Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Megans Suppository...

Episode Date: April 21, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY We are back! Taylor Swift album breakdown We chat to Morgana O'reily Clickbait headlines Dear Megan: Should they be invited to my wedding? Bens embarrassing incident Why is Jono clapping at animals... 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. I've just updated my computer, and every time I open Google, it shuts down. Oh no. And it's a very specific problem, and I know with tech issues, it means the world to you, it means nothing to anyone else. No. I just need to get it off my chest now.

How are we going to do a radio show without being able to Google what to say? I don't know. How did they do radio like 20 years ago? I know. Do they have encyclopedias in the corner? We just say stuff and people just took it for, you know. Verbatim, yeah. No one deep dived on TikTok or anything.

Get away with a lot of stuff. Fake pranks and all sorts back in the day. Exactly. Simpler times. We had said a few days away because it's school holiday. Second week of school holidays at the moment. So a few days away last week. It felt like a very long seven days.

Oh, did you? That's good. Megan, you said you were in the trenches with the concussions and gastro and... Yeah, everyone in my house apart from me managed to be sick. I was like, guys, this is my holiday. My son fell over, whacked his head and then, yeah, it turns out he got concussion.

I was like, oh my lord. Oh, jeez. And there was fevers and all sorts. That's just what you want, eh? Yeah. Just put it all together in a holiday situation. Yeah, I swear. I feel like you guys, you're always dealing with gastro. There's always a lot of gastro in that. There's two kids in daycare.

It's like they just bring everything home. But like those. Unrelenting too, isn't it, when you get gastro? When you get it as a parent, because the kids don't care if you're sick. No, no. They're like like hang on mummy just needs to go to the toilet real quick

this is your fault yeah yeah I don't care bring home everything don't they when they're at that age at daycare especially going into winter can't wait for that

time away yeah went to the Gold Coast it was lovely over there lovely no gastro no gastro gastro free so jealous

sun seven days of sun not one person shat their pants over there amazing Lovely. No gastro. No gastro. Gastro free. So jealous. Sun. Seven days of sun. Not one person shat their pants over there. Oh, amazing. Yeah. No, no, it was fun. A lot of leathery people over there. You could turn a lot of skin into handbags and shoes over there, couldn't you?

It's a great climate, you know. And Sydney just baffles me. Places like that, Fiji, it's two and a half hours away. It's a couple of hours away. And it's like, what's going on here? How come we aren't so tropical? Well, we drove like, because we went on a camper van trip, which was really fun. First time doing a camper van trip.

And we all still get on as a family at the end of it, which is good. Amazing. So seven days. But even driving like three or four hours, you know, away from town, it's colder. Like it gets colder around Taupo and stuff. You know? And I imagine it's colder when you get further south. How are you driving a camper van?

I feel like a camper van is way too much vehicle for Ben's confidence. Well, to be honest, I actually was quite nervous about that, being on the road. I'm like, you know me, I don't want to be a pain in the arse on the road as well. And you know, when anyone pulls up behind a campervan, you're like, ugh. And I imagine there was probably a lot of apologising from you, waving out the window. It was actually very modern, so it actually went quite, you know,

like it was big, but it went quite fast. But to be fair, I did drive it a bit, but my wife really got into it. To be honest, did Amanda drive it more than you? Yeah, definitely. I drove it a bit, and then she did it, and I was like, oh, great. I can play. I can be DJ, because she's a terrible DJ. And I was just like, same song, playing again.

She's like, oh, sorry. So I could just talk in between the songs like I do here and there. You're like, here's that bloody Season of Sticks song again. COVID's on the plane. oh, sorry. You know, so I could just talk in between the songs like I do here at the Hits. You're like, here's that bloody Seasoned the Sticks song again. COVID's on the plane. Yeah, exactly. The 723. Hey, man, I can tell you about all. I'll tell you what the Spice Girls got up to

at Victoria Beckham's 50th. Actually, I'll tell you about that next. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I think Victoria Beckham from the Spice Girls over the weekend had her 50th birthday party. And Megan, you were looking at the photos and you're like, she looks 20. She does.

She looks incredible. She's wearing like a see-through dress. And so it's very much the vibe at the moment, but she looks like she's a 20-year-old. All the Spice Girls were there, which was really cool. All five. I guess they performed this song later.

To say that they kind of got up and obviously the DJ was playing it, so they all kind of got up and obviously the DJ was playing it so they all kind of got up and did the dance and sang along to it. It wasn't like everyone sit down and watch me perform. Looked like they're having a lot of fun. David Beckham there, Tom Cruise there, Gordon Ramsay, Guy Ritchie. $525,000 is how much they reckon they spent on that particular party. That's a hell of a night.

It's a hell of a night. And there's no titles of like Old Spice or anything like that. She's looking at the see-through dress. Is that all the rage at the moment? Because I see Tanya's partner, Bianca. She's wandering around in like plastic bags and things with nothing on underneath. It's probably a bit more classy than Bianca.

Do we need to start wearing see-through clothing now? You can give it a go. I think I'm okay. A friend of ours had an idea for a tummy window didn't he nick oh that's right where you had a t-shirt and you had a clear clear window for a friend for males to wear i don't know why he was like he was holding on it is the trend like we to see through dress and like see your underwear underneath i think maybe we could maybe we could make something up for you jonah yeah hey Yeah, hey, if anything can go once.

Okay. But yeah, happy birthday to Victoria. Yeah. Geez, David Beckham doesn't look too bad too. No, they both look great, do they? I don't think he's quite,

oh, I don't know actually. Is he 50 yet? I don't know. Surely he's 50. Oh, you can't look at Google. Oh, it's okay. Megan, I've been Google. To be honest,

I thought they were both older than that because they're only like 10 years older than me because they're only like 10 years older than me and they've done so much more with their lives. 48? Stop! Yeah.

Thank you, producer. Yeah. Good producing, Lieutenant. He looks great, eh? He's done so much more than me. And he's only had eight extra years. It's just not fair. Oh, yeah.

When you see like bloody Blue Ivy too, you're like, oh, it's a child. He's done more than me. I know. That's where he gets the present. What a Grammy. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Taylor Swift,

all of a sudden, she dropped not one, but two albums over the weekend. Already became Spotify's most streamed album of all time. This new single,

she's got a single with Post Malone. It's called Fortnite. Have a listen. Already the biggest streaming song in a day. Yeah. I love that song already. It feels like Fortnite's a very quick time to fall in love, too.

It's just the period of a school holiday. Yeah, but she's done it. It's her 11th studio album, 31 tracks over the double album. So when does she sleep? I just go, when does she have time to she's doing a world tour at the moment, she's travelling everywhere to go to the Superbowl and all that, so when does she sleep?

Yeah, unless she did it a while ago, I was thinking the same thing. She makes me feel lazy doesn't she? I know, I know. Just a masterclass in staying relevant. Yeah. She's just done this world tour which made us mentally break down. No one could handle that.

Then she releases a double album. Same day I release my album. Nightmare. Nightmare for my record company. Now it's probably less, I had a bit of time in the RV driving around so I listened to it and did a bit of a deep dive.

It's probably, it's very good but it's not as poppy. It's not as, you're not listening to it and going, oh that's a hit, that's a hit.

But they're all very good and they kind of grow on you. Yeah yeah do you think some of the genius about it is now i listen to these songs and i'm like who's that about that's the thing you're looking for easter eggs about your life and the songs she's like a bloody breakfast radio host mining mining content from every facet of your life totally i mean the internet are going wild here's some of the theories at the moment so kim kardashian and taylor swift obviously had a feud there's a song uh Thank You All Me. And now on the surface, you're like, all right.

But when you look at it closely, the letters K-I-M are the only ones in capitals from the song title. I think it's Amy. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Yeah, sorry. Amy. Thank you, Amy.

And she's talking about a school bully named Amy, but it's probably about Kim. Like a bronze statue and all that, sort of a bronze person. Have a listen. When I picture my hometown, there's a bronze spray tan statue of you. So everyone's reckoned that's Kim Kardashian.

Pushed me down the stairs as well. So they reckon feud towards the two songs about Kim Kardashian, According to the internet But then at the end of that song She's like thank you Because none of this would have happened without you Excuse my ignorance What is the beef with Kim Kardashian?

Oh girl Came across the Kanye album For a lot of it right? Oh he phoned her didn't he? Yeah and he like misled everyone According to Taylor Swift Put out a message saying She was cool to be referenced in a song,

and she wasn't really. No, and then Kim Kardashian released what she said was the actual audio, but that had been edited. The whole snake scenario is to do with Kim Kardashian. Because he put her in famous, didn't he? Yeah. And obviously we came on stage and interrupted her big moment as well, which was pretty heartbreaking for Taylor Swift. There's a lot about her ex-boyfriends. We probably won't need interrupted a big moment as well, which was pretty heartbreaking for Taylor Swift.

There's a lot about her ex-boyfriends. We probably won't need to go into that as well, but there's a lot of them. They'll be listening to those going, oh, oh, okay. That's about me. But about Travis Kelsey as well. There's one song. He got a look in.

He got some nice shout out. There's a song called The Alchemy, and it's got a whole lot of football references in it. Touchdown. Cut him from the team. Someone googled NFL light lingo. Yeah, where's the trophy winning streak? Swarm the benches.

It's all over in that one for him, which is nice as well. And can we give a shout out, because she gave a shout out to Charlie Puth. Out of nowhere, the artist Charlie P we give a shout out because she gave a shout out to charlie pooth out of nowhere the artist charlie pooth got a shout out you smoked them eight seven bars of chocolate we declare charlie pooth should be a bigger artist here's my thing though yeah great for charlie pooth and don't disagree but um what did they smoke because then if they're high saying you should be a bigger seven bars They had seven bars of chocolate as well. It's a lot of chocolate. So you're high saying you should be a bigger artist.

Does the compliments still count? Ben Boyce running over those lyrics with like a forensic investigator. No one dives deeper into Taylor Swift than Ben Boyce. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The weather looking like, well, it's getting a little bit colder, obviously, heading into winter. But I reckon it's going to be quite windy and dry throughout the rest of autumn and winter. The lag of El Nino, which apparently is finished, but we just get the tail end of that here in New Zealand.

Well, there you go. Thank you very much for that weather update there, Ben Boyce. Taylor, producer Taylor fired a message to the group WhatsApp chat yesterday morning. Sunday morning. It was an unusual message to get group WhatsApp chat yesterday morning. Sunday morning. It was an unusual message to get Sunday morning. Yeah. Wasn't it? Yeah. It's very usual for my Sunday routine.

No, but to throw it out to the group, you know, I thought it was interesting. So if you're like me and you get your nails done regularly, it's the most annoying thing ever to have to come up with certain colours, you know, because you do repeats i've been getting my nails done for probably like 10 years now then there's so many colors out there in the color world isn't there you can do so many different things now designs patterns do you feel like every time i used to do this you'd go and you'd be like i'm gonna do something different yeah you don't yeah because it's the setting there i'm like what's gonna be the quickest

yeah i'd love a design but i just don't have the time. Right. Are they, every time I walk into one of those with Poppy, my daughter, I'm like, jeez, these poor people are exposed to some pretty toxic fumes in here with not much ventilation. Do you go into one of those mall ones, like Profession Nail? Yeah, mine's very similar to that. Yeah. So, yeah, it does hit you. I always get annoyed by the place.

Is it Nail Diamond? But it should be, oh, it's not. It's Diamond Nail, but it should be Nail always get annoyed by the place. Is it Nail Diamond? But it should be, oh, it's not, it's Diamond Nail, but it should be Nail Diamond. That's the pun. Like Neil Diamond the singer. Oh, I don't think. Well, I don't think they were intending it

to be Diamond Nail. I would have been. They could always swing it around the other way and go, Nail Diamond. Yeah, Nail Diamond. I thought Diamond Nail was like strong. Yeah, I get that. But I was like,

you missed a trick here, guys. It could have been Nail Diamond. I don't know if there's any, I don that But I was like You missed a trick here guys It could have been nail diamond I don't know if there's many like I don't know if that's their clientele I don't think so It's a rich Good pun industry isn't it The old nail game

The professional is a good one Isn't it a great pun So yesterday you said What should I go for Yeah well I wanted colour suggestions From the team Some great Some not so great

I chucked out a pretty controversial one You did actually i don't think we could mention what what you did it was that it was like because you could get little pictures on your fingernails just think of the worst symbol in history yeah and i said imagine you with 10 of those on your fingernails you'd get some bloody chat around the office yeah yeah so now i didn't go with yours jonno okay ben you had a lovely suggestion of kind of sexing up the warriors yeah logo i thought you could get marcel you know your husband's number on there some Ben, you had a lovely suggestion of kind of sexing up the Warriors logo. I thought you could get Marcelli, your husband's number on there,

a Warriors logo. My wife was going to get up the waz on her nails actually before the finals last year. The Warriors made the final. I think it's for a special occasion. Okay, all right. You could do that. I think I sent you a Lakers example, but just said,

do this, but do it as the Warriors. How would that go down in the WAGs box, mate? Not too good, I don't think. Not good? Not good? I reckon you do it once, the next week, all the WAGs will be going, oh, I've got to get my player.

Look at her. She's got Marcelo's number on there, you know? That's the commitment. Well, I'll save that for later. Thank you, Ed. But no, I ended up going with Megan's choice, a nice red wine colour. Yeah, I thought that was a nice one to go with.

I didn't realise we were doing like wrong answers only. No, mine wasn't a wrong answer, it was an actual suggestion. Oh, was it? Okay. Anyway, you came in today, you're a boring old burgundy or something. Excuse you, it's red wine. Boring old burgundy. Classy.

Are those just a corn or what are they? No, they're my real nails. Jeez, they're dinner real nails we should get a photo of those nails check them up on there's probably some only fans website about that isn't it yeah make some money what we should do we should do beans nails is up to us i'll get marcello's number on there as well well he'll make it weird my suggestion was controversial. And that's the restraining order list.

Hey, before seven o'clock. I've got my nails done. And I've got to guess the word. And guess what? It's your number. Have a look. That'll be a little weird. We're looking at some clickbait headlines before seven o'clock this morning,

including drunken vultures in Lynx, Africa stopping some animals fighting? Yeah. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Find our clickbait headlines. Clickbait headlines. Like a temptress. She lures us in Megan with her salacious headlines. In fact, I got clickbaited so hard yesterday. You know you do those Buzzfeed articles?

Oh yeah. And like, figure out which Disney princess you are by what pizza topping you like. Who were you? I, figure out which Disney princess you are by what pizza topping you like. Who were you? I ended up as bloody, do you know, I wrote her name down, Jane Porter. Princess Jane Porter. Who's that? From Tarzan and Jane. Oh yeah. I was like, Jane Porter, you couldn't get, it sounds like someone from HR. Yeah, Jane Porter. Out of all the, like, Pocahontas, Elsa, Jane Porter. Yeah, all right. That's you, you're a basic B.

That's probably the most boring piece of talk. What's cheese? I do love me a triple cheese. Megan has got three actual news headlines from around the world, and we only get to hear about one of them. What are the headlines? Stuff the environment and Aussie school breaks a world record. Number two. Two vultures found too drunk to fly in Connecticut.

And headline three, Lynx Africa stopping rams from fighting. Loving those two animal ones at the back end there. The vultures and the... Shall we go to Lynx Africa? Yeah, you've intrigued me with Lynx Africa stopping rams from fighting. Rams. Are they the dude sheep? Yeah, the dude sheep.

Yeah. Okay, so you're right. They are actually stopping rams from fighting. What they do... You are clicking this, aren't you? Yeah, let's click on that one. Tell us more about that one. So farmers in Britain are using Lynx Africa to spray on the rams,

and it is masking hormones that cause them to become aggressive towards one another. So they literally smell the Lynx Africa and chill out. Wow. If anything I thought they'd start mounting each other with Lynx Africa. Gorgeous fragrance. They also use it on

the mum sheep. Are they ewes? We're losing the South Island here aren't we? You're from the South Island. L they ewes? Mums and ewes? God, we're losing the South Island here, aren't we? You're from the South Island. Jeez, mate. Losing your South Island points.

So they spray it on the ewes and it helps them to convince the mother sheep to adopt abandoned lambs because it hides the hormones. So they can't really tell if it's the ears or not. Right.

So they adopt the little lambies that don't have mummies. Oh, that's actually really good. Charlie, well, our house is just the permanent odour of raging hormones in Lynx Africa with Oscar. Nothing quite like that musk, the two joining. What is it about Africa, though, specifically, that everyone loves? Like, there's a whole range of flavours. You're right, actually.

There's a lot of Lynx, but that seems to be the one. I've never been to Africa but if it smells like that it must be a magnificent continent. I imagine someone from links got to do a sweet trip to Africa

once and come back and go here's the fragrance guys. You spend four months over there mate. Trust me this is it. It ends up as the

punchline doesn't it to a lot of jokes links Africa. Stood the test of time. Stood the test of time. Stood the test of time. It really has stood the test of time. It's Mandarin and sandalwood, apparently.

I don't know if you can wear it over the age of 21. Yeah. Do you reckon that's the cutoff? I'd probably say 18. Morgana O'Reilly, a Kiwi actor. She's been in Neighbours, Wentworth, starring in the new series of The White Lotus, which is incredible. And she's in a great show called Friends Like Her.

It's on now. You can watch it on 3 now. Filmed in Kaikoura. And she joins us in the studio. Good morning, Morgana. Nice to have you here. Lovely to see you too. Nice to have you in here.

We were just having a croc conversation in reception. Do you croc? I croc. I'm with you, Morgana. I'm with you Morgana. I actually think they're quite flattering on the ankle. I think they're good looking. I went from 0 to 100 too because my kids got me all the gibbets, the croc

charms. So I was like, oh, because I didn't expect if I was going to dip my toes literally into crocs that I'd go straight for gibbets and charms. But they arrived they gave them to me with some charms on it. I'm like, well, here I am. I'm good to go. Have you seen,

there's a really great meme that first Crocs to the gym, then Crocs to the supermarket, then Crocs to the wedding. Oh, God, no. It's just, yeah. He was a little gun shy on them at first.

He would wear normal shoes into work, but he'd have them in his bag and he'd like bring them out in little pockets. Yeah, I don't really wear them. I feel like they're dressing down and work a little bit.

I've got white. He's got white. But then I've also got some toy story ones as well too so i've got some some woody ones so yeah you haven't just come in here to talk about crocs as much as we love it you've got a new drama that you're in yeah it's called friends like you can catch it now on uh three now it looked really really good sitting quite Oh, it's such a good, juicy story. You actually moved to Kaikoura for a while to film this. Yeah, we were down there for four weeks. My daughter went to school down there. That's a pretty high-impact four weeks at school,

just come in, make some noise at school, then leave. And really don't have to deal with any consequences either. Oh, you're true. She could have really got up to some style. How did she find that? She'll look back on it and be like, I could have messed things up. Yeah. She was awesome.

Well, actually, you know, like we've really come to terms with the fact that our kids are not going to have conventional lives. They're the children of two crazy artists who will travel around. And the start of the year, she spent the first term in wellington at newtown primary because we were working on my husband's series after the party down there right

i just look at her i'm like you're amazing that's cool if she can handle that that's right i think if she was looking like it was really distressing her then great skills yeah resiliently if she ever finds herself in prison like she's so good at making friends with anybody. Yeah, exactly. And you want to be neutral with all the gangs in prison, don't you? 100%. That's it. Another more exciting news in your life, White Lotus. You have been cast in the White Lotus.

That's incredible. They were supposed to be the theme for you. I was reading about when you, because you auditioned for the role, and then they kind of say, hey, they like what you did and you do it again and stuff like that. But you sort of, like you were saying, you have this sort of thing in your mind. You're like, well, I'm not going to get this role, but it's lovely to get this feedback.

That's right. I got that feedback and I was like, well, that'll just do me for years. I'll be able to be like, you know, I once auditioned for the white Lotus. Have you ever heard of it? And they quite liked it, but not enough to cast me in it. I know, totally. When I meet actors in the future, oh, you're an actor, are you?

I did a bit of acting. So nice, because usually, you know, you're sending stuff off all the time. So then two weeks later, basically, they go, it's yours. That is incredible. So then I spent a week being like, it's got to be a scam. It's got to be. What do you do when you get off the phone to a phone call like that?

Because even as a grown-up, I still do a little dance. And actually, also, I do remember being like, just dance and go nuts, Morgz, because there's the grown-up side of you that's going, right, well, I might have to think of logistics. Another school? Totally. So happy for you.

I mean, you've done so many roles over your career as well Being on Neighbours, Wentworth I can learn lines so well There's something else you're doing as well I read another thing You were doing a Duolingo Now have you kept it up? You're on a streak for 444 days

Now it's like 500 Are you still doing it? Well I do I wondered if you'd continue That's a huge streak Muchisimas gracias Necesito practicar todos los dias I tried French on Duolingo I wondered if you'd continue. That's a huge trick. Muchisimas gracias. Sí. Necesito practicar todos los días.

I tried French on Duolingo and it lasted like a month, baby, which is longer than I thought it would. Did you get, because some people say that they get a little resentful of the app notifications that are like. Oh, yeah. It's very judgmental. It's a little. Go away. I don't have time for you today.

It's like, oh, you haven't done your thing. Oh, you don't want to practice? Oh, well. Over to you again. Yeah, totally. Well, lovely to catch up with you again. Congratulations on, you know, the White Lotus. And of course, friends like her as well.

Both look incredible. I hope everyone enjoys it. It's a good juicy watch. And the first three episodes come out online on Monday. So you can really binge those bad boys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, second week of school holidays. The V8s were on in Taupo over the weekend.

We were actually in Taupo for one of those, jeez, campgrounds because we were doing an RV trip. Jeez, a whole lot of bogans arrived. Oh, Ben. There were 30,000 people each day. Car enthusiasts. Oh, they loved it. It was great.

They were lovely people having yarns. They were like, oh, you're here for the V8s. I was like, oh, great. They were lovely people. They were handsome. Very, very. They were like, oh, you're here for the V8s. I was like, oh, no, I didn't know. Just lie. Just lie a bit. I was like,

I didn't even know it was on. I wonder why the campground was hard to book out. But it was, hey, it looked like a great time. We were just going on a family campervan holiday. Exactly.

I've met a lot of stubbies and jandals. They love a stubbies and jandals combo, don't they? Great beds, a lot of great sunglasses as well, but it looked like a huge time. Weandals combo, don't they? Great beds, a lot of great sunglasses as well, but it looked like a huge time.

We were getting 30,000 people each day, as I said, so it was great for Topo over the weekend. Imagine, that's a good old stimulation of the local economy there. Now, Megan, you said, have you looked at the radio run sheet? It says, this is your chat, and it's about a suppository. Yeah. So basically we had last week off off and you guys had a great time great stories

somehow this always happens to me when we have time off Ben when you saw the V8s yeah we had the top off of the V8s hell of a weekend

30,000 people but I somehow it always happens when I'm on holiday that my children get sick or everyone in the house got sick apart from me

and my daughter she had a fever. She had quite a high fever. So I'm trying to give her Pamol, which if you don't have kids, you can get a strawberry flavor or an orange flavor. It tastes nice. But my daughter being herself, she was not having it. She didn't want to take it.

So she's got a fever and I'm like, well, how am I going to get it down if I can't get medicine in her? So I called the lovely people at Plunkett Line and they told me that you can get suppository. Oh, right, going through the back end. I was like, why don't they make Pamela popsicles? That would be genius. That's a really good idea.

It would be. You should get into that. There's probably some reason they don't. Although I am intrigued about the suppository. There's something in me going, I wonder if that... Should we give it a go after eight? So you had to do this. Megan pops a Panadol inside of me.

Oh, God. So my husband was like, I'm out. I'm out. This is on you. And I was like, I can do this. So it's a tiny little thing. So at that stage your daughter's like, mouth, mouth. I'll take the Pam hole.

She's been a whole bottle. It felt that stage your daughter's like, mouth, mouth. I'll take the pamp hole. She's been a whole bottle. I felt so bad. She's 18 months old, so she's still wearing nappies. And so I changed her nappy and it's got a waxy coating. So it's like slides on in. But I didn't have to.

Tell us this question. How detailed are we going here? I did it. I did it. My friend said he had to do it in his tisket. He said it was like one of those little pears, like those are your pears lollies they have where the head opens up and you just pop it, pop,

and it just goes away. It just disappears. Are you supposed to keep it in the wrapper? No, I know. He just said like when it goes, when it just goes into the system, it's like, oh, it's gone. You don't have to do much.

Like you put a coin in a like a vending machine or something. Exactly it. It's gone. Exactly it. But do you know, my daughter was lying there, I was like this feels not like I should be asking for consent or something. But it happened, and her face, she looked at me, wide-eyed, and just stopped moving and was like, what just

happened? What happened? But do you know what? It worked. It worked. Her fever came down And yeah She's definitely going to be Taking her pamo now The hits The Jono and Ben podcast

Thanks for hanging out with us It's great to be back Half way through the school holidays And over the break Got to talking to someone Who gave me the number Of someone named after A famous person

Now I've done no pre-planning Or pre-organising To get this person on Oh do they know Have you messaged them Well I'm hoping so I famous person. Now, I've done no pre-planning or pre-organising to get this person on. Oh, do they know? Have you messaged them? Well, I'm hoping so. I said, hey, will you tell them that Monday morning, come Monday morning, 7.30, we'll be wanting to talk to this person on the radio. So I feel like the MMO has been passed on.

Okay, all right. Hopefully they're going to answer the phone. If not, we'll flail around for a couple of minutes, okay? Okay, let's give them a call. His parents named him after their favourite actor. Which I imagine happens a lot. There's a lot of celebrities that, you know, would influence a lot of kids' names around New Zealand.

Yeah, well, Oscar, our son, we were just lying on the couch watching Oscar De La Hoya. Oh, I thought you were watching the Oscars. Sesame Street. Okay, please, don't let me down here. Hello? Is that Tom Cruise? Morning, yes it is.

Tom Cruise! Is this Tom Cruise? How are you? I'm good, how are you guys? It's good, we're good. It's Jono and Ben and Megan. We're calling from the Hits radio station. Thank you for answering the call.

I didn't know if you were going to. I should have done a lot of planning yesterday, but thank you. Yep, that's all good. It's Jono and Ben and Megan. We're calling from the Hits Radio Station. Thank you for answering the call. I didn't know if you were going to. I should have done a lot of planning yesterday, but thank you. Yep, that's all good. So your name is what? Is it Tom Cruise? Yeah, Tom Cruise. One word. So his first name is Tom Cruise. And then what's your surname? Ozaki. Tom Cruise Ozaki. Alright, so your first name. So what do people call you? Do they call you Tom Cruise? Do they call you Tom?

A lot of people call me Tom. Back in school they Do they call you Tom Cruise? Do they call you Tom? I mean, how do you? A lot of people call me Tom. Back in school, they used to call me Tom Cruise. It was just, yeah, but it's been a whole thing with like everyone going, oh, how'd you get that name? Oh, my dad named me Tom Cruise. What? And so your dad, obviously, a huge Mission Impossible fan. He loves it, yeah.

Every username he has is Top Gun. Oh, my gosh. Just giving away a little sense of the past, wasn't it? That's very cool. So, yeah, do you feel like you need to like Tom Cruise movies now, being named after him? I've been brought up with it, so, yeah, I love Tom Cruise, but the movies are good as well. But my mum, she wanted me to be called Mark Lester,

but my dad couldn't pronounce the L for Lester, so they had to choose Tom Cruise. Right. Who's Mark Lester? Mark Lester's just, I don't know, my mum just loved that name, so she ended up getting it. A former child actor. She's gone niche. Well, let's just be like, yeah, like Tom Cruise is probably,

I mean, no disrespect to Mark Nesta. I'm sure he had a wonderful career. Oh, he was Oliver back in the day. Oh, well, that's good. I mean, a great role, but Tom Cruise started probably a bit more recently. But, hey, that's very cool. You'd love to meet him one day, right? You'd love to go up and, you know, say, hey, I was named after you.

Because I wouldn't imagine there were too many people out there named Tom Cruise. Yeah, exactly. I would love after you. Because I wouldn't imagine there were too many people out there named Tom Cruise. No, yeah, exactly. I would love to meet Tom Cruise one day. Beck, you know, once upon a time, he probably would have been one of your more controversial celebrities on the market. But now, you know, there's going to be a lot of parents out there who ruined the day they named their kid Diddy or something now. Yeah.

When you go to, like, Starbucks or you order, like, an Uber or something that requires your name what do you say do you say Tom Cruise at Starbucks I get that question all the time like wait so yeah yeah it is like how did you get that like what's that is that you can tell me Tom Cruise and it's like yep that's the story you bought tables book tables at restaurant hotels. You get up, Tom Cruise, you know. So you use it to your advantage. I like to use my first name, so my first full name.

You're like, oh, okay. Oh, well, mate, congratulations on having probably the coolest name out there. Yeah, thanks. And thank you again for answering the phone. It was lovely chatting with you. No worries. You guys have a good day. All right, well, I don't think we can beat that,

but we'd love to know this morning, who were you named after? Or maybe you named your kids after someone. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Were you named after

a famous person or maybe named one of your kids after someone famous? Yeah, you can get a hold of us, text 4487. There was a recent

study conducted by TickPick, which is an online ticket marketplace for consumers, and they analysed the social security baby name database. I don't know what the correlation is between a ticket website

and it felt like the boss came in that day and was like, Johnson, what have you been doing today? He's like, I've been analysing funny baby names, famous baby names. Anything to do with tickets? No, nothing. Nothing to do with tickets. Maybe babies with unusual names buy more tickets or something. But we should publish that article anyway.

So they did, but top five athlete names that people name their babies after. David Beckham. Oh, yeah. Tom Brady. David and Tom, though. Yeah. Easy names to kind of name, right? It's not like it's LeBron or something a bit more unique.

Our last 20 years, Ariana Grande at the top in the musician list. Ariana. Ariana, obviously. Ariana, not a lovely name. David Bowie is popular. Yeah. I know my sister-in-law, she named her baby Bow after David Bowie.

Huge fan. Yeah, I know a Bowie from David Bowie. We almost named our daughter Indiana Jones in a lot of ways. Did you? Because we were going,

Jones was going to be the middle name because that's my mother's maiden name. So we were like, Jones is called middle name and then we were like, Indy,

and then we were like, Indiana, and then we were like, oh no, we can't be Indiana Jones, boys. I mean, the movies are okay.

No disrespect to Harrison Ford. They're fine, they're good, but I was like I'm not that big a, you know, like so we changed the middle name. The day one release. Catch it on the streams. Yeah, really good, but hey, so she's Indiana, but you know. Patricia Taylor, you're named after someone famous.

We'll get you into chat about that, but first of all, Ronnie Morena, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast. Hi. Who are you married to, Ronnie? I'm married to Ricky Martin. Oh. Oh, so you're married to Ricky Martin. You're the one who bangs.

She bangs, she bangs. So Ricky Martin, what, full name Ricky Martin or middle name Martin? How does it work? No, no, full name Ricky Martin. Ricky Martin or middle name Martin? How does it work? No, no, full name Ricky Martin. Ricky Martin. And does he love it or is he just sick of saying his full name all the time? Sometimes he gets a bit sick of it. But one thing that cracked me up about his name was he travelled overseas

and he was with a group of guys and they were running late to their plane. So you know how they call out their names. Ricky Martin and all the other guys. And of course everyone on the plane was thinking, oh my god, Ricky Martin's on the plane. But no, he's Maori. Wrong colour. Then when he comes on the

plane, huge disappointment too. Where's he been living? Come on in, mate. Thanks, Ronnie. That's such a good call. We're going to send you out some hell pizza. You hold the line. Producer Taylor. Thanks, Ronnie.

You're named after? Taylor from The Bold and the Beautiful. Oh, right. Yeah. So I don't know why. Like, I don't really see her as an inspirational character. Was it spelt the same? Because your spelt is different from Taylor Swift.

No, T-A-Y-L-A, exact as the character. Was your parents just big fans? my mom yeah just mom oh yeah you kind of look like her do i i hope you just squint she's had that much plastic surgery she's looking very artificial uh yeah well you kind of look like it yeah she took a bold choice in the beautiful department and injected a lot of it into her face. There you go. Because I'm named after someone from a thing too. Who?

The more I say this, the less relevant it becomes. There was a thing in the 80s. My mum was a huge fan of the show Dallas when she was living in America. And it's Who Shot JR? Oh, that's a big one. And Jonathan Richard. Yeah. Yeah. Oh.

And your generation are like, I have no idea who moment. And Jonathan Richard. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Ben Taylor like, oh. And your generation are like, I have no idea who that is or what the reference is. So I'm going to stop telling that story now. It's lost all topicality. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, Monday we're back. A second week of school holidays around the country as well.

Geez, I felt like a million dollars on Saturday night, Ben. I was wandering around town. Cool young guy comes up to me. He's like, hey, bro. Hands me over a pamphlet. Oh, yeah? He's a DJ. Oh, all right.

It's got a QR code on it. He's like, I think you'll like some of that. And I'm thinking, jeez, he doesn't know how good he made me feel. Like, look at me. I look like a guy to a DJ who might be able to get his music somewhere. He's wanting to use this power and influence that I have. And I scanned the QR code,

and he's Martian Law is the name of his act. Did the QR code. Have a listen. Now you're listening to this, Ben, and you're going, this is way too cool for you it's pretty cool it's very cool yeah it's very cool sick beats uh no one's no one's ever come up to me he literally comes he's like you're gonna like those sick beats no one's ever said that to me they do a good play remember in in america along hollywood boulevard they come up to you like and

you know naive tourists looking around looking for their like hey man i'm a rapper you should listen to my album you're like okay I'll listen to you I'll put headphones on you they play the thing and they're like oh yeah it's really good well done you know and then they're like well give us some money now you're like what what you know to be honest I didn't even want to listen to your dumb album I just wanted to keep walking now I'm in debt to you yeah putting some headphones on I remember you you're like I don't have any cash the guy's like

oh it's an ATM over there that's right and he took me to the bloody ATM didn't he I'm a sucker I think you got a CD like you got to keep the CD or something like that

I did and we played it on the radio it was definitely not safe a radio play so it made me feel like 10 years younger being involved in a conversation with words like sick dope fire

all that stuff I really didn't I just didn't have the heart to be like well get that. I really didn't. I just didn't have the heart. I said, well, get that on the radio for you, mate. I just didn't have the heart to tell him it'd be on a Monday morning on the hits before seven o'clock in between Season of the Sticks and some Morgan Wellens song. Yeah. Hey, next, clickbait headlines.

Megan, you've been looking at some headlines that we may be enticed by. Do you want one? Yeah. Two vultures found too drunk to fly in connecticut vultures are drunk now the birds all right will we hear more about that we'll find out next on the hits jonathan ben the hits the jonathan ben podcast school holidays and uh they've done a survey of the world's most boring attractions oh okay and they've lot at google reviews around the you know around the world and 384 cities.

And they just look for people saying keywords such as boring, bored, boredom, those sort of things. I'd say the L&P bottle. It's a great attraction. But once you're there, you're like, what does it do? There's one New Zealand attraction that's made the list. The top 100 of these are worldwide. The Sky Tower. I kind of feel a bit bad saying it on air just because it feels like it's.

You didn't vote it. I know. Actually, I'll tell you what I'll do. We've got a Burnaphone edition of our podcast. I'll tell you on that. So if you want to know what it is, I'll say it on that. Oh, that's a hell of a tease.

Okay, so if you want to find out what it is, I'll say it on... Is this for fear of ruining their business? Oh, I just feel like, you know, they say it's fine. I've been there before. I had a great time. But yeah, but apparently

it's one of the most boring in the world. The higher your voice goes, the less I fear you had a great time there. Well, yeah, it was school holidays last week, and I was lucky enough to go to a wonderful attraction. This wouldn't have been on the top 100 most boring attractions. And it contained all of the ocean's finest mammals, conveniently located in tiny cages for us to see.

Love it. Love it. I wonder if they're like, F my life, or they're like, hey, I don't have to do any hunting. I can sit here. No, I think if you've watched Blackfish, it's pretty much answered that question for you. They're not enjoying it. Well, I tell you what, nothing makes me happier than seeing a dolphin in captivity.

Okay. And they are majestic animals, aren't they? They really are. Out of all of, they're always smiling. They feel like a passive aggressive gen z who smiles to your face and talks about you behind your back that totally is a dolphin put the smiley emojis on the emails and things like that very passive aggressive but they're doing a great show you know where they got them fanging around the water and stuff and

you know when you see like a dolphin come out of the water and we're like wow everyone's stoked about it and yelling and screaming but then you're like well that's like going crazy for a cat walking along a fence like a dolphin diving out that's what they do that's kind of this you don't see it all the time no you don't you're right you know it happens but you're not you see cats all the time you know the one thing that did weird me out was so dolphin Dolphin did a trick. It was a great trick. Yeah. Backwards flip. And when it happens, the audience, you'll kind of look at each other for a few seconds.

You're like, are we going to applaud this mammal? Like, is this mammal going to appreciate our applause? Do they know what to clap? Do they know what to clap? Are you right? And then there's sort of a slow start. I go, I guess. What else do you do?

Like, you want to acknowledge the fact that acknowledge the fact that they have a relentless training regime and are putting on a wonderful show. But I don't think they'll appreciate the audience applause. But surely if they've done a lot of shows now, they know that that's the reaction to expect. Yeah, right. They probably know that. Yeah, they're smart animals, right?

You do a wonderful dolphin impersonation. This is why I started talking about dolphins. You're right. Okay. And we'll clap for you when you do your dolphin. Okay. Okay. This is Megan.

It's very good. Very good dolphin. It is very good. Okay. There you go. Thank you. Well done. Thank you.

Smattering of applause. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. DM Megan. People slide into your DMs, don't they, Meg? With a question, yeah, that we put out to the listeners. It's pretty brave really, but it is anonymous. So if you have a DM, you can slide into mine or the Hits Breakfast DMs

and we will put your conundrum out to the listeners. Today though, this is our dear Megan. Hey guys, what do you do if someone wants to be re-invited to your wedding after they've RSVP'd? No. Here's the deal. We have a couple who we've been friends with for a while, but they are notorious for breaking up. We were friends with the girl first, so I feel like that's where our loyalty lies. So when they broke up, she RSVP'd yes and he RSVP'd no, obviously Now, fast forward to a couple of weeks until the wedding, and they've gotten back together, and she wants to bring him.

I'm well down the line of organising everything, table settings and everything, and to be honest, I can't be sure they won't break up again before the wedding. What do I do? I want to say no to my friend, but how, and am I mean for doing so? Keen to hear what everyone thinks. Oh, so they're wanting a re-invite. You could punish them and sit them at the kids' table or something. Here's a controversial opinion, and this is surrounding wedding days.

I believe some brides and grooms are just ready to kick off and just waiting for something to kick off at. You know? Well, it's quite a stressful thing for some people. It's like, it's your special day, it's your special day. And so you just feel like any slight inconvenience, you have the right to just fire up at and cause a scene over. It's so stressful, and there's so many aspects to it.

It's just one other person. Chuck him on a table. Every other person has a cost. Why don't you say that? Say you can come, but it's going to cost you $150 or whatever, because that's the cost of whatever it is. Yeah, but she's probably already done, like, you know how you do the favors. Some people get things printed, like.

No. Oh, no. I mean, jeez. Half the people at our wedding, we don't keep in touch with nowadays. Exactly. So what does it matter? They got, like. They're just a snapshot of time, people who are in your life at that moment.

Don't have them. All right. So, oh, under the hits, 4487, what should you do? Maybe you've had the same situation happen to you with your wedding as well. Look, I've had two, and the first one, it was like... Stop bragging about your wedding. What wedding did you have, mate?

The first one... The rest of us have only had one. The first one... We made it work, God damn it. We worked on our relationships. That's why they lasted, Megan. Didn't just throw it in. Sanctum of marriage.

No, but the first one, you listen to everything. You do what everyone else wants. You invite everyone. Is that what you do? You still know your first one. Me too. Okay, shut up. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Right now, we're in the middle of this. Dear Megan. Today's Dear Megan. Someone has slid into Megan's DMs with a bit of a dilemma that we put to you on 0800 The Hits. They're getting married in two weeks, and they have a couple of friends that break up, make up, break up, make up. So he RSVP'd no because they've broken up. Can you just deliver this in a bit more of a neutral tone?

They've gotten back together, and now he wants to come to the wedding, but it's two weeks away. And she's a bit stressed. It's not your wedding to organise. No, it's just I've had two and I feel traumatised. I'm triggered. My eye's twitching. Would you do this to someone, to one of your friends if they're having a wedding?

No, I wouldn't. Do you know what? When it comes to weddings, whatever they say goes. I'm just like, cool, cool. No kids? Cool. It's your choice. You're spending so much money on that day

and you want it to be the way you want it, that's cool it could probably depend the way you ask though, you could say hey I know we RSVP'd no but if anyone doesn't come through is it possible to, you know, I'd like to come now would that be okay to ask and say but hey it's up to you have they filled the slot?

has someone else come off the roster and have they put that in because that person's going to be like oh cool you'd imagine so who's that poor sod it wasn't in the tight the tight group yeah it happens though i've been like that and it's fine i don't think you should feel bad about that because i know you don't you can't invite everyone you want to invite to the wedding so if you're in the next lot you're in the next lot that's fine part of you though in the back of your mind you're like there's better people they wanted here that weren't me without going on and on about having two weddings but i've had two weddings first one i had like 100 people

second one we had 46 and it was way better okay would we be invited to your third maybe you feel the maybe list all right let's get to the calls and see what yeah we should pass on through this d. What would your advice be, Jess? Jess? Are you there? Yeah, we're here. Yeah, mate. You just start talking, mate, and that'll be bloody great radio. What do you reckon?

I reckon it's really that important to them that they should ask her to pay for him. We did that with our wedding with someone that had a new boyfriend, and they were more than happy to pay for him. We did that with our wedding with someone that had a new boyfriend and they were more than happy to pay for him and it just took that bit of pressure off of us. Oh, so it's the financial burden, you think that's the problem? Well, it could be quite expensive. It does alleviate that, right?

That's a good suggestion. I think I said something similar before but Megan shot me down. But anyway, it was much better to learn from you. No, but I'm thinking it's more to do with table settings. Those are hard to do, making sure no one's going to have any conflict. Spanner in the way. Jess is here, Ben's here, trying to solve problems, mate.

You're throwing more spanners in the way. I'm for the girls. I'm not your suggestion, Jess. All right, let's take another one. Just sounded better coming out of Jess's mouth. It did, yeah. We'll go 0800 the hits. We should go to Sue.

We'll go live to Sue. Thanks. Sue, chime on in. What are they doing? Can they let this person bring their partner? Good morning. How are you, Sue? Take it away.

Oh, what? Yes. I feel like, Sue, we've caught you at a weak moment when you weren't phoning up about this topic. Oh, no. I've rang the wrong number. Yeah, no, that's fine. Who did you... So let's get Sue to break down what she thinks.

Just have a guess off the top of your head. What do you think? I'm not even sure what you're talking about. Now, that's fine. Just take a stab. Should they invite them to the wedding, Sue? What do you reckon? Based on everything you know...

Oh, she's gone. She hung up, mate. She had enough of your live bullying. I was just curious to know what she'd come through. Here's a great suggestion, 4487. Invite him to the after party. Oh, that's a good idea. I mean, that's fine if he's okay with it.

People get a bit funny when they only get invited to like... I don't know, mate. I don't know. All right. So wrap it up. Wrap it up. What do you want to say? Well, I think by emailing us, I think she already knows what she wants to do.

And when it comes to wedding, I think you should do what feels right to you. So it sounds like you don't want to invite him. Okay. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Of course, it's the second week of school holidays. We had a few days off last week. I went on my first ever RV camper van trip with the family.

It was actually really, really fun. Really enjoyed it. You couldn't find a more anxious driver to be in charge of a camper van, so he relegated himself to co-captain, didn't you? Yeah, I drove for a bit of it, but my wife did most of the driving. She was actually very good and i played uh played music and you know uh keep it up the banter what was all the what were the rules around uh ablutions

oh yeah if you anything more than tinkling if you're having to push yeah because there is there was actually you know lots of cool features there was a bathroom there was a shower there's a little kitchen and stuff but we're staying at you know campgrounds around some beautiful spots so most of the time it's easy just like yeah use the campground facilities as well so you didn't unload a tank of waste no no it was a good time you can clean that up if you go that is not the co-captain's job do you have to like clean that before you give it back yeah you don't just okay you just pull up and go there you go mate that's a week's worth of it i would wear some gloves when dealing with that that was really cool like you weeks worth of it again. That's what I would do. A little slosh in her. Your problem now.

I would wear some gloves when dealing with that. It was really cool. Like you kind of get up and you kind of unplug, you know, and away you go around the place. But I was getting to know the RV. And, you know, first time, and I'm a little bit nervous about things. So I was getting to, you know, to try and work out how everything works. You know, turning on the gas, looking at all the features.

And there was some cool little features in there, like a sort of heat pump situation. So I was like, oh, this is how everything works, you know, turning on the gas, looking at all the features. And there were some cool little features in there, like a sort of heat pump situation. So I was like, oh, this is how this works. I feel like a heat pump would be too much heat for a camper van. Or air con as well, you know, like it was one of those things, which was really great. You know, it was lots of phone charges. And then I found one day I was like, oh, there's a stereo inside

and above the fridge there's like a stereo. How do all these things fit? I know, it's like a stereo system. That's cool. So I put it on and then I said to one of the girls i was like what's the frequency for the hits it's like early in the morning uh in the campground and i was nervous about you know with the lots of campers around wanting to feel like we're we're camper people you know having conversations with people around there you're even saying camper people i feel like you blended in maybe you know the old

time we've been there since 1954 you, same camping spot in the mountain. I'm like having chats to him. I'm like, girls, you know, we want to be quiet at night. We don't want to make too much. You know, there's people camping, people sleeping. We're conscious of that. Like prison. Keep your head down.

So it's early-ish in the morning. We're all up and about. And I was like, oh, there's a stereo. What's the hits frequency? One of my daughters is like, oh, in the mountains, it's this frequency. So we put on the hits. And one of our replay moments were on. And so we heard this around.

So you're like, turn it up. Everyone needs to hear this. Yeah, I was like, well, let's have it. Let's crank it up because I want to have a listen to it. And I was like, oh, really, you know, I really want to hear it. I kept turning it up. I was like, guys, I want to hear what bit it is. And then we're in the confines of the camper van.

Daddy wants to listen to it himself. It's just us. I want to hear what it is because it is different when you talk on the radio and then you actually hear it back. I was like, well, let's have a listen to it to back and then i got to the end of it listen to the bit that went into a song on the hits and then we hear this knock on the door i'm like uh-oh what's going on it might be someone saying how much they enjoyed the voice break yeah and the guy the lovely guy for next door was like hey just letting you know that your outdoor

speakers are blasting the radio around the campsite i I'm like, oh, dear God. And what I had, the full thing, nothing was playing inside. It was all outdoor speakers. So no wonder I cracked it up trying to hear it. I'm just blasting myself all over the campground. I'd say one thing. That was some champagne radio, mate. What do you think?

I'm like, oh, dear God. Everyone in the campground's like, that Ben guy loves. Let's just unplug and leave right now.