Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Is this a scam?

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Ben the saviour The boys get called out...  Where are all the bins? Nadia Lim and Carlos Bargie Drone vs hair Retail therapy Matty Mclean is not happy This is driving me crazy! Check us out! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: TheHitsBreakfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. How you guys doing? Alright? Yeah, we're doing well. Don't know, I'm wearing Invisalign at the moment. I don't know where for the life of them I put them this morning. Oh, right. You know when you're just, at that time of the month, you're just in full autopilot. Yeah. Looked all over the house.

Looked in the toilet. Looked everywhere. You've been wearing them for such a long time Because you're so useless At actually putting them in It's meant to just be A 12 month process Invisalign It's been I'd say nearly

Two, two and a half years So they're kind of like A mouth guard You kind of put in Instead of braces It kind of bullies Your teeth into shape You did it

Yeah I did it I took a while too Because I didn't I found it hard To talk in them on radio So I couldn't do that On radio So it took a lot longer

So I wouldn't wear them at radio. Sometimes you're like, maybe I should have just locked braces onto my chompers for 12 months. That's what my wife's done. You're not going to lose anything. Get it done. In and out quick.

My husband's got Invisalign at the moment. Do you know my least favourite thing is when he pulls them out to eat something and you slurp the saliva out of them. Nothing sexy. The strings of saliva as you slowly remove them. Oh man, taking teeth out, right? Yeah, yeah.

That's not the ultimate aphrodisiac. I don't know what is. Now, everyone's fanging around in the city on scooters these days, whether it's push scooters or electric scooters. The new ones you can sit on, I've seen. I think, I was thinking about that. It looks like you're an old grandparent on a mobility scooter. I think it's for safety purposes.

Yeah, it probably makes sense, right? Because if you do go belly up, you're lower to the ground. If you stand up, you're face first onto the footpath, I imagine. And are you also more stable sitting? Maybe you are more stable, yeah. I was just driving past a school yesterday. It wasn't a school that any of the kids went to. But just out the corner of your eye when you see something kind of happen yeah it was like this kid on this young kid on

an electric oh no sorry on a push scooter just just face plant poor thing down there's just see it out the corner of your eye and i'm like oh that's not good so you kind of pulled over and you're like went back because no one was really around apart from other kids to help the guy he was a bit rattled the poor and it's one of those situations where like hey mate do you want me to walk you back to school? And he was like, no. And in that situation, what do you do? Like, as an adult, he's not my kid.

Did he have any, like, visible injuries? Yeah, he looked a bit – I didn't know if he'd hit his head or – he just looked rattled, a little rattled. I was like, mate, I really think you should walk back to school. And he's like, no. And then I'm like, what do I do? I was like, I can't pick him up. He's not my kid.

How old were you, I think? Probably about 10. It was definitely teetering into a stranger danger. Yeah, that's what I thought too. I didn't want to make the... Get in my car, mate, and I'll take you to your parents' house. What you need is you need some sugar to build those levels back up. You know when you have a trauma like that.

Weird situation where I felt like he needed to walk back to school. In the end, he kind of dusted himself off and off he went. So I walked back to the school by myself and just went, hey, there's this kid. And I got someone else's name from the kid and told them. And then the school very kindly contacted me later and said he's all good, which is good because I was like, I hope he's all right, just going on his way. You know, it wasn't like delayed concussion.

That is very nice. You're like, I offered him a lift in my van, sent me some fruit bursts here, you know, get some sugar levels into you. It's quite weird when you're like, hey, mate, I think you need to go back. And he just kind of went, no. And you're like, well, I can't make you.

There's no part of me that can make you do that. And he obviously didn't have a phone. 10 might be a bit young. Yeah, I was thinking so. So you couldn't exactly call his parents or anything? Also like, hi, I've got your kid here. I know. So it was a really weird situation.

But I'm glad that the guys are right. I won't lie, it does probably look, it makes it weirder with blonde dye. Probably, yeah. He's probably like, who is this guy coming on up? The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. I noticed something over the last few days. I'm not happy and I think it's happening across the whole country. You'll notice the case of the mysterious missing rubbish bins.

You know your humble council rubbish bin? Where all of us used to dump, you know, a dumping ground of everything. Chuck anything in there. Definitely not household items. Definitely not. Definitely not household waste. No. But they're all disappearing.

Well, a lot of them are disappearing, I'm noticing. Particularly on the side streets. It feels like the main streets, they're keeping them. Well, a lot of them are disappearing, I'm noticing, particularly on the side streets. It feels like the main streets, they're keeping them. Yeah, right. They're just like overnight gone. 2,000 apparently in the Auckland region have gone and another 500 are meant to go over the next few months. Why?

Where are all the police suspects meant to hide their evidence now? Well, they reckon it's a big cost-saving thing. It's going to save close to $10 million over the next eight years. So I guess if you don't want your rates to go up, that's their argument. They've got to try and find these savings around to keep the rates at the same rate. How does it cost that much? Well, that's, I guess, just a collection. Rubbish collection.

But then where does all the rubbish go now? Now, the other day, we were at the netball courts for the kids' camp ball. Zero waste. You can't put any rubbish anywhere there. So we're like, well, your only option is to eat it. Maybe that's what we need to start doing, all eating our rubbish. Like take it home with you. You really notice no rubbish bins, I find, when you take the dog for a walk

and the dog goes to the bathroom and you're carrying a bag. Yeah, that's true. That's the time you're like, where are all the rubbish bins? You see people's wheelie bins? Do you have that? I can't put it in someone else's wheelie bin. Nah, that's the ultimate crime. No, I think.

Well, it's not the ultimate crime, but it's a crime. You can put it in the wheelie bin if it's still full. Oh, I don't know. It's about to be collected. I couldn't even do that. Why? Imagine if you walked out of your driveway and you saw Ben Boyce there dumping a big steamer in your... I know, but it's about to be collected.

I know, but still. So you'd be chill with that? Yeah. But not everyone would be chill with that. As long as it's not empty and you're putting a steamer in there. It's feces. It's going to sit there all week. Yeah, I know.

I just feel bad. That's where it's going to end up, right? He got caught by his neighbour dumping, not those, but other stuff. Yeah. And got called out. Yeah. What were you dumping in your neighbour's bin? Well, that was because our recycling had too much in it.

So I went up the road to find it. And I was like, oh, cool, this guy has it. And he's got room in his bin. The guy came out. He goes, are you putting rubbish in my bin and I said oh yeah I am

because my recycling's overflowing thinking he'd go oh okay and he was like this was the day it was meant to be collected and he goes

well take it out then I was like oh where do you sit on that because I'm chill with that he wasn't it's fine I've been chill with that

I've filled it with everything I've wanted that's not fecal matter no exactly I've been chill with that there's boxes and stuff he's going to go home to his place That's not fecal matter. No, exactly. Let me chill with that. Those are boxes and stuff. He's going to go home to his place and put the fecal matter in his bin. So why can't I put it in someone else's bin that's about to be collected?

Oh, it's just a... It feels like you're crossing the line. 4487 on the tips. Can you dump feces in... Your dog. We're talking about the dog stuff. Dog feces. The dog goes to the bathroom.

I know, but it's in a bag. If it's not your bin. Yeah, I get what you're saying. And I'd probably be okay with it, but I'm not going to do that. And technically you don't own the bin. I feel like I'm about to the bathroom. I know, but it's in a bag. If it's not your bin. Yeah, I get what you're saying. And I'd probably be okay with it, but I'm not going to do that. And technically you don't own the bin. I feel like I'm about to be owned. Is it probably the council, those bins? 4487.

Can't you put someone, yeah, the dog. I'm chill with my rubbish. All right, well, come to your place next time as well. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The rough weather hitting New Zealand. The South Island in for a bit of a bad rain and winds. Yesterday, Queenstown Airport was pretty nasty. A lot of planes couldn't land. Yeah, the South Island in for a bit of a bad rain and winds. Yesterday, Queenstown Airport was pretty nasty.

A lot of planes couldn't land. Yeah, the crosswinds. That's a hairy landing at the best of times. Yeah, because it's sort of beautiful, though. Beautiful around the mountains, but you're right. All of a sudden, there's an airport just in the middle. You're like, oh, look at these pretty mountains. Whoa, we're going down.

Over the mountains and down. It must be the wind swirling through the mountains, is it? Yeah, they call it crosswinds. So is it when it blows across the runway you can't land? So the South Islands are pretty nasty and the weather's sort of moving up the country, so I think it's meant to hit the North Island later in the week, so not so good.

Here we are, guys. The dark depths of winter. And we need to make an apology, a public apology actually to wonderful Grace. We call her Amazing Grace, Grace Hilliam. Or G-Banger is her latest nickname according to Megan. G-Bang. Which one do you prefer?

I like G-Bangs. G-Bangs pushes the buttons here on the show and we completely missed something this morning, Ben. Yeah. Ten minutes into us all prepping, producer Taylor says, have you noticed anything different about Grace? And you're like, oh. This is like the same category as

you don't know what you've done wrong with your partner. You're like, is there anything wrong? Do you know what today is? You're like, oh God, what is today? You tell me what you know. Be honest, when you said her hair, was that a guess? Yeah. Good guess.

I was thinking new top maybe yeah it is a new top actually so yeah thank you Jonna and we didn't notice

her hair being no so you got explain explain to so I'm a natural brunette but I've gone cowboy copper so it's like a brown gingery colour

it looks great thank you it looks great thank you I like to be like it does look great but it's not I wouldn't say a huge departure

from what it was before to me it's not I wouldn't say A huge departure From what it was before To me it's pretty rare You noticed though Right And producer Taylor noticed So well done Megan But you two I overheard you guys

Actually have a conversation Yesterday about this Would you have noticed If you hadn't Yeah I would have Come in here Taylor Absolutely

Screaming at us Especially under the lights You can see It's quite coppery I can see it It looks fantastic. But if you want me to notice it, not my area of expertise,

if you want me to notice anything, come like Ben. Friday, you're brown. Monday, you're bleach blonde. Bleach blonde. It's quite a difference. And everyone goes, oh, you're here.

Yeah, yeah. Producer Taylor, you wouldn't have noticed if he hadn't had the conversation. Are you for real? Yeah, I'm for real. Mate, you can't notice that you're blind.

It's a completely different tone. It's bringing out warm her warm side of her skin. Yeah, it looks great on your skin. Beautiful. Honestly. Honestly. I mean, you just must it. Tania's Farm is back on 3

now on 3 actually again tonight. It's a great series. Nadia Lim you'll know from winning MasterChef in New Zealand and now a very successful farm she operates with her husband Carlos. Yeah in the South Island and stoked to have them in before 7 o'clock this morning. We have wonderful Nadia Lim and her husband Carlos.

How are you? So good to see you guys again. It's great to see you as well. It's great to see you. Now Carlos I don't know if we've officially met face to face, but we understand there are a couple of roosters on your farm named Jono and Ben. I knew this was going to come up. I have no idea. I was going to ask about that, but is this going to be like a conversation we don't want to have?

Possibly. Right. I did not eat them, though. I didn't. Wait, I watched last season. Was one of them the one that had to be like, because it was attacking the other chooks? No, I wouldn't have done that to Jono and Ben. Okay.

Yeah. RIP. Have they gone to the great chicken coop in the sky? Yeah, I think Wildcat. Oh, that. Oh, jeez. What a way to go. For him, you know, you played right into our egos there,

naming something after us. Yeah, roosters though. And there's obviously got connotations there. A couple of, you know, cocks as you said. And they get people up early. Wake people up early annoying as well. So there you go.

That's why. We were honoured to have been named after a couple or have their name. The next couple of goats we get. Old grubby goats. Yeah, exactly.

Hey, you guys are back again with a new season and Carlos, you've just given us beer. You're now making beer. Swifty. A paddock to pint beer.. A paddock to pint beer. A true paddock to pint beer.

So that's our barley off the farm. And we thought, look, you know, we need to do something really exciting with it. It's not a craft beer. Right, good. Love it. You mow the lawn, you come in, it's a hot day. You're like, you know what I feel like doing? I just feel like drinking a beer.

And that's 4%. You can have a couple of them. You know, it's not hoppy. It's just a beer. Definitely what you guys needed to do was to add another thing to your plate. You know what? We're going to do beer as well. Now, actually, I was reading over the weekend, Nadia,

you had a prediction many, many years ago about being married with three boys. Yeah, I sure did. So how long ago was this? And this is what's happened. More than 10 years ago. I even remember we were lying in bed and I said, I had a dream last night. I had a premonition.

We're going to end up on a farm with three boys. Sure enough. Where were you at that stage? We were in Auckland living in Parnell in a city apartment. Really? Very far away from what we're doing now. What a specific dream. What did you say to that, Carlos?

I was hoping it was part of the dream. And you had a bit of a, broke your back. Yeah, I did. Yeah, July last year. Yeah, it was a stupid idea. If you're, you know, I'm a beginner skier.

Went up and it was really icy. I was only five months post having a baby. Had like absolutely no core. And it was, yeah, it was so icy. I just slipped and. You know, obviously you had a newborn pretty close to that time. Yeah, core and it was you know so icy i just slipped and you know obviously had a newborn pretty close to that time yeah yeah it was i had to rely on everyone and anyone to pick him up for me so that was that included the the postie the the dishwasher serviceman just anyone who came

into the house i was like can you please pick my baby up a dishwasher serviceman yeah placing a lot of faith in your random dishwasher serviceman. How much, because obviously you're a fourth generation farmer, is that right? Fifth generation. It must be cool for you to be back there doing this. Oh, it's awesome. And Dad's still around and he just loves it. It's pretty special.

I've spent more time with Dad, I'd say, in the last five years than I probably did in the last 15. Did you find that um when you guys started the farm and stuff people were like ah townies bloody Nadia thinks she can do a farm down here. Well well funny you say that because when we first moved down five-ish years ago our neighbors would tell us the rumors that they were hearing around town and one of our neighbors Annette said to us one day she goes oh I was just out at dinner last night and so apparently you guys aren't real farmers so apparently you've come down from Auckland and you think you know what you're doing

and your husband's got a couple of paddocks but he's not a real farmer isn't it big? 1200 acres yeah it's definitely big enough bloody old Annette's loose lips you didn't hear it from me. But I think people

understand now that it's a big proper work farm. I think you've proven yourselves now. Yeah, I think so. You can't be a control freak and go into farming. That's like the worst characteristic. Ben boys. Ben boys.

I don't scream farmer anyway. I wasn't thinking I wasn't thinking to take it up Not with your bleach blonde hair now He's like are you having

a midlife crisis I'm like yeah maybe I am Tell you what if he moved down to your part of the world old Annette would have some stuff

to say about old bleach blonde hair I'd love to hear what Annette would have to say about me So good to see you guys the show is on 3 and on 3 now as well

catch you right now Nadia and Carlos thanks for coming in thank you the hits the Jono and Ben podcast season of the sticks apparently that's the period

between autumn and winter when the leaves have gone off the trees how do you know that Ben? well you told me that day and then I did I'd forgotten it and I googled it

just then when the song was playing I was so poetic I was like do you think that means winter season of the sticks when there's no leaves? Well, it's heading into winter, right? So just after autumn when all the leaves have fallen off the trees. Well, geez, you just had a bloody good season on the hits with that song.

Yes. Corvid on the plane. Yeah. Thrashing Corvid on the plane. Yeah. And now, Megan, you feel like someone committed a crime in a shop yesterday. Light crime. Yeah.

I saw this happening and I was like... What was Gold Rees up to, mate? I was confused because I was like, I wouldn't do this myself. But I'm keen to know where you guys stand on it. So it was a clothing shop, which is important. And someone was eating a bag of chips as they were perusing the clothes. So my thing with that is, like, you might be touching, you know. Greasy hands, maybe, yeah.

Granted, they weren't, like, rations, so they didn't have, like, cheesy residue on their fingers. But they're still eating chips and then, like, touching clothes. Yeah, you're right. I was like, you don't eat in a. I see what you're saying. I mean, I've never walked into a clothing shop and gone, I could do with a bag of chips right now.

Well, how busy your day is that you've got to do your eating And your shopping at the same time But I was like I wouldn't eat in a shop Especially like a clothing shop I'd drink a coffee With a lid or something like that Bottled water or something

But not like eating What are you allowed to do in a shop? I'm sure we're doing a lot wrong Sometimes when I are probably okay. But not like eating. What are you allowed to do with a shop? That's the thing. Well, what are the things? I'm sure we're doing a lot wrong. Sometimes when you hold out a T-shirt and you're like, oh, I've got to refold it. Halfway through I'm folding it,

I'm like, this is not up to store standard. And I'm just slapping it back on top of the pile. Sometimes I try to merge it in three T-shirts down. And I'm like, to the store, Grace,

our producer Grace, you worked in a shop for many years, North Beach Yes I did. Do you appreciate people refolding because I know it's nowhere near the standards that you hold Yeah I appreciate the refolding Sometimes I'll go hey I can't do this sorry and then hand it back to them

I think it's better to hand it to the person than just to like leave it on the ground and leave it somewhere So don't leave it in a pile We're going to do some retail therapy now for retail workers. What are some other bugbears? Not knowing how to use your payment method, especially afterpay. That's a big one. And I'm like, I have no clue how to use it.

Gotcha. What happens if I don't say just these things when I go to the counter? Do they know? Do they know that I want to buy these items? There must be so many things people say as well. I do. I say it all the time. I'll just be like, just these things. You're like, well, of course they're going to be just there.

I'm not putting things on the counter I'm not buying. Our friend Guy always was like, when I'm in a changing room with someone, he's like, are you okay in there? I'm like, what do they think I'm doing in here? No, like, do you need another size? Or do you need me to look at the outfit? He's like, how have things gone horribly wrong? Are you okay in there, sir?

No, but sometimes you get stuck. You're like, ooh, I am not this size. I'm not okay. I'm not okay. Okay, so can I ask a question? Oh, go for it. Now I've said where you worked. But in the retail industry, do you care about shoplifters

or you're like, oh, I don't get paid enough to care about that person stealing those socks? Oh, you definitely care, but it's like your health and safety. Would you chase a shoplifterters or you're like oh i don't get paid enough to care about that person stealing those socks oh you definitely care but it's like your health and safety would you chase a shoplifter down no no we have security there's most places oh security guards yeah the security guards we can like call and be like hey can you come in so what should we do what should we do if we're if we're in retail what are we doing wrong the hits the jonah and ben podcast rough weather hitting the south island they reckon a month's worth of rain about to swamp the West Coast over the next 24 hours. So I think everyone around there has the weather.

Wild weather heads up the country. Doing some retail therapy if you're in the retail sector stuff. We, the consumer, the customer, are doing wrong. And you ran a cafe for a while there at 808 Your Soul, Megan Pappers. Yeah. And what was the one thing that irked you every day? It's just something people would always say. So you'd be like, oh do you want sugar

or sweetener with your coffee? And they'd be like no I'm sweet enough. I'm an earthy at 50 times. Everyone sees it Ben. Just laugh mate, laugh politely. This is my disclaimer, everyone sees it. I reckon you could line up a group of 50 people

and you could pick out who would say I'm sweet enough. Ben. Oh, 800, that's the telephone number. Cindy, you're on. Welcome to the show. You're in the retail sector, retail therapy. What are we doing wrong? Well, a big thing that comes up year after year after year

is the open up on Easter. The problem being is the people that keep saying that are the ones who don't work in retail for us. At the end of the day, it's not as simple a thing as going okay, you can have a day off if

the shops are open and a business says, okay, we're going to open, you can have a day off, we'll find someone else to work. At the end of the day, with businesses, resale shops, some of them can only be four or five people working at the store. So if you've got one person who wants that day off, somebody else has to work. If a business is open, somebody has to work. And it's not generally, on those public holidays, it would be a mission to go to someone who doesn't work. Can you work?

Because they're like, no, I want to spend it with my family. Okay, Sydney, but why aren't you open on Easter Sunday? Easter Sunday, the difference with that one is that it's not a religious holiday. It was a very poor attempt to try to wind you up there. No, it's a good point. It's a religious holiday. It's not a public holiday. And that in itself, that will be probably the first one to go.

This is a hot topic for Cindy. It is, definitely. My friend's got a theory. He's like, why do we get religious holidays if we're not religious? Like, he's like, maybe you'd have to go to church so many times a year to get the holidays off. He's like, no other. I was like, well, it's quite a good point.

You know, right? Yeah. If you don't believe it. Yeah. Like, yeah. I'm happy to take the holiday. Okay. Well, sorry.

I shouldn't talk about it. You're not taking Southland Anniversary off. Oh, that's true. How you doing, Cindy? Leonie, we'll get you on. Welcome. Retail therapy. Hi.

How are you? Yeah. What are us, Carl? We're doing really well. Thank you. What are the customers doing wrong in the retail game? Oh, just please be kind to us people behind the counter. Yeah, no, that's a good idea.

But you're not real people. You're like, they are real people. Producer Grace was saying sometimes people would come up with their phones. Yeah, come up with their phones and just not talk to you. So they're on a phone conversation. No hello, no, and, you know, we cop the blame for a company's policies and all the rest of that. Yeah, right.

It's all our fault kind of thing, you know. Yeah. And, you know, people don't know what kind of day we're having. That's a good point. Just be kind. Be kind. Thanks for your call, Jacinda. Appreciate that.

Great text here, too. I work in retail and the most frustrating thing I get every day if there's no price on an item must be free must be free I say that too

oh Ben I'm sweet enough and this must be free the classic I mean sometimes you're just filling you're filling the silence just leave the silence babes

once a week we try and make our mundane text the correspondence You're filling the silence. Just leave the silence, babes. Once a week we try and make our mundane text correspondence we have with our partners feel a little bit more sexy with... That's a sexy texie. There's a little bit of sexiness in everything if you look hard enough, isn't there? Apart from petrol station toilets. I've tried to make those sexy,

but there is just no way. There's always a sign that's like, you know, if these aren't up to standard, please let our staff know. Has anyone let the staff know? Or has the petrol industry got very low standards? And those cleaning charts, it was like, last cleaned, and it's like four days ago. You're like, yeah, I think I can

tell. Alright, Megan, so you said a lot of your correspondence between you and Andrew, your husband, is food related. Always about food. Well, I guess it makes sense. When you, so you said a lot of your correspondence between you and Andrew, your husband, is food related. Always about food. Well, I guess it makes sense. When you're making four meals a night. I know, right? Two kids meals. One, he's on the bulk, so you're making him very specific

muscle building meals. Also, did I neglect to mention that I make his lunch too? When do you do that? Night before? Sometimes, or sometimes on a Sunday, prep for the week. Wow. Oh, you're, what a

great spouse you are. Housewife vibes over here. Yeah, housewife. Actually, speaking of which, that's what this relates to. So this is from him

initially. My lunch is yum. Thank you. Oh, so he's appreciative. That's lovely. That's sexy. That's sexy.

I said, all good. I hope you don't mind. I finished the Brussels sprouts for lunch. Is that what you said back? Yeah, and I sent him a picture of the Brussels. As if what, he wasn't going to believe that you'd finished it? Yeah, he's like, yeah. Evidence?

Evidence, please. Nice lunch. He said, nice. Looks good. And that was it. So some of it sounded quite sexy. Yeah, it could have and after that

clothes were blown off your bodies Brussels sprouts mad passionate love making Brussels sprouts get a hard time I reckon

they do they're really good it's how you cook them I reckon it's definitely how you cook them like back in the 80s mum would just put them on

I think when she started roasting the chicken she'd put it on and then two hours later they were well boiled all the life out of it. No, don't boil them. You know what?

Chuck them in the air fryer, just with a bit of S&P. Yeah. So good. Remember the old bloody silver beet? You'd chuck that in and have a big old soggy silver beet. Yeah. And you'd literally puddle on your plate. Puddle a veg.

Am I eating my meal out of water? Sexy texties for me. Oh, look, I'm going to go on to. Actually, could look a little bit sexy today. My wife Amanda sent me a text saying, why am I being sent this? And there was a picture from Timu. And it was four person handcuffs.

What's she been looking at? There's also one with fake toes that you can get to put in your crocs. So she's like, why am I being sent this? That's not what I thought you were going to say. Why do you need fake toes in your crocs? Instead of having those little gibbets, you can get to put in your crocs. So she's like, why am I being censored? That's not what I thought you were going to say. Why do you need fake toes in your crocs? I don't know. It's like a little,

instead of having those little gibbets, you can have toes coming out. I like, you can get Shrek toes sticking out. Yeah,

all sorts of toes. She's like, my wife doesn't even own crocs, but there you go. Those are sexy. And the four person handcuffs, do they come in handy? Suppose if you've got

four criminals. Well, yeah, true. Does Teemo work by algorithm with its suggestions? I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. four criminals. Well, yeah, true. Does Teemu work by algorithm with its suggestions? I don't know. Maybe. I don't know. Here's the one from Jennifer to me.

This actually just came through yesterday morning. The milk has lumpy bits in it. Looks like yogurt. So I assume when Fergie was singing about her lovely lady lumps, was it?

The milky lumps. And those are the sexy texties. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, was it? The milky lumps. Yeah, yeah. And those are the sexy texties. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, the eclipse was going on the other side of the world. You would have seen it all over the news and social media yesterday. It was quite impressive. Now, in the middle of the day, it just sort of...

Lunchtime. It just went dark. New Zealand. We're going to get one. We're getting an eclipse. We're getting an eclipse. July 22nd, 2028. Did you talk getting an eclipse we're getting an eclipse uh july 22nd 2028 oh did you talk about an eclipse there's nothing i can do solar eclipse yes so 20 it's a few more years away four more

years away we'll get an eclipse just like that the last one in new zealand was visible in 1965 so that actually happened that often we will be frothing that eclipse hard. We will. We will. We were excited about the one on the other side of the world. It was pretty impressive, though. It was amazing.

Yeah, I was just like, because sometimes you see those things in the sky and you're like, oh, yeah. But this actually made everything dark, which was quite impressive. Controversial opinion. The blood moon's done nothing for me over the years. I'm like, an eclipse will, though.

Yeah. Now, drones. I've like, an eclipse will though. Yeah. Now, drones. I've never really flown a drone too much. They look like a lot could go wrong. But it's quite impressive when you do see, you know, people flying drones and filming stuff. Some of them seem quite technical. And it feels like we're going to, in a few years' time,

look back on this period of an aviation and go, oh, wow, we didn't ask people to have licences for those. No, no. What, any manta could just go to a shop and buy a drone? You're like, yeah, man, it was crazy, crazy times. We got sent one yesterday. It came in a little package. It was like a promotional one. And it was only a tiny one,

so not much bigger than maybe my cell phone. Oh, okay, yeah. So it's pretty small, little tiny remote control. And I was like, hey, I'll put in the lounge. I was like, I'm going to give this a go. I thought about going outside, but I well I might just go and so I thought I'll do it within the confines of the lounge seemed like the safest option there's some of them which uh apparently if you push the home button on them homes in China and they're like

all right see you later then oh geez boom oh my god they'll go home all the way back to finding Nemo design floor didn't design flaw, isn't it? You'd be like, where's the drone guy? But also, does he get caught up anywhere along the way? Yeah, just heads all the way back to China, back to its family. Back to its family of children in that factory. So anyway, I had this little drone in the lounge, and I thought I'd give it a go,

and it sort of went slightly out of control, and my daughter Sienna was sitting on the couch watching something on, I think, Disney Plus at the time, and her back of her hair was sort of down from the back of the couch straight to the back of her hair and so it sort of catches up but when blades i mean they were big blades but when they kind of catch up they're turning around spinning yeah she's kind of panicking i'm kind of panicking i'm trying to turn the thing off and then was there a reverse button for the drone no there was no home button. We couldn't send my daughter and the drone back to China. You just dragged your boy here back to China.

Oh, well, I guess it's the last we'll see of Earth. See you later. Very hard to get out, though, when it's all kind of birds nested around here. I was just like, cut it out. That was my first thing. I was just going to cut it. She's like, you can't cut it out.

She's got beautiful hair. You can't just chop it out of the back. Your first thing was cut it out. Well, I tried to get it, and then I was like, we're going to have to cut this out. She's got beautiful hair. You can't just chop it out of the back. Your first thing was cut it out. Well, I tried to get it, and then I was like, we're going to have to cut this out. She said, no. So it took quite a while to sort of. Was she mad at you?

Oh, she kind of saw the funny side of it. It didn't hurt her or anything. You could have sold it as like a futuristic sort of hairpiece for sticks in the back of her head for the rest of her life. So the whole thing, I never thought that could be a drone accident, but it happened. It does. I mean, Megan, you were just mentioning before.

Mine wasn't actually a drone that I was flying, but I was involved in a drone incident. You were a drone victim. I was a drone victim. I remember I was sleeping in, it was my old house, and it had big bay windows in the bedroom. Yeah.

And I woke up to this weird noise. It was like a house and I had big bay windows in the bedroom. Yeah. And I woke up to like this weird noise. It was like, you know, it sounded like, yeah, exactly that. And I looked out the window and it was quite a big drone out my window and it had like a little red light flashing. It was just hovering out my window. Oh, that's creepy. Just filming you sleep. Like watching me sleep.

I wasn't naked or anything. And then did it go? Oh, that's creepy. Just filming you sleep. Like watching me sleep. I wasn't naked or anything. I was like, not straight away, but I was kind of like looking at it for a while and then it kind of hovered off. I just thought it would be a wonderful opening scene for the movie I'm making on the okay. But they are flying pervert machines.

They can be. I know, but I was like, it's not, I was in my pajamas and probably dribbling. Like there was nothing hot about it. That'll definitely be on the internet somewhere the hits the jonah and ben podcast there's a lot of scams going around at the moment and producer tata you put out on your social media the other day a question saying am i being scammed or is this a legitimate email that's come through yep yep because i have been

scammed before they got me on the text where um pay your toll notice and it was when i was fresh to new zealand and i thought that is how you pay tolls yeah right yeah um they took a lot of money out of my account anywho and you threw this out you threw this out on social media and it is concerned maddie mclean uh one half of the medium pj show it's from new zealand post what is his claims to be and a strange email address it's a a Gmail. Gmail, not from New Zealand Post. So you've got a package and you've got to pay some more to deliver it, right? Yeah, and he copied and pasted the link. And they were like, we're missing your phone number,

so we can't send the package out. And I was like, oh, my God, well, let me just quickly put my phone number in. Emma Critic had details. But you asked social media first. Yeah, and Maddie joins us now. Maddie. Hello. Maddie McCl now. Maddie. Hello. Maddie McLean.

Hi. Matthew McLean. Well, well, well. Well, well, well. Well, well, well. Maddie, you've come to the rescue of producer Taylor on her social media dilemma about is it a scam or not? There's so many things in this world that I despair about. Like I despair about the state of the world at the moment,

but never have I been more concerned than when I saw the poll that Taylor put up. I just thought that there are some really, really clever scams out there, and I get that people can be sucked in by the really clever ones. This was literally the most obvious scam I have ever seen in my life. It was sent from a Gmail account. I feel like we dispelled this one a long time ago. New Zealand Post are not sending from a Gmail account

with someone's name. This is where I raise you my point. When I got the text, I was like, oh, from a Gmail, that's so cool. New Zealand Post is now employing people to go the extra mile and, like, be more personal. Hayla.

Hayla. Stop. Stop. I'm so worried about you. She's like your boomer auntie that you've got to keep an eye on. Do you know the worst thing is she's been scammed before. She clicked on a link and gave detail. For the toll road.

I brought it up with her and she said, I just thought they were like delivering a really personalised service for everyone. No. No, they're scamming you. What did you do? So I copied and pasted the link in the text and put it in Safari and it was taking ages to load.

And that's when I was like, oh, my God. Is it sucking all your information out of your computer? Is that how it works? Can they do that? Yes, Taylor. Because I didn't put bank details online or anything. So how many people responded to this message, this cry for help?

So I got 261 votes saying it was a scam and 11 votes for not a scam. So I want to meet those oh my god like i got so many people replying to it saying i got the exact same message and i was like oh well have you been shopping on the iconic too like is that but no it all loops around maddie because i went to a naturopath appointment last week and she asked for my address and she said, I'm going to get these placenta pills sent to your house. Oh, my gosh. So I thought...

It gets worse, Maddie. I thought that's what the package was. So, yeah, I'm very disappointed that they still haven't arrived yet. I feel like before you put your details into anything or click any links, you've got to message one of us. Yeah. Please, please. Honestly, I will be on call 24-7.

Honestly, I just can't deal with that. You know, well, chances are if you're having to throw it out to an Instagram poll. The signs were there. Oh, Matty, thanks for your time. Have a great day. You too. Good luck, Taylor. Thank you.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The annoying noise, the noise that's driving you crazy in the house, and sometimes it can be unusual things. We'd love to hear from you. Oh, 800-THE-HITS or 4487 on the text. Went to the Easter show. It was lovely to go to the Easter show, actually, a couple of weeks back, and it was just Poppy, my daughter, and myself, and it was a really fun time.

Enjoyed it. And the carnies there. Loved the carnies too. They won a wonderful game. You know the classic put the ping pong ball inside the clown's moving mouth. And even if you don't win, they

give you a consolation prize. Yeah, right. Which is nice. Although the problem is when the carny was handing over the consolation prize to my daughter Poppy they had a smile on their face of like, I'm going to burden you with this. This is going to eat away at your soul for the next month or two.

And it's a plastic tube that you can pull in and out. Oh yeah, making noise, yeah. That's kind of addictive though, isn't it? Yeah, it is. Actually, when it's in your hand, it's lovely, but it reverberates around the household

and tests your patience as a human being. But then Pulpy's like, oh, this is so fun. And he's like, you think that's fun? How about four more? You can join them all together like an orchestra of them.

And it's just, you know, you can imagine the children that made this in some unventilated factory bringing joy to my children. Reminds me of those things back in the day you used to tip upside down

and they go, oh. Yeah, that's right. So what is the annoying noise in your house? You've got a couple, Megan? I've got many, but one at the moment that's just killing me. It's a toy. Crystal the smoothie cup. Not Crystal the meth pipe.

No. Crystal the smoothie cup. No, this is what Crystal sounds like I'm a colourful smoothie With fruits in my cup Mix them with the sauce I'll shake shake them up So it's just

Different flavours So it's just a cup Like you'd have a smoothie Banana Yeah and you just Twist the straw And it has different flavours And I hear that all day.

Because the two of them, they fight over it and take turns. So I literally hear Crystal all the time. You're like, not today, Crystal. I'm Crystal. This will go away. So those things can drive you nuts. You should just hide it, yeah. To me, it's a washing machine.

Like our washing machine, for some reason, has really kicked up a gear at the moment, like in the laundry. You have to shut the door. Like, listen. Sounds like war. it's really loud it's like you're in a 747 spin cycle yeah it's just like i don't know but it's just like you have to shut the laundry door you're like all right i get it you're washing i feel like it that's what the sound it makes just before it dies well yeah maybe if someone is a washing expert let me know actually because yeah i don't really want to pay for a new one but but it's quite noisy.

Spinning your clothes into another dimension. Okay, so the noises in your household don't necessarily have to be children's toys or appliances. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The annoying noises that are driving you nuts inside your house. You can give us a call, 0800 THE HITS, or text us 4487. Ben's washing machine really is spinning hard at the moment. Are your clothes still alive after being

spun like that definitely cleaned it's definitely still doing the job but yeah a lot of noise going on another thing

that's not really in the household but I love the cars that have the sensors the boop boop boop boop boop boop it's kind of

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whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, , Got a really clicky wheel on it about 6.30, 7 o'clock at night

trying to watch TV settle down for the night and he's running around the line having a lot of fun. He's got lawns to mow, mate. That's right. He's doing the boom. Although there are hours

that you should be mowing lawns, right? There is, you know, you should do it when it's dark. We bought him a lawnmower there because he keeps wanting to steal my lawnmower out of his head. Might be safer, might be less painful for you if he's using a real lawnmower there, Jono. Yeah, maybe, maybe.

Can you imitate the noise? How does the noise go? It's going along the carpet. Well, good on you. Have a great day mate Appreciate that Taylor you've got a Noise at the moment In your household Your friend's staying From Sydney with a newborn

Yep so they're over I'm happy to have them here Except for when They've taken over the TV With a girl called Miss Rachel Oh Miss Rachel Mama

Yeah and that's Constant now Can you say Mama And I'm going Listen So many parents like I can say mama? And I'm going, listen. There's so many parents like. I can say mama.

Yeah. I can say another word after mother too. Yeah. She makes my eye twitch. Is she the one that was cancelled? No. No, Miss Rachel hasn't been cancelled. Okay, I'm sorry.

She's like a millionaire. She's angelic. Yeah. She's a pain in the ass, but she's angelic. Yeah, right. So that's the soundtrack Of the Montoya household At the moment Yeah

Alright let's get Tash on The noise in your house Tash that's winding you up Well it's not really In the house It's outside But we believe It's a possum

And it's like Heavy breeze at night Oh a possum With asthma issues Oh that's so exciting They do like a hissing I used to have one Outside a room

When I was living in the flat. It was like sort of hissing stuff at night. It was really loud and annoying. Wait, so have you seen it out the window? I've tried looking for it, but I can't find it. I can just hear it. Are you sure it's a possum? I haven't seen anyone.

There's no one in the neighborhood lurking outside your window. It's heavy breathing. Could be a bloody runaway from the retirement village one in the neighbourhood lurking outside your window. Heavy breathing. Could be a bloody runaway from the retirement village with an oxygen tank. Thanks for your call, Tasha. Appreciate it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we met wonderful Fraser Groot, a New Zealander who's collecting the dreams of 10,000 people. He's about 2,000 deep at the moment, going to head over to the States.

He's Ashton Kutcher. Mila Kunis invited him into their house to get their dreams. Terry Crews, famous actor. You'll know him from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. A whole bunch. Tony Hawk, the skateboard. He's been amazing. The Wiggles, Elmo. He's talked to some amazing people and just everyday people out in the streets as well,

just capturing their dreams. Do you know who's saying about the Wiggles? He got their dreams and then afterwards, because he's a documentary maker, he got in touch with them. He's like, do you mind if I make a documentary about you? And they said, do you know how many people have asked us to make a documentary about the Wiggles? And they were like, we just really like you, and we want you to do it.

He was the person they said yes to. Yeah, and it's on Amazon, so incredible. So anyway, yesterday you played my emotional one, so I'm getting payback now. Which was beautiful. To Ben and Megan you also got dragged into a weird room

here at work to give us your dreams usually that room they drag you in to make you redundant so it's there's a lot of tears in there anyway

it's an emotional room isn't it so we all got to do dreams a few years ago you might have heard us talk about that yesterday and we all kind of went for which is fine

they don't all have to be you know like emotional dreams we just went for funny ones I guess back in the day stupid radio announcers went for something which is fine. They don't all have to be, you know, like emotional dreams. We just went for funny ones, I guess, back in the day. Stupid radio announcers went for something silly. Yours was? To take the tax off online shopping. It was just a great dream.

It was a bloody great dream. A lot of people, like, you know. More people would probably get behind that than my dream. But your dreams, love it. Your dream was about your girls and their dreams. Have a listen. I guess since becoming a parent, and like I guess a lot of parents, you sort of look at your kids

and you look at wanting to help them succeed in their dreams. For them to be as big and as successful as they want to be and to do all the things that they want to do in life. And so I guess if I could get my dreams, great, and I still want to do them, but they don't matter to me as much as their dream. Yeah, thank you to Ed Sheeran for just playing quietly in the corner too. It was a bit awkward.

It was lovely. He's like, do you want me to stop now? And Megan, you had a wonderful dream as well. Yeah, I feel a little bit self-conscious about it now because both of you involved your children. No, this was a great dream. Don't feel guilty about not involving your children you're in that stage of parenting where you're like oh my god I'm in the trenches every day is involving my

children I just want a break yeah exactly but it was your dream I've always dreamt of doing a podcast or doing some kind of interview situation where I get to talk to inspiring women I don't necessarily consider myself to be at all inspiring so I like to talk to inspiring women. I don't necessarily consider myself to be at all inspiring, so I like to talk to women who I find inspiring because I have a daughter now, and I think elevating women's voices and showing women that we can do anything. It's a great dream.

And you had the cores in the corner of the room. Was it the cores or the cranberries? It was the cranberries. But no, that was a great dream. And you had the cores in the corner of the room. Was it the cores? Or the cranberries? It was the cranberries. But no, that was a great dream. Why is it that as Kiwis we get embarrassed about telling people what we want to do? I think that's just the nature of New Zealanders. Generalising.

Don't be embarrassed about that. Will you invite me onto your podcast as an inspirational woman? Do I make the cut? No, not quite.