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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast.
Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea.
It was a big weekend of sport, a huge weekend in fact,
and who would have thought the Warriors going into the weekend
would have been probably the highlight of the weekend.
Ten players out with injury, and they beat the Panthers, surprisingly,
in Australia, who Panthers have won the competition.
Megan, you joining in on the sports chat this morning?
So I told everyone to keep the faith, did I not?
And I noticed you're wearing your Warriors hat today.
Yeah, I can wear a Warriors hat.
You guys were like, oh, I don't know.
All signs point. I love the Warriors.
I think the Warriors were like, oh, I don't know.
I mean, I don't have a lot of knowledge
so I was like, keep the faith.
But two points in it.
It was, yeah.
Fairy tale.
Yeah, it was a really, really cool moment. Looked like a great atmosphere over there. They had magic around. All the games were points in it. It was, yeah. That was awesome, actually. Fairytale. Yeah, it was really, really cool.
Looked like a great atmosphere over there.
They had Magic Round.
All the games were played in Brisbane.
It was like a festival sort of atmosphere, wasn't it?
So every team plays over the weekend.
And yeah, a huge crowd.
So it was awesome.
Awesome to see.
Speaking of huge crowds, it was great to see Saturday night in Wellington.
A sold-out crowd.
Sold-out crowd for the Phoenix.
They had their, what was their semi-final. Needed to win to get in the Phoenix. They had their semi-final.
Needed to win to get in the final.
They were down 1-0 and this happened
right on 90 minutes.
Looked on towards Barbarousas. Is this the moment?
Oscar Zabada!
Absolute bedlam in the
capital!
Oscar Zabada!
Pretty cool moment for the Phoenix. The tied-up won all.
That was from Sky Sport, of course, but unfortunately they lost an extra time 2-1. But what a season. What a great season for the Phoenix. The tied up one all. That was from Sky Sport, of course.
But unfortunately, they lost an extra time 2-1.
But what a season.
What a great season by the Phoenix.
Well done, Phoenix.
They would have been like, what's all this noise in this stadium?
We're not used to this noise.
Apparently they don't get any money.
Well, they don't make money for that.
Because the competition make the money.
And that happens in the NRL apparently as well.
So when they have the finals, all the gates, all the money from tickets go to the competition not to the club oh so the one time
we sell out we have to give all the cash to everybody so they might have made a loss apparently
on that oh yeah i mean yeah maybe the stadium make money on food and stuff like that and apparently
i heard they can sell like some of the corporate boxes but still probably for the money you're
like guys at least give us that one uh my great season by the phoenix and black ferns actually they can sell some of the corporate boxes, but still probably for the money. They're like, guys.
At least give us that one.
But great season by the Phoenix.
And Black Ferns actually lost to Canada.
First time they've ever lost to Canada in an al-Baeda yesterday, 22-19,
as well as the Canada take out the Pacific Four Series,
which is a huge upset for the Black Ferns
to lose that as well over the weekend.
We spoke to Taylor Curtis, though, on Friday.
She said it'll be a tough game.
Yeah, she did. She called it. Tyson Fury lost as well over the weekend. We spoke to Taylor Curtis, though, on Friday. She said it'll be a tough game. Yeah, she did.
Yeah, she called it.
Tyson Fury lost as well in boxing.
So it goes to Osek.
Yeah, yeah.
Oleksandr Osek.
Yeah, which...
You check.
Yeah, we're pretty incredible, right?
So, yeah, so lots of...
So that's the first time all the belts are unified
in about 20 years, isn't it?
Yeah, I think so.
What does that mean?
Because there's like three or four different boxing divisions,
and so at any one time, you could's like three or four different boxing divisions and so at any one time
you could have had three or four different
heavyweight champions of the world.
Is there just one now? Just one.
Yeah, he's united all the belts.
He's gone to Glassons and he's picked up all the
belts. Oh, okay.
If you want to wear a Glassons belt, Megan, you've got to
fight him for it, alright?
That's how it works.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
As mentioned before,
they reckon she had
a hickey
at her concert
over the weekend.
She was in Sweden.
She's just had
a lovely romantic getaway
with Travis Kelsey
in Italy
and she's got
what looks like
a hickey on her neck.
She'll be stoked
about the photos
that are circulating
around her.
Yeah, but she's like
flicked her hair
behind her shoulder
so I don't think
she's trying to cover it up. Also his old school on it isn't it yeah maybe
she's proud of it who cares really i google too he said he's had a hickey on his neck too when he
was playing maybe they're a hickey couple yeah i don't think i've ever had a hickey in my life
after eight o'clock megan gets your first time who's gonna do it though that's it yeah we can't
that's 2024. i can't do that.
A couple of years ago, maybe.
If you're on the edge,
they would have made you do it.
Yeah, exactly.
Not here, mate.
We're not bullies.
Okay, so handle the scandal.
Every week we do this.
I list a number of scandals and you have to try and figure out
which ones they are.
Now, you play together as a team now,
don't you?
Yeah, we kind of just kind of chip in, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sometimes we're competitive,
sometimes we're not.
So, yeah. Okay, it just depends on the day. Yeah. Sometimes we're competitive, sometimes we're not. So, yeah.
Okay.
It just depends on the day.
Yeah.
All right.
So, you've got 30 seconds.
Your time starts now.
His church prohibits him from seeing non-believers.
So, he hasn't seen his daughter since 2012.
Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise.
Yeah.
Well done.
I'll give you that one.
Sorry, that's sad, isn't it?
Most of the team got food poisoning, maybe from a piece of poisoned bill tongs.
Oh, it's the All Blacks, the World Cup.
95, well done.
He couldn't make a phone call in his hotel,
so he threw the phone at an employee.
It sounds like Naomi Campbell, but you said he.
It was Russell Crowe.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, he did, yeah.
Oh, that's the time.
That's all the scandals for today.
Do you want more scandals?
Yeah, keep going.
Give us another one.
Let's just say the spit was travelling in one direction of his...
Oh, Harry Styles?
Well done.
Oh, that's right.
Chris Pine, sorry.
Spat on Chris Pine.
Well, did he spit on Chris Pine?
Everyone was like, oh, they hate each other or something.
And when he sat down, it looked like some liquid came out of his mouth. He spat on Chris Pine. Well, did he spit on Chris Pine? Everyone was like, oh, they hate each other or something. And when he sat down, it looked like some liquid came out of his mouth.
He spat on him, ultimately.
Yeah, but I don't think that was the case.
But anyway, it was great drama for the week.
It sold tickets to the movie, didn't it?
It did, yeah.
And then the movie was a tanker, too, wasn't it?
It was all right.
Did you watch it?
Yeah, I thought it was all right.
Olivia Wilde was his partner.
Crushed the hearts of countless teenagers across the globe.
She was twilighting with Edward, but moonlighting with a movie director.
Oh, when Kristen Stewart smooched with her director.
Well done.
During Hurricane Katrina fundraiser, Austin Powers stood next to a man.
Oh, yeah, this was Kanye West, and he said something about George Bush, right?
Hating black people or something.
Yeah, it was during Hurricane Katrina.
He had a point, because I watched the full clip of it.
It was live, and they're obviously reading an autocue
trying to raise funds for people affected by the hurricane.
And he's like, on the news, when there's a black family looking for food,
it's called looting.
But then when there was a white family looking for food,
it was called trying to find food for their family.
So did he say all this?
Kanye was saying, yeah, leading up to it.
And then it went back to Mike Myers, who continued reading the script.
And then out of the blue, he just went, George Floyd, black people.
He said some very, like, smart things, but then he ruins it with the silly things.
Yeah, I know.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Hundy Mundy with the Garfield movie.
Oh, it's a great way to start the week.
Thanks to the Garfield movie, which is in cinemas May 30th,
featuring the voices of Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson, and more.
It looks really, really funny as well.
Great for the family.
And of course, Garfield, he hates Mondays.
We thought we could make Mondays a little bit more bearable for Monday.
Sorry, for Garfield and you.
With $100 to every caller that gets on the air and a family pass to the movie.
So you want to chuck something out
here, what you're
dreading doing today.
Yeah, like give us
a call, oh 100
the hits and say
this is on my
schedule today, not
looking forward to
doing that.
You're a long list
guy, you've got a
lot of lists of
stuff to do, what's
on your list today?
Well what I'm
probably not looking
forward to the most
is probably picking
up after the dog,
we sort of call it Lou Lane, around the corner of the house, around the side of the house where probably not looking forward to the most is probably picking up after the dog. We sort of call it Lou Lane around the corner of the house,
around the side of the house where he kind of goes to the bathroom.
And a big dog sort of just –
Big pose.
Yeah.
The kids used to do it, but their schedules were too busy.
One of my joys was listening to the kids do it
because my daughter would just go outside and be going –
I'll be like 10 minutes. That was one of my – Nothing's funnier than dry reaching out. Joy as a parent on set. When someone else is. My appetite's imminent.
That was one of my funniest.
Nothing's funnier than dry reaching, eh?
Joy as a parent.
When someone else is.
Yeah, now I have to go around the house and go,
My kids are young enough to pick up the poo now,
but they pick it up and bring it to me in the house.
With their hands.
With their hands.
Like, ah, it's a poo.
I won't be doing that.
Okay, but that's what I'm dreading doing today
so I would win
a hundred dollars
if I was calling
you know when you
put it in a bag
and you have to
when you go for a walk
or something
you put it in
it's just like
uncomfortably warm
isn't it
when it's sitting
in your hand
it's fresh and warm
and you're like
oh this is weird
the dogs must look at you
and go why are you doing this
why would you
pick that up
but anyway
you realise where
that's come from so that's what I'm not looking forward to doing oh 800 the, why are you doing this? What are you doing? Why would you pick that up? But anyway. You realise where that's come from.
So that's what I'm not looking forward to doing.
Oh, 800 the hits.
What are you not looking forward to doing on a Monday?
And we can hook you up.
Shall we get, we'll take one call now and then one next.
We'll go to Pawanui.
She, is this Mazza who runs the four square in Pawanui?
Mazza?
It's super value, not four square.
Oh, how rude, Jono.
Sorry, Meza.
And guess what?
What?
We were changing to a fresh choice next month.
Oh, he's changing to a fresh choice.
Oh, mixing it up, are we?
Now, Meza, what are you not looking forward to today?
I've just got to, you can obviously see out my windows, I've got to wash the windows today? I've just got to Can I just be out my windows?
I've got to wash the windows
Oh, you've got to wash the windows
Yeah, and I've got 38 of them
38?
That's a lot of windows
I know, but I've got them all today
The problem is you've got to do
The outside and the inside
I've let the windows get away
For the last 12 months.
It's been on my to-do list.
And I think I can ride it out another year.
So, Mazza, while you're cleaning those windows,
you can have $100 in your back pocket, all right?
Thank you.
It'll be my Monday.
Oh, there you go.
That's what we're trying to do.
Thanks to the Guffer movie and our family pastor, the movies.
Good luck cleaning 38 windows. Thanks, guys you go. That's what we're trying to do. Thanks to the Guffer movie and our family pastor, the movies. Good luck cleaning 38 windows.
Thanks, guys.
Have a nice day.
Seems like a lot of windows.
It's a crazy amount of windows.
Yeah.
I might smash the windows
just so you don't have windows.
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The Jono and Ben podcast.
What I had over the weekend
had for like 20 years
was burger rings.
Oh, yeah.
I've had them weekly.
Love them.
They're good.
They're so good but didn't
they change the recipe well yeah because i got a bit annoyed oh well because i remember as a kid
and i know you go oh your hands were a lot smaller yes they were but you used to be able to put them
all over your ring fingers yeah all your fingers you like burger rings everywhere like you're tom
brady at the superbowl or something um but they're very they're smaller now even though on the kids
fingers they wouldn't fit over
but they still taste good
the ring has become tighter
yes
they taste great
but I feel like
you know
they're smaller
in size
tell you what you'll appreciate
if you haven't had it in a while
is a ration
the rations
I haven't had one of those
for probably the same amount
of time as well
yeah
cheesels
cheesels was my jam
they were big and crunchy.
You used to hardly fit one in your mouth back then.
Cheese balls?
Yeah, cheese balls.
Cheese balls, they were good.
They came off the market.
Do they still exist?
Nah.
Remember CC's, the old?
Yeah, the corn chips.
Only CC's are tasting like these.
When I started at MediaWorks,
the other radio company,
I was on reception as a young child
trying to make my way in the game
and I had no money so
I just ate a big bag of cheesels for lunch broke out in a full body rash at reception they're like
mate we've got to get you got to get you away from front of house full body rash like there was no
rashy kid rashy chisel kid you'd think they'd get it from rations but anyway
obviously not all right we've got a $100 for every caller that makes it to air this morning.
Thanks to the new Garfield movie, Garfield.
That cute little chubby cat doesn't like Mondays.
Do you know Paul's in a billion dollars a year in merch sales?
Oh, very adorable cat.
Yeah.
Look, the movie looks great, and you can win a family pass to it right now
and $100 to make your Monday a little better.
We'll take one more call, shall we?
Yeah.
Andy, how are you?
Welcome this morning.
Hey, morning.
How are we?
Yeah, good.
Been through it out there.
What are you dreading?
What are you dreading today on this Monday?
I'm dreading hanging out with my three children today because they've all got gastro, all
three of them.
Oh, my God.
I'm glad you said they've got gastro.
Otherwise, dreading hanging out with your kids.
You really want to traumatise the childhoods there. Yeah. Oh, that's unfortunate. I don't mind them the rest of the time. Oh got gastro, otherwise, you're trying to hang out with your kids as well. You really want to traumatise the childhoods there.
Yeah, oh, that's unfortunate.
I don't mind them the rest of the time.
Oh, gastro.
Have you been through it yet?
No, I haven't got it.
All the kids at their schools had it,
and I don't think any of the parents have had it,
so maybe it's just the weak immunes from the little kids.
I don't know.
No, you're going to survive.
You're going to get through this, and you're not going to have it.
I'm putting it out into the universe.
Megan, I tell you what.
You had it not too long ago.
I know exactly how you feel.
I feel like it's a strange day when she doesn't
have gas.
It's just when you get the message from daycare,
like, oh, it seems like there's a tummy bug going around.
You're like, no.
And straight away you feel sick, eh?
Yeah, psychosomatic.
So how are the kids at the moment?
Two of them aren't too bad.
My little one-and-a-half-year-old,
she spewed off all over us last night in bed.
It was a long night.
We're going to make your Monday a little more bearable.
Dealing with gastro, $100 coming your way
and a family pass when the kids are better
to take them to Garfield.
Oh, they'll be happy.
Thank you so much.
All right, Spaniard.
Good luck.
Sounds like a broken man right there.
Jeez.
You think you're having a rough day.
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What did we do in life before bloody Instagram?
How did we fill up our time?
Because, jeez, I tell you,
it's a great way to delete 30 minutes out of your day, isn't it?
Yeah.
Or we just talk to people, maybe. Social media definitely is, you know, it's a great way to delete 30 minutes out of your day, isn't it? Or we just talk to people, maybe.
Social media definitely is kind of a trap.
You can just get lost in sort of a hole of social media, can't you?
Yeah.
Yeah, and you actually have to go, what am I doing?
You have to pull yourself out of it.
You're going to be trawling for ages.
Anyway, I found myself deep, deep, deep in the bowels of Instagram yesterday
and a funny interview with Jon Bon Jovi from the band named Bon Jovi.
I don't know if you're familiar with it, Megan.
Oh, yeah, okay.
And they were huge, obviously, in the 80s and 90s.
And he told a great story.
They were staying in the same hotel as Michael Jackson.
Now, this is the Jackson period where he had Bubbles, the chimpanzee.
That's right, yeah.
He's a big fan.
Was he like a support animal?
Oh, yeah.
I don't know.
I just feel like they were kind of friends.
They were kind of mates.
They kind of hang out together, didn't they?
Yeah.
He apparently slept in a little crib in Michael Jackson's bedroom.
He had a lot of animals in Neverland, didn't he?
Yeah.
Anyway, the less we say about that, the better probably.
Used his toilet.
His toilet trade.
Was he one of those little cappuccino
monkeys?
Oh, like the Bieber one? Like the Ross
monkey. No, no, it was a chimp.
Big dog. Oh, is it?
Yeah, like a big.
And this is the tale that
John Bon Jovi was telling.
We were all in the same hotel.
We had gone up to see Michael.
We hung out with him a little bit and asked him to come down and hang out with us just to get the poor guy out of his room.
Yeah.
He didn't take us up on it, but he did send Bubbles.
Bubbles came down practically smoking a cigar.
Hey, I'm Bubbles.
What do you got?
He was like all over my wife.
You know, he's like, hey, babe, I'm Bubbles.
Somebody hearty, wheezy laughter there, too.
That's incredible.
Isn't that amazing?
So, yeah.
Just send out the monkey.
The monkey's like, mate, if you're going to stay home, I'm going to the party.
Wouldn't it be great to have a social monkey you just send off to events you couldn't be bothered going to?
But he's still kicking bubbles.
Jackson Estate still pay for his upkeep.
He's in like a sanctuary now in Florida.
He was born in 83, so he must be.
He's older than me.
Yeah.
41 years old, the monkey.
Oh, oh.
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The Jono and Ben podcast.
Now, Megan Pappas has tirelessly spent all weekend
trawling the internet, copying and pasting,
then held an executive board meeting to decide on the three stories
she was going to come to with clickbait headlines.
Clickbait headlines.
I lie, she's just been panicking over the last 20 minutes
trying to find the stories.
Yeah, I was like, you've really talked it up now.
There was no board meeting.
No.
No.
But you've come up with three mildly amusing or mildly interesting headlines.
Yep.
And which one are we going to click on?
You are only allowed to click on one.
No possible way of finding out any of the other stories.
But you've had the joy of consuming all of this content.
Yes, I know.
We only get to enjoy one.
That's just the way the game works.
Life is unfair.
Here's your three headlines.
You must only choose one.
Weed disguised as weeds in public.
Woman tries but fails to steal a truck.
Or headline three, which I think is going to tickle you, Jono.
A teacher used AI to bring down his boss.
Tickled.
That is tickling me.
You know I am obsessed almost to the point
where I'm boring people
talking about AI.
You're talking about a lot.
What did we hear the other day?
You were talking about AI.
We were doing like
a thing for work
and then we were like
where's Jono?
And then walked in on you
like you were having
a conversation to someone
we just met.
So I was talking about AI.
And like deep hands
conversation about AI.
We're like oh my god
he's saying it again.
Someone who was doing makeup.
Yeah.
She looked at me and I just mouthed, sorry.
You went from like, I've got to tell you about this AI stuff.
Yeah, it was like, jeez, he really is obsessed about it.
Hey, poor old Jeremy Wells.
Jeremy Wells works on Radio Honecki across the hall.
I trapped him in reception the other day too.
We did a 20 minute deep AI, deep and meaningful.
So just out of,
you know,
point proving,
I'm not going to,
I don't want to click
on the AI story.
Oh, okay.
You want to know though,
don't you?
I do want to know.
I'll have to look at my own time.
No, you're not allowed to.
I'm not going to go
on another AI rant.
I'm looking crazy.
Okay,
so that gives us the weed
that was disguised as,
what?
Weeds.
Weeds.
And then the lady who tried and failed to steal a truck.
That sounds fun.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, okay.
Let's go with that one.
So this woman, she had just gotten out of prison.
She was in prison for stealing cars, Grand Deflora.
So she had just got out and she decided to steal a
what do they call it? A pickup truck
shortly after she was released.
However, she had to
abort the mission because it
was a stick shift so it was a manual.
So she jumped in and she spent a lot of time
trying to steal the truck.
She couldn't drive a manual.
So the police
arrived. She took so long, the police
arrived to find her jumping out
of the pickup truck, but she'd managed to take
the handbrake off, so she left
the truck to roll forward and roll
into some cars and a fire hydrant.
That's the problem now, isn't it?
Everything's automatic cars.
It's AI, guys.
Producer Joel used to work with us. He couldn't drive a manual.
No, I imagine it's... There's not that many around anymore, right?
No, there's no need to.
You're like, oh, stupid Gen Zers.
But they probably haven't had the opportunity to.
Poor Gen Z Grace, our producer's getting very offended here.
Oh, no, that was the only example.
You shouldn't say that, Grace, because you haven't had the opportunity.
I can drive a manual.
Well, good.
I just want to put it out there for the Gen Zers.
You'll be the only one.
I've managed to park a parallel parked and 18-wheeler manual truck.
You did?
Yeah, in heels.
What a legend.
Because I'm, like, real good at parallel parking.
In what universe did you have high heels on and parallel parking a truck?
It was a radio gag because I made the statement that I can parallel park out of anything.
Wow.
You could teach my friend Ben a lesson.
Are you not good at parallel parking? No, I just get nervous.
Very nervous about it.
You're the person that we all watch outside
the window. Whatever park, outside a
cafe, anything like that. I'm like
no, it's not worth it. It's not worth putting yourself
He'll go blocks away. He'll walk blocks.
Just so he doesn't have to parallel park.
It's the biggest show on Netflix at the moment,
Baby Reindeer.
What will they say?
It's a true story,
based on a true story about a comedian
who got stalked in the UK.
And now there's a lot of digging going on
behind the scenes.
It seems like the conviction
that the stalker was meant to have
is not true.
So a lot of journos have looked into
whether she has convictions.
Apparently she doesn't.
Doesn't have a conviction.
So that's the thing.
Because they've said it's kind of the truth.
They said it was a true story rather than saying based on.
Yeah.
So they might get in trouble.
Probably when you have an international smash hit show,
people do digging, don't they?
That's right.
They've already tracked down the person who was the alleged stalker, right?
Yeah, Fiona Harvey.
She went on Piers Morgan.
Yeah, and now she's wanting to sue Piers
because she didn't like that interview.
I think there's a lot of problems from both of those people,
but hey, it was a good show.
Yeah, maybe it was two people who should never have come,
who crossed paths.
Yeah, that's true.
Anyway, Megan, you're having an issue with your son's long hair.
Yeah, so we took him to Kelly Tarleton's at the weekend Which was amazing and super fun
It always buzzes me out when you're on that travelator
And all the sharks and things, they swim above you
I'm like, well how's that working?
Water
It wouldn't be how's it working
They're not on the travelator, you are You're in the tube and they're in the water They're swimming over how's it working they're not on the travelator you are
you're in the tube
and they're in the water
they're swimming over the top
it's in a tank type
you're like
whoa
how is this happening
it blows my mind
you can see
because the sharks
are on top of you
you see all their
little private parts
and everything
don't you
yeah
and that did blow
my son's mind
he loved it
and JJ from
Cocomelon is there
I think he's there
for a little while longer
if you want to go along. Oh, nice.
But while I was there, this happened again
and it happens to him quite a lot. So he's three.
We've never cut his hair. It is
reasonably long, but it's like
real curly. So we're quite attached
to his baby curls.
And we're worried that if we cut it, it'll go straight or whatever.
But he also quite likes his hair.
So he had it up in like a half pony.
It was done nicely.
It was very, like it's clean and tame.
Not man bunny.
No, sometimes he rocks a man bun.
It depends what he's into.
No judgment here.
It's not like a fro.
It's nicely combed and looked after.
But here's my pet peeve is that he was dressed,
if we're going to go into stereotypes,
he was dressed like a little dude.
Dressed like a little boy. And
wherever he goes, he always
gets people calling him a girl.
They're always like, oh, she's
loving it. I'm like,
it really annoys me. Like, just
because he's got long hair. And
like, granted, sometimes he likes to get his
nails painted when he goes to daycare. He quite
likes having his nails painted. But also
in 2024, that's not... I painted Ben's daycare. He quite likes having his nails painted. But also in 2024,
that's not...
I painted Ben's nails.
Who doesn't like
having their nails did?
Yeah.
Cut his hair.
I don't want to cut his hair.
You don't have to cut his hair.
Cut the hair.
People shouldn't just assume
anything these days
in 2024.
No.
Any gender.
You should never say he, she,
whatever.
No.
I'm scared to say
I don't even acknowledge anyone.
We used to do it all the time
with babies too. I mean, we'd go, oh, she's so cute. I'm like, why are you saying she? And then we'd she, whatever. No, I'm scared to say it. I don't even acknowledge anyone. We used to do it all the time with babies too.
I mean, we'd go,
oh, she's so cute.
I'm like, why are you saying she?
And they'll be like, he.
Yeah.
My daughter.
All the time.
I was like, just don't even
assume what it is.
Fun little gamble.
Yeah, even if they're dressed
in whatever,
don't even think about it
until they say.
I feel like, is this on me?
Because my daughter wore
my son's hand-me-down,
so she wore a lot of like
blues and everything
and everyone's like,
oh, he's so cute.
I'm like, how? It's so cute. I'm like, how?
It's a bit frustrating. It's your responsibility.
If it's irking you, go for a head shave.
Oscar, my son, he had very long hair, probably
until about six or seven, actually.
He never cut it until he was six or seven.
I was living
follicly, vicariously through him.
I was like, look at all this luscious locks.
If you do cut Bastie's hair, please
send it my way. Put it in the glad bag.
Oh, you'd look great with his curls.
Yeah, I'll glue it on top of this.
And so what's the solution?
What are you going to do?
Well, I'm not going to cut his hair.
That does.
You waited until Oscar asked, right?
Yeah.
You could go, he's got a penis, man.
A bit confronting.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
We're talking biggest families You come from
Your dad comes from
An enormous family
Yeah look
Christmas is just a time
Of headaches
Problems
Drama
So a Lebanese family
Grandparents
Rest in peace
Decided that protection
Wasn't really a thing
In their household
Contraception you mean Yeah Contraception, you mean?
Contraception, yeah.
They didn't know what that was in a Lebanese household.
13 of them.
What?
13?
13 uncles and aunties.
Wow.
Sorry to pry into your grandmother's birthing history.
Was it all out?
Quits succession, you mean?
Didn't ask.
C-section, yeah she that's that
she would have been just non-stop pregnant for what's the split like between sort of boys girls
yeah uh it would be pretty even actually it could even be like straight down the middle sort of
thing because my uh my mom's she's one of six daughters so granddad and grandma they were i
think yeah they were just they were they were prolific not quite as prolific as your family but all just daughter daughter daughter after yeah so
she's one of six it is quite funny though because because they're so big and like everyone's all
over the world now they don't really like catch up for birthdays and christmases it's just in that
type of family there is an unlimited email chain it never stops because once you reply to the first
person's email well 12 others have put in what their kids are doing
and that sort of stuff.
And it's just this like, literally, you can sit there with dad.
You can just hear like bing every five minutes.
How many cousins have you got?
You must have hundreds.
I don't even know all the cousins.
Like, I haven't even met all the aunties and uncles.
Wow.
So yeah, you just sit there and you can hear his phone going off.
And you're like, what is this?
And he's like, it's just a family chat.
Family group chat.
Pinging 24 hours a day.
Yeah, I'm very happy they haven't found Facebook yet
because you can just imagine, like, if they had a Facebook group chat.
How have they not found Facebook?
They are still on the old email.
The Lebanese traditionally are very trusty.
Loving.
Yeah, very loving.
Yeah, I like that.
You said it better.
But yes, yeah, I think even, so my, oh gosh, my grandparents' parents,
they came from a huge family as well.
So it just rolls through the tree.
Okay, well, that's producer Liam.
That's his family, a huge family.
I've just done the maths on his grandmother,
who would have been pregnant around about 10 years of her life.
Non-stop, pretty much.
Imagine that, Megan.
Horrific.
You'd just rent a room at the hospital, wouldn't you?
Yeah, it's probably easier.
So we want to know,
out of 100 of the hits,
the biggest families
listening right now.
Can we beat 13?
I don't think we will.
We've set the bar
incredibly high.
Gussing for the Phoenix
over the weekend,
losing their semi-final
2-1 in extra time,
but a huge game,
a sellout crowd it was
awesome to see and the warriors out of nowhere um with 10 men injured one against the panthers who
won the competition the last couple of years just incredible scenes wasn't it it was pretty
pretty impressive but really didn't i mean i love the warriors i've been here since 95 but i was
even i was like you know it's just maybe not have a buy this week or something and to even have a
team like you're like who are half these players?
Just young kids out there.
It was awesome.
Incredible stuff.
Now, biggest families, particularly him.
His dad, one of 13.
Speaking of league, they could field a full league team with 13.
Full team, you're right, yeah.
Brothers and sisters.
So 10 years on average his grandmother was pregnant I feel like
When you reach the point where you
Could or you know
You may or may not know all the names of your brothers and sisters
You might have had enough siblings
Let's get Jess on from Whangare
Welcome to you Jess
Oh hi
Well first of all congrats
You got 100 bucks thanks to the Garfield movie.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, family passed as well.
It was in cinemas May 30.
It looks really good.
Chris Pratt is the voice of Garfield.
Now, you may be lying to us.
Please tell us you're not lying to us.
How many in your family?
So there is seven brothers and sisters, and I'm number eight.
Oh, right.
I'm the baby.
What about the extended family?
How many?
So they've got, I don't want to go through all my brothers and sisters and how much kids
they have.
But if I total it, we have at family dinners at least 50 plus because usually everyone
brings family and friends as well.
That's a bloody work function.
Yeah.
So yeah, like Christmas, there's like 50-plus people hanging out.
Yeah, we always have potlucks because that's, I guess,
the easiest way for us to still be able to meet as a family
and, yeah, enjoy each other's time.
Yeah, go ahead.
Just be like, look after yourself.
Fend for yourself.
Hey, well, well done, Jess.
We'll give you our $100 cash thanks to Garfield, okay?
Cool, thank you so much.
You must go forth and say favourable things about this show
for the remainder of your days.
Vel in Tauranga.
Morning.
Vel.
Oh, hi.
Oh, yeah.
You keep the suspense rising there, Val.
How many in your fam?
I'm one of 13, and my grandmother had 28.
No.
And she was the youngest of 32.
No.
No.
No.
32.
We're actually in the Guinness Book of Records.
I think it was 84 or 87
For the fourth biggest family in New Zealand
Wow
32 years
Yeah
So wait times that by
What's the maths on that? How long was she pregnant for?
That's a very long time
24
24 years
That she was pregnant
It's a long time not to have a wine 24 years that she was pregnant. Wow.
That is...
It's a long time not to have a wine.
Although back then they probably just still had a wine.
Imagine the amount of...
Ben, you were complaining about having to go to stage rehearsals,
netball games, parent-teacher interviews.
That's a lot.
The washing, the food.
Just incredible.
And who was ahead of you?
Like if they had 32, how many people ahead of you?
A lot.
Yeah.
I'm the middle of 13.
Jeez, oh wow.
I never thought we'd beat producer Liam with 13, but we have.
Some people, they love breeding, don't they?
Do you still do birthday parties?
Like do you have to buy presents?
It's a lot.
My grandmother always brought us socks or undies,
but we didn't care.
It was the fact that she remembered our birthdays.
Wow.
That's pretty cool.
All right, we're going to give you $100.
Thanks to the Garfield movie in cinemas May 30.
And you get our family pass to the movie.
Jeez, thank you.
You're blowing us away this morning.
Hey, next, Alpha Quiz.
Small cash to give away.
We're just raining money all over you today, aren't we?
We'll do that next on The Hits.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Now, something I like to do every day, every morning actually,
is I try and be regular in the meditation world.
I literally just lie on the driveway at 3.30 in the morning staring at the sky
and listening to some very peaceful, calming music and stuff.
And so in doing so, I YouTube the music, right?
Okay.
So YouTube feels like, hey, I'm a meditation guy.
So I get fed videos you may like.
A lot of meditation stuff.
Pretty much I get fed videos about AI stuff.
A lot of AI stuff.
And a lot of videos with the little people and like a little person like shot putting
and then it cuts to someone like holding a coffee and a pea will land in the coffee.
I've seen those videos.
A lot of those videos too.
And meditation stuff.
And so a video popped up with Lil Jon.
Now Lil Jon, this guy.
High energy.
Yeah, energetic.
He likes going, yeah, yeah.
What?
Okay. Yeah, energetic. He likes going, yeah, yeah. What? Okay.
Yeah.
You know, quite aggressive in his rapping approach.
Yeah.
A hype person though, a lot of hype, you know.
Shot, shot, shot, shot.
So, then it says, you might be interested in Little John's wellness program.
I'm like, okay.
What?
This has sparked my interest.
It's like shot, shot, shot, shot.
That's his wellness.
Well, I'll tell you one thing.
Little John, since we've last heard from him,
has really dialed back the intensity levels.
He has released, just released,
a guided meditation album.
Little John, have a listen.
But I am someone who believes in the power of meditation.
What?
I am someone
who practices meditation.
Okay.
I'd like to welcome you to total meditation.
So, he's got a full
guided meditation. Is that a joke
though? No. He's been meditating
for a lot of research, like years. So the shots, shots, shots? No. He's been meditating for a lot. I've researched it, like, years.
So the shots, shots, shots are probably just shots of kombucha, I imagine.
Nowadays, maybe.
Well, I mean, maybe he has party time and then meditates in between.
Don't you love it when you get something completely unexpected from someone?
Yeah.
He does, like, live classes where he sits on mats with his legs crossed.
Get comfortable.
I want everybody to close your eyes.
So I want everyone to take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.
So when I say an affirmation, you can say it to yourself.
I radiate positivity.
Negativity cannot enter my space.
I am happy.
I feel my mind.
No, Little John.
I didn't know he sounded like that.
I've only ever heard him yelling at me.
Craziness.
That's really cool.
That's a real pivot from Little John, that's for sure.
He has a song called Bend Over,
which I assume is a yoga position.
Well, it must be.
Yeah, you're right.
Dumb a dog.
Now, when my friend and I had a bit of a shocker over the weekend,
friends were having a murder mystery party.
Oh, yeah.
Now, I never had one of those.
I was very excited about that.
I never attended one of those.
I've been to one.
It was really fun.
It sounds really fun.
It sounds nerdy as, but it's really fun.
You all sort of dress up in a theme and then when you get there,
they're going to tell you, you know, play the game,
who's going to be the murderer, who gets murdered.
You have to work out and solve the case.
It's a fun thing to do.
Yeah, yeah.
And the theme that they'd sort of gone for was kind of, I guess,
Great Gatsby-like 1920s sort of theme.
It was kind of a sea run, so we had to require it to turn up like that.
So I was like, I'll get some sort of cream suit thing going kind of a save run, so we had to require to turn up like that. So I was like,
I'll get some sort of
cream suit thing going on
with a bit of a hat.
My wife's got some
sort of sequined dress
and one of those
little headband things.
Did you just have this stuff
in your dress up garage?
Most of the stuff I did,
my wife, you know,
got her stuff sorted,
you know,
and so we, you know,
we dress like that.
We're very excited.
They loved a headband
in those days, didn't they?
Yeah.
Good if you're sweating as well.
Yeah, you're right. A little sequined headband and very days, didn't they? Yeah. Good if you're sweating as well. Yeah, you're right.
A little sequined headband.
And very excited, going to this murder mystery party,
got in the Uber, turned up at a friend's house,
knocked on the door, and he arrives at the door
in pretty much just shorts and a T-shirt.
He's in civilian clothes.
Where's your headband, bro?
He looked a little confused, and it was that moment,
I'm like, uh-oh, uh-oh.
No one's been murdered.
There's no mystery. I'm like uh oh uh oh no one's been murdered there's no mystery
I'm like yeah
week early
whole week early
and that's all
for my moment
where he's like
obviously not expecting anyone
we're dressed up
quite flash
he's like
do you want to come in
you're like
not really
because you know
it's like
I feel like you're just
obligated to you know
quiet night at home
I can pretend to be murdered and you can figure out who did it.
So we're like, nah, we'll come back.
We'll pick this up a week later.
But yeah, just one of those awkward occasions.
Did you Uber?
Yeah, Uber as well.
Yeah.
And it wasn't like you were dressed to go out to town.
You were like, we'll go out for dinner.
But we're like, well, we will, but we'll have to go home and get changed.
So whenever our friend group has like a big thing like that,
there's always banter in the leader.
Yeah, of course banter.
But banter for leading up.
A lot of banter leading up.
Right.
For another week.
But you're not like, see you guys tomorrow.
Saturday, Saturday, all good to go.
So anyway, that didn't happen.
Very awkward moment, hey?
And lots of people get it wrong with costume parties
and all stuff all the time.
Yeah.
No, it can be a high risk, can't it, for the costume party?
The banter seems to have started a long runway.
A long runway.
Like if you say, yeah, if he's saying ping, ping, ping,
oh, this must be tonight.
Yeah.
I get how you got there.
I totally misread that one.
One of my favourites is my friend who, she went to a Barbie party
and she was very excited, dressed up pretty much like legally blonde Barbie.
You know, like she went for sash, full of everything know everything blonde hair big high heels turned up and it was
just a barbecue the Barbie that everyone would be talking about was just a barbecue everyone's in
like summer board shorts Hawaiian shirts you're like oh I couldn't get this more
so you've got to be really careful these days The Hits
The Jono and Ben Podcast
We're catching up
with some people
on a Friday night
and one of my friends
was getting grief
because he's got a wife
he's got kids
but his screensaver
on his phone
is actually him
playing golf
and he was like
hey it was a great day
it was one of his
best days of golf ever
and he was unapologetic
about the fact
that he's got a
screensaver on his phone
with him on the golf course.
Swing, mid-swing or just wandering?
Yeah, it was actually a nice,
it was nice, yeah, mid-swing shot.
Yeah, great action shot.
It was one of my best rounds ever
and he was like unapologetic
and you know, his wife and family are like,
you should change it.
He's like, nah.
He's like, one of the best days of my life.
Yeah, and so we kind of got thinking,
your screensaver probably does say a lot about you
as a person.
Really sets the pecking order of what's important in your life, doesn't it, the screensaver?
You're going to have wife, kids, family, live animals, dead animals, sometimes holding a dead animal.
Yeah, you can have photos of vacations or spots you want to go to around the world.
Sometimes people just have the default screensaver.
They let Apple or Samsung choose for you.
No one has the default on their phone.
Some pretty pictures and stuff like that.
Geez, your phone just,
no one knows you better than your phone, does it?
If the phone could talk, well, it can talk.
But if it was going to unload your secrets,
I can tell you what it could.
What's in there, Jono?
Dark stuff, dark, dark things.
I'm sorry this phone
said to go through
what I've seen.
There's actually a lot of,
you know, tests done
about what,
you know, research done
about what your screensaver
says about you.
You know, like if you've got
a picture of a significant other,
it symbolizes your affection.
If you've got vacation,
you know, photos,
it allows you to,
you know, cherish memories,
a window to the past.
People that just have default,
they're easygoing.
And monsters, psychopaths.
Probably my daughter had set mine on a rotate system.
I just saw this.
My husband just did it.
That's quite cool, that.
That's great.
Every time you put your screen on, it's something new.
Although sometimes some photos pop up and you're like,
that's certainly not worthy of a screensaver.
But I've got it for the next 15 minutes.
A photo of just a blank road.
As your kids get older, you'll find this, Megan.
The kids just love swapping out your screensaver for stuff.
Like I never change mine, but they change them all the time.
Photos of them, the other one will put, the other one goes,
I'm the favourite, I'll put that up, like that.
They become the creative directors of your screensaver.
And you just kind of leave it going.
What's actually on yours?
It's a photo of all of us at the Christmas Santa set up.
We're on Santa's sleigh.
Sickeningly adorable.
Do you know it's because all four of us are looking at the camera?
That never happens.
It's tough getting multi people to look at the camera in a photo, right?
Yeah.
The three and one year old, that just never happens.
So that's partly why.
You should write a sleigh pun on there somewhere.
Sleighing life or, you know, something like that.
Sleigh lovey.
Sleigh lovey, yeah, yeah.
Chuck that on there too, mate.
So we want to know this morning, oh, 800 The Hits, 4487.
What's your screensaver?
Be honest with us.
Are we one of the most creative, the most 4487, or the most mundane?
Yeah.
I'm desperate to hear if someone's got the default.
Yeah.
Have you preferred something
An activity over your family?
We're talking this morning about what's on your screensaver
On your phone
Or even on your desktop computer
Although you were saying before Megan
You don't really get to see that
Because there's often so many windows open
I just leave all my windows open
So I just realise that's still on default
And then you were trying to secretly put a photo
of your children up on there without us noticing.
Oh, look at this cute one.
Yeah.
Oh, it's my daughter.
Cute.
We know you've opted for default over family there.
That's fine.
That's fine.
So what is on your screensaver?
Some great text coming through.
We pulled a prank on my 70-year-old father
and got a cracked screen graphic and put that on a screensaver.
Tell you what, it says, you don't know the joy of a boomer firing up over the fact that he thought we broke his phone.
That's really good.
And then the reveal, great gag.
That's good.
Yeah.
Someone also texted 4487, I still have my COVID passport as the screensaver.
Oh, jeez.
Scanning.
Who wants that memory?
That's an easy change.
Fond memories.
Good times.
Oh, we loved it, didn't we?
The greatest of times, right?
Sophia, we're going to judge your personality by your screensaver.
How are you, Sophia?
I'm good.
How are you?
Yeah, we're doing well.
What's on there?
What have you got locked on the screensaver?
Oh, I've got my golden retriever that just passed away three weeks ago.
I'm sorry to hear that.
RIP golden retriever.
What was the dog's name?
Skipper.
That's a memory of a little dog.
He had a good long life.
He lived to like 14.
Well, I'm going to say that makes you a loving dog owner.
Yeah, it does.
That would be your personality type, if we're judging personality types there.
Exactly.
Based on screensavers.
We're going to give you $100 thanks to lovable cat Garfield and the new movie.
Oh, thanks so much.
Family passed to go along to the movie, yeah.
Awkward, she's a dog person.
Okay, well this Odie, Odie's a dog.
I love Garfield.
Yeah, he is, yeah.
Love him. Now, because we've got a dog,
and I couldn't imagine when he goes that we're going to get another one.
Are you going to get another one?
I think so.
Not really yet, but it's so weird without one.
We were walking on the beach yesterday,
and there were so many running around,
and I was like, oh, I want a dog.
Well, Sophia, love your work. Have a great day.
Thank you.
Alright, what's on your screensaver?
Text 4487, I'm a
student midwife, so I have all sorts of different
science topics as my wallpaper.
Oh, it's a wallpaper? Yeah. Okay. Does that help
her learn, maybe? Yeah. Some people,
a lot of people set their goals,
their vision board for
the year ahead.
What are you making that face for, mate?
What was that for?
She was hoping that we were going to point that out.
She was making a vomit face.
Yeah, I was like, oh, I don't know.
People who set goals just drain me because I never do it.
You didn't make the vomit face when you were talking about your cute family photo.
We could have gone, oh, before, couldn't we?
I think I did actually.
Yeah, you did.
Tammy, you're on.
What's on your screensaver?
Oh, my darling daughter's using hands to do an I,
then your two hands together for a heart and a U.
But because the icons are in the way,
I left it for a while until I realised when I moved the icons,
the I is the middle finger.
Oh!
So it's like a middle finger, a heart, U.
Oh, so you're thinking like, oh.
A heart and then a U.
I thought that was so nice of them to move the icon.
And it, yeah, they just need to move it.
Oh, it still says I love you, but it also says it quite,
you know, kind of aggressively and cheekily.
Lovely play.
Hey, well, we love you and we're going to give you $100.
Thanks to Garfield.
Awesome.
Thanks, guys.
To be honest, is that the only reason you called up for the cash?
Oh, no.
My daughter, she thought it was funny when she heard you.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, hey.
She said you've got to ring the mum.
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