Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We found ben a modelling job!

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

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This John O'Bend podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts in tastes that Kiwis love. Hanging out with you on a cold morning, Megan? Yeah, nippy. Although we say that up the top of the North Island. Yeah, true. You can't complain when you're up towards the top of the North Island because it's South Island. I mean, we're always surprised though, aren't we? It's July. That's what happens in winter. Yeah, I do prefer the winter clothing to the summer clothing, though. Do you?

Yeah. I find your lovely jacket you've got on today. Yeah. I'm wearing a Yeti today. Yeah. No, it looks nice, but you couldn't wear that in the middle of January. It's true. I like autumn because you can kind of layer it up, but you don't have to be puffer jacket.

Bit of both. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Nice in between. I got into a conversation yesterday because kids these days, they're pretty onto it, right? Through the world of social media. And one of my daughters was asking me about a conversation dead in my heart, LeBron James. She started asking me about LeBron James and his son.

So LeBron James, we all know, a great basketball player, but his son is now going to be in the NBA with LeBron James. Nepotism at its finest. You couldn't get more luck. I think probably the better nepotist would have been Donald Trump, maybe, when he managed to get all his white family into the White House. I mean, it's a pretty cool moment for them. Amazing, because it's going to be LeBron's last season next year.

He's signed for two more years, they reckon. Has he? Yeah, and he's 39 years old, turning 40 next year. It's the prime of his life. Yeah, and you know, so it's pretty cool. I mean, there's all lots of funny memes. As soon as it came out,

I think I sent you one saying that already there's the rumours that LeBron James is sleeping with a teammate's mum. And you're like, that was quite clear. My issue too, but with the father-son combo on the bus, you know what it's like when you're with your dad. Yeah. Your dad just wants to pass on advice. You're like, shut up, dad.

You don't know what you're talking about. Well, what does he call him? Dad or LeBron or whatever it is in those environments. Are they going to be on the same team? Yeah, the same team. He's been drafted on the same team. Yeah, like when you're asking for the ball, you're like, Dad! Pass the ball!

Yeah, and that'd be the first time in NBA history, is it, a father-son have played on the same team? I think so. In sports history, surely. It's pretty cool. Yeah, I think maybe in baseball, maybe like Ken Griffey Jr. or something like that might have been one season crossover. But I was explaining it to my daughter saying it's pretty rare, you know, for 39.

And she was saying, why don't – she was like, 39 is not that. You know, she was like, no, it doesn't seem that. Oh, why? Athletes not. Yeah, why? Athletes not. And I was like, for an athlete, that's quite old. You know, like your body starts not to be as good as it was.

Well, then you have that sort of 20 plus years in the sport. Yeah. Thinking you've started at 18, 19, semi-professionally. And then she went, well, how come you guys are still doing radio? You and Jono. I was like, well, that's slightly different. Slightly different. So I don't start comparing about whether we should be on the way out.

We're high performance athletes, yeah. That's right. We all still work. I was like, it's very rare for an athlete to be doing it at that age. She goes, why are you still doing radio? I was like, what? So anyway, it turned from like a good conversation to a conversation where I'm like, oh. I mean, the advantage of doing radio over sort of a 30 or 40 year period is you can

start forming very controversial opinions and end up in the retirement village of radio up at the tall back station, you know? Exactly. Different phases. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I stumbled across an interview I've flipped onto a channel and they were interviewing Dog Roll, who's the new captain of the All Blacks.

Scott Barrett. Scott Barrett. You should see the size of Dog Roll's thighs. Enormous. He was being interviewed in shorts. Enormous. That's why they call him Dog Roll, eh? I think so.

I think so, Megan. Imagine having to try and tackle those two Dog Rolls as they're coming towards you. Good lord So you just don't Think how big athletes are Until you actually Sort of see them

Do you This sounds like The world's most stupid comment No but you're right You know when you go To the Warriors And you're on the ground And you see them on the field

You're like These people are enormous Yeah Doesn't do them any justice On the TV And he's dirty Too And he seems like

A man You know You guys Stop thirsting over him Yeah Dog roll would look after you And he's 30 too. And it seems like a man. You guys are thirsting over him. Dog Roll would look after you. Throw you around the place, wouldn't he? He's like Travis Kelsey, isn't he, Dog Roll? Now, yesterday I mentioned a comment that my daughter said because there's lots of hits, posters around cities and towns around New Zealand.

My daughter saw one and said, you look like a model. I was like, oh, wow, that's awesome. She's like, yeah, what are those models for like Kmart or a catalogue or something? Yeah, and then we actually – And again, no disrespect to people that do that, but I was like, oh, I was imagining something else when she said, you look like a model.

You're not one of those serious like haute couture models. You're like a smiley like, yeah, I'm a cool dad model. Yeah, like the accessible dad models. You're like a smiley, like, yeah, I'm a cool dad model. Yeah, like the accessible dad model. You're right. The model who once had a promising modeling career but has still kind of got some good looks

and so they can, you know, chuck him in a puffer vest and put him in a park and he can hang out with his family, advertise some clothes. Well,

we thought that we would try and get you into a catalog. Maybe do some modeling for someone. We just need a business. If you need anything advertised, our morals don't even exist.

Whatever the product is, you need to hock off cigarettes. Ben boys can model for cigarettes. Well, I do have some morals, but yeah. We've got the model for you. 4487, we'll try and get this sorted before the end of the week. But with all this modelling chat,

I was like, you know what? I do know someone who can give you a bit of modelling advice because my husband has modelled some jewellery just recently. I know this because he likes to go on and on about how he's a model now. So he joins us on the phone to give you some advice. Good morning, babe. Good morning.

Good morning. Hello. Hello. What can I do for you? Guys, none of this bloody sweet talk. Hello, sweetie pie. I literally never call you sweetie pie. I don't know why I did that.

Oh, whatever. We haven't even seen each other. It's like crack of the morning. Yeah, last time I saw you, you were like... We'll give you five seconds of sweet talk, then we're getting on with things. Yeah, go on. Hi, baby.

How are you? How'd you sleep? I miss you. I miss you. Aw, me too. You asked for it. Yeah, we did ask for it. We just jealous. Hey, lovely to have you on. Now, Megan says you have some experience

in catalogue modelling and could pass on some advice. Recent experience too, we understand. Yeah, that's right. I mean, it only makes sense that you guys are calling me now that I'm a professional model. I get it. I may have heard about this a lot. He does one photo shoot and he's like, I'm a model now.

What did you model? So I did a photo shoot for a jewellery company. So I was modeling some jewellery. So it was all quite close up kind of stuff. Quite classy. Megan showed me the photos yesterday. Very classy. Classy photos. Very good. Megan showed me the photos yesterday. Very classy. Classy photos.

Very good. No Photoshop needed for those, might I add. I feel like if I was walking through a duty-free, I might see your face everywhere. Oh, yeah, nice. No Photoshop, but a lot of makeup was required. I saw you afterwards. I don't know about that.

Notice in one of the photos you had that cool sort of, what is it, smizing? When you're kind of smiling with your eyes. I mean, what's the trick to that? I think it's just about looking really confused. Like, I'm kind of not sure what I was doing. That's me. That's me every day. I'll be fine. I think you're good to go. Although you don't want to look too confused

by the camera as well. Why are you here? I thought you'd never seen a camera before. That was weird. Good advice, good advice, Andrew. And so where to now? Are we talking Milan, New York Fashion Week? That's exactly, you've just pinpoint.

Yeah, yeah, I'm literally about to hop on a plane. I actually have just got to drop off the kit somewhere and then I'll be out of here. And you don't look back, my friend. That's right. You spread your wings. It's my time to shine, you know. It's my time to shine.

Here I go. Thanks for your advice. We appreciate it. Have a great day. See you, guys. Megan's husband, Andrew, there. Professional model and part-time husband. Full-time model, part-time husband.

So 800 the hits. Not everyone has been in a catalogue as a model, so it's a very niche topic, but we'd love you if you have been. Any catalogue, doesn't matter how old it was, you were modelling something, you were holding up a product, advice for Ben Boyce. The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Made a comment yesterday saying that one of my daughters said I look like a catalogue model.

And then all of a sudden now I seem to be about to model in a catalogue. It sounded like you had a dream that you didn't want to bring up to us. You're like, my daughter thinks I look like a catalogue. Okay, Ben, we'll get you in a catalogue. Well, your daughter has handed us a gift from the commercial radio gods, my friend, because that's what we're on a mission to do is to get you in a catalogue uh and megan's got a lead we've just had a lead during the song oh really business is interested oh a legit company yeah you know one day you're there you're you're modeling a lovely sort of cashmere

sweater in the postie plus catalogue next day kanye west is dressing you up in tiny bits of gaffer tape taking you around new york city this is the life of a model my friend so we just need some advice before you embark on this new career trajectory any tips if you have been a catalog model i imagine i'd want you whatever you're doing in the catalog cocking a leg a leg cocking you know sort of like on a bench have a leg up have an arm relax well maybe like a farmlands or something that feels like that to look for that like yeah pointing at pointing at things too yeah i can point at things pointing and smiling i don't know if that's what catalog models do though there's a couple of good poses though yeah yeah

uh now uh harriet actually our boss is phone through. She's been in a catalogue. Harry, good morning. Hello. I have a full-page catalogue. You've sent us the picture to us. Now, I don't know how I feel about this. I don't think this would fly in this current day and age. Describe it.

When was the year? What was it? Tell us about it. It was June 1997. Christchurch Press, full page. And it's my mum and I naked in a bath with bubbles covering our bodies, looking over Sumner Beach and Christchurch. So you're a naked baby.

You were a couple of years old, baby. What are you? I'm three years old. How old's your mum, just by the way? But second of all, she's sitting up in the bath. Did she confirm if she's naked or not? She confirmed she was wearing a bikini. Although when you look at the picture, I'm not 100% confident.

Because they've put bubbles over her boobies. Strategically placed bubbles in the bubble baths, too. You'll note that they haven't put bubbles over me. No, I felt like you needed more bubbles. Look at this picture. I think I needed more bubbles. I don't think we get away with that these days. No, you're right.

And now I feel like this could be, anyway, I feel like I'd be on some watch list having a look at that. So from your very brief stint as a three-year-old model in a weird bubble bath situation, what advice would you pass on to Ben Boyce? I'm not doing a bubble bath, Sherry. With a baby.

No. I reckon you need to go topless. Topless. Topless is a great idea. You can put bubbles over your babies. Tastefully, tastefully. Tastefully done, of course. That's very, very funny.

How many bathrooms did you hock off for the people? Oh, I honestly have no idea. I don't even, I've never even seen any money for this ad. I'm still waiting for it to come through. The residuals. Was your mum a model? Yeah, she was a model. Was she?

Oh, wow. Yeah. Maybe we should be talking to Mrs. Whiting about some... Yeah, she'll have steps and tricks. Yeah. I wish we could share that photo, but it's not appropriate. Put the model bath over me. Thank you so much, Harriet.

Appreciate that. We'll take one more quick one. Paul, he was a model in a calendar. You were Mr September. Yeah, no goats were in the photo, though. No goats. We had a little goat chat this morning about goats hiding away in people's car boots. What were you modelling, Paul?

It was a charity calendar for the Deaf Association in 2001. Obviously, I don't look like that now. Were you all muscles? Were you a gym bra? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was a bodybuilder. And my photo was taken

in the middle of Queen Street and Wellesley Street by Civic Theatre in the middle of the intersection. They closed the intersection for about three minutes. We ran out with, ironically, a bathtub, an old claw bathtub, and we had photos taken of One Tree Hill, well, no tree hill, and Kelly Tile Tons and the zoo with Cash and the Elephant, all sorts. And what did you shirt off? We were naked with like a white G-string on,

just holding a towel, covering our bits. Wow. Now, Ben Boyster, here we go. I've never seen you perk up so much. We need to see the photos. We've gone from about, there seems to be a theme of nudity coming through here. I don't know if this is sort of the catalogue that I want to see the photos. We've gone from about, there seems to be a theme of nudity coming through here. I don't know if this is the catalogue that I want to be modelled.

Anyway, I'm good. Each to their own. Good. Any tips? We've got one tip from Paul. We raised $190,000. Wow. That's so good.

Yeah, great cause. Now, one tip you'd pass on, Paul? Face care. Face care. Okay, face care. Yeah, get a routine going routine going you know look after your skin it's like it feels like a bit late for that but all right the hits the jonathan ben podcast i made a comment about my daughter saying that i look like a catalog model and some of our hits advertising at the moment i was thinking when she said i look

like a model that maybe it was something like, you know, catwalks in Milan and New York Fashion Week and stuff. But again, I'm a great catalogue model. I'll take it. But now for some reason you guys have decided that I need to follow through and be a catalogue model. You are very bony like a model, like a model with an eating disorder or something. So you're filling that bucket.

But Megan and myself dream to be that bony. Look how bony and gorgeous he is. But now, Megan and I are fulfilling your dream, Ben Boyce, of becoming a catalogue model. I feel like it was a dream. It's never really been a dream of mine,

but anyway, you know. I'm realistic about how I look, and the regard of, when you meet some people, you're like, oh, they're models. They should be a model, you know. Yeah, right. you meet some people, you're like, they're models, they should be a model. Like I said, you're the everyman model.

We've been trying to find people or a company or something that you can do some catalogue modelling for. Do you know, Ben, a legitimate company has come to the party? A legitimate company? A lot of illegitimate ones as well. Legitimate New Zealand company. Oh, one as well. Legitimate New Zealand company. Oh, I like that. Edwards & Co. And the owner, Christian, joins us right now. Good morning,

Christian. Hey, now look, Jono, give him a break. That bone, you're thinking here, good bone structure, right? You're thinking that jaw structure, that's exactly what we're looking for. You're just jealous, right? I am jealous. Looking at that,

he's got a buddy, a three o'clock shadow going on there. Keep talking, Christian, keep talking. I like this. And I also, I mean, come on, this Kmart model stuff, we've got this good-looking dad, I can just envision him pushing a pram, you know, bringing sexy back. That's what all the women are looking for

these days. Sexiness and prams go hand in hand. So is this your business, is it, Christian? Yeah, it is, absolutely. New Zealand business, and we think that you'd look great on the end of a pram, pushing some little kids around, you know? He's never considered it until this moment. No, but hey, it sounds good. I mean, you know, my kids are a little bit past that,

but I have had experience pushing prams. You know, I am a dad, so yeah, okay. Yeah, I mean, you're never too old. Very good prams. I've got multiple Edwards & Co prams. What about he could play the role of one of those stressed-out fathers trying to put the little capsules in the back seat? No, no, no.

All our models are so easy. He'll be smiling away at the fact that we're doing a good job. We're going to make this catalogue look just primo, and you're going to be perfect. Well, Ben, you've got a gig. Now, as your agents, what sort of percentage are we looking at here? Well, I don't think it's a... Is it a paid gig? Oh, no, it's a weird gig.

Oh, absolutely. We'll pay you in strollers, mate. You know, that's the best top-of-the-line stroller you can get on the market. That's what you want. You're going to get a free stroller. For your future children. Well know, that's the best top-of-the-line stroller you can get on the market. That's what you want. You're going to get a free stroller. For your future children. Well, I feel like

the future children. But you'll be making more after he appears in this catalogue. Exactly. Everyone's going to want you. I've got, you know, my youngest is 12.

I feel like we're just past that. How about if you want to give us one, we could give it away. How would that sound? That sounds like a great plan. Let's do that.

Why not? Just when you thought you couldn't love the selfless model anymore, he hands his pay packet over to the audience to give away his pay. You're giving away your pay. Yeah, well, yeah. I'm a stroller. It sounds like someone else would have great use of that.

So, yeah, why not? What a good man. Look, he's good looking. He's the perfect model. He's generous. A philanthropist. We're never going to hear the end of this. People are going to be Tripping over themselves

To get to you Ben Professional pram model For Edwards and Co Absolutely Alright I love this We'll get the shoot Happening during the week

Sounds great Looking forward to it Christian you're a hero Wow okay I think it's going to happen It wasn't a dream of mine But now I guess It'll have to be

Alright Now make sure you get Your dad clothes out, get those new balances on. They're all the trend nowadays. We were quite keen for him to do like a topless shoot. Do you think that would go with the catalogue? That sounds more like it. A beach scene.

Who was it who had a baby recently who looked like bloody Al Pacino? All right, all right. Move it on for this now. 23 days until the Olympics in France All right, move it on for this now. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. 23 days until the Olympics in France, and we're going to catch up with one of the athletes who won bronze at their last Olympics, Dylan Smit. Dylan, good morning.

How are you? I'm good, mate. How are you? Yeah, lovely to have you in here. Now, trampolining, crazy sport. I've seen some videos of you flipping up there, like pink at a Pink concert. How high are you? Is that 30 feet or something?

I don't work in feet. I don't know. It's like 7 metres, 8 metres-ish. Between the tramp and the bottom of your feet. I can barely handle playing crack the egg with the kids on the trampoline. They can get pretty intense though. Crack the egg can get pretty intense. They should do that as an Olympic sport. You've got two people on the tramp which is breaking the golden rule the trampoline They can get pretty intense though Crack there You can get pretty intense They can They should do that As an Olympic sport You've got two people on the tramp Which is breaking the golden rule

Of trampolining So Is there a double bounce feature On the trampoline At the Olympics as well? No no Not at the moment Do they do two people?

There's no synchro Nah It's just individual So you were You were the first person To represent New Zealand In trampolining at the Olympics I was

Back in 2016 And our first ever Gymnastics medal in Tokyo, bronze, which is incredible. No, no, it's pretty cool. I was just saying earlier, yeah, it's pretty cool to be there, something for the first time. So pretty privileged, I guess, to be, you know, the first New Zealander to do a few things, which is cool. Even against all the bloody roided up Russians. He took out a medal. Legend.

Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah, need to know. He took out a medal. Legend. Allegedly. Allegedly. If there's no one competing for New Zealand on an Olympic level, you know, professionally before you, like, how did you get into it? Yeah, well, obviously I just did it for fun when I was really, really young, like six, seven years old. Went to my first World Champs in Russia, actually, when I was 12.

Took that out. Reading your bio, it says you took up trampolining at age five. And a lot of us do take up trampolining. I think I did as well about the same time but i didn't carry on with it like yourself we get we retired very early yeah i think i took it up earlier actually on the backyard yeah mum mum was like this kid needs lessons he was jumping off the track jumping off trees into the tramp and hurting himself so did you have one of the old school ones with the uh the steel springs you know you didn't have the padding exposed springs mate yeah built character

didn't it those exposed springs yeah they do I imagine the backyard ones are quite different to the ones you use at the Olympics

and stuff yeah slightly right but if you were to jump on someone's backyard tramp how high could you get on like a standard tramp

oh look it really depends on the tramp those spring free ones are pretty dead so not very high maybe two or three metres max still that's impressive yeah you could do a flip at two or three meters on my if i could take

you to my backyard now do you could do it yeah yeah double flip yeah probably a double yeah i'd probably call it at triples his daughter's very good at flips on the trampoline she actually yeah because i can't do that and she was like can you teach me how to do a backflip i'm like no but youtube wonderful teacher and then she got to a point that she was like, I'm just going to do it now. And we're like, okay, good luck. And she nailed it. Yeah, a lot of it's just confidence. You just got to go for it, have a bit of confidence.

You can't really bail out midway through or something, can you? No, you don't bail out. You got to full send it. Otherwise, yeah, you might be in trouble. And take us, what is it like being at the Olympics in the village, at all the events? I imagine it's quite surreal For an athlete like yourself

Yeah it's unreal I've been twice now And they were two Very different experiences Obviously Rio I was so young And there was no No COVID or anything

And then Tokyo There was a whole bunch Of COVID going around So it was But it's just the scale Of everything's crazy The athletes that you Sort of bump into

Is incredible And all the perks That come with it Like get a free phone And that sort of bump into is incredible and all the all the perks that come with it like get a free phone and that sort of thing everyone gets a free phone yeah mate every athlete it's got the rings on it and everything oh that's cool but they do do a good job and not just the like not just the ioc but like the nzoc do an amazing job for us as kiwis like building that team of culture in that team environment like each getting a ponamu like a pendant is super cool with our kits Awesome, they set up little rooms for us to have coffee and hang out and watch other people can be even if so Yeah, it's it's once in a lifetime. Mm-hmm. That's my third time

Really cool and it all goes all goes so so fast so oh wow, that's incredible now They've got those buddy collapsible beads don they, so you can't have more than one person on this thing. There we go. No jumping on the bed. I've got you trampoline people. I jumped on the cardboard bed in Tokyo, and it didn't break. Wow. Are they comfy?

Yeah, they're fine. I'm a firm bed guy, so I loved it. Yeah, definitely debunked, mate. It's all for sustainability reasons, and that's it. Yeah, right. You know what us media types are like. You know what it's about. All the very best. So nice to have you here

in the studio and I'm putting up a tramp actually next week. Do you want to come over and help? Unfortunately I leave on Friday. If I was here. Why don't you wait till you get back. We're very proud. Good luck over there mate. I appreciate it. Thanks. There's something happening there with this guy and I wanted to know what side I'll wait till you get back. Well, Dylan, we're very proud. Good luck over there, mate. I appreciate it. Thanks, mate. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

There's something happening there with this guy, and I wanted to know what side you sit, because my husband is on the side of the guy at the gym. The gym bros. Gym bros stick together. Yeah, don't they? Jacked up on pre-workout and bloody crazy energy drinks, one of those ones, the bloody Musashi's. Electrolytes.

Can we try and guess what the gym bro was doing to you? Yes, okay. Electrolytes. Can we try and guess what the gym bro was doing to you? Yes, okay. Grunting. No. What do you think of grunting? Because I have noise-cancelling headphones, so if there's grunters, I don't even hear them.

You've got to be doing some serious stuff if you're grunting. That's always my theory. I think I've grunted a couple of times. How many? I kind of squeal a little. Don't ever make that sound again. I don't have the confidence to grunt. Have you grunted, Ben? No, no.

Just a lot of heavy breathing, really. Because then you grunt and someone looks over being like, whoa, what are you lifting? Yeah, not much. Did the gym bro come over and spot you, thinking that you weren't handling the weight that you had? No. No?

I don't think I would. I don't know. I don't think I would mind. Not bring a towel? Not bring a towel? Oh, I didn't wipe down the bench? Yeah. No.

Okay. I don't know. You've lost me. So I went on the machines, which I find quite intimidating anyway, because there's like lots of gym bras doing heavy stuff. So I went on one of the machines. It was free. And I had got two out of three of my sets done and this gym bar comes over

to me uh and was like how much you got to go and i was like well i'm just doing one more lot one more set um and that's when he was like okay and stood there and waited so i just finished one so i was doing like a rest in between and i was like, am I allowed to rest? Like, should I? And so he's just standing there staring at you waiting for the equipment. Standing right beside me, waiting. And I still had one more to do and I was doing my rest. I was like, should I? So I did

the next one and then I was like, I'm not going to do as many as I need to because I feel so intimidated. He's standing there watching me. Is he eyeballing you as he's doing it? It wasn't the bloody Thighmaster one, wasn't it? You in and out with the... No, no, no, no. It was like a back extension.

It doesn't mean anything to you. Listen, no, no, it doesn't mean anything to me, to be honest. I'm on the side of the gym, bro. Well... Whose side are you on there, Ben? I feel like he could... Yeah, because you don't want to... He doesn't want to walk away

because he doesn't want to lose the spot in line. But at the same time, I feel like you can look at your phone or do something. Give me some space. Give me a little bit of space. But at the same time, keep an eye that no one else is going to see. That's mine. My back needs extending. Or could you not say to me, oh, yeah, I'm just going to come back to it.

And I would have held it for him if someone came over. I would have been like, oh, this guy's got it. Do a lap or something. He stood right beside me. Maybe you could have yelled out motivational slogans to him. How many have you got? I'll count you down. Two more.

Here we go. You can do it. Dreamwork makes the teamwork. But you know what? Teamwork makes the dreamwork. There's often like women's sections of gyms. And everyone's like, why do they need a women's? That's probably why.

Because we feel quite intimidated when you do that. Well, this gym bra had an absolute shocker once. I jumped off the treadmill and it entered rest mode. So I'd gone to get the wipes like a good gym bra to wipe down the treadmill. And then a lady who listened to The Edge, coincidentally, which we were on at the time, she walked over and as she stepped on, I didn't know the treadmill was still going. And it took a clean out. It landed on her face and it was rubbing on her face.

I don't know why I'm laughing. I know. Was she okay? No, no, no. Pretty rattled by it, as you would be. And then her sister got in touch with us and was like, oh, Jimbra, are you buddy? So that's what could happen.

So there you go. You got off on the light end. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Oh my God. How do these things keep happening to you? So, back story, there's Flinny, he actually used to work on the hits, Flinny,

now he's on More FM. Wonderful guy. Wonderful guy. Now, I'm leaving work yesterday, and across the road, the busy road there, there's a body walking past. I'm like, oh, nice buddy, Flinny. Waving, enthusiastically waving, smiling,

G'day mate, how are ya? He looksinny, waving, enthusiastically waving, smiling. G'day, mate. How are you? He looks at me, and he crosses the road towards me. I'm like, well, this is obvious interaction. Halfway across the road, he's walking towards me. I'm like, oh, dear God, that's not Flinny. Okay, but this person keeps walking towards me. Now, they have a look of fear in their eyes of, uh-oh, am I in the position where I've met this person before

and I can't remember who I've met? And I'm in the position of going, this is not the person I thought it was, and now they're coming over. So you haven't met this person before? Never seen them before, but he looks, it's a doppelganger, doppelganger for Flinney. And he walks up and he's like Hello

And he was European He was like Swedish or something There's a borderline offensive accent there And I was like Well this is definitely not Flinny now Cute adorable Swedish accent And we start talking And he's like how are you

And I said I'm good how are you Because he's thinking well this guy really Was beckoning me to come over He's waving he's like how are you and i said i'm good how are you because he's thinking well this guy really was beckoning me to come over he's waving he's smiling and we're both like sort of staring each other in the eyes and it felt like probably three hours but it was only three seconds of silence after he asked me how i was and i said it's cold today because i'm thinking revert to weather chat yeah how do i tastefully exit this for both of us for both parties yeah because he's he's like what does this guy want and then you're like have i forgotten that i've met him yeah you know that terrible scenario so we kind of dotted around

weather chat busy he's been busy the traffic's busy and stuff. And then eventually he said, okay, then I'll be on my way. I said, well, you have a good day. We both parted ways. You do this. We did this. We were at the rural games in Palmerston North. And I'll produce a bee humps, Ben. And you were just like, it's Ferg.

And Ferg from the Queen's Town And both Ben and I were like I don't know if it's Ferg And you just bowled Okay, Ferg, hey mate And as you got there And shook his hand

You were like Oh, it's not Ferg Sean O And we were like We'll leave you to that one Do you need glasses, babes? Yeah, I do I mean, Joe Biden

Would have known That wasn't flitting. Oh, so I just had a really fun, kind of awkward conversation with a complete stranger, and he probably went on his way and went, oh, I guess that was something. Kiwis are such nice people. Lovely, lovely people. But they also get very weird and awkward if you go and talk to them. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Final week of News Hub at TV3. Three news will continue, which will be across three, as you know it, on TV, but also on stuff as well. But it's kind of sad. It's kind of a restructuring, and a lot of shows, like the AIM show in particular, are no longer going to be around, which is sad. We spoke to Paul Henry on the show yesterday, and he was saying no one should be surprised by this, was his theory.

And he wrote in his book five years ago that they should have, he wrote to the company and said you can it now before it starts costing you money. But that aside, that's the business aspect of it. There's a whole lot of humanity involved too, isn't there? Hundreds of people losing their jobs and going, geez, I've worked in this industry for 20, 30 years, not knowing what to do. A real change. You went out a lot of people at TV3, you know, with a little station, a little battler, you know, station that did amazing things for a lot of low budgets and stuff. Very inappropriate stuff went on there.

Not like bad, you know, there's just no HR department. We were naked in a lift once. Sam Hayes walked in. That's right. Poor Sam. I feel like you need to call and apologise. We should. Well, maybe we could call her this week and go,

hey, there's a lot of stuff we need to say sorry for before you close this chapter. In a good moment yesterday, one of the final episodes of the AM show, they were talking about the egg-throwing championships. We've taken part in that before, actually. On Parmi. Yeah, we're throwing egg.

I think they were having another one, not just part of the rural games as well. The National Championships. New Zealand's got a world record, I think. A world record of 94.3 metres. It's actually really hard because you can catch the egg, but to have it not break was the hardest thing because you've got to kind of have soft hands.

That was the thing we kind of struggled with. We've got the soft hands. Yeah, just try and catch it without being too aggressive. But yesterday they were playing a game of egg roulette and things, you know, it took a little bit of a turn as they all smashed eggs on the head. Do I just smash it on my forehead? Yeah, please. They're not boiled properly. And it's an honour to be here And one last The wheels have just come off that show And I love it

They have definitely checked out But mind you we should do some egg smashing after 8 o'clock Yeah it was egg roulette One of them was meant to be boiled, hard boiled, but I think the twist was none of them were, so they were just smashing eggs on their head. And loving it. This thing's ending anyway.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Well, thankfully I don't have a cat in my car boot, but I could do it. I don't know, there's so much stuff in there. I mentioned towards the end of the show yesterday that I had to get the car fixed, so I had to empty everything out. And boy, oh boy, the boot is just a travelling storage unit. In my car, anyway. Have you got a tidy? I don't have as much stuff as you. I try and clear it from time to time. Often it's clothes

to put in a clothing bin or something like that. Oh, that travel around with you for months? Yeah, and then it gives you forget about it. You're like, geez, I really need to do that. I like three or four wigs. I don't know why I've never even used the wigs. Oh, are you trying to test out wigs? Just see what works naturally. I promise I won't say anything.

No, see if I can integrate it naturally and nothing will be said. Also, I've always got like an 85% working umbrella. You know, never a fully functioning umbrella is in there. There's those Tupperware containers. It's the space that if I don't know where to put stuff in the house, I'll just chuck it in the car boot. Don't have to deal with it. Or stuff that we've had at work and you're like,

I'll bring that back in. You just leave it in your boot. It's never coming back. He's given up. Well, I handed you back your cricket box. He did. Something else. Used cricket box.

But if you opened it, you'd'd be like this guy needs some help have you got stuff clogging up your boot Megan no mostly it's just supermarket bags and a Lizzo poster because I got the Lizzo poster

and then was like I don't know if we're cancelling her so it's still in there I think you're I don't know put it back out put it back in the lounge

I'll wait till she releases like another banger and then I'll be like oh yeah Lizzo I was just actually reading your Cosby one check it out I don't know for quite a year bring out all the cancelled stars diddy Harvey Weinstein Wait until she releases another banger, and then I'll be like, oh, yeah, let's go. I was just actually reading this. Your Cosby one. I don't know if I quite knew it.

Bring out all the cancelled stars. Diddy. Harvey Weinstein. See your posters. There was a car boot sale. Because sometimes they do those overseas. Just last week, a lady bought a book for one pound. It was a James Bond book.

Turned out to be very rare. It was only a couple of thousand ever made, original. She got 10,000 pounds she sold it for. Whoa. Just out of someone else's boot. How's that? Pretty crazy. I don't think they're going to find anything that nice in Jono's boot. No.

Maybe you could. You know what I always find, too, is whenever you have, here's a warning, have you ever driven Ben around? No. He likes to eat bananas on the go. Yeah. And he always squeezes the peels. Either you find them crammed away

in the boot or like you don't know where to put it but I'll put it when I go to the but sometimes I've forgotten it's not intentional you just kind of walk out and you leave it there but yeah

otherwise what do you do with this thing I'm not going to throw it out the window so the one time I drove with producer Taylor we were consuming in her car she gave us a very stern warning that anything we eat consuming in her car and she gave us a very stern warning that anything we eat

or drink in there comes out with us yeah good in not so polite a way because in a rubbish bin as soon as you get out of the car fair enough

Ben uses your car as a compost heap yeah compostable it's all good I'll wait under the hits what is the best thing you've had in your boot

doesn't necessarily have to be in there now. See if you can beat whatever we've just been talking about. Yeah, my cricket box, a Tupperware container, the bar is very, very low. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. What is the most random thing you've had in your car boot? Yeah, I had to clear out mine and

a lot of stuff in the intermix to see if reusable shopping bags as well, of course. Every time you go to the supermarket, you're like, oh, I've forgotten them. I've got 150 of them. I have to buy another two, add to the collection. But the car says so much, when you think about it, about people's personalities. You can get a snapshot of someone's personality generally by just looking at their car. It's like an extension of them.

Isn't it? Whether they're in a shambolic period of their life or a very successful, wealthy period of their life. So what does your car say about you? Erratic, messy. Hoarder. Hoarder. But then you keep it quite tidy in the main part of it.

Yeah, it is quite, yeah. Hide all the mess in the boot. It's like hiding it all away, yeah. Yeah, you're right. But 0800, the hits, the best thing you've had in your boot. We're going to kick things off with Shannon. How are you this morning, Shannon? Good, good. Really good to have you in.

Now this wasn't your car boot, your mum's. Yes, yeah, so one time ago, she used to have this goat, don't know what the name of the goat was, but she would go in her car and go get ready to go and all of a sudden you hear, bam, the make of the boot.

The goat just climbed in by itself. Yeah, I don't know how, but apparently it did quite often. Really? Turned back around. How did it, was the boot was open at one point? I don't know. Maybe it figured out how to open up the boot. That's pretty impressive.

Do you know what was... So it should turn up to work and then suddenly she'd be here. Yeah, something like that. Then you've got to turn around and drop the goat back off home. You can't take the goat into work. People bring their dogs into work. Here it's a nightmare. Imagine a goat wandering around the office.

They eat everything. Hook you up with some Alpizza. That's a great call. We appreciate it. Thanks. All right. Now, Michael, welcome to the show. What have you had in your boot?

I can do that better than that. I've had six goats in my boot. Six goats! That's just kind of how many goats you had in your boot. I love it. I love it. We've had five or six. We could possibly get seven, yeah,

because we were shifting them from our place to next door when we were getting some trees milled. So we thought, how the hell do we move them all? So we just opened the boot and shoved them all in one at a time. And three months later, we brought them all home again. I was going to say, three months later, we opened up the boot. Oh, we forgot to take the goats out. No, the goats are fine.

The goats are all good. Do you know, this is Michael Crazy. Someone else is texting, I've had four goats in my boot. Not better than the Michaels, though. If you can beat Michael, six goats in your boot. We're finding a trend with New Zealanders, putting goats in their boots. I guess it's the way to transport them. I guess they're probably happy.

Another text here. Gates don't mind climbing in a boot. We actually took two in the back at the Pajero up to Auckland, and you should have seen the people as they were driving by. Check them in the back at the Pajero. Where do you live, Michael? Why, hey. Why'd you take two goats to Auckland?

Well, Karen was in a bagpipe band. Oh, Karen. Of course. This is my wife. So one of the people in the band wanted a couple of goats, so we just put the two of them in the back of the car, stopped at Pyro, and they climbed out and had a pee, and we stopped at Pyro, and they climbed out and had a pee,

and then we got to Manurewa and changed cars, but they had another P there as well. And then three months later, they came back again. You're very leaky, aren't you? Blow by blow. All right, we're going to hook you up with some help. We did that so good. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, Megan, you've got some audio of orcas. Yeah, this is kind of unnerving. It is actually quite amazing that orcas can do this, but they've found that they can imitate each other and other creatures, including humans. So they decided to put it to the test and they gave them words, which, I mean, they're not going to say hello,

usually in their repertoire, but they pitched them a few words and saw what they came back with. I think it sounds like they're speaking, but you can with. I think it sounds like they're speaking but you can decide. I think it sounds like they're like, you know, if you're being mocked by a bully in the schoolyard, they're mocking us. Yeah. You can decide

for yourself. Hello. Hello. Amy. Amy. One, two, three. Now, the trainer is lobbing up some low-hanging fruit for the orca. One, two, three.

It's making the noise of a whale anyway. Well, she wants to see if she copies the patterning. If it's like one, two, three. I mean, maybe if you're on some hallucinogenics, you might think the orcas are talking. The one that's like, it's like the stuff of nightmares. Are you sure that's not the train going,

you know, like, I don't know. I saw a clip the other day of a cat singing Benson Boone, and actually I'll play that for you after seven o'clock. Oh, I love that. The cat's really good. Well, the cat's meowing and the kind of tune. It's not like the cat deliberately was trying to sing Betsy Boone. Actually, I'll play it for you after 7 o'clock.

Maybe that's how we sound to whales, though. You know how they sound to us when they're like, oh, these guys are making weird noises, communicating with each other. Maybe that's how we sound to them. Yeah. That's them imitating us. You might be right. All right.

Can whales actually talk? Yes. No. They can. I don't think we've proved that Can whales actually talk? Yes. No. They can. I don't think we've proved that. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. So the last week or so has been the week of Hawk Tour, the viral clip that's gone everywhere.

Oh, you've got to give them that Hawk Tour and spit on that thing. A lady by the name of Hayley was out in Nashville with her mates and she got interviewed for what seemed like some sort of YouTube channel. She said a funny comment and it's just taken the internet by storm. Moments like this, you go, the world is a wonderful place where you can just make the sound of Hawk tour and turn into an international superstar, doesn't it? And it doesn't happen all the time.

This is a once in a lifetime.-lifetime for Hayley. Well, she said it herself. She's done her first interview with Barstool Sports. We mentioned it yesterday, and she's done like a 20-odd-minute interview with them. She said, I thought I'd never see it again, like the interview. She was just doing it on the street. She was like, I'll never see this again.

Then suddenly you cannot see it everywhere. I wonder at the moment when she woke up and went, uh-oh, this is snowballed. This is everywhere. And they did a little game with her at the end, which I thought was an interesting game. When you think about what it is, it was like, hoctua or nah? And so it was the lady who was interviewing him

was showing up some photos of some guys and she was happy to say whether she would hoctua them. Hoctua on that thing or not. Right. Which when you think about it, it's a bit weird. guys and she was had to say whether she would talk to them that thing or not right which when you think about it it's about where asked another way would be entirely if you don't mind me asking the gender of the interviewer it was the lady yeah it was absolutely fine but the first question here have a listen i have a game that i want to play with you guys it's called Huk tour or nah and you tell me if you want to hook to on that thing or no okay Donald Trump no it's enough for me so now there's a few

articles out there going upset Donald Trump fans go she's not a Donald Trump supporter but when you think about it's not saying she's not a Donald Trump supporter. She wouldn't hock to a Donald Trump. When you think about it, it's not saying she's not a Donald Trump supporter. I'm sure there are a lot of, well, I don't know, maybe they all were. I don't know. Yeah, so again, people get fired up when they don't really know the context of the full thing. Right. Give him a hock tour. She's 21, he's 78.

Hock tour the man. I know what you're thinking of that as well. But there's also business opportunities that are popping up for not just the Hawk Tour girl now, also tour operators as well. Oh, yeah. Hi, Michael Hawk. My friends call me Mike,

owner and operator of the Hawk Tour company. If you want to see the sights and sounds, join us on the Hawk Tour bus and let our experienced Hawk Tour guides take you on a of our beautiful city take

part in a traditional shoe polishing ceremony where you can and give it a good old-fashioned polishing our friendly tour guides will then have you working as a waiter in a restaurant with rude customers where you can then take their meal out back and spit on that thing as revenge. We will then take you to see the statue of the controversial racist colonial explorer where you can spit on that thing. And if you think that the hock toon sucks, we offer the hock toon apology cake featuring candles you can blow out so you can spit on that thing and enjoy the cake. Visit us at.co.nz.

So opportunities all around. There is a lot of opportunities around. Pick it up on the 15 minutes of fame, that's for sure. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. School holidays, of course, are kicking in from the weekend. If you've forgotten about that as a parent, you might need some juggling to do over the next couple of weeks. Jeez, they come along real quick, don't they?

Yeah, they do. They really roll around. It feels like the kids are always having holidays. Yeah. But to them, a school term feels like about 10 years. Remember when you were at school? It takes so long. Eight weeks. I know. Even the school holidays felt like at school? It takes so long. Eight weeks.

I know. Even the school holidays felt like forever. You're like, yeah, two weeks. What would you rather? The pace or the pace internally of when you were a child of how a year felt or now when it feels like a blip in time? Maybe the child. When I'd like a year to take forever, thank you,

then I don't feel like I'm aging so fast. Then it's nice to go, oh, another weekend. It feels like it's, you know, like the week. But there's a nice middle ground. You can still enjoy the slow pace of a year, but you do want a little bit of like. Can Monday to Friday go real fast and Saturdays and Sundays go really slow? That's nice.

I like that. Now, my mum just came back. She was in Australia visiting her sisters. I was talking to her, and she said something happened on the plane. And she was a little put off by this. And I want to know, you guys, John and Megan, what your thoughts were. She was sitting in the economy class of the plane, and she went up to go to the bathroom,

and she noticed there was quite a big queue in the economy section. And she was sitting near the sort of premium economy economy first class you know business class area a better class of but she wasn't in that but she noticed that at the toilet closest to her not her toilet was there was no queue she was like oh i'll just whip up there and go and as she walked up there the lady who was you know one of the stewards went oh i'm sorry you can't use this bathroom this is for the people that have paid for it. And poor Jenny. And mum was a little, oh, oh, a little put off. And then she tried to tell me this.

And I went, oh, yeah, I could get her a little put off. But at the same time, she's got a point. You're too poor for that point. Are you sticking up in the air like that? Well, I'm not saying. I can see where the ladies sit. You know, they can't let all the riffraff money up there. We can't have the droppings of peasants in here.

Yeah. And my mum was kind of like, oh, I'm a 70-something. You're old lady. You know, like to me. and all the riffraff buddy up there we can't have the droppings of peasants in here yeah and my mum was kind of like oh I'm a 70 something eight year old late you know like to me and they're like

that's fine but you didn't play for premium yeah well I was thinking of an interesting point though eh I mean sometimes

you could lapse it I guess if you want but at the same time I was like mum you didn't pay for that so did you take these down to the

airline for well I didn't go hardcore on my mum or anything like that, but I just kind of went, no, yeah, I kind of I can see where the lady was coming from. It's her job to kind of, to do that. But also GAF, really? Yeah, well, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I don't care, mate. Wait, so did she let her do it? No, no, no, she didn't. No, she got back up to Yeah. So I was like, what would you do? I mean, it's hard in that situation. I'd probably just go, oh, you're fine. Just quit. I'd say, you're not meant to, but just, yeah. It's very triggering for me that you're mentioning an airplane toilet.

I remember, geez, it was only about six months ago, I used an airplane toilet. And for whatever reason, I've never seen this before, on the airline toilet, where the circular window was located, you know, down the sides of the plane, was directly beside the toilet. So I'm standing up, and this is before we've even taken off, and using the lavatory, then one of those bloody scissor lift things

with people in hives. Oh, I have to go outside. Yeah, they come zoom in past with the VMFs on. It's like a frame, picture frame. I was like, can they see him? That's a good point. I spent the next couple of hours on the plane going, what just happened there?

In fact, I went home and called 487. Are you working on the tarmac of an airport? Can you see in the plane? Yeah. Through those windows? Yeah, because you can wave out at people. You can absolutely see them. I know, but hopefully they were just concentrating on something else the engine you're just hoping that that particular

window is frosted or something and you know how it's so slow it's like simpsons like pace