Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Sassy Ben Is Operating At FULL Capacity!

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Why are these products discontinued?! These house rules are gonna end in a divorce...  A calendar DECLINE Ben does not care about Megans Spotify wrapped!  The biggest event of this year is finally over! Cmon take the free cash! What should we wear for our magician performance? Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Jono and Ben podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts in tastes that Kiwis love. Welcome to the podcast on a Thursday morning, a little Friday as we like to call it. Now, a bit sad for Megan today, the discontinuation of one of her most reliable products in the household. Peanut butter. Sanitarian peanut butter has been discontinued and I have found it hard to find over the past month. I'm an after peanut butter nutter. I'm sanitarian. continued and I have found it hard to find over the past month. Oh, here it is. Is that one Drew Nemia is in? Drew Nemia? I think he was a kid.

Drew Nemia was a great presenter on TV as well. Very talented individual. Sings and dances. I think he was a kid. Who's Drew? This one. Ready? That's Drew. Is that Drew Nemia? Yeah. Oh, he's a cute little kid, isn't he? He was a nutter, peanut butter nutter.

Running the, it was a crazy factory back then, the Sanitarium factory. I don't know if it was a real, I don't know if it was a real factory, but hey, I wasn't out there. I think they were actually letting kids run it, I think just for the purposes of the ad. Oh, okay. They were. But anyway, I don't know if it was a documentary. I didn't realise the different colored lids

represented different textures. Smooth, crunchy. Do they still do that? I don't know. We always got the blue lid one. The blue lid, yeah. It's the smooth. Yeah, love it.

Well, that's not happening anymore. And people also not just weren't up about that, but other products that have been discontinued. Yeah, well, so many texts continue to come through. People are upset like Megan. So we'll get into that now on the podcast. Megan, you're very upset about a product that's no longer going to be on the shelves. I noticed this.

It's made the news. But I noticed this probably a month or so ago because I couldn't find it anywhere. And I went to multiple supermarkets. I was like, what is happening? It's the sanitarian peanut butter. What's the discontinuing it? Apparently so. Was that the I'm a nutter peanut butter. What's the discontinuing it? Apparently so. Was that the I'm an utter peanut butter nutter from sanitary?

It probably was. Oh my God. That was a jam back then. Iconic. That was the whole factory run by children. The child labour laws a bit fast and loose back in the 90s. Wasn't it? I was an iconic commercial, wasn't I?

I was. I wish you'd have to try and find that. That's pretty sad. On the article I was reading, it said they'd like to thank the customer sanitarium for loving our peanut butter over the last hundred years. Oh, my God. So, wow. It's really iconic brands.

I mean, obviously, still got wonderful, great products, the Wee Picks and the Up and Go and stuff, but this peanut butter, they're no longer going to continue. You're gutted about it. I am. Look, I'm also from nelson so my parents are just down from the pics factory i do love pics i do but if i want like a standard like old-fashioned peanut butter the sanitarian one is the best yeah there's a guy stewart in new zealand on the article i'm reading he's been eating it in the sandwiches for over 20 years pretty much every day every day

pretty much every day yeah he's trying to get his wife to get bite and bulk and all sorts and trying to get them to continue it. But unfortunately, I don't know if they're going to. 20 years every day he's eating a peanut butter shub. That's impressive. But yeah, it's been having it most weeks for that time.

I reckon I could live the rest of my life having peanut butter on toast and a cup of tea for breakfast. You claim you say you have a jar a week, which is an insane amount of consumption. Well, I've also got two little kids who love peanut butter on toast and a cup of tea for breakfast. You claim you say you have a jar a week, which is an insane amount of consumption. Well, I've also got two little kids who love peanut butter as well. Yeah, peanut butter's great. That's great.

Why don't you grossly abuse your power, your position of power on the radio, and say all peanut butter peddlers send you peanut butter, and you'll review them until you reach the one that's a bit like Goldilocks, until you reach the perfect peanut butter. Not all reviews will be favourable. Yeah, well, that's the problem, eh? Just because they're sending a free jar of peanut butter,

you're not going to give a favourable review. And I really don't like those sugary ones. Too much sugar makes them too sweet. Make it rain. I want to avalanche your peanut butter from various companies all over the motu and you review them, honestly. Fix some fog, do a good one as well. Send them in.

But what is the product that was taken from the shelves that you were gutted about? Because it happens from time to time, doesn't it? But then you make a foot, then everyone's like bring it back, bring it back, and then they bring back something like... Georgie Pie. Georgie Pie. So I was a prime example. We never had Georgie Pie in the Wairarapa so if you went to Wellington or whatever, you'd be like

oh my god, I can have Georgie Pie. As a kid it was like 99 cent pies. Don't think about what's in them, just the 99 cents. I heard some great rumours about what was in those pies back in the day. Me and my God, I can't have Georgie Pie. As a kid, it was like 99 cent pies. Don't think about what's in them, just the 99 cents, it's great. I heard some great rumours about what was in those pies back in the day. Like when me and my friends, we bought 20 and we put them in the freezer when we got home.

And we had pies, we were like, we have Georgie Pie pies. And you walk around school, yeah, no one else is getting those. I've got to bring it back when they got rid of it. And then I don't think I went once when it came back. No. Because there's far superior pies these days.

Maybe that's it. Oh yeah. And McDonald's are like, are you sure? Are you sure? Okay, we're going to start up a whole pie manufacturing plant for you, you greedy bat. No, okay, you haven't bought them, right? Okay, well, I guess we'll just fade them out of the menu again. Exactly.

I was like that with caramilk. I used to love caramilk back in the day. And then when they bought it back, I was like, caramilk, caramilk, and now I've just faded out of it, you know? You do, you do. But what were you devastated about? What product, when it was discontinued, that you...

I will harp on about Tangy Fruits forever. Do you remember those at the movies? At the movies, yeah. Very iconic. R.I.P. Mastered in theatre back in the day, had wooden sort of like steps going all the way down. And so you could try and roll one from the back

and listen to it at the movies to try and get all the way to the front. That wouldn't be one from the back and listen to it and the movie to try and get all the way to the front that wouldn't be frustrating that was a fun weekend wasn't much to do at Mastered no

that's a highlight of our week I'll tell you these wooden stairs you can roll a tiny bit watch I'm rolling mine now

listen listen listen stops while the Terminator is playing in the background the hits the Jono and Ben podcast now we're just talking about products that have been discontinued.

Some sad news in Megan's life, speaking of you and your family. In regards to the peanut butter world. The peanut butter, the sanitarian peanut butter has been discontinued. And I've actually, I have found it hard to find it over the past couple of months of being to multiple supermarkets. I already knew, I already knew after this news story that it had been discontinued. So, well, yeah, and we've said you're going to abuse your position of power. All peanut butter companies, welcome to Peddle Your Wears.

Send them to the studio. They'll get reviewed until you land on a good one. Space of my life now. For other peanut butters. Audition. Someone said that you could try Picks, you know Picks, or Pams, they said is a good one. Pams, yeah, because I don't like the sugary ones. Yeah, good for a cheap old greasy peanut butter they say.

So products that you're upset that were discontinued. Gerard, what was it for you? Snifters and Paradisers. I'm with you on both of these. Vistas and Paradisers. Snifters. Oh, Snifters. Oh, the minty ones. Snifters. Oh, Snifters. Oh, the minty ones.

Yeah, gotcha. And they had the little chocolate thing and then the chewy centre. Amazing. Snifters were my favourite. Yeah, same. I loved them. Snifters, they were kind of the mintier cousin of the tangy fruits, weren't they? Yeah, yeah.

And then Paradiso was the mango sorbet ice cream. I do remember the Paradiso. Did they have a very horny commercial, the Paradiso? A lot of them had horny commercials back in the day. All those ice creams. Jeez, we were erotically eating ice cream back in the 90s, weren't we? Yeah. And they had them on sticks as well.

There was mango, lime and raspberry. Yeah, I hear you about the Paradiso. See, I remember those. Do you remember? Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate always a yum. Flakes still round though, right?

I love flakes. But that was a very softly focused commercial shot in the bushes with a couple who I think are pretty sure about to procreate. When did you last have a flake? I've never heard anyone say, I love flakes. It's been far too long and I'll have one soon. Good on you.

Really appreciate your call, Jackson. Sure. Ellie, morning to you. Good morning. It's lovely to have you on the show this morning. Now, it's not you that was absolutely devo, that the product was discontinued, but your husband. Yes.

He's been using them as a snack for a very long time. And what are they? Trident hot and Spicy Noodles. Oh, yeah. You've taken them off the shelves? Are they the tridents? Yeah, they've got the cups, but not the actual noodle packets anymore. Oh, okay.

And it's so funny when a product goes, because it's so specific to you, and it's such a big part of your life. Yeah. And I'm going, oh, I've gone through life without trying hot and spicy noodles, but clearly it's a massive thing for your husband. Yeah, well, he's a truck driver, so he stays away a lot and he can't put those little cups in his bag because they get all squashed and everything.

Gotcha. And it's one of his favorites. He's always had a thing for hot and spicy food. And hot and spicy women, am I right? I don't need to say that. Ellie's like, yeah, sure.

Yeah, yeah, whatever. All right, good on you, Ellie. Love your work. What's that,

sorry? God, he doesn't listen to you guys. Oh, thank God. Ellie, you're going to have a great day. Thank you.

See ya. Great text here, 4487, have a great day. Thank you. See you. Great text here, L4487. Wrigley's Airwaves. Oh, they were super pepperminty, right? Jeez, I love those. I was a big fan. I stocked up when I knew they were ending too. I ended up with about 20 packets of Wrigley's Airwaves.

I have the chewing gum taste of an 85-year-old. He just kept putting them in. He didn't have a whole packet in his mouth at once. You know how compulsive he's like walking around he's like gotta do this gotta get it out gotta get this done

and he'd just have like a huge wad of all at once and it'd be done in like two minutes. The hits the Jono and Ben podcast. Sparkles another one.

Oh no they were great. Yeah coming through the dry cleaner the dry cleaner master didn't always used to give those out. That was always a fun day. And they were individually wrapped, weren't they?

Raspberry sprinkles. Yeah, they were not great for the environment, but boy, we loved them. They didn't probably care as much back then. Peach fruit burst, apparently that's gone. They were the best. I'm agreeing with all of these. It's gone from the flavor. It's strange because they haven't got rid of fruit burst.

They just thought, oh, peach, we'll get rid of the peach. They've kept the Turkish delight out in the market, which is interesting. Jeshuan, good morning to you. How are you? Good morning. Not too bad yourself? Lovely to have you on, Jeshuan. Now, this wasn't a product you were upset about being discontinued, but your

partner. Yes, so they were those little pod chocolate coffee things. Oh, like the Mars ones, and they had... Yeah. Yeah, I know the ones you're talking about. My wife scoured all of Palmerston North, found the last packet, and didn't tell me that they were the last packet. And I ate the whole thing without her knowing.

Oh, you ate the whole thing. Did she arrive home and you're like, oh, they were good. Thanks for those. You're like, oh, that's okay. I'll get another one. And they'll be like, it's the last packet. Yeah, she asked me a few days later, oh, have you seen those?

I said, oh, yeah, I ate them the other night when I was watching the movie. And they were delicious. I was devastated. Oh, Jeshua. It's the last packet. Well, I tell you what, if anyone out there has a remaining packet of pods,

why don't you send them to us? Are they back now? Can you get them? Well, so I'm the same, Jeshua. I loved pods and I was so obsessed with them. Recently, I've found them at some dairies. They're importing them, but they're quite expensive. But you can find them. They're importing them, but they're quite expensive.

But you can find them. They're about $8 ish at a dairy. Right. Parallel imported pods. I'll have to get her a packet for Christmas and make up for it. Yeah. Good on you. Thank you. Producer Ellie, there you go. You're a big fan of them. It was my favourite snack ever. I was so devastated when they discontinued them.

Some can-do dairy owners are importing them themselves. Taking the bull by the horns. Good on them. Great text here. Aztec corn chips. Made the natural way. Okay.

Should we do the voice? No. I almost did and I stopped myself. It doesn't sound as good when sung in a plain, boring New Zealand accent though. Do the proper voice. Let's get Sonia on. Good morning to you. Good morning.

How are you doing? Lovely to have you on, Sonia. Will you do the voice for us for the Aztec Corn Chip song? No, please don't. Absolutely not. No, Sonia, what did you... PC madness.

What did you want? What did you want back? We need to bring the pebbles back. Like, what is that about? Pebbles, yeah. Not a fan of Smarties. No for the M&M's. Pebbles.

Now, is there a big difference? I'm not an aficionado of the two. Is there a big difference? I don't know if you will agree with this, Sonia, but I think the shell on the Pebbles, there was more candy. Like, it was crunchier and it was... Yes.

Yeah. And the Smarties are real thin. Like, you could slip them under a door or something, you know? Pebbles, no. She's not doing it. She's not getting her pebble under a door, are you? How many? How often have you done the under-the-door test?

Well, that's just to throw them away, because, you know, you can take the pebbles. Suddenly I'd be gone from this room. Backed by science. I love it. You can slide that under a door. Exactly. The true taste of a good chocolate.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. See that the pilot whales are being relocated back out to the water. That basically got marooned on the beach just in Tasman's Golden Bay. A couple of times. Yeah, like there was 40 at once. Then they got them all back out there and then 19 ended back on the beach again. Whoever the head navigator is of that pod,

maybe you could get a new one, guys. I don't know, just chucking it out there. Some Google Maps or something like that just to kind of get your way through. The whales grounded you twice in a couple of days. Yeah, but it's good to say that the 19 that they had on there yesterday have all been put back out into the ocean.

It's always sad when they're on the beach, isn't it? I know. People trying to move. Very hard thing to move, aren't they? Historically very heavy. Very heavy animal. I don't want to fat shame the whales, but, you know, not as easy to get back in the water.

There's no easy way. What do they have to do? Do they have to wait until the tide comes in? Do they float them back out? Yeah, keep them wet until then. Yeah, right. It's a big job. Crane's not an option, obviously. Project Jonah, they do a back out? Yeah, keep them wet until then. Yeah, right. It's a big job. Crane's not an option, obviously.

Project Jonah, they do a great job. Yeah, and amazing what they do. Now, I don't know if it comes a stage in your life that it feels like you do slip into a, you slip into your parents. You become kind of like your parents in some ways. Not all the, everything, but I've noticed that, you know, a couple of things. Well, one thing in particular recently, and it was really actually my stepdad that was, he was a big backer of this.

It was two things he'd wind him up. One, if you got home from a long car trip and you went inside without unpacking the car, well, that would wind him up. First thing, it was like,

take something, you know, so you have to take something. That doesn't wind me up as much. Oh, so you don't want to be left, excited to be home, you're running.

It's like the cars are missing or something. I get it. There's a whole lot of admin when you come home from holidays and kids just want to run into rooms and do stuff and inside and see the animals and all that kids have no interest in unpacking bags no they would unpack the car and get the rubbish no but that was something that wind them up and also now i'm putting stuff back where you got it from. It used to be like, why is he getting so upset with this? But now I find myself getting upset with it. I'll go to you

and I'll be like, where's this thing? Where's the key? And someone will go, oh, I don't know, it should be there. It's like, well, it's not there. Well, who used it? And I'm like, well, it's not me. And Jesus starts to wind me up. And then when I'm back in the car. Do you know, more and more you start sounding like my husband, which terrifies me.

You two should hang out. Frustrating thing. I know this was here. I once found the cheese grater in the bathroom. Okay, that's weird. Yeah. But again, no one has, and you know what winds me up? So they open a pack of biscuits, okay?

They'll eat a biscuit and then they leave the sleeve of the biscuit half hanging And just put it back in the cupboard And I'm like this makes the biscuit soft Soft you and your soft crispies That really does That's the one thing that It's not unpacking the car for me Andrew's adopted a one touch rule

So you come home And you don't put something somewhere You touch it once so you come home and you put it away So whenever there You touch it once. So you come home and you put it away. So whenever there's anything out, I leave shoes around. And he's like, one touch. I'm like, okay. And it's a good rule. This one-touch rule is going to lead to divorce.

One touch. There'll be no touch rule in your relationship. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I sent someone a calendar invite. Yeah. Just for a meeting. Catch up. Boom. They hit me back with a declined. I've just sent someone a calendar invite just for a meeting catch-up.

Boom, they hit me back with a declined and no reason for the decline. I mean, hey, it's an option. It's one of the three options available. Accept, tentative, decline. It's a power play. It is a big power play. Well, yeah, I guess without saying, hey, I'll just decline this. Cold-hearted, no explanation.

But usually when you're sending a calendar invite, it's on an agreed, like a pre-agreed thing. Did you not ask them first? No, I just fired one off. You just cold turkeyed him. They're like, mate, I can't do that. Slammed a digital door in my face. Yeah.

I know there's been every now and then he'll throw out a tentative. He'll be like, hmm, maybe that clashes. It's a polite way of saying it's clashing. Yeah, like I've seen it and there is something else on it. Sometimes it's like, oh, I think we've got something else on that time. So, yeah. I've never had the client. You have discussions about it before you send the calendar invite.

You get the confirmation before you send it. That's just to put it in your calendar. It's just fire off calendar invites. Yeah, no, I'm with you, Megan. You probably do need to kind of work out a thing, eh? Because then you get a decline and you don't know why. So I'm in the wrong here. Is that what you're saying?

Yes, absolutely. You need to front-point and say, hey, I'm thinking this time, how's that work? They're like, great. And then you send it through. Yeah, to put it in both your calendars. Okay. It's just a conversation that happens prior.

Anyway. Jono prior. Just a conversation that happens prior. Anyway. Jono prior. Just a hard decline. Hurt my feelings. Aw. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's a big time of year, isn't it, too? This week they released the Spotify.

I'm not on Spotify. I'm on Apple Music. So what did they release? Your insights. It's a Spotify rap, so it gives you a breakdown of, like, your top songs and your top artists. And lots of people post them because, I mean, you're either proud of it or you're like,

Ashamed. Not me, mate. I'm the hits 24-7. Yeah, same. It's a hits rap. So whatever songs we're playing at the hits is all I listen to. Never even heard of Spotify until you just put it up. You're such a glazer.

Shut up. I was like, what's this Spotify? I don't know. I don't know anything about it, mate. So going through your, what's your most listened to song then? My most listened to song was actually someone who was just in New Zealand. I went to his show the other, on Monday, Troy Savant, One of Your Girls. Oh, I've never, I've never.

That's Sabrina Carpenter. You've got my phone. You were trusted with this. Yeah, what do I do? Do I click through here? Oh, God, here we go. Life moves fast, it says. Click again.

There you go. This is Troye Sivan. This is my number one song. You played 1,519 songs this year, it says. It also said that I listened to this. I was in the top 0.01

of people worldwide. Oh, that listens to this particular song? Yeah. Troye Sivan should be very afraid about that. Yeah.

Okay, what else have we got on here? What else have you listened to? Chapel Rhone was my second. There's a Bruno Mars song with Rosé from Blackpink, who is a Kiwi chick. That's a great song. That was in my top five.

This is a bit of Chapel Rhone. This is a slideshow situation, you know, where you're going around to someone's house and they're like, oh, you must see the slideshow of our trip. And I'm like, oh. And you can't tap out of it. I mean, it's great for you to reflect on it, to be honest. Do you know what?

You've lost me, guys. I'm just totally. Like, it's like songs are being played and you're like, oh, yeah, cool. You don't know what reaction am I going to give you to this. I know, but everyone posts it. It's like, I don't know why, really. It's a different slideshow at a dinner party, DJ. Hey, I'm just stoked that this year my number one's not the Wiggles.

Great for you. I'm great. I'm stoked about it. Great songs, but I'm just like. So what are you doing to get out of this? If you're at Megan's house now, how are you escaping this horrific scene? I'm like, jeez, there's been a family emergency at home. I've just got to get out of there, all right?

Good luck with the rest of the slide show. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. The Errors Tour, the Taylor Swift Errors Tour finishes this week. Jeez, how long has it been going? It started in March 2023. So it's pretty much been going for a long, long time. 150 shows across five continents over nearly

two years three and a half hours she plays for of course 44 songs on stage reflecting her 10 different eras that's an incredible run eh and also you didn't really hear of her cancelling many from like sickness or no there was one with a terror threat wasn't there in europe but apart from that no she she turned up on time the highest grossing tour of all time in the billions of dollars they reckon

she's in the most attended concert tour in history as well it's pretty incredible wow like she would have been counting down

I imagine she'd be loving the tour but still with the back of mind she'd be like 20 more shows to go 10 more shows to go yeah now this week she'll be like just 2 more shows to go 10 more shows to go now this week she'd be like just two more shows to go

legend how many shows a week two oh yeah well she had multiple nights over in locations yeah I don't know so she would

in Aussie she would do like three or four in a week wouldn't she yeah she had a couple on each and released albums during it

yeah that's right had a relationship went to the Superbowl watched a lot of Chiefs games she's been very busy I'm tired for her. 90 trucks transport it takes just, you know, if they put it into trucks to move it around. It's just such a big event.

Really historic event that we've kind of lived through. Mind you, if you go, I'm not talking down the fact that she's travelled the world and done a magnificent, record-breaking tour. Well, it sounds like someone says that when they go to talk down. Everyone's been battling away working

haven't we for the last two years. She's just working. Yeah but not to that scale. I mean people are turning up to work. She's turning up to

work. She's only doing three or four days of work a week. You try and get your singing for three and a half hours before you

get millions of people. A travel way, you know. Someone's out there right now. They've built like nine houses in two years. Yeah, well, yeah. Turn up to work. And everyone can get a slow clap.

Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to take it away from them. You're not trying to say she's better than everyone else. Stop trying to take it away from a strong female, mate. Yeah. Who's made history. People who built nine houses can also get a clap. Yeah, great.

That's awesome, too. Clap to everyone who's done work over the last two years houses can also get a clap. Yeah, great. That's awesome too. Clap to everyone who's done work over the last two years. Yeah, good on all of us. But has anyone worked to that level? Maybe they have. I'm happy to say I don't think I've worked to that level.

I don't think I have. It's incredible. I mean, you go away for one night and be like, we'll go away for one night to Christchurch or whatever. This is like two years of your life. Yeah.

Away from your friends and family. She's got 274 songs. That's incredible. How many do you reckon you could name? Oh, no. Difficult name to name. Call yourself a fan. Probably 15.

I wouldn't be able to name 10. Oh, really? You'd probably know more than 10 if you played the hooks and stuff. Yeah. Is this a mix that's been made or are you DJing this? Live, baby. Live. No one's giving me credit for these live mixes. I am now.

Pat on my back. Pat on my back. You and the guys, the people that built the houses as well, mate. They're the real heroes. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I witnessed this last night. Poppy, my daughter, she's deep in dance performance season. We've got another one coming up this weekend.

They had rehearsals last night. And just waiting around, sifting. Can I just say, I saw her dance at the Santa Parade. She was the standout. She's very good. She also, like, just her, like, animations and stuff. She's a great dancer. Well, she's certainly not getting any of it from me.

No. Any of it from me. The most uncoordinated middle-aged white man you can think of. But no, she's very good. And she loves it, you know. It's like being with Sienna and Indy doing their stage shows. Once they're into something, keep them off the bloody, keep them off the vapes, mate.

Get them in the theatres, get them doing sport. It really is. Once they're focused in on something and they find their passion, it's great to support. But yeah, it's a lot of time waiting around, sitting in cars. You're the same. Yeah, yeah. But then I was waiting outside the theatre last night

and I witnessed a conversation between two adults. And for some reason, I don't know what age this kicks in, but one adult clearly owed the other adult money because they had paid for the parking. Right. And they're like, oh, I've just gone and got the money. Here, take the money. Then the other adult who had paid for this was, no, no, no, no.

You mustn't give me the money. Yes, I must. No, no, no. And this is this dance between someone trying to offer money and the other person saying, no, please don't give me the money. And the kids are watching this because there's a couple of kids watching going, just take the money. This person's got money.

They're giving it to you. Just take it. Just take it. For some reason, we feel obliged to go, oh, no, no, no. Please don't. Yeah, sometimes you have that too. Maybe if some friends are over and you're like, oh, you order takeaways. And they're like, oh, here's some.

If they've got cash. Here's the cash. You're like, no, you take it. You do that thing. You take the cash. You're like, put it next to them. And then they put it next to you. And then sometimes a friend will leave.

And you're like, oh, they left the cash there. And other times they'll take it. They're like, oh, they took it, didn't they? Yeah. I said no, but times they'll take it. They're like, oh, they took it, didn't they? Yeah. I said no, but they went and took it. Sometimes I'm like, am I taking this? Or I'm the friend. I'm like, am I actually taking this or not?

Man, afterwards, like, shouldn't have taken the cash. I'm like, well, they did. They offered it. We did it like five times. Someone's got to go, I'll take the cash. Man's like, you should have left it there. I'm like, well, I took the cash. I love it when you're like, oh, they took the cash home with them.

Okay, interesting. Interesting, yeah. Never seen that before. It's like when a door holder shall never meet another door holder. You know someone who's holding the door for people to walk through? Have you ever encountered one of those people meeting another one of those people? On the other side, yeah. It's like a polite off as to who's going to go through the door first.

But anyway, just take the cash. Someone's offering cash, take cash. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We are pretty incredible as well. We are very incredible. We're magicians. Said no one ever. We're magicians.

We can magic stuff now. And Costantino, Australian, he's amazing. Magician, he's touring the country at the moment. I think you're putting on an extra show in Auckland on Friday night, so there's still some tickets available. You should go along and see it at the Bruce Mason Centre. And we wanted to learn a party trick ahead of office party season for Christmas, and Cozzy taught us a trick.

And he said, hey, well, no, you said, can we do it on your show? I don't know why. I don't know why I said that, but now I'm like, well, we're here. We're here. He said yes, which is more surprising. Saturday, we're doing it. We're performing a He said yes, which is more surprising. Saturday. We're doing it. We're performing a three-prong attack when it comes to a card trick.

And finally, after many failures over the last two and a half weeks, we managed to nail it two days ago on Maddie from the office. Is this your card, Maddie Langlois? It is. Yes! We did it! Yes! And we couldn't be happier about it.

We haven't done the trick since, I've thought. No, we've just done it. We should just leave it there and see how it goes on the day. My God, I'm so nervous. So, boom, tick that box. Trick nailed. Next on the agenda, next list. Costumes.

Cozzies. We need some costumes. What are you thinking? Like old school magician styles? Well, it might be the easiest. But then we talked to Costantino yesterday, right? And he was like, be yourself. Yeah, have a listen to it. Might I say he's remarkably chill for a guy who's leading three imbeciles

potentially ruin his show this weekend. I think you need to be yourself, like who you are. That's the last thing we want to be. Very underwhelming. All I'm hearing from you is costumes, costumes, costumes, more costumes. Okay. So we need to get costumes. Okay.

What are we thinking? Glamorous, glittery, sequined ball gown for Megan maybe? Yeah, I'm done. Would you wear something like that? Yeah. Yeah. I think we need to like wow them with our outfits. I'd like Ben to look like

sort of rock and roll-y. You know, sort of Criss Angel-y. Like put some eyeliner on. Yeah, heroin addict-y sort of. But then also like a sort of a leopard print waistcoat maybe. I was thinking like

is it Siegfried and Roy for you? Oh, like a big long blonde wig or something? With like a leather vest? The problem is that if you add too many costumes and elements into it, that could start to play, you know, it could make the trick go wrong. That's what I'm worried about. We're going to have a costumist hat and that's not part of our magic trick. But I wanted to distract them with our costumes.

Listen. So if we do terribly, we look the part. Magic. I hear you don't want a wardrobe malfunction, do you? We don't need a Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake Super Bowl scenario, do you? No, exactly. So have you, okay, 0800 that's. Have you had, give us some warning.

Have you had a mishap with a costume? Yeah. Costume catastrophes. Let's just not make the pants too penis-y. Okay, that's the thing. We've had a couple of those things over the years. You know that little magic stick distracting from the magic that's happening on stage? They're not going to see it from where they are.

Even with some tight pants. I made it disappear. Magic. Magic. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're performing live on stage our first ever magic trick

that we're doing, a party trick for the holiday season. Yeah, now we're getting into the costumes. The trick's sorted. We've nailed the trick.

Have a listen to us nailing the trick with Maddie in the office. Is this your card, Maddie Langlois? It is. Yeah, we nailed it.

Yeah, we nailed it. Yeah, it was, you know, your card, Maddie Langlois. It is. Yes! We love it! Yes! We love it! Yeah, it was. You know when it just shatters the room with you, you impress people so much that we've altered the course of Maddie's life for you. She's gone, what has been real up until now? What is real? I was so excited.

Listening back to that, I was like, I need to be chill. But I was just excited that we nailed the trick. More excited than Maddie, to be honest. Yeah. I do like it when people walk out of here, our boss Harriet, just sort of questioning the existence of life, you know, as they go, what is going on? But then you've got the other side of the coin too,

the opposite side. We have Larissa, who is very suspicious about what was happening and was calling us all out, and you were ushering her out of the room. Yeah, she works at the office as well and she watched very intently. She's like, hang on. She wants to destroy the illusion. There was that bit where you did that

and hang on, then I was like, all right, no more questions. Out we go. Amanda, your wife called you out. Amanda, is this your card? Yeah, it is. Hey, I did it. But no, because before,

when you were spreading out all the cards, I saw you like... No. Yes. You don't want someone going, well, hang on, no, no, no. Is this your card? And they're like, yeah. Yeah, but...

Just go yes. Yeah. So costumes, you want to add costumes to the mix at this late notice and we're thinking, well, costumes could go wrong on stage. It could be another thing we have to worry about. We could have a wardrobe malfunction. It's possible, right? Well, it does happen.

It does happen. You don't want the costumes affecting the performance, do you? You don't want to take away from the magic that is the card trick. So a lot of great options that we have available. A lot of leather coming through. Leather vests, leather pants. Leopard skin. Sequined dresses.

We're going to look fabulous. Okay? There's no question about that. But yeah, have you had any costume disasters? For some reason, the phones aren't working. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe people aren't calling.

That might be the reason. But some great texts coming through on 4487. Not so much a costume. Well, I guess a swimming costume disaster. I was at the beach and there was a teenage boy and he drowned, basically. So they dragged him on the beach and she was resuscitating him and giving him mouth to mouth. Yeah.

And when he came to, she had spilled out of the outfit. And so he awoke to... Boobies. Yeah. A teenage boy would have been... Is this the afterlife? Am I in heaven?

Right now. She was mortified, understandably. But obviously focused on the important job at hand. People around too probably couldn't go, hey, just wanted to, you know, like there's obviously more important things to worry about right now. And you don't want her to keep doing the job and someone comes up and just like grabs both and then just tries to slip it back on as she's performing. You keep going, I'm just going to tie this up.

What's the right thing to do in that situation? I think just the right thing is to worry about saving a life. You ever had a costume mishap? I do remember my daughter when she was young, and I think I've told this one before on the hits. For some reason, she got the idea that it was a zombie party I was dropping her off at. And so we made her into a zombie princess.

She had tattered dress and eye makeup and just hair frizzed up everywhere. Turned up, no one else was dressed up. Like, absolutely no one else was dressed up. And I don't know where she got it from. And then I went, oh, my God. And you're turning up with a kid that just looks a bit like, oh, God, there's the weird kid arriving in the party. And to her credit, I was like, hey, do you want to go home and get changed?

She's like, no, I'm good. And then I kind of left it there. And I was like, all right, see you in a couple of hours. How did she last the minnow so badly on that? I don't know. Was there any talk of zombies? I don't know.

I don't know where it came from. I don't know if it was a prank on her, but she just rolled with it and all the photos of all the cats. One of the Addams family or something next to all these. That's amazing that she rolled with it.

Yeah, I know. I was like, oh, okay. So sweet. Yeah, good on her. Good on her. Another great text here. I'm a school principal and I had to be Harold the giraffe

when the life education bus came around. And it got very hot, and I couldn't breathe. And Harold collapsed on stage. Oh, no. Fainted. And as I was falling down and landed on the ground, all I heard was, is Harold dead? Oh, that's so dramatic.

Harold's a legend. Harold will never die. Whoever was inside Harold, maybe. Maybe, but no. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We drive to work at an early hour, and you see some stuff. Sometimes you see some stuff

on the way to work, don't you? We used to see a lot more stuff when we parked in a different car park. You see the sights and sounds, the highs and the highs, the high, high highs

and the low, low lows. Yeah. It was a bit of a wild ride having to walk a few blocks extra at that time of the morning. People, they're up and about. Particularly as the week got on,

I found, when people had been out sort of late in the week and were out later. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, that's when things really start to pick up at four in the morning. You're like, ooh, this is exciting, exhilarating, also scary at the same time. But I was driving to work this morning, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime sight, I think. I saw a guy.

He was on a lime scooter in his stubbies and a singlet. He had a ciggy dangling out of his mouth and he was towing a hospital bed to a rope that was tied around his waist. Hospital bed on wheels. So the lime skewers on wheels. He's towing the hospital bed. And I'm like, this is the type of New Zealand I want to live in. Wow.

The hero is like this. There were so many parts to the scene. I was like, where did he get the bed from? That was the first question. Either he escaped the hospital, maybe. How did he become

into possession of a hospital bed on wheels? It was a big one too. It looked like the reclining. Yeah. Also, who wants one?

They're so uncomfortable. Maybe he had been in the hospital and then someone wheeled out and you just kept going. Out the front doors and just keep going.

Or as an affordable ambulance. It's just a battler trying to start up an ambulance business. What's happening? Oh, jump on the back mate, I'll live scoot you back to the hospital. Yeah, all true. Hang on, hang on. I couldn't take my eyes off the guy, honestly.

We kind of did lock eyes for a while there and he was kind of like, you shouldn't be watching this. I couldn't believe I was witnessing a crime or someone on a rush to help. How fast was he going? He was going pretty far. It was a slight hill. It was a slight hill, so he was going

down. The bed was kind of catching up to the line. Yeah, because if he stops, the bed's going to keep going. The bed doesn't have breaks. And then just the unnecessary addition of a singing down there. You've already got enough going on. If you could yell out one question as you went past, what would it be? Can I take a photo of this?

Heading into the Christmas party season. We're learning a party trick, actually. We need to perform on Saturday at Magician Cosentino's show. Because we realised we didn't have a party trick heading into party season, but maybe that doesn't matter because we're not going to the work Christmas party. Yeah, now there's some... And you guys aren't going either.

None of us are going. Well, no, because I didn't... Exactly the same as you. Now, to give you a backstory, you know, I mean, I understand that there's not as many work parties going around as maybe there once was, but this company that we work for is having a smaller work party this year,

which is great. And they send out an email. I remember seeing that email. I remember clicking and going, oh, it's in the calendar. But I didn't realize it was an RSVP situation. Yeah. Neither did I. I know.

And yourself, Megan, and Producer Ellie, unfortunately the party's full now. I have a feeling, given the current economic situation, the party was full now I have a feeling Given the current economic situation The party was full after three RSVPs Well this is the thing that baffles me Because we all work for the party Sorry for the company And so you'd think they would have allocated enough space For everyone in the company

Because what would have happened If everyone on the day As soon as it got sent out Had RSVP'd yes How were they going to pick who got through? It's not like they can invite other people from other companies. Yeah. But yeah, so that's the response.

To be fair though, I imagine, I'm just on the other side of the fence here from the company's point of view, I imagine the email was clearly stipulating, all instructions were on there, but what they don't factor in is disorganised, chaotic radio announcers who just go, what am I doing tomorrow?

But also our producer. But it's never been like that. If you're going to send out an RSVP party, let the managers know to tell people, hey, this one you have to RSVP for. It's probably all in the email. It's never been like that before. And then as soon as it's saved, they send a calendar invite. So it's saved in my calendar, but we can't go now. It's saved. They sent a calendar invite so it's saved in my calendar but we can't go now. No, no.

But yeah, it's, hey, it's probably on us as you say but it is unusual that it would be full when you're like, hey, can we still come

to the Christmas party? Sorry you can't come. Here's what I reckon. Here's what I reckon. I reckon they went, no one's RSVP and we'll invite people from another company.

Well, that's what it feels like. Upstairs. What are the accounting people doing? Yeah, fill the space. No one from our company wants to come. Yeah feels like upstairs what are the accounting people doing yeah fill the space no one from our company wants to come yeah you'd think there'd be a reminder

going hey last day at RSVP you know yeah that's normally one of those no because space is very limited yeah

anyway you can have your why don't you have a rebel Christmas party yeah I was thinking that we should actually start an unsanctioned Christmas party

yeah what's next door so you know is the place next door free yeah go next party. What's next door? So, you know. Is the place next door free? Yeah, go next door. Yeah, hire the one next door. Go, hey, we're a good time. No one RSVP'd to this one.

This is a better party. Everyone's welcome. A better party there. Competing party. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Time now for the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We come in every day and do this. Ten questions in a row.

We've got to try and get them all correct. And Quiz Queen, how do we Quiz Castle? Ellie. Hello, what an intro. We come in every day and do this Ten questions in a row We've got to try and get them all correct And quiz queen How to be a quiz castle Ellie Hello what an intro Thank you for that Alright question number one Which country recently made headlines

For exploring fish milk as a protein source Australia Yeah Who's been milking fish Yeah I didn't know you could Australia, Indonesia, Greece Fish milk feels like something else And they're sure it's the milk

Yeah What is the anatomy of a fish? I don't know why they're doing it I don't know which country is Can we have it The Greeks, the Thai Indonesia, Australia or Greece Indonesia, Australia or Greece

I feel like it was Australia. I feel like we would have known that. We would have mocked Australia. But hey. Let's eliminate Australia. I reckon the Greeks. I reckon in Greece there. Okay.

Or maybe the Indonesians. I know. Don't go on facials. No, I'm not doing another blind guess. Why don't you two do it? Why don't you two do it? Wait, who was it? Australia.

Australia, Indonesia, or Greece. It's probably Indonesia Only because of Ellie's face John, I was trying to vibe my face He was about to lock in Greece Ellie's face went And so Indonesia is what we'd like to lock in Alright, that is correct

Felt it down in my gut Alright, one from one on the Herald Quiz Alright, this is a bit of a hard one today, I think. Question number two, who was the first ruler of the Stuart period? Was it Mary, Queen of Scots, James I, or James II? Oh, God. Why is there someone called Stuart in there? Make things a lot easier.

The Stuart period. I am stumped. No, this is, get another guess. Should we get this one to the text? Put it to the text. Yeah, this one to the text. Early on this is, get another guess. Should we get this one to the text? Put it to the text. Yeah, this one to the text. Early on. Okay, 4487.

If anyone out there can help us, the question is again, Patricia Ellie. Who was the first ruler of the Stuart period? Was it Mary, Queen of Scots, James I or James II? It's not Mary. It feels like Mary. I feel like it would be one of the Jameses. All right.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're would be one of the Jameses. All right. Because there's two to say. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now we're in the middle of the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We need to get a cool quiz team name. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We'll be the Quizmas Crackers. Oh, yeah.

Just a bit of a topical. We'll change in the new year, okay? Leading into Christmas. The Quizmas Crackers. All right. Crack this one. Question number three. Which organisation associated with Dr Michelle Dickinson was liquidated last week?

Manogirl. Manogirl, yeah. Correct. Nice work. All right, question number four. What is the name of the scale used to measure the heat of chilli peppers? Is it... Scovilles.

Correct. We work in radio. We've all eaten chillies. Yeah, we've all done our first year of eating them. Name an orifice. We've all eaten chilli. Yeah, we've all done our first year of eating chilli. Name an orifice. We've put a chilli in it, mate. A thousand Scovilles. You're like, I don't know what Scovilles mean, but it sounds hot.

All right. All right. Question number five. Who founded the New Zealand accounting software company Xero? Was it Rod Drury, Peter Beck, or Rod Duke? Well, Rod Duke's Briscoe. It's Peter Beck's Rocket Lab

so it must be the other one how do you know these things it'd be the other one that's correct well done what was the name

of the other guy sorry I failed the other one Rod Drury well done thank you no justice speak to Rod Drury

no no it's just a process of elimination well done great program isn't it yeah it is it is

very good it is alright question number six. Collaborating with Paul Kelly and Peter Garrett, which Australian artist released Treaty in 1991? Was it Yothu Yindi, Emma Donovan, or Roger Knox? Yothu Yindi.

That is correct. Well done. All right. Was it a guess? No. You're a weirdo. Do you really want to know? Yes.

It was a complete guess. I just wanted to sayo. Do you really want to know? Yes. It was a complete guess. I just wanted to say Yothu Yindi. It was quite funny. All right, question number seven. We're on a roll here, guys, aren't we? You are. Seven, okay. Yeah.

The Cyclones appeared as villains in which late 70s sci-fi TV series? Was it Doctor Who, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, or Battlestar Galactica? Oh, it's one of the last two. I'm out, dudes. It's one of the last two. I don't know. I don't know. I'm too young for that question.

Is it Buck Rogers? Is that your guess? Yeah. That's incorrect. Oh, again. Was it Battlestar Galactica? Yeah, it was, yeah. Oh, there we go.

There's probably people screaming at the radio right now, texting us. I haven't watched either of those shows. What an idiot.