until like the age of 15. So you think there's some comprehension and even in life in general, it feels like everyone knows of a bill. Like come on, she's not that ignorant. No, but she's talking about she thinks power is free in America. So she might believe that. That's what your child's saying a song about bills.

You can know that you were poor as a kid, but not see your parents paying the power bill. So maybe she believes that the power is free. I'm saying she's an adult, a grown adult, even if you're not paying a power bill. But hey, I don't know. You're right. She'd listen to that Destiny's Child song. song and be like, what are they singing about?

What are they singing about? I do not understand. Pay your telephone bills? Pay your... I'm sure they say electric bills. Is there an electric bill in there? Oh, bloody hell. Luxon's favourite song, Lunch Money Lewis.

I got bills. She'd be, what? I got bills. What's she singing about? Why did you even sing about this? But not the power bill. Yeah. But that's free in America.

Well, I like to hope that she doesn't know what bills are and she's reached a certain level of fame where electricity, water, they just magically appear. Well, they probably do in some ways for her. Good for her. So if you are still playing the game, good luck to you. But no, the hit's no longer a safe space in the Mariah Carey game. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. We like to start our day with the New Zealand Herald daily quiz to see how we're going to go. Now, it's lovely to have the quiz queen in here from her quiz castle

asking the questions, producer Ellie. Lovely to have you with us every day. I don't turn your mic on. No, you don't. One day. One day it'll happen.

One day. Gutted. It's not that lovely to have you in here. Clearly, you don't want me in here. So you've just said this is a tough one. These are a tough 10 questions we're about to embark on.

Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Hey, we've got Megan here. Now, you classified Megan as a genius the other week. Big call, but I did, and I stand by it. Huge call. Then she came in. Huge call.

You sound like you don't. Not once has anyone ever gone, anyway. I'm not saying you're not a genius. It's just like radio is not really a vocation for a genius. But maybe I just want to chill, you know? Maybe I'm a genius who just wants to chill life. I love how you think you are a genius. Engineers, mathematicians.

Ellie said I was. Philosophers. Who's Ellie? She's a psychologist. Yeah, nice. Then she took an IQ test and they're like, oh, you have to pay for the results. And she's like, ah. Also, I think I nailed that, which sucks.

All right, here we go. First question. All right. Number one. What substance was detected at elevated levels in the Waikato River recently? Leave it to me. Take it away, genius. What was it?

I can't remember. What was it? It's either mercury, lead or arsenic. It was arsenic. Arsenic. That is correct. Well done. We did talk about that, right?

Low levels. Apparently fine. I hope so. Okay. Question number two. Which song is the most streamed on Spotify as of 2024? Is it Blinding Lights by The Weeknd,

Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi, or Shape of You by Ed Sheeran? That's a good question. It was Shape of You, Ed Sheeran. Is it still? Is it The Weeknd? Because Weeknd's massive. Blinding Lights is massive.

Yeah, Blinding Lights. Should we lock in The Weeknd, guys? I don't know why I feel... Okay. Okay, let's do it. That's correct. Nice work. It's always up there, eh?

The Weeknd, Blinding Lights. Also, our song being Chapel Ran, good luck, babe. Just hit a billion streams on Spotify. How many streams on the Hits radio station? I haven't heard that one. None. Hey, guys, enough of the early morning sass things. It's because I don't think the boss is up yet.

We'll find out. She's playing it, guys. She'll be playing it. Chapel Roan in your own time. She's only hit a billion streams. Maybe we'll play it one day. When she gets to two billion. When you're a hit, Chapel Roan, we'll find out. She'll be playing it, guys. She'll be playing it. Chablerone in your own time. She's only had a billion streams. Maybe we'll play it one day. When she gets to two billion. When you're a hit, Chablerone, we'll play it.

All right, question number three. Which palace is renowned for its Hall of Mirrors? Is it Schönbrunn Palace, Buckingham Palace, or Palace of Versailles? I am familiar with Buckingham. Yeah, it doesn't feel like it's been called the Palace of Mirrors, but I haven't heard that. Is there a French one? Palace of Versailles.

Versailles is French, isn't it? I would say that the French would love Mirrors. Yeah, let's go. That is correct. Well done. You're doing quite well so far. That was question number four. Should we take one to the – do a question, take it to the ad, throw it to the people. Okay, unless you know it. I know. It's question number four. Should we take one to the, do a question, take it to the ad, throw it to the people.

Okay. Unless you know it. I mean, don't waste the text machine. All right. Who is the author of the book Stuart Little? Is it E.B. White, Roald Dahl, or Eric Carle? E.B. White. Eric Carle was The Hungry Caterpillar.

Yes. Roald Dahl was Roald Dahl. Yeah, it's E.B. White. That is correct. Well done. Yeah. Leave it to the genius guys. Nice.

IQ. Mentor. Yeah. All right. Question number five. Well done. Leave it to the genius guys. Nice. IQ. Mensa. All right, question number five. Space X. Engineer. Which country is Shakira originally from? Is it Argentina, Colombia, or Mexico? She's Colombian.

That is correct. Oh, wow. You're flying through. Smashing it. Okay, let's go one more. Okay, question number six. Always low prices. Always. And save money. You're flying through. Smashing it. Okay, let's go one more. Okay, question number six. Always low prices, always, and save money. What?

Live better. Wait, what? Hang on. I think you're reading an ad in between the questions. Do a pop-up ad. Okay, always low prices. You find the same stocked item and we'll beat it by 15%. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

The Riddler. To Dilmar Tea, we've got a $100 hot and cold tea prize pack to give away. $100 and a hot and cold tea prize pack. I usually have a bespoke riddle about something in our lives, so I'm going to go real quick on that one. Who am I describing right now with the riddle? I sent him off with a list in hand to a place where pills are displayed on stands, But amidst the creams and razors stacked, I made him grab some top lip wax. A task for grooming, not a cure.

His awkward text was, are you sure? Who am I describing? It took me a while to get that, actually. Thank you. Yeah, I got my husband to buy me some lip wax. Oh, yes. So it was Andrew. Andrew buying lip wax.

Oh, Andrew, yeah. You're glad he's reliving that? Yeah. Great. The top lip is looking magnificent today. Thank you. Nice and smooth. Not a split of hair on there. Let's get Adam on. Welcome to the Riddler. Have a listen to this, Adam.

Okay, Adam. Ask this question all day long, but always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question? Regan thinks she's got it. Yeah, Megan's a genius. Ask this question all day long,

get completely different answers, and yet all the answers will be correct. What is the question? Yeah, pass. No idea. I regret phoning up too early. Megan, the genius, has got her hands in the air. Yeah, she's got it. I think so, she's got it.

Jackie, are you a genius? What's the answer? You're asking what the time is. Yeah! Nice work. $100, thanks to Dilmar Tea and a hot and cold tea price pack, which will be great for summer. Enjoy that.