Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan finally goes on a bus!

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Some double decker excitement! What have you never done? Ben is sticking up for algebra! Jono is beefing with do not reply emails... How did we end up on the wrong bus? A game of 2 halves! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. A historic day here, Megan, at The Hits after 7 o'clock because you're doing something for the first time. I am taking a public bus for the first time in my life. Crazy too, it's wild that you've never done it. I've caught an airport bus that I paid for prior to. I've been on a bus. Similar, yeah.

But I don't know how to like go and catch like a public bus. Okay. You've got your parents The Megan Bus is coming. The Megan Bus is coming today. It's happening today.

You've got your parents to fill out your leave pass. Hand that in to us. So you'll be out of the studio. I'm nervous to be honest. You are nervous. Genuinely you're nervous for some reason. I'm nervous that I'll get. You are nervous. Genuinely, you're nervous for some reason.

I'm nervous that I'll get lost or that the bus driver will tell me off or someone will get angry with me. The hard thing about, and it's every radio announcer's worst nightmare,

the hard thing about this is doing radio in public when no one else knows you're doing radio. Yeah, you're right. And you just look like you're talking to yourself. Loudly, too. Loudly, too.

Loudly, yeah. Because generally on a bus, do people talk? Not generally, no. They're not loudly. People are normally in their own little... It's fair enough. Just put your earpods on, whatever, look at your phone. All they're going to hear is intermittent talking as well,

because you're going to be like, yeah. That's right, guys. I'm on a bus. From this obnoxious woman. Yeah, loudly on the bus. They won't know you're on the radio. Yeah, they'll just go, okay, mate, we're all on a bus there. All right, okay, back to you guys.

I can't wait. So good luck with that. Megan's heading off right now after 7 o'clock. Will she make her way back to the studio in time by the end of the show? For the first time, Megan, on a bus. We don't want to bust you two to use the term cheating. No Ubering. Producer Grace is going with you.

We'll document it on our Instagram story at the Hits Breakfast. She'll be back soon. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The dogs, they're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there. How many songs are you going to play there? At 17, it is the hits on your Thursday morning.

It is a big day because Megan, for the first time, was going to be taking a public bus. She has never taken a public bus. She told us a couple of days ago, and we're like, what? It's down to us. So we thought that needed to change. This morning, Megan's going to be doing it in the Megan bus. The Megan bus is coming.

The Megan bus is coming. And now come on in, Megan. Are we on the bus yet? Good morning. Oh, we're not quite yet. No, I've caught an Uber and I'm going to get dropped off somewhere where I have to get a bus. Undisclosed location we're going to be dropping you off at and then you've got to make your way back. I think it's potentially two buses to get back from where we're going to be dropping you off at, and then you've got to make your way back. I think it's potentially two buses to get back from where we're going to be dropping you off. So that's going to be fun. Are you joking? I thought it was like I have to find the one to get on and then I get back.

She's on the Rectangle Road Rager. Now, who's the Uber driver? Let's have a chat to the Uber driver. Who have we got there? Stuart's here with me this morning. I did notice that she had another radio station in the car. So we've turned that off. You'll be pleased to know.

And we're trying to convert him to the hits. Good morning, Stuart. Good morning. How are you going? Yeah, we're good. What was he listening to? Have you got the beeper ready? Yeah.

It was the breeze. Oh, we didn't have the beeper ready. Didn't have the beeper. Oh, Jono. Tell Stuart that cuts deep. That cuts deep, Stuart. Yeah. He said sorry.

It's okay. It's okay. We're working on converting him, but you guys have to do some good content while I'm out of the studio, please. Okay. Well, ask Stuart, you know, what he thinks about you never catching a bus. Stuart, what do you think about me never catching a bus? I think it's pretty normal.

You know, some people don't catch bus. What do you think about me never catching a bus? I think it's pretty normal. Some people don't catch bus. I've heard some people sort of call it the poor person's way to travel, which I really disagree with. I think it's really convenient, and it's there for a reason. Okay, well, that's Stuart's thought. Mind you, Stuart's got the Uber. He's trying to push the Uber propaganda. Yeah. Yeah.

But I mean, yeah, he's supporting another way to get around this morning. Genuinely, you are quite nervous about this, Megan. I am nervous about talking obnoxiously loud in a confined space when everyone's just trying to get to work. Gotcha. I'm nervous about, like, losing my way, getting on the wrong bus. But then I guess that doesn't really matter. I've got nowhere to be. Do you know the exciting thing, Megan, is you could make a new best friend.

That person sitting behind you, scratching their face and licking the window could be your new best friend. Oh, my God. Jono. Yeah. It could be. You could. Okay. You never know what's going to happen.

You've got a bus full of people. You could be your new bestie. And she's hung up on us. Okay. Yeah, okay. We'll cross back to Megan very shortly. She takes her first ever bus for the first time. I mean, how mean are we going to go with Megan?

Because she's going to be in a public place. To be honest, radio prank, pranking, radio pranking has really softened. Yeah, you're right. Or take a bus. People listening right now are like, I take a bus every day.

You're like, what is it? My daughter takes a bus to school. You know? She's 13 years old. She was taking the bus to school.

It's like, yeah, what are we doing? The old radio would be going, you guys have changed. Maybe we can lick something on the bus or something. You know,

just to really up the stakes just a little bit. Megan joins us throughout the morning as she takes a bus into work. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Big news yesterday, Dave Grohl, lead singer of the Food Fighters. Pretty public announcements about the fact that he's fathering a child out of wedlock. Big news. Yeah, imagine coming home with that bombshell. And obviously everyone weighing in with their opinion as the internet tends to do. that he's fathering a child out of wedlock. Big news. Yeah. Imagine coming home with that bombshell. Yeah.

And obviously everyone weighing in with their opinion, as the internet tends to do. But at the end of the day, the only two people that matter, well, there's a small group of people that matter. Yeah. Obviously the children, the family, feel very sorry for them.

Exactly. You feel sorry for him. I mean, people don't like screwing up. No. Not the first time, apparently. Oh, really? Pants man. A couple of times. I don't know. But yeah, No. Not the first time, apparently. Oh, really? Pants man. A couple of times.

I don't know. But yeah. It's their problem to deal with. And a lot of stuff you don't want to make excuses for anyone, but all the stuff he's gone through as well, too. You don't know the situation of their marriage. No one knows anything, except for the people involved in the whole thing. Everyone loves to comment on it, though, don't they, on Instagram? There was a couple of clever ones.

We're going, there goes my hero from the Foo Fighto fighters or i've got another confession to make a couple of lines from the food i thought oh okay those are okay there goes my hero is quite good because you're like in what context yeah you're like legend oh there goes my hero he's gone all righty all right megan uh one lady who really wants to weigh in on the Dave Grohl extramarital baby. What do you want to say? Well, yesterday I wanted to give her a break, but if more women start coming out of the woodwork, I'm not so sure. At the moment, Megan, if you're wondering why it sounds very noisy and bus related, we are making her catch her first public bus.

Never caught a bus, Megan. Never caught a bus. This is so overwhelming. And you know what? Everyone knows where they're going and I've got no idea. Everyone's on a mission to get on. There's so many buses. That's the idea of them.

Do you have anyone nearby that you can ask? Just see if you can ask for directions or any advice on how to get to where you need to go. Yeah, there's lots of school kids. Do you know some people are taking cellos and huge instruments on the bus? Yeah. Is that frowned upon? I see that every day at the kids' school, and I'm like, that is probably the world's most inconvenient instrument, a cello.

Yeah, the poor cello player having to take that on the bus. Yeah, respect to the cello players out there in the community. So you can ask them, have a word to someone, see if they can point you in the right direction. Hi, good morning. Would you be able to tell me how to get to the city? Absolutely. So either NX2 goes to the universities,

which by the way is the city. Okay. Okay. We probably need the city, city. Or the city, city is the NX1, which is just that one, which goes way is the city. Okay, we probably need the city city. Like the city city is the NX1 which is just that one which goes straight into the road. Perfect, thank you so much. How helpful, that's so, let me see that. But also, how do people know unless they ask someone? I wouldn't have known the NX1, that doesn't make sense does it? It should say city one. I don't want to hear you, I don't want a TED talk made on buses.

They were very helpful. Yeah. Wasn't she a lovely lady? Okay. Oh my God, I think it's a double decker. Whee! Okay. Megan's excited, now you're excited.

I'm gonna sit at the top! Okay. Now she's coming around. Now she's going around. I'm gonna sit at the top! It's like when you go on a bendy bus at school, remember, I want to be on the bendy bus. All right, Megan, we'll leave you to it.

We'll see how you go trying to make your way to the studio by the end of the show on the first public bus. But 0800 THE HITS 4487, we wanted to know, and we started this yesterday, what have you never done? Like, Megan, never taken a bus. There were so many great calls and texts. Yeah, a bunch of people who live in either island

and haven't visited. Like, if you who live in either island and haven't visited. Like if you live in the south, they haven't visited the north and vice versa. Yeah, 0800 The Hits. You can text 4487 as well as the text number this morning on The Hits. So get in touch with us. We can, and why don't we try and make some of these come true before the end of the year? That'd be cool actually. But make them achievable.

You know, nothing like, oh, I've never, you know, run my fingers through George Clooney's hair. Well, I haven't done that. No. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Good day for Megan. She's never been on a public bus, so we thought we'd change that this morning. She is going to be making her way to the studio.

Hopefully by the end of the show she'll get here. Megan, three minutes ago you asked a friendly commuter how to get to where you needed to go. They were more than obliging. She was like really friendly. People are friendly. Yeah, mate. People that you can... I know, yeah.

And you're excited about a double-decker bus that you're going to get on? I am excited. I'm about to hop on. Are you top-decking it? I am, but it's looking like it's pretty full. The top deck is popular. Probably a good view up there, I imagine. Yeah, great view. I'm about to hop on.

Okay, let's get into it. Let's get my little card thing. Oh, you've got a card. Because I thought that might be something you needed to encounter. We're getting a little hop card, a little transport card. Can we get some awkward banter with the bus driver? Oh, she's just shut the door. Oh. Wait, um, it's a segment I cut.

Oh, no, she's driving off. Oh. Well, there goes the bus. Oh, my God. I didn't realise there was a time limit. She's not going to wait all day. She's not going to get people to work. She's got no time for radio. I got told off because I didn't know there were, like, queues.

I didn't know you had to line up in a queue to get on the bus. Someone's like, can you get in the line? I was like, oh, yeah, of course. Four minutes ago, you were like, there's the buses here. I'm going to get on and get up the top. And you haven't even got on that whole time. Yeah, well, because I was at the front front and then I had to get in the queue. Listen,

maybe we'll continue this on until tomorrow. We'll see you make it here by tomorrow. Who knows? How can you not just walk onto a bus? I know, right?

They want to take public transport. They're making it very difficult for me. Never have you ever taken a bus, so we wanted to know what you've never done.

We've got some great texts coming through. 53 never dyed my hair and never had a cup of coffee. 42, never eaten an oyster. Oh, I get that. Not everyone's a fan of oysters. Appetising looking things. 32, never been on a plane before.

Craig, welcome to Never Have You Ever. What have you never done? I've never done shark tank diving before. Shark tank diving? I think you'd be in the majority there. Yeah. Is that something that you want to do? Yeah, I'd love to do it.

It's the number one bucket list. Oh, so are we talking out in the ocean you'd like to do it? Down in the ocean. So you go out on the boat in a cage. They lower you down with a great white. You feed them. You have fun. Oh, jeez. None of that sounds fun to me, but I mean, yeah.

Tell you what, it doesn't sound fun. It's us paying for that. That sounds like they're just going to blow the budget. Take Craig out to see great white sharks. Fobo Straight apparently have amazing sharks. Do you know once upon a time, we're talking about the lame radio stunts we're making people do nowadays, i.e. catch public transport. Yeah, which is nothing.

Back in the day when I first started, they put me on a rubber ring, Craig, like a child's inflatable, behind a tugboat and went across the Foveau Strait. Halfway through. Halfway through, the guy was like, mate, we need to pull you in. I couldn't see the boat.

I was going behind the waves. He's like, by the way, these are the most shark-infested waters in New Zealand oh good and that was the was anyone filming it no no this is before social media just like we could have literally reenacted it in a power pool or something did you love it no well you loved it mate because that's what craig wants to do he wants to get into those shark infested waters well we'll hold on to your number, Craig. We'll see. We might be able to do something with you before December, all right?

All right. Sounds good, guys. Thank you. Someone's never had a Big Mac before. Texas coming through. Born and bred in New Zealand, like you said before. Someone else who's never been to the South Island. Okay, well, yeah.

Keith is coming through. Text 4487. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Yeah, Megan, right now, taking a bus for the first ever time. Public transport. She was loving it before. Upstairs, double-decker, great view of the city.

Everything was great. Is everything still all good, Megan? No. You sound like you're exterior, not interior now. What happened? The bus pulled off to the side, and I thought it was turning off to go into Takapuna, for those people familiar with that area.

But I got off the bus, and I wasn't supposed to. So now I've got to get back on another bus. Also, I gave up my VIP seat at the top of the double-decker. Yeah, she was in business class. Yeah. I was. And also, now I'm confused, because I don't know if I'm supposed to get on the one I was on, VIP seat at the top of the double-decker. Yeah, she was in business class. Yeah. I was. And also now I'm confused because I don't know if I'm supposed to get on the one I was on.

And some of them are saying cancelled on the board. Classic buses. Now, because you've got Grace with you. A little bit of stress. You've got our Gen Z producer, Grace, with you. She's been instructed not to help you in any way. She's a regular commuter on the bus. Yeah, she's like one of the camera people on Survivor or a reality show or something.

They can't interact and all that sort of stuff. Is she doing a good job at that? Yeah, well, because I said, should we get off? And she said, do what you want to do. So no would have been helpful in that scenario. She is laughing a lot. A lost little girl wanders the streets just trying to find her way back to work.

But you were enjoying the actual experience on the bus when you were on there for 10 minutes? Yeah, because there's so many roads that only buses go on. There's a special little road. There was a special little overbridge that I've never been on before. I was like, wee, this is living. Going past all the traffic. And now, yeah, I'm out of the bus. Hopefully we'll see her before the end of the week. Hopefully she's back on the wheels of fortune,

the bus wheels of fortune very shortly. We'll catch up with you soon, Megan. All right, see you, Megan. See you soon. I've had a frustrating, well, not a frustrating couple of days, but a frustrating sort of couple of hours last night. My wife and one of my daughters is away at the Ames Games, which is awesome. Awesome, great event.

People listening right now, I hope you're having a great week in Tauranga. So, but my wife's a school teacher, so she's really helpful at a lot of the subjects that I'm not helpful in. Anything arts related or writing, I'm like, or speech, I'm all day. I'm all over that.

Yeah, naming speeches. What else did you know? You built a little Harry potter house i built hogwarts yeah you know all that sort of stuff i all get carried away the kids will come back and like oh you've done quite a lot i'm like yeah i know it's exciting yeah so i get carried away at that but yesterday my daughter sienna who's just the two of us at home she was studying for a mass test and she's like i'm struggling can you help i'm like oh yeah i think so now this is when you need to get really good at secretly googling this is the thing because it was algebra and i was like oh and you're looking at things you're like okay okay i can work this out and i'm like oh no is that the one with letters and then little numbers little numbers

little letters and then i'm like oh geez i'll put it into chat gpt on the side great but even trying to type some of those little letters and I was like, how do you type? How do I do that? How do I do a little number? And then I'd get that and then they'd work it out. And then I'd be like, how the heck did they come to that? And then Sienna said to me,

and this is a question I didn't know how to answer. She's like, how much of this do you use in the day to day? That is a bloody good question. And I was like, and I didn't want to, I didn't want to say none. I'm sure there's engineers and people out there using that. In our life, I've never used algebra.

But I was like, yeah, I know we do heaps. You know, we're always working out how close to sit for the microphone, the angle of the microphone in the studio. And then Jono's position

slightly off from me and Megan. We'll always work at the angles and she's like, right angle, left angle, yeah. She's looking at me like, I don't know if this is legit what you're talking about. I'm like, yeah,

we're using algebra every day, bruh. I probably speak for many people. I didn't go through school and fail school to then become an adult, have children, and have to go back and do homework again.

It's very tough, eh? Thankfully, Jen, she's got the degree in our household. I sit back and do nothing. But that's what they don't tell you about parenting. Thankfully, Jen, she's got the degree in our household. I sit back and do nothing. But that's what they don't tell you about parenting. At some point, you've got to go back and do school again. And you don't know what you're doing. And as part of it, you're like, oh jeez, I barely understood

this the first time around. But yeah. So yeah, shout out to all the people, all the parents out there helping. Especially the homework ones. Yeah. If Jen wasn't around, I'd have a grave fear for our children. The Jono and Ben Podcast. Of course, in America right now, and I'd have a grave fear for our children The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast Of course in America right now And I've spoken a lot about America

But a big day there with September 11 Paying respects to That tragedy that happened many years ago in America Now yeah from not going From not ever meeting each other Trump and Harris, they met each other for the first time yesterday And then they Together again shaking hands again at the

9-11 memorial today. Yeah, right. Two days in a row. Twice. Zero to 100. Yeah. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats.

They're eating the pets of the people that live there. Never a truer word being said. Now, being email, we're all dealing with it, aren't we? Most of the people. I'd love to not actually have email in my life. Look, it's very handy. Don't get me wrong, there's so many pros to it, but also it really

can consume you. You're a prolific emailer. I do enjoy email over other forms of communication. Except for that first line where you have to go, I trust this email finds you well, I hope everything's good. You know that redundant first line that, you know, you just want to get to the... email finds you well i hope everything's good but you know that redundant first line that you know you just want to get to the that winds you up doesn't it well you need to you know everyone feels they need to do it we all have to write it i i have to read it but you know

but no one really cares if i'm well or not i hope it finds you well well of course it will it's email it's pretty good yeah it's pretty reliable uh but one bug that that I do have with email is you get sent an email from somewhere, generally an organisation, do not reply to this email. It's like a one-way street of communication. It's like, what if I want to reply to this? Yeah, that is annoying. It's like you're just saying,

here's the information, shove that in your throat, and we don't want to hear what you were to say about it. No correspondence. Yeah, it is one of those things. You're like, well, I need to get back to them. But it's like often they come up with it like when you do not reply at whatever the business is.

You're like, oh, okay, so it's not actually a... Yeah. Sometimes I see it as a challenge. I'm like, I'm just going to hit reply anyway. That never works, by the way. It immediately bounces back. No one cares about this email. I do love your email etiquette.

You're not a big emailer. I get that. i'm shocking yeah my daughter's got huge anxiety she looks at my phone there's over like 2 000 unread emails now there's a lot yeah it does get away but what i love the other day because we're on this uh group email there was someone we're doing actually an event this week someone came through with an email with a lot of questions questions that we needed to answer that were in red too they were really, Jono Ben, here are five or six things. Can you answer this before Thursday? And then I was out. I was watching my daughter at Ames Games.

I come back. Oh, good. Jono's replied. And he's like, thanks very much. See you Thursday. And I was like, that's all you wrote? Jono. And I was like, looking forward to it.

See you, mate. It's Thursday. And I'm like, that's the classic Jono prior answer. Hasn't read the email. Hasn't answered any of the questions. But it's just come back with, yeah, we'll make that your Thursday. She'll be going, has he read my email? Because I was kind of hoping he'd answer some of his questions.

And I was like, do not reply to this email. I put that at the bottom too. Oh, here we go. What other questions do you need answering anyway? So true. Megan is on a bus. She's on a bus for the first time ever trying to make her way to work. And we'll find out how she's going in three minutes.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Tonight, the presidential debate took place in America. You would have seen some clips going around social media. Donald Trump, as usual, said some wild things. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there.

Who? Who? Who's doing this? He was talking about in Springfield. I was like, is that Santa's little helper? Is that what's going on there? But it's Springfield, Ohio. But, you know, it feels like if you're a Trump fan, you're going to stay a Trump fan.

If you're a Kamala Harris fan, you're going to stay a Kamala Harris fan. Damn right, they're eating the dogs and they're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs. Yeah. They're eating the cats. They're eating cats. They're eating the pets. They never met before, apparently.

They shook hands for the first time, which I think is wild that they've never actually met before. And she led the handshake and it threw them. Great power play. It was a great power play. But I heard some audio on CNN, I think it was. And it was an undecided voter. And they said they were voting Trump after that whole debate. After the debate because they were like the economy was still better for them in their back pocket. They had more money when he was in charge.

And I had my cat. I had my dog. Yeah. No one was trying to eat my dog. Yeah, true. Yes, back to our dear friend Megan Pappas. Sue, for the first time, is catching a bus public transport. It started at 7 this morning.

Second bus now, Megan. I'm loving this. Sorry. On the bus, and I'm talking obnoxiously loud. But I have made it. So I know I was out north of Auckland City, and I've been on one bus. I'm on mynoxiously loud. But I have made it. So I know I was out north of Auckland City, and I've been on one bus. I'm on my second bus now.

You'll be pleased to know I'm back on track after I got on the wrong bus. They don't make it clear enough where you're supposed to go. And people get, like, a little bit annoyed when you're asking them at this time in the morning. Do you know there is an app? There is an app, but we didn't tell you about that one. So, you know, that's fine.

Those are the things that, you know, we could have said, but we wanted you to have an adventure. Ben, I'm not taking a bus again. I don't need the app. So this is what I want to ask you. What are your first impressions? This is a life first for you. What are your takeaways from your first bus ride?

It's fun being amongst all the people. The bodies? You like being amongst them? Yeah, and it's fun relying on getting on two different things rather than just taking one and parking and buy my work. Yeah, no, it's great and we should all do it to save the environment.

Well, you are saving the environment. Yeah, well done this morning great. And we should all do it to save the environment. Well, you are saving the environment. Yeah, well done this morning. One night actually not because you drove to work and parked your car there. You're taking the bus. And then I got an Uber out to catch the bus.

If anything, you're the bloody Taylor Swift of New Zealand. Heading to more places. My carbon footprint is large this morning. Oh, well, so you're hoping you're going to be back

to the studio within the what? The next 10, 15 minutes? All going well? Producer Grace has confirmed I'm on the right bus so it should be, well, so you're hoping you're going to be back to the studio within the what? The next 10, 15 minutes? All going well? Producer Grace has confirmed I'm on the right bus, so it should be, yeah, next 10 to 15 minutes. As long as that it doesn't break down. Now, while you're there, while you're there, let's try and get the wheels on the bus. Let's get the bus singing, Megan. Yeah, go on.

You just go really loud. Go, the wheels on the bus go. And hopefully someone goes round and round. Yeah, go on you just go really loud go the wheels on the bus go and hopefully someone goes round and round yeah go on the louder the wheels on the bus go round and round. Someone's running at you. There we go. Someone gave you a pity little round and round. Megan. We can't see all of the people scowling at me. Oh, jeez.

Well, good luck. We'll see you back in the studio shortly. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A really lovely clip that's circulating around. We'll put it on the Hits Breakfast Instagram story right now. King Charles Buckingham Palace with the Black Ferns and he's doing the meet and greet as they do, going through

all the official royal stuff and I imagine this is the question that potentially breaks protocol but one of the Black Ferns asked if they could have a hug. What was his reaction to this? A hug, sure, why not? And they just swarm him and it's actually beautiful. He looks genuinely stoked by it. They He was like, a hug? Sure, why not? And they just swarm him. And it's actually beautiful.

He looks genuinely stoked by it. They swarm around him, a big hug. And this is some of the audio. We all wanted a hug, but only a few seconds ago. Yeah. Why not? Oh, yeah! That's lovely, isn't it?

That's actually a lovely, lovely clip. Yeah, it's beautiful. I've never seen him smile genuinely like that before. It's awesome. Did they ask the same question to Prince Andrew? No, I don't think he's anywhere to do with that. When he came along. No.

Now, we're back to Megan, who all morning has been knocking off a life first, catching a public bus. She's been on the cram tram, the hop and stop. And we're back with Megan Pappas now. Where are you? Last we heard, you were like nine buses deep. You've been kicked off buses, not let on buses.

You say hop and stop. I've learned that I didn't actually need to stop at all. I should have just caught one bus and it would have been fine. But I got on wrong buses. I'm still making my way back. I caught, got another wrong bus. got on another bus. Oh, hey, well done. Yeah, thanks.

Why are you huffing? Do you know the buses don't drop you where you ask them to? There's a stop button. You're really out of breath. I was like, oh, no, no, no, stop there, stop there, stop there. Oh, rude. So we have to walk a little bit. Well, welcome back.

Well done. Now, give us your all-around experience. Start to finish, out of 10, what are you ranking it from having to walk to driving your own car? I thought it was really good. I thought it was like an 8. Okay, great. That's a good positive. There was like special little bus lanes we went really fast on.

I didn't know they had charges for your phone. Tick. Do you know they have little icons that tell you how full the bus is? So you'll be like, actually, I'll catch the next one. Too many people on that one. And pretty quick too, like you're right. With the bus lane as well. But yeah, I don't like having to walk from the final stop to my work.

Got a little bit sweaty in the last wee stretch. But if you had a bus stop outside your work, you'd be like, well great. There are some people that get off and go straight into work and I'm like, that's ideal. Also, it would have saved me so much time. Did you make any friends on the bus? Talk to anyone.

One of the bus drivers was really nice. Because I had to tap twice because there was two of us. Man, people got huffy because I had to do an actual transaction rather than just tap my car. Hurry up. We need to get to work. I know, yeah. That's all we want to open up on 0800THETHITS then. Welcome back.

Since you're back. Bus stories. Busted. 0800THITS. 4487. I remember a back. Bus stories. Busted. 0800 The Hits. 4487. I remember caught a bus up the country. It wasn't a public bus,

just one of those buses. Ended up, buddy, picking up an American tourist. Clay was his name. Oh, right. And he stayed at my house for four days. Really?

Still got his socks. Still got his socks. Okay. Why'd you take his socks? Yeah. Why'd you take his socks? He just left them at the house. Ah, okay.

It's like, that's the last we saw of Clay. I have so many questions, do you know? He, I didn't hook up with him or anything. Ah, okay. Is that what you're like,

whatever you're into. Not a public bus, I was just like, so why did you, anyway. I don't want to yuck anyone's yarn, but I did have questions. Does your wife know?

Yeah, she was there. She was there. I brought him back and she's like, who's this? I was like, oh, this is Clay. Just met him in bloody Nelson.

Bice things up. We caught the Indoor Island Robbery bust up and he stayed for four days, but never heard from him again. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Yesterday you took your kids into an open home and they knocked over things, did handstands. Did a handstand and it went kind of wrong. And we thought, well, what else has happened to other people in open homes to cause embarrassment?

Have you had a shocking incident at an open home, Megan? No, I've been. I'm always in my best behavior because I don't want them to think I'm actually going to buy it. Try and fly under the radar. It's quite fun snooping though, isn't it? I haven't gone to the neighbor's house, but you just walk in and you're like, oh, okay. Open up drawers. It's like a free reign to just open up anything. Leg someone's like legally too yeah it's very odd aren't you supposed

to open the drawers maybe in the kitchen but not like in the bedrooms uh taylor used to work on the show at a funny incident they went to an open home did you hear this no and marcello her husband yeah she he was meant to organize the open home they turned up and the lady was like come in come in and they were looking around snooping opening was like, come in, come in. And they were looking around, snooping, opening all the drawers. He was in the bathroom. Taylor was in the kitchen going, it's not very spacious. And they were kind of critiquing the house.

And the lady was selling a table. Yeah. She thought they were there to buy a table. And they thought they were there to rent the house. But 0800, that's the telephone number. Sarah, what happened to you at the open home? Okay, so we have the spare room, and it's empty. Sarah what happened to you at the open home? Okay so we have this spare room and it's empty and I

texted my husband I know I'll dress it up so I got an air bed and put four buckets underneath it and it looked like a bed and so I looked at me and I was like yay this is actually quite good it looks awesome anyway apparently the real estate agent heard this lady scream

she sat on it and went flying up in the air. You're like, it's a display bed. But the funny thing was, is then we just keep pranking our mates that came and stayed until we sold the house. We're like, you're in the spare room. And they keep falling off the room, off the bed. But, oh, yeah, anyway, it was quite funny. I said, oh, well, why was she sitting on the bed anyway

get off the bed you shouldn't be there it was a lesson to that old sweet old lady you made collapse valuable life lesson are you going you actually have a good one kylie good morning what happened in the open home yeah kyle maybe oh no that's definitely kyle yeah there's no part of that definitely says kyle too that's just jonah's's no part of that. It definitely says Kyle, too. That's just John O'Seas. No part of that spelling that says Kylie. No, so sorry, Kyle or Kylie or whatever you are, mate. Whatever, it doesn't matter.

Probably a few years ago now, my daughter's in her 20s now. She was probably about seven or eight at the time at the open home, and there's a trampoline in the backyard. And the kids say, can we play on the trampoline? And the agent goes, yeah, it's fine. Go have a play. You'll be all right. The agent's interested in the backyard and the kids say can we play on the trampoline and the agent goes yeah it's fine go for a play you'll be right you know he the agent's interested in us looking at the house obviously and you know not being distracted uh and that's all right it's all good and then um other daughter comes in and says uh zoe's stuck in the trampoline words you never want to hear

how do you get stuck in a trampoline yeah it was one of the spring free ones with the thing, you know, the net around it. How do you do that? So we go out, you know, and she's got one of these bracelets on her wrist that's kind of like a coiled up spring on the wrist with some charm stuff on it. And it had managed to get caught in the netting and then got stuck in the inside of her armpit. What?

So she's entangled into the netting of the trampoline? Yeah, yeah, with this bracelet hooked into her skin. So she doesn't want to move because it's obviously hers, it's stuck in her. And the agent's like, I've got to leave, I've got to go to the right place. I'm hustling, baby. I've got no time for

kids stuck in trampolines. Yeah, we're like, oh no. Can we go look through the guy's garage and see if we can find something to cut her out? So they're just like, yeah, do it if you need to, you know. You're fine. I'll leave you the key. You lock up. It was just about like that.

We're in the guy's garage, and this guy's not someone who does all the garage work, so there's almost nothing in the garage. Yeah. And we finish up ringing a friend who lives around the corner and say, can you come around with a pair of pliers? Oh, my God. And get her out. You don't want the owners coming home, though, do you?

It's not a good look. We managed to cut her out, but not with a lot of embarrassment and stress going, we've just got to get out of here. We don't want to be here now. Otherwise, you're like, we'll take the house and the trampoline. Yeah, we've moved in already. Hey, Kyle, appreciate your call, mate. You're going to have a wonderful day.

All right. No worries. Cheers, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Game of Two Halves, the iconic sports show, is back tonight with the ACC does Game of Two Halves on Sky Open and Sky Sport at 8.30. And from the ACC, the Alternate Cometry Collective, is Mania Stewart and host Laura McGoldrick in the studio.

Great to have you here. Thank you. Great to be here. And now ACC does Game of Two Halves. Is that what we're billing it as? That's the official title. That's what they're calling it, Ben. But Game of Two Halves is back on tally on Sky Open.

That's very exciting. Such an iconic show and you guys are part of the reboot. Yeah. Well, you know the beauty of nostalgia and everyone's into it and it's going to be good. It's going to be completely different, even though the name is the same because we have completely different personalities, which I think is

good. Well, it's necessary because they've all been cancelled, so we've had to replace everyone. Well, you say it. When half the cast can't actually appear on television again, it was a gimme. There's also inflation to deal with. We can no longer afford the salaries for those kind of people.

Yeah, we are scraping the barrel, but that's neither here nor there. It will be. It's great. It's obviously a much-loved show on the New Zealand television landscape. What's the most common question you've been getting from people? Where's Ritchie and where's Mark Ellis? Ritchie's off swanning over in some sort of exotic European podcast.

I think everyone, if there's a podcast to be done, they're doing it. And Mark Ellis is on the reboot of Sports Cafe. More nostalgia, which we love. I don't think there's an amount you could pay Mark Ellis to do the show again now. He's got so much money from his juice company. Me, I'm doing it for free. So what can we expect

from the new version? Some things that we used to love and some new things? It's kind of a mix? Well, no one knows how to say the word charades or charades, which is initially a real problem. Can I just say I've never heard charades? Same here.

Now look. Who just said charades? My grandmother, Carmel McGoldrick from South Timaru. Sounds like a flash. It was. We were very flash. And we took it very seriously when we played charades. Sounds like a flash. It was. We were very flash. And we took it very seriously. When we played charades, you would have to,

there was like a whole situation where one side of the room had to say, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, while there was the exchanging of what you were going to be or act out next. We took our charades very seriously.

What was the rhubarb so you couldn't hear? So you couldn't hear. We also call a fillet a fish a fillet of a fish. So we're flash people. We're flash people. Come from good Canterbury stock.

Yeah, good stock. What's funny is, I grew up half an hour away from Timaru. I was going to say, you're down that way, right? I'd also never heard charades. Yeah, but not Timbers.

You were playing battler charades, were you? Yeah, just old school charades. Meg, what are you, charades, charades? I'd probably say charades, but I feel like

I've heard charades. Yeah, all right, you povos. You guys deal with a lot of sporting cliches. Game of Two Halves is one of the best sporting cliches. Is that your favourite? Or do you have another cliche that you use from time to time? You're like, oh, that one could be better.

I'm a big yeah, nah. It's about how the team performed on the day. I'm a yeah, nah kind of girl. I like that. Executing kills me because everything is executing. When they're like, look look we had a great game plan It's like oh who cares? All that comes up. We're just gonna execute in the second half Do your job

Is that not part of it? There's a lot of learnings from today, a lot of learnings to take away Imagine your courier doesn't show up and he's just like yeah we just didn't execute There were a lot of learnings from that delivery We'll be better in the next one We'll get the package to you next time. Yeah, we'll be better next time. Now, we have some audio here.

We're going to have our own little version of a Game of Two Hearts video right now. You guys can play it together. Okay. Okay, what we're going to do is we're going to play some sporting audio. And then you have to work out what actually happened just by the audio alone. What sport, what happened? Okay. I think we watched this one the other day.

We did, Megan. We watched this one the other day. Megan loves her sports. Oh, yeah. She's the other day. We did Megan. We watched this one the other day. Megan loves his sports. Have a listen. That got away from Coulomb. You could tell it

was not his intent. Happy to see him up on first all fours and already up and walking down the first. Obviously drew blood. That's baseball. Yeah baseball. Okay baseball and something happened. Oh he up and walking down the first. Obviously drew blood. That's first, that's baseball.

Yeah, baseball. Okay, baseball and something happens. Oh, he's hit him in the face. Yeah. My husband's a baseball guy. Very brutal. Hit the batter in the face. Okay, this next one.

What was going on here? Still, still, still. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, I know what this is. I've watched these videos before. Is it a long driving competition in golf? Yeah, you've gone too professional. You've got charades on us.

Don't you charades me. Is it someone hitting it out of someone's bum? Yes. There's a mate hitting a golf ball out of someone else's bum. I've had a golf ball hit out of my mouth. Did you get hit from the mask? No, it was Simon Dool. Doolie's a very good golfer.

Thank God, but it was a time where I wasn't thinking about consequences. I wouldn't do it again. And finally, this iconic bit of sports audio. What happened here? I got it! Is it me? Yes, you Is it me playing lawn bowls?

No I heard you say I bit You're doing something at the Warriors With the crowd Got to give you more audio Something you did You threw something at someone Did you hit someone in the head?

Yes Oh, I threw a pie at the back of a guy's head Yeah There we go Thank you, Laura, for getting that This is what I'm working with So this is Game of Two Halves

right here Laura McGoldrick and Mania Stewart thanks so much for coming in Catch them tonight The ACC does Game of Two Halves

8.30 on Sky Sport and free to view on Sky Open