Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono bleaches his fingers?!

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. It's the 1st of May. It's gonna be May. I always loved being able to play that on the 1st of May. Of course, I don't think NSYNC really thought that was going to be useful for May related. Do they get royalties for just that little three second snippet? No, we'll play it again for them, shall we?

It's gonna be May. There you go. It does sound like it's gonna again for them, shall we? It's gonna be me. There you go. It does sound like it's gonna be me, doesn't it? It's gonna be me. Well, happy first of May

to those that are celebrating birthday today. Former producer Joel Harrison has just popped up on my calendar. It's his birthday today. He'll be, we call him

Hungry Hungry Harrison because an insatiable appetite. He'll be at an all you can eat buffet today. I heard an interesting story about him the other day that they were telling on one of the podcasts because he does some work for the Alternate Commentary Collective and stuff like that over in Radio Hauraki.

But they're saying he was on a flight and he saw there was a guy, he just was watching the guy's screen, just sitting there watching the guy's screen as they were about to take, oh yeah, they weren't taking off at the time the guy was using his computer. And it popped up with his message

from his mate saying here's the bet today's bet you need to make for the syndicate they had like a syndicate and Joel went oh okay

look and noted down the bet and before the plane took off got onto his TAB account put some money on this guy's bet never said anything

to the guy and it came in and he won money how much money did he win I don't know he won quite a lot and he was just off the back of this guy's who he win I don't know he won quite a lot and he was just off the back of this guy's

who he never spoke to for the whole flight he just sort of he was like inside a train popped up and it was just like oh here we go this is the bet

and he was like oh what bet and obviously all these they had a bit of a syndicate and Joel won some money nothing more thrilling than staring at other people's phones on planes

because if you're sitting behind someone there on their phone you can see through the seat gap as well. Yeah. Crystal clear viewing. You see some things. And you're like, I shouldn't look at this, but I can't not.

I can't. Like a clickbait thing popped up this morning from TMZ. Two lions ferociously making love on top of a Jeep. I just saw that. And I was like. On top of a where? Jeep. Like a safari Jeep.

So there were people in the Jeep and on the roof of it. And I was just like, don't click on it, don't click on it. And I couldn't, I had to see it. I also clicked on it, so don't worry. It was great. That was kind of like a runner park back in the day in Christchurch, right? They used to let you in. You used to be able to drive into the lion enclosure.

And lions would like, you know, if you were lucky, they would walk over your car. I don't know if Dad thought it was lucky. If you were really lucky, they would start making love on your car yeah did you nelson from nelson that would have been a big trip to orana park we never did it yeah we had uh natureland it was like peacocks and some sheep oh a runner park was cool i mean i haven't been there for many years but it's really cool christchurch there because i remember it didn't really have didn't feel like there was cages it was so big they had sort of water know, stopping the animals from getting,

which I guess as long as the animals don't learn how to swim, it was all good. It's still going. Yeah, yeah. It's still a fantastic place. I'm just looking now. There was the rumour, the wild rumour that the Ashburton panther either came from one of two locations. It was a panther roaming the hills of Ashburton, Black Panther.

And it was either from a backyard zoo that someone had started up, an illegal zoo, or it had escaped from Orana Park. Oh, really? Back in the day, yeah. And then, yeah, well, it's apparently still getting sighted today. Still bounding. Jeez, that panther must be like 320 years old.

It's a bit slow out there. Do you know what? Natureland still exists in Nelson, guys. Oh, great. Here we go. Some shout-outs to the wonderful wildlife parks of Aotearoa. Something that

we use every day. One of the first things we look at and also gets delivered here in the studio is the New Zealand Herald. You can catch it online as well. They're upstairs. Yeah, they're in the same building. Yeah, we use it every day. Now, Google New Zealand Herald to log on to it.

I still haven't signed up to Bloody Premium, so I only get the first three lines of a lot of news stories. Which is easy to do. And you get it for free working here. It's one email. One email. Do you want me to do it for you? No, just let him.

Ben's like, let him suffer. Why don't you Google the... Why don't you just type in New Zealand The Herald into the thing? Just type in NZ and it'll probably come up. I wiped my Google history so it doesn't come up. Yeah. But hopefully it will now. Anyway, now we've got through that.

We've navigated those waters. The good thing is they're only reading the first three lines of news stories. You don't get the bad news. You just get the set up. You're like, oh, okay, that's obviously going on. Yeah, because obviously it's pay for premium on some of the articles,

not all the articles. But you would say this morning it's been around for how long? It's been on, because you know how you Google something that's got the Wikipedia little square about details? 1863.

The first issue of the New Zealand threat, the 1800s. So 1840 was like the Treaty of Waitangi, right? So not long after that. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah, like the Treaty of Waitangi, right? So not long after that. Oh my God. Yeah.

Like the New Zealand Herald. What did it look like? Was someone just writing it? 161 years ago, William Chisholm Wilson founded it. Now, I'm going to make a huge assumption here. Matt Wilson, who still works at the Herald. He's a big dog here. I'm picking a relative.

There's a lot of Wilson. Yeah, there's a lot of Wilson I mean, do you also start Wilson Parking as well? Jeff Wilson or the All Black? His great-ape founded it I'm going to check it out there There's a bloodline there somewhere Well, I hope there is And I just Googled also as well

You know, news stories from 1863 And this was a big issue In 1863 leading the news stories When they weren't charging for premium content So you could get the whole story There was a symptom called Women hysteria I've heard about this

I suffer from this every day For centuries Doctors readily diagnosed Women with hysteria. And it was an alleged mental health condition that explained why any behaviours or symptoms that made men feel uncomfortable. It feels like propaganda from the Herald, eh? Serving propaganda. Now, according to the doctors, some symptoms were a swollen abdomen.

What? And sexual deprivation was often the cause of the hysteria. Now, to illustrate this, the doctor presented a case study of a nun

that was affected by hysteria and who only became cured when a well-wishing barber took it upon himself to pleasure her. Oh my gosh. What a generous barber

doing God's work. Lead story of the Herald. There we go, from 1863. Well, yeah, there we go. Cured the nun of hysteria. I was talking to one of the bosses of the Herald the other day, and he gets the Herald delivered every day by a delivery worker.

And the delivery worker doesn't know that he's the boss of the Herald. He just gives them the paper, says, good morning, has a chat. He doesn't realize that that's his boss. And technically kind of his boss. And the other day he said, because normally's on the way to for a run but this day the herald delivery guy gave him gave him some shit he was like mate you're not out for a run today he's like he took it well but he was thinking at the same time this guy obviously doesn't know that and i'm his boss technically his boss he's like mate you're not out for a run you're lazy but you know all this sort of stuff he gets the her all delivered to his house yeah when he gets to work there's

they're everywhere sign up to premium it's easy just do it with the email Megan will do it for you he hasn't even signed up for premium yet apparently

oh my god I'll do it for him the hits the Jono and Ben podcast man in Hastings it seems like he's travelling through New Zealand at the moment

but signed up for a 24 hour gym membership and he's been going new zealand at the moment but signed up for a 24-hour gym membership and he's been going according to the gym every night around about 12 o'clock and throughout the night he's there from 12 to 7 throughout the night and i've now said well he's probably not working out he's broken a few rules according to there's a bit of a dispute going on but it seems like he's there too long and they're like hey you're just kind of taking the piss out of our 24-hour membership and he's but he's like i'm working long and they're like, hey, you're just kind of taking the piss out of our 24-hour membership.

But he's like, I'm working out. And they're like, well, there's too long gaps in between your exercises. And he said, well, of all people who should know that you need to rest your muscles in between exercising, it's the owners of a gym. So he's doing a seven-hour workout, you know, triple the amount of a Dwayne the Rock Johnson workout. Yeah. So, I mean, it's a good question.

If you pay for a 24-hour gym, should you be able to go anytime you want for as long as you want? Can you just pop in and use the showers without working out? There's probably some T's and C's, I'm sure.

He's obviously taking the mic, but then should he just be allowed to? Well, he's paid for the axes. Yeah. They don't say you can only stay here a certain amount of time, do they? Maybe it does in the T's and C's. I do wonder that the shower thing too, like if you do just go in and use the showers and don't work out can only stay here a certain amount of time, do they? Maybe it does in the T's and C's. I do wonder that the shower thing too.

Like if you do just go and use the showers and don't work out. Surely that's fine. You've paid for that. You've paid for that right and privilege. Because you could save a lot of shower water at home. Yeah. I imagine some people would. You're going to use petrol going there, aren't you?

Yeah. You had a dream to be in the gym alone, didn't you? Yeah, 24-hour gym i always just wanted to be because this is what when we went working breakfast hours so i'd go kind of late at night and then i'd be like i just want you know there'd be two or three people there sometimes i'll be like i just want to like to be the only one in the gym happened once happened once we came back from a trip we'd been overseas for work and i was jet lagged couldn't sleep i was like go to the gym it was like I think it was like

two or three in the morning firstly I was like what psychopath arrives off an international flight and goes straight to the gym yeah I went to the gym and I was like

I was like oh I was the only one in there for like was it everything you dreamed of well not a lot because then some guy came in with like 20 seconds to go

I was like oh I just wanted to you know I don't know why I wanted the place to myself it's probably a little frightening to be honest isn't it

yeah yeah true actually being by yourself in the gym is a bit weird. Oh, 800 of the hits, actually. Do you work in the gym industry? How far can we push this 24-hour axis? Also, it's like no one else was there.

Like, who's he hurting, really? Well, they were saying his lingering around was putting people off. Lisa, I'm just a very slow, not concise but a very slow steady worker out you do one bicep curl every hour give it an hour's rest go back do something yeah you know i see how it works the hits the jonathan ben podcast we like to play a game uh called siri sings every now and again although siri doesn't really sing no uh can we just close the loop on the 24-hour gym access as well? Oh, yeah.

We've done some research into it. Apparently San Francisco, a lot of the homeless community have 24-hour gym access, $20, $30 a month, showers. And this person was saying instead of drinking, a lot of them are just working out, so there's a lot of ripped, good-looking, muscly homeless community. It's a very good way to spend your time, isn't it? Yeah.

And 24-hour access, apparently, according means 24-hour access. Right. Yeah, I'm sure they'd have to be some T's and C's

of what you're doing in there. Just join us, a guy on the Hawke's Bay has been kicked out of a gym for staying overnight, basically. I can imagine they will put T's and C's

about going, oh, can I be here for two hours or something? Because, you know, otherwise people kind of ask. And then there's only

two-hour access. Well, two hours, over 24 hours. But like, then can you only two hour access. Well, two hours, over 24 hours. But like then can you pop out and go back in for two hours? Well, maybe. Always with the loopholes. Yeah, always trying to find loopholes here at the moment.

All right, well, I'm going to find if you can play along as well. Siri, I've got Siri to, well, sing or speak some lyrics. She sounds like she doesn't want to be part of the show. No, I don't blame Siri, to be honest. And you guys, it's a race between you two to see what song uh that you think siri is singing along to here's the first one a recent-ish song have a listen now i am stuck between my anger and the blame that i can't face and memories are something even smoking weed does not replace and i am terrified of weather cause i see you when it rains, doc told me. Oh, travel. No, no.

Stick season. Stick season. You get it on the last line. COVID on the plans. The doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the plans. Okay, no, I can't. That song's slowly driving my son insane. Yeah.

All right, here we go. I feel like Megan might have just got there for that one. Yeah, you got that one, Megan. Okay, here's the next one Deadly When I play a dope melody Anything less than the best Is a felony

Love it or leave it You better gangway You better hit bullseye The kid don't play And if there was a problem Yo I'll solve it Check out the vanilla rice

Finally got there And Siri really throws you With the way that She sucks She puts some effort in Siri Okay here it is She's got a very lazy flow Doesn't she

Here it is It's one all Here's the decider Good luck So Johnny was a good man Good man Armed with the power

Of his homeland His homeland 660 Don't forget your boots Do I get it He technically got it well I'm going to give that one to Jono

because he got that one correct so there you go there you go thank you for Siri Sings what about Alexa have we forgotten about Siri's cousin Alexa is she going to do

some singing one day I guess Alexa can sing we could do Alexa Alexa anthems yeah we could try that next week Ben doesn't trust either of them

no I don't like having any of them listening to anything I'd say Siri's off I can talk to Siri when I want to talk to Siri, I don't like having any of them listening to anything I say. Siri's off. I can talk to Siri when I want to talk to Siri, but I don't like Siri just listening as well. I don't like the fact that someone's listening the whole time.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Navus. Everybody needs them, Ben. Don't they? Good friends? Is that the... Well, I think there's something like that from the theme tune.

Oh, it's funky now. Yeah, it's really like this is the TV show Navus. It's really taken a step up in the theme tune. Oh, it's funky now. Yeah, it's really like this is the TV show Neighbours. It's really taken a step up in the theme tune, right? Yeah. A friend of mine, she was writing on Neighbours, and she felt very underqualified for it. And she was like, she couldn't get her head around if there was a murder or something on the street,

that you'd go, well, clearly it's someone on the street, on Ramsey Street. Someone here. Yeah, you always find that. Even if it's short on the street that you go well clearly it's someone on the street on ramsey street someone someone here yeah you always find that even with short in the street you're like why don't they have friends outside the clinic it's literally someone in the hospital but i guess for the you can't just keep introducing new characters but you're right for reality purposes like does no one hang out with anyone outside of ferndale yeah yeah but you know neighbors say everybody needs them and And sometimes you have good neighbours and sometimes you have bad neighbours. It's just life.

A lot of the time you focus on the negative things, right? You know, and we get that. We do that from time to time. So we thought today, that's you. Yesterday, Megan, you were like, let's go positive, right? Yeah, we always hear about neighbours at war. But, like, when you have really nice neighbours. I feel like the older you get, the better the neighbour you become.

You know, the older generation really are the gatekeepers of the street. Aren't they? Not always. Sometimes the older ones are the grumpy ones. True, then they get to that stage where they think they own the street. Yeah, yeah. It's a fine line. And then they're like, everything on here.

It's a sweet spot. It's like, stay there. Mind your own business. There's nothing to do with you. But they get involved, don't they? Producer Taylor, are you listening next? Or you come through. Producer Taylor said yesterday she has no interest in knowing any of her neighbours.

But she's in a townhouse situation, which I've been before. And I have a theory. The closer you live to people, the less you talk to them. Do you reckon? Yep, I'd agree. Even when we're in an apartment before where we're living now. Like, even if I'm in the lift with them, just look down. Well, yeah.

I guess that point sometimes it can you know once you're up at that door you get to yeah i don't have time for that yeah i don't care just let me leave my house you've got enough fun people in your life you know megan jono ben that's all you need but and then like you go to a rural community farmers kilometers away from each other sometimes they would catch up more than or talk to each other more than two people living half a metre away. Sometimes you're right. So we want to know the stories of good neighbours.

You kick things off, Jono. Yeah, well, my neighbour only a couple of weeks ago ripped down our fence in between the properties. And we're like, oh, okay. And then just put up a brand new one without a word, a word hasn't been said Pre or post I talked to the gentleman

Who was putting the fence up He's like did you know about this I was like I haven't heard a word mate A lot of people would kick off about that Yeah Not everyone would think that that was a good thing I haven't paid a dollar Just this fence is just turned up

Is that a nice fence It's a great fence Oh great No disputes Oh good Even the guy doing the fence He's turned up is that a nice fence it's a great fence oh great no disputes oh good even the guy doing the fence he's like

this is a good fence he's going to say that never thought about the fact that your fence you share it so like

whose responsibility is it to discuss it yeah and then you go do we go home and then who gets which side of it

like who wants there's always a good side we've ended up with the crappier side but for your play we can pay good side. We've ended up with the crappier side, but for your play, we can pay a dollar for the fence. I'll take the crappy side.

Well, then you can make another fence next to that one where you've got to, you know, that's when you get real petty. You're like, oh, let's see. And then he has to pay half of my nice fence. Yeah, right. Yeah, so nicest neighbours. Have you got any?

0800 THE HITS, 4487. The story is the neighbour's doing nice. I think I mentioned to you a while ago when my wife was very sleep deprived she accidentally flushed a nappy down the toilet and our neighbour

came over without gloves and got that nappy out of our bathroom that is wild yeah she did that more committed

to removing that than you would have done that that's for sure the hits the Jono and Ben podcast good stories about

neighbours why you've got the best neighbour in the country yeah some great ones coming through on the text which we'll get on very shortly I was just sharing a story about my neighbour without a word

Pulled down a fence, built a brand new fence, nothing said. Now producer Grace used to panel, operate and control the buttons on the Newstalk ZB Sunday morning show with Peter Wolfkamp building and you said fencing and paying of comes up often Yes, very talked about.

And it's meant to be what? 50-50. You have to agree on the price and then it's 50-50. Well, he's gone 100-0. I'm loving that price point. But you've got the crappy side of the fence. Yeah, I'm happy with it. Couldn't be happier.

So your nicest neighbours in New Zealand. You've got some good ones, Megan. Yeah, I moved to the Burbs and when we moved in, some people down the road, they made us baking and brought us a pot plant, right, when we moved in with a little note. That was really sweet. And my next door neighbour, she often brings over flowers and fruit and stuff. You know, I had a shocker just thinking that when neighbours moved in across the road, my wife, she was going out and she noticed their car lights were on. So she went over unbeknown to me and went hey your lights are off and while she was there she's like oh

your dinner smells amazing and i didn't know all this had gone on my wife went off to her appointment and then this lady come knocked on our door i hadn't met her before and just tried to hand me like little tupperware containers i was like i didn't order any uber eats get away from me you pesky food peddler it's not for me it's not for me and then later i went out and left them on the doorstep with a note saying, we're your neighbours and this is for you.

I was like, oh. Get out of here, scum. How did you get past security? but I don't know about the man. He's a bit rude. Not for me, mate. Not for me. Not for me.

Was it a slam the door in the face situation? It was a slam, but I was busy. I was like, oh, sorry, it's not for me. I'm sorry. Thank you though.

It's must be another house. Ben's a busy guy. All right, let's not for me. I'm sorry. Thank you, though. It's supposed to be another house. And then I was like, oh. Ben's a busy guy. All right, let's get Nicole on. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. We're doing nicest neighbours, Nicole. Are they yours? Good morning.

Yes. Over the weekend, we decided we needed to mow our lawn ASAP. It was very overgrown. And our neighbour came over, and he started weed eating all the edges for us five minutes later we looked out the window and he was over with his lawnmower starting to help mow the lawn he even came over with his um blower and blew away all the um extra clippings on the footpath for us oh what a guy he was like i'm sick of seeing whacking did he do any working yes he did, yes. Whacked some weeds, blew some leaves.

What a hero. What's your neighbour's name? No idea. His name, he goes by Boogie. Boogie. Oh, Boogie. Shout out to Boogie. We'll send you out a whole pizza.

Actually, we'll send you two. You can give one to him. Oh, awesome. Thank you. I love your work. Let's get Alex on. Welcome. Nicest neighbours, Alex.

Hi. How are you doing? We're doing really well. We understand your neighbour's Scottish. I love your work. Let's get Alex on. Welcome. Nicest neighbours, Alex. Hi. How are you doing? We're doing really well. We understand your neighbour's Scottish. I love him already. He is. He's a really cool guy. His name's Harry.

And he, in his late 80s, and he always brings our rubbish bins in for us, which is really nice. Loves doing that each week. And then he's let us use his litter a lot. It's always that first person that does it too. They call it the binfluencer. It tells you which is the recycling and the normal rubbish today or not. Yeah, yeah.

Because I don't even know which week it is. Thank you, Alex. And shout out to Harry, your Scottish neighbour. Carissa, you're on from Rotorua. Welcome. You got some nice neighbours in Vegas there, Carissa? Oh, good morning. Yeah, not that well. I've got some nice neighbours in Vegas there Carissa Oh good morning Yeah not that well

I've got nice neighbours too but My gran has really nice neighbours During lockdown they Just on their daily walk took Some really nice photos of her garden Made it into a calendar for her for Christmas And Yeah every couple of weeks

Just doing general baking and cooking and stuff, always popping over with that too. Oh, that's beautiful, isn't it? When you hear stories like that. Someone out there, what are you doing in my garden? You're like, I'm just taking photos so I can kill it. It's the sweetest thing. It makes me feel like a horrible, self-obsessed human being when you hear stories like that.

Hey, thanks, Chris. Appreciate that. Great text. We'll just end on here. I had an elderly neighbour who was just lovely. I used to bake for him and we would chat daily. I ended up separating and breaking up with my husband. And 10 years later, he left me a whole bunch of money in his will.

No way. Whole bunch. You really don't realise the impact you have on people's lives. Oh, there we go. Think about your neighbours. And you could get some cash, baby. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We get to work pretty early in the mornings.

I get in my car about 20 past four to drive to work. You live quite far away from the recession. Yeah, yeah. Right? It's quite a drive. A lot of stoners laughing at the time you wake up. You're getting a lot of joy out of your uh 20 past four oh no she's leaving 20 past leaving oh leaving at 20 past four um and so i

take uh the small car that doesn't have the car seats in it for context i pick up the kids um in the big car and we often listen to kids music on the way home you know to appease them on spotify we're listening to all kinds of things i listen to the hits music on the way home, you know, to appease them. On Spotify, we're listening to all kinds of things. I listen to the hits because I'm committed to this radio station. No, Bashan literally says, no, mummy, on the radio, turn it off. Oh, okay. That's what a lot of people say that as well about our show, so it's fine. Turn it off. Always good to get some listener feedback.

Yeah, even my son's not into it. So I was listening to kids' songs on my Spotify. And then I get into the other car that my husband had driven and he had obviously been listening to something quite loud. So at 4.20 this morning, when in the suburbs that I live,

everyone's obviously fast asleep, I jump in the car, connect my Spotify, which auto-rolls to something, and obviously my car is jacked up to a hundred. A hundred. And this blasts through the neighborhood. Move like the dinosaurs. And it scared the crap out of me.

I can only imagine the neighbors. Was it move like a dinosaur? Yeah, it's the same people that bring you Baby Shark. Oh, really? Oh, really? They're going to follow up? Yeah. Actually, they're ripping off. Oh, it sounds like the Baja men might have a legal case against.

But I tell you what, that, when it's silence in your neighbourhood, scared the jeebs out of me. It's a banger, though. Look. They know how to release a bang in the baby shower. Like the dinosaurs. Yeah, you're right. It has ripped off.

We'll give you a fright, though. It always happens, though, when it connects. When the Bluetooth connects, it's just really loud. Can you imagine being in bed, too, being my neighbour, being like, God, the store, they they are so annoying you've got to go to work and now you're playing moves like a dinosaur have you seen have you seen people banging their phones together you're banging your phone together and it's sort of some you can do air drop on uh oh yeah is that through bluetooth as well yeah it's like a yeah through some sort of witchcraft

isn't it and then uh the other day i was like trying to show my mate i was like what's this mate will bang phones together and I'll transfer some content over to your phone. And I'm just basically making these phones hump each other in public and people are kind of looking sideways, what's trying to happen here? Didn't transfer. You know that

for AirDrop you don't have to bang your phone, eh? I know there's yeah, but I do know that. I have not ever reached peak boom just yet how do I get this

out of this phone into this phone I'll just mash them together hopefully it'll fall out of this phone and into the other one

smack the content from one phone to another the hits the Jono and Ben podcast earthquake actually last night

near the coast of the North Island caused a bit of shaking around Tar last night near the coast of the North Island caused a bit of shaking around Taranaki and the top of the South Island of 4.9 magnitude felt by thousands across the country. You're saying quite a big one, Megan. Yeah, it's pretty big, 4.9. Pretty scary, those things, aren't they?

Throw over to Megan, our earthquake expert. Pretty big one there, Megan, with more details. How well-depth was it actually? I've depth 81 case. There you go. Oh, okay, so it's quite deep. It's a deep, depth 81 case. There you go. Oh, okay, so it's quite deep.

It's a deep one. Yeah, so there you go. Give it a bit of a shake. Hey, something actually I thought you'd be quite helpful for, Megan, because they always talk about

when life gives you lemons, you dot, dot, dot, you make this and he makes. Make lemonade. But what happens when life gives you limes?

Because a friend of ours gave a whole lot of limes. I've got like 30 limes now. I was like, do you want a lime? And I'm like, oh, yeah, I'll take one. But they take a whole lot and they gave me a friend of ours gave a whole lot of limes. I've got like 30 limes now. I was like, do you want a lime? And I'm like, yeah, I'll take one. But they take a whole lot and they gave me a bag of like a lot. 30 seems an excessive amount.

I feel like they just want to get rid of it. And I'm like, well, probably just one would be enough. One would do you for the year. And now I'm like, well, what do I do with all these limes? Because I don't want to say, oh, I didn't want them. So I've got them at home. I put it on Instagram last night. A lot of people, like great suggestions, margaritas, Cracker Corona, I think about it, which I didn't want to say I didn't want them, so I've got them at home. I put it on Instagram last night. A lot of people, great suggestions.

Margaritas, Cracker Corona, I think about it, which I thought was quite good. I've got a lime tree as well. It's absolutely heaving. So what do you do? You can freeze them. Someone actually recommended that, and during the summer, limes are expensive,

so you can bring them out and go, hey. That's exactly what I do. I'm the lime guy. Look at me. Because you can dehydrate them as well, apparently. Yeah. I mean, if you've got eight hours to leave your oven on, then sure. Oh, would you put them in the oven for eight hours?

Yeah, or you air fry, but it takes ages. You can throw them out? Is that an option? Lime cheesecake, tacos has come through. Key lime pie. Key lime pie has come through a couple of times. Replace all of Jono's stuff with lime, someone said. You can make a marmalade, a lime marmalade.

Okay. What would you do? What would be the one thing? I haven't got time for all this stuff, so I'll just do one thing. I would make a marmalade. I'd make a jam. Corona sounds the best option. Replacing all my stuff with lime sounds fun.

Get to the car park, I'm like, hey, where's my car? There's only a lime here. That would be quite funny across the day. Go to talk into a microphone, hey, there's only a lime here. That'd be quite funny across the day. You just eat your egg. Go to talk into a microphone. Hey, there's only a lime here. Come home, your family's just three limes sitting in the toilet. Something is suspicious about this. Who ate all the hoofs?

Someone brought up here and had a lot of limes recently. What happened with all the limes? A little bit more brainstorming required on that one. We'll get there though. I thought it was a dumb idea, but maybe it's a really good idea. Big earthquake just off the coast of the North Island last night. A 4.9 earthquake fell around Taranaki in the top of the South Island. Fortunately, everyone seems to be okay.

We do this every week. Our producer Taylor comes in, tries to stump us with a riddle, and it pretty much works every week. I don't think we've as the show ever got one correct. We've only got one out of the many weeks that we're doing but thanks to Dilmar. If you can solve the teaser you'll win a hot and cold Dilmar cold and

hot tea prize pack as well and $100. That's awesome. Depressing thing is I can't remember the answers to any of the riddles that you've said. I thought to myself, when these pop up in life in the future, I'm going to look like a bloody legend. I can't remember any of them.

I'll continue to look like a bloody loser, mate. Okay. Juicy Taylor, what have we got? Alright, I've got an easy one for you guys first. Don't say it's easy, because if you don't get it, then I'll... No, this is really easy. As soon as I saw it, I was like, oh, they'll get that. Spell cold water using only two letters.

Cold water. What's that? Spell cold water. Oh, H. You've got it. Do you, Grace? I was thinking H2O, but it's not H2O. Oh, that's smart.

Thank you. Spell cold water with only two liters yeah can you do the cw can you do the nice i see amazing And then a hero comes along. Oh, Jesus. I'm trying to work out what it is. Okay, we got one. Okay, this one's for you. You do have to stop saying they're really easy. You'll get them at the top. Yeah.

He did get it, but of course, added unnecessary pressure. A lot of pressure. All right, this is for Dilma. Hot and cold tea prize pack. Some great cold teas I've been really enjoying at the moment. The iced tea peach is awesome. So you'll get some. Iced tea.

Yeah, iced tea, yeah. Do you ever have a cup of tea and a lie down, or have a cup of tea while lying down? No, I don't really do a lot of the lie downs, but I have a lot of cups of tea. Lots of the cup of tea. Yeah, I see tea. Yeah, do you ever have a cup of tea and a lie down? We'll have a cup of tea while lying down Do a lot of the lie downs well a lot of cups lots of the cup of tea. Yeah doing the first part Okay, what do we got? Okay A bus driver goes down a one-way street the opposite way as fast as he can right past a police officer Yet he doesn't get pulled over. Why is that? One way street, the opposite way.

Really fast, straight past a police officer. Why doesn't he get pulled over? Oh, the phone. Wait, wait, I think I've got this one too.

Okay, do we want to, do you want to? We want the listener to. Okay, do you want to write down, write down what you think? Because it was funny when Megan wrote it down last week.

I know, that's wrong. Sometimes I think my answers are better. Write it down, write it down. Okay, write it down and we'll go last week. I know I was wrong. Sometimes I think my answers are better. Write it down. Write it down. Okay. Write it down and we'll go to the... I'll go to the...

The phone's blowing up this morning. Is that right? No, but ballpark. You're like... Was I right? I think you've worded it wrong. How can I word that wrong? No.

Am I right? Am I right? Okay, so just trying to have a good look at Megan's phone. No, you are. Oh, my God. Okay, okay Okay, so just having a look at Megan's one. No, I'm not. Okay, okay, so let's go. Read up Megan's one then. No, I just deleted it. What did you say?

She was driving the right way. Yeah, no, she's incorrect. Let's go to 100 of the hits. Is that right? Yeah, that's right. Oh, okay. Shut up, Jono. Top of the class here.

Okay, let's go to the phones. We'll take line 3 shall we Grace I've got a good feeling about line 3 Don't let me down what's your name Scott You seem like a tried and true Safe pair of hands Recite the riddle there Taylor

A bus driver goes down a one way street The opposite way as fast as he can Right past a police officer Yet he doesn't get pulled over Why is that? Scott? I don't reckon he's driving. I reckon he's walking. You would be correct, Scott.

Well done! You see a bus driver. That's cheeky. An off-duty bus driver. I was going to say an off-duty bus driver's walking along the alley. That gives away the riddle. You're cheeky.

Hey, well done, Scott. You've got $100 and a Dilmar hot and cold tea prize pack. Enjoy that. Awesome. Thanks, guys. That'll be my only thing I get all day, probably. Well, hey, you got the riddle. That was great.

Yeah, you got the riddle. What are you doing today, Scotty? What do you do? Why are you having such a bleak day? Oh, I'm up early, mate. No, quite as early as Megan. So, yeah, my brain only functions for a few hours a day. So that'll be the highlight.

You've already solved the riddle this morning as well. Thanks to Dilmar making the world a better place. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of stats coming out this week. The rent going up quite a lot throughout the country, not just in the big cities as well. The biggest increase in rent, percentage-based, was Manawatu and Whanganui going up the most in rent.

So around about average of $650 a week throughout New Zealand is what rent is for most people. Well, I tell you who should be paying rent in your household, the items that your cat's dragging and men. Oh, yeah, the cat as well. What a segue. It's a lovely, lovely segue. Oh, yeah. The cat as well. The cat. Jeez, what a segue. Lovely, lovely segue.

Thank you. I have an interesting relationship with our cat. You know, it's a kind of feel like the aloof, the cool Tina. You know, you want to be friends with, but the cat's like, I'll be friends when I want to be friends and when not. Cats are jerks. You know, we've had great cats in the past. And he does give you attention.

And when he does, you're like, oh, this is so good. And then he's like, yay. I'm done. Which is in COVID or something. No, bubble. Bubble you know it's a covid or something a bubble bubble that's in our bubble he was in the bubble you're going through covid yeah so we got him as a sort of lockdown um you know thing in the bubble and you know and he's resented me ever since yeah but one of the things he does recently he's just always hungry like he always just hungry you feed him you talk to the vet you worm him you do everything and they're like yeah that's what you need to feed him but he's just always hungry you leave bread in a bag on the bench come back he's got into it got into the bread does it all the time like he's got through the plastic and really is a teenager yeah yeah but now we started to bring in rats

and we're all eating dinner the other night and we're like one of my daughters is like oh cat's got a rat the cat just goes come straight in through the cat door and just go straight down the hallway then my youngest daughter's like better not be going into my room of course he was going to her room good thing was the rat was it passed on so because he's brought live rats in before so you're all sitting at the dinner table are you thinking well i don't want to deal with this oh yeah i was like he's what i kind of you know they're acting they're acting. Oh, what? What's going on? I didn't see. My wife went down there with a, what's happening?

Oh, my God, you're doing me. She got her, like, a cardboard box. She got a box out of the bin, scooped it up, put it outside. And the time I was like, what's happening there, guys? We'll nominate that for the next Academy Awards. Beautiful performance. Man pretending not to hear

he has a rat in the house. Man is like, don't bother, Ben. I've got this. She's better with those situations than me. She knows it. We all know it. But I said,

well, at least it's not half a rat to my daughter, Indy, who was upset, was on her floor, you know, the rat. And then a couple of days later, half a rat. Came home and there was half a rat.

He made a request. Yeah. Maybe he did. Yeah. I'm like, please don't. I haven't found the other half of the rat. I'm hoping it's. Yeah.

So. But the whole time you'd be like, what? There's a rat. There's a what? Yeah. So I thought, oh, 100 of the hits, 4, 4, 8, 7. Look what the cat dragged in. What did the cat bring into your house? Are you a cat person? You had cats? No, I'm allergic to them. Oh, me too. hits, 4, 4, 8, 7. Look what the cat dragged in. What did the cat bring into your house?

Are you a cat person? You had cats? No, I'm allergic to them. Oh, me too. I get rashy. Yeah, my throat closes up. Plus, they're just not very sociable. No, I do love a cat.

Love a cat. But sometimes it's kind of, you know, it's on his terms. It's on his terms. It's hard to get. He's treating you mean and he's keeping you pretty keen. I'm pretty keen, that's for sure. So what is the unusual thing that your cat dragged in? We'd love to hear from you this morning.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What did the cat drag in? My cat's been bringing in rats recently into the house as well. A lot of people texted through mice, lizards, rabbits coming in as well. Another text come through. It was Christmas time and for four days in a row, our cat brought in birds and mice and placed under the Christmas tree. This is like gifts for the family. That's why they do it, right?

On the first day of Christmas. Yeah, beautiful. Like a little Advent calendar. It's like, oh, the cat's brought us another. One for everyone. Yeah, beautiful. Some of them have some wonderful core strengths. In-laws had their cat bird dragged a leg of lamb from the neighbours,

which was sitting on the windowsill of a kitchen. Oh, like cooked? Yeah. That is... You'd be so dumb. It'd be like us pulling a car home sort of thing. Let's get Diane on. What did you cat drag in, Diane?

He brought in an eel. An eel? Yeah. Diane? He bought an eel. An eel? Yeah, it was when I was young and we lived on a farm and we had a river running through the farm so he'd gone down and got an eel and put that inside. That's actually quite impressive in a way. It was huge too.

Was it dead? Yes it was. He obviously had to go into the water. Yeah. Catch an eel who's quite fast and slippery. Yes, it was. So he obviously had to go into the water. Yeah, he did. Catch an eel who's quite fast and slippery. And aggressive. Oh, I hate eels.

He was quite an unusual cat because he also liked to swim in our pool. Water-loving cat. Fun fact about eels, if they latch onto a certain part of your anatomy, they'll death roll it right off. A certain part of the male anatomy. I know that's a fun fact. I feel like you've made that up too. Snakes.

We've got a text from a snake. A cat born on a snake in South Africa. That's pretty impressive. Kathy, you're on. Well, look what the cat dragged in. Catho. Catheter. Cath. Seadog

Hello Hello What's your cat dragon? I'm living in Harlech So I cat-sweared an axolotl Oh just sorry Yeah

Bad phone line there But I feel Axolotl was it? Yeah Axolotl Yeah That was the thing I remember having one of those In the class, in class at school.

Where would you, do they actually live out there? Do you go to a school? Yeah. Can you find them in the water? Let's not ask Cassie any questions. It was a hard day, wasn't it? I think we'll just have to make up the answer. Yes, you can.

You can find them in the water. Helen, you're on for potty tour. Welcome. Morning. Morning. Your cat dragged him what? So this was actually last week um and i discovered my cats aren't so much hunters as catch and release animals oh okay one of them came running through with a mouse in her mouth and so i chased her but she shot back out so i

thought all right we're done. We're all good. And I went to bed, and I had my clothes ready for the next day, and the other cat was sitting staring at my clothes. So I told her she was done, picked it up. Look, there's no mouse, blah, blah, blah. Following morning, get up. Cat's still looking at my clothes. So I picked them up. Look, no mouse yet.

Move on, move on. Anyway, go to put my pants on, and a mouse shoots out of the bottom of my pants. That's quite traumatising, isn't it? And the cat's like, look who the idiot is now, Helen. It gets worse. So I chase the mouse around the house. I finally catch it, pick it up by its tail, drop it outside. There you go, idiot, move on.

Lift up my shirt and another mouse shoots out. And this time the cat was not having any of me, just grabbed it and shot outside. There you go, idiot. Move on. Lift up my shirt. And another mouse shoots out. And this time, the cat was not having any of me. Just grabbed it and shot outside. So, yeah, that was like 7 o'clock in the morning one day last week. That's a great way to start the day, isn't it? Yeah, it's stunning. Well, Helen, appreciate your call.

We'll get you some hell pizza and final text here. Have you got that one, Ben? Is that one about, well, there's one that says it brought in frogs, and the other one says my cat dragged in the neighbor's underwear. Okay. Did your dog do that? The dog, well, it was at a friend's place. It was there under way off the line, but everyone, yeah, I returned it, and I looked like I'd taken it.

It was in my pocket. The dog wasn't even with us. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Taylor, your family, the Lombardis, The dog wasn't even with us Now Taylor Your family The Lombardis The people you grew up with In Cronulla Great people

And just Over the year We've worked with you Just kind of slip in The odd story From your family home Yeah I do that to see

If people also Experience similar things Like oh good I'm normal But I never get that No Volatile environment Yeah Real tense Very passionate people people also experience similar things like, oh, good, I'm normal, but I never get that. No. Volatile environment.

Yeah. Real tense. Very passionate people, and that's why I've done an intro for Living With The Lombardis. Apologies, it's a demo. It might be a bit rough. We'll have to get in the studio with Dre or someone to re-record it. Okay, here we go. Oh, we're halfway there.

Oh, give me all the love. With The Lombardis. Here we go. With the Lombardis. It's a bit of a rough edit. It's good. Sing it. No, no. So we'll maybe find you a workshop. Yeah, we can send an email to John Bon Jovi and see if he can re-record the bits that we need for that.

Please. And Sue Lombardi, huge fan of John Bon Jovi. Huge fan. She's got a life-size cutout of him in her bedroom. She goes to Bon Jovi concerts. Would she leave

your dad for Jon Bon Jovi? Yeah, she'd leave my dad for anyone. Yeah, right. I reckon you two would stay together. We'd stay in a car. I reckon she's

looking. I love how you use Jon Bon Jovi or anyone. Even you. She'd even stoop to you two. Anyone category. Okay, so last to you too. Anyone can agree.

Okay, so last week you brought us security camera footage of your brother Luke walking into a brick wall. What have you done? I hit my head on that. Yeah. It really does bring a lot of joy. So he lives across the road from your parents? He does, yeah.

So they're directly across the road. He's with his family. Yeah. And what's the latest you've got? So my parents went away, and because of the close proximity, my mom said to my brother, Oh, can you just mind the dog when we're out? Feed him, clean up his droppings in the backyard,

just throw the ball and he's like, yeah, whatever, can do. And then so he's gone over, cleaned up the dog crap and instead of like a normal person putting in a plastic bag, he's throwing it over the fence to the neighbour's house. He flicks it over the fence. And the worst part is, one, they don't have a dog and two, his aim is so bad. Feds. And the worst part is, one, they don't have a dog. And two, his aim is so bad.

One of the pieces of poo bang on the window and just a slow fade down. And it left that much residue. And he FaceTimes me showing me. Like, they're going to think it's Sue and Ange. I was like, that's amazing leave leave it felt like there'd be repercussions from this yeah well well the neighbors already don't like my mom and dad because like from these stories i guess and because they're so loud like they just think there's just domestics 24 7 over there so they already look at us like ugh lower class citizens

so i'm sure yeah this is just another tick. This is the other thing. They don't have a dog. They don't have a dog. Right. So they're definitely going to know it's got a dog. Oh, they'll know it's loose. And we've got a huge German shepherd that barks all the time. And if they have a dog, it definitely doesn't do its business down the window. No, exactly.

And not like adult size. Yeah, right. I gotcha. Ralphie, he's a big dog. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Have you had the choice before, Megan, deciding which hot fire content That Jono's bringing to the show

That you wanted to hear about Cheese on a panic or bleach You chose bleach like pick a path It was so mysterious Yeah well I'm a huge user of bleach Love bleach Yeah one of my favourite chemicals Out there on the market

And during the week Sometimes when I get home And I took this inspiration off you too you're like why are you leaving all your chores to the weekend free up your weekend get your chores done in increments throughout the week then you don't have to worry about locking them all in on one day on the weekend yeah i mean still it feels like you still have to do stuff on the weekend but sometimes it's good if you can get some things away ease that pressure at least yeah do the vacuuming during the week yeah and so And so it's like, okay, I'll do the bathrooms.

And so when I do the bathrooms, geez, I just spray bleach everywhere. And I love the smell of bleach. Like it's just the smell of cleanliness or you've just cleaned up a crime scene. Yeah. One of the two options. But it's becoming a real pressure point in the household. Firstly, because my daughter walks in and is like, ugh, ugh, ugh. She sort of gets into her lungs, you know.

It's a bit strong. When I'm doing the shower because you're in an encased area and I'm like, bleach, you can feel it burning the insides of your lungs. I was going to say, are you okay? I don't know if I've got much longer to live. So that was the first issue. Poppy's like, your hands smell like bleach. Everything smells like bleach.

She's really anti-bleach. But the other one is, and you don't know it at the time, but little splatters kind of get on things. Yeah. You know, clothes,

in particular the towels, like, I've bleached, accidentally just bleached a lot of towels with just rogue sprays and it happened again yesterday, I'm like,

oh God, not again. You've had the conversation 300 times. It's because it removes the colour pretty much, God, not again. You've had the conversation 300 times. Because it removes the color pretty much straight away. It does. Straight away of the stuff. It goes into like a pinky sort of dot.

So then, genius, hack, get the bloody vivid out. Start coloring in the dots on the towel. None the wiser. None the wiser. There have been many bleach incidents over the years. These are at the life of the scale. When I used to smoke cigarettes, terrible habit. And it was sort of late teens, early 20s.

I was still at home. And some nights I would smoke so much, and this is so hot, very sexy, that I'd wake up with nicotine yellow stained fingers. Oh, my God, Jono. And so then to remove the nicotine, what I do is I dip my two fingers in a glass of bleach. So that would get rid of the yellow. Are you for real?

Yeah, it was just a bit of a routine that I do. I'm sure there was other options, but anyway. Soap, maybe? You did soap not work. Burning his hands. Straight to bleach. So I've done that one day, and then I'm just sitting on the couch in the lounge

and I hear mum in the kitchen going, like choking. I'm like, what's going on there? And then I'm thinking, I know what's going on there. I walked in, she's drunk in the cup of the glass of bleach. Now I've gone, who just

walks into a kitchen and drinks the first thing of liquid they've seen seen That's my defence She's going Who just leaves a glass of bleach Lying around in the glass I'm like fair play Listen we're both 50-50 on this one We're both in the wrong

She's like can you take me to A&E And they had to do some stuff there But yeah So that's a word to the wise Don't leave just bleach Sitting in glasses Also like I've had it before

It's splattered You know when you're using it In the laundry and stuff And it's splattered on a top of my wife's. Uh oh. And it's like, and I know it, well, there's only one option here, I can't get it out. I'm going to bleach the whole top and see if it's going to come out really cool. And then I can go back in and go, hey, look at this, I've made it and it's always it.

But no, it didn't quite work. Did you just cover the whole thing in bleach? I soaked it in bleach, left it in bleach because I couldn't get the bleach out. Oh my God. I couldn't get the bleach I was like that's gone it's got to be all bleach or nothing

and all bleach you should have bought her another one on the slide yeah I think I had to because all bleach wasn't what she wanted at the top it's like a weird

tie dye situation I was like this sort of faded sort of look I love the optimism of that I was like maybe this will be real cool I'll take it

I'll go hey look at this and she'll go oh wow that's even cooler than it was but no turns out no it wasn't The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Very embarrassed I'll take it and go, hey, look at this. And she'll go, oh, wow, that's even cooler than it was. But no. Turns out, no, it wasn't. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. Very embarrassed to admit this. It really made me think, am I too old to be in rave? Am I the Joe Biden of New Zealand broadcasting? Do you want me to answer that? No. Rhetorical question. Okay.

Okay. Spent probably 10, I'd say 12 minutes max yesterday wandering around the car park where we park our car. I'm like, where's my car? I can't find my car. I don't know where it is. And it probably resembles sort of, you know, when you see your granddad, your vacant granddad

who escaped from the retirement village. It's just kind of looking and checking and then going back to the same spot and checking again and i couldn't find out i couldn't find i just couldn't find my car and there's no cell phone coverage down in the garage so then i caught the lift back up and i was calling a tow company and i was like have you got my car they're like what's the registration and i'm like we don't have your car i was like you've got my car i'm just looking out on the yard so we don't have your cars like someone got the car on a truck is it making his way they're like i'll radio the team no we no one's got your car i was maybe a little bit uh strung

out through that phone conversation so then i went back down still couldn't find the car so i was like this is madness i go to the security office to watch some CCTV footage of the lowlife scum that has stolen my car. And then as I'm walking to the security box, at the corner of my eye, because I'm walking up the ramp of another level, I see our company's logo. And I'm like, hmm, interesting. And I walk closer and I inspect and I'm like, well, here are all my friends' and colleagues' cars

parked on this level. I'd been looking around the wrong level of the car park for 12 minutes, accusing poor tow truck drivers of taking the car. I was about to demand to watch CCTV footage. It's unusual because it's a routine you do every day, morning and afternoon. It's not like you're going into... I went B2, I didn't go B3. It's not routine you do every day morning and afternoon it's not like

I went B2 I didn't go B3 it's not like you've gone into a Westfield or something and you're like very confused you're just

idiot it's the same absolutely idiot my wife had the same she actually had it in the Westfield the other day she borrowed my car

and then she rang up what's the registration of your car and I was like oh no what's going on and then she's like I can't find the car

and then they can't find it on the and then I went tell you what I do I always look for the shop you know when you walk through I always try remember the shop she's like yeah thanks I don't need that right now but you're like that's some good advice for the future though obviously doesn't help you out but I do I make a note when you go on the ball she's like yeah I get it but don't right now that's not helping me find the car because I clearly didn't do i love giving out advice to stressed out people that doesn't help them in that moment did you do this though no clearly i didn't that's why i'm ringing you to find the car how'd they find it oh i found this i think she had to keep walking around over it much like you're just

pushing the alarm yeah uh it's a stressful time you're like oh god it's been stolen yeah the other thing too is they have some places you put your registration in, they've got cameras on every car. Yeah. And they show you exactly where you're parked. Not in that fancy car park. Not in that fancy car park, no. Just an idiot demanding CC security footage. Something that didn't

exist. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. That's a sexy taxi. That's what happens when you've been together for a while. You have to try and make things a little bit more sexy than they actually are. If you look hard enough, you can find the sexiness in anything, can't you? Can you? Maybe not those hairless cats, you know, those pink hairless cats.

I've tried. No, it's true. Not an ounce of sexiness in those. All right, Megan. You're not going to find the sexy in these texts Well you've just gone through like Gastro in your house Yeah

And stuff like that So it potentially relates to that Does it? I'm going to read it I'm going to sexify it with the tone though Yeah okay thank you My husband sent me this text Don't forget to get some of those

Runny bum pills for the future I text back Hot Oh he said you're trying to make it hot Yeah He said runny bum pills for the future. I took smack. Hot. Oh, he said you're trying to make it hot. He said, you'll thank me next time. I said, I've lost two kgs though. He said, I'm happy for you. Was it worth it?

And I said, not really. That's sexy. That's sexy. Who would have thought gastro could be that sexy? Now, if I could take you back 24 hours, maybe you were like, stop talking about my tummy butt. You keep bringing it up. You keep bringing it up.

You're the one bringing it up. You're right. Okay, now we stop. Just a quick one for me this week. My wife came into work the other day. She drops off my daughter. Oh, for the Christopher Luxon debate. And as she left, she did something she does

that a lot of people do in the studio. So I'll sexify her text afterwards. Shame. I just turned the light switch off thinking it was the exit button. She did too. She did. On her way out

by the hit studio. Everyone does it too because you've got to push buttons on every door apart from that one. She said, I hope, tell me everyone does that.

Me and Taylor both said, no, no one ever does. So she obviously text afterwards going, oh, jeez, what an idiot. Remember when you put up that prank sticker and it was a sticker next to the door

and it said clap to activate door? And boy, it would get everyone. I suppose if you see a sign, you're like, okay. And then people like double clap to wait for the door to open. Those are prank stickers that the kids have given me. And I was like, no one will fall for these, but people did. Well-respected guests coming to the studio clapping at the door. International guests.

That's a prank sticker, don't worry about it. Well-respected guests coming to the studio. Clapping at the door. At the door. International guests. Oh my God, that's so good. That's a prank sticker. Don't worry about it. Pay dividends, that prank. It was a lot of joy, didn't it? Listen, this is just a forwarded-on message. Straightforwarded-on message. Hi, Jennifer.

It's that time again for a renewal of your pest control program. I'm thinking maybe I'm the pest in this situation. It's essential to keep on top of this as rats and mice can harbor many diseases in their urine and excrement. Let's not forget the epidemic caused by the close association of rats when the Black Death caused the death of millions in 14th century Europe. Let's not forget that. And then it just says, look forward to hearing from you.

The Hits, the jonah and ben podcast you might have seen that around there's lots of electric scooters around uh every city you go to these days you can hire you uh sort of electric scooters but there's a new type uh that just come in when you can sit down oh yeah i love i love the look of those but then they do feel a little bit mobility scootery yeah yeah but i feel like they're safer uh yeah but i've always wanted to have a go on it uh one of those so i was like i saw her in the weekend my daughter and i were walking along and i saw one i was like oh can you mind and i'm like just get i was like whatever you need to do so i got on and i was sort of going would you ask her permission just

because we're walking together i was like it wasn't two so i was like do you mind if i get some people you see like, you know, there's some very ambitious, it's the new, when you put your friend on the bars of your BMX. Yeah. Sometimes you see like

four or five kids on one. You're like, jeez, that's ingenuity right there. Kiwi battlers. It's going to go wrong at any moment. So I was doing that

cruising along the road just slightly ahead of my daughter but not too far. And there was a little kid and he was on the old school scooter, you know, one of those. And he must have been, what, six or seven. And he there was a little kid, and he was on the old school scooter, you know, one of those. And he must have been, what, six or seven.

And he yelled out something. Now, I thought he was going to – like, you'd think in this situation he'd give me grief because I was on one of these scooters that looked like a mobility scooter. But I was wearing my New Zealand Warriors hoodie, and he just went, Warriors suck. As I sort of rode past, and I sort of went past, and all he said to me, the kid, just looked at me.

Honestly, he looks just like he had just started primary school. And I was just like, what? What? And it just rattled me. Yeah, it just kind of felt like one of those moments. That's all he said was, warriors suck. And he stood there. Like, he backed it.

He backed it. Yeah, but the thing is now, it puts you in an uncomfortable position. Because if you crack back, I know you want to crack back. Well, I'm not a crack back sort of situation person. But it kind of rattled me a little bit. But then you look petty if you crack back. Do you see this guy a crack back sort of situation, but it kind of, person, but it kind of rattled me a little bit. But then you look petty if you crack back. It's like,

do you see this guy who's bullying a poor six-year-old kid and you're like, the kid started bullying me first. But you don't play for the Warriors. No, I know,

but it still was like, it wasn't personal to you. Unnecessary. I like the Warriors, obviously wearing my hoodie with the Warriors on it. I was like, you know what sucks?

Not going through puberty yet, mate. Something like that. Yeah, that could have been a good, but then again, do I look petty as well? You do, you do. He goes, tells his parents, and he'd be like,

well, you're a grown man on a mobility scooter. Did you see that news? I think it was in Sydney only a couple of nights ago where there was a kid at a playground. He threw a rock at a truck. So the truck pulled over, and they took the kid, put the kid in the truck.

Oh, did they? And started driving the kid around the streets. What, to teach him a lesson? Teach him a lesson. Now, I like that. I think that's a great lesson to teach. Turns out the police

and the parents were entirely thrilled with the kidnapping of the child. But it turned into a whole thing. Like, police were chasing them. The parents chased them, pulled over, ripped the driver out and then the kids, you can hear the kid on some house security camera going, give me back my scooter!

Give me back my scooter! They had taken his scooter as well. So there you go, you could have taught that kid. I could have really escalated. Ben Boyce has kidnapped a six year old child. What did he say, warriors suck? I'm like what mate?