Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: HELP! We need to find Ben's missing sock

Episode Date: September 15, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Things go bad when kids go quiet... Dear Megan, will my friend hate me? Jazz Thornton is bestie with Simone Biles!!! How we feel about kids and tech Blue Clues is still helping us today! When can you get a new pet? You would never guess this about Trump! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're all over Annie Pryor's lovely cream couches, the cream walls. That's nice. It was like that room in Willy Wonka. What's that white room in Willy Wonka that he has? Oh yeah. With Mike TV, Mike TV goes into it and I just sprayed sauce everywhere. Not intentionally, it was just shaking the bottle, mixed it up but the lid wasn't on properly. Yeah, right.

So what happened when it went quiet? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. For no when things went quiet as a parent. Never a good thing, usually. Usually they're up to no good. Yeah. We're going to get Janae on. How are you, mate? You doing all right today, Janae?

Not too bad. And you, though? Yeah, we're doing well. Lovely for a Monday when things went quiet in your household. Yeah. It was a Sunday afternoon. We put our daughter down for a nap and we thought we'll also go for a nap. And about half an hour it was quiet. And we went to go and see

where my daughter was and she wasn't in her bed and we went through to the kitchen. And there she was on top of the counter. She had got the permanent marker from the kitchen cupboard, and she had put makeup on with a permanent marker. Oh, all over her face.

All over her face, mate. Dangerous color to be painting your face, too. There's relief, though, when you're like, is it on anything else? No, it's just them. Yeah. It's just them. Why always with the permanent marker, too? Maybe that's a lesson to the household owners. Let's not have permanent

stuff in there. You have half an hour to yourself. As an adult, that could be like, there's so many ways I'd rather spend that than going to destructive mode, drawing on things. Tina, you're on. Welcome. Hi. How's things, Tina? I'm alright, thanks. How are you?

We're doing well. We want to know when it went silent in your house. So my husband and I were actually asleep, it was about 5.30 in the morning on my daughter's birthday this year in June. She was turning two, we'd laid out all of her presents, my three and a half year old son had snuck out of bed, gone to the lounge, ripped open every single one of her presents, including the packaging so that he could play with her toys. And we had about an hour to salvage what we could with the wrapping paper that wasn't destroyed because we had no more left in the house.

Great play for the brothers. And that was premeditated too. He's like, I'm getting up early tomorrow, fools. Well, it's definitely premeditated. Well executed plan. Bruce, we've been told toitated. A well-executed plan. Bruce, we've been told to come to you later, mate. We're not ready for Bruce just yet. We're not ready for Bruce?

Shelly, good morning to you. Hi. How are you? When things went silent for you, Shelly? Yeah, so an open home environment is quite silent. My brother and I were at an open home, and the owners had just freshly painted and left a paint potter with a paintbrush in the laundry and little six-year-old brother decided

it would be a good idea to give them a hand with the renovations. Are your parents in another area of the house, the real estate agent? Yes, yep. And how'd they find out? Well, we just kind of carried on and acted as if nothing happened. But our own house actually got a bit of karma later on. My father was preparing for an open home at our house, washing the exterior windows. And that same little brother decided that he'd get the hose and the carter and bring it all indoors and wash the interior windows needless to say no open homes

what a menace i love this kid hey shelly we're gonna hook you up with a cabri price back it's valued at 30 enjoy awesome thank you we'll keep these coming through shall we we'll see where i get to bruce Hey Shelly, we're going to hook you up with a Cadbury price pack. It's valued at $30. Enjoy. Awesome. Thank you. We'll keep these coming through, shall we? We'll see what we get to Bruce. Now, when it went quiet, Megan, you're suffering this quite a bit in your household at the moment with young human beings. Three-year-old and a one-year-old, when it goes quiet, it's not a good thing. It feels like a good thing until you find what they've been up to in the silence.

But my two, how old is he? Three-year-old was standing there with no pants on, looking for a book in his bookshelf to take to the potty. You know I'm pants weighing you down when you're trying to make a decision. In the chest of literature. Some great texts coming through here. 4487, when it went quiet, I came into the lounge to find three boys who had cracked 24 eggs. 24 eggs on the walls, the couches, the floors.

When that dries, it goes like glue. And I stand by it. I've said it before too. Babies, toddlers, anyone under the age of five. It is like managing an intoxicated adult. Yeah. Isn't it? A grossly intoxicated adult too.

Hey, go. Here's my worst moment. I was working from home on a phone call. Then I just heard a gagging in the corner of the lounge. Oh, God. I went into the lounge to find all of the contents of her nappy. Oh, God. Full smearing situation.

Oh, no. Walls, couch, floor, face, even on her own face. No wonder she's gagging. She's like, I was dry reaching. It's almost like, well, you just grow up and hopefully that'll just wear off that stuff. So I don't have to clean it up. Why do they want to put their hands in there? I know, I know.

Bruce, welcome, mate. Thanks for holding. worries buddy hey yeah my uh when i was a few years ago 23 years ago exactly my maiden and i decided to build my son a car bed you know his car bed in the middle yeah yeah we were in front of the garage and we're we're sanding it down he was talking to us but i never thought anything of it. Then all of a sudden it went quiet. I looked behind me and there he is with sandpaper doing my car over. Brand new 66-millimeter man. Oh, no. $25,000.

Are you sandpapering the paint job? Yeah, that Metallica marina you used to get in those days. Oh, that's right. He's done it. It looked quite fresh, really. He's like to put it on and look quite fresh, really. He's like, you know what, this will look better matte. Well, to be fair to him, you're sandpapering a car of some sorts.

He's connected the dots there, Bruce. I wish he helped me to sandpaper the other car. That wasn't $25,000. Awful. Oh, Bruce, such a great car. Thanks, Bruce, that's a great comment. Thanks, Bruce. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. DM Megan.

Someone has slid into Megan's DMs again. It feels like it's a great place to slide if you want some help to get your story on the radio and get some advice from the Hits audience. How much sliding is happening in the old DMs? People sliding daily, are they? Yeah, and I forget that you have like two folders so um if i've missed any ones um i'll get to them i'll get to them but i get lots of people asking me personally for advice too i'm like well am i the right person sometimes i'm like if you've got a

backlog people are waiting for advice you know four to six weeks they're like i need i need a decision now yeah i don't want to do this stake in this relationship. I know, and now that we've put it out there, it's like, even more. But that's okay. Do I divorce my husband or just wait until Megan gets back to me? We put it to you, and everyone's very good with putting their opinion forward. So this week, it reads, Hi, guys. I was hoping you could help me with your dear Megan thing you do.

My friend has done my hair for ages, but there is a new hair salon down from my house that is way cheaper. And given the cost of living and what little money I'm able to keep for myself, I'm really considering going to them instead. Ooh, betrayal. My friend has a small salon and is struggling herself. I would love to support her, but the reality is I don't have a lot of money at the moment, and this other salon would save me so much money. What do I do? My solution is don't have hair.

It's an option. It's not a conundrum. Okay, so do you ditch your friend in favour of a cheaper, more affordable option? Tough call. What would you do if you were in this situation, Megan? I don't think you could ditch your friend.

It doesn't feel... Could you get your friend to come down to the same price? That's a good idea. But that doesn't... And say, hey, look, I want to stay with you, but this other person is often...

This is what I can get up the road. Could you... That doesn't seem fair to ask your mate to... Because the thing is, I don't know about this other salon, but if she's running a small salon, you know, like the bigger chains, they probably can afford things more than she can.

Yeah, why don't you go blame geography? Just go, oh, this is closer to home. If it's not, buy a new home. Closer to the new hair salon. I don't know. I don't know. It seems like if you've supported your friend for a long time,

especially like now would be the time that she needs your support even more. But then you don't want to just pay money just for the sake of it, right? You don't have...

And your friend has sharp implements too. You've got to factor that in when you're breaking up with a hairdresser. Is she better... Oh, is the friend better than the new hairdresser?

Well, that's what people are saying. Cheaper doesn't always mean better. Or try it once. Just dip your toes in, see how that goes. I know, but if you try it once

and then like, what, if you put up on social media your new haircut or whatever. Or catch up with a friend as well. Yeah, they'll be like, oh, what's happened there?

Well, was she a friend before she became her hairdresser? I don't know. But it doesn't matter, Jono. Like, you spend so much time with them, they just become your friend. Oh, Andrew, the hits.

4, 4, 8, 7. Really interesting dilemma here in today's Dear Megan. Love to get your calls and texts on so we can get back to this person and tell them what to do. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. See if we can get some help this morning

for someone who slid into Megan's DMs in today's Dear Megan. Dear Megan. So this is from someone who has been going to their friend for ages. Someone who slid into Megan's DMs and today's Dear Megan. Dear Megan. So this is from someone who has been going to their friend for ages. They do their hair, but there's a new salon that is down the road from their house and it is cheaper. So they're considering going to them instead, given the cost of living, etc. But obviously she's going to ditch her friend.

What should she do? The friendship should be stronger than I know it gets personal That's why you shouldn't have gone there in the first place But then you want to support your friend don't you? But also like your hairdresser becomes your friend So like because you end up talking and gossiping You see them so much And like it sounds like her friend owns like a small salon,

so she wants to support her. Costs a living though. You can buy, you can save on friends and hairdressing related costs. Lots of comments on Facebook. Thank you for those. As someone said,

I would go without something else and still support your friend. Okay. Cheaper isn't always better. Support your friend. There's a reason why she's still in business. A lot of people saying, yeah, that quality might not be there.

So you might like do it, offend your friend and realise it's not actually better. Let's get Pip into this. You're deep inside the web of Dear Megan. Pip, what would you do? Ditch your mate for the cheaper option? No, I've been in a similar situation. And I've followed my hairdresser from salon to salon but she's been doing my hair for 12 years

and knows my hair inside out. The odd times that I've gone to someone else which is when she's been on maternity leave they've completely stuffed my hair up and not listened to me and it's just not worth the risk. I'd rather pay the extra to know that I'm getting the quality for my hair.

And you know that feeling when you pay for it and you leave and you go into the car and you do a little car cry because you're like, I paid for this and I hate it. Yeah, exactly. And I've got super oily hair. Oily hair? You never want to walk out with oily hair. I'm not a hairy spirit.

I use the wrong shampoo. My hair's looking disgusting by the end of the day. Okay, well, we're going to hook you up with a Cadbury price pack valued at $30. We appreciate your call this morning. Oh, thank you. Good advice. Good on you, Pip. You and your hair going.

Have a great Monday. Appreciate that. Some good texts coming through, too. The friendship should not be impacted by business. If the hairdresser's such a good friend, then she'll remain such a good friend if you leave her. But the business is her life, you know? That's how she supports herself. Stick with your friend.

She'll appreciate it and realise how much the friendship means to you. Yeah. Another text for 487. So, Megan. It's called Dear Megan. It's not called Dear Ben, Dear Jono. We can't palm off our shabby advice. A lot of people were saying have a conversation with her.

If she's a true friend, she'll understand. Well, I have a conversation to say I'm thinking of leaving or just say it's cheaper down the road. Or like this is the situation, it's cheaper down the road, see if she'll match it. I don't know if that's even fair. Last minute text coming in too. Ask her for the Bunnings guarantee. If you find the same price item, they'll beat

it by 10%. 15% Yeah. So you've found the same service, cheaper. What can she do? I think if you've been with her for so long and she is your friend, I think you've got to stick with your friend.

And no conversation to be had of like, oh, get her out. I think she'll be offended by the conversation. I would be. Don't even dip your toes until once down the road

to see how it is. Just go, oh. The advice is rock solid, mate. Stick with the friend. Don't you come in here trying to question her. Just once, just to go,

oh, yeah, they do a good job. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Mental health advocate, Jazz Thornton, with us right now. How are you? Hey, good, thanks. How are you? All that jazz. You need to read a book, release a book called All That Jazz.

Oh, I should. That could be book number four. Done a couple of books. Right now you've got to write another one for Jono and his pun name. Yeah, just write a book for me. Just like, I poured my story out three times. But anyway, I'll do another one for you. Now, we managed to catch up with you.

It was probably a week and a half ago, and you were just about to head off to New York. Incredible thing you got to be part of. Are you going to explain it? Yeah. So I was part of the Kate Spade New York Global Mental Health Summit. They do every year, usually alongside the UN,

but this time they did it with Fashion Week. Ended up speaking alongside some insane people. I'm not sure how I ended up on that stage, but was very thankful to be there. Well, you're very modest. We know how, because you do wonderful, wonderful things for mental health around the world, and particularly in New Zealand.

But you were a bit nervous because you were speaking in front of this huge audience in New York, but you were coming, you were you were speaking in front of this huge audience in New York but you were coming you're going to talking after someone pretty pretty famous as well yes yeah I found out about a week beforehand that I was speaking directly after Simone Biles oh what I don't know how you follow Simone Biles you come on with a big backflip you do a double backflip yeah I can do the worm. What threw me even more is after she spoke, I went backstage to get my mic

on and then she just looks at me and she's like oh my god, I've seen you all over my TikTok, I love you. And then I just froze and was like, how do I go on stage? That's the goat. That's amazing. What do you say to that when Simone Biles... I've seen you at the Olympics or something, that's what I'd say. That's amazing. What do you say to that when Simone Biles...

I've seen you at the Olympics or something. That's why I'd say something like that. I've seen you do some flips. So do some name dropping though. Who else was there with you? Taraji P. Henson. Oh my God. She was just at a premiere with,

I think she was in a movie with Kevin Hart. So she came straight from there. I've spoken with her for the last few years. Cynthia Gurumora, who's Lady Gaga's came straight from there. I've spoken with her for the last few years. Cynthia Gurumora, who's Lady Gaga's mum, was there. Sophia Wiley, who you guys might not know because she's a current Disney Channel kid. Excuse me, why would we not know

current Disney Channel kids? Probably your hairline. Amen, sister. Put that in all that jazz I'll read that And I'll remember This funny moment So the talk that you did

How did it go? You know Big audience After Simone Biles It was I got a standing ovation So I think it did well So it was really cool

And something else I thought was really awesome Rachel Platten Who sings that amazing song The Fight Song. Now, this song was very special to you, helped you out through your life, and you got to meet Rachel Platten through social media. Yeah, we've been talking for like a year and a half,

and I like fangirls so hard when she slid into my DMs. And then we finally got to meet, and she, like, invited us to a concert she was doing that night, and then she dedicated Fight Song to me, and I just, like, sobbed. Oh, wow. Like, uncontrollably sobbed. Oh, that's so cool. Because it is an inspiring song. The lyrics are awesome about, you know, keep fighting.

You know, it was incredible to know that you've had that song, and it's been a song you've used to get through some pretty tough times. And then to meet the person who sung that song it must be just an incredible moment it really like honestly took the breath out of me like it was the song i would blast when i was in the intensive care unit of the psych ward like it was the thing that i really held on to and um to be like even to be in new york in september which is suicide prevention month and for me to be in New York in September, which is Suicide Prevention Month, and for me to be speaking at this event while she's there releasing a new album, it just felt like worlds collided in the most crazy way.

And Little Jazz would have never believed that that would even be possible. So, yeah. I still can't really comprehend it. Yeah, and it would have been a special moment for Rachel, too, I imagine, for her to know that her music had such an effect. Yeah, she pulled her eyes out as well. We ended up spending the whole day together and she cried multiple times

and just realised the impact that she had made. Because I guess you don't really see it a lot, right? In person, you hear it so much online, but for her to actually see someone who is alive because of the music she created was pretty special. What a great story, Jez. Well, listen, we better let you go. You've got some writing to do for all that, Jez.

You go and hit the keyboard. Chapter one. I met Simone Biles back there. You carry on from there. Thank you very much. Oh, no. We're so proud of you, Jez. You're such a wonderful ambassador for this country and everything you've done

and, you know, sharing your story and saving so many lives and doing so. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We've had in your news, Megan, one of the principals from one of New Zealand's biggest schools, Mount Albert Grammar, talking about how since phones have been banned, there's been a lot more playing in the playground of the high school. We've had some interesting challenges. We had a rugby ball through a window for the first time for many years. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I don't know. Window costs. Window repair costs through the roof. Yeah. Saying they're getting out there and they're being active. Yeah. Well, it's interesting because in Australia, I was hearing over the weekend that they're looking at banning kids on social media.

Not just phones at school, but banning kids on social media potentially to the age of 16. They reckon that could be coming into effect by the end of the year. But is that like the thing where you have to obviously enter your age to use the app? It's probably workarounds and stuff. You can lie about your age. Yeah, but still it's something and the New Zealand government haven't ruled that out as well, potentially like 14 to

16 years old being banned from social media. Surely that's a great idea. I wouldn't want my kids to be on it till like, or ever. No, you say that now. You say, yeah, that's the hard, yeah. No, I know they're going to be, but I don't want them to be. No.

Sometimes you go. It's a horrible place. Damn, the smartphone, the greatest parenting tool ever invented. Chuck that in your hand for half an hour. It is interesting. Same with the Mount Albert grandma situation where they're saying, you know, kids are out there playing and stuff because my wife's a teacher

and she went away to Ames with my daughter in the intermediate age group. And they decided, every school's different, you know, and so they decided for that week the kids couldn't take their phones away. They don't have them at school, but they said, okay, you can't take your phones. If you want to get in touch with the parents,

you go talk to the teacher and vice versa, the parents can contact the teacher. And my wife said it was really interesting looking around the netball courts at one stage and there was one school, they had phones, which is fine. That's their thing. And all the kids were sitting by themselves on their phones, you know, like doing their thing. And that's fine.

I mean, the kids are doing what they do with phones. And then they looked at the school, their school, and they were like, they're running up the skateboard ramp and they're running around the tree and they were sliding down. She was like, oh, that's actually really cool. They're bonding and they're playing. But if you'd given them a phone, they would have been doing exactly the same as what their other school was doing. Would have been on TikTok.

Yeah. Exactly. There's something to be said for it. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Well, maybe they were onto something. And I'm not an expert. I'm the weak link in our house.

We've tried to set up timers and all sorts of things with the phones and they come up to me and I'm on social media and I'm getting them to be in videos. So I'm the weak link. They're like, Dad, it's right out of time. I'm like,

oh, all right, 15 more minutes here. We are the same as adults though. You think about like, if you go somewhere and you're in a waiting room or like,

we went to go to the cafe and I forgot my phone and then Ben went to the toilet and I was by myself. I was like, oh, I didn't have my phone. I was like,

you feel naked. Yeah, you just end up weirdly looking at people. could have spoken to someone because this is going to be like the first generation really that young kids will have phones and there are some good things about them with safety and all that sort of stuff but then there's that whole like what is it going to be doing it's like cigarette smoky back in the day when everyone was into that yeah well maybe that's not as good as we thought it was so it'll be really interesting to see what happens over the next year. Okay, would you like to see the ban on social media? 16?

Yes. Bearing in mind you've created a viral internet superstar. Yeah, well, I feel like I can't go there and go, get all kids off social media. I'll be like, well, what am I doing with my, you know? I think for their mental health, I think yes. 16? Maybe 14.

I feel like maybe it's an age that maybe, yeah. Well, do you think about all the wild stuff that goes on? We went to a talk about nudes being sent, young kids sending nudes, and that shuts that off immediately, doesn't it? Yeah. Until they're old enough or their brains have developed to go, okay, consequences. And you can make your kid as responsible as you like,

but it's just the bullying and the way people treat each other Develop to go, okay, consequences. And you can make your kid as responsible as you like, but it's just the bullying and the way people treat each other on the internet, it's not nice. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, dogs, some people own them. Well, all three of us have got dogs, haven't we? And for whatever reason, my algorithm's like, oh, you've got a dog, I'll feed you dog content.

You've been watching some dog stuff, have you? Yeah, well, it's always good to just know what they're thinking because they are beautiful creatures aren't they the dog uh what's that wonderful saying that you've you always ask me about that uh a dog is a part of your world but for the dog you are their world i think it is yeah it gets that reaction oh it's an oh yeah it is nice isn't it and you don't really think about your dog much nowadays, do you, Megan? No. No, your dog slipped down the... He's taking a back seat after we've got two little toddlers at the moment.

The dog playing fifth seed in the household. Yep. But yeah, no, they are beautiful. Beautiful, kind creatures. And anyway, this dog trainer, this British geezer dog trainer, he's got really good tips. Right. He's got really good tips.

But he's so unnecessarily aggressive okay and i don't know what i like i don't know why have a listen how many times did you feed your dog a day we've done multiple of these videos and every f***ing one goes viral because clearly a lot of you f***ing feed your dog more than what we recommend once is the f***ing answer and why is that because dogs are f***ing animals. They're predatory animals. They would never, ever eat consistently twice to three times in the wild per day.

As a result, they can't recycle the cells. The body can't f***ing fix its f***ing nooks and crannies. And this is why your dogs are dying extremely young. Once a day, you're saying? Once a day, yeah. But it feels like you're getting dog advice from someone from Lockstock and two smoking barrels. Yeah.

One of the Gallagher brothers. You could cancel out the swearing and still get the message across. Yeah, but he wouldn't probably go viral. We wouldn't be talking about him. No, you're right. You're right. You've got to find your thing.

I love it because he's sitting in a van surrounded by what looks like 30 dogs. Oh, really? He's just got the van door slid open he's like all right this is how you feed your effing dog good tip sir only once a day yeah that's all we feed our dog once a day yeah remember your dog got fat shamed we did a show we did a dog show oh yeah we did dog almighty yeah a reality show it was like people to bring their dogs and they had to do an obstacle course but then the uh the expert, Doggy Dan. Yeah, one night I was in a vet.

I brought my dog along basically once to show what not to do. You know, like my dog could not do any of the things that these amazing dogs could do. And then one of the vets, because they had vets on hand for the show, just sort of gave my dog a bit of a, sort of put his hands around and he went, oh. And I was like, what? He went, oh. And he goes, well, he's a bit. He's a bit chunky. How many times a day are you feeding your dog? went, oh. And he goes, well, he's a bit. He's a bit chunky. Yeah.

How many times a day are you feeding your dog? Well, yeah, twice. Just once a day, Giza. Just once a day. You're going, oh, I need to be feeding him once a day. All right, I'm going to go home and tell my dog that and that voice. I love it. You can only get away with grabbing a dog's belly like that, can't you? You can't go around doing that to anyone else.

Yeah, but he came up to me and he was like, oh. How many times? You're going to get a day, mate. Feel a little bit chunky now. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Blue's Clues. It's a TV show

that's been going forever. It's still going. Blue's Clues and You is hosted now by Josh, which is what my son is growing up with. Josh from Blue's Clues. But I grew up with Steve.

Yeah. And there were rumours that he was no longer with us. Not true. In fact, he is going viral on TikTok and social media for doing these really wholesome videos. Was he in a band as well too? Was he?

He looks like a band guy. He looks like an alternative music guy now. He looks like the host of the lead singer of Weezer or something. Yeah. That's when you know you've really hit a certain level of fame too when there's rumours that you're dead. That's when you're pe've really hit a certain level of fame too when there's rumours that you're dead. That's when you're peaked. Peaked celebrity.

But he's doing these videos on TikTok where he talks to you and just asks you how you are and then just leaves space for you to talk. And these are getting like millions and millions of views. Hello. What's going on? How are you? What's new? And then he just looks at the camera and nods

and, like, reacts to you without saying anything. That's his content. Yeah. That's his content. I was like, damn. Damn, he's cracked it. He's cracked it. This other one here got, like, 9.2 million views.

Hey. It's been a very busy summer. How you doing? How you been? Tell me everything. And then you just sit there and talk to Steve. And he looks like he's listening away to it. It's probably quite, you know, people talk to themselves out loud,

but it probably feels like there's a friend and someone from your childhood that you get to talk to. And even like guys are like crying and chatting. And the comments that people leave, they're like, well, Steve, because, you know, like millennials grew up with Steve. Yeah. And it feels like he's still interested. So people are like writing all these really intense personal updates

on their lives to Steve. Yeah. Someone was like, oh, I'm 110 days sober, Steve. You're like, not quite Blue's Clues stuff. No. Where those kids are now. Top one on Steve-O's part two for the timing of those videos. Because you never want to come into, all right, well, thanks for telling me, but then you're still pouring your heart out. And my mother is still, thanks very much, mate.

Make sure you like and subscribe. And you couldn't smile at any point in case they were in a serious part. So he's kind of just nodding along. That was funny, Steve. What are the durations on them, too? It goes along, it goes for a while,

like a few minutes. That's nice. That's nice. We should give one a go after eight o'clock. Okay, we pour our heart out to Steve and then see if the timing works well

because that would be the big, because you never know how long someone's problems are. Yeah. Did you grow up with Steve, though? No. Because he's been like three. My husband, we don't connect on this level because he grew up with Joe.

The Wiggles? I was like, Steve from Blue's Clues. And he's like, no, I had Joe. And now my son has Josh. So it says a lot about your age depending on who was hosting Blue's Clues at the time. Who did I grow up with? Probably Jason Gunn. Like if Jason Gunn did one of these videos.

Or the dinosaurs. I was looking after you at the time. That's a joke. Because he's like, what dinosaurs on a TV? That's what he was saying. So Barney? Oh no, she's actually meaning real dinosaurs. The Cretaceous period.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Donald Trump's not a big fan of after she endorsed, not him, the US election. I hate Taylor Swift is what he said online over the weekend. And then he brought out some merch, t-shirts that look exactly like the errors to a t-shirt, but it's got his face all over it. What's that comedian's name?

He does a great bit on Donald Trump's merch. Oh, I don't, yeah, I know the bat. I'm not sure. He's like the make America. He's like,

you would never find a president who shifted so much merch than Donald Trump. And he yeah, I know the bat. I'm not sure exactly. He's like, the make America, he's like, you would never find a president who shifted so much merch than Donald Trump. And he said, you know, the make America great again cap is one of the most iconic hats of our time. It's true. And he said, like, whenever he's walking down the road and he sees someone in a MAGA hat, he's like, oh. And then.

He's like, it's a conscious decision, though, obviously, for people to put it on. It's probably the last thing they put on before leaving the house. Yeah. And that's his gag. He's like, how difficult do I want my day to be obviously, for people to put it on. It's probably the last thing they put on before leaving the house. Yeah. And that's his gag. He's like, how difficult do I want my day to be? I'll put my hat on. And away I go.

Taylor not endorsing Donald Trump, but Elon Musk is. He's endorsing him hard. So Elon called me. As you know, he endorsed me full-throated. Full-throated endorsement from Elon Musk. Hey, Air New Zealand have got a wee competition at the moment. And, you know, the quiz that you can, it's been running for many years over Air New Zealand.

Oh, that comes in the flip-down TVs there on the roof. Well, now they want questions from us, from the public. So if you've got a question, you've got to the end of the month to submit a question. If you know something, a fact or a little thing that you think could be quite good. That seems really risky. I hope they're going to run that through ChatGPT to fact check

it. Well yeah, true. And I don't think they're just going to put up anything. Seems so risky. Yeah, I think they would have to fact check it, wouldn't they? Yeah. They've probably got to that stage because they've been doing it for years. Yes, it's 2008 I think, right? Yeah, that's a lot. Some poor buggers had to relentlessly research facts. And now it's like,

well you come up with it. And they're like, great idea. So now you get the chance to come up with a quiz question. Unless they've laid off the person who did do the quiz questions. Now they're throwing it out to the people. Yeah, it seems like a cheap option. I know one of the dark, dark clouds that hangs over the production team here on the radio show is coming up with questions for the Alpha Quiz that we do at quarter to eight every morning. So let alone since 2008, we've been coming up with those questions.

Oh no, it's a long, long time as well. So if you ever got a question for Eden New Zealand, you could submit it right now. What's the one fact that you know that you could chuck in? Oh, Jono. Oh, Jono. I was thinking you'd get a Jono and Ben question in there.

Yeah, which show is cancelled? After seven seasons. There Could be many TV shows. Seven? Yeah. Seven seasons. That would be a good one to put in there. My dad always has one, and I can't remember exactly what the dates were. But it was like, who played for the 1972 Lions rugby team

and also the 1984 All Blacks? And everyone's like, I don't know who would play for like an international side as well as the All Blacks. And then the answer is the Upper Hutt Pipe Band. They played before like a lot, whatever it is. And I'm like, that's my dad's. Is he still running that? Is he?

He's running that. Yeah, he knows like the actual details of what it is, but it was like the Pipe band that played for both those teams on many years, so that would be one head submit. Over a month ago, almost five weeks ago, we put on a torch towards the end of the Olympics. Remember the Olympics? It's going to be four years before this thing ends.

Yeah, we had our own torch ceremony, and we turned on a dolphin, ever-ready dolphin, and you could put a bet in as to when you thought the dolphin batteries were going to run out. Is it still going? Is Gunjan listening over there, our security guard on reception? Gunjan? Yes he is.

Gunjan, is the torch still going? Oh, not yet. It feels like it's dimming a lot. It is fading, isn't it Gunjan? Yeah. Okay, so now would be a good little tip to head to the Hits Breakfast on Facebook and put a bet in as to when you think it will. Thank God it's fading.

Like, because I know we're trying to keep enthusiasm high. We should talk about the torch. We're all like, oh, yeah, I guess. You know, there's $500 to give away. We don't normally have $500. We should be talking more about the torch. Now that it's fading, we can talk more about the torch. Yeah, okay.

We'll pick it back up this week. Someone's going to win some money. Probably this week. Okay? Okay. $500. Get onto the Hits breakfast. Predict when you think it's going to run out.

The closest to the prediction will win $500. We'll do hourly updates. Okay? That's what I'm committing to. Okay. Throughout the whole day? No, just through the show. No, you've committed to it now, mate.

Just through the show. Just through the show. A friend of the Navy No, just throughout the show No, you've given it to it now, mate Throughout the show Just throughout the show I had a friend of the Navy yesterday Just in passing They used to have a black Labrador dog And they were a few houses up And the dog sadly passed on And I said, oh, are you getting a new one?

Right And then I got response Oh, no This is six months ago. Oh, I was going to say, how recent was that? Yeah. No, they can't even bring themselves to think about getting a new dog, which is my question to you.

When's the line you draw in the sand where you can get a new dog? And while we're talking about it, a new wife, you know, or husband. Okay. Wife or husband's past. What time frame are we talking? We'll start with the dogs and we'll get to the humans. Oh, the husband has to feel passed away. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, if my husband's passed, what time frame are we talking? We'll start with the dogs and we'll get to the humans. Oh, the husband has to feel passed away. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay, so we'll get to

the dogs first, okay? What's your time line for your dog? I don't know if there's any set amount of time. I was planning on having a crossover dog so that when our dog gets quite old, you get another one to ease the blow. That is smart.

So if you see the, what's that timeframe? A year? So you introduce the new dog? Well, you're not entirely sure when your one's going to go, but once they start getting old, and like the kids, when they're trying to play with him, and when he gets to the point where he's like, I don't want to play with him anymore,

get a younger one that they can play with, and then there's kind of a crossover. Yeah. And do you think that current dog's like, I see what's happening here. I'm hoping he'll be relieved because he'll be like,

thank God they're leaving me alone. Yeah, he's probably like out of retirement. I just want to sleep. Yeah, yeah. Crossover pet, that's not a bad suggestion. But they've missed that window,

your neighbours. Yeah, that's too late for that one. And I get it, you grow so attached to them that you can't imagine sometimes having a new one in your life. What would be the kind of, so bow passes. I don't it. You grow so attached to them that you can't imagine sometimes having a new one in your life.

What would be the kind of... So, bow passes. I don't know. I don't know if there's any set amount of time for me. I guess it's probably when you feel... I don't know if it's taking away from the memory of the other dog. No. You can't live in the grief, can you?

I mean, you can grieve for a period. But then you're going to eventually... If you wanted a dog, you might not want one and go, hey, you know, and that's fine too. And you can still love your new pet and grieve the last one. Let's talk about humans, okay? Your wives, your husbands, your partners, they've passed on. What is the time frame, an acceptable time frame to start dating new people? Again, again, I think –

Is my husband listening? He can't put a date on, you know, because I think it's whatever's right for you, really. Okay, so Megan's – Andrew, God forbid, has gone. Yeah. Megan starts dating. I'm not going to start judging her. No, but Megan starts dating someone, let's say, in six weeks. What are you doing?

What are you doing? I'm not going to say she needs it. She's going through a lot. Six weeks is early, though. I'd judge me. Yes, it seems early, but who am I again to put my nose? No, he's just quietly judging. I would say it was early. Don't get me wrong. But at the same time, I'm like, well, that's, you who am I again to put my – No, he's just quietly judging. I would say it was early.

Don't get me wrong. But at the same time, I'm like, well, that's – You do you. I haven't lost a partner. So you do you. Oh, that's what I would say. If I was going – and this is a fun topic on a Monday morning. Yeah, thanks for bringing the fives up.

I would say to Jen, hey, you just move on when you want to move on. Don't like – don't wallow in – There's no way. I'd be like, don't ever love another. Oh, really? Would you? I would say, no new wife.

I would say move on, but make sure there's a big portrait of me in the bedroom just staring at the bed. Okay? Otherwise you can just move on. That's quite a good phone topic. Okay,

I went under the hits. Do you know anyone in this situation? And they moved on quickly. Is this with pets or people? Pets or humans. Okay, all right. Pets or humans. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. The US election a couple of months away. It's making big news, not just in America, but around the world. And last week, Taylor Swift, for the first time, sort of said who she's going to be voting for. She put it out on social media saying she'll support Kamala Harris. And it drove about 35,000 new registrations. That's good.

To vote. Yeah, to vote. People to register to vote from that one post from her. Amazing influence she has. Huge influence. And so Trump, you just said before that Trump wrote in capital. So I've been guilty of writing many things in capital letters, emails and things like that.

I hate Taylor Swift is what he wrote. Because she's backing him. Yeah. He's so mature. I know. I hate Taylor Swift. That's all. I hate Taylor Swift.

Okay, mate. He, I didn't know this. Never, he's never drunk. Yeah. I did know that. Did you? Yeah. Which yeah which is wild like if he did drink it would explain a lot of yeah you know but you think in the business sort of fancy world that he's been living in for many years you think you know maybe a glass of wine and things like

how many business lunches and dinners he's been on where everyone's drinking and there's champagne and it's the fanciest of all stuff You would have thought that would have been something that he would have tried, but he'd never touched it, right? No, well, have a listen to him. I'm just saying, I'm not a drinker. I can honestly say I never had a beer in my life, okay? Right. It's one of my only good traits.

I don't drink. Whenever they're looking for something good, I say, I never had a glass of alcohol. I've never had alcohol. I've just, you know, for whatever reason. Can you imagine if I had? What a mess I'd be. I'd be the world's worst.

I think his brother struggled with alcoholism. Yeah, I was reading into it. His father was a rager. And so, obviously, you either go one way or the other in that situation. Yeah, credit where credit's due. He did well not to fall down the same habits. Yeah. And that's the most self-deprecating I've ever heard him be.

One of my only good traits. Yeah. It's not the only way he would say it, right? Maybe he was drunk when he said it. Slightly more endearing when he talks like that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It loves getting outraged. So what we do is we each find an article online about why the internet's outraged about something

and then we try and guess why it could be causing some outrage. Yeah. In terms of outrage, how outrageous is your one this week? Because sometimes I'm genuinely outraged. I'm not outraged about this at all. Okay.

No, but I don't know why people are outraged about it. But anyway, maybe because there's money up, money being spent on something. You know, sometimes people are just outraged. Looking at some people on social media, they're constantly outraged. Being outraged would be exhausting. You're having to be constantly irritated by things. You've really got to let some stuff wash over you, don't you, at the end of the day.

Like does that car park that's mowing over a forest load of trees, does it really affect you? And you being outraged on the internet, it's not going to change anything. Oh, but yeah, I'm over the trees. I mean, that kind of outrages me. That's a bad example. Are you outraged? Go on, then. That's a bad example.

Okay, Megan, you go first. All right, so this is a wedding invite that people have put out to their guests, and the guests and the internet are outraged. Oh, it'll be like a pay for your own meal or a- No, not money. Okay. Can't bring your partner? No.

Okay. Is it like in some exotic location where people are expected to fly to? No. Okay. But it is a request of their guests, but nothing to do with money. Oh, is it something they have to wear? Yes. Oh, okay.

What is it? So they have asked their guests to kindly dress semi-formal in our chosen colour palette. So they have put forward visuals of different shades of beige. Feels like something you'd do. No, why? Don't scream Megan Pappas. I want everyone to fit in. The aesthetic is so aesthetic.

I've had two weddings and never once, I thought about it, never once did I ask anyone to wear like a certain colour. But if you have a third, you'll be like, damn, this is a good idea. Everyone wear beige. So people are upset. They're like, well, I don't want to wear that particular colour. Or pay extra. Yeah, and everyone's like, we're not your props.

We're your friends that are coming to like hang out and be a part of your special day. Well, just chuck some beige on if you're a friend. Do you really wear beige? How would you deal with a beige color palette? You'd have to buy a beige suit or something for that. Yeah, I see what you're saying. That is the whitest crap I've ever heard on here.

Can everyone come in a different shade of beige? All right, well, that's causing outrage. I'm going to go on from Canada. There's a 15-foot Viking statue in a town, Gimli, very famous in that town in Canada, and it's causing outrage because something they're looking at changing for it. Putting pants on the Viking. It does have pants, but it has to do with clothing.

Putting a shirt on the Viking? No. Are they adding something to the statue? They're removing something from the statue. Taking the pants off? The horns? Yes. Oh!

Well done. The Viking horns. Because apparently, according to historians, Vikings never actually had horns. No. There's no evidence of having horns. Don't say that. There's no evidence, according to this, of ever having horns on their helmets, on the Viking helmets.

So where does that come from? I don't know. This is what, so they remove the horns from the helmet, but then people are like, well, we like the horns on the helmet. No, that's just, we've just made that character up in our head. Can we just go with it? Maybe it was someone pranking, you know, when there was a picture of a Viking and you didn't like someone at school, you'd draw like devil horns on their head.

Maybe that's where the origins are. So they're now looking to remove the horns and the people are upset about that one. So are we cancelling horns for Vikings? I don't know. Well, they weren't there. I'm understanding why they'd get rid of those. And just quickly, Jono.

Outrage over a gym bro online. Okay, some comments underneath this post. That's the most disturbing thing I've ever heard. Or that's hilarious. You should have stayed with him for a laugh. What's this gym bro doing? Oh, stayed with him. I'd say it does involve his partner.

Is it something he's eating? No. Spotting someone at the gym doing something? Filming at the gym? That's always a bugbear. Like people that film and put it all over Instagram at the gym. No, it was a divorce. Oh. No, it was a divorce. The gym bro divorced his wife because she didn't know how much weight he could lift on the leg press machine.

She didn't know. She didn't know. So he's like, you can't keep up with me at the gym. You don't know my gym stats. So we can't be together. We're not compatible. It feels like she's dodging a real punish there. A big protein bullet.

Big protein punish. That seems like a reasonable thing to break up about, doesn't it? Well, he's like, you know, how much do I lift? I don't know. Well, how well do you know me? And there we go. That's what's causing outrage this morning on the internet.