Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We go chaotic with the Mariah game!

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Megan and Ben scrolls their Tik Toks... Will they hear Mariah? Ben's grandma is ruthless at a funeral! Megan can't do stuff by herself... A heartfelt compliment Our Wicked review-ish Dear Megan, I think my friend's getting catfished! Chris Parker on his new show 'Camping' Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John O'Bien podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. Welcome to the podcast on a Tuesday morning. Real fun show today, Megan. We each take huge risks with our Mariah Carey game, don't we? Scrolling on TikTok for a minute, which is social media is the one that seems to be getting people out the most. So we took a risk and we both scrolled on TikTok for a minute. What does your algorithm say about you? I had lots of swearing in my head like full-on swearing which is weird they definitely pushed a lot of commercials my way i feel like i'm a sucker for commercials are you probably one of those people that i used to maybe because i used to write ads i probably watch commercial i'm like

oh what's this what's this ad and i'll kind of watch it so So most people are like, ugh, move on. Scroll through. So yeah, so we get to take a high risk, not much reward for this today, but are we still in the... Are we both still in? We'll find out today on the podcast as well as our not review of Wicked, the movie. We're not allowed to do that.

We saw it, but we're not allowed to say anything. Otherwise we'll be locked up in the land of Oz with some flying monkeys or something like that. So we don't say too much about it, but we want to say lots about it. But we can't.

But that's all on the podcast today. And now Christmas. You were saying before, what? It's not Mariah. Oh, jeez. Or is it Mariah? It's me. Oh, it's me out of the game.

Is it Mariah or is it me? No, it's definitely me. Now, we're playing the Mariah Carey game with just over 30 sleeps till Christmas. You can play right now. You can start, even if you haven't started all right. That's fine. You can join in. Basically, as soon as you hear Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas on social media,

in a store, wherever you are, you're out of the game. So hopefully you can avoid it for as long as possible. Yeah. We're not trying to be Grinchers. We also love the song. It's just the most iconic Christmas song that we thought would be the hardest to avoid and Christmas uh the Farmers Santa Parade this weekend too it feels like Sunday if you and I are still in the game but that's the day it's going to be over have we

got clarification on what our float song is no it better not be like the hits float plays one song the whole parade and it's always a Christmas song but we don't know what song it is. Because if people are playing our game and we're going along with hundreds of thousands of people, they're all out. We're just getting everyone out as we go along the parade. They're kind of mean from us. Great, great. So today, because the two of us are in still, before the show,

we each came into the studio by ourself with producer Ali, because she's out of the game to go one minute through social media just scrolling to find out if we get to Mariah Carey now you're going to play back your one minute now if you if we do hear Mariah Carey what happens if Mariah Carey plays in this one minute scrolling it has been beeped out okay so only I will be out and you will be safe if you're listening okay so yeah so I don't even know how it went. This is you, Megan, with Producer Ali before the show. One minute on TikTok scrolling through to see if you – it's high risk.

High risk. You could be out of the game after this. So Ben has left the studio. I've got Producer Ali in here as well. Adjudicated to make sure I don't cheat. Yes. On TikTok, starting the scroll now. Great.

Someone doing a dance. A weird dance. This is what I mean by boys night in. Okay. Yep. We're fine. One for cover, mother. That was Miss Elliot.

He said, honestly, you really need to just watch how many sweatshirts you're having. Okay. so this guy talks about sweet treats. The sweet treats that he's having every day. Anthony Volgaris. Can I just put a shout out to Anthony Volgaris? All right, time is ticking. Move on, move on. Yep. Camp rock, yeah.

Someone doing a camp rock dance okay yep we're fine I remember being so relieved three seconds how long have we got three seconds

one more okay it's 9pm it's quite confronting when you go through your algorithm isn't it well done

you're still in the game safe no Mariah Carey all I want for Christmas popping up. No Christmas on your algorithm. Although three swear words apparently we had to edit out. That's what producer Ellie's telling me.

Three swear words. Very full on swear words. I don't know why that's about my algorithm. But no Christmas at all. No. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. A song that we're not playing at the moment, along with Chapel Row, anyway,

is Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas because this is my version. I don't want a lot for Christmas. And unfortunately, that's all you're going to hear at the moment because we're playing a game, as we mentioned before. Oh, God, it's so bad. It's so bad. I love it.

It's so bad. I'm terrible. But we try to play a game where we sing how long we can go without hearing Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas. As I said before, social media, shops, stores, gyms, if you hear it anywhere, you're out of the game and you can join along. You can play. Yeah.

And Christmas parades are starting. We've got the Farmer's Santa Parade. We are on a float this weekend, Ben. Like, I feel like we're definitely going to hear it. Yeah. If you and I are not out by the weekend, it feels like we're definitely going to hear us. Yeah. If you and I are not out by the weekend, it feels like Sunday we're going to be out. But earlier in the show, we did something pretty risky. Before the show, we each spent a minute by ourselves with producer Ali in the studio

scrolling through social media on TikTok. Now, that's where most people have kind of fallen victim in the game. Now, heads up, mine, I went for a minute and i haven't heard it i'm not out of the game so i managed to scroll through tiktok for a minute and not hear it i i had to do the same thing after you now we're not if i do hear mariah carey in this one minute we're gonna beep it out so you don't hear it you won't be out of the game but here is me scrolling through social media for a minute okay i'm I'm nervous. One minute, TikTok. Time starts now.

Here we go. TikTok. Okay, she's spraying perfume in the air. That's not Mariah Carey. Oh, that's us. Talking to Jason Benoit. Okay, can I watch that? No, keep going.

I'm all about 80-20, so I love having a sweet treat at night. If you haven't tried Cadbury, you're in for a treat. Okay, keep moving on. Chris Martin, I'm getting a lot of cold play in my feet of course a lot of cold play here we go yeah good eh just making my way into the bar let's move on from that oh that's my daughter Sienna

talking to older podcasts okay if you're struggling with laundry day here are three reasons why you should switch so far I'm enjoying the ads Stan Walker doing a singing challenge. Suspect has no neck. There's a lot of suspect things as well. Okay, yeah, classics.

William Wairoa. Oh, yeah. Okay, carry on. Noel Leeming ad. Oh, it's like you wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a, yeah. Hey, good on them. They've got their own music.

Kendall's not here because she's just got the flu. How am I going? I've done it. I've done it. Oh, my goodness. He's done it. Yeah. What a weird algorithm.

But anyway, I've done it. I got one ad. I got three in a minute. Yeah. Purcell, Cadbury, and Noel Emig all in the – I don't get three ads in one minute. Yeah, that seems like a lot. It was a wild ride, too, a TikTok. You're just like – anyway. So I didn't – we three ads in one minute. Yeah, that seems like a lot. It was a wild ride too, a TikTok.

Because you're just like, anyway. So I didn't, we're still in the game. No Christmas content for you whatsoever. No, it hasn't been fed in my algorithm right now. So yeah, so if you're still in the game, we'd love to hear from you. 4487 or 0800 the hits. Are you still in or you're still out?

And when everyone is out of the game, then we can start playing Mariah Carey's All I Want for christmas and there's no i don't want otherwise we have to deal with this i know and no one was just one thing i kind of like it and i don't care about the backing singers that we've got on that track they are no one's working harder than them this year the hits the jonah and ben podcast another story i was reading uh It feels like an only in America situation A guy on a bike got hit by an ambulance Oh God And then they had to take him to hospital

In the ambulance that hit him And then he got charged for the ambulance ride But no, we get charged for ambulance rides in New Zealand I know, but the ambulance was the one that hit him Oh yeah Put him in the ambulance I feel like you could wave this Actually, on this occasion it was our fault That know, but the ambulance was the one that had him put him in the ambulance. I feel like you could wave this. On this occasion, it was our fault that you were

in the ambulance. I get it, then normally you have to pay for it, but on this occasion. Was there someone else in the ambulance? Did he have to cuddle up on the gurney? No, no one else. Maybe that's what they're going around looking for work. They're like, slow day, I can hit this guy and then, yeah, so he's all right now apart from the fact that he's got to pay a large bill

from an ambulance. He was fine before the ambulance came along. Now, we're doing the Mariah Carey Christmas game. It's a really, really fun game to play, and it's amazing how many people are playing along with us. Yeah, it's fun. Basically, Mariah Carey's iconic song, All I Want for Christmas is You. You've got to try and avoid it. That means you're still in the game.

As soon as you hear it, you're out. Now, it has to be Mariah's recorded version, but it's playing on TikTok. It's playing in supermarkets. It's hard to avoid. This is Mariah's time of year, right? She's thawed. She pops out.

She's making her money. And you don't know where to expect it. Every time I go to a shop or a mall, I'm like, this is it. There's nothing you can do about it. We were in an Uber the other day in Christchurch, weren't we? And I was like, oh, it's going to happen. It's going to happen, and we're going to be both out. We were on a very, a station that would play Mariah Carey.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But fortunately, we're both in the game or am I? I don't want a lot for Christmas. That's my version. All right. Shall we go to the phones and find out if people are still in or still out?

All right. Good morning, Jackie. Are you still in the game? I'm still in. Still in the game. Living and breathing. Have you had any places you've been to you thought, well, maybe this could be it? Just trying to avoid the mall.

It's amazing how much money you save when you don't go to the mall. But I always think you could just go there and put headphones on. And do you look obnoxious if you're walking through a mall with headphones on? Listening to your own music? Yeah, I guess little earbuds are probably fine. Big sort of like earmuffs that you'd use for lawn mowing. Maybe they're a little bit weird. But you could do it each to their own.

Yeah, listen to your own music. Let us know when you're out, but hopefully you'll last longer than us. Thanks, Jackie. All right, good luck, Jackie. And Kylie, are you still in the game? Yes, I'm very much still in the game. Have you had a hairy moment where you've been somewhere and you're like,

well, yeah, I don't frequent the malls, and if I had to go in there, I would be moving pretty quickly. And then as far as the supermarket I'm a bit cautious about the supermarket but it's mainly around social media so you know I looked at Instagram and things like that and heard that a lot of people

had dropped out via Insta so I just literally look at friend stories and don't scroll yeah yeah and sound off is a good thing you know like although john i clicked on one now he watched and he was like this will be fine clicked on one it had mariah bam out of nowhere but it tells you down the bottom of a lot of these things what soundtrack is playing it does you're on you and check what the soundtrack is oh good luck could be good it could be giving people like a bit of space a bit of time off social media. Yeah, true, actually, mate. You're right.

Or you're just listening to it on mute. Well, let us know when you're out, okay? Yeah, totally. Thanks, Charlie. A text comes through. I'm out of the game because apparently, and apparently, you know, in inverted commas, because it was playing in the shop that I was in with my daughter. I never heard it, but she told me I'm out. I feel like you could stay in the game there potentially if you didn't hear it.

Wait, so it's playing, but you didn't like recognize. Yeah, like your daughter's like, oh, you're out afterwards. No, you're out. I played while you were there just because you didn't notice. That's like scrolling through TikTok and you're like, I didn't notice it. It didn't happen. Oh, okay. Well, Megan's saying you're out.

I'm saying you're still on, but anyway. Technically, it went in your ear holes. But you didn't even know I was there. Oh, I don't know. It's like if Andrew played it to you in your sleep, would you saying you're out. I'm saying you're still on. But anyway. Technically, it went in your ear holes. But you didn't know. Oh, I don't know. It's like if Andrew played it to you in your sleep, would you be up? Oh. Would you be up? I don't know.

And you woke up the next morning and was like, guess what I played? No, because I was asleep. I didn't hear it. Oh, so that's okay for you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Sometimes obituary, well, most of the time obituaries kind of read like, loved mum and sister to blah, blah, blah. And it's pretty stale, right?

Yeah. It's not saying they weren't a loved mum or anything like that. No, but they all kind of read the same. Loved and devoted, loving and devoted, yeah, blah, blah, blah. But two guys in Australia took it upon themselves to write something different for their mum. Sadly, Jenny Kelly, she passed away on the 28th of October and they wrote into their local newspaper. This has since gone viral.

Our wild and wayward mother died on the 28th of October. She refused to say past. We spend most of our lives compensating for our upbringing, said Jenny. She believed that exposing youth to religion was a form of child abuse. It was impossible to watch the news in her presence due to her vocal outrage at the way the country is run. She held John Howard in particular contempt. Sounds like a classic boomer to me, eh? Yeah. Mum grew dope, never wanted to leave a party,

and gave up champagne or gin frequently, but never simultaneously. Sounds like my kind of girl. Her rare attempts at responsible parenting or grandparenting were always touching. She said Sean was a much better driver than Chris. News on what's next to follow, bring a shovel. That's how they ended it. That's cool, actually.

That is really cool. I know more about Jenny from reading that than I do about most. It kind of shows their personality. I remember actually my grandma, who was a really funny lady, she remember actually my grandma, who was, you know, like a really funny lady, she was, it was my granddad's funeral and I was standing next to her and she even found like a laugh in this horrible day, you know, and someone came over

and was like, oh, Leonard was wonderful. He was so down to earth. And this is just after we buried him and she was like, well, he's literally down to earth now. I was like, oh my God, did you just make a joke? At your husband's funeral but yeah lord the hits the jonah and ben podcast i know this is gonna seem stupid to some people i know but i don't do a lot of things by myself especially after i've had kids so i'm usually

always with my kids i'm here with you guys there's not a lot of time for me to do things by myself these days. But I've never really been a hugely solo person. Yeah. And I also wear makeup every single day. So when we were in Christchurch, I was – That's on us. We're always like, fix yourself up a little. Jono's always saying it, right? There's just cameras everywhere in this bloody job.

Now you think you'd be safe in radio, but not anymore. That's the thing. When you first start doing radio, everyone's like, oh, you can turn up to work in your pajamas, your track pants. Not that we ever do. But it's like cameras film you the whole time. Yeah. Photos you take with guests and stuff.

You're like, oh God, you look terrible. Yeah. So it was about eight o'clock at night and I was like, do you know what? I was ready for bed. I was in my pajamas all ready to go to sleep. I'm going to go back to, we'll go back to our rooms. You're like, I'm going to have an early night. I'm away from the family.

I'm going to have a, it'd been a big week. You've been at Coldplay. You're like going to have an early night. Yeah. And then I realized we were staying really close to a really famous gelato place in Christchurch, which you'll know if you live in Christchurch, Rollick and Gelato. So I was like, I really want one, but I'm not going to go and put a whole face of makeup on.

To get a sweet treat. And do you know, I've never gone and got an ice cream or like a treat even by myself. It's always been like a social thing. Yeah. So I was like, oh, I got in my head about it. I was like, I can't go and get an ice cream by myself. Because we've talked about this before. Like I do like to go now and again, I go to a cafe, do some work by myself on the laptop.

I find like I can get quite focused and do that there uh don't know when i'm how long i'm allowed to stay in there all those sort of things before i'm like you should really buy another hot drink but you're like i have never really done that i did that once recently and i loved it so i was like oh come on you can do this girlfriend and then i went down the stairs plucked up the courage went to the door of the hotel and as I went to go out uh people walked past and I snuck back into the hotel and sat back down on the couch and was like had to pluck up the courage because I was walking outside with no makeup on by myself to go and get an ice cream and it just like got the anxiety got on top of me well yeah and it's good you you went through with that which is awesome awesome. Are you worried more about like running into someone to talk to someone

or just like, right, is that kind of? I was worried that I was going to run into people to talk to them. And then I was worried that when I got to the gelato shop, there was going to be a heap of people there. But neither happened. I got my ice cream and it did feel, to me, it felt a bit weird eating an ice cream by myself because it feels like a social event, but I did it.

You're fat shaming yourself, are you? There's going to be people that are like, cool, man. No, but we wanted to know this morning. It was awesome that you did that. I saw you put that on social media, and it was a big thing for you to kind of get out there and do it. And a lot of women see the same thing. After you've had children and stuff, you don't spend a lot of time alone,

so sometimes doing things by yourself can be a little bit overwhelming. Yeah. So we wanted to know this morning, like me, what's something that you do by yourself or have done by yourself? Like people that travel by themselves and see the world. That's impressive. People go to the movies by themselves. Concerts. Bryn, who works on The Night Show, went to Coldplay by herself the other day.

Yeah. Which is an incredible thing to do you know what are you doing by yourself that usually people would probably do in a group or with other people I'd love to hear from you this morning

the hits the Jono and Ben podcast yeah fresh off the back of Megan heading out alone you know they do those shows on TV don't they well alone

where they're away for like two weeks in the wilderness by themselves with nothing. Oh yeah and then I went to get ice cream by myself. Now that I'm talking about it on the radio I feel ridiculous but in the moment I was

quite anxious about going out by myself. I get it. And good on you for doing it. I was actually really proud that you did it. It was cool because I know that you don't do those things that often. So it was really cool that you did it. And we wanted to know 0800 4487 what are the things that you can do or do a lot? What can you do by yourself?

That sounds passionizing. It wasn't meant to be. I did a little bit, but I'm with you. I'm with you. Cara, good morning. How are you this morning? Good morning. Yeah, good, thanks.

Now, what do you do by yourself? Pretty much everything. So you think I sound ridiculous, don't I? Say it. You can say it. I'm single. I'm in my 50s. I live by myself.

I've just come back from a trip to Iceland all by myself. Yeah, I quite often go to the movies by myself. I'll go to restaurants by myself. Yeah, I quite often go to the movies by myself. I'll go to restaurants by myself. I just, I mean, life's too short to sit around and wait for someone to go with. And I know you're right. I 100% know you're right. It's just, it's hard for me.

I've always had someone holding my hand, Cara. What's with traveling? Because I've done it a couple of times for work by myself and I actually find that you talk to a lot more people. It really pushes you out. You go up and talk to people. You kind of make friends and things like that. You chat.

Do you find it's like that when you travel? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Iceland was interesting because I had a camper, and I was sort of by myself in campgrounds, but you'd sort of say hi to the people next door and have a chat to them. It was interesting. I don't feel like I met a lot of Icelandic people. I spoke to a lot of other tourists.

You're right. Yeah. I just get bored with my own company, I think. You're obviously very just comfortable in your own company. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm probably a bit of an introvert. So, yeah, you know, if I end up in social situations for too long, I need to go home and decompress.

Fair enough. Well, you know what you like. You're my hero. Well, thank you very much for sharing that with us. We appreciate it. You're most welcome. Someone went to Coldplay on the text. I go there and do stuff.

Thank you. Someone doing exactly just that, Coldplay Saturday night in my late 60s by myself. Leslie, good on you. Leslie, that's awesome. Jennifer, what are you doing by yourself? Okay, just like the previous person, I just do anything by myself. If there's nobody else around that's able to come and do it or not interested to do it. So, yeah, I went to Coldplay by myself.

Went to Teddy Swims by myself. My first time I really did anything by myself, I was 50, and it was kind of like my OE. And I backpacked around Australia for about five months by myself. I'm so impressed. Anything I want to do, if there's nobody else to come along, it just doesn't stop me. That's good, you know, because sometimes even, you know,

find that in relationships or friends, not everyone is into the same thing. So sometimes you end up dragging someone along to something that they don't really want to be at anyway. No, that's my life. I drag everyone everywhere. So you're like, just do it by yourself and you can have fun by yourself. Yep, exactly. I know that you do tend to end up um talking to other people whereas if you went

with somebody you might stick with your conversation with the people you've gone with but i've met um amazing people on the trips and we're not going to a country where it's not the language that i know i will join a tour and i've met amazing people that I'm still friendly with, still in touch with. So that's one of the advantages when you just go off and do it by yourself. Thanks, Jennifer. Do you know what? As she was saying that, though,

like I literally have anxiety about talking to people I don't know. I'm like, oh, no, it's not for me. Maybe that was a small step going up with Gelato. Yeah, by myself. Yeah, by yourself. I want to know what you've done alone. There's some great texts and calls coming through. Some people are doing like full-on

travel by themselves alone, which just fills me with dread. Oh, but it's awesome. Someone that travels to North and South America, someone who went to Crowded House by themselves, none of the mates wanted to go, and the husband busy working. So I went and got ice cream by myself,

which I've never done before. That sounds stupid, I know, to all of these people. But when I'm doing something fun, I like to experience it with someone. So even going to Wicked last night, my husband couldn't come, but he loves musicals. So I was like, I wish I could have experienced it with him to So even going to Wicked last night, my husband couldn't come, but he loves musicals. So I was like, I wish I could have experienced it with

him to see his face. But then if I guess if he was like, I don't want to go, and then that shouldn't stop you from wanting to go. That's true. And that's what I guess these amazing people are doing. They're just going out and doing these things. Yeah. Sam, good morning. What are you doing by yourself?

I travelled around Europe and lived in England. I moved to England when I was 21 for a couple of years. But then I'm also on the other side where I get where you're coming from. And I would not go to the movies by myself because I think that would just be like totally shame, like self-conscious going by myself. And that filled me with fear. But I moved across the world and didn't know anyone. And so I just made friends like that.

Well, so movies is the time that I guess in some ways you don't talk to anyone. I know. It does seem like the most antisocial thing. But you're right. I've never done a movie by myself for all of those reasons. Like, I don't know. That fills me with fear of like people, people knowing me, even in like, not even in my town, like just in New Zealand. Yeah. But then I'd do anything overseas. Like I had my 22nd birthday in Rome. Oh my God. Amazing. Well, it was great. You're still

more adventurous than I am, Sam. Thanks for your call. Tegan, what are you doing by yourself? Morning, Tegan. Oh, yes, sorry, hi. What are you doing by yourself? On my own. I have travelled to 62 countries, most of them on my own. And so everything that I've done while I've been travelling, so countless, you know, wars and adventures

and gone to Michelin star restaurants, gone to movies, gone to shows, all on my own. And now I'm currently parenting a two-year-old on my own. Yeah. Wow, so 62 countries by yourself. Yeah. Wow. So what, like, times where you felt like you wanted someone with you

or, like, was just the experience by yourself just incredible? Yeah, not really. I mean, like, if you tell yourself, like, oh, this would be so much nicer with someone, then you'll feel that way. Whereas if you look at what you're, you know, you're looking at and enjoy what you're enjoying and appreciate it for what it is, it's actually sometimes better when you're on your own because you can really be present in the moment and enjoy what it is that's in front of you as opposed to have to be thinking about someone else and engaging in conversation and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, I actually really, really love solo travel. And then I can take videos and stuff and put it on social media or anywhere and everyone

can see what I'm doing and be jealous, right? Exactly. Or am I missing the point? Well, it's a good point. You can do that as well. Shaz, what are you doing on your own? I do most things on my own just from my job. I'm always with people, talking with people and all that.

And I just, after the work day's over, I just want to be on my own and just do nothing. Don't talk. Just be in my own space. over, I just want to be on my own and just do nothing. Don't talk. Just be in my own space. Yeah, I get that. Well, some people like that. And it's nice to have a balance. I think a lot of people do like their alone time as well. Yeah, yeah.

No, it's amazing. I can go anywhere by myself. It doesn't worry me whether I'm with someone or by myself. I don't know what this says about me. Maybe we should put you on a contiki or something, Megan. That fills me with dread because I know that I have to talk to people. But I imagine it's the first day or so, a couple of days. I say to the kids if they're anxious about school camp or something like that,

you're like the first day and then after that you get through the first night and normally you're sweet. Yeah. Normally. Normally it's all good. Well, I mean, yeah, most of these people should have inspired me to do something by myself, but I can tell you it's not going to happen. Let's do something.

Let's organise something. Let's organise something for you. What's something to look out for over the next couple of weeks? The movies, I guess, could be a good stepping stone. Yeah. You go to the movies, you go see Wicked again. You want to see it again. I do want to see it again, yes.

You can have the night out. While we organise that, Megan can have the night out. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I've been kind of umming and ahhing whether I should talk about see it again, yes. You can have the night out. While we organise that, Megan can have the night out. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I've been kind of umming and ahhing whether I should talk about this or not because I don't want to say something that looks like I'm, I guess, bragging in a way because this is not the intention of what the conversation is. It's a humble brag. Well, I'm not trying to humble brag.

I just thought it was kind of like a story, something that happened to me in the weekend that's kind of really affected me, I guess, since I had this conversation yeah so i went to the supermarket over the weekend to my weekly shop uh as i normally do so me me by myself and i kind of had a moment where i stopped because someone was hanging around the alcohol section you know when you think something's got about to go down you're like someone's acting a bit strangely around the alcohol section looks like maybe they've had a few drinks something something's going on. They had casts of wine. I'm like, are they going to be stealing this?

What's going to happen? I was kind of just stopped from afar just going, is there a situation about to unfold? Yeah. And as I was doing this, this lady sort of came up to me and she was like, oh, hi, you're from Jono and Ben. And I was like, yeah. And she was like, hey, I just wanted to say to you.

And I was like, oh, here we go. You know, normally this is like, oh, not going to be a good conversation yeah she was like I just want to say how much your TV show meant in my life and this doesn't normally happen like you've been with me lots it's not like this happens on a day-to-day so hi John I'm Ben yeah normally people don't know which one I am which one is not and I was like oh wow thank you uh And she was like, a few years ago, she said my daughter got diagnosed with cancer. And she was in her 30s. And it was a pretty tough time. And she said that we would have a full-on conversation about medical stuff and all that stuff.

And then we'd look for some relief. And we'd Google you guys. We'd go onto YouTube and we'd watch your skits. And that would give us some sort of laugh. And was like i was kind of like i didn't know what to say i was just like oh my god this is just yeah it was quite quite really took me back and i was like oh my god that's that's amazing thank you so much and she's like yeah it just it gave us you know some light relief gave us some laughs a bit of an escape and i just thought that she was like if i ever saw one of you in real life I would come

up to you and tell you that because I wanted to tell you that and you'd have no idea that this meant something to you and um and I was like um thank you for sharing that with me and I was kind of a bit stunned I didn't really know what to say because I'm not used to compliments like that and then I was like I hope your daughter's all right and she's like well sadly she passed away oh god no and I was like oh my god that's but she was like just wanted to say thank you and i was like i was just like i didn't know what what to say i kind of afterwards i was like did i come across a bit strange in that situation afterwards you're like i could have said this yeah i could have said that and at the same time i'm looking behind her shoulder and i'm like this dude's definitely going to be putting a cast of wine up his top

to steal in the supermarket there's something definitely kicking off over there as well. But I just thought it was kind of a cool thing that, especially it was a really cool thing that sat with me and means so much to me. But also at the same time, it's a really cool thing to share something with someone, you know, like, because sometimes you don't say things to people

and you think, oh, like for her, I hope that was really, was nice for her to do that because it meant so much to me. And sometimes you need to say these things because later you're like, oh, I should have said that to that person in day-to-day life. I thought it was a good lesson to learn that sometimes you don't show appreciation for people or tell them how much they mean to you just because you think, oh, I'll get round to that.

And you never do. And then sometimes they're not there anymore. And it was really good. Did it humanise all the stupid stuff you've done in your career? At least you've made people laugh. Yeah, well, that's right. I mean, as I say, it doesn't normally happen. And there's a lot of stuff you're like,

jeez, I'll take those bad skits back in a second. But the silly things we did had some meaning behind it. First time ever. So I was like, oh, that was lovely. So I really appreciate it. I didn't even get the lady's name or anything like that. But it meant some meaning behind it. Yeah. First time ever. So I was like, oh, that was lovely. So I really appreciate it. I didn't even get the lady's name or anything like that, but it meant so much to me.

So thank you very much for sharing that with me. Thank you for sharing. That's really sweet. But I don't really want to feel like that was a brag or anything like that. I just thought it was

a really good lesson. If you go about today and you feel like you have an opportunity to say something to someone that you always thought of, then maybe you could say it today. Definitely.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's a brand new Wicked movie in cinemas. Well, it's called Wicked. that you always thought of, then maybe you can say it today. Definitely. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. There's a brand new Wicked movie in cinemas. Well, it's called Wicked. It's in cinemas this Thursday. We've got a prize, an amazing prize that you could be winning to the Gold Coast after eight o'clock this morning.

It's basically the story of the Wizard of Oz before Dorothy arrives, right? Yeah, the story of the Wicked Witch of the West and how she became wicked yeah essentially uh it's like a classic musical one of the most famous musicals i was lucky enough to take my daughter to it when we went to new york uh just the two of us because cna she loves musical theater so we saw wicked on broadway we saw yeah and it was awesome guy next to us slept the whole time which was so weird i was like man this is incredible we paid a lot for these seats at the

back yeah and we couldn't take the whole family, just two of us, and this guy next to us. He had a great sleep, but slept the whole time. So, yeah. That's wild. I know. And he would have paid so much money for those seats. Woke up, clapped, and then went back to sleep.

I'm like, man, what are you doing? Weird. But, yeah, so I don't know how much we're allowed to say about the new movie because it's out on Thursday and it's under strict embargo and rules and stuff. Even reviews. So us reviewing the movie is under strict embargo. Yeah.

So we're like, Can I say it was everything I hoped it would be? Yeah, I can. I loved it. I loved it. I'm going to say I loved it. And that's,

and that's not a review. That's just me just saying I loved it. It was great. You know, so that's what we'll say. Yeah. But I was looking into the original. Now the original Wizard of Oz made so many years ago ago was judy garland yeah just the iconic movie

was a nightmare now here's some of the things that happened on the set uh firstly the the snow there's some scenes where snow starts falling it's quite beautiful asbestos that was made out of asbestos um so these are some of the things yeah yeah. Multiple people caught fire while filming. Oh my God. The Wicked Witch, when there was fire going out, she was meant to escape through a trap door. That didn't quite open for her. It took six weeks for her to recover.

And then her stunt double also caught fire as well. The original Tin Man was poisoned by his makeup. It had like aluminium in it. Like lead in it? Yeah. Oh my gosh. And so he went to hospital and then the movie company were like, mate, you need to come back.

He's like, I'm too sick. So they replaced him. They got another Tin Man. Not halfway through the movie. I don't know. I don't know if that's in there. I need to go back and watch that. Literally, I've been poisoned.

And they're like, no, we can't wait for you. Oh my God. Judy Garland. She was only like 15, I've been poisoned. And they're like, no, we can't wait for you. Oh, my God. Judy Garland, she was only like 15, 16 at the time. Now, to give her a bit more pep in her step, they kept giving her pep pills. So basically, it was like to keep her rolling, to keep her upbeat. So I don't know what exactly these pep pills were.

I think I remember. Isn't that where her drug addiction came from? I think so, because later, unfortunately, she had some problems as well and the director at one stage because Judy Garland who was Dorothy she was laughing, she was giggling she couldn't complete the scene. He just walked up to her

and slapped her on set. Okay so when you think that HR is going crazy at your workplace and it's PC gone mad, there's a reason. Yeah exactly. Wizard of Oz was a nightmare. You've got asbestos, you've got people catching fire,

lead poisoning as well, drug abuse and slapping of a young kid as well. So thank you. I'll never watch that the same again. My theory is now after watching that, and I'm going to say it again, it was incredible. Now, obviously it's part one of part two.

That's well publicized of this new Wicked movie. Of the Wicked movie, yep. Yeah. I reckon they'll redo the original at the end as like a trilogy. I was going to say it here first. And have Jeff Goldblum as the wizard. Yeah, have Ariana as the character, as Glinda and stuff. But who's going to play Dorothy?

Well, I don't know. Who's going to get slapped by the director? Who knows? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Dear Megan. Now, someone has slid into your DMs. It's been a while since the last time that we've had someone slide into your DMs with a bit of a conundrum.

If you have one, feel free to let us know and we can help solve it. We do need your guidance. If you have anything you want to tell this person that's written in, feel free to give us a call or a text, 4487. This one reads, Dear Megan, Jono and Ben. I feel like they say Jono and Ben, but I feel like really it's Dear Megan. Well, you guys felt like an afterthought in that. Dear Megan, or Jono and Ben.

Yeah, yeah. And I get it. You're a lot better with these things, and you listening right now are a lot better than me. So, yeah, carry on. I'm in a bit of a pickle and need some guidance. My best friend recently met someone online and they've been completely smitten ever since. Great.

That's great. Yeah, that's great. But I feel like there's more to this. The only problem, I'm pretty sure this guy is a catfish. There's a few red flags. The person always has an excuse for not meeting in real life. And their photos look a bit too good to be true. My friend is head over heels.

I don't want to crush her happiness, but I also don't want her to get hurt. Should I say something or do I let this play out? I don't want to look like the jealous friend, but I'm genuinely worried. So are you thinking they haven't met? It kind of sounds like they haven't met. Like the actual person who's in

the relationship potentially so the person always has an excuse for not meeting in real life and how how long is that being though like a month or so you could forgive right yeah and i can understand the friend not meeting that then you but but the actual person who's smitten it does it's putting some red flags up for me but but then do you bring it up or not? Because at the same time, you're like, well, if they're happy, they're good.

It's great, but then... You just want your friend to be happy, and in this moment, she is. But. But. But. I tend to think, unless she's giving away money,

Yeah, that's a good point. like, what could it hurt, you know? Let her maybe find out. I don't know. Is that mean? Because there's someone listening right now, have they been catfished before? Because I imagine afterwards,

it's probably like getting scammed, you know? Like, you feel probably a bit of embarrassment. And it can happen to anyone. But you probably do feel a little bit embarrassed by it. But also in that moment, does the friend want to hear that he's a catfish? Probably not. Is she going to believe her friend?

Yeah. Or is it going to end in an argument? Yeah, like, do you drop in a hint, like, oh, do you think it's weird that you haven't met? And then she's like, no, you're like, oh, neither do I. No, no, cool, yeah. Definitely, I definitely think it's a little weird you haven't met. But anyway, yeah, okay.

Oh, 100 of the hits, 4, 4, 8, 7. What are we trying to help this person out with here? Yeah. Do we, does she let it play out? Or does she tell the friend what she thinks to try and protect her? She might be wrong. Yeah. Is the other thing.

Has this situation happened to you? Maybe you were the friend. Maybe you were in a situation where you got catfished. Or maybe it was legit. We'd love to hear from you. Help someone out this morning. We'll find some prizes as well heading into Christmas. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Oh, a dilemma. Someone has written insulin to your DMs with this dilemma. We always do a big sigh. We're like, what did we do? So basically, their best friend has found someone online and is completely smitten, but they are pretty sure their friend has found someone online and is completely smitten but they are pretty sure their friend is being catfished a few red flags the person always has an excuse for not meeting

in real life and their photos look a bit too good to be true um but their head over heels she doesn't want to crush her happiness she says what do i do let it play out or do i tell her doesn't want to be the jealous friend yeah so. So people weighing in, should we go to the call, of course, first? I know, 100, the hits help us out here today because, you know, like, we can offer back our opinion, but it's really good to put it out wider.

Yeah. Quentin, what do you think? Should she tell her friend? Yeah, I think she should because to me that's a scam. It does feel that way, eh? Yeah, I've been in the same situation with me. I lost a tiny bit of money out of it as well,

trying to help the person. Before I saw the writing on the wall, sort of thing, red flags, yeah, it was too late. As him saying that they don't want to meet, or they can't have an excuse for not meeting in person, has he tried asking for phone calls? they don't want to meet, or they can't have an excuse for not meeting in person, have you tried asking for phone calls?

Got you. So I don't want to pry too much into your personal life, but was it the same sort of situation where you didn't actually meet up for the person that they keep putting it up? Yeah, same thing, keep putting it up. I even tried hitting them up for a video. I always

say to them, hey, I want proof that you are who you say you are. You are legit. You're real. Let's do a video call. That's a good way around it. Face to face. If they want to meet up, then they should at least have the decency to do a video call. No, you're right. Apart from the not meeting up, was there any other red flags?

I guess asking for money was a big one for you? Yeah, asking for money was definitely a big one. So, so far I guess this person hasn't been asked for money as far as we know, but it feels like that could be the next step. Yeah, I'd say with that, with the photos, like you say, with the photos, too good to be true.

Yeah, I can soon see this person he'll come up with some sort of story and ask for money. He'll say he doesn't want the money, but technically he does. And yeah, basically they're a scammer. Oh, thank you so much for sharing that with us. We really appreciate it. I think what you've done will help out a lot of people just by sharing that.

So thank you. Yeah, no problem. Have a good day. Lots of texts coming through. Someone saying, let it play out. Make sure if she's safe, if they do meet in public, but no money handout, provide support if it falls over. Yeah, she definitely needs to have the money conversation. There was a good one that said you should do a reverse Google search on the pictures that you're being sent.

See if they pop up and if they're actually him. Because you feel like you should say something, like another text is coming through, there's a lot of scary stories out there. If something bad happens, you'll regret not saying something, but then you don't want to rain on someone's parade. You don't want to offend her either. But yeah, I would definitely keep an eye on that scenario. Okay, so we need to come back with a...

And it's Dear Megan, it's not Dear Ben. Do you know what? I think maybe have the conversation with her. Just at least check in that she's not giving this guy money and just say, look, do a reverse Google search. Ask him to do video calls just to double check that it is him. But I'm so happy for you if it's legit. You just have to be careful.

I'm happy for you, Bart. There's a few red flags as well. See how that goes. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Another story I was reading. It feels like an only in America situation. A guy on a bike got hit by an ambulance. Oh, God.

And then they had to take him to hospital in the ambulance that hit him. And then he got charged for the ambulance ride. But no, we get charged for ambulance rides in New Zealand. I know, but the ambulance was the one that hit him. Oh, yeah. Put him in the ambulance. I feel like you could waive this. Actually, on this occasion, it was our fault that you were in the ambulance.

I get it. Normally, you have to pay for it. But on this occasion. Was there someone else in the ambulance? Like, did he have to cuddle up on the gurney? No, no one else. Maybe that's what they're going around looking for work. They're like, slow day.

I can hit this guy. And then, yeah, so he's all right now, apart from the fact that he's got to pay a large bill from an ambulance. He was fine before the ambulance came along. Now, we're doing the Mariah Carey Christmas game. It's a really, really fun game to play, and it's amazing how many people are playing along with us. Yeah, it's fun. Basically, Mariah Carey's iconic song, All I Want for Christmas Is You, you've got to try and avoid it.

That means you're still in the game. As soon as you hear it, you're out. Now, it has to be Mariah's recorded version, but's playing on tiktok it's playing in supermarkets it's hard to avoid this is mariah's time of year right this is where she's stored she pops out she's making her money and you don't know where to expect it you know you go every time i go like to a shop or a mall i'm like this is it there's nothing you can do about it we were in an u Uber the other day in Christchurch, weren't we? And I was like, oh, it's going to happen. It's going to happen.

And we're going to be both out. We were on a very, a station that would play Mariah Carey. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But fortunately, we're both in the game or am I? I don't want a lot for Christmas. That's my version.

All right. Shall we go to the phones and find out if people are still in or still out? All right. Good morning, Jackie. Are you still in the game? I'm still in. Still in the game. I'm living and breathing.

Have you had any places you've been to you thought, well, maybe this could be it? Just trying to avoid the mall. It's amazing how much money you save when you don't go to the mall. But I always think you could just go there and put headphones on. And do you look obnoxious if you're walking through a mall with headphones on? Listening to your own music? Yeah, I guess little earbuds are probably fine. Big sort of like earmuffs that you'd use for lawn mowing.

Maybe they look a bit weird. But you could do it each to their own. Yeah, listen to your own music. Let us know when you're out. But hopefully you'll last longer than us. Thanks, Jackie. All right, good luck, Jackie. And Kylie, are you still in the game?

Yes, I'm very much still in the game. Have you had a hairy moment where you've been somewhere and you're like, ooh, ooh? Well, yeah, I don't frequent the malls, and if I had to go in there, I would be moving pretty quickly. And then as far as the supermarket, I'm a bit cautious about the supermarket, but it's mainly around social media.

So, you know, I looked at Instagram and things like that and heard that a lot of people had dropped out via Insta. So I just literally look at friends' stories and don't scroll. Yeah, and sound off is a good thing, you know. Although Jono clicked on one, he watched it, he was like, this will be fine. Clicked on one, it had Mariah, bam, out of nowhere. But it tells you down the bottom of a lot of these things

what soundtrack is playing. It does, you're right. Put it on mute and check what the soundtrack is. Oh, well, good luck. This could be good. It could be giving people like a bit of space, a bit of time off social media. Yeah, true, actually, mate. Or you're just listening to it on mute well let us know when you're out okay

yeah totally text comes through um i'm out of the game because apparently and apparently you know in inverted commas um because it was playing in the shop that was in with my daughter i never heard it but she told me i'm out i feel like you could stay in the game then, potentially, if you didn't hear it. Wait, so it's playing, but you didn't, like, recognize? Yeah, like your daughter's like, oh, you're out afterwards. No, you're out. I played while you were there just because you didn't notice. It's like scrolling through TikTok and you're like, oh, I didn't notice it.

It didn't happen. Oh, okay. Well, Megan's saying you're out. I'm saying you're still on, but anyway. Technically, it went in your ear holes. But you didn't even know I was there. Oh, I don't know. It's like if Andrew played it to you in your sleep, but anyway. Technically, it went in your ear holes. But you didn't even know I was right. Oh, I don't know. It's like if Andrew played it to you in your sleep, would you be up?

Oh. Would you be up? I don't know. And you woke up the next morning and was like, guess what I played? No, because I was asleep. I didn't hear it. Oh, so that's okay for you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

If you're heading around the Wellington region today, there's quite a few delays on the road because the Hickory reaches Parliament today. The Riddler. It's your chance right now to win $100 and a Dilmar tea hot and cold tea prize pack. But first, I always like to do a riddle for the room and I was struggling a little bit. Actually, I'm going to be honest,

pull back the curtain again. I was struggling a little bit. It's just you and me today, Megan. So I was like, well, let's go. The old friend, chat GPT, the artificial intelligence. And I was like, okay, I'll put in a couple of details about you. And so obviously, you know the riddle answer for this one. But this is interesting what ChatGPT came up with a riddle.

Interesting or mean? No, it's actually interesting. You and your partner, Andrew. I just put a couple of details in. And it says, here's the riddle. I talk all day to make you laugh. But when it comes to dancing, I'll leave that to my other half. I married a boy band star you see, Andrew's his name, and younger than me.

He sings in grooves, I don't know, grooves, sounds like my mum talking, with fans galore, but it's my voice they're tuning in for. Who am I? And the answer was Megan, so there you go. I love it. Yeah, it was not too bad. Usually GPT's a little bit brutal sometimes. I know.

It was a nicer version. I mean, you know, a few dicks, younger than me, things like that. But here's your riddle on 0800 the hits, 4487. I think someone will get this. Okay. You see a boat filled with people. It hasn't sunk, but when you look again, you don't see a single person. Why? So a boat filled with people, hasn't sunk, but when you look again, you don't see a single person. Why?

So a boat filled with people hasn't sunk, but when you look again, you don't see a single person. Why? Oh, 100 the hits. 4, 4, 8, 7. Do you, sometimes when you read a riddle, I get flustered. Yeah. I'm trying to like, get caught up in the details. Yeah, there's words that I'm like, do I emphasise this? No, things like that. Oh, 100 the hits.

4, 4, 8, 7. 0800 the hits, 4487. You can get $100 in a Dilmar tea, hot and cold tea price pack. I don't know the answer. Just heads up. John, do you know the answer? Good morning. Good morning. Hi.

Hi. What's the answer to the riddle? All right. I thought that everyone is inside the boat. Everyone's inside the boat? Inside the boat. No, no. Sorry, your phone line was shocking there. Sorry, mate.

But no, unfortunately not the right answer. Let's go to another call. A boat filled with people hasn't sunk. When you look again, you don't see a single person. Why? Andy, good morning. Do you know the answer to the riddle? Hey, is it because they're all married?

That's right. That's why you don't see a single person. Yeah, they're all married. I don't know why you didn't know that the first time you looked at the boat, but apparently you didn't according to the riddle. Why was it clear when you looked back? They're all hooking up. Hey, we're all married.

It's all good. No judgment here. Yeah, congratulations. You've got yourself. You're clever, Andy. They're all hooking up They're like hey We're all married It's all good No judgement Exactly No judgement here Yeah congratulations You've got yourself You're clever Andy 100 bucks And a toolbar tea

Hot and cold tea price pack What have you got planned For your Tuesday Not too much It's going to be pretty quiet Where we are in Batoni But the Hickory's going So everybody's going

To town today Yeah Yeah Nice It'll be a big day The Hits The Jono and Ben podcast. It's a very funny play. It's called Camping, created by four comedians, including Chris Parker,

who you'll know from Celebrity Treasure Island. He won the show. It's on at the Kew Theatre now. And he joins us in the studio to tell us more. Chris Parker, good morning. Great to have you here. Good morning. Thanks for having me on.

Nice to see you. This is very cool. You're teaming up with Tom Sainsbury, Kota Forrester, Brinley Stent for a very funny show called Camping. Yeah, it's like the Marvel Avengers of sort of camping New Zealand comedy. So you wrote this like, you and Tom wrote this what, many years ago, right? We wrote the play. It was the first time Tom and I ever wrote a play together

because we've written like weirdly like eight plays together now. How many have you made? Kind of like an old school repert thing oh we just write them and just put them in the trash we put them on but just like as part of comedy festival just like a bit of fun yeah so it's called camping we don't actually we wrote you know with comedy festival you just come up with these ideas so quickly and then you're like oh who knows and now it's a set in stone so we actually don't go camping at all. But camping is more like being camp. So Tom and myself play straight men who are married to Brinley and Kuda. So these two couples sort of double book an Airbnb

and then decide that it's probably just for the best if they all stay the night together rather than work out who gets the place or not. Yeah, there's a lot of sexual tension. Just building up through the whole night. Boiling for sort of an hour and a bit. Got an interval, have a wee drink, cool off, come back in for the second half. Is the tension still brimming at halftime?

Oh, it's bubbling away. And then it all sort of, I don't want to give too much away, but I will say that there is spandex involved, there's glitter involved, and there is explicit adult content. Chris, you know, a lot of people talk about ChatGPT at the moment, AI and stuff like that. So I put into last night, I was like, I put in, I said, we've interviewed Chris Parker many times.

Is it okay? Is it okay to use ChatGPT on the interview questions? Oh, yeah. Came back, absolutely. Great idea. That's what ChatGPT says. Of course, that's going to say that. Excuse me.

They were like, fresh perspectives on interview questions, especially if you interviewed Chris Parker multiple times and want to keep things interesting. Oh, well, good idea. So I was like, great, what are the questions? And so here we go. Here we go. Would you like to confirm the allegations made against you?

What? What's happening? I went, funny questions for Chris Parker. Okay, here we go. I'll throw a couple at you. Okay, love it. If you had to survive on only one food from a New Zealand gas station, what would it be and why?

It would have to be like a pie that's been in the pie mold for like four hours too long. You know when they start to the mince and the pastry begins to become one? Yeah. The edge of the mince is like dry and crusty. Okay. If you could only wear outfits from one Kiwi brand for the rest of your life, what brand are you committing to? Kiwi brand.

And what does that say about you? Oh, that's a real... That's a good question. It's chat GPT coming through. I'm really baffled by that one. Do you know something like... Kiwi brand. It's K-Mark Kiwi.

Posty Plus. I love that. And Co. Yeah, and Co. Okay. Which member of your family Chris Parker would you sacrifice first in a zombie apocalypse

uh oh wow um good on you for taking your time you know dad

no what's the weirdest DM you've ever received on social media oh oh it's a bit of a brag do you want the brag

yeah okay it was like Jacinda Ardern was like honestly brag do you want the brag yeah okay it was like jacinda ardern was like honestly like four days to go into labor and she was like i hear your comedy show is amazing i would love to come and see it i was like no i hope you're applying no i think i'm like i mean that would be great but aren't you about to literally give birth i think she gave birth like two days later. Did she come and see your show? No.

Chris Parker, it's always great catching up. They had a fresh perspective. They did have a fresh perspective. And all it cost was 10 gallons of water. Chris Parker, you can catch him in camping right now at the Kew Theatre. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Playing a Mariah Carey game, of course. If you hear the song All I Want for Christmas,

you're out of the game, but you continue until you don't hear it. We're going to do something really risky after seven o'clock this morning, Megan, a minute each on social media. We're going to just scroll haphazardly.

One of us could be out of the game after seven o'clock this morning, but right now it's the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. We like to start our day with Producer Ellie asking us questions that we sometimes guess, or mostly guess, but try and get 10 out of 10.

All righty. All righty. All righty. You can just... All right, Jim Carrey. Is your microphone plugged in? He just keeps saying, all righty, like...

I just want to point out that's not a me problem. No, that's an Ellie problem. I've turned it on. Your microphone is not plugged in alrighty alrighty alrighty it's me on the buttons guys it's not Jono no but but that's not on you that's not on you that's on our producer who's you know I don't know why that was not plugged in hello everyone no matter how many times you say alrighty it's still not gonna fix it up the problem. I thought we'd just turn on. Nah, alright. Okay, we're ready for question number one.

Yes. Which director has Leonardo DiCaprio collaborated with the most times? Scorsese. Well, you hit the options. Okay, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, or Martin Scorsese? He's only done one Tarantino, hasn't he? No, he did the other one. The Hollywood one?

And a Western one. I think he was like a Western. Oh, yeah. But I think it's Scorsese. Was that meme where he's like, you know, looking about. Yeah, but I think it might be Scorsese. I'll go with you on that one. Feels like the two of them have collaborated a lot.

A collab feat, Leonardo. That is correct. Yay! There we go. Yes. Okay, question number two, New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. How many points does the crown in the Rolex logo have?

Is it six, five or four? John, I bought one. Remember you bought one off a website and it broke. It literally combusted and fell apart. Two weeks after having it. That probably didn't have as many stars in the crown or anything like that.

I don't think he paid $19.95 for it, so, you know. Oh, okay. So what were the options again? Either six or five or four. Yeah. It's not four. It's six or five. Okay, yeah, nice.

Okay. I don't know. This is purely a guess, so, yeah. Do you reckon they've gone with something that aesthetically pleasing, like an even number, or have they gone... Six would be even. I feel like it's an even crown.

I don't feel like it comes to a point, which it would if there was five. Oh, what are you going to answer? I know I'm going against you just because I'm looking at producing all these facials. I don't know. Five or six. I thought I was bluffing quite just because I'm looking at producing all these facials. I don't know. Five or six. I thought I was bluffing quite well. I'm looking five now. All right.

Who are we going with? There's no third person to tie race. I'm happy to take your lead. I was just purely going off producing all these facials. I'm going to go five. Let's all go five. You're locking in five? Yeah.

That is correct. Not because I knew. It's just because of the facials. Neither of us have ever owned a Rolex. Yeah, it's clear. Okay, I knew, just because of the facials. Neither of us have ever owned a Rolex. Yeah, it's clear. Okay, I need to get better at my facials. I thought I wasn't even doing much, but you're very observant, Ben. Okay.

Number three, which country hosted the first rugby league world cup in 1954? Is it England, France, or Australia? That's you, Ben. Well, I wouldn't say, I'd be very surprised if it was France, because they're not really a big league nation. So I would think, actually, we could put it, I'm thinking England, but maybe we could put it to the text. Yeah, let's put it to the text.

I'm going to say England. That's what I'm thinking. But help me out right now. This is our lifeline. 4487, the first rugby league world cup. Yep. In 1954, was hosted by which country? England, France,

or Australia? All right, we'll go to the text and come back and see how we go. The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We try and get 10 out of 10

on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz without getting a wrong answer. As soon as we get one wrong, we're out of the game. What are we up to now, Producer Ellie? We're only up to question four. We're in a slow morning, right?

We're in a slow Tuesday. Hey, there's only two of us. Jono's not here. Fair enough. Fair enough. I'll stand down. I'll stand down. All right, question question four. We're in a slow morning, right? It's been a slow Tuesday. There's only two of us. Fair enough. Fair enough. I'll stand down. I'll stand down. All right.

Question number four. Which luxury branded Marc Jacobs serve as the creative director for from 97 to 2014? Looking at you, Megan. Was it Dior, Gucci

or Louis Vuitton? I like the Louis Vuitton. I don't even know if that's how you say it. It's either Gucci or Louis. So Marc Jacobs obviously got his own fashion line, right? Yeah, so that's how you say it. It's either Gucci or Louis.

So Marc Jacobs has obviously got his own fashion line, right? Yeah, so that's how a lot of them start. They end up being creative director for one of the big fashion houses and then they branch out on their own. Kind of like that movie, The Devil Wears Prada. She's working there and then she... There it is. It's not helping you at all, is it?

I've got a book on Gucci and I can't remember if he has a chapter or not I'm going to go with Gucci I'll back you with whatever I'll back you It's Louis or what's the first one? Is it Gucci Gang, Gucci Gang? Gucci or Louis Vuitton Oh shit, I don't know

I can't remember That's alright, there's no harm in that So you have no memory of him being in your Gucci book? Because maybe you should have. I also went to a Dior exhibition where it broke down all the different creative directors and I can't remember if he was there or not either.

Alright. I'll need an answer. I'm going to need an answer now. Let's go. No, I don't know if it is Gucci. What are you going to have to do? Let's go with Dior. That was from left-field jeepers.

I don't know. That's incorrect, isn't it? That's incorrect. Damn it. We're all over and done with it. Is it Gucci? It was Louis Vuitton. Oh, God damn it.

Really? Yeah. So when you said, I don't remember him being in my Gucci book, I was like, yeah, because he wasn't a part of it. No. And I went to the Dior. I should have been like, I don't remember him being at either of those. Where was the Dior exhibition?

It was in Melbourne. Oh, right. Yeah. You didn't go there specifically for it, did you? No, I went there for a hen's weekend, but that was there at the time. And so he wasn't at that, and he wasn't in my Gucci book. So the answer was Louis Vuitton. Awesome.

Yeah. Cool. Awesome. Mark Jacobs. Well, we're trying to remember that. We're trying to retain some information for the next time we have some random question on Mark Jacobs. Perfect.

So we dipped out today. Question number five. Yeah. And that's the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz for another day.