Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megans secret celebrity crush

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Solar eclipse of the heart? David Lomas We go carnivore! Washing machine vs nappy Frazer Grut 10,000 dreams This makes Megan cry! Check us out! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: TheHitsBreakfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Disney Plus, one of the latest to crack down on password sharing. I think it's going to stop very shortly. Falling suit along the lines of Netflix. Mickey's had enough of people reaming him. Yeah, fair enough. Well, there goes Disney for me.

It is. I think we've mentioned this before, but you go, how many streaming services are there? Arguably in New Zealand you could access half a dozen. Yeah, there's quite a few now. Every now and again you go, oh yeah, that's what I want. So you've got Neon, Disney+, Netflix, Amazon, Sky Go, is that one? I suppose in some ways it is. Apple, KU.

Yeah, right. So you've got nearly nine. There was a time where good old-fashioned linear television just told us what to watch. All we had to put up with was a few ads in between. Yeah, but then you were like a 12-year-old kid watching MASH in the afternoons. You're like, show me what to do. And I'm like, I don't understand this.

Hot Lips Houlihan didn't really age well, did it? Do you know Hot Lips Houlihan? And Corporal Klinger, who was like a cross-threater. Well, that's right I'm watching that and I'm like it's either this or Days of Your Lives

or Days of Our Lives so I'm like I guess I'll watch this but I don't really understand it MASH was bleak wasn't it I'm sure it was good I'll probably watch it now and appreciate it

probably had good gags in it I don't think you would okay maybe not maybe not do you remember MASH producer Taylor no

no it was about it was set in the Vietnam War wasn't it it seemed to be on every day Maybe not. Maybe not. Do you remember MASH, Producer Taylor? No. No. It was set in the Vietnam War, wasn't it? It seemed to be on every day when you came home from school for a long period of time. How did they pitch that show? It's like a comedy, but during the war. Yeah. Was it filmed during the war times?

Well, I think- Or just after. That was where it was meant to be. I think the war was going on, but yeah. Yeah. Hilarious. It was hilarious. Now, producer Taylor brought you into the studio because, A, you're very, very sick,

and you need to go. You've had a chest infection for like three weeks. She refuses to go to the doctor. I'm sitting next to her editing. She's like, You got any tissues? I'm like, just go to the doctor. Just go get some antibiotics.

You know, I've got some bloody ginger coming from Brazil or something. I don't want to get on antibiotics because then you're on it for two weeks. It completely destroys all your stomach lining and good acid. But you'll be fine by now. Whatever. Anyway, but we've got you on here to talk about your dog, Louie. Your little sausage. Volatile little sausage dog. He's about your dog, Louie. Your volatile little sausage dog.

He's warm to us, Louie. Yeah. I get lots of kisses now. Can I bring him in this way? Yes, please. Thank you. Yeah, so just by looking at Louie, I think he weighs like three kilos. He's a miniature, so he's tiny. Wouldn't even come higher than your ankles.

Dash out. Dash out. Miniature dash out. So naturally, when my husband and I take him for a walk, the first response of kids and adults is, oh my God, there's a dog with a dog. Oh, it's so cute. And they just launch themselves at him.

You don't like kids either, do you? No, I'm not. I'm not a cute person. I'm not an adult person either. I'm not a person person. Me and Louie are on the same bar here. And then my dog just launches himself as these people and you just hear oh growling yeah and then like people don't

understand you shouldn't approach a dog like that you need to let the dog sniff you first and then they go for the over the overhead part and to a dog with small man syndrome they think like he thinks he's about to get kidnapped so then he goes to nip them and then i'm having to like apologize you said you went off with a little girl the other day i did he's like oh he bit me oh yeah man my best mate was sitting in the park and she this little girl like one decided you can't pet your puppy i was like oh if you're like game enough because he's an's a biter. And then she goes and then starts frigging belting his head. And then my friend goes, where's your parents? He goes, oh, my babysitter's over there.

And my friend goes, hmm, she's doing a great job. So you're sassing a bloody seven-year-old. And Marcelo's always like, pet him, he's friendly. Yeah, Marcelo, he's got no awareness of the diva we have. And he's like, they're like, oh, can I pet your dog? He's like, yeah, yeah, mate, he loves people. And they put their head down and Louis is like. He's very confident in the aggression department, given his size, isn't he?

He is, and he does not see size. So he will run straight at a big golden retriever. Look, I've had to pick him up because he's tried to attack a staffie. He does sound like his mum, doesn't he? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Right now on the other side of the world, particularly in North America, so across Mexico, United States and Canada, there's a big solar eclipse going on. We won't see it over here, but it's the moon blocking out the sun for a few minutes.

And yeah, it's making big news over there. is that the one you need to put on some sunglasses like the 3d special glasses yeah so not just normal sunglasses and lance bass who was uh bye bye yeah in sync he's been like he's promoting it uh he's to do with uh like the broadcast but he's going out and putting these ads out there saying about how you need to wear these special glasses. Have a listen to him. During these celestial events, the sun, earth, and moon

are in sync creating solar eclipses. At all other times, you should wear eclipse glasses so that you don't say bye-bye-bye to your vision. Lovely. Seems like an odd partnership there.

How much should he get paid for that? I think he is getting paid for it don't worry about that I hope it was a lot getting paid by the eclipse community but interesting

because I just saw it on social media you know when you look at this morning and everyone's talking about it on the other side of the world

so if you google if you put in google right now if you just type in solar eclipse into your google I went like that just to google some

news stories on it and then you type it in and then Jono's doing it right now oh your computer gets a solar eclipse into your Google. I went like that just to Google some news stories on it, and then you type it in, and then Jono's doing it right now. Whoa, your computer gets a solar eclipse across it. That's cool. It kind of goes dark and then light and stuff. But I was, yeah. Ben was so jazzed about it.

He was like, whoa, my computer. He's like, wait, I'll come over and do it to yours. And I was like, to be fair, it was cooler than I thought it was going to be. Yeah, you were really like, as I was typing it in, I could feel the, like, disdain. As you're like, ugh, this is going to be late. But he but he told me he's like don't type it into we're on here and i just did it then yeah and i look it was good yeah it was great well it's a surprise i was like i was unexpected i thought my computer was like i was like oh it's shut down it's not working and then i was like oh solar eclipse i imagine it's cooler if you don't know it's coming yeah

well we knew it was coming me Megan. We knew something was coming. Megan didn't really, but still she was like, yeah. It's just you were so excited about it. I was. You came over and did it on my computer. I'm like, whoa, look at that. Last time we'll do that then. I like those little Google things they do.

You know, you type in something in Google and they give you a little surprise. Yeah. Yeah. My son was Oscar. He was showing me a photo on Google which is bonkers and it's deep in space and all of the satellites that surround the world. Have you seen that image? We'll put that up on our Instagram.

So it's the Earth and then literally hundreds and thousands of satellites that surround it in space. So if you're coming from another planet, you'd be like, what is this wild place? Yeah, that's amazing. I've got a live stream of the eclipse happening. What's happening right now? Yeah, that's the live stream from NASA.

One lady in America, she actually has a blind spot in her eye and her vision now from looking at the last one. Really? Yeah, so she's doing a big warning, kind of like Lance Bass from NSYNC going out there going, don't look at it directly when it happens but then there is a period where you can look at it directly when it's kind of covered up so it's a little bit confusing but you've got to have those special like 3d glasses to look at it so that's right now so it's happening the daytime yeah that's cool yeah well yeah what's happening right now and i've said they go live stream the

eclipse is going on we should call america and see what it's like. All right. If you want that live stream, text eclipse to 4487. I'll chuck a bounce back and you can get it. All right. If you're that intrigued. We're trying. Who knows anymore? I don't know what anyone's into. I was into that.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I'm going to work out how to call America from the phone system. I feel like we've been all told calls are gone now. Tough times. The eclipse happening right now in America. We're just trying to take you straight to the heart of the story. We should play that Solar Eclipse of the Heart song before 7 o'clock.

Oh, yeah. Good one. Solar eclipse of the heart. Look at it. It's a little, like, orange half. Yeah, it's got this amazing glow you're looking at. Yeah. If you want to watch the NASA live stream, text Eclipse to 4487.

Yeah. It's pretty exciting, actually. You've got no worries with toll calls. But David Lomas, he's got David Lomas Investigates, a brand new series back again on three. Probably just a few stone's throws away, and I'm right here. Investigative journalist David Lomas has spent 16 years reuniting long-lost whanau.

And what do you know about your birth mum? Unfortunately, there were no records left at the orphanage, and so we don't have any details. And he's with us now in the studio. David, hello. Hello. Lovely to have you here. You were just saying, just as the song was finishing,

have you got any interesting questions to ask me? We've interviewed you so many times. No, you were very interesting to speak to, David. We love catching up with you. Ben was just saying you've come back from 35 days travel. Yeah, we just did a fantastic trip. It went to Vietnam and Hungary and Switzerland doing another story, and then to Brazil, which I'd never been to before, which was fascinating.

So this show just takes you all over the world hunting down people. Yeah, you guys took the piss out of me totally on that. Why don't we do it? Because you're like, first I flew to London, and then I found myself over in Geneva. Then I went to Brazil, and then I went to... The bloody airpoints must be through the roof. They're good at the moment.

I read something you said yesterday as a quote in another interview you'd done, and it's quite interesting. You said that you don't get many jobs in the world where you literally change people's lives. Oh, it's fantastic. When you get two people to meet, father, son, mother, daughter, whatever it is, 20 or 30 people are affected by that. And we're doing our eight episodes this time.

You can work out how many people are affected. Oh, it's just such a harrowing story. What is it like for you personally, the toll that it takes on you? Because you would take on board all of this emotion and then you would feel an obligation to connect these people. But they're wonderful people. You're on a mission with them and it's fun. Yeah.

I imagine you lay awake at night a lot. I'm trying to work out how to solve things. Yeah. Do you have people as well come up to you everywhere you go I imagine you lay awake at night a lot. I'm trying to work out how to solve things. Yeah. And do you have people as well come up to you everywhere you go and sort of approach you and say, hey, I've got someone, or my friend's got someone? Oh, yeah, lots of people do do that. You know, I've had a woman walk up to me and sit down at a cafe

and said, I've never told a person about this, but I had a child 50 years ago. Really? And I was the first person she'd ever spoken to about it since it happened. Wow. And you're like in the coffee club on a Wednesday morning. Unusual. Now you said also in the article, it was harder these days, you think, to track down people. I would have thought with all the technology and things out there, it would

be easier in some ways. In some ways. I mean, Facebook and things like that, you can see people sometimes, but Ben Smith, you know, try and find a Ben Smith in the world. Right, yeah, yeah. Do some people just not want to be found? Oh, there's a lot of them. They're all in Australia. Just if you want to find them, they're just three hours away.

So what happens if you get to the end of a journey with someone and that person doesn't maybe want to be found or want to be on TV? You find them. Does that happen from time to time? time yes we do a lot of stories which um we do find the person we're looking for and they just don't want to deal with us because we are television right we'll eventually let the people know how to connect and you know imagine a raft of reasons why people don't want to be found because if they've moved on with their life and got a whole other family oh there's you know and fathers who have adopted children out

and never told their children. So the lost child comes looking and they just don't want to open up that whole can of worms. Well, we had one family where a child was looking for his birth mother and father. Incredibly, they'd given up the child because they were young at the time and then they went on and got married and had four more kids. And when we tracked down the parents, they said, no, we don't want to know them. They said, we've never told our children. And we couldn't face telling them.

That must be devastating news to receive. How do you deliver that news to someone who's just trying to have some closure? Well, for the child in that case, we tell them exactly what we were told. We told them exactly what we've found. And then I said, it's your choice what you want to do. Jeez, that is tough. That is really tough. You're actually good at delivering bad news in a lot of ways.

I'm sure it doesn't get any easier. Can we just give it a practice now, okay? So let's just say I've been made redundant, okay? This might be a bit too close to the bone, given the current climate. Okay, David, how? This might be a bit too close to the bone. Given the current climate. Okay, David, how are you going to deliver this bad news to me? Well, I've got some good news and some bad news.

Oh, we started with that. Okay, let's leave it with the bad stuff. Oh, well, the bad stuff, you're out. What's the good news there? Good news, you can go and sit on the beach for a while. Oh, yes, very good. Is that how you deliver it? Do you try and have a good news, bad news situation?

I do it a lot, yes. And what would you lead with? I'd normally lead with the good news. Right. You like the beach. You like the beach. David Lomas with us. David Lomas investigates back on three and three now.

As of tonight, how many cases have you got on your books at the moment? Because last time we spoke, you said there were dozens. We have sort of thousands of applications, and I would say we probably have about 60 or 70, which we're looking at. Jeez, you must have... I can't believe you have thousands of applications. Well, go back in our history, I mean, something like 80,000 children were put up for adoption

in about a 30-year period. It's a fascinating series. It's so good to have it back on TV. And well done to all the great work that you do, connecting people, making a difference. It's incredible. Thank you. Can David Lomas investigate where Ben left his swipe card?

Because he hasn't been, or his password. Yeah, I'll never get my password. That's something else. We'll talk about that after. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Wanting a lot of talk about the solar eclipse going on in America right now. Hit the music, Grace. Total eclipse of the heart.

Had to be done. It's a great tune, this, isn't it? It is. It's an epic tune. When did she say total eclipse of the heart? Right at the end. Total eclipse of the heart. She only says it once.

I think so. Oh, right. Man, I need you more. I'll tell you what we need right now is to be able to make a toll call from the studio. We can do it on WhatsApp. I rang a friend of ours in America. She answered. She can't see it where she is.

She's in Washington. And who knows what time it is. You said, I'm not going to check what time it is, but thank you. Goodbye. That was the only conversation you had with her. But we've just been watching NASA on Megan's computer, the eclipse fully immersed at the moment. And people, tell you what, the NASA commentators frothing it.

Have a listen. That's why we are team sun, earth, and moon. Because you need the moon for an eclipse. You need the sun for an eclipse. And we're standing on the Earth to see it. Oh, man. So all of NASA science represented by a total solar eclipse. And something that, what, over 30 million of us today,

at least in the path of total, at least, yes, able to witness this. Absolutely. Yes. This is getting me extra excited about all the science. Getting excited about all the science there. Now, listen, people are going to judge me for this, okay? And this is grossly immature.

But I've done a little edit on that audio. Oh, you stitched them up with some fake news in the edit. And boy, they are loving their clips over there. Oh, man. Absolutely. Yes. This is getting me extra excited, man. Absolutely. Yes. This is getting me extra excited. Yes.

Yes. Yes. It was nice to get a taste, though. Wow. It's true. Yes. So dark. Oh, Nikki, what's your favorite part about these?

Is this your first? These are people that probably have science degrees. Oh, my God. These are very intelligent women. Well-educated people, and you've lowered the tone for them. I learned some things from those women watching that stream, and you've lowered them to that. Yeah, completely lowered the tone.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Riddler. Yeah, we do this every week. Thanks to Dilma, who are huge supporters of this show. It's great to partner up with them. Dilhan, the other other day from Sri Lanka gave us $5,000 for a handball. Yeah, what a lovely guy.

Which is really, really, really incredible. So thank you very much to them and thank you for bringing you the Dilmar teaser. We do it once a week. Producer Taylor tries to trick you with a riddle and you can win a hot and cold tea prize pack at $100 as well. Been having a lot of Dilmar tea in the mornings.

You've been sucking back on the tea, haven't you? And even in the afternoons as well. The Dilmar iced tea peach flavour. If you haven't tried that, it's really, really good. It's actually really good. Amanda and my wife and I, it's kind of like a little thing. You're kind of in the week. You're like, if you're not drinking, you can have a little Dilmar tea iced tea peach.

It's really, really good. He just said Amanda and my wife and I, so they're all enjoying it. The three of us, but you haven't gotten to the complicated. Amanda's tea's so good that it doesn't matter. There's three of us. Hi, you do you. We're all just like, hey. Amanda's like, there's an extra lady here, but I don't care

because the taste of this Dilmar tea has made her forget about everything. The iced tea and the peach flavour, that's the most important thing right now. All right, Taylor, here to tease us more than my bully at primary school. What have you got with the teaser this week, mate? All right, you'll find one in the house, two in the bedroom, but none in the kitchen. Who am I? One in the house, two in the bedroom, none in the kitchen. Bed.

Who am I? No. Oh, 100 the hits, 4487 if you think you know. $100 in the Dilmar tea, hot and cold tea prize pack. One in the house, two in the bedroom, but none in the kitchen. Who am I? One in the house. Who am I?

A male. Why is there two in the bedroom? Well, that's me. Is that just your house? I've got a complicated thing. He's also enjoying the Dilmar tea as well. The peach flavour. The iced tea, mate. complicated thing he's also enjoying the uh the dual bar tea as well the peach flavor yeah that's all it's important right now um uh there's one in the house two in the kitchen

two in the bedroom how can there be one in the house but two in the bedroom well that's the question isn't need to think outside the box. You know what's embarrassing? I really find it embarrassing when we have a full board of callers. I know. Look how many callers are coming through. And we can't get the answer. This one's really easy, though, compared to the past few weeks. Should we go to Andy there, Grace? We'll get Andy on line four. Morning, Andy.

How are you? Yeah, I'm good. How are you going? Yeah, we're good. Please don't come at us with a very simple, basic answer. Oh, no. I'm a basic boy. Okay, what's the answer to the riddle?

Is it O? Yes. Easy. Good job, Andy. It was right there. One in the house. Andy. Two in the bedroom.

None in the kitchen. I hate when it's one like that and it's just not even in your mind. It's like, how about PowerPoints? No. Okay. I was thinking of like the roof, but oh, God. Well, well done, Andy. You've got yourself $100 and a Dilmar tea, hot and cold tea prize pack.

Enjoy that. Revishing, revishing. Thanks, guys. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. A bit of rough weather heading around over the next few days around the country, which is not so good. Hopefully clears out before the school holidays rolls on through for the parents. You're in that

sweet spot at the moment, Megan, where your kid's not quite at school. No, it doesn't affect me as much. It's horrible. I don't know how parents deal with it. Feels like the kids have already had a few holidays. It's Easter. Easter Tuesday. He's still going about Easter Tuesday. I literally just walked into the room. I was an old man ranting about how much time kids have left. Easter's done, mate.

It happened. Move on. Is he blaming that he's getting angry about the school holidays coming up? Shaking my fist at the sun too today. Solar eclipse as well. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. A huge solar eclipse you might see on your social media

this morning happening in the United States of America right now, across Mexico as well. The whole thing, it's morning time over there

and it just goes dark. It's quite cool to watch. Yeah, it's bang on lunchtime and yeah, it just goes dark like night time. And what,

a million people turned up to Niagara Falls and Canada's side, I think. Of course, a state of emergency. So many people arriving on the small town. Couldn't handle that many people. There's a lot of people.

A million people. Many people turning up. And we've got some top-notch production facilities here at work with an official intro for the solar eclipse this morning. There's nothing I can do. Solar. The eclipse of the heart. We'll have more coverage of the solar eclipse throughout the morning.

But something, well done, that's nice. Thanks. Took about five days in the recording studio for that one. Really good. Hey, now, as a parent, and other parents will know, the school uniforms, bloody expensive, aren't they? They really are. For some reason, you know, you've just a polo shirt or whatever it is

or a pair of shorts, but you slap a school emblem on it. It's like Gucci or Prada. Suddenly the price goes up. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what it is, but school uniforms are really expensive. It's demand being caught at the market. And you're like, what's the bare minimum we can buy for you to represent this school? And there's no other option.

If they're a uniformed school, you know, that's the thing. You've got to have it. You have to have it. You can't, you know. If they're a uniformed school, you know, that's the thing. You have to have it. You can't, you know, so they can put the price whatever they want. But also, you do pay a lot of money

for school uniforms, but then you probably factor in if your kid was mufty clothing, you'd be buying clothes all the time, you know? That's true. Yeah, so every day they're wearing the same thing.

So I guess it probably evens out over the year. But something, and it's probably not as important now, but I feel like through the summer months, my daughters have been through intermediate

and had a hat. One of those big, wide brimmed hats. No one looks, oh geez, everyone looks cool in those. Yeah, but my oldest daughter,

you know, started high school and it's always, you know, it's been a question of mine. I'm like, where's the hat in the school uniform option?

She's like, they don't have one at the school. They don't have a hat. I'm like, well, you know, I came to it that day. I day i was like you can change this you could be the person that comes up with the school hat you don't have to do something now if you can do whatever bucket hat whatever the kids are into you know fedora whatever it is and she's like dad i'll get bullied i don't want to be the kid that's responsible for coming up with a hat like

thanks a lot thanks for making us wear the hat. Imagine it's like, poor Sienna. She's what, 14? She's like, who's this 14-year-old kid who's now making us all wear hats with a flap on the back? Oh my God. What does it have to be there? I was like, you can design whatever it is, but they can be cool with the right hands.

What's wrong with the hat they've got? They've got a hat. Oh. She even got a hat in the school uniform. And I'm like, in summertime. Don't make her, do not make her do that. That's what she keeps saying to me. And I'm like, come on.

Prison rules apply. Keep your head down. She's like, Dad summertime... Don't make her, do not make her do that. That's what she keeps saying to me. And I'm like, come on. Prison rules apply. Keep your head down. She's like, Dad, I can't do this. And I'm like, come on, you can do this. You can be the change that people need. One of those people that stands up and goes, hey, here's the hack, guys. Mate, she is not going to listen to someone

who got their mum to make a suit out of a Looney Tunes duvet cover that he then wore to a school ball and made his partner have matching Looney Tunes duvet cover gloves. That's my favourite story about you Ben. It really is. So maybe you're right. Maybe that's what

I was doing in high school. I would have been the guy going, come on guys, let's wear a hat. Everyone would be like, oh. And he dressed in cricket whites the entire time. He wore white cricket clothes. Well yeah, that was primary school days That was his other clothes Yeah

So Anyway This strangeness dates back to primary school Yeah Okay So anyway I'm saying Hat You can be the change the people need

But she's not agreeing with me She's not The people don't want me to do that The hits The Jono and Ben podcast I'm a big fan of Dan Carter I think she is So he did a whole album

Levi's Jeans is the best song On that album With Post Malone It's really good I hope they've got a free pair of Levi's For those songs Now Megan Pappas

Yesterday Admitted something in passing That you have an unusual crush on someone And I believe it's purely financial. Celebrity crush on, you know, as people do from time to time. I wish I'd never seen anything. I'll preface this by saying I don't agree with all

his morals and things he says, because he says some silly things. But I kind of find Elon Musk a little bit attractive. Now do you think like It can't be a money thing

because I'm not into Bezos. Right? Hey, hey. What's wrong with Bezos, man? I don't know. Nothing wrong with Bezos. Handsome gentleman. I kind of like

I kind of like Elon's quirkiness. He's a little bit weird but he's got so much Yeah, maybe it's the South African thing. Because you're married to a My husband's South African.

I fancy Trevor Noah as well. Weak spot for those oozing biltong from their paws. Yeah, maybe that's it. But like kind of that little bit of the arrogance, I think is kind of. So you'd like to spend an elongated evening with him? Smell his musk, if you would? He's had some hair hair maybe transplant type situations I mean

because he started PayPal when he was quite young and not that there's anything wrong with that but he's kind of you know pimped his ride slightly

if you google Elon in the PayPal days he probably had a lot less hair than he does now he's receding yeah jeez that's what you get with a billion dollars

you wouldn't tell you couldn't tell if you didn't see that photo no no exactly done a bang up job jeez you should go see whoever that person is. Would you say to what do you think Elon Musk?

Doesn't do it for me. Doesn't do it for you. Unfortunately. Did you know this about Elon Musk? Tony Stark from the Avengers is based off Elon Musk. Robert Downey Jr. went and spent weeks with Elon Musk before filming. See? And that character's kind of weirdly arrogant and kind of quirky.

Quirky, arrogant arrogant but funny at the same time yeah okay all right you're convincing us slowly i think we're all in love with elon musk produce tata do you have like a celebrity crush that you would um maybe more unusual yeah i have an unusual celebrity crush um steve crowell i love him so much i I definitely. 40-year-old virgin Steve Carell or like older? Morning show. Fine wine Steve Carell. He's getting better with age, isn't he? He is.

I think the beard is quite good on him. Yeah, and he's just so funny. You know, humor will get you everywhere. So funny. So funny. Producer Grace, you're joining in because this feels weird for john and i to start saying about celebrity crushes oh i like so i did have one on jim from jim and the holograms back in the day oh yeah do you remember the cartoon jim and the holograms but i was like i mean we were going

with real people but i know but if i go the real person it's weird it's a bit weird we're just we'll keep it to the girls all right sandra and accounts uh producer grace you had an unusual Sandra in accounts Producer Grace You had an unusual celebrity crush too I don't think it's unusual It's young Adam Sandler So not Adam Sandler now But young Adam Sandler What like Happy Gilmore

Yeah like that year You see You see it Why He's funny He's funny He's funny He's really funny

Young Adam Sandler Oh yeah He's a Yeah Why not old Dad bought Adam Sandler What's wrong with. Young Adam Sandler? Oh yeah, he's it. Why not old dad bod Adam Sandler? What's wrong with dad bod Adam Sandler? I don't see it in any Adam.

Sorry. Oh really? Elon over here. That's what you can't say about. But that's the thing, I mean each their own. Exactly. And when it comes to the celebrity crush game. The Hits,

the Jono and Ben podcast. The last week before the April school holidays, it's 7.37 on The Hits. Waking up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy. What is that now? Is that just waking up in a bed full of regret? Oh, yeah. I don't know about that song these days. Yeah, that line.

I don't think she does it live now. Oh, really? No, it's just wake up in the morning feeling like myself or something like that. She's just waiting for her proceedings to... Yeah, then she'll decide whether she puts it back into her lyrics or not

gotta wait for the whole you know the process to play out we wanted to know this morning 0800 the hits celebrity crushes but maybe the more

unusual type not your traditional sort of ones yuck and my yum I like Elon Musk and everyone's like eww but you know

I'd get a free Tesla apparently he's quite tight though isn't isn't he, with his own finances. Grimes was saying, who he was married to, that they were just like in a pretty sort of run-of-the-mill suburban house. Like eating peanut butter sandwiches and stuff like that. That's right, he gave away all his, like, material belongings. Quirky, quirky. You don't want that, Megan. It's not what you're marrying him for.

No, it's not. You're not marrying him for peanut butter sandwiches and suburban life. Yeah, like a beard that was like an on-the-ground sort of situation. You know? And then he has weird names for his children, like R2-D2 and things like that. So, okay. So, Celebrity Crushes.

Oh, Andrew, that's 4487. Let's get Kristen on. How are you? Great. Hello. Yeah, lovely to have you on, Kristen. The unusual celebrity crush? I don't know if it's unusual, but I really love Jack Black. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's not unusual at all. Jack Black, he's awesome.

And having been lucky enough to meet him the other day and hang out with him, he was even more, I think we've all got a celebrity crush on Jack Black. Did not disappoint. He was very, very lovely. I'm so jealous you met him. He's just the best. And he's so funny. You're so funny, Jack.

He's so funny. But I was blasting tonight to see all weekend. I'm just crushing on him hard. No, fair enough. It's a good crush to have. And when he walks into a room, geez, he's got a presence, doesn't he? He must be exhausted.

At the end of the day, he must be so exhausted because he's just always on. He's just an entertainer from start to finish. But it's nice to know that he's a good guy in real life. Sometimes when you meet your faves, you're like, oh, no, I don't. We'll take Jack Black. We'll put that on your...

Well, they're playing a show here, so maybe you could linger around. Oh, no, he's married with kids. What am I thinking? Stand down. Stand down. All right, Kayla, we'll get you on. Oh no, he's married with kids. What am I thinking? Stand down. Stand down. All right, Kayla, we'll get you on. Your old celebrity crush this morning, what is it?

So I find Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean really attractive, but not so much in real life. The unwashed pirate with scurvy. And the eyeliner. I see, I see. I think it's just his mannerism and just the way that he acts on it is just super attractive. It was a cool character. He's supposed to be like Mick Jagger-ish.

Yeah, I think he was kind of. Keith Richards, wasn't it? Yeah, it was Keith Richards. I think he actually appears in one of the movies, Keith Richards. Yeah, right. How about Johnny Depp in that movie The Court Trial? Were they ever heard? Not so much.

No, not the same. Not a great character. There was character witnesses and all sorts there, but no, not so much. Hey, Kayla, you're going to have a wonderful Tuesday. Appreciate listening to the show. Awesome. No worries. Thanks, guys.

Great ones coming through on 4487 here. I have a crush on the Blue Power Ranger. Why the Blue Power Ranger? You don't even see who the Blue Power Ranger is, do you? They're masked. Grace Hilliam, our producer, you're agreeing. Do you have a crush on the blue Power Ranger? I just know from TikTok, apparently, he's very attractive.

The blue Power Ranger. Oh, unmasked. Do you know our friend Nick was the yellow Power Ranger for many years? Oh, really? Yeah. I had a Power Ranger friend, too. Did you? Yeah.

Wasn't Kimberly Crossman a Power Ranger? I think she was in Power Rangers or something, yeah. So the blue Power Ranger, yeah, I mean he certainly looks yeah, from what you, the outfit looks hot. You can see everything that you need to see. That's a great test for 4-8-7 here.

I used to have a crush on Bruce Willis. Oh, you can see Bruce Willis. Oh yeah, he was pretty cool, you know. Oh my god, Have you seen the Heartbreaking videos From his daughter And Bruce Willis Who's not well at the moment

Oh It's a form of dementia Right Yeah That's really sad And You guys were talking About MASH earlier on

I always had a Crush on Hawkeye Does that come through On the text as well The hits The Jono and Ben podcast. I'm having trouble with the appliances in my household. Oh, yeah.

Talking about the fridge on the blink. But then you haven't been getting the 0800 numbers been calling you to the repair people. I know. So I thought that was a scam. It turns out it was the helpline calling me. Well, they always said that one, that joke, is your fridge running?

That was what you still was a kid. And then they're like, yes, well, go out and catch it. No, it's not. It's dead. But now my microwave's on the fritz. And also, I wouldn't be surprised if my washing machine packs it in after what I did to it yesterday. You have not lived until you have put a nappy through a wash cycle. New or used?

A used one. Although it was just number ones. They do hold a lot more than you think. They get quite bloaty, the old nappies, like me after eight heinies. Yeah. And even more so when you've washed it. If you've ever wondered what's inside of one of those things,

it is like jelly crystals. Kind of like that. So I ended up with white clear jelly all around the rim of the washing machine and all through my clothes. This is Greta Thunberg paying you back for not using reusable diapers. I know, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, wait till you have kids, Greta. When we first started, we were like, we're going to be, you think we're going to use the pool now?

45 minutes later, you're like, check those out, mate, get us the plastic jobs. But full credit to our parents because they would have had to do those cloth nappies and like with safety pins back in the day. No, that's not for me. But yeah, I did wash a disposable nappy and I am still scooping out the jelly crystals which have gone through the whole washing machine so don't do that my wife was so tired

when she had one of our kids that she she actually put it in the toilet and flushed it by accident and it got stuck

and our lovely neighbour next door she came over without a glove just put her hand hold on why is the neighbour coming over

and solving this problem well because I think my wife was at home I wasn't there. And she was like, I don't know what to do. I started to clog the toilet. And she was like outside in the neighbourhood. Leave it with me.

Leave it with me. What a hero. No glove, apparently. What a legend. Just put her hand in and grabbed the thing out. Yeah. Into a stranger's toilet. Wow.

And I was like, well, I wouldn't have done that even with my own toilet. I'm glad I wasn't there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A bit of rough weather heading this way from the South Island to the North over the next couple of days. Bit of rain around. Now, we met this guy a few years ago, actually, and he started out on a mission to collect 10,000 dreams. His name is Fraser Gruton. He joins us in the studio. How are you? Sup, guys?

Hey, nice to see you. Now, you have been doing something pretty incredible. Now, we met how long ago was when you first started this? I started in 2016, and I think I filmed you guys in 2017. Right. So this is something you call 10,000 Dreams. So your goal is to film people saying their dreams, so 10,000 different people saying their dreams. 10,000 of them, man.

And I'm 2,002 in. So, you know, I'm nearly done. I'm 20% in. Well done. Like, you've done incredible that you're still doing this. This is so amazing. When Ben emailed the other day, he said, oh, we're going to have Fraser coming. I was like, is he still going?

Like, no one would have judged you for giving up on this. And it's just got better and better. Thank you, man. You have just, like, following your, you know, you need to follow your 10,000 dreams on social media because some of the people you've been talking to lately is incredible. It's mind-blowing. Dude, it's outrageous. If you just don't give up and you stick at something, it can just happen.

So everyone like Ashton Kutcher you had recently, Mila Kunitz, Terry Crews, Elmo, the Wiggles, you've had so many people, as well as everyone. It's incredible. Dude, I don't even know. of these situations i in find myself in i don't like i spend the morning at ashton and mila's house how did you get hold of them i uh just sent cold emails literally i just literally just send a cold email this is it works cold emailing i know this is what inspired me the other day i was just watching you because often you'll film yourself doing this and going i'm sending an email to terry Crews or Ashton Kutcher or Tony Org or whatever it is, and then you follow that journey.

All of a sudden they get back to you, and you're sitting with them or sitting with them over Zoom and getting to hear their journey. I cold emailed Terry Crews, and 20 minutes later he responded. What are you, are you just guessing their email addresses? No comment, because I've got in trouble before. I feel like it's you, though, because you have an infectious energy, and you're really positive, and I feel like people can't help but be like, yeah, okay.

And what it's for, too. It's not like, hey, man, can you come along to my kids' school raffle for four days or something. It's a long-ass raffle. If we can just go back to sort of ashton kutcher and mila kunis sure man they welcome you into their home dude it was just surreal man they are the coolest people i've ever met i spent like an hour having a dmc with um with mila and at one point it was the three of us on a facetime call with scooter braun

it was just what it was just like what did you get his dream as well? I did his dream last year. And then when I went to their house, Ashton took a video of me and was like, yo, Scooter, look who's at my house. And then two minutes later, Scooter Braun FaceTimed.

It was like, my dream is, it was just, it was just surreal. The whole thing. So Scooter Braun, Justin Bieber's manager amongst many others. I imagine the more you do now,

the more people hear about it, the easier it's probably going to become. It's getting a lot easier, man. Which is great. Jeez, I tell you what, you've come a long way from the dregs of Jono and Ben in 2017. And I'm looking back,

looking back, because, you know, Amita Kunitz, she tells this amazing story to you about, you know, from an immigrant family moving to America. It's been used on other TV shows,

which is great. And I look back and I read for a gag. I love the Warriors, the league team. Oh, the shorts. I always wanted to wear Warriors shorts. I bought a pair and I never had the Warriors the league team. Oh the shorts. I always wanted to wear Warriors shorts. I bought a pair and I

never had the legs for them. That was my dream to have big enough legs. Now I look back and I'm like that was a shabby dream. Really. In comparison to all these other amazing earnest dreams. I'm like I really let the team down. So we get dream redemption with you I think today which is great. 2.0 for all friends.

I can't even remember what the first dream was I had. It was you wanted to meet dave franco man and you had like a poster there i totally remember because i gotta say guys when i started this thing you two were really like a bar i said if i can get jonathan i really had it so honestly i'm glad you raised the bar your dream was a huge deal for me in 2017 well sorry that we're so lacklustre I've never heard you once talk about

Dave Franco he's a great actor don't get me wrong I've never even thought of Dave Franco I mean out of the two Franco brothers if you're going to

pick one he's probably the preferred option yeah definitely and so is there anyone you haven't spoken to yet you must have a dream list

Bieber is my number one oh yeah yeah man I think Bieber's close why don't you just did you nudge scooter braun surely he can put it must be a hard age i feel like the world is definitely i know it will happen i'm manifesting it it will happen i'm sure this year will happen i believe it oh good on you well when you meet mich Michelle Obama, can you say hi for me? I'll FaceTime you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

We got asked what our dreams were like. What are our dreams, our hopes from a project? You just heard Fraser before. He's doing 10,000 dreams. He's going around and recording 10,000 different dreams on video. People just saying what their dreams are. All over the world he's doing it. So is it your ambition? Not a dream you've had

and when someone asks you what is your dream in life it's kind of overwhelming. Well I don't know where to start. First time we did it was many years ago with Fraser when he first started and I guess we had no idea what it all was and we went for a joke. I think all

three of us went for a joke. Which is fine. He didn't mind what you did if it was a dream. I think all three of us went for a joke, which is fine. He didn't mind what you did if it was a dream. I wanted to meet Dave Franco only because Dave Franco, the younger brother of James Franco, the actor, there was a poster of him on the wall where we were filming the dream

and I couldn't think of any other decent dreams so I was like, I'd love to meet this guy. It's got like going I'd like to meet Doug Pitt, Brad Pitt's brother. I might do it one way. I I'd like to meet Doug Pitt, Brad Pitt's brother. I might do it one way. I mean, no disrespect to Doug Pitt. Maybe meeting Dave Franco's a bit better than meeting Doug Pitt.

Yeah, Dave Franco's in movies and stuff, but yeah. Mine was stupid as well, but I was in a room full of people watching, so I just said my dream is for them to take the tax off online shopping. That's a great dream. Hey, I'm sure a lot of people would agree with that dream. I would dream of that. You know? I did the same about dream. I'm sure a lot of people would agree with that dream. I would dream of that.

I did the same about Warriors. I had some Warriors shorts that I always wanted to have legs big enough to wear and I had them and that was my dream to wear those. And it's still a dream of mine. It's not a great dream.

But we got another chance the other day to... Can I just say your legs haven't grown any more. No. And if I really wanted to achieve that dream I should have been

hitting the leg day at the gym, right? You can wear Warriors shorts, babes. Just put them on and you're wearing them. Just imagine two toothpicks in a pair of shoes. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly what they look like. Even warrior shorts, they're not even baggy shorts,

but it's about making them baggy. Oh, please. So we got an opportunity that Dave Fraser took us to another room and we got to say our dreams again. And we've been seeing these play out on social media and we shared it on the Hits Breakfast as well, the dreams. And both of yours were really sweet and really genuine. And both of you were talking about your kids. But Jono in particular, I think it even caught you by surprise, right?

Well, again, coming off the Dave Franco, the last thing I expected was to get emotional. Yeah. And I actually, we got lots of comments about this. I actually think we should play it and you can hear the emotion. Makes me awkward, to be honest. It's a beautiful moment. Yeah, it's a lovely moment. Have a listen.

And so I'd say my dream now is I went to my friend's father's funeral the other day and he got up and spoke and he said I've lost my best mate and I want all my kids to say that about me so that's

that's beautiful I didn't mean to get emotional I've never heard that answer, that is beautiful there you go and my dream of being an Instagram video with you get emotional I've never heard that answer that is beautiful yeah it's lovely job lovely moment there you go and my dream of being an

Instagram video with emotional music yeah it really helps the emotional music it does I thought it was

really special if you want to see more of me crying on the internet you can join my only fans I'm embarrassed

too because both of you said something really beautiful about your children and mine's nothing to do with my kids. No, but it's all about your dreams. But I think it was really special. It was a lovely

thing you did. And it's great for me because at home I always get told you can't just be their friend, you need to be the parent that comes in with the So now I'm like, hey, look at this video from Jono, he says he wants to be a friend. And it's like, you need to be the one that tells them off and stuff. I'm like, no mate, I just want to be their friend. Look at this video.

Look at the hits on this. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We were just talking about our dreams. And for many years, we've dreamed of wearing Warriors stubbies. But you know. It's always not cool when guys wear them on the beach with, you know, all the Warriors wear them. They're like, oh, they've got great legs.

Oh, I don't like it that you don't think you can wear them. Well, I can. But I know when I look in the mirror, it doesn't look great. You're right. He's the only person who makes them look baggy. Look at that basketball shorts on me. Some assistant's saying, just buy the kids' shorts. Dream accomplished.

And cheaper. Because you do buy kids' NBA merch from time to time because it's cheaper. True, actually. Okay, well, there we go. I'll buy them, but they're going to look weird on me anyway, but that's not what we're going to talk about right now. No, we've got the wonderful Bryn Rudkin, who we work with here in the office. You would have heard Bryn reading the news, hosting the Hits Night show as well. Great to have

you in here, Bryn. Oh, thanks for having me. On our Wild Wild Web podcast, which is a podcast-only episode that we do. Megan, dropped a bomb about your diet yesterday, and we needed to get you on Linear Radio. Yeah. Because Bryn and I had a wild wild night out after the Warriors the other week yeah when every everyone was closed because it was Easter Sunday we were really trying to kick on it wasn't happening Jesus wasn't allowing it

but Bryn did drop somewhat of a bombshell on me just because it's not what I would have expected from you and I don't even know how we got onto it but you have a special kind of diet I do I only eat meat it's the carnivore diet I've gone back to my primal roots so this is what at all stages of the day yeah if you're gonna have a meal just steak just steak and eggs pretty much yeah yeah That's it? Yeah, yeah. And I know there'll be some people going, you know what? I like the sound of that diet. My dad especially. Steak, egg, and chips.

He'll eat that every day. But you don't eat the chips. Minus the chips. The trucker diet. The trucker diet, yeah. Okay, so what? Fruit, vegetables, nothing? No, nothing.

Cereal, milk? No. You can have certain dairy products. Yeah. Yogurt, cheese. But you don't. But, nah. Is your body just screaming for a vegetable, just like one singular pea?

Well, I may have broken it last night. So I've been doing it for about three or four weeks. And I walked into my house and my flatmate, I heard her bite into a crispy apple. And it was heavenly apple broke you? It was heavenly It did But I didn't eat an apple I ate a peanut slab

Okay So what is the said benefits of this? Why are you doing this? Well I saw a TikTok video Okay Okay there Oh I love you Bryn All correct information is found

So funny That's where I get all my health information. And the girl who was on the TikTok said that you could get a better night's rest if you go carnivore. And I'd been struggling with sleeping. And so I've been on it for a few weeks now and my sleep's been really good. But that's possibly because I've moved house and it's much more insulated. You got influenced. Influenced into an all-meat diet.

So every day, steak and eggs. How many meals of steak and eggs will you have? Do you have steak for breakfast? No. So I also fast. So I don't actually eat anything until I get home. So at midday. Also, Bryn's like a very slender guy.

It's working for you. Yeah. Bowel movements. I know you're all wondering. We were. I get clogged. Look, it took a couple of days for that to adjust. But we're good.

We're all good now. Jeez, you must have been doing some hard work. A lot of hard work. Yeah. It's also because Bryn has such a dry sense of humour. So when you were telling me initially, I wasn't sure if you were joking or not. No, I've got the challenge. I'm going to set you a challenge, Megan. Oh, God.

What? For four weeks, go carnival. I don't think I could. I don't even eat that much steak. No, for me, I think people do lose weight. I think I lost maybe a couple of kilos just in water weight the first few days. But again, it was just for my sleep. For your sleep.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking diets. We just discovered that Brent, who we work with here at The Hits, he's on the carnivore diet at the moment. So he eats steak and eggs. And that's pretty much it. Is that the caveman diet

that people were talking about a few years ago? Maybe, yeah. It's 2024, Ben. Cavemen and women. Oh, sorry. Yeah, you're right. Cave people diet. Cave people.

Cave gender neutral as well. Although someone did text in and say, that's lies. I saw Bryn eat peanut M&M's on Friday night. I don't know who that is. Bryn's being shady. It's a problem like when Paddy Gow swore off the booze. No, he can no longer have a beer in public. Yeah, that's true.

Bryn can no longer eat a peanut slab in public. Great text here, though. My husband does the carnivore diet and has done amazing things for his blood tests and dental health. Right. I mean, we're not doctors, so we can't say, but... But we're radio announcers, so we can pretend like we know what we're talking about. Seems like you'd need some fibre.

Now, the diet queen here and the health queen here is producer taylor come on through producer taylor she's uh she's always on a different concoction of something every single day uh comes to work with a green it looks like compost that's been put in a blender uh the diet your craziest diet you've been on um i've done everything, paleo, all the O's, like low carb. At the moment, I'm all organic. I've done vegan. You've done the lemon one, the lemon detox. I did the lemon detox.

All that made me do was go to the toilet a lot and feel terrible. It made me break out. Yeah. Might be the maple syrup in it. With the squirts, you mean, or just you've got so much liquid going through? Oh, yeah, squits. Or does it just flush you out? Oh, that's a horrible word.

Is that the concept behind the lemon diet? I guess so, I guess so, yeah. Ben, you were advertising fit tea on Instagram. No, I haven't done that. Same results? Your diet gummies? No, none of that. We'll get anonymous on.

We just spoke to you previously. Your sister was on a diet of all what eggs eggs she would literally so she she's exactly like producer taylor she has been on every diet under the sun and um she went on a whole month of eating eggs, any kind of eggs, and she'd make them wrapped out of egg omelettes. It was disgusting. And what, so she could have eggs anyway she wanted, fried, scrambled, boiled, whatever?

Yeah, and just have eggs, and that's all she'd had. And how did it affect her? Oh, she lost weight, but I'm pretty sure it was a little water weight. Yeah. And she could never look at an egg after that month. I don't blame her. Eggs are quite versatile, though, aren't they? Yeah.

But after a while, you're probably like, oh. Yeah. Make an omelette with eggs on, poached eggs on top. That's an intense time of having eggs for breakfast,, lunch and dinner for a whole month. I imagine you probably lose weight just because you're like, oh, I just can't be bothered eating another egg. Maybe that's what happens. I think we mentioned it on the podcast, but our guy we used to work with went on an all potato diet. They're a good thing until you have too much.

Yeah. Speaking of versatile. Chips, mash, gratin. Keep going.in potato dishes potato chips but then you're like can you add all the other stuff to it to make a gratin or do you just have like a spud wedges

that's another good potato dish Bryony you're on welcome the crazy diet you've been on it was your husband oh yeah my husband is still actually doing the paleo diet what What is that? So it's basically you can only eat meat, no dairy, no wheat, so like the rice, pastas, things like that.

You can only eat certain vegetables. So basically we live off broccoli, cauliflower and carrots. They're the only ones we can really eat. And kumara. We eat lots and lots of kumara. Wow. It's very expensive. It's a commitment.

I mean, because Andrew, your husband, Megan, he's on the bulk at the moment getting them gains. He has to have specific meals, doesn't he? Yeah, specific meals. And I have to weigh everything. Weighing the pasta, weighing the meat. Why don't you just weigh him? Then find out if it's working.

That's a lot. Hey, well, Bryony, you and your sake and three veg, go and have a wonderful day, all right? Oh, I know.