Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: MEGAN MYSTERY PACKAGE...

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. I see the Warriors naming the stadium Sean Johnson Stadium for this Friday night. Oh, that's lovely. Just to honour the legendary Warrior who's retiring at the end of the season. And they'll probably send him the bill, they'll like, hey, this is what it costs to rename the stadium for one night only from Go Media. That's right.

Here's what all the people, the staff cost, you know, to work tonight, the security, all that cost, but cost You know To work tonight The security All that cost But you know It's going to be the end of Well it's a stupid thing to say Of course it's the end of an era But I hope

A full stadium A full supportive stadium Turn out I know Hey the season hasn't worked out Like we all wanted it But let's forget that Send him out on a high

Yeah He deserves it He's the iconic warrior How are the Bulldogs looking? They've been alright actually If you're the Bull warrior. How are the Bulldogs looking? They've been all right, actually. If any of the Bulldogs are listening at 6 a.m. to a radio station in New Zealand, just take a hit for the team. They're going to make the top eight, aren't they?

You want them to chuck it. Yeah. Are they going to make the top eight? As far as I know, they are. Yeah, just watch the lot. You know, eat on a high. I don't think sport works like that, but anyway. Now, speaking of sport, the Olympics were going on,

and we tried to dance around the fact that we had a torch ceremony that had nothing to do with the Olympics. Yesterday, Jono, you front-footed it. Oh, pulled the plaster off. You know, for three weeks we were, like, tippy-toeing around intellectual property and naming rights of the Olympics. We were sent a blow-by-blow account of what we can and can't say in regards to the sporting event.

Now that's gone, Ben. The doors are shut. This was to do with the Olympics. Their torch ceremony, their opening ceremony, closing ceremony, been and gone. It's done. Yeah, so it was about a week and a half, almost two weeks ago, we turned on a torch, a dolphin torch that we found around the office. Now, these batteries weren't new batteries.

And we turned it on and we were like, when the torch runs out, you can predict the time at the Hits breakfast on Facebook. And then if you're the closest to when the torch batteries run out, you'll win $500. This thing is still going. To the point that Jono and I were walking yesterday after the show. Yeah. And he quietly said to me, did you put new batteries in there? I did.

The most serious Jono ever is. He was like, hey, did you put new batteries in the torch? And I was like, no. He's me, did you put new batteries in there? I did. The most serious Jono ever is. He was like, hey, did you put new batteries in the torch? And I was like, no. He's like, did you? And I was like, no, I didn't. Because we're turning against each other. This is how long this torch has been going for. Because we've left it.

Yeah. It's unbelievable it's still going. It is. Yeah. You didn't put new batteries in there. I didn't put new batteries in there. No, and I didn't either. Did you?

No, I didn't. And I think that's why we've left it with security because it's on. You know, they're trusted and we're going to phone Gunja. Wonderful head of security. He could kill a man

if he wanted to, Gunja. For parking in the lion car parks. The opposite is true. He's the most lovely man. He is. I'm like, almost, shouldn't be head of security.

He's too sweet. Good morning, I'm security, almost shouldn't be here to security. He's too sweet. Good morning, Adam. Security, good morning speaking. Hey, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. How many men have you killed over your career? Okay.

He doesn't talk numbers. The torch. We need to know. We need our torch update. Is this thing still going? Oh, it is. Oh, my God. Oh my god! Oh we can see it. In the last, maybe another

few days now. He's shining it over from reception. Is this like Gunjan is the caretaker of the light, of the torch. Talk us through your thoughts and feelings. Uh... Are you putting your batteries in there? Are you like, is it a prank on us? Are you putting your batteries in there? Are you like, is it a prank on us?

Are you putting your batteries in every day? No, no, no, no. It's like the sense you gave me. It's just I'm taking good care of it. He wants this bloody thing to go out as much as we do. He's got other more important things to do. Has it changed your life, Gunjan? Has it made you reflect?

Yeah, it made my life more bright. You know, more responsibility. It's good. Do you reckon the beam has got dimmer? Oh, you keep saying that. He's shining it in his face. It looks bright as ever. I don't know.

So you can still predict. Thank you, Gunjan. You have a great day. I appreciate you looking after the torch. Thank you so much. Head to the Hits Breakfast on Facebook. $500 still up for grabs. one day before the end of time. It doesn't look any less bright than when we first turned it on.

And you did some research into the dolphin. We're like, why is it called a dolphin? Yeah. Because it's also waterproof. But waterproof as well. You can go underwater. This is a really great advertisement for one of these torches. I know.

It's still going. Hey, next, you've been looking into some celebrities' hidden talents. One celebrity, and you're like, oh, she's a rapper. She's a rapper. Oh, you wouldn't think she was a rapper?

You wouldn't think she was a rapper. Okay, that's in three minutes. We do a celebrity deep dive, an internet wormhole with Jono next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

The Hits $20,000 bounty. Today's artist, Christina Aguilera. She has gone missing. If you hear her between now and 4 o'clock, 0800 the hits is the phone number. Someone this afternoon will win $1,000 with the bounty. Can I get dirty?

She ain't washing those hands. Now that's coming up later on today. Now, Megan, you shared something yesterday. And you wanted to do, the topic was, do you have a special location? Yeah, like places of significance in your relationship. But we're looking for more unusual places, right? Yeah. In a lot of ways.

Like a car park of a warehouse is quite significant. A specific one for our relationship. So was this the first smooch for you two? No. I know what it was. I don't know why I'm leaving you down the ground apart. No, so I taught my husband to drive a manual in the warehouse car park. We give you grief about how you're older than him,

but nothing makes him sound more young than when you say, I taught him to drive a manual. It sounds like he was like 15 at school, which he wasn't, which I know he wasn't. But I learnt in a manual, and he learnt automatic. So as he got older, he just drove automatic cars. But I had a manual car, and I was like, well, if you want to drive my car, my Mazda MX-5 at the time,

It's a racy little midlife crisis number, isn't it? I wouldn't mind an MX-5. Yeah, but I was young, so I had to teach you to drive it. Yeah, we go into bat for you. We give you grief, but we go into bat for you when people call you names, you know, about your age difference. Stories like this don't help you. This is an internal story.

You don't have to get this out in the public arena. Well, it's a bit late now, but yeah. We always go through that car park, and I'm i'm like oh this is where i told you to drive how does he take that does he like oh he's like yeah no don't tell anyone that so yeah there i am uh tell you to the park where i told you to tie your shoelaces up but to be helping ride a push bike and things like that to be fair to be fair. Help him ride a push bike and things like that. To be fair to Andrew and that generation. Yeah. Why would they?

Why would they? He's probably learned how to drive a manual now and gone, okay, well, that's fine, but it's easier the other way. When was the last time I drove a manual? I couldn't tell you. Now I'm thinking, do I still remember how to do it? And aren't they phasing them out? A lot of brands are getting rid of the manual car.

Well, I wouldn't know. Technology has moved on. It's not like if you ride a bike it's like oh you got to go back and learn how to ride a penny farthing well that was yeah so i can understand why he hadn't learned and he was literally like this is hard why why you have to do so much you do every arm and foot has to do something the only thing that's useful for is burnouts yeah really yeah bogans loved it yeah okay so we wanted unusual places of significance in your relationship today like a warehouse car park where you taught your husband to drive we had a tree mandra and i like we kissed our first kiss our first kiss was in a um like a tree like it was

next to a tree and it was like okay and so that for a while. It was next to a tree. And so that for a while was the – well, basically we thought the tree stunk. You go past it and you're like, oh, there's quite a smell. So it became the skanky love tree because it smelled skanky. Then we worked out later that it was a malt factory that was next to the tree. And that was the smell, not the tree. So we besmirched the good name of the tree. How did you end up a tree with a stinky smell and having a smooch?

We were walking through, it was like evening, you could see it was a nice view and we sat there and that was the first thing. Looking out towards the city. But later we'd go, oh, that tree was really skanky. The skanky love tree was our significant spot for a while. Okay, 800 the hits. What is your special location?

It doesn't have to, the stranger the better, really. Yeah. I'll tell you how a wet t-shirt competition was our special location. Oh, jeez. Oh, 800 The Hits, 4487 on your Tuesday morning with Jono and Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Just wanting to know what's the special place, special location in your relationship.

Megan. Clarification. Ben just said my special place is the warehouse car park where I told my husband to drive. You did. And none of that is factually incorrect. You taught your husband to drive at the warehouse car park. Manual.

You make it sound like he was learning to drive for the first time. He wasn't like 15, 16. That sounds like he was 15, 16. You were in that car park the other day And you were like, oh this is where I taught you to drive And he's like, please don't say that out loud to anyone And then you've just gone and put it on the radio Up until then was he taking the school bus?

Or what was happening? He was riding his bike Gotcha Honestly, our special location Although Jennifer doesn't like to acknowledge this, my wife, is it was a rock promotion when I was working for The Rock. Different time, different era. What was appropriate, what was inappropriate too.

We were at a competition where all the t-shirts were wet. Why were they wet? I turned up, it was like middle of winter too. Catch a cold. Goodness me. And that's when we first connected too. And she'd like me to stipulate she wasn't a contestant. I wasn't sure if I was allowed to ask.

She would want that out there. She would want that out there. But it was at a bar in West Auckland. And I have some friends who live out west too, and they find great joy in the fact that we met there. You give me crap about being a westie. Yeah, we locked eyes over a bloody pre-mixed bourbon and a purple goanna. Remember purple goannas?

Yeah. I remember seeing those the second time around. Yeah. So what's the place of significance for you? The unusual place, like the warehouse car park or like a T-shirt competition. A soggy T-shirt competition. Do they still have soggy T-shirts? I'm sure some parts of New Zealand still love a soggy T-shirt, don't they?

We're going to get Shakita on the phone. What's a special place for you and your partner Shakita? So for us it's the Hamilton Airport. Amen.

Why is that? So my partner and I did meet on a Facebook page and we corresponded like FaceTime, Messenger and all that sort of thing and I thought I

would come up for a weekend so we could meet and yeah I flew into Hamilton and that's where we met for the first time and shared our first kiss as well now romantic it sounds romantic how long were you doing the long distance thing for um probably a couple of months and then I came up for the weekend and then I went back and we had a lockdown just after I came back so I wasn't sure when I'd actually get to see her again. So I actually ended up moving up here during a lockdown.

I got a job at one of those, you know, what are they called? They don't shut over COVID and all that sort of thing. I got a job at one of those places. A radio station. I was a central worker, moved up, and then we got. Central working place. A radio station. Yeah. I was a central worker, moved up, and then we got married three weeks ago.

Oh, congratulations. Must be love. Love. It's very, very cool. Hamilton Airport, special place. Yeah, good on you. Special place, thank you.

It is a special place. Good on you, Shakita. Have a wonderful day. We're going to go to Leanne. Good morning. Special location in your you, Shakita. Have a wonderful day. We're going to go to Leanne. Good morning. Special location in your relationship, Leanne. Mine was

WOMAD. WOMAD? Yeah. We go to WOMAD quite frequently and then we were there with our friends one day and my partner dropped down on her knee. Beautiful. WOMAD looks like so much fun.

It's amazing. It's a lot of fun. It's a world of music and dance. That's right. It does look like a lot of fun. You're right. And so you said yes? Yes, I said yes.

And we're getting married in March and the same time as WOMAD next year. Oh. Must be love. Hey, thank you for your call there, Leanne. Really appreciate it. Some great texts actually coming through on 4487. A special place for us is the toilet in the Claddock pub in Auckland.

Do we ask? There'll be a lot of toilet specials. Yeah, that's a special place, isn't it? It's a real New Zealand Shakespearean love story We met in the toilets Moby Dick's in Taranau Seems like a special place as well Moby Dick's

Outstanding service The one about the cemetery I met my husband in a cemetery I remember the graves around When he first asked me out Wow You know, cemeteries are filled with them They'd be etched in your memory wouldn't they I remember the graves around When he first asked me out Wow You know cemeteries are filled with them They'd be etched in your memory wouldn't they

But I have so many questions We'll call them Let's try and get this person on next The hits The Jono and Ben podcast Now Andrea was trying to get Her husband Natama to listen He doesn't listen to the radio in general.

Yeah. He's got other options in his life. What are those other options? I won't be speaking about those other options right now. Okay. But Natama, I don't know. It felt like yesterday might be a hard sell. Hard sell to get him across the show.

So we're going to call him day two, see how it's going, see if he's even still listening. Good morning Hello sir I'm here to do a survey on what you are listening to right now I think there's a station you need to be on Now you've been a big fan

of a streaming music thing, I can't even mention it Voldemort and Harry Potter. They can't. He should not be named. Now, how have you found the experience so far, sir? You're very funny. You actually got a lot of good sense of humour.

I never actually didn't know that you had. Oh, that's good. That's a positive. That's good. We've been doing this for 23 years. 23 years. None of that's cut positive. That's good. We've been doing this for 23 years. 23 years. None of that's cut through. No, you're right.

So have we really been a burden to your morning, like having to listen? No, no, no. Actually, I like that $20,000 giveaway. Oh, the bounty? Yeah, the bounty one. I didn't actually know that Masterton was the biggest town in Wairarapa.

Oh, hey, you're learning.apa Oh hey you're learning The Alpha Quiz New to the game, he's getting things confused but I get it. How have you found the 8 minutes of all of your favourite commercials every hour? Well I'm not too big on commercials to me I don't like being sold cheaply by commercials

I'm not selling you cheaply mate this is sophisticated, a sophisticated medium of advertising. Sold cheaply. I'm from the old school, and I go and see it, and I guess it, so I don't get told to buy something

that I don't want to buy. Suggestion. You're not going to tell me to buy anything. You're right, Megan. It's just offering it up. It's like, hey, we're here if you want us. This thing you might have seen is on special. I love it up. Hey, we're here if you want us. This thing you might have seen is on special.

I love it. Okay, so you think you'll stick with us until Friday and do try it. You'll try it until Friday and then hopefully answer these questions for $500 for you and $500 for your wife? Oh, you guys actually work as a team. That's what I'm actually just excited about, how funny you all...

Oh. That phone cover you were talking about this morning what's her name Jackie has she rung up yet or not? He's been listening you have been listening referencing certain points are there any word of course? You guys are funny you work as a team

so you all feed off each other I mean gosh thank you Natama why aren't people listening to you guys? Why aren't people listening to us? Exactly, Nga Tama. You know,

our boss asks us that question every day. You know why. Just with a different tone. Yeah, because you mentioned Spotify. There I said it. I shouldn't have said it.

Now, Nga Tama, we always like constructive feedback too. Any work on? Is there anything we can improve on? Just give up the great work you're doing.

You guys are professionals. It's not the way into my heart. Have we flipped you? Have we flipped you now, Tama? Well, it'll take a lot to drain you. Yeah, okay, okay. We haven't quite flipped him. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Just talking about your package, they're arriving in your letterbox. Reminded me there was a package at work for me. Just went and picked it up. How lovely is the hits audience? This is from Lisa in Waihi. No address or anything like that. Sending me a whole lot of cards from Woolworths.

You know how I'm collecting the cards, the Disney cards? Oh, yeah, Ben's. It would have cost her money to send that. I know. It's like, how lovely is that? Thank you, Lisa. No address or anything or phone numbers to say thank you. So thank you to Lisa.

She's like, this will help with your addiction. You can use these at your swap meet. We really lost a lot of credibility that day. I don't know. You think you were away last week, but I'm hooked on these cards. More than the kids, I think. You're always hooked on all of those. So thank you. Thank you

for Lisa. There's a lot of cards. There's a lot. She spent a lot. How many? 108 to collect us there? Yeah. So hey, well, it's great. It's a great day, guys. It's a great day. Ben Boyce. Lovely. Hits audience. What a great audience. Tell you what's not a nice audience. The audience on the internet at the moment.

Blake Lively is really getting lively in the comments section if I could coin a phrase. Yeah, I'm going to try and cover off a lot of it, but there's so much happening every day. I've been around her. She's an, an actor, been around Gossip Girl, great movies as well, buried to Ryan Reynolds. She had a great new movie you saw the other night.

It ends with us, and this is kind of where it started. Colleen Hoover's book was turned into a movie which does talk about domestic violence in it. So, it has a very serious message in this movie. Not a comedy. Not a comedy. No. And first of all, it started with people being upset with the way she was promoting it,

like it was a rom-com and saying everyone should wear florals to the movie. Now there's some reports that she hasn't been getting along with Justin Baldoni, the other lead in that movie. He means nothing to me, but he sounds like someone hot. Jane the Virgin, he is hot. He means nothing to me, but he sounds like someone hot. He was from Jane the Virgin. He is hot. He's also a great actor. So there's now rumours coming out from set that she has not been getting along

with a lot of people on set. You get those rumours all the time, though. We do. We don't know. No one's there. No one's there. And even someone there, they might have caught one conversation

out of a thousand conversations they had. Now, what I'm loving is Megan is so involved in this, everyday updates, and now I feel like she's dragged you into this. Yeah, you have dragged me into this. No, but you're making it sound like I'm on side with everyone on the internet.

I'm kind of like, I think she's getting a raw deal. I think everyone's piling on a bit much. Yeah, because they're now at the stage where people are going back through old interviews and things. These are things that happened decades ago, and I'm not saying these things shouldn't have happened but when you start looking back at stuff you feel like you don't give people a chance to kind of learn from their mistakes and if she was doing these things now absolutely but so she yeah she her and ryan reynolds got married on a plantation and were slaves were working years and years and

years ago and i assume knowing them as a couple, they demanded to be married on a slavery plantation. That was the wedding planner. Make sure it's slavery related. Which everyone is bringing up again, but they did apologise and they got remarried at their house because they were like, we're so ashamed. They made a donation, like $200,000.

So, you know, like they've tried to rectify it. But it's like at this point, I don't know what we can do. If you owned the plantation too, it's probably not a thing you're going to front foot is it? If you're wanting to have weddings held there. Yeah, so there is a lot of trawling happening where people are bringing up all kinds of things online.

But I just feel like it's a bit unfair. You want to defend Blake Lively. You love Blake Lively. It's a pile in. Last night I saw her as well. It's like, oh, something she said in an interview 10 years ago. And yeah, OK, we wouldn't say that now. But at the time, it's like, oh, I'm not saying it's OK. But it's like 10 years ago.

People make mistakes. And now it's the latest news. Life is long. No one's perfect. But this is the problem when you go in and you defend a celebrity like you're getting paid for it. Now, if I could present my friend Ben Boyce with his infatuation with Dwayne the Rock Johnson, you would die for that, man.

You would honestly... You probably would, actually, to be honest. Dwayne, but the thing is, we're all human. We all make mistakes. Not the Rock, mate. Not the Dwayne Johnson. No, see, I experienced that recently because he was on set with Ryan Reynolds,

so maybe Ryan's the problem. But they were on set together and they disagreed, and Dwayne was apparently turning up late and everything, and Ben... He's got a busy schedule, Megan. Ben was like, no, no, no, he's all right. Those muscles don't work themselves out, mate. Those biceps don't pump themselves. But if Dwayne the Royal Johnson was involved in a, let's say, racism, sexism, whatever scandal,

Ben would have to take bereavement leave from work. Would you defend him? Would you be like, hey, we weren't there. We weren't there, we don't know. And we don't know half the time. Everyone does have that one celebrity that they'll defend like they get paid for it. I'd defend Harry Styles to the end. To the very end.

Why? Where's this loyalty come from He's just a wonderful human being And he's also very attractive But we are all humans We are all flawed in some ways We all make mistakes Yeah People

I feel like should be allowed To make mistakes And learn from those mistakes Yeah Okay But anyway Oh Under the Hits 4487

What we want to know today Is the celebrity that you defend Yeah Text 4487 Oh Under the Hits I today is the celebrity that you defend. Yeah. Text 4487. Oh, I don't know. I'm just saying what he said. Oh, give us a call.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking about the actor Black Lively, who seems to be under a bit of media attention at the moment. Social media as well about some of the things that she's previously done in interviews and is doing now. But it seems like a lot of stuff's been dredged up from the past. Everyone's keen to cancel her. She's been doing Promo 4. It ends with us, which is a great movie. It's in cinemas now.

I loved it. It's based on the Colleen Hoover book, but people are not impressed with the way she's promoting it, like it's a rom-com when it has a really serious message. Where did it all start to unravel? Were there rumors that she wasn't getting along with the other guy, the mate, I can't remember his name? Justin Baldoni? Yeah.

Is that where it kind of started, cracks started to appear and then? Yeah. And she made some lighthearted remarks in her press tour about the movie. I think, I don't know, I feel like she was just trying to keep it lighthearted. She also did make some serious comments. Yeah. But I feel like the pylon's not warranted. We don't know anyone in this situation.

We don't know what went on, but what we do know how to do is make a conspiracy theory video on TikTok. Yeah, there's a lot of those going around. Some reporter was saying that she commented on Blake Lively's body because it had been publicly announced that Blake and Ryan Reynolds were having a baby.

This is a while ago again. Yes, you're right. And what did she say to her? Congratulations on your little bump. And then she replied back, congratulations on your bump. First of all, congrats on your little bump. Congrats on your little bump. So that's Blake saying back to her, congrats on your little bump.

Did she have a little bump? No, I know she didn't have a little bump. She's also come out and said that she can't have children, so that hurt a lot. Yeah, which is, yeah. But when you're pregnant, it's not fun to have a little bump. She's also come out and said that she can't have children, so that hurt a lot. Yeah, which is, yeah. But when you're pregnant, it's not fun to have people commenting on your body. I'll just say that. Okay.

So you are defending Blake Lively to the bitter end. I think it's like, people think it's easy when you're a celebrity that they can just take whatever. You can just have at them, but they're still a human. Honestly, there's a point where you have to put, I was like that with R. Kelly. I was like, at some point, I can't be singing,

I believe I can fly down the motorway. You have to pull pin at some point. Blake Lively and R. Kelly? And I believe I can fly. That's a jam when you're driving down the southern on the way home. Winds through the hair. Thanks for taking a serious topic. But that's the problem with defending human beings.

They're all flawed. We are all flawed. I think Artie Kelly's in a totally different class to what Blake Lively is rumoured to be doing. So, 0800 the hits. A celebrity that you defend like you're getting paid for it. Bev, how are you? I'm fine, thank you. Lovely to have you on, Bev.

Love a Bev. Yeah, Bev's great. I haven't met a bad Bev. I've never met a bad Bev. Nah, bad Bevs don't exist. Yeah, that's right. Now, Bev, now who is the celebrity for you that you like to defend? Like we all like to defend celebrities.

Right. So Will Smith, I think it was at the time. Oh, yeah, Will Smith. Yeah. Oh, yeah, Will Smith. Yeah, well, yeah, Will Smith, I'm a massive fan of Fresh Prince. I've got Will Smith shorts as well. Yeah, we need to talk to you about those. And then the slap. And then obviously the slap at the Oscars

I imagine was something that a lot of people went, well, maybe he went too far. What were your thoughts? Well, no, not at all. I mean, he was quite rude and you know, you don't know why someone's got their hair real short. It could have been a sickness. He should never have made any sort of comment against his wife. Still defending Will Smith.

Yeah, well, yeah, okay. I also don't disagree with what Bev's saying. Why? But maybe his slap was a bit much. No, that's quite wrong. No, that was perfect. Bev's like, if more, more violence, I wouldn't. I'm really not known

For violence Yeah no Well good on you Bev Still defending Will Smith I feel like he's Will Smith's come back Into you know Bad Boys

It was a huge movie Now it feels like People have given him A chance to You know If they thought He made a mistake To move on from that

Which doesn't always happen These days It's too good to ignore Did you see Bad Boys Bev? I did see Bad Boys. I'm just trying to think. I watched Bad Boys. I did too.

I went back there. You've gone back? Are you back? I went back there, but there must have been a Bad Boys in between or two that I'd missed. I was like, oh, that character's no longer. There was a few plot holes that I had to sort of piece together. Because he had been a bad boy or because? Maybe, yeah.

Or you just hadn't seen the film. You hadn't seen the films. Yeah, but then Martin Lawrence slaps Will Smith in the movie I was like oh is this a nod but no I don't think so oh yeah

yeah basically yeah I've seen there's too many movies on I'm watching at the moment Bev big backer of Will Smith I feel like Ben's back on the Will Smith train

yeah do you are you kidding us yeah he's got strength in numbers with Bev I want to wear the shorts exactly Bev

I want to wear the shorts this summer he Bev. I want to wear the shorts this summer. He's had to put them away in storage. Nice one. Lovely talking to you, Bev. Okay, you as well. Bye. Great text here, too. I defend Kirsten Dunst till the grave.

Oh, yeah. Actor Kirsten Dunst. That's a niche choice. It is. I don't know if she needed defending either. I don't think she's done anything wrong as far as I know. Another text here, 4487. Michael Jackson, Till the Day I Die. Okay, yeah.

You've ridden that wave. We have. We stopped playing him for a while now. We're back on the Jack O' Train, aren't we? Another one for Molly May if you're following that drama going on. Tommy Fury. Tyson Fury, son. Keep these coming through.

0800, the hits, 4487. Celebrities you defend like you're getting paid for it. Plus $1,000 could be yours with the Alpha Quiz. It's all coming up on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jono's internet wormhole. I've been lost on the internet again. And it was one of those articles of celebrities' hidden talents.

And it got me good. It got me good. The first one was a picture of Sandra Bullock. Do you like Sandra Bullock? Yeah. Yeah, my wife's favourite actor, Sandra Bullock. Do you like Sandra Bullock? Yeah. Yeah, my wife's favourite actor, Sandra Bullock. Oh, yeah, she's good.

Do you know she was, I think, the highest paid actor with the least grossing films? Sandra Bullock. Oh, really? Yeah. And I'm like, she's a lovable... At least that's out there that you've remembered. Out of all the things I know about Sandra Bullock. It just makes her sound like she's overpaid.

Yeah, overpaid. You must have just said she's overpaid. Yeah. But I would have thought she's a lovable, you know. I like Sandra Bullock. I saw some awesome films, like Speed was massive. Don't tell me. Come on.

Sounds like I need to tell you. Did you go to see all of Sandra Bullock's movies? No, but wait. You said Speed. I felt like we were going to get a list. Name some more. Oh, yeah. What was that?

The rom-com with Ryan Reynolds. What's that one? They have to pretend to be married and stuff. I can't think of the name of yeah, was that the rom-com with Ryan Reynolds? What's that one? They have to pretend to be married and stuff. I can't think of the name of that, but that was very funny. There was a recent one as well, which ended up going to the jungle and stuff. I went and saw that one with my wife. Was that a Was that Bird Box?

Oh, Bird Box was really good. That was a Netflix one. Miss Congeniality. That's a banger. Oh, The Blind Side was another one. The Lake House one? Yes. Speed 2 as well, which maybe they should have stopped at Speed Geniality. That's a banger. The Blind Side was another one. The Lake House one? Yeah. Yes. Speed 2 as well, which maybe they should have stopped at Speed 1. But anyway.

Okay. We've covered it. So this is celebrities' hidden talents. Now they were like, you'll never believe it. Sandra Bullock's hidden talent is she's a rapper. And I'm like, what? A rapper? And this is Sandra Bullock rapping. Now what you hear is not a test

I'm a rapper to the beat And me, the group, and my friends Are gonna try and move your feet Have we got a Ray Gunn situation? Yeah Have we got a Ray Gunn situation here? I mean, I need more context I feel like that was clearly

That was on a chat show Yeah, yeah I don't think she's going out there Calling herself a rapper She sounds a little unenthusiastic about... See, I am Wonder Mike and I'd like to say hello. Like, is she just a woman

who knows the words to that song? Yeah, it feels like that. It feels like she was bullied by the host of a show to get to go out and do that. Is that on the Ellen show? Maybe it was. So at this point,

I'm like, this clickbait has got me real good. Okay, but they do get a little better. Margot Robbie is a tattooist, which you know about, Ben. She bought herself, again, is there a fine line between buying yourself a tattoo gun and just being a muntil with a tattoo gun or being a tattooist? Yeah. But she does tattoos.

Yeah, I felt like she got, Suicide Squad was the movie, right? And she bought one and she gave the cast tattoos. I don't think they were very good. I think she publicly admits that, but yeah. So she's a tattooist apparently. That's her hidden talent. Angelina Jolie, this is very impressive. Her hidden talent.

Has a pilot's license. Flies her own plane everywhere. And is also a knife-throwing master. That's kind of on brand, isn't it? It's just like when you line your CV. A knife throwing master Show us And it's just like throwing the cutlery against the wall

Mark Ruffalo who plays The Hulk His hidden talent, this is really impressive Can ride a unicycle Of course he can Are these interesting I've got Ben going Have I lost the room?

No, I'm intrigued. No, I'm starting to lose. I mean, no disrespect to Mark Ruffalo. Great skill, but yeah. Okay. Hopefully I'll end on a banger. All right.

Pierce Brosnan, James Bond. He's controversial. He's my favourite Bond. Yeah, he's a great Bond. Yeah. Magnificent Bond. Pierce Brosnan

can eat fire. Before he was Pierce Brosnan,. Pierce Brosnan can eat fire. Before he was Pierce Brosnan, the Pierce Brosnan we know and love, he was in the circus. Really? And he was a fire eater. Oh, well, there we go. That's good. Did I end on a high?

I like that one. You pulled it back, didn't you? Celebrity's hidden talents that you never knew. Next, we're talking overstays. Now, what you hear is not a text. I'm a weapon to defeat. It's 619, it is the hits. And my'm a weapon to defeat. It's exciting, it is that. And my friends are going to try and move your feet.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ben with you on a Tuesday morning. You were saying you're getting some frosty conditions at home, Jono. Yeah, frosty conditions. In terms of social media, now, we went to an event, Ben. I shouldn't have been invited to the event, full disclosure. It was a hell-bent meta, so Mark Zuckerberg's thing. And I was talking to a wonderful... He wasn't there, by the way.

No. He had bigger fish to fry. He didn't come to a New Zealand Facebook meeting. But then I met a wonderful person there from Meta, and they're like, mate, you need to get your... You need to sort yourself out on social media. You are useless on social media. And full disclosure, I am.

It's not for everyone though it isn't for everyone you don't have to dip your toes into it no but then I felt talking to this lady

she's like it's it's the future I was like it's not the future it's here now and I've been ignoring it you know

you two are quite good on social media so I've been dipping my toes in the pool right okay and I'm doing something

regularly that is frustrating my wife to no end. She's almost equally as frustrating as when I say, love your work to everyone on the radio. Yeah, doesn't like that, right? Too much hearting, she says. You're hearting everything. And I feel like putting a heart on a video.

You know, someone's posted a video, they're doing hard work. Oh, right. And I click heart all the time. Okay. She's like, you can't just, she's like, video, they're doing hard work. Oh, right. And I click heart all the time. Okay. She's like, you can't just, she's like, heart stuff that you actually heart. Not heart someone just like buttering a piece of toast or something. Oh, right. She thinks I'm just chucking them out recklessly.

Yeah, well, maybe they lose meaning, I guess, in some ways. Maybe that's what she means, I guess. I think that's nice. Yeah. Because I think the hearts actually, Jono, have gone down like recently. People don't really heart stuff anymore. I'm hearting hard, mate. You just go through and you just look and you just consume and you don't engage.

That's what I was thinking. But then we have a friend of the show, Tim Provice. He's from the crowd, goes, wow, I was hearting all his stuff. He messaged me. He's like, bro, chill out. My wife follows this account. He was like, bro, chill out. My wife follows this account. Oh, so you got on deep. He was like, you're coming on too strong.

You got on deep, yeah. I was like, hearting everything of his. Once you go back to like 2012 and you're hearting, they're like, whoa, this guy's really. You know, you don't go to someone's profile and just scroll back and heart everything because they get notifications. That's called like being a creep.

Oh, does that get weird? Okay, okay, all right. Come on a little too strong. What I find interesting in the heart one is when someone pours out something, that's really sad. I know. I'm terminal, yeah. My cat died or something like that.

And you're like, oh, and then people heart it. And I'm like, what does that mean? Does that mean they like this message? Because technically it's a like. You're like, like. Yeah, like. But I don't like that. It's really sad.

I don't like the fact, yeah. But I don't know what to do in that situation. Maybe just a comment. Maybe you just need like an indifferent face. Or like a, oh. I've seen it and I feel for you, but I don't want to heart it. But I guess the heart's like acknowledge, kind of. But I know what you mean.

Yeah, so I'm going to button off, okay? Have you noticed less hearts on your posts? No, you can heart all my stuff. Oh, you want me to keep hearting? Who knows with social media? I've found a sweet spot at the moment where I just embarrass my kids. That's a sweet spot. Like if I bust out, if I hit the gritty or something like that,

which I have no place in hitting. Jeez, it's just... I don't even know what hit the gritty was. What's hitting the gritty? Oh, it's a little move that they do. Please hit the gritty now. It's come from Fortnite. To be honest, I don't even know if I'm doing it right.

Okay, let's hit the gritty, Ben. Oh, my God. Is that the gritty? What is that? He's kind of hunched over. He's like the hunchback of Notre Dame. It's hitting the gritty, mate. And to be honest, I don't know if it is hitting the gritty,

but I know it gets a great reaction out of my kids, and that's what I love doing, you know, stuff like that. You know, for the first time ever, I don't want to hurt someone. Fair enough, fair enough. Next, significant places in your relationship. Megan, you mentioned yesterday that there's a sweet place that you and Andrew have. I didn't expect you to laugh before quite as you did.

Well, just when you're like, oh, this is the place where I taught you something. And we were just, this is hilarious. We'll get into it in three minutes. It is the hits. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Comedian Kura Forrester with us in the studio.

Kura, welcome. Thank you. I feel welcome. Do you? It's nice to have you here. You're a gorgeous welcome, yes. Out of all the radio shows you've attended, who's been the most welcoming?

This one, hands down. You've got to say that. I used to say that to all the shows. No, what I like is you guys are straight to the point. Welcome. Not the five-minute intro of what, you might have seen her on... Oh, I'm about to do that.

I'm about to do that. He's just jumped the gun. You might have seen her on... This is my worst show. Taskmaster. And now you're going to see her this Saturday night at ASB Theatre, the Waterfront Theatre in Auckland. Yes.

Kura Forrester. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. There you go. There's the introduction. Now, very exciting. Got me performing this weekend.

Talking about things I was reading about getting recognised in the supermarket. Now, how often does that happen for you? Well, it's more of a Shortland Street thing, thing i think it's happening less and less to me now but people sort of do double takes now like where do i know her from is it high school is it blah blah um but i think when you're at the height of your short and street fame that's when it was happening to me the most but people sort of want to talk to your character more than you and they're a bit disappointed when you're just like hi i'm a normal person and they're like wait i was expecting drama it always blows my mind that they can't separate the two i'm lucky because i didn't play a villain but you must have heard some of those stories of people being like yelled

ash on the street and stuff i never had anything like that i was always pretty positive did you ever play the role of of dears in your uh real life? If someone comes up and says your character name, do you just go along with it? Yeah, I mean, sometimes. Mainly they just wanted to know what Damo was like, you know, Grant Lobber. So I'd give them the goss on that. And you were just saying before too, you're single and you're loving it.

I'm proud to be single. Yeah, I am actually. I've tried to sort of take the pressure off it. I used to be like, oh, God, I really need to sort that out. But now I'm just like trying to chill about it and not worry and just sort of hope that the right person comes along and getting off the apps. Yeah, gotcha.

I don't know if any of you have experienced the dating apps, but they're horrific. Are they? Only through my best friend, honestly. So I don't know how you deal with it. It's rough. I don't know. It's just like you sort of imagine a person and then you start chatting to them and they sort of see the weather a lot

better and crush you know like yeah I just wish we could go back to old school just get drunk when you go on a tinder date if you're halfway through you're like this is this is not the person for me yeah do you have a tactic to get out of that situation you know what i just sort of have a tactic even going in so i never commit to a meal oh yeah you know it's got to be a coffee or a drink and then you can go from there so i sort of have all these tactics even before going in. So they're short little bursts anyway. Yeah. But you sort of know within five minutes, I reckon,

whether you want to sort of keep getting to know this person. What if you're hungry? Yeah, that is a good point. You're like, damn, I could do a meal. I try and schedule things around non-meal times. Okay, good job. I've really got it down pat. That would be my thing.

I'd be like, oh, but I'm hungry, so I'll stick around. Yeah, a girl's got to eat. Okay, well, actually thing I'd be like oh but I'm hungry so I'll stick around yeah goos gotta eat okay well actually I want to put you on the spot here right now so I've got three punchlines to jokes from the internet oh my god

and then I'm going to give you 10 seconds to try and match the joke with the punchline okay so I just have to come up with a joke no no no no I'll give you both

but you've got to try and work out what it is so you've got them on a piece of card the first punchline is they put me in the ICU the second one is 58. The last punchline says, the other says, yeah, but not as whiskey as robbing a bank.

Now, here are the three starts of the jokes. You've got 10 seconds to try and find the match. Oh, my gosh. This is so fun. Okay, okay. There's six different pieces of paper, and Dakota's trying to put them together like a jigsaw puzzle. Yeah, yeah.

Trying to work them together. It's really about that now. Okay. Hopefully, I'll print them out. I think that's it. Okay. Okay. All right. Does Dakota have to deliver them? Yeah, you have to deliver the jokes, and we'll see if you got this correct. All right? that up now. Okay. Hopefully I'll print them out. I think that's it. Okay.

All right. Could I have to deliver them? Yeah, you have to deliver the jokes and we'll see if you got this correct. All right. There we go. Okay. So, hey guys, I just got hospitalized due to a peekaboo accident. Yeah, they put me in the ICU. Oh, there we go.

There you go. ICU. Nice. Okay. Well done. One for one. Okay. One for one.

Okay. You got the one out. What did 50 Cent do when he got hungry? He 58. 58, one for one. Okay, you got the one out. What did 50 Cent do when he got hungry? He 58. 58, that's good. Two for two. Two for two, and that means you must have the last one right. Here's hoping.

Two robbers were robbing a liquor store when one robber grabs a bottle and asks the other robber, is this whiskey? The other says, yeah, but not as whiskey as a wobbing a bag. And those jokes you will not see. No, you won't see those. Hey, I don't know, I'm not as whiskey as wobbing a bag. And those jokes you will not see. No, you won't see those. Hey, I'm not claiming them as my own. Get along this Saturday night. Good a Forrester.

You can catch her performing Saturday night, ASB Waterfront Theatre, as part of the Comedy Fest Winter Special. Great to hang out with you. Thank you, guys. Donald Trump, he always talks about fake news well he has been uh putting out things that is actually fake news about swifties and taylor swift supporting him he's like great to have taylor swift on board and that's all fake news from an he's actually

saying this yeah but yeah it's from an ai generated account uh basically that said taylor swift's backing him elon musk is backing him which uh, I know. Megan, Elon Musk was your guy. He's not anymore. He's no longer your guy. He's really shown himself to be not a great person. Mind you, you can put your

political differences aside in a relationship. Can you? Yeah, who was it? There was someone, I think it was, one of the presidents

was Republican. I think it was Reagan. Yeah, it was someone like that. Reagan, and his wife was Democratic. Her family is all Democratic. Say, hey, you and Elon, there's still a future for you. Is Reagan. Yeah, it was something like that. Reagan and his wife was Democratic. Her family is all Democratic. Say, hey, you and Elon, there's still a future for you.

Is there? Yeah, and he full-throated endorsed Trump as well. So Elon called me. As you know, he endorsed me full-throated. Great endorsement. Great endorsement. I don't know what it means, but anyway. Fully banned.

Now, I got a message from a friend, and I haven't heard from this friend in a while They live overseas with his family And he's like Hey, we're coming over before the end of the year Can we come and stay a couple of nights? And usually this wouldn't be an issue Although I'm not entirely thrilled about having people come to stay

You know, it kind of puts your routine out of whack. I imagine people come to stay at your house, you're like. It happens quite often with family. Yeah, it does. You're like, I've got stuff to do. I have a schedule every day. And, you know, it kind of just throws you out. Yeah, I get it.

But then at the same time, you do end up staying at other people's houses. So you're like, okay, you know. It's nice. I like it. Yeah, I know you'd be free for it. You'd entertain them and feed them. It would be all gravy. But the reason I'm a little hesitant about this is many years ago,

this same guy came to stay at a place I was living at. Again, just going to crash on the couch for a couple of days. A couple of days, right. Okay. That turned into two months. Oh, two months. Wow. Now him and his nuisance family are coming over and I'm like,

he's still pretty chill. He's a chill guy. Like, I could imagine a couple of days could easily stretch out, you know, and then I'm in that position of Jen like, you've got to get this people to leave. You know, you have to have that conversation. Thank God he's not going to hear this because he's overseas. Yeah, because you just called his family nuisance.

Yeah, hopefully he doesn't hear this Well he definitely won't be staying if they do hear it Maybe this is a great tactic Yeah I'm pretty sure news doesn't make it overseas Does it people? Yeah But Well this is what I wanted to chuck open

Two months we felt was a really long time It's a long time It was a sit down and Hey mate Conversation You know And no one likes to have those conversations And everyone's had a scenario

Especially in your younger years Yeah Where someone comes to stay at a flat and then all of a sudden 12 months later they're like hey guys you haven't paid the bills you know they're still living on the couch they're telling you to keep it down how long yeah well i feel like we might have been there that people when my wife and i when we were traveling uh younger younger days we went over and stayed in between like was a place in a a friend's house in London, and so we'd stay there, and then we'd go travelling, and we'd come back, when we first stayed,

they were like, ah, have our bed, we'll sleep in somewhere else, you're like, great, eventually, when we came back about the fourth or fifth time,

we were sleeping, no, in a cupboard, like in the wardrobe, with like a block, they're like, we made it too comfy for them, they keep coming back,

I was like, oh really, we have, like honestly, it was a wardrobe, like Harry Potter would look at it and go, that was, that was luxurious, like it was, it was like wardrobe. Harry Potter would look at it and go, that was luxurious. It was.

It was like, we're in a mix with coats above us and shoes. Oh, there was little... And it was like, yeah, I was like, okay, I think we've over-saved a bit of time. We've come back. They're locking us in a cupboard. It wasn't that we stayed for long. It was maybe one or two nights,

but I think the fifth time we came back, I was like, okay, let's not do this again. Once they've locked you in a cupboard. Yeah, definitely. So I've been quite conscious since then of not overstaying anyone's welcome. All right, well, let's check this open before the 6 o'clock club this morning. 0800 the hits, 4487. The longest overstayers.

You've had someone come to stay at your house, and they've really pushed the limits. To hear from you this morning. We've got some hell pizza up for grabs. 0800 The Hits, 4487. Can we get more than what? More than a month? Yeah, anything more than a month is ridiculous. Especially at our age, you know?

Anything more than half an hour is ridiculous. 0800 The Hits is our phone number. We'll do that next on The Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.