Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: We Try FaceTiming Clark Gayford!

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

ON TODAY’S SHOW: Megan’s gone a little wild... Is this the ultimate parking hack? Did you ever achieve your childhood dream job? Jono’s concerned he’s looking suspicious… What do our coffee orders say about us? A Gen Z breakdown! Megan can’t say “regularly”... and it’s hilarious! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast on a Thursday, where you will kick straight into it with a face-to-face time under the theory that no one likes answering a FaceTime call. Yeah, we've been FaceTiming. They had to be well-known people in our phones,

but even though I had two people technically answer my FaceTimes, I think you might have won today, Ben. Did I win or did I lose? Well, you probably lost a friend. Yeah, true. You answered and probably regretted answering it. And blocked you. Yeah, probably.

Someone I used to make a TV show with for many years back in the day, and it's flat. Oh, my Lord. We made pop sport with four of us, spent many, many hours. With Clark Gayford. You're about here. In spent many many hours with Clark Gayford you're about to hear in the kitchen yeah Clark Gayford

who is now of course married to Jacinda Ardern yeah you must retell that story of someone trying to flush the power shell down the toilet oh that was

yeah so a flat that you know we were all kind of pretty much living even though I wasn't actually like flatting there

we were spending so many hours editing through the night and stuff. He had other flatmates as well, Clark at the time. And the toilet started to sort of almost overflow. Like it was filling up and not flushing. And we're like, this is not good. And you kind of risk it and then you're like, it's not going to get a little higher.

And then someone got the bathroom and be like, oh God, this is getting higher and higher. The anxiety of when that water level fills up. And it was not looking great we got a plumber over and the plumber's like has anyone put anything down the toilet tried to you know and we're like no no and we know no no we're all looking at each other no he goes you sure okay and then i reckon they do that because they're like well i'm about to find out yeah he did this he did his thing came back out and goes sorted all sorted and we're like oh what was that and he had

and his gloves on he had it and he was like, all sorted. And we're like, oh, what was it? And he had, and his gloves on, he had it, and he was like, and he had half a power shell, like, you know, a power shell. He's like,

I thought, well, sort of like a power shell. He's like, this power shell was in, like up and stuck inside the toilet. And, and,

and then one of the other guys who were making the show with me, oh, and we looked at him, he goes, yeah, that was on top of it. Cause it was like,

it's on top of the toilet. And he was like, I knocked it and it went in the toilet. I just tried to flush it. We're like, at any point over the week, did you... Oh, my God. Not one stage did he mention that there's got to be something that happened. It was an ongoing discussion. Did anyone flush anything weird down the toilet?

Yeah, yeah. The toilet keeps filling up. Does anyone know what it is? You know, like, oh, a constant conversation. Don't flush the toilet. You go to the toilet. It's like for a week, like this thing. And he's like, oh. Oh, like a constant conversation. Don't flush the toilet when you go to the toilet. It's like for a week, like this thing.

And he's like, oh. Oh, yeah, I did. I tried to flush it. You're like, oh,

okay. Well, that would be it. The power shell. So yeah, not flushable, power shells. Okay,

good to know. Yeah, not that you needed to know that. I think, oh, common sense would have told you that. You'd think so. Yeah,

anyway, this is what happened when we FaceTimed Clark Gafford. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. We do something called Face the FaceTime under the theory that no one really wants to answer a FaceTime call. So we actually plug in our cell phones into the system.

It comes up as our number. And the other two, you get to decide today, Megan, Jono, who you call FaceTime from my phone. So Megan's got my phone. You're going through. You're finding it. What I'm finding is there's a lot of, you know, made a lot of sporting comedy shows back in the day, and we had no production.

There was four of us that made the show. So, yeah, I was obviously contacting a lot of guests, and so a lot of these contacts are probably from about, oh, probably longer than that, 15 years ago. So if you wanted to call frank bunce in 2009 yeah frank bunce is great it helped very a lot of these people very generous people that helped out for no money uh which is great yeah you're like you found what dan carter before i'm like dan carter i have dan carter's number again it's probably apparently you do 15 20 years ago. You've been a creep and you've saved his number, haven't you? For production purposes.

Yeah, for production purposes. But probably like 15 years I would not have contacted him on this. He'll get a face. He'll be like, I won't come. Oh, God. I can imagine Dan Carter probably won't answer this phone call. I don't blame him. Is it actually?

I don't know. Because it's under Daniel Carter. Yeah, it seems weird. You're not his mum. Is it actually Dan don't know Because it's under Daniel Carter Yeah it seems weird You're not his mum Like Is it actually Dan Maybe it's like an accountant Or someone

Yeah Daniel Carter I don't know I don't know Oh you've only got his email Oh Yeah no You've got an email to him going

Cameo on the new series Of Pulp Sports Says hi Dan How's things We're just in the process Of shooting a new series that'll go to air in the later part of 2009. Oh, my Lord.

Yeah, so there's the last time I've contacted him. Would you be keen on doing another quick cameo at some point? Has he left it on scene or did he get back to me? He definitely didn't get back to you. He did do a cameo in Bulksport, but that may be he didn't do one after that first cameo. All right, so we have to go into the second choice. So we've got Clark Gayford, former first man of Aotearoa.

Oh, jeez. So you can hit it. You can hit it. I don't want to hit it. I believe that Jacinda Ardern's at Harvard still, right? In Massachusetts? How do you even say that? Okay.

Calling Clark Gayford. Oh, God. Last time you even say that? Okay. Calling Clark Gayford. Oh, God. Last time you spoke to Clark? Oh, he sent me something on Instagram. The guy was a fishing guy, but his name was Ben Joyce. So he sent me a video of Ben Joyce. No context. Wait.

Also, why does it sound like this? Voice? Oh, my God. Oh, jeez. We're doing a game called Face to Face Time where these guys have my phone and they were like... I got so excited, I thought it was Ben Boyce and all I got was John. Hey, hey! We didn't expect you to answer, they were like, we've got Clark's number, will you answer

a FaceTime? I was like, probably not, you're probably overseas and all sorts. That's right. I am overseas. What time is it there? Where are you? What's going on? It's the radio.

You know what it's like, the constant grind of radio, mate. This is what we're doing these days. Is it like 6.30 over there where you are? It is. I'm currently cooking dinner. Oh, sorry. Right in the middle of it. You know what it's like with, you know, a kid and stuff.

Right in the middle of it. Yeah. What's for dinner, Clark? Well, actually, I just put it in. The kids really got really partial to an artichoke, so I had to go. Oh, really? Partial to an artichoke. I know.

Long may that last. I've got the air fryer out. I've got a bit of chicken on the go, some broccoli. It's looking pretty wholesome. You're actually quite handy. You're always quite handy in the kitchen. You actually make some pretty good meals. Well, it's single swim around here. You know, no one else is going to feed us.

Out there, buddy, catching the meals as well. And then he's out there making them, creating them. Now, Clive, are you enjoying America? And what's the fishing like over there? Actually, it's not too bad. I managed to get out up in Maine and caught a massive

northern bluefin tuna, so it was pretty good. Oh, there we go. What's one thing they're doing better over there than we're doing here? I noticed they've got a higher level of water on their toilet system. They do. Is that better or worse?

I haven't quite figured that part out yet, but yeah, it's unsettling how high it is. What are you missing from home then? Oh, just a good Goodman's pie. There's a real hole in the market over here. I don't know if we can send that. No, we'll post you a Minns pie. We'll post you a Minns pie.

Oh, well, nice to see you. I'm sure you're regretting every part of answering this. I'm sorry. Well, Ben, I mean, you still owe me $1,500. So I thought that you finally got on there. Hey, I knew you were so cagey about calling you. Time difference. When a call comes through and you're expecting money

and all you see is a full face of Jono, it was quite the turnaround. But good to see you guys. All right, you break it up. All right, yeah, us too. All right, see you, mate. I'm going to burn my arty choke. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. I'm going to be losing my mind. What's going on, mate? I don't know. I'm very much in my era where there's a lot going on. There's kids, there's work, there's stuff. Chariotric.

Chariot trick here She did her neck in this morning Just by simply turning Oh I know Just turning her head Is it still rough? It is still rough Sore necks are a nightmare

No I sympathise And you really want a good story But I looked to the left And I've tweaked my neck Ben look back on the camera It wasn't even a jolt No It was just a slight turn

Thank you for looking back Slight turn Just a very gentle turn. I don't know. Maybe it is my geriatric error. It's not whiplash or anything, is it? No. There's a step out of the studio,

so be careful you don't ever fall after the show. We'll keep an eye on you. But yeah, I am becoming, I don't know if it's forgetful, but I very much am in that era where you walk into a room and you're like,'ve no I've got no idea why I've come here yeah all the time and it's just busyness a lot going on in life and in the morning I have a very strict routine I get my clothes out I do my makeup get dressed go to the kitchen make myself a coffee you know like it's a very strict regimented machine down to the

minute you've got your clothes out the night before? Yeah. Wow, you are organised. Yeah, when I first started this job, I got to a point where I was pre-toothpasting the toothbrush and I was like, this is insanity. Don't do that. But yesterday, you might remember I was in a bit of a flap. I know that I made myself an iced coffee, as I do every day, in my little cup. And I got to work and I was like I don't know

where it is went down to my car didn't leave it in the car I went and retraced all my steps at work and I was like I don't know where it is you were you were but you're looking everywhere in the office and it's a very distinctive pink cup with a metal straw like I would see it so I looked everywhere I was like it's definitely not here. They were like, did you even make a coffee? Did you leave it on the roof of your car? Yeah, that's one that, you know, when you're getting into a car. Yeah, I went home and I was like, it's not, it wasn't anywhere in my car.

I went home, I couldn't find it anywhere. And it turns out that in the morning I had locked the front door and popped it down on the mat. Oh, it was there the whole time. As my husband opens the door, there's like a coffee cup greeting him on the front door and popped it down on the mat. Oh, it was there the whole time? As my husband opens the door, there's like a coffee cup greeting him on the front door mat. So I'd popped it down and just like driven off and left my coffee cup. Yeah, that's the thing. Ben, sometimes you leave home and you see that the dog's weed on the floor

and you pretend not to see it. Just so you don't have to clean it up. The cat's coughed up a furball. You're like, I didn't see that at all. If no one's seen you see it. That's right. Who knows? It could happen any time. Exactly. It's the joy up a furball. You're like, I didn't see that at all. If no one's seen you see it. That's right. Who knows? It could happen any time.

Exactly. It's the joy about leaving in darkness. The ultimate excuse. Well, you know, as you said, every second sort of counts in the mornings. You're like, do I have time right now to do this? Yeah. No, is the answer. But then when the madness of the morning starts.

They definitely don't have time either. But you didn't have time. But it's become their problem. Yeah, exactly. I'm the first person to decide I don't have time either but you didn't have time but it's become their problem yeah exactly I'm the first person to decide I don't have time if you weigh the

two schedules up you probably actually have a bit of leniency Jono, Ben and Megan the podcast the hits

Ben you said your dad Kevin Boyce has the ultimate parking hack if you're driving to work this morning you're worried

about getting a car park yeah he's something he's said for many years he loves his little sayings and stuff.

And I caught up with Dad. We were in Wellington for the Wheatbix triathlon. Supporting on the kids on Saturday night because Dad lives in the Kapiti Coast. Caught up with him for dinner. And he was driving around with his step-mom and he was driving. And we were struggling to get, it was homegrown was on in Wellington, so we were struggling to get a park. And he did something that I hadn't heard him do for many years

because I hadn't driven with him that much. He says something, and I don't know exactly what he says at the start, but it's like, please, St. Francis, please, St. Anne, find me a park as fast as you can. And he says this out loud. So he's praying to the patron saints of parking. Yeah, I guess they're the patrons. I'm not hugely religious, so I don't know if they, maybe they are.

I'm pretty sure it was a god who made all the saints, or it's someone, all the universe. They're the Patriots. I'm not hugely religious, so I don't know if they, and maybe they are. I'm pretty sure it was a God who made all the saints, or it's someone, or the universe. They're the parking ones, I think. You're on famine, you're on war, you're on park. I'm on parking? Yeah. I'm parking? And then, lo and behold, 30 seconds later,

a park was there, and he's like, see, always works. I'm like, we had been driving around for 10 minutes. And I'm like, well, to be fair, a park was going to open up eventually. But you've been driving around for 10 minutes, and then'm like, well, to be fair, a park was going to open up eventually. But you've been driving around for 10 minutes and then 30 seconds after his little chant, it turned up. But what point do you give it to divine intervention or just the law of averages?

Where's the threshold? Yeah, exactly, exactly. A park's going to show up eventually. And I feel like if you're going to use your help in that regard for anything, you know. help in that regard you know for anything you know car park on a Saturday night

in Wellington you know if that's the one thing that's always if that's the one thing that you really like right now you're like

what do you want to wars going on in the world the famine no a car park would be great right now and it was handy I don't mean right

it was close to the restaurant it was an easy walk it was perfect it's the thing that puts him out the most. Yeah. It's like, if I'm going to pray for anything, it's a car park. There's going to be a moment in life where Kevin's going to go, damn it, I prayed for too many car parks.

Got a lot of great car parks over there. There's going to be a lot of great car parks. Yeah. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. Liam Lawson, Kiwi F1 driver. He's done incredibly, incredibly well to make it.

His childhood dream to get in the F1 driver. He's done incredibly, incredibly well to make it. His childhood dream to get in the F1, and he's been there. It's a really tough start to the season, and there's a whole lot of rumors swirling around that it looks like very cutthroat that he might be gone. He might be replaced to a lesser team, like the junior team, but still in F1. Also, these are rumors coming out of media overseas, so it hasn't been confirmed

by Red Bull, so I'm kind of holding on to hope that maybe... I'm stopping drinking Red Bull after this. I'm off it. Yeah, I'm off it. Do you know I started drinking Red Bull because of this? Oh, get rid of it. And now I'm like, no. Do you know what I'm going to stop doing? I'm going to stop driving at 300km an hour down the motorway in protest of this disgusting act.

But he's only been there for two races. First one, it was torrential in Melbourne. He'd never driven in that track. And he had car troubles. Second one, he had car troubles again. And he'd never driven in that track either. And it feels like all the decisions that were made, hey, I'm not an expert.

I'm just soaking up what Megan's told, you know, bangs on about every week. Relentless Formula One coverage. Yeah, huge fan of Formula One and Liam Lawson. As we all are in New Zealand, we're immensely proud of what he's achieved. I just think you've got to give someone a bit of a chance. Two races.

Especially with the decisions from what you were saying about the car and what they were doing to the car, probably out of his hands. Yeah. Give the guy a chance. It's made him a scapegoat, maybe, potentially. So, yeah, we hope that he gets a fair go. Hopefully he gets to stay in Formula One.

Either way, it looks like he might in the lesser team. But he is living out his childhood dream. Do you know Grace, producer Grace, has put up some sort of weird Liam Lawson shrine behind Megan, sort of a manifestation shrine. To hopefully keep him in there, right? Yeah. Hopefully he doesn't walk in here right now.

He's either going to really like this support or think we're really weird. Yeah. Like the burning candles and things are a bit weird. But yeah, he's been in karting. A lot of these race car drivers start in karting when they're really, really young, like almost my son's age. And then they dream of being in Formula One.

And this was his dream. And this team was his dream. Incredible too. His parents, you know, they sold their house to help him to pursue his dream. And I don't think they've bought a new one either. They're still riding that wave. So if anyone needs him to stay at Red Bull, the next house.

He was interviewed and he was talking about, because obviously he looked up to all these drivers, they were his heroes and what's it like racing alongside them? These guys were my heroes when I was young and of course I respect them a huge amount for what they've done in the sport, especially the top guys. And of course, you know, I respect them a huge amount for what they've done in the sport, especially the top guys. And it's, you know, guys like Lewis, for example. Lewis was my hero when I was very young.

When I first got into go-karts, I was watching Formula One and he was somebody I looked up to. And I respect all these guys, but at the end of the day, you know, I'm competing against them. So they're no longer heroes of mine, the guys that I'm racing against. And I guess I can't, you know, look at them like that or, you know, because obviously I'm trying to beat them.

That's a good point. Were you destined for anything special when you were a child, like a Formula One driver? When I was really young, really, really young, I used to, like, watch you guys on TV and stuff. Oh, shut up. And now I'm living the dream, you know? Now I get to work with you.

Unnecessary. What cheap lowbrow comedy. No need. But do you know, actually, in reality, a lot of you go out sometimes and there's like fully grown 23-year-olds and they're like, you were my childhood. And you're like, oh, end me now. End me now.

But, yeah, my mum, rose mum rose tinted glasses with your parents and what they believe they see in the talent in their children a lot of the times. Obviously Liam's parents were right. Annie Pryor thought I was destined for Wimbledon, destined for tennis glory. Thought I was a little Andre Agassi. She'd drop me off at the tennis tournament over the school holidays

and I'd go there and I'd eat toasted sandwiches and pies, get knocked out in the first round. That's probably because you ate toasted sandwiches and pies. Knocked out. Then they had a special plate round if you were knocked out in the first round, lost the first round of that. Then they had a real mongy round. And that's how I ended up.

And then I'd have to spend a week and a half just eating toasted sandwiches. She thought I was still in the tournament. Now you just talk rubbish. Okay, so under the hat, it's a 4-4-8-7. We want to know, as a child, what did you want to do? What did you believe you were destined for? Maybe it's what your parents believed. Or maybe it's probably a lot more comical if you're not doing it right now.

My parents really thought I was going to be a doctor, and now I'm here. With your heroes. Yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. Liam Lawson, Kiwi F1 driver. He's Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Liam Lawson, Kiwi F1 driver. He's done incredibly, incredibly well to make it.

His childhood dream to get in the F1, and he's been there. And it's a really tough start to the season, and there's a whole lot of rumors swirling around that it looks like, very cutthroat, that he might be gone. He might be replaced to a lesser team, like the junior team, but still an F1. Also, these are rumours coming out of media overseas, so it hasn't been confirmed by

Red Bull, so I'm kind of holding on to hope maybe. I'm stopping drinking Red Bull after this. I'm off it. Do you know I started drinking Red Bull because of this? V-mate, New Zealand owned. You know what I'm going to stop doing? I'm going to stop driving at 300km an hour down the motorway in protest of this disgusting act. But he's only been there for two races.

First one, it was torrential in Melbourne. He'd never driven in that track. And he had car troubles. Second one, he had car troubles again. And he'd never driven in that track either. And it feels like all the decisions that were made, hey, I'm not an expert. I'm just soaking up what Megan's told, you know,

bangs on about every week. Relentless Formula One coverage. Yeah, huge fan of Formula One and Liam Lawson. As we all are in New Zealand, we're immensely proud of what he's achieved. I just think you've got to give someone a bit of a chance. Two races. Especially when the decisions from what you were saying

about the car and what they were doing to the car, probably out of his hands. Yeah, give the guy a chance. He's made him a scapegoat, maybe, potentially. So yeah, we hope that he gets a fair go. Hopefully he gets to stay in Formula One. Either way, it looks like he might in the lesser team. But he is living out his childhood dream.

Do you know Grace, producer Grace, has put up some sort of weird Liam Lawson shrine behind Megan, sort of a manifestation shrine. To hopefully keep him in there, right? Yeah. Hopefully he doesn't walk in here right now. He's either going to really like this support or think we're really weird.

Yeah. Like the burning candles and things are a bit weird. But yeah, he's been in karting. A lot of these race car drivers start in karting when they're really, really young, like almost my son's age. And then they dream of being in Formula One and this was his dream.

And this team was his dream. Incredible too, his parents. They sold their house to help him to pursue his dream and this team was his dream. Incredible too, his parents. You know, they sold their house to help him to pursue his dream. I don't think they've bought a new one either. They're still riding that wave. So if anyone needs him to stay at Red Bull, the next house.

He was interviewed and he was talking about, because obviously he looked up to all these drivers, they were his heroes and what's it like racing alongside them? You know, these guys were my heroes when I was young and and of course you know i respect them a huge amount for what they've done in the sport especially the top guys um and it's you know guys like lewis for example lewis was my hero when i was when i was very young when i first got into go-karts i was watching formula one and and he was somebody i looked up to and and i i respect

all these guys but at the end of the day you know i'm competing against them so they're no longer heroes of mine that the guys that i'm racing against and i guess i can't you know look at them like that or you know because obviously i'm trying to beat them that's a good point uh were you destined for anything special when you're a child like a formula one driver when i was really young really really young i used to like watch you guys on TV. Oh, shut up. And now I'm living the dream, you know? Now I get to work with you.

Unnecessary. What cheap lowbrow comedy. No need. But do you know, actually, in reality, a lot of you go out sometimes and there's like fully grown 23-year-olds and they're like, you were my childhood.

And you're like, oh, end me now. But yeah, my mum rose tinted glasses with your parents and what they believe they see in the talent in their children a lot of the times. Obviously Liam's parents were right. Annie Pryor thought I was destined for Wimbledon, destined for tennis glory. Thought I was a little Andre Agassi. She'd drop me off at the tennis

tournament over the school holidays and I'd go there and I'd eat toasted sandwiches and pies, get knocked out in the first round. That's probably because you ate toasted sandwiches and pies. Then they had a special plate round if you were knocked out in the first round. Lost the first round of that. Then they had a real mongy round. That's how I ended up. Then I'd have to spend a week and a half

just eating toasted sandwiches. She thought I was still in the tournament. No, you just talk rubbish. Okay, so under the hat, it's a 4-4-8-7. We want to know, as a child, what did you want to do? What did you believe you were destined for? Maybe it's what your parents believed. Or maybe it's probably a lot more comical if you're not doing it right now.

My parents really thought I was going to be a doctor. And now I'm here. With your heroes. Your childhood heroes. Jono, Ben and Megan. Doing it right now. My parents really thought I was going to be a doctor, and now I'm here, so. With your heroes. Yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits.

Yesterday I had a few, probably 20 minutes to kill, and I was parked in a little inlet car park, and I was, oh, there's a Harvey Norman. I haven't been into a Harvey Norman in years. I was just going, peruse. You know, look around at stuff that you don't know you need and then you think you need when you walk in there and then sometimes you walk out with a thing and you don't need it, turns out.

But I was just perusing. And I was the only customer in the store. And I have never been, can I help you there? Are you all right there? Anything you need a hand with there? So many times. They were very helpful. They were very helpful. They were very helpful.

And even got a, you're just browsing. Right. And I was just browsing. But it got to the point of the browsing where I felt all eyes on the shop on me. What's this guy here for? What's his motive? You feel like there was a CCTV camera sort of following my movements. Yeah, it was at least like we want to help you and more like, are you going to steal something?

Are you casing the joint out? Right. And I look like a guy who's probably going to take something from a shop, I get that. But I guess in one of those stores though, you're not necessarily going to buy something every time you go in.

There's some stores, like I went into the supermarket the other day just to get one thing. It was like a cleaner for the dishwasher and they didn't have it. But then you're in there and you're like, it's weird to walk into the supermarket

and not walk out with anything. Yeah, you feel like it's the most uns into the supermarket and not walk out with anything yeah you feel like it's the most unsuspicious suspicious thing you'll ever look like you're doing yeah

but they also make it really hard to leave to walk out and I'm like do you have to go through like a guilt purchase to get something I think I bought a banana

or something on the way out just because I was like I can't walk out with nothing what did you walk in in your pocket oh it was a mandarin

that I carry from lunch and then I was like oh dear god I've taken a mandarin into the store and then i was like i bought more mandarins and added my one into it so i paid for that thing twice because i didn't want to walk out there was like hey you got mandarin in your pocket i'm like oh no i bought that in here like who brings a mandarin to the supermarket yeah i mean yesterday i started i started comparing toasters so it just looked like I was there on a mission, holding the toasters up, doing the pushing down thing, going, how does that one push down?

Just so you look like you've got a purpose. Like if you walk into a store and you've got no purpose. Clothes, maybe you can browse a bit, all right. But you're right, one of those things, you've probably got a purpose. Yeah, and I walked out with five blenders in my pants. Huge win. Huge win. Did you buy the blender?

No. Hell no. Yeah. Jonoers in my pants. Huge win. Huge win. Did you buy the blenders? No. No. Hell no. John O, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Our Dilmar T, big supporters of the show, and we love our Dilmar T.

We brought her one this morning. I mainline it every morning. Just have a chew. Pumping. Pumping that tea goodness straight into my veins. But Pedro Pascal, actor. Sorry. Last of Us is the new series of that.

It's out right now as well. He's in Gladiator, Narcos, Game of Thrones. He's a wonderful man. I can't put a face to the name. Let me put a face to the name. Oh, yeah? He kind of looks like Orlando Bloom. No, he doesn't.

No, he doesn't. What do you mean he doesn't look like Orlando Bloom? You're looking at one photo. Does that look like Orlando Bloom? That probably, yes. Maybe it's just the moustache. He's like the daddy of the internet at the moment. Yeah, very handsome actor.

Well, he was packed, you know, and I say, you know, like out and about with his coffee order. Okay. And so he was, and what they've done is they've zoomed in, he's gone to Starbucks and they've zoomed in on it. You know how sometimes the order comes on a little sticker on there as well. Well, he's explained it. Jimmy Kimmel, the American talk show host, has explained his, I'd say, a wild coffee order.

They got your coffee order. An insane order, by the way. Is that six extra shots or six total shots in one cup of coffee? I cannot begin to tell you how violating this was. This is a methacino at this point. So he's like, yeah, started with four shots.

The cup sizes have got larger. He feels like the shots have got smaller. So he's like, I'm going six shots now. He's always coffee for the day. He's in one hit and he sips it. But he was like, six shots.

I don't blame him. To be fair though, like what's the biggest one? A venti. He's got a venti, yeah. So he's got the biggest size and he's like, this is what I have for the day. And then after that he's on Del Marti. So that's like three coffees. Well, yeah, I guess. Yeah, and coffees in one.

Most coffees are a double shot. That makes absolute sense. At the times I've been to America, I've ordered seven shots in those cups. Good Lord. They run a weak coffee system over there. Maybe that's it. I mean, he's not originally from America, right? He's probably not coming here and getting sick shots.

No, no. He can do no wrong in my eyes. He's Chilean, mate. But they'll be having just short little espressos and things. Now, Producer Grace, welcome to the studio. Always frightens me when Gen Z Producer Grace comes in with content that's going to make us look and feel old. Exactly.

Yeah. What is this? Oh, well, no. We were just talking the other day. And we were talking about, you know, hot drinks in particular, you know. And you were saying, you know, sometimes, as we said before, we have Dorma tea. But then sometimes when we go and get a coffee, you were like, oh, you reckon you can sum up a person by their coffee order. Yeah, exactly.

Ben gets a flat white, just a plain flat white because he likes structure. You know, he likes form. And he's a flat white guy. He's just a flat white guy. No flat white Because he likes structure You know he likes form And he's a flat white guy He's just a flat white guy No real fuss He's a vanilla He's just a flat white guy He's like give me the basic

Yeah Jono gets a piccolo Because he's hard and fast He's like let's do it Let's do it now Yeah Bit crazy but Also pretentious

I think coffee orders Or hot drink orders And your car Says a lot about you So I drive an Audi And get a piccolo. And if you google absolute tosser on the internet I think there's just images of me.

See, I don't think a piccolo is a tosser order. A piccolo is like a flat white without so much milk. It's like, get it done. Maybe it's just the tiny cup doesn't help your street cred. It's like getting a small, what do you call it

Like a black coffee But you're Too baby enough To like get it black You just need A little bit of milk Just need a little bit of milk Yeah

Like you go to Instead of having A glass of wine At dinner or a beer You have shots You just always have shots Yeah I just want to get done

You're like What if I enjoy it Shono's having the shots Of the coffee world And out done And you're like Was there any point to that It's a gateway to the espresso

Yeah Yeah I'm on the marijuana On my point to that? It's a gateway to the espresso. Yeah. Yeah. I'm on the marijuana on my way to me. Megan, what's your coffee order? Excuse me? Well, I think I know. Is it a flat white?

Why are you offended by that? Because I go with her to the cafe all the time. Is it a flat white? You never buy coffees. Wait, is it a flat white with alternative milk? Yes. Oh, see, yeah. Don't make a big deal, Megan. Yeah. So Megan likes structure, but she's a bit flat white with alternative milk? Yes. Oh, see, yeah. Don't make a big deal, Megan.

Yeah. So Megan likes structure, but she's a bit flirty with alternative milk. And then I get an iced latte with a vanilla shot. Or matcha, because I'm just a cool Gen Z. Yeah, you confuse me with your drink orders. Every time we've, yeah, I don't know what you're after. What's the Gen Z fascination with iced drinks? Because I just, I don't know. It's just better.

Oat milk, goat milk, all the crazy milks you're chucking in there. But hot drink just gives old person. Do you not get that? Okay, right, we're wrapping up now. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Megan, you've had a rough morning this morning. You've done your neck in just by turning and looking at Producer Ellie. I've twinged my neck. She can't move. She's kind of like a

hunchback at the moment. Poor thing. And yesterday, this is 40. Coming fresh off her. Yeah, like we look back at the footage, because thing. And yesterday, this is 40. Coming fresh off it. We look back at the footage because you're like, oh, twinge my neck, like quickly turning around to see what was something. And then we look back at the footage and it's just a slight turn. Like a very slight turn. I just looked to the left and twinged it.

Not fast, just kind of anyway. Feel your pain. I did that just lying on a pillow the other night. Yeah, it's not good. But yesterday in a meeting you tried to say a word, and it threw us all because you couldn't nail it. It sounded like your tongue was doing parkour through the middle part of the word. What can't you say?

I avoid this every day. If I see it written down, I'll change it for often. I can't say regular-ary. Regular-ary. Reglerary. Damn it. Do you know what I'm trying to say, eh? No.

Reglerary. Was that it? Reglerary. What's the word? Reglerary. Reglerary. It feels like you're adding more to the word. Reglerary.

Yeah. Mind you, the English language, they do chuck out some. I think they're just designed to embarrass you in public some of the words in the dictionary We went onto YouTube to see if we could help you out Has it not come through? No it's just gone missing I'll try and find it, keep talking, do some filler stuff But it is one of those words

you've really got to think about I used to say specific was one of those words I really have to think about Because a lot of people say Pacific You have to really get your mouth around I really have to think about. Specific, because a lot of people say Pacific in the end. Yeah, you have to really get your mouth around, you know. I will have to play that for you shortly. I don't know where it's gone. Ben, it was on the thing.

We loaded it. We did our job. The computer's done us dirty. Dogged us again. There's a lot of syllables in that, though. I feel like people might be saying it wrong, but I'm definitely saying it wrong. Regulary. Regulary. You're not sure where it ends yeah yeah and when you look at the word i see what you're doing it

looks like it's got some extra things i think a lot of people are just going regular you know yeah can you say regulation regulation regular regular regular regular regular regular regular Regularly Regularly You say it Regularly Regularly Regularly Regularly Was that it? That was pretty I would understand What you were saying

So this is what we want To open up this morning 0800 It's 4487 What word are you Regularly saying wrong? What are you saying Wrong often?

You just try You try and say the word We'll try and decipher What the word is Oh that's a fun game Regularly Yeah We could delete it From conversation What happens when you Go through the drive-thru And they're like You try and say the word, we'll try and decipher what the word is. Oh, that's a fun game. Regulary. Yeah.

We could delete it from conversation. What happens when you go through the drive-through? And they're like, would you like a regular? No, same. Often they'll be like, do you want a large? And you say no. Or I say I want the medium. Just the reg, mate.

On the reg or something. Just the reg. Yeah. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hits. The end of the second episode of Adolescence, the programme everyone's talking about on Netflix. Basically what we do is we spend the first week on...

Sorry, that was not the grab I wanted to play. It was meant to be the trailer, the dramatic trailer of Adolescence. And if you don't know what it's about, essentially a young boy has been charged with murdering a young girl. And what's gone on is conversations online, influence, radicalisation online through social media.

It's obviously quite extreme in this circumstance, but I guess it's got a lot of people around the world, particularly parents, talking about teenagers and kids having access to phones, what's going on and what sort of barriers should be put in place. If I have another child, not having a phone until they're 33, after watching this show. But, jeez, Netflix will be rubbing their little bloody

streaming mitts together, won't they, off this one. Huge program. We spoke to Holly Jean. She's a parenting advocate yesterday, and she had this to say on cell phones and kids. We live in a digital era, and we don't want to just fully lock it all down and not have our kids connected, because this is the world that they live in. I just think it's really essential as parents that we understand the

world that they live in and that they do have boundaries in place because with older kids we're ideally we're putting boundaries in place and we're teaching them critical thinking and we're kind of scaffolding them into this into this independence online but at young ages we absolutely can put good boundaries in place. If you've got kids at a primary school age, you are in the ideal zone putting strong boundaries in place around tech because if you don't, it does take over. And she's on a podcast, 2iHeartRadio, if you want to listen to that.

We had a really interesting chat with Holly about the world now that kids are growing up in. And a lot of feedback after we played that interview with Holly yesterday and someone's messaged early this morning and wants to come on Mel good morning good morning great to have you on Mel uh adolescence you've watched it I have I struggled um it took me I could only do sort of half an episode at a time to be honest I've got a six year old and almost nine year old boy and yeah it it was hard i haven't i haven't watched it but i've read i watched lots of clips and i've read heaps about

it but i just want to kind of watch tv for an escape from reality this is quite full-on but at the same time i'm trying not to avoid the topic because i'm reading up a lot about it and seeing lots of clips yeah it seems very harrowing. I think you should watch it, but yeah, it's tough. What did you find particularly hard about it? The fact that they're so young. Yeah. Like, this boy is 13. That blew my mind.

But just this whole language that they have. I had to Google half the stuff that they were talking about. I didn't know what they were talking about in terms of their text messages and things and the emojis that they use. I didn't understand what any of that meant. I thought that was made up for the show, but it's not. So did I, but it's not. No, and I didn't understand it either,

and I thought I was pretty clued up on all that stuff. So that's scary in itself that they're talking in a whole other language. Are they using smiley face emoji and stuff? No, even like emojis you'd use for different – I was talking to Jazz Thornton the other day who does a lot of work for mental health and is quite in touch with that. She was telling me about emojis

that are now used out of context as other things. She may think an innocent... A rose thing means something else when used in a different context and things like that. So parents could be... You could be looking at your kid's phone and you might think Everything's innocent

Yeah So when I've been sending you I said Let's have eggplant For dinner Ben Again Exactly I like the eggplant man

In a lot of ways I love an eggplant Based dish Yeah No so have you changed Obviously your kids Aren't on social media But you've changed

What your approach Will be now After watching We're on YouTube Only allowed YouTube kids to kind of select what they watch. Great text through here. A now 20-year-old had a phone at

13. It was restricted to one hour a day. She thought we were Hitlers, but now totally gets it at age 20. Hey, thank you for your call. No problem. There we go. It's Adolescence on Netflix. Have a look at it and if you want to hear Holly Jean, parenting educator and advocate for online safety,

you can head to iHeartRadio. We had a good chat with her. Or text podcast to 4487. We'll send you back the link here. Oh, look at you with your bounce backs over there. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The hats.

The New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz is what we're doing right now. When did Kiwi Bank start is the question We're only on question two Jono was thinking 90s Only because I remember Bulger being associated with it But I don't know if that was Early 2000s is what's come through on the text

Maybe they were talking about it in the 90s And it happened officially in 2001 According to the text, multiple texts So I feel like we need to go with our lifeline. That is correct. Well done. Sorry, that was the wrong one. There we go.

Okay, let's get rolling. Here's the chairman. Okay, there we go. That was the tie-in. Oh, nice. Okay, question number three. The All Whites recently defeated which team to qualify for the FIFA World Cup? New Caledonia.

Correct, Ben. Nice work. Now I'm feeling good. Woo! Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. You'll get this one as well. Question number four.

Which rom-com saw a woman fall for a British Prime Minister? Love Actually. Love Actually. Nice. Correct. Question number five. In which year did Doja Cat receive her first Grammy nomination? 2019, 2020, or 2021?

I'd say 21 felt like that was the peak of when she was rising. We're going quick for it. Let's go to one. That is correct. Yes. Nice. Only like that was the peak of when she was rising. We're going quick for, let's go to one. That is correct. Yes. Nice. Only because that was the soundtrack. My daughter had that playing 24 hours a day. Nice, yeah.

She's a good Doja Cat. Yeah. She's amazing. She's cool. Question number six. The first subway line in North America opened in which city? Boston, Montreal, or New York City? This is going to be blind.

Put a blindfold on him. Fifty shades of grey him. We're going in blind. I don't know. I'm feeling like it's either Boston or New York would be what I'm guessing because they feel like they're old historic cities, but I might be totally wrong.

You've travelled through the States? Yeah, I didn't go, this is the first line. I've updated a few tracks. Boston? Boston is very historic. Did any of them have old mining situations where a train would be used?

No, no, that's a good point. It feels more like a Boston thing. Boston. It's got Boston. San Francisco. Sorry? Boston is correct. Thank God we looked at Boston.

It wasn't even an option, San Francisco. Question number seven. Which country is renowned for the bélon variety of oysters? Bélon? United States, Australia, or France? I was going to say France, but when you were mentioning it, but I don't know. It just sounded French. All right.

Let's go French. That is correct. Well done. We are blindly guessing our way through. Pace is good. Question number eight. What is the name of the Chinese philosophical system that emphasizes harmony with nature? Is it Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, or Taoism?

I think it's Taoism, isn't it? That's correct. Well done. Oh, my God. Well done. Question nine. You're going to get this, too. I don't even think it's great.

It's great. You're going to get this. In which New Zealand town Is the big carrot located? Oh, Cuny Correctamundo How have we ended up here? It's good

Keep going Pace is good Question number ten In which country Would you find Kilimanjaro? Is it Tanzania Japan Or Indonesia?

Gonna take the lights Of Shami away from you Did they mention it In that song? Toto? No, Toto Does that mean Kilimanjaro Did they mention it in that song, Toto? No, Toto. Does that mean they're in Kilimanjaro? Did they mention Kilimanjaro?

I don't know. There is rains down in Africa. Oh. Oh, Africa. So we're locking in Africa. No, but it wasn't an option. It wasn't an option. That's a continent.

But one of the options was Tanzania. Oh, Tanzania. Well, that's Africa, right? I think so. Well, Japan's not. Indonesia's not, right? Yeah. Are the options Was Tanzania Oh Tanzania Well that's Africa right I think so Well Japan's not Indonesia's not right Yeah Are you walking in Tanzania

Yeah That is correct Thank you Toto Welcome to the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz Slogged our bloody Little guts out yesterday To get a 10 out of 10

Got into a slipstream Of winning Didn't we team Yeah we did well yesterday. Sometimes it just flows. Sometimes, as you said yesterday, it feels like we don't deserve to get the answers correct. Yes, they felt like we were okay.

Felt like we knew a lot of the answers. We have to enjoy the high because I think we're about to be brought back down to earth. Okay, here we go. But let's not go and manifest a negative outcome here. No, we're going to do well. We know lots of stuff. Quiz Queen Ali here with her crown and her throne.

Lovely. Okay, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. All right, 10 out of 10 again, okay? Are we going to do it? Yeah, let's do it. Here we go. Which artist sang this 1964 hit, My Guy?

Was it Diana Ross, Mary Wells, or Dionion warwick dion warwick was it yeah is it what is this song oh that's a deal what's the other one walk on by i think she was yeah mary wells or diana ross diana ross must be diana ross yeah nothing you can well it must be mary Walk on by. Mary Wells or Diana Ross? Diana Ross. It must be Diana Ross. Yeah. Nothing you can do. Well, it must be Mary Wells.

My God. Do you know Dionne Warwick? I don't want to dogleg too much. She's the auntie of the rapper or the guy who started Death Row Records, Suge Knight. Oh, really? And she pulled them all over when they were at the height of their shooting in West Coast, East Coast.

Woke Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Suge Knight up and said, get to my house at 7 a.m. And they all went over there like little boys and they put suits on and then she gave them a roasting. Was that Dionne? Yeah, Dionne Warwick, yeah. Wow. Like peeled.

Oh, my love. There was an interview of Tupac going, I was a scared little boy. So anyway, that was a dog leg, sorry. Let's go to the middle one, eh? What was the middle one? The middle one was Mary Wells. Yeah, I feel like it was... You don't think, okay.

I don't think so. It wasn't Dion. Let's go Mary Wells. I don't know, Mary Wells. That is correct. Well done. Here we go. Yay.

I thought we were at a nine if it was Diana Ross. Yeah. All right. Kiwi Bank was founded in which decade? 1980s, 2000s or 1990s? 1990s, wasn't it? Sorry, I wasn't listening. Kiwi Bank was founded.

I thought Kiwi Bank's relatively new. What are the options? 80s, 90s or 2000s? Was it a Bulger thing? Jim Bulger's thing? Dudes, I don't know. Well, that would be 90s if it was a Bulger thing. Jim Bulger's thing? Dudes, I don't know. Well, that would be 90s.

It was a bulger thing. Maybe I'm too young to know. I don't know. Should we use our life on this one? Yeah. Because I really feel like we're going to guess this one. All right. So question number two.

Kiwi Bank was founded in which decade? 1980s, 1990s, or 2000s? Okay. Anyone from the banking system listening? We need you now. We are desperate. This is question two. It's not looking good, team.

It's not.