Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We relive dial up internet...

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY Megan had super thin eyebrows!!! We chat to the loveable Suzy Cato 15-year-old Jono on the radio! Throwback to some old school tech We chat to the iconic Charlie from "Charlie bit my finger" Can you beat Jonos's bomb?  Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: TheHitsBreakfastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John Owen Ben podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. It's a really fun week, we're trying to decide with your help which is the best decade, the 90s or the noughties, then on Friday we're going to play music entirely from that decade for the whole show, but it's up to you which decade you reckon is the best. It's been a lot of fun reflecting going back down nostalgia street, but what's also quite confronting is the younger members of the hits. This whole week is completely going over their heads. I know.

We just had a moment just before the show. We were talking about dial-up internet. And we're trying to produce a Grace's 22? 23, actually. 23, okay. And too old for Leonardo DiCaprio now. Unfortunately. Oh, no, you've still got a couple more years. A couple more years left in you. 25 is the cutoff. Oh, yeah. Too old for Leonardo DiCaprio now. Unfortunately. You've still got a couple more years.

A couple more years left in you. 25's the cutoff. Oh yeah, then you're a geriatric. But we said, oh, can you load in the dial-up internet noise? And you gave a blank look saying, what is that? Yeah. No idea. No clue.

And to be fair, you've never had to deal with the burden and pain that was dial-up internet. It's never been a thing in your life. You've just clicked onto the internet, boom, it's there. Wherever you are, without having to plug in and go through the phone system. So for younger members listening right now, this is something we had to do back in the day. We'd have to dial up to get on the internet through the phone system. Because Grace is like, why are you dialing?

Who are you dialing? To the internet, mate. To connect to the internet. You call the internet. And it was excruciating yeah and sometimes you go through the whole process and it wouldn't even connect to the internet here is the sound if you've dialed up the internet before you'll know this sound what is that number

it doesn't give out his number to everyone no And then there's the internet thinking if you're worthy of joining it. It's got a white noise and then you're like, you're nearly there. Yep. This one sounds like it's not going to connect. Oh, no, we're back on. And we're on. And there you're there. Away you go.

Away you go. And then someone will pick up the phone and they hear a noise like that. And they're like, I need to use the phone. I'm on the internet. So you couldn't use both at the same time. Yeah, because it all ran through the same line. Your phone line and your internet. You kids don't know how good you've gotten.

What's a phone line? Lend line. Oh my God, a lend line. No, I'm just joking. So yeah, that was dial-up internet. I can't even remember what I looked at on the internet back in the day. I just downloaded songs on LimeWire. Oh, yeah.

That was kind of like Apple Music, wasn't it? Was it illegal? Yeah. Yeah. Hugely illegal, LimeWire, wasn't it? Everyone did it, though. Was it Napster, the original one? That's right.

That got sued? What was Kim.com's one? Mega? Oh, Mega Upload, was it? Yeah. Yeah, Something like that He had one where you could It was all the movies and things

One of the first ones Where you could Down How's he going? Where's he going? I don't know You don't hear as much He's in Queenstown

He's living in Queenstown Do you remember trying to Download a picture And it would just like Take forever You'd get a little bit You'd lock it up I just want to see some boobies

I can see a nose I can see a nose Oh yeah Is that a boobie? No no no Oh my god Grace you don't know how good you've got it You're one of the boobies The hits the Jono and Ben podcast

We're loving this week 90s v the noughties The early 2000s It's a bit of a campaign from Monday through Thursday A new vote online Hits breakfast as to which era the noughties, the early 2000s. It's a bit of a campaign from Monday through Thursday. And you vote online, hits breakfast as to which era you preferred the most. We're going to cover various categories, celebrities, movies, TV shows, songs, whatever. And then Friday, whichever the winning one. We're going to dedicate the entire show to that era. And right now, the fashion faux pas of years gone by. I think we need to front foot this too.

You look back in your cringe at some of your fashion options or decisions, but then you're like, well, at the time it was in the moment. You were in the moment. And usually you weren't the only one. Like other people, there's a reason you were doing that. Other people were doing it too. Wearing my velour tracksuit with juicy across my butt. What about it?

I love saying that to the kids now. I'm like, you know, when they're dressed like that, I'm like, one day you'll look back and you'll regret these choices. Enjoy it now. You're like, let me just take a photo. I'm going to save this for future you. It's great. I'm like, well, yeah, great now.

You think that now, but you all look back. We all do, right? Yeah. Even when you look back at some of the stuff you used to say, like the the slang you're like that's jiggy oh god i don't remember ever saying that you obviously weren't cool okay so we're gonna do fashion regrets today because there's so much we can cover off and within ourselves there's so much we can cover off let's just pick one thing each all right for now megan you go first well i'm gonna have to go with my eyebrows i found a picture of early 2000s and they're barely there i'd plucked them within an inch of their life

and you're right they were mega arch so i did look quite surprised yes it's like oh that caught me by surprise but i imagine again at the time in the moment the higher the brow the more sophisticated the brow. Yeah. So they're very thin. But also when brows started coming back in, I had to use a serum to encourage them to grow back. Because they'd blush so much. Now I can't stop staring at your eyebrows. I'm sorry about that.

You've got great eyebrows now, don't you? Much thicker, yeah. They're about 19 times bigger than they were. So great. Great eyebrows now. At the time, very slender. And you look very neutral

about things now. Yeah, that's good. Okay, Jono, what are you going to pick? Oh, God. I was trying to think about this last night. There was a period there

where I was wearing a bead necklace. Like some sort of... But some people can pull off a bead necklace if you're like a chill dude Surfing at the beach and stuff No you're not

I'm a grade A tosspot And a bead necklace I think you have a bead bracelet as well With some earrings Like a karma sutra expert It's all chill man It's all chill man The beads

I think Annie was like Even my mum was like What are you doing? And your parents actually When you're like Shut up mum, shut up dad, what do you know? They're actually, they're the voice of reason. That's why my dad got me to take back an earring that was way too big that he wanted me to wear. Sorry, that I wanted to wear it. He's like, no.

What was the earring? It was just a big, it was a big hoop earring. It was a gold earring. Well, not real gold. It was from Pascos. How big was the hoop? But it was big. Like a pirate. Dad's like, you look like a pirate. It was from Pascoe's. How big was the hoop? But it was big. Like a pirate.

Dad's like, you look like a pirate. It's like a curtain ring. You know cheddar rings? It was like one of those. Because I was wearing big hoop earrings. Only one.

Only one. Could you get your fist through it? Oh, no, it wasn't that big. Could you do the hula hoop with it? It wasn't that big, but it was incredible. But then you're like, actually, Dad was trying

to do you a huge favour. He was. Did you have a parrot for your shoulder? I took it back and got my money back from Pascoe. So lovely to do it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Which decade, all this week, sorry, which decade is the best? The 90s or the early 2000s?

The noughties? On Friday, we'll play nothing but music from that particular decade we're taking a trip uh down back you know back to back to olden days where megan had cringy cells very thin eyebrows and ben had a big hoop earring just one momentarily until my dad made me take it back did you get your monies back from mr pascoe yeah they were pretty kind of my dad came in and was trying to buy this thing it's too big. It was very embarrassing as a kid. I didn't know they sold singular hoop earrings. I know, well I think it was two, but I could only

one ear's best. He gave the other one to his mum. To do what with? Yeah, I don't know. It was an incredible time. Didn't you also have, speaking of jewellery, you had yourself a LL Cool J necklace, didn't you? I was telling Megan about this the other day.

I used to like LL Cool J. Great rapper. He was a very cool guy. He says it in his name. Ladies love Cool James. Yeah, exactly. That's what it stood for. Ladies love Cool James.

Is his actual name James? Yeah, James. So he would wear a necklace, probably very expensive, a gold necklace with a key. It had like a gold key underneath. And I went to Mr. Minute, bought a key. I think i went back to pasco it's the same wine i'm butter and try to wear that round i did get a little bit bullied for that so i didn't wear that too much oh sorry but very handy you know if you you lose the key to the front door. Everyone's like, what is it open?

I'm like, nothing, man. I'm trying to be like LL Cool J. Maybe it's a metaphor to unlock the key to his heart. At least everyone was doing thin eyebrows when I was doing it. No one else was doing a big hoop earring and LL Cool J was. Well, LL Cool J was.

He was very sexual too. He would make love to you too, LL Cool J. We looked it up His necklace had diamonds And was worth like $16,000 $12 I think all up A bit more if you wanted to get the key Actually cut for your door

But I said no No no It actually opens the door It's quite expensive Alright Taylor Help me out here, mate. Help me out. Producer Taylor's coming.

Your fashion faux pas from years ago. Bye, Tay. So growing up in the early 2000s, I had very dark hair. And where I was from in Cronulla, everyone had blonde hair. So I really wanted blonde hair. So I put a crap load of lemon in my hair. And that absolutely killed it. And then my mom told me about this thing called Sun In.

And I sprayed it all over my hair. And I killed it and then my mom told me about this thing called sun in and i sprayed it all over my hair and i got a beautiful orange hue because the idea was you sprayed it in and then you went out in the sun yeah yeah slowly lightened it and it definitely did but um a bit too brassy for my liking i honestly i did uh bleach genola and uh lemon juice too when I was a teenager. I really think that is solely responsible for my current situation. Someone I've got to look forward to. Ten more years to go. So what were your fashion faux pas from years gone by? We'll go to Tauranga.

Terry, good morning. Hello, how are you going? We're doing well. Come back with us in cringe. What was it for you? Hey, look, the very late 1970s, I thought I was so uber cool. I had a toweling boob tube dress. Oh, the boob tube.

Well, the boob tube was bigger than mine. So that was the material, same material as a towel, you're saying? Yeah, it was. And look, and it was dusky pink, no less. I thought I was so cool. Have I just got out of the shower? Oh, yes. Not quite, not quite.

Were you around for the whale tail, which was you'd have a low-riding trouser and then your thong poking out of the top? Do you remember that, Megan? You might be mortified to learn that that's making a comeback, Jono. I saw it the other day at the Sylvia Park, and I was like, I didn't know if she had forgotten to put her bells on. Very tugable, like you really just want to go,

Hank, like a... Wedgie. I did it. I did it. Do not wedgie a stranger. No. A teenager. You'll be happy to know I did it.

Good. Yeah. And you were talking about your hair, too. You had a couple of strings dangling down there. I was trying to be Ginger Spice, and I had brown hair, but two blonde streaks at the front that I did myself. Oh, classic. Yeah.

I imagine when you're eating, they'd become quite problematic. Get into your mouth and stuff, do they? Yeah. And then, like, constantly growing out with regrowth. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're doing 90s v. noughties this week, mouth and stuff do they yeah and then like constantly growing out with regrowth the hits the jonah and ben podcast uh we're doing 90s v noughties this week trying to decide which is the better era and uh we're talking to some wonderful guests from yesteryear uh in particular this lady the nation's babysitter i mean if you had the option to be rebirthed and have her as your

biological mother i think you'd choose her every time, wouldn't you? Yeah. If you had an option B. Sorry to my mum. Yeah. Oh, you still love your mum now, but if it was an option to suck back into a womb, come back out of a womb, you'd... I'll stop talking. Susie Cato.

Morena, Susie. Morena, how are you? We're doing good. Always nice to talk to you. Yeah, likewise. Trapped in a lift with you, wasn't I? Just a week ago I was trapped in a lift with Susie. I'm sorry, Susie. Yeah, likewise. Trapped in a lift with you, wasn't I? Just a week ago, I was trapped in a lift with Susie.

I'm sorry, Susie. Yeah, sorry about that. Not awful. No, it was lovely. He was on his best behaviour. He had his gorgeous wife with him and he was just lovely. It's the only time Susie's

ever been downbeat and she's not liking life. Stuck in a lift with this bald idiot. Oh, Susie, we were doing a bit of reflecting this week. It was a bit of a competition,

to be honest, deciding which was the better decade, the 90s or the noughties. Now, you've spanned across both. What would you say was the best decade? Oh, gosh, that is really, really tricky because when I think of it in terms of songs, it's our time. Kia ora.

Te lofa. That was the 90s. And that was your signature song. Yeah, you and me, Susie's World. It was over 2,000 episodes I was reading of you and me, you did. That's right. We recorded over five years. So I'd go to Dunedin for two weeks of every month from Auckland.

I'd fly down, record, record, record, then go home and floor out. And we did that for five years. So a very special part of my life and by the sounds of it, a whole several generations of Kiwis' lives as well. Yeah, you must still have people coming up to you all the time and going, I used to sit and watch you.

Oh yeah, I love it. And, you know, through COVID and things like that, got reintroduced to a new generation of Kiwis, which was absolutely adorable. But, you know, I still love that the noughties had Susie's world, Susie's world. It's hard to sing, but it still touched the whole generation, all the several generations.

And now I've got young scientists coming up to me and saying, look, I'm going to put that down to you. You inspired me to embark on a world and career of science. You just go, whoa. That's so cool. That must mean a lot to you, you inspired me to embark on a world and career of science. You just go, whoa! That's so cool. That must mean a lot to you. Oh yeah, well one of the main reasons we made Susie's World was because I was rubbish at science myself as a kid. But they were all questions that I had wanted answered as a

child, you know? Why is the sky blue? How can birds sit on power lines without getting electrocuted? What happens when we eat baked beans? How do the birds sit on the power lines out of interest? I'm really proud of you for not asking the other question. Because they are not earth. They're not grounded, right? They're not grounded, yeah. So if they touch the ground at the same time, then they're in trouble. They're in a lot of trouble. It's KFC on order. When you look back at those iconic shows through those years, I mean, you used to wear some really bright clothing, right?

I mean, your personality's bright, but the clothing may have been brighter. Yeah, definitely. It was cosmic. Oh, cosmic. Yes. If I had a face on, I'd be able to send you a photograph of what I'm wearing today, though. Tie-dyed, electric blue and pink. You do love a tie-dye.

Yeah, really bright neon sort of colors i remember yeah definitely need to get you a house bus or something i remember that cosmic brand hot tuna was another one as well they're all just bright colors with and now they kind of come back i mean look at barbie you know the barbie movie kind of brought all that back so this song you know you were just singing before it's our time you know where the Barbie movie kind of brought all that back. So this song, you know, you were just singing before, It's Our Time, you know, where did that come from? And did you know it was going to be such a success when you started singing it? Well, I'd love to be able to take full credit for that song and you and me and Suzie's World and all the rest of it,

but I'm a cog in an amazing wheel of talented people who created those programs. And I, very luckily, one of about 80 people who interviewed or auditioned got the role. Did 79 others audition for that gig? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There were lots of people that auditioned because it had already been going for a year before I joined it. Had it?

Yeah, but the wonderful Pauline Cooper had been presenting it for nearly a year. They threw open the doors and I got a telephone call. I'd been with the early bird show with Russell Rooster. Yo, doodle, doo, doo. Russell Rooster, that's right. You say it was aimed at preschoolers. I feel like I was a lot older watching it.

That makes me go, oh, geez, was I just a bit slow on it? I didn't realize it was aimed at preschoolers, but I watched a lot of it. We're going to put you on the spot now because you've been through those decades. As John, I said, you've had big hit shows in both those decades. Susie, what was your favorite decade? Oh, that is so hard. I'm going to have to say, oh. Susie, you're so nice.

You just can't. I don't think you're going to offend a decade. They don't have feelings decades. Oh, look, it's like choosing a favourite child. How can you do that? They're both good for so many different reasons. All right, you're going to sit on the fence on this one, are you? She's doing a trademark Ben voice.

Yeah, good on you. Yeah, good on you. It's annoying, isn't it, Ben? Yeah, but I get it. I get it. I get it. You don't want to offend decades. That's right, yeah. You've all got their positive points. Oh, Susie, listen, always it. I get it. I get it. You don't want to offend your case. That's right.

You've all got their positive points. Oh, Susie, listen, always love catching up with you. Appreciate your time and thank you for joining us. My pleasure. That's not how you say goodbye to Susie Keeley. Oh, sorry. See you. See you later. Oh, you're doing it.

Yay. No, you go. You go. Take it away, Susie. See you. See you later. It's time to say goodbye. See you, see you later. It's time to say goodbye. See you, see you later.

We've really got to fly. Goodbye, my friends. Goodbye. Goodbye. Thank you, Susie. Not just to preschoolers, eh? That was for everyone. Oh, yes, please.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. To get into fashion regrets, including Megan, you showed us a photo of the thinnest eyebrows we've ever seen. We're going to share it too because, you know, I feel like I wasn't alone in that trend. They had wonderful arches on them. It's still like the McDonald's golden arches. But thinner, thinner.

McDonald's fries are thinner than the other fries. They're kind of like those. Okay, yeah. Tiny. You look permanently surprised. Maybe that's what I was going for. Yeah, we're reflecting this week on the 90s and 90s. We, yeah. Tiny. You look permanently surprised. Maybe that's what I was going for. Yeah, we're reflecting this week on the 90s and 90s.

We can't throw stones. We will, but we'll get into our fashion and our crimes after eight o'clock on the show. But speaking of old things from yesterday, I don't know if you've heard this, Megan. We've played this a few times,

but before you were on the show, this is one of Jono Pryor's first ever... Here we go. I set the timer on this week as to when this particular bit of audio was going to come about. Community radio, you got to... I mean, this was the end of a run, too. This is your final show, the big finale,

too, you know, the emotional big finale. What they call this, Megan, is wholesome workplace bullying. The last voice break, little Jono Pryor, he says the tape cassette has been sped up to make his voice sound a little different. No, he's just a lot younger. Well, that and Pubeley's brush hadn't tarnished me yet.

Little pep in his step. Too young to be on radio. Have a listen to Little Johnny Pryor. Access Community Radio 8am. Hello, you're with Johnny Pryor. So much to do. Pulse Kefala 44 with the Bogdan Novak. Can we stop that, Greg?

No. Same time, same place at 5 o'clock for another great show in the series. And don't forget, coming up next at 5 past 6. Well, that's my lot for today. And not only today, that's my lot forever. This was my last shift on Access Community Radio. I want to thank a few people before I leave. I want to thank Leona Bresnahan, the station manager here,

for giving me the opportunity to work on a great, great community station. A great, great community station. Legends, legends, all of you. You take care. The arrogance of the extended goodbye as well. I can guarantee the two people listening didn't give any grams. Thank you to my mum and dad. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now we're talking about because we are looking at the 90s versus the noughties, which was the best decade, we want to know old school technology you thrashed. I sometimes think nostalgia is a lot sweeter in memory than reality. Like if we went back to 1998, it would be an enormous inconvenience. Technology, what we've become accustomed to. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, but you have fond memories of a simpler time, don't you? Did you ever make a mixtape for anyone? Yeah. And that was basically like a marriage proposal, don't you? Did you ever make a mixtape for anyone? Yeah. That was basically like a marriage proposal, wasn't it? We'd record songs off the radio on your cassette and give it to your friends. And get annoyed with people like me talking over the intros and outros of songs.

Shut up. I'd hate myself. Try to make a mixtape for Daisy Walters. But we're going to talk about technology that you thrashed. We did mention an educated GNZ producer, Grace, on dial-up internet earlier today, which this was a triggering sound effect for all of us. Trying his best to connect to the internet. The internet's thinking about it.

Are you worthy of me today? The internet would decide. It's so weird now because you're like, who were you dialing? The internet. Who were you worthy of me today? The internet would decide. It's so weird now because you're like, who were you dialing? The internet. Who were you dialing? The internet.

No one asked any questions. And why did it not answer sometimes? Sometimes it didn't want you to look on the internet. Probably a good thing. The internet's very open now, isn't it? To be honest,

it'd probably be quite good if you went back to that too. You did right. But what was technology you guys thrashed? I'm going to go back to, you know, iconic New Zealander,

Jonah Lomu was just an amazing rugby player for New Zealand and he had a PlayStation game, Jonah Lomu Rugby. And I found some commentary online yesterday. I used to love playing this. It was amazing. When you were Jonah, you could just fend off everyone. Oh, so he was like that. Oh, he was just amazing.

Well, I guess if it's called Jonah Lomu Rugby, you can't have him being tackled and injured. Commentary now a little stilted. Jones, little, down at the bottom. With the long one, digs like a demented mole there. It's a penalty in front. Can he get to him? Won the ball there, little one.

Yeah, so that's extra commentary from a game. And sometimes they wouldn't say the player's name a couple of times, like Josh Confield. So every time he'd get the ball, no matter what he was doing, they'd just go, Confield! Like it was exciting. You know, it's like sometimes he wasn't doing something exciting. Sounds like they just got one take and one take only

from that voiceover guy, the commentary. But I remember playing it going, this is like real life. Oh, no. Now you're looking at it, you're like, oh, it definitely isn't like real life. But it was an amazing game. No, now you look back and mock it. What about you i remember hiring uh playstation one from the dvd or the video store because we didn't have one so we'd go and hire it and for the weekend yeah we'd get crash bandicoot or

spyro the dragon and you'd have it for the weekend and then take it back again yeah they still stand the crash bandicoot we've got um like they redid the old games back You can play them now on the new versions of PlayStation Still really good Still good Yeah really fun Love it Still the test of time For me it was

You could hire the arcade machines And you'd go to your friend's house If it was your friend's birthday And his parents would have hired the arcade machine Yeah that's wild to think of And they'd always squeeze it into the laundry And have an extension cord dangling into the kitchen to plug the thing in and you just spend all weekend playing Street Fighter Sonic boom tiger uppercut whenever they do their move they like to say what

they were doing yeah that's pretty cool you could do that I think Marston only had like one of those games in a fish and chip shop so geez, that would have been a popular hotspot. Yeah, so you couldn't really hire it for the weekie, but that's pretty cool. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of great messages coming through 4487 on the text machine. Guys, hearing that dial-up internet sound effect reminded me of trying to download a nudie pic on dial-up. It was like the slowest striptease ever from Paolo. Just the forehead.

Oh, yeah, forehead. Let me talk Just the forehead. Oh, yeah, forehead. Then we took out the forehead. Oh, nose, nose. Oh, yeah, nose. Good nose. Mouth, mouth. It's just teasing you. Slowly come down like a little digital curtain.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Bit of skin, bit of skin. It was a simpler time. We want to know on our Android The Hits, the old school technology That you just thrashed What was it Was it John Lomu rugby

Was it Crash Bandicoot Was it Sonic the Hedgehog And Sega Master System Oh that was a Yeah That was a beauty I remember Annie kindly bought me

Sega One Oh nice But my friend got The Master System Spent a lot of days Over at John McGuinness' house Sonic the Hedgehog Alex the Kid Oh yeah Alex the Kid. It's probably

now Alex, a fully grown adult who's been beaten down by life now, but that was a fun game. What was it for you, Trina? Hello? Hello! Hey, Ben, Jono. Hey, how you doing? Megan's here as well, don't ignore her. Hey, Trina.

I wasn't't I just remembered Dan and John I was her Sorry Megan That's alright I had a best friend Called Megan When I was growing up

Now I've really Dog-legged into a Megan Tell us about your Best friend called Megan What was she like? She was She was pretty awesome Still is

Yeah This Megan's pretty good As well, you'll be happy to know. My story is, they're actually quite clever, I thought, because the game that I was holding in this photo was a Game Boy. Oh, the Nintendo Game Boy. Oh, you loved the Game Boy, did you? Yeah, it was handheld. It was like a brick compared to the games you guys play now.

But anyway, the lady standing next to me was Susie Cato in the photo. Oh, I just obviously spoke to Susie. It was a you and me promotion at Paper Plus O'Riwa. Oh, that's very cool. Paper Plus O'Riwa. What a 90s photo. There we go, holding a Game Boy. That was hours of fun, wasn't it?

I never had the chance To have a Gameboy Was that like You put it in your pocket Portable job? Yeah Take it around with you Alex

Good morning to you Hi Good morning Yeah The games The tech That you used to thrash Back in the day

It was Rollercoaster Tycoon Oh What was Rollercoaster Tycoon? You got to build Your own theme parks, and most of the fun there was designing your own rollercoasters, watching it go around the circuit, and then at the end finding out why it was ultra-extreme intensity.

Oh, so here we go. Rollercoaster Tycoon was a series of construction and management simulation games about building and managing your own amusement park. Oh, nice. You just got to make them go round and round and round and round and round? It was hours and hours of something. That's pretty cool.

Oh, someone's peed their pants, buddy. Someone's thrown up. Yeah, going to have to mop that mess up. It would be a nightmare managing an amusement park. I really appreciate it. I played a similar game, Larry the Lounge Lizard. Oh, yeah. On computer.

Larry was a bit of a sleazeball. Sounds slow and boring. Yeah, it was. You'd go around all these questions. Was it Leisure Suit Larry? Leisure Suit Larry, yeah. And he'd go around all these dubious establishments.

And I don't know why. I don't know what the point of the game was. No. It was just Larry bragging about his weird life, wasn't it? It was just a sad life, actually, poor Larry. Sorry for him. Maybe that was the point of the game.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This week, we're trying to decide the best decade, the 90s or the noughties, looking back at some pretty iconic things, including this one. Charlie bit my finger. You out, Charlie! Out! Charlie! That really hurt!

Very cute. A couple of brothers, Harry and Charlie. Charlie, just really hurt. Very cute. A couple of brothers, Harry and Charlie. Charlie, just a little baby. You remember it well. And Harry stupidly put his finger towards Charlie's mouth. And Charlie, well, bit his finger. Yeah, now Charlie's still putting fingers in his mouth. Who knows?

But we got the chance to catch up with them yesterday after the show. It was really interesting to see that they're now older. Yeah. Hello. Hello. Who have we got here? I'm Charlie. Hello.

It's Charlie. It's Charlie. Just the one and only Charlie. And his brother Harry. How's it going? I'm all right, thanks. Your voices sound a lot deeper than I remember. Yeah, I was three.

So that's how life works. you grow up and your voice gets deeper understand the video was taken by your dad and he just wanted to entertain friends and family and he couldn't send it over email because it was too big and put it on youtube is that right yeah that's about right that's what it was too big send over email so put on youtube make it private and then he was like sure sure, I'll make it public. Did you make money off something like that? Well, yeah, I had to play on it, so you do get a bit from that. And that, I understand, has helped you guys get better schooling

throughout the years? Yeah, and for our little brothers. Oh, that's cool. So it's put all the family through school. Pretty much, yeah. So what happened afterwards? I understand you guys did some TV commercials, a few things like that, became pretty famous?

We've been asked to do a few things every now and again. We went to America a couple of times, went to Seattle, and we did a thing for Delta. We did their airline safety video. Yeah, that was in Seattle. We did the Delta airline in Seattle we did the Delta airline in Seattle

and then went to New York just to do some interviews in the city so you guys are still in the same

house yeah is that the original couch from Charlie yeah we're in the

same room the chair we don't have the chair anymore we broke it I broke the chair okay

Dan's not too happy about the breakage of the chair. Quickly before we go, can we get one last bite on camera? I was trying to avoid them not doing that. One last bite on camera. Put your finger in his mouth. He's got it. There it is. There it is. Wow. In the flesh. Can we get a Charlie? Um, no. Well, in the flesh. Can we get a Charlie? No. You've already made me put my finger in his mouth. I'll do it.

Charlie. I love your work, guys. Have a great day. Thank you. The viral sensations from Charlie bit my finger. Remember that time I made two teenage boys put their fingers in each other's mouths? Just then. Yeah, that's right.

They won't be forgetting that either. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. As to what was the better era, Friday, whichever the winner is, 90s or the noughties, we're going to play music from that whole period. Very exciting. Also, we've got a wee bit of a competition between the three of us to try and track down a star from one of those decades and get the best star, get a message from them. And Megan, you've already tracked down someone. We talked about it yesterday.

You've already tracked down someone. I have. I have. I thought maybe I'd go first because then, you know, if you guys do better, I'm still stuck. So after eight today, we're going to hear the message. Yeah. Will we know them? Shall I tell you what genre?

So they're an actor Okay 90s or noughties? 90s 90s Booyah Booyah And we'll know them

Yeah Okay Yeah you'll definitely know them How impressed will we be? I'm hoping you'll be impressed Okay Great It's a movie

In New Zealand or international? International Oh international A movie you definitely know. Okay, so that's after 8 o'clock this morning. I'm excited. Also reflecting, we've got a whole box load of old toys and things from the 90s and early noughties that you can win right now with a classic radio game, Beat the Bomb.

Yesterday, we did Battle of the Sexes. I was expecting some intro. Yeah. Bang. Do you want an intro? There it is, baby. I was expecting like some intro. Bang. Do you want an intro? There it is, baby. Beat the bomb.

So, pretty simple game. You just got to yell stop before the bomb goes off. Right. Yes, Ben. Usually there's money attached to this campaign. Your chance to win your share of thousands of dollars is what would normally happen. Didn't we just adapt this for like cash and car recently? Like, guess how much money's in there before the boot shuts? Yeah, yeah.

A version of, yeah. It's been incarnations. Yeah. But we're taking it back to old school. The origins. Now, we've got a box load, as I said. We've got Brat Stoles. We've got a Tamagotchi.

Have we given away the Tamagotchi? Yeah, I'm wondering, which of these toys have we given away? We probably should take them out. No, still got the Tamagotchi. Okay. The Brat Stole we gave away before, right? We've got Polly Pockets. We've got a Drinking Lucky Bird.

Okay, so I weigh 100 of the hats. We've got a Nintendo, what was that? Game Boy? DS. A Nintendo DS, you name it. Sam, welcome from Palmerston North. You are on. Beat the bomb.

Okay, Sam. All right, you just yell stop and you can have your pick of one of these glorious prizes. All right, you tell us when you want to go. Yeah, I'm ready. All right. Okay, start. Oh.

You didn't say anything. Sam didn't yell stop, unfortunately. Sam didn't even have a chance. What do you mean? He said go. He was ready. Sam, we're going to figure out What do you mean? He said go? He was ready? Sam, we're going to pick you out something anyway, all right?

All right, you can have another go, Sam. All right, are you ready again? Yep. Count to three. Oh, Sam. Sam, we're going to hook you up with some hell pizza and we might flick you out one.

Yeah, this is... Usually as the clock's ticking, it's like $10, $30. Does anyone else want to play no one does no one does why sam we're gonna send sam out some hell pizza and something from the box as well people like you that made this game not fun