Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Photo albums, a glass eye, and police reports

Episode Date: February 2, 2025

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The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh, your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Monday, where we start with a bit of a, well, I guess a retraction and something we, and you can see why we accused you of doing this. So I brought to the radio show a topical story where the world's tallest woman over seven foot, and the world's shortest woman, 24 inches tall, met for afternoon tea. Why? Yeah, it's such a beautiful moment when you play the video. Yeah, it's lovely. It's lovely. And I said, well, here, see if you can figure out which one's the tallest and which one's

the shortest simply by this audio. So I played this. Meeting Jodie for the first time ever was wonderful. She's the most gorgeous lady. I was waiting to meet her for a long time. When I meet or see people taller than me. Now, accusations were thrown by both of you. Oh, it seemed like something you would do was to doctor the voices. For comedic effects.

And we have to say, having watched the video that you've shown us, that was the voices that were on the video. For comedic effects. And we have to say, having watched the video that you've shown us, that was the voices that were on the video. So there you go. So genuine voices. 60 centimetres tall. That is the height

of the smallest woman in the world. She's adorable. They have two rulers. You see there's five foot between them. So there's a Sabrina Carpenter between them.

Yeah. The ruler you would use at school. It's two of those Carpenter between them. Yeah. The ruler you would use at school. It's two of those. That's her height. Tiny. Isn't it amazing that the voices also

I guess they would. Yeah, match with what, yeah. Everything's smaller. Yeah. Yeah, true. You're right. Yeah, it's on our

Instagram anyway. I've had to put it up there as defence to clear my name. Nasty, nasty allegations. We'll take that back, Megan. You know, I still, you know. Mine too.

Do you want me to go through the DMs that Jono sends me? To be honest, I can see, like, to be honest, I can see how you've ended up. And there's a lot of fake news and stuff out there these days.

Things are being docked and every time you watch a story, you look at the comments and people are like, this is not good. Yeah, no, I can see why you guys Have jumped there, I don't blame you at all To be honest

Sadly a character assassination We'll start though the podcast with something you Well have a listen Anyway, this is a good story About why we think the way we did Okay, how's that? Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

Went to the football on the weekend. Pretty cool. The Auckland FC, great experience. They're doing really well. Did they take her on drums? Yeah, there's a guy with a drum. Nightmare. Amazing.

Takes her on the train. I don't know how it goes back and forth from the stadium, but yeah, I ran into a gentleman who came up to me. Now, last year too, towards the end of last year, ran into an old primary school friend, Cameron, who reminded me of a horrific incident that I had no recollection of where I urinated on him from the top of a tree that he was also, he was climbing underneath, I was on the top. When you were a child.

It's a long story. It's a long story. Not recently. The second tree peeing incident. It did lead to another one. Cousin Nicola. Yeah, so I thought that would be all from my dark, dark past story. Not recently. The second tree peeing incident. I did. It led to another one. Cousin Nicola. Yeah. I thought that would be all

from my dark, dark past that would come back to haunt me. But no, the football on Saturday. Guy comes up to me. He's like, do you remember me? I'm Marcus. A very familiar face. Yeah, right. I'm Marcus. He's like, oh God, here we go. Did I pee on you? You never want a do you remember me?

Did I pee on you? What did I do you remember me what did I do to you how did I wrong you in the past but he was like do you remember when we were kids about nine or ten we went to Whitcalls

oh no he was part of the Whitcalls heist the heist the Ocean's Eleven style the pubescent Whitcalls heist of yeah

19 years old and he was like I only had because my friend John and I went to primary school together and he'd since gone to a new school. So Marcus was a new friend of his who he brought along to hang out for the day. He's like, I only met you for one day.

And boy, I tell you what, it was a roller coaster. Now, we've talked about this on the radio before. Megan's like, what's the story? Did you say prepubescent? It was a heist. Weren't you 19? No, nine. Oh.

Nine. So nine, 10 years old from memory. And so there was an era where if you wanted to look at images that were made before older people, that you'd have to go and purchase a magazine. Yeah. Okay. Now, there was one era where Pamela Anderson was gracing the cover of one of these magazines. Like the Baywatch era.

Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, as young boys sort of discovering themselves, well, I would love to read the articles in this magazine. Yeah, right. But obviously purchasing it was going to be problematic. So then we hatched a plan. Okay, we're going to go in, as we said, Ocean's Eleven style.

The other two were on lookout from memory. And as always, I was in the centre of the storm. You always get a stupid guy to do that, eh? Now when you're on lookout, your main job is lookout for stuff, right? That's a pivotal role in the heist. So I'm doing my part, I get the magazine and I slide it down my trousers

and I'm like, great, I've done my job. Tick, turn around, boom, hand on the shoulder. It's undercover shopper. They're defence though, they won't probably, And I'm like, great, I've done my job. Tick. Turn around. Boom. Hand on the shoulder. Oh, no. It's undercover shopper. In their defense, though, they weren't probably, it wasn't like someone in a security uniform, was it? You're right. Probably in their defense.

They didn't know what they were looking out for. They were on watch out. Taken to the back room of Whitcalls. Sat down. She's like, this isn't a good look, is it? No, this is terrible. This is embarrassing. She's like, well, you must go home

and you must tell your parents. I'm going to give you a day to do it and then I'm going to call tomorrow. So I went home and I told my parents that I'd been trespassed from, trespassed from what course? Trespassed from what course? Well, the great books and stationery you couldn't get.

Can't even get there now. I can't even go in now. And I went home and told my parents. She never called. Yeah, I was going to say, did you give her your number? Like, where was she getting your number from? That's a very good point. Did she know your name?

I always get the dumb one to go for it. I didn't even give her a number. I'll call your parents and be like, how are you going to do that? Come on, Jono. It's a really good year. Do you have to do everything? Great lesson, Lurt. It would have really good Yeah Time to do everything Great lesson One of the heists didn't work

Would have been good To have you there For the heist To be honest In hindsight And that was the first And last time I ever saw Marcus Until then

Now he's a fully grown adult With children So You also haven't put a magazine Down your pants since Have you No That's right

So I learnt my lesson Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits This is a miracle tale Of survival That I'm about to tell you That's right, so I learnt my lesson. John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast, the hits. This is a miracle tale of survival that I'm about to tell you. So yesterday I had to go fill the car up with gas. Yeah.

And my son was playing around with the basketball in the driveway. I said, I'm going to go fill the car up with gas. He said, all right, that doesn't really bother me. Yeah, do what you need to do. Do what you need to do. Yeah. And so I left. And then now- Which is a good call because you never want to do it

In the morning I know You're like That's a bad decision One of those jobs Where you're like If I I don't want to do it now

But if I don't do it now Future me is going to hate myself Yeah exactly Yeah And so I'm going to the petrol station Now I've gone around I would say 14 corners

One roundabout Very busy roundabout Down the road Erratically too I imagine imagine, with your driving. Don't you know it, baby? Don't you know it? Yeah. And then I'm in the petrol station and I hear, Dad!

And I didn't turn around because I'm only, you know, the father to one person. I believe, you know, two people actually, I think. As far as I know. And he's at home. And it's Oscar He's like My phone's on your car

So where was he? So Jen had He So long story I pulled out And we're on the Life 360 And Jen went Oh Oscar

Why is it saying you're leaving home When you're here? And he's like And he'd forgotten he'd left the phone On the boot of the car oh my god they hop in the car they're on a high speed chase trying to guess what petrol station they were going because i hadn't taken my phone um and then ended up there 14 corners one round about the phone still sitting there on the boot just lodged in between a crack miracle tale of survival yeah

you've run in farts and loose just heading out without your phone. Yeah, I did. Well, I was just going down the road. Yeah, I know, but anything can happen. That's what I'm always like. Something will happen. Do you take your phone everywhere with you? I do.

Especially like that. I mean, because if I don't, something will happen. Something happens to the car? Yeah. What are you going to do? It'll be like, oh, I've got my phone. Can I borrow your phone? You'll be one, oh, I've got my phone. Can I borrow your phone? He'll be one of those weird people lingering around.

Just leave the call and you're like, oh, what's this? I don't want to lend you my phone. Yeah, so I'll wait on that. We'll check this out there. What have you left on top of the car? Hmm? Yeah. Well, yeah.

I mean, yeah, I was, I imagine there's a lot of hot drinks. You know, a lot of people put their drink in the morning and take a living. Because I load everything into the car and put a coffee up the top. I was always worried when I had kids for the first time and sometimes you put the car seat in the top. I was like, don't drive away like you would a hot drink. Thankfully, I've never done that. We put a petrol cap.

We had an older car where the cap comes off, you unscrew it, and then it's Free and loose And we put it on top of the car And I don't know why But like when we'd finish With the petrol

Shut it without Oh yeah Without the cap And they're a nightmare to replace They are And it flew off and smashed Oh 100 the hits 4487

What have you left On the top of your car Or maybe you've driven away With the bowser From the petrol Still in the car Are you one of those people with the petrol pump in there? Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Talking about what you left on the car after Jono drove a few k's with his son's phone on the car and it didn't fall off. Just thinking about the amount of cornering and like you say, my erratic driving approach to being a roundabout to it. It stayed on the boot, wedged in between the crack. A miracle story. Doesn't have one of. It stayed on the boot, like wedged in between the crack. A miracle story. Doesn't have one of those sticky things on the back.

No, no. Those things you put on windows and stuff. But no, I'd knock the phone off the couch. It smashes to pieces. I'd take this phone for a bloody 10K car ride

and it survives. That's a great story too on 4487 on the text. Left our digital camera on the roof. Someone found it when it fell off. went through the pictures, found a photo holding a certificate from school

and tracked us down that way and got it back to us. From the name on the certificate? From the name on the certificate in the school. It's a pretty impressive way. Creepy and impressive too. They were having a look at photographs that made them laugh. I'll just buy that. That's a good one.

What a lovely thing to do as well. Very cool. Let's get Carolyn on. More a lovely thing to do as well. Very cool. Let's get Carolyn on. Morena, how are you, Carolyn? Morena. Lovely to have you

on, mate. What did you leave on top of the car? I did not. It was something I found that somebody else left on their car.

Oh, what was it? It was a police report book. Oh, so it was like from a policeman. Like, yeah, like that right incident report book. Can we just acknowledge Megan?

Great follow-up question, Megan. Hey, was that from the police? From a police person, did you say, Carolyn? Yeah. An ambiguous police person. What kind of stuff is in there? Any juicy goss? No, we didn't look through it.

We just sort of had a look through it. Don't lie. It was a leather-bound sort of... Don't lie. No one gets a police book and doesn't look through it. I'm putting it on Instagram. I'm doing all sorts. It was like classic New Zealand police.

Look at this. I had my mum in the car. She's since passed, unfortunately. But her and I were just laughing all the way to the police station to drop this off because we were like, can you imagine the razzing this person's going to get? Oh, yeah. True.

Well, thank you for that. Good on you. Thank you so much. Just to clarify, it was from the police, Megan. Police person. Yeah, that's right. Just so you know. Nikki, you're on. How are you. Thank you so much. Clarify it was from the police, Megan. Police person. Yeah, that's right. Just so you know. Nikki, you're on.

How are you? Hi, good morning. It's great to have you with us, Nikki. What did you leave on top of the car? Well, we had a cafe, and I took a box of eggs that was sitting on the top of my car, and I drove it from home to the cafe, about two kilometres up a windy road, down a main road, and got them there in one piece. They didn't slide off?

No, nothing happened. So the ironic thing is we were known for our scrambled eggs at our cafe, but some of those did not arrive scrambled. Oh, there you go. Wow, that's amazing. That is amazing. You just slip into autopilot in life, don't you? I did not arrive scrambled. Oh, there you go. Wow, that's amazing. That is amazing. You just slip into autopilot in life, don't you?

So you mentioned about leaving a baby on the roof. I'm sure someone's done it before. I hope not, but it might have happened. It happens. Good morning to you, Ollie. Morning. How are you, mate? Yeah, pretty good. And yourself?

We're doing well. What did you leave on top of the car? So I didn't leave anything on the top of the car, but my dad, he has one eye, and it fell through the handbrake on a nine-hour road trip up to Auckland in the middle of the night and ended up going onto the road.

His eye? A glass eye? Yeah, because when he was little, he shot it out, and now he has a glass eye, and it fell through the handbrake. Oh, so, and I imagine you're not getting that back. Oh, after about half an hour, we ended up finding it. Oh, did you?

It was pretty good. It didn't even break. No, it didn't break. It was all good. Was it on the road? Yeah, it was just sitting on the road. Jeez, and you were looking for a glass eye in the middle of the night? Yeah.

Wow, that's a miracle find. Oh, yeah. That's really impressive. Pretty scary. And does he just, what, pop that back in? Yeah, he gave it a little wipe. Gave it a little wipe down, yeah. With a T-shirt or something like that, and pop it back in.

You know, a bit of a spit in the rub. Do you know, every time I of a spit and a rub. Do you know how one, every time I hear a glass eye, Hamilton, remember at the Outback and this guy, he says, want to see my party trick?

Popped out his glass eye, poured it, put it into the bottom of the glass, dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk. Drunk it. Drunk it and then ended up with the eye in between

his teeth going, ha. And then he was like, do you want to have a go with his eye? I was like, oh, look,

thank you, but I'm okay. Lovely offer. Yeah, lovely. I'll be very hospitable, you're look, thank you, but I'm okay. Lovely offer. Yeah, lovely. I'll be very hospitable. You're right, it was lovely. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. Yeah, it's had some internal conflict going on, I tell you. And it's getting actually hot and steamy as well, being like Baldoni and Blake Lively, except over an air conditioning unit. But. Megan. Okay, I love how you're throwing me under the bus.

This is my issue. But we've all experienced how cold it's been in the studio the last few days. It has been chilly. Yeah, okay. So, yeah, really hot outside, whenever you go around. It's summertime. It's summer outside. It's warm.

But in studio, I've been having to wear puffer jackets. You guys are like, you've been wearing jackets as well. You've been wearing your winter jackets. It's been very cold. It's freezing. It's like very cold, freezing. It's freezing. It's like a chiller. One day last week, I wore a puffer jacket on the top and then on my legs as well.

It was so cold. So I was like, I'm going to take it to facilities and just see what the deal is. Unnaturally cold. 16 degrees or something, I think it was. Yeah, so they said it was 16. It does feel slightly unusual when it's sort of 30 degrees outside, so I'm having to come into work with a jacket on. I'm with you on that. Yeah, like a puffer jacket.

Now, we do know that Matty McLean, in the afternoon, he runs hot. He runs hot. He likes a cold arena. Like David Letterman apparently liked his studio freezing cold to keep the audience awake. Probably himself too. Maybe they should have cranked down the aircon in the old White House for Biden too.

To be fair, when I went to facilities, I was like, is there a way to do it colder for us and then keep it how he likes it in the afternoon? But it turns out it's quite complicated. We don't have a remote in the studio where we can just change it. No, it's kind of weird. Someone else has to do it for us.

So we have got it changed. It's slightly warmer but this has caused now problems back for the drive show. Matty McLean. Now they confronted you, blindsided you on the radio on Friday. Have a listen to this. So I think you and I are at a stalemate here, right?

And I was shivering. I was like, what's it at? I get hypothermia. But what's it at now? Because it feels too hot, Megan. Excuse me, we're not all marathon runners. We have our metabolism cranking through the roof. We'll take it offline, Megan.

We'll figure out a happy medium, okay? Have you figured out a happy medium? No, not yet. So I'm wearing puffer jackets, and then one day last week, he was topless in the studio. Shirtless? Chalk and jade. That feels like a step too far.

I know. No matter how hot it gets at work. That's proven, point proven. Never take your shirt off at work. Also, considering this studio, like, there's a huge window out to reception. Yeah. So anyone coming into our work will just see Matty topless in the studio. I'll give you five bucks better if you do the rest of the show topless.

It's not warm enough. Do you know that actually Office Aircon, it's a boner contention worldwide because traditionally they've run the unit, officers have, for the body temperature of the male. And females run at a different temperature. I think there's about a two degree difference about what you find comfortable and what males find comfortable. We do know that, yeah.

Yeah. And they always lean towards the males because they're getting all the stuff done, obviously. I don't know about that. But yeah, I was just looking here. Apparently the good balance for most people, 22. That's why we didn't say that, 22. Well, 16 was a little bit cold,

but we'll keep you up to date with us throughout the week. I'm sure there's going to be plenty more. No one's going to be happy. You're always going to week. I'm sure there's going to be plenty more. The problem is no one's going to be happy. You're always going to be too cold. He's always going to be too hot. And both are right. No one's wrong. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The Hits. Morning, if you need some motivation on your Monday. We're heading into a short week this week. Of course, Waitangi Day on Thursday. And a very exciting thing happening Friday. The Hits. Top 100 of the 2000s. I'm so excited

about this it's happening from 8 o'clock on Friday we're going to count down the 100 songs the best 100

songs of the last 25 years we're talking 2000 to 2025 so far there's going to be some amazing

bangers in there have you picked your favourite banger yet we keep saying it every day we must get around to that

it's so hard to choose I could pick like a top 10 yeah or you get your favourite banger yet? We keep saying it every day. We must get around to that. It's so good. It's too hard to choose. I could pick like a top ten maybe. Yeah, or you go your favourite one in each genre, but it's so hard to pick your number one song. Okay, homework. Each of us have to do that. Top three songs.

Okay. All right. Okay, we'll do that by the stage. Let's do that overnight. Now, one of the great things about over the last 25 years is email really came to the forefront at the earlier part of the last quarter century didn't it um yeah i reckon we all started with email and we all thought it was

a bit of a laugh and you didn't realize the long-term repercussions of having a comical email address no you didn't probably think that everything was gonna you're gonna have to sign up to everything how much your life was going to be tied to this address everything you ordered online everything you bought. Everything was, you're right, it's going to work stuff, all that sort of stuff. I had a very offensive email for a number of years, one I couldn't even broadcast, to be honest. Oh, yeah, that's it.

It was set up by someone else. It was set up by someone else, but then it was like, all of a sudden, three years down the track, this is tied to my bank, to so many important areas of your life. I went on to Gmail. I was like, all I want to do is just keep the email the same, but I want to change the name of it. Do you think you can?

I don't think you can. They can't. They need to allow that function. Yeah, you're right. They probably do. Then every time you have an important call with insurance, banking, everything, they're like, can I just confirm your email? You're like, I'd rather you didn't.

Yeah, you have to spell it out. And it was just like, if I deleted that, I'd delete my life. I'm gone. Crumble. How about you? It's too late. And it was just like if I deleted that, I'd delete my life. I'm gone. Crumble. How about you? It's too late for me now. I've got one. It's not super embarrassing.

I'm not ashamed of it, but it's not the most professional sounding one. You know it. I'm not going to broadcast it because I still use it. But yeah, sometimes when I say it, I'm like, what? It's a play on your name. It's a play. Yeah, it's a pun, you know. So like, yeah, sweet.

I don't like it. I don't hate it. But it is like- I did chuckle the first time I heard it. Sometimes in unusual situations, you're like, oh, here we go. I've got to say this out loud. How many years have you rocked this? Oh, long time.

Probably 20 years, I'd say. And I've just stuck with it. It's too hard to change. Too late now. Yeah. I had a friend who was also a director of a TV show that we were making at the time. And we were going through America, organizing celebrity interviews, and he was on the phone.

And he's now since changed his email with the agent, big agent, Hollywood star. And they were like, yeah, just email through. What's your email? And we were listening to him, as he said, Sheepboy007.

You're doing nothing for the stereotype. Oh God. They're like, yep, Sheepboy007. It's just like, it's kind of like a tattoo isn't it Except with more consequences than email What was your one back in the day? Music minx

I had music minx I was like that sounds great Because you were involved in music? I just liked music Oh you liked music? You were a minx? Many steps through that process where you could have gone, is this a good idea?

And you didn't pull out in one of those. No, I didn't. I don't have it anymore. Don't email music minks. Should we chuck this over, okay? The most embarrassing email addresses from years gone by. That's right. So hopefully these emails you don't have anymore.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Friday, counting down the top 100 songs from the last 25 years here at The Hits. It's going to be a fun day. If you're taking that day off, annual leave, make sure you crank up the radio. Yeah, it'd be a great thing to accompany you

to the beach or wherever you're heading, yeah. Someone's texted in asking how they can actually vote for the songs, how they can submit the songs. At the Hits.co.nz, yeah. I imagine voting will close very shortly, so you'd better get in there. Yeah, we're just talking about over the last 25 years, reminiscing nostalgia and email really became popular.

It came to the forefront of communication over the last 25 years and we all started, a lot of us, with gag emails. Yeah. As you said, probably not really thinking what was going to happen with email. Yeah, the long-term repercussions of this. Because I wasn't working when it started. No. So you're just like, oh, this is just a fun thing of this. Because I wasn't working when it started. No. So you're just like, oh, this is just a fun thing.

People will send me little electronic things every now and then. Well, I get your name where you can give them something funny. Yeah. Yeah. So I had a very offensive one, one not even fit for broadcast. But I actually got pulled aside by a colleague who said. Because you held on to it for years. Yeah, well, because it was like I said,

it was like a bloody tentacles in all areas of my life. And if I cancelled it, I was just like, oh, well, I may as well just wipe myself off the register completely. But yeah, she was like, I just see now this email is really offensive. And I was like, oh, it was just a joke. She's like, yeah, it's not a joke to those people. So I had to, I actually did just delete it. I had to restart again.

Restart again. And that is an admin nightmare, restarting. And, Ben, you've got a pun one you're still using to this day. I am still using. Yeah, I've held on to it. No, I can't change it now. It's too late. Yep.

And the music minks over there, what's – Music minks. Yeah. That was you, wasn't it? I like to do capital underscore capital You know like uppercase lowercase uppercase Yeah it was cool So 0800 the hits we're going to be talking about

Your emails from yesterday Cheyenne morning to you Morning Lovely to have you on Are you still running the email I am not no I had to banish it When I started looking for employment What was it It was unicornbutt6969 I am not, no. I had to banish it when I started looking for employment.

What was it? It was unicornbutt6969 at topnow.com. Unicornbutt6969. A couple of funny numbers. It was unicornbutt6969 not available. You had to put it in twice. 68 others. And did it ever come back to bite you in the butt?

Yeah, it did because I applied for my first job at Burger King When I was 15 That email address And they straight up said You know, your email address is very unprofessional I said, I'm a child So, yeah And you're thinking about employing a child

So, let's not cast judgement here So good, we appreciate your call They're like, it's a no from us, unicorn But, Crystal, morning, how are you? I'm good, thanks. How are you? We're doing well. It's lovely to have you on this morning.

Your email's from yesteryear. CJ G Wiggle. CJ? Oh. So what's that to do with your name or what? Yeah, so my nickname is CJ, but it also came from like the 50 Cent era where everything was G-unit. So I went with G-wiggle and yeah, it haunts me.

G-unit! That was a little time in the sun. I get it. I get it. G-wiggle. I love it. Thank you for sharing it with us. Producer Ellie's coming.

We're talking emails from years gone by, Ellie. Well, I'm quite the rebel because it was Ellie underscore hates underscore homework at hotmail.com. Yeah, baby. I love how we use underscores to separate the words. Was it to separate the word or was it another Ellie out there that hated homework on Hotmail? Even more than you did.

They got it first. Great text here, 4487 actually hi guys my last name's King and my mates used to call me Wayne so you can see where that email ended up you didn't have to do that to yourself but you did

I love it hot.mail at hotmail.com was my one very hard to oh yeah I know hot.mail yeah that works

that's clever Keep this coming through 4487 on the text Your embarrassing emails He's like I regret sending this text I'm 42 now But at 16 years old

I was a girthy D for you Okay alright Alright Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hit Of course Now actor and comedian

Pete Davidson. He's been in a few high-profile relationships over the years, isn't he, Megan? He was engaged to Ariana Grande for a bit. That Thank You, Next came out, that song. He's included in that song. Kim Kardashian. Kim Kardashian. At some stage.

He was with her a while. And a very tattooed guy, over 200 tattoos he's got. Now he's in the process of the last couple of years of getting getting rid of them all so he's getting rid of all of them well all but three i think he said on jimmy fallon's show he's going to keep three of them he's like i'm going to be an adult now i want to grow up and you know and imagine you know for movie roles and stuff he probably spends a lot of time having to get them sort of taken away because famously every time he has a girlfriend he would get i think he had eight eight, him and Ariana got eight matching tattoos, something like that. No stage would you regret that, obviously. And then didn't he get Kim Kardashian's kids' names tattooed on him as well?

Yeah, but he also got branded. So like laser treatment's not going to get rid of the branding. Oh, yeah. He got branded something about Kim Kardashian. Like a branding iron. Like a scar. That's when you get swept up in the romance, isn't it? Now, he's getting them all lasered off and it's costed a bunch of money.

Some of your tattoos are going away. Yeah, I've been burning them off. Is it painful? It's horrible. It is, right? Oh, it's worse. Worse than getting them. Well, they've got to burn off a layer of your skin.

And then it has to heal for like six to eight weeks. And you can't get in the sunlight. And then then you got to do it like 12 more times yeah so really think about that game of thrones tattoo you're thinking about 200 grand usc spent on now you've got some laser done didn't you i did get some laser done on my arm i got a tattoo that i didn't like and yeah i would agree it's it's way more painful than actually getting a tattoo on. What does it feel like? Oh, like, yeah,

I mean, there's obviously, they've got this sort of ice thing they put on beforehand, you know. To cool you down. To cool you down

with the thing but just really just excruciating pain. Which is burning your flesh off, isn't it? Well, I guess in a lot of ways

it is. It doesn't burn your flesh. He's not quite right. So, yeah. The laser breaks down the ink. It breaks down the ink,

yeah. And so then it bubbles up and it sort of like like bliss almost blisters and stuff afterwards you're right and then your body kind of absorbs the ink into the system and there it goes yeah so you're right he's over dramatized a little bit but it does i'm not so it really hurts way more than getting an actual tattoo so as you said think about that tattoo you know why did you remove your one i didn't like it and yeah and then i got to stage there's a little bit of scarring from the stuff coming off but then I put it over the top because I got to stage and I was like oh you can tattoo

over the top of it again. Tell you what one thing I won't be doing is lasering off the dog smoking a cigarette on my chest never, no regrets, no regrets in this big boat on my gut no regrets ever. What's the story behind the boat? And this big boat on my gut. No regrets. Ever.

What's the story behind the boat? What's the significance? The rich backstory. Yeah, ask him some stories about it. Captain Cook came here on the Endeavour. Don't say that. That's very highly controversial. I'm a big fan of Captain Cook and all his adventures.

Very controversial, that one. All the venereal diseases he brought to our land. But yeah, it's a funny thing. I reckon that technology would advance so quickly that you'll probably at some point in the next 10 years or so you'll go in

and have one session and they'll all be gone. Yeah, you might be right. But at the moment you've got to go back for a year and a half and have your skin burned off. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. And we're reflecting on things that were around in the early 2000s like video stores. United Video. Oh, such a great place to go along on a weekend, to go along, choose your videos, look about.

And we're like, oh, maybe they don't, that's a shame they don't exist anymore. But apparently they do. There's one store in Myrinsville. Someone texts us, and I think we've managed to get hold of the owner, Wilfred. How are you? Very good. What can I do for you? Oh, look, we understand hold of the owner, Wilfred. How are you? Very good. What can I do for you? Oh, look, we understand you are the owner-operator of the last video store in New Zealand.

Yeah, that's right. That's incredible. Last franchise store. Yeah, right, last franchise store. United Video is your one? Yes, that's right, yeah. Are people coming in regularly, Wilfred? Well, yeah, the doors are still open,

let's put it that way. We're kind of making up for the loss of rentals with sales at this stage. Oh, so you're selling the DVDs, not just renting them? Yeah, yeah. So you know how the warehouse used to sell movies, and you can't buy them from there anymore, so we have two parts of the shop.

One is retail, one's rental. Oh, that's smart. Because we were talking about it on our radio show. That's why we found out about you. How it was such a nostalgic thing on a Friday, Saturday night to go into United Video or whatever video store and just look for rentals. Yeah, I would say probably half of my foot traffic is people coming through from a nostalgia perspective, showing the kids what they used to do when they were young.

Have you got the world on video? I would say so if you were to add all the videos together. Probably do have the world on video, yeah. How long, sorry, you don't mind me asking, how long have you done this job for? Oh, we started in 83 in Africa. That's more than four decades now. Four decades of video reels. How many

movies do you think you've watched in your life? I try and do one a night. You know, take that over 40 years. It's quite a few. Have you got a favourite movie? Yeah, mine's August Rush. But having said that, you know,

I'm a little bit on the softer side with my viewing. I've gone off action and certainly don't do horror. I just like a good quality drama. August? I've never heard of August. Okay, see, that's your best movie. What would you say is the biggest clanger that you've ever watched? Oh, gosh. Human centipede.

I wouldn't even touch that. No, that's what I tried to say when I was doing it. As I said, I don't go down the road of horrors at all. I just worked out over 14,000 movies you would have watched. Yeah, but don't forget, I do watch TV series as well. Wow. You'd be cutting that back a little bit. And then obviously I do a lot of repeat watching of favorite movies, you know.

I watch Happy Gilmore once every couple of years. Oh, yeah. What's the one movie that you've watched the most? Probably Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore. Is Adam Sandler your favorite actor? Yes, I do. I can't say he's my favourite actor.

I would say I probably quite lean towards the likes of Morgan Freeman. Oh, he's good. I like Idris Elba. Oh, Sam. Yeah, there's some really, you know, Michael Caine. There's some really class acts out there, you know. There really are. And they'll never be in a B-grade movie.

Yeah. Whereas a lot of these people are starting to slip like Nicolas Cage you know he used to be

good but no longer so I wouldn't even bother touching any of his movies has he slipped to the B grade

has he oh shit yeah for many years I think he's got a mortgage he needs to pay off that's probably

true we all have the last franchised video DVD store in the country. Whereabouts are you? We're based in Morrinsville, so that's just on the outskirts of Hamilton. Is there still a little side back room?

No, no, that hasn't been there for about 15 years now. Probably longer. I've kind of lost count there. I don't know why you'd put yourself through that pain now with everything you have access to. Now we call it the spanking room. If somebody's really late with the movies, we take them to the spanking room.

Thankfully no one's ever been late. If you've got the choice, pay over dues or go to the spanking room. Wilfred, that's amazing. Well, we're counting down the greatest 100 songs over the last 25 years. Yeah. And so that's how we've got into this nostalgia hole. Yeah, yeah.

Now, as I said, a lot of people love, because when they walk into the shop, they say it's like a time warp. You know, it's like you've gone back 10 years. It just feels weird because it still feels the same. It's not like it's changed in any way now Wilfred

we'd love to come and visit your shop and maybe do a show from there no that's all good yeah oh wow could we do that

yeah yeah oh he's like I don't have much else going on he's like I don't know who you are

or what you do but yeah but it's yeah we'd love to talk to you more off the radio about that

yeah okay yeah that's all good. Thanks, Wilford. Well, maybe we should go visit the last United Video store this week. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. The Grammy Awards are happening today in New Zealand time, hosted by comedian Trevor Noah. They're raising money for the fires in LA, which is a pretty awesome thing to do. Beyonce leading the nominations with 11 nominations, but at no way can you officially watch the ceremony in New Zealand. It's not broadcast on anything official.

Are you joking? No, apparently not. Bruno Mars, Billie Eilish, Benson Boone, all-performing Chapel Roan, Cynthia Erivo, and you won't be able to see it. Yeah. Well, legally. Legally.

There's always options, mate. You never say no. Interesting though, hey? You can't say it anyway legally, but there we go. You can watch everything, eh, if you really try hard enough. If you've got a can-do attitude and you're willing to take a risk with the law. Now, I did see something yesterday, and I've seen a few of them around over summer. They're becoming more common. The skateboards that you see people on, sort of larger skateboards,

and they're electric, and the people are holding a remote and going along yeah you know the footpaths of skateboard they look fun don't get me wrong they look like a lot if i'd risk breaking both my collarbones for one of those electric skateboards but i do have a bit of an issue with it because obviously there's a level of laziness associated with the skateboarding it's like the laziest form of extreme sport almost like rock climbing with an escalator sort of thing because you're not willing to do the pushing on the skateboard there's no pushing you're right but then there's so much danger involved and risk like if you're that lazy just get on a bloody electric bike yeah and sit down why do you have to do it like it feels too much risk too much risk, if you want to go skateboarding, just go skateboarding

on a normal skateboard. But if you're wanting to skateboard on an electric skateboard, clearly you can't be bothered using your legs, so then just sit on an e-bike like Ben's dad. Or one of those scooters, the electric scooters you can actually sit down on. They're weird. They look weird. I don't know why, but it's just weird.

So if you haven't seen those in some of the cities around New Zealand, there is obviously your electric scooters you can hire. You can just go along and swipe your phone through the app. $15 million in ACC claims. Now you can sit down. There's ones with a little seat on the back. I had a crack at one. Amanda came past.

She was like, you look like you're on a mobility scooter. That's what they look like. Yeah, yeah. A really fast one. I was like, oh, I don't care. I look cool. I saw someone side-saddling it. Like a woman side-saddling it. I was like, oh, no don't care. I look cool. I saw someone side-saddling it. Like, a woman side-saddling it.

I was like, oh, no. There's very adventurous people there. Some people with three to four kids on one of those. Oh, I love the kids on there, yeah. I mean, but it's the 2024 version of you used to have your friend on your... Handlebars. Handlebars. Yeah.

You know? That was back in the day where we were, you know, multi-transporting people around. But now you're like... Until people lost their teeth and we were like, nah, dangerous. Yeah. There's like eight kids on a Lime scooter. I'm like, this is pushing the limits of the law wrong a lot ask acc there a lot could go wrong jono ben and megan the podcast the hits hey now um parenting i mean you know we're all parents here and i guess there's no real sort of journal there's no sort of instructions things like that

you're sort of finding your way through as you navigate through your parenting journey, right? You know, different ages. You're at a different stage. My kids are a bit older than yours, Megan, obviously. Yeah, I've got toddlers. Yeah, it's the different areas. And you're like, oh, now we're here. Now we have to learn all over again.

As you sort of do navigate that. Yeah, what worked when they were little doesn't quite work now. Yeah, just when you think you get a handle on things and you're like okay i got this they'll change and they'll go through a different phase and you're like what now turns out they don't want you blowing raspberries on their belly in the park anymore i mean that the hard way there are some things that change you're right uh but yeah so i got called out by one of my kids uh over the weekend my kids yeah generally the two girls you know generally really good uh They get on pretty well. But, you know, like their sisters, they have some sort of, you know,

some arguments from time to time. And over the weekend, a particular morning, and I was just like a kid, I'm sort of bickering away about something. And I was like, to be honest, I don't want to know what's going on. I don't want to know what, but I just wanted it to stop. I don't care what's going on. Just make it stop stop so I was like I'll pick one

one name at random the Indy or Sienna and I'm like alright Sienna come here and I was out in the lounge and she's like what

and I'm like I'm not arguing I've had enough of it I want you to sit there on the stool in the kitchen I'll take your phone no devices just want you to sit there

just for a few minutes just for it to stop yeah right you just want your time out. Just use it. And then she sort of looked at me and she was like, are you putting me in time out? I was like, I'm a teenager.

I'm now 15. And I'm like, yeah, yeah. That's right. You're in time out. And then she said the most adult thing that anyone could have said that I put. She's like, just talk to me You've got a problem. Oh, let's talk to me. Let's have a go and I was like, oh, you're right You're right. We could have just had a conversation about it. I can't now you're in time

Ready realize yeah, okay. Yeah, you're right. The kids are totally smarter than I am already and that's not gonna work in this thing Yeah, just talk to me. Just talk to me. Actually can't be bothered I just wanted this argument to stop As I said I didn't care what was going on Where was Amanda at this time? Was she in the Your wife Was she in the naughty corner? Where did you see her?

She was on the naughty step You're right You were there for 10 minutes You were over there Now I've got some peace and quiet That'd be nice wouldn't it? Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast

The hits Now Megan We're giving away this trip Thanks to Bridget Jones over to the UK. And Bridget Jones, she's probably one of the most famous people who had a diary. Yeah. Isn't she? And Frank and her, probably two favourite diary people. But you are coming in a close third now because someone from a previous radio station you worked at handed us your diary from when you were a child.

How old were you when you were writing these musings? I think this diary's about 13. So it's us that seems to be bullying a 13-year-old girl, Ben. So early, sort of high school, a few dramas going on. Now, I haven't read these. Jono's just got some pictures he's taken from the diary, and he's reading out some of the excerpts. Now, your brother Justin really plays the main role of the antagonist in your life.

He doesn't feature in this one, though. Oh, he's not in this one? No. But you said Fire and Ice, so I think it's my best friend. Here we go. Jackie came over today and we watched the top 20 countdown on TV. Oh, yeah. Oh, my gosh.

I recorded Hanson, All Saints, and Puff Daddy on my tapes. Whatever happened to that guy? I don't know. He had some bangers back in the day, didn't he? I used to record all the music videos on VHS. Yeah, oh, I loved doing that. You could go back and watch your favorite songs again and again. Well, you must have been doing a lot because you then said, I'm going to need mum to get

me another three-pack because I've run out of room for anything else. Saw it up with two mates puffed out of you. She used to tell me, just record over. Well, you can record over them now if you want, mate. Yeah, delete that. After we watched the countdown, we rehearsed as fire and ice. But instead of singing our own songs, we just decided to sing Hanson. And we weren't really singing, we were just mouthing the words.

It was good practice for our show. So fire and ice is your double act, is it? Which one were you? I was Fire. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I'm a Leo. She was Ice, yeah. Too cool for you.

Fire and Ice sounds like one of those magician double acts that have unbuttoned shirts and white exotic leopards. Like Magic Mike and Fire and Ice. Oh, God. Or Mail Review. The lounge in our house with the stage and the window was where the audience were.

We pretended we had lots of people and they were bending down and shaking fans hands. They were screaming fire and ice. Fire and ice.

We didn't have microphones we had to use hairbrushes. We're doing such a good show and the audience were going crazy. What the windows were going crazy. What, the windows were going crazy?

There's no one there. But I bent down and I ran along the front of the stage, which was by the window. I didn't see the sliding door handle and boom! Oh no. Smacked my nose straight into the door handle. So hard my nose cracked. Not fire.

Not fire. Straight fire. Not just fire. Straight fire. With your nose, you must have been like, Ice! Ice! She's like, yes, yes. And you're like, no, ice! My nose is on fire!

Yes, fire. What do you want? I'm here. I'm keeping the crowd entertained over here while you're bleeding. Anyway, my nose was broken. We had to stop the show after that, and I had to put some peas from the freezer on my nose. Nothing kills the mood more than peas from the freezer.

Gonna need to get me some frozen peas. Oh, my God. If it's broken, I'm gonna have to make up a different story. Today was an 8 out of 10 day. Oh, it's still 8 out of 10. Because I broke my nose. Wow. I'll give that day at least a... Well, the performance was obviously

pretty good. Yeah. We're more of Megan's diary later in the week. It's glass half full mentality there. Oh my goodness.