Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: What Were We Like In School?

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

ON THE SHOW TODAY What where Megan and Jono like in school... Very different! Can Megan finally work out our lovely early morning security guards name? Throwback to our fav school lunches! Ben is now Sienna's + 1 Why did Jono seat a trolley... Gen Z producer grace questions how we used to "do" school Best old school ads! Bugger, Kiwi burger, Ghost trips, Lily from big save... And so many more!!! Ben caught listening to our podcast... Again... Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Jono, Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to HelloFresh. Your home advantage for delicious midweek dinners everyone will love. Welcome to the podcast on a Wednesday. Good to have you with us, appreciate it. I was saying to Ben, first day yesterday of not feeling tired. You know when you come back and you're trying to get the wheels spinning for the year? Weird. And you're really tired and then you just get into a mode, with this job anyway,

of feeling permanently jet lagged. And once you become accustomed to that,'re off and away getting used to it again isn't it it's like a permanent kind of hungover state yeah i feel a little bit like it's good now i'm comfortable with it and i can ride it out for the next 12 months function at like 30% for the next 12 months yeah the problem is holidays because your body gets used to yeah what a beautiful time it is when you don't have to get up that early. Yeah, do you find you're like, wow, I have energy. I'm not like kind of in a bad mood. Yeah, my head's not nodding off on the couch at 7.30.

You can watch things at like 10 o'clock at night. I know. It's incredible. And kids are like, Dad stayed awake at night for a whole movie. Oh, how the other half live. This is the better version of me, kids. You're never going to get them. Lap it up for these weeks.

I know. Hey, enjoy the podcast today. What were we starting with? Us at school. Jono and I were very different people at school. Very, very different. Have a listen to this. Jono, Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Kids going back to school, if not already, over the next few days. I mentioned it before, my daughter Indy, first day at high school today. Oh, that's a big day. Yeah, you know, a lot of anxiety before that, you know, and I'm thinking a lot of kids that are starting new schools as well. It's always such a big, you know, it's always so big, you know,

because that's your kind of world when you are a kid, right? You know, and you just want to hold their hand as a parent and take them in there and stuff, and they'll be like, no, I don't want you to do that anymore. know but it should be should be fine should be great but you know but there's always that anxiety and get to know new kids and new classes everything feels overwhelming until you you do it a few times so if that's you today yeah i used to write when they had uh my first days of primary and uh high school i wrote notes in their in their lunch boxes and i was like oh did you get the note thing It'd be a really cute parenting moment.

They'll remember that for their days, for the rest of their days. And they're like, oh, yeah, I think I threw it in the bin. It's the chip packet. Well, you probably don't want to take it to school, I think. No. Yeah, no, it's not a great look, is it, day one? Yeah, yeah. I don't know why you get mocked for that sort of thing, but you do.

Oh, your parents love you. Oh, they love you. I was talking to my sister. I'm sorry, I was talking to my daughter, seeing her about that the other day, you know, how it was so embarrassing when you forget your lunch at school and your mum would have to bring it in. And she was like, why was that embarrassing? And I was like, I don't know, it was just

what? She was like, was it worse to not have lunch? You're like, oh no, mum's cheap. It's just seeing like your parents on school grounds when they're not supposed to be there like oh yeah I was like yeah I was like

yeah I don't know why it was embarrassing but it was I remember my first day of college and you're all sitting in the hall and they were

sort of dividing divvying people up into classes based on intelligence oh yeah and I was sitting next to a friend of mine who I'd

played rugby with but we didn't go to the same school and we ended up in the same class and he turned to me, and he said, are you smart? And I was like, I don't know.

This is the first time you find out. Were you placed on the spectrum? And he said, I'm dumb as crap. And I was like, okay. Hoping that maybe he had misguided, but no, no. We were in the dumb class for the remainder of my years. And the problem is with the dumb classes, you're all not concentrating.

No one's, you know, I'm not focused. No one's focused. And you end up being the troublesome class. And honestly, I truly believe, particularly one poor guy, Mr. Vento, who we probably pushed to the point where he was questioning his career as a teacher. Oh, the poor teacher. I know. He would literally go outside and smoke cigarettes.

And we'd look out the window. You're pushing him to change. Oh, terrible. teacher. I know. He would literally go outside and smoke cigarettes. And we'd look out the window. You're pushing him to change. Oh, terrible. Yeah, terrible. What were you like at school? I got taken out of class a couple of times. It was called GATE. It was actually GATE bag.

So Gifted Intelligent Education for Boys and Girls. So we would get taken out and go into a separate class and do like extra curricular stuff oh i only dreamed of being in that class just so you know uh the rest of us were talking behind your back so this is what like the overachievers sort of like yeah i think so yeah because megan thinks she's a genius like with that like we pull back yeah she's yeah no you do you were told oh you might be a genius but you say who's she's a judge and i'm like let's do a bloody mensa test on it. There's only one way to figure it out.

And then you're like, I did a free online one, but I had to pay for it. Pay for your results. To get the results. So we don't know. Let's find out if she's a genius. Because she keeps saying she's a genius. Well, I mean, I got taken out of class. I don't know what's happened since then.

Because maybe it's all fallen off. I've lost a lot of brain cells over the years. But back in the day, I got taken out to go to a gifted class. That's nice. But you should be proud of that. Don't be embarrassed of that. We did inventions and stuff. Do you know one thing I invented was like a magnetic tie? You know how ties fly away in the wind? What, like a necktie? Yeah.

That's clever. And I put like a magnet in it. Oh, that's really smart. You could make a lot of money in Wellington. Tires are all blown all over the place in Wellington streets. While you were doing that, I was stabbing a compass in between my fingers really fast. You remember you could do that? Yeah.

I nailed that. That could go horribly wrong at some stage, eh? But yeah, there was always one kid that would. And licking protractors. That's what I was doing. Why did people do that we was in the dumb class mate we were all just sitting there dribbling

putting batteries in your mouth and then my friend would put like spitballs on their ruler and like flick them on we were just nightmares I feel like you were spitballing at the back of my heading glass I'm concentrating.

I'm trying to excel here, guys. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. Now, if you've been listening to the show, you'll know that Megan's trying to get the name of the overnight security guard here at work. And yesterday.

Elusive name. Yeah. He's always greeting you first thing in the morning with a lovely, have a great day, Megan. Every day this morning. Good morning, Megan. Have a lovely day. He puts my name in there every single Megan. Every day this morning. Good morning, Megan. Have a lovely day. Puts my name in there every single day.

And I'm like, good morning, you too. You never actually got given his name and now it's been like a year and you're like, geez, I really need to know his name. Yeah. Tell you one thing the security guard is keeping secure and that is his name. You tried to phone him yesterday. Morning, reception. Oh, morning.

Who's this? How can I help you? I was just wondering, is there, like, it's Megan here. Morning. Kia ora, Megan. How can I help you? I was just wondering, is there any packages for me that have arrived, like, yesterday or this morning? I don't have any notes here about your package

for you. Okay, no worries. Okay, have a lovely day, Megan. You too. Bye-bye. Also, he's probably just like, go and look if there's packages yourself. Like, go to the mailroom, which is what I would do. Have you ever called him about your package before? No. I don't think anyone does. They're like, go to the mailroom.

Okay, but anyway, so today we've come back with a new idea suggested on the text machine to bring around a card. Now, it happens in the office. You bring around a card. Everyone's signing it. We found a thank you card. And we thought that maybe you could take it over to him and hopefully he'll write his

name on it. Explain this to me, though, because it's thank you. And then inside everyone's saying Jono, like messages to Jono. Like, what are we thanking Jono for? What does it say? What are any of them saying? I'm going to miss your inappropriate jokes and holding the door for me.

That sounds like I'm leaving. Yeah, it does sound like you're leaving, which is okay. Ben just wrote, much appreciated. I'll just give you a brief, give you a space. 12 years together, much appreciated. Much appreciated. Thank you for wearing a cap on your bald head

so the light doesn't shine off your shiny forehead. Yeah, it's great. So there's some options there. We just need you to go over right now and see if you'll just sign a card. And if he writes the name on it, boom, problem solved. Although, you know, two days in a row, she's phoning about packages, she's bringing over cards.

No. He's going to be like, wait, what do you want from me? Okay, good luck, Megan. Oh, okay. Megan is heading out across. We're going to be like, wait, what do you want from me? Okay, good luck, Megan. Megan is heading out. We're going to be crossing live to reception with the overnight security guard. The name, can I tell you, I actually know his name. Oh, do you?

Yeah. Okay. But I'm not going to tell her. Yeah, it'll be easy to tell her, right? But this is more fun. And now she's got a secret microphone recording. So I don't think Megan can hear us, so we're just going to follow the coverage live as she makes her

way into reception. It's very rustly, isn't it? How are you doing? How's your morning going? Sorry, I'm interrupting your breakfast. Oh. I was just wondering, could I get you to... We're doing this thank you card for Jono.

Do you reckon you could sign it? Yeah? He's like, yeah, sure, I guess. I guess I can think of what I'm going to thank him for. It's just a thank you for, he's like, you know, just. That's the thing, no one can think of anything that Jono's done. That I want to thank him for. He's not leaving. It's just a, no one can think of anything that Jono's done. They don't want to thank him for it. It's just a, oh no.

We thought of one thing that you've done, and we're going to pin it on that. Can I just write it? Yeah. Hopefully he's writing his name. Okay, here we go. If this plan works. It looks like he's writing on it.

Everyone who's here in the mornings with us. I can hear pen to paper. Hopefully that pen is writing the security guard's name and this elaborate plan has worked. She's writing a long message.

You must have a lot to thank me for. Okay, she's got the card back. Now we're going to have to wait for her to come back in. Play it cool. Play it cool. Okay, she's got the car back. Now we're going to have to wait for her to come back in. Play it cool. Play it cool. Walking away.

Okay. I don't even know what that says. Uh-oh. Okay, she's making her way back into the studio. It didn't sound promising. Here she comes, through the door right now. Okay. She doesn't look overly thrilled.

Has the plan worked, the master plan? So he did sign it. Yeah, well, we could hear him signing away. I mean, he was like, what is this for? I think it says, have a blessed new year and I wish you all the best. And he signed it. Like squiggly signature. Oh, I see.

Oh! Squiggly signature. You can't make that out. You can't make that out. Not even a starting letter? Oh, isn't it? That is a, yeah, no, you're not picking that one. It's squiggly signature. And he's done well

for this very vague generic card too. I mean, because he was like, what's this for? Yeah, well, it's great. Have a great year. Ben's like, no one can think of one thing to thank me for. One thing. We need another plan. That did not work.

Oh, I just seemed like a jerk. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. I want to do the best 100 songs of the last 25 years. This is voted by you. The hits. Top 100 of the 2000s.

What would be the best song of the last 25 years? So many great songs, so many great artists. So if you want to vote for it, you can do so at the hitstock.nz. We keep saying top 100, but I forget there has to be a number one. Like what would it be of the last 25? We need to think more about it. Maybe we give ourselves 24 hours to come up with the top song of the last 25 years. And we'll come back tomorrow at this stage. Because I'm really struggling. There are so many bangers from the last 25 years and we'll come back tomorrow at this stage

because I'm really struggling there are so many bangers from the last 25 years well I've just googled it said it's impossible to put an exact figure on it but according to a registry of songs

it estimates that there's tens of millions of songs that have been recorded over the last 25 years oh right so wow tens of millions Beyonce you would have to say

iconic artist for the last 25 years yeah Foo Fight. So, wow. Tens of millions. Beyonce, you would have to say. Iconic artist for the last 25 years. Yeah. Foo Fighters. Oh, it's so many artists. Yeah. Pink, we play all the time. You know, this is where Justin Bieber came into the radio.

Katy Perry. Lady Gaga. You do see why other radio stations' countdowns have ballooned out to 2000. Yes. To 2000. It's hard. It's hard to do 100.

It's hard. We're going to be doing it. It's all counting down the day after Waitangi Day. We'll be playing that from 8 o'clock. So we're reflecting though on things from yesteryears and school. A lot of people going back to school

today or the next couple of days as well. I was thinking about as I was making lunches this morning when it was a good day at school where you'd open up your lunchbox and now thinking back i'm like mom had probably just checked out but she was like when she put chippy a chippy sandwich for me was a very a white bread of a rare occasion uh you know you should get out you go

white bread butter and just some salt vinegar chips inside a sandwich and it was like for me at school you'd be like oh yeah this is great but then thinking now i was like well mom mama checked out there was nothing in the pantry. Back in the day, it was almost just like, how much white bread and margarine can you cram into a lunchbox? And that was a squash muesli bar, an apple that you didn't eat, but it would go home and it would come back the next day and rotate around for five days.

Do you know what I haven't had for years, but I actually would love it, is just like luncheon with tomato sauce on white bread. Dear God, what is luncheon? Has anyone ever figured out what luncheon is? Miscellaneous. Don't ask. I don't think it's good to find out too many details on that. No.

Like if you're into it, it's delicious. Ground up bits. Yeah. Jeez, I haven't had luncheon in years. I'm kind of craving it now. I'm not going to lie. It was a thing at a supermarket you'd do back in the day where your mum would buy the luncheon for the week.

And a big old dog roll. Not the one with the peas and carrots. But then you'd sometimes get to open the bag and eat it as you went. And then, you know, obviously pay for it on the way out. Oh, I can have one bit now. Or you get a big log, a big log of it. I love the logs. You slice off a big chunk of it.

And your mum's like, no, just a little bit. Skin-coloured meat. And that red little bit of tape that you had to peel off around it. Oh, luncheon. That was great. The snacks were a big part of my... Oh, yeah. The cracker to sauce ratio was always slightly off for me on the snacks.

I always wanted more of the cheesy goodness. Yeah. But it's important life skills. I'm rationing, you know, the balance of too much cracker to the cheese. And again, we referenced luncheon. What is the cheat? What is it? Oh, nice. That's great, though, isn't it?

Did you get the cheese and the plastic wrap? Oh, yeah. We still get that from time to time, too. So, again, don't want to know what's in it, but it tastes good. Did you ever, like, fold it up and make, like, a tower of little squares of cheese? Yeah. And then you pick it off the tower and eat? Or you, like, squeeze it out with your teeth straight from the plastic wrap.

Love it. Love it. Okay, best school lunch from back in the day. What were you getting? And maybe how much it was if you were buying it from the tuck shop. Oh, the tuck shop. Two dollar nachos. Two dollar, well, that's a good deal.

We used to get a huge thing of two dollar nachos. They were sponsored by obesity and diabetes, weren't they, the tuck shops back then? Yeah, they were less worried about sugar tax and things like that back then weren't they they were just like jam it in the kids fill them up John O, Ben and Megan the podcast

the hits like if you're heading back to school today some are already back and others going over the next couple of days is good luck the right thing to say because it sounds like it's like

good luck better than bad luck I'm not watching bad luck or anything I was something very excited about others a little apprehensive yeah okay have a cool ride mate good luck. Better than bad luck. I'm not watching bad luck or anything. Something very excited about it. Have a great day. Apprehensive.

Yeah, okay. Have a good one, mate. Good luck sounds a bit ominous. Good luck. Good luck out there. Good intentions. Yeah, exactly. Just reminiscing about, you know, it was a good day when you turned up to school and you opened your lunchbox and some special items had been packed inside that lunchbox.

Fruit roll-ups. An absolute staple of the lunchbox. Yeah, they were, weren't they? Featuring real fruit. Getting your five-plus a day with the fruit roll-ups. Someone's texted in as well, Aztec corn chips. Oh, yeah. Made the natural way. They had an ad where a guy was putting on a cute Mexican accent.

Thank you for not doing it. No. Well, it's not appropriate nowadays. Probably not. Yeah, probably right accent. Thank you for not doing it. No. Well, it's not appropriate nowadays. Probably not. Those corn chips were legit though. I remember those. I had CC's in Australia recently. I was like, oh, CC's. Again, they had a problematic Mexican voiceover. Yeah, but I hadn't

seen CC's for many years. Only CC's are tasting like these. Doritos have really flooded that market here in New Zealand. I don't even know if they're CCs, but CCs. It was good. I feel like a Mexican voice is okay to do. No.

We can do Italians. South Africans, we have no issue with doing South Africans. Why are we staying away from the Mexicans? I don't know. It's discrimination. We want to know what was a good day at school when you opened up your lunchbox, maybe you went to the tuck shop and this was there. Paulina?

It was a good day at school when I came home and I cut myself a massive slice of white bread and put a whole heap of condensed milk on top of it. It was a really healthy snack. It was delicious. Oh, so would you soak, would the bread get soaked from the condensed milk? I mean, how did it work? Well, that's the beauty of it because, yeah, the bread would be thick and fluffy

and the condensed milk would be kind of dripping at the bottom of it. That's the beauty of it. That's one way of describing it. Okay, and what would it taste like? It's delicious. Just delicious. Sweet bread. Yeah, it probably is.

It's like a sort of like a French toaster thing. I feel like you need to put like sprinkles or chocolate chips on top. Really? A bit of an overkill, but yeah, no, it was good. Oh, yeah, no, I'm the monster. I'm the monster, sorry. Well, thank you. I've never tried that.

Next time I get an opportunity, maybe I will. Thank you so much. Heidi, how are you? I'm good, Tane. How are you doing? We're doing well. Lunch-wise, it was a good day at school when? Friday, because it was Fish and Chip Friday.

Oh, Fish and Chip Friday. Love those. Would you know you'd put your pre-order in, wouldn't you? And you'd have the little list that you'd have to fill out and tick. Sugar donut. Ba-dee-da-da-da-da-da. No, I think it was just a fish or like a battered sausage and some chips. And it was about three bucks.

Three? Oh, what a deal. I remember we could either have fish and chips or a pie and a cream bun, and it was five bucks. Always jealous of the people who actually got it, because it's just whoever bought money from home. Here's a good one. Do you remember Zap Milk?

And you'd drink the milk, and then you would blow the carton up and you'd stomp on it and it'd be like gunshots from a drive-by shooting. Bang! Whatever happened to Zap? You can get nippies now and you can still blow those up and pop them. I guess up and go you probably could do the same. Thank you very much for your call, Heidi. Have a good one.

You too, take care. Now, Texan, we've been dabbling in the luncheon chat on the show Someone's messaged and you raised a good point Not called luncheon in some parts of Aotearoa Bottom of the south, they call it Belgian Didn't know that Not luncheon

Okay Quickly, because, you know, much like Carol, she gets to go She gets to bring a plus one She gets to take someone along And I got, well, my to go, she gets to bring a plus one. She gets to take someone along. And I've got, well, my daughter, Sienna, got invited to something. And just her. Now, Sienna, for those that don't know, has built a social media following.

Yeah. So she's got an audience. She's got a podcast for the audience. She's got her social media stuff. I'm now taking photos of her and people that come up from time to time, which is really getting to me. But anyway, she got invited to this event, and I was like, oh, great. Who did the invite go to?

To her? No, it came to me. I was like, would Sienna like to come to this thing? And I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, I guess she would. Just Sienna Lakers, publicist. Yeah, would she like to come to this thing? I'm guessing while it's an evening thing, I'm probably going to have to drop her off. I said, I have to organize dropping her off. And then they said, oh, would you like to come to this thing? And I'm guessing, well, it's an evening thing, I'm probably going to have to drop her off. I said, I have to organise dropping her off. And then they said, oh, would you like to go?

I can ask if she could bring a plus one. I'm like, oh, I'm at that stage. You know when you stick your event? Yeah, do you know who's going to be driving her there? Picking her up afterwards? Your chaperone. I'm her plus one. I love that you're an afterthought.

They're like, oh, actually. I could ask for you if that's something you'd like to do I'm like well He and his dad would like to come And they're like Not really keen on him coming along So there you go Does she have a phone or email?

Because it feels like they could just get in contact with her directly And it would be less traumatic for you That would be nice, I think I need to pass that all across now You're right, that would be good You're like, I taught her how to use a phone. That was me. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The hits. I had a shocker at the supermarkets yesterday. I don't know if you've done this, but you're kind of concentrating on the items and you're looking around the shelf, so you're not fully focused on your trolley. Okay? So I went, picked an item up off the shelf, put it back into the trolley and then just continued on my way. And then went around the whole shopping experience

and then got to the checkout and there was some unfamiliar items in my trolley. And at the bottom, underneath those unfamiliar items were unfamiliar shopping bags. And I'm like, uh-oh. See what's happened here.

It was quinoa rice And like dove sensitive roll on deodorant And I'm like There was wait what rice Is it I don't even know how to say the rice Quinoa and it's not rice

It's it's own thing Quinoa Well whatever it is I had it So i'm obviously taking someone's trolley and we used to do that as a stupid game yeah we did yeah and that you do is a you know hidden camera pranks that you take other people's trouble and it leaves them very confused and i'm at the checkout going some poor person is probably going up and down the aisles driving themselves bonkers going where did i leave my trolley yeah it felt terrible. Yeah, because normally you do. I'm sure everyone's done it, but sometimes you notice within the first 10 seconds or so.

Yeah. But what happens is they did have some familiar items that I had also put in from the produce section. A bag of agria potatoes, bananas were in there. So I'm like, you know, at a glimpse, I was like, boom. Mine, yeah. So, yeah, they're probably still wandering around packing, to be honest. I'm like you know at a glimpse I was like boom mine yeah so yeah I uh they're probably still wandering around packing stage to be honest I'm sure it's around here somewhere when you're at the checkout I just had to pay for it I had to buy the quinoa

it's not right yeah it's all good I had it later last year I think I was telling you Megan about that when I had someone's trolley and I I thought same as you I thought oh no it's my trolley because it was same same items I put items in there was items in there and then the lady went hang on and she lifted up some items and her handbag was under some of the items. I'm like okay, this is clearly your trolley. Oh, did she hit you up a bit? Yeah, she's like you got my trolley? I'm like no, no.

You're getting all defensive? You crazy lady. Yeah, and then she's like have a look and I'm like okay, no, you're right. Your handbag's still in the trolley. You look like you're trying to like steal her bag. No wonder you get so agitated about the trolley. You look like you're trying to steal her bag. No wonder you get so agitated about your trolley. So a bit of a public service announcement. Just double check what's in the trolley, okay, before you run off with it.

Otherwise you end up paying for items I'm never going to use. I'm never going to find a dish to make quinoa now. I'll find you a recipe for your quinoa rice. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hits. For kids going back to school, if they haven't already, over the next

few days so good luck it's always a bit of an unsettling time going back to school we've got a very exciting your kids back to school today

yeah the first one Indy first day of high school today so good luck Indy you'll be great you know it's a very anxious time going to a big school

you know for the first time with not so many friends I'm sure it should be great but you know it's always about unsettling so it is yeah and a giant oversized uniform that you bought to last her until she's 32 yeah that's top 100 of the 2000s we're gonna do a countdown of the top 100 songs as voted by you over the last 25 years because of course it's just ticked on 2025, so if you want to vote for your favourite songs, you can head to the hitstockcode

at NZ. But we are reflecting back on things through the 2000s, and producer Grace, young Gen Z producer Grace, has had many questions she's been throwing at us off-air, so we thought, well, let's get it on here and let's talk about it. Now let's set the scene.

At what age did you enter life? 2001. What age did you enter life? 01. You're a bang in the ticket. Yeah, bang in it. You've enjoyed the last 25 years. You were born as I was preparing to leave

high school. Funny. You were born as I was in a nightclub on K Rose Okay so you've got some questions about school You're very concerned about how we used to do school Very concerned I actually can't comprehend it

What's your questions? So my first question And a very important one was What was it like being in school During the women's suffrage movement? Kate Shepard was a wonderful classmate, wasn't she? Honestly, as a male, it threw me off a bit. It felt like we were giving them a little bit too much power.

But hey, here we are. Now we're dealing with the consequences nowadays, aren't we? Now we're thriving. Look, there's two of you on the radio at the same time. Okay, first a serious question. So you guys didn't have projectors? So how did they teach? Projectors.

We had overhead projectors. We had OHPs. Yeah, we did. What do you think we are? No, what's an OHP? Overhead projector. And you had a thing that was a clear sheet and you would put it on a box that had a light. We didn't have devices that we'd take to school for.

No, the projector that would like, the electronic. What are you talking about? Oh, no. It was a thing they used to wheel in. So it had like a clear screen and then a light. OHP, baby.

Oh, my God. You need to Google it. And then you had like a clear sheet you'd put on the screen and it would project it up on the wall. And on the clear sheet

was, you know, like a geography lesson or the maths lesson. So instead of the teacher having to use their hand to write that information on a blackboard or a whiteboard, well it didn't have whiteboards actually, it would just go on the wall and

they'd project it onto the wall. Oh no, you'd pull down a sheet, wouldn't you? Yeah, your screen. Sometimes they would draw on it with a pen on the thing that was projecting if they wanted to give you... Yeah, that's it. There you go. That looks medieval.

It does look a bit weird. I'm showing you a picture right now. It looks like it would give you... Yeah, that's it. There you go. That looks medieval. It does look a bit weird. I'm showing you a picture right now. It looks like it would give you a colonoscopy or something. It probably gave a lot of us testicular cancer and stuff like that, but, you know, standing next to it. Yeah, I definitely got testicular cancer. We only had, like, honestly, and this is not a joke, we only had one computer in the school

and we all had to share it to play Carmen Sandiego. I had a few more computers. You could be at your class, but there were shared ones. It was a specialised class. You had to go to Sandiego. I had a few more computers. You could be at your class, but there were shed ones. It was a specialised class. You had to go to computer studies. Yeah. Oh my gosh, that's crazy.

I was one of the first to have a computer at home and you'd go back to assignments, but you'd have to go home and do it. We had like a CD you put in for a encyclopedia and that was like a state of the art. No, it wasn't a floppy disk.

Yeah, well, it was probably, yeah, I remember a CD though. You put it inside a CD case to put it in. But then you have to come back and type it in, and then you couldn't make changes at school. Yeah. Okay, next question, which leads on from there.

I'm learning a lot. So if you wanted to research for projects, what'd you do? The Encyclopedia of Botanica. Books, yeah. Books. Like, we'd have, like, encyclopedias at home, so, like, a series of them. This one was, like, A to D, and this one was D to H.

And the people that would go door to door selling them and updating them annually because, you know, obviously more information would come in every 12 months. Yeah. That's crazy. But then you had to be careful not to plagiarise exactly right what was in the encyclopedia. Yeah.

Listen, if we wanted to see genitals, you can see genitals at the, you know, you just turn your phone on, you can see genitals right now. We need to go to the bathroom and draw them on a wall. Kids don't know how lucky they are. No, right? It was simpler times. And I'm not saying they were better times.

No. They were just simpler times. Far more convenient times now. We're going to come back to this. John O'Bannon Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Halfway through the week.

The Hats. Top 100 of the week. The Hats. Top 100 of the 2000s. So far. Want you to vote for your favourite song of the last 25 years and we'll be doing a countdown next, not this Friday, but the following Friday, just after Waitangi Day, we're counting down the top 100 songs from 100 to 1 as voted by you over the last 25 years.

Yeah, very exciting. A lot of people will be taking that Friday off, so it'll be a good reason to crank up the old radio. Exactly. 100 songs. Good weather around the country. You can listen to that. You've got your soundtrack sorted for a day off for a lot of people, I'm sure.

Good thing is not one of those 100 songs will be a dud. No, you're right. We can guarantee that. Yeah. 25 years of the 100 greatest songs. Now, we're just going to take a look back at some of the greatest commercials over the last quarter century. And jingles, too.

I mean, New Zealand has a rich, rich history of jingles. Ben Boyce, you played a very pivotal role in the New Zealand jingle landscape, didn't you? A lot of, yeah, it's probably the, without a word of lie, it's probably the coolest thing about, you know, like when people go, did you write that? Would you? I heard it. You know, people get quite excited about the fact that I about you know like when people go did you write that would you I heard it

you know people get quite excited about the fact that I you know wrote the Novus windscreen well like coolest thing you've ever done yeah show us your crack oh Novus show us your crack

oh Novus when you find your vision lacking Novus windscreen's for your cracking show us your crack oh oh is that you at the end yeah it's my solo at the end

ah Novus that's me at the end but also sung sung through the three of us in there. How old were you when you wrote that? I would have been, I'd say early 20s, I would imagine. Early to peak in life. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I wrote that when I was writing ads, first job in radio, and I do remember it. It was just a funny comment that someone in the creative writing room said,

oh, sure, it's a crack, as we were writing the thing. And we're like, hang on, me and this other guy were remember it. It was just a funny comment that someone in the creative writing room said, oh, Shosha Crack, as we were writing the thing. And we're like, hang on. Me and this other guy were writing it. And we're like, heckabee. That's good for a geologist looking at earthquake cracks. Yeah. A drug addict wanting to obtain anything. I never thought they'd still be using it.

Prince had Purple Rain. Queen had Bohemian Rhapsody. I've got Shosha Crack. Yeah. And it's still around It's still around So that's 2000 2002

It was very early on I can't remember what it was Yeah It stood the test of time Yeah Hasn't it They're doing remixes now It was in the 2000s

Definitely early Yeah but so Wow Yeah Well some of the other favourites From the last 25 years I would say Big Save Lily We've watched a big would say Big Save Lily

we've watched a big journey from Big Save Lily, when she first burst onto our screens from Big Save Furniture, she was over ordering furniture, Dad don't tell Dad, don't tell Dad, she was very excited, she was Dad must have found out I think Dad must have found out, well Dad surely was watching

TV and watching the ads and going bloody Lily's over ordered again dad must have found out. Well, dad surely was watching TV and watching the ads and going, bloody lilies, over-ordered again. Do you know the footage of the year? Never has so much new stock been offered at such freakishly low prices. You can't talk big stuff. She's great. She is actually very lovely. We've met her a couple of times. She is awesome.

She is wonderful. Now she seems a bit more grounded, level-headed, sort of meditation era. And now she's not over-ordering stocks. She's just doing her job competently. Looking through, she's going, no, that's a sensible amount to order. I don't have to do a panicked ad. Go, please, come and buy some couches and beds.

So many good ads throughout the years. So many to reflect on. 4487, actually, if you think of one of your favorite ads. We're thinking New Zealand ads, right, over the last 25 years? Yeah. There is nothing like a crowd for picking it up and putting it down. Who would have thought you'd have such a banger to do with forklifts? John O'Benn and Megan, the podcast.

The Hats. That's already ticked on to 2025. Almost the end of January guys Last week of January Wow time moves fast Yeah I tell you what we'll be counting down the top 100 songs Of the last 50 years before you know it But at the moment we're just focusing on the last quarter century

I don't know if we'll be here 25 years Will radio still be radioing Robots will probably be doing our job In 50 years And doing a far better more more professional job, to be honest But we're just looking, not at the top 100 songs this morning We're going to look at some of the greatest ads over the last 25 years

Top 100 ads, really And there's so many great suggestions coming through on the text You don't buy a bed every day You don't buy a bed every day Up until then, I was buying beds every day Too many beds You made a grave mistake if you are like Ben, a bed every day. Up until then, I was buying beds every day. Too many beds. You made a grave mistake if you are like Ben, buying beds every day.

But it was a really iconic jingle, wasn't it? You get a good night's sleep, don't give your money away. Need to know what, what, you can sleep on it. So that's been nominated a couple of times on the text, on 4487. You can text in as well. Kim, you'd like to put a nomination forward for the best ad over the last 25 years? Oh, absolutely.

It has to be the Bugger ad, guys. Oh, the Toyota Bugger ad. From the Toyota Hilux, yeah. Do you remember how controversial that was at the time? It was. It had so many complaints. Yeah, now you're... Well, so many.

Yeah, now fine. I guess we've kind of moved on, right? Yeah. Bugger. Bugger. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty light on the scale now of stuff we say. Yeah, what's accepted? Yeah, no, the bugger, Ed.

That's a great nomination. Very iconic. A lot of votes coming through for this. Kiwi Boogers. It's back at the moment, I think, isn't this. Kiwi Boogers. It's back at the moment, I think, isn't it? Kiwi Boogers back. It pops away and then comes back. They redid this ad a few years ago, didn't they?

Updated it a bit, but this was the iconic one, right? Yeah. At some point, did you know all the words? I thought you knew all the words. I used to once on a car trip. I think my sister and I tried to learn, but a long time ago. I wouldn't be able to get it all now, but I was like, I don't know why we spent four hours on a car trip, I think my sister and I tried to learn, but a long time ago I wouldn't be able to get it all now. But I was like, I don't know why, we spent four hours on a car trip going,

we're going to learn all the words as you do as a kid. It's served me no benefit in life. I've got the same thing with the Tux dog food commercial. The lyrics just etched into my memory. So many important things I probably could have put on top of that. That's what worries me. You should be able to drag files in your brain and go, delete, don't need that anymore.

Yeah, delete, empty trash. Anniversaries, things like that. You know, they'll be great things to remember. When the sky turns red and that working dog. Yeah. Now he's got the verse that I have forgotten, actually. Tux does keep him full of life, fit as a fiddle, sharp as a knife. You remember Tux Wonder Dogs?

Oh, yeah. The show with Mark you remember Tux Wonder Dogs? Oh yeah The show with Mark Leishman Wonder Dogs The dogs would do like The obstacle course Oh they did the obstacle And that would go on There was like a two hour long

Television show With those dogs It was great And then we'd watch sheep Getting you know Dogs petting sheep We loved our dog shows Didn't we?

Yeah I think it was called Our dog show They would put sheep Into a pen with a dog. Multiple text through for this one as well. The ghost chips ad. Grab a chip.

Want a chip? You know I can't grab your ghost chips. The drink driving ad, wasn't it? When he sees you're dumb. Yeah, that was a great ad too. We do some great drink driving ads, but I feel like the message gets lost. Because they just turn into memes. Haha, ghost chips.

Yeah. No, no, no, actually just don't drink drive. What do you see, ghost chips? Same fear with the Air New Zealand safety videos. They're so, they're really good, but then you'd be like,

I'd probably miss all the important safety details. It's Stephen Adams. Oh, they've got Stephen Adams. Yeah, like if there is an emergency, I'll be like, what was I meant to do?

How do I put this thing on around my waist again? And this one, I would say probably, and I don't want to disrespect you, Ben, and your Novus jingle might be the biggest jingle of the last 25 years. Yeah, you just can't beat the Mad Butcher's Meat.

Oh, it was a good one. It was a good one. They knew what they were doing. You know you know. You just can't beat the Mad Butcher's Meat. And they're just saying it so, like, that is the, you don't get hit. You just can't beat the Mad Butcher's Meat. And they're just saying it so... Don't try and disguise it with a light charm. John O'Ben and Megan.

The podcast. The hits. Congratulations to Topor, named one of the most welcoming communities on earth by Booking.com. Only one, only a place in Australasia to get in the list. That's incredible. And based on thousands, 360 million reviews from around the world

that are based on reviews of cities and towns all over the world. And Taupo, out of all of them. Problem is now you've got to keep living up to the- It's like friendly fielding, eh? You can't be unfriendly in fielding. You're having a bad day. Sometimes you don't feel like being friendly, but then you look up at that sign and you're like,

uh-uh, sign says we've got to be friendly. We've got to be welcoming. Welcome to Taupo. Come on in, you know? Yeah. So well done to them. But you're right, they've really got to keep it up. It's a beautiful place, beautiful part of the country, isn't it, people?

Yeah, it is. Remember we stayed in a hotel there once where we were emceeing something for a company and as we're heading up to the room after the evening, people. Remember we stayed in a hotel there once where we were emceeing something for a company and they put us in a hotel and as we're heading up to the room after the evening, the receptionist said, oh, just so you know, that wing you're

staying in, all those rooms you're staying in, is haunted. Yeah, apparently. And he's like, goodnight. Not something you really want to hear just before you go to bed. It's like 11.30 at night. I'm just lying in bed with the sheets over my face. Great. Eyes wide open.

I wanted to cover myself up yesterday. Guys, I was telling you about this before. Just as your friend, stop doing this. I know, but every now and again I like to. And I don't do it that often, but every now and again I was like, because we talk on the radio, but it is different when you actually hear it back. And our bosses always listen to our show and they're like oh you should have done this better you did this better this is more personal stuff what would

simon barnett do all that sort of stuff you know and so i was yeah and so yesterday i was like oh you know what i'm gonna have a listen to our show have a little little listen and i was in the gym and i have airpods And I had to connect. And what I was doing is I could hear us. I could hear us. I was playing the podcast, but it was kind of muffled. I was like, well, maybe it's the AirPods. I'll just keep cranking it up, cranking it up until I looked over.

And there was a guy in the machine next to me looking at me. And I was like, uh-oh, uh-oh. And what I'd done, I had my phone sitting out on my lap, is I hadn't connected the bluetooth correctly to the AirPods the AirPods are playing nothing so all I'm doing

is cranking us up nice and loud through your phone yeah through the phone nothing like admiring your own ass while you're on a treadmill I know

it was there and it's like oh just sitting there and he's like looking I'm like I don't want to say anything it's a humbling place he's working out

and also working out while you're just trying to work out while you're listening to yourself I know did you say anything to him you should be like I'm critiquing yeah but you know in his head he's probably thinking is he is he and I'm like yeah there's a lot of flexing going on in there Jim but no no one's flexing harder than Ben Boyce listening to his own radio show Simon Barnett wouldn't do that. No, you're right, actually. It happened to me before. It happened to me once before. I know, you need to stop doing it.

Yeah, when we had a camper van trip and I didn't realise the speakers were outside and I was cranking it up nice and loud thinking, oh, I can't really hear it. And then that guy knocked on the door, lovely guy next to us going, do you know that you're broadcasting to the whole entire campsite? I'm like, uh-oh. Yeah, I want them all to listen. Sound better or worse the second time around? Well, it was quite humbling.

When you start listening with embarrassment, it's not so good. Jono, Ben and Megan, the podcast, the hits. Almost the end of January. How's that? The year going so fast, although it is the Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year, as of yesterday. Yeah, I was in the donut shop yesterday. They'd done some wonderful Lunar Donuts, red-themed donuts.

Year of the snake? Year of the snake, yeah. I went in a deep hole yesterday trying to find out what year I was. What are you? The rat. Makes sense. Yeah, it does make a lot of sense. Now, producer Ellie is in right now.

We try and get 10 out of 10 on the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Oh, that's a new tune. I like this. New quiz music. Can we sex it up a bit? Maybe it'll help us out this morning. We can go to you guys once on a lifeline, 4487. But right now, question one.

Yeah, let's go. Herald Daily Quiz. All right, question number one. Okay. What is Kevin McAllister's age in the first Home Alone movie? Eight, six or ten? Is he eight? Six is too young.

He's definitely not six, yeah. It's eight or ten. I mean, he's doing a lot of stuff. He's making a lot of violent contraptions And connecting up Flamethrowers and things So maybe that's the skill of a 10 year old I would say I was going to go 8

Because isn't Buzz Isn't he supposed to be 10? The bully guy? I think he's supposed to be 10 He's a big 10 year old You know movies And also isn't like How old was he playing that character? I think he's supposed to be 10. Is he 10? He's a big 10. Oh, yeah. But you know movies. And also, isn't like, how old was he playing that character? Yeah, true.

Macaulay Culkin was probably 24 or something playing. Buzz had his own family. Okay, well, let's go with Megan. Let's go eight. We're locking in eight. That is correct. Well done. Oh, beautiful.

Your original gut, John, was correct. You said that first. Always go with your gut. You do. Me and my gut's not good gut health, actually. I think I've got indigestion. Question number two in the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. What was the name of the first successful steam locomotive built in 1829 by English engineer George Stevenson?

Stevie McSteamface. That's what would happen if we threw it out. The punter's the name. The options are the arrow, the rocket, or the comet. And our option is to throw this one out to the audience. Yeah, I think we're going to have to straight away, aren't we? Sorry. We get one lifeline per morning on the Herald Daily Quiz 4487.

There'll be some trained nerd, I mean, enthusiast out there who will know. You know, trained people will know. Oh, there's text already coming in. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. It already coming in. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. That's not what I would have guessed.

Should we lock this in? Yeah. Okay, thank you to whoever texted in. We're going to lock in the rocket. That is correct. Oh, nice. Jeez, thank you. Train people will know.

You can't catch a train in New Zealand, but they know about trains. All right, question number three, New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Blake Lively married which fellow actor in 2012? Ryan Reynolds. That is correct. Well done. Alright, question number four. In The Matrix, what colour pill does Neo take to learn the truth about

The Matrix? Red pill. I've been taking blue ones. Yeah, that does something else in The Matrix, actually. Yeah. Are we going with Megan's answer there? Just give in The Matrix, actually. Are we going with Megan's answer there? The answer's like, just give us a second, guys.

Give me 30 minutes and I'll be with you. Can I borrow that long coat you've got just to cover up some things? Oh, Megan, you are great. Well done. Well done. Are we four from four? Yeah. This is question number five. Which film features the iconic line,

Here's looking at you, kid. Is it Casablanca, Roman Holiday, or Gone with the Wind? Oh, it's either Casablanca or Gone with the Wind, isn't it? I think it's Casablanca. Gone with the Wind's frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Oh yeah, well that's Casablanca. I think. Casablanca is correct.

Yay! Take this one to the ads. Next question. Big cliffhanger. We're going well, guys. We are. Well done. That was a commentator's curse though. This will one to the ads. Next question. The cliffhanger. We're going well, guys. We are. Well done. That was a commentator's curse, though. This will be a hard question. What is the primary rock type that makes up the volcanic islands of Hawaii?

Is it andesite, granite, or basalt? Okay, we're going to take a moment to think about that. I don't think the answer's going to pop into my head. Jono, Ben, and Megan. The podcast. The podcast. The hits. A bit of a strong earthquake last night, striking the Noa North Islands in New Zealand about 11.30 last night.

So I hope everyone's all right. We've got a shock. Thank you for joining us as we fumble and guess our way through the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz this morning. We are six deep. We are elbows deep into the quiz now. Yeah, we're gone. All right.

You are. We've used our lifeline though on question number two, so it's all us. It's all on us. Producer Ellie, quiz queen, take it away. Alright. Hopefully there's an aviation expert in this room. Don't come looking at me. I've got arrested at the airport.

You were there. You got the behind the scenes too. You've got more experience than we do. Alright, which aircraft holds the record for the fastest manned air breathing flight? You've got the behind the scenes still. You've got more experience than we do. All right. Which aircraft holds the record for the fastest manned air breathing flight? Is it the Concorde? It'd be the Concorde. Is it the Concorde, the SR-71 Blackbird or the F-22 Raptor?

What's the air breathing? I have no idea. No, because you have a mask on. Oh, Top Gun, they wear a mask. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the Top Gun planes, they're being fed oxygen. All right, so this is just breathing air without an oxygen mask. Concorde is the fastest commercial plane.

The other two sound like military fighter jets. Wait, what are the other two? The SR-71 Blackbird or the F-22 Raptor. Okay, so you're in Concorde. The other two sound like army or military planes. Lock in Concorde then. Uh-oh. That's incorrect.

God damn it. Hey, our logic was sound. I guessed that too. Yeah, it was. Yeah, we talked our way through it. Yeah, it was the Blackbird one. Can't remember the numbers, but it was the Blackbird one. Nice work.

You're on the verge of needing an oxygen mask on the Blackbird, but... Yeah, but not quite. Just enough here. Well, there we go. Six questions deep they cancelled the concord didn't they yeah that's a badass looking plane are they sure you don't need like some kind of breathing mask it does look like you do megan's got a picture of it we'll put on the hits it looks like a bad guy plane it looks like yeah batman's plane a batman had a

plane yeah it's all it's all like charcoal yeah yeah it It's freaky. Bloody Air New Zealand should buy that. The Prime Minister needs a new plane. Oh, that'd be so badass. Imagine him turning up somewhere and going, oh, New Zealand's here.