Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan reveals how much energy you surprisingly lose throughout the day!

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Should you really take career advice from Jono? What Gen Z really think about ankle socks... Ben learns a new word, and his wife is NOT impressed. Megan was ACTUALLY part of the circus! We expose the truth behind the NZ Herald quiz... And it’s the start of the battle to crown the ultimate TV theme song! Tune in from 7am tomorrow to cast your vote in the next showdown! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast on a Wednesday morning where we've been looking for the best TV theme tune of all time. We're putting a head-to-head tournament with the best 32 theme tunes up against each other

and you get to decide which ones make it through. Already this morning, we've lost the Nanny, the theme tunes of the Nanny, and we've lost the Nanny, the theme tune to the Nanny, and we've lost the White Lighter Series 2, which, again, should have been up there in one of the finals, I would say. It got knocked out by Game of Thrones. That theme song was the reason we started this whole thing.

Lost by 13 votes. Maybe it could come back and sort of repercharge. They have those sometimes in the rowing events and stuff. They do. You speak my language. A repercharge, yeah. You get another chance to sort of sneak on in there, so maybe it could get another chance sometimes in the rowing events and stuff they do a repercharge you get another chance to sort of sneak on in there

so maybe they can get another chance later in the tournament because we've got two wild card spots but the nanny bundled it out in the first round

by the Fresh Prince it's a repercharge like we thought we got rid of you but you make a return and you'll probably win the tournament sort of thing

interesting I'm just reading sorry to dog lead this I was just reading before we started this now this is not from me This is from Someone who works

As a psychologist With teenagers Everyone talking about Adolescence And it's interesting To hear her take on it Just from this little thing And I'll try and

Summarise it real quickly She's saying that Yes real concerns From parents and stuff About teenagers and phones But she was like Every generation's had it She's like

The 50s was rock and roll 60s was comic books 70s was television 80s was It was 90s We she's like the 50s was rock and roll 60s was comic books 70s was television uh 80s was it was 90s we'll go to the 90s was video games would make kids violence you know and now today it's social media she's like every generation has had their concerns from parents uh the threat that's that basically coming for their kids um but she's saying in her experience and this is her experience so don't come at me uh she reckons the parents are actually making it even worse by micromanaging restricting nagging

and lecture and she reckons it's not social media a lot of the time it's the way that kids are with them with their mental state when they are on social media so if they feel like they're getting pressure from their parents they're getting pressure from school everything they're doing is wrong all those things can lead them into a bad frame of mind and they can pick up and you know be worse and on social media so it's quite interesting interesting probably a bit of column a column b yeah yeah and as i say it's her thing but she's saying her parents are saying get off the damn phone and all that so that's not necessarily the problem it's often the time that's the parents and the pressures and school and things like external problems stressful being a Yeah. Yeah. I think I used that reference last week

when I said, you know, I was riding around with the penny farthings. All the oldies had a problem with it back in my day. Every generation's got their thing. So make sure your teens have seen, heard, and valued, and they're less likely to go into dark places on the internet, she reckons, again, in her opinion. So that's something a bit different.

Yeah, that makes sense. There's a whole lot more on that, but I just thought it was quite interesting. She's more of a psychologist than will ever be. Or she could just be posing as a psychologist. I don't know. On the internet. He did get it off some shirtless dude on TikTok.

Exactly. Maybe now I'm like, hang on, what am I clicking on now? First up, interesting experience I had at the Chemist Warehouse yesterday. Enjoy the podcast. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. First up, interesting experience I had at the Chemist Warehouse yesterday Enjoy the podcast An interesting moment yesterday in Chemist Warehouse I was just looking at, jeez they've got an array of vitamins there So many multivitamins I don't know why I love that place so much

Yeah, you get lost in there, it's really You're going to find one thing and you end up... Always take a basket. This guy comes up to me as I'm looking at all the many green apple ciders and all these vitamin Cs. He's like, can I ask you a question? Just another shopper, not someone who worked there. He said, do you mind if I ask you for some career advice?

And I was like, oh, okay, unusual location. Yeah, sure. And foolish of me to assume that, because the only adult job I've ever had is really in media. And I was like, oh, you know, if you want to get into media, there's many avenues. It's obviously on air. There's podcasting nowadays.

Probably just don't though, because it's not doing too well. Yes. You know, just keeping its mouth above water at the moment, mate. And then he said, oh,'t i don't i'm not sure i want to get into media oh you just want a career advice general advice general career and i was like oh okay uh what was i have you got anything i came up with something very generic is like anything you're passionate about well that's a good question to start with yeah because i mean then you're spending a lot of your time at work.

He's like, I'm not really passionate about anything. So I was like, what is this conversation? Are you just going around the mall asking strangers until you land on one and you go, oh, yeah, that's a good option. That's a good option. Because this is not great career advice. If I could give you any advice right now. He's obviously quite good at approaching people. Maybe he could be like a salesperson.

Do you not have like an inspirational quote you could fall back on? I did. I was like, find something you're passionate about. That's good. Yeah, I'll give him that one. Right. And then he's just like, oh, thanks, man. And walked off.

And yeah, I was like, oh, well, good luck finding that career you're searching for. In the chemist's warehouse. Yeah, you have to find it in the vitamins aisle, baby. John O'B, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. All right. We get Gen Z producer Grayson every week to just tell us what's winding up Gen Z this

week. In the past, we've had the ellipses, the dot, dot, dots on emails, which severely upset your generation. Last week was Megan saying, we wore that in the 90s about your fashion. That winds you up? Yeah. So what is it this week? Grace, Gen Z producer Grace comes on in and tells us what we're all doing wrong.

What's winding me up this week? And I think Ellie's doing it right now. I don't know about you guys. Let me have it. Not Megan. It is ankle socks. I've heard about this. I've heard your mob don't like ankle socks.

What is the issue with us displaying our ankles? Sometimes people want to see ankles. You've got to show them your full leg. I just think you go no socks or full socks. Just not that tiny little bit of sock. It's just not enough for me. Just a little bit of sock. Okay.

I'm on board. I actually think this is genius from Gen Z because I don't know why we were so invested in that tiny little bit of sock. It's just not enough for me. Just a little bit of sock, okay. I'm on board. I actually think this is genius from Gen Z because I don't know why we were so invested in like, ooh, we don't have socks on, but we do. And then they like slip down in your shoe and you're like, oh my God. Because you can get the ones that fully you can't see, right? Yeah.

They seem to last five minutes. Why did we want to look like we're wearing sneakers with no socks? It's gross. Okay. Okay, what's the ideal length of socks then? Just above your ankle. Just like there. Oh, just above the ankle?

Okay. Not those half-calf ones. I don't mind a half-calf. Okay, we'll go off then. Not a chaise. Half-calf with a pair of Crocs? What are you, now am I talking? It's very Justin Bieber.

That's where I got it from too. I saw him doing that and I was like, he's a cool guy. And I actually prefer it, yeah. If you have the confidence and you own it, it's way better. But if you're unsure about yourself then no one will like it. The more I hear your generation getting upset about the length of socks, the more I believe

that it's karma that they're not allowing you into the housing market this is this is payback this is the payback for complaints like this it's just socks bro what about gym tights like you know your leggings and then you wear your socks pulled up over top of them yeah a lot of people get upset by that why well i don't know because you know i'm on board with it now. It looks cute, so do it. That's all I have to say. So, okay, you see someone, 43-year-old guy,

peak of his life. Yeah, he might have lost a bit of hair. He's wandering down the road. He's just got shoes on. You're like, damn, I can see a lot of that ankle.

What are you thinking? It upsets me. It's traumatising seeing that much ankle, Johnna, so please cover up. Someone's just texted and saying, fashion advice from a generation that thinks Crocs are okay.

That's true. That is shade. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That is shade. And it ends with dot, dot, dot. But have you put on Crocs? First of all, comfy. Yes.

And the thing is, you just have to own it. If you're not owning it, that's the whole thing. Just be confident in yourself. I don't want to own it. They're yuck. They are yuck. Honestly, are you looking at them and going yes i'm going yes slay i've got some platform ones they have had one heck of a rebrand

i'm not getting on board you know at first everyone was like oh crocs and now it's like it's so a thing i love my crocs but the thing is you just have to own it your generation isn't confident you're just not confident enough for me they're just yuck no they're great they're comfortable they look good they look cool cool. The platform ones, Megan, are super slick. I'm going to agree with you on this one. Thank you, Ben. Ben is a Gen Z.

Apparently, Megan is not. We have just a call that we'll make here. There's someone who's defending the ankle sock. A lot of texts coming in. As soon as you start speaking, Grace,

you really do invoke a reaction from the audience on 4487 on the text. I'm not going to lie. I do live for it. Yeah. Someone who vehemently defended.

Hello. Oh, didn't want to come on air, though. But they want to defend the ankle socks. I'm not going to lie I do live for it Yeah Someone who vehemently Defended Hello Oh Didn't want to come on air though But they want to defend The ankle socks Why Ankle socks are the only way They say Okay

Disagree They slip down It's function The first thing is function The second thing is Showing too much ankle Okay too much ankle That's what we're doing wrong today

What is this the 1950s 30s That's what those ankles Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We've started a new, I think it's a habit now. It's a car, my little car meditation.

Oh, yeah? So we drive into work and if I have enough time, I sit in my car for a second and I close my eyes and I set an alarm for five minutes just in case I fall asleep. So I'm in the garage downstairs. Oh, this is at work. At work. I've arrived.

We thought you were just having an existential crisis. We're like, oh, well, let's not torture her about that. We don't want to get too deep into the emotions. Well, someone did walk past this morning and looked in and was like, is she dead? Is she all right? I did that once. It was a guy on Countdown.

And I thought he was asleep and homeless, and so I put bread on his bonnet, and then his dog in the car, so I go, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. And it turns out he wasn't homeless. He was just a builder having lunch with us. Oh, little nice. Just having a sleep. I took my loaf of bread back.

Yeah, but I was like, why am I so tired? Like, getting lots of sleep at the moment, but I'm so tired, and I don't do manual labor but I did find something and this was shared by Zoe Foster-Blake if you know her she's a big social media person also married to Hamish Blake but she has shared something that's come out from a scientist who's done a big study after long COVID and it's an energy points chart so everything you do in your day exerts some sort of energy. And it's not just physical. It's down to scrolling on social media. Oh, right. And so this was what can make you

exhausted. Yeah. And they all have different points. Would that be more of a mental exhaustion? Yeah. So there's cognitive, which is thinking. There's emotional, social and spiritual. So it goes from one to 10 on the scale. Very easy. Scrolling on social media, it's something I do supposedly to relax, but that still has a five points on the energy scale. One to 10.

One to 10. Okay. Five, not bad. Not bad. What about sitting through our monthly staff meeting? Well, it depends on how much you're paying attention. Okay. On my scale, I'm about a two.

That's out of a ten. That would be a 3.5. Okay. But it's like some people read a book, but if the book is quite complicated, that's a nine on the scale. Oh, right. I imagine, yeah.

Thinking about it a lot, yeah. Also, socialising in a large group of six or more people. We're, how many are we? Five. We're on the threshold. And then our boss comes in. So that's every day. That's a 10.

Yeah. So if you're just like hanging out at work with six or more people every day, that's a 10 on this scale. I can feel that. Sometimes the energy in here is electric, isn't it? When there's more than five people, you're right. And then walking, walking for example washing dishes doing housework is down to three so you would exert more energy just hanging out with people at work than you would doing chores really it's a very interesting scale and i think for like does

this equate to calorie burning or just pure exhaustion well i guess it doesn't equate to calorie because i'm sitting here hanging out with people hanging out with people that would make me feel a lot better about life can you just say it equates to calorie burning but even watching the news as well is on there so how much news we're consuming um energy scale i suppose if you see a story that upsets you or winds you up then you're going to use energy getting all yeah anxious or angry about it that makes sense so if you're finding you're burnt out and you're tired and you're not sure why, it's a really good chart to look at to go, oh, okay, that's, and you add up how many points you're getting in a day.

Let's check a link up on the Hits Breakfast story right now if people are interested about it because I'm sure they would be. They can click on it and see what they're burning energy. Do you know 60 times is only 1.5? Don't try and use that as an excuse mate we've got enough excuses being thrown at us don't need another one it's only low energy level it's a term that i've just learned uh recently over the last year or so was micromanaging i didn't i didn't know too much about what that is my wife had often used that term

and then in regards to your actions yeah often regards to my actions but now i've really enjoyed micromanaging. I didn't know too much about what that is. My wife would often use that term. In regards to your actions? Yeah, often in regards to my actions. But now I've really enjoyed using it back on her. Micromanaging when someone is observing, basically getting involved in stuff, the other person is just overseeing that stuff unnecessarily, really. You're like getting into too much detail with the managing of something.

Yes, exactly. One of Ben's, we love Ben. One of his traits. To be fair, that means that we can like chill out a bit because Ben's usually got it. And that's normally what happens at home as well. I probably am doing a lot of that stuff.

But now my wife, now because she's got this term in my head, I get to use it back on her and that's winding her up as well. And it's quite frustrating. I can see the frustration, particularly when it comes to hanging out the washing. You know, like if I'm in the middle of doing that,

and she's like, oh no, that needs to be shaken up more, this needs to be, and I'm like, well, just do it. Do it then. You know, like stop micromanaging me. I do that. I do that too. And I don't know why, because you want the other person to hang out the washing,

but if you're not doing it right. Don't make it a painful experience though you've got to shake it out otherwise it's not going to dry properly yeah it's a secret do you not shake out the washing I do but it's not I'm not enough psychopath I don't know but it's not clearly enough and particularly with her stuff or it's not you know it's like that one I have to iron that one now I'm like oh well you do it you do it don't micromanage me Jesus feels good to say micromanage back to someone else because i'm normally the one micromanaging you know in the household so have you had to pull yourself out of micromanaging at time oh yeah totally yeah but then get involved i love setting a list of you know that winds my wife up as well if i give her a list of something i'm like okay but but hey i've done all the way

oh well like i'll go here's the list of things that we need to do. She's like, why does this need to be a list? I'm like, okay, well, I'll keep all. So now I just keep the list for myself. Here's a humorous idea. You and my husband need to go on a holiday together. We have a great time. Two micromanagers who love a list.

With wrinkled clothes. Shaking out the money. Shaking out properly. See who wins At the micromanaging Got that done Just we get some stuff done Wouldn't we

God yeah You'd be exhausted I reckon you'd finish life About 40 years Ahead of the rest of us Absolutely In the holiday You're like wow

We did everything Like every activity To do In life Tripadvisor Everything We did all of it Even the ones

That people went Don't do it We did it Managed to do it John O'Bannon Megan The podcast The hits Dua Lipa in the country

Posted on her Instagram yesterday Looks like she was hanging out on helicopter And going over to Waiheke Island Nice Good, yeah, we've got to put the best on display for Dua It was a nice day yesterday We do talk about this a lot of the time Graham Norton, of course, in the country.

Two big celebrities here in New Zealand. Weather is good, although a whole lot of rain coming three days later this week. But that's good for the drought. Good for the drought. Yeah, but when are they

out of the country? We need them out before the bad weather, though. Probably sad day. Yeah, so I think the weather's meant to get bad later in the week, so she might get

a little bit of that, but at least she's enjoyed Waiheke Island. And hopefully she'll enjoy the farmers getting rehydrated, too. It's not enough to break the drought, apparently, so she might get a little bit of that, but at least she's enjoyed Waiheke Island. And hopefully she'll enjoy the farmers getting rehydrated too. It's not enough to break the drought apparently, so unfortunately, because it's been really dry, particularly down south.

Yeah, I mean, I know you've got artificial grass. These are the times you would love your artificial grass. Consistently green throughout the year, that grass. Mine is brown and scratchy. Yeah. Oh, your actual lawn. Yeah, because I tried to mow it the other day and it just like, dust just went up. Yeah.

Mate, chuck a dead ciggy on that thing. Mate, it'll go up like a cinder block. Now, Polyfest, huge festival which is taking part in Auckland. World's largest Polynesian festival, I think, Polyfest. And it celebrates cultures all throughout the Pacific. Cook Islands, Maori, Nui, Samoan, Tongan. I think they've even included another stage where you've got like Indian and Filipino. Yeah.

We spoke to someone the other day that was performing in the Filipino. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, oh, I didn't want to question too much, but obviously there's a Filipino group as well, which is amazing. But a lot of the schools have been practicing. My son's school, they've been rehearsing for seven weeks or so, you know, they go very hard.

And I busted in on them practicing yesterday. It's beautiful. Have a listen to this. It's just in the bloody hallway outside. I was like, great acoustics. It is beautiful. Is that you breathing into the microphone? It does sound like it

I'm a bit breathy, sorry Apologies I don't think they imagine We're breathy men at school It's like stay outside on the road Like all the other parents What are you wandering around the school for? Breathing

Into rooms that you're not Is your son in here? No, no, I'm just recording this for the radio Breathing into the microphone It is lovely though. Sorry for bringing content to the show guys. No it was very beautiful. It's alright I won't bother anymore. It is lovely. It is lovely. No don't try and save it now.

Your breathing is really overshadowing it. What a wonderful performance. Play the start of it again. Not having you insult me. Trying to bring a wholesome piece of content. Celebrate the Pacific culture and all you can focus on is my heavy, breathy nature. It's a bit weird.

It was breathing. It was quite loud. Yeah. Very breathy. You really zeroed in on the wrong part of that thing. Sorry. Did you guys have to do performances at school? Were you part of groups?

I was in the kapa haka group which I loved we like went down to Christchurch and did like a little exchange and yeah I loved that I did anything that

was not like school related yeah anything well school related I even did like clown college did you clown college

what now what are they doing in Nelson they were reaching for education I know it's Nelson we're very artsy farts. They had a lot of fire poi and ride a unicycle.

Well, that's what I learnt, stilt walking as well. Three-day dance festival. Did anything to get out of class. Probably related to what you're doing now, you know? That probably helps out performing. Well, if you do that performance, I'll record you and breathe heavily. Unfortunately, no America's Cup. is out performing. Well, if you do that performance, I'll record you and breathe heavily. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Unfortunately, no America's Cup here in New Zealand. It was just too expensive for the government to pay half. And that was only half at $75 million.

It's a lot of money. It is a wonderful atmosphere when it's on. But there's probably money that needs to be spent in other areas. You can understand. I think they'll take it

back to Spain. I don't know. The Spaniards were all wound up about it too. Yeah, because they were like, we spend a lot of money on something that we didn't really want. Again, probably there's arguments to say they could spend that money on other things. How much comes back into the economy?

That's a good question. I don't know, but that's a good question. I imagine there's quite a lot. I'll overlook it. But yeah, I imagine there's quite a lot. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of rich people here, aren't there? Pumping their cash

and stimulating the economy she stimulates our economy every morning producer Ellie lovely to have you on where's our sentence going stimulates our economy and our brains

you stimulate our brains every morning with the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz we're trying to get 10 in a row fresh off a bit of an April Fool's prank

which I completely fluffed. Sorry. No, it's okay. We tried. You had a... You're too paranoid, Ben. Yeah, and when Jono was answering before you even got options on it, I was like, oh, he's definitely got the answers to this.

Yeah, yeah. Or read it beforehand. Hyper-vigilant is what you are. I'm like, nah, nah, nah, nah. All right, question number one, Ellie. All right, at the start of what TV series is Laura Palmer found dead? Is it Twin Peaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or The X-Files? Laura Palmer?

Not a big character in my world. I mean, X-Files feels like they were solving cases every week. Yeah, that was episodic, you're right. But, I mean, Laura Palmer could have been one of them. Was it X-Files, Buffy, and Twin Peaks? But Buffy was the same. Was Buffy an ongoing? Yeah, I didn't watch much Buffy.

Yeah, it was one of those ones that had ongoing, but then episodic aspects to it. Did she slay Laura Palmer? Do you remember? I don't remember. Was Buffy, did she, would she go and kill? I don't know. Are we going to have to go Lifeline in question one?

What is Twin Peaks? I've never seen Twin Peaks. No. That's it, but that sounds to me like a Netflix sort of, what happens over these eight episodes sort of thing. Should we go Twin Peaks? Okay. That is correct.

Well done. We're carrying it down. Yeah, well done. Can we look at the answers again? Now every time he comes up with something, everyone's going to... It just sounds like one of those shows where people are like, oh, you've got to watch Twin Peaks, you know.

Alright, question number two. What is the only non-English language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars? Parasite. Parasite. That is correct. Just recently over the last few years, right? Yeah.

Korean. It's a horror thriller. I haven't watched it. Everyone says Yeah. Korean. It's a horror thriller. I haven't watched it. Everyone says it's amazing. It's a thriller. A bit of both. Thriller. All right, question number three.

Who played the role of Nurse Ellen Crozier on Shorten Street? Oh, that was Robin Malcolm. Nice. Correct. Okay, here we go, guys. See, she's just been nominated for a bloody BAFTA. Oh, yeah. Has she?

Has she? After the party. Is it called After the Party? Yeah. The Kiwi drama? Yeah, that's been up for a BAFTA for Best International Series. That's awesome. All right, question number four.

The Solheim Cup is a biennial tournament between women's teams representing Europe and the US in what sport? That was a bit of a... Sounds like football. I'm going to say football first up. Hopefully it's an option. So the options are golf, sailing or tennis Alright Should we throw that out there The Solheim Cup

Help us out with our Lifeline this morning Thank you so much to everyone that has Texted through this morning, we've got a lot of texts Coming through for this question The question is, the Solheim Cup is a biennial tournament Between women's teams representing Thank you so much to everyone that has text through this morning. We've got a lot of texts coming through for this question. The question is, the Solheim Cup is a biennial tournament between women's teams representing Europe and the US in what sport? Golf, sailing or tennis?

Everyone's saying golf. It's the women's version of the Ryder Cup, apparently, according to the text. Oh, nice. Thanks, James, Fiona, Steve and everyone else. We'll choose someone at random to send out a merch pack. I appreciate everyone's text. We collected merch through the month of March, corporate clothing. So you'll get a t-shirt, a hat and an accessory that Producer Ellie has fastidiously put together. Well done.

It was golf indeed. All right. Question number five. For what sport is Italian Fausto Coppi famous? I'm just going to show the name there. I don't know how to say that. Fausto? Fausto Coppi, famous. I'm just going to show the name there. I don't know how to say that. Fausto? Fausto Coppi.

The options are fencing, football, or cycling. He sounds like a cycling fencer. Fausto Coppi is going really fast on his bike. Yeah, no, it works. It works. Oh, you might be right. Yeah. Oh, really?

Maybe. I'm trying to think of the last... Did I trigger something in you? Yeah. That's a copy in the yellow jersey today. You've watched a lot of ESPN. I watched a lot

of Lance Armstrong documentaries about all that, the doping and stuff. So I feel like maybe it could have been a name, but then I'm just, it's really just a... Fausta, Fausta.

You've convinced me it's cycling, but it might not be. Let's go cycling. It is incorrect. It was fencing. Oh, fencing. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Yeah, I wouldn't have got that though. No. It was hard. A famous fencer. Yeah. Obviously hasn't travelled all the way here to New Zealand. No. There's a company called Ministry of Defence. Have you seen

that? We've got famous fences here in New Zealand and they erect fences. I've seen the truck. Ministry of Defence. Didn't we invent the electric fence? Yeah, we did. We've got some famous fences. We've really dog-legged. Are you sure? Because I googled him and it says

Italian cyclist. Really? Dun, dun, dun. Tour de France. You're kidding. Is the Herald quiz incorrect? Controversial. Do we keep going? Next we're going to call the New Zealand Herald.

We'll find out what we're going to do. Let's call the New Zealand Herald. What happens when you type in the same name in Fencer? Were they both the same names? Different spores. Fausto, Coppi, Fencer. He was. But it wasn't Lance Armstrong's time.

No, it keeps on coming up. He was an Italian racing cyclist. Oh, my God. We are going to sort this. We are going to write this wrong for the people. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

So, well, we start the day with it. With your help, we try and get our way to 10 out of 10. We got it wrong, which is fine. We dipped out. But then Megan just wanted to find out a bit more information about the famous Italian sports player.

Faustocopi. Yeah. The question was, what sport was he famous for? And the answer, according to the Herald, was fencing. But when I googled it,

it said he's a famous Italian cyclist. So famous they call him Il Championissimo. So we need to alert the New Zealand Herald in the same building as us. Now, because we locked in cyclists and we're wrong. So we're wanting to continue on with our quiz journey. We're going to go through the news desk. This feels like something. Welcome to NZME. You have reached us after hours.

Our normal business hours are between 8am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. 4.30? Please contact us during our business hours or for editorial... Must be nice, that. We're working from home. See us.

I thought there was a number there. Maybe there's not a number. I think we can continue. I feel like we should. There's a number there Maybe there's not a number I think we can continue I feel like we should There's a number here, shall I call this one? Yeah, sorry 4, 3, 7 2, 5, 3

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Why can't we push to go three? They know we're hunting them down. We need to make an executive decision. We know in our hearts what's right. Let's continue on. Yeah, they need to know, though, at some stage. We'll try and get in touch with them. Yeah, we will keep going.

Okay, question number six. What book begins, Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun? Is it The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Bible, or A Brief History of Time? I reckon it's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I don't think it's The Bible. I don't think, how does The Bible start? Once upon a time. Yeah, I don't think it's the Bible. I don't think, how does the Bible start? Once upon a time. Yeah, I don't, yeah. Hedgehog is Guide seems like a good guess, yeah. That is correct. Well done. All right, on to the next one.

Okay, question number seven. I thought it would have been very comical if we got that one wrong. Yeah, after all that. All right, who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath? Was it Beck John Stein Beck John. Sounds like a legitimate name. Okay, we can rule that one out, but maybe we're wrong. What are the other two?

There's John Stein Beck or Beck John Stein. Oh, it's John Stein Beck. John Stein Beck. That's correct. What is the quiz doing this morning? Okay, number eight. In the film Back to the Future, what year does Marty McFly travel back to?

Is it 1955, 57 or 59? Oh, when he goes back. Okay, no. 1955. Okay, let's lock it in. No, wait. Okay. No, wait.

Is that what you think? No, I don't know. No, it was the 50s, but I wouldn't know exactly. Could be any one of those. I just like the symmetry of it. Lovely. Okay. We're going to 1955.

When he goes back in his web with his parents and his mum and stuff. Yeah, okay. Let's go. 55? That is correct. Well done. Question number nine. How long does it take for the light from the sun to reach Earth?

Is it eight seconds, eight hours, or eight minutes? It's eight seconds. No, it's eight seconds no it's ages isn't it is it the light from the sun longer than that but anyway eight minutes the sun's bloody big it is right i don't know i don't know bro okay we'll go with jono eight seconds it's incorrect it's eight minutes, yeah. Oh, God, Daniel. I know space stuff. Oh, there we go. The New Zealand Herbal Daily Quiz.

We managed to keep going with that one after a bit of controversy. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. You'll know her from Lotto and many other things on TV. It's Sonia Gray. Kia ora. Kia ora. Kia ora. How are you doing?

Doing all right. Now, you took part in ACC Does Game of Two Halves, which you can catch on Sky Go and Sky Sport now. I know you're a huge cricket fan, but what was it like being on that show? I was quite nervous because I was on the panel with Kieran Reid, who's one of my heroes. So I was fangirling big time.

I asked him a lot of questions. He is the loveliest guy. Have you met Kieran Reid? Yeah. He's a gentleman. He is such a gentleman. He answered all my probing questions about every game he'd ever played very, very graciously.

He was a bit weirded out when I knew his All Black number, 1083. Oh, did you? Yeah. I can see why that would weird him out. He probably could have left that out somehow, I think. Yeah, no, I know a few of them, actually.

I went through this weird stage where I just memorised all the All Blacks' numbers. Was he weirded out when you knew his current residential address as well? Phone number, email, all that sort of stuff?

Yeah, that's when he sort of moonwalked out. I didn't hear from him again. Can we name all blacks and you tell us their number? Look, that was a while ago, so I may be a bit rusty. I always get Tana Umanga and Jonah Lomu mixed up. One's 941, one's 961. We'll just fact check this. This is probably too much information

I'm revealing what an absolute nerd I am But I will say I do lotto I work with numbers Umanga was 961 Oh well done Wow Okay so Lomu was 941

Was that right? What about Dan Carter? Do you know Dan Carter? Oh he's a one something What is he? One, oh, was he after Kieran or before? Hang on. Was he 103.2 or was that Joe Rocco?

Oh, my Lord. Joe Rocco, 103.2, yeah. Check it. To Ali Williams, 102.2. Joe Rocco, 103.2, bang, bang. Nice work. You got it. Richie McCaw.

I'm going to guess this and say it's something like 101.2. Oh, 101.4. Oh, wow. Jeez. This is your superpower. What a fail. I love how angry with yourself you're getting. You're like, come on, Sonia, you should know this.

Now, Sonia, a bit of a gear change from naming all black's numbers to World Autism Day. Yes, it is. Something that's very, very close to your heart and only sort of over the last few years you've become schooled up on all of this. I mean, all of the neurodiversities, really. Autism, ADHD, dyslexia. Personal to me because I have ADHD and my daughter has a range of diagnoses. And I think, yeah, World Autism Day, a large percentage of people don't experience the world like they quote unquote should normally experience

it. And that's not wrong or anything. It's just different. Topic very close to ellie's heart as well isn't it ellie it is hello sonia i'm with you i am autistic and adhd so i love what you're doing the work you're doing all the advocacy and it is it's just a different brain that's all it is it's just a different brain when you go you know when you find out you know whether sonia it's like your daughter or with you yourself ellie or you sonia is it like kind of almost like a light bulb going off and does things make a lot more sense? For me that's exactly what it was and I had more self-compassion

What about you Sonia? I didn't believe it at first even though I scored 100% which I was happy about that but I was like oh no that's not really me. It took me a couple of years for it to sink in. My mum was like oh okay this explains everything but I don't know I was like

this doesn't make sense. You're like, why am I remembering every All Blacks number? Oh, my God. You got me. You got me. Absolutely. What do you guys wish that people would understand more about, you know, autism, this World Autism Awareness Day?

What do you think people should understand more? Do you want to go first, Sonia? Yeah, but I think we probably have similar answers to this, that not every autistic person is the same. Autism as a diagnosis gives you a clue to what might be going on, what the experience might be for that person. But ask them, talk to them, be curious. When you allow the neurodiverse world into your world your world

just gets bigger it's beautiful that is very very true um yeah my big message would be exactly that but also that it is just a difference and it's not necessarily a bad thing and a lot of people who are neurodivergent are actually highly highly intelligent but just maybe not in the traditional sort of way that society's thought is intelligent but if you just get to know them then you actually discover they're a wonderful person deep down and have awesome skills and talents and interests and all that kind of thing and my sister and I are both diagnosed but we're completely different even in siblings it's completely different so if you've met one autistic person you've met one autistic person and no one looks the same she's been going deep on this you hasn't she? You never thought you'd go from

0 to 100 on this show, did you Sonia? No, I love where you're going. I love it. Jono, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hits. You mentioned something in passing yesterday. Yeah, we wanted to know what you've been paid in before

because, you know, often when people don't have actual money or sometimes people, businesses that have products and stuff, you can get paid in before because, you know, often when people don't have actual money or sometimes people, businesses that have products and stuff, you can get paid in other things. And back in the day when I first started making TV shows, we didn't have any money. There was only about three or four of us making the show. We weren't even getting paid ourselves.

But we had a couple of sponsors and one of those sponsors gave us some beer, which we, you know, we had and we'd use and we'd also have that. It was great. As, you know, a younger person, you're like, great, we've got some beer on hand. The ultimate currency. It also meant that if you got people to do some things, you're like, we can't offer you money, but hey, would you like some beer?

Because it does appear. That's like kind of currency in New Zealand. Yeah, it was a currency. And it was also a nice thing as well. If people did something and weren't expected to get paid, you'd be like, hey, here's some beers. It'd be great. But one particular person we did get to do quite a lot of work

over a number of weeks. And so that, in the currency, the beer currency system, would equate to just more than a dozen, I guess. So, you know, a couple of dozen beers, shall we say. And so we gave that to this person, and they decided to have a party at their flat or whatever at the time. We're like, great. He was like, perfect, perfect time for that.

Next time we saw him a couple of weeks later, we were like, oh, how did it all go at the party? He's like, yeah, not great. Probably drank too many of those beers that you've given me. Really enjoyed that currency. And ended up in a hospital with alcohol poisoning. Wow. Yeah, so there's a lesson. Not your fault.

No, yeah. Got excited with all the. I mean, he could have also got food poisoning if you had paid him in sandwiches. Yeah, true, true. But anyway, he could have got money. If you paid him in money, he could have money poisoning if he ate the coins, you know?

There's a lot of other poisons that he could have got. He might have drunk some other things there that weren't all the beers that we gave him, but anyway, he felt partially responsible for that one. So, yeah, part of it is. Fire in his belly to get into the television industry and all he ended up with is with a pump in his belly in hospital. Friend of ours who you'll know from work,

she's currently serving on a board, big board, and it's for the Comedy Festival. Oh yeah. Best Foods Moneys, Comedy Festival. And she's doing it. She loves the industry and they're like, hey, we can't We can't pay you in money

She's like okay Okay And they said But what we can do Is we can pay you Pay you in mayonnaise Best Foods Mayonnaise Sponsors the Comedy Festival

Great mayonnaise It is the best mayonnaise But I mean She says she has A pantry load of mayonnaise I guess there's only so much You can eat at one particular time But then she can pay people In mayonnaise Big ass tubs of best foods too Yeah She says she has a pantry load of mayonnaise. I guess there's only so much you can eat at one particular type, right?

But then she can pay people in mayonnaise. Big ass tubs of best foods too. Big dogs. But I mean, that's a great currency. The old sandwich lubricant, isn't it? Mayonnaise. And I wouldn't mind being paid in mayonnaise. She says there's all different types.

You name a type of mayonnaise in any variant, any edition, any collab, she has it all. She's collected. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We wanted to know what you've been paid in other than money before beer and mayonnaise is what we started with. That's the bar.

That's the bar that's been set. Sounds like a country song, doesn't it? Beer and mayonnaise. Beer and mayonnaise. They've got my heart and clogging my heart as well. Cathy, morning. Good morning. What have you been paid and that wasn't money, Kath?

Well, my husband got paid for doing some cooking and we got a big chest freezer. That's a good payment. That's really good. Yeah. A big 700 litre chest freezer, like a big freezer. You were saying you need a chest freezer. Yeah, I was like, I think I'm getting

to an age where I'd really appreciate one of those. That age is old, mate. Just chuck it in the chest freezer. You were saying you need a chest freezer. Yeah, I was like, I think I'm getting to an age where I'd really appreciate one of those. That age is old, mate. Just chuck it in the chest freezer. Love a good old chest freezer. Thank you very much for your call, Cathy. Really do appreciate it. Now we must, we'll take more on the show tomorrow.