Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Hilarious funeral mishaps...

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

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This John O'Bien podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts in tastes that Kiwis love. Today is a big day. Lotto, $43 million. We've just been talking about it. I think the whole nation is talking about it, particularly with the cost of living. You waste so much time hypothesizing, oh, I wouldn't tell anyone. Yeah, put it in a bloody 24-month deposit, you know, get some interest on it, which you said we should do, Megan. Yeah, I've got a great plan. It's a great plan. Okay, so we're going to talk more about this after 8 o'clock,

but hypothetically, you win Lido. What are you going to do? Because I think a lot of people think I would be frivolous, but I'm actually pretty good with money. I reckon I would put away $30 million. Well, the reason you buy from ASOS, you always say is on sale. So, yeah, it's a bargain. I'd get some of that going.

But $30 million I'd put away in some kind of savings account. And we worked out how much, because I reckon you can live off the interest of that. Jono did the calculation over half a mil a year. Jono just copied and pasted a number into a calculator online, a deposit calculator, and $557,000 over a 12-month period. So that's the interest. And that's probably a pretty low interest rate. It's 2.5%.

I imagine a lot of people would want to have that sort of money. So you could probably negotiate up. Yeah, let's get a 3.2, 2.3. So that's only 30 mil. So then you have $13 million to play with, do what you want, but you still have $30 million and a half a million dollar salary. And you're living off that. Yeah.

Genius. Then there's a lady in the paper today saying, money doesn't buy happiness. She's just saying that to make all of us other losers feel better. But here's my thing. I appreciate the sentiment. What if you're happy, but you have money stresses? That's going to take away your money stresses.

The happiest anyone will ever be. So $43 million, if it's not struck, what does that mean? Saturday? $50 million. I assume it goes $50. Apparently that's a must win. Must win, yeah. Can't go past $50 million. We've had those before where, yeah, must wins. If no one gets the first goes 50. Apparently that's a must win. Must win, yeah. Like, can't go past 50 mil.

We've had those before where, yeah, must win. So if no one gets the first division, it kind of goes down to second, and then it gets split amongst everyone. Yeah, there was one time where it was 50 million, got divvied up between all the winners, 5 million each. Still, nothing to sneeze at. No, exactly. But you'd be a little disappointed when you're like,

I finally win a lotto, and I share it with 20 other people. And they don't tell you that initially when you win A. It's like, you're a winner. And you're like, oh my God, I've won 43 mil. And then they're like, oh, sorry. They're predicting 1.45 million tickets to be sold. So it's a pretty good average. It's a pretty good average.

Yeah, definitely going to win it. Better than the local meat raffle, I'll tell you that. Charts is the high. We're talking more with Sonia Gray, who is the presenter for Lotto after 8 o'clock this morning. Always amazes me that she can play. She can play Lotto, but I guess it's all done. Well, she can't rig it.

Yeah. She's not allowed to touch. It's not like she's allowed to chuck her balls in the air. Every time we talk to her, we try not to do sexual innuendo, but she's not allowed to touch the balls. Seriously, never has. Not allowed. The Spurgeoners not allowed to touch the balls. Seriously, never has. Not allowed. Scrooge and his have gloves to touch the balls. Yeah. I kind of want to touch the

balls just to see what they feel like. Apparently not. They are the most cared for tender balls in the nation. No one has treated those balls with more care in this bit. Are they the same balls since time began? There's two machines. Have they updated the balls? And then they toss a coin before going out and they decide which machine they're going to use

So even that Those balls would get polished every week They'd have to be clean balls Stop it Tom Cruise, a famous actor Was in Mission Impossible The first Mission Impossible movie And I think War of the Worlds

With Dakota Fanning, an actress at the time. She was only like 11 years old, very young. She was 11 years when they did War of the Worlds. Was she on bloody Fifty Shades? No, no. That's Dakota Johnson. Same name.

Same name. You've got the same name. What's she got on to do as an adult? Has she had an illustrious film career as an adult? John Stoneman. Same name. This bit, but yeah. Same name. Well done, you got the same name. Yeah. What's she gone on to do as an adult? Has she had an illustrious film career as an adult? Dakota, she's done a few things. Couldn't name them for you though. But big child actor.

Yeah. Yeah, huge child actor. See, they worked together on a couple of movies and every year on her birthday, he sent her something. Since she was 11 years old, gave her her first cell phone at 11 years old, and has continued to do so.

She's now 30, and every year she gets a present from Tom Cruise. Feels like a cell phone's a let's talk to the parents gift, isn't it? That's a parents gift. Yeah. Yeah, especially at 11. A cell phone. Especially 20 years ago. Giving someone a cell phone at 11 20 years ago is not the dumb thing.

It might have talked to the parents, guys. We don't know the backstory. No, you're right. You're right. Hey, I'm going to not the done thing. Am I talking to the parents, guys? We don't know the backstory. No, you're right. You're right. Hey, I'm going to give to you. And they're like, yeah, sweet. Knock yourself out. So that's money, mate.

But she's like, she's 30 now. So he's been doing this for almost 20 years. And she was like, I keep thinking it's going to end. Like when I'm 18 or when I'm 21. But he keeps doing it. Lovely. But then he has quite a fractured relationship with some of his kids, right? Siri, well, his beliefs.

And they're all our beliefs. It's the Church of Scientology. They've got to us all in the entertainment game, haven't they? But yeah, it doesn't allow him to mix and mingle with non-believers, apparently. Right. But then is Dakota Fanning a believer? I don't know. Because it doesn't sound like he has anything to do with his daughter Suri.

Yeah, because surely he can act in movies. He doesn't have to be an all Scientology cast, you know. Yeah. Bringing you this all Scientology. Maybe family members. Right. If they're not believers. So he can have a great relationship with an actress he worked with,

but not his daughter. Do you know a friend of mine, my wife, she was over in Los Angeles and they were like, hey, you want to come in and do a personality test? These are the kind people at the Church of Scientology. So her and her friend went in there and did a personality test. Did they? Yeah, they did.

And they really get you to expose all of the skeletons in your closet. That's the trick, right? And then they've got you. It's like going to a ditty party. He's got everything on film, you know? You can never leave And then they've got you. It's like going to a diddy party. He's got everything on film. You know? You can never leave. We know everything about you.

So they're like, well, we've got some stuff about you. Wouldn't this be a shame if this little email got out? You know? And then that's how they apparently keep a lot of people. There's a building in Auckland. Yeah, a massive one. Huge. Prime real estate.

There's never anything happening in there. Well, I'm sure there is. Well, you in there. Well, I'm sure there is. Well, you know of. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure there is. I mean, how often are you going past here and having a look at the windows? Never. Not once.

How would you know what was going on there? It was next to the motorway. I drove past it like 80 k's an hour. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Funeral faux pas. I mean, funerals, you know, very, very sad time. But there are sometimes the occasions where things can happen that

can cause laughs or smiles, and particularly over time you can look back and go, actually that was quite funny. Yeah, but sometimes the more tense the setting, the funnier things become, you know, and then you have friends around you poking you in the back. Like, can I laugh at this? The only advantage

is at a funeral, if you are crying tears of laughter, people think there's tears of grief and sorrow. And sometimes the person who sadly passed away would probably really enjoy those moments of laughter. It's the thing, just because they're dead doesn't mean they didn't have a sense of humour. Yeah. Yeah, you've got to remember that.

You're right. We were actually just in a meeting with someone from work the other day and they were saying all their friends went to a funeral just last week. And as the coffin was being lowered into the ground they wanted to play the police every breath you take is this one you know from sting

very sensual love maker isn't he sting yeah he does the bloody whole three days situation okay he'd be booking out some calendar time with Stingbow. But yeah, so they wanted to play that song as the coffin was being lowered onto the ground. But then, obviously, a mishap in the DJ game. Puff Daddy's version of I'll Be Missing You started playing this one. I know you're still living your life after death.

I mean, you know, it's a great song for a funeral. You know? Just given... Well, it's because it was written when someone was passed away. Notorious B.I.G., yeah. They wrote a film. But just given recent controversies, another thing that needs to be dead and buried is probably that song.

That might be the last time we play it on the house. Yeah. So then they just couldn't stop laughing. Unfortunate moments. Funeral faux pas. Those are the sorts of things we want this morning. We've told the story before, but someone we spoke to, she was part of the pallbearers carrying the coffin into the funeral.

And on a little hook on one of the pews, one of the seats at the church, her dress, her skirt got caught on there. And you can't argue. There's momentum. You can't tell the other five people to stop. A lot heavier than you think they are, coffins, aren't they, when you lift one? There's a person in there.

Yeah. And so her dress, her skirt just went straight off. The whole thing? Yeah. She was just walking up. Just legs. And she had to walk out of the church holding the coffin. Just legs on display.

Yeah, I would be like like you guys got this eh there's five of you I'm not really you got this she was wearing underwear but still it's not the occasion that yeah

get your legs out it's not a legs out occasion no it's not really a legs out occasion no that's commitment well you can't there's no other real option

though is there yeah the only other option is dropping a dead person that's not a bad option that's a there? Yeah. The only other option is dropping a dead person. That's not a bad option. That's a shocking option B. So 800, we'll check this out there, 4487.

The faux pas at the funeral. Well, what happened? Tell us. I'll share a story about how my friend decided to do a, God, it was a rap. He did a rap for his dead grandmother. All right. None of us knew about it.

Started playing YouTube music. Did your granny like rapping? What are you doing? No. I'll tell you about it shortly. He wasn't even a rapper. He wasn't a P, did he? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking about funeral faux pas,

the little moments that, you know, in a sad situation, can make you laugh at the time. And as Jono said before, you know, often when it is a bit more serious, those things are a lot funnier. They do. They hit harder, don't they? A friend of yours, we went to my friend's Nana's funeral a few years ago and he got up and spoke.

He's like, I've written a poem for Nana. And we're like, oh, this is lovely. It's sweet. And then all of a sudden this royalty-free, commercial-free hip-hop music, instrumental music starts playing. I was worried about rights, was I? You don't want to be paying APRA fees, do you, at the funeral? It's already bad enough.

And he starts rapping along to a – no previous rap experience. Oh, right. No. Oh, okay. Not a thing. And we were like Dear God What's he doing And you know

As soon as it starts And it was a mixed crowd It wasn't like Tupac's funeral or anything Yeah right You know you've got Members of the bowling club The rotary club

Right Not really the rapper The rap audience But yeah I can't Was it a wholesome Love you It was lovely yeah But if he had run

Any of this past us Beforehand We would have said That's a shocking idea But you. It was lovely, yeah, but if he had run any of this past us beforehand, we would have said that's a shocking idea. But you know when you're laughing so much, you have to bend down and just stare down. And everyone's laughing around you and they're poking you and all you can do is just try a deep breathe and you just try to think about the darkest thing in your life

to stop laughing. Honestly, he could not have scripted it any better. I vaguely remember he's like, what were the words? You were like a nana, like a brother, except you were my mother's mother. I mean, it's wholesome. Oh, no, and it was so sweet. And you couldn't bring it up on the day either. You can't take the piss out of someone's rap eulogy.

So that's what we want. Funeral faux pas this morning. What happened at the funeral that you went to? We'll get Alison on. You're on New Zealand's Breakfast Morning, Alison. How are you? I'm pretty good. How are you guys?

Yeah, what happened, mate? Well, 16 years ago, my husband died. And when we were planning his funeral, he wanted everybody to laugh. So he decided to have the song by Monty Python, Oh Lord, Please Don't Burn Us, as his coffin was being carried out. Did it get a laugh? Did it do the job?

It did the job. Of course, he was being promoted, which made it even funnier. People still talk about it to this day. Oh, that's lovely, isn't it? Yeah, because if you come to terms with death We were talking about that with someone the other week It can be a beautiful experience

Absolutely He had a party before he died Called come as your favourite dead person And he had a collection of his friends And they all got to say what they wanted Before he left And it was really lovely Because you do feel like sometimes

people say these lovely things, but not with a person. I mean, maybe you... Say it to my face when I'm alive. Yeah, when they're alive, yeah. Yeah, 100%. If I threw one of those parties, though, I'd be scared no one came. I'll do a rap for you.

Anyone got a speech? Nah. Megan, you're like a sister. Oh, thank you so much for sharing that with us. Beautiful, beautiful story. Appreciate it. No worries. Sounds like it was the perfect way to go if you were going to go anyway.

Marg, we'll get you on. Fauxpars at the funeral. Oh, morena. Morena. Morena. So this happened about six years ago when my father-in-law passed away. We were getting ready to carry him out, and so he was a Jim Reaves fan,

so he played a Jim Reaves song. I can't even remember what it was now. And the song was loaded on my phone, and so the song started, and we picked him up. Oh, they picked him up and started carrying him out. So we all started to follow him. My phone was down where he was laying at the other end of the chapel. And then the song was very short, so it finished,

and we were only halfway through down the aisle, and the next song to come on was You Sexy Thing. Oh, hot chocolate. Yeah, hot chocolate. Yeah, hot chocolate, You Sexy Thing,

because it was on my phone, you see. So we all froze, and we're like, oh my God. And then, and he was a big man with a huge sense of humour.

So then we all started dancing down the aisle for the rest of the, we got outside and cracking up laughing. That's pretty cool. Yeah, that one. That's so good.

And to this day, because I've still got those songs, his song on my playlist, whenever that song comes on, the Jim Reeves song, Sexy Thing has never played after it.

No, just that one time. Just maybe, maybe imagine if it was a miracle he popped out of the coffin where are you from we were all jiggling down the down the aisle oh that's so beautiful the hits the jonathan ben podcast fresh off i must thank the king actually for uh holding his birthday over the weekend because there were some extraordinary king's birthday sales right now we've been through over the last 24 months five rice cookers how much rice are you cooking a lot of rice i love my rice as much as i love my white bread it's the white bread of the asian cuisine isn't it white rice you know that a pot will also cook that's not an

option for me i can't do pot, take your pot nonsense out of here. I need a rice cooker to do it perfectly. Push a button. Tells you when it's done perfectly. Yeah, right. Fluffy white rice. Yeah, like you can screw up. The pot's too much risk for me.

It's not a lot of risk though, but it is broad water and rice. This is bloody old rare. It's just 12 minutes. A hand- Chickens to make Chicken soup Turn it off Homemade chicken soup Let it sit for five

Perfect Not all of us Make stuff from scratch Okay Some of us use rice cookers But five in 24 months Crazy Like what's happening to them

They blow out The bloody I think they become Quite the fire hazard Have you tried Different brands Gone through The entire spectrum

The entire You name a brand, Cambrook. Breville. Breville. Name it Zip. Zip. Zip, which is the very cheap,

affordable option. That's probably the longest lasting one. Really? Yeah. Have you tried taking them back? Do they replace them or not? No, because they blow out just past that little period.

But yeah, I want to thank the King because over the weekend, rice cooker. Half price. Don't tell me you bought two. No, I didn't buy two. You should buy one for his backup. I know. I've already bought five.

Two for the price of one off sale. You bought five more rice cookers than I've ever bought in my life already. Have you ever had a rice cooker? Never. Never had a rice cooker. Like Megan says, it's just like pot. Do you want me to teach you how to do it in a pot?

It's really very simple. Not now, I've just bought a bloody rice cooker. Okay, when this one blows up. When this one blows up, then we're going to have a lesson. Teach a man to fish. Jeez, all right. Yeah, but it's amazing the bargains you can get thanks to those long weekends.

What brand did you go for this time? I went back to Breville. Been to Breville before. You've got me again. Only because you're a half-priced Breville. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast. The Riddler. Producer Taylor tries to stump us. If you think you can solve

the riddle, 0800 the Hits. Thanks to our mates at Dilmar. We're trying to make the world a better tea. We've got a hot and cold tea prize pack and $1,000 if you can get today's riddle. Well, if your two loves are riddles and cups of tea welcome to paradise yeah i noticed you come in here with a little bit of a sense of entitlement doesn't she every week yeah the only time that i do right you um yeah you you find all your riddles from tiktok and i imagine the tiktok algorithm algorithm must be like geez this lady loves a loves a riddle. Is that all you get served? Yeah, all I get is easy dinner recipes and riddles now.

Yeah, right? Yeah. No, look, this is a fun gal. Lots going on here. So normally you give one to us, but sometimes we're so stupid we can't even solve it. Do you guys want one today? We'll try.

I've got a quick one. We'll try, okay. Okay. What starts with the letter T is filled with T and ends in T? It's an easy one. Starts with the letter T, filled with T, ends in T. Ends in T? Ends with T.

Teapot? Yeah. Oh, well done. Oh! Ben! Okay, okay, good. I was getting the answer. Great one for Toolmart too.

It is. Very untrained Yeah that was So is that our one That's our one That's your one done Oh a win for the A win for the dummies It doesn't normally happen

Does it No Good job I don't know how I feel Weird feeling What is it Is it good What does it feel like

I'm not used to getting Any of these right Confusion Yeah Really confused myself No we're proud We're proud of you Ben It was good

You should be elated My friend Now for the intelligent audience Alright, spell candy Using only two letters I know this Do you? Is it because you've seen it before? Yes

So it's not like you came up with it It's You're doing gang signs West side It's You're doing gang signs. Westside. It's like oh yeah it's like yeah

you know okay we're doing sign language on radio. What we could do is yeah okay

we could turn the mics off. Turn the mics off. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Okay. Is it right? Yes. Can confirm Jono's got it. Okay.

Is that right? Yes, can confirm. Jono's got it. Okay. I was going to say M&M. I still don't get it. M&M. That's what I was trying to do. Oh, that's cute.

Oh, M&M. Yeah, that wasn't a gang size. That was M&M, but I've got that wrong. So if you think it's M&M. I was like, Mungle Mop, what's he doing here? Okay. Okay. So if you can spell candy using two letters, I only know this because my daughter fired

this at me the other day. Get off your high heels, mate. You didn't do any of the heavy lifting. Natalie, welcome, welcome to me and my high horse from the Waikato.

Hi. Have you figured this one out? Oh, maybe. What is it? What's the answer? Is it

C and maybe C and Y? Yes, good job. Why were you stopping yourself there? So C and Y. You said two letters. Oh, you're using the and, but that's...

Like all riddles, it's a play on words, Megan. How long have we been doing this for? The and counts. That's three letters technically. C and Y, but it's only the and. And's a word. Yeah, it's a word.'s only the and, yeah. And's a word. Yeah, it's a word. C is a letter, right?

And spells candy. Yeah, literally. I know, but technically that's more letters. Nothing technical about riddles, mate. That is the game. As always,

it ends in a bickering session. Welcome to the hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Chat GPT, we've talked a little bit about artificial intelligence the last, you know, the last few weeks.

You can pretty much type in anything and it will spit you back out and answer pretty quickly. Yeah. I like to just refer to it as Google on steroids. It really is the ultimate search engine, isn't it? But you know,

but you can kind of tell sometimes when things have been written by chat GPT. And I got one of those yesterday, my daughter, and I think she might've known that I might've cottoned onto this, but she had gone to a friend's place. They were rehearsing something for a talent show they were doing. And then I get this text message out of the blue from my daughter.

I'm like, this is clearly chat GPT. It starts with, Kia ora, Ben. I hope you're doing well. You're like, immediately, that is AI. Screaming AI. I wanted to talk to you about something that's just come up. As you know, my friend and I were planning on hanging out tonight. I was thinking it'd be great if we could turn it into a sleepover.

It wasn't something we'd been planning. It just popped into my head. Since I have a late start on Wednesday, it seems like the perfect opportunity to have a sleepover without worrying about getting up early. On top of that, we'll make sure we do lots of homework and stay on top of our schoolwork, and this extra time together will help us focus and get a lot done.

I'm like, this is clearly Chap GPT. I understand that you're always concerned about us being responsible. So I want to assure you we'll be on our best behavior, sticking to a reasonable bedtime. Her dad has said yes. Oh, there we go. Don't be the deadbeat, Dad. But please, no pressure at all.

No pressure at all, she writes. If you're not comfortable with it, totally fine. But this sleepover would mean a lot to me. And I believe it would be a great experience for both of us feels like she's saying no pressure at all the ai's say no pressure at all but putting an extreme amount of pressure on you and then it wraps up well thank you so much for considering this i really appreciate it i'm sure you'll agree it'll be a harmless way to spend an evening best comma sienna boys i love her and what did you reply I hope you got chat GPT to reply

I should have actually what's the nicest way I can say no to this I was just like nice chat GPT letter uh no oh I thought you said no oh yeah

I said school night her dad said yes I don't know I'm gonna try the weekend I don't know that might have been chat GPT I don't know

I don't know anymore that might have been a chat GPT dad saying no yeah I was like wait wait till the weekend midweek sleepover's a bit it is gangsta

yeah I know I don't know where nice try Sienna I was like she probably laid weekend midweek sleepovers it is gangsta I know I don't know where nice try Sienna I was like she probably laid on the chat GPT a little hard but hey some good reasons behind it

I'm the soft touch I'm that initial dad so they gang up the girls will gang up on me Poppy and her friends will be like can we have a sleepover

I'm like yeah sure and then the pressure goes on the other parent Jen's like you've got to stop doing that to people yeah you kind of have to come as a unified front you do because then I turn up on the other parent. Yeah. Jen's like, you've got to stop doing that to people. Yeah.

You kind of have to come as a unified front. You do. Because then I turn up at someone's house to collect bags. They're like, so you've organized a sleepover over there too, at their house. Oh, really? Bobby's like, can I stay there? He's like, yes. None of my responsibility, mate. How long do you want to do it?

Two weeks? Three weeks? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A huge lotto draw tonight. $43 million. We want to know what you'd do in the first week if you won $43 million. So think about that and give us a call on 0800 THE HITS. But right now joining us, lotto presenter Sonia Gray.

Good morning. Thanks so much for hanging out. Good morning. Fresh off a Pilates session. How are we feeling, mate? Oh, look, I'm good. You know, on a big draw day, it's good to be limber. Got to stretch the hammies before the lotto draw. Oh, yeah, I'm good. You know, on a big draw day, it's good to be limber. Got to stretch the hammies before the lotto draw.

Oh, yeah, totally. Yeah, and then some light stretches just before the draw. $43 million. Now, we have had higher than this before, but this is right up there, right? It's right. We haven't been this high, I think, since October 2021. And I imagine with the cost of living, you know, at the moment,

a lot of people are doing it tough. I mean, that money, I mean, you could only dream of $43 million. Yeah, a lot of money. And there's a lot of good you could do with that, definitely. I was wondering about you guys. Do you have, like, a dream list? Like, if you won? Oh, boy, we'll hand you over to Megan,

who has an Excel spreadsheet of what she's going to spend. She's already written out a budget for the money. Yeah, because we want to talk about that now on 0800thethits. But Megan's already decided if she wins, this is what she's going to do. I'm going to put 30 mil away and then live off the interest. But I also said to these guys that I've always wanted to buy ambulances. Oh, what a lovely thing to do.

I know, but also because then it can ride on the side of the ambulance donated by Megan and I want everyone to know. So for actual, like, for St. John's to use? Yeah, for St. John's. Not for you to get to work faster or anything like that? Yeah, no. I was just going to say, funny you should say that, because our big winner back in about 2009, when we had Big Wednesday in Masterton, they bought a St. John's ambulance for Masterton.

That's very cool. Because you can play the game, you know, you're the presenter of Lotto and do a great job. But you can also play as well. Do you ever have a like, what would you do if you won a million or a couple of million? Do you have like a plan? Well, you know I love sports. So I think the Cricket World Cup is on now.

And I think if I won a significant amount tonight, I would be off to the Caribbean. Wow. And never hosting Lotto ever again. What do you call it? Quit the show. No, I'd come back. I'd come back because I love it.

I love my people. I love my balls. But if you start posting from the Caribbean, we know what's happened. Yeah. Hey, don't you start coming in with those balls in you. You know that's our sweet spot. Yeah, we're trying to avoid that. The boys' favourite fact is you're not allowed to touch the balls.

Yeah, we said we were going to bring it up, Megan. And I get to say, let's chop the balls every weekend. Yes. Would you say they're probably the most cared for balls in New Zealand? They are. They are so loved. Yeah, they get washed and weighed and treated with love and kindness. And you're right, I don't touch them, but I do have a little ritual.

About two minutes before we go live, my school manager says, have a good one, Sonny. Exactly the same every time. And then I look at the balls and I say, have a good one, balls. That's so cute. I've never told anybody that. Have a good one I might introduce that

To other areas of my life too Bit of a pet talk Just every morning 43 million tonight And we were just reading about it If it's not struck It could go up to somewhere near Around 50 million And then it's Like it's probably a must win Right. If it's not struck, it could go up to somewhere near around $50 million,

and then it's probably a must-win, right? Must be won. Yeah, must be won. So we won't know yet what happens, but, yeah, if it doesn't go, it's pretty close to a must-win jackpot, which is crazy. Hey, now, Sonia, if, as they say, you win tonight, is the money in your bank account tomorrow? I think, look, having never won, I couldn't say,

but I'm pretty sure it's about maybe Friday. You might have to wait until the following Monday. Wow, that's pretty quick, though. Pretty quick transfer. So 43, you win tonight, it's in your bank account by the weekend. Yeah, all the way. Hang on, hang on. Don't be on that. bank account by the weekend. Wow. Hang on, hang on. Don't be un-matched.

Or maybe not the weekend. If not, Sonia's good to transfer that money just for a couple of days, make sure you're all good. Sonia Gray, have a great call tonight. Wish the Bulls good luck from us. Thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. $43 million lotto tonight.

If it's not won, it looks like it will go to a must-win, $50 million on Saturday. But hey, you could be $43 million richer tonight if you get a ticket. Are you telling anyone? If you win, what are you doing? Okay, let's talk the first seven days. Ben Boyce has just taken out First Division. I don't think you would. Are we seeing you tomorrow morning?

No, you'd have to. You'd be in. Unless I've got, oh, I've got to come down with COVID. It gives you five days to get your affairs in order. You haven't even. But now you can. You've got 43 million. You can have as many fears as you want.

You need to start with the little, oh, man, I've got a little tickle or something now. Yes, true. Yeah. You'd definitely have to opt for a slow fade out from work, wouldn't you? You'd just be like, well, Ben seems a lot more disengaged than he was, you know? I like to think I'd work. Yeah, you want purpose in your life. What would you do? But then I'd turn up in like a Ferrari and you'd be like,

hmm. Yeah. What would be the level of work? You'd still get up first thing in the morning and come in here? I think so. Yeah? I like to think so. Yeah, right. You'd like to think so, but then you don't have $43 million. She'd just be helicoptering in. She'd be like, okay, where's Megan? Oh, here she comes.

Just ignore that and my new full Chanel outfit. And the problem is if you do tell one person, we're just a giant village in New Zealand. We love a natter and a gossip. It wouldn't be long before people found out. Because I think it would just create issues. You'd be amazed, I reckon, how many people would come with their handout from

your life. You're like, oh, I haven't heard from you in 17 years. I reckon it really would create a lot of issues. Would we still do coffee rounds? Like I'd be like, my shot today, and you're like... No, it's definitely you're paying for coffee. 100% of the time. Every day. Yeah, every day. So 800 of the hits. What are you going to do in the first seven days when you've won this $43 million dollars We're going to get Delta on Welcome Delta

Hello Alright Talk to us in Masterton So I would Because I am a first year Student nurse My student loan Is going to be racking up

Especially with three years So I'd be paying that off Great You got that paid off I think you'd probably Do that with what Under 50,000 at least Right But like Are you still going to do Yeah something like that Are you still that paid off. I think you'd probably do that with what? Under $50,000 at least, right?

Yeah, something like that. Are you still going to do nursing? I think I've told my dad I'll give him a million cents. A million cents, okay, right. You've still got pretty much $43 million left. Yeah, and then I put the rest away. I might put maybe a million or something like that towards the charity.

So 42 mil? It's a lot to get through. It's a lot of money. It's a lot of money, yeah. And you're in Masterton, and they always go to obscure places like Masterton, don't they? Hey, not obscure, mate. Masterton's great. You could buy Masterton.

And maybe young, well, youngish, I would obviously rack it up and put it away and see what it gives me in 20, 30, 40 years. Megan did the maths too this morning. You put 30 mil just sitting in the bank on 2.5% interest annually over 12 months. That's pulling back $550,000 or so. That's on a low interest

rate. That's just sitting there doing nothing. Very nice salary every year without even touching that 30 mil. I appreciate your course. Good luck tonight. Let's go. Carol. Yeah, we'll get Carol on. Okay, first seven days. You've won. What are you doing, Carol? I buy

a mortgage-free house. Pay my kids' mortgages off. Give my kids some money each. Put money away in a trust for my brain kids. Oh, lovely, Carol. And then fly to Canada and meet my half-sister.

Oh, lovely. That's beautiful. I did notice an omission of Jono, Ben and Megan donation plan there, Carol. Oh, I'll think about that one. You'll think about it. All right. What about all the mornings of free entertainment we've put on offer? Haven't charged you a bloody cent. Are you going to think about that one. Think about it. All right. Yeah. What about all the mornings of free entertainment we've put on offer?

Haven't charged you a bloody cent. Are you going to think about it? Fair enough, Carol. Yeah, a play of cards costs you a chest. Good luck tonight.

What a lovely thing you do with the money. Yeah, about 1.4 million tickets there expecting to be sold tonight. So great odds. Fantastic odds. In the bag.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You might have heard that my husband fixed our sensor light at the weekend, did a bit of DIY. Yeah, turned what you said was a 45-minute job into a four-to-five-hour job. Yeah. But got it done.

The light's sensing things, the light's going on, it's going off, it's working. I let him have it, and I was just like, yeah, it's great. And inside I was like, should have got someone else to do it, but I didn't say anything. But it did mean we took multiple trips to Mighty 10 at the weekend. Right. And he was also, while he was there, looking for something to clean our coffee machine.

Now, he was there for a long time. He was standing in the aisle that said coffee machines and couldn't see the coffee machines. They were right in front of him. And before I could say anything, he'd raced off to go and ask somebody where the coffee machines. They were right in front of him. And before I could say anything, he'd raced off to go and ask somebody where the cleaner was. It was right in front of me. So I stood there holding the box as he brought the lady back over

and I was like, is this what you're looking for? And he'd had a man look. Now, this happens all the time and he gets really frustrated because I'm like, you had a man look. Now, this happens all the time, and he gets really frustrated because I'm like, you had a man look. Everything just blends into one. When you look in the pantry, you're like, where's the bloody spices? Everything looks like a spice when you're looking for a spice. Yeah, well, we can see it.

I can look and see the spice straight away. But apparently our eyes are structured differently. It's an actual thing. They're made up differently. So men are good at looking for objects when they're moving. So like, I don't know, I guess that's like hunter and gatherer situation. But if everything's standing still in front of you, like you're looking at the fridge. Right now you're moving and I'm thinking I could eat you.

I could eat you and survive off you for a week. But that's why when you open the fridge and you're like, where's the butter? I'm like, the butter's right in front of you. You can't see it as well as women can because our eyes are literally made up differently. No, because we've been out getting the cow, milking the cow, making the butter. All we want to know is where'd you put it? Whereas women can detect color changes and have a really good peripheral vision. So that's why

we're better drivers and multitaskers yeah that makes a lot of sense so it's not offensive when someone says to you you had a man look yeah

it's actually scientific scientific interesting isn't it there's always exceptions to the rule though right like what Ben's

I can tell he's like I'm not like that I don't think I'm that man yeah I love the crap out of multitasking, too. Do you open the fridge and not find things? No. Oh. I can tell he's getting wound up as you're explaining the size.

He's like, hold on, this is not me. I'm not trying to tell you it's not offensive. Could I fix the scintillite? Absolutely not. Yeah, right. Not in a million years could I fix the scintillite. Could he kill you and eat you? No.

Absolutely not. That would be cannibalism. Okay, so there is exceptions to every rule. He likes to-do lists. He likes to be organised. But can I do anything practical? Absolutely not. He was getting all shaky and jumpy on his chair over there

as you were trying to stereotype him. He's not going to fall into your stereotypes. Mate, it's 2024. Come on. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Kiwi Guy doing something pretty incredible when he joins us now to tell us all about it. How are you doing, Justin? Oh, I'm doing bloody well, thank you.

It's not Monday we skipped that day. How good? Short week. It's a good feeling. Now, you are doing something that seems pretty unique and different, but for a really good cause. Tell us what you're doing. So, plain and simply, I am doing a blindfolded marathon, which sounds all good, but after going for my first 3K the other day,

I think we are in for some drama. You say it sounds all good. No part of it sounded all good to me. It sounded like all trouble. I guess, is someone leading you along? Are you sort of tethered to them? How's that working? Yeah, so I've gone and bought some tethers.

I've actually taken a bit of inspiration because there are people who actually run blind. So that's kind of how I got the idea. So yes, I have a partner who is going to be running with me, a good friend of mine who accepted the challenge. So we both are training to even do a marathon, first and foremost. But yeah, then trying to get the aspect

of being blind and guiding and talking through 42.4 kilometers and possibly five hours. So are you literally training every time you go for a run, you're tethered to someone? No, no. So at the moment,

so I have a bit of a series on my instagram going at the moment and every day i'm doing something blindfolded so i'm just trying to get used to having a blindfold on like and you'd be surprised how hard it is to just do every well you wouldn't be surprised but just to do everyday things so far i've gone for a golf hole i've got a tattoo so i had to rely on someone to put the tattoo on my wrist in the right spot without seeing. a lot of trust and there's going to be some ups and downs but i'm super excited for the journey and to show people there's hope you know having faith that everything's going to be all right i couldn't trust ben to tether me he'd be running me into bloody power poles there's a lot of trust yeah you're right there's someone i love i love the

first comment on your video which is really cool um said, surely, don't have a guide. Just have someone going left, right, right. I mean, that's another option. It would take so long. Now, having done various activities blindfolded, like losing that sense, talk to us about it. Okay, so it is really bizarre. So first and foremost, sight is just crazy like

it's really bright you also get motion sickness so you feel like you've come off a boat or something like that um which is where we're going to face the challenge of possible motion sickness and wanting to throw up through this run so hopefully there's a sea leg plug that i can sort out there and that'll help with that oh so, so you do get motion sickness? Oh, it gets pretty bad at some point, yeah. Wow. It's really impressive what you're doing for such a great cause. If anyone wants to follow your journey, where can they do that?

So that can be followed at JustinWestonFitness, Western with an O on Instagram. And also there is a donation link in my bio on Instagram. Very cool. Good on you. Well keep us up to date with how you go too and we'd love to talk to you in the future. Hey honestly I appreciate you guys time and

I know you guys care deeply about this as well so I'm happy we could get together, have a yarn and yeah let's do this we're in for a bloody journey Woohoo! Good luck man, love talking to you The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast

Game tonight too, State of Origin, the first game between New South Wales and Queensland, oh it's huge Not really conducive to breakfast hours, it's a breakfast radio hours because Ben I know you'd love to be watching State of Origin but it's 9.30, 10 o'clock kick off, it's like a 10 o'clock kick off or something New Zealand time State versus State

Mate versus mate The Cane Toads And the other guys The Cockroaches Is that the actual name of the team? Yeah they're kind of just more New South Wales Queensland Nothing can kill us, not even a nuclear blast

This is bigger than the Rugby League World Cup for them, isn't it? It's like the biggest game of league. This is massive for them. Three game series, is it? Yeah, three game series. It's pretty huge. I'm lucky enough to go across to a game many years ago when we were filming a TV show, Pulp Sport, and we used to do the silly thing

where you toss a coin and one of us would have to do embarrassing things or whatever, and one of us had to wear a paper bag over our head for the game and bill who i was doing the show with we're like no one will know we're doing for a tv show we'll toss the coin you put it on for a couple minutes take it off you'll be fine but once you've got a paper bag on your head everyone wants to know what the heck you're doing yeah what's going on mate you know i sit in the seats all these aussies he's like oh he's wearing his paper bag for you know because he's lost his coin toss and so they made him keep the bag on the house.

Every time he got to take it off, they were like, mate, mate, mate, mate. So he couldn't see, there's no eye holes. No, that was like the, that was the jeopardy. It was like, we're going. So he had the bag on the entire game. The whole time. Oh. 80 minutes of like the whole thing, yeah, so.

And good banter for the crowd too, yeah. It was great. Aussies welcomed him with open arms. Mate, mate, mate. Mate, mate. Now this morning, not a great start to the day for you crowd too. It was great. He's welcomed in with open arms. Exactly. Mate, mate. Now this morning, not a great start to the day for you Megan.

No, I make myself an instant coffee. Treat yourself every morning. And this morning I had my first sip and I was like, why does it taste, it honestly tasted like

the fat from a roast dinner. You said that, yeah. And we were like, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm. And I had a pretty decent sip too. All sorts of stuff gets made in that kitchen. You'd never know. Someone might have made a roast meal in a mug.

It might have happened. That's what you said. You were like, the mug has got something on it. And I went in there and I was like, no, I don't think it's the mug. So I got another mug, rinsed it out, sniffed it, fine. And then went to make another coffee. But the milk, it wasn't lumpy, but it's 10 days past its expiry. And I sniffed it, and it does smell like fatty roast dinner.

And not in a good way. So you actually had some of that. I had a big guzzle of that. It was nasty. You can't untaste it. To be fair, there's so many bottles of milk in there. That's on me. Who trusts the work milk without looking at the expiry date?

How long can you push out expired milk? Well, I reckon if it's trim, you can push it out quite a bit, like five days. Right. But that was blue milk. Five days, you reckon? Two to five days. The Department of Food Science says two to five days. Not ten.

No, you push the limits, there were ten. But you'll be fine up to a week, apparently. Why don't they just make the expiry date then then? Oh, no. I feel like it's a bit of a guessing game, that whole expiry thing, isn't it?