Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Surprising BENEE's old school with BENEE

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY Megan and Producer Ellie got Ben back with a Halloween scare Jono is very specific about the way his (drinking) glasses are stored... Jono and Ben visited BENEE's old school with her and surprised a bunch of students - wholesome! Ben got a new laptop and felt like a millionaire (just for a second) Megan chats about the viral Saiorse Ronan moment and we get candid about the realities of living as a woman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Hello, welcome to the podcast on a Thursday, Halloween day. Yeah, whoo. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Now we've both brought a Halloween sound effect to the podcast. Jono. What else is there in them?

Great, there you go. Thanks, Jono. That'll do. Boo. Tumbleweed. Boo-boo. Yeah, boo's good Yeah there's

There's not much in the Halloween sound effects Library is there No not too much Oh that was a good one Yeah that's good We actually got talking About scary Halloween movies

It's Later on You were in the podcast There's a lot of them out there A lot of childhoods Have been ruined by Watching movies A bit too early

A lot of them like Also just scary Because you're young Because I Remember the labyrinth there. A lot of childhoods have been ruined by watching movies a bit too early. A lot of them are also just scary because you're young. Because I remember The Labyrinth being really scary when I was little. Have you gone back and watched The Labyrinth as of late? I have watched bits of it. I watched it. It was on TV.

It was on TV recently. I don't know why I don't normally watch it. I was like, kids, you need to watch this. And then we started and then we went, ah, we probably don't need to watch this and then we started and then we went ah we probably don't need to watch this did you notice David Bowie's it was very penis-y

yeah he was he had a penis out the whole time didn't he in those tight in those tight white pants yeah

you could see every little indentation I found him terrifying when I was little yeah but yeah as a kid the movie was

really good dance magic dance magic dance Jim Henson I, as a kid, the movie was really good. Dance magic, dance magic, dance. Jim Henson, I think, created a lot of the characters as well. There's those orange dog things that pull their heads off and bounce them as basketballs. That was terrifying. Do you think Bowie looked in the mirror and he's like, hey guys, this is for kids too.

Am I right to be wearing these trousers? It's Bowie. It was Ziggy Stardust. He looked in the mirror and was like, yes. Got the penis past the producers. Well, enjoy it. There's plenty of stuff about Halloween on the podcast, as well as Megan giving me a fright this morning.

But next, we're talking about a huge concert last night we went to in Auckland. A little bit tired today. We went along to see Trevor Scott last night at the concert at Eden Park, which was a cool experience, actually. A lot of dads in dad mode, I noticed, last night taking kids along. And for the first time ever, I think I've reached peak dad, where I'm like, that girl's not wearing enough clothing.

She'll be getting cold. It's 13 degrees out there. Hope she's going to get home all right. That sort of stuff, you know? Yeah. Concerned. Yeah, we took son Oscar along. I took my daughter Sienna along. Yeah, it was

cool, like, for one dude and sort of DJ on stage, it was pretty impressive. Hey, like, sort of stage, sort of snake through the crowd. I kept losing sight of him. Like, you look at the screen and you're like, where's he now? Because he was very, he moved around quite a lot.

Yeah, it was an absolute spectacle. Like you say, one man with a microphone and a DJ and about $9 million of pyrotechnics. And he puts on a show. Because that was supposed to be on Halloween, right? It was, and they moved it a day earlier. Was it very Halloween-y? No, it definitely wasn't Halloween-y.

And what I appreciated about it was he's come out in a Nike sweatband, a Nike activewear top, some sort of weightlifting gloves as well he's wearing, and some cool shades that you felt like you could have got from a gas service station. And I'm like, it looks like he's just dived into the lost and found bin at Snap Fitness. But it's kind of cool. If I turned up to work like that, you'd be like, what have you come dressed as today, mate? But he pulled it off.

Yeah, it was very cool. Lots of people were into it, I guess because he's got, if you don't know Travis Scott, I mean, he's not only a rapper, but through Fortnite, the game, he became huge as well. Finally, Jenna's baby daddy. That's how I know him. Yeah. I had a moment too where I went up to, I was chatting to Jeremy Wells, the game, he became huge as well. Kylie Jenner's baby daddy, that's how I know him. I had a moment too where I went up to,

I was chatting to Jeremy Wells, you know, lovely Jeremy Wells, good looking, handsome Jeremy Wells. Just wait while I pick up that name. Yeah, I know. Yeah, well, I'm only saying this because it was an embarrassing situation for me. So I said hi to Jeremy Wells. He was ordering a drink at the bar.

Yeah. And he'd ordered his drink, but I was chatting to him. And then the lady came up to me and went, 0% to me? And then he was like, oh, did you? And I went, oh, no, I'll have just a beer. And he was like, oh. And then Jeremy Wells says to me, he goes, oh, you must look like a 0% guy.

You're not a 0%. Right, yeah. Because he was like, have you ordered a 0% before? And I was like, no, I haven't. I'm not on the night. I've had I haven't. I'm not on the night. I've had it before, but I'm not on the night. Was that her polite way of trying to cut you off? Well, I wasn't, yeah.

He didn't even drunk you, did he? No, no, exactly. He was like, wow. I'm not drunk, I'm just tired. He was like, you are definitely a 0% guy. So he went away laughing at me. I was like, you're a 0%. And I look uncool when I didn't even say anything.

But my lady just comes straight up to me. This guy will be a zero percent guy. And I mean, there's nothing, there's no shame in drinking zero percent or anything. Well, it seems like there was. But there's a lot of stuff to do tomorrow, guys. Just be sensible. And exactly. And I was like, at this time in the morning, I'm thankful for that lady and the zero percent.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The US election is a Tuesday, American time, next week. And not too far away. And the choices between this one. We have to stay woke. Like everybody

needs to be woke. And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker but just stay more woke than less woke. Or this one. When I say that

it all due respect to women and I love women. and I love women. And I love women. I love women. And Nicole is with us, our correspondent from New York, who hosts the breakfast radio show over there in the U.S. It's only a few days until the election, Nicole.

Yeah. Yeah. Sorry to bring that up. No, it's okay. It's really coming to a head and things are getting uglier and uglier. The rallies are getting crazier and crazier. And at this point, to be completely honest,

when you go on the internet, like if I go on TikTok or Instagram or like any platform at this point, I don't know what to believe. I feel like there's so much misinformation that people are just spewing random crap that like I'm kind of just trying to like talk it out

with my friends and family and not make it a whole thing. We don't talk about politics on the radio, at least where I am, because we try not to. It will get ugly, right? There's just no place for it. But yeah, I definitely don't feel awesome about it.

I definitely have that uh-oh feeling in my stomach and it's giving me anxiety, but it'll come and go before we know it and we'll be stuck with whatever we're stuck with but i imagine it's a very divisive conversation amongst families too um you'd have trump supporters and kamala supporters and mingling in families yeah and i feel like it's gotten way dirtier than it ever has in any past election i mean the language that's being used in respect to describing each other, our candidates, has gotten a little bit nuts.

I feel like it doesn't feel so presidential anymore. It feels very like, is this even for the president of the United States of America? It feels like, I feel like we're literally in high school and we're trying to pick our class president. That's how absurd it is.

What do you think the vibe is at the moment then? It keeps going back and forth. Yeah. I mean, last week, I feel like Trump kind of moved up a little bit, but then we'll have like a rally like just happened like a day or two ago that got very ugly. And then now I see all over the place. People are like, is this what you want as our president? I feel like it's been neck and neck.

Like she pulls ahead, then he pulls ahead, then she pulls ahead. In my lifetime, I've never seen it this close and this divided. It makes me nervous because then whoever wins, I worry about like the downfall of the people that are not happy. The incredible, I've never been able to get my head around it, but every US election, you're like, the money that is spent on these campaign trails. Like, honestly, here in New Zealand,

we've got our prime minister standing in a used car yard with a bowl of rations. That's the campaigning. But over there, just billions spent on just trying to get there. And then once, like, the one candidate doesn't win, like, where does all that money go to? It's just, like, it's gone. Like, I saw this, I don't know? It's just like it's gone. Like I saw this.

I don't know if it's like a definite fact, but that the Kardashians are worth like together around like $3 billion with the B dollars, like the family. And that Donald Trump allegedly is worth about $2.6 billion. So what does that tell you about just life in America? All the best for next week. We'll catch up with you then. That's Nicole live from New York.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now it's time to play a fun game the whole family can play, apart from if your family has Ben Boyce as a member. He seems to sit on the sidelines with us. Producer Ellie, you've come in here. It's called Bandle. Explain the format. All right, basically we start playing a song with just one instrument, then we add a second, third, Ellie, you've come in here. It's called Bandle. Explain the format. All right, basically, we start playing a song with just one instrument,

then we add a second, third, fourth, and you've got to try and see how early on you can guess the song. Megan, you're good at this. Yeah, Megan's really good. Thanks. Yeah, I feel like sleeping next to Andrew, your musician husband, has rubbed off on you. Seep it into me.

Yeah, his musical pores are seeping away. All right, so this is the first one. Just the drums with a couple of sound effects, apparently. Is it like a Charlie XCX or something? No, but it's a good guess. Like, this singer was also around in the early Charlie XCX era. Similar. No.

You can't just start throwing names down, mate. That's all I do here. I just chuck names out. The Beatles. No, no. You're well off now. So it's a pop artist. Yeah.

Okay, let's chuck the symphon. Oh. I know this. I know this. I know this. Yeah, you do. Ben, you've got a blank look on your face. Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. Nothing?

Well, it's familiar, but not familiar enough for me to go, oh, that's what that song is. Dystopia. Nice! Rihanna. Oh! I was singing it in my head. I couldn't...

Yeah, well... Dystopia. Dystopia. Nice work. Brianna I was singing it in my head I couldn't Yeah Disturbia Disturbia Nice work Those seeping pores Yeah well done Megan That is a A talent This is a skill of yours

Yeah you're really good Like honestly I'm like Ah it's very good But even when I hear Disturbia I'm like Ah yeah you have to listen closely To hear the bits That you just heard before

Yeah Song number two Song number two With drums I'm not very musical either I'm with you Ben I'm with you This is song two closely to hear the bits that you just heard before. Song number two. I'm not very musical either. I'm with you, Ben. I'm with you. This is song two. Run to the hills, Iron Maiden. This one's a bit left field. It's a bit harder

and it's a bit older. Give us an era. Is it going to do anything or is it That's it. It's 70s. Oh, 70s. Okay, we're going to... Sounds like my kids are playing with musical instruments. Ghostbusters.

No, but close. It's close. It's on the same theme. It's on the same theme. No, but it's on the same sort of Halloween theme. Here's the third bit with some strings. I wouldn't have got this, by the way, so you may not. So from the 70s?

Yeah. Late 70s, I think. Yeah. It's before my time. Would I know this song? I don't know. I didn't. That's not a good start.

There's a reason. Choose a song that no one knows. There's a reason. Oh! It's from the movie. Yeah, Halloween. It's a scary movie. It's from the Halloween thing.

It's called Halloween. He's done it. Let him get it. Let him get it. Well, really, he pretty much played the song. We started with the song. He's done it. Let him get it. Let him get it. Well, really, he pretty much played the song. We started with the song. Oh, gross.

He got one. The Mike Myers Halloween. That little piano tinkle was terrifying. Yeah, I believe it's the... I felt like when the song was already there,

it was just like, you play me the next song and then I'll go, oh, that's this song. You know, it was no... You're not happy with the win. Take the win. I see you won 4-4-8-7. Everyone's been playing Like, you play me the next song, and then I'll go, oh, that's this song. You know? Like, it was no. No, take it. You're not happy with the win.

Take the win. It's E14487. Everyone's been playing this game along in the cars. Anyone else like me? Not got a single one, really? Like, I feel like every day it's just a good excuse to hear Megan get a song. Like, is it hard? Is it hard for everyone?

You know, this game? This is the second day in a row he's chucked out a passive-aggressive text poll. Oh my god, do we need to make this a feature? Ben's Passag text poll. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. I've found out that I'm really neurotic about something. I think everyone is in some

areas of their life, aren't they? This morning, I discovered it as I was unpacking the dishwasher. And I, for whatever reason, need all the glasses on the shelf to be lined up perfectly and of the same size and design. So you know how you buy a full pack of glasses? I can't have those four glasses scattered around the glass shelf. Oh, for goodness sake. They need to be lined up tight.

Right, okay. Yeah. Same need to be lined up tight. Right, okay. Yeah, same with teacups. You can't just have a random shelf of teacups for some reason. But in so many other areas of my life, I'm a complete shambles. What happens if they were in a drawer situation? You wouldn't mind too much then, eh? Because different sizes.

What do you mean, sorry? We put our mugs in a drawer, so you're like, so they can't line them up, you know. Well, by height. We could line them up by height but they're all

kind of mixing together you're out of sight out of mind keep his eye twitching yeah it's just like a random drawer of mugs the thing is mugs

maybe because you're looking down on it you can't see the perspective you wouldn't know yeah it's the one thing I just I cannot forgive

and you know sometimes when we go away and my parents come and stay and look after the dog oh mate they are mixed up they are yeah you and my parents come and stay and look after the dog, oh, mate, they are mixed up. They are, yeah. You and my husband would get along.

This is what would make my eye twitch. Is he quite anal about that stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Everything is lined up in the same place. Like perfectly. Yeah. Yeah.

He also will only use a certain knife and fork. We've got two sets. There's one set he cannot use, just refuses to use. If I accidentally put it on the table he's like can I have the other one right

it's just it's funny a lot yeah my wife loves the tea we have a cup of tea at night she loves two particular cups out of the lot

I'm like they're great cups the other ones are fine too I feel sorry for the other cups everyone has like 35 mugs don't they and you don't use

the ones that you like use the one these are my go to ones for her it's the two ones and again if I make a tea in that one Everyone has like 35 mugs, don't they? And you don't use the ones that you like. Use the one. These are my go-to ones. For her, this is the two ones. And again, if I make a tea in that one, she's like, I'll wait up to those cups. I'm trying to give all the love to all the cups.

What are these other ones? It doesn't matter. They're all a vessel for liquid. A lot of promo cups with this. That's one perk of this job. So many novelty T-shirts that you collect over the years, you know, usually blazoned with like bunnings or something, and mugs.

Just an excessive amount of mugs we get. We're not allowed to keep the mugs. All the mugs go because he doesn't want all different ones. Oh, wow. That's a wild collection of mugs. All your favourite brands, all in one drawer. All there as well. Every time I have a drink, I'm like, this feels like a sponsored ad.

Let's have him take a photo I'll put this on Instagram Hey after 7 o'clock We take pop star Benny Back to her old school Walk down memory lane Surprising her class It was actually a really cool thing To be part of

Yeah it really was Although a little weird At the beginning Hello Hello How's it going? Lovely to see you Lovely to see you

Lovely to see you Many of you may be wondering who are these strange middle-aged men? Yeah, yeah. Who said yeah, yeah, we are? Who's that? So how did that pan out? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Benny, pop star Benny.

You'll know her from many smash hits over the years. She's got new music coming out soon. We're doing a really cool track called Animal Which we'll be able to hear in a couple of weeks It's really cool But we've managed to take her back to her old school Which is a really cool thing to do Me going a year away for Aya's birthday

And so Jono and I took her back Took Benny back to her old school St Mary's School No matter how old I am As soon as I walk into a school yard I feel like a child again We're hanging out with Sarah Who's the wonderful principal of St Mary's

And she put out the best Tim Tams on display in that office of hers. She did, going into the principal's office. I know. Do you still feel scared? Yeah. And did you feel weird calling her Sarah? I did, yeah.

Hi, Mrs. Yeah, even though she was younger than me. What? I still refer to her as Mrs., yeah. So what we did is she had arranged a class of sort of students that potentially could be prefix next year. So they were going in, did is they'd arrange a class of sort of students that potentially could be prefects next year. So they were going in.

They thought we were having a bit of meeting about next year. And then we came on in, the two of us, just Jono and I, to come in and it was going to be an inspirational talk to inspire the future prefects. They've still grown yet. And then we did a little like a... Then you guys came in and they're like, oh. Yeah, we almost did Like a two man play

Sort of fumbling our way At the start We should have rehearsed it better We had some whispering And stuff like that Because we're going to tank it And then we're going to bring in As a surprise

Pop star Benny Who used to go to the school Hello Hello How's it going Lovely to see you Lovely to see you Lovely to see you

Many of you may be wondering Who are these strange Middle aged men Yeah yeah Who said Yeah yeah we are Who is that Oh yeah We're not here Many of you may be wondering, who are these strange middle-aged men? Yeah, yeah. Who said, yeah, yeah, we are? Who is that? We're not here to inspire you today.

We've actually got a friend of ours. Now, her name is Stella. Stella Benny! Jenna Benny! Welcome to St. Mary's College. This is your old school, Benny. We're going to take a trip down memory lane. I'm glad you're here because otherwise it's just two guys walking.

It's weird if you're not here. It might be a little bit weird. Definitely thank goodness Benny was there. It would have been a call to the police. It was actually really cool. And it was really awesome to see through someone else's eyes them going back to their old school. She was like, oh, that's this classroom. That's where this used to be.

That's where I failed accounting. Apparently she was a gun water polo player. Yeah. Really? She quit music at one stage because she was like, I'm going to play water polo for New Zealand. That was her goal. And we went to the old pool that she used to train in. And what happened to the switchback? The switchback to music?

To music. Well, I guess she went, I might as well become an international pop star. Yeah. Yeah, but her mum Tanya was saying she scored the winning goal at the Nats. St Mary's came third in the national competitions. Stella was the one that shot the winning penalty goal. Thank you.

Now. Kind of sounds like she wants her to go back to water polo. She's really proud of the sport achievements. She's doing pretty damn well in the music game and also acting as well as Benny as well. She's in a new movie

called Head South which actually has this big premiere tonight. Yeah. And if you want to go along actually, have a listen to this. Are you starting a band?

Yeah. You can't play anything. I've got a song, Foxton. Foxton. Foxton. Foxton. What? So, if you want Boxton, Boxton, Boxton. What?

So, if you want to go, teenage punk band set up in Christchurch, which looks very cool. Yeah, text 4487, where you're from,

you can head along to the premiere. Have you been back to your school for an inspirational something, Megan? I have. Have you?

Yeah, I kind of asked. I was going on about it being a dream of mine and then they came through. But I wouldn't say that it was inspirational. I was going on about it being a dream of mine and then they came through. But I wouldn't say that it was inspirational. I didn't hear from anyone afterwards. Next time we can come up and fumble it for you

and then bring you one. That'd be great. Is that what you need? Speaking poppers. Someone to tank it at the start. What was one bit of inspiration you gave the students of your old school? I think I was like,

don't worry about what people say about you. And they're like, yeah, cool, man. I can get that on an Instagram quote. Ben, you've been back for an inspirational speech. No, I haven't. No, I haven't. I haven't gone back. I've been back to visit the school where we've done some filming there in Wairarapa College.

Because my photo, and rightly so, is not up on the back wall amongst all the famous people, the people they're proud of. So we brought in our own photo as a gag. Stuck it up. And then I was like, what if they'll keep it up? No, they haven't kept it up. He's not amongst the distinguished alumni of Masterton College,

Wairarapa College, was it? Yeah. But you guys did go back to broadcasting school. Yeah, true. Did you have some inspo? Oh, yeah. Just a lot of Instagram stuff. Yeah.

Just reach for your dreams. Get some great stuff off Instagram. Don't listen to the haters. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Very cool thing I saw in the paper today.

Check this out. The New Zealand Herald a tui that is white. Wow. It's got a brown, light brown head. Apparently there's a few of them every year.

Very rare though and I love the headline had, in it, Tui and then year white. Because you're Tui, you're right. I thought that was good. That was clever. That's clever. Someone worked hard on that one.

So well done. Do you reckon the other Tuis mocked that albino Tui? Yeah. Well, I don't know. Apparently it says it's not an albino Tui. Oh, sorry. That's the first thing. I made the first mistake.

That's probably what the Tui said. Look, I'm not an albino. I'm not an albino. I'm not an albino. It's a bit whiter than the other ones. I'm like me. You know when you call me pasty white. It was parked next to a golf course yesterday. There was a wire fence on the car park and across the fence was the golf course.

Okay? Yeah. Now, there was four signs that were strapped to the wire fence facing the car park and facing the car off-park. And it said, quote, unquote, damaged vehicles by golf balls is not the responsibility of the golf course. I'm like, whose responsibility is it then? I feel like because you're the golf course, there's no other reason why golf balls are there.

And they're like, not our problem, mate. Well, is that what they must just say? If you park your car here, that's on you, pretty much, right? But I'm parking a car park. I didn't put the golf ball.

Oh, wait, is it an actual car park? It's not anything to do with the golf course. But it is a car park. Yeah. It seems badly placed. Yeah, it does seem

very badly placed. But maybe they're like, hey, well, you know, you can't park here. Well, you can, but you may have some golf balls in your car. It's they're like, hey, well, you know, you can't park here. Well, you can, but you may have some golf balls in your car. It's basically the golf course going, hey, we

warned you, bruh. Good luck with your insurance claim. Don't come asking us. So did you park there? Yeah, I parked there. I took the risk. I saw another sign too. This was about two years ago and it was by some electrical cables and it said, warning, touching some electrical cables and it said warning touching these

electrical cables can cause death and incur a $200 fine I didn't know I didn't know which order that came in like as you're going

they're like buddy $200 then wait to see if you survive and then you get hit with a $200 fine haven't I haven't I dealt with enough

or there's someone come along and go, I'm very sorry about your loss. It's just a small matter of a $200 fine. Cleaning up the admin at the back end. Just, you know, you understand, right? I've got a job to do. Yeah. That would be an awkward conversation with someone.

Well, you've got to get your $200 though, don't you? Rules are rules. Someone died and you want $200? That's right. They've got to make their money. though, don't you? Yeah, well, rules are rules. Someone died and you want 200 bucks. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They've got to make their money. There's a clean-up job as well. Hey, Halloween tonight.

Very exciting Halloween today and many people out and about trick-or-treating. I've been trying to surprise the radio team, get everyone into the Halloween spirits during the week, getting to work a little bit earlier and trying to give you a fright in costumes. I did it on Monday, sorry, Tuesday with Jono. Wednesday, yesterday with Megan. And this morning, you got me back, Megan, with producer Ali.

Yeah, because producer Ali was like, well, I'm next on his list. So rather than become the hunted, she became the hunter. And we hid. We weren't sure exactly when you come in. So rather than become the hunted, she became the hunter. And we hid. We weren't sure exactly when you come in, so we ended up hiding for like 13 minutes with scary masks on. How does that sit with you? Like in the impact you have in the workplace?

They're not sure exactly when you arrive. I still don't know if I'm here half the day. I'm busy when you arrive. Mr. Charisma comes through the door and you don't even notice. You know I'm here now when I'm saying espresso, don't know if I'm here half the day. I'm busy when you arrive. Mr. Charisma comes through the door and you don't even notice. You know I'm here now when I'm saying espresso, don't you? Now you know I'm at work. So anyway, you waited for me by Coast, the radio station that we had to sort of walk through to get. So I did have a small thought thinking maybe they will get me today, but not at Coast.

So well played. So as soon as Ben walked in the door from outside, we were there. With masks. Happy Halloween! Well, that's me. Oh, that's Ben getting Megan. Oh my God! You paid yourself a little bit. I did. And so this was payback for that.

Today, Ewan and Patricia only got me. Oh! That was good. Oh, that's a wake-up. There you go, my best. That's good, that's good. I appreciate the effort. That's good. This has been filming for 13 minutes.

Oh, all right. Oh, sorry. Passive-aggressive from producer Elliot, isn't it? I mean, 13 minutes. You're the victim. You took it to them, you had no idea it was coming. Kyle, you be a bit more punctual to work please I was waiting for like 25-30 minutes

For John on Tuesday He did too The problem is your phone Because you want to record on your phone You have to keep going to reset that And then you're like I'm just keeping it running The video's good though

You jump and cuddle up to the wall It's worth running for a while. The video's good, though. You jump and cuddle up to the wall like it's going to help you. It's going to be good. It's worth the 35 seconds. Yeah, exactly. So we wanted to know, with Halloween around the country, and if you are trick-or-treating, I know my kids are very excited about going out with the neighbourhood kids tonight,

what are the best streets to go to? Can you give some people some tips this morning? Oh, 800, the hats. Yeah. Now, some great ones coming through already. Our first one here is from Tanya. It's never been expresso, Ben. That's the first bit of feedback on 4387.

Thank you, Tanya. Friend Street, Karori in Wellington is apparently a huge street. Friend Street. Friend Street. Oh, it's very approachable. Medallion Court in Palmerston North. Family there, they go all out. My sister-in-law in Christchurch, another

text coming through, has a white van you go right through to get the candy. Great. It was amazing seeing the photos. There's a picture here that does look free candy inside of a white van. Normally you wouldn't get candy. Stay kids, stay away from white vans. But it's got a skeleton and both open doors

which is good. Yeah, don't get into a white van with just one open door. No. Yeah, one you can walk through. It's so creepy. So these are the streets we're after. It's a good gauge if you walk down these streets and you're like, damn, these people have put more effort into Halloween

than I have raising my children. That's the sort of street we're after, okay? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A big announcement yesterday on The Hits. PJ Harding, she's got some buns in those ovens. Have a listen. I don't know how to do this in a really professional way, but I have been hiding the fact that my husband, BJ,

and I are actually expecting our second child. Isn't that good news? Yeah, congratulations to PJ and BJ. Greatest couple name in New Zealand, BJ and PJ. I reckon they should have continued on with the kids, be like, CJ and there's DJ. Well, it is Charlie. It's Charlie's middle name.

I hope it starts with J. So well done to PJ. Congratulations, awesome. I had no idea. I had no idea she was pregnant. Did you? She only gave me, I'm on her podcast this Sunday, congratulations. Awesome. I had no idea. I had no idea she was pregnant. Did you? She only gave me, I'm on her podcast this Sunday, Slow It Down. We talk about pregnancy and stuff.

But she only gave me a couple of days heads up because she was like, do you want to come on the podcast? I'm pregnant. I'm about to announce it. Oh, very cool. I saw her across the road the other day. No idea. No idea.

But you still don't bring it up. Even if someone's giving birth, I wouldn't still bring it up. Are you? You're like, yeah, this huge bulge, it's not just me. Until they bring it up, that's the rule. As the placenta's being pulled out, would you say anything then? No, still wait for them. I won't want to be cancelled.

So it is Halloween tonight, and a lot of people going trick-or-treating around the country, as I said before. My kid's very excited about it. We're heading around the neighbourhood. I've tried to, my wife's like, don't spend any more money on classrooms. Well, for once, I said before. My kids are very excited about it. We're heading around the neighbourhood. I've tried to, my wife's like, don't spend any more money on costumes. Well, for once, I haven't.

But I feel like now I should have really gone all out. It's your Met Gala, isn't it? I should have. I know. I mean, there'll be a lot of Ray Guns, I imagine, on the streets. A lot of people dress up as Ray Gun. Great costume, I imagine.

Would you like to be a Ray Gun? Oh, will you not? No, probably. I don't want to look like I'm mocking Ray Gun. I always felt bad for Reagan. Say you were allowed to buy a new costume or be anyone or dress up as anything. You had the means to. What would be your choice this year?

That's a really good one. It's a good topical one at the moment. He's in prison. Oh, no. No, I'm not going to go P. Diddy, mate. That would be scary. It would be cancelled. I was looking at topical things before.

There was like the hawk tour girl But I was like No that's just Like a girl There's nothing really The hawk tour girl Yeah She was just wearing

A nice outfit Wasn't she Feels like a real Lazy costume right now Yeah Ben's dressed up As a 19 year old girl Yeah

So yeah 0800 the hats What we want is The best trick or treat Streets in Aotearoa. Publicise them. It's great. You know, full respect to these streets because it means us other lazy streets don't have to, you know, don't have to participate.

I just chuck out a couple of mini pumpkins. In fact, I was trawling through the attic this morning. Got home from Travis Scott with my son Oscar. He's like, we can put the Halloween decorations up. He's like, go and get them in the attic. I'm like, mate, it's 11 o'clock at night. Let me do it at 4 o'clock in the morning. That'll be less weird.

Rodney Road and North Cope Points come through as a great place. Melissa, you're on. Best Halloween trick-or-treat streets, what have you got? Oh, sorry, mate. I said you're on. You're the opposite of on. I hadn't turned it on. Sorry, Melissa.

Take it away from the beginning. That is all good. Friend Street in Karori, one of my colleagues, takes today and tomorrow off, and the whole street gets involved. Oh, wow. There's thousands and thousands of lollies, and a fair chunk of Wellington goes there for trick-or-treating. That's cool.

Some houses go all out. There's one just a few streets over from where we live. They had scarecrows and all sorts of smoke machines you had to kind of go through. And they theme it every year. They change it out. It's pretty cool. Yeah.

It's nice when there's a whole street, though, because otherwise you're just going street after street for one house. Can I just say, are you all talking behind your colleagues' back going, she's taking two days off for Halloween? No, no, not at all. We're used to it. So we get all excited.

She passed around lollies yesterday, like the whole thing. Yeah, it's really awesome. Oh, that's awesome. Well, not at all. We're used to it. So we get all the fun. I actually passed around lollies yesterday, like the whole thing. Yeah, it's really awesome. Oh, that's awesome. Well, enjoy Halloween tonight. There's plenty coming through. The Circle and Manly, the whole neighbourhood does it up. Naitiak Town provide a map of all the houses they're doing.

So it's super easy and tons of kids have a blast. Alexander Ave and Torbay, they do a big one. They've had food trucks there in the past. Here they are, Fairmont Road. We're just reading out streets now. People want to know. Fairmont Road, Titirangi is another big one for Halloween. So 800 of the hits.

You can text 34487. Have you got a trick-or-treat street? We'll keep flittering them throughout the show. Sounds good. It is Halloween. Listen, I said this is a really bad joke earlier in the week, that we don't want the meth lollies from a few weeks ago still in circulation. But there's still thousands of them out there, hundreds of them.

So be careful. And that news has just come out today. I feel like we should have been saying that all week. What's the brand of the lolly? It was in the news. Yeah, we'll bring it up to speed with the 8 o'clock this morning. Let's just name some lolly brands. No, don news. Yeah, we'll bring it up to speed with the 8 o'clock this morning. I don't want to guess because I don't want to say the right brand. Let's just name some lolly brands.

No, no. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Last day today, to use up your flybys points. Yeah, that's coming to an end. 28 years from memory. Jeez. Same going. Every time, I never got a flybys card. Every time I was like, I really should get one of those.

Because they ask you at the petrol station, have you got flybys? No. Oh, no. I keep thinking I should do that. Should do, yeah. It's probably a bit late now to get that card. I've only got a few magic bullets through flybys. Have you? Yeah.

A couple of magic bullies? Yeah. What is the old bullet like? It's great. Yeah? Yeah. Just kind of a blender, isn't it really? Yeah.

Just, yeah. Yeah, well. Super zippy. Thanks to flybys and all the great memories. Yeah, exactly. I think they've just been out. I think other companies have gone, hey, we can just do our own loyalty cards. Rewards, yeah.

But I tell you what, thank God we won't be asked, have you got Flybuys anymore? That's the silver lining. Now, I know I've been banging on a lot about my laptop the last few days. Obviously, my laptop got destroyed with a drink bottle incident. Fried, basically. Now, no one knows. We can't stress enough how important Ben's laptop is to us.

Well, yeah, in this job. It feels like, you know, it's like going along to a boarding site and not having a hammer. I feel like you would go happily without your laptop for five days, Megan. Yeah. Whereas Ben, he couldn't. It's with you at all times. It is. At all times. Day or night.

At all times. He had worn out the keys on the laptop. The letters. You couldn't even see the letters. He typed so many furious typing emails. Yeah. So anyway, my laptop is no longer with us. R.I.P. That and flybys. It's been a big day, guys. A big day.

But I had been thinking for the last couple of years because my laptop hasn't got enough space. I bought one with not enough space in it. And it's been one of those, guys. It's a big day. But I had been thinking for the last couple of years because my laptop hasn't got enough space. I bought one with not enough space in it. And it's been one of those things that always annoyed me. I'd always try and clear space and always have a little reminder going. And it's running and needs more space. I'm like, I can't give you any more space. That's all I got.

Couldn't even download it. My phone had more space on it than the computer. It's got more photos on it. The computer. Computers, I told you how much space I had at the beginning, buddy. I couldn't work with that. So I had been thinking for a couple of years, thinking what some stage I needed to upgrade,

but it's a lot of money and you don't really want to pay that money. No, it's a wild amount of cash. And finally, I guess the laptop broke, you know, got destroyed. So I was like, okay. I was like, last couple of days of mine, just got to bite the bullet and buy a new laptop. And I even looked online and I looked at research and I was like, okay, this is the one I want to get. But I guess I hadn't told my family, my kids that that wasn't what I was going to do.

But yesterday after I picked up one of my daughters from school, I was like, she's going to call into the shop. She comes in with me. We go into the shop. And the guy's like, can I help you? I'm like, yeah, I'll take that. And my daughter's like, what? And the guy's like, what? I was like, yeah, that laptop. He's like, do you want to see it? I'm like, no, that's it. We'll take that. And my daughter's like, what? And the guy's like, what? I was like, yeah, that laptop.

He's like, do you want to see it? I'm like, no, that's it. We'll take it. And my daughter's like, who is this guy? That is gangster. I was like, that was the coolest. And she was like, wow, that's the coolest you're ever going to look. Like, you just walk straight in.

I want that. I want that. Now, do you have that in stock? I'll take it now. And I walked out. She's like, do you know how much money you, and I'm like, yes, I do know how much money I spent in just that split second. And you walked on out.

And I'm like, yeah, this is the coolest I spent in just that split second and you walked on out and I'm like yeah this is the coolest I've ever loved inside you're going whoo whoo whoo whoo

and behind the scenes you've done a lot of research yeah a lot of research it's been two years of thinking about it going oh jeez I don't know if I can do it it's a lot of money

and I'm like yesterday I walked straight I was in the store rocking like a big dog I know I was like maybe that's what it feels like to do those things

yeah to go and buy a Ferrari I'll take it drive it off the lot and I was like wow that that's what it feels like to do those things. Yeah, well, like to go and buy a Ferrari. I'll take it, drive it off the lot. So I was like, wow, that was cool. But really, there's been five years of intense research and saving that's gone into it. And that guy, you've got some good store cred now. He'll be like, he just walked in here.

He's like, do you want to see any other ones? I'm like, nah, that one. The only way you could have been cooler is if you went in with a wad of cash and slapped it down. Yeah, they're going to have it. And they're like, sorry, we don't accept cash. Give him a 20 and buy yourself something nice, mate. That sort of thing. Yeah. And then, so I've got it. I'm back.

I don't need to bang on about laptops anymore. Was he like, have you got flybys? I was like, oh no, I've been meaning to get that. Oh, it's too late now, buddy. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Something's gone viral from the Graham Norton show, which has resonated with you, Megan. So this had Eddie Redmayne and Paul Meskell on the couch.

Eddie was talking about how he got taught to use his phone as a weapon for his role in a new movie, The Day of the Jackal. You're going to hear Paul Meskell then talking or joking about how reaching for his phone would probably be the last thing he would do. And Graham Norton as well. You know, making jokes about what would a phone do situation on the couch. And then you'll hear Saoirse Ronan

actor from The Lovely Bones. Gotcha, that's where I know her from. She comes in with a moment that has taken over the internet. It's a showstopper. It's a showstopper. Great's a showstopper. It is. Great point. You can use your phone if someone's attacking you,

the butt of your phone. Who's actually going to think about that, though? If someone attacks me, I'm not going to go, phone. I think... That's what girls have to think about all the time. Am I right, ladies? So she's saying, you know, girls are having to think about being attacked all the time and then all the guys. Am I right, ladies? So she's saying, you know,

girls are having to think about being attacked all the time and then all the guys are going, There was literally a, oh. Yeah, the guys are a bit of a laugh, making some jokes, killing it with the audience and then they're like, oh, oh. And what did you call it, Ben? Well, I know, I mean, it's a great point

and it is one that, you know, but it's, you know, I know, but it's, you know, oh, no. But I can see why they were making jokes about that, you know, not thinking about the full consequence of it. It's a chat show. It's a comedy chat show. You said she sucked the fun out of the comedy chat banjo. Called her a buzzkill. But, yes, she was a buzzkill.

But a great point. It was a really great point. And that's why that's gone viral. Like, if the jokes had continued, it wouldn't have gone viral because she's actually made a really, really valid point. I even thought about that last night at the Travis Scott concert walking through with my daughter. And there's a lot of, you know, you go downstairs,

there's a lot of drunken people and, you know, she's got friends and stuff that were going by themselves. I'm like, geez, this, you know, like it can be a scary, you know, I'm worried. I mean, I'm not a big guy, you know, myself, but I'm just worried about if you're in that situation for a girl to go through that. Yeah.

It reminded me of a conversation we had with Jono when we were on the road for the I Have Never Tour. We dropped Ben off at the supermarket. It was dark. It was night. And I made a joke as we dropped you off, like you said you were going to walk home. To me and producer Ellie, we were like, oof.

What? Okay. So I said to you, put your keys between your fingers. I said, clench your cheeks. But then we started talking to Jono. He's like, what are you. So I said to you, put your keys between your fingers. I said, clench your cheeks. But then we started talking to John. He's like, what are you talking about with the keys? And I was like, well, this is something I think every girl intrinsically like thinks about or knows or is taught to put your keys between your fingers

so that if you have to get into some sort of altercation, you've got a weapon. And then also like you'd have your phone in your hand. So when they were making jokes about the phone as a weapon, I was like, well, I would always have my keys between my fingers in one hand and my phone in the other. So either I can call for help or use it to whack someone. And that is something that women just deal with on the daily.

And that was what Saoirse was trying to get across. I remember you saying actually a while ago, because John, I was talking about in the morning, sometimes after a run, you lie on the pavement outside, you know, like by your house. I'm an unusual character. And Megan's like, I would never do that alone at that time of the morning.

I would just, that would put me in a dangerous situation. Would you ever do that? No way. I love running in the morning, but now that I work mornings, I can't do that anymore. It's just a reality for me. I can't do it anymore because-

As soon as it goes dark. It's too risky, yeah. I don't think many people would lie on the pavement. But it's in your own house, you know? That's in your own house. Yeah. You wouldn't do that. You wouldn't do that.

Yeah. It's a different world out there. So you basically wander around like Wolverine with keys out at all times ready to strike. If you see a woman walking by herself and it's dark, I dare say it doesn't matter what time it is, they will be hyper alert of every single thing around them. We listen, we look,

we constantly are aware of who is behind us. That's just the general state that we function in. Well, that's a sad reality of society. See, I don't. At no point will that cross my mind. Yeah, and I think that's why I'm mad. I do because I'm not really strong. I was last night worried for myself as well.

He's quite a jumpy individual. I'm a jumpy individual. I do worry at all about myself as well. Yeah, yeah. But I've never been in a fight before and would be no good in a fight. I know. We skied you this morning and you went, ah! Yeah, exactly, yeah.

And so what do you do with the key? Where does that go? Well, my dad's just texted me and said he told me about that. He also told me some other stuff. Remember that I wouldn't repeat on radio what I would do if I was in a situation. But he told me that when I was really young and I still remember it.

So you'd get your, the sharp bit, a lot of keys are like those plastic knobby things now. But if you've got an older car, the sharp bit, if you clench are like those plastic knobby things now. But if you've got an older car, the sharp bit, if you clench your fist, it goes between your fingers. And where do you split it? Well, I guess

anywhere you can do it. Eyes. Eyes. Boom. Throat. Oh, if you had to. Yeah. Boom.

A good reminder today and probably a good reminder for guys listening as well that how intimidating you can come across. Totally. You maybe haven't intended to. You maybe had a few drinks and things like that. You can make more of an

effort to make everyone feel a bit more safe and comfortable. Totally. You might not be a scary man, but it's just that there's the odd one that is, and so we have to assume that all of you are, which sucks for the nice guys. It really does, and I think that joke on the couch there, it just reflected that I understand the joke, and I can see why they thought that.

I don't even blame them. I don't have any hate towards those men for laughing or anything like that. But it was just one of those moments that I think actually triggered all women deep down and people didn't realise that. Not in a nasty way. It's just a moment of, wait, why are they walking thinking about using a phone?

They laughed and I didn't get it because I was like, I would use the phone as a weapon. Totally. That's the confusion there. I think it's just a different reality we all live in, you know? Yeah, but she did suck the life out of it. On the chat show. The Hits, the a different reality we all live in, you know? Yeah, but she did suck the life out of it. Out of the chat show.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's Halloween. A very exciting day for me. I really enjoy it. Heading out in the neighbourhood. Hello, you're part of a help group? That's a real... Hi, my name's Ben. I like Halloween.

It's an exciting day for me. It's a really big day for me. Hi, Ben. Yeah, it's a big day. It's a big day. What are you actually a really big day for me. Hi, Ben. Yeah, it's a big day. It's a big day. What are you actually doing? Yeah, we're going around the neighbourhood as well, meeting up with some friends,

and then we're kind of taking their, you know, our kids with the younger kids are going around. Yeah, we'll go around. We'll spend three or four hours wandering the neighbourhood, catching up with other families and stuff. It's kind of cool. But are you dressing up? Yeah, of course I will.

Yeah, I'll dress up. But this year I haven't got costumes. At the moment I'm in between, from my garage, in between a Deadpool costume or a Ghostbuster costume. Both good options. Deadpool. Yeah. And do the bye-bye-bye dance.

Oh, jeez. I don't know if I've got time for that. You were Deadpool last year, though. I know. A couple of years ago I was here. But I was Ken from Barbie and Ken. I spent a lot of money on a Barbie and Ken costume last year. It was a great outfit.

Yeah. But then you did. I like a rollerblade costume, yeah. Now you've got your hair dyed like henna. If you were going to do it any year, do you feel topicality's passed on? Oh, no, maybe it has. Talking scary movies, though, the films that traumatised you as a child, what was it for you, Megan?

Candyman. I watched Candyman at my friend Casey McLennan's house. I don't think her parents were there, and we thought that was a good idea. I think I was like 10. That's the problem, because I sometimes say that to the kids. They're like, what's this movie like? And I'm like, it's hard to know, you know, because once you watch it, you can't unwatch it.

It's in your brain forever. Sometimes things don't stack up, and they're not as scary as we found them. Yeah. And so, you know, technology's passed on. Yeah, you're like, why was I scared of this? Watch Ghostbusters. And they're like, this is terrible. This is very slow and terrible.

But then you get scared about something else, like on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the original Willy Wonka. It's scary. He was creepy. There was some creepy stuff. The guy with the candy store at the start, it wasn't intentionally meant to be creepy,

but there I found that creepy. It's definitely an investigation that was needed to be had there. With Wonka. Yeah, around the whole Wonka. The witches terrified me Wonka, yeah. The witches terrified me. Oh, yeah. Roald Dahl, the movie The Witches.

Was it Bette Midler? She was the main witch? Yeah, they were. No, was she? Was that The Witches? I can't even remember. That was Hocus Pocus. And they were all with the mice and all sorts of stuff, and they were eating all those and stuff, yeah.

Lee, morning to you. Good morning. This wasn't a movie that terrified you as a child, but your child. Yes, yes, my big boy. What happened? So me and my ex separated when my kids were little and obviously he started having some time with his dad

and they came back and told me that he was allowed to watch the movie Saw. So, yeah. Sorry, at what age? Six. Oh, my God. And he was already quite a, like, he already had night terrors, as it was anyway. So it took a few years, actually, to get him settled, sleeping in his own bed again.

But, yeah, it was quite brutal. Classic son-of-a-bitch ex-husband behaviour, that. Tell me about it. Needless to say, this mama did a bit of a hucka towards him, but it's all right. He's like, I don't have to listen to you now. Yeah, exactly. Oh, well, is he all right now? He is all right now, yeah. He's a good kid. Oh, good on you. Oh, well, is he all right now? Oh, he is all right now,

yeah. He's a good kid. Oh, good on you. So, well, let's keep these coming through. 0800, that's telephone number 4487. Movies that have traumatised you.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Talking about the movies that you watched that scared you often as a child. Can I put one out there

that I've just remembered and I don't think many people would have watched it. It was Paul Walker from Fast and Furious he did a scary movie, it was called Joyride and it's about this like killer in a truck and he's like following them around

it's actually really good so maybe that's like a niche one you can watch this Halloween Geez, he loved his transport movies didn't he Paul Walker? Has it got a car or a truck in it? Sign me up boss RIP Paul Walker but Yeah. Has it got a car or a truck in it? Sign me up, boss. RIP, Paul Walker. But actually, just speaking of Thriller, Tanya, the Thriller video, what

did that do to you? Oh my gosh. They put it on. I was like four years old and I was at kindy. And it just paralyzed me. I'm a big Michael Jackson fan now, but they had to call my dad from work to come pick me up.

Seems like an odd bit of content for them to put on back in the day, and it would have taken a lot of effort to put on the Thriller music video at kindergarten. I know, right? You would have to get the VHS out, roll the TV on the wheels. The kids will love this. At no point through that process did

any red flags pop up for the teachers. No. That's a good old 80s for you. Yeah. It was character, didn't it? Quite a scary video, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it was.

The creepy look of Michael Jackson at the end, you know, would kind of haunt you. Yeah. Is that the only thing you remember from being four years old? Yeah. Wow, that's a really good video. They do have an impact on you. I remember there was one called the Garbage Pail Kids.

Garbage Pail Kids, yeah. Were you a fan of them? Valerie Vomit. Valerie Vomit. Yeah, they had cards, eh? Yeah, and then they made a movie, and just Valerie Vomit, projectile vomiting everywhere, like a 22-year-old at a three-day music festival.

Keep it down, Valerie. That really stuck with me. Thanks for your call, Tanya. Happy Halloween. Thank you. Yeah, good on you, mate. Jen, how are you? Good, thank you.

Great to have you on. The movies have traumatised you? When I was about 12, my stepbrother made me watch the movie Dolls, which is about these people who get stuck in a thunderstorm and they get stuck in this big house, and the dolls become animated overnight. Oh, no.

It's like a slasher. Slasher. Slasher. Slasher movie where the dolls come to life and just start killing off all the people. Dolls are just creepy as it is. Yeah, dolls. It's now out on Blu-ray. It's from, dolls. It's now out on Blu-ray.

It's from 1987 but it's now available on Blu-ray. It looked like a safe haven from the raging storm. It looked like a safe haven. I love the voiceover. Yeah,

the voiceover, the trailer voiceover person. It's disappeared. It's not really a thing anymore. That was the coolest thing about movie trailers. Yeah. Hey,

good on you, Jennifer. You and your dolls are going to have a great day. Happy Halloween the coolest thing about movie trailers. Yeah. Hey, good on you, Jennifer. You and your dolls going to have a great day. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. Yeah, thank you. Chucky's come through lots. Oh, yes.

What's that child's play? Another creepy doll. He's a bit of a menace, wasn't he? A bit of a nuisance, Chucky. Texas Chainsaw Massacre's come through on the text. With 13 having a sleepover and a caravan out the back. Mum Chainsaw Massacre has come through on the text with 13 having a sleepover in a caravan out the back. Mum came in and banged

on the outside of the caravan in the middle of the movie. Oh my God. Everyone peed themselves. It's those unfortunate things when that sort of happens in a scary bit of the movie, eh? This is The Exorcist.

Oh. Again, multiple votes for The Exorcist on 4487. I've never seen it. I found Freddy Krueger, The Nightmare on Elm Street, scary because that was about going, get you in your dreams, so you'd have to go to sleep. And then you'd be like, oh, no, he's going to get me in your dreams.

That was a scary concept for a movie. He had a terrible skincare routine, Freddy Krueger. He had some Dulles and Tea or something like that. I'd put him on Roaccutane, you know, the hardcore stuff. Nightmare. It's exfoliate, Freddie. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We are talking about the movies that you watched,

often as a kid, that have still scarred you. Most simply, I don't know, the childhood trauma. Melody, morning to you. Morning, how are you? Good, mate. We're doing really well. Apologies there, just a bit of an email reminder popping up on my calendar invite there.

But what was the movie that traumatised you as a child there? Well, it was actually my son, and my dad was having him for the night, looking after him while I went out, and he was like, oh, I'll put an old classic on for him, and he put on Shitty Chitty Bang Bang. In 1968?

Absolute cinematic masterpiece. Yeah, it's like old school. It's like, oh, I'll show him one of the ones I used to watch as a kid. And the part with the child catcher, just absolutely traumatising. We still talk about it to this day. Like, remember that time that Grandad made me watch Chitty Bang Bang with the child catcher? We've got some of the child catcher here. Children, where are you?

I know you're here somewhere. Stay away. Why did no one call the police on this guy? He's just wandering around calling out, hello children. It looked like it was kind of his job. He was like the dogs and pounds sort of situation,

rounding them up, rounding up the kids. So I think it was like the council must have... Yeah, he's a little unusual, but he's good at his job. He rounds up those kids, mate. He catches the kids.

Can't deny his monthly numbers. He's hitting the targets. So there we go, the child catcher too. He'd definitely be someone who's surfing the dark web nowadays. Yeah, definitely. Melody, go and have a wonderful Halloween, all right? All right, you too.

A lot of text coming through for it, Pennywise. Oh, no. Scary clown. Are you going to play it? This is from the original, the Stephen King 1999 film. Oh, come on Michael. Don't you want a balloon?

Loved his balloons, didn't he? He was a big backer of balloons but that made you not want to go to the loo. Yeah, and I went to watch the sequel whenever that was. That made me scared to sit on the toilet and brush my teeth because he lives in drains.

Yeah, you're getting a lot of emails. I know because I'm playing these clips on YouTube and it's plugged into my laptop. Look how popular you are on that one. I'm not going to reply to any of the emails. They'll keep coming through. Let's get Wendy on the phone. Good morning to you. What was the movie that

traumatised you as a kid, mate? Oh, The Gremlins. Oh? Oh, The Gremlins. Oh, yeah, Gremlins. They were so cute and spilt until you put water on them. Yeah, yeah. So I watched it when I was five and it traumatised me. I couldn't, you know, my bed was scary, my wardrobe was scary. And then years later, we went to Australia to Movie World

and we went into the, well, I didn't know, we didn't know it was that. My mum was sitting next to me and it's an old school movie. And then this lady comes out screaming and my mum looks at me and it was just horror. It was just the worst time. They're like swinging off things and they're all like laughing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you had to go on a ride through them. It was just, it was horrifying. Oh, that noise.

Yeah. They'll be expecting you. There's that voice of a guy again. It sounds like we went through puberty nine times, that guy. It does. What an amazing voice. It was horrible. Yeah, the green ones.

Thank you for reliving that trauma with us again here on The Hits. We appreciate it. I appreciate all you fools and texts. Thank you, mate. Have a good one.