Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono and Megan's awkward goodbye...

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. It was a big day, it was Megan's birthday. We're still going on about it. Well, it's a hangover. Hangover the party now. We need to reflect, because yesterday we surprised you with a few lovely messages from Andrew, your husband, from your kids as well. I just want to take a moment too, because I was, when I did my,

have a listen to this happy message from me, just the start of the message from me Hey Megan, happy birthday we love you, not love you like you and Andrew love. Okay so me sounding sprightly I was in the middle of, I was in the Atlanta airport, I was dealing with a Delta line, I was

and then Taylor kept messaging me going we need this now and I'm like not really in the mood for a happy birthday message from Megan and I sort of had to go away at the airport and everyone's looking at me going, we need this now. I'm like, I'm not really in the mood for a happy birthday message from Megan. And I sort of had to go away at the airport and everyone's looking at me and going, hey Megan, how are you? The family are looking at me like, why is he suddenly all happy

and what's going on? He's just been abusing the poor person behind the counter. It's written in their life. Hey Megan, I don't give a shit about this right now. You hit it well. You hit just the life stress as well. I was like, I had that time. I was like, yeah, but no. You had it well. You had just the life stress as well.

I was like, at that time, I was like, wow, I was dealing with a lot of stuff. But anyway. We had a lovely work lunch. Nothing quite like an awkward work lunch to get the bants going, is it? But that was lovely. That was a fun day. Well, it's a fun day. Has really set the standard, though, for 40th's now around the office.

Oh, yeah. I know. I had a cake. They took a cake down. There was like bottles of bubbles on the table. No. So we didn't get through all the bubbles because most people had to come back to work. So this was the place told me I could like stuff a napkin in one of the bottles and take

it home with me. Oh, did they? Which I think is probably frowned upon. It would have looked like you were carrying a bloody Molotov cocktail down the road. It did. Stuff a napkin down the thing. How was the rest of your day? Because we woke your husband Andrew up yesterday morning

because he didn't wake up because you leave early and we're like, what did he have planned? What happened when you got home? So I got home and I had a pile of little presents and some balloons. There was no more cake because I've already had three cakes, which is enough for anyone. Three cakes? Yeah.

Yesterday was my third cake. I was like, okay, I think we can probably wrap up the cakes now. You did cakes well. Yeah. So yeah, I got presents. I got sung happy birthday again from my three-year-old. Long, exhausting night of passion, was it? No.

We sat in bed and ate burgers, which I know you guys hate. Oh, you love, you guys love eating in bed. Welcome to the 40s. And watch Netflix. I was like, this is great. This is a dream. This is better than passion. Yeah. Did you make the burgers?

No, no. Oh, you ordered burgers. We got takeaways. And then took them to bed, which is, anyway, that's fine. We've spoken to the great scientist, nano girl, Dr. Michelle Dickinson. She has warned you about eating in bed and the bugs.

It was my birthday. The bugs don't know it's your birthday. Yeah, well. You're having a constant party in your mattress. The bugs need burgers too, you know.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Speaking of unusual things that happened, yesterday. It was probably one of the most entertaining parts of my birthday yesterday.

We went to lunch with everyone at the Hits. And then Jono had to leave. So he comes up behind me. I'm sitting at a table. Can I just jump in here? Sorry. I feel like you need to run this like a court case proceedings.

I'll let Megan have her say. And then you can let me have my say. All right. So he comes up to say goodbye. But I'm sitting down in a seat. Any objections to this? So far, you just kept... No, everything she's sitting down in a seat. Any objections to this? Everything she's saying so far is true. You tell me anything unfactual from your opinion, but right now, okay.

He taps me on the shoulder, but he's kind of right behind me. So I turn one way. I couldn't see him. I turn the other as he's trying to give me a hug. Does he normally hug you? Does he normally hug you? We hug, yeah. Just asking.

Still no objections. Still no objections. So, yeah, I'm trying to give him a consensual hug. Okay, right. So I'm turning around. Objection. I didn't ask for consent. Well, it's not helping your case at the moment.

I just went in. I assumed. So I'm sitting down. He's standing up. As I'm trying to turn around, he leans down to give me a hug. But in the awkwardness of the situation, he ends up giving me a kiss on the head. Now this is where I object. How?

This is where I object. Okay, so he kissed you how? And he kissed you on the forehead? Yeah. Okay. Over to you. Now, I've come from behind. Yeah, okay. Still not helping your case

Hey Megan Sorry Gotta shoot Okay She's already engaged So I've interrupted the conversation She's engaged So she's trying to half continue

On the conversation Half deal to me behind her Okay But then She's turned around I've gone in for a hug She's turned back around To the conversation

I've found my head Nestled Into the back of her head So the kiss wasn't intentional. Not intentional. My head was accidentally nestled. Then everyone around is going, oh. And I said, did you just kiss me on the head?

And do you know what the double kick in the guts is? Okay, double kick. All of a sudden I hear, happy birthday. The table starts singing happy birthday. I turn around. There's a freaking waiter there with a cake with a candle. Just after I've asked him if he'd just kiss me on the head. Now I am awkwardly standing over Megan next to her with a cake.

And so then they start singing and filming, obviously, the phones. So I'm like wary of being back of shot. So I slowly back out of the shot and have to awkwardly stand by and sing happy birthday. Now I know you don't like the duration of a happy birthday song it takes a long time right you would have never had a longer version of happy birthday than that one i expect it's the jonah and ben podcast now ben boys and megan had a weird wake up today driving out of the uh the house and across my driveway was a car parked And you get quite defensive Don't you about cars parking outside your house

For some reason And it's not your property My first instance is like what's this person doing And then I'm like oh no how on earth It's the council's road It's not mine And so then I noticed there was no one in the car And the windows were down

And So could you get your car past it No I couldn't get it past it It was like directly across the driveway and the windows were down, and it was running. So could you get your car past it? No, I couldn't get it past it. It was, like, directly across the driveway. Oh, wow. The windows are down, and the car's running. The car's running.

No one's in it. I get out, okay? And I'm looking around, and then I notice the last number on the license plate's been sawed off. Oh, really? So, okay, I know what's done. I've stolen cars before I know what's happened here. And so I'm like, oh, what do I do? I need to

get to work. And if I by the time I call the police, they have to get a tow truck and we're talking half an hour. At least. So I hop in the car. And I hop in the stolen car. Jono! What else was I supposed to do? Did you put gloves on? Uber's probably what the police would tell you to do? Did you put gloves on?

Uber's probably what the police would tell you to do. Your fingerprints are in there. Oh, my fault the car's outside my house. Why does someone stole a car? It has to inconvenience me. Yeah, that is rude of the thieves to leave it right over a driveway. Just go back a bit. Price of petrol.

Why would you leave the thing running? Well, sure, they don't mind about that, do they? So, yeah, I had to move. But then I had the other stolen vehicle outside my house issue. Remember that one? That's right, yeah. Another one. They just leave cars running outside my house. But inside this one I was looking around, there was a lovely Nike jumper.

And so by the time I picked it out, you know how you sort of measure it against yourself? You hold it against yourself? But then my son went, what are was like, you know how you sort of measure it against yourself? You hold it against yourself? But then my son went, what are you doing, you idiot? Your fingerprints are going to be all over the car, this jersey. Put it back in. So I called the police anyway on the way and said, there's a car there.

And I may have jumped inside it and moved it. I know it looks dodgy. It is parked outside my house. It does have my fingerprints all over it. Yeah, good luck with that one. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. outside my house. It does have my fingerprints all over it. Yeah, good luck with that one. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Megan,

you have been banging on all morning about how yesterday you think you might have done something that most adults don't engage in. And it's a sad thing that we don't engage in it.

It is. It's hard, I think, to make an adult friend. But also, I'm just really awkward when I meet new people. I find it hard to have small talk talk and banter right um so i which is surprising because you know me you're pretty you know you know you guys right okay everyone's like you talk to so many people every morning but

i don't see the people i just i'm sitting in front of you two that's it okay so i went to an event and i sat beside uh someone right you she you probably know her right I don't know if you know her personally but uh I sat there and we chatted literally non-stop for like two hours and she was so nice and I went home and I said to my husband I was like I really like her and I was like I we like vibed and yeah I was like it's not the first time I've met her and every time we have a great chat and I was like what do you do like do I message her like is that coming

on too strong he's like oh my god just send her a text and say I had a good time honestly knowing your political beliefs I didn't think you and Heather Duplassie Ellen would hit it off in such a way it wasn't Heather but no so I sent a message and hit it off in such a way it wasn't either okay

but no so I sent a message to the person but it's kind of a nerve wracking thing because it is one of those things you do see people and you're like oh we should catch up

but then who initiates the catch up is always where a lot of things fall over for me what was the message were you like do you want to come over for a sleepover that's generally the first

I'll ask mum and see if it's alright she was having car issues so I just messaged and said, look, I had a nice time chatting with you.

I'm so invested in the car drama. What's the update? Good, good. Yeah, good for me. I'm like, I really like you

and you're totally friends. But then the message I got back, she gave the car drama update but then at the end she was like, I had a really nice time with you.

And I was like, oh, I think I've made a friend, guys. Do we know, I want to know drama update but then at the end she was like i had a really nice time with you and i was like oh i think i've made a friend guys do we know do we know i want to know who's do we know this person she is probably well known to um that's why i don't want to say just that no i don't want it because she's well known to everyone oh big player would you say jonah turn the mics off can you turn the mics off and then say turn the mics off? And then say it to us. So, okay, go on. Our turn. No. I do know it's not our turn,

but I know this person. I know this person. Everyone knows, and I know, know this person. Like personally? Yeah. Yeah.

I've hung out with her before. I've got her number. Have you got her number? Yeah, I've got her number. Can we call her? Let's call her. Yeah. 100% let's call her.

Yeah. And see if it's reciprocated. No, because you'll ruin it. No, we won't. We'll ask. We'll ask. We'll be like the middle person. It's like passing a note in class.

Be like, do you want to be her boyfriend, her girlfriend? Yeah. Yeah. We'll do the groundwork. We'll make it casual. We're cool. We're casual. Mate, but you're in safe hands.

I'm going to look so desperate. Yeah, you will. 100%. 100%. Yeah, you will. 100%. 100%. Yeah, you shouldn't have told us the name. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Megan has claimed she's met an adult friend.

A friend is an adult. A potential friend. We don't know if the friend is mutual yet, do we? Bit of a question mark hanging over there. Yeah, the older you get get the less Human interaction you want So this is one out of the gate And you kind of feel like you've reached A stage in life where you're like I know enough people

Enough people in my life who are great people Do I need to know any more people But in this instance you found out you do Yeah I went to an event and I just like Spent two hours just like Vibing with this Woman who I think a lot of uh kiwis might know rebecca randall oh who was doing on shortland street

lovely lovely back she's awesome she's great person uh nurse dawn on shortland street rebecca randall you know you guys are gonna ruin this for me now no we're in safe hands we're gonna call her because i've got her number i've hung out with her before. Ben knows her. Yeah. Ben knows her. You've got an in. It's like you've got a cool friend who's friends with the person you want to be friends with. Yeah, yeah.

I should have known having this chat to you off air about this new friend that I potentially made. Everything we talk about off air, we need to bring it onto the radio. There's no secrets here at The Hits. Okay, so we're going to go through dial Rebecca Randall, a.k.a. Dawn from Short Street. Just get confirmation that it's reciprocated. Oh, God. Okay, we're calling now, Megan. I'm so nervous.

Oh, okay. It's fine. We've got it. We've got it. Are you talking to her or am I? Well, I think it's... Hello, Rebecca speaking. Hey, Bex.

It's Ben here from Jono and Ben. I'm with Jono at the moment. How are you doing? Hi, I'm so good. How are you, my friend? You're on Bex's terms, are you? Yeah. Hi, Rebecca. We've hung out before, right, Be'm so good. How are you, my friend? You're on Bex's terms, are you? Yeah. Hi, Rebecca.

We've hung out before, right, Bex? Yeah. We've been to Waiheke. Yeah, exactly. We've been to Winerie. Yeah, exactly. How are you going? We're old pals.

I'm so good. I'm just on my way to wriggle and rhyme, living mum life. Do you know how it is? How is the wriggling and rhyming? In terms of the ratio, are you doing more wriggling or more rhyming? I think more rhyming, but I just would like, you know, I'm that mum that's almost like, can I give you some pointers? We need a little more enthusiasm.

The thespian in me wants some performance here. Totally, totally. I don't ask for much. Now, Bex, I don't want to make things awkward here, but, you know, we do the radio show with Megan in the mornings, and you guys were hanging out the other day. Yes. Yeah, yesterday we just sort of sat together in an event,

and we had the best time. I went home and I said to my husband, I was like, do you know what? I really vibe with Rebecca. She's really cool. Oh, that's so nice. So what we were just wondering, you know, because she's come in all morning,

I've made an adult friend. And we're like, we just want to know. Yeah, now pretend Megan's not here. Megan, right now, you're out of this conversation just for one second. We need to know. Be honest. Is it mutual?

We can send her out of the room so she doesn't hear. Yeah. Do you think you could be friends with Megan? I could absolutely be friends with Megan. She's an absolute sweetheart. I have such a nice time sitting next to her. You should have queued it up at the best friend part. You're my best friend part.

Here we go. Wait a bit. Hold on, hold on. That was weird. That's my best friend part. Here we go. Wait a bit. Hold on, hold on. It was worth it. No, I sent Rebecca a message because she was having car dramas and I sent her a message yesterday. And then she messaged back being like, I had such a nice time with you. I was like, same.

You don't want to come on too strong, though, you know. You're like, does she feel the same way? Does she not feel the same way, you know? No, I absolutely feel the same way. I think we feel the same way? No, I absolutely feel the same way. I think we should go and have a wine because I was a bit stressed about my car dramas. So thanks for being an air to listen. Always, always. Yes, I actually sent you a DM being like, we'll do coffee, but wine sounds better.

Okay, coffee, wine, I'm always up for it. Wiggling and rhyming together. Maybe you can have a... We could take the kids to wriggle and rhyme together. Her daughter is Isla and mine is Aya. So it's perfect. It's meant to be. Oh, beautiful.

It is meant to be. Sounds like you've got some bloody car issues going on now. Getting to reverse into... Trying to get a car park at wriggle and rhyme. It's very popular today. That's me. Sell out. Sell out.

We'll love to talk to you. And I'm glad we you know we've made a friendship here it's great oh i'm very excited about it love you megan i love you see you next see you mate the hits the jonathan ben podcast the joys of uh of being a couple and sleeping next to another human being uh conversations that sort of take place at like 2.36am. And conversations you don't remember, barely remember the next morning. Right. So last night, boom, woken up.

Jennifer, she's accusing me of, we've got, you know, stealing a pillow. She's like, you've stolen my pillow. And I'm looking around and I'm like, I've got the same pillow that I started on the start line. I've still got that under my head. Pillow's gone missing. I'm like, well, we do have two per person. Two pillows per person.

That's a good option. Yep, one of hers has gone missing. That's the ratio. And I was like, well, it's not me. I've still got my pillow and I've still got my spare. You're sitting with one. I don't know. And she's like, well, who took it?

And I'm thinking, maybe here's probably an option. Maybe someone broke into the house. You're looking around. You've seen everything. You're like, you know what I'm going to take? I'm going to take one of those two pillows. Nothing else. Nothing else. Just one of those two pillows. How comprehensive. Nothing else. Just one of those two pillows.

How comprehensive a look had she done at that stage? Well, as comprehensive as you do, as you sort of feel around in the darkness at 2.30 in the morning. But you know your pillow, don't you? If I blindfolded you and lined up 56 pillows and you lay your head on all of them, you'd pick your pillow out.

I probably wouldn't, to be honest. You wouldn't? No, I do. I will use whatever pillow. You're a multiple pillow guy. Really? I get in trouble for, yeah, I don't care. I just take whatever pillows are available to me. I get told off for sleeping on display pillows or whatever. I'm like, just put my head on it.

Do you? Yeah. There's one particular pillow my wife likes out of our four. Never touch that. No, I will all the time. She'll go, that's the one I like. I'm like, what's the difference? Just use whatever.

Have you got your pillow? Yes, and I absolutely would be able to pick it out. Yeah, she would. She knows this one. I'm like, I don't know the difference between that one or the other one. I don't know. So yeah. Put a slab of concrete under me like a cinder block.

I'll sleep on that. I'm the exception to your rule. But obviously you guys are really into, you know. Oh yeah, 100%. Your pillow's mould. It's the exception to your role, but obviously you guys are really into, you know. Oh yeah, 100%. Your pillow's mould, it's contours to your head. Even you go to a really nice hotel and I'm still tempted

to take my pillow. Oh right, wow. Because it's mine. You know, it's got all your special little yellow stains you've excreted onto it. My dribbles, my fake tan. Yeah, what is that stuff?

Don't think about it too hard. Anyway, so I'm denying. I'm like, I haven't stolen your pillow. Why would I steal a pillow? So we've both gone back to sleep. Wake up this morning. Guess what?

What? Pillow's on the floor down my side of the bed. Oh, your side of the bed. Oh, John. So at some point I had, yeah. So then I'm like, oh, okay. So I tippy-toe around holding the pillow. Okay.

And just try and gently place it down next to her. So when she wakes up in the morning, she'll be like, oh, it was there the whole time. Oh, I must have flicked it off the bed. Yeah. I'm going to tell her. Can we cast our mind back to an hour ago when he said there was a stolen car in his driveway as well that he had nothing to do with? What else have you done in the night? It's been a busy night, guys.

For real. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Keep banging on about all week. Finally made it back. Well, it's a bit of a rollercoaster to get back from visiting some family in the USA. Sorry? Love that, don't you? You're a little bit self-conscious about your USA content.

I'm trying to wrap things up and try not to keep talking about it. When can we expect the finish of the USA? Monday, Tuesday next week. You know how you can wrap things up? Just don't do that. But I've got nothing else to talk about in my life. That's all that's happened. That's all that's consumed me for the last two and a half weeks.

You've still got Monday and Tuesday to go. I've got more stuff I want to share, you know, because you do go overseas. People listening right now have gone overseas. You do experience things that you don't experience here in New Zealand, right? That's one of the cool things about being able to do that. And if you haven't, you'll be hearing about them until Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday. You know, there's different things.

And going through New York, it was a real weird them until Tuesday. Monday, Tuesday. You know, there's different things. And going through New York, it was a real weird moment when the kids saw a lot of police everywhere, which I understand, the NYPD, but then also down by the subways, which I took the wrong subway multiple times with the family. We can take the subway. You get on the right track. You were like, yes, but you go the wrong way.

You were like, uh-oh. Where's this going to end up? Turn around, kids. But then you go out there and they've got obviously like armed forces looking after the subway areas as well you know walking past with machine guns and stuff and you can see the kids

like this is the first time I've seen a gun and for you know coming from New Zealand you're like it's quite confronting yeah it's quite a confronting a moment

I mean obviously they're there to keep people safe America soon but one thing I did notice and you'll notice that you know if you travel anywhere or even throughout New Zealand

the best way a genius way to get money, start a fountain. Like, build a fountain. Because somewhere along the line, people just chuck coins into a fountain and make a wish. Like, who was that genius? Yeah, some genius went, you know, it'll bring you seven years good luck. Chuck all your money into my fountain here. Every time we go past a fountain, the kids go, oh, more coins.

You'd be like, oh, they give you coins, they chuck it in. But I mean, are you going to get a wish granted? I feel like all the good luck's going to the fountain. Yeah. So I think as a show, or right now listening,

just put a fountain out somewhere. People will literally throw money in there and you'll make money. Where can we put a John Orban fountain? Yeah. Maybe we can chuck one up

in the... We'll roll them out at all cities and towns. Memorial fountains. Just put a fountain there. Every month we go, swoop through, get the old coins.

Sprinkle a couple of coins, just kind of like the busking theory. You've got to have a couple in there for people to go, oh, I need to go rolling. Make a wish, throw some money in the fountain. We'll be rich

before the end of the year. Yeah. Amazing. What happens if you... Has anyone been so bold like to take them? Because I feel like they're there for the taking. I year. Yeah. Amazing. What happens if you take, has anyone been so bold like to take them? Because I feel like they're there

for the taking. I know. Like who are they? Who do they belong to? I don't believe that it's going to grant my wish but I do believe in bad karma

if I took the money out. You know? So I'm probably not going to throw the coins in but I'm not going to take the money out. That's what the genius who started the coins

at the pound is banking on. He wants you to think. Has anyone actually had the gall to go and take the coins at the fountain wants you to think. Has anyone actually had the gall to go and take the coins from the fountain? 4, 4, 8, 7 on the text actually.

Because it's not like they go, these are all going to the silly mission. No. Who's other? You're right. You're literally

throwing your money to someone. Because you think the trippy fountain in Rome, that would have to be cleared out every now and then.

People would throw them over the back of their heads there. They're all standing there just literally. They must clear it out. Yeah. I mean, it's not a lot.

People aren't throwing away a lot of money at the time. Collectively? Yeah, collectively. You have hundreds in there. Yes, there we go. Has anyone actually taken money out of a fountain? That's all we want to know. Order the hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. You know what? Very random thing I was part of. Yes, again, visiting family overseas. But something that they ordered the family and friends they were over they were like hey we need to release the ladybugs into the garden

is that a euphemism or something I didn't know what this was and they had ordered you can order these through like Amazon and places online and arrive in a package they bought a few of these things here's some audio explaining exactly what these are live ladybugs have a listen 1500 ladybugs that i had sent to me in the mail from amazon because i have a lot of new plants

in my yard i have had it in the refrigerator since it arrived to me and now we are going to cut open the side and put these ladybugs on all of my trees. 1500! Yeah so they've got a few bags of those. So there was thousands of these things. They were just having a wee sleep. They were like kind of frozen. Cryogenically frozen. And then they all kind of woke up and away they went. First thing I'll be doing is counting all 1500. Don't you? Don't you? Even there's's 1,499 of them, sending them back.

Money back guarantee. I knew worms were good for the garden, but I didn't know ladybugs did anything other than look cute. We had to go out and try and release it. I've never been part of a ladybug releasing program. What do you do? Do you just kind of just hip them or do you place them? No, I just try to gently, and you can open the bag and everything, or you can kind of,

yeah, so various tactics. I don't feel like they'd be very movable. They say sort of gradually, it feels like sort of Joe Biden sort of after a debate, just sort of gradually like, well, where am I? What am I doing? What's going on? It feels like sort of teetering on trafficking ladybugs, isn't it? She's ordered 1,500 ladybugs.

I order one human. One human and the authorities are on my ass. It's like 1,500 ladybugs. So you can do that. I don't think you can send them from country tobugs so you can do that i don't think you can send them uh from country to country but you can do that within the country random so obviously uh rejuvenates the garden yeah it's all the bugs eats the aphids the merely bugs all the little like fungi things that gets rid of the bugs how do you i mean how do they know that this is the

place they need they could fly off to other other bugs and well if there's lots of things to eat i guess they're going to stay so plus if there's you know if you're if you're a ladybug and you're looking around you're like well jesus seems like it's uh 14 1499 yeah other versions of me i might hang here these might be my people what have you bought off the internet wildest thing you purchased nothing like that i mean that's wild. Nothing alive. Yeah. Remember I bought that crazy shirt off Instagram, polyester shirt, highly flammable. It was a cowboy shirt. It was like a rodeo thing.

Do you still have that? No, we gave it away. Oh, that's right. I put the shirt on and I was like, if I get within three meters of a heater, this thing's going to melt to my skin. So we're like, well, better melting to a listener's skin. And we gave it away.

Yeah. So that's all we want to know this morning. The wildest thing that you bought, the most unusual thing you bought on the internet. Because you just don't know what's out there. Like this ladybug thing. It's like live animals. And you can buy worms, right, and get them sent to you as well. The other lady we were with, she bought quails, quail eggs.

Her kid actually got her iPad and was obsessed with quails, the bird, and was ordering a toy. And they turned up, these quail eggs arrived. And did they eat them? No, no, they hatched them. And then they had so many of them. How many quails are there? Quite a few. And they said every time someone would come over,

they're like, would you like to take a quail home with you? And they'll be like, no. No, thank you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yeah, we're talking about the most unusual purchase that you've ever made from the internet. As I was part of releasing ladybugs into a garden they were bought online froze they were kind of sleepy they've been there sort of frozen you kept them in the fridge and then they woke up

when you uh i guess thawed them out they were all still alive i don't know it's so weird i don't know i felt i don't know if you freeze us in a freezer you know like we're not just going to defrost they all sort of woke up and then away they went. It's kind of like that theory about Walt Disney. Maybe he's going to come out and he's like, oh, oh, okay. Release him into your garden. Jeez, we've got some stuff to tell Walt Disney, don't we? We've got some updating to do with you, don't we?

There's a lot going on. Some stuff has happened, Walt. Some stuff has happened. It's not a happy place now, the world, my friend. Who's sitting at home With you know When you're looking At your career prospects And they're

What are you Into the ladybug Shipping business You're right Bagging up 1500 Bags full of 1500 ladybugs

One Two You have to count them How do you breed them Yeah And then put them Very small Yeah they are

I guess you get two You hold one With a little pair of tweezers And you hold the other With a little pair And just kind of move them Back and forth. You'd bang them together and hope for the best.

Lady bug breeding program. Play them a little bit of music. Not too hard. Seductive music or something. Tell you what you don't want is anyone walking in on that. What seductive music do you play, Lady Bird? I'm sure that's something. Lady in red.

Yeah, Lady in red. I'd love a little Lady in red. Let's see what songs have got lady in them. Lady Marmalade, Lady Earth. Yeah, there's a few. I'll do some looking. We want to know unusual things that you brought from the internet on 0800 THE HITS or 4487.

Zach, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Moreno, how are you? Morning. How are you guys doing? We're doing really well. It is lovely to have you on, Zach. Thank you. Now, you sound like a guy who's seen some stuff on the internet.

What have you bought? Well, what happened was, I used to cook back in the old days in England, and foie gras was a thing there. So moving to New Zealand, I thought maybe I could order some foie gras and show my family what it tastes like. And I went online, Frugo or something was the site, and I ordered it, but I didn't do any research.

I thought it would actually be sent overnight or something on a plane. And three weeks passed, and I'm like, hey guys, where's my order? And eventually, they sent me a poster of foie gras instead. Because you can't ship foie gras to New Zealand. Oh, so they had – here's a picture of what you ordered.

Yeah, so I framed it. It was the most expensive $200 poster I ever purchased. So, yeah, I framed it, and it's in the kitchen. It feels like they really should have given you your money back. But anyway, you know. But no, to be fair to the, I don't know if it was a scam operation or not, they've gone,

actually, you know what we'll do? We'll go down to the bloody printing place. Let's get old Zaki a picture of what he ordered. Okay, that would have taken a couple of days. Roll it up into one of those nice little cardboard containers. They've gone to some effort

which you need to appreciate. They did, yeah. They did set it in a nice round container just. They've gone to some effort, which you need to appreciate. They did, yeah. They did set it in a nice round container just to make sure that it was... It's not like when you get a text going, good day, it's the NZTA. Uh-oh, your license plate's about to be deleted from the database.

That's lazy stuff going on. They're printing posters. Appreciate it, Zach. There's a great text come through on 4487. Yeah, that someone basically made some purchases from a well-known business late at night and they were

obviously updating their site and all the prices came out in cents instead of dollars. Oh! And they went, should we make

some purchases? And they went, oh okay, we would. And they did, went through and the company honoured those purchases

which is pretty cool. So you'd be thinking afterwards, why don't I buy more stuff? Where's the buy all button? Buy entire website. Buy everything the major warehouse has. Pretty incredible.

Tonight, I'll be going home and finding me a couple of ladybugs. Some tweezers. There's no romance that comes in the form of tweezers, though, doesn't there? When you add tweezers into the mix, you know. Let me just go grab the tweezers. the form of tweezers, though, does there? When you add tweezers into the mix, you know.

Let me just go grab the tweezers. Two sets of tweezers. There we go. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Who's having the best weekend? Not Jono. Yeah, not me. Not me on the buttons today.

The best weekend. We do this every week. The North and South Island go head to head, pit each other. Now, usually it's the wonderful Connor from Christchurch representing the South and Hayley from the Hits in Wellington, who is sick today. And you know what she's sick of? She's sick of finding guinea pig competitions and male strip reviews to promote to try and beat Connor. So she's taking the week off.

And Megan, you're going to be representing the North? Yeah. And Connor, who is the ground announcer at the Warriors, is in the studio this morning in enemy territory there, Connor. Yeah, I feel weird, eh? Just like this energy. It's all good, though. This North Island energy, like you can smell the lattes and the arrogance. And the over-expensive coffees, yeah.

$4.70 for a long black this morning. What's going on there, eh? Don't come up here with your small-town ideas, buddy. How much do you pay for a long black? $4. How much do you pay for a long black? Four dollars. How much do you pay for a house? You're choosing to spend your part of your weekend here in the north, but anyway.

Yeah, well. You got me there, right? You've got to come up here for the fun. He's got commitments. Why don't you go first, Connor. What's happening in the South Island this weekend? Well, I did want to start with sort of a North Island, South Island derby actually, which is in Christchurch. The Canterbury Rams, who were the first

seed in the Sales NBL basketball competition all season long. I've been watching an unusual amount of domestic basketball on television for some reason. It's been amazing. Rams won 16 games straight at one point. The final is on Sunday between the Canterbury Rams and the Auckland Tortara. It's a rematch of last

year's grand final. The Tōtara have been in the grand final three years in a row, including this year, and they haven't won a single championship. So it's a big game in Christchurch on Sunday, 2.30 at Tau Stadium. Tōtara have Corey Webster in the team. Yeah, they have all the big-name stars. Natai, I think, as well. Jordan Natai. The Rams, Lockie Ulbrich, their centre.

He won the MVP, the Youth Player of the Year, the Best Forward or something like that. He won all the awards. So, Rams are the best and they're going to win. There you go. There's some references that 89% of the audience will not understand. I got really sporty there. I was picking out where you put it now, Connor. And what else in the South as well? We go to a mid-Christmas

celebration in Arrowtown. It's been going on for the whole month and I think this is the last week of it. It's the Auburn. How would you pronounce this? A-Y-R-B-U-R-N. Auburn? Auburn? Auburn.

You've got to roll your R's down there. Auburn. Yeah, yeah. I hope we've offended many groups with that little sequence. You've never sounded more like an Aucklander, Connor. Okay, so that's what's going on in the South this weekend.

It seems well too early for Christmas, Megan. Well, I've also got Christmas too. What? I know. So this is the Grey Town Festival

of Christmas. It's back for 2024. So there's lights, there's markets, there's workshops. There is food, family, fun. It doesn't say

midwinter Christmas either. It's just like we're just celebrating. Maybe they've just got a big long runway in Greytown to Christmas. Like we're ready to go. Yeah. So that's happening this Saturday.

And then, I mean, there is a wine festival happening in Auckland, which I couldn't go past, Winetopia. Oh, I like the name. Connor brought sports. I'm bringing you wine. That's a good thing. So basically you can go along, do a tasting. You get to keep your glass. Hold on, you get to That's a good way. So basically you can go along, do a tasting. You get to keep your glass and...

Hold on, you get to keep your glass? Yeah. I was like, one of those ones you just bring your glass to each place and you just fill it up and away you go. Yeah. Smash it on the way out. And you go under the guys that... Yeah, yeah, no, this is a lovely one.

Give me some more, just a little bit more, a little bit more. And you walk out with all the red wine around your lips. It's a good day. It's a great day. And also, up the waz, Connor's here. I knew you were going to do that.

I always feel like a traitor when I'm representing the North because I'm from the South. Okay, Ben, you need to decide out of these middling

events that are happening this Christmas. Christmas, wine, and the waz. I'm going to give it to you, Megan. Because Connor's here.

Connor's here. I can't get past the fact that Connor's gone from the south to the north for part of the weekend. So well done, Megan. And it marks the first time Ben's ever made a decision. So well done.