Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan is purposely jeopardised in the Mariah Carey game

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: We play a risky game of "Tasha Roulette" to see if Megan can stay alive in the Mariah game Jono got some real-time feedback from a truckie about his radio workNew York correspondent Nicole updates us on P Diddy Producer Ellie had a run-in with a man at the gym, so we want to know, was that abiding by gym etiquette?We chat to our Italian friend DanielaBen has an ear worm in his head, so he'd like to share it with you Megan has been rude to someone... They may or may not be human8:25 We're building up to perform a magic trick to do at Cosentino's show next weekend- we discuss what everyday magic you make happen (we're talking mundane) Facebook The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram @thehitsbreakfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Jono and Ben podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now we are playing a game, and you guys are playing along as well, the Mariah Carey game, All I Want for Christmas. So you just try to avoid the song for as long as possible. If you hear it, you're out of the game. I'm out.

Jono's out. Megan, you're the only one still on there. Yeah. Still standing. Now, we thought every day we'd just add a little bit of Jeopardy to this because we do want to start playing the song. As soon as Megan's out, the station can officially start playing All I Want for Christmas.

So we want to get the song on here. So we just want to add a little bit of risk to the game. Now, the first game that we'd like to play with you uh is tash roulette now tash responsible the mastermind the genius behind uh maddie mclean's uh big big elimination big exit yeah wow we and uh also managed to get ben boys out tash lured me in uh and i'm out of the game so we just recorded this if you're worried if you're listening right now you're still in the game we just recorded this. If you're listening right now and you're still in the game, we just recorded this with Megan, with Tash, with the two callers. It was Tash Roulette. And so you're in a safe space right now.

Okay, we will censor it if Tash plays the song. Okay. Okay, here we go. All right, so what we're going to do is we're going to go to Naomi. Naomi, good morning to you. So Naomi's on the line, Megan. Okay, good morning, Naomi. Okay, let's go to another.

So Naomi, you're not going to play All I Want for Christmas to Megan, right? No, I'm the nice one. Are you still in the game, Naomi? No, I'm not. Out of the game. She's out of the game. So she's on one of the lines. We're not going to tell you which phone line she's on.

Okay, let's go to someone who's not Tash. Debbie, Debbie, are you still in the game? Sure are. Sure are. You're still in the game. Okay. You're not going to test Tash. Debbie, Debbie, are you still in the game? Sure are. Sure are. You're still in the game. Okay. You're not going to test Tash's line, are you? Well, you can go out of the room when we talk to Tash.

But Debbie, you wouldn't play All I Want for Christmas because you're still in the game, right? Sure. Okay. This is how Tash really is. Now, Megan, leave the room now. Okay, because Megan, leave the room. We'll go to Tash, our friend Tash.

Our friend and nemesis, Tash. Good morning. Hello. Lovely to hear your evil dulcet tones again. Now, Megan's left the room. She can't hear anything. So we're going to play a game of Tash Roulette. No, this is genuinely we're going to play it.

So you're one of the three phone lines. If it gets to you, if she chooses wrong, then you can play it and get her out of the game, okay? Okay. Okay, but if she chooses right, then unfortunately you won't be able and get her out of the game, okay? Okay. Okay, but if she chooses right, then unfortunately you won't be able to get her out of the game this time, this way around. No, no, that's okay,

because there'll be other ways I can get her out of the game. There is, yeah, and I'm sure you've got, you're hatching many plans to get her out. You sound like the type of person with a lot of images pasted to a wall with bits of string connecting all the images. Yeah. Okay, so Tash, we're going to put you back on hold. We're going to clear all the names on the phones.

Oh, yeah, good idea. She won't know which person is on what line, so we'll bring Megan back in. Okay, I'll go get her. Welcome back, Megan. Okay, the pressure is on. The music is playing. The tension is high.

You need to pick one of the three phone lines. We have Debbie, Naomi, and Evil Tash. Yeah, we've changed the names now, so it's just the random numbers on there, so you can choose one, two, or three. Tash Roulette. This could get you out of the game. Choose wrong.

Tash has got the songs ready to go. This is mean. This is the charts. You've got a one in three chart. I'm also nervous one of the other ones is just going to go rogue on us. They sounded sweet, But mind you, so did Tasha.

Okay. So one of them was still in the game. One of them wasn't. But you don't know which line you're going to. Just say a line. One, two, three. I'm going to go... Oh! I'm going to go... That's my lucky number. I'm going to go three. Okay.

What? Alright. We're going line three. Good luck. That's my lucky number I'm going to go three Okay Oh no What? Alright We're going line three Good luck And who's on the line? Who's this? Silence Hello

Who is it? Who's this? Hi Naomi Okay So Megan's safe Megan's safe I love you Naomi Yeah She lives another day Oh Nor you're nice Oh, so Megan's safe. Megan's safe. I love you, Naomi. Yeah.

She lives another day. Oh, nor your nice. We got the nice one. Well, listen, I tell you what, we'll just get you to leave the room again, Megan, because we'll go back to Tash and give her the devastating news. Yeah. Tash. She didn't choose your line.

We got Naomi. Really? Yeah It's okay She's out of the room again now She's out of the room, yeah So you've got But I'm sure you'll concoct another plan to get her out

Yeah Oh, sorry, and I hang up on her Oh, you hang up on her Well, that's, yeah Now I've gone to Debbie now Hey, thanks for your time Hey, hi Everyone's still in the game?

Everyone's still in the game The Hits The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, hey, I had a bit of a patch-up job with my T-shirt this morning. Can you notice? I can now you pointed it out. What is that? Pen?

A bleach stain. So I was like, oh, okay, it's a bleach stain on a black T-shirt. Yeah. And I was like, well, I had a bit of a brain wave at four in the morning. I was like, why don't I get a black permanent marker and try and colour in the bleach. I mean, it kind of works. Does it hide it? Those permanent markers have like a semi-purple tinge.

Yeah. It's like, yeah, nah. Hey, I'm regretting it now. Yeah. You could just re-dye your T-shirt black. Yeah. I mean, I don't know why I was thinking, this is an old ratty old T-shirt anyway,

but I was driving home on the motorway yesterday and have you really, have you admired, well not admired, but taken a moment to think about how much truck drivers must see in their cabs? Oh yeah, quite high up, aren't they? They've got a view from an eagle's nest, don't they, from their cab. And they probably see everything. They probably see everything that you're doing if you're

you know munching down on a rotisserie chicken on the southern motorway they can see straight into it it's um it's like the corporate box of the roads isn't it uh but then we were stopped in traffic and i could see a truck driver just staring directly down into my my crotch pit you know you can they can well they actually probably weren't looking at you. No, they're just looking at you around and about and looking around. Yeah. So I looked up and I was like, oh, g'day, mate. He said, change station, I see.

So he was referring – he's obviously, I imagine, a rock listener. Oh, gotcha. And just got a bit of live feedback, a bit of constructive feedback about the move today. Not all of which I'll broadcast. The one thing, I mean, the hits list is the same. People that listen to the radio that really love stations are very loyal.

Yeah. Yeah, the Rocks are a very loyal audience. Yeah, and the Hits has got a very loyal audience as well. We ran into Phil, who he was at the Santa Parade. Now, he's a very loyal Rock listener, and he still listens to the rock. We emceed his wedding. Yeah. Great play for Phil.

Wow. Yeah, he phoned us in Feb, and he said, what are you doing in November? Yeah, too long to, you know, too far away to have a, you know, like, you're like, I don't know. And he's like, well, I know what you're doing. You're emceeing my wedding. And we're like, okay. And we did. It was fun.

At the Manurewa Kozi Club. Are you still up for hire, you two, for weddings? Yeah. We need no one at the wedding apart from Phil. Yeah. Maybe this is a business. MCs for hire. Jono and Ben MCs.

We'll follow our way through your wedding. It was a very vague performance, too, wasn't it? Giving you no-no stories or, you know. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Producer Ellie, you came into the studio this morning and a bit of an incident, a gym-cident, if you will, at the gymnasium yesterday.

Yes, yes, it was. I'm going to try and stay calm. I was quite wound up when I was telling you guys about it. But, you know, I've thought about it. And, okay, my sister and I. You still sound wound up, but you're just trying to contain it. Really breathing. Okay, my sister and I, we started going to the gym together.

I don't really like gyms, but I'm going because, you know, health and all that kind of stuff. And I already have this fear of being perceived at the gym. I don't really like just people looking at me. I know they're doing their own thing, but I'm always already self-conscious. But people come up to us sometimes and just say hi, which initially I'm okay with that. Okay.

But then I feel like my sister and I, maybe we give off too much friendliness. And so now it's this like sort of boundary that I feel slightly being crossed okay with that okay but then i feel like my sister and i maybe we give off too much friendliness and so now it's this like sort of boundary that i feel slightly being crossed just in general friendly to a fault yeah yeah and so then the other day there was this guy who my sister had met before and then he came up to me firstly shook my hand and it was so sweaty it was dripping and i'm like first of all don't shake your hand at the gym i don't think unless you know unless you're dry because then i had to somehow awkwardly run to the bathroom and wash them without him seeing me because I felt awkward.

Anyway, he proceeded to do his workout. Lots of grunts and groans. Look, I'm not judging. You're allowed to do what you want to do, but it was quite loud, I will say. I couldn't focus on my own. Can we have a replica of the noise, a reenactment? Is that necessary?

Sounds like he's digesting an entire rotisserie chicken from the supermarket. The indigestion part. And he was only doing abs at the beginning and I'm like, that's only abs. You're doing sit-ups, bro. Do we need to be grunting that much? Anyway, we get to the bench press, my sister and I and then he sort of lingers over and starts

giving advice. But I'm going to say it's unsolicited. We haven't asked. We don't want to know how you do yours. We know how to do it. First of all, critiques us on how high we've put the bar. Oh, it's a bit high for a bench press. He's not an instructor.

No, not at all. Just a patron. A sweaty grunter. Yeah. And so me and my sister are sort of internally like, yeah, we just checked that. Thank you. Because we've checked it for our height, you know.

Anyway, we're doing the bench press. He sort of keeps lingering. Then he comes and watches one of my sister's sets and then we just checked that. Thank you. Because we've checked it for our height, you know. Anyway, we're doing the bench press. He sort of keeps lingering. Then he comes and watches one of my sister's sets. And then it just starts feeling weird and awkward. Then by the end, there's so much unsolicited sort of mansplaining, if I'm honest. Well, we just never know when you guys are getting stuff, you know. Unless I ask, then she's good. Yeah, you're good.

What if we really know a lot about like gym stuff? No, no. What if I do? We don't know that. We don't want to know that. We want to tell you all the things we know. But the climax for us, the one that really wound us up, but again, we don't want to cause a scene,

is Paige goes for a, that's my sister, she goes for a maximum rep on the bench press, which means you can only do one of them, and you've only got one chance. I know that, I'm a man. So maximum rep is when you just, if you're listening, just one. Thanks for explaining to us. The heaviest you could possibly be. So maximum rep is when you just, just if you're listening, just one. Just one.

Thanks for explaining to us. The heaviest you could possibly be. I didn't get that from Ellie, so it was really good you explained that. And she goes to do it. I'm spotting her. I'm braced. I'm squatting myself.

I'm ready to do it. And I spot her. This is my sister. I'm not going to let a bar fall on her face, right? He's watching, so going, oh, this is quite heavy. I'm like, yeah, yeah.

No, she's quite strong. She goes to this rep and honestly, she's barely pushed it from her chest yeah and i can see she's struggling but i know give her a chance but no no he swoops in and this arm just comes in and he just pulls it up for her and that was for me the last straw fair enough we don't need your help don't assume we need your help and is that not the number one rule that you don't touch someone's weights while they're doing a set? Yeah, that's true. Unless they were calling out and in trouble or pain. Help, help.

Yes, it's a good signal. Imagine if I wandered over and just lifted up his weights. He would be gloomy. And then the big gag at the end was he then goes, oh, mate, that's just my warm-up weight. He lies down and then starts going like this. No, I'm not joking. Just doing shoulder presses.

Yeah, he's like, yeah, it'm not joking. Just doing shoulder presses. Yeah, he's like, yeah, this is my warm-up weight, yeah. And then the worst thing is he walked away, and he's left a sweat patch on the thing. All right. And did not acknowledge it. You just said at the beginning of this, I'm going to take you back to three minutes ago.

I'm not going to get wound up again. Oh, yes. So I got very wound up. You just slowly, over a three-minute period. Well, why'd you have the gym? That's what we want to know. Like what you said, Ali, have you had stuff that's happened that's wound you up.

So we can know the gym no-goes next. Oh, Andrew, that's me. 4, 4, 8, 7. We won't get wound up. We'll be very calm about it. It's just me warm-up weight. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's a lot of people phoning through about this.

Tony, you've got something to say on the topic. How you doing, guys? Yeah, good thanks, mate. Yeah, in my eyes, that's completely out of line. As a man in the gym, you're always cautious where you're looking and things. You don't want to

give off a creepy vibe or anything. Absolutely. But that's close. Yeah, out of line, like I said. If anything, it's harassment. Touching weights while someone's listening, if you're not part of the crew, I guess, that's beyond a joke. Yeah, no, fair enough, Tony.

A dude wouldn't do it to another guy. No, definitely not, unless you see someone stuck under the bar. Yeah. Even then I wouldn't help them. But hey, hey, hey, equal rights. Exactly. you know you see someone stuck under the bar yeah even then I wouldn't help them but hey hey equal rights exactly I appreciate you calling

this morning Tony someone's text through some other gym no go when someone's recording and they don't ask if it's okay to film with you in the background yeah I feel that's true

there's a lot of Instagram videos out there you know you get put on social media people filming I'm like you kind of want to go to the gym and not feel like you're on display to the world.

It can be a very sweaty, awkward place at times, the gym, can't it? A couple of incidents I've had at the gym, shocking one where I hopped off a treadmill and I didn't realise the treadmill entered rest mode. Okay, so the treadmill needs to cool down apparently. And then so I'm off getting the wipes To wipe down the treadmill You know, conscientious gym member Yeah which is good

Because that's a gym no-go Not wiping down your equipment As I turn around I see another patron A lady stepping onto the treadmill And I'm like Oh no It's still moving

I'm saying that in slow motion But she can't hear me Boom Steps on Wipes her feet out from underneath her, lands on her face on the treadmill. It's kind of like rubbing against her shoulder and stuff. And I was like, sorry, sorry, sorry. And we saw each other a couple of times after that

where you kind of smile and acknowledge the event to the point where I was like, I can't continue this on. I've ruined the gym for her and me at the same time. Always stop the treadmill when you hop off. You don't like people on their phones texting or scrolling. When you're in between sets, when you're waiting for a machine and someone's just sitting there on their phone. I know there's probably rest time in between,

but sometimes you're right. Maybe like a minute. Yeah, people get into an internet hole. It's so frustrating. There's two categories of people. Those who really enjoy being at the gym and it's a social environment for them and those who are obligated.

You know, I want to get in and get out. Head down like a mall at Christmas time. I want to throw out a gym no-go. This was many, many years ago, probably 10, 15 years ago. But I walked, you know, in changing rooms, getting changed, went to, I think at the end, went to wash my hands. And the guy was using the hairdryer.

To dry his bits. Yeah. I've seen that. That happens in the girls too. Oh, oh. I just walked around and he was. He was airing off his bits? Yeah.

Did you know? Yeah. I've never done that. That sounds fun. I mean, it does feel like a, is it an at home thing? That's an at home thing. You know, like, and I was, yeah, again, I went to wash my hands. I was like, oh, and then I was just going to wash my hands.

My husband's done it at home and it's creeped me out as well because he's like, it's clammy. I'm like, oh, yeah. But doing the thing with doing it in public is like the air hits you and you're like, oh, it's your bit ear. It felt like it was a no-go anyway. The ear has touched your bits and now it's on me. I imagine that's about a leg up on the bench sort of scenario where you're getting in the undercarriage.

I wasn't quite, you know, giving it the full look. But anyway, there we go. I'm intrigued to give that a go. I've got no hair on my head to blow dry. Just do it privately. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We do like to catch up with Daniela. She works at The Quest in Tauranga.

We stumbled across her a couple of months ago. She's very funny, originally from Italy, and she joins us this morning. Buongiorno. Buongiorno a voi. How is it? That means good morning to all of you. Oh, good morning.

Buongiorno. And then what's the other word, sorry, Daniela? A voi. Buongiorno a voi. Are you partial Italian? He's eaten pizza and pasta before, so does that count? Like lasagna and food. I'll tell you, this is something that'll shock you.

My mom, she doesn't do it anymore, but she used to put peas in her lasagna. Oh, mamma mia, that's a disaster. Oh, mamma mia. It used to shock me as well, too. Now, our Mariah Carey game, we're trying to avoid listening to All I Want for Christmas. Apparently, you're still in the game. Oh, man, I'm just playing very hard. Megan's still in the game with you.

I'm still here. Megan, you know, the power of the women. I know. We set our mind to something. Do you play music in, like, your foyer, in your reception? Yeah, yeah, yeah. At any stage, it could happen. No, no, because it's my favourite.

Then it cannot happen because there is no Mariah Carey on there. Ah, so not your favourites. I'm play safe, I told you. I'm scrolling with no volume. What's been happening at the Quest Tauranga over the week, Daniela? Any dramas? Drama? No, not drama.

Never happened drama here. Never happened, huh? Have you always worked in the hotel industry? Yes, and restaurants, big restaurants, yes. Not drama. Never happened drama here. Never happened. Have you always worked in the hotel industry? Yes. And restaurants, big restaurants. Yes. Oh, wow. Now tell us the biggest piece of drama you've had to deal with.

Not at the quest, but, you know, in jobs gone by. I had a lot of big drama in the past. I had a guy want to kill me, go on my neck. Because he was drunk and I told him that I couldn't serve him alcohol anymore. And he was cranky with me because I was the manager. And he grabbed your neck? Yeah,

he grabbed my neck, yeah. Oh my God. That was a bigger drama. That is a big drama. This is not New Zealand. Yes, yes. Oh,

I'm sorry. Oh, sorry about that. But that's okay. Don't worry. Italian women know how to defend themselves. Yeah,

but still, you should have to. you're so jovial telling that story to you you're like that is terrifying it's just hilarious because I think

I've been always in the industry always see these drunk people you know my gosh that's okay we've got

anything on the lighter end I'll tell you what I'll bring in something that we didn't bring up last week and I was like you know what

we should have brought up with Daniela the All Blacks New Zealand were playing Italy no I'm very honest with you

I'm not watching sports. I like to play sports. Not to watch it. It's boring. Sorry. And what sports do you play? A lot. Like I'm a scuba diver.

I love snowboarding. And I'm a gym girl. Oh, you guys are gym. Well, we're actually talking to producer Ellie. She had a gentleman at the gym. We want to just get your vibe on this, gym etiquette. Just explain to Daniela what happened to you, Ellie. Basically, this guy who was being lovely at first,

just got a bit too in mind in my sister's face in terms of boundaries and kept sort of mansplaining and telling us how to do things when we already knew. And the thing that really took us over the edge was my sister was trying to do a maximum rep, so just one with the bench press. And I had her, I was spotting her, I was going to grab it if I needed, and she goes down to do a maximum rep, so just one with the bench press. And I had it. I was spotting her. I was going to grab it if I needed. And she goes down to do it.

She's struggling, but she's got it. And then the man just comes and pulls it up for her. Look, I thought you were struggling in my defense. I thought you were struggling at the time. It is. I got a couple of cute old men come to me and say, Oh, Danny, by the way, the technique should be done like that. Yeah, I got a couple.

Yeah, poor guys. What you should say, they're bored, they're old, and they're getting, they're feeling like they're not, they're not handy, but they are, they are. They're bored, they're old,

they're not handy. You just described my Tinder profile. Otherwise, if I don't do eye contact, don't come to me and tell me how to do things, please. That's fair enough, that's fair enough. don't do eye contact, don't come to me and tell me how to do things. That's fair enough. No eye contact, that's fair enough. Here's a life hack, which

I don't know if this happens at your hotel, but if you ever don't have a phone charger, you ask reception. They have bucket loads of phone chargers. Yes, come and see me. I got something like 20 maybe. They'll just give them to you. Yeah yeah yeah We lend to all our guests

These days For getting Sometimes we say If you want to keep it We got so many Keep it as well That happened to me In Palmerston North

Great life hack If you don't have a charger Don't go and buy a new one Walk into a hotel Okay no don't do that Okay Let's not get that out there Danielle

We'll love to talk to you And we'll look forward To catching up with you next week. Ciao, guys. Ciao. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. All right, let's get into the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Producer Ali's back again with trying to get us to get through to 10 out of 10. Yes, hello.

Good morning. Hello, Quiz Queen. Hello. How's life? You look a little rattled this morning, if you don't mind me saying. Yeah, I didn't even realise I needed to come in for this break. I was just sitting in the studio. I was like waving at her and she's like, hi.

Have you read the Herald quiz today? I have. I have done that. So I've seen it. Yeah, no, bear with me. We're producer down this morning. So if I look frazzled, that's why. Yeah, good.

You look great. First question. Okay. What is the title of Maurizio Catalan's duct-taped banana artwork? Wow. This was in the news. Oh my God, Ben, do you know it? No.

It sold for millions. Yeah, it did. It was just a banana taped to a wall. Yeah, and so the three options are comedian, artist, or banana republic. It was comedian. That is correct. Okay, well done. Well done.

I went to a restaurant the other day and the guy had a cucumber taped to the wall. And I said, oh, it's just like that banana thing. He's like, no, no, nothing like it. This is my original piece. This is a cucumber, not a banana. He was clearly taking the piss, but it was quite funny. He's like, do you have $10 million to buy it? I'm like, no.

It's five bucks at the supermarket. I'll buy it off you for that. But it was quite impressive. And he's right. There's nothing like a banana. Yeah. All right. Question number two.

Which album won Kendrick Lamar the Pulitzer Prize for Music? Was it To Pimp a Butterfly? Was it Good Kid? Is it Mad City or M-A-A-D City? How do you say that? I don't know. And Damn. I think it was Damn won him the Pulitzer, wasn't it?

That was his last, and maybe not. Oh, check it out. Yeah. Good Kid, Mad. To Pimp a Butterfly, wasn't it? It was about five years ago. Yeah. I feel like I heard about it in the news maybe a year or two ago,

which was when Dan was out. That is correct. Nice. Process of elimination. Well done. Beauty. All right, question number three. What type of platform is Blue Sky?

That's one word. Is it a video streaming service, social media network, or e-commerce platform? Blue Sky. Now they've stumped us. This is the question where. But I feel like if we don't know e-commerce, right? Something that we don't know of.

Because social media, surely we would know about it. What was the option? Social media. Video streaming service or e-commerce platform. It's not a video, because you've got your Netflix, your Disney Plus, righty, righty, rah. Where did blue sky come up as a term in a meeting the other day? Blue sky ideas.

Blue sky thinking. Yeah, blue sky thinking. It's like anything. Yeah, to the sky. But it's not actually. No. Because you do come up with, you're like, oh, we'll do a space rocket. We'll play on the moon. But it's not actually. No. Because you do come up with, you're like, oh, we'll do a space rocket.

We'll play on the moon. But blue sky thinking is a business term. It's like, you know, like it's a brainstorm. Do you want to go to the text or do you want to lock it in? We can lock it in.

Okay, lock it in. You're locking in e-commerce platform? Yeah, lock it in. Oh, do you want to go to the text? No, no, let's lock it in. Lock it in. That's incorrect. You're so sure.

You had a good argument. We did, you did. Yeah, it's a social media platform. That no one uses I'm so sure. You had a good argument. We did. You did. It's a social media platform. That no one uses. We'd know that. So many people use it. I'm not sure. I wonder if it must be, maybe it's somewhere else in the world.

I guess it is. Blue Sky is a micro-blogging social networking service modeled after and inspired by X, formerly Twitter. Oh, it's obviously going well then. For us all to have never heard of it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We like to talk to Nicole throughout the week. She is our American correspondent.

She hosts a radio show over there. And Nicole, I know you're going to the league. You're going to watch the Warriors in Vegas next year. And I saw this week you were given a book, like a children's book on rugby league to school you up on it. Yes, it was a children's activity book um and i honestly for like a kid's activity book it's still complicated okay like this is a game that you guys know and grew up with and understand like its second half this i this book i was like okay

let me like sit down with my kid and see if like makes any sense. He's like, what is this? What's happening? I was like, I have no idea. And I'm like a cultural ambassador to this team. So I have no idea what I'm doing. I love that you are embracing the Warriors. It's essentially NFL, except we pass the ball backwards to move forwards. Whereas you pass the ball forwards to keep moving forwards. Which makes total sense.

Yeah, it makes total sense, guys. It's obvious when they get a try and you need to scream. And that's about all you need to know. I think you're working out watching the game. It's not like overly complicated competitive rugby, which is a big sport in New Zealand. That's got a whole lot more. I think half the players playing rugby don't understand the rules. But this one I think you'll get.

Yeah, okay. All right, I'm going to keep working. I'm going to use my activity workbook. I'm going to colour. I'm going to use the stickers. I'm going to see how far it gets me. The coloring always helps. It does. It does, right? It does.

Wrap your head around. What am I doing? Diddy's going to be released on bail, is he? No, he's not going to be released. They just said no to him. And it's funny because he asked specifically to be released and put on a private island. Like, first of all, you're asking to get released and now you're asking for a vacation with an ankle monitor?

No, sir. No. It's like, I won't talk to anyone. I won't contact anyone. Just put me on my private island and I'll stay there. Yeah. I mean, the bizarre things that are happening when it comes to, like, legal system and celebrities. Like, the Menendez brothers are maybe going to get out.

That, I just saw, actually saw actually just popped up on my feed that it looks like they're getting, that's getting postponed. But like, they're, they're after a bajillion years, they're possibly going to be facing a release because of a,

a show that we saw on Netflix. And now Diddy, they're like one of the, we thought most like beloved, likable, fun, like hip hop moguls is like probably going away

for the rest of his life. It's just very bizarre what's happening in the world. It is bizarre. We all do get swept up in a Netflix stocko too. Remember Bloody Tiger King? Everyone was trying to figure out that and what was going on then. What happened to them?

Why didn't we just move on with our lives? And he went to prison. And he's engaged now too. I mean, which is like, apparently he's engaged behind bars. Again, the Menendez brothers too were engaged. I don't understand how that happens. At one point, didn't he have cancer?

And we thought we were going to lose Joe Exotic. Oh, really? A lot of people like people in prison, though, don't they? There's all these, you know, you get stories of people writing pen pals and things like that. Don't knock it till you've tried it, Jono. No, you're right. I'm not here to ruin anyone's money. You either

gotta be very lonely or something, no offence to anybody who might be doing this, but have something seriously wrong with you if you are pen palling with somebody in prison slash falling in love with them. What's happening at home that this is where we're at? That's the only option. There's people

like bad boys, but then, you know, do you like it like a serial murderer? For me, it's getting beyond the bad boys, but then, you know, do you like it like a serial murderer? For me, it's getting beyond the bad boys status. Well, hey, we're all watching Wicked. Maybe it's misunderstood, you know? We heard about the Wicked Witch, and there's a lot of misunderstood people out there, so maybe that's it.

There's like a bad boy, right, which I definitely was into for a long time. I'm pretty sure I married one, but there's like bad boys, and then there's inmates, right? It's got to be like a happy medium. There's like naughty, and then there's inmates right gotta be like a happy medium there's like naughty and then there's

the break the laws you know right like murdering yeah well Nicole enjoy Thanksgiving the awkward dinner

are you having family come over for awkward dinner we're gonna have a lot of family and I will be drinking heavily so I don't get in any fights well you have a great week

and happy Thanksgiving. Thank you, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's a school, a Walkworth school that switched from a bell system recently to playing music over the loudspeaker. So start of the day, end of the day, and in between each class as well, you'll hear it. And the neighbours not so happy.

The kids really loving it. They're loving it. They're playing songs like this. So instead of a bell, this sort of bursts out for, you know, a few seconds. It's like dance back to class. But the neighbours, the kids are loving it. Apparently the teachers are loving it. They think it's way better than the bell.

But there's 39 neighbours. And I guess if it's blasting every hour in your home, it's probably a little... But it's not blasting. It's like for a small stint, it's like a car driving past with their window down. No, but like what if you were having a nap and all of a sudden it's like...

Yeah, that's not going all the way up to the day or night, right? It finishes at 3.15. Yeah. So they're playing songs like ACDC, Thunderstruck. They're also playing The Muppets, a theme tune as well Cute Oh, I didn't plug my lap here I'd actually teed up the song

It was seamless It was really good producing For us in the studio What I need to do, excuse me, I'm just going to plug this And then you'll get the music It's alright, I think we all know the Muppet theme Pass it Just do some filling and going

My daughter's school will play at the end of the day that's right that's a jam it is a jam yeah my daughter's school will do it

at the end of the day her intermediate school will do it at the end of the day start and end of the day but not between classes but sometimes yeah she'll go

oh that's the song we're leaving school to whatever it is oh that's cute teachers busting out a celebration or something like that. I don't know. It probably is, but yeah. Justin Mabesti, you're selling your kindergarten there,

bloody blast in ACDC, aren't they? That instructs one of his favourite songs. Every time he hears it in a movie, he's like, I've been shaking in the knees. He's three. He's a little broken. I actually don't know where he gets it from. You know that song

Rihanna Better have my money Poppy my daughter did An essay on This song at school And she was like Rihanna's not too happy. Someone owes her a bit of money. They have been avoiding her.

She's chasing up the unpaid debts. So it was a bit of a blow-by-blow backstory of what had happened. And the teachers, I think, appreciated it too. Oh, that's good. She did a bit of a song performance with it as well.

Censored. Censored. It's always good to know who needs whose money. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, my friend, she's promoted to manager of a company she works for. I can't remember.

It might have been end of last year or beginning of this year. Okay, so she's managing a group of people, and her problem is – Do you know what the company is? I'm not going to say don't mention it, but do you know what the company is? Because I've got friends that now I'm like, where do they work exactly again, but it's too late now to go. I know what they do, but then I'm like, what? No, I don't know. I know the company, but I have no idea.

You have those friends and then it's too late to go, hey. What do you do? And they're like, what? You don't know? You're like, no, I know. That's a true sign of a friendship, though, when you vaguely know what your friend does for a job because you don't care.

No, it's more about them as a person. Yeah, yeah. But she's lovely. And the problem is she's the ultimate people pleaser. Okay? And sometimes being a manager and pleasing people, they don't go hand in hand. You can't always.

You're not going to keep everyone happy. You can't pleasure people and manage them at the same time. So she was called into a meeting with the upper echelon, the board, you know, the big wigs. The big dogs. Yeah, and they're like, we're going to need you to get rid of two people before Christmas. Oh, God, really?

It's tough. Oh, that's awful. And it's tough, and it's a sign of the times. Yeah, there's a lot of it going on. Even though a bit of relief on the horizon, hopefully, after yesterday's reserve, you know, cash rate didn't cut.

Nice topical reference. Thank you. There we go. You got through it. I think I said it correctly. It sounded like you knew what you were talking about. You should have just gone

and done the stuff with the thing yesterday. Yeah, I was going to try to. The Reserve Bank official catchphrase I don't even know What the Reserve Bank do for a job It's much like a lot of my friends I'm like what are they actually doing

It's money stuff I think my friends work At the Reserve Bank actually But she's been given The deadline was end of November She still hasn't done it I was talking to her yesterday Still hasn't done it

She's got essentially Today and tomorrow. That's tough. And so she's just been putting it off and procrastinating. Do you know what she's thinking? What? She's like, I'm genuinely thinking I resign and then they keep their jobs. That's what she wants to do, which is a sweet thing.

But I'm like, that is shocking managing. Regardless if you're there or not, they need a manager, so they're going to replace you and get rid of the two people anyway. Yeah, they had the first job for that new manager. That is literally the worst managing of a situation I've heard about, so I'll keep you up to date. And, yeah, she can't do it by text, eh? I don't think you can.

She's like, hey, Soz, it's not you, it's me. She's been Googling the best way to tell people bad news, watching YouTube tutorials. Yeah, chat best way to tell people bad news. Watching YouTube tutorials. Chat GPT to write you a script. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, just quickly, I know there's things that pop into your head and often you hear things from the internet, from social media, like everyone goes round and says,

Hawk tour for like, you know, neck minutes. It's okay. It's okay. Hey, mate. It's, Hawk Tour. Or neck minutes. I took a, I took a, hey mate, I took a, sorry, you've got to focus.

No one knows you're waving to anyone else. Waving at someone through the window there. And I can't do two things at once. No. I took a group of 12 year old girls to the zoo recently and one of the, my daughter, obviously, and just have to specify that.

And one of them kept going around the whole zoo, Hawk Tour. And we of the, my daughter, obviously, and just have to specify that. And one of them kept going around the whole, it was like, Hawk Tour. And we were like, a lot of other patrons were finding it very amusing. But I was like, can we stop saying Hawk Tour? How old were we? What's the age range of this? Well, it was my daughter's 12-year-old birthday party. Like deep down, deep down, I found it hilarious.

As a parent, I have to pretend to go, hey, let's pump the brakes on Hawk Tour. So there's a lot of things that pop up from social media. Yeah. And like I say, in my household

for the last week, there's a clip, there's an AI clip. Now Billie Eilish sung the song for the Barbie movie, What Was I Made For. From the soundtrack

to the new Barbie movie, this is Billie Eilish. Thank you. What Was I Made For. What Was I Made For. That one. Thank you. For the new Barbie movie. This is Billie Eilish. Thank you. What was I made for? What was I made for? For the freshest tunes, play ZM. Here we go. Or don't.

It was the wrong station. So now there's an AI cat version of that song with meowing cats. Now, it's one of those random things that my kids just go around singing it, and I've got it for you, and it's stuck in their heads. And now it's stuck in my head. I'll find myself just meowing.

Have a listen. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. Meow, meow, meow, meow. And now my household, any time it's quiet, someone will just go, meow, meow, meow, meow. And it's one of those things that's stuck in my head, it'll probably get stuck in your head as well.

It's actually really soothing. I had to go last night, stop meowing. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. Because my kids would go, meow, meow, and the kids would not even know they're doing it. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. And it not even know they're doing it. Meow, meow, meow. It is quite soothing, but it really gets stuck in your head. We were talking about the dude who invented the internet yesterday. Eric can fast forward, you know, all these years later, he's like, thank God.

Thank God we had a cat singing Billie Eilish's meow, meow, meow, meow. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Megan, you've been mean to something. You might thank me in the future because AI is going to take over eventually. So I'm like, I'm not here for pleasantries with it. No, she's being rude to ChatGPT. She's treating ChatGPT like Mariah Carey treats a personal assistant. If you don't know, ChatGPT is just like a chat window, but it's run by AI.

So you can ask it to do things for you. It's pretty incredible. It talks back to you. Yeah. Google on steroids. Yeah. In a matter of seconds it spits back stuff it's like wow it's incredible. So like if we're trying to find a catchy name for something or anything I'm like

I'm just going to ask Chatubi too. And sometimes it comes up with stupid stuff. Right mate. It's done in seconds. Like dumb ideas and I just. Why are you having a go at it when you're asking it for

help? It's like, hey, buddy, don't abuse me, you've come to me for

help and now you're having a crack. Or even like thought starters or something,

but then like comes a stupid idea. So I just write in another one,

do it again, like shorter. No pleasantries. No, but that's a robot. Like I don't

have to say please. I find myself going, hi, Chad GPD, could you please just correct the spelling on my email? I'm using pleasantries all the time. You never know when one day it's going to go, hey, now's a good time to release all this guy's internet history. You want to be nice to him?

Or be your boss one day, too. You'll treat people well on the way up, don't you? You never know when you're on the way down. But do you think, like, if so much AI takes over, do you think we're going to lose niceties? Because I'm like, I literally, this is the one person in my life I don't have to be nice to. I'm just like, do it again.

Yeah, well, maybe. We're going to end up just talking to everything like, another one. Although, like, I had a, because sometimes the kids will use my computer if it's the closest one around. The other day, one of the kids obviously jumped on it and they were having a conversation back and forth with ChatGPT. It was actually quite cute.

It was just kind of like, hey, what's up? This is, I wrote down something about it and then ChatGPT was like, hey, not much, just hanging out. And then they were like, should we do something? And they were kind of back and forth. And they were like, yeah, we want to play a Would You Rather and they went into this whole thing. Oh my gosh.

And it was like, yeah, they're having a little conversation back and forth. Here's one that's awesome back and forth. I'm like, wow, they're having a little conversation back and forth. Here's one that's awesome back and forth. I'm like, wow, they're having like a conversation like they're friends. See, it can be your best friend. I always ask it for affirmations too. I was like, I haven't done any exercise this week. Hey, don't worry, mate.

It's all good. You know, as long as you do plan to do some in the future and it really makes you feel fantastic about your bad decisions. But it remembers all your stuff. So this morning I was like, tell me something nice. And it said, sure, Megan. Didn't even say please. No. remembers all your stuff. So this morning I was like, tell me something nice. And it said, sure Megan. Didn't even say please. No.

Tell me something nice. Better. More. It's like, even when you interview a cricket legend without any cricket knowledge. See it knows that. It remembered that from the show. Neil Wagner, yeah. I was going to say Nigel, thank you. Neil. It said it's about making beautiful connections and you're amazing at that. And I was like, cool, another one.

Give me more. Give me more. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We wanted to learn a trick ahead of Christmas parties, season office parties, you know, whatnot, trying to impress people at the parties. And Constantino, Australian magician, we managed to trick him into teaching us a magic trick

and somehow Ben bullied it his way and our way onto his show. I'm starting to regret that, but he's so lovely. He's got tickets to his shows. He's going around the country at the moment. So 4487, if you want to text MAGIC to 4487, you could go along and see it. And you can potentially see us perform our trick, which so far has not worked out once.

You did that thing where you asked him live on the radio, so he couldn't say no. Like in front of everyone. Made him look like a bad person. Good way to get results is ask people stuff live on the radio. Maybe we should phone our banks. Hey, can we get another loan?

By the way, you're live on the radio. Oh, yeah. Now, we tried the trick. It's a three person trick. Megan starts. It was probably the most pivotal part of the trick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, we tried the trick. It's a three-person trick. Megan starts. It was probably the most pivotal part of the trick. Yeah. I feel like we're not going to reveal how the trick is done, but I feel like you're nailing it. And when it comes down to us two, it's the end of the trick.

I think it's Jono. The swear of the cards and then me with the magic of a knife coming down through the card that the person has chosen. We have not quite nailed it. Here's us with producer Ali. Is this your card? No. Six of spades?

Okay. Oh, hang on. Is this your card? No. Okay. Is that your card? No. Okay.

If we just keep doing this, eventually we'll land on your card. Yeah, it's not very magical anymore, guys. Yeah, the magic starts to wear off the more you're like, is this your card? And the more desperate you sound. So, yeah, hey, I'll put my hand up and say the wheels fall off when I start to grab a hold of the trick. Also me as well, though.

We've really complicated, already complicated trick. So that's too hard for us. So we thought today let's talk about everyday magic so we can feel a little better. The things that you were doing that are kind of like magic. But no one's acknowledging the magic. You the other morning where you got up early and… Unloaded the dishwasher.

And then when Andrew got up, your husband, magic. He put it on the night before in the morning. It was unloaded, clean and unloaded. Any acknowledgement? No, nothing. Nothing. Magic, though. Magic.

It's everyday magic. There is a bill fairy in our house that just pays all the bills magically. There's one in my house. He doesn't even see them. The bills are just never there. They just get paid. The lights go on. The bill fairy does not get a thank you.

Just put it away. The water comes out the tap. Magic. The power's still on. Magic. Okay. You know what? Traffic infringements just magically turn up in the mail for tap. Magic. The power's still on. Magic. Okay. You know what? Traffic infringements

just magically turn up in the mail for me. Magic. I don't know who sends them. No, I do actually. It's the police and the council. Did you find out that that parking ticket yesterday

was a new one? No. Well, what I've done is I've avoided a whole lot of paying them because I like to let them hit the court system and then I'm like,

okay, now enough's enough. They're serious. And now they've tripped me down to my house. They're sending them to my house now now but I've got the address at work oh really? now that's magic so we want to know some everyday magic

as the washing baskets that magically turned clean washing out of them as the kids that arrive at whatever they need to be magically thanks to you transporting them your chance right now to be acknowledged for some everyday magic The Hits, the Jono and Ben, magically, thanks to you transporting them. Your chance right now to be acknowledged for some everyday magic. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Michelle, good morning to you.

Good morning. So this isn't something that I've got as magic, but a friend of mine, he said to me, he asked if my husband had a piece of magic carpet in our bedroom. And I was like, this is a bit weird. I'm like, no, what's your magic carpet in our bedroom. And I was like, this is a bit weird. I'm like, no, what's your magic carpet? And he goes, every night I put my dirty clothes on this piece of magic carpet and they miraculously appear back in my wardrobe clean and ironed.

I don't know what happened. That's magic. We believe in magic. That carpet. How's that happen? I mean, don't spoil it. You know, we've learnt now that we're magicians, we can't spoil the tricks.

Don't spoil the trick. Don't tell us how it happens. I don't know, but I've told him he's not to tell my husband about it. There's no magic carpet here. So they're selling some special carpet at Carpet Court. There we go. Adam, everyday magic. What have you got?

Everyday magic. My kids think that money is magic. go. Adam, Everyday Magic, what have you got? Everyday Magic, my kids think that money is magic. They just don't understand that working earns me money and they think it's always there and available and my daughter, she's stunned and surprised. She's like, but Dad, we don't even have a money tree. No, you just double

click the side of your phone, boom, you're away, money. It'll be like for a three o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and she'll be like, can we go up to Snow Planet? Oh, sure, why not? Money's magic. Don't tell us.

We don't want to know the trick, how it works. You can't reveal all, but we appreciate it.