Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Producer Ellie spent $30,000 on this?!?!

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Will Ben answer our facetime? Why Ben got offended by NZ beaches Boomer complains on air about something that was fixed... There's a cottage cheese shortage and Megan is STRESSED! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh. Your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on Wednesday. Pretty wet one right around the country of New Zealand until we were broadcasting. I know there's people that listen to this overseas, so hopefully it's all right where you are. Let's check the weather report. What do you reckon the weather's doing in, should we go Spain? Because I know they've just had a power cut.

Oh, that was wild weather that caused that whole outage, right? Atmospheric phenomenon. Yeah. Did they ever explain more than that? No, I think they ruled out cyber attack, I think. But they, yeah, it seemed like it was atmospheric conditions. I think atmospheric conditions have been fiddling with skies. Oh, really?

Service over the last year or so as well, the satellite conditions. Okay, so I'm going to go weather in Spain right in spain right now you just rely on wi-fi we stayed somewhere over the break like that and it was kind of remote and i had to sort of stop myself i was getting frustrated or something wasn't done i was like so why won't this do this and it was like oh come on pull yourself you know like this the technology you've got and yeah it's working slowly it's just you're so used to just wi-fi being happening happening immediately yeah i'm with you but yeah once you do become accustomed to something and leaning on it like all of our lives lean on the internet now you you can't go back you cannot it's very hard

to go back 20 years ago we were dealing without it you know we did fine without it you're right you could watch a little thing you know a photo sort of to gradually get revealed on the internet so um but i don't think they know what they everyone's asking for answers they don't know but it was 58 million people without power when you chuck it in an atmospheric event you're like oh it covers a lot of bases too oh it's an atmospheric no no follow-up questions it was an act of god you're like what does that mean i don't know it's an act of god but if you wanted to what does that mean? I don't know. It was an act of God. An act of God. Just putting it on him.

But if you wanted to know in Madrid right now, it's pleasant with a blend of sun and clouds running at 48 degrees. No, I always get it. Four Celsius. Oh, is it? Yeah, yeah. Oh, they do it in Fahrenheit. Is it for Celsius?

Yeah. What's 73 Fahrenheit? Oh, no. That's cold, isn't it? Let's have a look. It's nippy. 73 Fahrenheit. Oh, 73 Fahrenheit? Oh, no, that's cold, isn't it? Let's have a look. It's nippy. Oh, it's about 23 degrees. Oh, okay.

That's a pleasant day. That's a pleasant day over there in Madrid. Okay, well, anyway, we've got what's happening in Madrid tomorrow. We'll give you a forecast of what's happening in another city in the world. But right now, you tried a wee experiment, social experiment with me after the show yesterday. I front-footed this yesterday. I said, I won't answer. But you decided to call and I didn't answer.

So here's exactly how it worked out. Yesterday on the program, we play a game called Face-to-Face Time where each week one of us takes a turn at plugging in our phone and FaceTiming someone from our contact list because the theory being that 90% of the cell phone using public will never answer a FaceTime call. Especially an unorganised one. When it first came out there, did it have a honeymoon period

of where everyone was, oh, I want to see your face, did we get into it at any point? I don't remember doing that. Because it's like a lot of the time when you're talking on the phone and you're at home, you're like, oh, I don't need doing that Because it's like A lot of the time When you're talking on the phone And you're at home You're like Oh I don't need people seeing me Yeah

Anyway We put the question to Ben yesterday If I FaceTimed called you This afternoon 2.30 Probably not Who wouldn't you answer it from On the team

You know you've got Grace No I'd answer from everyone on the team Because I'd probably think It was something to do with work Not a FaceTime Nah probably no one from the team Unless I'd probably think it was something to do with work. Not a FaceTime. Nah, probably no one from the team. I probably, no,

unless it was pre-arranged. And even said if his wife FaceTimed him, he'd be like, was that actually the first time we've met? Yeah.

Probably a pocket thing, I'd be like, yeah. No, but you'd answer it, right? Just to check. Yeah,

bro, yeah, yeah, okay. I don't like. Wife and kids, I would, yeah,

okay. Oh, so wife and kids, they get a FaceTime answer. Okay, we go, now yesterday we decided to put some extra hours on the clock and we did a social experiment, didn't we? 2.30 in the afternoon, Megan. Not prearranged, but you knew nothing about it.

We decided to each take a turn. A barrage of calls came through. Oh, a barrage. Well, maybe not for you. I gave the guy about nine chances to answer my phone call. I was at the, without a word of lie, I was at a double dentist session. And my phone was just buzzed, on silent, just buzzing away. And then halfway through the night, he was like, do you need to take that?

Yes, you do. And I was like, Jono FaceTime. I was like, no, that's all right. This is me FaceTiming Ben yesterday. This was attempt number nine. I'd given up. Anything could be happening to me. Could be kidnapped.

Could be meeting the queen. Could be banged up abroad, caught at customs for importation of exotic animals or birds. Could be with the king right now saying, hey, Ben, look who I'm with. I'm with the king, King Charles. Could be with his hero, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, just wanting to FaceTime him.

And he is going to, I could be fighting a bear right now. And look at that. Ben Boyce, not available for FaceTime. In your hour of need, the man will never come through for you. They gave you nine chances to look like a good guy. Even your dentist gave you a chance to make you look like a good guy. Yeah, but my mouth was open. I had like cotton buds and stuff.

I would have taken it. I hope the dentist didn't look at your phone and think, oh, Jono. They'd be like, FaceTime me. I'm at the dentist. I would have let the glasses on that they make you wear as well. Because I was filming that too too so that would have been great great now Megan

you gave it a go I gave you yeah I gave you an hour space yeah and I gave it a go but he never phoned me back after that

so he got okay so you're gone I was like I presume this is a bit so I put you on and I was like you did it again then I gave my phone to Sienna and I was like, if this rings again, answer it.

Yeah, my first FaceTime he didn't answer. So I gave him a second one. And there you go, this is my daughter connecting with you. So Dad's just given me his phone to find out what's going on. He's such a chicken. Dad, it's just naked. Tell him I'm dying in a ditch. She's dying in a ditch

dad just take the phone hey megan hi ben i'm actually okay now but yeah i was just i was just yeah no i was just um calling to see if you could give me a hand with something. What's that? Oh, sorry, my phone's on real low battery at the moment. No, I can... I can... Cheeky.

Oh, that's it. Yeah, cut out. Sorry. It wasn't glitching at all. Put this door on the phone to find out what's going on. Great hack. Just the kids are like, hey, just deal with this for a second. to find out what's going on great hack just the kids are like hey

just deal with this for a second you answer it let me know if I need to tap into this conversation or not also I love it how she's like it's just Megan

you know that because it says it so there we go the man hey he sticks to his word you said he wouldn't answer them and I didn't well next time I answer

at the dentist Jono, Ben and Megan the podcast the hits well one of New Zealand's beaches has made the list of the best beaches in the world And I didn't Well next time I answer At the dentist Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hits Well one of New Zealand's beaches Has made the list Of the best beaches In the world

The top 50 We've gone to number 46 But hey We're still in the top 50 We snuck in Just with the one beach Just one beach One of our beaches

Nowhere in Auckland I know Nowhere in Auckland Two poopy Feces laden beaches Yeah Kai Tete Tete In Golden Bay.

Are we there for the rough coastal-ness or the picturesque tropical-ness? West or East Coast? It's quite picturesque, I guess, in some ways. But it hasn't also been open. Coromandel Cove! Cathedral Cove.

Number 46 in the West Beaches. It is stunning. But then of course they had all the cyclones and stuff and they've only just opened some part of it and I don't think you can because that whole

don't talk them out of it oh no I was just saying but it is awesome that whole thing where it's got like almost like the cave through to the beach the archway

yeah I don't think you can walk through there anymore but yeah well don't tell them then they'll put us out of the top 50 okay let's keep that to ourselves

what was number one out of interest someone Italy oh yeah was number one out of interest? Someone, Italy was number one. Italy, then Philippines, Thailand, Greece, French Polynesia. There's one in Australia. It's got white sand. I went there for a work trip, and the sand squeaks when you walk on it. Oh, really?

Yeah. Like the Whitsundays or something? Yes. Is that on there? We're not in the top 10 no okay good beaches

there's a lot of great beaches around a lot of great beaches a lot of butt cheeks on the beaches these days we've spoken about that before I remember going to Greece and there was beautiful beaches

over there but the guy who was the taxi driver kept saying and was talking in English to me but kept saying I thought he was saying

beautiful bitches it was like so many beautiful bitches around here and I was like my wife is just here next to me in the he kept saying, I thought he was saying beautiful bitches. It was like so many beautiful bitches around here. And I was like, my wife is just here next to me in the car. Is she a beautiful bitch? He's like, oh, you go over there, you'll see some beautiful, you know, beaches over there. He was saying beaches.

And I was just like, okay. But all the whole time I was just like. I'm not on the market for them. See her, I love her. But he kept zeroing in on me too. He goes, you look like a guy with legs and beautiful beaches. And I was like, but obviously I kept thinking he was saying something else. I'd be like, well, no. And then I love her. But he kept zeroing in on me too. He goes, you look like a guy with likes of beautiful beaches. And I was like, but obviously I kept thinking he was saying something else. I'd be like, well, no.

And then I kept going, no, not really, not really that sort of guy. And he was confused why that I wasn't interested in beautiful beaches. I'm not that sort of guy. I like the ones in Auckland. Oh, you've got to try this one then. And I'm like, well, no, I don't actually. But actually, give me your number and I'll give you a call. Yeah, wrong time.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I was sitting in the waiting room. They had news talkers here, Bjorn. Oh, yeah. Talkback Radio Station. Now, Talkback Radio, I'd never listen to it.

But when you do listen to it, it's so... I was listening to songs and when you go on to it you're like oh this is you know i'll just listen to this it's just captivating to hearing people's opinions it's just a bit neggy yeah that's fair well yeah there's not a lot of positive stuff going on is there but they'll make you feel put a pep in your step it just winds me up a bit, to be honest. Maybe that's why I enjoy it, because I'm only hearing it in tiny spurs. I only enjoy it for the comedic value, really. So yesterday I'm listening, and this guy flown up from

Blenheim, let's call him Reg. Okay, have a listen. Has he got a positive yarn? Yeah. Good morning, John. Thank you. I was just talking to your producer about it. I've had some bad experiences of Air New Zealand. This is not a general have a go at Air New Zealand thing. No, well, I'm not going to have a go at them. I'm just saying. Now, okay, so he's Regis Kamani's promise.

I'm not going to have a go at Air New Zealand. So that's good. Is he going to stick to his promise? The call continues on. So a few years ago, Is he going to stick to his promise? The call continues on. So a few years ago, I was going to go to Vanuatu. Flew to Auckland and it was cancelled. Well, then at the airport,

it's a complete shambles at Auckland Airport. They point you in the wrong direction everywhere to change your flights. And that in itself took hours. So he's taking a swipe at Auckland Airport. I'd imagine it's a shambles of those situations. Complete shambles. Flight's been cancelled.

Let's see if John still sticks to his word. So I tried to get a refund from the travel agent. They could do nothing. So I was a bit incensed at this. Okay, here's a go at the travel agent. So Air New Zealand's still dodging that bullet. Well, I guess you want to get onto it, yeah. Yeah, okay. Okay, see what happens next. So I was a's still dodging that bullet. Well, I guess you want to get onto it, yeah. Yeah. Okay, see what

happens next. So I was a bit incensed at this, so I wrote in black fountain pen ink on the notepaper and an envelope I addressed it to Greg Forum. And I told him what I thought of it all in uncertain terms. Okay, he's gone straight to the top. You're a big boss.

Straight to the top. Oh, my dad loves writing a letter in for stuff too. He loves writing a letter in for stuff, too. He loves writing a letter in. He's a fountain pen. Oh, he probably would, too, yeah. Now, he's promised. He promised John at the beginning of the call, I'm not going to have a crack at Air New Zealand.

Well, I got a reply from some woman with a corporate meaningless title of about three lines long. Feels like he's about to start having a crack. Okay, this feels like where it's turning. Said that she and Greg were very upset that I'd had such a bad experience because we pride ourselves on family first and people matter.

Well, all this garbage went on. That's not a nice reply. What's that? That seemed like a nice reply. That seemed like a nice reply. Not in Reg's mind, though. Okay. Because it's the most amazing letter

of corporate speaker I've ever... meaningless corporate speaker that went on for about three quarters of a page. So then you're like, OK, he's not happy. What's the end result? The final paragraph was, I got all the money back. So I'm like, what was the point of that phone call? He got his money back.

What's the point? I'm pretty sure when you purchase the tickets they say it could be cancelled I was like it goes on this five minute then they gave my money back what did I just waste five minutes doing so you got a nice reply and you got all your money back but you can still find something to give a crack about

I love it so good John O Ben and Megan the podcast the hits public service announcement because there is a nationwide shortage. In fact, this is in the Tasman as well. Over in Australia, a shortage.

Let us try and guess. Are we talking in the food realm? Is this what you mentioned yesterday to me? Yes. Oh, you don't. If he already knows. You know, I couldn't. My honesty is like, yeah.

But I wouldn't have got it straight away. It is in the food realm. I wouldn't imagine it's a food. John, if he's eating, he wouldn't have got it straight away. It is in the food realm. I wouldn't imagine it's a food. Jono, if he's eaten it, he wouldn't have probably eaten it properly. I don't think it's past your lips. I don't think it would be in your fridge for you. He says I have a Bogan food palette. Yeah, this is definitely not something you...

That's okay. Yeah, no, it's fine. You know what you're getting. So something adventurous. Anchovies. Well, it's not super adventurous. No, it's not adventurous. Well, I'm not like a Neanderthal. Would I have eaten it? so something adventurous anchovies well it's not super adventurous no it's not adventurous it's not super no

well I'm not like a Neanderthal would I have eaten it I'm not even sure if you had I don't know I don't feel like it's something that you would in your wheelhouse

you brought your figs in from your bloody fig tree I'd left I was like oh yeah I had that and it was it was a thing yeah

I don't imagine you were putting it on your list when you go to Woolworths or wherever you go on that week you know okay truffle no it's not that okay Yeah. I don't imagine you're putting it on your list when you go to Woolworths or wherever you go on that week, you know? Okay. Truffle. No, it's not that fancy.

Okay. Here's a heads up. I've eaten, or by the end of the week, I would have eaten two kgs of it. Would you? Yeah. Bircher muesli. Nope.

Two kgs of what? Carrots? Cottage cheese. Is it your cottage cheese? Cottage cheese. There is're a cottage cheese shortage? Cottage cheese. There is a nationwide cottage cheese shortage. Are you doing your part and not buying it?

I'm playing my part. So there you go. I'm trying to replenish the supply. Amanda, our boss, we have a cottage cheese chat because it's often not available at the stores. There's none. Because in winter especially, the cows don't produce enough milk to make enough cottage cheese.

Demand has gone up 60%. Why has it gone up? Social media. Social media. So you remember I make my bread out of cottage cheese. There's all of these recipes now. Do you make your bread out of cottage cheese? You tried it.

With oats and cottage cheese. I'll put the recipe on our page. What a good old chunky, bloody, thick, super thick super white loaf of tip top. You can have that. This is a very grainy bread. But I make a lot of things out of cottage cheese and there's so many recipes on TikTok, on Facebook,

social media, that it has caused a shortage. Let's do an amnesty for you. Okay, I went under this. Have you got some spare cottage cheese? What's the expiry date and can you get it up to us in time? Yeah, we'll collect for you, mate. Also, I have actually prepared one of those recipes for you to try. Do you want to try something that people are making on social media with cottage cheese?

Do you want to waste your cottage cheese on me? Well, that's the other thing. I don't know if I'm going to get another one. I've made you chocolate mousse. Out of cottage cheese? Out of cottage cheese. Okay, so this is like a bowl has just been bought in. Okay, so I'm looking at it right now. It's brown

and liquid. It looks like mousse. My first instinct, having worked on stations like The Rock, I'm like, prank, prank. No, it's not. 100% it's not a prank. It's been in the fridge. You saw me making it at 5am. It's been in the fridge all morning. 10 years it at 5 a.m. It's been in the fridge all morning. Ten years ago, this would have been manure going into his mouth.

That's all right. Honest? That's all right. It's not as sweet as I would have thought. You know, like it's not sweet. You're thinking mousse, you're going to hit you with a whole lot of sugar. It doesn't feel like that. Okay, John knows.

It doesn't smell cheesy. That's my first instinct. It doesn't smell cottage cheesy. Well, it does have cocoa in it. Okay. It's a big mouthful. Yeah, like it's... It's disappointing.

When you think you're going to get a full flavour of some mousse, I'm with you, Ben. Yeah, like it's fine. You've got 10% flavour of a mousse. It's like a mousse sneezed on it. But it's not. I mean, can I ask you, start to finish prep time. You're collecting the ingredients. You're making it.

You're doing it all. What are we talking? Oh, that was like 10 minutes. Blitz it up in the blender. I did it this morning at work. And are you, when you're going it, you're like, oh, that is so good. I'm going to make more and eat more of that. Or are you going when you're going at your lunch, oh, that is so good. I'm going to make more and eat more of that.

Or are you going, oh, that's enough for now? Well, clearly there's enough people in New Zealand that think it's pretty good to make all these recipes. Okay. I mean,

it's all right. It's all right. No, no, no. If you're on MasterChef, I'd be like, should we put it through next week? What do you reckon?

I don't know. It was a bit tasteless. It's okay. Okay, fine. But have you tried a chocolate mousse? I mean, now that's something. Tell you what, one of you people who bring up a chocolate mousse, you'll take out this competition.

A proper chocolate mousse. One that actually tastes like chocolate. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. People in New Zealand and around the world, and we were like that growing up in Marston. Never had places you could get delivered, right?

Takeaways delivered to your front door and we chucked it out. We do a lot of empty promises, don't we, that we're going to follow through on stuff on this show and actually thankfully producer Ellie followed through on this one. We sent Rose in New Plymouth her very first

takeaway to her door. Rose. Hi, guys. How are we feeling? The morning after the delivery. A bit full now. A bit full, still full from last night. What was that moment like?

You open up the door, there's delivery, food being brought to you. It was so easy. It was amazing. Were you like, why haven't I done this for 30 years? Yeah, I actually did. I really did. Do you think you why haven't I done this for 30 years? Yeah, I actually did. I really did. Do you think you're going to do it in the future now? We've broken the seal? I think so. Yeah, I think so.

So there we go, I've opened Pandora's box for Rose there. Yeah. Now, after that, a conversation took place in the studio. Producer Ellie will bring you to the microphone. Yes, hello there. Turns out you opened Pandora's box a while ago. Oh, yeah. A long time ago. And it's not good.

I looked at the stats in my Uber app. It feels like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Welcome, welcome, Ellie. Intervention going on here. No judgment. Thank you. I've had Uber for years, like before they had Uber One. Now, Uber One is a thing you can pay $10 a month

and you get free deliveries and 10% off service fees. So I was like, when that came in in 2022, I was like, we're bloody losing money. So no matter how many times you order Uber, you can just, that's a flat rate. Yeah, flat rate, yeah. Oh, it feels like you want to use it lots, right? Amen, Ben, thank you. Saving money, you know? Exactly.

So I haven't got all of my historical history from like what I've ordered since the beginning of time, but I do have the savings that i've made thanks to uber one uh since 2022 so this is only what you're saving on delivery yeah this is what i've saved on my orders over the last probably just under three years so not factoring in the food costs and the actual delivery fee that you on average on uber eats how much would delivery be is it like six bucks or something sometimes depends how close it is sometimes you get like six bucks or something? Sometimes it depends how close it is. Sometimes you get like two bucks, sometimes six bucks. Yeah. Sometimes it's like 15 if it's ages away. But I just want to state that my partner and I, there's two of us and we always use my account because I've got the other one. But in the last three years, I've saved $3,200 on my orders.

Great. You've made a huge saving over the last couple of years. You've saved $3,000 just in delivery fees. How amazing is that? Yeah, well done, Nellie. Oh, wow. Thank you so much. You know, things aren't great financially around the country, but you've made a huge saving.

Yeah, hashtag not sponsored. And then so we put those figures, we crunched those numbers thanks to AI. We said, if our friend had saved this amount on just delivery fees, how much has she spent in total over this period? Which is what? How many years, we're thinking? About three, because Uber One came in in 2022,

which is where I've got the stats from until today. So, yes. And the numbers came through, $30,000. Yep. Thanks for putting that out. That was kind of what they thought you might have spent over the last. To get that saving, though. Great saving. Great saving. Great30,000. Yep, thanks for putting that out. That was kind of what they thought you might have spent over the last... To get that saving though. Great saving. Great saving, guys.

Don't forget that. Yeah, so I probably spent $30,000 on Uber Eats. The next thing we need to get delivered to your house is a financial intervention. Yes. But I guess if that's most of your food... So it's like probably three to four deliveries a week, I'd say.

And then I'd cook the rest. So I'm probably spending like maybe $200 at the supermarket. And then, yeah, so probably like $800 on supermarket across the month and then $800 on Uber Eats across the month. This is wild. Okay, we're going to check the phones open. What is the most amount of cash you've just blown on something over a period of time?

It could be a collection that you became obsessed with. It could just be... Or you could purchase a car or maybe you bought a helicopter one night. Didn't we know someone on Trade Meet? They bought a plane. Yeah, they bought a helicopter. A plane, yeah. Then they woke up the next morning and they'd won the auction.

Oh my God. They've had a few drinks. They didn't even have their pilot's license. Oh my God. They didn't get in the plane, did they? Yeah. Oh my God. And our friend is John Travolta.

John, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Want to know what you've spent a whole lot of cash on, Producer Ali? We reckon maybe you've spent, over the last three years, about $30,000 on Uber Eats, but that's a lot of her food bill. That's still a lot of money.

It's crazy. She could have a decent chunk of shares in the company. Could put that money towards... It's hard when they do that. You're like, over a 12-month period, you spent this, and you're like, yeah, I did. But it made me happy in the moment. Yeah, but now I feel a little dead.

I just did the maths on my Heineken investments over the years. I know you collect shoes, Megan. Have you got shares in Heineken? No, I collect Heinekens. Oh, like bottles? Yeah, and then they disappear, and then you have to reinvest in Heinekens. So I've averaged out. So I go over 20, I'd say a 25-year period.

Let's just go 24 a week. Some periods are busier than others. Some periods are quieter than others. So that's not average 24 a week. Some periods are busier than others. Some periods are quieter than others. So that's on average 24 a week. On average. On average. Okay. What do you say to the doctor?

How many drinks do you have? One or two. One or two a week. So over a week. Wait, have you lied on your life insurance? Because you've just put that on the radio. Okay, so this is 24 a week. Wait, 24 divided by 7.

You're having three and a half a day. On average. But then they're all compound and a half a day. On average. But then they're all compounded into a binge. Oh, okay. That's very Kiwi. So then over that period, it says you bought about 25,000 Heinekens. You spent $87,000 on Heineken. 87 grand.

Ellie's like going shrugging, going, well, there you go. I'd probably have to spend the same amount on a liver transplant as well for a secondhand liver. So let's go to the calls. What have you spent a whole lot of money on? Amanda, we'll get you on the air. Welcome. Hi. How are you feeling, mate?

I'm listening to you guys and thinking, if only I spent $87,000 on my thing. Oh, what have you spent? I have horses. Horses. Horses, probably a minimum of 15k a year. We've got about eight. So in total,

can we do the mathematics on that? 15k a year times, do you say eight? Yes. How many years have you been horsing around? Over 40. Oh, okay. This is going to be...

But obviously something that you're passionate about and gives you a lot of joy. Yeah, I am. Exactly. However, you know, sometimes they're a paddock ornament and they're very... Paddock ornaments, I like that. I haven't heard that before. $120,000 a year. A year?

Okay. So... Is that just to $120,000 a year. A year. Okay. So. Is that just to feed them or is that all costs? Yes, feed them, compete them. Oh, my God. They eat a lot. They eat a lot. Over 40 years, you've spent $31 million.

I don't even want to know. She doesn't want to know, mate. $31 million on horses. Hopefully, you didn't have that many for that many years, you know. Maybe you've just had this. Anyway. Wow. Okay.

$31 million. But it makes her happy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And those Heineken's make me happy. And the shoes make me happy. Yeah, whatever makes you happy. And taller.

I mean, what's the alternative? You don't spend money on stuff you enjoy. Tell it to AA. 31 million. Patsy. Patsy, good morning to you. Oh, good morning. Jeez, you'd feel better after that 31 million call, wouldn't you?

Well, yeah, I was just thinking that. I can't really beat that, but mine was pretty stupid. What was it? Indoor plants. Oh, plants. Yeah, yeah. It sort of started in lockdown and I'm ADHD and I started hyper fixating on them and I started just kind of buying. I started off at places like the warehouse and then Bunnings and all the little places.

And then it sort of got a bit more serious. And then it went to Odorins where they had a few more things and then got a bit more serious and then it became trade me and then it became specialized plant pages and then i think i knew i had a problem when i think i got to about 700 for a plant and maybe 500 for a plant and then i was begging the man if i could pay him off the things you've done for a plant You're like oh jeez Get into bedding wars on Trade Me To be fair that blew up During lockdown Everyone really got into houseplants

Because you needed to care for something at home It was like You're living in the bloody Your lounge must be like the Waitakere Rangers It was quite funny The kids would go around counting them and my son would say, you know you have 300 plants now mum and I'd be like no

no no no. Are you one of those people that paid for them? I'd be hiding them from my husband. I would sneak them in and put them into the garage first and then when he wasn't looking I would just place it between all the other plants and I had those cheap indoor tents

in a spare room and then I had heat pads and lights. I guess there's worse addictions out there than plants. Guess what? Most of them are dead now. Oh my god! Okay.

On that note. Yeah. Keithy's coming through. Jono, Ben and Megan The podcast The hit Quick clarification to make Don't get Jono to do any mess Is the thing

Yeah so We're talking about The most amount of money You're blowing over a period of time We spoke to A lovely lady Who had an obsession with horses And I misheard her

I thought she was spending 15k a week No it was A year A year She's been in 40 years But she hasn't had like I wouldn't imagine horses and I misheard her. I thought she was spending 15k a week. No, it was a year. She's been in 40 years but she hasn't had like, I wouldn't imagine you'd start with 8 horses straight away and have it the whole time. You'd make it 1 or 2 and build up. But Jono was like,

over 30 years you've spent $31 million. 40 years. 15k a week, 40 years is $31 million. But now I need to dial it back a bit. Even if she started with 8 horses, it's not even like, well it's still a lot., but it'd be close to $5 million. Yeah, it's $4.8 million. $4.8 million.

But you think you wouldn't have that many, so let's scale it back just a little bit. Listen, it's my brand to hand out fake news, so I'll just keep firing it out there. Now, it's great to have Producer Grayson here. We get Producer Grayson every week to tell us what is winding up the Gen Z community. And it doesn't take much to wind up the Gen Z community nowadays. In the past, you've had an issue with us banging on about the fact that fashion, your new fashion, is our old fashion. And Ben said that all yesterday. It really triggered me.

And I was talking to Sienna came in, and I was like, you will never guess what Ben said. And she was like, he says it all the time. Yeah, I know. My daughter definitely agrees with you on that one. Yeah. We used to wear those speed dealers on your head all the time back in the day. Yeah, I'm wearing speed dealers right now. Yeah, you are wearing speed dealers.

They look great too. Okay, so what's winding you up this week? What's the Gen Z? What are we doing now? So it's to do with terrestrial TV. And I actually didn't even know it was called terrestrial TV until Megan told me. So that is something. And I used to watch terrestrial TV when I was like one.

I don't know. If you're over the age of 35, we might just say if you love being wound up by younger generations, you've come to the right place too. My problem is that you guys think you're better than us because you had Terrestrial TV. You're not better than us. It's just TV.

And that is a big gripe with me. So yeah, because I guess we do probably say, oh, we used to have to sit through the ads, we used to work, didn't get to choose what you want, those sort of things. Yeah, no matter what, you guys are going to think you're better than us, but it's just TV guys. I don't think it's better. It definitely wasn't better. All we're wanting is acknowledgement for the hard

graft we put in for you to enjoy your seven second attention span now. That's all we want. Any platform you want to watch now is because I had to sit through MASH in the afternoons. Okay? And some Gen Z's bloody watching on

1.5 so everything's sped up. I'm definitely not one of those. Liar. I definitely watch it sped up. Yeah.

But like we sat through ads too so I just a warning to all those parents out there if you say that if you say that to your kids stop doing it. It's just mean.

There's no point. So you sat through ads? Yeah I sat through ads when I was like seven. And now you can skip through ads. And now there's just no ads. I like to sit through ads.

It's so annoying though because my son goes to the movies and he'll watch like Sonic 3 and he comes home straight away and he's like, I want to watch it on the TV. I'm like, well, you can't, sweetheart. You've got to wait. But now you don't have to wait that long. Maybe you used to feel like you had to wait

years for something to go from the movies to the DVD. Oh my God. There was something fun about, you know, when you had to go

toiling, you had to run during the ads and run back. Your kids aren't going to have that, you know, that value in there.

You haven't had it since you were seven. Yeah, but still, I kind of miss it. If I could bring back terrestrial TV, I would. Entertainment was watching the bloody Blue Blocker commercial back in the day, wasn't it? Yeah, but still, I kind of miss it. If I could bring back terrestrial TV, I would.

Entertainment was watching the bloody Blue Blocker commercial back in the day, wasn't it? Yeah, well, terrestrial TV's still there. We've just all kind of moved on from it. Oh, is it still around? It's still around. I thought it was gone. It's still a thing, yeah. But yeah, just don't be mean to your kids about it, okay?

They don't understand. They can't even comprehend terrestrial TV. That's what's winding up Gen Z this week. And actually, here's a bit of audio we can go out on, on a Gen Z, a member of your community, explaining what they do for a job. I am a social media brand ambassador for myself, for my own account, and for a third party account as well,

which belongs to my dog, who's a pet, who I do also brand negotiation deals for him as well. And I do DJing also for party and events and corporate and personal and public. And I do also certified, for party and events and corporate and personal and public. And I do also certified. I'm a lash tech also, but I haven't really done that in a while. But I'm still certified to do it. And I also just do negotiating brand deals for my own account as well

and commercial acting as well, as well as modeling and some acting as well. She's a hustler. She has like five jobs. Why are you laughing at her? She has five jobs, Jono. She's hustling hard. Are they anything but? They're hustler. She has like five jobs. Why are you laughing at her? She has five jobs, Jono. She's hustling hard. Are they anything but they're hustling. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Things like the Harbour Bridge in Auckland may not be open this morning. There may not be some ferries going on around in Wellington as well. So we'll keep you updated with some heavy rain. Bit of snow as well. It's pretty horrible. I actually met producer Grace

in the car park garage who's next door with her sunglasses on at the moment for migraine purposes. And she's a big Auckland FC fan. And she's like, oh, it's raining. I've got a poncho. She had kept the poncho from the game. Great idea. What a fantastic piece of fashion the plastic poncho

is. It does make you look like a mobile condom, but you are fully protected waist up aren't you yeah it really is genius it's one of those things that you know every time you're at a concert a sports game you're like and you don't have one you're like poncho it's just you know i've gone the umbi today i've gone the umbi and you feel jeez you feel 10 more sophisticated walking around with an umbrella i know i'd much rather do an umbrella i use it to push like the elevator. It's such a handy tool, the umbrella. I see why the penguin- It just feels like a cane.

Yeah. Maybe I'm one step away from a cane. Maybe that's why. Hey, something going around the internet. We've just been talking about that. And it's made news. It's all over the Guardian and the New York Post and USA Today as well. A hypothetical question going around online.

Would 100 men beat one gorilla in a fight? So this is one. yeah, like the animal. Unarmed, you know, you can't take any weapons or anything like that. It's just 100 men versus the gorilla. Okay, because you've done this with children too, isn't it? One fully grown man taking on 100 kids.

No. That would be a good one. That would be a, do you reckon you could take 100 little kids? I don't know. It's just a grim question. Yeah, okay, we'll get back to the gorilla one. We would be a, do you reckon you could take 100 little kids? Oh, I don't know. It's just a grim question. Yeah, okay. We'll get back to the gorilla. We'll get back to killing a gorilla.

So we've got 100 men, and are they all lined up politely taking their turn, or they can all sort of- Well, this is the question, and this is why it's causing a lot of debate. You know, even put it into chat GPT. Why aren't women involved in the- Oh, I guess they can be. It's 2025. I'm happy to step this one out.

100 people? Oh, now guess they can be. It's 2025. I'm happy to step this one out. 100 people. Oh, now she wants to step out. It's become a big thing online because a lot of people have got involved going, oh, men are stupid. It's become one of those things as well. So a lot of women are enjoying this. Oh, that's a bit rough.

A blanket term. A lot of women are enjoying this debate as well. So that's why women aren't involved. Oh, so men wouldn't have the mental strategy. To team up. Yes. Because you need a strategy. I didn't go as far to say men strategy. To team up. Yes. Because you need a strategy. Didn't go as far to say men are stupid, but I did think you would struggle with a strategy.

Yeah. And that's the thing, right? A hundred men to come together with a really good strategy to take on a gorilla. I'm backing the gorilla. Yeah. So I put it into chat GPT before, and it gave me a huge breakdown in a matter of seconds. Even offered to come up with diagrams or battle breakdowns. I'm like, oh, wow.

I'm not actually going to do this. But also, this helps the 100 men, too. It's like, let's just go to chat, we can get a wonderful team plan, game plan. It said, any realistic scenario? No, 100 men, unarmed men could not beat a gorilla in a fight, not at least without extreme casualties and then it goes on to say why, why the gorilla's

awesome and what the men would need to do they said the men would have to be highly coordinated willing to sacrifice many of their own and have a strategic plan but even then it would come at an enormous cost It says in a chaotic situation the gorilla could easily disable or kill several people quickly

So yeah, so at first you're going to end up with not many men left over if you do win. Do you know what is wild too? I'm looking back at the stats of King Kong, 1933. Now only a handful of sailors and showmen went and captured King Kong from the island. King Kong!

They were armed with things. They had guns and tracks and nets. So they kind of shot them. Yeah, they shot them. Weaponry. They weren't fist fighting King Kong. This is without gorillas, right?

Then he fell to his own death, didn't he? Because he fell off the building. So yeah, they didn't actually take down King Kong. We'll give us a text this morning. Tell us this morning who you think would win that fight. We'll get your opinions. Are you two included in the 100 men? I'd be no good to that, though. I'd like to sit around

like number 97 or something I look like I was part of a team didn't have to like you say we lost 50, 60 good men yeah

the water boy exactly Jono, Ben and Megan the podcast the hits a dog in Australia we were talking a little bit about this yesterday

the name of the dog is Valerie it was on Kangaroo Island a little sausage dog a little miniature dash hound it was lost on Kangaroo Island, a little sausage dog. A little miniature dash hound. It was lost on Kangaroo Island after its owners went camping. And it was lost for 529 days.

Almost two years. But they finally found Valerie. They captured her in a trap. And she's all good. Yeah. Looking well fed. Surviving on roadkill. Yeah.

Valerie's seen some stuff. Valerie's done some things and scenes. They run a very low stomach to the ground operation, don't they? Yeah. The dash hounds. If your pet goes missing too, but look, how long do you give it before you move on with life? A week.

A week. If Valerie turns up 500 days later, you're like, oh, we've fallen in love with a new dog that we've got now. Well, particularly dogs, you don't expect. A lot of cat stories yesterday of cats coming back up after a long period of time, right? So I had a cat, Marlin. I lived in Christchurch for a few years

and when they had the earthquake, she went missing. I moved to Auckland. Three years later, I received an email from someone saying they'd found my cat. They'd gone in to get her de-sexed and the vet was like, hold on on this cat's already been d6 can do microchip and my email address was still the same and a friend of a friend of a friend uh was down there for the weekend put her on the flight with her and brought her back for me

no what a great story there we go miracle miracle pet fight and they're pouring in again on 0800 the hits ma michael welcome What's your miracle pet find? Years ago when I was living in Whanganui as a kid, we had a dog go missing with his collar on for about a week or so and then he came back without his collar and then about after a little period of time

he went missing again and three months later we got a phone call from a lady in Levin saying we've got your dog, we knew it was yours because of collars on him wow so the distance from Whanganui to Levin what are we talking here a couple hours or eight hour and a half yeah wow lord that is a big trip do you think he could he hitched a ride maybe or well well he came back without his collar the first time around and then he's memorably found his collar on his journeys when he um went missing the second time oh really yeah was it definitely your dog the first time yeah

definitely yeah yeah we think he was got stolen from the local gang members at the time and um and he must have slipped the chain or something that they had him chained up on and then uh he went missing again and we ended up in the van hundred 100 case. 100 case. Wow. That's a decent effort. Although I suppose over a period of time a dog could trek that far. But like what are they eating? I'd say someone took him down there in a car or something. He was stolen. Did he look like he'd not eaten very well?

No, no, he looked healthy as. He was real happy to see us. You can also catch the bus actually from Whanganui to Levin. Into city, yeah. Two hours, 15 minutes. Tickets ranging from $ happy to see us. You know, you can also catch the bus, actually, from Whanganui to live in. Intercity, yeah, two hours, 15 minutes. Tickets ranging from 26 bucks to 55. It's not bad. Not even I would know which bus to catch. How's the dog gnawing? Maybe he hopped on the Intercity.

Thank you so much, Michael. You have a great day. Cheers. Legend. Thank you. Jan. Good morning. How are you?

We're doing well. A pet miracle. What happened? A pet miracle, yeah. We moved house and a week after we moved in, one of our cats, Mr Rascal, had gone outside and something must have spooked him because we then didn't see him for a year and six days.

And then just what, turned up out of the blue like nothing had happened? Pretty much. I put it out on Facebook and never, ever gave up hope. And then all of a sudden someone said, oh, my God, I think we found your cat. And we went down to go and see if it was him, called him by name, and he actually came running. Wow, Jan, you put more effort into that rescue mission than Ben and Megan would into finding me.

So well done, Jan. You have a great day mate appreciate your call jonah ben and megan the podcast but yesterday uh i came in deliberately came in with my outfit that my daughters had tried to help me pick out to be a little bit cooler and i got a compliment from gen z producer grace and geez i didn't realize how good that was and jeez I didn't realise how good that was going to feel I didn't know you know

she's normally not complimentary of too much stuff from our generation no she usually we just sort of hear sarcasm and biting

biting wit and I didn't know how much that would mean to me baggy jeans we put it on the hits breakfast story we'll chuck it up there

again if you missed it yesterday sort of quite oversized baggy jeans. From the clothes we used to wear 15, 20 years ago. And the thing that was bugging you was you said, I had all these clothes. Well, I threw them all out.

I put them in clothing bins. Yeah, yeah. You should have kept them. I should have kept them. And that's a little lesson there, maybe for kids, you know, listening right now. But then, like, if they're really old clothes and you're kind of an older guy,

does it just look like you've never moved on from that period?'re right maybe you're right uh but yes so we're high highs with the gen z community but then uh but bit of a backstory last not last night um my daughter sienna you know gen z she's a huge fan of gracie abrams we play the song on the radio you know as well from gracie abrams she was in town yesterday it's like her favorite artist and for her birthday last year we got her a ticket to the concert sold out concert but then she had the crushing reality of life where she's in a play school production and they had a tech rehearsal last night and and so she had the responsibility of we had to talk this through and she was actually awesome to understand that you know she'd made a commitment and she went along to rehearsal

but i said okay i said what time's rehearsal finished? Let's see if we can get you along there. And she's like, it's not due to finish 9.45ish, 10 o'clock at night. I'm like, all right, I'll do whatever. I'll sit in the car outside. My wife and I will help you get there and we'll see if we can get you for just a bit of the concert. What time's Gracie going to be?

Well, that's what we're all looking at the thing. We're looking at set times. We're looking at how long she played her previous things. I reckon she'd be going, hey, well, thanks for coming, guys. We're at about 10 o'clock. Then you'd be getting maybe 10 minutes of encore. Yeah, so we were hoping that we'd get her there. She got out about 10 to 10.

We've been waiting outside for her last night. And we drove her down to the concert, my daughter, and she got her inside. And I was dressed for nothing. I'd changed from my Gen Z outfit. I was dressed like I was going to the dog park on a Saturday. Babes, if there's anywhere you want to wear your Gen Z outfit. But I'm not getting out of the car.

She's going out of there. I'm just going to wait for her. He's dressing in what he feels comfortable in now. Track pants, warrior's cap. Dad gear. Yeah, like a light rain jacket, running shoes. If you look on Timo and type in, I want to dress like a dad, it would send you these clothes.

That's right. She got into the concert and we got more like we'll just wait outside Because who knows how long it's going to be But she got to see five songs so at least that was Cool you know she got to go in And then afterwards we're like well you text us And we'll meet you by the car It just started pouring with rain like just

Really bad I'm like well she's in a Like she's in a good outfit maybe I'll do The dad thing and go out and you know You didn't meet her outside the concert, did you? Oh, well, God, I'll tell you. So I grabbed my Bunnings umbrella. Oh, no. She would rather be wet.

I thought I'd be in and out. In and out. You know, it's raining. I hood up, you know, umbrella, in and out like that. I got there at the concert and picked her up. It stopped raining. I was like, oh, okay. So, you know, you take down the umbrella.

You pull away the Bunnings. Yeah, and then my daughter, Sienna, she wasn't too embarrassed by it, but she was like, hey, I'd really love to get some merchandise. I'm like oh okay so you know you take down the umbrella yeah and then my daughter Sienna she wasn't too embarrassed by it but she's like hey I'd really love to get some merchandise I'm like okay and that's outside in a long line and I'm like full like just not dressed for the occasion with a Bunnings umbrella if it stopped raining that's your cue just go back to go I was gonna help you I should have probably done it and then people would come up because they'd seen the two of us you know on TikTok Gen Z Prime Gen Z and they go can we get a photo i'm like oh geez i am not looking prime gen z as well and i'm like i'm not photo ready i'm not camera ready five hours ago you should have seen me in my gen z cool jeans oh i tell you it's a photo of me look at this mechanic top and i'm

in dad i'm in full dad modes. Sensible shoes, sensible clothing. My Bunnings umbrella. Multitude of photos. I'm like, oh dear God, here we go. So yeah, I really lost the respect of the G. You can see. And I felt like I needed a front footer. Oh, I'm not really dressed. They're like, were you at the concert wearing that?

I'm like, no, no, I was just trying to jump the door. Yeah, I know. You had it with Grace. You know all of Grace's good work undone. And I've undone it as well. It just happens like that, guys. So no, I've fallen out of favour with the GC community. Just like that.

I had them and now it's gone. John O'Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I was driving along, was it State Highway 2? I think it's on, yeah. And there's a quintessential, you drive past, if you've been along State Highway 2,

there's a quintessential pub and it's kind of in the middle of nowhere in a tiny little town called Maramanua. Red Fox Tavern. Have you seen the Red Fox fox no i've been driving past it a few times yeah you're right it's one of those places like a lot of other places there's sometimes there's a pub like sort of there and you're like how does this logistics this work you know don't ask don't ask great great i'm not saying it's a bad thing to have it you know don't think too hard about how those people get home, Ben. They arrive home. That's the main thing.

But I was driving along and about 300 metres from the Red Fox Tavern pub, there's a sign and it said, you must come in. New refurbishments. They wanted to show off, you know, they've put a lick of paint on the place apparently. But the big calling card was, we've got new toilets. Oh, lovely. Come and pop us a visit. You must see our new toilets.

Okay. Sort of like the Taj Mahal of Maramuru. So after the show, because I didn't have time to stop in and catch the new toilets when I was driving past, so we called the Red Fox 7 after the show yesterday to get an eyewitness account of what they're actually like. Good morning, the Red Fox Tavern. This is Rebecca.

Hi, Rebecca. How are you? I'm good, thank you. It's Jono, Ben and Megan from the Hits radio station. Hi, Rebecca. Well, hello. How are you guys? We're good.

Great. Lovely to get a hold of the Red Fox. I've swung into the Red Fox many a times. Have you? Have you swung into it since Signature Developments took it over? Now this is what I want to call about. I was driving along the state highway, okay, and there's a sign about 300 metres from the Red Fox that said, you must come and visit the Red Fox.

We have brand new toilets we do we do now i'm thinking how good are these toilets that you're having to advertise them on a billboard did you see our toilets before we took over i have used yeah i had you they were they were stocks that they were what you would expect you know they didn't shock me they were i was just like i would expect these in this establishment. They were straight out of 1973. Jono's got low standards. Now, how good are the revamped ones? They are way better, but we are moving them.

They're not going to stay in the front there in the foyer. They are going to go eventually over into the back corner because we're just doing so much stuff to the site. And the first thing I said to the guys was, the toilets can't be the welcoming sign. Now, the foyer does seem like not located. Yeah, yeah. Not the toilets. Welcome, there you go.

Back in 1973, it might have been a good thing, but, like, it's 2025 now. So, yeah, we're just trying to bring it back into the future. Well, good on you. Now, another question. How many people are coming and going, I came to check out the new toilets? Um, well, I mean it's not the major drawcard to be honest. It's the new chef.

Oh, the new chef as well. Uh-huh. What's the specialty on the menu? Well, I would have to say that my favourite thing at the moment is the miso chicken. Miso chicken? That sounds fancy.

Yeah, it's like a char-grilled piece of boneless chicken with a beautiful coconut miso sauce. Yum. Stop, that sounds delicious. Well, listen, hey, thank you so much for picking up. You're in there early. Yeah, yeah, I'm in here at Cracker Dawn trying to do the banking before the pub opens. Oh, well, good on you. Well, I'm sorry, we will let you get back to the the banking before the pub opens. Oh, good on you. Well, we'll let you get back to the accounts.

And the toilets, if you want to use those. They sound great. Thank you so much for calling us. No worries. You have a lovely day. And you do make sure you pop in and come and say hi. We will do. I'll fill my bladder up just especially.

Hey, have a great one, eh? No worries. Thanks, guys. Lovely. We must go and see them. We'll do a show trip one day No one stopping to go to the toilet on the way