Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is collagen FAKE?!

Episode Date: May 1, 2024

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The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. Good news if you're travelling internationally through Auckland Airport, you don't have to take your drink bottles or your laptops out of your bags anymore. Oh, that's amazing. If you've got those, I mean, it's really saving you what? But I guess in the grand scheme of things, they reckon it's going to make things a lot quicker.

They've got new technology that can scan things a bit better than they have, so they don't have to worry about you taking them out anymore. Do you know, like, that's my pet peeve is rocking up there, and then people are surprised. They're like, oh, yeah, I've got to get my... I'm like, we've all been waiting for like 10 minutes. You could have had it out. I'm definitely one of those surprise people.

I'm sorry. What do you mean I have to take it out? I haven't watched anyone else do it for the last 20 minutes. And then everyone waits while you funnel through your bag. It's embarrassing

when they do call you out about something you've forgotten in your bag too. Yeah. Oh no. It's such a, yeah. That happened to me recently.

Any liquids or aerosols in your bag? I was like, nah. Nah. I confidently went and scanned through and he's like, whose bag's this?

And it went through the other side and he's like, what's this mate? It's a water bottle. He's like, you just's this? And it went through the other side and he's like, what's this, mate? It's a water bottle. He's like, you just said nah. With arrogance and confidence. You must travel so often.

How are you not better at it? Oh, no, I'm shocking. Shocking. I always wanted to tell you, you know those scanning machines where you have to put your arms over your head? Yeah. Oh, yeah. How deep does that thing go?

What are they seeing on the screen there? Oh, right. They can see your bits. Can they see your bits? Surely. Well, if they can see what, if you're hiding anything inside your body. Or like the outline maybe.

Maybe. I don't know. If you know, 4487, I don't know if you can see your bits. It always worries me with x-rays when the dentist leaves you, you know. You go to the dentist and they like, you x-ray your mouth and they're like,

won't stay in the room for this one. And you're like, oh, why are you leaving me in here? Good luck in there, buddy. With your mouth jawed open. Looking like you're smiling, you x-ray your mouth and they're like, won't stay in the room for this one. And you're like, oh, why are you leaving me in here? Good luck in there, buddy. With your mouth jawed open. Looking like you're smiling, but you're not. Don't leave me here. Now, life. You know, we're all on a mission to live this crazy thing called life.

Better. Do a better job of living. Yeah. Okay. And I stumbled across some inspiration. This was four weeks ago. And it's been a game changer. New approach to the day.

Okay. So you know how we've all got, you might have things that you're stressing about. Yeah. So you have things that are coming up in the future, and it's not the event that's stressful. It's your approach to the event that's creating the stress. Okay. I sound very intelligent here, but I'm just copying and pasting a wonderful Harvard University professor that I listen

to. And she was saying that if you just change your approach to anything that's stressing you out, it eliminates the stress. So if you go, oh, I've got this event I need to go to or whatever that you can't be bothered doing, you think of five reasons why there could be a positive out of this. You could meet someone new,

you could make some new connections. You never know what could happen. And you turn it into a positive experience. It eliminates stress. Yeah. How's that? That's pretty good. That's a good way of looking at things.

I mean, there's still going to be, I still go, there's going to be a stress because you've got a lot of stuff to do. I'm like, that's not eliminating that. That's not like if you go to a venue, I've got to speak for half an hour. I've got to write a script. I've got to practice. That's not like if you go to a venue I've got to speak for half an hour I've got to write a script I've got to practice you know that's not eliminating any of that stress but you could go

I could nail the speech you never know who's listening to it you never you know there's a Shakespeare quote that I always remember it's

nothing is ever good nor bad but thinking makes it so so it's just the way you think about things that sums it up that's very smart that was a more succinct way of Shakespeare

I heard you had a way of going Like even if you've been sentenced to prison Oh well I could make some new friends in here You know there's always a positive Come out looking buff Maybe I'll learn a language New tattoos There's a whole lot of things you could do

Four great things about prison just then Oh well that would be too Some time out to work on yourself Can sleep when I want. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. You know,

a lot of worry about AI, the artificial intelligence that seems to be used quite a lot these days. It's just moving too fast for my liking. It's taking over a lot of jobs around.

People are using it, you know, for a lot of their work as well and how quickly you can spit out information and stuff if you ever use ChatGPT and things like that.

And you just think from a business point of view, and I don't because we're just humble employees, but if you're like, man, I can just use this thing and save on multiple salaries from a business standpoint, why wouldn't you? Yeah. It's scary. At that moment, there's, you know, Drake, the rapper.

He's in a bit of beef with another rapper, Kendrick Lamar. I didn't even know those two were feuding, but apparently they're feuding. And Drake has released a song. They should have sent us an email or something. We're not sure about the feuds. Hey, guys, FYI, we're in the middle of a feud. Yeah. Nice to know about these things.

A bit of a memo tag. It's a next time team. Drake's released a diss track that features Tupac and Snoop Dogg, some other famous rappers, but that's AI, AI their voices, and it's pretty incredible. Have a listen. The dude, he passed you the torch at the House of Blues, and now you gotta do some dirty work, you know how to move, right?

Before we really lose, you ask for the smoke, now I see you too busy for the smoke, I won't lie, the people confused. That is insane. Now, two parts of the state have asked for it to be removed from Drake's album because obviously Tupac didn't consent to it. He's no longer with us, sadly. Sorry, sadly no longer with us. Maybe they should have just said, well, just pay us some money. Now, what happens in that instance?

If you get like, who's a fit? Michael Jackson. You make a great Michael Jackson banger on AI if you get like uh who's a fit michael jackson michael you make a great michael jackson banger on ai and you're like this is a number one worldwide hit do you just go oh phone the estate and go we'll cut you in a percentage of the royalties later on sort of thing yeah well you'd have to ask permission beforehand technically you should right especially all the lyrics that he's saying you know like yeah sometimes drake have to write the lyrics that he sang Yeah Did Drake have to write the lyrics? Well I guess so, yeah, Drake's written the lyrics And put it out through our eyes

Or maybe he just wrote into ChatGPT, make some offensive Stuff about Kendrick Lamar Turn that into a cool song Snoop put on his social media Snoop was like, they did what? Question mark, when? How? Are you sure? Dot dot dot, I'm going back to bed That was his response Yeah maybe he thought Snoop was like they did what? question mark when? how? are you sure? dot dot dot I'm going back to bed

that was his response yeah maybe he thought Snoop wouldn't notice he's like two bucks dead but Snoop is very much still with us yeah

well he's always surrounded by a cloud of smoke so maybe he was just hoping he's here in body he's here in body yeah that is wild you're right

the speed it's moving is crazy. And there probably needs to be laws around it. And that's why all the strikes were happening in Hollywood, weren't they? The writers were like, this is really the end of our job. If there's not measures put in place. Yeah, and I think a lot of people overseas, their work has been used in chat GPT and stuff like that

because it just gets information from everywhere. And then later, you know, you don't know where that work's come from until the writers go, hang on, someone's used my actual stuff in someone else's projects. But if we're all out of a job and robots are doing everything, maybe we all get to live life

like we're meant to live life. Maybe that's the reason. That's a terrifying thought. What would we do? Drinking is probably the only option You'll have a couple of weeks To feel like this is fun It'll just be like lockdown

About smooching And how smooching can actually Extend years To your life Now it starts off In a very misogynistic tone how smooching can actually extend years to your life. Now, it starts off in a very misogynistic tone, which is sort of about men kissing their wives as they head off to work, which is a bit dated.

So ignore that part. Ignore that part. Now we have started with that. Why should I listen to the rest of it? Because then there's some great information following that. Okay, have a listen. Men who kiss their wives goodbye when they leave for work live something like four years longer than men who don't. But the six-second kiss, which we recommend,

has much more potential than that peck on the cheek. What is the six-second kiss? A kiss that lasts at least six seconds. Why not five or four? Because oxytocin gets secreted with a 20 second hug or a six second kiss you're both secreting oxytocin

and that creates a sense of psychological safety and connection. And bonding. And bonding. Isn't it? So why does it make us live longer? Because I guess more oxytocin must be good for longevity Are you smooching every day? Are you smooching up a storm every day, Megan?

I like pecking Pecking? Like kiss hello and goodbye Yeah, yeah, I'm pecking every day If you're holding your lips together for anything longer than four seconds That's a long Yeah, you really have to start thinking about tongues, don't you? Four seconds and beyond.

That's the threshold. Like if you literally sit there and count six seconds. You and Ben do it now. Even like a 20-second hug is a long time. Oh, no, I would do a 20-second hug every day. Would you? 20 seconds, that's a long time. Yeah.

We're just like. Just hold. Would you go beyond the 20-second mark? Maybe. Really? Yeah. It's a long time. We do it like. Just hold. Would you go beyond the 20 second mark? Maybe. Really? Yeah. It's a long time. We do it so long and so often.

You do it. Count it in your head, okay? And see if you get 20 seconds. Yeah, okay. Because our son always runs in and like runs in between us and like joins in. So it's a family hug. Well, it ends up being a family hug. Do you not like, do you not hug for very long? Probably nothing longer than 10 seconds. Well, maybe nothing up being a family hug. Do you not hug for very long?

Probably nothing longer than 10 seconds. Well, maybe nothing longer than five. Like, I'm in, hug, pat on the... Maybe if I come back from, you know, like it's a trip away or something like that, you know, or you're seeing somebody, you know, like that's probably the longer hugs. What's the longest hug you would have done? And the scenarios surrounding it. You know, like it depends on the hug.

Like if it's, you know, if it's someone of myself or someone else needs comforting, you do a longer hug, you know. Otherwise, I feel like it's just kind of could be weird. Like, why is she still hugging me? Nobody like your wife. Yeah, but then she'd be with her. She'd be like, why is she still hugging me? I think definitely she'd be weirded out by it.

She'd be like, okay, I've got stuff I need to do. I'm like, yeah, same. But locking lips together for six seconds is a that's long that's like two of those puffer fish

just yeah yeah that's long you'd be counting that'd be a long six but anyway you're sitting there and you start counting

and your partner's like what are you doing I need the oxytocin and then does that counteract that you know does those feelings when you think about something

else does it one two yeah it's all the same I once tried to because we leave very early in the morning obviously and I tried to

give Jen a kiss while she was dead and it's like a sleeping beauty situation and hell of a fright she got a hell of a fright as I was

leaning over just kiss her on the forehead get a fist to the face disturb them but that's you know so in that if anything

that took years off her life I think trying to do six seconds of wait wait weird way to start the day them but that's you know so in that in that if anything that took years off her life i think trying to six seconds of it wait wait weird way to start the day the hits the jonah and ben podcast yeah we wanted to know and we started this yesterday who has new zealand's best neighbors got some great calls um over the weekend we decided we needed to mow our lawn asap it was very overgrown and our neighbor came over and he started weeding all the edges for us. Five minutes later, we looked out the window and he was over with his lawnmower

starting to help mow the lawn. And he always brings our rubbish bins in for us, which is really nice. Loves doing that each week. And then he's let us use his litter a lot. My gran has really nice neighbours. During lockdown, they just on their daily walk took some really nice photos of her garden

and made it into a calendar for her for Christmas. Beautiful people out there in this country. Megan, your neighbour brings over baking and produce fresh from the trees. And flowers as well. It's lovely. What do you reciprocate with? Love.

Good times. Good times, yeah. Love, smiles. Energy. Energy. Good vibes. You're a vibes person. Ben, your neighbour tried to offer you a meal and you slammed the door in her face.

Well, yeah, I didn't realise that at the time. I mentioned that yesterday. It was new neighbours across the road. My wife had gone over there because their lights were on on the driver. I had no idea this conversation had gone on. My wife had gone over there Because their lights Were on on the driver I had no idea This conversation had gone on My wife had gone out And they came

My wife when she went Standing at the door She was like Oh your dinner smells lovely And then they Took it upon themselves To bring some over for us My wife had gone

And I just thought It was an Uber Eats person And I was like No I didn't order anything No no no no Waved the door in the face And then the meal was left Wasn't it

With a lovely note Saying this is So then the neighbour Went back across the road, wrote a note and then returned with the meal. And put it there on there going... You're like, you're back again. Get out of here. I told you it wasn't... Set the dogs on her.

It wasn't for me. She tells everyone, the wife's lovely. I'm not sure about the dog. So 800 of the hits, the best neighbours in New Zealand. Olivia, what's your good neighbour story? So we've got security cameras at our house and me and my partner were in Wellington one time and we got notifications saying that a person was detected in our backyard.

So I just jumped on and had a look and he was over mowing our lawns on his ride on Wilma and then he starts reeling out the hose and watering our plants for us. Aww! And he never said anything. He's just doing it out of his own. No, he never said anything. He just came over, started doing it. But the thing was that

he forgot to put his catcher on his ride on Loma so the grass went all up the side of the house. Oh, you're like, mate, you've got to come back and do it again. Yeah, water blast the house now. While you're in there doing the vacuuming, a bit of grass got inside. And with the car somehow as well, which wasn't even the driveway,

but you could vacuum that. You left the bathroom an absolute mess. Oh, what a lovely neighbour though. Yeah, it was really nice of him to do that. Do you know their name? Yeah, his name is Guy.

Well done, Guy. Yeah, we're going to send you out some hell pizza. Thank you so much for your call. Appreciate you sharing that with us. Thank you so much, guys. Have a good day. Thank you, Olivia.

Sorry for talking all over at the end there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We love it when famous people talk about New Zealand, don't we? Or give a shout out to New Zealand. It's great that they know we exist. Leonardo DiCaprio. One of the most famous actors on the planet. He has put on his Instagram account to over like 60 million people.

He's given a big shout out to New Zealand's conservation efforts, particularly when it comes to keeping the Kiwis alive and well, the Kiwi bird around the Wellington region. And he's given a big shout out to that. So we just came off the internet wormhole. Leo found himself in a hell of an internet wormhole if he's researching the New Zealand Wellington Kiwi breeding program. He's gone deep into the Google.

Because I saw him share a picture of two Kiwis, and I was like, wait, what's happening here? You thought it might have been him holding the Kiwis. Yeah, no, he's given photo credit to, it's not him holding the Kiwis. You were trying to investigate his hands, go, those Leo's fingers there. Beautiful hands, but they're not his. I thought the comments were quite funny because I was like, what is everyone saying about New Zealand?

Delved in there. The first comment is, this is fake story. New Zealand doesn't exist. Then people go, just type in Titanic. Oh, they just wrote Titanic. Great film, great film. No arguing there. Oh, I was in that

Leo would be reading that going yeah that's right not even like my favourite film it's just like you know if he's out on the street do you think people

just yell out Titanic he might be in New Zealand if he came to New Zealand people would be like Titanic that's the best thing you can think of

and another one said I'm under 25 so you could be what eligible to be yeah maybe that's why he's so concerned about the planet

because his girlfriends are all so young. He's going to protect their future. They aren't going to be around for much longer. They're going to have nowhere to live. Poor young girls. Yeah, so he's like, jeez, we really need to help out. He'd never done drugs. Yeah.

Never done drugs. I was just reading... Really? Yeah, he had to get an on-set drug consultant on the Wolf of Wall Street to sort of teach him how to do it and how to act. That's even more fantastic than that scene of him trying to get in or out of a Lamborghini when he's, oh, that's worth a re-watch.

Yeah, and he said, my whole life, because I've been acting since a child, been around them, has been always around me, he's just never done them. Isn't that good on him? Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, I thought all the celebrities, you're always like, oh my. I mean he's just never done them isn't that wow good on him yeah that's crazy yeah well yeah we thought all the celebrities

you're always like always hoofing cocaine aren't they especially child stars you know they often fall off the wagon he never really went off the off the rails

you know like a lot of child stars so maybe that's why well we do know what his vice is though don't we it's not drugs yeah true

the hits the Jono and Ben podcast emojis so when you're sending text messages We know, don't we? It's not drugs. Yeah, true. Emojis are when you're sending text messages and emails and stuff like that. But Megan, you mentioned in the news this morning, there's call emojis that are coming out now. Audio, yeah, they're calling them audio emojis. So while you're on a call, it's only on specific phones at the moment, you can send a little clapping, so it would be the sound of applause. What radio?

A little sound effects? Yeah applause what radio little sound effects yeah your own little sound effects during a phone call or there's even a poop one it'd be quite off-putting if you have a conversation what's a poop one I don't know

someone's like sounds like you're talking crap mate yeah the boss is like I really need you to get out of here that's a load of yeah yeah nice

okay that'll be fun it'll be fun for a while then the novelty will wear off yeah yeah we'll go hard and fast on them for a couple of... Yeah, nice. Okay, that'll be fun. It'll be fun for a while. Then the novelty will wear off. Yeah. We'll go hard and fast on them for a couple of weeks. You're right.

Now, something I've been going hard and fast on over the last couple of years, gummies. The gummy market. What sort of gummies? What kind of gummies? Multiple gummies.

You name a gummy, I've been going hard on it. Legal ones or illegal ones? It always depends which way you look at it. But the ones I'm specifically referring to now, are vitamin gummies. You name a gummy, I've been going hard on it. Legal ones or illegal ones? It depends which way you look at it. But the ones I'm specifically referring to now, vitamin gummies. And for the kids, you know. Not so much

for me, but just been shoveling vitamin gummies into the children. You're never going to get a cold, you know, through these winter months particularly. So not for you? You're like, mate, I'm as good as I can be. I'm dead. I'm dead. The disease comes to this body. It's like, well, there's nothing.

No damage. We can do this. It's already hurt itself enough. Gummies have kind of taken over from, oh, no, there's still, you can get the traditional vitamins and seeds in the kind of pill form, mate. Oh, the tablets. Yeah, tablets. But you're not going to get your kids to put this on your tongue and swallow it down.

You can't get anything in a gummy. And I feel like the gummy industry has really started to take the piss. There are so many gum to take the piss. There are so many gummies on the shelf. Vitamin A, B, C, D, everything. Everything on the gummy alphabet. And also, did you know there's spinach and kale gummies? Apple and cider vinegar gummies?

Oh, I knew that one, yeah. Collagen and kumquat gummies. There's gummies for any occasion. And we're only a couple of stages away. Remember Wonka? He was a bloody visionary, wasn't he? Wonka is the Elon Musk of the confectionery game. He had that little bit of chewing gum, didn't he?

It was like a three-course meal. That's right. Because I think you can get vitamin chewing gum, can't you? Probably. Soon we'll have like a Sunday roast. Come over for a Sunday roast and we'll all have one gummy. We'll everyone can go home now a lot easier though if you can saves on time you know where our attention spans are really uh shortening so maybe just a gummy for a roast might do so i just want to play a little game with you is it a gummy or not a gummy okay i've done some research into the gummy industry male enhancement gummies you have a gummy that not a gummy? Okay. I've done some research into the gummy industry.

Male enhancement gummies. You have a gummy that can enhance your... I feel like it would. Yeah, I feel like it could be. I want to say no. It sounds ridiculous. I'm going to say yes. Ben, you're correct. Yeah.

They're shaped weirdly like a blue teddy bear, which feels like an odd clash of two polar opposite worlds. I feel like blue, the colour's been coined for male enhancement. Yeah, right. Does it have to come in a weird cute teddy bear shape? Yeah, that's odd. Take your male enhancement pills and come on little teddy bear. Okay, Brazilian butt lift gummies.

You take a gummy? A bummy gummy. I'm saying no for the bummy gummy. Yeah, no, well done. That's still a horrific surgery. Ranch dressing gummy. Flavoured like a salad ranch dressing What's the point of that? That's on the market

Really? You can buy one of those You can also buy You can also eat your salad Then you have it with your salad You put gummies on your salad Or just what If you really want ranch dressing

Just on its own On its own I don't know You probably want to go salad first Before dressing first It's not like you drink the dressing and then have the salad. That's okay, all right. There's barbecue pork-flavored gummies, mac and cheese.

But these are what? Just to get the... I guess just... Is it just flavor? Yeah. Right. Just for if you want to chew on a gummy. You like barbecue?

Okay. Yeah, now, after 8 o'clock, we're going to unearth the gummy industry. We're going to get Dr. John on, who's a wonderful guy that we met when we were working at the Rock Radio Station. And just pose it to him. Are these gummies doing anything for anyone? Yeah, well, yeah. We're coming into cold and flu season, right?

So it'd be nice to know what things we could be doing, including like taking stuff like that. What were you saying about collagen? Yeah, so I've heard that collagen can't be absorbed by our bodies. What? Although the powder and everything we're smashing. And the gummies?

There's gummies about them? Is that why it's not working on me? You need more than a collagen gum. All right, mate. It wasn't just that. I insulted myself. You didn't need to double down on it. We've got another doctor we can get you in touch with, my friend.

That sounds good. I have my little blue teddy bear and we'll get to that after we're out of close. We've got another doctor We can get you in touch With my friend Sounds good I have my little blue teddy bear And we'll get to that After a little bit The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Singapore Airlines Has been forced to pay

Three thousand dollars To a couple of business class Passengers Whose seats were faulty Now the seats didn't recline I guess if you paid a lot For business class You'd be a little annoyed by that

Apparently though Just reading into it, they did it manually. They didn't do it automatically. So they could if they wanted to. Oh, so you could put the seat back in there? The staff could help them if they wanted to. But they were like, no, no, we want the automatic thing.

And I guess they paid a lot of money. Oh, my God. It left them feeling like economy class passengers. You never want to feel like an economy class passenger. But you paid a lot of money. Maybe you would passenger your seat still goes back get over yourself i had that you're on the flight with me it was a long flight too wasn't it was like a 12 hour one my seat didn't go back at all no he didn't recline you never think about reclining at in any facet of your life until you sit on a plane do you yeah and yeah and they were like oh you see didn't go back at all it was a really long flight and i was

like oh that's fine. The seat's broken. It's fine. In the middle of the night. Don't worry about it. It wasn't fine, but at the time it was. And then they came and they gave me a brochure from all that stuff you can get on the plane sometimes. They're like, pick an item from the brochure.

Any item. So they paid me off of that. I got some jewelry from my wife. You got some tacky necklace a businessman would buy for his mistress. Yeah, I got a necklace for my wife. Did you say it was a plain necklace? I did, I was honest about it. Because I did, I sat for 12 hours

upright when everyone else around me was back sleeping. On a 90 degree right angle. I was there for this necklace. You put that around your neck. If anything, I really wanted to hand back the necklace and just recline. But anyway, I didn't. So you could have got $3,000? I could have got, yeah. That would have been better than

a necklace. It was your economy though, wouldn't you? Yeah, it was economy. Yeah, so you're not getting $3,000. No, probably not. I don't care about you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Winners last night's Lotto draw, first division and strike, but Powerball rolling on. No one claimed the $10 million last night.

Now, Maddie McLean works on the Drive show with PJ and I'm a bit concerned, even though we work at opposite ends of the day, I'm a bit concerned there's something we use together here in the studio that could be making us both sick. I know what you're talking about. These could be actual super spreaders, these little devices. Could be.

And Maddy and I, we're connected. We're like joint custody of something. Build your own own herd immunity. Yeah. So I might give him a call right now and just see if he's thought about this. Hello. Matty McLean. How's it going?

Good. How are you? We're going all right. Are you doing the marathon this weekend? The half. Oh, the half. Okay. Hang up on him.

We only talk to full marathon runners on this program. No, it's good on you. Good on you. That's still a lot. What are they, 21 kilometers? Yeah, it was one of those things we agreed to do months ago, and only now that we're days away from it are we both going, wait, why are we doing this?

So many of those lifted through all of our careers i know i was a friend about actually before i just uh just a wee dog leg of a story he signed up for an 80k one uh like god friends of his were like we're all going to do it together no one else did it with him they all pulled out he was the only one he ran 80 kilometers to the south island yeah yeah he did it, with like 300 people on the South Island. He was like, thanks to all his mates who didn't show up. But anyway. Have you trained, Matty?

I have, I've been training, yeah. So I feel good. PJ, on the other hand, about six weeks out, decided, oh shit, I actually should go for a run. So, I don't go for a run. Hopefully she does. She'll be fine. You do hear those wonderful news stories of like, oh, they just turned up after a night out and

just ran a marathon. So people do it. If she beats me, I swear to God I'll be... That will be insulting. Well, Matty, I'm calling because good that you're keeping healthy at the moment because I've got a wee thing I need to talk to you about. In the studio, we have little covers for our microphones.

They're called Pop Socks. Yes. You know, and it's got the hits on it. And I ordered a new one. Harriet, our boss, was like, anyone want their own special one? I was like, oh, yeah, I'll get my own special one. I was the only one on the team that ordered one. Old germaphobe Ben Boyce, he was top of the list.

So I put it on my microphone for a few days. I was taking it home, putting it on the microphone, taking it home. Then I forgot to do that one day and then I was like, oh, too late now. Maddie McLean uses the same microphone. Maddie and I are like one now. So it's a special microphone flag, but for

both of us. Well, it is now. It's like we're in a bubble together. You're pretty much made out. I just want to say, hey, you keep me up to date're in a bubble together. You're pretty much made out. Okay, yeah. I just want to say, hey, you keep me up to date with you or how you're feeling. I'll keep you up to date with how I'm feeling. We're kind of together, disease-based. We're together, right?

Awesome. Okay, good. Do you lick it? I don't lick it, but I'm hoping you don't either because now and again my mouth touches it accidentally. I'm like, oh. Do you know what is slightly more concerning is that my husband actually came in the other day and we had him on for a little segment and he sat where Megan sat. Uh-oh.

I knew this was coming. Megan obviously like rubs her face on it. She does. There was so much foundation like all over. I know. I just looked at it and I was like, wow, mine's covered in makeup. And she's fresher. What day did Ryan come in?

Oh, yeah. I can't remember what day it was, actually. Was it this week? No, it was a couple of weeks ago. Because there's some gastro running through her house at some stage. So you don't want that running through your house. So let's just all agree. We'll be very, well, should we set up like a spreadsheet or something

and we can upload all our communal Google Doc where we upload all our diseases? Yeah. Perfect. Note to self, don't lick. Are we talking just waste up diseases for me? No, I'd like to know all your diseases. That'd be good.

Depends what you're rubbing on that microphone. Yeah, I don't know. Sometimes he's in the studio by himself. I don't know what goes on. Why are your pants on? Full transparency. Matty, good luck this weekend. Thanks, Dan. And we'll catch you this afternoon from three.

Sounds good. See you later. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This morning feels like a longer week after last week. Of course, we had a holiday, an important holiday, Anzac Day, but Jesus is making this week drag on, isn't it? Yeah, there we go. We'll make it.

We'll get there in the end, hopefully. Now, we started this last week, actually. You are such a good dad. You are such a good dad. Good dad. It's a very funny song that's gone viral on the internet. It's a song where a lady sort of compliments her husband on the very minor things that he does. Yeah, and the public acknowledgement. that he sort of compliments her husband on the very minor things that he does.

Yeah, and the public acknowledgement. It feels like there are some theorists out there that believe the threshold for gratification and acknowledgement of basic parenting or contributing to the household, it sort of lends its favour to the dad. You know, like I saw a guy in the mall yesterday, just just the suburban mall, you know how they've got those depressing little cars that you can jam the kids in and they kind of just sort of jerk back in. They're worse, yeah. Yeah. He had put his daughter, a toddler, in one of those,

and the sweet lady came out from the optometrist and she's like, oh, isn't your dad a good dad talking to the toddler? Why? All he's done is he's jammed his kid in one of those and put two bucks in the slot machine. Double the million dollars. Sometimes I didn't even use pot money and it just sort of rattled around a little bit. And you're like, oh no, it's

broken. That's because you're a good dad. I still wanted to give the kids the experience. I didn't have two bucks. Who's got cash these days? Well, they have paywaved those cars now. Oh, do they now? Yeah. Paywaved? Yeah. I suppose it makes sense, right? Yeah. Just don't ever teach your kid what paywaved is because they'll be like there you go mum

Moving with the times These are the calls that we got for you are such a good dad last week You'll go to golf for like 8 hours I mean golf takes what 3 and then 5 in the pub And then apparently he comes home right and the kids Are pretty excited to see him Yeah they're like oh dad

You know they've been doing my head in all day Strolls in from golf and the kids tell him. You are such a good dad. Such a good dad. Every now and again, he will make the bed and carry the washing basket up the stairs. You are such a good dad. Such a good dad. He takes the basket up the stairs.

Up the stairs. Oh, wow. That's up. That's the hardest direction. While the wife did the dishes, sorted the kids' lunch out, put all the washing on, I sat on the couch,

watched TV, and folded the towels. That's how it works, yeah. And, you know, a lot of the mums out there, they do a lot of unthinkt, hard graft in the household, but it's not about acknowledging them now.

This is about acknowledging the light lifting that the dads have been doing. Yeah, so maybe that's happening in your relationship right now. If you want to get involved, we can give a shout out to the minimal stuff that the husband, the dad, is doing around the household. And as you heard, you can give a shout out to yourself if you lifted a finger.

Yeah, exactly. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, he was in NSYNC, and on the 1st of May, everyone likes to play this. Guess what? It's going to be May. It's going to be May, as now it's become. Instead of it's going to be me.

Yesterday, Justin Timberlake even got in on the bandwagon as well. He had it's going to be dot, dot, dot. That was one of his social media posts as well, getting in on it. Surely it should be the day before like on the 30th of April yeah well for him it was probably correct

because America's slightly behind it's coming up it's gonna be rather than it's here it's May it's May already yeah right

you are such a good dad you are such a good dad such a good dad it's a very fun funny song Faraday is the name of

the mum. It's gone viral on TikTok and social media for the song that recognises the little things that dads get credit for when they probably shouldn't. Particularly from their mums. The dad's mums. The dad's mums. Yeah, they love giving credit.

You are such a good dad. You're such a good dad. Now, Megan, Andrew, some light level stuff he's done recently that we need to publicly acknowledge. Well, Megan, Andrew, some light level stuff he's done recently that we need to publicly acknowledge. Well, I feel like I kind of can't participate because he gets the kids up, takes them to school every day. Yesterday morning he did the washing.

He also cooked me dinner yesterday too. And then he's had a daycare too. He looks after other kids too. Yeah, so he's had a day of it. For free. For free. He just does it for free. You're perfect marriage. I know he gets paid,. For free. He just does it for free. You're perfect marriage.

I know he gets paid, but okay. He'd still do it for free. Well, yesterday I got home from work and I was like, oh, someone's turned the washing machine on. There was washing in there. I took the washing out of the washing machine, put it in the dryer, which is on top of the washing machine, and I'm pretty sure I turned the dryer on.

You are. You are such a good dad. Yes, I am. Such a good dad. Let's get Richard on. Wanting to acknowledge his own hard work. Richard, why are you such a good dad? Well, it's what I've got planned for the weekend, guys. I thought I might haul myself out of bed,

sacrifice my sleep in nice and early, say 4 or 5 a.m., and shoot out and grab some ducks for the weekend and just get my hunter-gatherer on. Going duck shooting for the weekend. Provide for the family sort of thing. Are you coming home? Well, that's the other thing.

I thought then to top it off, just to maintain my fitness and make sure I'm a healthy father for my children, I thought I'd shoot straight to rugby after that. All for the family, right? Health is wealth, my friend. Absolutely. I love it.

Well, that's why you are, Richard. You are such a good dad. We're going to hook you up with some hell pizza. All the best this weekend. Bing, such a great dad. There we go. Sarah's just texting 4487. My husband

forgot to make our kids lunch this morning. He's just texted me to say, sorry, I forgot to make the kids lunch this morning. Let's get Andy on from Lower Huts. Welcome to You Are Such a Good Dad, Andy. Thank you. I appreciate that. I am. Are Such a Good Dad, Andy. Thank you. I appreciate that.

I am. That's all you need to say. We'll believe it. What have you done, Andy? Last Friday, last Friday night, the Uber Eats driver knocked on the door and I got up and answered the door. Oh, for the family. You are such a good dad.

So essentially you made dinner, provided dinner, right? I bet you were comfy too on the couch, right? Oh, I was so comfy. Yeah. I sacrificed that. That's for the family. That's for the family. That's for the family.

Those little things that go unnoticed. We appreciate it. You have a great day, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I wanted to know today, if the gummies that you take, you know, to help you keep well, are they actually doing anything to help you out? So that's why we've got an expert on the show right now. Dr. Jon, how are you?

Great, mate. How are you guys going? Long time no speak to the great doctor. We met Dr. Jon when he does a lot of stuff for the Rock Radio Station. He had a weekly show there where people would phone up and go, oh, this is itchy and I've got a rash there. That lasted for years. Not the rash, but the show.

And you're a wonderful man, John, so I really appreciate your time this morning. No props. Listen, gummies. Walking into the chemist, there are hundreds upon hundreds of gummies available on the market I'm buying vitamin A, B, C, D, all the letters of the gummy alphabet

jamming them in the kids are they doing anything? Well in Auckland basically they're keeping the fish in the manukau with really shiny fins mate really shiny fins because all it does is go straight through you into the water and out to the sea. It does nothing.

Does nothing? Vitamin supplements and gummies like that doesn't help if your diet is a little deficient? Your diet can't be deficient. We live in this beautiful country where we've got such great food resources and there's this belief out there that

if we talk more of something, it's going to make us much, much better. And it just doesn't actually follow through. Vitamins, they've got a lovely name, vitamins, vital amines. So it's like they're really magic stuff. No, they're just chemicals that we need to have to make certain procedures happen inside our bodies. If we're eating a decent diet, your best gummies are your fruit, your veggies, some oranges, mandarins are beautiful fruit, your veggies, some oranges.

Mandarins are beautiful this time of year. Apples, put those in the kid's lunchbox, not the gummies. Because I'm imagining, okay, you can give them an orange when they're sick and that's got vitamin C, but I just imagine that the gummies just got lots of oranges in it. No. This is the thought of hyperalimentation, which means if you take a little bit, it's going to be good. If you take a lot, it's going to be better.

No, it's not. Our bodies only need so much, and we get all that we need from our foods. If you give more and more and more, all it does is just walks us straight through our kidneys and out through our wee. So what if kids are eating no fruit and veggies or anything like that and just eating, I don't know, fish and chips for dinner every night. Can they have gummies?

Yeah, can they have vitamins? Great source of vitamin C in potatoes, mate. It's one of the highest levels of vitamin C. Why did I pick that? I don't know. I was thinking something random. That is, geez, no one's going to be happier about this than my kids because every day I'm like, have your gummies.

Jam those gummies in your mouth. And it's become a huge burden on their day. That is crazy. Now, Megan, can you bring up your collagen thoughts? So the collagen industry is booming. And I remember actually talking to a doctor a few years ago. And they said that it just doesn't work, that it's all a placebo effect. Yeah, absolutely.

No, it's great for one thing. It's great for right hip pain. Right hip pain? Really? Because it takes so much money out of your wallet. So it doesn't, the collagen, the powder, what you're putting in your shakes, doing nothing. Yep, absolutely. Really? Why?

I'm in the wrong business. I should have gone to the charlatan business with all these free supplements. You should have. Millions. Yeah, the amount of money that museums just pour down the drain by buying supplements and minerals and vitamins and all this sort of stuff,

it's just mind-boggling. We waste so much money. Okay. So the collagen industry, how do they get away with making these claims that we can consume it and it's going to do our hair and nails and all that? Now, be very careful what you read.

They will never say that that's what it will do. They will say it will help with, it may aid. They never purport it to be a medicine. They purport it to be a food. And as long as you say that, you can just do whatever you like. But you can never say it will do this. Read the label really carefully. Okay, Dr. John,

cold and flu season, we get in there now. Is there anything we can be doing to try and keep away the colds and flus? Certainly from influenza, get your influenza vaccine. Really, really important. All available, free for a significant number of people, especially those with health concerns.

Get that in now. It started sort of 1 April. We could do that. So that's well into swing now. Really just go back to how we thought about infectious diseases when we had COVID around, was if you've got snots and grots pouring out of every orifice of your body, test them to yourself. Don't spread them around.

I thought we were all back to ploughing on now. Everyone get back together and just carry on. We're just right around. So just take care of yourself and other people. Yeah, we don't have to be as frightened as we were when COVID first hit the track. But just go back to those basic things of personal hygiene. That's what we need. Dr. John, I imagine there are a lot of people

driving now to work in stunned silence after this conversation. Going, what have I been spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on? I feel like you're the most shocked of all. I am. I am. I'm shocked. Geez, you're really.

Okay. All right. Well, this has been an eye-opener. Thank you, Dr. John. Pleasure, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I have started doing something which is quite the opposite of having a holiday. It could seem quite stressful to some people.

But in order to get through, you know how I watch a lot of stuff? You do watch a lot of stuff. And listen to podcasts. But I don't have a huge amount of time. So I've just discovered that you can actually listen to things and watch things in 1.5 or times 2 speed. Oh, so you're digesting all content at fast forward pace. A little bit faster. Just getting it done.

Yeah. Getting it done. This is a definitive sign that society has officially lost all patience. Yeah. Yeah. I've also discovered like on social media, sometimes you can hold your finger down and it goes faster because, oh, drags. I'm like, get through it, get through it.

So you'll watch a show like on Netflix or whatever in 1.5 speed. So for example, here's a part of Bridgerton. This is up to 1.5. Lord Bridgerton, do me the honour. Of course, my number. Six balls no more. I must have you at eight. Along with a picnic.

A picnic. I'm afraid we are required. Jeez. Turn the flames. Sounds like the cast are in a real hurry to get through the episode. They're like, wrap this up? You know, only a parking till four.

But I also watch with subtitles because often the kids are like yelling or making noise. So I have subtitles on. I hate watching without subtitles now.

Yeah. I feel like I can't hear anything. Yeah, you're like, I don't know what it is. So that makes that easier. That's a 44 minute episode sort of thing?

What would you get through that in? 30? I don't know. Yeah. Knock 15 minutes off would you get through that in 30 i don't know yeah not 15 minutes no i don't think it knocks that much off i'm i remember accidentally hitting it on podcast i was listening to i was listening to an american radio podcast and i and i was just like man i was going to come into work the next day and go they're just doing it so much quicker than we are it's big it's all the stuff energy it's like wow it just goes so fast maybe this

is what we're doing wrong and then I was like oh no I've just hit 1.5 because I listen to podcasts on 1.5 and then you go back to normal and you're like wow feels very slow

but the Americans talk quite fast anyway I get it now though we're all in a rush we're all in a grace you know Gen Z

grace was like social media videos how long do they need to be now to get people's attention like 7 seconds 7

7 I haven't even thought about what I'm going to say in the video in 7 seconds think about it How long do they need to be now to get people's attention? Oh, like seven seconds. Seven? Seven? I haven't even thought about what I'm going to say in the video in seven seconds. Think about it. Seven seconds. Wild. I hear you, though. The impatience is out there.

Like, as soon as you answer the phone, all you're thinking about is ways to get off the phone. Yeah. Get to the point. How am I? I'm fine. What are you ringing for? That's what I need to know. The Hits.

The Jono and Ben Podcast. My wife, one of the things I love about my wife, she's pretty up to date with pop culture and movies and music and stuff, but she doesn't remember a lot of the details. So we'll go to watch a movie and she's like, oh, that looks great. And we'll both look at it and go, cool, we'll watch that. And then halfway through she'll go, oh, I've seen this. Oh, she can't remember what film she's watched. Things like that. And away through it takes her a while you know she she's kelly slater we ran into him once

and she called him jack johnson she got to get things a little bit wrong but over the weekend i was uh you know i was doing what i do sitting in the passenger seat seat that she's driving around great driver my wife you control the music though you don't control the music taylor swift album you've been deep inside that haven't you and i was like any request does anyone in the car help family anyone hear a song i can play it whatever off my phone right now and i'll i'll say what she said and see if you guys could get it man my wife was like i really want to hear that song um she's like oh the guy she's like freddie i think it's Freddie, Freddie Fish is his name. And I was like, Freddie Fish?

Okay. Freddie Fish. You're an unusual name for an artist. I don't think it's Freddie Fish. It's something like Freddie Fish. You want to hear that song, Freddie Fish? He's got a beard and it's Freddie Fish. And I was baffled.

I was baffled. So I was like, you guys. Jelly Roll? No, no, not Jelly Roll. Fred again? No, he's got a beard, got a ginger. She's like, got a ginger beard. Teddy Swims.

Teddy Swims. There you go. Freddie Fish. Not jelly roll Fred again No Got a beard Got a ginger She's like Got a ginger beard Teddy swims Teddy swims There you go Pretty fish I got there eventually But I was like It took me a while I was like Luke Holmes

Got a ginger beard Okay Swim fish Yeah Could be a cousin She had got it 100% correct Just didn't quite Couldn't quite remember

What it was So I was like Problem is There's too many famous people out there. You know? You can't tell your Chris Hemsworth apart from your Chris Pratt's or your Jennifer Lawrence's, Jennifer Aniston's.

It's hard to keep up to date. Yeah, then we should have a... We've got a catchment of celebrities. You're all in the celebrity pool. No one has the same name. All have different names. Someone screws up. Sex scandal.

Racism scandal. You're out Diddy you'll be out of the pool soon then we replace Diddy with another one someone becomes big on TikTok you're like cool

okay you're in or you're not in does your name match any of these other names no you're good yeah a name register for celebrities yeah that

just like keep the keep it pool kind of short because it is confusing I get it we'll run our next selection campaign on that we're the beehive of no time.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're throwing it back right now. We wanted to know on 0800 The Hits. It's a Thursday too. We should call it Throwback Thursday. I reckon that'll catch on. What's the name of the nightclub or the bar that you used to party at? Back in the day.

Not recently. No, just back in the day. Some of these places don't even exist anymore, right? Yeah, and just some of the names we're reading through on the Hits Breakfast Facebook page just instantly bring back memories, too. Or sometimes a lack of memory as well.

Tasman's listed some on here. Float, Foo, Zen, Pony, Impala, Fort, Provador, Danny's. Some of those places still exist, some don't. The Grumpy Mole comes up a lot Loaded Hog

Fat Lady's Arms Some of the names that you wouldn't name businesses these days Yeah They had a big infatuation with sort of

bigger women and then naming the chubby lady's wrists all the hell The Grumpy Mole is actually a horrible name. But we never thought about it. We used to have a good time

with the grumpy mole. What are we the person they named that after? Yeah. Mole is such a horrible name. The angry wench. But it was a wonderful period of night clubbing,

wasn't it? You went out white pants? Were you white pants, Megan? Oh, God, no. I couldn't pull off white pants. You couldn't pull off white pants? No. Did you have a thin eyebrow?

Yeah, I wore. A boob tube? Yeah. I'm not a boob tube. I imagine a lot of this stuff will come back into fashion again. That's what happens, right? Yeah, we could probably do it without it. So this is what we want this morning.

Oh, 800, the hits, please. The nightclubs. The nightclubs you used to party at. There are some hilarious ones. I do remember there was one called the Beam Bar, and it was a wonderful, disgusting pit of filth. Just imagine, you know, if they were going to architect the most bogan of all bars, this was it.

And it was like downstairs under a backpackers. And one of those places, like a movie theatre, you don't need to see it with the lights on. No. Yeah. The darker the place, the better, really. And I remember one night there was the bartender, and he did something. He tried to do something like a sambuca, but do flames out of his mouth.

Oh, yeah. Did not go to plan. Oh, really? Did not go to plan. That didn't end well, I don't think. Some burns? Yeah. And then a friend of mine, Dan, he was like the manager of the nightclub, and he would

walk down, even in the day it would be pitch black, and he was halfway down the stairs and he was up to his armpits in water, and he was like, oh, this is odd. And then, you know, controversially, he then walked further down and then decided to turn the lights on, which was probably a dangerous exercise in any thinking. But then as he turned it on, he was standing up to his shoulders at this point in sewage.

Oh, my God. It had leaked from the backpacks above and it all burst down. Okay. Well, that's, yeah. Okay. Good times. Great memories. Yeah.

I couldn't really go into that building for like two months. No, I can't imagine. So I remember coming, you know, growing up in the Wairarapa, not knowing much about clubs and then going to like Sinner's Bar. And my wife, you know, went up in the Wairarapa, not knowing much about clubs and then going to like Sinner's Bar. And my wife, you know, went, Tom, go to this Auckland nightclub. There was an eye-opener for a guy from Marston. I'm like, what is this? Sinner's, all the ass-sitting.

Almost didn't let me come in because it was, you know, pants are too casual. I was like, how can we let all the ladies in? But anyway, finally got inside and it was a real eye-opener, even though no windows, no, you know, like it was all walk out of there, you're like, whoa, daylight. Oh, here we are. Sunday at 12.

How did that happen? But anyway, 0800 The Hits, 4487. What are the places that you used to party at? We'll do that on a throwback Thursday. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. 0800 The Hits and 4487. What was the place that you used to party back back in the day? The throwback Thursday today.

Names of nightclubs and bars. A wee trip down memory lane. There's some good ones coming through. And these early 2000s bangers were playing. Yeah. The Grumpy Mole or the Governors in Hamilton. Yeah, the Holy Cow in Taupo. Aces in Rotorua.

Shooters in Christchurch. They're all coming through. Guardies. The Outback, is that still? Yeah, still. Yeah, I think Cow in Taupo. Aces in Rotorua. Shooters in Christchurch. They're all coming through. Guardies. The Outback, is that still? Yeah, still. Yeah, I think the Outback. Hamilton as well. Yeah.

Was it back in the day when they put these sawdust on the floor? Yeah, they did. So much stuff goes on there. They have to cover the floor in sawdust to soak up all the- The guy took out his eyeball that night. He did? What? The guy was like, hey, look, watch this.

He put his eyeball. It was his little party trick. Put his eyeball. He had a fake eye in the glass. Drunk his drink. And then he ended up with his eyeball in his teeth. Yeah. He was like, do you want to do it?

I'm like, okay, thanks. Are you asking me? I want your eye and my teeth. Or was he going to take out my eye? I don't know. But anyway. All right, Melissa. The nightclubs from years gone by.

Hey. Where was it? Where were you partying to this song, mate? The grumpy thing. Shingy was playing and

you were in where? Grumpy Mole. Oh, the Hummer Hut. The Hummer Hut.

The Hummer Hut. That's amazing. Yeah, what was the Hummer Hut like? Oh, I think it was

nicknamed the Hummer Hut. Oh, good. I've nicknamed the Hummer Stats. Oh, good. I've got your phone cut out at the perfect time. Like, you couldn't get better. That was almost like 5G self-censored you. Yeah, well, it's great.

Maybe we've got an official sensor now working on the show. I don't know, but that was well done. Yeah, okay. The Hummer Hut. There you go, Melissa. And did you meet any future partners at these places? No, no, definitely not. That's probably for the best.

Just sort of one and done scenarios, were they? Yes. I imagine a lot of people listening right now, that's probably how they maybe met some of their partners. Yeah. There'll be heaps, yeah. So many people on the text messages, I met my husband at the Fat Lady's Arms.

The Frog and Firkin and Invercargill. The old railway in Palmerston North coming through as well. Let's get Beck on. Welcome. How are you? Good, thanks, guys. How are you?

Yeah, we're doing it. A lot of people phoning up laughing with probably memories of regret, how they looked, what they did. Yeah. Where did you used to party at? Cross Church. So we had the Grumpy Mole,

the Mad Cow Shoot Shooters and Legends. Oh, Legends. That was an epic bar. Shooters bar. I remember a lot of radio ads for these things, like some of the Fat Lady's Arms as well. That was a big one in Rickerton. Any special people?

Mad Cow. Mad Cow, yeah. Any special people in your life now, Bec, that you met at these establishments? There possibly is, yep. I ended up getting married to him. Oh, which one did you meet him at? Legend.

Legend. Is he a legend? He looked like Shannon Noel on the dance floor. Shannon Noel. Pretty keen. Shannon Noel. That was Australian Idol, was it? It was a spike tear and necklace.

What about me? What about me? Geez, we're really time stamping this segment. A real country vibe. Our country's back in now, so well done to you. I appreciate it. Love your call, Becca. Polly, you're on.

Welcome to the show. Nightclubs you used to go to? I used to go to quite a few, but probably my most memorable one is Loading Rap in Havelock North. They had a pole in the middle of the park. I bet you had to like, was there a fight over who was at the pole at the time oh yeah I imagine it was for structural purposes for the building

what was it called again the loading ramp the loading ramp the loading ramp what's your name for a bar we must have a pole in the middle of the starts floor ramp. What's your name for a bar? We must have a pole in the middle of the starts floor. I really appreciate it. Stephanie's message

on 4487 on the text. Saints and sinners, frog and firk and sugar shack and vicargul I'm imagining. Partying along too. Got any more of those old school bangers? Oh yeah. Cyril, you're on from New Plymouth. Where were you partying in Taranaki

In your younger years The Good Homes Icon And Peggy Gordon I love all these names Are any of them still going Yep Which one

Peggy Gordon Peggy's. Peggy's. Good fun. Yeah. Cool passion on the dance floor. We are smudging up a storm. Yeah. Good on you, Cyril.

Appreciate it. And well, thank you very much for your calls. We'll leave you on this banger. Another banger. That would have been playing Janine at Silk Candios that she was at. Oh, there's plenty more of these coming through. Might have to come back to this another throwback Thursday. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. A throwback Thursday today. Looking at the bars and nightclubs they used to frequent back in the day. Yeah. Text 4487. The Pink Chowder. Some of these feel made up, don't they? Revolutions with three Zs at the end of it.

Oh, nice. Beautiful. Inferno, Vixen, Eclipse. Some hot fire names. Jodie, we're taking you back to the early 2000s. Where were you? I was at the Grumpy Mole. Very popular.

Oh, yeah, but the mission of the night was to get on that table and dance. Yes. On the table of the Grumpy Mole. On the sticky tables. Health and safety. Yeah, you'd never know what was on that table, but you never slipped. I don't want to know now.

So how often would you get on the table? Every time you were there? Every time. That was the mission of the night. But then the bouncers would come along and be like, hey, get off. Oh, yeah, they could try. I can see why they were saying, hey, get off.

You could fall. You could sue the bar. That's my vibe. You weren't going to fall, though. It was so sticky. Yeah. And you said, too, when they stopped you could fall, you could sue the bar. You're killing my vibe. Yeah. You weren't going to fall, though. It was so sticky. Yeah. And you said, too, when they stopped smoking inside as well, Megan. Yeah, you could suddenly realise that the bar smelt a little bit off.

Of bodies, of people's body, right? Of, like, stuff on the floor that had been there a long time. The ciggies was really masking a nasty smell. Yeah. You really didn't care so much about basic hygiene, did you, hygiene standards at that period of your life? Wonderful stuff. Hey, Jodie, thanks for reminiscing with us.

Kev, you're on. The nightclub you were at, Kev, what was Kev grinding his pelvis to? Well, the hilly had just an array of great Australian bands come over in excess, Midnight Oil. Yeah, so the Hillcrest in Hamilton was the place to be in the 80s. Oh, that was, yeah, that was a very popular place. Yeah, no, thank you, Kev.

Appreciate it. Natasha, this song's playing. OK. All right, this song's playing. Oh, God. What are you doing? Where are you? Set the scene. Where are you? She's got PTSD. Set the scene.

Where are you? Take us where? Well, this is back in the 80s where the fashion was terrible, but the music was great. But it was great. And then Longview and Howick, which was also known as Longspew. Longspew as well. You were there.

That's come through a couple of times too. Yeah, we mentioned the loading ramp previously, which had a pole in the middle of the dance floor, the loading ramp. We assumed for structural reasons for the building, but apparently it was designed, it was inspired by a sharing shed. Oh, yeah. I've seen a lot of poles and sharing sheds. Danger, danger.

Whangarei sounds amazing as well. Oh, yeah. Oh, mate mate we had cages we had cages back in the day cages that is dangerous well if you're

too dangerous maybe you've got to go in a cage that would have been me ten minutes in the cage for you peppers

there's a pole on there as well so many good names coming through we appreciate it I don't know I hope this era

of night clubbing is still going strong