Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why Ben didn't want to be part of Megan’s birthday present...

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

On today’s show: Why Ben didn't want to be part of Megan’s birthday present... How Megan’s toddler ended up fake-tanning her back! Money-saving hacks you’ll actually want to try Realising our kids will never know the joy of slamming down a phone The obnoxious thing Jono got caught doing at 5 a.m. Instagram: @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The John O'Bannon Megan podcast thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better team. Welcome to the podcast. Today coming up on the podcast, a lot of cash saving tips. We gave away a lot of butter this morning because it's like liquor gold, isn't it? It's really expensive in New Zealand right now, butter.

10 bucks for a 500 gram block. We really ran a theme on the show today, didn't we? There's a primary school teacher who messaged through, said this is perfect. Got the kids studying the prices of supermarket goods at the moment. I want to use your program as a case of study. Oh wow. Educational. We're educational, didn't we? Oh my god.

Are we educational? Sit them down and it's a good way to fill up three hours of a class too. Just play the whole radio show. Ads and everything, if you want. Tell them that they have to go home and make their parents listen to the show. Yeah, that would be nice wouldn't it? That's lovely, isn't it? I never thought it would be an educational show.

Sometimes you just gotta change it up, mate. Give them what they don't expect. I did actually see something just while it pops into my head now. This is probably more a conversation for us than for the podcast audience, but it's an open book. It's not like anything scandalous. Nicole, who we talked to in America, she does. US correspondent.

Yeah, she does a radio show in America. And I just saw on her Instagram that if anyone of the show now gets fooled by AI, they have to wear like a clown costume for the rest of the show. And I thought that's something we should ask Nicole if we could adopt. So if you go out there and go, did you see that thing?

And someone's like AI, mate, or you get tricked by something, that's, yeah. What about if you bring forward fake news? Yeah, it's fake news, exactly. We'll have a clown costume that sits in the studio. So I just come dressed as a clown every day. Yeah well that might be the easiest and we have a sitting here put it on after we're over the rest of the show. We asked Nicole this week whether it was quite good yeah. Yeah I love it. So one of her co-hosts had to do it so he came in you know with the clown costume on so. Ben never just, Ben just doesn't believe anything. Even stuff that is, you know.

Cause I didn't, I get fooled this week by AI, so I'd be the clown, but I can't remember, I don't think Ben's been fooled. Never, just cause he doesn't trust anyone. Don't trust, but then I go the other way. I really now, I'm just like, no, not believing it. Even the package sitting with DHS or DHL, whatever for four weeks, and he kept getting messages It's like AI, robot

Scan your lotto ticket, you're like no, I'm not, I don't believe you I'm very wary getting scammed, but I will probably get scammed Everyone's gonna get caught out in the air right? Yep I clicked on some email the other day and then I went oh you know in the same email that got our boss as well Just a little phishing email, you know What is phishing? No, I think that's how they take your details, don't they?

ISH Yeah They take what details? Email, you know, but what is fishing? No, I think that's a take a tell Yeah, they take what details I think they can get into you can computer or somehow don't they? Oh, yeah producer Troy, what is fishing mate? You explain it to me, man. I'm a boomer It's when they get you to fill out a form or you click on those I click this link to put in your thing put in your credit card details or your Facebook login or something Oh type of cybercrime. So they just like the chair. It's a type of cyber crime. So they're just like they're chucking a line out there. It's like fishing. You're gonna catch one every day. You know there's a lot that get away, they're like oh you got away that Ben Boyce, you got away but the other people they're like we're not really in. You always put it in a three digit bin. All you need is one. You've had a good day at work.

So they've checked like smishing is where you get scammed via SMS text message. Vishing is when you get scammed using voice impersonation. Spear phishing is highly targeted phishing attacks aimed at specific individuals. And wailing is phishing attacks targeted at high profile individuals. Oh, okay, really interesting. We should talk about that on the radio. That's really interesting. Okay, well we start things off today. Whaling, that's your golden goose, isn't it? We're going for the whale, boys!

Now today's your birthday, Megan, we're going to talk about that. The conversation starts light and then it gets... And how Ben's annoyed by my birthday. Well not annoyed by your birthday, I feel like as a show, it's lovely, it is lovely. We've adopted something so heartwarming. Well in three minutes it went from you wishing her a happy birthday to her wishing you a birthday. So it's almost like, I just feel like a set with brother.

Abusing her for her birthday. We are like a married couple, we just bicker all the time. Yeah, even my life, it's a real short story because I put the money in for producer Grace yesterday and my wife was doing some banking and she was like, oh, you put money in for Megan's birthday. She's like, is it a big birthday? I'm like, no. No. It's not.

It's just a birthday. Didn't they just beat that for you, Amanda? I love you. No, she just said, is it a big birthday? She didn't say it was wrong or anything. She was like, is it a big birthday? I was like, no. It's not.

It's just a birthday. Excuse me, 41? What's the next one? So technically, you're like, 50th. Well, if you celebrate birthday, I hate celebrating birthday. So technically you're like 50th. Well if you just celebrate birthday, I don't, I hate celebrating birthday. So yeah, but normally it's on the like 21st, then it'll be like a 30th, then a 40th, then 50th, you know, those sort of things. So every decade you'll get her a present. Yeah, we did last year, we went, you know, we did a year ago.

You like, don't really want us to even say it's your birthday. No, I hate it. I'm like, everyone say happy birthday, celebrate me, week long extravaganza. So I appreciate, I'm not happy to do it for you, well no, reluctantly will do it for you to be honest. Well don't do it for you too, Benny Mac. Please don't, please don't. That can be your present for me not doing anything. How much are you gonna pitch him for a 50th mate? Well we'll see.

Or 25? We'll find out, I don't know if I'll still be here at that stage. Anyway, we've rambled on long enough. Yeah, 550, how old are you? I'll be like, I'm rhyming somewhere. All right, enjoy the show. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. So, the crowd's going to be a fun morning this morning. I've been talking a lot in the news about butter, how expensive butter is. It's surged in price about 60% over the past two years from what it used to be. So you can pay between $8 to $10 a block depending on what brand you buy at the moment. Crazy. Seems to be because of the exports. We're sending them our butter overseas and so you know it's quite... What stays here they have to make money out of.

Well yeah it's basically the people overseas have set the price of it. Yeah. I don't know why that is. Well I guess... We're in New Zealand, mate. We've got five million cows. There's an article I was reading yesterday, five million cows, five million people, why are we paying so much for butter? Each of us could have a cow. I mean if you're going to sell it for eight bucks overseas, you're not going to say in

New Zealand we're going to charge you, you know, like three bucks. I get it. Mate's rates. Mate's rates. Economics. Yeah, okay. Well, every caller today... Thank you to the Korean K-pop band BTS for providing this song. They just say at the beginning of one of their songs... The song is called Butter. And... That's the only time they say Butter.

As far as I know, that's the only time they say it. But anyway, after seven... Not many Butter related anthems out there. No, maybe we should get some more. Maybe it will now. You know, rappers always rap about jet planes and gold chains. What's expensive? Yeah, well butter.

Butter at the moment is the thing that is expensive. So after seven o'clock this morning, every caller wins butter. But first it's your birthday, Megan. So happy birthday. Thanks. Happy birthday, Megan. You're looking incredible for 50.

Well done, well done. It doesn't matter how much you burn me about my age, I'll always be younger than you two. You will, you will. I can't change that. Yeah. Nothing I can do about that. Happy birthday though. Thanks.

How was the wake up? It was good actually. Thank you for my Red Bull GIFs. I'm just really like making it my whole personality now. Yeah, well, producer Grace actually led the creativity on that one. So well done, Grace. I've got a Lego Formula One car. Yeah, you love Red Bull and Formula One at the moment.

And so yeah, so that's what we've got here. I said to Jon, it's like actually sad how happy I was about that. That I really made my day. Oh, that's nice. That's nice. Thank you for the Red Bull too, that hooked you up. Oh, did you not pay for it? Not the Red Bull. The rest of it. Yeah, well, I just want to say that was nice of them.

No, we paid for the rest of the stuff. No, I just didn't think. We'll get you a voucher and we'll get you a Lego car. I was also like- You got the receipt? Oh, hey, it's not a big birthday, is it? It's just a birthday. OK.

I feel like now- You started strong, Ben. No, I'm going to say now, we've seen a president, guys, and I don't like it. Like, every birthday we're going to have to buy- you know, it's one of those things. Hey. John and I used to have arrangements.

He doesn't buy for me, I don't buy for him, and that's fine No one forgets why is every male part peering and radio have that deal like I will be happy to organize For you Troy and I will organize the presence You give me ten bucks, and'll stick with the idea. We'll stick with the idea. Are you ever going to be talking? No. You give me 10 bucks and I will organize the presents for everybody. 10 bucks is more than 10 bucks mate. Oh 20 bucks then.

Match it. Well happy birthday anyway Megan. Thanks Ben. The worst birthday, the worst happy birthday ever where he's like doing cost break. Cost of living guys. Butter, like we've got to get you butter. Now we've got a present, everyone's getting body presence on their birthday. Once you start, once you start.

Remember last year. I know but what's wrong with that? Last year was your 40th. It's because I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I,

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Yeah, and then the awkward thing was multiple celebrations. Well, the awkward thing was someone on the team has their birthday the day after you Yeah, I got nothing nothing Rachel Bates There you go, yeah, but happy birthday Megan For the rebel that they did not pay for John O'Bannon Megan the podcast the heads. Hey, happy birthday Megan. Thank you Megan's coming Today a year older than she was last year. I was like, where's this going? No, I'm okay with you saying my age.

I'm proud of it. You know, not everyone makes it this far. She's 53 years old. Okay. She's owning every one of those 53 years. Looks good for her. Thank you. No, I did, last night I did one of those everything showers.

I had like a lot of time in the bathroom. I washed my hair. I shaved from the eyebrows down. Shaved from the eyebrows? Please, no. Shaved the body mustache. Yeah. And I did a tan.

I just fake tanned at home. But I'm pretty flexy, but there's one part that I can't get to. Like when you're doing sunscreen. Yes, you need someone to do your back. So I have this perfect circle around the top of my back that I can't get to. And for my birthday, I'm wearing this dress that you'll see the white badge. So my husband was at the gym and I'm at home with my two kids who are four and two.

And I was like... You didn't get the kids to rub fake tan into you, did you? Well, they were like, what are you doing? And I was like, how do I explain fake tan? First of all, they're like, why are you like rubbing poos on yourself? And I was like, I actually don't know. I don't know, blame society.

That's all we do. The beauty standard. Anyway, I was like, oh, I just wanted to look fancy and they were still confused. So I was like, bestie, my four year old son, can you do me a favor? And he was like, yeah And I was like put this glove on and you're going to rub it in your back. I was like see the white patch on my back Can you put the the brown cream on mommy's back? And he was like, yeah

It's like a painting a finger painting. Yeah, but that's the problem. He did he was kind of tapping it I was like, oh, it's a bit patchy, mate, it's a bit patchy. He's on date beauty. Just rub it around, and he's like, why does it smell like this? And I was like, is this bad parenting? I'm not sure, but he did, in the end, did a great job.

Oh, nice. So I got my son to finish off my fake tan. And now my thing with the fake tan is Andrew, your husband's, waking up this morning in a bed, bed with white sheets, it looks like he's had a threesome with some Oompa Loompas. It stains all through the sheets, doesn't it Ben? So there's a weird crime scene in here. Yeah.

Well happy birthday Megan. Thanks. Hey Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Now at the moment there's been a lot of talk the last couple of weeks about the price of butter. It's surged by 60% over the last two years.

You're paying pretty much around $10 a block of butter in the supermarkets and it's big news. It's big news. Huge news yeah so much so that on the news the reporters, they're chasing the CEO of Fonterra, chasing them down the road to his car, you know, harassing him. Do you think you're ripping Kiwis off? Are you ripping Kiwis off when it comes to butter? What sort of margins are you asking for on the price of butter? Let me talk to the Minister of Justice this afternoon and I'll

tell you I'll give you an interview at some point. Is it Fonterra putting the prices of butter up or is it supermarkets? It's not appropriate I get into that conversation with you. You have to admit that it's a big issue to Kiwis all across the country at the moment. Yeah, of course it is. So let me talk to the Minister. He's like trying to get into his car, he's like I'm off to hot yoga mate. It's still a business right?

They can technically charge whatever the hell they want. Yeah, you're right. It's getting exported around the world, our butter. It's very popular throughout Asian countries as well and that's getting exported around the world. Our butter, it's very popular throughout Asian countries as well. And that's the price that the people are paying for butter. So unfortunately this is, we're paying basically what they can get for it overseas.

Do you think you're ripping Kiwis off? It's business, it's not great for- I mean, I don't like it. No, but you understand it. You have to listen to Mittens Finest. So right now we thought we'd help you guys out. With Every Caller Wins Butter. Small like butter, like Germany.

Thanks to BT is the K-pop band. Call that trouble-breaking. Yeah so Every Caller gets on the air this morning. We're going to send you out a block of butter. Which is great. I mean it's liquid gold at the moment right? It's probably better than gold. Phone's already blowing up. Phone is already blowing up. One caller blowing up the phones on the 800mhz. We haven't seen what we wanted first. That's what people just want butter. It's probably that reporter from our news going

do you think you're ripping kiwis off? Do you think you're ripping kiwis off? Right so we just want to know your cheap savings hacks. Now these are like creative savings hacks we'll get producer Troy and producer Troy's new to the show this week he's got a good one using AI which is I thought was quite smart if you're doing any online shopping Troy's employing the robots to do what? To help you out with online discount codes so I did this recently with travel insurance yeah they always have in the checkout when you're doing online shopping, like do you have a gift code? Do you have a promo code?

Do you have a promo code? So I just go to chat GPT and I go scan the internet for XYZ promo codes that are active in July. Cause I used to do that with Google, but then you ended up just getting a whole bunch that weren't working or that were overseas. Like Google's not very good at it. And it worked? I got 10% off my travel.

10%? Damn girl! Damn! Damn. 10%? Nice. No, 5 bucks. There we go. There you go. So 800 of the hits. Half a block of butter. Creative ways that you're saving tax. I know I've got some friends and family members actually who play off the big corporates against each other, like the utilities. So they'll get to the end of the month

and they'll phone up Mercury and they're like, hey, across the road, mate, they're offering me a bit. And every month they do that and then they end up giving you a cheaper deal. But a lot of admin though. A lot. My husband did that with our power. He rang our power company

and said we're gonna go somewhere else. I was like, not though, like admin. He was like, did I not know that? Yeah, and did you get a discount? Yeah, and we got like a gift. I think we got like, you got to pick like a gift that you wanted. Oh nice.

I was like, yeah. Well you got this kid some cash saving tips. At some point if you keep finding them back every month they're like, big dog, you've run this play many times. Go then, fine. You're like, I don't want to go. I tried for a while, you'd sign up for different subscriptions. You'd like Apple TV and you'd get basically either free for a month or whatever it is.

But then it's all a week, but it's a race against time to watch all the shows. And then I was like, my wife said, you've got to settle down. I'm like, I'm going to get through nine more episodes of Dead Lassu. Watching TV is meant to be relaxing. You can give me crap for like... I know, so I was like, chill out, Watching TV is meant to be relaxing you to some. I know, it's like- Can you give me crepes for like- I know, so I was like, chill out, just get what you want, and then watch it in your own time, rather than like, trying to rush through it.

It's the pressure. Sit down, family! We've got three more episodes to get through, otherwise- And we've got four hours, now! Okay, I'll wait on to this. The creative ways that you're saving cash, if you get on air, you know what you'll win. You'll win some butter, it's that's breakfast.

Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. There's been a lot of talk in the news over the last sort of couple of weeks about the price of butter in particular. We know things are more expensive at the moment, but butter has surged about 60% in price over two years. And jeez, the media is not letting it go. Smooth like butter. And we are part of the fake news media.

And jumping on board this big time today where Every Caller starting from 7 o'clock is going to win, is going to win themselves a block of butter. Have we thought about the transport logistics of getting butter to winners? Very short window to get it from the studios to you, depending on where you are in the country. Good thing is it's cold out there. We'll work that out.

Thanks for this melted mush of... But you ever call her after seven o'clock, she's gonna win butter. And Megan, you've been furiously shaking back and forth with your arms, like she's been making a margarita or something, you know? It's not as fine as a cocktail, but I've made butter. You make your own butter.

You've been talking about it at the moment saving money at home use it on your baking Yeah, you know so I've made some baking with it and I've made baking this morning and use some fresh butter Okay, so you can try it, but how long did it take me? It's not long at all no you guys give me stick about it but the whole time she's like shaking the thing back and forth I'm like, if that clip ever got on the internet, AI would get hold of it and you'd be doing some terrible things. I didn't put the lid on properly and then the buttermilk sprayed in my face

and I was like, oh, this is not good. So you're left with the butter and you want us to do a blind taste test of actual butter and your butter and see if we can taste the difference. Oh, I didn't know we were going to do that. Oh, come on. I thought that was I didn't know we were gonna do that. Oh come on. I thought that was what we were doing. We can do that. We've got butter here.

I mean you're probably gonna taste the difference. Okay, that's alright. But, you know, we can try. Now while we're doing this, Producer Grace, you are obsessed with a meme that's going around on the internet. There's a little stick of butter that's placed on a dog's head. It's beautiful. It's on the story right now if you guys want to see it.

Okay. Butter dog. The dog with the butter. Butter dog. I'll put the butter on him. The dog with the butter. This is just dog with butter on, it's here. I've been saying it for 24 hours straight, everyone's so annoyed with me. Butter dog. We say that every week the internet needs to spring clean and that'd be one of the things to go. Alright Megan, we're gonna try the butter. Okay. Okay Ben, why don't we're gonna try the butter. Okay.

Okay, Ben, why don't you put a blindfold on, Ben? Okay. Wait, are you just gonna try the butter, like, by itself? Oh yeah, unless you've got bread or anything, but um... Well, I've got baking, but... In fact, can we go rogue and give away one block of butter now? Is that going too rogue? Yeah, let's do it, let's do it.

Okay, 0800thohits, you need to have a good reason why you want the butter, though, OK? 0800 of the hits if you do want every cooler wins butter this morning. OK, I got a blindfold on right now in the studio. He literally had a proper blindfold in his bag. He's always prepared, ready to go. Well, it's a sleep mask for the plane.

OK. Not planning on traveling anywhere, just got it just in case. Just in case. Just in case I was like, hey, you're off to the Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, here we go. This is very trusting, Megan.

She's scooping her butter and the anchor butter onto separate knives, and gonna be placing those knives inside your mouth. Again, yes, very trusting exercise. Open your tongue, Ben, open your mouth, Ben. There would be a time in radio that I wouldn't do this oh I think it's straight in my nose there we go now what do you reckon it's the professional butter or the unprofessional butter like to be honest I don't eat butter just straight so like

even a professional butter I'm like I don't know I don't know I mean it's butter who does eat butter like that yeah I go, oh, there's a little bit of butter on there. Put it back in the spoon. It tastes like butter, OK? OK. And here's the second knife going into his mouth. Blind taste test there. Professional or unprofessional butter?

They taste very similar. I'll give you that. Well done. I'm going to say professional first, non-professional second. Well. But I might be wrong. Correct. You are correct.

But that is good. But both tastes are good. Both tastes are good. Your one has a little bit of salt, which is are correct. But that is good, but both tasted good. Both tasted good. Your one has a little bit of salt, which is quite nice. Is it? Yeah, a little nice to treat yourself. We're gonna go to Otatahi. Emily, how cold is it in Christchurch this morning, mate?

It's freezing, I'm staying warm inside. I bet it should be minus there at the moment, I imagine. Now you need some butter, why? Needs to be a good reason. I look after the children, and next week I've got a couple of birthdays. So I want to make them a birthday cake for a couple of children. We'd be monsters if we took butter away from children.

All right, your first caller today, you win some butter. Awesome. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hat. We're talking moments about butter, the price of butter in every caller wins butter this

morning on the show. We thought we'd help you out, make things a little bit easier by sending you out some butter and we wanted to make things even more easier with some cash saving tips. I remember when this theme was to the guy from The Apprentice. Yeah. It was just a reality star. It was just a reality star hanging out with Epstein and having a fun time with teenagers. No one knew about it.

We just laughed at the way he was rude to people. Yeah. Anyway, times have moved on now, haven't they? So maybe I'll use another sting. That might bring up bad connotations. OK, cash saving tips. What do you got for us, Lisa? Oh, morning.

I use the Zed app. And every time you do $40 and you accrue your points, and then every month or so I get a full tank of gas. It cost me $50 to $60. That's a cash saving tip right now. Gas B is another one that you use, right Megan? Yeah, it's an app. And it tells you. It tells you your closest light petrol station that's cheapest.

Yeah. So I mean it's only like small increments really, but it all adds up. It all adds up. We're going to hook you up. We're going to send you out some butter. You win some butter this morning. Enjoy. Don't know what the state of the butter is going to be like when it lands in your letterbox, but hey, that's not my problem to deal with, Lisa. Good luck to you. Have a great day. Awesome. You too. Appreciate that. Richard, morning to you.

Your cash saving tip. Yes, straight honey onto crumpets rather than wasting all the butter, using it all up. Do you like on crumpets you put it on when it's hot and the butter dribbles through? Yeah, it melts through. He's like, say no butter, no butter. I mean the honey melts through. Well true, they're all melting through. Now you can put butter and honey on because we're going to hook you up with some butter.

It's coming your way. Perfect. Liquid gold. Smooth like butter. It's coming your way It's all yours Richie Every cooler wins butter. Have a great great a lot of text coming in about people as we're mentioning playing off the The big companies the power companies in particular too. I don't know how desperate they would get They'd be like we'll send over a team of professional cyclists to pedal power Well, I guess it's easier to try and keep a customer than get a new one maybe? Yeah, true.

You're playing off the streaming services Megan. I am and you guys were like, I don't know if it's legal, it's a breach of contract. But like between me and my best friends. It's got an impersonation too. That's exactly what I sounded like. We have like different accounts. So I have like Neon and Amazon. She has Apple and Netflix and then her parents have Disney, and we all share.

And I know that Disney probably doesn't know about it. But in terms of Netflix, you can add another account for like seven bucks, which is cheaper than getting your whole extra account, and then we just all share. Mickey's gonna come around your house with all his goons knocking on the door. All right, let's go to the phones again. Cash saving tips. Mel, what do you got for us?

Oh, good morning guys. Just don't spend the money. That's the best cash saving tip of all. What you want, you need and not what you want. Oh, Mel. A lot of people texting through saying don't take the hubby to the supermarket. That's a good way to save money. The kids I find as well. If I take one of the kids to the supermarket. Don't take me to the supermarket. And don't go to the supermarket hungry.

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's a good one. He said, I've changed my wife's phone language to German and she can't find the buy now button. Oh yeah, that's what I need. Maybe we should change your phone to another language. Yeah. Well, not today though, because it's your birthday, Megan.

Yeah. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats. Yesterday I did, it was with the kids yesterday and I saw a friend across the road and I sort of, he yelled out and I saw he yelled out but we're going to another appointment so it wasn't an occasion that I could sort of go and catch up and seen this for a while but I sort of did the I'll call you, you know, I said I'll give you a call and I did the sign, you know, the telephone. That's a hang loose. That is, yeah, it's like the hang loose where you put your hand up. I was like, I'll give you a call. And I did the sign, you know, the telephone.

That's a hang loose. Yeah, it's like the hang loose where you put your hand up. I hope I'm not mansplaining how to do this. Your thumb into your ear, your pinky into your mouth. And as I was doing it and walked away, I went to the kids, I was like, is that even what kids do these days? Because a phone is not what a phone is anymore.

And I was like, do you know what this is? And they're like, yeah, we're not idiots. We realized that it was calling. It's not like it's that complicated to know. Plus you said, I'll call you at the same time as you put your thumb and your little finger up to your ear. I was like, do you even know?

Yeah, they're like, yeah, we do know what it is. But that's not how you would call someone. I was like, see, the kids, what would you do? And they sort of would hold their hand up like they were sort of holding a phone these days. That's how they would say if I was gonna call someone, not like that. My kids put their flat hand to their ear.

The whole hand to the ear, like flat, like your phone is flat. Oh, gotcha. Because I guess it is. And I was like, no, that's... It's almost like you're going to sleep. Yeah. Than the night night thing. Flat hand to the ear. Because we're talking and I was talking to the kids

and actually talking to the friends about it on the weekend as well. How far phones have come, even now in our lifetime as well. Hey, hey, 100%. Remember, were you around when they had the brrrr? And you had to pull- The circle dial sort of thing. You had to pull the circle all the way to the side and wait for it to roll back. Yeah, and then, like, so call it, like, if someone's broken into your house, hold on, mate, hold on.

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And now you have to like angrily press a button. That's all you do. It's a great point. And it used to like rattle and it used to almost like go ching! Now you can't hang up angrily on anyone he was saying and it's a good point. Remember Russell Crowe threw an entire phone at a hotel cleaner once, you know? You'd have to have very good aim nowadays wouldn't you? You'd have to be bang on if you're chucking a phone at a hotel cleaner.

It's so expensive, you wouldn't throw your phone at a hotel cleaner. No, you wouldn't. One of those old ones, they would last. Plug in ones and just the drum, ripping it out of the wall and chugging a phone at someone. It's not until you go to hotels and stuff. I've done that with the kids a couple of times, they're like, what's this?

That's a phone. That's what it used to be. Even when I was at high school, if you had a phone in your room, like, you were cool. Yeah. The other thing too, is thinking, this is just old people ranting. But you do! You've been, you know, you've pestered around this earth for long enough that you get to a point where you're like, hold on, we're going to explain some stuff to you that we used to do that you don't care about.

We suffered through the bad technology. Yeah, and it's quite kids are like, cool bro, well now we don't have to do that. I was putting together a trampoline, okay, so it was just like the normal trampoline. And I got to a stage of the manufacturing process where it was just the trampoline with the springs. And I was like, 10 years ago, this would have been the finish line. Yeah, now we're putting like,

you're right, protection around it. Now that you're netting on, saving on. Well, but you don't have to. No, you don't. No, those, you know, six or seven rusty springs, some of them are broken, some of them have fallen off back in the day. Just let your kids catapult off them.

Karen, Karen. PC gone mad, 0800 1080, Newstalk ZB, give us a call, oh no, sorry, wrong station. No, it's a little bit ranty, we need to pull it back. Well next, we're gonna speak about how much cheaper things- Transgender people and sports. No, we're not talking about that. Jono, Ben and Megan.

Zip podcast. The Hats. With you, what is the price in Australia compared to New Zealand? We always hear that it's cheaper, but is it actually cheaper? Yeah, we've got former producer Taylor Montoya with us in a cold supermarket over there. Taylor! Hi guys, I miss you. Oh, we miss you too.

We miss you. Do you miss the New Zealand weather living in Australia? Because it's cold, maybe five degrees at max at the moment. What's it like there? Holy crap. Well, I don't want to rub it in, but it's clear skies, not one cloud in the sky. And like, honestly, yesterday I was at the beach. You're joking.

Literally, I think I was at the top of 24 yesterday. Jeez. Oh, the weather's better over there as well. Did you go to the diner in the surf club after the beach? I went to the RSL night. Yeah. Hey now how are you twins? You've had twins. Yeah I have yeah that's the well-wins they're eight months old now. Oh my god. If I was still in New Zealand I'd be coming back as your EP next month guys how crazy is that? Oh you're not coming back? We've left the job open for you. Did I not tell anyone? We keep saying she'll be back don't worry.

Yeah there's a lot of Edmund piling up for you so. Your replacement has already quit and you've got a new one. No one wants the job. Oh I'll have to move back then. Yeah if you could that'd be great. Must have a local look out for the twins. There's a few prizes to send out. Oh yeah we, if you could, that'd be great. Nice local look after the twins. There's a few prizes to see now. Oh yeah, we'll do long distance. That's easy.

How are you sleeping? Are you sleeping all right? You got your mouth tape on at night? You're sleeping good? I had to force it, the mouth tape, because I was getting up too often and it was too much admin to rip it off and put it back on. Gotcha. And the kids are like, what's wrong with Mummy?

Yeah, they'd been traumatised when I was breastfeeding. They're looking up and they've put some bloody gaffer tape on my mouth. Great though, they've got a bit of peace and quiet. Yes, but no, I've got very good girls. I'm very lucky. I am managing to sleep. Probably more sleep than when I was working with you guys actually. Oh, there you go. Well, they're very cute. They're very cute. Thank you. with you guys actually. Oh there you go, well they're very cute, they're very cute. Now we've got you in the supermarket over there, Kohl's, and we're doing a price comparison.

This is just kind of like almost an 0.900 number that you'd call back in the day and pay 5.99 a minute for. Yeah, but maybe not everything is cheap, that's what we need to find out right? Yeah, okay so Taylor, okay let's see, we, let's see. We'll start off with cheese. A block, a kg block of tasty cheese. Now we're looking online at a supermarket in New Zealand right now. It's about $19.90 for a kg of tasty cheese in New Zealand. What is it in Australia? Yeah guys, you're getting ripped, I'm sorry to say, but a kilo of tasty cheese here, I've

got $6.99 in front of me. Even converting that is what? $7.60. New Zealand dollars. You enjoy that tasty cheese. Keep talking about that cheese. Keep talking. 20 bucks here.

All right, Taylor, talk cucumbers to me. So New Zealand at the moment, it was like $5.45 or something at the supermarket the other day I saw. Yeah, what's in Australia? So we've got $2.20 here, but you could even get two for $4. Oh, two for $4. Oh my gosh. What would you do with two cucumbers, Ben? I think I want a hummus I could scoop out with two cucumbers.

Oh wow. All right, Megan, what are you going to throw out? What about a kg of mince? I'm pretty sure that's like 20, 21 bucks in New Zealand. OK, so for a kilo of mince here, base mince, we've got $10.50. So we're pretty much harbing everything. It seems that way. I mean, the butter we looked before,

it wasn't quite as spectacular as some of these other ones. OK, a dozen eggs. We're paying like $12, $13. So a dozen eggs. I remember when I lived in New Zealand, how dozen eggs we're paying like 12 $13 so it doesn't eggs I remember when I lived in New Zealand how ridiculous eggs were but here that was like the biggest thing I was excited about moving back to six bucks here. So I even get the card in of 18 More excited about those eggs She was more excited about those eggs than her fertilised ones. Let's go, I know you love a strawberry Ben.

I do love strawberries, yep. They've come back into play here. Just crept back into the supermarket, it's around about eight bucks. Mate, I've got $4.60 here. Yeah, so we're halving it. That's crazy. And this has just been a great advert of why we should all move to Australia. Come guys, I've got plenty of space here.

I'm sorry, we'll give it all up in about a month's time when you come back for that job back here, but anyway. Leave your husband. Hey, if you have to leave the girls too, we need you. Thank you so much, Taylor. That is, I don't know how I quite feel about the last two minutes, but anyway. No, thanks for having me guys, good to talk. Love to hear your voice, say hi to Marcelo from us, the Bulldogs, it's a new team, going really well.

He's out with an injury at the moment, but the Warriors and the Bulldogs going well this year. Of course you're going to turn it into a league chat. Sorry, okay sorry. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The hats. We want to save some money at the supermarket and after seven o'clock every caller wins butter, but there's a TV show that's all about saving money. It's called Eat Well For Less and the host of that show, Ganesh Raj, is with us. Thanks for joining the show, mate.

Thanks, bro. How are you guys? We're doing alright. Good. Great to see Eat Well For Less back on the TV screens again. Yeah, mate. It's fantastic. And my socials are blowing up.

People are just loving the recipes, which is fantastic. What are the insights like? Mate, how many new followers this year? That's not the point, Jono. Oh, OK. I thought it was like those people that go and married at first sight to boost their Instagram followers. Not so much me.

I'm more like, how many people downloaded my recipes? Ask me that. Yeah, well that's really cool because it is such a great show showing people how they can cook nutritious meals on a budget. At the moment it feels like this show has never been more important because times are tough out there. It's like people shouldn't have such a tough time and need our show so badly, but the show seems to be really helping people out

Which is great. Well, it's you know, it's not just you don't just host a TV show. It's actually a large part of What drives you because I know you have Schools that are around New Zealand teaching people how to cook healthy food for affordable prices Yes, sir. That's what I'm about the humble yum yum yum. Butter, let's start with butter, it's in the news. Oh god. Are there cheap alternatives? I'm gonna say no bro. I'm sorry New Zealand, I'm sorry New Zealand.

Well, okay. Good evening Travis, thanks for your time. Okay, well Jono was talking about, what was it, spread, something spread? Okay, so Jono was trying to tell me I could just use table spread and baking, which is- You can do table spread, but table spread technically is you know a version of butter anything that doesn't resemble its original form let's not pretend

let's not pretend it's the same thing but here's the thing I mean you can make butter Megan makes it. Ganesh you'd be so proud of me I made butter. I respect you deeply and the reason why I don't say deeply. And the reason why I don't say it out loud, here's why I don't say it out loud. I don't know many parents that come home and go, you know what kids, stand by for your meal. I'm just gonna chuck. How long did it take you to make your butter, Megan? It took like 15, 20 minutes.

Yeah, 15, 20 minutes is great. 15, 20 minutes is great. And it works. So you could make your own butter. So let me rephrase the answer to your first question. Is there a butter alternative? No, but you could make your own butter so let me rephrase the answer to your first question is there a butter alternative no but you can make your own there you go okay what about what about other savings at the supermarket because you know sometimes you go oh could I actually get take no I'm not talking like deep-fried takeaways but sometimes you're like could I make get this Thai meal cheaper than it would cost me to make it? Okay let's do the Thai meal that's a great example right? So let's call it a Thai stir-fry. Stir-fry. Chicken stir-fry. So chicken stir-fry.

Bear toy? Bear toy? Oh no we're playing vegetables. Too many steps. Too many steps. Too many steps. Come back. Come back. Come back. We're gonna make this easy. Mum's just come home. Four kids at home. You know what I'm saying. Ginger and garlic come in a little punnet now. They're all chopped and ready to go. It's called ginger garlic mince. It's like four bucks in the supermarket. So that already took care of two things for you. Then you've got onions. You can chop those, no problem. You get some mint, which is growing like a weed in New Zealand, no problem.

Basil, people go, oh Thai basil, European basil. I'm like once you chop it and put it in oh hello ladies lingerie, second floor ladies lingerie. So that's Megan Spallardi's reminder but carry on. Someone's got cash for reformer. Nice job Megan. She's not like she's checked out of us. She's like man I'm going to buy my pantie on the way home but right now we're in I'm invested. Alright keep talking to me. Tell me. Sorry, I apologize. I apologize. All right, all right.

So we were at the mint. We moved on to the basil. What I'm saying is the regular basil that grows in your pot wherever you are in the country, that's fine. People go Thai basil. I'm like, relax. It'll be OK.

When it hits the kid's mouth, the your mouth, he'll be like, yum, this is delicious. I don't think I've ever heard a sentence out of any child's mouth that says, is this not Thai basil? Yeah, that's facts. So at the end of the day, those are your two herbs. Now we have soy sauce in the pantry. Yeah, we probably do have some soy sauce in the pantry.

Soy sauce is your friend. No problem. OK, chicken. So chicken thighs right now are probably the cheapest things, you know, in order to buy a supermarket on the shelf, chicken thighs. And then it's frying up the onions and the ginger and the garlic, frying up the chicken, putting the soy sauce in, put your vegetables in at the very end, fry, fry, fry. Oh, what's that popping sound? It's the rice cooker. It just went, rice is done. Boom. Boom. You know, and that's for four people. That's for four people, right? That's not a bad number. That's not a bad number for four people.

No one's having a go at the number. Those are good numbers. Those are good numbers. So, I mean, we're pretty much in humble yum yum territory, you know, under $20 to $30 for four people. Kineshe, thank you. Some really useful tips there my friend, really appreciate it. John-O, Ben and Megan. The Podcast. The Hats. You know, times are tough. We all know know that and a lot of people talking about the price of butter at the moment it's surged 60% over the last two years the price of butter. So we thought today we'll help everyone out, every caller that gets on the air wins some

butter. You were talking with a sports journalist on the way over to the office this morning who had an alter- theory on this. Well he was saying yeah it is expensive but he was like you know you pay maybe 10 bucks, let's say 10 bucks. He's like butter would last me two weeks. He's like that's 10 bucks that's pretty good. You know he's like I'm buying a coffee at six bucks a day I'm buying a lot of other things that don't last me that long. He's like I'm maybe buying two blocks of butter a month at most. So he's like from the duration he's getting back for the game.

He's like I'm getting back for buck okay first of all nice for him to buy a coffee every day not everyone can afford that but I'm sure there's other stuff but also like if you're doing baking you go through more than a block of butter every two weeks it's just a fact how much it's increased. Is it oying? Yeah, it is. It's come up quite a lot. I remember when it used to be like $1.50 for a block.

I mean that was a while ago. So we wanted to know this morning because times are tough and if you want to win some butter on 0800 the HITSFI number or 4487, that's our text number, we want to know what's the little luxury item. It's not really a luxury item but you're like, oh, just treating myself, you know. Treat yourself. Maybe you're like, I just bought me some four ply. Oh, must be nice.

Oh, four ply. Velvet. Four ply. Velvet running between your bottom cheeks. I don't think I even knew they did four ply. There's another ply out there, mate. There's always another ply. There's always another blade on a razor.

Three ply's a little luxury, isn't it? Yeah. Three ply's a little luxury. That's a luxury. It's like wiping your a little luxury, isn't it? Yeah. A tree pie's a little luxury. That's a luxury. It's like wiping your bottom with a duvet in it. Yeah, a boring luxury item. That's probably what Mike Hosking does from Houston, Zephia. Just use a duvet.

Egyptian cotton. Oh yeah. Just the best. Outside his house is just a mountain of duvet in it. High thread count. Yeah. I'm just going to say, say you know I love my hand sanitiser, you can get the bulk standard one but now and again I like the cherry

blossom one. A little luxury item. I treat myself with a little bit of cherry blossom. That was his nickname around the office for a while we were calling him cherry blossom. Yeah a little luxury item just to treat myself. Not much more but just smells a little better. What about you Megan? I have bought like an aloe vera dishwashing liquid because I got cracked fingers. So I was like, you know what? I do the dishes all the time. I'm going to treat myself a little bit of aloe vera in there. Not the cheapest dishwashing liquid. No, that is nice.

It's still from the supermarket. Okay. So what's the little luxury item? That's not really a luxury item, but in times that is tough then it could be considered as. It's like going to the drive-through and they're like, medium or do you want to up size? And you're like, I'm going to up size. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast.

The Hats. Now the price of butter has really surged so much so it's big news. Even on the news we had a reporter chasing down the head of Fonterra. The CEO of Butter. So he's off to his car, he's late for an appointment, he's being harassed. Do you think you're ripping Kiwis off? Are you ripping Kiwis off when it comes to butter?

What sort of margins are you asking for on the price of butter? Let me talk to the Minister of Oil this afternoon, and I'll tell you a given to you at some point. Is it Fonterra putting the prices of butter up, or is it supermarkets? It's not appropriate to get into that conversation with you. You have to admit that it's a big issue to Kiwis all across the country at the moment.

Yeah, of course it is. So let me talk to the Minister. I love nothing more on the news than a journo chasing some sort of breathy businessman down the road. He's huffing and puffing. It used to be when someone had like ripped off someone or... But he's just setting the price of what it's actually worth. You know, like now it's sad it's gone up, but that's what people are paying for it overseas. Still a businessman.

I know. I mean it sucks, but he's still a businessman. That'd be a fun game to play with people too. You have a camera and a microphone, you just chase people down the road. Just randoms. Ask them questions. How much did you pay for your parking today? All right, let's go to the phone. So 800 of the hits, low level luxury items. You talk to us, we'll give you a free block of butter

because every caller this morning wins butter. Smooth like butter. Yeah, it's blocks of literal gold at the moment. So we wanted to know, yeah, your little luxury item that's not really a luxury item, but it is now when times are tough Morning Christy, how are ya? Good, thanks. How are you? Yeah, talk to us low-level luxury items. Oh

You know you can't go wrong with some hard-setting chocolate sauce to go You know on top of your ice cream or a bit of dessert or something like that. What is it ice magic or choc ice? Choc ice I think probably my go-to You know the one you bought yourself some choc ice? Choc ice, yeah. Choc ice I think is probably my go to. You know the one, you know the one, you bought yourself some choc ice recently have you? Oh yeah well I need to actually, um I want to run out but again like you say the cost of it is sometimes a bit hard to justify but I think this week I'll be going to get some. Ironically you can probably just take a bar of chocolate outside at the moment and it'll turn to choc ice. Good on you Christy, we're going to give you a block of butter. What are you going to do with that butter?

Oh, might bake something good hopefully, but we'll see how we go. I'm putting mine into storage one day, it might be worth more. I'm investing in butter now. He also invested all of his life savings into NFTs as well. Yeah, so that didn't go... Anyway, that's fine. I'm buying a lot of butter right now. You know what I bought the other day which was kind of a low-level luxury item? Trusted brand batteries. Not the batteries that you can't read what the writing says on them. Oh, like the actual ones from a brand.

The ones you see advertised. Not the ones that if you look at them the wrong way they'll explode. Ooh, luxury. Luxury item. Yeah, low-level luxury baby. Rachel, morning to you. Hello, a nice big bag of salt and vinegar chips all for myself. Luxury item. Are we talking bloody Lee Hart's ones? Snack-a-Changy. Yeah, absolutely. Those are the best.

The ones with those chips. So good, he's cracked the chip market, Lee Hart. And you've cracked the butter market because you've got a free block of it, Rachel. Because every caller wins butter. Smourth like butter. Enjoy, enjoy that butter. Do you know what, Rachel? What's that?

We've had word this morning, Intel, that competing radio shows, they got wind of our huge butter campaign, Ben Boy campaign. Yeah, we're banging on with that for weeks Free butter Rachel Double dip your butter did you Once phoning them they come over here runs walking about double blocks of butter One's phoning them, then they come over here and everyone's walking around with double blocks of butter. We should try and give them a call and see if they want some of our butter. Which one are they giving away? We're giving away silver wrapper butter. Jono, Ben and Megan. The podcast. The Hats.

8 Friday morning wrestling legend Hulk Hogan sadly passed away overnight at the age of 71. Oh that was his theme tune. sadly passed away overnight at the age of 71. Oh that was his theme tune. You can tell because it's on VHS. Yeah, I remember mum telling me off for ripping singlets like Hulk Hogan. You used to rip a singlet when it came out. The secret was you cut the top of it. Just a little nick. Yeah, otherwise I couldn't rip it myself.

Except he ripped it to like a ripped body underneath and you ripped it to like... Yeah, I know. Stop ripping singlets! We're plowing through the bloody singlets, having to go down to farmers, getting another five pack. This skinny little white boy. Yeah, trying to rip. That's a one and done thing too.

You couldn't be, you know, no tape backs once you have a singlet. Who wants to fight? Stop ripping singlets! Listen, I got a call by producer Grace. Do you want to come in here producer Grace? She's Sarah... Does she need counselling? Producer?

No, no, no, no. I'm sorry. Listen, I got caught by producer Grace. You want to come in here producer Grace? Does she need counselling? No, no, it's nothing cancelable. But she called me up for something I was doing early in the morning. This is like sort of five o'clock in the morning, wasn't it Grace? Yes, in the dark, really scary times for me as a woman walking across. This is true. Well, yeah, and then I just hear a bunch of like sound kind of close to me. So this is walking from the car park to here.

To here in the morning. Like around 5am in the dark and by myself. Do the boys not wait for you every morning and walk you across? No, we sometimes walk. No, I'm a phone walker. We're there, we're there. That's all I will, I see it, grace. But I just hear someone talking in the background in the distance and I was like, oh, I kind

of walked a bit faster. And then I turn around and it's just Jono and I was like, that's not Jono's voice. And Jono's walking with his phone in his pocket, playing a podcast out loud at 5 a.m. How obnoxious are you to do that? Like who cares? No one's on the street. I'm not gonna, can I be honest?

This is the first time I've done it. And it's obviously a one and done scenario. Yeah, don't do it again. But I was like, you know, it's the middle of the night and I'm not gonna upset anyone with my podcast and it was just in my front pocket and I just wanted to continue listening to it. It was a good podcast.

It's just still obnoxious, like who does that? I mean, I agree when there's more people around, but like I also kind of agree that like, there's no one around, so like. But I was around. Usually the podcast are playing in the comfort of my own ears. Yeah.

I was blasting Lady Gaga on my phone out loud as I came into work this morning. My music out loud. You must be using your guys' ear pods or something. Yeah, headphones. She was like, it's getting me the ick. I'm like, I'm a 40 something white guy, mate. The ick's all I stand for.

It could have been worse. It could have been Jonno talking to himself. That would have been worse. Yeah, it would have been creepy. I understand there's a certain level of arrogance connected with playing your podcast out loud in public. Oh, keep doing it, actually. What was the podcast about? Conspiracy theories?

Oh, it was just Seth Rose. No, it wasn't a conspiracy one this time. But buttoned off those, it was starting to get a bit weird.