Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono falls for an AI news story about Taylor Swift

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

FULL SHOW:ON THE SHOW TODAY: Nicole from New York gives insight into a conversation P Diddy had with Kanye West from prison, plus is Justin Bieber leaving America? What did you learn way too late in your workplace? Jono thought he'd come across some Taylor Swift breaking news... Turns out he's been fooled by AI Ben reveals the interesting deal he's got with his kids to avoid vaping What did your parents bribe you with? Jono's friend is in his 40s and having to move back in with his parents.. we try to find the oldest listener still living at home Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganInstagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is the Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners that everyone will love. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Just looking into this, amazing news that happened last night in New Zealand, New Zealand middle distance runner, just 15 years old from Tauranga, he became the youngest person in history, in history, to break the four-minute mile, to run a mile in under four minutes. The crowd roars them down the home straight. Eric Comedia, Mount Smart Stadium. Sam Tanner's smiling. Sam Ruth's right there.

Woo-hoo! That's a sub four, baby. That's a sub four, baby. That's a sub four. That is what they call a sub four. Sam Ruth is his name. Well, that's so impressive. That is incredible. So baby. That's a sub 4. That is what they call a sub 4. Sam Ruther is his name. Well, that's so impressive. That is incredible.

So impressive. That's crazy. Just like breaking it down and making it sound like I've broken it down on a whiteboard. But thank you, ChatGPT. On average, to run that fast, so it's 1.6k, 3 minutes 58, is 24k's an hour you've got to be running. Wow. 24k's an hour you've got to be running 24 k's an hour obviously you probably wouldn't keep that consistently but on average he was running with Olympian Sam Tanner

which they mentioned in there and Sam beat him but only by like point like something of a second and I think he was helping him to keep pace and stuff so it was like keep up with me basically and yeah can you think of all the amazing runners around the world and over time and this is the youngest I think he was helping him to keep pace and stuff. So it was like, keep up with me, basically. And yeah, really incredible. You think of all the amazing runners around the world

and over time, and this is the youngest to ever do it from New Zealand. There's some great runners. Forrest Gump. One of the greatest runners. Long distance. Yeah, long distance. Super, super long distance.

Yeah, I don't know if he was running a mile under four minutes, but he ran a long time. He even slow and steady wins the race approach. I mean, that's, you know, the movie Chariots of Fire. That was all about breaking the four minute mile. They used to think it was impossible mean, that's, you know, the movie Chariots of Fire, that was all about breaking the four minute mile. They used to think it was impossible

and that was the whole movie, the premise of that movie. So yeah, it's pretty incredible. It's incredible. You know, what were you achieving when you were 15?

What's the greatest thing you achieved? I think I might have got my learner's license. Oh yeah. I remember having my first pass outside of KFC.

That's a big moment. And Nelson, were you going at the same pace at 24k's an hour? Probably. I reckon it would have been wild.

We had very different goals me and Sam Ruth at that age. What were the goals? Well, my goal was to get a pash. Under four minutes? This is to make

world history. East training. I mean, maybe you trained for it. I don't know. Did you pash Pre or post KFC Like had you just eaten KFC No there was no KFC consumed

Oh okay It just happened to be the location So you couldn't get a more New Zealand story Could you Also in Nelson I don't know if there is too many KFCs So now everyone knows exactly where that was They should put a landmark there

Megan Pappas first pash And people can have a photo there They Megan Pappas, first pash. And people are going to have a photo there, they could pash there as well. Would they? I don't know. Anyway, amazing Sam. Don't know how we ended up

pashing in Nelson, but anyway, congratulations mate. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. Welcome to the New Zealand Herald

Daily Quiz. Bit of general knowledge, bit of general guessing and the results are pretty much what you would expect most days. Yesterday, 60% on the test. Most of it through just guessing,

wasn't it? Yeah. Welcome back, Quiz Queen producer, Ellie. Hello, good morning. Lovely to have you here. It's good to be here.

How are you feeling? Yeah, good, good. I think you could get some of these. Some of these? All of them. Yeah, that's the problem when we give ourselves the, we're out when we get one wrong.

We played it like people can play it online at the Herald. You can get one wrong and carry on. Technically too wrong too because we've got a lifeline. Yeah, true. You're right. All right, question number one. Which actor stars in the movie Mickey 17? Robert Pattinson.

Made by Robert Pattinson. Nice. Well done. I like to see that. The night, right? Yeah. He does a great accent in that. What accent is it?

Like a different... It's American but it's like kind of... I was going to say Cockney American. I know that's not a thing but do you understand? Like a New York American.

Yeah. Alright, question number two. What year was the five cent coin withdrawn from circulation in New Zealand? Was it 2008, 2006, or 2004? I think it was 2004. It would have been a lot longer than you think.

Because they slowly did it, didn't they? They did the five-cent, then they did the 50-cent. Is 50-cent still on? It is still here, but it's smaller. Oh, the smaller, yeah, they shrunk it. Remember when they made the 10-cent bronze? It but it's smaller. Oh, the smaller, yeah, they shrunk it. Remember when they made the 10 cent bronze? It really irks me. Oh, yeah, same.

I know what you mean. Why does it need to be bronze? Cheaper. Cheaper to make, surely. Maybe that's it, yeah. Is that the earliest? Are you going to go with that? 2004.

Or maybe... No, if you're... Maybe. No, how are your facials? Is it 2004, 2006, 2008? Yeah Go middle of the road Or six or eight, yeah

Okay Go Megan, middle of the road Megan That is correct Megan Well done Thank you Megan, thank you Middle of the road by radio And middle of the road by nature By life

Alright, question number three Which US state has the only royal palace in the country? Is it California, Florida, or Hawaii? As in the British

royal palace? I don't think it's British. I think it's just the only royal palace. Maybe Hawaii? Oh, yeah, they had a bit of British stuff

going on there, didn't they? Maybe a Polynesian, you know, sometimes they have kings and I'm guessing. You want to look in Hawaii? Yeah, go for it.

That is correct. Boy, it's really lovely work. Four deep. Three deep. I'm just here for morale. Question number four. What is the basic ingredient for the drink Calvados? Calvados.

Apples, grapes or wheat? I don't even know what the drink Calvados? Calvados. Apples, grapes, or wheat? I don't even know what the drink is, to be honest. All right, let's use our lifeline here. 4487, that again. What is the basic ingredient for the drink Calvados? Calvados. Yeah. C-A-L-V-A-D-O-S.

Okay, if you know. And the options were? Apples, grapes, or wheat. A lot of texts coming through all saying apples. Yeah, about half a dozen. Thank you, everyone. From Harwood to Andres to Fiona, James, all appreciate you joining in. Locking apples.

That is correct. Well done. Thank you. That's how I fly used up. But I think it was worth it because I had no idea. How do you like them apples? It's a type of brandy, apparently. Oh, is it? From France.

Okay. Interesting. All right. I thought you would make it from hand, Megan. I thought you would rear your own apples. She put them figs yesterday. Now that I know how to make it from hand Megan I thought you would rear Your own apples She bought him figs yesterday Now that I know how to make it I will

She did She bought us figs yesterday We all had figs for the first time And went Oh yeah Everyone was like Oh yeah Okay

Yeah I guess But I grew from a twig Back to the next question Alright question number five What Auckland landmark Features on the Blues rugby team logo? Rangitoto. Yeah, yeah.

That is correct. Well done. Yay. All right, question number six. I've got a new mascot too which is like a volcano. Have you seen the mascot?

It looks like something is exploding like a pimple out of his head or something. It's a high concept because I guess but anyway.

It looks like an ambassador for Clarisse or something, yeah. All right, question number six. Which year was Tinder first launched? Was it 2013, 2014 or 2012? Oh, jeez.

You know, I've never been on Tinder. You're a bit old for it, aren't you? Hey. My marriage ended in 2012 and I think I would have known about Tinder I would have been like Yes After that? 2014? After 2012 I would say

Okay alright we're eliminating here You don't know how long things take to arrive in New Zealand That's true I mean less and less these days Was this pre or post When we were all taking photos of our genitals on Chatroulette? Was Chatroulette one of the – that was before? Yeah.

Because we'd make jokes about that, but that felt like that was years before Tinder. Tinder might have been a natural flow-on effect from that. Someone going, hey, surely we can make this interaction a little more classy. All right, let's lock in one. Megan, you're quite good at locking in. Oh, God. Should we go 2014? Okay.

No, but didn't you just say it would be earlier? No, no, no. I was saying Chatroulette would have been pre-Tinder. No, I think it was post. Chatroulette was post-Tinder. Oh, well, let's go 2014 then. That is incorrect. That was 2012.

Oh, so was that an option for you then? Yeah. Did we have it in New Zealand in 2012? Things could have ended up very differently. The pioneers of those sorts of things, they get mocked and bullied initially and then everyone else gets on board with it. And then everyone would be like,

online dating. I know. Now you're like, well, yeah, great. Now it's the norm. Jono, Ben and Megan. online dating. I know. You're like, well, yeah, great, great. Now it's the norm. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The heads. Nicole, she hosts the Breakfast Radio Show in New York.

She's our American correspondent. She joins us over Zoom and she's been waiting, I think. Jono, you haven't seen her waiting on Zoom for a while. How long have you been waiting on Zoom for, Nicole? Five minutes. Five minutes? That's good. Not bad.

One day, without a word of a lie, we left a guy in there for an hour and he was blind. Yeah, so he was blind. And yeah, and we poor guy waited for an hour For his interview and we had to reschedule it I left a blind guy Sitting in the bloody waiting room That's pretty pretty rough So stop complaining about your five minutes Jono's definitely done worse It's a lighter end of the scale

Justin Bieber this week There's big concerns around him Jono's definitely done worse. Yeah, it's a lighter end of the scale. Justin Bieber this week, there's big concerns around him, and he might be moving, might be leaving America. I mean, I think a lot of people are thinking about leaving America. But he's originally from Canada, so I guess it could make sense he could go back home to Canada. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he still has a home there, and I think that they actually spend a lot of time there. Yeah, he needs to go someplace where the paparazzi aren't going to like torture him.

I mean, he doesn't like even in New York City, like where the celebrities are like a little bit safer from paparazzi. He's not safe anywhere. And because he won't like doesn't want to talk to anybody, doesn't want to do music now. It's just they're hounding him more. And I feel like he's dealing with years of being like a child star his decisions weren't always his own and now it's catching up with him and I think that he probably needs a lot of therapy and who knows if he's even getting it but yeah he's not he doesn't look great and I think that uh that he's possibly sick of this country how bad is it for celebrities over there you know

you have people like Lady Gaga come into your radio studio like just could she walk out of the studio by herself or with the binder without getting no i mean we have they're definitely safer here than they are in la but a lot of the paparazzi know to hang around serious xm because they know that the celebrities are coming up there so if they even get an inkling that they're coming up there they just wait outside but a lot of times they'll take them down in a freight elevator. They can get out semi-scot-free. But yeah, it's better in New York than LA. Do you think the timing of the Bieber thing is interesting

with the Diddy trial starting in a month or so? Well, I guess they were quite close. Diddy helped kind of launch his career. He was there early on when he was young. As a very young child, yeah, almost, Dustin Bieber, right? Yeah, that boy has definitely seen things and done things that he probably shouldn't have ever seen or done. And I'm sure, again, this is like a lot of trauma coming back up.

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people wonder if he was going to be called to the stand in this trial. But I don't know. Did you see him talking to Kanye from jail? So he doesn't seem to think that he's going to stay in there. And I mean, I'm hoping he rots in jail. So I don't know. He was talking to Kanye in jail jail who was filming this kanye he was uh he was on the phone with him and he filmed it and then posted the conversation i love you so much man it's like

you raised me diddy was giving kanye like a pep talk. It was crazy. Really? Because there's rumors that Kanye is going to release a song with Diddy and Northwestern the song that maybe she's recorded ages ago or something like that. But obviously, Kim Kardashian doesn't want her child part of this. I mean, would you want your kid part of that? Absolutely not. You definitely don't want to be feeding in a Diddy song at the moment. Yeah, it's not ideal.

And I mean, she was like on top of the world being married to him. And then, wow, that was a bad, bad choice. I'm sure she's kicking herself now. And now she's like connected to him forever, you know? So I know that they were going back and forth. He was posting their conversations, like their text message conversations back and forth. But because he did that,

I think she's now going to try to take any custody that he has. Oh, so she's going for full custody of the children. Yeah, which I think is probably smart smart you do wonder like the difference between obviously the showman and then the real person and yeah what is the real person like compared to the showman i i think it i think they've melded i think they've become one which is probably part of the problem and besides the fact that he's clearly mentally ill and needs to be medicated. But I'm convinced that there's going to be

with other like personality disorders, mental disorders, that they will add in one day some sort of mental disorder that you get from being famous. Like there's no way that this doesn't affect people. I mean, look at like,

just look at Britney. It distorts your sense of reality. And we're starting to see it happen more because like we're in this social media age. And I'm convinced there will be something, a new diagnosis eventually. Yeah. It's not real. It's not ordinary life.

No, no. You're like a zoo animal. It's like crazy. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's a very good point. Dr. Nicole. Dr. Nicole.

Hey, Nicole. Thank you so much. Great to see you. Thank you, guys. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast podcast The hits Jutra Ali, welcome back Hello there, hi

Lovely to be with you Now Ali just said yesterday As we were leaving work She said I've just learnt something About this job And I'm embarrassed to admit it Yeah, so Can I pull back the curtain tune?

Yeah, yeah, go Ali's going to be leaving us She's already emotionally broken up with us Sorry So is this all about you exposing your incompetence? Yeah, pretty much I found this and went, oh, I've got to leave Classic X behaviour

What is it? So I didn't realise this But obviously we use Microsoft as like a company here We've got our Microsoft Outlook and OneDrive and all that kind of stuff Nightmare Yeah, I'm sure you don't know what i've discovered either i found the other day i clicked this link when i was talking to another guy in our team click this link and it took me to this new hub thing in the google chrome and i was like what is this oh my gosh i looked down the side and it's a whole messaging system that this company uses, like almost like instant messenger.

And I looked down, I've got like three or four unread threads from people. Oh, so dozens and dozens of messages. Yeah. And then I like see one from our boss, Matt Anderson, and there's a message in there from September, the month I started, saying, hey Ellie, just checking that you've got

all the show grids sorted out for the show. And you've never replied. And you've never replied. And I've never replied. What's it under? I can't remember. I don't even know if I could find it again if I tried. So you're like, gone and learnt this thing you didn't know about

and now you've forgotten how to use it. I don't even know how to get back there. And so I messaged Matt back and said, yeah, got them sorted. And he just cracked up and was like, you need to tell the team this. This is ridiculous. This has been this whole thing this whole time.

That's on them. Do you know about it? No. Okay, cool. Does it come through your emails though or not? I don't think it does. Because there's a whole lot of message stuff that people can do with messages and hearts and stuff like that.

And when your emails come through, they can just on that system. I don't know how to do that. Yeah, I like that. And people go, oh, they hearted your reply. So I wonder if that was. Oh my gosh. You know how you've got the focused inbox? like that. Yeah, and people go, oh, they hearted your reply. So I wonder if that was... Oh, my gosh. You know how you've got the focused inbox? There's like one inbox and then there's another inbox.

I wonder if it gets sent to the other inbox and I'm not looking at that inbox either. No one looks at that other inbox. Why have they got the other inbox? I have no idea. Why isn't there just one big inbox? I don't know. I'm with you.

But I've definitely missed many messages from people and they probably all think I'm incompetent and rude, but I'm not. I just didn't know that existed. That's on them for not telling you when you started that that existed. Thank you. But then I like not knowing it exists. The best thing you can do if you're bad at admin

is I put an automatic reply on all emails saying, I don't check this email. That is smart. Is it on all your emails? Yeah. Every time I email them, I get that. So which email do you check? I was like, if you need to get a hold of me,

fire it through to this one. And that's done well. That's done really well. And then you fire it through to that one, and it's like, I don't check this one. Okay, I won't hold it to that. How long have you been in a job, and what have you just learned?

What have you just learned that you probably should have known the entire time? Maybe it's because you lied on your CV. Can I ask a question about this work? Yeah. Is it NZME or NZME? Oh, that's a great question. Technically, it's an acronym.

So it stands for New Zealand Media and Entertainment. Because I've been saying NZME is the company we work for, but I heard it on the news on another station the other day say NZME. And I'm like, oh, my God, I've been working here for five years. Have I got the company name wrong? They colloquially pronounce it M-Z-Me, but it's technically an acronym. M-Z-M-E.

So we'll accept both. They need a dot between the N, the Z, the M, and the... Because they've got a dot at the end, I noticed. Because you know around here, they like that thing where they're like, connect me, and like, something me. Yeah. Honour me, love me.

Fire me. Sounds a bit desperate. No. Touch me. Jonoo Ben and Megan the podcast that's something not so impressive yesterday that popped up on the group chat right um uh Jono sent a picture um that he'd found on social media and was like like blown away yeah like here we go here we go. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I won't say anything. I'll just let the story be told.

Yeah. The picture comes through of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey holding up, is it a sonogram? Yeah. Saying that they are pregnant with their first child. And looking very,

they look very happy. Very happy. Would be if they were having, yeah, announcing to the world that they are pregnant. And what was Jono's message? Because we talked to Nicole and he was like, ah, here's something we can talk to Nicole about.

We've just missed her. Devastated. And that's when you get a message from Producer Grace saying that you've been tricked by AI. AI. And everyone else going, did you even Google this at all or like any other website my thing is now you're mocking me like that lady who's in love with brad pitt yeah yeah i feel like her but my thing is is you you take these things blindly and you don't even question it for a second oh look go hang on is this a thing

yeah listen i take your, I take your thing. I take your thing about me. But my thing is, what monsters are wasting their time putting this news on the internet? Well, I thought about that because that's what you said on the chat. But I thought for many years you had a TV show where you pranked the media. And you put out things. You, yourself, would put out fake whalers and people. You wasted many hours.

Yeah, true. Putting people on breakfast shows. That's the modern day equivalent of what you did. And it's a lot easier now. A lot less labour required. Matty McLean, I think you tricked him with an invisibility cloak that was getting for sale on Trade Me. We did too.

You put it up there, somebody gets selling this cloak. We had Paul Henry on Breakfast interviewing Guy Williams before Guy Williams was really known as a pro whaler. He was all about pro whaling and he said we should be farming the whales. So this is payback.

Well I'll take it on the chin. I must admit when I did click on the article and the article was a very niche website but also just sort of broken up the parts of the article per paragraph by either bikini babes who are wanting to hang out with me, or

shirtless dudes who earn $15,000 an hour working from home. And I was like, oh, this is an interesting angle of advertising. Also, there's just no way that Travis and Taylor would announce it like that. Sitting there in their jerseys, holding up a sonogram, being like, yay! How am I to know?

Your response was expletive. And the internet. Sitting there in their jerseys, holding up a sonogram, being like, yay. How am I to know? I think it's pretty obvious. Your response was expletive. And the internet. Who does this for a living and what value are they adding to this world apart from making me look like an arsehole? Well, that's what he did for many years, I'd just like to say. Payback. Payback. It's a nightmare.

Also, we need to keep an eye on you on the internet. You're definitely going to fall for a prank. Juice and Grace is very worried about that. You're going to lose all your money. Why don't we just reset the internet? It's got away on us. Push the reset button. Let's start again. We're all worried about AI. Let's take it back to the beginning.

Okay? It's got out of hand. John O'Bannon and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Our merch madness. We are in the middle of collating all of the corporate merchandise from around the country for March. At the end of the month we're going to give it all away but not before Megan Pappas, the merch maiden, models

every one of these corporate items and then we're going to give it away. But I tell you what, the package is coming in thick and fast. We're dealing with more packages than a Mexican cartel at the moment. It's very busy. Producer Ali, you're having to manage all the incoming mail. It's a lot.

It's like a logistics job I've now got, you know? Now, we've got someone on the phone who's actually sent us a package. Stephanie, good morning to you. Good morning, guys. How are you? We're doing well. Happy Merch Madness. This is such a cool idea.

I absolutely love it. So brilliant. Isn't it? It's so fun. Okay, so Stephanie, we've actually got your package. Did you send a blue New Zealand Post package, did you? Yep, I'm

pretty sure I did and it's got my name on it. I was going to say, it's got her name on the back. So open it up. Is that it? I was trying to work it out yesterday what it was and my guess was some sort of cowboy hat. Oh, yeah, there it is. Whoa, if I had a prize I'd give you one. Good guess. There's of cowboy hat. Oh, yeah. There it is. If I had a prize, I'd give you one. Good guess.

There is a cowboy hat in there. There is a cowboy hat. But wait, is there a signature on the side? There is a signature on the side, yes. Whose cowboy hat is this? It's mine. So I'm actually a country pop singer-songwriter. And I don't actually know if you guys remember,

but you guys played my song, What Would Dolly Do, when it was released last year in May. That's right. So this is kind of cool to be reconnected, and I had to send you guys some things for that. Oh, and a t-shirt as well. Very cool. Stephanie, thank you so much.

The Saddle Up Sisters, the tour t-shirts we're looking at right now. Yes, so that was just a shout-out to my country sister, Miranda Eason, who also went out on a tour with me last year. We toured all over the country playing my new EP, Pillars, which charted at number six on the official charts. It's awesome. Jeez, that's incredible. I sent you guys a few of those, a couple stickers,

because I'm just that kind of person. I don't know why I like stickers, but you know. You're either a sticker person or you're not, although Megan's daughter went and put stickers all over her bedroom. She's a sticker girl. Overnight, she's also a sticker girl. Oh, that's very cool. Oh, you've sent us some music too. Amazing.

Yeah, of course. Yeah, and so if you open that EP up, you'll see there's a little Wee signature in there as well. Signed merch as well to give away. This is amazing. Straight from the artists too. Now also we've had a wide spectrum of musical merch come in too.

We had Acid Morph, the heavy metal band. We can combo them up together. A cowboy hat with a heavy metal T-shirt and all sorts. With a hiver's vest. Multi-genre. 2025, anything can happen. I appreciate it. While you're there, Stephanie,

have you got any gigs coming up that you'd like to promote? Yes, I do. I actually, next weekend I'll be performing at the Southern Spice Festival at Fairmead Heritage Park, which is going to be awesome. So if anyone likes hot food, hot food music, that's the place to go. Hot food music. And if you don't So if anyone likes hot food, hot food music, that's the place to go. Hot food music. And if you don't like both music and hot food,

well then, you couldn't think of a worse nightmare. Well, lovely. Exactly. Lovely talking to you again. Thank you so much for sending that out and being part of Merch Madness. No worries.

Thanks so much, you guys, and hope you enjoy the merch. That's so good. If you want to send it through, you can text MERCH to 4487. Jono, and hope you enjoy the merch. That's so good. If you want to send it through, you can text merch to 4487. Jono, Ben, and Megan, the podcast. I made a mistake a couple of years ago of talking to my daughter, my oldest daughter, Sienna, about what my mom used to do back in the day for me.

My mom was worried about me smoking through my teenage years. She had been a smoker for a little bit, not for ages, but she was like, once she starts, very hard to stop. And she was like, I don't want you to be a smoker. I didn't really have a lot of interest in smoking, to be honest. Not a lot of my mates did it or anything like that. I know that some people did, some people did it, each to their own, but it wasn't really for me.

But mum was like, I don't want you to be a smoker. I'll pay you some money every year as a gift. An annual salary. Yeah, to not smoke. I was like, sweet, this is great. Like a cancer-free cash carrot. Yeah, like a little bribe. Would you get it in December if you'd gone 12 months?

So I'd either get the money or I'd get it if I wanted a gift throughout the year. I'd be like, this is my smoke-free gift. I feel ripped off. I didn't get this. Well, this is my mum. This was her policy. So I made a mistake of telling my daughter about that. And then she kind of, she played it well, played to her. She was her she was like well you know vaping's a big thing dad oh here we go

you know teenagers you don't want me vaping do you do you what how about you know how about you get me an anti-vape gift and i was like all right okay so i did this a couple of years ago and then now my other daughter indy's now gonna stage me she's like you know vaping's a big thing you don't want me vaping do you big guy and so now now they want annually because they're like you said i don't know why i told them it was an annual thing for my mom and now i'm i'm getting two gifts a year for my kids not vaping they're invoicing you and i'll tell you what i feel like this is a slippery slope though because like dad i'm thinking of becoming a gambling addict can you pay me not to start playing the pokies every year i, every year I stay out of prison,

can you give me a cash payment? All right. I was going to get a face tattoo. You better pay me not to. Yeah, you're right. I've got to draw the line somewhere, right? But at the moment, I'm getting a gift. My wife's like, why did you talk about this?

And why are you doing this every hour? You're basically paying them for stuff they haven't done anyway. Yeah, and have no interest in doing. Yeah, well, probably not. Although it is pretty rampant around you know the teenagers and vaping these days you know yeah it feels like everyone and you know through those those times people do experiment i guess also are you doing some kind of test to make sure no i haven't are you just going on there good word are you yeah that's

all my mum did but i mean that was a shocking thing to do. Because then they could be like I'm not going to get a boyfriend until I'm much older so you can pay me every year I don't. But then they just

have one on the sly. You realise they have the option of not telling you every day but also collecting their salary.

Collecting their gift every year. There's huge holes in your. I know. There's probably a lot of parents out there that have

either done this to their child or had it done to them when they were kids as well. Some sort of a weird arrangement that you had. And I'm like, how long is this going to go for? Are they going to be like 50 years old going, hey dad, I'm still not vaping. Text 4487, did your parents bribe you

when you were growing up or are you bribing children? Yeah, hopefully your own. I'm still open to be bribed by my parents if they were up to it. Yeah, well, you're right. I'm still not smoking, Mum. You know, when did I say? And if any kids are listening to this right now, you've opened the big box now. I do.

You can imagine how many conversations are going on in the car. I'm sorry. I should have done it. I know. I shouldn't have done it. I told the story way before I thought this was going to be a thing. We should definitely call your mum and see if she's open and still backpaying you. They're paying me, mate.

Still not smoking. Well, actually, if Sienna and India are listing back payments, you haven't vaped your whole life. Yeah, there's a point there. From 14 years of back payments, baby. Someone's very upset by this, and I don't disagree. We shouldn't reward children for doing what should be expected of them. This is what's wrong with kids.

They have expectations of entitlement. Thanks for not murdering anyone. Have a car. I know, but it's also never too young to learn about the benefits of bribery and corruption. I mean, murdering is quite an extreme situation, right? Yeah, but still, you'd want a car for that. I mean, most people like going through their teenage years

going out and trying murder. It's their thing if they like it. Whereas vaping's a little, you know. In your daughter's case, you're rewarding them for their entrepreneurial thinking. That's business, baby. Turning good behaviour into a capital enterprise.

Making the world go round. Let's get Yvette on the phone. Were you bribed when you were growing up by your parents, Yvette? I was. My mum was the queen of bribe. When I was little she bribed me with my little pony to get my hair cut short. She said I looked so pretty with my hair short

because I had a small flat face. So I did it. I got the My Little Pony. Spent the week crying because I got teased at school for looking like a boy. Was it worth the My Little Pony? No, I've never cut my hair since. Oh, you haven't? You've got a small little face still though?

No, no. That's not a bad bribe though, the old mild old pony. Great text here. I told my daughters that I pay them a dollar a day if they brush their teeth. Jeez, that's going to add up. Oh, that is. That's definitely going to add up. That is going to really add up. Daughters, plural. Yeah.

My mate did it to his son before a rugby season. He was like, every try you get, I'm going to give you five bucks. Ended up, he was like, the kid just didn't pass the ball to anyone in school. So many tries. He had to go, great that you're getting all this money, but you're like, you need to share it around a little bit. Yeah, you need to be a team player.

That's not how rugby works. He was not a team player. When he'd come home and go, five tries today, Dan. He'd be like, yeah, but mate, you've got to pass the ball. He didn't stipulate that. Here's a great way to text 4487. My parents would pay my brother $20 for every A on his report card. But I only got $20 if I got all As.

So there you go. That's the younger one benefiting from the older one's hard work there, isn't it? And another text has just come through, 4487. Hi, Ben, I'm a kid, and thanks heaps for the idea. We'll be pitching it to my parents this evening. Uh-oh. Wait for that text from the parents tomorrow. Jono, Ben, and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Now, I used to host at the petrol station. Jeez, it had a first, absolute first. I was standing waiting to pay. Hang on. Yeah, see, I think you just need to do the pump. Most service stations have the pay at pump.

Oh, I want to get a drink, too. Oh, okay. I think you just need to do the pump. Most service stations have the pay at pump. Oh, I want to get a drink too. Oh, okay. I forget that you go in and pay. Yeah, you often talk about going in and pay. Yeah, no, I do. You really are Joe Biden, aren't you? I want to get a drink. Is an old man not allowed to quench his thirst in the petrol station?

He needs to use the bathroom too probably as well. I do. I do. And there's no greater crime scene than a petrol station bathroom. Been into one of those lately? No. I haven't been to a petrol station for a long time. So I was standing at the counter and then behind me I could

feel the person's nose breath blowing on my neck and I was like damn these social distancing is a thing of the past. Yeah it is. Isn't it? He was so close I could smell his shampoo, basically. That's a good sign that you're standing too close, isn't it? Yeah.

If I turned around, my lips would have grazed against his. That's how close it is. But I didn't say that. You don't say anything in that situation. You just sit there going, I'm pretty sure that's his nose breathing on my neck. Some people are more comfortable with space being close than other people are. I mean, there's times. Concerts, absolutely.

You've got to be crammed against other people, don't you? Transport, where you're all packed in, public transport and stuff. You just roll with it. Yeah, but you're all crammed in in that sense. Yeah, true. There's not an option to be further away. Group lovemaking sessions, can't avoid it. You know, there are situations.

Again, there's a reason. But like in that scenario, he just doesn't have a bubble and he's but you're right you do stand some people do stand behind you and they've got no issue with it no no issue with it but like what's the what's a good distance for you okay if i was standing behind you in a line where would you want me i feel like you can feel it yeah as soon as you start feeling the other couple sets away probably you just got to vibe it, do you? Yeah, vibe it.

Yeah, again, it depends on how long the line is. Yeah. If there's lots of people, then obviously, you probably get closer. But in this situation,

there's just two of you, right? Just two of me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that feels like, you could be quite far back in that situation, right? Yeah.

And I could probably stand closer to you than a stranger. Like, when you don't know them, you're like... Yeah. Just other people's, you know... General rule with with breath you only want to deal with your own and even i don't

want to deal with my own at times that's for sure john o ben and megan the podcast speaking of all things overseas my friend he's been living over there for a number of years and uh he's making his way back soon but he's he's got a job to go to, but the job is in Christchurch. So he grew up in Auckland, and the job doesn't start for a number of months. But he's going to move back. And it was discussed that maybe it would be an opportunity to resettle in, reclimatise to the tall poppy culture that we have here in New Zealand. Get abreast of local events,

things to moan about on Talkback Radio, et cetera. Good for you for using abreast in a sentence. Yeah. Good stuff. And basically he's going to move back in with his parents for seven months. Yeah. Now, he's like, I don't know how I feel about this.

He's coming out of retirement to move back in. Yeah, well, especially what is he in his 40s, right? 44. Yeah. When did he leave home? Do you know? Oh, jeez. Well, like I said, he's been overseas, it feels like a decade now.

Yeah. Long haul. So, I mean, the problem is, you know, that sounds weird looking at it from the children's point of view where you're like, oh, could not do that for seven months. But also from the parents' point of view, they've got a whole new system now. They thought they're done with you. Their job was to raise humans they can't live without to live without them. They've done that, box ticked. So they've got all their little activities.

They've got their things that they do in the house now. Your room is their hobby room. Yeah, absolutely. They've got their systems, whatever weird systems they're doing at their boomer age. They're doing all that. They've got the chase on 5.30. They've got a routine. They're squeegeeing the shower.

Muting the ads. Is it too loud? And you come back and you're throwing them all out of whack. So we need to look at both sides of the discussion. Yeah, exactly. You're right. Like I would say I would really struggle with this situation to live with my parents.

But I think they would, on the flip side, they would as well they'd be like oh god he's still there because i have my things would mess their things up you know although i did live with a for a month i lived with my mother-in-law joyce just me and her uh and that was great just the two of you yeah great before my wife went over we were going overseas to do our oe she went over early i had to finish up some work and so I stayed with Joyce and it was great it was great we had a great time

he's like I think I fell in love with Joyce I thought it was great we were back the sport was on the meals were cooked the washing was done I think I like the older version

Joyce is a big sport fan too oh yeah she watches more sport than me that's for sure so this is what we want to shack open 0800 the hits 4487. The oldest person living at home with their parents now. So maybe you went away and came back,

or maybe you've just hung in there and stuck it out. I mean, I'm sure there's loads of people who have been in a marriage or relationship and that marriage has gone its separate ways and you have to move back in with the olds. Mum, I'm coming back. They don't want to hear that. Chris, morning to you. Yeah, morning,. Mom, I'm coming back. They don't want to hear that. Chris, morning to you. Yeah, morning, morning.

Lovely to have you on. Now, it's not you who's still at home with the parents, but a friend of yours? A mate of mine, yeah. He's 43 and he's seriously never left home, ever. Never? Right. Interesting. And I imagine amongst the friend group, this is not a source of rich comedy and mockery.

It's not something you bring up, but it's something that everyone talks about behind his back. And on the radio. And what's his reasoning? Has he given a reason? No reason at all. He's like the kid that never grew up. You'd think he'd have a whole lot of money living at home, but he doesn't. He has three cars that don't work sitting on the lawn, and he's just never going to

leave home. And I think one day he's going to struggle because he's actually got no life skills. But do you think it's because the parents are making it too good? Are they still doing stuff for him? Oh, I think they rely on each other. Like the mum's a bit of a gambler and relies on him for his money, and he relies on her just to live. There's a lot going on there. There's a lot going on there.

There's a lot going on there. Okay, well, hey, thank you. Thank you for your call. 43? 43, still at home? I suppose you'll probably get past the point. I imagine if you hit 30, you're still at home. You're like, oh, this is life.

A good text come through from an Indian family, saying it's normal to have multi-generations living together. So, yeah, there is that as well too, right? Yeah, and I think like a lot of South African families, because my husband's South African, often they marry out of the house. So it's not until they get married until, yeah, they don't do flatting like we do in New Zealand.

Jeez, I imagine the parents are out there in bloody Johannesburg pimping the boys out, aren't they? 27 years old, having them on the street. Buy them, take them. We've got Lance with us on 0800. It's Lance, welcome. How you going? Yeah, we're doing well.

Now, you've had to move back home. Yeah, yeah. So back home after a split marriage and living with Ma and Pa. How is it going? Because you've had that life where you've had your own independence. Freedom. Yeah. Yeah, no, loving it.

Loving it. We've got our own lounge TV. It's awesome. Oh, I thought it was sarcasm at the start, but it sounds like it's good. Yeah, oh, yeah. Meals are great. It's hard to actually want to leave. Oh, true.

That sounds sweet to me. It sounds too good to be true. Do you have to pay rent or a board or anything like that? I can neither confirm nor deny on that. This sounds so good. And so when you say we, who's moved back with you? I've got my boy that I have week on, week off. And then I've also got my girlfriends moved in with me too.

Oh, so everyone's there. Set up. That sounds like a sitcom that you watch on TV. And everyone else, your girlfriend, your son, they're all loving the arrangement? Oh, yeah, definitely. Oh, sounds good. That is great.

Well, if everyone's happy. Yeah, that's right. If everyone's happy. How long were you meant to be there, and have you got any plans to move out, Lance? Yeah, well, absolute homes. We plugged for them, building our house at the moment.

So as soon as that's built, we're moving out. There we go. It's a big old rebuild and reset on life, I imagine, once you have a marriage split. So much fun. That's sarcasm. That's sarcasm. I appreciate your call this morning. I appreciate

everyone's texting. Keep this coming through. Let's get Anna on. You're still at home, are you, Anna? Yeah, no, I am. I'm one of those ones still at home. Did you ever move out? No, actually, I did.

Both my partner and I did. So he was living in Australia, and I was living in Auckland. And then I broke up with my partner, and my current partner ended up moving back. It was really weird. And then we kind of just met each other back home, and I rang up with my partner, and my current partner ended up moving back. It was really weird. And then we kind of just met each other back home, and I rang up the parents. I was like, oh, I'm going to come back home. And they were like, all right, sweet as.

So they were already on a farm. And then, like, long story short, we ended up buying a dairy farm all together. And now we're all living together, and I've got two kids, and yeah. Oh, so the whole family's all living together. How does that work out? Are there tense times? Oh, yeah, definitely. Like, yeah, there is.

There is moments where, you know, we're at each other and we just need a bit of space. But at the end of that, it's really nice to be with my parents and my grandkids to be with, like, their grandkids to be with them, you know? That's cool. And I imagine a dairy farm, it's not like living in an apartment, you know? So you've probably got a bit of space. Yeah, true. Heaps of space, yeah got a bit of space. Yeah, true.

Heaps of space, yeah. Heaps of space out on the land. And babysitters on tap as well. Yeah. Although we don't like to ask all the time, though, because it's like you don't want to take the mickey, you know? Go on, Yana. Well, it's working out for you.

Love it. Thank you so much. Harry, morning to you. Now, this is kind of the opposite, Harry. Good morning. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well you tell us your story well i was five years old when i was sent to a boarding school

and i've never lived at home ever since so you never lived at home after that from five years old nope wow so would you go home like for holidays the holiday time but never actually lived again at home no i was just at home for about six months when I was doing my preparation for my higher studies, and that's about it. Oh, they do. I mean, some families have to send their kids to boarding school, yeah.

Do you think that's affected your relationship with your family? Are you close with them? No, absolutely not, no. Because we had long vacations for about three months between November and we finished end of November and we went back to school in March. Oh, nice.

So I was there for about two and a half months. And apart from that, between March and November, I was through at the boarding school for nine months. So what you're saying is it's only like half a year until I can send Basti to boarding school? Yes. All right. Five. Get them out the door. So what you're saying is it's only like half a year until I can send Bastie to boarding school? Yes, it's good. All right. Five.

Get them out the door. Get them out working. Thank you so much. And Enoch. Now, this is our friend Enoch. You escaped Gloria Vale, didn't you? Hello, John. How are you?

Lovely to hear from you. Now, Enoch, at what age did you flee Gloria Vale, the commune? 15 years of age. Jeez, and you came out into the real world, and we taught you about phones and all the stuff you'd been missing out on. Yeah, I remember our last chat, but

yeah, no, it was good. Yeah, it was good. Now, what was it like, because, you know, this is all you knew. This was your life in Gloria Vale. As a 15-year-old, how was it? Oh, well, you know, you grab me, you don't know much different apart from what happens in there. So, you know, I decided to leave for a better life and to get ahead and, you know.

And is life better now, Enoch, away from there? It's great. You only grow with age. Yeah, and I guess the things you've probably experienced over the last couple of years have probably been incredible. Yeah, but, you know, all things good. Oh, good on you. Do you still talk to people from Gloria Vale?

Yes, I do. They bring my mum once every week. Oh, that's nice. She came up for a week visit back in June last year. Oh, that's nice. She came up for a week visit back in June last year. Oh, that's nice. You can still interact. Well, lovely to hear from you again, mate. You look after yourself, all right?

You too. See you, buddy.