Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono is blatantly stealing ideas!

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Megan speaks up! Disaster moments at the open home! Ben is on USA news Megan's got drama over... Maui? You've never been on a bus?! We are boycotting the music... Will Jono get cancelled this riddler? Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. I was just talking about something, and something that's winding us both up at the moment is Margot Robbie, you know, famous actor, Barbie movie, she's pregnant at the moment, which is amazing, but the online trolling that she's getting because she's out and about pregnant, it's just crazy. It was getting me angry last night. What's happening? She's one of the most beautiful women in the world,

but yet not immune to being trolled. And these awful comments that are coming through because she's pregnant. People saying it's like your favorite pub burning down. She used to be hot was another one I was reading before. Yeah. Shame her body's gone now. Her body's gone to toast and stuff. This is crazy that people think they have the right to comment on anyone else's body.

And they also put it on a public platform. Period. I always think like this is someone's sister, well, soon to be mother, daughter. If you wouldn't say it to someone in your life, your mother, your grandmother, your daughter, your sister, don't say it to someone else's loved one. Yeah. One says she's let herself go. She's creating a life. How do you think you got here, sunshine?

Yeah, it was like Margot Blobby was another one. It's just disgusting as well. As a dad with daughters and you want to talk about body positivity and things like that, and then to see that happening to someone like Margot Robbie, you just may, oh, guys, stop. But bodies take on so many forms over your lifetime. They will change. They will age. They will be pregnant.

The least important thing your body will be in your lifetime is pretty change they will age they will be pregnant the least important thing your body will be in your lifetime is pretty to someone else it does so many incredible things including create a human and they're sitting there calling her blobby it's just as pathetic honestly crazy that sometimes the internet comment section just turn it off and she will be she's gorgeous not that we need to comment but like she will be so in tune and sensitive

herself about the changes not only externally but internally that's going on she doesn't need your comments no

she doesn't need you to tell her she's very well aware how does she know what I'm thinking though if we can't post stuff on the

internet tell you what you know I don't care what anyone's thinking really tell you what you know when

Megan's angry when she calls you sunshine that's when you've reached a level of yeah I was already winding me up I don't care what you're thinking. I don't care what anyone's thinking, really. Tell you what, you know when Megan's angry when she calls you sunshine? That's when you've reached a level of... Yeah, it was really winding me up. But they don't go on like Rihanna or anything. Why are they going on... Oh, no, there's ones as well.

Same with Rihanna as well. Same with that. It's crazy. The right to even comment on stuff, but even the right to comment on someone else's body. Her purpose in life isn't to be aesthetically pleasing to you. Well, I imagine everyone who's commenting has got a magnificent body. Nothing wrong with their bodies. Must be picture perfect like Roman gods.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I'm looking into potentially going up to 120 k's an hour on some new highways in New Zealand. Doesn't that just mean everyone will go 130? It does. Because there's always 10, 20 k's grace. I don't think the speed cameras work like that. Didn't you say you were only going to save like 45 seconds?

I think in the new Christchurch one or something. They were only looking at 110 though, weren't they? Yeah, and it will save 49 seconds, I think, the trip. So you're only going to probably save like two minutes. Exactly. Is it worth it for the danger? No. I cannot afford to lose any more demerit points.

I want 85. 85 for the next two years. I cannot afford to lose any more demerit points. I want 85. 85 for the next two years. I've only got 15. And you're a shocking driver. Shocking driver. Like, not now. I'm being very careful now. I've only got 15 points

to play with over two years. I can't do anything. That's going to go at some stage. I don't know when I've ever lost demerit points. Neither. Neither.

It's taken me 42 years, but yeah. Just be careful out there, guys. Yeah. But, Ben, you weren't too careful in an open home. Well, yeah. You were getting demerit points Neither It's taken me 42 years But yeah Just be careful out there guys Yeah But Ben You weren't too careful In an open home Well yeah

You were getting demerit points For open homing Yeah exactly We're not even looking For anything in particular We're just doing the thing When you walk around The neighbourhood

As a family You're like Oh These are new sort of places Shall we go have a look Let's go have a nosy Nosy What a sticky beat mofo

Oh you just feel like What are these sort of things Have you ever done this Yeah No Yeah They're brand new houses It's not like you're going Through anyone's actual house They're all like Nosy. Nosy. What a sticky beak mofo. Oh, you just feel like, what are these sort of things? Have you ever done this? Yeah. No. Yeah. They're brand new houses. It's not like you go through anyone's actual house.

They're all like, yeah. Oh, no, I do that. These have been actually built and stuff. Or around the neighborhood where there's open home. Or like your neighbor's house. And it's kind of nice to know what the area is like and stuff from someone here. Like, oh, we actually live here. But they don't know that.

Have you never like, there's an open home in your neighbor's house. And you're like, I'm going to go look. Because I've never been in. No, there wasn't. I sit on the outside and I never go in. like, there's an open home in your neighbour's house and you're like, I'm going to go look because I've never been in. I sit on the outside and I never go in. No, there wasn't. I don't need to sit inside there. Fair enough. But we went inside and had a look around. I said to the kids

that were with us, I said, hey, best behaviour of not a house sort of thing. Take your shoes off and go around and have a look. Pretend like we're buying too. Pretend like you're looking. And then they went and were like, can we go outside? I'm like, yeah, you can go outside. There's a little astroturf area. I was explaining to this to you guys the other day. And then I hear quite a commotion right outside.

One's in tears. Someone had done a handstand. The handstand had gone wrong. Hit the other one in the ear. There was tears. And it knocked over a whole lot of pot plants as well. Fortunately, nothing broke. But you're just like, guys, what did I say?

The handstands could have been done out on the footpath. Yeah, exactly. And yeah, they're generally great kids, but on this occasion, not the great place to do a handstand. Open homes are a hostile environment too, I find, too. When you're either looking at a rental or at an open home, you feel like there's an air of tension amongst everyone wandering around the house. Yeah, because they're probably looking, oh, they want it. Oh, they want it.

What are they saying to the person? Oh yeah, yeah, exactly. And then you panic because they're like, what's your price range? This is valued at two mil and you're like... Oh yeah, you know, we're just in the market for that. I do find myself judging everyone else's socks too. You know, when they take their shoes off. Oh, you've got some

non-mismatched ones there. Inside out socks. So, I'll wait until that hits. What's happened in the open home? You used the bathroom at open home, didn't you? Yeah.

Which I think. I love how I like, I will never go into my neighbour's house. But I'll like, yeah. Use the bathroom. Yeah, well,

it's a double standard there. Like that's. Yeah, use the bathroom. But not for anything crazy. Not like. Just number ones. Yeah.

I mean, what's the alternative? Go in the kids' sandpit out on the lawn? No, go somewhere else that's not that. There's not a good alternative. We were stranded. There was no good alternative for me or for the homeowners, apart from using the tech that was designed.

I don't know why I feel so weird about that, but I do. Yeah, I feel weird about that too. I sat down. I sat down to make sure it was all. That's worse. Why is that worse? See, you've got cheeks to see. Yeah, they're like, oh, there's some random guy. Why is that worse? Now you're. So you've got cheeks to seat. Yeah.

They're like, oh, there's some random guy. It's like at least if you're doing these, you're standing up. Yeah. How was the open home? I don't know, but someone took a pee in the bathroom. But they're not going to go sit on the seat and go, I can feel someone else's cheeks on this seat. They're never going to know.

No one's ever going to know. Wow. You get dirty cheeks off this. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I want to know what happened in the open home after my kid's handstand went slightly array, caused some tears, caused some things to be knocked over. So we want to know if you can beat that. Do you reckon the agents know if you're authentic or not?

I reckon they know as soon as you step in. Maybe. But you try to know your best performance if you're snooping. Yeah, but then maybe you don't want to judge people as well, because you never know, you know. You never know someone's financial situation. Let's go to the phones. Julie, you are on this morning.

How's life? Hello. All good. All good, thank you. How are you guys? Yeah, good, good. So I'm glad you gave us a quick snapshot of life there too. We didn't have time for you to go into deep dive too far.

What happened to you in the open home? Okay, so I was like, you've got three kids, took them along to the open home. They were about, how old? Eight, nine and eleven at the time. So we're walking around the house, left them in the living room to hear a load of giggling and thought, oh, it's alright, they're behaving.

Next thing I know, they're screaming and shouting. And my three kids decided to make a doggy pile in the middle of the living room. What's a doggy pile? Well, anyone that's got kids knows what a doggy pile is. It's where one person lays on the bottom and everybody else jumps on top of them and makes a great big stack of kids. Yeah, gotcha.

Normally there's more than three, but my three could do that on their own. So the next thing I know, there's a load of screaming and shouting and crying. And I walk in and I'm a typical mum and I'm like, get up. You're embarrassing. What are you doing? Tell them off. Pick up the youngest one because she's crying. Oh, my ankle hurts.

And she wouldn't quit. So I took her outside, threw her in the car. And I was like, you know what? You're embarrassing. This is what happens when you muck around. Took her home and I was like, you know what, you're embarrassing. This is what happens when you muck around. Took her home and I was like, oh, her ankle looks a bit sore. I'll give her some Pamol and put her to bed.

So in the evening, I chucked her in bed. Next morning, I had a real good quality mother moment. Got up and I was like, oh, her ankle looks bad. I think she's done something. Took her to the hospital and yeah, she'd broken it. Oh! Oh no! I think she's done something Took her to the hospital And yeah she'd broken it Oh Don't you fall Julie

Oh no Were you at the hospital going You are embarrassing me I know So yeah Oh mate She might have been saying it To you at the hospital

You're embarrassing me Oh that is brilliant Such a good call Well not great For your daughter But a great call Appreciate it this morning I do like the sound

Of kids laughter Although it does make you nervous Inside an open home You're like what's going on What are you doing Well, not great for your daughter, but a great call. Appreciate it this morning. I do like the sound of kids' laughter, although it does make you nervous inside an open home. You're like, what's going on? What are you doing? Let's get Jenna on. How are you in Christchurch this morning, Jenna? Thank you. What happened to you in the open home?

So this was going back a long time ago, but my sister and I were dragged along to an open home, one of the new ones that you go along for building, so that we were building a new house. And when we were in the house, my sister, who was about six at the time, wrote in the book, the visitor's guest book, this house is S-H-I-T. And my mum, who is the most lovely, gentle, caring person who I've never heard swear in my whole entire life, even to this day, was so mortified that she smuggled out the visitor's book out to her car and tried to twink out the thing while my dad tried to detour the salesperson. It's like you run diversions.

Yeah, here's a distraction. Oh yeah, this is great. Can we look over here at the cupboard? Shout out to your mum for having car twink as well. I know,

I know. I couldn't believe it but even to this day we still joke around. Remember that time that you wrote that? And was the house a bit shitty

or what was it? I just said, it's just a new house and she just walked in and she... Brutal honesty. She's like, I'm happy where I am. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Bit of tension in the studio after the program yesterday. It wasn't there. It was a little bit. We had a brainstorming session in the studio, chucking around some ideas for bits and pieces, which is always fun and enjoyable. We all sort of chuck some ideas out there. Some good, some bad.

Blue sky thinking? No bad ideas? Is that what it's called? Blue sky thinking? Yeah. Why is it called blue sky thinking? Like up to the sky, just any idea. There are some bad ideas that come out though.

I mean, I chuck some crappers out there. No, but everything could springboard to something else. That's why I started in creative writing and they were like, just chuck ideas out there because you never know, someone might go, oh, not that, but this. Or, you know, that may be the seed that goes to something else. Throw stuff at the wall. There we go.

But anyway, the tension doesn't lie in my crappy ideas. Well, you thought you came up with a great idea yesterday. I've been accused of plagiarising an idea. So the meeting began about seven or eight minutes into it and we're trying to crack an idea for a client. You know, what can we do for them? And I'm like, aha, we do this thing where they come on air and we supersize their prizes.

Then I get to my left, I hear a snarky comment and she's like, oh yeah, that would have been a great idea, wouldn't it? And I'm like, ooh, frosty conditions over here to the left. And I was like, yes. And she said over here to the left. And I was like, yes. And she said, oh,

it's not like I just said that about three or four minutes ago. Literally, I just said it about three or four minutes ago. But it's not just on you. We're in a room, how many people are in the room?

There was like seven people. And everyone was like, mate, great idea. To me, I'm bathing in the adulation. It would have been like two minutes before

and I was like, we could supersize their prize. Like they come on and they were like, supersize it. And then no one said anything. No one heard it. Bad idea. No one heard it. Bad idea.

It sounded better coming from a male voice. A minute later, Jono's like, what if we supersize? And everyone, even producer Ellie was like, that's a great idea. Thank you, Ellie. Thank you. It is a great idea. Am I big? We're just talking about the Barbie movie.

It was like something straight out of the Barbie movie. You can see that. I was like, maybe it was your tone, you know, the deeper male voice cut through better. That's more authority. That's more authority. It sells the idea a bit better. They always say that, you know,

like the way to make a guy do something is make them believe it's their idea. Do you know what they call it? He-peating. He-peating. When a guy just completely steals something you've just said in a meeting and sells it as his own. Oh, re-peating.

Yeah, he-peating. But Jen accuses me of he-peating all the time. She's like, I just told you that story, and I'm retelling the story to her as if it's my story. Well, we know. We know. It's obviously true. Yeah.

But do we? No one heard it. Anyone can go, oh, I just said that about two minutes. Anyone can say that. That's true. You could have said it three minutes ago. I just said it. Just no one heard it anyone can go oh I just said that about two minutes anyone can say that you could have said three minutes ago just no one heard me well that's true

in your defence I did not hear Megan say that but I'm not saying the only person who did was her I wouldn't have come up with this

snarky I was like great idea Jono I did say it out loud great idea Jono if only someone did say it out loud. I can't believe your head. Great idea, Jono. If only someone hadn't said that a minute earlier. There we go.

Anyway. But it's very hard to come up with original ideas these days. Do you know what? It feels like the world is racing for ideas. We used to have that with the TV show. We're like, great idea. And then you Google it and you go, 28 other people have done that this week. No new ideas.

Just, you know. Just my good ideas. My good ideas. And Megan claiming she already came up with good ideas. You're pee-peating me. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. No audience, which after the assassination attempt of Trump makes sense. They're not going to do it in front of an audience.

But they're allowed to bring each candidate. They're allowed to bring in some people. Some hype people. An entourage. Yeah, and Kamala Harris is bringing in a couple people who used to work for Trump. One who got fired after 10 days who was one of his workers.

Oh! Basically, yeah, as part of... It's like a roast. Yeah, it's like bringing in some friends and family. Oh, although I could bring in this person that you fired

after 10 days because, yeah. But wait, she can't like cross to them. Well, I don't know. Yeah, or is it just to get under her skin? I don't days because, yeah. But wait, she can't, like, cross to them. Well, I don't know. Yeah, or was it just to get under her skin? I don't, yeah, exactly. Wow. Yeah, great point.

Yeah. That's good stuff from her. One was a former advisor who got, like, fired after 10 days. And so, yeah. Here's your standard one primary school teacher too. Just all these people from your past, all these ghosts from your past. An ex-girlfriend. Yeah, you're like, oh, God.

Yeah, you made her split the bill, didn't you? You monster. That's the attorney in her, like, bring it up. Smart place. It's about two months to go in the American elections. And you see this streaming on Disney+, the home of hard-hitting politics, doesn't it? And I think also YouTube as well.

Yeah. Really interesting as well. Was it better for it on Disney+, last night? I know there's a lot of stuff happening in New Zealand that's probably far more important for us, but it's quite interesting to see what's going on in there, the whole circus. Well, sadly for the US election,

Ben Boyce has overshadowed the big news of the debate. The first debate of the two presidential candidates. Ben Boyce has come swinging in and made local news. And we're at Michigan? It's Chicago. Chicago, local news. And we're at Michigan. It's Chicago. Chicago, local news. Breakfast news over there.

This is off your TikTok, your viral TikTok video. 289 million views. Don't know if it's quite that much, but it's got, yeah, 68 million, I think, on Instagram, about 5 million on TikTok. I just did a silly little video embarrassing my daughters at the drive-thru saying a whole lot of Gen Z slang that I didn't really know just to embarrass them. And it's gone crazy.

And, yeah, this guy from Chicago reached out and he's like, hey, I'd like to play it on the morning news over there. I'm like, okay, fine. So they did. Was it lead story stuff? I don't know. End of the bullet in human interest? I imagine it would be more human interest. I imagine with a debate going on, I don't think they're leading with an idiot in New Zealand who went through a drive-thru and

embarrassed his kids, but here you go. A dad with teenagers, it can be hard to keep up with all the slang. Well, one dad in New Zealand is on top of all that, and he's having fun embarrassing his kids with it. Take a look. Hi, fan. I'm kind of feeling skibbity, so I've got off my get to come up to riz up McChicken. Thanks. IRL. Yeah, that's Ben Boyce of Jono and Ben. They host the Hits Breakfast radio show in New Zealand, but he has mastered the Gen Z

slang and is using it to completely embarrass his kids all over social media, which is every dad's dream, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's amazing. I'm going to give it a try now. I'm inspired. Exactly, yeah. Got to learn the words first.

That's great. They've got banter. You know the news banter that they have at the back. Yeah, I've got some news banter going on. He reached out to ask you if we could play it. We never once have asked anyone if we could play anything off the internet. I know. Marcus.

Marcus, yeah. I know. So many people reach out. How many people are asking people? People reach out as well. Yeah. You know, people from YouTube and channels. Hey, I've got a channel with like 4 million people. Can I play it? you know people from YouTube and channels hey I got a

channel with 4 million people can I play it you know things like that and I'll credit you and things maybe we should

be asking people but you put it on a public Instagram I thought it was just like fair game I would have

thought you know if people credit you there it's you know it's kind of but yeah a lot of people reaching out

as well which is lovely seems like a lot of admin to ask for every bit of audio we're going to play the hits the Jono and Ben podcast we talked about yesterday yeah number one which is lovely. Seems like a lot of admin to ask for every bit of audio we're going to play.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Ray Gunn, we talked about yesterday. Yeah, number one break dancer, breaker in the world. In the rankings. In the rankings because they didn't count the Olympics and it was just building up to the Olympics through competitions. We were watching her yesterday. Actually, she's really good.

She just probably chose a very unusual routine at the Olympics. Yeah, she's a very interpretive Australian. Like if you're Ray Gunn's best friend and she's like, hey, I'm heading off to the Olympics. Just thought I'd run my dance past you. You see the prawn movement on the ground. You see the kangaroo hopping. What are you saying?

Maybe leave the kangaroo out. It's hard, isn't it? Because am I a break? Do I know anything about it? No, you don't. Oh, yeah. But you're a good friend. But you do know a hopping kangaroo out? It's hard, isn't it? Am I a break... Do I know anything? No, you don't. Oh, yeah. But you're a good friend. But you do know a hopping kangaroo. You've seen

breakdancing. I'm like, you sure? You sure about that? Yeah. What about the tracksuit? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Tracksuit. Maybe you'll stand out. Maybe it'll be a good thing. She just obviously really wanted to rep Australia. Yeah, she did. She wanted to wear the tracksuit and do the kangaroo. Bring joy. All she was trying to do was bring joy. And she's still number one in the world, baby. Yeah, she did. She wanted to wear the tracksuit and do the kangaroo. Bring joy. She was trying to always bring joy. And she's still number one

in the world, baby. Exactly, yeah. Now, Megan, the happiest place on earth is causing the most volatile environment on earth at the moment in your household. Yeah, because those Disney cards

that we all love, Ben more so than others, we've been collecting them in the house and the kids at night before bed like to go through the cards. It's a fun wee game we play where you pick out people from any Disney movie and

you're like, this is you. Oh, you'll hand me a card and you're like, who am I out of Star Wars? I always get Princess Leia from the kids. It's great. Why am I the weird bald guy with the red guy? What's his name? Anakin.

Darth Maul. Darth Maul with the spiky. I just named him. I plucked a name out. But last night it caused some arguments. First it started with I giving Andrew, my husband, the old guy, Carl Fredrickson, from Up. And she said, Daddy.

Oh, that's a good one. Grey hair, oldish guy. Great beard, yeah. And how did he take that? So he was like, that's not me. That's not me. He took it more seriously than I thought he would. That's not me.

And so I said, give daddy this card. Maui. I was like, Maui? You were trying to pull it back? I was trying to pull it back. Hot, hot, you know. Yeah, like ripped. And Andrew gets it and he's like, are you calling me chunky?

You're calling me chunky. Nothing's satisfied here. Crazy hair. I was he's like, are you calling me chunky? You're calling me chunky. Nothing's satisfying here. Crazy hair. I was like, oh, come on. I was like, no, that was supposed to be a compliment. So he gets all offended with that. Woody toy story? Oh, yeah, could go Woody.

Woody's a nice, yeah, he's good. I'd be happy with Woody, yeah. But then Basti decides to hand him a card for Jasmine. And he was like, she's pretty. And Andrew's like, that's my kind of woman jasmine from aladdin and i was like sorry what now he said yeah she's she's hot that's my kind of woman that's his kind of woman i was like oh wow okay off you go go and find your jasmine he's annoyed he's maui i'm Buzz he's my kind of guy

he's annoyed he's Maui I'm annoyed he's looking for a Jasmine I was like I'm clearly not a Jasmine really causing problems it's really causing problems

but yeah do you know I've worked out with the Disney cards and probably you guys knew this I'm way more invested than the kids

100% the kids tapped out about four years ago because we know you guys pranked me by getting the full set that I didn't think that I'd got. I got the full set, but I'm still trying to get my original set. And I'm like determined. And there's swap meet days at my daughter's school.

And there was one at the mall the other day. And I was like, let's go. And he was like, no. Don't go. And I was like, let's go now at the mall. We can go swap. We're two away. Let's complete the set. And she was like,'s go on now at the mall we can go swap we're two away let's complete the set

and she was like I'm not going as your friends don't go to a random school by yourself oh yeah but that was her school I was like

take the thing in the mall and then she came home and she was like oh I forgot it and I was like you didn't forget it you didn't even take it I left it next to your school bag

so you can go to the school and take all these it's such a nerd she's like I'm not turning up to a public swap meet with you and then she not turning up to a public swap meet with you. And then she wouldn't come to the public swap meet. Are you that serious about it?

I just want to complete the set. Who organises the public swap meet? I was down at the Westfield Mall, so I was like. Oh, babes, you need to write a list of cards that you need. Just two now. I just need two. Oh, what do you need? Oh, I'll tell you tomorrow, yeah.

How do you know who's there for the swap meet? The nation can help you, I'm sure. When you turn up to the swap meet, how do you know who's there for the swap meet? The nation can help you, I'm sure. When you turn up to the swap meeting, how do you know who's there for the swap meeting? Compared to people who were just there at the mall, you're like, psst, you swap meeting, bro? No, I think they lay out tables and stuff. Oh, right.

So it's like, yeah. But my daughter refused to go with it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Megan, you mentioned something to us just in passing, and it shocked us. And we thought we need to talk about it with everyone listening on the hits right now, that you've never done something.

I have never caught a public bus. Which also means she's never caught diseases from random. No, no, I'm only joking. That is wild, but then I was mentioning this to Jen, my wife, last night. She's the same, vehemently against public transport. I don't know what happened back. It was some childhood trauma or something. And then I was like, come on.

It was a Saturday morning. We'd left our cars in town the night before. You and me were going to catch a bus. And I was trying to get her back into the bus game. Called a bus to town. Bus we sat in. There's bloody blood smeared all over the window. And I was like, well, usually there's not like fluids for people's bodies smeared on the windows.

This is a bad. And she was back out well, usually there's not like fluids for people's bodies. Smear on the windows. This is a bad. And she was back out of the bus game. So also, I've never worked like nine to five hours. Not really. In radio. I've worked early, early hours for like a lot of my career. So I can't really catch a bus at 4am. Yeah, that's true.

That is true. In my defence. And some people don't have the option. They don't have the option of driving. They don't have the option of parking. They don't have the option of parking. Yeah, parking's a nightmare. And they are really doing a great thing, taking cars off the road and getting on public transport.

This is just what? Never caught a public... What about school? How did you get to school back in the day? I either biked or I walked. Okay, interesting. Never caught a bus. Would you know how to catch a bus?

No. So that's the thing. You're not allowed to... I know that you're not allowed to rock up and give them coins. I also don't know how much it is. Not anymore though. Yeah. You used to be able to give them a painstaking process and give them coins and cash. Just step beside some old sweetheart

and you're 10, 20. I know I could find out, but like if someone was like, okay, catch the bus, I literally wouldn't, I don't know where to get the thing. What do you need? A card? A card. I don't know where to get one thing. What do you need? A card? A card. I don't know where to get one of those. I don't know how people.

Depends where you are in the country. I'm sure there's probably places that still take coins and cash around New Zealand. Because I don't know which bus to catch. How do people know that that bus is going to take them where they want to go? How do you know you don't love the public transport system if you've never tried it? You could catch a bus and go, why have I been going private this whole time? I've got a mate of mine who... Whoever has said that.

Hospitals, airplanes, who has ever said, why have I been doing private this whole time? I do have a mate though, he reckons that the bus saves him at least 30 to 40 minutes in the morning. I reckon it would. You know, because the bus will go down the lanes that it's allowed to go down, whereas, you know, it's in traffic. On some of the motorways, if you're just sitting there and the bus hoops it past on those special lanes, you're like, oh. I don't have a park at work. I take the bus. You know, it saves me so much time.

Sometimes if you drive close enough behind the bus, you don't get nabbed by the cameras, too, if you keep it close. But anyway, that's a whole other conversation. Also, like, could you sleep? Yeah. At least you needed to, like, stop and get off and get off. A lot of people sleep on the bus. How good. You can do work. You can doom scroll and ignore the person right next to you. Yeah, that's pretty good.

Listen to us. All those things. So I feel like you need to do this. You need to do this. Oh, do I? Yeah. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. During the show, we'll make you catch a bus to work. Yeah. Go on. By myself? Yeah. Yeah, go on. Yeah, go on.

Give it a go. By myself? Yeah. Well, great. We need to capture this on the show. Patricia Grace can go with you. How do you know if it happened if it wasn't filmed for social media? Where am I coming from?

I don't know. We'll drop you off somewhere and then you can come back to the studio. How's that sound? You might love it. Yeah. You might. You might. Yeah.

Okay. Tomorrow. God, this fills me with dread. Why? I don't know. I'm going to get lost. Why do it? It takes the bus all the time. I'm going to have to talk to people.

You don't have to talk to people. You put your ear pods in and do whatever. I'm going to have to talk to someone to fill me in on what I need to do. Weirdly with humans, the closer you are, the less you do interact and talk with people, don't you? Yeah, that's true. All right. Tomorrow, Megan's taking the bus. We've just decided that. But we wanted to know on Over 100, the hits you are, the less you do interact and talk with people, don't you? All right, tomorrow, Megan's taking a bus.

We've just decided that, but we wanted to know on over 100, the hits for 4487, what have you never done? Yeah, it could be, you know,

eating a very popular fast food. It could be, I don't know, I'm trying to think of options here. What else am I, help me out here,

guys. There's a few people on our Facebook that have never had coffee. They're great. People have never gone to concerts. People have never

flown in aeroplanes. Love it. These are great examples. have never gone to concerts. People have never flown in airplanes. Love it. These are great examples. Those are the sort of things we want. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. What have you never done? We'd love to know. We're making Megan take a bus tomorrow because she's never taken a bus, a public bus before. I don't know how.

I literally don't know how to do it because you're not allowed to take coins on there. I don't know where to figure out which one to take because there's lots of them. Part of the adventure. You'll find out tomorrow if the wheels on the bus really do go round and round. So that's what you're going to be doing tomorrow. That's great. It's exciting. Doing something new in your life.

You know, you had a milestone birthday just a month ago. Time to try some new stuff, mate. Yeah, but like Auckland traffic sucks and also like Auckland public transport I don't want to throw stones it's not reliable is it? You haven't tried it yet how do you know that? I read the news. How do you know that mate? I can't throw stones even behind it

mate. I can't besmirch the good name of Auckland transport. If you haven't been waiting for an hour for a broken down train you can't throw stones. But yeah 0800 that's what you've never done. That's what we're chucking open on the phones this morning. Hi, Alicia. How are you?

Good, thanks. How are you? Yeah, we're doing well. It's lovely to have you on the show this morning. Come clean. What have you never done? I've never bungee jumped. Well, I can imagine that's probably something that a lot of people haven't done.

Do you want to? Would you want to if you could? Or is it something you're like, no, I'm never going to do that? Well, I don't know. I never used to be scared of heights, but now thinking of jumping off something attached to a rope. So, listen, I've done it only purely. I would not have done it by choice, not recreationally,

but purely professionally. We've done one together. We've done a tandem as well. And it doesn't get any more enjoyable. That's just my personal... I hate it. I did one and I hated it. I'm going to say it. The rope dangles over the edge and you're like, oh, it's heavy and it's pulling

on your ankles. You've just got to go. You've just got to jump. Even the bloody shaka bros up there, they're like, oh, you're jumping off. They're like, oh, we forgot to tie up the rope. Please, don't prank now like now is not the time and I got dunked in water and I wasn't

at that point I wasn't sure that the rope had actually caught me so it wasn't it's quite fun when you're like oh it's

you know you're all good yeah once it springs you back up you're like oh I'm gonna live well Alicia never thrown herself off a building bungee jumping

but there would be plenty in the same in the same category yeah hey thanks for your call Alicia, never thrown herself off a building bungee jumping? But there would be plenty in the same category. Yeah, I imagine the same. Thanks for your call. Really appreciate it. Tyler, you're on the radio. Hello. What a dream come true, mate. What have you never done?

I have never got my Pulp Sport DVD signed by Mr. Ben Boyce. And Ben Boyce has got a garage load of Pulp Sport DVDs. Have you still got all the DVDs oh probably somewhere to be honest has it been flood damaged yeah probably

he's got all the leftover merch what do you want look at you well no there wasn't much merch to be honest that was probably

the popularity of the show but yeah I'm sure I could sign something for you mate there's no problems at all that's going to

tick something off your list I feel like we can get something more valuable than a Pulp Sport DVD, that's for sure. You had hundreds left over, didn't really overestimate the sales.

I overestimated the popularity of it. Hard to know. We can get Tyler's number at any time, you know. You're missing your Pulp Sport days. The good thing is DVD's still a relevant piece of tech to the attire. I appreciate your call, Tyler. Sal, good morning to you.

What have you never done? Sal. Hi. Hi. How are you? I am good. Good. What have you never done?

I've never eaten sushi. You've never eaten sushi? No. Have you been avoiding it actively, or are you just like it's never come across your sushi? No. Have you been avoiding it actively, or are you just like it's never come across your plate? No. I mean, yeah, it's kind of like avoiding it probably is the right word. It has come to me a lot of times.

My daughter loves it. In fact, both my daughters love it, and my wife has even gone to the extent of making them at home, getting all the ingredients and stuff but i kind of like never got the courage you know the carriage to eat sushi because you can never i mean a wild exotic cuisine you know you i mean rice and seaweed but you put all sorts of that yeah that's why when i heard that yeah yeah i could put that in because i know it's know it's so popular everywhere in the world and got such a diverse variety and exotic things and everything. But yeah, I never got myself to try it.

Oh, he's never bought himself to try it. Well, listen, we've even bastardized sushi here in New Zealand. I feel it. Bacon and egg in it, mate. We'll put chicken in it. Chicken. Chicken and cheese sushi. You realize you go overseas, not so many people put chokin in their sushi like we do.

We love a chokin in sushi. Oh, well, listen, we've got to get you trying sushi at some point. Yeah, we do. We feel like we could tick some of these off.

Yeah. Thanks for your call. Really do appreciate it. Many texts coming through on 4487. People who haven't had coffee, never eaten an oyster, I'm in my 40s,

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Great prizes. Because we keep, you know, even us on the show, you know, we listen every day. I'm like, oh, mate, we need to be playing Chapel Rhone. I love it. I'm actually doing

Rate the Hits right now, but it says, where do I listen? In studio? Very cool. The more I hear Chapel Rhone, I'm like, we need to be playing on the hits.

So get on there. I'm going to go on there as well and try and pick the playlist. I keep saying to our boss, you know, one of our bosses of musichone I'm like we need to be playing it on the hits so get on there I'm going to go on there as well and try and pick the playlist I keep saying to our boss one of our bosses of music I'm like we need to be playing this we need to be playing

Olivia Rodrigo he's like I think he doesn't listen to you you say a lot of stuff so Chapel Rhone I'm putting my weight behind Chapel Rhone

so you can suggest any song I guess yeah Slipknot DMX that's a good song There's options We should be actually Playing this one though

In all seriousness Oh yeah I've also harped on and on To the boss About Sabrina Sabrina Carpenter Yeah Well you know If you keep on and on to the boss about Sabrina. Sabrina Carpenter, yeah. Well, you know, if you keep harping on to the boss, we can get online right now and pick a playlist.

Ben's been harping on for a long time. He's got no results. Yeah, well, I haven't gone on and picked a playlist, though. You've been harping on about lots of things. I need to go on, and I could win some prizes as well. Yesterday, sad news, legendary actor James Earl Jones, 93 years old, so he had a great life. Iconic actor.

When you start saying that someone's had a good innings, had a good life. Well, I think 93 is very impressive. 85 plus, I feel like you've had a great run. Yeah, because it's not given that you're going to live that long, is it? So, yeah, and legendary actor, but also a legendary voice actor as well. Some iconic characters voiced by him. Have a listen. I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan.

We meet again at last. Darth Vader? The circle has now opened. Was he Darth Vader? He was Darth Vader. He was the voice of Darth Vader. Wasn't the actor inside the suit, but he was the voice of Darth Vader.

Well, the actor inside the suit probably didn't matter too much, did they? The actor came out years later and was like, oh, I really thought at the time they were going to use my voice. He's probably going through going, I'm your father. It's great stuff. Come here. It's me. I'm your daddy.

I've done the fraternity test. I guess I'm sounding a little scarier, a little more amazing voice. And also another great iconic role, Mufasa from Lion King. The sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king. Velvety, very basic. What did you call him? Mufasa, did I say it wrong? One more time?

Oh, no, did I say Mufasa? Is it not Mufasa? You said Mufasa. Oh, did I say Mufasa? Did I? Oh, sorry. When you over-pronounce everything as well, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Well, Leah, what a legend. Yeah. What a legend. 93 years old. Amazing voice. It's sad to think that AI will probably do that gig now. Well, true. Won't it?

Yeah. You can probably just take his voice. He'll live on in movies. Could do. Do you think AI will just do animated voice? Like an animated movie they could just Sadly yeah Type in what kind of voice they want I hate to bring this back to AI

Don't don't don't It's early in the morning for AI chat There was an interview I watched over the weekend With Elon Musk And the interviewer was like A stadium load of people are watching Elon Musk talk And they're like The interviewer was like

Is there any future for us in employment And he went He went And he went Are you're like, the interviewer's like, is there any future for us in employment? And he went, and he went, are you going to answer the question? He's like, I don't think people want to hear my answer. No, but we're going to do other things that we don't know yet. We're going to figure it out. Well, that's the thing. I reckon we're going to pick the playlist of the hits, mate. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. As of Kmart, it's going to be opening up in New Zealand. A new one. Open 24-7 in Westgate in Auckland region. But it's going to be huge by the look of it. The 28th store around the country. Who wakes up at 3.16 in the morning and goes, you know, I might head to Kmart and buy myself a nice vase or some Manchester or something.

You like late night shopping at Kmart. Yeah, late night is quite fun. I do like it. I do. There's something fun about it too. How about early, early morning shopping? Well, I haven't tried that, but it'll be good. I'm sure shift workers as well, you know,

it'll be a good place to go. I've never thought about nipping to Kmart before we come to work in the morning. You can? It's quite fun. Like one day walking back from the pub and we went via Kmart and, you know, it was like drunken shopping.

It was great. You're like, why did I buy this? I don't know. The next morning going, that was a huge waste of money. Normally you do it online, but straight away you'd have those purchases. Yeah, I don't need assistance filling up my trolley. I do that quite well when I'm sober. I've got some audio now.

It's one of those classic Instagram clips, 10 seconds, where you're like, oh, man, I'm really going to change and alter my life. Then sort of 10 minutes later, you get on with the same life you were leading. It's a fact about how long you're going to spend with the kids. Right. Okay? Have a listen to this. The percentage of time in your life spent with the kids take a gander.

70% of all the time you spend with your child is between the ages of them being a baby and 18. Because once they leave the house it's a wrap. So in my mind, I'm like, damn I've got two more years before I probably hardly ever see My old Chris you see your parents a lot

Once or twice a month So there you go 70% of your time With your kids Is spent from day 0 to 18 Then you just think We don't see our parents Often now as adults

Yeah You know it's probably Some people do a lot Some don't They're in different places Different city Two or three times a year Yeah

Oh my god Yeah I've seen a graph Of like how much You'd spend With each person in your life. You end up spending more time with your workmates than you do a lot of people you love. We probably spend a lot. You're right.

What are you saying? Oh, nothing. Cherish these. Hang on. Let's break that down. You spend more time with your workmates than with the people you love. That's what you said. Oh, no.

I love you guys. You can love your workmates more than your family. It doesn't sound like that. But, yeah, this is frightening, isn't it? And maybe that's why if I go back to AI,

this frees up our time. We go and spend time with people we like. Yeah. Megan, you can hang out with people you love. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

The Riddler. I feel like, you know, when Spider-Man gets his role and it's like with great power comes great responsibility. Well, I've now taken over the title of the Riddler.

The Riddler. He's Riddler. With riddles. Now, has the internet gone with your algorithm? Oh, this guy's a riddle guy now. And he's been constantly... Yeah, I get fed a few more riddles now. Yeah.

But what we do every once a week, so we give you a chance to win $100 in a Dilmar Tee prize pack. But first, we like to throw a riddle to the room here, Megan and Jono. Now, I know I've been singling out Jono a wee bit lately. I've been involved in a, you know, inadvertently and unknowingly been involved in a sexism scandal, a homophobic scandal last week. I'm waiting for the big racism one this week.

I don't know. Are we avoiding leading me down a garden path? No, I feel like, yeah, we are a little bit. This is not a stitch up as such, but I'd like to ask Riddle, if you don't mind, Megan, just to Jono first to see if he can get it. If he can't get it, over to you. But this is one I feel like he should know. You should be able to get this one.

Okay, this one for you. This feels like entrapment. It's not again. It's not sexism. I'm going to watch from the sidelines. Okay. So Samuel was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat.

His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How did this happen? I know. Everyone listening knows. Cheap, lowbrow humour. I didn't make the rule up. It's your people. Work plays bullying the bald guy.

No, it's inclusive. It's a riddle about you. That's fine for you, mate. We'll get a riddle. Thank you. Now, was it because he was bald? Yeah, it was. Well done.

See, I knew you'd get that one. There you go. So you got a riddle. He had not a hair on his head. You're saying sometimes you don't get the riddles, Megan Jumson, so that one was just for you and you got it correctly. Well, she was in her riddle era. I got that one.

All right. So I'll add to the hits. 4, 4, 8, 7. Megan, if you know it, Jono as well, write it down. Because I reckon you could get this one as well. Okay. What do you buy to eat but never consume? I'll add to the hits.

4, 4, 8, 7. If you think you know. What do you buy to eat but never consume? You said you know. You're like, you know. Once you know what do you buy to eat but never consume you said you know you're like you know once you know it you're like what do you buy to eat

but you never consume if you know it $100 and a Dilmar tea eating is consuming a Dilmar tea hot and cold

tea prize pack thanks to our friends at Dilmar what do you buy to eat we've got some we've got some calls coming through I have no idea is it is it like well yeah Why to eat? We've got some calls coming through. Oh.

I have no idea. Is it like a... Well, yeah, it's one of the riddles. When you know the answer, you're like, oh, yeah, of course. Is it like, if I write this down, can you tell me if I'm right here? Yeah. What do you buy to eat but never consume? Is it... That makes no sense.

Oh, no, no, no. It's not sense. No, no, no. It's not shopping. No, no, no. I thought it was shopping. Oh, okay. Like, you know. Like the groceries. Let's go.

The phone's blowing up right now. Okay. They're blowing up. Welcome. What's your name, bruh? Hello. How are you? Yeah, good.

What's your name, mate? I'm Nikki. Nikki, it's great to have you on this morning. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, we'm good. How are you? Yeah, we're good. What are you doing up at this early hour on a Wednesday?

Kids. Kids. Amen, amen. I don't have much else to say but kids, and I think that explains enough. Oh, I'd like you to say one other thing. What do you buy to eat and never consume? A plate. Yeah, I'll give you that one.

A plate or a fork or something like that. Yeah, utensils. Utensils. You buy to eat but never consume? A plate. Yeah, I'll give you that one. A plate or a fork. Yeah, utensils. Utensils. You buy to eat but never consume. You buy to eat with. Well, all right, mate. You don't buy the plate to eat it. Yeah, you're right, Megan.

I'm going to get you a more technicality on that one. What do you buy to eat with but never consume? A plate. Yeah, that's not the way riddles work. They're designed to be tricky. But there are holes in there, wouldn't I agree, Megan? Yeah.

You didn't put one over Nikki, though. Nikki, congratulations. You enjoyed that $100 in the Dill Marti prize pack. Lovely. Thank you so much. Good luck with the kids. Thanks for listening, mate.