Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Failing my kids homework...

Episode Date: June 9, 2024

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This Jono and Ben podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. I had your name mentioned in my household over and over and over again this weekend, Jono. In what tone? Positive? Positive? Negative? Positive. Very positive. But it wasn't my husband Andrew that is a big fan of you, it turns out my three-year-old, Bastion. We showed him a video, I don't know why actually, because it was us before and after the Radio Awards last week. Yes. Where we all looked great at the event and looked not so great at 5am the next day. We looked like the crack addict versions of ourselves from the night before.

Yeah, I looked the worst. My son's like, what's up in there? You had a hoodie on the next day. The Radio Awards were looking all glam. But it was all five of us on the show. So producer Grace, producer Taylor included. But he, just there was one standout that he couldn't get past. This is him.

One more time, Jono. One more time what? Jono. Why? Because we want Jono one time, Jono. You want Jono? Yeah. Who's your favourite, Jono, Ben or Megan?

Yeah. But me. Who? Mummy. Oh, good answer. I feel like he took too long to answer. He was like, oh. He definitely felt obliged to say Mummy, didn't he?

He's like, oh, hang on. And his mind is like, Jono, but I know what I obliged to say that. Yeah, yeah. Didn't he? He's like, we laugh. He's like, oh, hang on. And his mind is like, Jono, but I know what I need to say. Yeah, I don't want to live with the tension in this household if I say someone else. Oh, we can. One more time, Jono. I was like, I think we've seen enough.

Oh, so he just wanted to keep watching it over and over again. Yeah. And you were the one that stood out to him. To be honest, Sebastian was three years old. Yeah. Yeah, target market for me.

I start to lose them as soon as they sort of grow up and develop intellect and realise I'm a moron, but I'll hold on to them now in that sweet spot. Is he like hungover Johnna or like party Johnna? What he'd like? No, he just liked all Johnna, it turns out. He's also now a big fan of ACDC, weirdly.

He is a cute sounding kid. That is a very cute... Doesn't he do that with Taylor Swift? One more time. Yeah, he's moved on though. He's moved on to ACDC. He doesn't want Taylor Swift anymore. Yeah, right. He wants Jono from the rock era.

Maybe a paternity test is needed actually. He's into rock music. He's into Jono. He's cracking his first can of Cody's before you know it, mate. Sometimes kids in the school program, the education system, they'll come to you late, late at night. Hey, I've got to do a project.

Oh, okay, great. When does this need to be in by? Eight o'clock tomorrow morning. Yeah. You know, really? You've got all this to look forward to, Megan. Yeah, I can't wait. A couple of years ago, my daughter was like,

I need to find six snails. I was putting her to bed. It was 8.30, 9 o'clock at night. Six snails. I was like, when do need to find six snails I was putting her to bed it was 8.30 9 o'clock at night six snails I was like when do you need the six snails darling we'll find them on the weekend I need them tomorrow by 8am so I was out bloody hands and knees phone torch light

can't find a snail for love nor money when you're looking for them but when you don't want them they're everywhere so you've been up, 11 o'clock plus Helping my daughter Now to be fair, she'd done all the work She'd done the research and done all the writing

That was required, but she needed it presented On a slideshow I've got no slideshow skills The big thing now, all the kids are into them They love a slideshow And it was demonstrating The ecosystem of New Zealand high country. You know, so the tussocks grow and then the kea eats the tussocks.

And then the blah, blah, blah eats the kea. So you're not passing with the blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Jen, like I said, my wife, she's doing a lot of this. This is the great thing about being the less educated one in the household. It's her with the brain. She's running a lot of the questions and help out there on that front. More of a presentation guy.

Are you? No. A speech you could do, but arts and crafts is not really your thing. No, don't have the patience. Don't have the patience. You go through school, you're like, we'll never have to do that again. Thank God that's over. And you have kids, mate. You're back do that again. Thank God that's over. And you have kids, mate.

You're back in the system. Yeah. Helping out. But anyway, we had to do this flow chart of the things on the slideshows and stuff like that. Still don't know what the marks are. That's the thing. You get quite invested sometimes.

You do. Yeah. You've been in the same. You never got the results back. You were asking. I made a whole Hogwarts, like a whole Hogwarts out of the inside of paper towels, the results back. You were asking. I made a whole Hogwarts, like a whole Hogwarts out of like the inside of paper towels,

the tubes and toilet paper. Wow. I spent, I was up till like three in the morning working on this thing. He was like, get away kids.

The kids were on it for a while. Then I was like, you guys really need to get to bed. And I was like, I really got a painting and doing everything

and took it to, this tray thing, took it to school and I was like, better get great marks for that. Never heard, never heard.

And it's weird if you're calling being like, hey, what's the mark on that? What's the mark on that Hogwarts thing? Yeah, I'm sure the teachers are like, oh, that screams parent. Let's try and find. If that teacher is listening and you were handed in a Boyce Hogwarts castle, how do you do? How do you do? Let's get the marks. Now, I went under the hat.

This is what we want to open up. Have you been ghost writing and ghost helping on a school project and never got any credit for it? Okay. Now we'll give you the credit. You phone us up. Just go, hey, yeah, you know, I worked on a bloody paper mache shape. Jacinda Ardern.

Never got any kudos for the artwork. Exactly. We'll give it to you right now. All right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Projects, the ghost writers, the ghost workers on school projects that never get acknowledged, don't get the recognition they deserve. Well, now's your time.

Phone up 0800 The Hits. Have you secretly worked on a project at school? Never got the kudos. Ben was up till three o'clock in the morning building Harry Potter's Hogwarts. Many years ago out of toilet paper rolls and paper towel tubes. You never even got a mark. No, it was kind of at the end of the year sort of thing. It does feel like filler content too.

Yeah, it was. Why don't you go home and make Hogwarts out of toilet paper rolls? Let's get Mary on. What you never got credit for, Mary? My daughter was at primary school and we had to do a monument in Paris and we did the Arctic Triumph triumph so we did this big board with all the different about five or six different lanes around it and then made the monument out of

cardboard and hand painted it and then we got all these little matchbox cars and had them all going in the wrong direction you know yeah right as they do and no detail was skipped no no detail was skipped No, no detail was skipped And she took that in And she's now 23 And last, well six months ago I took her to Paris And my thing was to always take her To the Arc de Triomphe And we were on a tuk-tuk

And she didn't even know she was coming up to it And I just went straight across Right into the middle of it And there it was And I've got the most amazing photo of her and I in front of it. Oh, there you go. It's not enough you've been to that roundabout. It's not something I'd like to brave in a tuk-tuk.

Yeah, it's a whole noise, isn't it? Yeah. I thought she was going to be taken out by a tuk-tuk. And, of course, they have to give way to ones coming on, traffic coming on. Yeah. And so the tuk-tuk driver just went straight, right through the whole five lanes,

right into the centre. Legend. And there she was, her eyes just opened up and we were there. Oh, that's beautiful. Oh, there you go. It might have been easier

to build the actual Arc de Triomphe than this one. She tried that once, didn't she? Yeah. Hey, good on you, Mary. Appreciate that. Tash,

why you will never do kids' homework again. Never ever. My son wouldn't let me do any of his homework again either. What happened? Well, he missed a school trip. He was at primary school, but he missed a school trip because he was sick up to Russell and they had to do a big assignment on it and so I spent, I don't know how many days, Googling, researching,

typing it like a seven-year-old would and he failed. So you dumbed it down a bit too much, obviously. Yeah, yeah. It's always a fine line, right? Yeah, at least. So yeah, I was never allowed to do anything or proofread any of his assignments ever, ever again. Yeah, I feel that.

It's a bit humiliating when you fail a primary school project, doesn't it? I appreciate that, Tash. Let's get Lynn on. You're giving her the credit you deserve for secretly working on school projects, Lynn. Yeah, so my son and I, we were

doing a bake cake, a cake baking competition. Difficult words to get out, they are, aren't they, together? The cake bake, bake cake. Cake baking, bake cake. Yeah. So we thought, yeah, you know, we'd work on that the night before, and it looked amazing. And, you know, we had all the intricacies of icing here and there,

and we thought we were going to win this. And we didn't get top three. Oh, Lynn. What? Disgraceful. I think the pictures might have seen right through us. Yeah. Or maybe there were better parents out there baking.

Yeah, it looked very good. I think it just stood out a little bit too much. He was very disappointed. Appreciate your call there, Lynn. Great text here. My dad built the solar system for me, rotated and everything automatically, and I won a huge regional science fair.

Had nothing to do with it. Dad couldn't have been prouder. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. You're a fan of Baby Reindeer, the Netflix show about the, well, it seems loosely based on a true story, question mark, about a comedian, a Scottish comedian who gets stalked. He's tried to say he sort of made things hard to tell who the actual person was,

but the actual stalker has come, alleged stalker has come out, and she's trying to sue Netflix for a couple hundred million New Zealand dollars. 170 mil. So everyone found her from her tweets, and then she came forward and did an interview with Piers Morgan, but she claimed that it's not all truth. So now she's suing them for defamation. How do you land on 170 mil?

Yeah. Okay, so someone's defamed the good character of Ben Boyce and Megan Pappas. I've done a Netflix doco on YouTube. It's completely fabricated as only I would do. You're like, I need a figure to settle this, to make myself feel great. Easily, you go over 100 mil straight away.

101 million? Would you be happy with 101 million? I'd be happy with 101 million I'd be happy with well it depends how much is your character worth yeah it depends I mean it would be

like if it was all if it is untrue if for a second it's untrue then you would want a lot of money does she have to prove that it's

all untrue because people have found her tweets so those definitely happened or to what point and is it damaging to her

well I think just on the international scale of the defamation. This is not just 6.30 in the morning on a Monday, us saying some stuff on the radio. This was worldwide. Everyone knows who she is. They hunted her down on the internet. I know. And now she's, yeah.

It's like 170 mil seems like a fair enumeration. Yeah, I'd say so. How much did he make off the show? She probably, oh, go halves. Well, it was number one. It was number one everywhere. Go halves and the profit. True.

We both said some stuff. May or may not have been true. We both did some stuff we regret. Go halves down the middle. Just quickly before we head to 7 o'clock, because I know news is not too far away. I had a frustrating moment yesterday at the mall because my daughter went with a bunch of friends

to the movies and I was like, well, hey, you guys go and I'll make sure you're fine. I'll sit out just outside. There was like a coffee shop and do some work out there. Fine.

They went to the movies. Then I waited for them to come out and in one of the movies, one of them had done a great, one of those great pranks where they tied the shoelaces together of their shoes, you know, so the shoes were connected.

So one of the girls couldn't quite walk. I'm like, oh, God, I've got to drop it back to the parents. I don't want to look like I'm the irresponsible person that has, you know, brought your daughter home with the shoelaces tied together. So do you think I could undo the shoelaces? Oh, were they really tight? Was she walking with them tied? Yeah.

Oh, the tension. Yeah, the tension. She couldn't really walk, but she tried. And I was like 10-15 minutes Trying to get these Bloomin' shoelaces I was like good gag Good gag

But now I'm trying to Put keys in there I'm trying to put hair clips All sorts of stuff Then I'm like I'm going to have to buy shoelaces You guys Oh you there

I'm going to buy shoelaces Did you buy shoelaces? I had to go buy shoelaces Went to the Converse store They never went Another store No I'm running Trying to do that

Finally got the shoelaces Come back And then like Oh no we're never went to another store. No, I'm running around trying to do that. Finally got the shoelaces, come back, and then they're like, oh no, we're all good now. We got them undone. I'm like, oh. So now you've got a spare pair of shoelaces. Yeah, yeah. I want to just sit there home and be like,

ugh, they are a bit mischievous. She couldn't take them off either. That was the thing. It was like, we're stuck. Drop it at the end of the driveway. You don't have to deal with the awkwardness. Just hop your way back up the driveway. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Something happened on Friday

if you remember the show and the bad person joins us in the studio. So we've got Connor with us from the Hits and Crush. Connor, very eventful Friday for you. Yeah, yeah.

Still coming to terms with it, I imagine. We were talking to you, this was the night after the big radio awards. You'd been home, what, not long at the hotel?

Yeah, probably at that point, I'd been home, what, not long at the hotel? Yeah, probably at that point, I'd say three hours. Right, okay. We call you for a live radio bit every week, you're reliable, you turn up, you do the best weekend and then all of a sudden this happens. I can't get out. Are you locked in there,

Connor? I am locked, I can't get out. Locked yourself in the hotel stairwell. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it really captured the hearts of the nation. Text coming through, free Connor. With some of the text coming through.

We had rolling coverage. We phoned the hotel. Yeah. Where is he stuck? In your stairwell. He can't get out. What floor, Connor? What floor?

Level three. Level three. Level three. Yes. Oh, okay. In your stairwell. He can't get out. What floor, Connor? What floor? Level three. Level three. Level three? Yes. Oh, okay, in the stairwell. Oh, okay, okay, okay. And then, and then, a miracle. Talk us through what happened. So the lovely, what would you give the person who does the cleaning of the hotel? A cleaner

probably? Yeah, cleaner. What is that word? What is that word? It's an occupation. They do a lot of cleaning and tidying up of stuff. Housekeeping maybe? Yeah, housekeeping. This is the moment that Connor was freed. Thank you.

Connor. I've just been let out of the stairwell. Can we get your rescuer on the phone? With Jono and Ben. I'll pass the phone to you. Hello. Hello. You saved him. It's Jono and Ben. I'll pass the phone to you. Hello. Hello. You saved him.

It's Jono and Ben from the Hits radio station. You saved our friend. Thank you so much. Uh-huh. Okay. Do people get locked in there quite often? I'm good, yeah. You all right, buddy?

Yeah, I'm good. He's free, guys. It's a great day for radio. You can go back to bed now. Oh, my God. Why is there not a way to get out of a stairwell at a hotel? So you were freed. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm here. First time locked in a stairwell, was it? Yeah. Second. Second time. Second. Oh, really?

Well, I'm glad you're free. And that feels like just a once-in-a-lifetime event, but you've somehow managed to do it twice. And congratulations. Thanks, man. Cheers. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits and Christchurch Found himself locked

Inside a stairwell Friday Live on air Was talking to us Wasn't he And then he You know I understand

It happens You walk out Into those little areas At a hotel And then for some reason You know If you swipe a card You can't get back in

At least he wasn't naked That's true Because people do that You know Get locked out of their rooms Naked all the time Yeah And then they have to make their way

To the grave Holding a pot plant In front of appropriate parts don't they yeah uh did that happen to someone we know yeah a couple people i've heard from haley yeah from the hits yeah haley did yeah she did that's right in front of a lot of people in reception it's an awkward time yeah my friend had to grab a pillow from one of the couches by the elevator and walk down to reception just holding a pillow in front of him. Thank you. I'll have to wash that.

Yeah. There's a common theme of hits employees finding themselves locked out of hotel rooms. Yeah, you're right. So where have you been stuck? This is what we want to open up this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast. We're going to kick things off with Mario and Shannon. Morena. Hi.

Good to have you on. Oh, hey. Now, who got stuck? Was it Mario or Shannon? Me and my dad Where were you stuck? What happened? When I was little I got stuck in a bathroom I locked the door and then I was

I was like 2 or 3 or 4 and my dad had to use a tool to get me out. You're two or three or four? Yeah, one of those years. Very scary. My daughter had that happen to her a long ago where she couldn't unlock the lock. You get quite scared in a moment there. How did your dad get you out, Shannon?

Dog butt. Yeah. And a hammer. Yeah. With a hammer. And a hammer. I tried climbing over the top. Yeah.

Climbed over the top and then another lady walked into the bathroom and it looked a bit weird in the woman's bathroom. You're straddling the wall. Not a great position to be found in. We'll get Claudia on. Where did you find yourself stuck there, Claude? So when I first left school, I got a job at KFC,

and I was on drive-thru at the time, and I went into the freezer to get some things, and I let the door shut, and I had not been showed how to get out. Oh, no. So as soon as it shut, I was trying everything, and I couldn't get out. Stuck in a freezer. This is my moment. This is how I die.

Next to the frozen chickens. Jeez. How long were you in there for? Probably like five minutes until I finally figured out it was so easy. You're like, I'm going to die now. I'm going to die now. This is how it ends. It's been so long by then. Imagine dying in amongst all that frozen chicken. I'm going to die now. This is how it ends.

Imagine dying in amongst all that frozen chicken. I can't even cook it to be my last meal. Hey, Claudia, appreciate you. I've got some great texts coming through here on 4487. Found myself locked inside a lift. Had no buttons on the inside. Oh, weird. Is that like a service lift? It's a prank lift.

Yeah, surely it'd have one button at least right uh i got stuck in a chair can we please get that chair one on taylor how do you get stuck inside a chair katherine we'll get you on uh welcome to the show where'd you find yourself stuck there kath i got stuck at super liquor we're Whereabouts were you stuck at Super Liquor? Not in the chiller as well, were you? Oh, no. No, so I went in and, you know, bought the alcohol bits and pieces, went out to the car, hopped it all in, started the vehicle, and then I thought, I just need to go to the bathroom.

I wonder if they'll just let me borrow the bathroom. So I raced back in and left the car going and my phone everything in there and they said yeah no worries go out the back but you know there's a pin number on the store door before you go through yeah and yeah did the whole thing went to the bathroom the door was locked oh oh cars running on. God, you definitely don't live in Auckland then. No one's leaving their keys in the car running. Cars running, full of grog, and I'm stuck in the loo. And I just knocked it out.

How long were you there for, Catherine? About an hour. Oh, my God. It was horrendous because, you know, there's a laundromat next door and all I could hear was the dryers going and I was banging on the door. The car's still running outside. Was the car all good at the end? Yeah, the car's still there.

Everything was all good. I was just like, did you not think to check on me? But anyway, I got out. Wow, Catherine survived an harrowing hour inside the Super Liquor toilet. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. From the Hits in Christchurch Friday, we were live where he found himself stuck inside the hotel stairwell. I can't get out. Are you locked in there, Connor?

I am locked. I can't get out. You'll be glad to know he's alive and well. He's fine. He survived. But yeah, we were just wondering, alive and well. He's fine. He survived. But yeah, we were just wondering, we've been stuck. I remember we locked ourselves. This was voluntarily locked ourselves inside of like a Perspex box in the Westfield

and we weren't allowed to be released from the box until we solved a Rubik's Cube. Not really knowing how Rubik's Cubes work. We just thought maybe if we're in there for long enough, we might stumble across how to solve it. That's not how it happens. There is a code and there's a things. There's like a formula. Did you have a phone to YouTube it?

No, we couldn't allow it. But we're allowed to ask people as they walk past the mall. We're allowed, I think, three sort of helpers sort of situation. This one girl, school girl, after school, she came along and she grabbed another Rubik's Cube from a store. And she just went and she basically messed hers up to match ours, however thing it was and then she showed us step by step from the outside it was incredible very infuriating for her I imagine it took about an hour for us now turn the right one over that way and then took it yeah it was incredible how she got her one to look exactly the same as ours just the random messed up cube you're like this, this is, she's a genius. She is a genius. Yeah. And we were two middle-aged men,

idiots locked in a box. Julia, hello. Hello. Stuck in a chair. Yeah. So we used to go to Rollerama on a Wednesday night and we were playing musical chairs. And there's these old style chairs with a metal frame

and then a canvas back and a canvas seat. Oh, yes, yes, yes. And for some reason they put one out that didn't have a particularly good canvas seat and my ass fell through. And I could not get myself out. Oh, the canvas broke, so your bottom's stuck in the frame of the chair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So my roller boot feet sticking up in the air. Oh, so the canvas broke, so your bottom's stuck in the frame of the chair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So my roller boot feet sticking up in the air. Oh, no!

And, yeah, I had to be rescued. I can't quite remember how it went. I just remember being quite traumatised by the amount of people who will have seen it happen. And so did it take quite a bit of force to remove the chair from you? Oh, gosh. Do you know, I really can't remember. I just remember the being stuck in the chair bit.

Your mind has blocked out the trauma. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Oh, I love it. I always enjoy those people who phone up and say, oh, is that a children's playground? I thought I'd try and get into the toddler ones. And then their legs lock in the little slots and they have to get the fire service to cut them out

with the jaws of life. Similar to that, I think, yeah. Yeah, well, hopefully no Jaws of Life there. Julia, thank you so much. Have a great day. Thanks, bye. Just as a reminder, when I started in radio as an intern, I locked myself in the promotional cage in the garage, you know, in amongst the sample deodorants and lip balms and things.

And you had a fob, like a swipe card fob. And it was pitch black. The light just turned off after a while. And I was literally in there for probably about an hour and a half, hands and knees, in amongst all the special K samples and things like that, until I finally found it. Because no one cares about the interns, you know? They're like, oh, we'll just get another one.

Yeah, easy. What happened to that one? Who knows? Who knows? There might be interns right now down in the cup and down the seats. We wouldn't know, would we? No, we wouldn't know. one. Yeah, easy enough to get another one. What happened to that one? Who knows? Who knows? There might be interns right now coming down the stairs. We wouldn't know, would we? No, we wouldn't know. But at least there's 10 more we can hire.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Really special thing going on to raise money for the Auckland City Mission. A whole lot of celebrity chefs and members of the public are helping cook a meal for 150 Mission guests. Many are home whom are experiencing homelessness or face day-to-day struggles, to put food on the table. So it's going to be a really special night for everyone involved and two people taking part in that, Dilhan and Amrit, from our mates at Dilmar Tea. Great to have you here.

Brilliant to be here. Oh, nice to have you here. And you've put on the weather for us. It's freezing. Yeah, we thought you'd like that. It's great tea weather. Yeah, good tea weather. What is it in Sri Lanka at the moment?

It is 34 degrees. We have a little more tea than we need, but it's good tea-making weather. A little more rain, I meant. Yeah, right. What is the best conditions for making tea? Bright, beautiful morning sunshine. Yeah. A little bit of a gentle afternoon shower.

A bit of humidity, 80, 90 percent. And you've got a great cup of strong Dilma tea. So how long is... Jeez, you'd make a gentle afternoon shower. A bit of humidity, 80, 90 percent. And you've got a great cup of strong Dilma tea. So how long... Jeez, you'd make a good weather presenter. It's really good. Something I brought up with these guys three weeks ago. I got into a TikTok hole. There was a video and it was like classical music.

You play classical music to plants and the tone of the classical music mimics the birds. And the chirping of the birds is actually used to wake up plants every day. And the classical music has the same tone as the birds, and plants grew more. You're a romantic. Is that a fact? Have you done that? Try that with your teammate.

Check out some Bach or Beethoven. We have tried it. You're right. Did you try it? But the reason is the vibrations. The vibrations, the audio vibrations. It's nothing to do with the birds. Yeah, of course it's nice.

Actually, we should say. Something on TikTok's wrong. What? Yeah, it's really not. More half-truths from me. Now, you're over here for a City Mission cook-off, which is pretty cool. Yes, that's happening quite soon on Monday.

And I've been training, taking it seriously. You've never boiled an egg? Well, I learned this morning. Did you know you have to put white wine vinegar into the mixture while you're boiling? Did you know that? I bet you didn't. Just go and boil water.

Sometimes with poached eggs, I did know you could do that, but not for boiling eggs, so no. How many minutes for a soft-boiled egg? It's about six. Six? Yeah. Five and a half.

Oh, five and a half. Sorry, mate. Suddenly an expert, aren't you? An egg-spert. An expert. You got my pun. Sorry, mate. Suddenly an expert, aren't you? An expert, yes. You got my pun in there too. So it turned out all right? It was good? Well, yeah.

I didn't get to eat it, but 150 people on Monday will get that opportunity. The second most popular drink in the world after water. The tea we learned the other day. It is. When you learned, you were drinking how many, Dohan? I drink 15 cups a day. Yeah. know full of antioxidants yeah uh natural plant-based goodness so you can't ask for better but then you know my son puts a little bit of this and that in it yeah a little bit of kiwi gin and what's one thing about srinagar that you could teach us or

that we wouldn't know like what's one thing about the country oh we got some beautiful beautiful beaches but i'm sure you already know that oh yeah yeah the that you could teach us or that we wouldn't know like what's one thing about the country oh we got some beautiful beautiful beaches but i'm sure you already know that oh yeah yeah and the jungle yeah oh yeah here's one we have the largest density of leopards how many leopards you think kainyalata leopard plural is without the s not only do you add alcohol to tea but i mean you have been terribly badly brought up. I have to talk to your mum when I get back. Oh, so what, a group of leopards? Leopard isn't leopards.

No, it's not. Oh, I thought that was a plural. One leopard, two leopard. We have the highest density of leopard in Sri Lanka called Wilpatu. It sounds like you're only saying one, but you say it. I see, but anyway. Do you have you guys, elephants too?

I'm looking here, a lot of elephants. We do, we do. We have 6,000 elephant, elephant. Not elephants. Yeah, no, no. What are you guys doing

with the bloody singles and the plurals over there? You're American. No, I'm kidding. That's not the moment. I was just pulling your leg. I was like, wow, I'll be saying that wrong

as well for all that time. I would love to have you both back in New Zealand thank you so much for your help and support with the show it really does mean a lot we love working with you and hopefully that continues

thank you very much and thank you Kiwis for accepting my father's invitation and like he would always say son do try the hits the Jono and Ben podcast

rough one around the country weather wise for the next couple of days but travis kelsey in relationship with taylor swift famous american footballer him and his brother who's also a very famous american footballer they do a podcast in america and they got talking about washing their feet in the shower have a listen it started with somebody saying jason kelsey looks like he doesn't wash his legs or feet. Yeah, obviously. Who the fuck washes your legs?

What kind of psychopath washes your feet? What? The rest is fine. I just forgot to take out the first F-bomb. So it's a topic he's very passionate about, clearly. He is. Very passionate about it. Someone requires F-bombs. Someone with no hair on their head should have maybe edited that out. But yeah,

they got into the heated discussion and Travis Kelsey's like, I only wash my feet. It's hard to pull back from something like that. After he's been working out, training, and Jason's like, why wash your feet? The water's trickling down on him and i tend to agree if your water is going down you're gonna well i mean i also feel like travis is lying he's like no i definitely wash my feet who goes into a shower like you get to your knees and you're like yeah i wish most times most times most times yes you lift your feet up you got soap on your hand you lift your feet up it's just the quickest part of the. You lift your feet up. It's just a quick. It's part of the routine. It's just quick. Generally, it is a forgotten body part for most people, though. I hear you.

You're standing in the soapy water. Yeah. That'll do it. I'll get that. I guess it's probably the furthest away from the smelling receptors, too. That's why people probably forget about it. Yeah, but your shoes can get stinky. You know, like people, you're wearing shoes and socks all day.

It's stinky. So I always feel conscious that this is my opportunity to make sure my feet don't smell when I put them on a pair of shoes. And the only good way to do that is by washing your feet. Otherwise, you're just like, well, your water can rush over them, but it doesn't feel like they're getting real soaked in between the ties. What about like between the ankles and the knees? Yeah, just keep doing everything.

Do you do the shins? Yeah, you go down your legs. Do you not soap your shins? Do you soap your shins? You don't soap your shins? Do you soap your shins? You don't soap your shins. Sometimes I soap my shins. Just depending if I'm going to be bothered bending down. Yeah.

That's all it is, isn't it? It's just laziness. Yeah, pretty much. Nah, so Megan's not washing her feet. Ben Boyce, daily feet washer. Yeah, I would wash my feet every time. It's just part of the routine. Like, it's like, lift one leg up, do it.

Lift the other leg up and do it. And it's just kind of, I don't even think, probably don't even think about it now because I'm just kind of used to doing it. We were talking about this the other day. Jesus, big foot guy, big foot washing guy, wasn't he? He was washing the feet of the beggars and all the sex workers back in the day. And that was his thing, hygiene.

I think he was doing it as an act of, I'm not better than anyone. But obviously they ended up with wonderfully clean feet like Ben Boyson. Only probably momentarily too because they probably just walked straight back out. Back on the dirt. Yeah, they wouldn't have had like tarsie or foot parts back in those days. That's a nice thing you did, wasn't it?

So 0800 with the hits. Has anyone never, have you ever washed your feet? Yeah like if they look physically dirty you're going to wash them. Okay, 0800 with the hits. We're going to shut this out there. This is a big call for 6.30 on a Monday morning. Yeah. Has anyone never washed their feet? Oh, never washed their feet?

Never. Okay. Be honest. You're in a safe space. Never? Okay, well, I don't. Never wash your feet? He's already judging.

He's already judging. I'm not going to say never wash their feet. I mean, surely people have stood in stuff before and they've gone, oh, I had to wash my feet. You wouldn't just like, especially through summer as well. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Do you wash your feet? Travis Kelsey and his brother Jason Kelsey.

Travis Kelsey, obviously with Taylor Swift. They've got a podcast and they got into the fact that Travis's brother Jason never washed his feet. It started with somebody saying Jason Kelsey looks like he doesn't wash his legs or feet. Yeah, obviously. What kind of psychopath washes your feet? What?

Travis, Travis, don't act like you wash your feet. I'm not washing my feet every time, but after like a football practice, like at St. Joe, where my feet have just been like, yes, I wash my feet. You're not washing. No, you're like everybody else.

When you look down, if there's visible dirt on them, I'll scrub the dirt off. I don't even touch my feet. Why would I wash my feet? I'm not touching my feet unless I'm clipping my toenails. That's the only time I touch my feet. That's his theory. I'm kind of on board with him.

You're on board with him. Looking online as well, a lot of experts say, hygiene experts saying, yes, you should. A lot of bacteria and stuff on your feet. Of course the hygiene experts are going to say that. Yeah. That's like when the COVID experts were like, make sure you stay at home when you're sick. That's what I say. You wash your feet to cut down smell and exfoliate.

They start with your hygiene, washing your feet. Soap and water can stop them from smelling. Yeah, but what I'm saying, Benjamin, is that you're standing in the soapy water. So that's doing the job. Well, not as well as you. I would think. The great thing about the internet is you can always find an article to back your argument up. That's why we love the internet.

Now, we chucked it out there. It was a Hail Mary. Anyone who has never washed their feet. Ben went up a couple of octaves. He's like, never. Never. Yeah. Cody, never washed their feet Ben went up a couple of octaves He's like never Cody Never washed your feet Cody

Good morning You've never washed your feet If I've been out wearing Ganders all day I will If there's soap on the water, you know, just on the floor, just do the old wash your feet around

and that's good enough. So he has washed his feet, so we still haven't found someone. Yeah, I hear you. It was a big call. It was a massive call, but yeah. But I imagine there is probably a lot of people doing what you're doing, Megan,

and not actually washing, just letting the soapy water just run over it. Yeah, same with the legs. Legs are eight. It's the basement of the body, isn't it? run over it. Yeah, same with the legs. The legs are eight. It's the basement of the body, isn't it? Yeah. The back too. I feel like I need to give more love and attention to my back in the shower.

Sometimes I turn around and give a little water blast, but, you know, I'm not soaping my back. No, that's true. It's hard to kind of reach all the places around your back, isn't it? Yeah. See, and that's doing just fine. The back is doing just fine. It's still there. Yeah, but I just feel like the back is doing just fine it's still there you're not walking along on your

you're not rolling around the floor on your back like your feet, you're going out and about depends if you're a cat if you're a cat maybe you are The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast the weekend just passed, a big weekend of sport heading into it, we had the Super Rugby quarter finals, good to see three of the New Zealand teams making the semifinals.

So there's the Brumbies are going to take on the Blues, Eden Park on Friday, and then the Hurricanes take on the Chiefs in Wellington on Saturday. So there'll be big games this coming weekend. And so who's the favourite? Are people picking the Hurricanes? Hurricanes or the Blues, I feel, are the favourites, just because they've got home advantage as well.

But, yeah, I mean, who knows? The Chiefs might come through. Megan, you like rugby? I do. Yeah. You watch all the games at the weekend? Yeah. You were there. I thought you loved the Crusaders. I do love the Crusaders. They're gone. Yeah, so

no interest in it now. Warriors had a good one though. Huge one. Up the wars. Yeah, I love the way you just chip in with little bits of sport you make it feel like you're part of the team I was getting updates about the Warriors from a best friend

who was watching it that was great now they're 9th and they need to be in the top 8 right how long until the cut off of the top 8 feels like they should

be a lot higher up given their recent success why are they only 9th I think well because they had that sort of little bit of a scratchy start to the season

but yeah well we love the Warriors but about half way through the season at the moment. So, yeah, a long season. So, it's good. It's feeling a lot better now, right?

Where would being boys like to end up inside the top eight? Oh, you always, yeah. I mean, you want to be top four if you could because I think that helps you for other lives and stuff. So, if we're at top four, you're happy? But that's, yeah. Just getting in the top eight, though. You've still got a chance, you know. And then New Zealand.

It was a pounding of Queensland. Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah. New Zealand cricket lost to Afghanistan in the first game of the Cricket World Cup, it was a pounding of Queensland yeah it was awesome New Zealand cricket lost to Afghanistan the first game of the cricket world cup

which is a bit of a surprise Afghanistan are pretty good but not you know I would have thought we

would have won that one easy and the USA beat Pakistan yeah I was going into that

week and going is this one of these dodgy cricket situations and then we lose I'm like oh okay maybe it is

I couldn't trust myself on a field if that was an option if some guy came to you with a briefcase and then we lose and I'm like, oh, okay, well, you know. Maybe it is. Or maybe it is. It's a backroom betting. I couldn't trust myself on a field if that was an option. If some guy came to you with a briefcase and it was like $1.5 million just to, you know,

bowl a no bowl or a wide, how are they even going to catch you? Well, it turns out they can, but for a long time you can get away with it.

That's right. Tell you what I had over the weekend, I found an interesting dilemma when you go watch your kids play sport my daughter's played netball at the weekend

but you know of course there's a big squad of a team so they don't play the full game but when they're off you're like I'm just watching

other kids I'm just a grind man watching girls play netball my daughter's not currently playing I just had one of those realisations at that moment was she at the netball courts

yeah she was there oh she was there I just went and watch other teams it was still her team playing yeah supporting the whole team but it's just one of those moments you're like daughter here my daughter's here yeah you're watching other girls and it's not when i went to the beginning i took the kids to the benny concert and the kids went and we were like go down the front we're like cool and then they went off from me and i'm like, I'm just a grown man standing in a Benny concert. What's in Benny? And I was, she, remember,

like we saw Benny a few weeks later as she came into work. She's like, were you at the concert? You were like taller than everyone else. And you had a sign saying, go Benny. No, you also, you took a sign to the Little Mix. Little Mix concert. You went to the Little Mix up the front.

Yeah, with my daughters. What did your sign say? Do you want to mix and mingle with me it was probably some pun everyone's like can you just get bent down you big grown man i know you feel conscious of that too yeah good vision blocker