Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan has been smuggling WHAT into the hot pools....

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY Jonos found body facts online again...  We get sexy reading our texts to our partners We delve into comfort shows Should Jono and Ben Join Megan in the spa? What you call your Gran...dparents Nano Girl joins the show and drops some home truths about our beds.... What did Megan Snuggle into the hot pools? Check us out! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: TheHitsBreakfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Thanks to Challenge, putting the service back into service stations. We talked about something on Friday. There was sort of news going around the internet. There was a marathon runner in Brazil. She looked like she was winning the race. And what looked like her partner or her husband was there with some kids and it looked like he sort of pushed the kids out towards her
Starting point is 00:00:24 and she sort of shooed them away, right? Am I right in saying that, Megan? Yeah, that's how we described it. And that's exactly what happened. Yeah. We got into this on Friday morning. Heated discussion. Right, and so what's the issue?
Starting point is 00:00:38 Okay, control your kids and let the mom have her moment. Okay, so it's an interesting one, whether he does actually push the kids out in front because the kids are obviously excited to let the mom have her moment okay so it's interesting whether he does actually push the kids out in front because the kids are obviously excited to see the mom he should have been behind the finish line i get i get that yes a hundred percent i agree with my points should have been behind the finish line yeah you say whether he pushed them or whether he couldn't control them hold on to them be behind the finish line yeah yeah because he's like oh i tried oh they got away on me.
Starting point is 00:01:05 Come on, mate. He was trying to control the kids. There's two kids and a lot of kids. You should see the joy in her face when she finally wins it and she clicks her stopwatch. So it obviously meant a lot to her and she'd been training hard.
Starting point is 00:01:18 Okay, so the internet went savage. Like, this is headlines around, you know, big publications around the world calling this poor guy toxic, entitled, saying how selfish he was for taking away the moment for her. And now we've heard from the actual people, which you feel like you should have heard from the actual people first before we all formulated an opinion. No. Hold on.
Starting point is 00:01:40 I don't want to hear from the actual people. We don't want to hear the truth. Okay. Well, I want to hear the truth because I was feeling sorry for the poor guy. To be fair to Ben, you were like, we don't know the full story. We don't know the background. We don't want to hear from the actual people. We don't want to hear the truth. Okay, well, I want to hear the truth, because I was feeling sorry for the poor guy. To be fair to Ben, you were like, we don't know the full story. We don't know the background. We don't know anything.
Starting point is 00:01:50 We've jumped to a lot of conclusions here. You know, it doesn't matter how many times this happens. Like with Kate Middleton, we're like, well, there's the picture. Yeah, exactly. And then suddenly we're like, oh, she's got cancer. So they've come out and they've said,
Starting point is 00:02:01 the lady who was running the race said, we agreed at the start of the race, the kids were going to embrace me and I was going to take them across the finish line. That's what we agreed. It was going to be a special moment. For the kids and I. But I didn't think I was going to be coming first.
Starting point is 00:02:12 So that changed in her mind as she got to the line and that's why she shooed the kids away. Husband was just doing what they agreed on. Oh, so it was her fault the whole time. She changed the bloody plan. She changed her bloody mind. So he was like, you'll need to carry these kids across the finish line Yeah, she said the kids understood
Starting point is 00:02:27 I explained it to them afterwards What she doesn't understand is the hatred That's gone towards the husband Around the world All these toxic, entitled comments Well, I didn't call him toxic or entitled No, but the headlines have been calling him toxic and entitled She said it's been painful
Starting point is 00:02:43 He said it's been painful Reading these comments, slamming him it's been painful reading these comments Slamming him He's been hurt by the comments He's saying like I'm stoked My greatest pleasure is looking after the kids While she goes off and trains He's like I do that and now we're all like
Starting point is 00:02:56 What a guy taking away from her moment I'm like just guys we need to all stop Take a moment and then just decide If someone else is upset and they're the person to get upset, then we kind of have some reason to get upset. It doesn't matter how many times this happens where the truth reveals that we're all a bit harsh, we'll do it again.
Starting point is 00:03:14 We'll do it again. We'll judge before we know the whole story. You can rest assured this article explaining everything won't go as viral as the initial article. So no one will ever know the full story. Everyone will just go, oh, and move on. We've buried the lead at six o'clock in the morning. Who's going to hear this again?
Starting point is 00:03:29 I sent it to the group chat because I was saying, we don't know the full story last week. God, Ben, you need to apologise to that poor man. I didn't weigh in on anyone. The problem is, Megan was saying too, just before the show started, she's like, yeah, I mean, it's a great point, but we wouldn't have a radio show.
Starting point is 00:03:44 We didn't have opinion to shove down people's... You didn't have something to talk about. ...half-formed opinion. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Hits Farm Alarm, thanks to Field Days and One New Zealand. The Field Days happening again very soon, next month, which 12th to 15th, it's not too far away, Mystery Creek, Hamilton.
Starting point is 00:04:03 Tickets are on sale right now. Go along and see it. It is incredible. And thanks to One New Zealand who help you get connected. We're going to connect with you, hopefully nice and early, with something we call the Farm Alarm. Give you a call right now. Wake you up early in the morning.
Starting point is 00:04:15 You get some Apple AirPods and you get a double pass to the field days. Yeah, thanks to One New Zealand as well and the field days. So all you need to do if you'd like to be in the draw for this is text ALARM to 4487. We pick a number at random. The wonderful Grace Hilliam pushes play. The phone rings. Hopefully someone answers. Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.
Starting point is 00:04:35 Do we like moo or something? Oh, yeah. Why not? You're going to make me moo. I was going to say yes and then just not do it And wait for you to moo Yeah hello Moo Moo
Starting point is 00:04:49 Moo Moo It's your farm alarm It's the coolest John O'Baird and Megan Calling you nice and early Congratulations you've won Moo hoo
Starting point is 00:04:56 Moo hoo Moo hoo Moo hoo Old MacDonald He had a farm And he also had some airpods E-I-E-I-O So well done
Starting point is 00:05:04 You've got those Thanks thanks to One New Zealand. Cool, guys. This is real cool. And you've got a double pass for the field days. What's on the agenda today? Oh, I've just got a chill day today. I'm just going to sit around with the doggos. Oh, cute.
Starting point is 00:05:18 Got a day off. Oh, God, we called you early on a day off too, haven't we? It's all right. I was up on a day anyway What do you do? What do you do? Oh, I'm just getting, I was just making a coffee And getting the flatmate's lunch in the middle ready
Starting point is 00:05:34 So he can go off to work The flatmate's lunch? Good on you On your day off? Yeah, I get up and do his lunch and make his coffee He's just a flatmate, that's awesome That's so nice of you Yeah, just so up and do his lunch and make a coffee. Oh, he's just a flatmate. That's awesome. That's so nice of you.
Starting point is 00:05:47 Yeah, just so he can go to work. Oh, you're a lovely human being. He'd do the same for me. Oh, what is this beautiful flat you live in? Sounds more loving than my household. Oh, come on, guys. Come on. Well, well done on what you're doing today.
Starting point is 00:06:05 That's awesome. And congratulations. You've got yourself some AirPods and a double pass to the field days. Thanks for getting up early with us. Yay. Thank you, guys. You guys are awesome. Oh, lovely to talk to you.
Starting point is 00:06:14 The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Right now, though, the internet hole. Someone called Search and Rescue, a little bald boy, has been lost on the internet. Jono's internet wormhole. Have you fact-checked these? Have you fact-checked? I knew he was going to say that. Search and rescue. A little bald boy has been lost on the internet. Jonas Internet Wormhole. Have you fact checked these? Have you fact?
Starting point is 00:06:27 I knew he was going to say that. A couple of times you've come to the radio show and the podcast just playing us stuff on TikTok. Don't let the truth get in the way of the good story. Look at this. Look at this. And then we quickly Google it and then we're like, well, that's clearly wrong. Yeah. Ben gives me a lot of grief for just playing wildly, irresponsibly just playing stuff, misinformation. I wasn't the other day.
Starting point is 00:06:48 The Titanic never sunk. Never sunk. It was another boat they'd swapped or something. They'd swapped out. JP Morgan, the owner, yeah. Because he could gather more insurance on the other boat. So that sank. And he cancelled his trip on the Titanic just hours before.
Starting point is 00:07:03 And then you just Googled with one quick Google. It said they hadn't swapped boats or something. It was all fake news. Okay, but I've done a bit of research into this because I knew you would say that. You like to question my facts. Was it John Mayer who said your body is a wonderland? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:19 He used it as a metaphor and he's not wrong. It is a wonderland, your body. Your ears never stop growing. Did you know that? When people are elderly they have huge ears. Big ears. Is it true that your nose
Starting point is 00:07:36 doesn't stop growing as well? I didn't Google the nose. It's unfortunate for me. You haven't got a big nose. I'm self-conscious about my nose. I don't think anyone's entirely thrilled with their nose. It's unfortunate for me. Oh, you haven't got a big nose. Oh, I'm like self-conscious about my nose. I don't think anyone's entirely thrilled with their nose. It's an unusual object, isn't it? It's a weird thing, yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:49 Yeah. But, you know, I feel like my ears are pretty big at the moment. I'm going to have one like those. Ah, you don't have big ears. Those tribes in Ethiopia with the plates, you know, they've got the saggy lobes. I feel like I'm going to be that when I'm 90. A really quick Google. It looks like your nose grows a lot during childhood and your teen years
Starting point is 00:08:05 and occasionally grows during adulthood, but not that much. Okay. That's good. You produce about 40,000 litres of spit in your lifetime. 40,000 litres? Wow. That's 500 bathtubs full of spit. Wow.
Starting point is 00:08:21 And also, you have enough urine to fill a bathtub every single month. I don't know whose bathtub they use for testing all this stuff, but my condolences to that household. If you walked, now this really surprised me, if you walked for just 12 hours a day, it would take the average person
Starting point is 00:08:39 690 days to walk around the world. That doesn't seem that long. No. Only a couple of years to walk around the world. That doesn't seem that long. No. Only a couple of years to walk around the world for 12 hours. No. Apparently. Sure.
Starting point is 00:08:51 No. That's a radio journey for you, my friend. We've seen Boy Scott. He's coming back in two years. Yeah. By walking for 12 hours a day. Oh. I guess it's not that far.
Starting point is 00:09:03 You know. There's worse things you could be doing You walk for 12 hours And then you could sleep for 12 hours Yeah 690 days Walk around the entire world The entire surface of your skin
Starting point is 00:09:12 Is replaced every month What? Yeah So you have about A thousand different skins In your lifetime More skins than a Fortnite game That's crazy
Starting point is 00:09:24 Wow But it always looks the same Tired and wrinkly All skins in a fortnight game. That's crazy. But it always looks the same. Tired and wrinkly. Yeah, give me some new stuff. That'd be great. 30,000 dead skin cells you shed every minute. Oh, and we actually learned more about that at 8 o'clock this morning.
Starting point is 00:09:39 And it's confronting. Nano Girl, Dr. Michelle Dickinson, she joins us. And she's talking about our mattresses and going to sleep at night it is confronting but it's good stuff to know about things
Starting point is 00:09:50 we could be doing ignorance is bliss yeah I feel like sometimes it is I think we're just sitting in a giant room of skin at the moment
Starting point is 00:09:55 we are Megan's flicking her skin cells at me the hits the Jono and Ben podcast some of the results
Starting point is 00:10:02 from the census remember the census March last year yeah it was March some of the results from the census. Remember the census? March last year, it was. Yeah, it was March. Some of the results are going to be coming out today or tomorrow, I think. All those, the big results. It took months for everyone to do. But Harry Styles did it, apparently.
Starting point is 00:10:16 Jason Momoa did it. They were all New Zealand at the time. They definitely didn't do it, but people did it for them. And the other thing, too, is there was a group of people, and fair play to them as well who just held out refused to do the census
Starting point is 00:10:28 and the census people have really made a rod for their own back come next census because they're like do you want tickets to the movies? Do you want tickets
Starting point is 00:10:35 to the Warriors? We'll give you a season pass for the Warriors to fill the census in. Because I thought you could get fined for not doing it. You meant to.
Starting point is 00:10:40 Now you get rewarded Warriors tickets. I know, I should have held out. The next two Warriors home games are sold out so mate, the only way to get, I should have held out. The next two Warriors home games are sold out, so mate, the only way to get tickets is not do the census. Next census, no one is going to fill that thing out
Starting point is 00:10:51 and just wait for the prize pool. Wait for the treats, yeah. I'd like to do this, and we'll do it real quickly. This sums up our relationships and probably a lot of yours. Sexy Texies, the mundane text messages that come through that we try and make a little more sexy. Oh, that's a sexy Tex try and make a little more sexy. That's a sexy taxi. Just a slight change in delivery.
Starting point is 00:11:08 You can really correct the tone of the message. What have you been sending to Andrew Pappas, Megan? Well, I mentioned this yesterday. I went to the gym and we had to switch cars, so I couldn't leave until he got there. So I was waiting for him. You got one fob for the gym. You share the membership. You've got to go in and
Starting point is 00:11:24 out, I see. Daily switch over. You got one fob for the gym. You share the membership. You got to go in and out. I see. Yeah. Daily switch over. I am on the treadmill until he gets there. And he texts me almost there. I said, okay, sweaty face. He said, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Or am I?
Starting point is 00:11:41 And I was like, don't be cruel. He said, just keep running, just keep running. Oh, shamey. I said, you better run. That is sexy. That is sexy. How long did you walk? 55 minutes.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Geez. On the treadmill. Maybe that was his tactic, just to take some time. Better not, mate. Mine's a photo one, a sexy photo. Oh, okay. A photo text from my wife. Now, backstory.
Starting point is 00:12:07 I was cooking dinner the other night. We've had some ants in the house and I knocked over some ant bait thing that was next to the bench. And I was like, she was like, well, you need to pick it up. I was like, I will pick it up,
Starting point is 00:12:16 but I don't want to do it while I'm cooking dinner because I don't want to be touching that sort of stuff. So I put like a little wipe next to it. I was like, I'll remember that later. Clearly I didn't remember it later. You never do.
Starting point is 00:12:26 You never do. So I just get a photo. Oh, nothing said, just a photo of that moment. I'm like, that sums up marriage. Nothing said. I knew. I know exactly what it is. Just a wipe next to a little ant bait.
Starting point is 00:12:38 It's so funny though, because like, I mean, she could have just wiped it up. She has cleaned it up. Yeah, yeah. But just a little photo. But you had to rub it in. But I was so adamant that I was like, I'll clean it up, don't worry. But I obviously didn't.
Starting point is 00:12:48 Maybe it's a metaphor. Like Ants, she wants to crawl all over you. Oh, maybe. And you'll need the wipe to wipe up whatever. I'm going to wipe the floor with you. You might be right. I text Jennifer, this was just over the weekend actually, the dog keeps dragging its butt across the floor. I hate that. Nothing quite like the sight The dog keeps dragging its butt across the floor.
Starting point is 00:13:05 I hate that. Nothing quite like the sight of a dog dragging its butt across the floor, is there? There's definitely fecal matter on the floor now. Jen said, maybe he has worms. I said, uh-oh, he's left a smudge mark. She said, gross. I said, we'll have to rug doctor that. That was over the weekend.
Starting point is 00:13:23 I haven't bothered rug doctor. Like you, Ben, I'll have to rug doctor that. That was over the weekend. I haven't bothered rug doctor. Like you, Ben, I'll get to it later. Maybe I'll get a photo with a towel just next to it. The anticipation is building. You can feel the sexual tension. Someone in Melbourne went to a cafe, ordered a muffin, and they said, do you want us to heat it up for you? And he was like, oh, yeah, great.
Starting point is 00:13:44 And then got charged a heating fee. Ooh. A dollar. Love it. A dollar heating fee. Love it. How long are you putting that in? 20 seconds or something?
Starting point is 00:13:52 Not long. It's a quick zip in the microwave, isn't it? It's a quick zip. Just a muffin. You just want a light little warm muffin. You know, I'm always here to back restaurateurs, hospitality. I had a cafe. I own a cafe.
Starting point is 00:14:04 You've been in the trenches. But come on. You're not getting return clientele if you can start charging for heating a muffin. Oh, well. It's ridiculous. Just do it without charging them. We'll put it into the muffin price. Everyone does that.
Starting point is 00:14:19 Like, do you want your muffin heated? It's just. It was an expensive muffin, too. I mean, I suppose it's cafe prices. How much are you paying for a muffin there? So it's $7 for the muffin and then a dollar to heat it up on top of it. That's in Australia, too. Yeah, it's Australian.
Starting point is 00:14:32 $7 Australian. Australian. Food is cheaper normally. I mean, maybe not in cafes, but over there. That's crazy. That's a $92 muffin in New Zealand dollars. Yeah. That's a crazy fee.
Starting point is 00:14:42 Yeah. I did that thing in the weekend, too. I did it again and I I should be embarrassed by it where you know the tip thing comes through
Starting point is 00:14:49 oh yeah do you want a tip and I went oh oh and he puts on a performance where he pretends he's actually pushed on
Starting point is 00:14:56 and I thought about it and I was like I didn't look like it wasn't a convincing performance for me either well you don't expect it to pop up in a cafe so restaurant
Starting point is 00:15:02 you prepare yourself he gets into a was it in a cafe it was more cafe restaurant you prepare yourself. He gets into a... Was it in a cafe? No, it was more cafe-restaurant sort of situation. Yeah, more probably. And it was like, ooh. And as I hit click, no. Oh, it didn't mean to hit.
Starting point is 00:15:12 No, I don't want to give you a tip. Great service. And they're like, oh, we can just redo the transaction. Oh, no, no. It's too late. I don't want to suck up all your Wi-Fi. It's too late now. Too late now.
Starting point is 00:15:21 So there you go. I got a win back for us guys. I won $1 for it. That's a lot for a heating of a muffin. What is the thing where you've run a cafe, now you're out of the game, you're retired. What's the one thing that we're getting ripped off for in the cafe game? You know, be honest.
Starting point is 00:15:39 I don't want to say coffee. Coffee is actually quite expensive. It's more than milk as well. The milk goes up in price constantly. Well, it used to wind up our old producer, Ben Humphrey, because he wouldn't have milk in his. And he was like, my coffees are pretty much the same as yours. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:54 And I'm not getting any milk. He'd say it every day too. We're like, oh, we don't care. Probably. We'll do more all day, mate. No, but it's supposed to be. If you get like a short black or an Americano or whatever, it's supposed to be cheaper because there's no milk.
Starting point is 00:16:07 What they do is they do a very smart game with the coffee. And like you say, it's probably dictated by milk prices. But it'll just go up 10 cents here, 20 cents there. And, you know, it just sneaks up over, you know, another six to 12 months. And before you know it, it's like... Suddenly it's like seven bucks. Correct. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:22 Insanity. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast now shaky weather Ben you were teasing yesterday we're going to get zero degrees across some parts
Starting point is 00:16:30 of the Motu over the next coming couple of days last night went netball we've discussed it before it's one of the big it's the big campaigning
Starting point is 00:16:37 points of this radio show both of us netball dads they play in any condition any condition the one time it's been called off in the netball career was when the toilets flooded.
Starting point is 00:16:48 That was the only time I've had it. Health and safety. That was health and safety. Other times, if it's generally flooding, they'll carry on playing. So that was the only sanitary reasons. Yeah, which is fair enough. The world could be crumbling. The depths of hell could be burning the crust of the earth,
Starting point is 00:17:02 and they'd still finish the round of netball, wouldn't they? We can't get out of sync. But yeah, last night it was starting they'd still finish the round of netball, wouldn't they? We can't get out of sync. But yeah, last night it was starting to get a bit cold on the netball court because it's where we did the handball. We know, we were inside playing handball for Kids Can. We know there's perfectly good courts inside
Starting point is 00:17:17 there and they've got you out there in the trenches. But no, it was the umbrella blew up inside out. Was there hail? There was supposed to be hail and thunderstorms. We avoided the hail. But no, there was definitely rain.
Starting point is 00:17:32 And Daniel Vittori, his daughter's in the same team as my team. So it was a bit of light cricket banter with him, Ben. You would have loved it. I was really going in blind with my cricket banter. He just got back from India yesterday morning. Right. I was like, oh, what were you doing over there? He's like, oh, coaching. I was like,
Starting point is 00:17:48 okay, so you would have been your elements. Yeah, despite the elements of weather that were happening around us. But yeah, no, we had a we had another night out on the netball court, my friend. And it'll continue. They won't stop. That's for sure. We won't. After seven o'clock we're going to get to the shows you love to watch. The comfort shows. Great when the weather's good.
Starting point is 00:18:03 Sorry, when the weather's bad, it's great to sit inside and watch your favorite shows. But how many shows have you watched over and over again? We'll find out next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The weather's getting a bit colder, the official start of winter. This Saturday, actually, so it's a good time to be inside watching some comfort TV or movies. And we were talking about this yesterday, and the calls and texts keep coming through, about the series that you're happy to watch over and over again.
Starting point is 00:18:28 Yeah, geez, we put it on Facebook on the social media last night. I don't need to say the social media, do I? That really put it in. The Facebook. Blew up on the Facebook, on the comments section. Because your friend has watched Friends. Friends over 20 times the entire series. They were looking forward to going home on Sunday to watch some more Friends
Starting point is 00:18:45 just as a comfort thing just to put it on and just you know. We've kind of become less friends and more stalkers now. But so many calls on this yesterday. Big Bang Theory.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Oh the Big Bang. And the older one is actually MacGyver. Oh I love MacGyver. Richard Dean Anderson. Making stuff with a paper clip and chewing gum and all sorts. Wait, wait, here we go. I love A Bit of Modern Family.
Starting point is 00:19:16 Oh, that's a good show. Phil would have to be one of the best characters on TV. Phil Dunphy, yeah. Very lovable. Hilarious. Yeah, Very funny. How many times have you watched the Modern Family series? I definitely haven't watched it 20 times.
Starting point is 00:19:30 I think that is out the gate. Sons of Anarchy, because Jack Taylor is the most fan-soothing honey for the ass. Honey for the ass. So there, honey. There's obviously various reasons why people watch shows over and over again. That might be one of them. She said she'd like to ride him like a motorbike was her while she kept watching.
Starting point is 00:19:53 So, 0800 the hits. Your comfort viewing. Becky, what is it for you? Oh, mate, can't go past Bones. I went past Bones. I can't even remember watching It was a big show It was on 3 for a while
Starting point is 00:20:08 TV3 wasn't it It was like Forensic Scientist It was like 12 seasons bro That's a while for me 12 seasons is a while I didn't catch any one of those 12 seasons Oh my god I'm so disappointed What was your favourite
Starting point is 00:20:23 Thing about Bones? One favourite thing about Bones. How do you pick one favourite thing about Bones? David Boreanaz? Yeah, he's hot, eh? I remember that guy. Yeah, completely. No, I do remember the hot guy from Bones. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:20:41 no, but just as a general, it was hilarious. How many times do you reckon you've watched the series? Well, the miniseries. The miniseries, yeah. Probably all 12 seasons at least 20 times. Wow. At least 20 times.
Starting point is 00:20:56 That is really impressive. So you're a fully qualified boner, a big fan. Yeah, pretty much. Word for word boner. 246 episodes. Wow. Are they 44-minuters or are they half-hours? No, they're all 44-minuters.
Starting point is 00:21:12 Jeez. That's impressive. Bea, what's your comfort viewing? It's Gilmore Girls. Oh, Gilmore Girls. It's really good. My daughter got into that show. She loves it.
Starting point is 00:21:24 Yeah, no, it's so good. My best friend actually hates me for watching it because she doesn't get it. How many times you watch the GGs? I've lost count, but I'd say probably over 20 times. When we were in America, we went to the place where the set was, and I'd never watched the show,
Starting point is 00:21:43 and everyone's like, oh my God, it's Luke's, it's Luke's place, oh my God, it's such and such. and such i'm like that's a cool set but i know nothing about what this is my daughter went and watched it after we went she's like i really want to go back there because it's so awesome now i know all the places yeah it's so cool and it's getting like really popular at the moment i mean on my tick tock it's just Oliver. It's blowing up the talk. 153 episodes of the Gilmore Girls, and you've watched it over 20 times. So, there's like seven seasons,
Starting point is 00:22:15 and like over 20 episodes each, and each episode is like 45 minutes, maybe. Jeez, you've dedicated a large part of your life to the Gilmore Girls. And there's a message here from Producer Grace. You're now deep into a life with the Gilmore Girls. And there's a message here from Producer Grace. You're now deep into a podcast about the Gilmore Girls. So, like, whenever I get ready or I'm, like, cleaning, I have it in the background. But when something is, like, major is about to happen,
Starting point is 00:22:38 but I know what's happening, I go watch it, and I just think about, oh, it might be different this time. I'm like, no, it's not. They haven't changed it. They haven't switched it up on me this time. Maybe they will. Alright, good on you, Bea. Thank you so much. Oh, what a great call. That's alright. Thank you, guys. See you, mate.
Starting point is 00:22:57 King's birthday weekend to look forward to in just a few days' time, so that'll hopefully drag you through the last couple of days of this week. I haven't been on a holiday for like four years or something i haven't been on a plane yeah like since before covid a lot i'd say a lot of people a lot of people probably the same actually think about it the guy keeps telling us there's covid on the plane so it's probably probably a good thing to avoid to be honest yeah and then like cost of living like like who can afford holidays, right? So I was like, do you know what? Maybe we could treat ourselves and buy like a spa. But not like a, I was thinking one of those blow up spas.
Starting point is 00:23:32 All right, yeah. A holiday in your backyard. Yeah. I was like, maybe that's what I need. But then I started thinking, okay, so you're going to buy a spa. Like who's, people are going to come around and you're going to get in it? Is it weird for me and my husband to spa with my parents or his parents? Like just the four of us sitting in a spa. Well, listen, I feel like the important equation in this is the important factor in this equation is Andrew.
Starting point is 00:23:59 He's outside the gene pool, so to speak, of the spa pool. He's the one who's got to feel comfortable. You grew up in a nudist colony. You'll feel comfortable. I don't think my parents have togs. Oh, really? So it's baps and bits out. But it's kind of weird when you think about it,
Starting point is 00:24:17 because even if you are wearing togs, you're still soaking in each other's stuff. Oh, absolutely. Look at this chlorine in there. Human soup. Dude, when I worked at another radio station, we did a getaway together. I got what they call hot tub folliculitis,
Starting point is 00:24:35 where your pores get infected. We all got infected pores from the spa. But if it's your one, it's a lot different, right? Yeah, true. I used to go to the public spa pool in Glen Innes. Then I thought about it too hard one day. There's like 32 other people in this right now. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:51 So, like, I don't know. I just think, is it a bit like... I don't think Andrew will mind, though. He's quite comfortable, isn't he? Yeah. He has been known to sunbathe naked at my parents' house before. Mum said he needed sunscreen on his bum, so he was fine with that. Look, I don't think I'd ever sunbathe naked at my parents' house before. Mum said he needed sunscreen on his bum, so he was fine with that. Look, I don't think I'd ever sunbathe naked at any house,
Starting point is 00:25:08 let alone your parents' house. Oh no, he's fine. He's constantly saying to people, don't come over uninvited, I might be naked. So he's fine. He's quite keen on that lifestyle. But I don't know, like, is it, I just feel like it's a little bit intimate
Starting point is 00:25:21 to be having a spa just with you and your parents. I mean, the other thing is you don't have to have a spa with them. No, but if you have a spa and then they come and stay or whatever, or they come over and they're like, can we get in the spa? Do we have to take turns? Well, I can't stay in a spa pool any longer than like nine minutes or else I start to look like a, you know, a boiled lobster.
Starting point is 00:25:39 So why don't you just have a rotation? Have a spreadsheet. Mum and Dad, you go now ten minutes. We can linger on the outside, have a drink, swap out. Yeah, true. I always feel like it would be weird. Like, what if it was just me, Andrew, and you two? Is that as you would have said? Colleague spas.
Starting point is 00:25:56 I don't know if you drink. What's wrong with that? I don't know. Well, you don't have to. Now you've made it weird. It is an intimate setting. I get it. You're bathing together. Yeah. No, but it weird. It is an intimate setting. I get it. You're bathing together.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Yeah. But it's not bathing, though. I think it's fine. You have a few drinks, sit in the spa with people, you know. All right. Ben's nudist, too. If we've got togs on in that situation, don't get me wrong. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:17 All right. Well, Ben's coming. John is not. Okay. Text 4487. Can Megan invite her parents into the spa pool? Just the four of us. With Andrew?
Starting point is 00:26:24 Is it a big one too? Size probably, circumference. Surface area probably comes into play there too. Yeah. I think it's like six people. So it's pretty. What's it, six people? That's four people.
Starting point is 00:26:35 There's only like. Plenty of room, plenty of room. You two can come too. If you need an extra two, we'll come off the bench for that one. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. North West, she's 10 years old. She's the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, and she's been performing the last couple of nights.
Starting point is 00:26:52 They did the 30th anniversary concert from The Lion King, and they got a whole lot of performers, a whole lot of famous people, some of the original cast from the movie, doing different songs at the Hollywood Bowl. Oh, yeah, they had the two original singer, the two original cast members doing Hakuna Matata. The OGs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Doesn't that bring back memories? That's very cool. What 30 years since they performed that together? So, North West was performing I Just Can't Wait to Be King. She was young Simba. Yeah, as part of the cast and things. It seemed like, as i said before there was different people performing in every song she was out there she looked like she was
Starting point is 00:27:29 having a great time singing along um but well here's a little bit of her singing This is my last book. I just can't bear it. Do we care? Right, so there you go. And now she's getting mercilessly bullied on the internet. Yeah, which is really, really sad. She looks like she's having a great time and people are giving her grief about it. Some people are saying that she took the spot of other people that could have been auditioning for it and stuff as well she only got a nipo baby she's got no talent like the rest of her family she's 10. you need to remember she's a kid and you know and like whatever feelings some people
Starting point is 00:28:15 may have or may not have about the kardashians don't push that onto a kid and you don't need to write it on the internet and i'm sorry i was very drunk at the time uh and i got very angry by her singing and unloaded on the comment section. No, but you do have to remember that she'll probably read those or some form of feedback about her performance and she's only a child. And it was great to see her having a great time.
Starting point is 00:28:35 I mean, her grandma was there, you know, Chris Kardashian, she was up there, you know. She gave her a standing ovation at the end. Lovey was up like clapping for her. Good on her. Is that her name, Lovey? She doesn't like grandma, she. Lovey was up like clapping for her. Good on her. Is that her name, Lovey? She doesn't like Grandma. She likes Lovey.
Starting point is 00:28:48 Oh, really? Yeah. She paid too much for Botox and filler to be called Grandmother. So they just call her Lovey? Yeah. If I make it to a Grandma, I'd prefer probably Glamour. Instead of Grandma Call me glamour It is a great time in your life too isn't it
Starting point is 00:29:07 When you do reach that age Where you get to rebrand Don't you Like a Diddy rebrand You choose what you want to be Yeah Because rebrand's not so good at the moment No
Starting point is 00:29:15 Some brand damage there for Diddy But some grandparents get very specific About what they want to be called Even before the babies arrive Yeah And then if there's two sets of grandparents They're like Well I want that name or I got that name or something as well.
Starting point is 00:29:27 You have to register. Yeah. We've got my mum and dad, Annie and John. So Granny Annie. Great rhyme. Granny Annie. And John John. So we just say his birth name twice.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Oh, does he not get Grandpa John or Granny? I don't know if Granny Annie designed these names or Dad had anything to do with it. He seems like a go with the flow guy. He's like, can say my name twice john john all right oh andrew that's four four eight seven we'll get uh we'll get more of these coming through grandparents names the best names the different ones that you've got for your grandparents uh what's your uh he's uh my stepdad's he's uh we've got so he's my mom's grandma our grandma jenny and then there's grumpa you know because you know he can be a little bit grumpy from time to time, and he embraces it, so he's Grumpa.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Oh, so it's a combination of grandpa and Grumpa. Yeah, he's like, he rolls with it. He's like, great, I'm Grumpa. Yeah, I'm a grumpy bugger. I can do that as well. So, oh, under the hits, 4487, your best grandparents' names. We'd love to know next on the hits. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
Starting point is 00:30:23 Talking about the best uh grandma grandpa whatever names you call your grandparents because uh chris kardashian she's lovey she doesn't want to be called grandma or anything like that i don't think i'd want grandma just glamour i like glamour you can come up with that there's a lot of uh really really good names that coming through on the text machine one's a good nan and Naughty Nan. Oh, cute. It's almost like a Disney thing as well. Plenty of ones coming through on our 100th Hits as well. Yeah, give us a call. We'll go to Logan.
Starting point is 00:30:53 Welcome, Logan from Wellington. Hello. Yeah, we're talking the most inventive grandparent names. Yeah, so I call my granny, Granny Grita. You call her what, sorry? Granny Grita. granny Grita. You call her what, sorry? Granny Grita. Granny Grita. That sounds like a mouthful.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Yeah. Where does that come from? Well, when I was born, I couldn't say her name properly. Oh, so there's a few of those coming through at the moment. The same sort of, wow, someone's called wolfie because her name is ruth and because it's like ruthie but wolfie yeah so it's coming through a few times wolfie too low a bit wolfie too bad connotations with wolfie but yeah the mispronunciation seems to be the base of a lot of greater than uh great nicknames grandfather was called gaga because
Starting point is 00:31:41 they couldn't say granddad so the name stuck. Maybe that's how Lady Gaga got her name. Who knows? We'll get Sarah on. Good morning. How are you? Good morning. I'm good. How are you?
Starting point is 00:31:49 Yeah, most inventive grandparent names. So a girlfriend of mine in Australia, her kids and everyone's kids call her mother Apples because her mum is, her last name's Smith, so she would be Granny Smith. They call her Apples. Love that runway. Granny Smith's cool too call her Apples. Love that runway. Granny Smith's cool too, but Apples is even cooler, actually. That's a great nickname.
Starting point is 00:32:11 Yeah, brilliant. Really appreciate that. You're going to have a great day, Sarah. Thank you for your call. Bye. My mum's called Karma, and my dad's called OB. That stands for old bastard. Karma and OB. Another text came through. My dad mucked around for stands for old bastard. Karma and OB.
Starting point is 00:32:25 Another text comes through. My dad mucked around for so long deciding what to be called. In the end, the kids called him Dave because that's his name. They went through that. They were Papa, Granddad, Kuda, all that. But in the end, he mucked around too long, so that was just Dave. Yeah, you've probably got like a two-year window, right, to lock your name in?
Starting point is 00:32:42 Yeah. Well, thank you very much for your calls and texts. Appreciate it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The official start of winter is just, well, three days away. Now, I feel like there's two guarantees in life. You live, you die, and when you're looking for a Wi-Fi network, someone's always going to have pretty fly for a Wi-Fi as their Wi-Fi name.
Starting point is 00:33:04 It's a good one, though. It's a great one, although topicality on it. That song was like 1998 or 99 or something. It's nearly 25 years old. A lot of people, do you get Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi? It's probably crazy now, right? Pretty Fly for a Wi-Fi. The reference, you don't get the reference?
Starting point is 00:33:20 No. Wait, what do you mean? It's an offspring song. Called Pretty Fly for a White Guy. Pretty Fly for a White Guy. Pretty fly for a white guy. Give it to me baby. Another song. Don't know the reference.
Starting point is 00:33:28 Yeah, well now I understand why you wouldn't. But then yesterday I was in a sweet spot where I was trying to connect to a Wi-Fi and it becomes an important issue when you're a white middle-aged man in your car wanting to get on your laptop. Always looks suspicious when you drive past someone in that situation. But I saw one that I hadn't seen previously. I've seen the, you know, FBI surveillance van. Firstly, the FBI's not New Zealand.
Starting point is 00:33:56 Secondly, are they going to signpost it with naming their surveillance van? But the one I saw yesterday, why believe I can fly? Why believe I can fly? It's all R. Kelly. You know, the problem is R. Kelly's soul. R. Kelly, yeah. But apart from that. I'd rather go with Offspring than that one, to be honest.
Starting point is 00:34:15 That was pretty clear. That's one I'd never seen in my journeys. Why believe I can fly? That's really clever. I remember one where, I think we were in the airport in Australia and it popped up when you're looking for the thing and it had Brad Pitt's iPhone and I was like what the but I think someone had just changed
Starting point is 00:34:32 their Wi-Fi to Brad Pitt's iPhone because you're looking around like is Brad Pitt there and I can connect to his hotspot I can tend it to Brad Pitt what would his password be I thought it was a great one but yeah I had a shocking one. I was outside school waiting to pick up the kids,
Starting point is 00:34:48 and I kept on my laptop, kept pressing connect, thinking I was trying to connect to my personal hotspot. And then I got a knock on the window, and it just said, are you JP? And I said, yes. She's like, can you please stop trying to connect to my phone I keep denying you access to my phone she was in the two cars behind me
Starting point is 00:35:09 just relentlessly trying to piss her on a he was on my hotspot for about two and a half years didn't even tell me once you get on that sweet hotspot stream you stay on there hey after 8 o'clock something that's quite confronting we're going to talk to Nano Girl,
Starting point is 00:35:25 a scientist, and she's going to talk about mattresses and going to sleep at night, what we are sleeping on. Have a listen. We've beeped out a word. The one thing about your mattress that you might not know is,
Starting point is 00:35:35 look, you're going to sleep into your mattress every year. That's just the way it is. I know it's gross. What are we doing into our mattress every year and how much of it? We'll find out in just a few moments on The Hits
Starting point is 00:35:46 The Hits The Jono and Ben Podcast Now we've got our nano girl Michelle Dickinson on the phone So Jono you've come to me
Starting point is 00:35:54 you've told me about a seven sharp story that you watched It was a couple of weeks ago and I said you must message Michelle to get Michelle on the show
Starting point is 00:36:02 to discuss this Dr Michelle Dickinson nano girl yeah so I have I've tracked it down but I don't know if this is a story that I necessarily want to know more about to be honest Michelle to get Michelle on the show to discuss this. Michelle, Dr. Michelle Dickinson, Nano Girl. Yeah, so I have. I've tracked it down. But I don't know if this is a story that I necessarily want to know more about, to be honest. Welcome to the show, Michelle.
Starting point is 00:36:12 Thank you very much. It's probably a story you don't want to know. Sometimes it's better if you don't know, because once you do, it might crush you. Everything you know about sleeping, unlearn it. Oh, okay. So this is to do with mattresses and how clean they are, right? Yeah, and, you know, people change their sheets different amounts, you know. Ideally, you're supposed to be changing your sheet once a week.
Starting point is 00:36:33 When I used to date dated guys, I think they didn't change it once yet. So once a week is ideal. But underneath your sheets, you need to be thinking about your mattress and what's in your mattress, and not many people think about that. For example, do you guys vacuum your mattress? Never once vacuumed a mattress. Oh, I haven't thought about that, no. So in your mattress is likely to be things called dust mites. They're little tiny creatures, and they love to eat your skin dander.
Starting point is 00:36:54 Basically, all your skin cells, the dead ones, fall off. You're making a buffet in your bed for these dust mites. The more of those that are in there, the more dust mites are going to be in your bed. So they're just festering around in your mattress. Creeping around, crawling around. And actually, they're one of the biggest causes of asthma. So yeah, just vacuum your bed once a week when you vacuum in the house. And honestly, if you have one of those vacuums where you can see what's in the cylinder,
Starting point is 00:37:18 you'll be grossed out even by how much stuff is in your bed. I saw something the other day on the internet, and I don't know, again, if it's true or not, but they were saying that you shouldn't make your bed straight away in the morning either, because that keeps in a whole lot of stuff that you want. You want to kind of air some stuff out. Would there be any truth to that? Totally.
Starting point is 00:37:34 You want to air it out. If you can, if you've got windows, you can get some sunshine on it. You want to be getting some sunshine on it. Totally do that if you can. But do you know what? A lot of people don't make their bed anyway, so they're probably already airing that.
Starting point is 00:37:44 It does seem like a bit of a redundant task. You make it, you undo it. It's just a never-ending cycle, isn't it? So pillows is the other one. What are the thoughts and feelings towards pillows, Michelle? So you're going to be sweating on your pillow. There's going to be a whole bunch of fungus and bacteria on there.
Starting point is 00:38:01 And that matters if you have acne. So if you have acne, it's made worse by bacteria that's on your pillow. Obviously, wash them if you can. And you can wash your pillows too and dry them properly. But, yeah, don't eat in the bed because if you're going to eat in the bed, all of that stuff is going to start feeding the fungus and bacteria that's in your pillow. Now, Megan, who's just out of the studio at the moment,
Starting point is 00:38:22 she has sometimes Friday night meals and dinner. Oh, dinner in bed. Michelle Dickinson's here, Megan. Just pop back in. Now, you tell her about what you do some Friday nights in bed. Oh, I'm eating dinner. I'd like to say that's great if you want to be sleeping with a colony of bacteria. Well done.
Starting point is 00:38:41 Lots of people use the bed with you. Feeds the bacteria, mate. But, I mean, don't my skin cells feed the bacteria too? They're going to feed the dust mites. It's very different. They're going to eat different things. Looking after everyone. Well, then that's just a party. How do you do, because you know obviously way more than all of us
Starting point is 00:38:58 about these particular things. How do you cope with this sort of stuff, Michelle? Well, you just go, what sort of things am I willing to share my bed with and what am I not? So for example, I have a dog. I do not let my dog sleep in the bed because I know too much, right? Dogs and cats that come on your bed
Starting point is 00:39:12 will bring with them, number one, fecal matter, right? Poo on their bums, poo on their feet. That's just animals how they are. I don't want to be sleeping in a bed of poop. Number two, they might bring fleas. They're going to bring all sorts of nasties from the outside. So there are things that I sort of draw the line on and pets in bed is one of them and
Starting point is 00:39:29 because i just know too much but you know a little bit of dust mites that's okay they're going to eat all of my skin cells anyway i'm not so bugged about that how do you go about day to day like you must just see bacteria everywhere you look yeah and we have to remember that not all bacteria is bad but i definitely don't want colonies on it. The one thing about your mattress that you might not know is, look, you're going to sweat, on average, 100 litres of sweat into your mattress every year. That's just the way it is.
Starting point is 00:39:55 I know it's gross. But what that's going to do is that's going to feed the fungus and bacteria in your mattress. Now, they will stay in there unless you are the type of person that jumps on your bed. If you jump on stay in there unless you are the type of person that jumps on your bed. If you jump on your bed, all of those fungus spores are going to jump out of your mattress and into the air. And then they're going to start sticking on places in your room that might be damp, so around the window sills, and then they're going to fester over there.
Starting point is 00:40:18 So the things I don't do is I try and keep them in my mattress if they're already there. I'm not going to jump on the bed and try and spread them all over my room and get them all over the wall too. 100 litres of sweat annually. So two people in bed, you're chucking out 200 litres of sweat every year. Do you flip the mattress? Is that something else we should be doing? Flip the mattress sort of every three
Starting point is 00:40:38 months and also wear PJs. I know a lot of people don't wear PJs and then it's going to soak straight into your mattress. If you wear PJs then it's going to soak into your PJs as and then it's going to soak straight into your mattress. If you wear PJs, then it's going to soak into your PJs as well unless it's going to go into your mattress. Well, Michelle,
Starting point is 00:40:49 this has been confronting. A real eye-opener because I won't sleep for the next hour. Well, there we go. There we go. We're so gross. Thank you so much
Starting point is 00:40:58 for your time, Michelle. Really appreciate it. Lovely to hear from you. And look, the positive side is you're not going to bed alone tonight, so there you go.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Now, Megan, your family. Smugglers. Surprised me. Professional smugglers. Me and my husband, we've been together for 12 years, and I only just learnt this the other day. I knew he was a guinea pig dad. He used to have guinea pigs.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Oh, right. And we were like, oh, okay. Did you find that information out early on? Yeah, I found that quite early on. I was like, weird, niche, but he's always been quite fond of guinea pigs. Right, okay. They're cute. Sensitive wee things, though.
Starting point is 00:41:33 Like, you know, like puff of wind can kill them. Yeah. Because they get frights and stuff. Oh, right. They're as anxious as the kiwi. Kiwi, we can't even breathe around the Kiwi. No. You've got to have the lights off.
Starting point is 00:41:46 We went to the zoo multiple times. They're like, can you see it? And I'm like, no. It's pitch black darkness and I'm not allowed to talk. But I only just found out that he had a sick guinea pig one time. And I've learned about his guinea pigs dying and he was quite devastated. But there was a sick guinea pig at and he was quite devastated. But there was a sick guinea pig at home but the family
Starting point is 00:42:07 had planned to go to Waiwera Pools. Oh the hot pools there. So instead of cancelling. RIP. No longer around. RIP both. Both the guinea pig and the pools. But the guinea pig was sick. And so instead of cancelling
Starting point is 00:42:22 going to the pools, the pappas family decided to take the sick guinea pig with them. To the hot pools? Yeah. On like a final outing? Commitment to the pig. I guess just keep it alive, look after it. And like I guess they didn't want to leave it at home
Starting point is 00:42:37 so they took it with them. Surely they should have taken it out for a day frolicking in the sawdust or something, you know? One last hurrah. Not to the hot pool. Well, Andrew's mum, commitment to the cause, she smuggled it into the hot pools on her chest and then looked after the little guinea pig all day. Spoiler alert, when they went home that night, it went to the big happy farm in the sky.
Starting point is 00:43:02 There was a great hot pool in the sky. Yeah. And I was like, wait, what did the guinea pig do all day? He's like, just chilled out and got cuddles. But they had no idea that they had smuggled the guinea pig in. Well, one last ride with that guinea pig to the hot pools. Hot pools would never be in my top 100 locations to take a guinea pig. Well, I guess I feel like they were already going.
Starting point is 00:43:21 They had plans. They don't want to cancel the plans. Yeah, and the guinea pigs. Yes, you're coming along for the ride, the plans. Yeah. And the guinea pigs. Yes, you're coming along for the ride, bruh. Yeah. All right. So,
Starting point is 00:43:27 100 of the hits, 4487. We want to know this morning, animal. Are we going to do animals? I reckon. Have you ever taken an animal anywhere? Have you ever taken an animal through
Starting point is 00:43:35 like Johnny Depp and Amber Heard did with their dogs into Australia? Smuggled their dogs, yeah. They could call us right now if they wanted to. Budgies. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:41 Budgies get smuggled from time to time, don't they? Smuggled every summer, yeah. 4487, oh it was the text number too, 0800 the hits, we just smuggle an animal into. I don't know if anyone's going to call for this, but hey, let's see. Can you beat a guinea pig to
Starting point is 00:43:53 Iwera? We're in this together. Alright, next it is 822 on the hits. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Talking about animal smuggling this morning, hot topic. Megan, you're in-laws. My husband's family, they had a sick guinea pig. So rather than leave it at home, they took it to,
Starting point is 00:44:10 or they smuggled it in to Waiwera Springs. Did it stipulate no guinea pigs, though? No, well, I guess not. Probably not. You might have been free to take them. Commitment to the pet. And the guinea pig had a wonderful last day out. One last hurrah with the family at the hot pools.
Starting point is 00:44:26 There's RIP. Not the only ones sneaking things into the hot pools as well. Someone's saying they snuck a rabbit, a rabbit into the hot pools too. I feel like putting that down your shirt's risky. They get a bit like glory. I guess magicians do it all the time, don't they? Yeah, true.
Starting point is 00:44:42 At some stage they've got to have a rabbit somewhere. In their hat generally, isn't they? Yeah, true. At some stage, they've got to have a rabbit somewhere. In their hats, generally, isn't it? Pulling out their hat. Ben, you smuggled, not animals, but smuggled for many years on TV. Crazy items into stadiums across New Zealand. And also, straining your relationship with security guards across the country. Yeah, those days are behind me now. But yes, it all actually stemmed from,
Starting point is 00:45:01 because we used to sneak beer in for a TV show and try different ways, ludicrous ways in the end. In the end, it got to, like, we're trying to sneak pallet loads of beer. It just got ridiculous. And they let it in. Yeah. Because I mean, who else is, I mean, you don't think it's a prank when someone's coming in with a trolley full of 120 dozen. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:45:15 But it all started from my dad. When I was little, he used to make me, I was his beer mule where we'd go to the Basin Reserve and be like, mate, put your beers in the bag. Because no one was going to check a six-year-old kid as he's going through with his Thomas the Tank Engine backpack or whatever as the beers make a noise. There you go. All right, I'll see you on the other side. Is that kid's backpack clinking?
Starting point is 00:45:36 I think it is. So that's how it happened. All right, Kelly, animal smuggling. What was the animal? Kelly. Oh, hi. Well, my parents, they suck puppy and also a cat as well on another occasion, yeah. Into where?
Starting point is 00:45:59 Into, well, I'm not sure. Somewhere in the West Coast in a hotel. They told the cat to stay dead so he didn't move in the bag. He knew the plan, he knew the assignment. Yeah, they snuggled him in and of course the puppy, well they just put it down their top. Hold on, so they had a lifeless cat in a bag and a puppy jammed down a t-shirt? Yeah. And no one suspected anything. No, they kept them quiet.
Starting point is 00:46:33 And, yeah, because you can't, they didn't want to leave the puppy in the car or the cat. So, yeah, the cat used to go with them, actually, because they were in vans and stuff and travelled. Yeah, they just put the cat in. I feel like that must happen all the time. It probably does. You're probably more than you think. Yeah, the cat's probably like, okay, I'm frozen time now, alright, get into the accommodation. I know my rules. Ocean's Eleven New Zealand, there we go. That's how it happens. That's
Starting point is 00:46:56 brilliant, Kelly. Really appreciate it. Well, animals for the most part, they don't know that you're executing a heist or a smuggling plan, do they? Exactly. Let's get Val on from Tauranga. How are you, Val? Good, thanks. And Sal? Yeah, we're doing well. Not smuggling plan, do they? Exactly. Let's get Vel on from Tauranga. How are you, Vel? Good, thanks. And Sal? Yeah, we're doing well. Not smuggling here, but in Australia, we understand. Yes, I used to take
Starting point is 00:47:12 my pet snake shopping in the hoodie. In your hoodie? How big a snake are we talking? He was six foot. Oh my god! Tucked inside your hoodie? Yeah, in the hood of my hoodie. What kind of snake was it?
Starting point is 00:47:27 It was just a diamond python. Oh god, and so anyone notice at any stage? Yeah, he would pop his head up over the top of my head and have a look around and then just pop back in. Some people didn't like it, they were a bit scared. Don't blame them, a six foot diamond python
Starting point is 00:47:43 sitting in your hoodie. Are they bitey? Only if you move too fast. Right. So it was a very slow trip to the supermarket. Oh, my God. But, like, not poisonous, right? No.
Starting point is 00:47:57 No, he didn't have fangs. Okay. And so would you drive in the car with him in your hoodie or would he, like, sit on your lap? He'd sit on the dash in the car. Really? So how long does this trust between you and the snake, when do you build that up?
Starting point is 00:48:10 How long does that take? If you raise them from a hatchling, they become like puppies and they just follow you everywhere and sit there and watch TV with you. So you do get quite close to them. Like get in bed with you? Oh, no, God, no. Oh, Megan, God, no.
Starting point is 00:48:26 Oh, Megan, come on. It's a bloody stupid question. God. The more you handle them, the better off they are. Right. Well, that is single. Where's the craziest place you took your Python? Probably just the supermarket or just out in the car. That's pretty crazy.
Starting point is 00:48:41 I don't know why I want to go to any crazier locations. But, hey, thanks so much, Phil. Appreciate you sharing this with me. You're welcome. That's pretty crazy. I don't know any crazier locations, but thanks so much, Phil. Appreciate you sharing this morning. You're welcome. That's incredible. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Some of the results of the census is meant to be coming out today. Remember the census? It was like March last year, right? Yeah. And no
Starting point is 00:48:58 one did the census. Well, half the people did it and they had to keep bribing everyone. Well, some of the results are coming out today. Movie tickets, supermarket vouchers, wasn't it? Wasn't it shoes? Warriors tickets. Feels like a long time for the results to come out as well too, right? We get everyone to vote in an election.
Starting point is 00:49:14 Maybe the final person just completed the census yesterday. They're like, what more? We bought you a house. Six-month vacation. Just tick a couple of boxes. We'll come around and watch you do it. Oh, jeez. Now, over the weekend I accidentally
Starting point is 00:49:26 stitched my brother-in-law up a real good one like and I didn't mean to but we've got a sort of history of of pranks I guess
Starting point is 00:49:33 so he questioned whether this was a prank or not you know when someone does a favour for you and then somehow that turns into a nightmare for them
Starting point is 00:49:40 you're like oh you feel guilty yeah we're going to my wife and I Amanda we're going to Waiheke for a night away and you know a friend's surprise birthday and we're about to get an uber down he was staying at our place the brother-in-law he's like i'll drive you down i'll take you you
Starting point is 00:49:53 know we'll take your car drive you down oh thank you very much he's like you drive down you know where you're going you drive down then i'll just drive it back so i drove down got to the ferry terminal got out and i just did autopilot all the things you do when you get out of the car you know you're like your wallet your hand sanitizer your gum all those things i grabbed and then i grabbed the keys great play but you know it's one of the cars the keyless car things that most cars are these days the car's still going yeah i grabbed the keys off i go check it get on the ferry away i'm gone he drives away his car's still operating still operating might have had a wee beeping noise but he hasn't driven my car before so he probably Get on the ferry away. I'm gone. He drives away. His car's still operating. Still operating.
Starting point is 00:50:25 Might have had a wee beeping noise, but he hasn't driven my car before, so he probably rode it out for a little bit. That's a good thing with beeping. You can just ride it out and ignore it. Until he got, well, it would have been good if he was going back to our house. He would have parked it. It would have been fine. But he went to the supermarket on the way home.
Starting point is 00:50:39 Oh, no. Stopped the car and then went, oh, the keys. And then no way you can start the car again. You're on a, we're having a great time on the ferry over here. I'm on a ferry on my way, so I get a call going, hey, have you got the keys? Not even on the same island as you. I'm like, what, no? And then I look and I was like, yeah, yeah, no, I've got the keys.
Starting point is 00:50:57 Oh, no. And so then he has to get an Uber back to our place. He's the one getting the Uber now after doing the favor. How does he lock the car? We can't. He can't lock the car? We can't. He can't lock the car. You've added about an hour and a half to his day
Starting point is 00:51:08 that he did not need. You just feel so bad that someone's doing a favour for you. So, oh yeah, there's a spare key back in the thing. Just go back and get this key and bring it back to... It's like, oh.
Starting point is 00:51:18 So you left your car, or he left your car and locked in a supermarket car park for a while. Yeah, for a while. In Auckland. Well, he went went to get the thing and then amazing but you just yeah my favours the backfire and it wasn't a he was like was
Starting point is 00:51:30 it a joke i was like what sick prank i don't even get to enjoy the prank i just i'm on a fairy or pj who works on this station she used to do a show with jace hawkins yeah jason pj yeah and we lived a couple of blocks away from his house do you remember this and for whatever reason his house got broken into and completely ransacked
Starting point is 00:51:51 oh my god oh yeah and then he reached out and he's like hey mate I hate to ask this but was that a prank from you oh
Starting point is 00:51:58 I was like what you're pranking into your house like stealing everything yeah it sounds like a prank like ruining the house yeah it was it was a great prank loved every's like ruining the house. Yeah, it was. It was a great prank. Loved every minute of it.
Starting point is 00:52:07 This is everyone holding up a mirror to you two about your past lives. Oh, no. You're like, no, no. We're doing our pranking all over again. I love it. How about you go to the police first, mate, instead of asking me if it was a prank.

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