Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Jono's Mum's Hilariously Outrageous Pee Story!

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Family beef through Kmart reviews... My pet peeve is something you do on your radio show! The boys finally come clean about fake news that made the news! We make a bet with Paddy Gower! And we are gonna win. Jono goes WOKE and is beefing with private planes... Ben's awkward halloween hug! We bring back the Herald Quiz! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Jono and Ben podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts in tastes that Kiwis love. Hey, welcome to the podcast on a Friday. We're just getting over the show and you're about to hear it on the podcast. It kind of, things unraveled. I don't know if it's the way you intended, Jono, for it to unravel, but geez, we enjoyed it, Megan, didn't we? It was the best moment of my whole year. Yeah, so there's a story about an alleged tree peeing incident that you were trying to, you know, clear your good name over and things got

a whole lot worse. It did, yeah. When you called your mum, you expected her to corroborate and... Well, if you expect anyone to corroborate, it's your mother, right?

She made things a whole lot worse. Now there's accusations of two tree peeing incidents. Not just the single one. Like, you shouldn't have called your mum, because before that we were like,

maybe he did it, maybe he didn't, but now we're thinking, well, he definitely did it twice. How many other people did you pee on? How many other victims? So innocent and, like, gentle in her delivery of, like, this scandalous story. Like, you know, you're a parent. You're all parents.

I mean, if your kid's peeing on people from a tree and knowing about it, like, how are you feeling? You don't tell nationwide radio. How are you feeling about that as a parent? You're like, oh, God. I've let them down, yeah. You put that on your parenting, don't you? Yeah, well, yeah.

I'd be like, guys, come on. My kids. Also, you had a pretty embarrassing situation as well. Yeah, I did actually. Yeah, I can't. You don't come up on the scale today. That was just last night. I wasn't even a kid.

To be honest. Weird hug. On the scale of peeing You don't come up on escape today. That was just last night. I wasn't even a kid. To be honest. Weird hug. On the scale of peeing too. He's pretty light. Yeah. All right. Well, enjoy the podcast. I met a friend yesterday, unintentionally, an old primary school friend.

That's a surreal experience. Yeah. Someone you haven't seen for probably since I was like eight or nine years old. Oh, wow. Have you bummed into anyone from primary school recently? No Ben? No, only the flatmate

Remember the story in Palmerston North that we had of someone that used to go to school with you? Oh yeah I was like yeah, my flatmate And I was like yeah, mum My flatmate's mum used to go to school with you or something A 21 year old who was working for the Hits. She came up to me and said, Hey, my flatmate's mum used to go to school with you.

My gosh. You and KG on that relationship. Yeah, but not KG. No, let's not talk about it right now. KG on all his masterly relationships. It's a tight bloodline down there. So yeah, anyway, I got talking to Cam and it was lovely to see him.

And he obviously just boom You start reminiscing Don't you Instantly And how the parents Da da da da And he's like I have to ask you

Do you remember The tree climbing incident And I was like no What incident When anyone's like Do you remember An incident You're like yeah

And I For the life of me Can't remember any Tree climbing incident But it has? And for the life of me, I can't remember any tree climbing incident, but it has stuck with him over the years. Well, you obviously can't because I've been working with you a long time. I feel like if there was any story, you would have told it 97 times. Damn right. I would know the story.

So he's gone, we're over at your house, and we went on a tree climbing expedition, quite a big tree. Oh, as you would as kids, is that right? Now, I was the surreptitian in? Now, I was the surread in the situation. He was the Sherpa Tenzing. Okay, I was leading the expedition. Is that how he told it or is that how you're telling it? This is how I'm retelling it.

Okay, so I'm leading at the top of the tree. He's underneath. And he's like, at one point, I felt like it was raining. Is this what he was saying? Yeah, and he said, there were drops landing on me. Oh. And he's like, I looked up, and you were urinating on me. You were urinating on me.

And I was like, oh, really? He's like, yeah. And my grandmother had just knitted me A brand new jersey And threw him off The expedition Oh yeah Threw him off

Their friendship I imagine too He slipped on the tree No wonder you haven't seen him Slipped on the tree Branch cord And it ripped his Nudeness of jersey

From his grandmother's Sweater And I'm like I have no Recollection of this He's like Call your mum Call your mum Annie

She'll know Because she had to She had to tidy up You know She tried to re-knit the jersey I have no recollection of this. He's like, call your mum. Call your mum, Annie. She'll know because she had to tidy up. You know, she tried to re-knit the jersey. Had to give Cameron a shower. Now I'm like, for the last 24 hours, I'm like, why can I not remember this? Because urinating on someone would feel like quite a pivotal moment. Maybe you did it so much that you're just like, oh, yeah. Oh, it's just another day. So many jokes.

The only thing I can think of is I was quite a laughy kid and sometimes the laughter would get too much for me. Well, it doesn't seem like that. It doesn't seem like, oh, it feels like everything was out and you were going for it. It doesn't feel like, oh man. Otherwise you'd be going into your pants. He wouldn't have got anything

on you, you know. Unless it seeps through. Obviously, definitely. Did you ask your mum? No, I could call her. Should we call her next? Let's call Annie. Let's call Annie. We need to get to the bottom of this.

I was literally pissing down for the poor guy. Oh, jeez. We're just trying to get to the bottom of the story that Jono's recounted. Well, got told to him. Yeah, yesterday by a lovely guy, Cam, who I went to primary school with. We were very tight.

Until an incident. Until an incident took place. I have no recollection of. He would have been about six, seven, eight years old. And he claims that we were on a tree climbing expedition. I was at the top of the tree.

He was underneath me. And golden showers rained down upon him. That might have been me I was the source of the golden shower non-consensual does it surprise you knowing Jono now

and then thinking of him as the kinder this does not surprise me at all no not at all there's no part of the story that makes me think that he made this up

why would I ever why would he make this up though but exactly well exactly it might have been accidental I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. But I feel like

to get to, anyway, yeah. If it's raining down on you, like you're banging your pants,

that's not definitely raining down through someone. So it might seep eventually, but you're right. So I'm,

and I'm not saying he's lying because there's too much detail in the story to be for him to fabricate it. And it feels

like in that instance, if you've got person A, person B, person A's the creator of the shower, they're probably more likely to forget about the incident than the person who was the victim.

But he said, you need to ask your mum Annie because Annie then had to fix his grandma's sweater. Which would lead me to believe he's not lying because he's like, you've got to ask someone else. He wants to follow up on it. Now, your mum's not great with answering her phone. No, this is a bit of a gamble live on the radio. She's probably not going to answer.

They sleep in too. They don't get up to out of bed till like 9.30, so this might be waking her up. Oh. Hi. Hi. How are you, mum? Good.

Thanks very much. Sorry. Listen, we're live at the moment, Annie, which I know you love. You love being here. Yeah, sorry, Annie. Sorry. Morning, Annie. Morning.

Hello. at the moment, Annie, which I know you love. Sorry, Annie. Morning, Annie. Now, Mum, just wanting to... Cameron, who I said that I bumped into, went to primary school with. He told me a story, and he told me that I needed to call you to clarify. Oh, my goodness. Okay. So he's harking back to,

it would have been seven or eight. He remembers a tree climbing incident. Right. I was on the top of the tree. He was underneath the tree. He claims that I urinated on him. And this caused him to, you know, obviously as it would in any person's case, he was a bit rattled. He fell off the tree.

The branch hooked into his newly knitted jersey that his grandmother had just made him. Good gracious. And he said, ask your mum. She'll remember it all. Oh, it sounds terrible, but I don't. Oh, she does? Oh! So he...

Well, God bless Cameron. He's taking love for the team. I can remember you peeing on your cousin, Nicola. When did I pee on Nicola? So you can't put a part like, there's a history of peeing on people. What's wrong with you? You're like, I wouldn't be,

but it could be accidental. When did I pee on Nicola? When we were down on the farm during the Christmas holidays, you and Stuart were up in the tree in the middle of their paddock. It's in the history of tree peeing, is it?

What is wrong with you, Jono? Annie, was it intentional? Yes. So you Annie, was it intentional? Yes. I was going to say, so you couldn't put a past of that. What sort of sick child was I? You're the true hero. Annie, thank you. I mean, it probably explains a lot about how I've turned out as an adult.

Yes, well, it was great to see. What a great thing to happen to see Cameron. We saw him on television last night as well, how successful he is. But no, I don't remember that. That sounds just horrific. It does. Well, hey, we're all connecting the dots now, aren't we? Oh, well, you're listening to me.

Amy, you've made my year. Next, we'll get Cousin Nicola on the phone. Thank you, Mum. Okay. Okay, bye. Oh, wow. I can't hear. Well, that's not the way you wanted that call to end, is it?

What is wrong with you? I like the first part where she's like, no, I can't remember that. She's got to stop there. Have a history of it. All right. Shreepier. That's next. We've got to give five. No, we're not. All right. Shreepier. That's next. We've got to get fired.

No, we're not talking to Nicola. We can't track her down. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, you're getting into the Christmas spirit. You always said as of the 1st of November, I feel like you've gone too early, but anyway, you're going early. I give you your Halloween and then straight afterwards, I'm like, right, Christmas, it's happening.

It's on. So you're already on the Kmart website. You're shopping for presents. Yeah. I've got a list. I've started doing my Christmas shopping. Yeah. But then I was at...

Geek. I don't know why. Shut up. Geek? I haven't seen that word in a while. It felt good. Yeah, geek. Geek.

Anyway, continue on geek. Geek, you're right I prefer Nerdburger I don't know why But I was on the Kmart website And I scrolled down to look at reviews Which I never do They're quite handy, the old product reviews

Because people are brutally honest Because they have no repercussion They can go under a fake alias Generally I find them quite useful I like to use them if you're travelling somewhere and you know you're going into a hotel but then i find that a lot of people don't like most things it is the internet you're right you're like oh this looks great the pictures and you go down you're like oh well a whole lot of people don't like this one oh this one you know like sometimes read the like two star reviews and

it's just like oh that person's like whinging about the most stupid thing. Yeah. It sounds like generally pretty good. Like, did you expect a five-star hotel on like a three-star budget? No, you know. But anyway. You're staying at the Abacus Inn in Ngaruahia. It is what it is. Yeah, exactly. So this was a kid's toy and I was like, I'm just going to read what people thought of it.

Like, it had a few reviews and Kimmy, I don't know where she's from or anything, but she was obviously having a bit of a bad time. Did she have good things to say about the toy? So she gave it five stars. Oh, great. Great result. She loved the toy, but she wasn't having a great time family-wise. She said, I got this for my nephew's third birthday.

It was his favorite toy of the day, which is the best when you're there and they're opening all the toys and that's the one that the kid loves. You're low-key, yeah. You're like, I've won. You say nothing out loud, but everyone knows. Yeah, I've won. I've nailed it. So that obviously happened to Kimmy.

Goes on and says, pity, my sister is a see you next Tuesday and didn't thank me or let us see him, but I'm glad that he enjoyed it. Oh, so she's taking her family beef to the comment section. Five stars for the toy, zero stars for my sister. That is a wonderful place to get it. She's killing a couple of birds,

killing two birds with one stone there. Growing product review and also getting something personal off her chest. I was gutted I couldn't reply and be like, tell me everything, Kimmy. What's the closure? That's the thing. I know. Can you not reply to these people?

No. I guess not. It came out probably can, but it's not really for them, is it? It's an amazing mirror. It makes me look like I can almost stand my mother-in-law or something like that. You can have little passive-aggressive digs in the product because you can't say it to the people. No. And this seems like a good platform to get personal issues off.

And the chances of them finding out are very, very slim, aren't they? Unless we keep reading them out on the radio. So there you go. The comments. There could be something in this. Real dog-legging the old feedback there from Kimmy, though. Yeah. But, you know, toy five stars.

Nothing against Kmart. Yeah. No. Oh, great. It was all. The Hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, we're talking about pet peeves this morning.

I feel like I've banged on quite a lot about a laptop this week. Yeah, I've got some good mileage out of it. Yeah. It was a week ago today, your laptop was destroyed in water for water-based reasons, wasn't it? Yeah, water-based. A drink bottle that leaked from my daughter. Is this your new one in front of you? Yeah, I've got a new laptop.

Aww. What about the old one? Can I fix the old one? I don't know. I'm still waiting to find out, to be honest. So you'll be glad you've got a new one. You used to have a pink one and you opted for black this time. Well, no.

It was all about the size of the one. I didn't care what colour it was. You've got a bigger hard drive now, Megan. You've got the biggest hard drive you can imagine. Size does matter. That's all I wanted. But what I would like to say, and I want to throw things, start the pet peeve conversation rolling,

is that when you get a new laptop, and I've had other laptops, it's like, why does the charger have to be different from the last laptop? Because I was like, great. Even if my old laptop's dead, I've got the charger. I've got the charger. I'll have two chargers. And then I get this new laptop, and Apple have changed the charger. I've got the charger. I'll have two chargers. And then I get this new laptop and Apple have changed the charger. Amen. I think

we've got three Apple laptops but three different chargers between the three of us in here so we can't even share. That's wild. There are bigger issues going on in the world but these are just one of those things. No, there's not. I can't think of anything. If I had a dollar for every Apple charger I've had, I would have enough money to buy another Apple charger.

That's how many of them. But you're right, I think they made it law in Europe, didn't they, in regards to the phone chargers. Everything needs to be the same. The government's over there like, this is the EU. This is out of control. I think this is a pet peeve of mine, just to have the same charger

for everything. For all computers, just have the phones, same charger, that'd be great. Well, maybe you've reached the age of cantankerous old man. Maybe. The all computers, just have the phones, same charger, that'd be great. Well, maybe you've reached the age of cantankerous old man. Maybe, maybe. The things start to just annoy you. Little things annoy you for no reason, like Hugh Grant. Wonderful actor. Oh, he doesn't annoy me. He's a wonderful person, isn't he?

Well, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, I just don't feel comfortable saying that about any celebrity anymore. I mean, he comes across quite grumpy. So that's why I was like, well, maybe he's not a wonderful person. But I like that about him. I love that.

And he's very charismatic in his grumpiness. He reminds me of Hosking. Yeah. Very charismatic in his grumpiness. Now, he was just asked a few things that annoy him. This is just him off the cuff, just rattling off a list of things that annoy him. So good. One enormous pet peeve that's all I do.

I walk around the streets peeving. I don't like people walking slowly. I don't like people with backpacks. I don't like people with backpacks on their front. I don't like people with backpacks and water bottles. I don't like water bottles. What's the whole water bottle thing? Why do my children have to go to school with a water bottle?

They have to cart water across London. What's wrong with a drinking fountain? I mean, don't get me started. I don't like leaf blowers, roadworks with no people working on them. And it goes on. It goes on.

I want to get him started. He just shouldn't go out in public. Yeah. You're reaching that stage of everything. The water bottle's a good one. And hey,

if my kid didn't cart a water bottle across, you know, town in New Zealand, my laptop would still be going. So maybe Hugh Grant's onto something. Don't, you know. So, I'll wait going. So maybe Hugh Grant's onto something.

So, 0800 the hits. What's a pet peeve of yours? What are you peeving about, as he says? What are you peeving about, Megan? Bare feet in public. I know. I hate people wearing bare feet in public. I know that it's a Kiwi thing. Don't look at me like that.

Put some shoes on. Put some jandals on Okay so you're in a beach side town Can you go to the supermarket in bare feet? No Dairy? That's yuck No it's yucky

But walking around the beach area is okay You can go on the beach Yeah right What about walking to the beach? Can I do that in bare feet? No What if you stood on something? Also it's just yuck

I must admit I did with bare feet Go into like the RSA. What? And then I had to use the trough. And yeah, it was a lot of splashback too. Then I had to go wash my feet. It's disgusting. Especially RSA too.

They'll be like, they're quite strict on their rules. Not where I went. Get him in there, mate. He's got no shoes on. He can go to the bathroom. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Right now we're talking pet peeves. Yeah, you're a bit upset about...

Charges. Just not having the same thing, the same plug. It's almost like these corporations want to make more money off us by buying more chargers. I don't know. I'm no expert, but that's a bit... Now, someone's actually called through. We're talking pet peeves this morning.

Chris, you have a pet peeve you'd like to get off your chest on a Friday? Yeah, absolutely. What is it? It's when you're sitting there and you're eating breakfast and all you can hear about is Ben's bloody laptop. Wonderful runway. Wonderful runway. Wonderful runway into that one, Chris. Taken on the chin, yes.

And I did start the conversation by saying, I feel like I've been talking about this a lot, so I apologise. Oh, he's off the laptop banter. We're putting a pin in it today. Yeah, this is the end of laptop chat, all right? Chris, I loved your call. Well, let's just hope nothing happens to his phone.

God help us. You're like, oh God, is that guy still going on? We'll give him a manual leave, Chris, don't worry. Good on you, mate. Have a great weekend. You too. Thoughts and prayers to my old laptop, though. Probably my peeve is

customer service lines. No one wants to talk to you. You phone a customer service line and the last thing they want to give you is service. No one wants to service customers nowadays and that's fine, but they need to just close down the customer service line. And also, no one

wants to give you their phone number for stuff. On a website, you're like, I just want to call someone. I just want to talk. You're like, can't do email. You can't. Yeah. Those do sound a little bit cantankerous. I know. Put us on ZB, mate're like, I just want to call someone. I just want to talk. You're like, can't do email with this thing. You can't. Yeah. Those do sound a little bit cantankerous. I know. Put us on ZB, mate. Right now.

Ready to go. We're good to go. Resetting work passwords. Oh. And then you can't use any that you used before. It's like, well, I've been through 100. I don't know many words. Let's get Carol on.

You're peeving hard this morning, Carol. What is it? When you go into the supermarket and you're shopping and people leave their trolley right smack bang in the middle of the aisle. Yeah. Yeah, sort of with half the goods in it. I know what you're saying.

Oh, it drives me nuts. Just give it a wee nudge with your trolley. Nudge it along. I push it to the side. Oh, do you? You put your hands on another's trolley, do you, Carol? I guess so, yeah.

I sure do. Yeah, you've got to kind of park on the footpaths of the aisles, don't you? Left or right? Keep the main road free. Right, that does feel very personal, you putting your hands on my trolley. Yeah, but it's not your trolley in the first place, so is it? Carol, hands off my trolley. Some great texts coming through.

People that push the buzzer to cross the road, but then cross the road before waiting for the buzzer. Oh, yes. Yes. People are parking outside my house. It's just one of those things. You do get overly defensive about this one. It annoys me.

When someone pulls into your driveway, doing a U-turn, you're like, what do you want? Get out. People who drive under the speed limit holding everyone up, but when you get, you're like, what do you want? Get out. People who drive under the speed limit, holding everyone up, but when you get to a passing lane, what do they do? Speed up.

Oh, we got someone here. We get drawn. That's the speed. You get upset with people speeding up after they've been driving slow, Drew. Yeah, they always seem to, you know, I'm quite happy for people to do their own speed limit on the road,

but when you're doing 80 in a 100km zone, the next thing you know, you think, OK, I'll wait, I'm not going to be stupid, I'll sit here, I won't pass you, I know there's a passing lane coming, and you get to the passing lane, and the next thing you know, they're doing 140. I hear you. No consistency.

Thank you, Drew. Really appreciate your call this morning. James, good morning. Pet peeves. People that are obsessed with iPhones. Obsessed with iPhones. Yeah, you're either into it or you're not, aren't you? Yeah, well, whenever I go to upgrade my phone,

I've got a family full of iPhones. They go, why don't you buy an iPhone? Why don't you buy an iPhone? Yeah. It's a weird little cult, isn't it? Really drunk with Kool-Aid. Yeah. You're right. But why don't you buy an iPhone? Yeah. It's a weird little cult, isn't it? Really drunk with Kool-Aid. Yeah. You're right.

But why don't you buy an iPhone? I knew you were going to say that, John. I knew you were going to say that. Okay, good on you, mate. Keep this coming through. These are great. There's so many great texts coming through. Your pet peeves, 4487.

Oh, this is a good one. A little car? Yes. When you think you've found a park at a supermarket and you go into pulling it and there's a tiny little Suzuki Swift in there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And we'll be talking about pet peeves this morning after Hugh Grant, the actor, went off in an interview.

A whole lot of pet peeves, including water bottles. Oh, yeah, we may as well play it again because you might have missed it. It's very funny. One enormous pet peeve that's all I do. I walk around the streets peeving. I don't like people walking slowly. I don't like people with backpacks. I don't like people with backpacks on their front.

I don't like people with backpacks and water bottles. I don't like water bottles. What's the whole water bottle thing? Why do my children have to go to school with the water? They have to cart water across London. What's wrong with a drinking fountain? I mean, don't get me started. I don't like leaf blowers, roadworks with no people working on them.

It feels like it just kept going. He's like, how long have you got? I think he was there promoting a movie. He never got to that, did he? So we wanted to know, pet peeves on 0800 the Hetzel 4487. So many great calls and texts. There really are. Let's get Ash on this morning.

How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Yeah, good, Ash. We understand. You've got a list. You've got a Hugh Grant-style list. Take it away.

Oh, yeah. So, cook tomatoes and tomatoes on a sandwich because the bread gets soggy. But canned tomatoes is okay. And tomatoes on, like, a salad is also fine. You have, like, a tomato on its own okay another one is blowing smoke in your face like if someone's like having a smoke or something and they blow it directly into your face and like not away yeah amen yeah you're really going from tomatoes to uh to vape smoke and cigarette smoke what else have you got got? When people talk on speakerphone in public.

Oh yeah. So they don't want to put it up to the air. So confident too. So confident. And then one of my colleagues he talks on speakerphone the entire time and sometimes I can't realise that he's talking on the phone and then

I'll end up talking, like responding to his questions. When people don't say hello, how are you when they start a phone call. Realize that he's talking on the phone and then I'll end up talking When people like don't say hello, how are you when they sell phone call? Yeah Just right to it. Hey, you got a great list and you're not happy with sushi No Shoo-shee Shoo-shee And also to jump on Hugh Grant's water bottle thing When people like Have like really loud Water bottles And they make a lot of noise A loud water bottle

I've never heard A loud water bottle This is so good I appreciate you sharing those Get those off your chest Again to the weekend Vicky good morning It's not your people

Good morning It's your husband Yeah my husband He's not a fan of people Walking on his berm. So how old is he? 86? He's only 35.

Oh, 35. Okay. Yeah, so it gives me the whole view of the old man on the rocking chair. Yeah. You give him shit about it. Get on my berm. Started early. Is he telling people to stay off the berm?

No, but I feel like he's tempted. Yeah. Yeah, that's the next step. Secretly seething. I love that. That's really good. Tony, good morning to you. Ah, your pet peeves. Ah, well, we're one close to your guys' heart. We're radio announcers or DJs, as we used to call you

in the old days. Hey, I've got this great story to tell you about what my cat did to my dog. I'll tell you in two songs time. Just tell me now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're right. You're right. And no other facet of life do you have to wait for a story.

Or like a dinner party. Oh, that's a great story, but I'll tell you after the main course. You'll be like, oh, okay. Fair play, Tony. As an industry, we need to take that on the chin. Thank you so much. Have a great weekend. Cheers guys. See ya. But what is coming up?

Now we're too scared to tease. I'm scared now to say what's coming up. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It was of course Halloween. It was awesome to see lots of people out and about particularly all over town last night out and about trick or treating. Did many characters turn up to your house?

Well, we're out for the whole evening. Did you leave a bowl of lollies? Oh, we did, but you never know how long that's going to take. You had left a bowl of carrot sticks and hummus for the kids? Yeah. I saw some photo of someone who left cigarettes overseas. It was like, take one, just take one, or have a puff and leave some for the rest of us.

I think it was obviously clearly a gag, but yeah. My issue is, too, they come to the gate, or they come to your door or whatever, and then they go, trick or treat. And then you just automatically go, here, grab what you want out of the box. There's no follow-up. There's no, like, okay, give us your trick. Do you ever ask for the trick? Well, if you give them the treat, then you need, you've, you've forfeited the trick.

You need to choose the trick. Oh. That's on you. That's on you, mate. That's on you, mate. Trick or, not trick and. But I did say trick

and then they just stood there. Well, if you need to do a trick, then you shouldn't give them a treat. You're like, well, shut the door on their face. Good, fair enough. Kids need to learn. That's right.

Shut the door on their face. You're like, you don't give me a trick. You give me the option. I asked for the trick. I want the trick part. Good way to save lollies. Yeah.

Just ask for tricks all night long. Now, we got thinking about Halloween and, you know, ghost stories, something that is often talked about around Halloween. And John and I were talking about one time when we were on the Edge radio station before we were here at the Hits radio station. And we had a meeting. It was Halloween time. We had a meeting before the show, and we were, like, trying station before we were here at the Hits radio station. And we had a meeting. It was Halloween time. We had a meeting before the show.

And we were trying to think of different angles for Halloween. And I think we were like, well, what about someone that maybe had a relationship with a ghost? Would there be anyone listening right now? Now, Boss was like, no. There's no one going to be calling up about this. And I was even dubious. I was like, we're really narrowing it down to very few people. I think it was labelled a waste of airtime.

Yeah. And then this lady phones through. Have a listen to her interaction with her, well, her former boyfriend. And Simone. Yes. You're made out with a ghost. Yes. Okay.

I was in a long-term relationship and unfortunately he passed away. But yeah, he still visits me every now and then and lets me finish, I suppose. Wow. Yeah. And you can see him? Not, no. But you can kind of sense he's there. And so do you kiss him back? Is your tongue like going, him? No. But you can kind of sense he's there. And so do you kiss him back?

Is your tongue like going... No. So there's no kissing. It's just like... No kissing. He's there. Wow. Thank you for sharing that with us.

You too. You too. I was a non-believer. You shocked me. You mocked me. So yeah. Jono looking confident. Arrogantly confident.

Like, you mocked me. This is a real win I thought it was my first win ever Yeah and so then that made international news

It went huge like all around the place Yeah well a woman's sleeping with her Yeah Daily Mail UK went to the US

United States News over there News Hub had it out went everywhere like that we were you know going out particularly Jono going to the boss straight away he was like mate hear this you said it couldn't be done News over there. News hub had it out. Went everywhere like that. We were, you know, going out, you know, particularly John O'Globe,

he's the boss. Straight away, he was like, mate, hear this? You said it couldn't be done. No one was going to call. I was organizing a ticker tape parade. I don't even feel like there's a party. Well, yeah, went everywhere. We're like, this is incredible.

And then a couple of days later, our producer, Dan, who's now on the Edge Breakfast Show, Dan Webby, he was like, hey, guys. Look, I was quite worried that no one was going to call up for that. So I organised someone from the office to pretend. And we were like, what? What? It really spiralled out of control. It really spiralled out of control.

I was like, we've just been, we've created fake news. Yeah, I know. But look how easy it was. It was. I know, but we had no idea we'd created fake news. This went everywhere like that. That's what Trump has been going on about. We wanted to enter it in radio awards and be like, oh, we can't because it's all just been made up.

Did you have to retract it in world news? No, we definitely faded out of it. I don't think we ever addressed the fact that we made it up, which is till now. So there you go. We're still going to take this to our grave. Wow. Hey, next. Hey, listen, I'm going to chuck this to our grave. Wow. Hey, listen, I'm going to check it out there again.

If anyone's listening who has had an intimate relationship with a ghost, I'll 800 the hits. Producer Ali, I'm looking at you. Have you got anyone arranged for this? The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Heading into the weekend, thanks for hanging out with us. One of the big stories in New Zealand over the last couple of weeks

has been the new football team, the Auckland FC. Yeah, and big game this weekend, a big local game happening, and we're joined by Nick Becker, the big boss of Auckland FC. How are you? I'm very well, very well. Thanks for having me. Great to have you back in again. Now, we spoke to you a few weeks ago. It was before the season, the Auckland FC, and now two games in. You must be just stoked with how it's

been so far. Absolutely we couldn't have we couldn't have scripted a better start really you know sort of two wins at home nearly 40,000 over two weekends it's been really special. The fans have been amazing. Yes we keep saying it's like the team has been around for a long time like everyone's singing there's the everyone's got merch on it just feels like it's like the team has been around for a long time. Everyone's singing. Everyone's got merch on. It just feels like it's been a club that's been around forever. Oh, the merch blows me away. The kids blow me away, right? The families that are there and the kids all wearing our shirts.

It's so special. So it does feel like we've been around for a bit longer than just two rounds. Now, big game this weekend. The local derby, derby, never know. Derby. Derby. We'll call it a derby. A derby. Yeahby now there was a bit

you know there was a plane flying around I know I liked that and it was like say something about New Zealand is yellow

for the phoenix see you next week yeah see you next week yeah yeah yeah see you next Tuesday oh no it's Saturday sorry I got my days wrong sorry sorry

they it's good It's good. It's good a bit of spice. You've got to add it in. And you want a bit of tribalism. You want to have that banter. And I think it's really important for the game. I think the Kiwi football fans, they're up for it.

And they're really like, there's that friendly banter thing that's going on, which is really nice. So this one in Wellington, of course. Is there another one later in the season back here? We've got two more. So the one back in Auckland is on the 7th of December. It's already pretty much half sold out. So that's one to get your season back here. We've got two more. The first one back in Auckland is on the 7th of December. It's already pretty much half sold out. So that's one to

get your tickets for now. Now we've read an article from a colleague of ours, Patrick Gower. Have you read Patrick Gower's article? Paddy Gower's read the article. He's saying... It's a bit sassy. He's proud Wellingtonian. Proud. We were going to give Paddy Gower a call. I don't know if he's going to answer or not. He's like, here's the headline here

Nick. Auckland FC are quite fake. The Phoenix are New Zealand's real pro football club. Let's get Paddy Gow a call. I don't know if he's going to answer or not, but he's like, here's the headline here, Nick. Auckland FC are quite fake. The Phoenix are New Zealand's real pro football club. Let's get Paddy on the call. Will he answer? I don't know. He doesn't know we're calling. Yeah, he's like, the Phoenix have been around for multiple years, you know, 17 years.

And he said, these guys can't just come rolling in here and take all the glory. Hello. Paddy Gow. Jono, Ben and Megan from the Hits.. Patty. Thank you. John O'Bannon, Megan from the Hats. Oh, hey, guys. Yes, I'm driving. I just saw that bloody prank called him.

Don't want my life for a few years. No, Emmett. Emmett had a TV show for a few years. Thanks, Megan. Yeah. Hey, that was my joke, that TV show joke. Thanks, I was piggybacking. I can't talk, though.

I don't have one either. Now Paddy, we've read your piece. We've read your piece on Auckland FC and we have a surprise for you. Nick Becker, CEO of Auckland FC is with us in the studio. Paddy, how you doing? Oh, so, yes, Nick, I'm

really good and I hope you taking my criticism constructively that you are a you know, and I don't want to be rough, but it's there in black and white that Auckland FC is a semi-fake football club and there's only one football club in New Zealand and that is the Phoenix FC. Oh, he's doubling down. These are fighting words there. They're big words, Paddy, so prove it. No, no, no, Nick.

I don't want to have a fight with you. I want you to understand. We know that you're sparking up some rivalry, Paddy, but I love that about the fact that the port, you're saying, oh, yeah, it's called the port, the fans of the port, but you're saying, well, the location's in Penrose, as far away from the water as possible.

It's more conceptual, Paddy, than that. You've got to open your mind up. You're clearly like a sort of a one-eyed provincial thinker here. I need you to be a bit more creative Paddy, come on. I personally know some people who are members of the port and I won't name them on air but they have never been to a port in their life. Conceptually, though, the port welcomes everyone in and that's what we are. We're an inclusive club. It doesn't matter if you're in Penrose or at the port, Paddy.

You're welcome. Get on board, Paddy. Something, Nick, while you're on here, Paddy also says about the port's chants, which I thought are great, sounded suspiciously to him like they'd be made by ChatGPT.

Now, do you know for a fact if they have been or not? I don't know that for a fact, but we embrace AI. We're future thinking. We're not stuck in the past. We innovate. We look forward. We're leaving behind the other team in this country.

We're the future, baby. Now, Paddy. We embrace AI and the port is conceptual. It's real. Now, Paddy, it's probably a redundant question to ask you, but what's your pick this weekend? I think it's the way, and I think it'll be 3-0 over there. Weather looks fantastic in Wellington.

Lost it. I've lost it. Well, I want to put it out to Paddy if we get him back, or if we can just put it there. If it is 3-0, fine, we'll take that. And he can choose his win. But if it isn't, I say Paddy has to be in the port at the December derby.

Let's get him alive. In the port. Spend a game in the port, mate. It's not going to happen, so I'll go one better. I'll go one better, Nick. I'll wear an Auckland FC jumper. You can even put my name on the back. Oh!

Is that confident? That's confident. Is that confident? There you go. I'll put my money where my mouth is. There you go. Well, either way, phone call Monday morning to you, Paddy. All right.

We'll know soon enough. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Trevor Scott, of course, was at Eden Park a couple of nights ago playing and 21 noise complaints by residents. Even though it was all done by 10.10, 20 minutes before the curfew. You guys were there, you rowdy. It was loud. It was loud, but it's a concert.

I mean, concerts are always loud. You'd be disappointed if it wasn't loud. Yeah. I just read that and someone was like, the pictures were rattling off my walls in the lounge. Now, I can't say they didn't happen. Yeah. I just read that, and someone was like, the pictures were rattling off my walls in the lounge. Now, I can't say they didn't happen. Yeah, true. But they said they felt like they were in an earthquake.

And the pyrotechnics looked full on, though. Yeah, a lot of pyrotechnics. So maybe it was that. Yeah, he blew a lot on fireworks and stuff. It was a spectacle. And a lot of dads there on dad duty with young kids, weren't they? It was. Now, after the show, I got home home after the show and i was intrigued and i was like when does someone of this ilk of this celebrity

when do they depart the country do they just want to get out of there quickly yeah some of them do hey they go straight after the show onto their plate we've been in australia and i think new zealand was the last stop so he probably does want to just get home. Yeah, I get it. I mean, as much as I'm sure he enjoys the gig, it's a job and it's probably another night doing the job

so he probably wants to get back to his family. So then I hopped onto Flight Tracker App. Okay, now this is a celebrity private plane. How did you get onto that? Flight Tracker App.

I think I've heard you talking about it. Oh, God. Not that you've been on it. I think I've heard you talking about it. Oh, God. Not that you've been on it. I think you've just mentioned it. Because they always try and name and shame Taylor Swift for her giant carbon footprint. And I'm thinking, what's the alternative? Do you want her to canoe around the world and do a 30-year-long world tour?

Yeah. She's got to fly places. She's got to fly. And she can't. Yes, well, she could go commercial. She's rich and famous, mate. She's a better class of human being. and she's probably offsetting her carbon emissions i don't even know what that means like what do they do when they do that she's probably doing it paying someone

off paying greta thunberg to keep well i know coldplay the concert that's going to be here in a few weeks time you can actually help um you can get on these bikes and help like help with the electricity as well if you want you can help them out. It's like an exercise bike in Coldplay. Basically, there are some exercise bikes, apparently, is all part of it because they're really about trying to minimise what they do. And then they're like, you want to complain, mate? Get on a bike.

So I power some lights for a bit. That is the most Coldplay thing I think you'll ever hear. So then I get on to Celebrity Private Jet Tracker, which I thought in the first instance is a huge invasion of these people's privacy. And so that's when you stopped and you were like,

no, I can't read anymore. I'm not going to feed this beast. No, Ben, no. I was even more intrigued about what was happening. So it's got every celebrity. Bill Gates, you want to know

what his plane's up to? His Gulfstream. Elon Musk, plane number one of four. Wow. What he's been doing, 306 flights tracked. But I'll go down to, what's your P. Diddy? His Gulfstream.

Even though he's locked up, still flying around. He's still got a carbon footprint. If something could make him more of a monster, he's still ruining the environment from inside prison. But what they do is they will go click on Steven Spielberg's golf stream, for example. Okay. And they really publicly name and shame these people. Do they know?

I mean, sometimes maybe they weren't on the plane too. Maybe. Do they know that? Yeah, they don't. They don't know who's on the plane. Yeah, they know it's his plane. So it might not be the person who owns it. Yeah.

Yeah. So if we're taking golf. By Diddy, for example. He's not flying anywhere. He's definitely not on the plane. Yeah. So Steven Spielberg we click on steven spielberg for example steven spielberg's plane took off at islay airport it emitted more than 30 metric tons of carbon dioxide lasted close to seven hours the flight covered about 3 900 flight miles and required and burnt through 3 500 gallons of jet fuel.

Do you reckon they land and they're like, oh, did you have to? Did you have to? Like, hey, we're all ruined in the environment. Yeah. Imagine if they did that with people driving to work. On a website. How far did old mate drive today?

Yeah. True. There we go, people. There's a lot of narks around, aren't there? Just an ultimate narc. He says, I'll no longer be participating in celebrity flight trips. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday was Halloween trick-or-treating around the neighbourhood.

I went with my kids. It was great to see everyone out and about. Now, Megan, you just... As an adult, do you collect the goods as well? No, no. I just kind of hang out. Lots of other adults dressed up, which is pretty impressive to see. It was cool. Yeah, it was cool. Heaps of streets, and then everyone would go, oh, you need kind of hang out. Lots of other adults dressed up, which is pretty impressive to see. It was cool. Yeah, that's cool.

Heaps of streets and then everyone would go, oh, you need to drive to this street. So you go drive to a few blocks over. Food carts on some streets. It was pretty cool. Yeah, that's cool. It's cool when a whole street embraces it. You put a pull pin on it, right? I did.

As we were driving home from picking up the kids from daycare, I've got a three-year-old and a two-year-old, which, yep, it's as bad as it sounds sometimes. Yeah, right. They kicked off yesterday, and so we were like, oh, the public doesn't need this. And I don't think that adding suites and costumes to this scenario, so we had to like, yeah.

Did you just say, shut up, kids? Did you say that to them in the car? You did one of those. My wife and I, because I wasn't allowed to buy new costumes this year, so I got some ones from the garage that worked fine. Do you know why, though? Because I've got a garage full of costumes. You're doing that whole patronising voice,

but you've got a whole garage full of costumes. You don't need new ones. And your wife's to feed. You've got more costumes than anyone could ever imagine. So my wife and I, we went as Ghostbusters. We put on my Ghostbusters costumes that I had in the garage. They're great costumes. I like them, but I have worn them a few Halloweens ago.

But anyway. You're like me with like dresses, evening dresses. I'm like, I've worn them before. I've done this before. I've done this. Do you think the costume critics are like, oh, he wore that in 2017. Yeah, well, it's been done. But it was quite fun going out and about.

It was quite fun seeing kids as ghosts. And then you're like, it's a ghost. And you're like that. And some kids would get the reference. Other kids would just be like, oh my God, this is scary. You didn't like try and take the kids away or anything, did you? No, no, it's so 2017. Yeah, it's very 2017.

But I had a moment where, because, you know, you run into people like other friends of the kids, other people you know. And there was a mother of one of my daughter Indy's friends. And my wife Amanda knows her a bit better than me, so they sort of came up in the street, they embraced and stuff like that. And I kind of had that moment where I was like, is this a hugging situation or not?

And I didn't go for the hug. But they went for a hug, I didn't. I was like, hey, good to see you, nice to see you. I was like, that's fine. And it seemed fine. And then a few minutes later, she was sort of hanging around and she came up to me and she sort of put her arms out.

And I was like, oh. I was like, oh, baby, she's thinking the same as me. We should have gone for a hug. later she was sort of hanging around and she came up to me and she sort of put her arms out and i was like oh i was like oh baby she's thinking the same as me we should have gone for a hug and so i went and i put my arms up for a hug and she went oh we're going for a hug and that's when i went oh she obviously wasn't going for a hug she was going to grab because i have the ghostbusters i have the you know the ghostbusters they were they like a backpack situation where they fire off she was like oh i was going to grab that just to feel what was made out of because we dressed as ghostbusters a few years ago and we made our costumes and i'm like oh but this is all the time while we're hugging. We're hugging,

we're having this conversation. I'm like, oh, well, I thought you were going for a hug. And then I sort of walked away going, oh, God, I've had this. No, that's on her. That's on her. Yeah, that's on her, babe. If she's got her arms out coming towards you. And then I was like, maybe it was one arm, maybe it was just one arm and eyeballs. I thought it was two arms. I'm so glad you were thinking that too, because I thought we should have hugged.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, you had an interesting incident yesterday where you were deep in a conversation and had no idea who you were talking to. Yeah, and it happens from time to time, doesn't it? Where you have your chat and I was talking to some guy and it was like... Some guy.

Well, at the start he was like, you know, comes over and I'm like, hi, and you have that little thing. You're like, I know this person. And they're like... And then they said, they even said, I'm surprised you remember me. And I'm like, of course I remember you. And I'm like, please don't say. Oh, you're double down. Please don't say.

Some people go, what's my name then? Yeah, where from? You're like, oh, you're a monster. If you say that, you're a monster. That would be so funny. You're like, oh, you're a monster. And just walk off. Just walk off.

You're an absolute monster It was Halloween So I could have said that Did you realise Did you figure out Who they were Yeah and that's the thing It feels like your brain

Is just You're having a conversation But your brain Is just working overtime Everyone listening Right now Will be in that situation Your brain

Is like a filing system You're flicking through All the files You're like No no You're pulling it Ask a million questions Like how's work Going To get like a little bit finally i got it like finally i got it i narrowed down in my head and finally went oh this is how i know this person

from and then i feel like once you know you almost make it too obvious that you know because you start really starting to get oh is that right denise from chartered accountants yeah how is the chartered accountants game going for you? You really want to ease that info back into the combo, don't you? No, but you don't because you're so stoked that you finally get there. The worst thing is when your partner comes over, so you don't know who this person is, and they come over, and they expect you to introduce.

So I just do the wide eyes, and I'm like, oh, have you guys met? Introduce yourself. That means introduce yourself because I don't know who I'm talking, oh, have you guys met? Introduce yourself. That means introduce yourself because I don't know who I'm talking to. So he knows that signal. Andrew knows those panicked eyes from you. And he'll come in and – Have you guys met? And he's like, yeah, I remember this.

Yeah. My man in my wife, yeah, she knows that if I don't – I've told her if I don't introduce you with her the first couple of seconds, she's straight in there. I don't know who it is. She's like, yeah, it's Matt. And I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry. Did I not, you know?

I thought you guys had met yeah it's all on me looking like the idiot she's quite good at picking that up now which is good really hang me out to joy

actually otherwise have you ever been in that scenario where you're pretty confident on the first half of someone's name but not the second half of their name

so you'll just kind of mumble hey this is Sharijari you know no I did that the other night I did that the other night. I did that the other night. Do you mean their last name? No.

Or like the first, oh, just the. Oh, so you kind of know the ballpark. We met a lovely lady named Shade. And I was pretty sure her name was Shade, but I forget names. So then I introduced her to another person. I was like, oh, this is Sharajirei. Oh, that's a show. Just mumble it.

Yeah. And then to them, this is what I'm thinking in my head. I think they're going, oh, they know my name. They said the first half, right? No, they're not. They're thinking this guy's drunk. Halfway through. Having a medical event.

Okay, so this is what we want to open up. 0800, that's 4487. What little social arrangements have you got with your partner? Yeah. How do they How do they save your ass When you're deep in a party Work event

Do you have a phone Some people have those Friends that phone them If they're on a date Oh yes Have you got one of them I'm that friend I'll do the phoning

Have you made that call before Yeah We'll talk about this The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Yesterday I spent How many minutes Talking to someone

Trying to figure out Who they were And then When did the penny drop? Oh, yeah, it was probably, well, it felt like three or four minutes into the conversation. Long time. It probably wasn't quite as long as that, but, you know, your brain's just like, you're having that small talk.

It's like boxing at the start, you know, when the box is sort of just jabbing, just jabbing, no one's fully committing, you know, just a dance. You can't ever be like, how's the kids, how's the family? Because most of the time you're like, oh, I don't know. I said this the other day. I do love a, you're being busy. That can reveal a lot about a person. You're being busy lately?

How's things with you? Oh, yeah. You know, just questions that don't really have, you know, to hopefully lead them down there. And I got there eventually. Do you know, and this is going to be the ultimate name drop dear friend of ours Dwayne the Rock Johnson have you heard of Dwayne the Rock Johnson yeah yeah that was a great name little up-and-coming movie star we had done something on zoom with him and then it was a few months later we did an interview

with him he had a great a great line which I think everyone could use. Remind me where we know each other from again. Oh no, but that just is a nice way of saying I don't know you. No, but that's great. But he was like, hey, we've got... So you're like, I know you. Yeah, where did we meet again?

Yeah, right. Like one of those. Where did we meet again? I mean, there's certain types of people you can do that with. I mean, not like your neighbour or anything. Remind me where we know each other. And also you can forgive The Rock because you know that I mean, not like your neighbour. Remind me where we know each other. And also, you can forgive The Rock

because you know that he meets millions of people every day. Remind me. Yeah, I thought it was quite a nice way of doing it. If you see that to me, I'd be like,

get over yourself, John. You remind me. Take a note, take a note here. The show, every morning. Hey,

take a note. Okay, let's get GB. Welcome to the show. How's life? Hey, morning. How are you guys doing? Now, remind me where we know each other from again, GB.

Must have been the best time I was on your show. Yeah, that's right. That's where we know you from. Good to chat again. Now, you've got a little tip for us. What is it? Yeah, I'm terrible with names. So normally when my wife is with me and i don't

be just a person yeah she i can't remember the person's name she will then introduce herself um and the other person will introduce themselves and i would be like oh i thought you guys had met before yeah that's my trick as well it's a great trick it's a good little dance you're doing yeah i thought you guys had me yeah you put it on yourself, you're like, oh, but now you know. The ultimate wing woman. Yeah, she's great, yeah. Yeah, it's terrible if you ever get divorced, though, isn't it? You're going to be flouting around by yourself.

Oh, God. That's what's going to happen. It's okay. Good on you, GB. Go and have a wonderful weekend. All right, mate. You too. Now, you said, Megan, something interesting.

Those situations where you hear about people on dates and they've got their friend who phones halfway through the date. Yeah, my best friend's still dating. That sounded like I was shaming her. She is on the dating apps and stuff. So we have a rule. She has to tell me when her date is, where she's going, and any details about the person.

And then she calls me if she needs to get out of it. But you asked me what I say. What do you say? I don't say any, I'm just like, Hey, how's it going? Like I,

my banter is completely different to her banter. It's like two separate calls. So I'd be like, Oh, is he, is he awful? And she's like, Oh my God,

what? And I'm like, it's that bad. Is it? She's like, are you serious? Okay. Yeah.

I'm coming over. You gotta at least help her. You gotta do the role play. got to do the role play. Help her out. It's completely separate conversations. You're like, oh my God, I've just slipped and fallen. She'd be like, oh my God, give her something. I'm like, bring snacks over when you come.

She's like, now? Do I have to come now? You've got to go method. Or else her performance is not going to reflect. It's not going to match up. She's got a great performance. Whoever's on the other side of the table is like, I can see right through it.

Honestly, doing a great job of that. Hey, next, it was Halloween trick-or-treating yesterday, and I managed to make something awkward. Surprising, knowing me. You did a Jono. I did, actually. Did you pee on someone? Okay, no, I didn't do a Jono.

Okay, you're right then. I definitely didn't do a Jono. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's the first of November, which is the day that Megan, well, starts to think Christmassy, right? Yeah, well, I usually put up first of November. It's probably going to happen tomorrow. Disclaimer.

But, like, Halloween's out of the way. We're only a few weeks away from Christmas, so I like to milk it. We've been talking about an idea about a Christmas song that we're going to bring you up to speed with after. Oh, this could be really fun with after 7 o'clock. It's a game everyone can play. I don't know why I'm being so secretive about it. Might as well just mention it now. All I Want for Christmas, the Mariah Carey song. He's gone early.

It was a big launch on Monday, but anyway. We're going to seed it in with Megan getting ready about Christmas. But anyway. This is a seeding. Are you part of that meeting or not? And the conversation moments ago. We're going to seat it in with Megan getting ready about Christmas. But anyway. This is seating. This is seating. Are you part of that meeting or not? And the conversation moments ago. Yeah.

Well, I'll back out now. It's a very exciting game. We'll tell you more about it on Monday. Involving all I want for Christmas. Prime time. Involving, yeah. We'll tell you prime time. Prime time. We'll tell you prime time on Monday.

Not 6.39 on a Friday. Yeah. Now, Halloween, before we move on from Halloween, because I know you've given me my chance to talk about Halloween and have my fun and now you're all in the Christmas group.

And now I'm like, right, Christmas has launched, people. I just wanted to know, and 4487 on the text, and was there anything last night if your kids went trick-or-treating a random item that they were given? Because some people you feel like

you've really thrown them out. Some people are well prepared for trick-or-treaters and other people are like, oh, good. In that instance, they just need to go hands in the air. I'm sorry, I completely forgot. Move on. And I mean, you usually know,

like my kids and a lot of other kids, if they haven't got cobwebs and things out the front of the gate, they're not going anywhere near the house. It's a surefire sign. Yeah, you're right. It's like you're not knocking on. But back in the day...

But not literal cobwebs too. Because it's the one day of the year they do become topical. They need to be like look sharp cobwebs. Yeah, you're like this person, this house is into Halloween. It's Halloween friendly. Otherwise you're like, well, you're just going to end up annoying someone in the house. But, you know, because I remember back in the day going around Marston and it wasn't a big thing.

But when me and my sister and my friends would do it, we were kind of like the pioneers of Marston day going around Marston and it wasn't a big thing but when me and my sister my friends would do it we were kind of like felt like the pioneers of Marston and going around bringing hold on are you laying claim to trick-or-treating in Marston is this what I'm hearing I feel like we were one of the first early adopters shall we say you brought Halloween to New Zealand everyone thank Ben Boyce no I'm not I just think early adopters and this would really throw people out I'm gonna now we're gonna fact check this with Mastered it. We didn't have the cobweb system back then because people were, it was early days of Halloween, you know.

The cobweb system. You know where you'd go, oh, there's cobwebs out the front. Or a witch dangling off a tree or something. We just got door to door like a Jehovah's Witness. Bestring everyone. Sky ground, bestring everyone. What was this? Did you have to explain to them what the pros were? go up door to door like a Jehovah's Witness sky ground bestering everyone what is this did you have to explain

to them what the sometimes we'll be like hey we're yeah we're doing a trick or treat it's yeah and people would

some people very rattled we got all sorts of like packets of biscuits we'd be allowed to take one I got Panadol from one house mum was like

I don't know if you should be getting getting out medications and children got some coins For another house It was all sorts Of just random

They're just To be fair to these people They're just getting their head And mastered And around the concept Of Halloween So they're like Oh we just give them

Anything from the house Pick up anything Here's some Connie's Well yeah That would have been Yeah But I feel like Maybe it's continued

Because last night A friend of mine Her young daughter Came home with a little You know sometimes You buy ham From the supermarket Yeah, but I feel like maybe it's continued because last night a friend of mine, her young daughter came home with a little, you know how sometimes you buy ham from the supermarket and it's little packets and you kind of rip off the little packets and you get a few. Oh, like the beehive one.

Yeah, a shagging ham. She got like a pack of maybe 12 bits of ham inside. Oh, just one little. Just one. Just one. Pottle. It's a little bottle. They ripped it off.

They didn't give her the twin pack. No, just half of the twin pack, I guess. That ham would be sitting room temperature by the time it's back home too. Yeah, so really. I mean, you know. Ham's delicious. And not a cheap item, you know. Like it's probably a few dollars for that.

So yeah. This is definitely someone doing a panic scramble through their household. But yeah, so 4487 on the tips. Better than Panadols though. Yeah, right. I don't think you can be handing out medication like that. Lovely to have you with us. Thank you for joining us.

Now, over the last week and a half, maybe two weeks, we've been playing a game called Bandle, which Ben has, since day two or three of the game, been publicly against. Oh no, I mean, I enjoyed listening to it, but that's all I ever did was listen to it. I found it very hard. Yeah, so you had to try and decipher

a song just from like listening to the drums and then they'd add more instruments as you went on. Brianna Disturbia, that one. You see, I started playing it again and I was like, jeez, I had no idea what that song was and that was yesterday. He lobbied, he campaigned to bring back the Herald quiz. I just said, and I put it out there on the text, I was like, jeez, I had no idea what that song was. That was yesterday. He lobbied, he campaigned to bring back the Herald quiz.

I just said, and I put it out there on the text. I was like, is it too hard? Is anyone else finding it? Apart from Megan, who does a wonderful job of it, is anyone else getting any of these? And some texts came through and everyone was like, I'm with you, Ben. Essentially what happened is Ben sucked at it,

so he flipped the monopoly board and doesn't want to play anymore. Also, you said there was one person that texted in. There was a couple of texts, sorry. Two. You said everybody said they don't want to play. Well, that was everybody that texted. I didn't get a single text going, hey, keep this game, we love it, which was an option.

So, hey, all I could go on was two texts. 100% of the people said it was too much. That's all I can say. Oh, look, I'm happy to go on if it's two texts. 100% of the people said it was too hard. That's all I can say. Oh, look, I'm happy to carry on with it if you want. No, you've picked the sad now. I just found it very hard. That was all. It was difficult.

So, that being said, 100% of the votes. 100%. Trump would be happy with those numbers, wouldn't he? And Producer Ellie's back in the studio with the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. There's 10 questions on the New Zealand Herald. Go to NZ. The mission, well, it's pretty simple. I won't mansplain it.

Here we go. All right. Question one of the New Zealand Herald Quiz this morning on November 1st. Which country is the largest producer of petrol? Is it the US, Russia, or Saudi Arabia? It's Russia. Pretty sure it's Russia because there was a threat because Putin's like, you guys annoy me.

I'm going to do this. He's going to take all that. Yeah, that's why everyone doesn't play that hard a ball with Putin. Interesting. Okay. I thought it was Saudi Arabia. Yeah, I would have thought along those lines. But Jono's very confident. So let's go with him.

I mean, he's never let us down in the past. So let's go with Jono's confidence. We're going with Jono's confidence. That is incorrect. Saudi Arabia? It's actually US. Oh, what? Yeah.

I wouldn't have thought that either. Well, there we go. We'll be back to Bandle on Monday. Because we, I mean, obviously you can keep playing the game if you're just into the show. There is 10 questions. But our rules are that if we get one wrong, we're out. So there we go.

Sorry, guys. Sorry. Way more fun than Bandle. Sorry. Hey, but what we've learned is USA. Yeah. We're learning something. Can't wait to tell that at a party this weekend.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Who's having the best weekend? Joining us from the Hits in the South Island is Connor. From the hits in the North Island is Hayley. Good morning. How are you doing? Good. Good morning.

How are you? Good. Listen, we've just lost Connor because I can't conference call. That's all right. We'll start with Hayley then. We'll start with Hayley. This is an issue that no one else needs to care about. It's like apartheid in South Africa.

You two can't be on the same line at the same time. It's how vicious this rivalry is between the North and South. Hayley, what is happening in the North this weekend? What's some of the big bangers that we can look forward to? This is like my dream weekend for my inner country girl because we have got AMP

show season. It is well and truly kicked off. So this weekend we've got the AMP show for Manawatu. We've got the Wairarapa Hamilton as well. And it's basically every agricultural dream. There's going to be sharing sheep competitions at some. Aunty Karen's going to try and win a red

medal with a strawberry jam. There's a lot happening. Snow cones, maybe. Just a classic Kiwi event happening all up the North Island. Could you let the farmers have a good knack of, when you talk to a farmer, of not saying much, but making a conversation last like 45 minutes long? It's quite an art. Yeah, that's an art, you're right.

Unless you get talking about sheep gagging or things like that, then they can go for a while. Yeah, that's true. Tractors, there'll be some tractors there. Yeah, lots of fun. All right, well, what else? City guy. Yeah, lots of true. Tractors, there'll be some tractors there. Yeah, lots of fun. Alright, well, what else? City guy. Yeah, lots of fun.

Just trying to banter. He'll be at the snow cone truck. Exactly, that's my place. Hey, so what else in the north, Hayley? And then we've got another thing which is my dream, a camping expo. So this is super cool. This happens once a year. It's in Otaki on the Kapiti Coast and they have got a huge field,

huge amount of tents all on display. You can go actually see one before you want to buy it. They've got all the latest gadgets, live music, torches, sleeping bags, everything on display. I saw a friend of mine actually went camping over the weekend, and they bought the PlayStation 5. What? They bought the PlayStation 5. I? They bought the PlayStation 5.

I saw it on the Instagram. I was like, there's a tint. There's a tint. I know they had a great setup. I was like, just stay at home though. Yeah,

you're supposed to be going exploring the wilderness, getting outside. I mean, me, I was like, great, I'd be all for it.

Was it running off a generator? I don't know how they were running it. They were at a campground so maybe they were running off the power. So yeah, but they were like, TV and a PlayStation 5. Oh, terrible.

Stay at home, bro. It's almost not worth it, is it? Hayley, as we all know and as the nation cares about, the conference facility not working right now on the phone system. So I'll put you back on hold. And if you win, we will come back to you. Connor, welcome back from the United States. You went on a holiday.

Sure did. Sure did. Sure did. He's come back with an accent. Came back into the hit studio and we left a little gift for you, hadn't we, Connor? Yeah, two Christchurch helicopter hats, eh? You're very welcome. One when you can have two, right?

And he's only got one head. Yeah. Well, we had a wonderful time with the Christchurch helicopter. We missed you when you were in Christchurch. They kind of gave us some hats, and we thought, who would like two of these hats? Connor. So there you go.

We've just heard about a wonderful A&P show happening in the north. What's happening in the south this weekend? A Shrek rave. Shrek the rave. I think what happens is they take a bunch of the songs from the wonderful Shrek soundtrack, of which we all know know and love and it's become synonymous with the movie, and then remix them to a crowd of sweaty teenagers of whom have been heavily pre-drinking during that day. Right.

A Shriek show? I'm a believer. I'm guessing. I'm trying to think what other songs from Shriek. I'm sure there are a few. And then I saw her face and then, then, then. I'm trying to think what other songs from Shrek I'm sure there are a few Most of those teenagers would have been Born when that came out I feel like they're just going to have to play this song on loop

For about three hours So Shrek rave and what else is going on in the south Yeah we've got a very Awesome event in Nelson The Mask Carnival which is being run by the Pacifica Arts and Culture Collective, a massive music line-up.

Connor wins. The Mask Festival in Nelson, it's a biggie. Connor wins. You tickled me. Well done, Connor. Now we'll go back to Hayley, who's heard... And I'm hung up on her. Okay, okay.

Having a shocker. All right, having a shocker. Well, Connor wins. Hayley won't even know what happened there. And we know now the conference calling system is not quite working for us.