Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono and Megan need to apologise!

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

On today’s show: Jono apologises to someone from work for calling her an offensive name… We chat to the amazing Shannon as she runs her 500th ultramarathon in a row! Why Megan is hitting her husband… We chat to our entertainment reporter Nicole about Taylor and Travis finally being spotted together, and how a major drama network might know something big… Plus, Taylor’s hint at a major announcement at the AMAs. We call a Sri Lankan supermarket to find out what the boys must do while they’re over there – and why they surprisingly don’t have this food chain. How Jono got away with faking a signature for his friend. Facebook: The Hits breakfast with Jono Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast, where we're going to kick things off with how Jono was, and I think I was as well. Many people around the building was shortening someone's name at work, and we just found out yesterday that they didn't like the shortened version of their name. She hates it. In fact, even her auntie and stuff have apologised after she was on the show saying,

sorry, we're not going to call you that anymore. I suppose it is one of those things. Maybe when you were the first time, you're like, hey, I'm such and such. And normally that's a good indication, but then often people do shorten your name. That's a common, everyone called that would shorten it. Yeah, I would have thought so.

You'll hear what our friend's name is shortly, but someone texted after that I don't mind Sue or Susie, but boy, I hate Susan. That's one text. But you do suffer in silence, don't you? Because you don't want to make an issue out of it. And then people please Benjamin

Boyce. You can call me anything. Benny, B. I call you guys J and B when I'm referring to you. Benjamin and B. But that's because of Gossip Girl. You know, B in Gossip Girl is actually a great character. Oh, really? Okay, gotcha.

Another text here. I always hated Becky. Becky sounded childish. I even detested it as a child. So she's obviously Rebecca. I imagine. But I don't know. I guess. Yeah yeah but it throws me

a little bit when people do call me benjamin like i was oh you know like it's more of a formal thing my mum will do it but more than anyone else but then sometimes when you're at somewhere you've given you've you know got your full name you're like oh that's me it's benjamin ross boys yeah but i don't hate it I just People just find it easy You know It feels like a bit of laziness From people They love shortening

Everyone's names Yeah Back in the day You would have run With a full name Yeah I would have been Benjamin Back when I was at school 1920s

30s We did go full names Hard to rebrand though Isn't it Like every now and again You're like Oh maybe I could rebrand Be a Benjamin

You know I was a Johnny at school Were you Yeah all my friends called me johnny like a johnny yeah and i was joined but then radio i always had an obsession with adding an o to yeah bino yeah yeah true me go mega mega what do you mean mega amigo yeah amigo sounds like amigo Pepo Pepo Paps Paps yeah If we rebanded our show With nicknames

We should do rugby league You'd be Meggy Paps Or something We're working down To the sideline with Paps Meggy Paps What's going on down there Paps I actually don't mind Paps

Better than Meg The paparazzi The Paps It would be Paps We'll enjoy Us reliving the fact That we've been Offending someone.

Brad Pitt in the country at the moment, and he went to McDonald's in West Auckland over Easter weekend, and now McDonald's are offering a free quarter pounder to every Brad who goes in, but you had to have the McDonald's app on your phone. For the 12th of May. Yeah, but still, lovely, lovely. You were like the 12th of May you were like 12th of May that was 3 days ago but I suppose it's to stop a tsunami of downloads

and sinking poor old Ronald out of quarter pounders do you think Brad has the McDonald's app I don't know if he would he's probably getting it now and going look I'm Brad he's like I'm using the code I don't know his financial situation but he doesn't seem like the type of guy who needs the old app They're getting it now and going, and then go, look, I'm Brad. He's like, I'm using the code.

I don't know his financial situation, but he doesn't seem like the type of guy who needs the old discounts on the McDonald's. Maybe he does like it. There was a famous person, Ashton Kutcher's wife, Mila Kunis, still famously uses discount coupons at the supermarket and stuff. And every time she uses them, people will give her a side eye going, you're Mila Kunis. She's like, yeah yeah but this is a discount she grew up in a household where you took advantage of a discount no matter how famous you are

I'm not going to pay more if I could pay less well speaking of names wonderful tie in there Brad, Mila both names no it's a real name actually I was just looking it up before

Brad isn't it William William's actually his real name William Bradley Pitt is his real name oh it's his middle name. Yeah.

Yeah, so it's part of his name, but yeah. I still just can't get over the fact his brother's name's Doug. Doug Pitt. Isn't he like a real estate agent or something? Doug? Doug Pitt. It does feel a little bit like a Doug a Pitt. You know?

Yeah. Bit of a prank name there from the parents. Dad must have got that one past the goalie. His middle name's Aaron. Doug a Pitt. I'm the cousin arm, you know. Mosh. Mosh, the cousin.

Okay, we'll be going all day if we keep going with this. I'm trying to think of another. Peach. Fire. Peach. Peach Pit. Peach Pit. That was the diner at the family house.

Yeah, anyway. God, what a dog leg. We'll hear about this in the meeting. Anyway, speaking of meetings, another try to do another segue. Work. Workplace meetings. I need to hold one. I need to make a huge apology because there's someone here on the team.

For four years, I've been giving them a nickname, as I love to do. Love to check nicknames out there for people. Sometimes even people phone through the show. We don't even know them, they get a nickname. I don't know if they think they thoroughly enjoy it. But I've been calling Ashley Bryce, who is the CEO of music here at The Hits, I've been calling her Ash. Yeah, which is not a huge leap to get to. No. For four years I would say she'd been on the station four years Ash and emails and hey Ash in the office

and only yesterday after the staff meeting I said oh thanks Ash she's like by the way I detest I detest the name Ash yeah everyone's got that sort of fringe name based around their core name that they hate the nickname Jen my wife hates Jenny Well, it's interesting you give nicknames to people, knowing that she, for one, hates a nickname that people would give to her. Like, yeah. But also part of that excites me. Yeah. You take your time to think and go, well, people aren't going to like what I'm going to say. I know.

And, like, I don't want to say mine because I think Grace, producer Grace, is already using the one I detest. Megan. No, you call her Meg. No, Meg. Oh, Meg. You call her Meg and she hates Meg. Come on, Grace, you need using the one I detest. Megan. No, you call her Meg. No, Meg. Oh, Meg. You call her Meg and she hates Meg. Come in, Grace.

You need to apologize. She hates being called Meg. Everyone's got that one. Shall I call Ashley? We can apologize live on air. But, well, Grace, you can apologize to Megan for calling her Meg. Have you started calling me Meg because I said I hate it? No, I use Meg when I write all my emails because it's two letters less and it's just a bit easy.

Yeah, that's a Gen Z approach. I'll start doing Megan. I'm sorry, Meg. Now, answer I did Ashley not Ash Ashley yeah don't know if you tuned into the show at the moment Ashley but a heartfelt apology I'm sorry why why do you hate Ash so much like where does this hatred come from I I don't know. I've just always hated it. Like, it's just never gelled with me. I don't, yeah, it's just one of those things. I just.

I guess it's like Meg. I think it's boring, you know? Your full name is Ashley. Yeah, I guess if you've got your preference, you probably want to keep with that one, right? Yeah. But you can't keep, you know, if someone does call you Ash on first meeting,

you can't correct them because then you look a bit finicky, don't you? Yeah. No. Well, it's nice when someone asks first, like, what do you like to be called? And that's when I put it out there. I actually prefer AB. Oh, AB.

Is it? Oh, come on. You can't throw your new nickname in the thing. AB. I've never heard AB. No, you can't. All right. I asked Ashley A ages ago.

I was like, do you like Ash or Ashley? All right. So you're the better person, Megan. We get it. I'm going to tell her't. All right. I asked Ashley ages ago, I was like, do you like Ash? All right, so you're the better person, Megan. You didn't tell me AB. All right, Meg. Shut up, Meg. Okay, AB and Meg. Boise and Japes. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. It is the hits breakfast, Jono, Ben and Megan. Now, you may remember a couple of months ago, we to a northern lady, Shannon Lee Litt, who is running an ultra marathon, which is over 42 kilometers every single day. She normally runs 51 k's a day. This is before she does her actual job. So she only has to run 43 to actually do an ultra marathon. But she's doing 51 every day.

And she's been doing this. Last time we spoke to her, I think she was doing it every day for like 400 days. Now a huge milestone. And we cross live now. I think still running. Are you, Shannon? I am. I'm still running and I am at 28k.

Well, nothing worse than having to run and talk, I find. And hold a phone at the same time. I know, especially when you don't have those fancy earbuds. God, I walk upstairs and I struggle to hold a conversation. You're like jogging and you don't even sound puffed. I take the lift when I'm at work to go and

sit at the stairs. Lazy. Thank you for making me feel better. Well, this is incredible. So today is the 500th day in a row you've done this. This is just mind-blowing. Yeah, today's 500 days of running most consecutive ultramarathons. So 50K plus, I do 51K a day. And I'm still going.

I'm going to go past the 500. Wow. So this is the birthdays, Christmas day, every day, even if you're feeling a little under the weather? I know. I've actually been pretty lucky when it comes to sickness. I got food poisoning when I went to Thailand or something like that, but I managed to work through it.

So yeah, I have been lucky. The last probably 4.50 to about 4.95 were probably the hardest because I was in a different energy. My energy changed to like a little bit negative and a little bit down, but the last five days I've just completely switched. I'm back. Oh, good on you. I'm back to who I am and I'm really enjoying it.

Just got to put it in perspective. It's like running every day from Britomart in Auckland City to Pokokohe, from Wellington, Cuba Street to the middle of the Tararora Ranges, Christchurch, CBD to Rkekohe, from Wellington, Cuba Street to the middle of the Tararora Ranges, Christchurch, CBD to Rangiora, Queenstown to Glenorchy and back. It's just wild. And you're still going through a new pair of running shoes every, what, 10 days? Last time we spoke to you, I think.

I squeeze it out. It depends on the brand. Like, yeah, two weeks, three weeks, a minute and two. Maybe my gait's getting better. I don't know. Is there a favorite run? Or are they like your children? You love them all equally?

A favorite run? Probably, I have to say, around Whangarei, around the loop, because of the connectivity with the running group. We've got about 12, 13 people out this morning running now. So, yeah, I'd say Whangarei. So you do this every morning well pretty much you do it once a day but mostly before you go to work are you going to stop now you've done 500

or are you going to keep going? Well I'm going to keep going because I know that there is the men's marathon record Victoria Taylor set 498 for the marathon which is absolutely amazing. A New Zealand woman in Queenstown, Wanaka. But there is also a Spanish runner who

ran 603 marathons. So that's the next goal. Wow. So you're going to do over 603 hopefully ultra marathons every day. One a day. Wow. I feel like it's going to be really hard to wean yourself off running

Yeah I think it will but I also think I'll actually really enjoy sleeping for a few days And just going out for a walk and doing yoga and doing those things that I really like So I do have a set number in mind and I'm not going to go over that So I know that I'll definitely give myself a break and that'll be nice Now also we must acknowledge too you're a lawyer aren't you um at the courts in Whangarei yeah I'm Kaikohe in Whangarei and yeah both so I switch in between and I do criminal law so all before you've gone to work for the day every day most of the time I start pretty early like two o'clock three a.m but however a few mornings ago

I slept in. If I had been out on the weekend, like if I'm out for dinner and have, you know, a cup of beers, I might start a bit later, like 4 o'clock in the morning. Oh, treat yourself. Oh, my God. Well, yeah, it's incredible what you're doing. Congratulations. It's been so nice to follow along, not literally follow your journey because we can't do that.

But, yeah, it's been amazing. Well done. 500 ultra marathons, one a day. Thank you so much for having me on. I appreciate it. I feel like this should be global news. Yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. I know you love it when you always say, oh, the perfect marriage, there's cracks. Oh, what is it? I got a text this morning saying, are we okay? And I was like, oh, what? Well, you did spend a week last week moaning about how

he wasn't delivering on Mother's Day. And then he came in on Monday and you were like, oh, and then he came down with sickness for the weekend. So I understand why this question would come through. And this isn't going to paint me in any better light. I'm pretty chill about Mother's Day now. But yesterday, he always texts in the morning to say good morning.

And sometimes when you're, you know, we're like looking at our phones and then suddenly we have to talk. And so I read the message and then forgot to message. So at about five o'clock yesterday, he said, like, are you ignoring me? I hadn't messaged or replied to good morning all day. The cold shoulder. I was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. I've been busy, blah, blah, blah. Tell you what, the silent treatment works a charm on us gentlemen, doesn't it?

It really rattles me, the silent treatment. It's a great tactic from you guys. I wasn't even trying and he got rattled. But then this morning he's like, are we actually okay? He's like, you hit me in the night last night. Oh, did you whack him with a stray arm? you know you do things in the night and then suddenly when someone brings it up you remember i don't know why but like in the night i literally smacked him over the head was it an intentional dream like you were fighting spending someone off no dream it was just a stray

limb so you whack him and then you don't reply back to his text. A silent treatment and yeah, so he's asked me this morning if we're okay. Oh, I don't reply back.

Have you? Don't reply back. Oh no, I haven't. I'll just leave him. Leave him on scene. Yeah, do that on scene. Treat him mean, keep him clean.

Am I right? Such a weird saying that is. Treat him mean, keep him clean. It's so weird. If someone's mean to me, I'm like, I don't want to hang out with you anymore. No, you don't. You're like, why?

Why would I need you in my life? Yeah, exactly. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. I had to catch up with Nicole, host of a radio show in New York. She's become our unpaid entertainment reporter. Yeah, and wild times over there at the moment.

Are you guys stressing out in America about all the tariffs and Trump's erratic decision-making? No, I mean, at this point, it's just his – I mean, of course we care about it, but at this point, it really is a joke, and they even had on Saturday Night Live this past Saturday, they were joking that he just, like, decides what – like, he's just like – it's like a child making up the rules of a game. He's just like, and I'm – I can make any rules I want,

whatever I want, I'll want, whatever I want. I'll tear up whatever I want. He just makes it up as he goes along. If you keep up with it, you'll make yourself crazy. Problem is it really rattles the rest of the world though. So I don't know if you're feeling the effects of that, but the rest of us are quite shaken at the moment. Yeah.

Well, I mean, shaken, but I come from the whole school of thought that like, and I know this is the wrong school of thought, but like ignorance is bliss. Like if I don't pay attention to it, maybe it'll just go away. So I was watching an interview with someone, a US comedian, and he's like, I just had to stop watching the news.

It was taking up all my energy and my anger and frustration with all the decisions that were being made and what was being said. He was like, I can't change anything. I can't do anything about it. No, there's really nothing. I mean, and then you start doom scrolling and then it's like, you don't know what was being said, he was like, I can't change anything. I can't do anything about it. No, there's really nothing. I mean, and then you start doom scrolling and then it's like, you don't know what you're reading,

if it's like real or not. Like, I'll be like, oh my God, to my husband, I'll be like, did you hear what Trump's doing now? And he's like, where did you read that? Like, is that even like a reliable source? So you just get like, you get yourself nuts. Onto lighter news though, I actually sent you a little clip.

Deux Moi, if you don't know, it's an Instagram account. They are kind of reliable gossip columnists no one knows what she looks like i've interviewed her before she only lends her voice to you uh probably for security for like security purposes to make sure nobody like hunts her down um and yeah she's got like a lot of contacts a lot of you know sources and seems to always have sort of her pulse on, like, not just, like, the tabloid news, but, like, what's really going on with different celebrities. So people were concerned that they hadn't seen Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift together.

Were you concerned because you're not being a big fan of the relationship? I'm happy if she's happy. But she was. That'll mean a lot to Taylor, so that's good. But everyone was like, have they broken up so they asked him why and she had something very interesting to say taylor and travis are 1000 still together gosh there is oh something i want to tell you guys so bad but i can't because

i don't have permission to what are we thinking What does she really want to tell so bad? What do you think? So I thought about it a little bit more after you sent that to me, Megan, and some people are saying she's pregnant. Some people are saying they secretly got married. I mean, I feel like she's a marriage before baby type of girl. Do you? Yeah, I put that vibe too.

So like engaged even? Yes, I think it would make sense that maybe they've either like gotten engaged or about to get engaged or something like that. That's what I would lean on. She's going into her hibernation era after she does a big tour and albums

then she goes away for a little bit. So perfect time to get married and have babies. Hibernate a baby inside yourself. Did you see what she posted on her site, Taylor? No. Okay, so she posted, she's got everything, like the merch rearranged. So it's like she has something that's like apparel, like music,

something else that starts with an A and then something that starts with an S, I'd have to pull it up. So it spells out AMAs. Right. And then she just put the stuff in the merch store 26% off, which is the date of the AMAs. So everyone's like, oh, she's making an announcement. Like she's like-

Someone's got a deep- Yeah, we all need to take a breath. No, that's what Taylor does. She puts out Easter eggs. Someone's got a real deep- American Music Awards. She's doing something there. Giving birth on stage.

No, she's going to do a Beyonce and reveal the bump. Be like, eh. I mean, oh my God, I would die. I would die. All right, you need to take a breath here. Maybe it was just the webmaster going, oh, this is a better order of the categories. We want to sell a pair.

She's not on tour at the moment. We'll shift up the apparel to the front. Who knows? Who knows? Plus, we need to get rid of the old merch. Let's knock 26% off it. We need to calm down. We'll shift up the apparel to the front. Who knows? Plus, we need to get rid of the old merch. Let's knock 26% off it. We need to calm down. We do need to calm down.

Trying. And Nicole, joining us again. Always nice to catch up with you, Nicole. I actually sent you, I followed through for once and I sent you a photo

of my garage because we talked about the props and costumes. I appreciated that. You saw a lot of them all in boxes. That was just kind of half of them, but yeah.

What did you think? You need to get on the show Hoarders Buried Alive if you're going to feed your next. Listen, it was more organized than I expected, and maybe that was your wife doing that. But yeah, that's an unnecessary amount of costumes to own, and I feel like I didn't even see all of them. You've got to send Nicole a photo of his Funko Pop collection as well. Well, I don't have that many, but my wife does.

He collects figurines. I haven't. I could. Yeah, I could really get carried away, but I'm stopping myself, all right? You can't see the collection. So does my eight-year-old son. He's got his hands on Funko Pops. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Good news for the show Thanks to Dilma Trying to make the world a better tea Do try it We're heading off to Sri Lanka And we're going to place some golden tea bag tickets

In two boxes of tea over there That will be sold in New Zealand And if you find those tickets When they come on sale You could win There's going to be two trips to Sri Lanka to give away How cool is that? So cool

So everything that we get to do You decide what we get to do You could win, there's going to be two trips to Sri Lanka to give away, how cool is that? So cool. So everything that we get to do you decide what we get to do, you could win that in the trip Yeah, we just need to figure out what can be done over there, debuting in Sri Lanka, and I don't think Sri Lanka's ready for Ben Boyce, I don't think they're ready for your love of cricket, okay they're going to be like, jeez this guy

I do love cricket, they love cricket. He's made us hate cricket all he wants to do is talk about cricket but we're just going about cricket. Someone's actually texted a number of a Sri Lankan supermarket which they live next to. So we'll give them a

call. Hello. Hello. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station. How are you? I'm fine and you?

We're going good. Sorry, very random question but we're going to Sri Lanka next week for the first time and we want some advice on things that we should do while we're there, and we wondered if you could help us out.

Have you booked already the tickets and everything? Don't you worry about the tickets. The tickets, the admin has sorted. Yeah, we're booked. Passports are ready. Yeah, we're booked. We're going next week. What do you recommend?

You can contact the tour operator there. Oh, okay. That makes a lot of sense. He's like, why are you calling a Sri Lankan supermarket when... Do they play cricket on the streets over there? Like I love cricket. You like cricket? Yeah, I love cricket.

At the moment, I don't know any series going on or not. People play cricket just in the street and on the footpath and things? Ha ha ha. It was a pretty good gag. That was a pretty good gag. That was a pretty good gag for me. What about animals? What could we see? You can go north part and down south,

there is two safari area. Oh, safari? Yeah, nice. Wow, we've heard like elephants and leopards. Yeah, you can ask when you're going there, Yarl and Wilpatu. Oh, we'll ask for Yarl and Wilpatu? Okay. Yes. We'll turn up there and say,, Yarl and Wilpatu. Oh, we'll ask for Yarl and Wilpatu? Okay.

Yes. We'll turn up there and say, is Yarl and Wilpatu here? Yeah. And who do we say sent us? Not sure. Not sure. I'm not 100% sure because... That's all right.

You don't need to put your name to it. That's fine. What's one thing we should eat over there? You can have Sri Lankan items or Chinese, whatever, but you can taste first Sri Lankan, then you can... Do you like McDonald's? No, McDonald's are closed down in Sri Lanka. Oh, have they?

But you can have Sri Lankan nice food. Okay. Burger King? We're not going over and having Burger King. We're going over to experience the culture. We have lots and having Burger King. We're going over to experience the culture. We have lots of tea too. We're going over with Dilmar tea. When you're going there, you can have

experience of Sri Lankan natural food and whatever. Come back to New Zealand, then you can compare all those. We can come visit you at the supermarket and buy some stuff to cook at home. We have those those items here. How hot is it? Do you know how hot it is?

Do we need to bring shorts or pants? In Sri Lanka? Yeah. At the moment, a little bit hot and some areas flooding. It's like that, too cold. Okay, so you've got hot, too cold, bit of flooding, basically like Auckland. You can reach every point within two to three hours time wow okay every point one thing we heard is very busy on the roads lots of people driving around

the operator will guide you where you need to go they will take a shortcut and in a good way very helpful thank you you said tour operator at the start we should but yeah thank you so much yeah yeah thank you welcome vanakam yeah welcome bye i was trying to what was that was that thank you yeah that was goodbye and hello it was great don't worry i'll scrub up on the old lingo if you head to the hits breakfast on instagram right now there's a few options this or that of some things uh that we've found that we could do and if you're interested in doing any of those things uh choose the options that we uh and so if we end up doing them you could be winning yourself to do those options.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. P. Brooke Van Helden dropped the C-bomb in Parliament. First time the word has been recorded in Parliament, in the debating chamber. When you see the headlines going around last night, you're like, oh, was it a bit of a slip of the tongue? Well, no, it was done on purpose.

She did it to actually protest. The slur was actually used against some female MPs in a newspaper article. So she was bringing reference to that. Did they print it in the newspaper? I think so. In the newspaper? Yeah. Damn. So, well, yeah, as far as I know. Say whatever you want nowadays,

can't you? Unless it was, like, written with some asterisks or something like that. But still referred to as that so yeah she's saying this is not appropriate for female politicians to be referred to as yeah right so using it as a fact yeah it's not just like i just it was quick baby that she was just like oh blah blah sea bomb and everyone's like and then they showed the photo of winston peters who wasn't happy with obviously that word being used in parliament well i'm sure brock wasn't happy with obviously that word being used in Parliament.

Well, I'm sure Brock wasn't happy to be called that. Exactly, exactly. But he had his head in his hands and I was like, oh, this is clickbaity. And then I looked into it and I was like, enough. I guess fair enough. Absolutely. You know, in this context. You two, that's the word. That's the one word that really –

Well, there's a couple of words that give – yeah. But yeah. Oh, yeah. But that's one of the top three? Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a huge fan of it. Some people do love it., but yeah. Oh, yeah. But that's one of the top three? Yeah, yeah. I'm not a huge fan of it. Some people do love it.

Some people not. No, I'm not. Men don't really like saying it at all. I find it very jarring when people say it. Thanks for the delivery, though. Because you can be a good one. I know. You can be a bad one. I know.

That's very Kiwi to be a good one. Yeah. But overseas. I see you loving it at the moment as well. Oh, yeah. Which is weird. Producer Grace says that every second

I can tell you you two are like you go to America that's the worst you know one of the worst you can say over there not the worst

but yeah one of the worst you're right anyway we won't be saying it on this show I don't think Kanye said it

he said everything else yeah so not even Kanye he said oh jeez he said some pretty if we're taking that I don't think Kanye said it. He said everything else. Yeah, so not even Kanye. Oh, jeez. Yeah, he said some pretty – If we're taking that as a reference, you're dead right. Guys, I want to share something. Something they don't tell you about parenting, and Ben, you probably know this,

but Megan, you'll be heading into this. You have younger kids. Oh, God. What they don't tell you in the parenting playbook is that your kid is going to hit a certain level in sport and you become an unpaid fundraising coordinator. Oh, yeah. And it's your job to find stuff.

You know, all of us in the group, you know, good parents giving their time for the good of the kids' sport at school. But, you know, we're all being tasked with badgering people we know. Good people. Good, kind people with, hey, can we get an item for the auction? And I've gotten in contact with some people that, I wouldn't say like close friends, but people we've interviewed before and people we've filmed sketches with before,

and I'm like, a little bit of me dies inside having to go, hey, Monty Beetham, can I can I get a sign worries and Monty's so lovely and he did it and he did it and then I'm like hey Dylan Boucher I know I haven't probably spoken to you in about nine years since we filmed a sketch can I get a break a singlet to sign and he came through as well but it doesn't you know it doesn't feel yeah you feel like you're because when you're putting them in a position where they're like, well, what else can I do? I can't say no. You're saying it's for a fundraiser.

And how many requests that they would get of that regard as well, too. So, look, I want to thank them for their generosity, but also warn you, Megan, it's coming. You're going to have to start harassing people soon. I don't do well with even going door-to-door fundraising myself, selling chocolates. No, get the kids to do it. That's the thing.

Yeah. Because I haven't had to harass anyone yet. So, yeah. I'm going to be the one that just buys the box of chocolates and is like, oh. Having doing it though, the evil part inside of me

is like, jeez, you can get away with a lot saying it's for fundraising. Some people do, unfortunately. Yeah, I'm going to be like, hey man, can I get some tickets to bloody Beyonce

when she comes? It's for fundraising. Honestly, you could probably have a whole house from fundraising. A lot of people don't sign stuff overseas like sports athletes and stuff very wary about they sign because people do the auction and off and stuff as well and then that cuts them out of you know

things that they can sign to stuff so yeah there's all sorts of pens that they won't use and all do you know a guy once gave me a vinyl for a band his favorite band and i was interviewing them as a friend of a friend he's like oh can you please get them to sign this and I completely forgot you scribbled on it didn't you yeah he did did you at least look up what the signature looks like yeah yeah yeah I copied it off google images but yeah yeah again that didn't feel good Jono Ben and Megan the podcast that I reckon 100 million is going to be allocated uh for expert maths teachers and tests to help our kids get a little better at maths. That seems like a lot of money to help out. There is a concern, though, that we've dumbed down the nation, isn't there?

We did that. What did we do that topic on before? It was around Gen Z grace. And we spoke to a teacher, and they were really concerned the teachers with the literacy the ellipses yeah people using ellipses

that's right the dot dot dots and stuff yeah and yeah how things I guess with text the talk

and you know people writing stuff in it's you know it's taken off okay my argument is we all talk and we all write

but like I don't use maths no I don't use maths some people do I know but unless you're wanting a job where you use it. But then you should know the skills for like your GST and things like that. And I know how to take percentages off because that's, you know, when you're shopping.

Yeah, you know when you're shopping, you know when you're getting a discount. 20% off, I know how to calculate that. You know you're getting maths. There you go. Some schools are still teaching Latin. Yeah. And now I don't have the heart to tell them. Yeah, true.

Even if you do manage to use it in your everyday, you sound like a dad. Yeah, yeah. No, we should definitely phase Latin out. Let's spend $100 million on phasing Latin. It feels like it right now. But, you know, your friend's a bit scarred from something your teacher said to him.

Yeah, we were talking the other day about, you know, stuff that teachers had said to you over the years and whether stuff had stuck with you. And he said on his report, this is from the teacher back in the day, he said, David has attempted a subject that's beyond him. And he was like, but surely that's the teacher's first thing. He didn't, you know, like he's not. Saying David was too basic for this particular.

But that's on the teacher. It feels like that's on the teacher. Yeah, all of it's beyond you at the start of the year. And by the end of the year, you've nailed it, right? He was like, this is the teacher just washing her hands of him going, well, hey, he can't do this. This is beyond him. Yeah, so that really stuck with him.

So that's all we want to know this morning. 0800 the hits, 4487. What did a teacher maybe say in a report, good or bad, or maybe they said it to you in real life that really stuck with you i was thinking about this and um i you know played rugby during high school for many years like i really enjoyed playing rugby uh but one thing i we had a big game and i thought you know i'd use my skills not necessarily my rugby skills but my skills are making a mixtape for the team oh good on you mate i was like this morale yeah morale i'm gonna play this i'm gonna make a 10 minute cutting together songs mixing it together so not full like mix no just like a pump

up a hype up song and was this when you had to record from one cassette tape to another cassette tape i might have been on a cd from tape to cd or something whatever i was and this was gonna be this is gonna inspire the boys the boys are gonna get out there and they're gonna win this game so i had this i started brought a ghetto blaster to the changing rooms and played it, started to play it. And I was like, this is going to work. And I just remember the teacher and the coach just going, what is this?

Turn this crap off. And then stopped it. And I was like, oh, it's digging. Do you remember what was on it? Oh, there was everything. There was some Dr. Dre, there was some Rage Against the Machine. It was all sorts. I spent a lot of time on this.

Probably should have been practicing rugby to do it. You're like, coach! Were there a few shaky edits maybe in between the... Yeah, maybe it was the edits.

I was like, well, there we go. My DJ career was not great after that. I don't remember my English teacher because you kind of,

you discuss what you want to do and I was like, I was a nerdy kid who always wanted to do radio and I was like, I want to do radio and he like I was a nerdy kid who always wanted to do radio and I was like I want to do radio and he said that's not a real job

and then when I started in radio I was paid in three doors down CDs and BZP party pills and I'm like maybe he was right maybe this isn't a real job and when you compare teaching to radio hosts

what they offer to society I guess he's right he's right Jono, Ben and Megan The Podcast The Hits What do the teachers say to you? What's stuck with you? Teaching to radio hosts what they offer to society. I guess he's right. He's right. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. What do the teachers say to you?

What's stuck with you all these years later? Sometimes it's good things, which is awesome. Someone said the world needs more people like you, like Christine, in a report. She said that's always been a beautiful thing that I've carried through. Oh, that's lovely. Is Christine now writing from prison? No. Another teacher said, you know you'll need to know this.

This is referring to maths, as you will never have a calculator in your pocket. Oh, that's a rare. Yeah, that one hasn't aged well, has it? As we walk around with cell phones in our pockets, they have calculators. But anyway. Yeah, I did get a lot of shows potential. It seems like such a vague thing to write in a report too, doesn't it? It covers a lot of bases. Which basically is saying, you're a bit crappy at the moment,

but like anyone, if you work a bit harder, you can have some potential. Yeah, I got the similar to that. Megan's never going to get anywhere unless she applies herself. Just made me sound lazy. But that was in classical studies, and there was lots of rude drawings on vases. Who's not laughing at that? Was there a lot of phallic drawings?

There was. The classics, they love it. And we were teenagers. What were we supposed to do? What legend made a penis vase? Many years. I can't tell you. You go to Rome and there's a whole lot of them.

Back in ancient Rome. They loved it. The Greeks. They loved it. Oh yeah, nicely. I thought you meant like that. like one actually shaped like a... Oh, no, no. And you can have flowers poking out of the...

No, not quite like that. It's not a hen's party. Emma, good morning to you. Morning. Great to have you on. What did a teacher say to you that stuck? It wasn't actually me. It was my husband, and he was always told when he was daydreaming

looking out the school window, you'll never get paid to look out the school window. He's paid pretty well now to be a truck driver and look out the window all day long. No, they just need to find the thing that you like doing and find a job where you can do it. Yeah, you're right. He's looking out the window and he's darling life. I appreciate your call.

That's great. Yeah, that's really good. PE teacher said to my sister, this is pre-2000s, by the way, before PC madness set in, said to my sister in PE class you're too skinny, you need to start doing weights and pushing tin imagine that these days, couldn't get away with that now, she's the text, another

good one here teacher said you need to, oh no you read that maths one out didn't you? This is a good one though, teacher said in my report Sally has no aptitude for sport, since then I've completed two half Ironmans, an ultra marathon, hundreds of half marathons, off-road, racing bikes, everything.

So yeah, quite a good aptitude. Some people see it as a driver, don't they? I'll show you. Sally, what did a teacher say to you that stuck? Well, basically I was sitting an exam and it was an economics exam so there's a lot to write.

And the teacher said to me, and I had a blank, an absolute blank. I just wrote my name on the paper, and I listed at that, and I couldn't think. So the teacher said to me, if you carry on at this rate, you are not going to pass the final exam, because this was a mock exam that I was sitting. And at the end of the year, I ended up with an excellent. Oh, take that. How'd you turn that around? Well, that's basically what happened to me.

And I'm a teacher now as well. There you go. That's how she turned around. Yeah. Taught him a thing or two. You're right. Justice was served that day, right? I'm quite careful about what I say to the kids now.

Yeah, it can traumatise children too. I can stick with you, you're right. For good or bad, sometimes those good messages will come through though, right? Hey, thank you for your call, Tilly. Really appreciate it. There's a good chemistry one too that's just come through on 4487. A high school teacher said they need to ask for help and they'll never be good at it. A BSc and that's a Bachelor of Science, right?

And a pharmacy degree later and now I own my own pharmacy. But are they good at it? They'll never be good at it. Exactly. Pharmacy's losing cash.