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Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea.
Hey, Friday night, went along to a dance recital.
My daughter Poppy, heavily into dance,
and a large part of her time is sitting outside dance studios,
attending dance events, but it's beautiful.
It's wonderful to see that she's passionate about something.
That's great.
Yeah, that's what you want your kids to be, passionate about.
Keep them off the bloody streets and off the ram rating, that's what I want your kids to be passionate about. Keep them off the bloody streets
and off the ram rating.
That's what I've always said.
Off the vapes.
Off the vapes.
Off the TikToks.
But in this hall
and the Warriors are on,
obviously,
and I could feel
a lot of anxious fathers
just, you know,
when's this?
I have shaky legs
and watch checking.
Because it's eight o'clock
kickoff for the Warriors
on Saturday.
So a little bit later,
I imagine maybe it would have
played into the hands of the people. Well, it did leave a little bit of carrot. You're like, oh, we the Warriors on Saturday. So a little bit later, I imagine maybe it would have played into the hands.
Well, it did leave a little bit of a carrot.
You're like, oh, we can get this done and get home.
You know, you could feel the tension in the room.
But it's...
Was there anyone with phones out?
Could you see anyone?
No, well, here's the problem.
Because generally we like to sit a few rows back.
Because some of the dancers,
my son, Oscar,
he'll turn to me and go,
I don't know where to put my eyes right now and I'm like just stare at the ground son
Oh right and the way they're dancing
The way they're dancing, the outfits
but we were front row
there was nowhere to hide so I couldn't see if anyone was on
their phone watching the Warriors but
there's a lot of staring at the ceiling, a lot of staring at the ground
You shouldn't be watching the Warriors unless you're like
I'm watching the Warriors mate
But then also you're in a position where you don't be watching the Warriors. Unless you're like, oh, I'm watching the Warriors, mate.
But then also you're in a position where you don't want to be rude.
These people have worked hard on their routine.
Yeah, so it's watching your daughter.
So I kind of go between ceiling, floor, watch a bit of dance,
your sort of eyes all over the place.
Just keep things safe.
But something happened over the microphone, and I think this is probably one of the top ten worst things
that can happen to any human being,
is when your car registration's called out.
Oh, yeah.
Who's driving an NQ4878 Hilux?
And you're like, uh-oh, what's the Hilux sign?
If you could please move your car at the moment.
And then they get into the next song.
Now, obviously, the person who's owning the vehicle, they don't want to get up
in front of everyone because then you know who's
that person's getting up in a hurry. Who's responsibly
parked so no one gets up after the
next song. Registration
in Q4. We've called the
towing service.
Now at this point I'm like, bro, you've got to move
that thing. You've got to stand up
walk out, don't care. Even if you stand up
walk out, drive off, don't come back.
Yeah.
You know, tell your daughter or whoever's dancing,
they can just Uber home.
But then the next song plays, comes back again.
Listen, at this point, I'm like, you need to move your car.
The tow truck's on the way.
And then she names the crime.
She's like, you've parked across the principal's car,
but the principal can't get out, has had
a long week of work, wants to
go home on a friend. You're blocking them
in.
So now we know the principal's not staying to watch
the dance recital. He's like, I'm out.
I'm out.
He's home for the Warriors.
It was actually a
drama. And what happened in the
latest series of, oh, is this guy's car
going to get towed?
Boom, some gentleman runs out, couldn't hold on any longer.
And I don't know if he returned.
And she's like, all right, well, here's the Danny Burke Dance Academy's
rendition of My Neck, My Back.
And the towing issue was solved.
If you know, you know.
That's when you were like, oh, my car's actually parked down there as well.
I'm going to move it.
Everyone moved here.
Just so you know.
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Speaking of pools.
Speaking of public pools.
You were telling us before the show.
You're going to hate this, Ben.
So I went to a hotel over the weekend.
It was my birthday.
And so we had a little steak.
And I don't generally like public swimming pools.
I'm scared of the plasters and the hairs and stuff floating.
It's just like one big human soup.
Exactly.
You're pretty much all having a bath together.
Yeah, but there's so much.
I do that.
You don't let it get into your head.
There's so much chlorine running through that thing that I think we're going to be fine.
Certainly don't let that water get into your head.
Ears. Don't put your head under.
Kids do, though.
Kids do.
They don't care.
Yeah, they're fine.
But I decided at the weekend I was going to go into, like, the hotel spa, which is really big.
About 20 people can fit into it.
Oh, yeah.
So a lot of skin cells.
I know.
And someone turned on the jets, and, you know, when the bubbles have, like soupy looking you're like oh there's a
lot of chlorine anyway so i'm already a bit of a germaphobe in that sense sitting there with 20
other people and in the corner is a guy uh i don't know i i have no idea where he was from maybe it
was some kind of accent i don't recognize but i was like maybe this is what they do do the accent
no is it important to the story are you doing like a boomer? No, but I was like, maybe.
What you say.
Maybe this, what he was doing is like more acceptable.
Oh, gotcha.
Okay.
I love it when your parents tell a story,
then they whisper the race of the person.
And you're like, well, does that have any bearing of what?
No, not normally, right?
No.
So yeah, maybe it's more acceptable.
But he was sitting there with his kid.
I would say probably about nine years old.
And the kid's sitting on his lap.
And he starts squeezing the dad's pimples.
Oh, the kid does?
In the spa.
I thought the kid was doing it.
We're all sitting in the spa
Squeezing
Not one
It went on for like five minutes
And everyone's kind of just looking
Being like
Oh grim
Like where is
Where's the juice going
Where's the juice going
Conflicted
Conflicted emotions about this
Because I actually google
And YouTube
Videos of that
Oh you enjoy it don't you
Huge fan
Find it very relieving viewing Yes To watch But not bathe in No and YouTube videos of that. Oh, you enjoy it, don't you? Huge fan.
Find it very relieving viewing.
Yes, to watch but not bathe in.
No.
No, I hear that. Although Jono, you were not on the show at the time,
but Jono got called out.
Someone had witnessed Jono poolside cutting his toenails.
Are you joking?
Trimming his toenails.
No, apparently not.
I mean, yeah.
Wait, what?
They rang up, they're like, oh, they saw Jono walk past
and was sitting by the pool
and he was trimming his toenails.
Like, into the pool?
I don't know if he was trimming it into the pool, but.
No, some context here.
Yeah, yeah, not into the pool, but.
I was on a chair and I was like, well, I'm doing nothing else here.
I may as well do some maintenance, some body, because, you know, you're just sitting there
on a chair doing nothing.
You've probably got your.
Yeah.
You're an efficient guy.
You got your dogs out for the first time this summer, right?
You'll have a look.
You're like, oh, yeah, maybe they do need a cut.
I get it.
I get it.
But I'd probably go into a bathroom situation.
Did you catch the clippings?
They were all going onto a sort of a tiled grassy...
No!
Yeah.
And it was a hits list of two.
She phoned up and she's like, my daughter.
My daughter texted me and said, don't come to the pool.
Jono is cutting his toenails because she has a morbid fear of seeing toenails.
You're just letting them ping everywhere.
They're not pinging.
In a public space.
Oh, God.
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I want to play a little game with you, obviously.
It brings the world together, an event like this,
which is the very special thing about the Olympics.
We're all engaged in one event.
That's very cool.
Yeah.
Thinking how many billion people live in the world.
But obviously there's loads of commentators and journalists from around the globe.
And I'm going to play a little game with you, okay?
I've nibbed some commentary here.
And you have to tell me what sport is being commentated on.
Okay.
Good luck to you.
Okay.
The first one I will tell you is not actually an Olympic sport.
It's a little clue.
Okay.
Alright, take it away.
This is a good exercise.
They...
Oh!
It's coming!
Wow!
It's coming!
It's coming!
So beautiful!
It is in Chinese.
Oh!
So beautiful!
So hot! Woohoo! It is in Chinese.
No respect for the microphone or the distortion.
It sounds like slaps.
Remember that game you used to play?
Oh, yeah.
When you slap someone else's hand.
It was Formula One, wasn't it? It was Formula One.
I thought it was like a Chinese version like a radio show where everyone's just talking
all over each other at the same time and laughing loudly john i've been a megan of uh yeah of china
yeah yeah uh so it was formula one i really appreciate the energy levels there yeah great
just bring down the mics a touch yeah right okay here's the next one
it's norwegian It's Norwegian.
That's great, Tommy.
They're really into it.
If you're listening to it, you're picking a race.
Yeah.
Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick.
Is it like some sort of relay race or what is it?
Cycling.
Who knew cycling could be so high energy?
Something quite adorable and affable about international commentary, isn't it?
And here's the last one for you.
This is a little gimme.
Okay, low-hanging fruit here. Goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal,
goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal,
goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal,
goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, goal, Goal! Goal! Goal! España! España!
What do you reckon Megan?
You reckon it's some sort of goal for Spain?
Spain?
Maybe? I don't know.
He's really pushing something across the finish line.
Brass sounds like he's on a loop.
He does.
That'll be back tomorrow, the international commentary game.
What was it?
It was football.
Oh, was it football? I didn't know that.
He said goal about 82 times for Spain.
That's what he was saying.
Someone else has slipped into your DMs, Megan.
Yeah, so if you ever have a conundrum and you want
the whole country to weigh in on it,
we do it anonymously.
Take your private issue public. Like, should we
play a parody song to the artist?
That's something we could come into your DMs for.
Yeah, you can slide into my DMs like this person has.
Obviously, again, anonymous.
But yeah, let us know what you think and what they should do.
I have a best friend from primary school.
We grew up together as mates and are still close to this day.
I was the best man at his wedding.
Our wives have become close and so have our kids.
Both our families still go on holiday together.
So that's the context of the relationship.
Here's what happened.
Recently, he told me that he stupidly kissed a colleague at a work function.
He hasn't told anyone else but needed to get it off his chest.
His wife is awesome, but knowing her like I do,
she would most certainly leave him if this ever came out.
Here's my issue.
My wife and I have very open communication.
I hide nothing from her, and I feel like there's information I need to tell her,
because if it were to get out that I knew, she would be very disappointed.
But knowing her morals like I do, if I tell her, she will demand something is said to his wife.
I'm stuck in the middle here
and to be honest,
I wish he'd never
said anything.
It's a big load to carry.
That's all I'm thinking
right now.
Don't tell me this.
Don't tell me.
Do I keep this
to myself or not?
Damn.
And elicit smooch.
What smooching
are we talking?
Entry level smooching,
banging,
you know,
we open mouth,
the tongue's getting
confused with each other.
What's happening?
It's a work function, so you imagine it's probably more than just a peck.
A smooch of passion.
A smooch.
Right.
Jeez, I don't know.
Okay, your options are you take this to your grave,
and, you know, everyone needs that one piece of information
that slowly eats away at their soul until the day they die.
That's an option. Yeah. That's an option.
Yeah.
That's an option.
The other option is you go and smooch someone from your work and you tell him that information,
cancels out the smooching.
Yeah, I don't know if that's quite the best option.
What would you do?
Megan, what's, I really don't know.
It's a really tough position, a very tough position to be in.
I just think honesty's got to be the best policy there.
I would tell your wife, and then if she tells you that she needs to tell the wife,
then give your friend the heads up.
But then you're like, yeah.
Because he's saying, knowing her like I do, she would leave him.
But it's a kiss.
There's kids and everything involved.
You don't know that.
I'd probably do nothing, to be honest.
I'd probably not say anything. I'm with you. It's not my place.. You don't know that. I'd probably do nothing, to be honest. I'd probably not say anything.
I'm with you.
It's not my place.
Honesty is the best policy.
It's not my place to say something.
It only sounds like drama will come if this information is out.
Oh, yeah, especially if the wife's going to, yeah, but it's hard.
Not that you ever want to levelise cheating in any way,
but in terms of it's not a rampant affair.
No.
It's not an ongoing thing.
He clearly knows it was a mistake.
He's not going to do it again.
Yeah.
Can you let it slide?
I don't know.
What would you...
Okay, you're the wife
in this position.
You find out three months later.
What are you doing?
Andrew's been smooching up
one of the babes at the daycare.
I would just go to therapy about it.
I wouldn't just like chuck it all in.
She says that she's already had a divorce.
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Just to recap, if you've just tuned into the show,
this was the message Megan received on DM.
I have a best friend from primary school.
They grew up together.
They're mates to this day.
They're best men at each other's wedding.
Their wives and family are friends now.
But he confided in his friend
and said he kissed a colleague at work.
So now he's like, what do I do
with this information? Do I tell the
wife? Do I tell my wife? Because they have a very
open and honest relationship. But
he believes that the wife
would leave his friend
if she found out. She'd always do what Katy Perry
did. She put it into a song, didn't she?
I kissed a girl and I liked it.
Turned it into a hit song.
She didn't really apologise for it though, did she?
We didn't know her relationship status though, I guess, at the time, did we?
So, I mean, options available.
He takes this to the grave, keeps quiet and just hopes that nothing comes out.
I mean, if he's in him and his friend are
the only two that know, obviously the lady's
lips. She was involved at work. She
knows.
But I just, I don't know. A lot of
texts are coming in saying as the
wife, they wouldn't want to know.
To be honest, in real life,
if this was me in real time,
I
would tell Jennifer, but she wouldn't say anything.
She wouldn't say anything.
We wouldn't say anything.
It's not your place to deliver that information.
I mean, you could potentially have a conversation with them and go, hey, man, I feel like this is something that you need to open up about.
Yeah.
It's not your place to meddle.
I'm not going to tell the wife, no.
No.
I wouldn't even tell my wife in this situation.
Why?
I wouldn't tell my wife. Now, she's got the burden, you know?
You're giving another burden to her,
and she's got the relationship with her friend,
and she's going to end up wanting to say something,
so I definitely would not even tell Amanda in this situation.
But if I was the wife and that had happened,
I would want to know.
Soph, your thoughts on it.
It's a complicated one.
Hi, yes, my name's Hope.
Oh, Hope.
So I've been calling you Sophie for the last 10 minutes
while you've been off here.
Anyway, I like Hope better.
That's a good name for you.
What do you reckon, Hope?
So I think I would tell him he needs to tell his wife
because it would honestly be so much worse
if he found out from someone else.
Yeah.
I agree.
I agree.
Because I think it's the same situation.
My ex did the same thing and he told me, yeah, I was a bit peed off, but I felt a lot better
that he told me and not someone else.
That's good advice.
Open honesty.
Thank you very much, Hope or Sophie or whatever
you like to call yourself. Really appreciate it.
Tini Asha, welcome.
Morning, guys. How you doing?
Did I get your name correct?
Tini Asha.
Tini Asha, but close enough.
I've been called worse.
Did you really?
Was it a gag or not?
Tini Asha.
You just don't know.
Tanisha.
Tanisha.
I like Tini Asha too.
Sorry, babe.
What would you do here, mate?
I agree with Hope.
If he didn't want it to get out, he wouldn't have said anything to you.
But it's not your place to say anything.
He needs to tell his wife himself because that's the only way she's going to feel like she actually was respected enough to be given that honesty.
Yeah, I suppose there's that embarrassment of like, oh, how many people knew when I was just going about my day?
And yeah, I get that.
I get that.
Well, thank you so much, Tini Asha.
Lovely speaking with you.
And you.
Have a great day, guys.
So many texts.
Stay shush.
Keep silent.
Act like you never knew.
It's not your business.
Don't say anything.
I just think if you respect your friend's marriage,
the only way that's going to carry on in a healthy
way is if they talk about it.
It doesn't have to be that. It's a
kiss. So what are you saying? Do we need to give a summary
right now? I don't think he should
tell her, but I think he should tell his mate
that maybe she needs to have that
conversation with him. Okay.
Be honest and try and work through it.
Wow, I'd love to be that mate today.
It's going to be a fun Monday night.
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You're saying when you...
My last trip to Vegas, I was asked for my autograph.
Because they didn't want my autograph,
they wanted Amy from Evanescence.
They thought you were Amy Lee.
This, how does it feel?
It might have been the eyeliner.
I did rock a bold eyeliner back in the day.
Did you take the photo as Amy Lee from Evanescence?
I tried to tell them I wasn't her and they thought I was being coy.
So I signed an autograph and took the photo.
Did you write the words Amy Lee?
Did you?
I did.
Do you know someone's gone back to their hometown and gone,
look who I met in Vegas.
And everyone's like, that's not her.
Do you know this is actually producer Taylor and Marcello's karaoke song?
Is it?
Can you sing it, please?
Please sing it, Taylor.
Come on in, come on in, producer Taylor.
Come on.
Oh, jump on that one, yeah.
I sung this beforehand.
I said it was the one and only time I'll ever do this for you guys.
Can you do it once more?
I can't. I can't.
I can't.
Does Marcelo do the,
wake me up?
Yeah, he chimes in.
And he sent that song from,
what, In the Shallows?
Oh, yeah.
They used to go to, yeah.
In the shall-a-la-la-low.
I'm actually going to karaoke next Saturday
for my best friend's hands,
so I can record this.
Yeah, do it, please. But you're not going to do it for us on a Monday best friend's hands so i can record this yeah
do please but you're not going to do it for us on a monday morning at uh you need to warm up the
voice don't you people just deserve so much better for their monday like i just feel like that's a
really really belted out did you really yeah yeah like i've like cried once can you record it for
us like just voice voice record it for us you don't have to film it next time you go oh yeah
on stage we'd love to play that well i put on like a whole thing so i will record it for you i've cried performing yeah i brought myself to
tears real crescendo like the real build-up right now okay is that the best karaoke song oh under
the hits or four eight seven like is there a better song that's producer taylor should be
singing oh i'm i'm open to recommendations okay what's your go-to karaoke song with the hits?
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Just talking about Producer Taylor's wonderful karaoke song.
She loves Evanescence, comes in as a duo with her husband, Marcelo.
And it is a wonderful two-person song, this one, isn't it?
Boop, boop, down.
Boop, boop, down.
Megan was confused for the singer of this band.
Amy Lee, yep.
Got a photo, signed an autograph as her.
As Amy Lee.
And I just threw it out there.
I was like, is this the best karaoke song?
Is this the song that producer Taylor should be singing?
Yeah.
Just a quick question on that Amy Lee thing.
Did they ever ask why was Amy Lee talking like,
hi, it's Amy Lee here from New Zealand?
There was a lot of questions that could have been asked.
And answered.
Yeah.
And solved.
Daryl, you're on.
Better karaoke song for Patricia Taylor.
She's off to a hen's do.
She needs a repertoire of songs.
What are you suggesting?
Mate, I was thinking tequila.
I think it's something with the chants.
That's the best karaoke song you can have.
Well, there's only one word, isn't there?
Ba-ba-da-ba-da-ba-ba. Tequila. There's a lot of darts. best karaoke song you can have. Well, there's only one word, isn't there?
Tequila!
There's a lot of darts singing happening
A lot of you just
darts singing,
gyrating on stage.
Do you want to know?
Here I go.
Is he going to start singing?
Not yet?
No?
Daryl's up there.
Are you still up there?
Okay,
he's dancing.
Maybe he'll start singing now.
We'll all tie him a Daryl.
Wait for the first tequila,
baby.
I do like this.
It's a Gary song.
This is a song for someone who gets forced to do it and doesn't want to.
It's a lot of dancing, which is going to make you feel a little bit awkward.
But I'll be like, yeah, all right.
Here we go, guys.
He doesn't kick it.
No, not yet.
Daryl's still there.
He's still there.
Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Coming.
Tequila.
Tequila.
And then back to the...
Oh, I love that.
I think that's the best karaoke song ever.
Oh, Daryl.
I don't think you can beat that, Daryl.
We're going to hook you up with some hell pizza.
You have yourself a wonderful week, mate, our day.
Oh, thank you, Jonah.
Thank you, Ben. Thank you. Thank you, producer, as, our day. Oh, thank you, Jono. Thank you, Ben.
Thank you.
Thank you, producer, as well.
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Yeah.
It's also a big day for me, guys,
because I think I'm pretty much
at the end of my chats
about going away overseas.
What do you mean?
Hold on, hold on.
It's the last time you can
probably play this, Jono,
to be fair.
Have we milked All the USA content
Well there's probably more
But I'm starting to get
Really self conscious
About it
So I'm not
Let's do text poll
4487
Are you sick of
Being in the USA
The last time he'll mention it
Is telling us
That he's got nothing
More to mention
We'll do an audience
Research poll
4487
Would you like more
USA content
Or do you think
Probably not
You know
Because I did go over and visit some family.
But one thing, one moment that was actually really cool that I got to experience over there.
My daughter, Sienna, one of my daughters, really into acting and musical theatre.
She does a lot of shows.
And everyone kept saying, you're going to New York, you need to take her to a Broadway musical show.
Yeah.
And then I went, yeah, I do.
And then I looked at the prices and I was like, ooh, okay.
Maybe I don't.
Maybe I don't.
But it's incredible. Can I take her to the movies instead? It's, Ooh, maybe I don't, maybe I don't. But it's incredible.
I take it to the movies instead.
Incredible.
You go,
you know,
like shows come to New Zealand,
you know,
like Hamilton or whatever.
And they play for two weeks,
but over there,
there are shows.
There are hundreds of shows every single day.
And they do it twice a day.
It is Hamilton,
Lion King,
Aladdin,
back to the future,
wicked,
you name it.
The shows is just on seven days a week.
It's incredible.
And they kind of run
indefinitely until
people don't go anymore
until people get bored of them
like Ben and the USA stories
exactly
so I took my daughter
my wife and I
were like
well maybe
just two of us should go
because it's quite expensive
so my wife's like
you two show ponies
you go
you take your daughter
to see her along
and so I did
and it was a really special
moment to go along to her
so very excited about going
as was I
to go along and see Wicked the
musical which is incredible
a story about the Wizard of Oz the back story
of the Wicked Witch and that's the one
Ariana's she's playing the
the witch isn't she in the movie
so it was really special we're sitting down there
very excited and just as it
started you know it opened
Sienna gave me a little nudge and I was like what's going
on she was like she sort of motioned to the person sitting next to her it's like old mate old mate sitting
next to her just had she just fallen asleep right right from the get-go now i understand probably
quite sleepy conditions oh yeah that's the you know it's someone who does suffer from theater
narcolepsy but let's address the sleepiness of the environment hadn't even started like it just
started and he was already asleep well We're like, oh, well,
let's keep an eye on
not only the show,
but also keep an eye on him
and his sleeping conditions.
Like, turn the air con down,
leave the lights on full.
Then you'll get
a more alert crowd.
Yeah.
And he slept,
like, without a word of a lie,
through the first half.
Like, every now and again
he'd wake up briefly
and join in on a clap.
And then he'd nod back off again.
Halftime, awake.
And then second half,
I'm like, surely he's had
all his sleeping. No, back to it again. I'm like, mate. And then second half, I'm like, surely he's had all his sleeping.
No, back to it again.
I'm like, mate, you've paid.
I know what I paid.
And we're like three rows from the back.
And it's like, you paid a lot just to have a comfortable sleep in a chair.
Who was he with?
I think with, I'm guessing his mother's family.
I'm guessing they were tourists as well.
Maybe it was definitely the Mrs. Dragon near Long situation.
Maybe she wants some tickets off a radio station.
He had a great sleep as well.
I sympathise with him.
I have been to a handful of musicals.
School of Rock was awesome.
Really enjoyed it.
But then our old producer, Dan,
who now does The Breakfast Show on the Edge,
Dan Webby, he likes musical theatre.
He was in Les Mis.
We all went along as a team.
Les Mis.
Come watch me do Les Mis.
Now, I saw the He was in Les Mis. We all went along as a team. Les Mis. Come watch me do Les Mis.
Now, I was like, I saw the first half of Les Mis and I couldn't be more Les Miserable by halftime.
What he did, he texted him.
He texted the guy in the show and said,
hey, mate, something like, oh, great show.
Just wondering how long the second half is going to be.
Oh, Jono.
In the middle of the show,
nothing would rattle me more as a performer.
Being like, you hate it that much.
No, he had done an excellent job.
He was so good.
And I had all the references I needed to talk to him about the next day
and go, hey, you did this, this, and this,
to sort of signify that I was there for the whole time.
I just wanted to know, for my peace of mind,
how much longer I had to sit there for.
I was like, hey, just – and I didn't say it harshly.
I was like, mate, you're nailing it up there.
Great stuff.
And then I kind of just segued it in. Just out of interest, how
long is the second half?
And he said, not as long as the first
and
it felt as long as the first.
Sleepy, sleepy good dude.
The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.
The Outrage Game, we each look
on the internet and we find
an article where people have been outraged over something
and then we tell the headline and the rest of us need to guess why they think they were outraged.
I think we're too flippant with the term outrage nowadays.
Someone writing a scathing comment on a Reddit forum is the laziest form of outrage.
There's no protesting, there's nothing.
It's just some guy called a scrumpy 82 who's written something and forgotten
about it and gone on with their day.
So is it outrage or not? But the internet
likes to claim it as outraged and
Megan, what's your headline we have to try and figure out?
A woman was slammed as the bad date
after paying for the bill.
Ooh!
Slammed as the bad date
for paying for the bill. Maybe
she used one of those bloody,
you know how you get those
big entertainment books?
What are they called?
Oh, yeah, they are.
The entertainment books.
The coupon.
And she used a coupon.
No, she didn't use a coupon.
Is that frowned upon?
The kids used to come home
and sell those at school.
You used to buy one of these
entertainment books.
The size of the Bible,
those things.
They're huge, eh?
Enormous.
You always get to a place
and you're like,
oh, I've got a thing for that at home. Yeah. But then you have an enormous amount of the Bible, those things. Huge, eh? Enormous. You always get to a place and you're like, oh, I've got a thing
for that at home.
Yeah.
But then you have
an enormous amount of guilt
handing over the coupon.
And I feel like the person,
the maitre d' behind the counter
is like,
oh, you're a coupon person.
I'll come up here.
Here's my 25% off this meal.
So it wasn't a coupon?
It wasn't a coupon.
Okay, what was it?
So she was slammed
by the date
and by people online
because she paid for half of the bill,
but the guy was like,
well, I thought I was paying for the whole thing.
I only got a glass of water and one main.
If I knew I wasn't paying for the whole meal,
I would have got more.
I would have bought more.
So people thought she should have been up front maybe
and said, we'll go half.
It just seems like, yeah.
He's a big backer of split the bill in half, aren't you?
Yeah, split the bill.
Yeah, people were saying right from the get-go she should have been up front that she was going to split.
He's outraged because she paid for her share of the meal.
Yeah, you're right.
Just take it as a win.
Take it as a win.
Oh, no, you don't like split the bill.
You like to pay for what you order.
That's his thing.
Yeah.
Well, especially in huge group situations.
And then I'm kind of agreeing with you
Because then some people
Drink way more than others
Yeah that's fine
And they're like
Let's split it
We ate the same
I was like
Yeah but you had like
20 beers
That's what happens
When you go out with Jono
He's like
You've had like
22 Heineken's
And 10 steaks
He just doesn't eat lunch
He's like
Order some dinners
And stuff
Alright
It's causing outrage.
Outrage from the opening ceremony.
Now, you guys might have seen this.
It was outrage.
So I'm going to front foot it and say they had a parody of The Last Supper,
which was, you know, backup dancers, drag queen performers celebrating the LGBTQ plus community,
which is really cool.
I thought they celebrated the community.
But obviously people were upset because it's a Christian thing,
and that was causing outrage.
Who's to say there weren't any gays at the Last Supper?
Exactly.
They might have been suppressing their emotions.
Probably just in the way that they did it.
They were body painted and stuff like that.
They thought maybe this shouldn't have been done as far as a Christian scene,
which I get.
Christians don't like body paint?
Well, it was just probably the way it was.
It looked like it was mocking.
But there was one particular thing.
Take that aside.
There was another thing.
There was outrage.
Outrage over that as well.
Around the Last Supper sketch.
Yes.
That not everyone spotted.
It went on too long?
Yeah.
To do with the guy who was painted blue.
He was naked.
You could see parts of him.
Yeah.
Was he fully exposed?
Well, you could see apparently apparently, blue testicles.
Like, you could see.
Blue balls.
Blue balls.
Yeah.
People watching, they're like, is this a wardrobe mishap?
Or is this intentional?
But little dangly little, yeah, apparently.
So that's causing outrage as well.
On international TV too.
I know, international TV.
The hits.
The Jono and Ben podcast.
Now, Megan's just flashing through. She's in the Women's Weekly.
Women's Day.
And dressed with
beautiful pink clothing, happy family,
kids looking wonderful, Andrew
looking wonderful as usual.
I thought there was a joke at the end of that.
No joke, he was looking wonderful in there.
You actually can't tell by looking at
the photos that my daughter was having a massive meltdown the whole time.
They managed to get some of her smiling.
Lovely photos.
Yeah.
Good thing about photos,
everyone can look happy for a split second.
Just that moment, eh?
Speaking of which, on TikTok.
Yeah, the disturbing TikTok cosmetic surgery trend going around
and doctors raising alarm about it.
Influencers are doing it overseas.
I don't think you need the doctors to raise alarm about it.
I mean, each to their own, but it does seem very unusual,
including getting pointed faces, so chin very, very pointy.
So they're getting plastic surgery for that.
Sculptured jawlines and massive, massive biceps.
Oh, like Popeye arms.
Yeah.
Like huge.
After he said post-spinach, not pre.
Yeah, you're right.
Huge arms.
But none of the rest of him you're right. Huge arms.
None of the rest of him's huge.
Just his arms.
Just coming over with big arms.
Nightmare putting on any business shirts or anything.
Yeah, but that's the latest trend going around. If there's one part of your body you could expand.
Well, now you've all laughed.
You just said because Ben went and got his butt done.
That's right, he got a BBL over in America.