Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: HELP! Ben's gone too far on Tiktok

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. A public holiday. It's the Māori New Year, Matariki. Tomorrow's going to be a really special day for you. Yeah, we're going to get the wonderful Stacey Morrison, used to be the afternoon host here on The Hits. She's going to come in and talk all things Matariki.

After 7 o'clock this morning, you know, I know it's about a cluster of stars, the Matariki stars in the sky. The New Year for Māori. But it's got a deeper of stars, the Matariki stars in the sky. The new year for Māori. But it's got a deeper meaning. Each star represents something in the coming 12 months. And the backstory that I kind of, the legend about someone ripping out their eyes and throwing them into the sky. So, yeah, I'll find out a bit more.

A bit extreme? Yeah, well, hey. A bit extreme. It's the commitment to getting a holiday for us. Would you rip out your eyes for a long weekend? Possibly. Why not? I'd do one. It's a commitment to getting a holiday for us. Would you rip out your eyes for a long weekend? Possibly. Why don't I? I'd do one.

It's a really special day, and we're going to be talking to Stacey Morrison, as you said, after 7 o'clock this morning. Yesterday announced Public Enemy coming to New Zealand. It's good to see artists still coming to New Zealand. We've been snubbed by the likes of Taylor Swift recently, Olivia Rodrigo. They've been like, no, not coming to New Zealand.

Public Enemy, haven't forgotten where we are in the world. That's wonderful. 80s hip-hop band, Public Enemy. I should get some Public Enemy music. You should. Flavor Flav, you'll know him. A very distinctive hype man for Public Enemy. He's the guy who always has grill in his teeth.

Get out, best trained, best educated. I'll fast forward through this bit. This is Muhammad Ali. No respect to Muhammad Ali. Get our best trained, best educated. I'll fast forward through this bit. This is Muhammad Ali. No respect to Muhammad Ali, but fight the power. It's very cool. And Flavor Flav carries the big clock around as well. The massive big clock. Now, I've always wondered, is it a functioning clock?

Is it factoring in daylight savings, different time zones when he's on tour? Yeah. I did manage to interview him a few years ago when we were travelling through America and Las Vegas for a TV show. And, yeah, he did say it was, you know, most of the clocks do function, but I don't think he's too worried about daylight savings or the zone he's in, really. Well, you should be, because, like, if you're coming,

oh, I'm travelling through Europe, you definitely want to adjust, because if you've got a big clock, people are going to look at it. Yeah, and people are going to ask you the time. It's like a town clock. Yeah, they're going to ask you the time. They go, what's up with, you know. Flavor Fl a town clock. They're going to ask you the time. Flavour Flavour, he's a very cool dude as I say. He's always wearing glasses, caps on, big clock. He's the ultimate

hype man isn't he? Yeah, have a listen. This is him from his dating show isn't it? Flavour of Love. Which I am going to put my hand on heart and say this was hands down the best reality dating show that was ever in the market. It was like The Bachelor except with strippers.

Very funny. Flavor Flav! I go down there, all these girls are lined up. My, oh my. Flavor Flav! You the king, you the king, once again. Do you remember in the first episode that, itched in my memory,

that one of the wonderful ladies who were looking for Flav's love, they used his foyer as a bathroom. His what? Foyer? Foyer, yeah, like his foyer in his house. Really? And not number ones. Oh, really?

Yeah. Wow. The foyer. I think he came down and he's like, man, there's a bathroom just there. Why did you use the foyer? I distinctly remember. I think she got eliminated too. I'm not surprised.

I distinctly remember when, you know, I was lucky enough to interview him in Las Vegas. And at the end of it, he was like, hey, I need to go get my keys from the valet section of the casino. Big casino in Las Vegas. He's like, could you walk me down there because he came by himself he turned up with no entourage no nothing why did he want you to walk him down he's just like oh can you just kind of come down with me you're like his hype man well yeah so it was really weird and our director you know andy a mate of ours as well so agreed big two of us two white dudes walking down with flavor

flave down very uncool and nerdy sort of white dudes. Were you in line or were you behind them? A little bit behind them. A step or two behind them. But it was amazing walking through the casino. Everyone just yelling out, Flavor Flav! And then looking at us like, who are those weird guys? If someone was filming you and you put it in slow motion with this music,

would it have looked cool? He would have looked cool. What would you have looked like? Like you shouldn't have been there. A little awkward. A little like, why are they so close? The world's worst bodyguards, if they are bodyguards, or the world's worst hype people.

How far to his car did you walk him? Quite far. Like I would say, a good 10-15 minutes. Was it to the point where you were like waving goodbye to him? And then, well no, we just got his keys, and his amount of keys, it was like he was carrying like, he was a janitor in like a, he had so many keys. Yeah.

Well, you imagine with the guy with the clock around his neck, he's going to have a lot of keys too. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Closely handing her phone number out to strangers. Wouldn't advise my daughter to do that. Call me maybe, maybe. It's an option, right? New South Wales winning the second state of origin game late

last night, so that means an insider for game three, which is always very exciting. Queensland, New South Wales in the league. Now you've means an insider for game three, which is always very exciting. Queensland, New South Wales and the League. Now you've been editing content for your daughter, have you? Well, yeah, we were talking about this the other day, you know, where as a parent you want to help out when you can with assignments and stuff with your kids, and you were helping out. Were you doing something about the life cycle of plants or something?

Oh, yes, got excellence achieved for that. Just got that information through last night. Yes very happy very happy with the results uh yeah well so my wife uh my wife amanda she's a teacher so she's actually really helpful in a lot of the kids homework you know when it comes to to math to science things like that i mean she's she knows that's great good same position with me i'm no good jen does all the heavy lifting in our household i can do like a basic stuff but i mean she's learning she's doing it every day so it's great I'm no good Same position with me I'm no good Jen does all the heavy lifting In our household I can do like a basic stuff But I mean she's learning She's doing it every day

So it's great So with the opportunities Where I do get to help I'm like great I'm all in Let's do this What did you get carried away with Something you built like a

Hogwarts Toilet paper rolls And stuff And you never got the marks back No I'm still waiting to find out Where you spent all night on that thing How long did you spend

On that Hogwarts project A long time I really got i probably got too into it i was like oh you can do this and do that and the kids were like well we're gonna go to bed now how many toilet rolls because i was toilet rolls and i was painting all stuff and i painted like yeah went deep yeah paper towel right yeah i really went deep on it but did you get to the point where you were like literally ripping toilet paper off just so you could get to the role yeah i'm painting the paper towel things uh yeah anyway so i'll let that one go but my my daughter indy at the moment she has been doing an assignment they have to choose stuff that interests them and this this term was about creating something in the kitchen so she's been learning how to make macarons it's quite a cool

project so she was doing it at home didn't quite work out then we talked to the local guy a lovely guy who runs a like a french cafe down the road and he's like i'll come in i'll teach you how to do it and you're like help provide the ingredients is it quite the trick to make your macarons like doing it at home is it's very hard is it macaroon or macaron oh that's he keeps saying macaron i don't even know what he's talking about is he french accent yeah so yeah so but they need to capture this on video and make a little video. So I'm like, great, this is where I feel like I can help out Indy with her assignment.

I'm like, I've made lots of little videos. So I'm like, let's do like a MasterChef parody video. Oh God, he's coming with a comedy angle. We'll make it like, we'll rip off the MasterChef titles, we'll put some things in there. And you can tell Indy, and what I love about- She's like, it's not a sketch dad I love about Indy

my daughter 12 she's very like she knows what she likes she knows what she doesn't like and that's great that's a great thing but it makes it very difficult for me to pitch ideas

I'm like what about this and then she was like I don't know what it means so I'm like that's alright give me a second I'll put a little voiceover I'll do some stuff and put it in

and then it's like bringing it back to the client and she's looking at I don't know if I like the voiceover i'm like what indy is 11 years old yeah exactly i'm like i've done nothing but make skits and videos did you put the master chief music behind it i tried i tried to put it in and then she'll play with the edit and i'll be like oh you've taken that out have you she's like yeah i don't think it's working and i'm getting annoyed but My wife had to sit me down and go, it's not your assignment. I'm like, but I've got a vision.

It's a parody. I've got a vision. Yeah, she's stymieing your creativity, mate. Cutting you off at the pass. Yeah, so the voiceover's gone. It's gone. It's gone. She's allowed me to put it.

What was the voiceover? It was going, you know, explaining the situation. Was it you doing the voiceover? Yeah, I did the voiceover. I've been axed from that voice job. Yeah, the titles are still there. That's good. But then it very quickly moves from a MasterChef parody

and just cooking stuff. But she's done a wonderful job. Shouldn't she be doing the voiceover? She's a contestant. I was putting, oh, yeah, I wanted a job for me. I'm still in there as a host for like two seconds. Geez, that French guy must have been going, maybe this is just lost in translation, but I'm still in there as a host for like two seconds. Jeez, that French guy must have been going, maybe this is just lost in translation, but I'm not getting this.

So we'll see. I don't know what the marks are going to be on that one, but we'll see. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And of course, Matariki, a public holiday tomorrow. It feels like we're getting into the long weekend with a Friday holiday. And so we're going to look at which island is having the best weekend. Who's having the best weekend?

First up, can we just say for both islands, easy win. Thanks to Matariki for the long weekend too. So can we please thank that wonderful cluster of stars, the Matariki stars for this long weekend and the Māori New Year. Okay, so let's get that out of the way. No references to Matariki events because that's low-hanging fruit. I want you working hard. Now, Connor, welcome in from the south,

representing the South Island, Connor from the Hits and Cries Church. Good morning, you've screwed me, Jono, you've screwed me. Delete your Matariki events, bro. Oh, no, he can do it. If you want to, hey, points again, so I just laid the groundwork, put the rules out. You didn't tell him about this, did you? And Ben Boyce, you're going to

be filling in as Hayley, who's usually representing the North from Wellington. She tore a hamstring last weekend at the best weekend. So she's recovering. She's out for four weeks, I think, as well. Wish her a speedy recovery. So you'll be representing the North today. Okay, right.

Connor, please come at us with your non-Matariki events. Okay. Well, whilst everyone is having a wholesome family get-together in Queenstown, they're going off. It's going off in Queenstown at the event centre. Mardi Gras this weekend. You may have heard of this guy, you know, Cyril. Oh, yeah.

He's going to be there. Absolutely. Yeah. Next guy's there. A whole bunch of other big names. It's going off in Queenstown. People quite literally from all over the country come to Queensland for this event. They drive from Christchurch and Vicargill.

They fly from Auckland, Wellington. The North Islanders become South Islanders this weekend. That's what happened. Wow, that sounds epic. It does sound epic. I know I'm meant to be representing the North, but that does sound epic. That sounds like a lot of fun. It sounds like not much sleep in Queenstown this weekend.

No, not at all. Are you going along, Connor? No, not this weekend, unfortunately. I'm attending Masariki events. Oh, no, I'm at the Waz. I'm at the Waz. Oh, you're the grand announcer at the Waz. I see.

So you're coming to the North Island because the South Island's got nothing for you to offer, so you've got to come to the North Island this weekend. Is that what's happening? Yeah, hence why we're creating our own NRL team. That's why we're doing that. Oh, okay. A bit of sledging going on here. Okay, come in, Mr. Cocky North Islander.

What have you got? Well, firstly, yeah, I just want to reiterate that Con is coming to the North, so that must mean that's the best island straight away this weekend for the WAS. The WAS are on as well. But the Manu Masters, that's taking place in the beautiful Bay of Islands off the Russell Wharf on Saturday. $1,000 worth of prizes for grabs. Regis from 10 o'clock, if you're good at jumping in the water,

making a bit of a splash. Have you ever done a manu, Ben? No, I've tried. Do you know, once at the Whangamata Wharf, when you go to the wharf at New Year's, there's all the kids there and they're magnificent at manus. And then I was doing some old school 90s old man staples, doing the staple

and they're like do a Manu and boy oh boy the pressure the pear pressure literally on the pear and I blew it absolutely

to the point where everyone's like ooooh because I slapped my back yeah mistimed it I know well that's part of the fun

to go along and watch the Manu Masters and just quickly in Hamilton they've got a kids scavenger hunt outdoors on Saturday, which looks like a lot of fun. Yeah, basically, it's just like send the kids around the city, hope they come back,

and I'm sure they will. That's what they do in Japan. You know, they're sending toddlers out on their own. They catch the train to daycare and everything. There's like a show about it, isn't there? Yeah, there is. So there we go. Send your kids out to the city and pray they come back safely.

All right, listen listen I need to judge Who's having the best weekend This weekend Now despite His clear conflict of interest Coming to the north Representing the south I'm going to say Connor

You've taken it out With Mardi Gras In Queenstown That does sound good I just want to mention as well The current Manu World Champion Is from Christchurch And his name is Jono

So there you go Oh really Well at least One Jono's doing good things for Manus. Good on you, Con. I really appreciate it. Have a wonderful weekend. We'll see you at the Warriors, mate, doing your ground announcing. Yeah, the Warriors.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We're crossing live. Nicole. Nicole in New York. Good morning. How are you? How are you? I know we're good, mate. Lovely to see you on holiday next? How are you? Yeah, I know we're good, mate. Lovely to see you on holiday next week, are you? Yeah, we're going down. Oh, this doesn't probably mean very much to you.

We're going down to the Outer Banks, down to North Carolina. It's like a really fun beach town. Oh, awesome. For a couple of weeks. School holidays there, or? No, we just kind of take them when we want. Like, there's obviously holiday time, like around Christmas, Thanksgiving, that kind of stuff. But in the summer, we take them here and there.

There's not really a designated. It's like a spring break and like a winter break for like kids in school but our vacations and holidays are way different than yours we get a lot of holidays but you guys don't give it yeah yeah we're workaholics here now here's a question for you because my my kids you know they love watching videos on tick tock they keep talking about raising can, which is like an American fast food restaurant, kind of similar to KFC, but it's got dipping sauces for the chicken. They're like, one day we need to go to Raising Cane's. Have you been there? How good is it? We finally went, because it's usually down south. They don't usually have it up here. So they have one a little bit downtown in New York City. I went a couple months ago. It tastes

like they actually inject juice into the chicken. That's how juicy it is. It is stupid good. And I love in America the cheese. I don't want to know exactly if it is cheese or it's not cheese, but it comes out in a different slightly color, but it's cheese. It tastes like cheese. It's amazing.

Cheese when it's over nachos and things like that. Oh, yeah, that's not cheese, honey. That's not cheese. You don't want to know what that is. It tastes like cheese. It's amazing. Cheese when it's over nachos and things like that. Runny sausage cheese. Oh, yeah, that's not cheese, honey. That's not cheese. You don't want to know what that is. But it tastes good. I mean, it sure as hell tastes delicious, but it ain't cheese. Honestly, I feel like you go to America and you're like,

this is the greatest cuisine on earth. I love it. Oh, I know another thing that's happening in New York right now. Currently, Justin Timberlake is here. Oh, he is? So Timberlake, yeah. I wanted to ask you about that because obviously he got a DUI, drunk driving.

He's still got to go through the courts, I imagine. So he's back on the world tour. Is that happening? I mean, I guess. I mean, he did tell the cops. You read what the cops said, that he said, this is going to totally ruin the tour. And the guy was like, what tour?

He was Justin Timberlake and he said, the world tour, which is just hysterical. Because the cop had no idea who he was when he was breathtaking him for his drink driving charge i think the cop was young and listen like i mean to me justin timberlake isn't like for like an older generation but listen like a kid now like in high school they probably don't know who justin timberlake is And I saw a couple articles when it first came out and the headline said, Trollstar gets arrested. And I was like, oh, no. That was the reason, Tim. He's Justin Timberlake.

He's not a trollstar. He's the voice of one of the trolls in that blotch. I don't know. I've seen the movies. Trollstar. It's crazy. Well, listen, you know, on the scale of crimes that can be committed, it's probably at the lighter end.

He'll make his way through it. He'll be just fine. He'll be just fine. People forget it. It's on to like, as soon as there's another scandal or another story, it'll be done. People forget very easily. Well, because we see, speaking of these sorts of things,

we see an article, you know, with someone like Ariana Grande, pop star, actor as well. She was on a podcast, got asked who she would like to have dinner with uh anyone and she said jeffrey dama uh the serial killer because she'd like to pick his brain she's fascinated by it now this is obviously caused a bit of backlash now how long will this backlash last or we'll be on to something else tomorrow i'm i've already been on to something else like i mean like that's already out of the news cycle but you know what like i didn't i didn't hate on her for that because have you ever played that game like at a dinner when someone said you could have dinner with anybody like dead like or alive it doesn't mean you have to like regard them in any like positive way you

could just be fascinated by them that's why there's tv shows and crime shows about these people it doesn't mean you think they're a good person. I don't think she thinks he's a good person. I think she's fascinated by his being a sociopath, you know, being a killer. It wasn't shoot, shag, marry, and she's like, oh, I'd marry him. Marry to your brother. Yeah, you're right.

That's very good. Okay, so in that regard, who are we inviting to dinner? The most shocking person you could invite to dinner. Now, this doesn't mean that you admire them. You're fascinated by them. I don't know, do we have to have dinner with them? No, that's the thing. Can we just get drinks and see if we vibe,

and if then we can move on to dinner? Yeah, okay. Well, I have some drinks, and I might vibe with someone like Kim Jong. Kim Jong-un. Right? Who's vibing with Kim Jong? Yeah, I don't know if anybody vibes with him,

even the people in his country, but I've always said it would be interesting to sit down with Jesus Christ. I have a lot of questions for him. I want to know. He would have the water to wine covered for you for the evening. He's got drinks sorted.

BYO, he's all sorted. Listen, this has been lovely again, Nicole. Thank you so much. We know you're going on a couple of weeks Annual leave we'll catch up with you shortly Safe travels and have a great day Thank you I'll miss you guys I'll talk to you soon It's Nicole live

From New York after 7 o'clock this morning We've got $1000 that could be yours As well as some Warriors tickets before 7 This morning on The Hits The Hits the Jono and Ben podcast. I've been catching feelings all over you And I hope you catch them soon Oh yeah I've been catching

And I've been going crazy over you And I've been catching feelings And I've been going crazy over you And it's Drax Project 660, 7.58 on your Thursday morning. Now I had a little bit of a shocker with something that's going very viral on the internet right now. You may have heard a phrase hop hook tour you gotta give him the hot spit on that thing now it comes from it's become a big meme it's got it's crazy all over tiktok all over social media you may have seen it you may not have heard it but it comes from a lady in america she was being uh interviewed out and about on a night out with her mate

in nashville and she's. And she'd been interviewed. And this is what she said. Oh, you gotta give him that huck too and spit on that thing. Now, I'm on TikTok now. And I'm trying to keep across all these latest trends and stuff, making little videos on my daughter

and things like that. So I'm... Trying to stay topical, relevant. Yeah, I'm trying to stay across things. And I'd seen this meme pop up. Oh, you gotta give him that huck too. Oh, you gotta give him that huck too and spit on that thing. And I'd seen this meme pop up. Oh, you gotta give it that huck to it. It's what they do. Oh, you gotta give it that huck to it.

Spit on that thing. And I'd seen memes where people were putting it over the top of cleaning cars and stuff, you know, beautiful, classy cars. Polish your cars, yeah. And I was like, oh, okay, it must be a meme related to making sure, you know. Polish your brass, like, vase or something.

Yeah, if you want your cars to look great, this is where this meme is from. So I was on, I'd seen this and it all Saturday morning, I was with the family and I'm going around saying, ah, you got to give it that hock to it. You know, like. Ah, you got to give it that hock to it. Saying it, we're on the way to Nepal, we're off to do that.

We're saying it out in a bit. I was saying it all the way. It was your phrase of the day. I was like, this is funny because it's about cleaning cars. Was it killing it with the family? I was getting a little bit annoyed with me. You're like, why do you keep saying it? I don't know.

I'm enjoying saying that. And then I realized I was at the gym a couple hours later looking at my phone in between doing some stuff. And then I realized, oh, dear God, no, she's not talking about cleaning cars. She's talking about something far more adult, which we don't need to get into at Breakfast Radio. Producer Taylor, you're mortified that I was going around.

I was mortified. The fact that you're the one that brought it to your family. And I'm saying it, and then I had to text the family from the gym going, hey, any jokes made about this? Let's not do it. And they replied back going, you're the one making jokes. No one else has made any jokes. Did you call a family crisis meeting? And they're like, what does it mean? I'm like, let's not get into what it means, what it's about. It's not important. Let's all agree we don't say that anymore as a family. Oh, you've got to give him that huck too and spit on that.

It's become far. I kind of feel a bit bad for the girl because she was very funny. You couldn't have missed the memo on that any harder. She was funny, the girl who was out and about doing this. And hopefully she's all right because I know how the internet is. She's become a superstar overnight and she was very, very funny. And you hope that she's still finding it funny. Yeah, I think they're trying to track her down and stuff.

It was a fun gag. It was a fun gag. For the night out. Yeah, she looked like she had a great time. She looked like a great person, so hopefully she's doing all right. You look like a terrible person sitting in front of your family, though. No. So just a word for the wise.

Maybe it's not a thing you should say. No, I didn't think around your young daughters either. No. No, so less to learn on that one. So I will no longer be jumping on memes until I know the full story. particularly nah I didn't think around your young daughters either no no so less of learns on that one so I will no longer be jumping on memes

until I know the full story and that's all we'll be doing after well yeah we'll be doing that after 8 o'clock

we won't be giving it a hock tour after 8 o'clock no but someone had a dress a dress that was a great moment

on the afternoon show yesterday with Maddie and PJ about a wedding dress oh it was incredible yeah and through people listening on the afternoon show yesterday with Maddie and PJ about a wedding dress. Oh, it was incredible. And through people listening on The Hits, I managed to save someone's wedding.

We'll bring you up to speed in a few moments on The Hits. Jono and Ben, cheers to HelloFresh, the experts in tastes that Kiwis love. The Hits. Yeah, this party's on. Win your way to pink. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast Of course it's Matariki tomorrow And we've got Stacey Morrison with us in the studio

Morena Stacey Morena Lovely to have you in here Well, lovely to be here Manawatea Matariki And getting ready for Matariki Now Matariki, I know that it's about A cluster of the Matariki stars

Which sort of happened towards the end of this month, early July. Yes, I guess the first day we celebrate tomorrow, we're going to have to have the day off, guys. Going to have to. We can do it. I think we can do it. Yeah, yeah. Well, actually, the whole week is the Matariki season.

So what we call Matariki season is dependent upon when the stars are visible again, because there's about a one-month period where they set, as in where we are positioned, we can't see them anymore. And then when it comes back and it aligns with the Tangaroa moon, which is a certain moon phase, then that's when it starts. It's for a whole week. Matariki will change each year, right?

Yeah. Actually, just like Easter does. Similar origin, but this is lunar stellar. So it's like where the stars are and also in relation to the moon at that time so now there's like is it 500 stars or something that's up in this cluster but you can only see what my daughter came back from school it's like you can only see like six of them or something to the naked eye is that something yeah well nine but okay i'll tell her she's wrong yeah no no she probably got it right you got it wrong that's what i I'm going to say, Dad. They kids know, eh? They do. Matariki events at school, so cute.

They're so here for it. Well, we say nine in some iwi, seven in others, but basically it's going to look like a little cluster is a good word. We can identify each star, and the reason that that's important and cool is because they all relate to a different aspect either of the environment or of our well-being. Oh, really? Yeah, one of the stars, for instance, is Pohutukawa,

just like the tree, and that relates to remembering those who've passed and belief that they are actually now in a different phase. When we see Matariki, we see them moving to become stars. And so experts can look and go, oh, okay, the reason that they're kind of attached to one part of the environment is then they can go, oh, look, it reason that they're kind of attached to one part of the environment is then they can go, oh, look, it's ururangi.

That's about the wind. It's going to be a windy year. Last year, someone missed the fact that there was a big one for waipararangi, for the rain. Could have seen that coming. There was going to be a lot of rain. So those kind of elements of prediction have always been part of Matariki and the sort of deeper understanding of it.

But that's when we're talking Dr Rangi Matamu and the experts who kind of know that deeper level. But all of us can go, oh, Te Puanuku, that's about crops in the ground. Let's have kumara. Or go Te Puarangi, which is kind of kai that comes from the trees or above. And people have said, so how about KFC? And I go, you know, it's accessible. It's accessible. Now the legend, the story behind it involves some sort of tearing out of eyes.

Is that correct? Yeah. So Matariki is a shortened version of Ngā Mata o Te Ariki Tāwhirimātea, the eyes of the deity Tāwhirimātea, who is the god of the winds, basically. And he was so deeply enraged that his parents, the Sky Father, Ranginui, and the Earth Mother, Papatuanuku, were separated to create the world of light that he tore his eyes out, smashed them up, and threw them into the sky to sit on the chest of his father.

So that's what we see Matarikia, like his smashed up eyes, basically. Jeez, he went all in, didn't he? Well, that made him blind, as you can tell, and that's why the wind kind of comes at us from different angles. It's blind and doesn't have, you know, it's not. Wow. Now, I see there's a lot of events planned. How can we celebrate?

What's a great way to celebrate this? Every way. Like, say, you know, when your kid's at school or, I mean, most importantly, kai. So Matariki Herikai is the theme this year to feast. Just being out, you know, in the cold going, this is us, New Zealand. This is us. We look up to the night sky and we go, yeah,

I've got some things to think about from the last year. I'm going to look ahead to the next year. One of my friends who I work with, he's going to go, okay, new year, new me, new Matariki. I'm going to give up energy drinks. Giving up the bloody monsters. Cold turkey. Well, I think he's actually going, I'm going to give up energy drinks. Giving up the bloody monsters. Cold turkey. Wow, I think he's actually going, I'm going to

cut them back a bit. It's also a good one to reset your other New Year's resolution too. It didn't work out so well. You're like, oh now I can start going to the gym or something. Yeah, now I really mean it. Stop that. Not that New Year. We're going to go for Matariki New Year. So how will you celebrate? What's your

plans this year, this week? My usual ridiculousness of working, but I'll be hosting the Matariki New Year. So how will you celebrate? What's your plans this year, this week? My usual ridiculousness of working. But I'll be hosting the Matariki broadcast, which is the national broadcast coming out of Wanaka, Triple Cone, and that will go everywhere. So it's very visible online, on TV. Oh, Stacey, thank you for coming out and having a chat. Yeah, I appreciate it.

Thank you for, you know, being interested because that's, I guess, the opportunity. We can go, oh, here's our beautiful day off. We can start it, a nice early start, and just, you know, bring it into our hearts and make it whatever it means for us. Oh, awesome stuff. Enjoy your Matariki tomorrow. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

A very interesting conversation I had last night at my son's basketball game. So it was sort of nearing on darkness and uh bit of a back story i'm a very impatient driver being you've publicly stated this before uh very erratic volatile driver on the roads and you clipped something the other day didn't you yeah karma that was karma yeah and it was it was driving to work and there was a rubbish truck that was just taking its time going in and out of a driveway i was like and i tried to try to sort of go around the truck and in doing so scraped my door along the traffic

island and those floppy signs so anyway cars in the panel beaters so I've got a rental it's a black

black Toyota just a black Toyota rental car and I get out of the car or similar I like how they go you order a car

and they go that or similar that's a great ass cover isn't it just put it in brackets you're like oh this one looks great or similar we can kind great ass cover isn't it Just put it in brackets You're like oh this one looks great or similar We could kind of do that with this radio show The world's greatest radio show or similar

Yeah that would be good I ordered the world's greatest radio show Well it's similar Actually side note sorry to dog leg When I was getting it you know the classic trope about Do you get the rental insurance or not And I said no I said no he's like he let a little cat out of the bag here he says have you got have you got normal insurance day

to day and i said yeah he's like you'll be fine sometimes that doesn't cover it though i've heard oh don't tell me that that's i don't know if i know that overseas when you look at stuff it's it's your rental car overseas your actual travel insurance doesn't cover rent okay now you made me very nervous i don't know man you need to yeah but you'll be fine just don't get impatient yeah that's right just drive like a normal human being yeah so you know there's a rental car so i get out of the car and then from the darkness i hear hey mate nice car and i'm like oh thank you thank you i didn't have the heart to tell him it wasn't mine it was just a rental uh and i was like i can't be bothered explaining i was just like thank you very much but then he came out of the shadows and I'm like, well, he's complimented me.

And then when you, I feel like, receive a compliment as a human being, it's like a game of tennis. You need to lob one back over. So I'm looking him up and down. And I'm like, what can I quickly in the moment compliment him about? Now, just bearing in mind, this is happening in sort of a space of zero to two seconds. And I'm like, mate, I love your ponytail. He had a ponytail dangling off the back of his head. And he's like, oh.

Maybe just take the compliment. Maybe just take the compliment and then go, yeah. I've said nice car and you've come back with a nice ponytail. And it was a great ponytail. And for someone who can't grow one, I fully admire that you can grow it. It was probably probably I would say half a metre long, dangling off the back of the head there. Yeah but he's probably thinking is this guy

taking the... That's what I thought when I was walking away. So what man returns a nice ponytail after you've just said hey that's a good car So yeah I don't know where if he is listening now, I genuinely meant it. It was a lovely ponytail Yeah but he'll be thinking

He'll be questioning it Won't he He'll definitely be like Did I shave it off I hope he's not going to No Because it wasn't in his You know

Sarcastic tone There we go Next we're talking about Extreme parenting We got talking about this yesterday The The lengths your parents went to Or maybe you've gone to

For your kids To kind of punish them To to teach them a lesson. Next on the show, we have someone who, I don't know what their ponytail status is, but they have been made to smoke an entire pack of cigarettes as a child. We'll get to that after Nelly. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It is your boozy bar song. It is The Hits, Jono and Ben, 8.28 on your Thursday morning.

Yeah, it's a cover of this. Jaquan. I love how music can take one great song and just change it into a whole other genre. Pretty impressive. Jaquan, no one will be happier than Jaquan. Yeah. Bank account will be filling up with little dollar signs there.

Now, at the moment, in the middle of extreme parenting cases, just spoke to someone who, sorry, 10 cigarettes her mother made her smoke in a row on the doorstep as punishment after being caught smoking and that led on to 20 years of wonderful smoking, brilliant smoking

career, two decades worth. So, extreme parenting on 0800, that's the telephone number this morning uh we've got rebecca morning morning lovely to have you on extreme parenting now were you the extreme parent or you were the child being extremely parented um the child oh what happened what's what explain so me and my brother used to fight in the car on the way home from town. That's a classic. And we lived in the country.

And my mum would drop us off, made us walk home. Yeah, now I imagine you say, you know, you say this, but I imagine this comes off at, you know, six to ten warnings. Come on, quiet down back there, you know. I'm sure she's not doing it just after one. No. And our neighbour always used to walk her horses, so we need to get on her horses and get a ride back home.

Oh, so your mum made you walk home and you got horseback to take you back? Yeah. She didn't know. We would get off, like, before we got home. She'd be like, jeez, you guys have made great time. Hi, Rebecca, thanks for your call. Appreciate it. Amanda, welcome we got home. She'd be like, geez, you guys make great ties. Hi, Rebecca. Thanks for your call. Appreciate it.

Amanda, welcome to the show. Thank you. Great to have you on. Extreme parenting. What happened? Well, when I was a teenager, a little bit of a moody teenager, to put it nicely. A firecracker. Just a little bit, yeah.

Explosive. Yeah, explosive. Explosive. So, I used to throw tantrums and slam my bedroom door and I'd go off and I'd huff.

And that is the ultimate full stop to any argument with your parents, isn't it? Bang! And then I did it one too many times

and, yeah, they took the door off its hinges. Wow! Yeah, that is extreme. There's a lot of admin involved around removing a door I did it one too many times. And, yeah, they took the door off its hinges. Wow. Yeah, that is extreme. There's a lot of admin involved around removing a door too. And putting it back on because eventually you've got to put it back on.

I'd like to get Hira Hubby or someone over if I did that to one of my daughters. If you do this again, I'll call Hira Hubby. The guy's coming over. We're here within seven days. They're going to pay him to put it back up at some stage. I appreciate your call. Really do. Thank you so much.

No, not a problem. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Coming up next, a great moment yesterday with Matty and PJ in the afternoon here on The Hits. Saving a wedding over the course of three hours. Oh, it was an incredible moment in radio. All thanks to you, Rory. Cap on if you missed it next on The Hits.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's 8.30 church. It is The Hits, 8.35 on your Thursday morning. Really, really amazing moment yesterday. Matty and PJ in the afternoons found out about Lauren. Now, Lauren is actually getting married today, but yesterday afternoon she discovered that her wedding and her wedding dress in particular wasn't going to be fit

for the wedding today one very very stressed out bride in nelson lauren went to steam her wedding dress last night she is getting married tomorrow and the dress is now ruined so we thought can we find lauren a replacement dress do any of our listeners out there have a dress they can lend her? Lauren, hello! Hi, how are you going? We're so good. How are you? Oh my gosh. Wow, it's been a very stressful day, yeah.

I bet it has. Oh my gosh. People were just so touched by your story. I think everyone knows the stress that you endure leading up to the big day and they've just wanted to help out we've landed on one and that was emma's dress from christ church you've seen it are you happy i love it i'm so happy and i just feel so overwhelmed um just really pleased that she was able to do that the the dress is going on an air New Zealand flight tonight. Like, hopefully this all goes ahead.

You are going to have that dress in time for your wedding, which takes place tomorrow morning. Talk about a quick turnaround. Yeah. Thank you so much. Lauren, congratulations. And we hope you have the most magical day tomorrow. Thank you so much.

And thanks to Emma as well. It's absolutely amazing. And Emma, the knight in shining armour. Welcome. Hi. You came through. You lent your wedding dress

to a complete stranger. What a hero. Well, she's from Christchurch, so, you know, I'm sure I'll be able to track her down. I will hunt you down and I will find you

if I don't get that dress back. It's an awesome thing that you did. Oh, I'm... I guess I would have just... Anyone would have done it, though, if they had the opportunity to. Yeah. No, very nice. Very lovely gesture. So this is the one you

wore to your wedding, and how's your marriage going? Successful? Yep, so far so good. Got luck attached to it. Yeah, it's good luck. So how many years ago was your wedding? End of 21. All right, so a couple of years ago you probably got it dry cleaned, kept it in the cupboard, and then you're like,

well, hey, I can send it out to someone who needs it. Exactly. I don't know what I was going to do with it any other way. Well, yeah, what do you do with your wedding dress? I guess you can roll it out once every five years or something, but did you have to compare well yeah what do you do with your wedding dress i guess you can roll it out you know once every five years or something but did you have to compare measurements was my first question um no i just uh was saying dress size so i assume it will fit kind of okay yeah like a glove that is a do you get an invite to the wedding no no did you want an invite to the wedding uh probably not no probably a bit weird.

A bit awkward. Lovely that you gave the dress, and lovely through the power of the hits. I think Air New Zealand jumped on board. They managed to transport the dress. Connor from the hits was helping drop it off. It was pretty cool. Hey, everyone got together and got your dress all the way to Nelson.

Yeah, it was a pretty quick turnaround. Yeah. Oh, well, hey, thank you for being so generous. And was there a bond on the dress? Did you have like a... No. No bond? Just a boomerang.

I'm sure it will come back. Boomerang dress. Well, there we go. Saving the wedding day. What a legend, eh, Emma? Really appreciate your generosity. Oh, no, it's no worries at all. And just so you know,

if you need any holy washed up 90s band T-shirts, I've got plenty of those if you ever find yourself short, okay? I'll keep that in mind. All right, mate. Look after yourself. Thank you. Amazing moment, wasn't it?

It's an amazing moment. Saved the day on the wedding. Why can't you give me an amazing moment like that, mate? That's right. You give me amazing moments every morning when I look into your eyes, Ben.