Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Does Jumping Into Your Car Really Stop a Tow Truck?

Episode Date: May 11, 2025

On today’s show: Did Ben's mum deserve more for Mothers day? Why Megan didn't have the best mothers day... Jono witnesses a tow truck vs driver fight!!! Jono tries to peel of Megan fridge protection... She wasn't happy We chat with Flava host Charlie about his dental surgery in Turkey. You'll never believe how cheap it was!!! A caller explains how they  met Princess Diana Why was Jono's head on  TV? + shhhh if you listen to the podcast we might have snuck in a bingo number ;)  Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST   Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners that everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday. I hope you had a wonderful weekend, if that's when you're listening to it. If you're listening to this in real time, I don't, I never know how people listen to these podcasts. Um, can you, I just, I always hear this on a Monday and I've never brought it up with you. You say on your Monday morning, to me, every time you say it, it's like mundane morning. Oh, Monday morning. On your Monday morning. To me, every time you say it, it's like mundane morning. Oh, Monday morning. On your mundane morning.

What could be a mundane morning? Every morning's a mundane morning. On a Monday especially. Yeah. It doesn't get more mundane out of the days of the week, does it? On your mundane morning. When do you actually start to feel really confident about the week? What day?

Thursday. Yeah, Thursday. Little Friday. Heading towards the weekend. Thursday morning. I kind of feel like the hump day is labelled. Once you've got to the end of that Wednesday, you do start to feel a lot better about life, don't you? Wednesdays for me is always so busy.

Because Monday's CBF. Tuesday I'm always tired. Wednesday's when I hit it. Thursday's little Friday. Friday's I'm out. So basically you're saying you don't do anything Monday, Tuesday. You kind of work Wednesday. Wednesday, I hit it.

Yeah, exactly. All right, we'll send that up to management. Thursday's departure lounge. There you go. There you go. That's Megan's. I'm all full throttle the whole week, but that's all right. You haven't Saturday, Sunday.

From Monday and Monday all the way through to frothing Friday. Yesterday was Sunday, of course, Mother's Day, and we start by a few dramas in a couple of households, Mother's Day and we start by a few dramas in a couple of households around Mother's Day have a listen Mother's Day over the weekend hope all the mums had a great day I went in with my sisters

for something for my mum and then I thought I'll get a voucher for her to go up the road, just get a drink and then she sent me a message going thanks thanks so much, $100, so sport. I was like, $100? You didn't say that out loud, did you? No, but I did, but I wasn't talking to her. I was like, $100?

Internal dialogue. And then I went and had a look, and what had happened is I'd got the voucher, and it defaulted. It was actually defaulted to the lowest amount. It was only $10. I was like, $10. Were you going to give her $10? No, I wasn't.

I was, but it defaulted to $10. I was going to give her more. Somewhere in between and somewhere in the middle. $15. Yeah. And I was like, oh, now Mum thinks I've given her $100, which is going to be very disappointing. Oh, no.

So then I had to get her another voucher to sort of top it up on that one. But I was like, oh. Oh, so she ended up with a $10 voucher. A $10 and then another amount as well so two vouchers now. Oh my God.

Now, could you all believe buying vouchers so badly? I know. I was like, jeez, so I was glad it wasn't $100 though.

Yeah, but you still were coming in under $100. Yeah, definitely. She's like, oh, being $100,

you're like, actually, no. She removed you from her body. Yeah. She had to from her body. Yeah. She had to push you. I've got other siblings as well.

That's fine. It adds up. She'll get a total hundred over the three of you. Yeah, that's okay. Exactly. Well, I didn't get redemption over the weekend. My husband agreed to go sing the Australian national anthem at the Tall Blacks game over the weekend.

Yeah, this is Andrew Pappas. Really good voice, your husband. Yeah, great. How many times did you hear the Australian national anthem being practised in your household? Oh my God, so many. Because I hid in the garage at one point, ironing the sheets to get away from it.

I heard it a lot. I was like, it's 30 seconds. I think you've got this. Daddy nailed it. And he from it. I heard it a lot. I was like, it's 30 seconds. I think you've got this. Daddy nailed it. And he nailed it. I was watching for the TV there. Of course, it was on Sky Sport over the weekend, that game. Yeah.

So you were like, oh, we know Andrew. He's going to do something on Saturday. He'll move it. He'll do something. He's a romantic guy. Saturday, he wakes up and he was like, oh, I did have plans, but I'm really unwell. He had a tummy bug or something. So he was like I did have plans but I'm really unwell. He was he had a tummy bug or something.

So he was out for the count and he spent the day in bed. So I had to do full mothering on Saturday and Sunday which is fine but there was no redemption to be had. Doesn't sound fine to me Ben. Does it? Doesn't sound fine to you mate? We couldn't figure out where he'd got this tummy bug from and I was like what did you eat yesterday? And he was like just that leftover cheese

board stuff that you gave me we went to Megan's house for lunch and she supplied a cheese board so oh Andrew and Andrew ate that so now is this one of those situations where you obviously we could tell there was a bit scratchy about him heading off on on Mother's Day did you poison him like that lady poisoned the mushrooms? She's like, I'll show you. He was like, how long has this been sitting out? I was like, I'll put it in the fridge. It'll be fine. It was like prosciutto, salamis and stuff.

Maybe it wasn't fine. You put it on your social media yesterday. Look, your presents and breakfast. Cook your breakfast. That's all you wanted. There was, oh, not in bed. I said in bed. Also, I made. He's cooking his stuff that I don't even know how to pronounce.

Excuse me. That stuff on that plate, I had already made. Just a casual chilli labneh. I made the chilli labneh. I made the bread. I've already made all that stuff. I don't even know what that stuff is. It looks delicious, though.

I can tell you how to make it because I did make it. He put it together on the plate. You know, he's always coming back to your social media. He's using his evidence. That's why social media is a highlight reel of your life. I always say that to the kids as well. It is a highlight reel because I'm looking at this and I'm like, Mickey, have a wonderful Mother's Day.

And now we're here and going, oh, I can't wait. He put together stuff I'd already made and then took off to Hamilton to sing the national anthem. Put it on social media and go, look at this. Look at this. Look at this piece. Look at this rubbish excuse for our husband. Look what he's done.

Put together stuff that I'd already made and served it up to me. Monster is that. Yeah, there we go. The diabolical. I tell you what, at least you didn't get a $10 voucher. I'll get you a $10 voucher. I'll make it up now. Your mum could get half a glass of wine each

John O'Ben and Megan The podcast The hits I tell you what guys I witnessed on Saturday The most gloriously petty standoff I think I've ever witnessed in public Amazing

You've heard these rumours That if you do this in this situation That you can't You can get out of it So I'm walking across the road from the mall And there's a tow truck Heard these rumours that if you do this in this situation that you can't, you can get out of it. So I'm walking across the road from the mall and there's a tow truck that has a car winched up. Oh, yeah. And then I see, as I'm crossing the road, I see the tow truck storms out of his car and you just steam coming out of his ears.

And he's like, you get the hell out of there. And then I look and the owner of the vehicle has jumped in the driver's seat of their own car. Oh, really? Yeah, because that's the rumour. If you get in the car in the driver's seat, they can't tow it. Legally, they can't take you anywhere because it's not safe. And obviously this person knew this. And to be fair, the tow truck driver is just doing his job. This person clearly wasn't meant to be parked where they were parked.

Yeah. But I just had to stand by and watch this. He's like, you get out. And you can tell this guy, the driver, he's like, you can't touch me. You can't drive anywhere. You can't. All I'm going to do is sit here.

And at some point, the tow truck driver's got to go, well, I've got to get on with my day. There's more people to annoy around the city by taking their cars. So I don't know. I kind of left because I was like, I can't turn this into a spectator sport. Yeah, true. It looked a little,

yeah, I was trying to be sort of, I was trying to pretend to do stuff in the bush. What are you doing in the bush? I was like looking for something.

That's not inconspicuous. You could have just been on a phone call, pacing. Yeah, that's a better option. Far better. Far better, yeah, yeah. I was standing

and staring for a while and I was like, oh, this looks rude so I'll just look for stuff in the bush. I'm just going to crawl in the bush and fossick around It was the ultimate Mexican standoff

Has anyone actually text 4487, have you actually done that? Jumped in your own car if it's been winched up I didn't know that was a thing but apparently you guys did I've always heard the rumour that you can do it but I mean timing's critical on that one obviously I'd love to know what the end result is if you can do it. But I mean, timing's critical on that one, obviously. But yeah, I'd love to know what the

end result is if you have done it before. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hits. It's the time we got invited to Megan's house on Friday, didn't we? Don't say it was the first time you've been invited. I've invited you before. To be fair, she has. We couldn't make it the other time. My passport was expired

so I couldn't get all the way out. All the jokes we got. Ben was making jokes that he had to go the way out there, you know. All the jokes we got. Ben was making jokes that he had to go through customs to get to her house that was so far away. I live quite far out

in terms of... Not really, it's only 20 minutes. 25. 25 on a 100km motorway. On a good day. Took Ben an hour and a half to get out there.

Yeah. It was lovely, lovely for you. You put on a wonderful white person cheese board, Megan. Thank you very much. You did. And then we had... And saucy rolls.

Yeah, the saucy rolls were great. Little cocktail sausages as well. That was requested, by the way. Did you feed the cocktail sausages to the kids when they got home? Absolutely. Yeah. I would have thought they would have got home and gone, this is the best afternoon tea day ever.

They got the mini charcuterie board for dinner. Yeah, and then we had a lovely moment. It was a meeting and we were talking stuff about the show and you went, let's go to the other lounge, shall we? No, okay. I was like, woohoo. So we're all sitting around the dining table except there wasn't enough chairs. And Jono, me and Grace were laughing at Jono because he was on like a bar stool, like a high chair. You said I looked uncomfortable.

No, because you were doing this unnatural, like very straight up and down posture. And I was like, he needs to sit on a nice, like a comfy chair. I always get quite self-conscious sitting on a bar stool because it's a very crotchy position too. Especially when you're open out, not behind to some sort of counter. Yeah, just legs spread and you're like, yeah, everything's quite okay. And our boss was on the other one trying to perch his laptop on his high bar stool. So we went to the other, we'd flex, but we went

to the other, you're like, should we go to the other lounge? No, I just said, should we go to the lounge? No, I think you said, should we adjourn? I think she used the word adjourn, didn't she, Ben? And then I looked at her and I was like, well, there's a lounge there, but then there was a whole other lounge in another room. Yeah, so wow, mind-blowing. What do you use the second lounge for?

Yeah. The good lounge. Just to watch TV or what? Oh, yeah. And you still have, like, plastic on your fridge, which we have talked about. Oh, yeah. I just wanted to rip that off. Jono was, like, lifting up the corners.

I was like, seriously, do not do it. I've got video, actually, of me almost peeling it off. And Megan, we'll put that up on the Hits Breakfast. Take it off. No, I've got kids. There's already a dent. You saw the dent in the bottom of the fridge. I think we should build up to a big unpeeling ceremony.

Live broadcast from your house. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hits. A makeup artist said you looked 19 years old in a photograph. And to be honest, the evidence and the testing we've put you through, the experimental phase, really does lean towards you looking in your 20s. A lot younger, yeah.

Not 19. A lot younger. She hit really low. But comedically a lot younger than we need it to be for this to continue on. But on Friday, there's a finish line. All three of us are going to line up and we're going to try and make ourselves look as young as possible and be judged by a group of retirees who are going to try and guess all of our ages. Okay, so we're trying to...

Well, which one at least looks the youngest out of the three of us? Can any of us beat you? I don't know. That's the only thing we want to try for. I can tell you're being patronising over there. You two have got no chance. We probably don't, to be honest. I'm already like, why are we doing this?

One of you is bald and one of you has got greys in the beard. So I don't know. Don't need to have a dick. We're trying to use ourselves down. And some people use medicine to do it and medical procedures. And one person who has done this is Charlie, who works here at work. Thanks for coming in.

Hi. Oh, it's a pleasure, guys. Thanks for popping across, because you're in the same building as us. You work on the Flavour Breakfast Show. But we wanted to talk to you about, because we've been talking about things that people do to, you know, like, I guess if they want to improve themselves,

feel like they improve themselves, and you've got your teeth done recently. I decided to invest in myself, eh, because like they've improved themselves, then you've got your teeth done recently. I decided to invest in myself, eh, because, you know, I had dentures before. Oh, did you? Because we all say, we've known you for a while, we were like, yeah, great teeth.

Yeah. What's wrong with your teeth? Yeah, so I was wearing dentures, and, you know, I got sick and tired of taking them off to eat. You know, I had missing teeth from when I was still in school, rugby league and, you know, good behaviour. Bits and pieces. Yeah.

And then it was time. I said to my wife, yeah, like I said, it's time to invest in myself and, you know, get the smile back on the dial. Awesome. And so you, now you didn't,

you didn't get them done here. You went to Turkey. Yes. Now this is the, how much cheaper is it, the same procedure? So to give you guys like a bit of perspective here, I got a quote for my teeth. We're not even talking veneers.

Yeah. I just got normal teeth and it was quoted $27,000. Yeah, $27,000, man. And that's for implants, crown and all. Jeez. Yeah. So I went over to Turkey, but it cost me nine and a half grand oh my gosh

so almost a third of the price to go over there just under 10k that includes your your transfers and your

accommodation so you can get breakfast, lunch and dinner with that so is it like a holiday package they sell them like a package pretty much

pretty much so on this flight you're travelling with people that are going to do all sorts of stuff. So get this. We traveled with a couple from Australia. One girl was going to do like a head transplant, and then the other girl was going to do her toes. What's she going to do to her toes?

Apparently, she's an OnlyFans. And she's got a few corns on her toes. And her partner, he was open-ass about it. He was like, you know, she's a real moneymaker, but it's just her toes. She needs to take a few of her corns off. I'm like, bro, this is wild, bro. And then you're all on the same flight. We're all on the same flight.

Then on the way back home, you know, you could tell this was a flight from Turkey because everyone's wearing, like, the bandages on their head and the smiles are white. You know, everyone's like, bro, this is crazy. So you're happy with that because your teeth look great again your teeth look great i'm happy i decided to go like with more of a natural look then you would know you have no idea that so why why is it so cheap there compared to here did you find out i have no idea this this was my wife's idea my wife went over to do the whole mummy tuck thing. Oh, so did you go together? We went together.

Oh, so she had a procedure as well. Yeah, and this was her whole idea. I don't know how I got roped into this. This is how she gets the mummy tuck. She gets you something as well. Oh, smart play. That's how she sold it to me. I'm like, guess what we're doing?

I booked you into Turkey to fix your teeth. I was like, oh, thank you. And I'm also getting a money back. And so what was the price difference for her procedure? It was 50, like just under 50. Here? Oh, over here? Yeah.

Oh, no. It would have been like almost six figures. Wow. Turkey is just honestly so cheap because I think, you know, there's a lot of competition in terms of who can do what and who can offer the best packages,

you know, by the doctors and all that. The hardest part is when I went with my wife to the hospital, there's a language barrier. I'm like, okay. He said, we've got a problem there how did you find that because did it feel like professional and everyone you know like

well operated and well run I mean as far as professionalism goes like I thought look they dress well I mean when it comes to like uh communicating, I had to download this app. Just out of interest, what were they sort of the ballpark for one of these Turkish hair transplants? I wouldn't mind coming back looking like a Lego character. No, they're saying it's about, like, five grand. And so would you recommend it? I highly recommend it.

If you're serious about it, I can send you guys the same people that we went with. Our tour guide, our tour guide, sorry, he speaks really good English. He's from Australia. So a lot of people from New Zealand and Australia are based over there and they make money of bringing people

from New Zealand and Australia. And the good thing is that our money is, you know, a little bit better. I mean, the dollar's better. Well, thank you for being so open about this we appreciate it it's really yeah

interesting do you mind if we take a photo weird question of your mouth and we'll put it up on the hits breakfast yeah let's do it John O'Bannon Megan

the podcast the hits excited when Hollywood celebrities come to New Zealand don't we we get carried away and rightfully so

we're a long way to go and it's awesome when they are in the country. It doesn't get any bigger than Brad Pitt, does it? Well, you know,

he'd be top tier, top level, top shelf. Or like Leonardo DiCaprio. Yeah, he'd be in that category. So he's in New Zealand right now,

Brad Pitt. A-list. Filming a movie. I haven't seen too much. Fair enough, I'm sure he's keeping to himself. Yeah, he's been in Queenstown

for a large portion of it. A couple of months he's been here, and I think we've played it pretty cool in New Zealand. I'm pretty, you know, we'll get excited when he leaves. I haven't been trying to play it cool, but like if I knew he was close to me, I would probably go for a stalk. Yeah, I think he's based in Auckland at the moment.

They're filming in the... Well, we know that now. Yeah. In fact, he was only eight minutes away from me. From your house? Was he? Yes. So this is Easter Sunday.

He was in the drive-thru, going through the drive-thru. I think he was, well, I think he was in the back of the car. I'm not sure. At Macca's. Yeah, Macca's,

McDonald's drive-thru. Like my local Macca's. I love that he's got the same palate as the rest of us losers. Just a Sunday Macca's run. I'd love to know what he was getting.

At his Easter Sunday, I guess it was open. Yeah, but, you know. Well, he's away from home. Yeah. Gone through the drive-thru on Easter Sunday as well, and a young Kiwi kid approached the car, which is an awesome thing to do,

and took a moment to see if Brad Pitt would do a bit of a shout-out for his father. Say hello to my dad. No. Oh, you can't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Hi, Dad.

All right, moving on. Happy Easter., Dad. All right, moving on. Happy Easter. All right. All right, moving on. Moving on. Let's not cause a scene. I love the way he's dressed, too. He's kind of in a plaid jacket with Aviator sunnies and a bucket hat.

Yeah. I mean, as soon as you chuck a bucket hat on, that's the worst disguise ever. It really is. I don't know if I would have recognized him. No, because he's got a beard as well. I don't think I would have recognized him. So I said it was a young boy. It was a young girl. So sorry. It really is. I don't know if I would have recognised him though. No, because he's got a beard as well. I don't think I would have recognised him. So I said it was a young boy, he's a young girl, so sorry. Apologies there. But yeah, I did well

to go up and take that moment to meet Brad Pitt and got him in. I like how he's like, no, I can't. Alright, I can. You know. He really doesn't want to be seen that way. He really doesn't want anyone coming up to him. I understand. He would be, he's just here for work. He doesn't want to cause a scene. He's an A-lister in our tiny wee neck of the woods.

He's not being paid to say hello to people's dads. He did it, though. He did it. It was a great thing. But you're right. Imagine if he walked into the store, how much commotion he would cause just by doing something that, day-to-day going through a McDonald's drive-thru.

He might be quite shy. I'm just a devote. He was so close to me. What would you have done in that situation? Would you have gone up there or taken one of those sneaky sort of photos? Sneaky photo. Stand there and gawked. Yeah.

I don't know what I would say. Hi. As a kid, maybe you are a bit more bold. Would you go, say hello to my dad? That's good. That's good. So we want to know this morning As a kid Who did you meet Oh I under the hits

4487 Because I feel like You are a bit more gutsy Yeah you'll take I used to love Those glory days Of sport Any sporting fixture

End of the game You could sprint Onto the field And just rip The clothes off Your favourite players Yank shirts Steal cricket wickets

Take bats Balls You could just It was a free-for-all. Get them to sign stuff. I remember a huge cricket fan. I think I mentioned this before. Richard Hadley was one of the heroes, one of the OGs.

And I don't even remember this as a young kid, but my dad was like, we ran into Dale Hadley, his brother, who also played for New Zealand, I think in the bathrooms. And my dad's like, this is Dale Hadley, Ben. You love cricket. Would you like a tour? Was Dale standing at the urinal? I don't think he'd want to come up.

But yeah. G'day. Dan tells me the story of a weird place and we'd trap him. But anyway. G'day, little child. And he was like, oh, yeah, autograph. And then I apparently went, no, I want the real Hadley. Oh, savage.

I know. I apologize to Dale Hadley. He was a great cricketer, played for New Zealand. I'm like, I don't even remember doing it. But apparently he's savagely here to give it to me. Hopefully you let Dale wash his hands before

he shrivels. Yeah, there you go. And they're more savage kids as well. They're more bold, more savage. Now,

who is the most famous person you met as a child? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Pits spotted in New Zealand. A young Kiwi girl

approached them in the drive-thru. Say hello to my dad. No. Oh, you can't. Sorry. I'm sorry. Hi, Dad.

All right. Moving on. Happy Easter. Thank you. That was lovely. Yeah, it was very nice of him. It was very nice of him. Adam, you name 20,000 places in the world you think you would run into Brad Pitt.

Yeah. The West Auckland Maccas drive-thru on Easter Sunday. I don't think I would make top 20,000. No, you're right. So who did you run into as a kid? To which famous person? We've got a double pass to the brand new Mission Impossible movie, which is in cinemas on May 17th as Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning.

It looks awesome with Tom Cruise back again. I was a big fan of Andrew Merton's back in the day, all black. And I went out to dinner with my family, and he was sitting in another table with I don't know who the other people were didn't care and it was my birthday so I again like young bravado went over to his table and was like hi Andrew it's my birthday and I don't know what I expected was he sort of midway through his steak meal and he's like hello little child happy birthday he's a lovely guy he would have you know yeah no he know, chatted to you. No, he did. He chatted. He was like, happy birthday.

It was very lovely. And I walked back to my table stoked as. Was it autographed era or photos era? Would you have a photo? No, I didn't get a photo. No, just the memories. Yeah. Just an old school chat.

Yeah, right. And then as the table left, someone from his group was like, do you want to come out with us? Do you want to come out? And I was like, yes. My dad turned to them and was like, she is 16. And I was like, oh, dad. Whoever asked you, I was like, whoa, okay, okay. Let's forget this conversation.

All right, 0800, that's who did you meet as a child? As you say, you don't really think about consequences as a child. And you can't gauge awkwardness as well as a child. That's a good thing. You don't know when to enter and exit as well, too. Rach, morning to you. Morning, how are you? Another rugby player.

Yes. Who was that? Zinzan Brock. Oh, legendary Zinzan Brock. Where did you meet him? I met him where I was with my parents at some function at Eden Park. I asked for his autograph and plucked up the courage. She said plucked up the courage, guys.

Plucked. And he gave it to me that was fine but then the man next to him said that would be $5. Thank you. Good gag. That's a great gag from his mate. Zinni would be like, don't do that in front of the kids. So anyway he must have felt bad because later

on he came back with a signed ball. Oh, that's awesome. Good wrap up. Lovely moment there. Did his mate make $5 off you? No. Scuttled back to my parents. Thank you for sharing that with us. We appreciate it. A lovely story. Oh, 800 of the hits. Who did you

have the kahunas to walk up to as a child, Tony? Oh, g'day. I actually shook hands with Princess Diana. Well, there's a big banger. Did you? R.I.P. Yeah, she'd visited our local town, and we all lined up,

and she'd come across and shook hands with me and said hello. Oh, right, and what do you say back? Hello. Good conversation. Rich. My dad dad same thing he tells the story

when she came to she had a master of all places as well he had the school he was the school principal had them all lined up there and he was like

hello she was like are these all your kids and he was like well not all mine physically and she goes oh good

I've heard they've had family planning in New Zealand or something made a gag so good gig on the moment I have a keypad to stipulate he's like

I'm not that active like she was thinking they're all his technically his kids nothing against master or something. Made a gag. Oh, great. So good gag on the moment. I have a keypad to stipulate. He's like, I'm not that active. I'm a fertile. Like she was thinking that technically as kids. Nothing against Masterton. I mean, it's your stomping ground. But why do we send these people to like, oh, Prince Harry's here.

You know where he'll want to go? Stewart Island. Will he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But 90% of New Zealand hasn't been to Stewart Island. Why don't you lift the royal family?

Can't do one more trip to Stewart Island. I'm out. Hey, royal family. I can't do one more trip to Stewart Island. I'm out. Hey, we'll keep these coming through. Thank you, Tony. Really appreciate it. Great text here,

4487. I met David Attenborough. Oh, wow. Wow. He came and did a talk at the boarding school I was at and he took us out

for a walk in the bush showing us which plants were edible. That's amazing. Isn't that Kerry? We need to hear Kerry on. We need to see this one. We need to hear Kerry on.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. The ANZ Premiership Netball started over the weekend. Of course, the hits are a big supporter of that. And we were along yesterday at one of the games, the Mystics taking on the Stars. Awesome, they've got the two-point shot now

for the last five minutes each quarter, which does make things a lot more exciting. It does, yeah. Did it turn the game around? At the start, kind of one team started using it, and they kept nailing it. So they get in front, and the other team would be like, do we need to go for it now?

So it does kind of play a new tactic. And it's amazing because it's so far away from the hoop, and they're just bloody nailing them every time, swishing them, which we respect. We gave it a bash the other day. It's impossible. And I'll tell you what's sad, too, is when you see,

because there's a few injuries in the game. It was Sinclair, I think. She was one of the Northern Stars. It looks like she did her knee. And what you don't see, well, you see the initial injury on TV, but then we were sort of sitting courtside. And you see the poor athlete wheeled off, and then she's in tears, obviously, because it's probably

the end of her season, and then her boyfriend comes over, and he's consoling. You don't see that stuff. Yeah, it's pretty heartbreaking, isn't it? I was trying not to stare at it, but I couldn't, you know, I couldn't help. Well, a lot of people are staring at you, too, because we've got bingo. Bingo starting today here on The Hits, which is very exciting. 20k

bingo. 8 o'clock this morning. We're going to tell you the first number. It's not too late to download your bingo card at thehits.co.nz. Well, we went along to give away some tickets, play a bit of a bingo game at three-quarter time. And you had your head – I don't know how this happened. You know how it happened? Producer Grace came in about two weeks ago.

She's like, do you want your head painted like a bingo ball at netball? I was like, oh, okay. I didn't really think about what she was saying. And then I had to turn up on Sunday like, the artist is here to paint head painted like a bingo ball at netball i was like oh okay i didn't really think about what she was saying and then uh had to turn up on sunday like the artist is here to paint your head like a bingo ball i was like oh that's right and boy did she what yeah like we'll put a picture up now well i think it's all over the hits breakfast on instagram so you can go see it right now like full pink with uh number sevens everyone's like who are you supporting today you're like there was no correlation to the netball. Bingo, bingo,

it's happening on the hips. I look like a big mobile lotto ball. You did actually. Yeah, you did. Your head had the most real estate on it.

You got on the camera on the TV, you could not miss your face in the crowd. It was very full on. Yeah, I look like a horrible sunburn or something.

And kids were, like kids were terrified, like traumatised, like looking and then stepping away. Yeah. And they couldn't take your eyes off you. Tony Street, broadcaster from another radio station,

she sent us this audio last night with her and a friend just saying how you actually gave someone a fright. Oh, my God. Did you see that guy with the pink head and those sevens all over it? I just saw a girl, like, literally almost burst into tears when she saw it because she was so terrified. I was a little bit Darth Morley, you know? It was traumatic.

You know the worst bit? I had to go to pack and save after. Oh, no! And I got wet wipes from pack and save. And, jeez, you cause a scene. You do. You really do. You should have just filmed everyone, like,

put your camera up by your face and just filmed everyone looking at you. I filmed one guy and I was like, what do you reckon, mate? He's like, it's too pinky. That was his feedback. It was pretty good feedback, to be honest. We're very excited though.

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something pretty cool over the weekend as a parent. My daughter Sienna was in another production, a musical theatre production. One she'd been working on with a couple of schools for about six months. It's been very intensive. What's it called? It's called Anything Goes. It's from the 1930s. They're all on a cruise ship. It's very funny.

Some amazing, I think all the four leads, and she's one of them, are all like 15 years old, these kids, and they're just incredible. They can sing, they dance. It's a very cool, very proud moment as a parent to see your daughter up there. I hear her sing in the car all the time, but not to hear Bahira sing on stage.

I'm like, oh wow, that was really cool actually. You said it's been an intensive six months how intensive for you oh but yeah not as intensive as them but pretty intense but honestly they're going like every day they go from after school uh from 3 30 to 10 30 at night they've been doing this like during the weekdays then weekends and saturdays and sundays and yeah so like you have a different kind of stamina when you're a kid because if that was your hours now, I'd be dead. I'd be like, whoa. And all you'd be doing is just moaning about how tired you are

and telling everyone how tired you are. But they're loving it, and it was awesome. So really cool production and great to see. But there was one moment, and we've been talking about this as a family. She's got to have a kiss on stage with the guy, with the other lead. And knowing about this, but knowing this was coming up on stage as a parent, and I was like, okay, it's going to come up as a stage kiss. Okay, it's cool.

Like talking, giving yourself a peep, it's okay, her lips are going to be on another lips of a guy. It's okay, I'm cool with it. Have you met the boy? No, I haven't actually met the boy. But her friends, Sienna's friends, are all sitting in front of Amanda, my wife and I, just by chance or whatever.

But as soon as the kiss happened, they looked, and then they all looked back to us. And so suddenly their eyes were like, don't look at me. Don't look at me. Look at the stage. So suddenly all the eyes were back on me during the stage kiss as well. It's so awkward for her too, knowing that Dad's here. No more comfortable environment for your first kiss

than live on stage in front of your dad. What's the protocol in a musical? Can I yell it? Hey! Hey! I'm running a timer on that. I've had to watch my husband bash someone on stage for a concert.

Did you run a timer on it? Yeah. Well, he told me it was pretty much just a peck. It wasn't. And there was a butt grab. There was groping. I was like, I should have been more prepared. When you meet the boy. you've got to shake his hand,

but never let it go and just stare him in the eyes. You've got to assert dominance here, Ben. All part of the script. It's been around since the 1930s. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Brad Pitt spotted a couple of weeks ago around Easter

at a drive-thru in Kumyu. Yeah, McDonald's drive-thru, Easter Sunday. And a kid went up to his car and said, can you say hello to my dad? Say hello to my dad. No. Oh, you can't. Sorry. I'm sorry.

Hi, Dad. All right, moving on. Happy Easter. Thank you. Do you think he's never going to go to that McDonald's again? Or is that his frequent? Because it's eight minutes from my house and I feel like I could just camp out there. Well true, you could do that.

We can call the McDonald's and say has he come back, is he a regular? He might be. We'll try and get hold of them, see if he's a regular but yeah he was trying his best to be undercover. He had his big aviators on and a bucket hat as well which is he kind of looked like Johnny Depp from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Remember that movie? Yeah.

Bucket hat, he can pull a bucket hat off can't he? I know you've tried and you've been in Las Vegas. Remember that movie? Bucket hat. He can pull a bucket hat off, can't he? I know you've tried and you've been mocked. Yeah, it feels like a certain age. He's definitely not Gen Z, is he? No, but he'd pull it off. He's Brad Pitt. Yeah, he's Brad Pitt.

I wore a bucket hat once to work and you said I look like a party pill dealer from Rhythm and Hines. Yeah, true. Selling pills to the kids. He's Brad Pitt. Speaking of low moments, Megan, you had one. Yeah. You know those moments where you stop

And you look at yourself and you're like how did I get here That happened to me I was having a bath A lovely quiet moment Having a bath Geez I haven't been to a bath in years Last time I did I tried to do that rocking back and forth thing Like when you're a kid where you slide your bottom along the bottom And you know you get the waves

Neither of you two Your like minds are too busy You know like ben's not having a bath ever he's like what have i got to do how long is this gonna take he hasn't relaxed since 1997 but i like to have a bath and i liked i take my phone and i do some scrolling i take a drink and i take a snack and my chosen snack of choice because i'm trying to be healthy, was a little pack of almonds. Odd location for almonds, isn't it? Bath almonds. I guess if you're in the bath, I can see if you're having a snack.

I get you. And they were in a little packet. I'd ripped the corner. My daughters do that, put a show on, they'll watch the thing, they'll relax to do their thing. Yeah, I get it. It's a nice little downtime for yourself. Ripped the corner of the packet so I could tip them out one by one,

but the corner of the packet was too small, i was trying to shrink the almonds out of the bag and that's when i shook about 10 out at once they didn't all land in my hand they went in the bath yeah soggy almonds i was sitting in a bath full of almonds and i was like well it's my own bath they will still be crunchy. They're going to get wet inside your mouth anyway. Yeah. Yeah, I can see the logic. So I fished them out of the bath and I ate them.

Well, you know. It happened. I just hope they were almonds because sometimes. Yeah, that's true. Other things, you know. Usually I know when that happens. Do you not? Has it got to that stage of life where you're like, oh, did I just?

Is that an almond or is it, oh, no, had a loss there. So would you say a low moment or would you say in hindsight? I mean, yeah, it's a pretty low moment when I'm fishing almonds out of the bath and eating them. You try not to eat food that's fallen into bodies of bathwater, do you, as a general life rule? If anyone else was in the bath with me, I wouldn't have. But to be fair, like just reading the paper today, probably better than swimming

in a lot of beaches around Auckland. There's 60 of them at the moment you can't swim in. So, yeah. A lot of bath almonds floating around out there. And people still swim in those. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so you're right.

Okay, 0800 The Hats, we're going to go your lowest moment. This could probably be a moment that you've spent on your own and you've kept this information to yourself until now. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Just recently, what did you do? Dropped my snack, dropped my almonds in the bath and I was like, well, these are expensive. I'm going to fish them out. It's my own bath water and I ate them. Now, are wet almonds compared to dry almonds? What would you prefer?

They, I mean dry almonds because the skin was all wet and they're a little bit warm too. Yeah, I'm dry, Armand, because the skin was all wet. Yeah, soggy. And they're a little bit warm, too. Yeah, and soapy. So, yeah, you never catch me eating a sandwich in a spa pool or chips on a water slide or anything like that. I wouldn't eat the sandwich if I dropped a sandwich. But, you know, the almonds, they're still crunchy.

They're salvageable. So, the lowest moment in your life, 0800, that hits the telephone number. Now, pure coincidence. We were talking about this earlier on the show. This lady, Alison, is with us talking about a low moment involving a tow truck. And what happens if you're winched up by the tow truck driver and you jump in your car? Apparently they can't take it away from you, Alison. This happened to you.

That happened to me. I'm a nurse, and I won't tell you which hospital I was working at, but I had part dodgy, I have to say. And I just had this funny feeling to go check my car, and I went out, and there it was on the back of the tow truck. So I'm widowed with three children, so money is fairly important. So I thought, and I knew that if you get into your car, they actually can't legally tow you away. Now, where did you hear this?

Because Megan and me had both heard this wonderful, wonderful rumour. Well, I was watching a Fair Go programme and I saw it on Fair Go and then I saw it again on the news. They were talking about it as well, that if you can get into your car, they can't tow you away because it's actually kidnapping. And if they insist

on you getting out your car, you can actually phone the police to come and help you. This is so good. Even though you're parked in the wrong and they're doing their job. Wow, what an age we live in. Well, you try getting parking in a hospital. Yeah, true. Were you in scrubs as well? No, I wasn't in scrubs.

Oh, that would have helped. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, I climbed up the back of the tow truck because the tow truck driver was talking to the parking attendant and all my heart was beating and my stomach was going. It was a bit of a hike to get up there and then I got into my car and beat the horn. So they then both looked up.

So they didn't notice you climbing in, obviously. No, no, because they were too busy talking. And his engine of the tow truck was going as well. So I got in the car and once I got in the car, I beat the horn, and they both suddenly looked quite startled. And then I said, you legally have to let me down now. And so I imagine they are steaming. And then they said, are you staff or a visitor?

And I said, I'm staff, but that shouldn't matter. Anyway, so they let me down. He had to let me down. Oh, amazing. Yeah, so they let me down. He had to let me down. Oh, amazing. Yeah, that's incredible. What happens, do you think, if you see it stopped at a red light or whatever? What, and you sprint into the car at the intersection?

You unlock it. It's quite a height to try and climb up, I tell you, but I just knew I could not afford it. It was like, oh, God almighty, what am I going to do? Ultimate life hack. Ultimate life hack. Ultimate life hack. Did you move the car or did you put it back where you'd parked it originally? Yeah, I moved the car.

I imagine there's a few awkward minutes after you've jumped in your car as well. I guess if you can fight through the awkwardness. Yeah. Yeah, like I said, I beat the horn and that made them both in the car. They'll be like, she's had a win. She's got one. Yay, suckers. Beep, beep.

Appreciate your call, Alison. You have a great day. No worries. You guys have a great day. John O'Bannon, Megan. The podcast. The hits. Dilma T, trying to make the world a better T.

Do try it. Great supporters of this show over the last few years. Yeah, we do love our friendship with Dilma. And we're joined by the big dog from Dilmar, Dilhan. Good morning. Well, a good morning to you, but a good evening from me. Yeah.

It's 11 o'clock at night, late night calling Dilhan here. It is. How have you been? I've been fantastic, and you know, the way we drink tea, nothing could possibly go wrong. Nothing could go wrong. How many cups of tea are you having a day again, Dilhan? Between 13 and 14. 13 if it's busy.

14 to 15 if it's a normal day. She's 13 to a lot. That's a lot. Dear schedule. Yeah. Listen, we'll cut straight to the chase. You're a businessman. Yeah.

You've always talked about us coming, you know, Jono and myself coming over and seeing you. Now, I don't know if that's like one of those times where people say, we should catch up, and, you know, you're not hoping that maybe it will happen. No, no, it's all sincere. You know, we love having Kiwis over, so it's all genuine.

Oh, that's good, because I've been saying to a friend from school we should catch up for about 15 years, and I'm pretty stoked it hasn't happened yet, but we'll keep saying it to each other. But that in mind, you've got that piece of information in your head. We want to pitch a bit of an idea to you, Dilhan. All right. So the golden tea bag, that's what it's called.

We place a golden tea bag. Hey, don't do it. He's like, sounds expensive. It doesn't have to be pure gold or anything like that. Run it off quick before he can say no. Yeah, so you put a golden tea bag inside a Dilmar tea packet. We need to come over and supervise it, make sure it goes inside one. And then these tea bags come to you.

That's the essential part. Yeah, then we get to enjoy hanging out with you and experiencing Sri Lanka. And then the tea bags come to New Zealand and someone could buy a packet with it in and they win a trip to Sri Lanka. This is sounding more and more like Ben's social media. Very, very dodgy. It is very, very dodgy. It does sound, I mean, it sounds a little shady.

It sounds a little one way, like everything's coming up for the show. And the other thing is, we'd love you to pay for it all. I knew that'd be a catch. You know, I've really got to, I've got to talk about, I've got to talk to my brother about this. And maybe I'll have my people call your people and then we can take a call. Okay.

It sounds like when your parents say no, you know, like in a roundabout way. They're looking at timelines. I don't want to rush things, but International Tea Day, you know, it's coming up pretty shortly, May 21st. So how about we were there that week? Well, let me give you a call back. Okay. He's got to think about it.

Because of my deliberation. I really think you should work on your proposal. All right. Well, yeah, let me have a think. In all seriousness, why are you thinking about that? Because one of the things that we've often talked to you about is all the wonderful things that Dilmar do do in Sri Lanka, helping out a lot of people, help the environment as well.

Can you tell us about some of those things? Well, you know, my father built our business on a philosophy of kindness. And that's a beautiful thing. That's our strength because he wanted us to use our profits to help people. And so, you know, we have schools, hospitals. We help children with cancer. We have environmental projects, climate action initiatives. It's a lot of fun. But jokes apart, genuinely, I would love to have you coming over

and I would love to show you around. Oh, we'd love to experience all the wonderful things that Dilmar do. And as you said, kindness, you know, so that kindness will come through when you're thinking about this decision. Absolutely. So I'm going to give it a good think over a few cups of tea, one or 14 or 15 or something like that. That can be a challenge too. If we do come over, we'll try and keep up with your 13 to 14 cup regime. We'll try and keep up with you.

Oh, that'll be a challenge. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. 20K Bingo kicked off this morning at 7 o'clock with Bingo Master Aidan pulling out the first bingo ball.

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There we go. I'm not going to say it again. Look, I hope everyone had a really nice Mother's Day yesterday. I was without my husband for most of the weekend. He was sick on Saturday. And then on Sunday, he drove to sing the national anthem at the Tall Blacks in Tall Ferns. You forgot to say you gave him food poisoning.

But anyway, that's an important detail that you've glossed over. But anyway, yes, he did sing the Australian national anthem. Yeah. Head of the basketball. Just imagine a lot of tall people going, G'day, mate. Yeah. Ah, kangaroo.

Not even singing the New Zealand national anthem Australian he did a great job he nailed this sorry can I just sit in New Zealand no he just took the job the Anzac spirit so afterwards

after he sung for the tall friends he was under instructions to get changed, get in the car and get home who gave him these instructions not me so he grabs his stuff he goes backstage and he's like finding the nearest toilet he sees the accessible toilet and he's like cool i'm just gonna take all my stuff in there get changed so he's on a mission and he sees the door shut but it's not locked and he's like oh okay all. Someone's pulled a shut. Flings open the accessible door, and one of the Australian basketballers is sitting there.

Oh, she's accessed it. She's accessing. The game is about to start. So she was obviously like, got to go, be real quick, didn't lock the door, and one of the Opals is sitting there like, ah! Horrible situation for everyone involved. Yeah, you're like for everyone yeah both of us shouldn't be in here andrew was like not only had i opened the door but i was in such a rush i'd opened it and i'd stepped in so he's like i'm in the toilet with one of the australian basketballs she's going she's going that's on her she should lock the door yeah

none of them should have been in there. But anyway. A cheeky knock wouldn't have gone to miss. But she's about to play a game as well. So under any excuse, she's got more excuse than Andrew. Both parties absolutely embarrassed. So he shuts the door and he's like, do I wait outside? I don't know.

She comes out and he's like, have a great game. She's like, geez, that anthem guy is thorough. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast The Hits Josh Thompson, a very funny comedian from New Zealand You've seen him on Seven Days and many other TV shows His comedy festival show is called Old Mate

You can catch all the details of the Hits talk out in his head And he joins us early morning on Zoom Good morning, Josh Hello, John O'Briar, how are you? Yeah, no, we're doing well Always love running into Josh and whatever Last time we saw Josh was at the Weet-Bix Kiwi Kids Triathlon, and you're always in a fluster.

There's always something going wrong. You're always like 15 minutes late. You've forgotten something. It was the same at the triathlon, wasn't it? You were running somewhere. Yeah, is this your demeanor, or are you like this all the time? No, I'm usually like a cool, calm, sort of just a really onto it guy. I thought our first triathlon I didn't know it just said the triathlon starts at like like nine o'clock or whatever it was so I thought

every all the kids just had to start running at nine o'clock into the ocean I didn't know they were like separated by so I was like pushing kids out and then I got there and then it was all divided by age and it was like well thought out and planned and went really swimming into the sea because I was like I don't know if he's

going to be okay in the sea we're going to lose some good kids today yeah yeah but I mean it's good to get some free

weepiks out of it it's well planned it's a great event it's a great event did your kid enjoy it probably yeah I should have checked in with him

yeah she had a great time she had a great time very cute when they cross the finish line Did your kid enjoy it? Probably, yeah. I should have checked in with him. She had a great time. She had a great time. Very cute when they cross the finish line though, isn't it? Pretty cute. The whole thing was pretty cute. Although there was one kid who looked the same as my child on the same green bike with like handlebar fluffy bits.

And I was like, come on, Suana, come on. And then I was like, whoa, you've missed, you've, you don't remember what your own child looks like. We did that. We did that with a school production and with my,

one of my daughters, you know, at one stage she was a lead. The other time she had to be in the ensemble. And my wife was like, that's her. I'm like, that's not her.

That's her. We were the whole time. We're like, they're dressed as cats. And we're like, she's really good. I hope it's her. And we're like,

it turns into a game of we as Wally we'll support that girl she's great yeah yeah it's hard when they're all dressed the same but i think it's generally pretty good generally you're pretty good at recognizing your own children generally can spot them out uh the comedy fest back for another year when did you first get into comedy because you've been doing it for a while now what was the reason why you got into it because i imagine that's quite a big step right um i was at dunedin university and there was a comedy comp on at the pub and you got two free beers if you did it i i went up and i did assume, the worst five minutes of my life. I got a couple of free beers. And also afterwards, my friends were so excited. They went, Josh, Josh, a girl wants to talk to you.

A random girl who I didn't know wanted to talk to me. And I was like, could this get any better? This is what I'm meant to do for the rest of my life. Yeah, yeah. If you could sum up a Dunedin student yeah we're looking at it you can actually probably still go back there and blend in at this age I went back one time but I was definitely too old yeah I was only like two years later and I was like who are these children and then you're like oh no I'm at the Weet-Bix triathlon again Your show is kind of, it's about stuff you've learnt

Yes, yeah, I've learnt that I'm old, that's about it I thought it was going to be quite cool Yeah, everything's not working the way I thought it would, physically Oh, physically speaking, I'm with you, yeah I was directing a TV show and they had an intern director who came along to learn some things for me I didn't really have anything very deep to say most of the day but then one point I was like oh I had a sudden splash of inspiration and I think I literally said one thing you got to watch out for and as I said as I stood up and I farted

I didn't know it was coming she thought I was doing like a funny bit. I was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And I'm like, no, no, don't. Please don't lose respect for me. I just lost. I didn't even know I was there. Yeah, just involuntarily came out. So I've become that guy now. I can't trust my own butt.

Didn't the Queen have a story of Joe Biden farting in front of her? I think it was, yeah. You and Joe Biden. He's probably twice your age though, Josh. He's got excuses. You should be a bit tighter. A bit tighter in that region. You've lost control of your sphincter.

I would have thought, surely there's some sort of exercise I can do for that. I'll give it a go. But I'll look into it. I'll look into it. Yeah, no, do, do, do. Well, lovely to see you, my friend.

And you can catch Josh as part of the... Do you get free mayonnaise as part of the – do you get free mayonnaise as part of the International Comedy Festival? Best foods. We get allotted a certain amount. A friend of ours is on the board of the comedy festival, and she gets paid. She doesn't get paid in money.

She gets paid in mayonnaise. It's quite a dark market on the side there for mayonnaise, especially comedy mayonnaise. They've got that good truffle mayonnaise at the comedy festival. I tried that. That's a good – have you tried that? Oh, no. Hook us up, Josh. Get your own. especially comedy mayonnaise they've got that good truffle mayonnaise at the comedy festival as well I tried that that's a good have you tried that?

oh no hook us up Josh get your own go and tell some jokes for an hour and then you'll get some but this is mine Jono, Ben and Megan the podcast

the hits now a lot of talk about kids under the age of 16 the potential ban on social media I know the National Party are wanting to put that through, and it's gone into something called the Bickey Tin. We were talking about this last week, weren't we? So it's not guaranteed to be passed as a bill. It just goes in with a whole bunch of other ideas, some that have been sitting there for years,

that never have been pulled out. In my mind, it's a tin, and I don't know if this is reality because I've never seen it. It's a tin, and people put a little bit of paper like marriage equality bill chucking in the biscuit tin. And then they pull out a little piece of paper. I don't actually know how it works. Not far from the truth, Megan. I had a look into it over the weekend. So it's an actual biscuit tin that was purchased from Decker in the 1990s.

Oh my God. So more like when you put cookies in rather than your sort of longer sort of one. And yeah, and it's basically a tin. And they've got little sort of almost like our bingo balls. And they put numbers that relate to the particular thing that goes in there. Oh, okay. And then they pull it out like it's some sort of meat raffle at the RSA or something. And then some big banger laws, death penalties, marriage equality,

have come from the Bikitin in New Zealand. We've got a death penalty floating around there, do we? No, it's what happened when we abolished the death penalty. Oh, right. It was in the biscuit tin. It came from that. Yeah, so some laws that you're like, well, of course it makes sense now, have come from the Bikitin. I just love it.

The US has got the Declaration of Independence. We've just got a biscuit tin from Decca. A Bikitin. Yeah, a sort of blue and white bicky tin. It's not the only way we make laws. So if they hadn't pulled it out of the biscuit tin, they probably, we would have got rid of the death penalty.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. These things do happen. You're right. And even with the- We're losing a lot of good people here. Hopefully it comes out one day. Someone get it out of the biscuit tin.

Redraw, redraw. What did you do? I parked in a loading zone. Yeah, go on, mate. And also the government. Down to the square. The government as well are working on some options. They're saying at the moment,

Luxembourg would still like the social media ban to become some sort of law beforehand, even if it doesn't get pulled out of the buggy tin. So they are looking into that. I know there's a lot of petitions happening at the moment. It seems like a very complicated thing that we're delving into. See, Labour's on board with it, aren't they? Not officially, but yes.

But yeah, they're looking into it. In theory, yeah. So if you've got the two big banger parties then you'd have no trouble getting across the line. I was driving down the motorway. We went and visited the school the other day with Kids Can and dropped off the jackets for the kids. I was driving back on the motorway and there was a very flash sort of BMW on the motorway.

And then behind it, this car, I was like, this car is really tailgating the BMW, like almost less than a metre gap between the two. And then I drove past and it was old Luxo in the BMW. And then behind it was just like a Toyota with his security. So the car, you couldn't get in between the security and the... You're trying to change that. I want to get in there.

I want to get in there, mate. What happens if the BMW slams on the brakes? Yeah. Well, at least the security guys... Didn't that happen? I think that actually happened. Oh, did it? I think it did.

I'm not surprised that the car behind went straight in because you've got about a metre's grace. Did you wave to Luxo? No, I was just trying to concentrate on driving. I was texting at the same time. Had a lot of stuff going on. Security, we're like, who's this guy? The only reason, because all the windows are tinted,

but the only reason I could tell it was him is because you could see his shiny head. Just us bald guys, we can be very recognisable, even under tint. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Right, the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz.

We start full of hope and generally we end in bitter sadness. Now our quiz queen, Grace Hilliam, our producer. Grace, welcome. Lovely to have you in here. Nice to be here. Thank you, guys. Grace was telling me yesterday she's on a big jaunt to Europe. A month away in Europe at the end of the year, Grace.

You and your partner. I'm doing hot girl summer, but I'm doing hot girl winter. Still hot, though. Yeah, it's always hot. Yeah, good. I like it. All right, well, Grace, while you save up

for your trip overseas, let's try and get 10 out of 10 on the Herald. Okay, ready for question one. Which religious tradition follows eightfold path? Jainism? Buddhism?

Sikhism? I think it's Buddhism, isn't it? Eightfold path. Eightfold path? No, I don't exactly know what that means either. We can go lifeline. It's Monday morning. Let's not put too much pressure on ourselves.

Let's make it easy on ourselves. Text 44870800 the hits to. So it's either Buddhism, Sikhism, or Jainism. Eightfold path. Yeah, follows the eightfold path. I have no clue what that is. Oh, jeez. I don't think you guys do either.

My friend, he went to a Buddhist retreat. Silence. They have to go silence for about a week or so. It's just the most wild thing he's done. Not allowed to talk to anyone. Not allowed to look at anyone in the eyes. Oh, really? Yep. I'm just trying to do a filiband here. look at anyone in the eyes. Oh, really? Yep.

I'm just trying to fill a band here. Is that Shelton? Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Shelton from Blindspot, the drummer. And then he came back and he said everything was like super sensory overload. Yeah. Oh, really?

Things taste amazing. Driving back and stuff like that. Yeah. After a week of silence, you hop in your car and you're back into peak hour traffic. It would be a lot. Whoa. Harvey Norman ads coming at you

on the radio. So take me back to that farm. Okay, Buddhism's come through on the text machine. That is correct. There we go.

Thank you very much. Yeah, we should have answered. It was a guess. It was a guess. We can never tell when you're sure or when you're bluffing.

Neither can I to be honest. Question number two. Which ship was discovered adrift in the Atlantic Ocean with no crew in 1872, leading to theories ranging from piracy to alien abduction?

Carol A. Deering, Marie Celeste by Chimo. Oh, gosh. Yeah, was this again? Sorry. 1872, so just around the time you guys were born. Yeah, yeah. I do remember that well, Grace. You're right. It's a good one.

Big one in the news. It was. Everyone's like, what happened to that ship? Hello, what's up? It's quite topical. We were doing radio back then as well. That ship's still missing. Let's just, like, I have no idea.

It's going to have to be a guess. Let's go see. Marie. Wait, so there's Carol A. Dearing, Marie Celeste Baychimo. You like Marie? You like the sound of Marie? Let's go with Marie. Yeah, lock it in. That is correct. Oh, yes. You like Marie? You like the sound of Marie? Let's go with Marie. Lock it in.

That is correct. Oh, yes. Great, great, great, great. The quiz gods are on our side. We'll take one more. Did not deserve that one, but anyway. Who is responsible for officiating sumo matches? Sensei, Gyoji, Joduka.

Sensei's karate. So maybe not, but would they have a... Sensei's karate So maybe not But would they have Sensei's a karate instructor Isn't it So it wouldn't be a judge It wouldn't be a match official For a

So let's eliminate Sensei So the next one is Guy O Jai G G Y O J I Sorry if I'm

And then Joe Duca Let's go Joe Duca And you know why You know why Why Because The first two have been B, and this is C. Okay.

Now, that is the theory I based all my exam answers on when I was at school. Do you want to know something funny? The answer was B. You were incorrect. So you probably failed your exam. What was B? I can't remember. I've already clicked it.

Whatever. There we go. The New Zealand Hero Daily Quiz.