Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: What does Megan sound like after surgery?

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Have a listen to Megan right after surgery! We have host of Moving Houses, Andy Ellis on the show We put ourselves in 3 different scenarios and try avoid hearing Mariah Carey! Ben shares a habit that annoys his wife (and old flat mates) We hear your Car Complaints! Could Producer Ellie's post Wisdom teeth removal be funnier than Megan's post surgery? Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Jono and Ben podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts in tastes that Kiwis love. The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Welcome to the podcast. On a Friday where Megan's away, she had an operation. We've got some audio for you very shortly. After her operation, I asked for some audio and she delivered and it's great. It is great, yeah. It's a really vulnerable moment. Now we want to put the video on social media.

I think she said it's okay. She's fine. We asked her, and I was like, oh, maybe Megan. A bit off brand for Megan. Yeah, she's the fashionista. But I think her reply to Ellie was, I have a husband. I'm all good. So she snapped one up.

She's like, I'm not on the market looking. So if things end with the relationship, maybe we'll have to pull the video down. But it's very funny. Isn't that great when you find someone that you spend so much time with that, you know, everything, all the walls come down. The standards drop. Oh, boy, oh, boy.

My standards have dropped terribly. Particularly at this stage, you're like, well, is everyone still liking each other anymore? Yeah. It's like if I ever, and God forbid if it ever happens, had to get back out on the market. Oh, that would not be pretty. That would not be pretty. I'd love to see your middle-of-life crisis moment.

Like, spruce your belt, you're wearing different clothes, you're looking good. Has he got a wig on? He's wearing a wig. That would be great. Has he got an Ed Hardy t-shirt and a wig? Yeah, I couldn't wait for that. A little Mazda MX-5 or something? It's a fun show today, really fun podcast for you.

And we'll start with Megan's wonderful message. Now, Megan, she's away today and had an operation yesterday, carpal tunnel. She's getting that sorted out, so a bit of a wrist operation. And Ben made wild demands. He demanded he wanted a groggy Megan Pappas on the show. It's funny when people do come off, you know. It is. Pain killers.

So she went on under a general anesthetic so she was out cold. She had the option, right, of just getting a sort of local just, you know, numbing the arm but she was like, nope, I want to sleep.

Yeah. I thought, look, you'd probably just take the local, wouldn't you? But she knows she wanted a full sleep. She went zero to 100. Yeah.

The doctor's like, we can probably just do it with a Panadol. She's like, nope, knock me out. Yeah, she's owed about five we can probably just do it with a panadol. She's like, no, knock me out. Yeah, she's owed about five years of sleep after having her kids, I guess. So, yeah, she really took that chance. So did she fulfill Ben's request? So yesterday afternoon I got a lovely video from Megan sent to my phone,

and I've cut it down a little bit. I've just basically removed a lot of the gaps because it was essentially her talking, but it was just like gaps with like three seconds. Gap. So I've cut a bit of the gaps out so it's just a bit faster. But yeah, very funny stuff and

yeah, I guess have a listen. Okay, here we go. Hello. I had such the best sleep you guys would be so happy for me. I just had an exam and I've got a pink hand. It's never been cuter. You guys want a pink hand?

Do you want a pink hand? I can give you a pink hand. It's better than a pink eye. Am I right? She sounds like one of the Kardashians at the beginning. Hello. Hi. Hello.

I love her laughing at her own pink eye jokes. She was so stoked with herself. A very slow reaction to it. She's like, oh, that's funny. Oh, I said it. That's really good. Oh, there we go. I demanded that audio and I'm very pleased with it. Yeah.

I'm pleased. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. There's a brand new series of Moving Houses on on TV and Zed starting this weekend with a brand new host as well taking over from Clark Gayford is former All Black Andy Ellis and he joins us right now. Andy Ellis says we live and breathe. How are you fellas? We're doing alright. How are you doing? Very exciting. The new host of Moving Houses. It's an impressive show to watch. Some of the places that they go with these massive

trucks and then putting these huge houses on the back. I mean you get to ride shotgun for a lot of it. What was it like? Very, very long. We often leave and travel at night, and the moves can be 10 or 12 hours. And the thing is, mate, these truck drivers, they're amazing at what they do. They're really clever, and nothing's ever a problem. They can get these houses into just

any spaces, and their chat is quality as well. I think that there's a lot of chat. I mean, Jono's pretty good. You're good on flights, aren't you, Jono? You like chatting to people. Just chatting. I mean, 10 hours in a cab with a truck driver, that's a long haul for you, Andy.

Do you get to toot the horn or anything like that while you're in the trucks? I'll tell you what, one bloke did, and I probably shouldn't say this because we're not allowed to show this on TV or anything, but he actually let me drive. Drive the truck? Come on, Andy, it's 2.30 in the morning, mate he actually let me drive the truck. Come on Andy, it's 2.30 in the morning, mate,

you can drive for five minutes. It was pretty cool, but again, I probably shouldn't be telling that story. Ben just wanted to know if you were allowed to honk a horn. You're like, no, no, I can go one better, mate. Is that kind of cool because you get to not only move the houses there, but you sort of check back in when they're up and sort of

going, and that must be kind of cool to go back and see it all sort of starting to take shape. Probably my favorite thing, I reckon, is meeting the couples or the families, first of all, that are brave enough to do this, right? It's pretty cool because it's an affordable way to get into the housing market. And you sort of create this really cool relationship with them. You know, you're part of their journey when they move the house. And what happens is we sort of, we put it site, and then I get to come back five months later and see the beautiful job that they've done on it, but then get to catch up again with

the families or the couples that have actually done it and hear about all the hard work they've put in and see how proud they are of the end result. And I think I've kept in touch with most of them, actually. Awesome. Just because it's a really cool journey that they let us all come on. It's pretty unique and pretty special. Absolutely. Now, is it cheaper? Like, if you were to build a house or move a house? Oh, yeah. it's a really cool journey that they let us all come on. It's pretty unique and pretty special. Absolutely.

Now, is it cheaper? Like if you were to build a house or move a house? Oh, yeah. I mean, a lot of these people are getting them for, landed on a site somewhere for $150,000 or $180,000, maybe $200,000, you know, right around that sort of number. Wow. And that's consented on its piles, kind of ready to go. I think the one thing that a lot of these,

the people that move the houses don't fully understand is how much work then goes in. Yeah, that's where the cost comes in. Yeah, but if you're prepared to roll your sleeves up and work bloody hard and, you know, because you're sanding back and painting things and, you know, digging holes for wanting to put a deck on or sanding back beautiful old wooden floorboards,

there's a lot of work in all that, but you can end up with a really beautiful, affordable kind of family home. We've got Andy Ellis with us, former rugby player, now the host of Moving Houses. It's on Sunday on TVNZ1 and TVNZ+. You've moved houses yourself,

not literally moved houses, but you've lived and played in Christchurch, you've gone to Japan, you've gone to New York. What was the coolest place that you've lived? Oh, it's hard. Japan and New York were incredible. Christchurch is fantastic.

Oh, yeah, sorry. I shouldn't have put Christchurch. Cantabrians would be like, what? You didn't choose Christchurch? What do you mean you chose New York over Christchurch? Outside of Christchurch. So Christchurch is great. Okay, let's say between New York and Japan.

Yeah, oh, I mean, look, New York, you know, the kids were a good age too. They were kind of 8 and 13. So we literally landed in New York. We were there for two years. I played a couple of seasons there. The kids went to school in Manhattan. I don't know, there's just so much energy in that place. The people were great.

You know, they really made us feel welcome. We got invited to Thanksgiving dinners and celebrated Fourth of July and all this kind of real American culture stuff. We kind of just got immersed in and just had amazing memories. And the beauty is we've got lifelong friends now too, so we'll be back there for sure. Because you were playing over there, right? You were playing in New York.

Yep, yeah, I was playing in New York. So there's been a rugby competition, the MLR it's called, in America, and it's great. There's 12 teams. So we'd fly to New Orleans for a game, and then MLR it's called, in America, and it's great. There's 12 teams. So we'd fly to New Orleans for a game, and then the next week we'd be in Seattle, then we'd be in Toronto. It was such a cool competition to play in. That is very cool, very cool experience you've had,

but nothing compares to Christchurch. That's right. Let's bring it back to that. Yeah, exactly. Andy Ellis, we look forward to moving houses on this weekend. Also on this weekend, the All Blacks are just quickly playing Ireland. Obviously you watched last week's game as well. Do you still tune

in every game? Oh yeah, I love it, mate. I'm a passionate All Black fan now, so bring it on. This is going to be a duty in Dublin. I imagine there'll be times of frustration. As a former All Black, times of frustration having to watch. It'd be like us, Ben. We retire and then we have to listen to another radio show.

We'll probably go, damn, they're a lot better than us. That's what we say. Thank you so much for your time. Lovely to catch up, mate. And Moving Houses is back and appreciate your time. Always lovely chatting to you boys. Enjoy. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

The world's still talking about the big win for Donald Trump in America. He is again, well by the numbers, I'm deep diving into the numbers like I'm sort of Paddy Gower on some sort of... You're invested in the post numbers, the stats aren't you?

Are you aiming for a job on CNN or something? You know those people who touch the screens. Well things looking good in Florida, well there's this unique suburb which was democrat now it's republican uh there was vanity fair yesterday put out a little uh little thing by the numbers trump returns to power and they had a picture of him i thought it was interesting they're like 34 felony counts one conviction two cases pending two impeachment two impeachments six bankruptcies four more years it was the thing the 47th president of America. But it is interesting.

That really does sum up America. Just those stats right there. When you have a little look at who voted, a lot more females voted for Trump than I would have thought. Really? Obviously, he had to because he won by a bit. That had to be the case. But Trump got 54% of the males voting for him.

And so it still means that 44% of females voted for Trump. That is a lot more than I would have imagined. There's a little gap in between there. Yeah, I guess it's people who don't identify as a male or female, I'm guessing. Harris got 54% of the females. She's got more females than males. But yeah, still a lot more females voted for Trump

than maybe I would have thought. Trump got 55% of white people voting for him, whereas 86% of black people voted for Harris. So a lot,

a lot of white men voted for Trump and a lot of white women as well. So that's, I guess, where he won. Those are the stats

broken down. Just send that off. Is New South Wales still a thing? No, it's not really much of a thing. Someone, send that to someone. But you're just reading out other people's stats.

You've got to come up with your own stats. But I commented and pasted those stats. Kamala, she did her concession speech around about 10am our time yesterday. And, you know, as we expected, very gracious in defeat. And very presidential in her speech. So let me say my heart is full today, full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me, full of love for our country and full of resolve. We have been intentional about building community and building coalitions, bringing people together from every walk of life and background, united by love of country with enthusiasm and joy in our fight for America's future.

So you guys are very presidential, but unfortunately, that's the one thing that she's not going to be. Whereas you compare that to Trump, who just feels like he just gets up. And maybe that's what resonates with people. Something that he goes off script and gets into some weird places. Appreciation for Susie and the job you did. Susie. Come Susie. Come here Susie.

Susie likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you Susie likes to stay in the background, she's not in the back, thank you Susie Look at her, she's shy, I've never seen her be shy before Susie Yeah, so maybe that's what reason is, maybe people don't want the pre-prepared speeches I heard another radio station saying yesterday that for some reason a billionaire seems to relate better to middle america than the other candidate do you know this crazy thing i was talking to brin rudkin who uh reads the news and does the night show here on the hits he uh he's one of those people that you bump into and he's always got a new interesting story to tell you don't you find that about brin yeah and he was saying in the 1800s so 1889 there was uh some books kids books

written called the baron trump novels he's got a son called Baron Trump. Amen. Donald Trump. Amen, Benjamin. And the books, basically, the main protagonist in the books, very similar to Donald Trump. This was written in the 1800s. In the 1800s. So basically, Baron Trump would go around offending people.

He was precarious, relentless, and prone to get in trouble He often mentions his massive brain He has a personalized insult for most people he meets Also, Barron Trump in these books lives in a building called Castle Trump Where Donald Trump obviously lived in Trump Towers for decades Obviously, Donald Trump's son's name's Barron, as you just mentioned And there was a version of the book called The Last President for decades. Obviously, Donald Trump's son's name's Barron, as you just mentioned. And there was a version of the book called The Last President.

Okay? Now, this book and The Last President from the 1800s, it's from the 1896 presidential election. That's where it's set. And it follows a shocking victory of a populist candidate in the 1896 presidential election who brings the downfall of the American Republic. Well, there we go. It's Simpsons.

They say predict to the future, but this book from the 1800s might have done just that. Wow, that's fascinating. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. And the bath mat is a situation that people aren't. I've found over the years, the bath mat is something that people can get wound up in your house.

I feel like you're very irresponsible in your approach to the bath mat. And maybe I am. Like, I get that. I'll take that on the chin. So I used to flat with someone you know, the person, and he used to get really wound up. And because when I'm done with the shower, I'm out. I am that.

I'm not lingering around. I'm not drying myself. I am moving on with my day. I like to keep moving. Do you know what someone's actually texted? When did they text? It was this morning at six o'clock. And it was about your love of getting stuff done.

Yeah. And moving forward, constantly moving forward. They said, why does Ben always have to be doing things? It makes me feel lazy. And he's always talking about it on the radio. Sorry, I got that. Why does he always have so much admin to do? It makes me feel very lazy when I haven't done something.

Apologies. It's not my intention. I'm just like talking about stuff with me. He's a moving forward gentleman. So shower's done. I'm out. I'm on my way. I'm getting dry.

I'm standing what I thought the bath mat was used for, getting dried on. No. You dry, you pull the towel and you dry yourself in the shower. Why wouldn't you dry yourself in the shower. Why wouldn't you dry yourself in the wettest environment then hop out with your dry body thus not saturating the bath

mat. And I used to wind up because I would be first up, up and at them moving forward and the flat that I used to live in many years ago and it would wind up out. My flat mate at the time who you know John O'Reilly I would always hear BAD like yelled out in the morning. Like a comical sitcom. Yeah where he would get out of the shower and discover that the bath mat was still a bit yeah a bit too soggy I'm like and so then would you also just leave the mat on the

ground you don't hang it up well I do yeah but this is the other thing this is the thing that winds up my wife now I I will hang it up but very rarely when I know I'm up first I'm like well I'll just leave it for her and then she can do it because it's other but she doesn't like that she thinks it's me not hanging up the bathtub she's like I'm like what yeah but you're gonna have a shower I've left it there for you you're just gonna have to grab it off the you know the rack and put it down on the floor but saving her valuable seconds seconds every day at those second up boy oh boy yeah so this has become a new bone of contention about the the bath mat at home between my wife and I.

She's like, oh, one time I'd like you to pick up the bath mat. And I'm probably moving forward in my day. I'm not looking back at the bath mat. I'm just moving forward. Stuff to do. So I've now decided to not use the bath mat. Oh, you just go, you raw tile it. Then I'm not getting in trouble for no soggy bath mat and not getting in trouble for not, for not, no soggy bath mat and,

you know, not getting in trouble for not putting it away. But the downside is the floor can be a little slippery. Very slippery. It feels like, do you remember those commercials,

those PSA commercials of people hopping out the bath and slipping over and like, ending up paralyzed or something. Yesterday I was like, oh, no bath mat,

there we go. That'll teach you. As you're drinking through a straw, you're like, moving forward, mate. Moving forward. Maybe I shouldn't do that. Actually, I don't recommend that. I do feel sorry for the bath mat, though. Doesn't it?

It's like the carpet's poor cousin. He's like, what do you do? I spend all day saturated sitting on these. Sometimes people take the care to put me back and dry me off. Other times I just sit here and rot away. Yeah, true. You put it on a shelf, you put it in and we just stand on it again, don't we?

Carpet's like, I'm out here drying. People walk it all over me. Things are great. Every now and then I get spilled on, but apart from that... The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. The game that we have started to play leading up to Christmas, and you can play along as well. You can start right from now. You've just got to avoid hearing

Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas. It's the most iconic Christmas song. We thought we'd see how long it would take us to try not to hear that song. And this moment I would usually, given the rules and regulations of commercial radio, I'd be playing the hook of that song. You can't. No.

Otherwise we'd be out of the game. As soon as you hear it, you are out and you need to text us 4487 and as soon as we're all out, we'll start playing the song. It's a great song. Don't get us wrong. We just thought it's the most iconic, the hardest one to avoid this time of year. Yeah, Matty and PJ in the afternoons, they're playing along with us too. Once all five of us are out of the game, we're going to officially start playing it on the station.

But a lot of people playing along as well, listening. So many texts and calls going, oh, I'm out, TikTok got me out, I went into a shop yesterday. And so we thought we'd ramp things up after the program yesterday. And we put some locations, some volatile, high-risk locations into a hat and we each had to pull one out.

Megan ended up getting the iHeart Radio Christmas station. Yeah, she had to listen to five minutes of the Christmas Station. You had to go in the mall, the Westfield Mall, for five minutes where the Christmas decorations are up. And I had to scroll through TikTok. Just keep for five minutes, which has been the one that

has caught most people out. It was quite nerve-wracking. So here we are, spending five minutes doing those various things, trying to avoid listening to Mariah Carey. I don't know how I'm going to avoid the classic that is Mariah Carey. We're starting with Taylor Swift's Silent Night. OK. Culture shocks I had is American living in New Zealand.

Can I watch that? No. I've got to keep scrolling. I've got to keep scrolling. The decos are out. The music at the moment. Not feeling overly Christmassy. Golf Radio.

Oh, it's not Mariah! This is so scary because you just don't know what's next. What's that? Sounds like no scrubs from TLC, that's a right. But in the club we all fam, when I dip, you dip, you dip. Okay, I'm trying to get out, I've got 30 seconds left and I think this song's about to finish. It's not Mariah We've done it We've done it Five minutes

No Mariah Carey All I want for Christmas We made it out safely Jono Pariah Over and out So we're still All still in the game But we'd love to know

Right now Tell you what You feel like an Absolute twat Don't you Wandering around the mall Filming yourself Talking to yourself

What's this guy doing Absolute twat What sort of blog Is he doing That the mall filming yourself, talking to yourself. What's this guy doing? Absolute twat. What sort of blog is he doing that no one's going to watch? It's like, oh, that's sad. Is this what it's come to? Yeah. 4487, are you still in the game? Well, maybe you're out.

We'd love to hear from you this morning. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. All right. Mariah Carey also done some great stuff. She wrote a song in 15 minutes. All I Want for Christmas written in 15 minutes, which astounds me. Incredible, right?

You think about it from now, okay, and then by 8 o'clock she would have written the song. And a song that's garnered her over $60 million in royalties over the years. Every year a million bucks she pulls in from All I Want for Christmas. Crazy. So it's an iconic banger, and as we keep saying, we love it, but we're trying to avoid it because it's the most iconic Christmas song. We'll see how long we can avoid hearing it in our lives. You can play along as well, 4487, and let us know when you're out of the game.

And when we're all out of the game, our show and the Drive show, then we'll start playing the song. My sincerest apologies to Mariah. She might not be getting royalties from us at the moment, but eventually they'll start seeping in, those valuable New Zealand Airplay royalties. Let's get Brenna on the phone. How are you? I'm good. I'm good.

Yourself? Good. Thank you. Are you still in the game? No. Oh, what happened? Clicked on a Woolworths reel on Facebook. Oh.

And there she bled. There she bled. All over me. All her glory. All her glory. So Mariah Carey Oh no So you're out of the game

What worse using her In a campaign are they? What worse Than using her Absolutely Oh so that's going to be Very hard for us all To avoid

Did not realise that They did me bad Oh they did you bad Well we're going to We'll do you good We're going to put you In the draw For the competition

Given away today To go to the Jingle Ball in New York Oh amazing Thank you So good luck with that Good on you Brenna have a great day In Hamilton alright to put you in the draw for the competition given away today to go to the Jingle Ball in New York. Oh, amazing. Thank you. So good luck with that. Good on you. Brenna, have a great day in Hamilton, alright? Thanks guys, you too. All the best. Millie from Christchurch, you're on.

Are you still in the game? I don't know. Does it count if I've watched Love Actually and listened to the song that way? So, okay, Love Actually, iconic Christmas movie. Now, the version on there at the end in particular

is the little girl singing it, isn't it, right? In the band. I'll just YouTube it. I'll YouTube it. But there's no other Mariah Carey version? Mariah Carey's not in the movie,

is she? Like singing it, is she? No, she's not. Oh, yeah, I think it's fine. That's fine. No, we just stipulated it had to be recording artists

and multi-billionaire Mariah Carey singing the song live or recorded in the studio. It had to be her version of it, but the little girl in the end where she's like, all I want for you, and she points at the little boy. Oh, sweet. She's got a great voice too. Yeah, she does. Could I play it now?

Well, you can't play Mariah, but you can play that version. Do you want me to play that version? Yeah, go on. We'll get a little hit. Okay. A little hit, mate. Yeah, so we're still in the game listening to this. Okay.

I don't want a life for Christmas. Oh, it felt good. It felt good. You want a little bit more? Yeah, a little bit more. Okay, here we go. There's just one thing I need. Ooh, Millie, you want a little bit more?

Oh, I definitely want more. Okay, take it away. I don't care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree. That's pretty good. Yeah, that'll do me. That's pretty good. Yeah, that'll do me. That's pretty good. That's all I need.

My cup is full. We've got our fix. All right, you're still in the game, and you're also still in to go to New York for the Jingle Ball. We're going to put you on the draw for that, given away this afternoon on the hits. Wow, thank you. Good on you, Millie.

Have a great day. What are you doing today in Christchurch? I'm at work right now. Oh, good. Well, get back to work, mate. Not paying anybody to call radio shows, are we? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Something that happened with my daughter Poppy just last night. Okay?

And she texted just as I was doing that thing. She's like, I know what you're about to talk about. Oh, right. She said, I did very well. So that's her stance. That's her stance. You have a slightly different story. Slightly different take on it.

And you can decide who was right in the end. Now it's probably rattled your story, isn't it, the fact that she's listening to it? It has rattled me. Because you're probably like, well, you know, yesterday you're like. Yeah, yeah. I heard you recounted the story off the air. I won't filter. I won't filter.

I'll tell you my account. Okay. And maybe we can get her on, Poppy. You can call. The phone's here if you want to call. Yeah, we can record something if you want. We can play it later. That's fine.

Yeah. So I was picking her up from dance and as soon as she hopped in the car she declared, I will be guiding us home. Okay. You'll listen to only my instructions to get home. And I said, oh okay, this is a fun thing. And interesting

just sort of experiment for me to go, I wonder what a 12 year old's gauge is of getting from point A to point B. So how far would you have to go like a few k's probably uh i'd say seven or eight k's okay so quite a distance bit of a drive but you know we do it weekly we do it regularly um and i was out of curiosity i was like this is fun okay let's do it so i was gonna it was like it was kind of like uh if you like google maps but you dislike getting to your destination the quickest way possible, then may I suggest

listening to your kids? Give directions. But every street she turned me down, I was like in my head I was like, this is the wrong way. We are going the wrong way. I'm doing this myself and I'm like, this is a fun exercise to do with a kid. And she would go, keep going, keep

going, and then she'd go left, she'd go no no, keep going, keep going. And then she'd go left. She'd go, no, no, keep going, keep going. And then she'd go left here with confidence sometimes. And I'd follow it. And it dawned on me pretty quickly she had no idea where she was going. So how long is the trip generally meant to take? Oh, jeez, I'd say 10 to 15 minutes. Okay, and how long roughly would this – added a little bit more extra time to it?

Yeah, like it got to a point where I'm like, we are probably 12 minutes over arriving at our destination. And it was a one and done scenario. I probably won't be doing it again. We were pretty much two or three suburbs over from where we needed to be. Did you have to help to get back in or not? I did. Yeah, at one point she was like, left here and I turned right.

And she's like, you're ignoring my instruction. I was like, yeah, because this is the way to go. But we got there in the end. But yeah, she did pretty well. I'd say it would have taken her an hour and a half to get home, but she definitely would have got home. So Poppy, again, if you're listening, darling, you can say your side of the story.

Yeah, that's your side of the story. That's my account. Might have been a bit of radio drama there. Yeah, that's your side of the story? That's my account. Might have been, you know, a bit of radio drama there. It might have been. You can feel free to correspond. Your side of the story as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We're talking car complaints. Can we get producer

Ellie in here too, actually, because we were talking about this after the show yesterday. Now it's not a complaint to do with the actual vehicle, just more the people That commute with you That drive with you Okay So that's what The sort of complaints

That you want The complaints About the other passengers Yeah Partners Things like that That's right Now Ellie

You You played lovely partner Sam Yes Yes Lovely man Lovely man I love it How like

We're never about to rinse people out We're always like Lovely person Lovely Because when they hear it later They're like You're like people out We're always like, lovely person, lovely Because when they hear it later, they're like, you're so good But I said lovely, and we all said you were lovely Exactly, it's a sandwich, you know It cancelled out everything you just said

So there's no dispute, he's a lovely man Lovely man However, really irks me when he's my passenger Now I'll preface it by saying, when he was a bit younger He did have a bit of a car crash So he's a little bit, he's got a little bit of ptsd so i have patience for him however sounds like you don't have much yeah sometimes it's really annoying because we'll be approaching an off-ramp and it's like two k's away and i'm like yeah easy i'm in the right hand line she'd

be right two k's to go swing across yeah and he's already going are you gonna are you gonna move lanes when are you gonna move lanes and I'm like yeah I've got it I've got it and then by the time I do it he's just like

oh that was too late that was too late no it was too late he's an organised driver he is very organised have you missed an off-ramp off-ramp before with him look I've had a couple

of dicey ones where yeah I did miss one and there was a couple where it was sort of like yeah no he was right about that one so again

you don't have a great track record there's some blemishes okay a little bit and then also there'll be like I don't know

a car coming up behind or I'll be going a little bit like following a little bit too closely and he's like but then it gives me a fright and then I'm a more

dangerous driver it's so annoying you don't want the person sitting next to you and you go, whoa. Like they're in a seance or something, yeah. But hey, lovely guy. Lovely guy. Oh, hey, lovely guy.

End it on that, lovely guy. Lovely guy. The compliment sandwich is complete. All right, so what second plate that you want to make about maybe your partner? Lovely partner. Lovely partner. Lovely friends. Lovely people you travel with in the car.

But what complaints would you like to make? Maybe you're the passenger. Maybe you're the driver. We'll take all. I'll share one that my wife shares about me. And I can see why it would irritate her too. You've got some about me too when I'm driving. Oh yeah, lots about me.

Lovely guy, but lots about him. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Talking about your car complaints. Complaints about people that you drive with regularly. 0800 The Hits, 4487 is the text machine. My wife, Jen, she really irritates her when I, because I refuse to use Google Maps. Driving around the city, I've been in the city for nearly 40 years.

I know every nook and cranny of the space. Every bloody secret little back alleyway, even little shortcut, you name it. And that irritates you when I take shortcuts, doesn't it? Yeah, you do. You go through like Fruit World stores and all sorts. Drive through a wash world, petrol station, through a kindergarten, you know, just to shave off valuable seconds of your drive time. So I don't use Google Maps. But Google Maps is great technology, isn't it? It really gets you from point A to point B as quickly as possible.

And I'll be late sometimes. She's like, did you use Google Maps? No. I went off my gut instinct. Gut instinct. And the other thing, too, that winds me up about Google Maps is I always feel pressure that I put on myself to beat the arrival time. It's almost like a challenge that they set you, isn't it?

Yeah, my wife, I'll often say, because I love Google Maps, I'll be like, can you put that in? She'll be like, yep, and then she'll turn it off. What, halfway through the trip? She'll just go, yep, got that. And I'm like, just keep it on, keep it on. Keeps us up to date. I know, it'll follow the thing.

She's like, no, I've got it. I've just seen it now and I've got it. But I have to now correspond through her. I'm like, just leave Google Maps. Tell us where we need to go. It knows where to go. Yeah. So are you quite an interactive passenger?

I like to know. I like to keep looking at Google Maps. A bit of traffic ahead. Yeah. See the updates, but she'll just turn it off again. And then after some time, just go back into it. I'm like, just keep it on. Keep it on.

That's what it does. Lucy, you're on. How are you this morning? Oh, morning, guys. I'm good. Thanks. How are you? Yeah, good. It's lovely to have you on, Lucy. Car complaints. Who's it about? Yes, my husband. I'm admittedly a passenger princess most of the time, but he recently told me that he feels like he's in a prolonged car crash when I'm driving. Oh, like what? So something's going to happen at some stage?

Yeah, I think maybe I'm too cautious that he feels tense the entire ride. Is he holding on to things? Yes, I feel like he looks tense. I've never crashed. I have never crashed before, but I don't know why he's got this feeling. A lot of people, I think, are those who probably like to be in control of their surroundings. So if you're a passenger, you're vulnerable.

You're not in charge. My dad was like that. He'd be, whenever I'd drive my dad, because he's a very erratic driver on the roads, as many tickets would testify, my dad will push an imaginary brake with his foot. Yeah. I think every passenger has done that, right? We're going to chuck you in the drawer to New York

to hopefully go see Teddy Swims, Katy Perry and more at the Jingle Ball. Hey, amazing. Thanks for that. Good luck. Have a great weekend, Lucy.

Appreciate that. We're going to go to Keely. How are you? Hi, I'm good. How are you? We're doing really well, Keely. What's your car complaint

this morning? Well, my partner constantly, every time I drive, will hold the holy crap handle, which is the handle above your head. I cannot stand it. And sometimes it's even followed with a wince like that. You know, and it's like, can you not? I'm perfectly fine with perfectly safe.

Let go of the holy crap handle. I like the holy crap. Because when you think about it, what is that really for? It's just when you're like, geez, I'm really freaking out. When you're driving with Keely. Yeah, exactly. Oh, that is great. And so how does he drive, though?

Well, he thinks he's a perfect driver, but I don't hold the holy crap handle, even when I should. Yeah, that is good. I love the holy crap. I don't like your name for that. It's really making a statement, isn't it? We're going to put you in the draw as well. Good luck. You could be going to New York this afternoon. Make sure you listen to Madden PJ.

Thank you so much. You'll need your holy crap handles over there in that traffic. Good on you. Appreciate it. Someone's texting as well. My partner, wherever we are in a car park of any kind. There's a park. There was a park. There was a park back there. There's a park.

You missed that park. That's a place for bickering, isn't it? The car park. I'll tell you what. And for some reason, when there's more car parks available, it opens up the bickering. Should have got that one. That was one. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. We like to catch up with this person every week. Should have got that one. That was one. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We like to catch up with this person every week. We stumbled across Daniela. She works for the Quest Hotel in Tairanga where I was trying to track down a missing sock that I had

and she's great. She's hilarious. She's wonderful. Buongiorno, Daniela. Buongiorno. Buongiorno. Here we go. Now it's actually,

oh, you've got to sing. Buongiorno. It's your eye sing Just reading Italian news Actually today Well some Not news I wasn't looking For Italian news

But the Fontana di Trevi The Trevi fountain The famous one Where you got engaged Well I got engaged They've actually drained it They're doing some Renovations on it

They've drained it At the moment And there's like Almost like a little Paddling pool They've put in front So people can get a photo With water there

And throw your coins in But the actual pool Was under maintenance At the moment I don there's almost like a little paddling pool they've put in front so people can get a photo with water there and throw your coins in. But the actual pool was under maintenance at the moment. I don't know if you know about that. No, sorry. I'm feeling better now. I'm across Italian news. It's come across my news desk. Do they take all the coins out?

Apparently, yeah, they make over a million, a million and a half dollars they give to charity by people throwing coins into the fountain. Annually? Yeah, every year. A million? That's a good cause, hey? Yeah, they give it all to charity, but over a million and a half, yeah. Wow, and those very honest, trustworthy Italians, they don't even dip their little Italian fingers in there and steal the coins. Oh, no.

Bad luck. I always wondered, like, if I was just to start, just place a fountain in the middle of the city, how much I would garner? How much revenue I would garner? You know, you just chuck a couple of coins in there to get the ball rolling and just It's like busking, isn't it? I put some things in there and you're like, people just want to throw coins in.

Yeah, but there's lots of fountains around that people don't throw money into. Yeah, what you need to do is you just need to get it started. Half a dozen coins to get that thing moving. Buy a fountain. Anyway, sorry, Daniela. We've digressed. It's okay, carry on. Now, Daniela, we have been playing a bit of a fun game with you,

because you work at the hotel, the Quest in Tauranga there. Lost and Found is the name of the segment where you tell us anything that people have left behind from the hotel, and we try and track them down. Didn't have a win last week. We were after an owner of a jersey, which was what after an owner of a jersey which was

what was the brand of the jersey it was Everlast Everlast yeah that jersey just waiting

to Donatorso so well we didn't connect to that person that sounds like an Italian person Donatorso Donatorso

Donatorso I was like that's my cousin and what have we got in the lost box this week Daniela do you want to know I was like, that's my cousin. And what have we got in the lost box this week, Daniela? Do you want to know what I got in the lost box? Okay. I do have, like, you know, one of these soup bowls.

And it's been lost. I mean, it's been left in 27 of October there on room 219. Okay. So what is it? Sorry, a what ball? A soup ball, you know. A soup?

A bowl for soup. I'm imagining like the Super Bowl. There's no A at the word soup on the end. American Super Bowl. I was like, well,

someone's left a Super Bowl trophy in your hotel room. Don't need that, man. Travis Kelsey been staying there nights away.

It's a soup bowl. Oh dear. So if anyone has lost a soup a bowl then please get in touch. So naughty man. 4487 on the text.

Give us a call. What else has been going on this week Daniela? What's happening this week? I'm doing a detox. Prepare know, prepare my body for summer. Oh, you're detoxing? Yes. A detox. No alcohol, no sugar.

Really? Wow. And no carbs, not all carbs yet. Yeah, I'm being awesome. I'm feeling a new person. Do you actually feel better or you don't feel any different? No, no, no, I'm feeling better. I can sleep better.

I'm focusing better. Yeah, I encourage even you guys to do one. Yeah, I always think about it. Yeah, I always think about it. I had a vegetarian meal the other night, so that kind of did... That's your detox for a day. That's my hands of veggies. Hands of veggies, Daniela, so I'll be fine.

Thank you. Don't you worry about me. I must show you my spag bowl one of these days. Does it annoy you that we call it spag bowl? Yes, yes. You want me to be honest? Yes.

Don't be honest. If you play your cards right, you might even get a couple of bits of garlic bread. Oh, yum, yum. Maybe come for dinner. Wait for me three hours driver and I will be there.

Wait for your next detox when you're not detoxing and then you're going to have some of Jono's spag bowl ok Jono

pass alright Daniela lovely to hear from you you guys have a lovely week the hits the Jono and Ben podcast

it's a Friday morning here on the hits no Megan she had an operation on her wrist a small operation but she decided

for some reason she wanted a deep sleep. Yeah, she went full knockout. And the doctors were like, honestly, we could just do a local. She went 100%. And Ben demanded that we get some audio of her fresh out of the surgery, fresh from the painkillers. And it delivered.

Hello. I had such the best sleep, you guys. It would be so happy for me. I just had an exam-age. Exam-age. And I've got a pink hand. It's never been cuter. But you guys want a pink hand?

Do you want a pink hand? I can give you a pink hand. It's better than a pink eye. Am I right? Am I right? See, a little bit like Kardashian, a little bit like your auntie who's at the RSA and smoked 20 packets of cigarettes today.

Auntie Raewyn. Yeah. But Patricia Ali, we were playing that earlier, and you dobbed yourself in. I did a little bit. Hey, I've got some audio that can match that. Yeah, I quietly Sent it to you guys

You know And you decided To play it on air So here we are This is an odd operation So I had my wisdom teeth out All four? Yeah all four

Yeah Okay And this is Just moments later I can't feel my tongue I don't know how To use my tongue How do you use that?

You put four boiling water On my tongue And I wouldn't even know it! Swallowing is hard. Swallowing is weird isn't it? I'll be spitting tonight if you know what I mean. There's so many patients here. I feel like I just came out of the vagina.

Like, was I just born? Oh my god. See you were wild weren't you? I was. That's me unfilled it. Unfilled it. And I don't remember any of it either. Like, I don't remember that.

Sam showed me the video afterwards and I was like, oh my goodness. That was in a public ward. When you said that to Sam about the thing tonight, was he like, no thanks. Maybe should we leave it till tomorrow? If you've got any videos like that, you can get in touch with us on social media at the Hits of Breakfast or 4487. We'd love to play your ones if you're up for it next week. Life would be a lot more bearable if we were all like that, you can get in touch with us on social media. That's breakfast or 4487. We'd love to play your ones if you're up for it next week. Life would be a lot more bearable if we're all like that, wouldn't it?