Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megan stresses Ben out with fruit!

Episode Date: September 9, 2024

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The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. We were just talking while that song was playing about a lot of fruit-based content this morning. I've come back from the Zespri Ames games, coming back, spouting the good word of kiwi fruits. Big fruit propaganda. As much potassium as a medium-sized banana. How many vitamins have you got in those? Fourteen essential vitamins and minerals inside a kiwi fruit.

You know, it's great stuff, great facts. And then I was just reading before, which I'm going to continue the fruit chat. You know, when you eat a pineapple and it feels like it's kind of a bit tingly, a bit, you know, in your mouth. Yeah, it makes your mouth tingle. It's because we're being stabbed by thousands of tiny needles. They're only very, very small little needles inside the pineapple, but that's what,

that's basically affecting, yeah, causing irritation while you're eating the pineapple. I thought it was like acidic or something, but no, it's just needles.

Yeah, so they're little tiny needles. Obviously, they're not, you know, causing damage to you, but yeah, it gives you an irritated

feeling on your tongue after you've eaten it. It's tiny little needles from the pineapple. Well, I'm going to continue on this fruit content. You know,

sometimes you don't even create a theme for a show, but it just happens naturally. Today's the fruit show. And it's the fruit day. Just gave away kiwi fruit, you know, with $100. Yeah. About before with Kiwi Mobile.

It's the fruit show. This is the five plus a day show. And we'll look back on this and we'll go, wow, we really went hard on fruit. But I went to a friend's place and he had a bowl full of plastic fruit. Plastic fruit. Purely decorative plastic fruit. Could you get any more redundant piece of apparatus in the decor game than plastic fruit? It's very 60s.

At some stage. It does feel like 60s. Or maybe you open home and you're like, oh, this is a fruit bowl. It was slightly dusty as well. It had been there for a while. So, I mean, dusty fruit's never appealing, is it? You know, like, how you get plastic plants these days, and they're really realistic.

Are we talking, like, would you have picked it up believing it was an apple? No, because they're all dusty. I was like, we've got some very dusty bananas and apples. Then I picked it up. I was like, why have you bothered with plastic fruit? He's like, oh, it looks good. It looks, you know, it's this aesthetic. It looks nice.

It's like a decorative pillow. Yeah, what is the point of plastic fruits for those that like the look of fruit and not consuming it? Yeah. No offense to you, mate, but that's weird. Yeah, that is completely weird. Yeah. But like you say, open home, I can handle a bowl of plastic fruit.

We're just in there. We just want the place to look nice. We'll fill like a photo. No one's going to know. Are you washing your fruit and veggies? No. There's no point. No, I'd give an apple a rub on the pants.

Right, yeah. Well, apparently it's not, it doesn't do as much as you think. No, all the chemicals are soaked in. Oh, thank God. I'm more, I've gone into the white vinegar, the white vinegar one. You soak them in white vinegar. My wife's like, why are you doing this? But I've done it as well.

Have you seen the one where everyone soaks their berries and all these little like things come out? I'm like, I don't know if that's legit or not. Or these little like tiny little creepy things, like i don't know if that's legit or not well there's little like tiny little creepy things like little bugs oh really yeah don't put that in his head that veins going on the side of his head thanks megan have a great fruit chat and you have to go ruin it oh sorry the hits the jonathan ben podcast uh they're calling this on the internet the best text that you can send to someone if they've just had a baby.

Now, Megan, you've been through this a couple of times before. Would you appreciate this text? This is from a friend who's just said, Good morning, love. I'm yours tomorrow between the hours of 12 and 3. So let me know how you'd like to use me. Here are your options. And so this friend has listed four things of choices. One, I can come hang, you can hang with the baby while I do the

laundries, bottles, cooking, buy and put away groceries. So that's option one. Option two, I can come take care of the baby while you sleep in your room alone or do something by yourself. Three, I come and take you out for lunch with or without the baby. I don't know what's happening to the baby. Leave the baby in the car. Yeah. And four, we sit on the couch and we chat or watch a funny movie with the baby. You decide. Whatever you want, just let me know.

That's so nice. Option two. I'd still take option two. Still take option two. Everyone's like copy, paste. We'll send that to producer Taylor when she has the baby. I'm not sparing three hours for Taylor though. No, it would be weird if I went out for lunch with Taylor

as well too. Marcelo comes home and is like, why is Ben here? Hugging our baby. Where are you? Yeah, true. But lovely text, isn't it? I reckon it's the best text you can send to a friend. Because a lot of people are like, oh, let me know if you need anything. And it's like throw away. You never know if they mean it.

And then you never know what to specifically ask for. They definitely don't mean it. Yeah, well, this is the case. They've said these are the times. Yeah, the times are invaluable. And you tell me what you want to do. This is what I'm willing to do. That's really good. Oh, really cool.

Good clear comms. Yeah. That's what the pregnant babes want. Yeah. That's right. Well, the former pregnant babes. Yeah. The new mothers.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Today I went and saw my daughter Indy Playing in the AIMS Games Australasia's largest Junior sporting event For intermediate school age kids It's a really really cool thing That happens in Tauranga Around about this time of year

Every year Hundreds and hundreds of kids From all over the country Playing in I think 30 different sports Sporting coats Yeah and some do come over From Australia don't they

And the islands The Pacific Islands as well. Teams from overseas as well. So really, really cool. Sponsored by Zespri. My daughter Sienna did it a couple of years ago. They come back with a whole lot of Zespri facts and propaganda as well. So they're not jacked up on protein powder, these kids.

They're jacked up on the nutrients and propaganda of kiwi fruit. Yeah, that's right. And it's awesome that Zespri support this. They come back, 16 essential vitamins and minerals and a kiwi fruit. Things like that, you know. I must be really like barrelling it into them

for them to remember the facts. They come back with little kiwi fruit spoons and stuff like that. Really into it. No, it's awesome. Now, I always get confused. Is Zespri the name

of the kiwi fruit company or is Zespri the name of kiwi fruit overseas? Oh, I think it's the company, but maybe I'm not. Because everyone calls it kiwi overseas. Yeah, I'm having a kiwi fruit overseas? Oh, I think it's the company, but maybe I'm not. Because everyone calls it kiwi overseas. Yeah, I'm having a kiwi. You're like, no.

We're people and birds. But yesterday, fortunately, the weather was good. We went down a couple of years ago, Jono and I, to watch our oldest kids take part of it. And it was shocking. My daughter had a netball outside. And netball, they just carry on. There were marquees, without a word of lie,

marquees blowing everywhere, like getting up and going. So many times I played netball, your skirt's up around your neck, and they're just like, carry on. And you're like, get out there, guys. You can do it. And they're like, oh, jeez. But I mean, when you're running a week-long tournament sponsored by Zespri, the international world's largest marketer

of kiwi fruit selling in over 50 countries. Thank you. Five days. You've got to get everything in five days. You can't have a blip in the schedule. Yeah, and the kids, they love it. I mean, it didn't matter about the weather a couple of years ago and yesterday.

It didn't matter what was going on. They just loved it. The kids, they're fizzing. We MC'd at the opening function last year, the opening ceremony. And normally when you come out, you've done MC stuff before when you come out and host something. Normally a kiwi crowd, you have to sort of warm them up right yeah often like pretty chill you have to get a few jokes in for them to make any reaction any noise not this one didn't

matter it didn't matter like we're because we all go they won't know who we are maybe you know not all of them so let's go out and come out with it didn't matter they were just physic like we even had an opening bit which we didn't need we We were like, let's pretend we're someone cooler like Taylor Swift and Harry Styles. That got a huge cheer. And then I pushed it. I came up with some YouTubers and some TikTok stars

that I thought would really hit with the kids. And I was like, let's pretend we're such and such. And they went quiet. I was like, oh, maybe I got the wrong ones. And then we were backstage

in between shows Googling who's cool TikTok two grown men and you know and they're going Charlie D'Amelio no no

okay okay is that what I call it Mr Beast yeah no I think he'll work he'll work you know so

they're like you got your one chair that's enough I know hopefully there was no recording of us googling up to date TikTok stars

but yeah that was an electric atmosphere. It was too much atmosphere by the end. You're driving home in silence going, whoo, we just got zespried hard. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. And Ellie, new producer on the show, was first introduced yesterday.

You introduced her to your morning meal, which is a combination of three different activities in one. Yeah. There's a reason you didn't call it breakfast because it kind of does encompass a few things. I have, I call it like latte bircher. So bircher is just overnight oats. So it's got oats in it.

But then I also put in some protein powder, like gains. Yeah, getting the gains. And then to make it yummy, I put in instant coffee granules. And so when I put in the milk, it makes it like a little coffee. So she's giving a coffee protein cereal. Now, I don't know if you're meant to end up strung out after eating a cereal, if this is one of the benefits. Well, because we go for an after show coffee,

and every day you're like, you're coming for a coffee. I'll go for a walk, but I won't get the coffee, because we go for an after show coffee and every day you're like, you're coming for a coffee. I'll go for a walk but I won't get the coffee because I have the coffee in my oats. Jeez, you must be jacked after that bowl of cereal. Feeling great.

Well, it's just the same as having a coffee but I'm putting it all together. Yeah, great time-saving mission. You know, together that's probably about six minutes worth of activities that you've nailed down

into one bowl. Combining them all at the same time. I do miss the act of having the hot drink though. Yeah. It makes the oats yum. You sound like you're sp down into one bowl. Combining them all at the same time. I do miss the act of having the hot drink though. It makes the oats yum. You sound like you're spiking your own breakfast. Actually, I am.

A little bit. Is that a notice of benefit for what you're doing? Like what kind of benefit? I don't know. Obviously, you're doing it for some sort of benefit. Time saving. I don't know. It's healthy and it's yum.

Yeah. Do you feel like you need a coffee now? No. No. Because you're Dilma hard, mate No She's Dilmar Hard, mate She's Dilmar Tea I have my Dilmar Coffee Because I need a coffee

Because we're all drinking Dilmar Tea, Jono The hot drink So she refuses to have coffee in liquid form now Because she's loyal to Dilmar Tea Exactly In the liquid form So 800 the hits How are you shaving some valuable minutes off your morning routine?

Can we get Producer Grace in here? Actually, she says she had something that she used to do when she had to get up early. Yeah. In theory, this is great, but I have a couple of issues. Yeah, Grace, what was it that you would do before when you were going to bed? I would, when I used to competitive dance, I had to get up early to dance. Right. So I just go to sleep in my dance clothes.

And then up and at them, straight to the dance studio. Five minutes, done. But also, you sleep for a very long time. You have like 10-hour, 12-hour sleep. You're the normal amount of sleep I have. But you're in your undies all night, right? Yeah. But then after you work out, you just get fully changed.

Unless you've got to go do something sort of physical, I guess. Yeah. So maybe you can get away with that. You know, I've heard of people like at school going, I'm going to sleep in my clothes to get up early

so I can save me 20 minutes. But I feel like that's a bit weird. Didn't your mum make you do that one? Well, we went back to, yeah, we were missing a lot of bus trips, you know, and mum was like,

we need to get it tomorrow. Actually, and mum set the alarms wrong so we got up at like two in the morning. No one realised until we were all having breakfast. All in our school uniform.

Then I went back to bed in my school clothes. Ironically missed the bus. I think we did, actually, by the time we woke up again. I get everyone's clothes out for the next day. And that kind of makes sense, particularly in the job that we're doing. When we first started this, I was all pedantic. And I got to the point where I was pre-toothpasting the toothbrush and I had to pull myself aside and say, get it together, Pryor.

I do remember my- You look like a madman. My grandparents setting the breakfast table before bed. With cereal people? How long does that take though? Not setting food out and everything, but just getting everything laid out for the morning. I'm like, mate, you've got nothing else to fill out your day. Get up and do this.

Well, Steve Jobs used to wear the same outfit every day, didn't he? Just because he didn't want to waste useless minutes on deciding what to wear. Black skivvy, some New Balance, and a pair of blue jeans. That was Jobsy, baby. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Actually, before we get into this, Raygun. I know there's been a lot of things said about the Australian breakdancer.

Guess what? She's officially the number one breakdancer in the world. Officially. How? She got zero points at the Olympics. Apparently the Olympics don't count towards the world rankings for the month of September. Just based on competitions alone and all her results, she's the number one. She's the number one seed.

She's the number one seed, yeah. But based on the competitions that were done through the month of September. Why did she try that at the Olympics? She's obviously pretty good. She obviously knows what she's doing. Why didn't she do one of those routines? Based on competitions that were through September. September, based on results through September, yeah.

So it's the first 10 days of September. Has she still been entering breakdown? Sorry, for September. So, yeah, so it must have been through August. Oh, right. Yeah. I was like, after the Olympics, she went and entered another competition. No, I don't think she's done that yet.

Hasn't got the confidence. Wait, you said in the world, eh? Yeah, the world. Yeah. Number one. Yeah. Despite her last place in Paris, she's ranked number one

based on competition, sorry, up until September. She needs to embrace this and get some pretty big deals, sponsorship deals. I saw her on a boat, actually, with Richard Branson. She was like, yeah, and they were breakdancing together

on launching like a Virgin cruise ship boat, and they danced into the water together. I feel like that's a video that should have been on the group chat. Yeah, and I was like, well, she's obviously Richard Branson. She's leveled up already. She's like, wow. She's an individual. She's doing her own thing.

I was like, yeah. Was she doing her prawn dance? No, not really. The kangaroo. They's doing her own thing. And they're doing it. I was like, yeah. Was she doing her prawn dance? No, not really. The kangaroo. They kind of just danced together. I'm glad good is coming out of it. Exactly. And after this international mocking and bullying that just went on,

now we are talking how you're saving valuable minutes in your morning. Megan. I've got protein shake. I've got breakfast. And I've got my coffee all in one. And my little latte oats. Caffeinated cereal. Maybe that's what they were trying to do with those meth lollies a couple of weeks ago.

To put them together. I wouldn't mind a lolly, but also to feel very strung out at the end of the lolly sucking process. Let's go to the phones. Oh God, I just hung up on Sarah. Sorry, Ellie. My big fat fingers. Say to her, Ellie. I feel like this is something that Ben would do.

Have you got any awesome routines in the morning? I do get the clothes ready the night before. Do you? Yeah. I used to do that. Because also I don't want to be turning on heaps of lights through the bedroom as well, so I can't put them in the bathroom ready to go.

Sometimes it's quite thrilling getting dressed in the dark, though. Like today, for example, I've got a pair of socks on, there's underpants. You never quite know what's happening. Sarah, good morning. Sorry I hung up on you before, mate. That's all right, that's all right. Very rude.

You're saving valuable minutes in the morning. How, mate? Yes, I do the virtual music like Megan. Nice. Without the coffee. You should try it. Nice. Without the coffee. You should try it. Oh, really?

Okay. And I make the kids lunches the night before, and I put a load of washing on a timer, so it's all done when I get it out of the shower, so I'm ready to hang it out. Yeah, see, what you're describing is we're all in this period where you're doing peak life, peak adulting. Yeah. You know, fast forward 30 years down the track,

we're just going to be filling up our days, you know? Like right now, we're like, it's so busy, you've got to do all this stuff the night before. But we could stretch out, you know, eating breakfast to a four-hour exercise in about 30 years. I can't wait for that. What have you got on the agenda today, Sarah? You sound like a busy person.

On my way to work, I'm a teacher. Got to get Ketua on the agenda today, Sarah? You sound like a busy person. On my way to work. I'm a teacher. Got to get petrol on the way. Just drop the kids off to the bus in school. And then, yeah, work, I guess. There's a lot going on. There's a lot. Petrol's another ball lake, isn't it?

Yeah. Never a good time. No. Well, you have a great day, Sarah. Appreciate your call. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. They're talking to you guys about insurance a lot recently. Banging on, isn't he? Pet insurance, waste of money,

travel insurance. They're not even paying me back. Oh, you know, I've been dealing with insurance stuff and I'm like, you need some form of insurance, but how much do you actually need? Yeah, we're going to expose the insurance industry right now because from Consumer NZ, we've got Abby Damon. Your thoughts on this?

Yeah, I love that you've asked this. Is it a necessity or is it a rip-off is it good is it bad i know you're not going to like me saying it's going to depend but it is going to depend because we're all exposed to different risks and we've all got different comfort levels with risk but if the worst happens and you were liable to pay out, are you able to afford it? Are you comfortable taking on that liability? If you're not, then it's worth getting insurance. My degree of comfort changes depending on the cost of living. So like prior, I would have been like, yeah, okay, I'll pay for all these insurances. But now, because it's not like a tangible thing, it feels like the first thing that you would get rid of. Megan, you reflect and represent so many people in New Zealand right now too.

There's kind of like three levels of insurance, three kind of types of insurance that we would I guess flag or highlight as being those really basic necessity ones because car insurance has increased by up to 40% in the last couple of years. Wow. And even though it might, yeah, it's huge. And it might feel like, ah, I just need to get rid of that. Actually just dropping at least to that third party fire and theft is probably the bare minimum.

And we'd really recommend people do that because if you hit a Tesla, you're going to have to pay for the panel beating. In my mind, I was like, if I hit a Ferrari. Yeah. Like, damn. Exactly. you're going to have to pay for the panel beating In my mind I was like if I had a Ferrari I'm like damn Exactly So you're like third party car insurance bare minimum everyone needs that insurance. Is that the only insurance

we need or we need other cover? If you own a home having house insurance I think you'll find banks will require that you have house insurance when you get a mortgage. So those, yeah, car and house, important, but obviously that's for car owners and homeowners. There's one more that I think is like a little golden nugget, contents insurance.

So this might be a bit more relevant for people who are renting, but it's not actually just about like covering your dust. You're going to have to look into the detail of the policy. So I always recommend doing that with a glass of wine or something on a Sunday to make it a bit more bearable because it is a bit of work. Under a lot of content policies, there may be a personal liability cover. What that's going to do is it might be like, it will insure you for like a ridiculous sum of maybe up to $2 million or something. If one of those really freak accidents happened, like you were biking and you knocked someone's car and damaged it.

Or we actually had this incredible story from a member who, whose pet caused an accident and you're actually responsible for whose pet caused an accident. And you're actually responsible for your pet causing an accident. What was the accident? The pet ran out onto the road and the car swerved and the car had a fence. And yeah, the owner is responsible for fixing the damage to the car and the fence. Pet insurance didn't cover it, of course, but they had personal liability cover in their contents

insurance, and so that was able to cover those payouts. So yeah, it's a golden, it's a little golden nugget. That is great. But you, RIP to the dog. Oh, probably could have left that part out. No, we needed that. We needed full closure. And so what,

double kicking the guts, the dog dies, and by And so what? A double kick in the guts. The dog dies. By the way, you've got to foot the bill. Well, thank you for your honesty as well, speaking from your personal thoughts. I appreciate that. Takeaways? Takeaways.

So get basic, basic car minimum. If you own a house, you've got to have house insurance, which I think is a mandatory for the banks anyway. And then third one, you're sort of saying contents insurance, which also with the golden goose egg of liability in there. Yes, and just make sure you actually look into your policy. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Yes, there's a way for the week. I went down for this.

Now the problem is, I'm blessed because Oscar plays basketball, indoor game. Netball, you're out in the elements. Well, there are indoor netball courts. I know, but not for this age group. Yeah, yesterday, fortunately, great day. Great day. So that was good. But what wasn't so great is when I arrived, because my wife's a teacher,

and she's deep in the trenches of organising. She's away for the week organising the teams as well. So some of the teachers have to go down. I love it how teachers are all of a sudden assumed to be great netball coaches, rugby coaches. Just everything. Just everything. Plus managing kids and food and all sorts.

And all the time outside of school. But she's gone now. She actually really enjoys that sort of thing and helping out with the kids. But she was on the court. I'd arrived. And I saw her just across the court when I arrived. And I thought, well, instead of texting her or yelling out, I'll take a photo of me just kind of pointing and winking at camera and then I'll send it to her.

I'll send it to her. And it came up airdrop because I was within the range of an airdrop. So now you're a tight ass, you'll save 20 cents on a text. Yeah, true. So I thought, I'll airdrop that to Amanda. Amanda's phone did come up on my airdrop. But just, I don't know what happens. Sometimes when you go to airdrop, other ones suddenly come through.

Yeah, yeah. Last minute surprise. Just as you pressed. Yeah, and I think Emily's airdrop just popped up just in the spot that Amanda's airdrop was, and I clicked airdrop. Can you un-airdrop an airdrop? I don't think so.

Immediately, I'm like, how old is Emily? Because you are pointing and winking, and you're at an airdrop. True, true. I'm Emily how old is Emily because you are pointing and winking and you're at an Emily's house I'm Emily's mother the best scenario you could have is Emily's a fully grown woman and even that's not a great scenario so yeah

and I was like oh god what are you doing, now I thought I could see some people sort of turning around and looking on one side of the court. I'm like, definitely that could be the area. Another lady over there. But then what do you do? I can't really message this person and say,

hey, look, that was me. I just saw this lady sort of looking around. Send another airdrop being like, oh, sorry. Sorry, wrong person. Sorry face. So I just sort of put my hood up and just sort of,

which again is not a great look on the devil's face. The pest sending photos of himself on AirDrop. AirDrop is one of those things that we just take for granted. Yeah. It just works. And now you can bang your bloody phones together. Have you done that? It's Bluetooth, isn't it?

I don't know, mate. Witchcraft. It's wild to me. Isn't it? You can just set, it feels like a very powerful tool that the average mother should not be in control of. No, you're right. You've done the thing where you bang your phone together

and they go... It's like, oh, okay. Calm down. Easy. Just don't bang your phone with a non-compatible phone, though, because that's embarrassing. Oh, really? Because you keep banging.

The Apple and the Samsung, they're like romeo and juliet never meant to be never meant to be together the hits the jonah and ben podcast now you two have uh what i would say probably one of the more aggravating cell phone cell phone features uh both of you have attached rubbery suction pads to the back of your phones. Little octopus suckers. And it sounds like Velcro. And all morning, when they pull their phone off the desk, obviously the suction caps make this ripping noise. And what's the purpose of those things?

Stick it in anything. Yeah, you can put your phone up. Like if you're doing navigation in your car, you can just chuck your phone up and it will stay on the dashboard sort of thing. Also, as a mum of toddlers, my son can't pick up the phone because it's suckered to the table. So it's locked down. If you're filming yourself,

you can put it up on something. You still got a Velcro wallet? No, I haven't. I have a Simpsons wallet, but it's not Velcro. He's upgraded. He's grown up. Well, my kid's got a treehouse

of horror Simpsons. I was going to say, could we shut our eyes and could we tell the difference between the Velcro ripping and the cell phone? Yeah, I do miss my Velcro sometimes. Added layer of security. Yeah, it does. It actually ties into what we're about to talk about because Ben loves to save a penny.

And he witnessed something the other day. I thought it was a great play by this particular person. Oh, great play. Someone going to a cafe close to work and be wayoing not just a hot drink. I'm guessing it was a coffee in a mug from work, but also a bowl of cereal. And sitting down. Having like a meeting outside. Yeah, outside the cafe.

But interestingly, you hit them up. You were like, bold move. I was just like, hey, because we work in the same place. I was like, are you taking that? And they're like,

yeah. Yeah, I'm not inside, outside. He hit them up going, oh, is this a thing I can do? That's what he wanted to figure out.

Other people were obviously making purchases at the cafe. So that was the, that was the. And their difference too was they were sitting outside, right? Yeah,

sitting outside. Still in the chairs and tables owned by the cafe you're a cafe owner you're always trying to screw us down that is so rude it's so rude to turn up $5.50 coffee

how much do you want to put them up it's the milk you're sitting there too long on your laptop sir you need to leave there are so many retailers and restaurants going under because of the price of everything. Yeah, I know. You turn up with your bloody cereal and coffee,

take it up the space of someone who could be paying. Other people in the group, though, were paying. It's just rude. Well, anyway, that's not the debate right now. It's very on brand for this person. The debate right now is not about whether brand For this person The debate right now Is not about Whether this is written

It's about BYO hacks It's like having Your own little picnic At the cafe It's like I love the atmosphere Of McDonald's

Me taking my own toast To eat breakfast At McDonald's Same sort of thing Exactly Would you do that No What about with

If you had Like if adults Were dining somewhere Like say when you Had the cafe but then I brought in my kid and the kid's got food from somewhere else. We were fine with that. Okay. Some places aren't though, eh?

You can't bring outside food. Yeah. What if he buys his kid a Fluffy and then he's brought in his own panini? Yeah. Can he eat a panini in your cafe? No. You can't. You can't? You can't?

You already know the answer to that. Is there laws surrounding this? Well, also because there's issues with, there's so many regulations around food and serving food to people that if you bring in your own food and then suddenly you get sick and then you blame us

but it could have been the food that you bought. There's all that kind of thing. Okay. All right. Good argument from the cafe industry. Okay, BYO confessionals. Where have you bought food or drink into? Yeah.

Okay. Sports games would be one. A lot of people. My dad used to make me walk beers through in a backpack when I was young. He's like, no one's going to check the kid. Oh my gosh. No one's going to check the kid for beers. Great smuggling technique.

They could have taken you internationally with that theory. They could have really made some money. Yeah. Okay. And you saw someone in the movie theater. Yeah, someone bought a that theory. They could have really made some money. And you saw someone in the movie theatre. Yeah, someone brought in KFC. And I wasn't mad about it. I just really wanted some because the whole cinema just smelled like it.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Talking BYO, confessionals, can you bring stuff, outside food. My wife's told me off bringing popcorn from home to the movies before, so I don't do it anymore. How often were you getting away with it before I've done it once or twice she's like

it's so embarrassing I feel like popcorn's embarrassing but like you could buy like lollies and stuff and put them in your bag but what frustrates me

about the movie industry is there's no prices like put some prices up on the next to the tangy fruits yeah just like I don't know

what anything costs and again they'll go this is a deal I'm like cool but what is it just if I want to buy just the... Itemise everything. Individualise. It's like the airport.

Then they put the price on it. I'm like, $36. How were you smuggling popcorn in? Just in a backpack, mate. Would you take your Simpsons backpack? Yeah, whatever. I'm often taking backpacks with me. Is it microwave stuff that you've popped?

No, it's just like a bag of popcorn. Oh, okay. Thank God. It's not smelling out the thing. But I don't do it anymore i buy from legitimate purposes okay yeah so ben yesterday that was very impressive he witnessed someone from work going across the road to the cafe with their own coffee and their own cereal to sit outside at the cafe i'm like is this an option yeah no power move absolute power move

i'm not that's someone saying i'm not going to adhere to your little cafe rules. You're against it. I used to own a cafe. I'm so against it. Real douchebag move. Douchebag move. You'd be a douchebag if you did that. Now, I don't know that.

What have you BYO'd? It's the BYO confessional. We're going to get Shannon on. Good morning to you. Hey, good morning. Yeah, how are you? Good morning. Yes. How are you going, mate? Ah, sweet as, eh?

Yeah? Okay, well, confess. Shannon, what have you BYO'd? Well, we're on, my family and I were on a road trip down the line. We were leaving from Pukikohe and we ordered our meals up before we left.

We stopped in at KFC to have a feed before we left Pukikohe. And while we ordered our meals and that, my aunties and that went to sit at our tables, pulled the tables together because there was quite a few of us, and got our meals, brought it back to the table, and my auntie pulls out those countdown shopping bags, put that on the table and pulls out a

smoked fish, a loaf of bread, a block of butter and starts making sandwiches. In the middle of KFC? Yeah. Wow. I love it. You've chosen a really In the middle of KFC? Yeah. Wow.

I love it. Yeah. You've chosen a really, like, intense smelling food too. Smoked fish. I'm not a fan of smoked fish. Did you get that from here? KFC, they'll be like, oh, yeah. The colonel's like, I've never seen this meat. What are you bringing into my chicken establishment?

The chicken of the sea. How'd that end up? Did they kick you out or did they let her eat it? No, well, we were asked to put it away and my aunties and they refused. So we ended up

packing all the food up into the countdown bag and moved out into the car park. She refused to pack her stinky fish away. I like it. Sticking her ground.

That's great, Shannon. I appreciate your call. Such a great call. Have a great day. Give me some Hell Pizza, eh? You can take that anywhere you like. Take your Hell Pizza to McDonald's and eat it in there, all right? Have a good one.

Appreciate that. Some great texts coming through too. The movies. I'm always sneaking food into the movies. I often take food into cafes for my kids. They're allergic to peanuts. However, I do buy from the cafes, says his mum. I'm okay with that.

You're okay with that? Kids are funny. They're probably not going to eat, I do buy from the cafe, says his mum. I'm okay with that. You're okay with that? You know, kids are funny. And they're probably not going to eat a lot at the cafe anyway. As long as someone, you know, as long as the parents are funny. Are you all right with me ordering off the kids' menu? We were okay with that, but I know a lot of people are not. We used to bring our own refill wine bottles onto the ferry and would drink on the way home from work.

Is that a thing? Like your own refill bottles of, refill bottles, what was that? Just like a plastic bottle you fill up with wine. You can take that onto the ferry, the inter-islander. Oh, okay. No, I don't think you can take it on there. I think they were, but I don't think you can. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We were just talking about Kate Middleton who, you know, felt like the world was kind of bullying her for like a Photoshop photo. Remember that? And they were like, what's going on? And then she said. Where is she? I don't think the world was bullying Kate. I think we were like, where is she?

We thought the royal family had kidnapped her and hidden her away in some cupboard. There was also the affairs, rumours of affairs and all sorts going on. It was like everyone just take a breath. We went down a rabbit hole. Then we accused William of having a fear of some poor lady. Rose Hanbury. It was a different time. Okay, so anyway.

A couple of months ago. We're past that. I'm sorry for bringing that back up. But she announced that she said they had cancer and she was fighting that. That's why she'd been out of the public eye. Well, there's been some good news. She's released a video. I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed

my chemotherapy treatment. The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family. Life as you know it can change in an instant. She's so sweet sounding, isn't she?

And the video is the family off together. They're in the woods. They're sort of, you know, playing cards and things like that. And, you know, it's great. Great news. But then the internet's

piled on it. The internet has decided that the video is unrelatable. She's talking about her cats. The video, it looks like it's been shot nicely in a cinematic way. Sorry for making a

nice piece of content for you to look at. Pouring her heart out, Kate Middleton. Let's remember that she's still dealing with cancer. That's relatable. Leave her alone. Yeah, okay. Well, I don't think any of us are ever going to relate to the Royals, though. So what makes this any different?

We're still going through card games and cricket games and stuff like that, and they're doing some family stuff. They are a family, after all. Sometimes the internet just needs to... The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We've been actually on an Australian radio show last week talking about Miley Cyrus' amazing voice. And this is the way he described Miley's voice. I always love Miley.

I love the voice, man. That voice. Like no one's like. She sounds like an ashtray. Yeah. She does sound like an ashtray. Have you seen those videos Where people were like She's talking

And then they cut to like a dog Going But he was saying it the best possible way So her voice is very very cool and unique Yeah You were listening to a podcast with her And her public persona is obviously Shambolic

Tongue out Straddling bloody wrecking balls She went through that period didn't she Yeah Now I don't like it that she calls herself old now because she's like 30, but she said that's not what she's like at all. She's actually very organized.

Not the public perception is I'm very logical. I'm very organized. You are. And like very kind of center. And so I love lists. My world would be wrecked if I didn't make lists. That's brilliant. Every day I have a list of what do I want?

How am I going to achieve it, what's the next step. Talk to me, Marley. It's Ben. It's Ben Boyce. That is Ben's pornography right there. Keep talking lists. I knew I liked Marley Cyrus and now I know why. Imagine if you two were a couple.

There would just be lists of everywhere you'd get. You'd be knocking stuff off your to-do lists. That's great, Liss. It really helps. It really does help. She did say she likes activities-driven people as well. Oh, Miley. You and her would be busy at the weekend.

Just never sitting down once. Actually, speaking of which, I admitted you were away yesterday, Ben, at Ames Games watching your daughter play netball, but I admitted something yesterday. A very depressing start to the week for me. It was one of those days where life was just 7% harder than it needed to be. I don't even know why you have those mornings. And so halfway through the shower, I just sat down.

Sat down. Sat down in the shower. On the floor? On the floor. Crouch, you know, in the fetal. You know, you've got your knees up by your thing and you're sort of huddling yourself and you're just staring at the foggy, steamed up glass in the shower. And Megan found this very amusing.

I did. I was like, this is usually a hungover thing or very late at night after you've been out steamed up glass in the shower. And Megan found this very amusing. I did. I was like, this is usually a hungover thing or very late at night after you've been out or something. Are you picturing Gollum? Like Gollum? Oh, yeah, now. Lord of the Rings. He sort of crawls and sort of like.

That's all I've got. The see-through skin. The lack of hair. You know life's hit rock bottom when you're sitting in a shower, don't you? Especially on your start to the day, you know, starting the week. But anyway, I'm sure some people would do it from time to time. It kind of feels like a bath except you forgot to put the plug in.

Huge waste of water bath, isn't it? I used to love it as a kid, like when we used to have a bath that had a shower that went into it. Oh, a shub. And yeah, well, no, it was a full bath, but then it would have the shower on. It was all two in one. So when you'd have a bath every now and again, you'd put on the shower and you'd feel like you were kayaking down like a waterfall. I was a very strange kid with a big imagination.

But as an adult, how often are you sitting down in the shower then? Oh, never. No. Have you ever sat in the shower now? No. No. Things to do. No, yeah, I couldn't remember.

He's got Miley banging at the door. Come on, we've got stuff to do. No, definitely not. Okay. You don't strike me as an activities in the shower type of guy. No, I don't know. There's no limited activities without, okay. Brushing your teeth?

No, no, not brushing my teeth. Have you ever eaten in the shower? No, my wife said M&M's in the shower before. She was like, it's really good because she's like that hot water and it kind of melts it a little bit as well. She said it was really good. Will you tell us the activities you do in the shower? We can't keep guessing.

Why don't you just come out and tell us? He took a photo that one time in the shower to send to me. Oh, he did actually. That was the only time I really pushed the boundaries of soap and shampoo and commiser. He was a big adamant that he was adamant he was a feet washer, and so he's like, oh, send a photo to Megan of me washing my feet. Yeah, that's right. Not realizing that the basin sort of area, the drain is reflective.

The plug hole was reflective. And I was like, oh, jeez. Almost sent that one away. I'm so glad you double checked. It was not a fittering photo, that's for sure. His wrecking balls. Okay. Oh, wait, I don't know the hits.

Let's shut this open. What have you done in the shower? Are you eating in the shower? I'm eating watermelon because it's cold. It's nice. It's cold and hot shower. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

Talking about shower habits. A lot of text coming through of people enjoying a nice cold beer at the end of a long day at work. It is the cold. I'd have a whiskey. A whiskey in the shower. A whiskey in the shower. But like it's the cold with the hot.

I get that because I've eaten like watermelon in the shower. That's good stuff. A lot of people love singing in the shower too. See acoustics. Yeah, is it acoustics? I imagine Jenny Boyce would be a singer in the shower, your mum. Yeah,

mum's, because mum's up north, and so they're all about, you know, she's on tank water and stuff like that, so you have to shower with a bucket. What did you say? Oh,

so you, so like any water, and then that water gets put into the garden and stuff later, you know, which is good, but it just kind of wears me out. My mum does that too. Like if we have buckets next year.

You fill up the bucket while the water gets hot? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So it's all just like showering. And then do you just chuck the soapy water on the garden? Yeah, in the garden and stuff. You just have a garden riddled with pubes. I like to have a shower with the lights off,

like a shower in the dark. That seems dangerous, like pitch black. What do you mean? Dangerous. You can't see where you're going. It's not like running around. Like I know where the shower is. I turn it on and then.

You know where all the important parts are that you need to work on. Right. So this is just like a relaxing sort of thing. Yeah. So like sometimes if it's a really bad like bedtime parade with the kids and they're like crazy, after you put them to bed, I'm like, I need no sensories. So like turn off the lights and have like a dark shower it's really good stuff

now this is also you like things doing there without being able to see you brush your teeth with your eyes closed as well actually weird

maybe there's something maybe we've got to one of those dinner ones where you eat in the dark no but I really want to but I'm also terrible at spilling

stuff all over myself so that's you'll be knocking over wine glasses do they give you a bib? I don't know I've never been to one

I've had friends That have been to one But yeah They say it's a really cool Unique experience But your whole time I'll be like What am I eating?

What's this thing? What's the napkin? How do you find the food On the plate? You're just going to use your hands Where's my mouth again? Let's get Cody on How are you this morning Cody?

Good morning guys How's it going? Our friend in Wellington How is Welly this morning mate? It's actually quite a nice day today so far. You know, on Friday, someone phoned through this hour and said it's a really nice day and I was like, how do you know it's a nice day? Assuming, because we're locked away in a studio, that it's pitch black darkness out there.

But it is getting light. Oh, you can see it's light outside. We're right in the middle of a building. We're not close to anyone. Is it pure daylight out there, is it, Cody? It's not quite, the sun hasn't quite come up yet, but it's about to. Yeah.

Okay, mate, shower habits. What are we doing in the shower? So I used to be in a group chat with a bunch of boys and they all used to have shower beers. It was quite a common occurrence. Most nights I'd have one or two in the shower. How long are the showers? I love that you had a group chat set up for this.

There's a few other people that used to watch TV shows. They'd just stick their phone on the shelf and watch Netflix or something like that. That's a good hack. That sounds good. That sounds like a huge waste of water to you. A bath or something. Maybe you can watch a show, but a shower.

Yeah. Okay. Hey, Cody, thanks so much. You want some hell pizza? Yeah, yeah. If you guys are giving it away. Yeah, we'll hook you up some hell pizza. And in the shower.

Yeah, we could. Pizza in the shower. Hasn't been done before. Or pizza. Doesn't seem like it's the right thing. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Olympics has wrapped up now.

We've had the Olympics in Paris, the Paralympics as well. Congratulations to Anna Grimaldi from New Zealand winning a gold in the 200 metres over the weekend. But it's all wrapped up, the Olympics and the torch that we started towards the end

of the Paris Olympics that we thought would be a fun sort of one or two day thing. When the batteries run out, you could win $500 if you guess correctly. Thought it would be all over and done with. Well, this torch is still going, or has been still going. Now, it's your stock standard. You would have seen in the supermarket the dolphin,

the yellow dolphin with the handle. The emergency torch that you want in your civil defence kit. Yep, you'd use that in the... Jeez, have you got a civil defence emergency kit I did buy I did buy one in the garage barricade all the things sort of expired yeah my daughter's doing a project on at school the amount of water that you need to have oh really oh crazy like everyone needs each person needs to have like five litres of water available a day and for a week I'm like where am I storing this water oh jeez someone's said you need to have a pool full of water.

Anyway, dog-legging there. But yes, the torch has been on for over a month. I think it'll be a month on Wednesday. Yeah, it will be. A month on Wednesday. A month tomorrow. Guys, guys. I'm not pranking you.

What are we going to do? Because someone did joke that it could last a year. Well, yeah, if it's the LED something. Apparently that goes on for a while. That was what the battery experts had told us. So we have not turned this torch off for over a month, well, for pretty much a month, and it's still going. Well, it has been up until yesterday, but it's...

How is this not a news story? We called the New Zealand Herald. They weren't interested when we were two weeks deep. Maybe now. Maybe now. Maybe try again. Megan, do you want to go check it out? Yeah.

At reception. Take the phone. We'll cross live to Megan. Gunjan, the wonderful head of security here at the company, has been looking after that torch as if it was a baby. Every day he pulls it out from underneath the desk. I need to ask Gunjan. Actually, ask Gunjan if he's turning it off, turning it on.

If he's pranking us. Maybe he is because I feel like everyone's quite suspicious of each other, right? Everyone's like, are you turning it off? Are you putting new batteries in?

But you can head to the Hits Breakfast on the Facebook page and just put in a guess as to when you think the torch will run out. It's like one of those 122-year-olds

who just wants to die this torch. But it's not. It keeps living. Megan, where are we at and jan is the torch going oh my god the torch is still going uh have you been turning it off and on again he said no he wouldn't do that is it brighter is it less bright? What's it do? The same consistency?

I say this every time, though. It looks like it's more dim to me. Gunjan agrees. He says it's getting dimmer. Oh, it is getting dimmer. So we're getting hopefully close to giving away that $500. Yeah. Fingers crossed.

Turn off the life support, I say. Did you get the David Seymour bill in this? Two weeks more. Who said that? Two weeks? Good job. He's got maybe one or two more weeks. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, mate. It is shining bright. He's shining it over here into the studio. It's still got a bit of light.