Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why did Jono BUTCHER producer Grace's hair?

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Ben's laptop needs a resurrection! We have a cutlery debate... Knife, fork, spoon or fork spoon knife? Can you guess the song based on the instruments? We chat to Jaedyn Randall from The Voice Australia! Boys are BEEFING with water bottles It's time to be grateful! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John O'Byrne podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. Welcome to the podcast on a Friday heading into a long weekend. Yeah, just been in myself here today, Megan's off, enjoying some annual leave. Did text her, I said what time did you wake up? She said 5.30. Oh yeah. Sleeping though, that's a sleeping for us. Yeah. 6.30 on the weekends, you know, still feel like you've had a wonderful night's sleep waking up at 6.30am

don't you yeah I'm like every time I do it I'm like this is what regular people probably feel like all the time you know

I could have this Monday to Friday could feel like this I feel like such a bag of crap the other days but anyway it's a fun job when you get in here

it is we love doing it once you're awake you're awake yeah you know yeah until you're not

until I'm not. Yeah. Then I'm asleep. If I stop talking now, I'll be asleep in three minutes. But, yeah, the podcast today had a really fun show. Spoke to a young Kiwi girl who's in the finals of The Voice Australia. And she's also a Disney princess. Yeah, really interesting.

Like a bona fide voiceover Disney princess. Really interesting to see how that process works, actually, eh? When they, well, I guess, overdub or re-record some Disney movies. Yeah, she was the voice of Moana in the Rio version of Disney's Moana, and also Elsa in the Rio version of Frozen. Yeah, very cool. Yeah, so that's on the potty. Megan, great play by her taking today off

to get an extended long weekend too Full respect to those people who milk those public holidays there's sometimes those sweet ones at the top of the year that you're like, oh if you take two days you end up with 56 days off in a row. Off and around Easter or something like that, you need to get your leave in

now before bosses realise. And we talk about it every time, we must be one of those shows that manipulates that system and then we never do. And all it takes it every time. We're like, we must be one of those shows that manipulates that system. And then we never do. And all it takes is a quick little glance at the calendar for 2025 and you'd sort yourself out. Yeah. So Megan not here last night.

We had actually had a work function, which is really cool. And they had like a casino set up there. It was all sort of play money. There was no real money involved, which is great. It's a great way. I found the dealers for the real casino was like this. It'd be great.'s a great way i found the the dealers oh for the real casino was like this it'd be great oh everyone's far more relaxed you know the jeopardy is gone it's like did you win you're like yeah and how much i don't know it's a real honesty

situation at one point i think i was uh six hundred thousand dollars up yeah great felt fantastic i got to do which was a bit of a bucket list thing i got to ring the bell and go no more bets because for the, because the lady, she had a lot going on. Oh, you were helping her out. Could you do ring the bell and do no more bets? That's quite a fun job, actually. Spins a roulette wheel,

I go, ding, no more bets. Ken, a normal casino would be so much more enjoyable if it was like that. Hey, you ring the bell, mate. Hey, do you want some cash? You hand out some chips. At one stage, she was like, I'm sorry, I haven't been to the,

I need to go to the bathroom, I haven't been to the bathroom. You ran the table. And so, yeah, me and another lady ran the table. No casino would ever let you do that. You're like, how much did you win, mate? I think you're all good. Okay, how much?

A lot of steep policy. Some of them as well, because, I mean, it was roulette. I don't know. Sometimes they pay one for one and four for... I wasn't sure. Because you can put a chip in the middle of the four numbers. I wasn't sure about all the admin. Everyone wins.

I was like, mate, you'd have a whole lot of chips on me. But Megan, very competitive in that situation. It was play money. It was social. We're there, you know, smoozing with clients. I don't think there was a domestic trip up for grabs for the person who ended up with the most fake money. Yeah, but you can't win it being an announcer for one of the radio stations. That's in my head.

But Megan was like, she was cashing it out. She was getting things. Oh, so she was determined to win the trip. Oh yeah, she'd already played earlier on, cashed out. She's got $4 million. She's got $4 million. She's got $4 million and then she was back later with stacks. I was like, put it all in. We'll go red or black. She's like, no, no, no, no, can't, can't. I was like, come on,

mate. Meanwhile, old mate over here is just handing out cash to me. One stage, someone grabbed a whole pile of money, you know, and I was like, oh, yes. Just took it. Yeah, it's fine. It's not real money. They probably won the trip.

Yeah, so that was fun. Life would be so much more enjoyable without real money. Yeah. If it was all just like that. Yeah. Just like Monopoly cash. But you've also had a bad start to the day too. Yeah.

Now, before I went out to this function last night, one of my daughters put her school bag on top. My laptop was sitting, probably my fault, on the back of my car, on the seat. Not your fault. It was fine. She got in, put her school bag on top. This drink bottle that I'd said throw out,

it leaked through her bag. Now, I didn't know it was a leaking drink bottle. I had problems because of the hygiene state of this. One of those plastic straws you can never clean properly. Are they unhygienic? After talking to Nano Girl, she's like, no, don't do ones with straws. Do you use stainless steel?

Because the straws are just too hard to clean. Even if you let them soak in soapy water. That was her advice. The more hygienic ones are the ones that are easier to clean. Anyway, this damn drink bottle leaks through a bag on top of my computer i got home i'm like it kind of tentatively worked on my eyes maybe it's okay then it started working i'm like oh good it's working came home from the function went to put on my laptop no and this morning

just nothing just gone there's just nothing that's a niggle it's it's annoying you know it's a niggle to if you are claiming insurance Because I had a laptop injury They're like They're just not going to give you a new laptop I'll tell you that now You wish it was as easy as that It should be as easy as that

But they send it off to Mozambique To try and get it fixed Then you hear back three weeks later Hey great news Yes new laptop No we can fix your I don't get it fixed. Yeah, and then you hear back three weeks later, they're like, hey, great news. And you're like, yes, new laptop. They're like, no, we can fix your... And you're like, oh. I don't want it fixed.

If I'd offer any advice now, it would be to smash your head against the laptop. Okay, cause it some damage. I feel like we should be talking about this on radio. This is definitely insurance fraud. Maybe it's like the casino last night. Maybe it's all like, yeah, you have a laptop. You have a laptop.

You need a win against insurance. You of all people need a win against insurance companies. They haven't paid out for anything. It's not going to happen, is it? There's a lot of big issues going on at the moment, but something in my household, which is becoming a bigger issue to me, is when you put your cutlery away,

the drawer, sometimes it gets crumbs and all sorts of stuff inside the drawer Inside the little slot pockets Yeah, so I was like, well let's give it a bit of a clean out, and the kids actually helped me do that, and then we were like... Do you know what I do? I just have the vacuum pipe in there every now and then. It seems that hygienic

doesn't it? You don't have to take the cutlery out sucks it up. So it's heavy enough that they don't get sucked up. What about a little teaspoon? Nothing. Nothing? No. I took everything out.

I gave it a wipe down. Then I went to put the cutlery back in the drawer. And then I went to put an order in of what I thought the cutlery should go. And my daughter's like, no, that's not the way it should go. You're like, I've been eating for longer than you. And I was like, well, maybe I'm doing it wrong. So I was going fork first, spoon, knife. It's an odd combination.

I'm going like if you go to a restaurant, that's the way that it's laid out. That's the way the cutlery is laid out in front of you if you had a plate in the middle. My thing is you're going fork, spoon, knife But the spoon is interrupting the two partners That's how I feel It's like a third wheeling Hey guys, how you going? And they're like, oh we were having a good time Until you inserted yourself in the middle of us

Who brought the spoon along? Surely you want the partners to join us That's what I think Well hey, this is the way I did it That's the way my kids were thinking along those lines. Although you were just saying before you'd go knife first. Yeah, knife, fork, spoon.

So why is the knife first? Why is the knife? Is it because you hold the knife in your left hand because you're left handed? Yeah. Knife, fork, spoon. Knife, fork, spoon.

Feels like fork's always first. For some reason the fork. I agree with that. What are you going to produce really? So I go fork, knife, spoon in the cutlery. So you're like doing

what Jono says. You're matching up the two pairs. Yes, but ours are backwards so his is knife, fork and I'm fork, knife, spoon in the cutlery. So you're doing what Jono says. You're matching up the two pairs. Yes, but ours are backwards. So his is knife, fork, and I'm fork, knife. I'll wait for the hits if you want to chime in on this. 4487. Yeah, knife, fork, spoon, spoon, fork, knife, fork, spoon, knife. It really doesn't matter.

But at the same time, it's one of those things that just feels odd to me when it's not done that. I mean, I go around your house. I'm not going to rearrange your cutlery. just feels it feels odd to me when it's not done that i mean i go around your house i'm not gonna rearrange your gallery it's not that odd to me do you know when i'm setting the table it really irritates jennifer i put the knives and the forks around the wrong way given my because you left hand she's like how many times i've told you it's the fork kevin boyce you know he's you know my dad he's school principal so many years it was always about the table no hats never the hats at the table you know hats he was a school principal for many years. It was always about the table. No hats.

There were no hats at the table. You know, hats inside were a big thing for a while as well. Really? Yeah. He'd be like, now, Brian, get your hat off. He wouldn't like me. Things like that were always a big thing as well. And then the knife and forks were like, that was how you had to lay it out on the table.

We've really thrown the rules out with hat etiquette, haven't we? I think I wore a hat into church. Did you? Oh, jeez God doesn't mind Oh well God doesn't want to see my big bald head Okay I'll wait under the hats

Knife, fork, spoon, spoon, fork, knife Fork, spoon, knife What order are you going in? You can text two people for it Someone's saying knife first Are they agreeing with you? Really? Knife first and then the fork

Then a spoon I want to know why I want to know the why behind these You know like agreeing with you? Really? Knives first, and then the fork, then a spoon. I want to know why. I want to know the why behind these. You know, like, why have you done that? A couple of people saying knife, fork, spoon as well too, John. Maybe you're... Buzzy. Okay.

I don't see any other logical way you'd do it. And why, though? Like, is it because you're left-handed, and you'd pick the knife with your left? So 10%? This is blowing up on the text machine. It is. A lot of people saying knife, fork, spoon. Come on.

Fork, spoon, knife. That's the way I'm going. Well, you're going fork, knife, spoon. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Now we're talking about something that, yeah, I get it. It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. No, and the text machine is telling you that on occasions.

On occasions. There's a couple of people saying who cares, doesn't matter. But there's other people getting involved in the order of the cutlery when you're putting it away in the drawer. Tell you who doesn't care on a Friday, Ben, okay? Is that right? We're here, we're filling the airtime, having a laugh. What's really baffling me is a lot of people going with your theory

of putting the knife first when you're putting the cutlery away. The knife is the prominent position. Knife, fork, spoon. Yeah, I don't understand why. Where's the baffling coming from? I think we're all in agreeance with the little horizontal ones for the little teaspoons. We all get that. But the big players, where's your big players?

What order are they going in? I was going fork first, but maybe I'm in the wrong. Now, I want to clarify with Producer Ali. Yesterday we had a naming scandal, okay? I called a lady Honya. I called a lady Honya. I called a lady Honya. In fact, her name was Sonia. Now I can see a Rachel on the line.

Now, could that be Rachel or is it Rachel? No, I believe it is Rachel. It is Rachel. Okay, well, Rachel, thanks for joining us this morning. And maybe it was Honya. I don't know. It definitely wasn't. So which order do you put your cutlery away in?

Knife, fork, spoon, definitely. Super question. Maybe natural. Well, someone's saying on the text machine, what do you say? Do you say go get the forks and knives or the knives and forks? So that's why they're saying they're putting the knives first. Yeah. Here's a big one for you.

Little spoon, big spoon. Are you cluttering them up, cross-contaminating? 100% no, that's criminal. You've got to keep them separate. Oh yeah, what about the weird super spoons that you don't have enough soup for so you kind of bang those in with the dessert spoons are you doing that? I kind of tuck them in the back to be honest

The big wide burst ones Yeah I don't eat enough soup to have them but I've got them as well so I'm like, yeah, I just chuck them in with the other spoons. They're all related, right, those spoons? That's what I think, yeah. Good on you, Nachal. Appreciate it.

Craig, good morning. Your thoughts on this? Knife, fork, spoon, spoon, fork, knife, knife, spoon, fork. Oh, my God, guys, who cares? Yeah, no, it's a very good point. Yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right, Craig.

Someone needed to say it. Yeah, no. I'm nearly falling asleep here listening to you guys say it. Oh, Craig, thank you. So is that a vote for knife, fork, spoon? Is it, Craig? He wants to do something with a knife,

that's for sure. Okay. Well, this is obviously a chat we'll have with our boss as well after the show. Well, let's take one more. We're here now. Okay, no turning back. Heather, good morning.

Good morning. How you doing? Is it a who cares? Is it a knife, fork, spoon? Is it a spoon, knife, fork? What's going on? It's the knife so that it's easier to grab when you're grabbing the knife to your butter. All right, so I'm in the wrong.

I'm in the wrong, guys. I see. Okay. We'll just go back to some more feedback from Craig. All right, Craig. Yeah, we'll move on from this, mate. Don't you worry. So there we go.

We've got the definitive answer to go with the knife first, but we've also got the other answer. Who cares? End of the day. You do you. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. On the cards this weekend, guys. What are you doing, Grace?

I'm thinking about getting a haircut, a little trim. Oh, really? They're really expensive now. How are you going? How short? Oh, just a trim. Just like a tiny bit. But like, yeah, normally Jono Jono you might not know this but like we get a yearly haircut. So I'm only one haircut more than Jono. I'll do it now. Okay you're here now. We've got scissors here. We can do it now. The tiniest bit. I'll do it now. Just like a little bit. Do a little bit now.

Are you actually? Yeah I can. I'll trust Jono. Jono can do like a tiny bit. I won't trust Jono at all. Neither. Just a little bit. Just a little. Can I go? Oh, that's huge. I just feel like that's a bit much. That's massive. No.

No. No. Don't cut that, baby. That's way too much. Oh, those scissors are awful. You're going to end up with split ends. No, don't do that. Jono.

Oh, my body's ripping. What the hell? It's coming off. Jono. I said it's rare. It's coming off. Here ripping it. What the hell? It's coming off. Jono! I said it's ripped. It's coming off. Here we go. What the?

Here we go. Oh my gosh, he's actually... He said you could stop doing this because the scissors aren't cutting through properly. Jono! That's a lot. There we go. Jono! Oh my God.

Wow, that's really a lot. You're going to... Even that... Okay, well that was a lot more Intense than I thought It was going to be Jono He literally asked for

Jono took That's a little bit Jono took a whole Chug of beer Yeah Yeah You hacked that Like it was a sore bro

What Wow Are you getting revenge Is this Was that a set up Or what was going on there Because I'm like It was a set up

Oh my god Because I was like Jeez I was like set up. I was like, jeez. Grace said she's getting a haircut. I am getting a bob. It would be funny if I cut her hair and get your reaction. Oh yeah, I was like, wow, he's really got it. It looks like half of it's long.

Looks good, I like it. Well, you don't need to get that done now this weekend. Don't worry, we'll get it sorted we'll be back with Bandle next jeez alright 6.17 on this I was like wow

he's really going for it we'll put the video up on the hits breakfast oh my god what's going into a big sporting weekend New Zealand are on their northern tour

and the rugby quick stop in Tokyo to take on play take on the brave blossoms before they get there i've got a hunch another hunch hitting my nickname for you the brave blossom isn't it the brave little blossom i'm gonna go new zealand's gonna beat japan by 35 uh 35 or more points that's paying 2.15 at the tabby so not too bad you can download the all newnew TRB app, get your bet on R18BetResponsibly. And if you want to text HUNCH to 4487 now, you can win a $100 bonus cash bet. Now, take two on Bandle. Yeah, we were going to do that before,

but we ended up cutting Grace's hair. Well, you did. Cutting Producer Grace's hair. It was a bit of a prank set up on Ben Boyce, and it got you. Yeah, it did. It got you a beauty. Wild thing first in the morning.

You didn't cut it, you hacked it. You hacked it. At any stage, you've got to stop. Why do you make it look so difficult? It's you. Yeah, it did. It got you a beauty. Wild thing first in the morning. You didn't cut it, you hacked it. You hacked it. At any stage you're going to stop. Why do you make it look so difficult? It's painful. I'm left-handed. He said that producer Ellie cut, you know, evened it out while the song was playing,

and it was like, made it look easy. Thank you. Yeah, I used my right hand, but I'm left-handed as well. Oh, I did use my right hand. So I understand. I see. Yeah, complainers. It's one of life's, forget Ukraine and Russia,

this is people, left-handed people using scissors. Well, isn't it? Ned Flanders had a store for that, didn't he? He did. Lectorium. Yes, no, it's a hard life. You can start one of those. It's a hard life.

No one understands. Terrible life. Nothing worse. Nothing worse. Thinking of everything, nothing. All right, Producer Grace, this is Bandle. How does this work? So we deconstruct a song.

We play it by instrument by instrument. And to you guys guys guess the song okay now again Ellie is staying in here producer Ellie because Ben as you rightly said we suck at this game

yeah we do I know I don't think I've got a single one but anyway here we go drum and bass little clues

2003 672 million views on YouTube you always say YouTube views I like to think it helps okay 672 I got it YouTube. You always say YouTube views. I like to think it helps, okay? 672.

I got it, the first one. Oh, did you? Yeah. I do not. Let's see if Ben can get it. It's quite an iconic song. Okay, we'll add the strings in, okay? No, every time I go...

It's coming do you know it Ellie nah but Toxic Britney Spears yes we have our winner yeah Toxic

that's a good one nice did you get it off the first yeah yeah wow that's impressive I'm just really talented. Yeah.

I just like, I'm like, it sounds like so many different songs to me. I'm like, oh, Sucker Jonas Brothers. Oh, Material Girl with Madonna. I feel like my body knows. Like my body feels it. Yeah, but my head's like, what is it? My body knows. My body's got the answer.

My hips are shaking, but I'm like, I can't name it. Hips are not lying. All right, let's try one more. Next one is the harder one, okay? Oh, God. Is it a bomb going off? It kind of sounds like it. 2019.

We're thinking kind of Halloween theme. They'll be doing Halloween themes. Can you feel it in your soul? Here's the bass one. Bad Guy? Billie Eilish no that sounds like a little bit like

Bad Guy now that I've heard it it's not at all it was just a stab there I like it keep yelling stuff okay 477 million views

477 477 million views yeah oh then I definitely know it so less than toxic if it puts it in Okay

This is with the synth Trying to guess a song Just purely based off the instruments Ellie was close before Okay It is Billie Eilish something Is it? Bad guy

No Now that's everybody Eilish song Come on Think of Halloween Yeah I know it I know it Billie Eilish song. Come on. Think of Halloween. Yeah, I know it. I know it. Again, the body knows it.

The backing vocal. Everyone must be so annoyed who's listening right now. Yeah. I'm so sorry. It's going off. It's Billie Eilish. I'm out. i'm out i'm out oh let's end it what is it it's very a friend oh of course hallow. Yeah. Good song, too. Oh, I'm disappointed in myself for that one. What do you want from me?

Why don't you run? Oh, nice work. Good song. Good song. Great song. 447 million views. Great song. 447 million other people agree with you.

The views don't lie, but we couldn't get another day of sucking at that game. It's an impossible game. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jaden Randall, a Kiwi singer, has been doing really well on The Voice Australia. She's incredible. Here's her singing Katy Perry. And she's done, as you said, incredibly well on the competition. And she joins us in the studio now.

Welcome, Jaden. I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me. Congratulations on all your success so far on'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me. Congratulations on all your success so far on The Voice Australia. Thank you so much. Oh, it's been a whirlwind. It's pre-recorded, right?

So you've been knowing stuff for months. I have. Should we just say, quick spoiler, if you're going to be watching it on New Zealand and TVNZ and TVNZ Plus, that you don't want to give away, you can stop now just briefly because we may talk aboutZ Plus that you don't want to give away. You know, we can stop now just briefly

because we may talk about some stuff that's happening in Australia at the moment, right? Yeah, okay. Yes. Are they on a different time zone? Yeah, you know,

the two hour thing, stuff like that. Australia's a bit different. It throws me out as well. Don't like saving, sad that. I know what you mean. Yeah, well,

my blind audition's only just aired here in Aotearoa and now, like, it's the finals in Australia. So, it's, yeah, it's quite a far delay. Yeah, well, my blind audition's only just aired here in Aotearoa, and now it's the finals in Australia. So, yeah, it's quite a far delay. Jeez, the time zone did get away on us. Yeah. We really let that one go, didn't we? Yeah, as well.

But you've done, you know, spoiled it really, really well. It must have been such an incredible experience to be on that show. It has been. It's being able to represent New Zealand and being Māori. Like, it's all the things that I wanted. That's awesome. I was talking to Kaylee Bell, a country music superstar, who went on the show, the same show you went on,

and she was saying it was the most nerve-wracking 30 seconds of her life when the doors open up and you walk out there and the studio is silent and it's just your footsteps. There's four chairs, you can't see the judges, and it just feels like it's you. I mean, that must be just terrifying. It's so scary. When it just feels like it's you i mean that must be just terrifying it's so scary it is when it's quiet like it's quiet you feel like you can hear your heartbeat like it's crazy and then you stand there for ages waiting for the music to play like they just keep it dead for so long you're like oh my gosh yeah and do the chairs actually turn

you know when they go boom and the camera goes whoa and i zooms in do they actually turn around on their own or they've got poor little production people i don't know from what i've seen it's it's um automatic but you never know fancy cheers did you get to sit in one of the fancy i actually did you know yeah um this is uh this is wild so we could be talking and we don't know we'll just blink once if you think you won though Do you think Oh Won I actually have no idea Of the outcome

Yeah I 100% hope so We need to record two bits We'll be like Oh it's so good you made it You know Like to second best And then we'll be like Yay

We're the winner Okay should we do that now Should we do that now Okay Congratulations The winner of the Voice Australia Well done Well done

Amazing How do you feel Oh I feel so great Thank you for everybody Who voted Okay now Jason, the winner of The Voice Australia. Well done. Well done. Amazing. How do you feel? I feel so great. Thank you for everybody who voted. Okay, now you didn't quite win, but you still got the semis. Hey, well, well done. I mean, not the result you wanted, but still such a great effort.

Yeah, I'd love to thank my cats. Now, were you also involved in the today version of Moana? Yeah, you're a Disney princess, aren't you? Oh, my God. Yeah. Tell us more about that. So I've done Moana Reo Maori. So I voiced Moana in that. I've done Frozen Reo Maori.

I was Princess Ana in that one. And then we've just announced that we're doing Moana 2 Reo Maori. Awesome. Yeah, which is being released on the exact same day as the English version, which is the first time that ever happened. Yeah. One of Megan's favorite movies is Frozen. Yeah.

Oh, no, Moana. Yeah, no. She doesn't like Frozen for some reason. She's not a fan. I'm like, oh, I watch it so much for my little girls. Yeah, true. Moana's so much better. Moana's cool.

It's a great, yeah. But they're all great. They're all great. Who did you think was a bit whiny from Frozen? Old... No, Elsa. Elsa, yeah. She's like, Elsa's just whining.

She's got a whole lot going on, mate. She's got all these superpowers, and her sister's just trying to help her out. She's like, ah, me, me. There's trauma. There's a lot of stuff going on. Is Mickey Mouse, is he coming down the line going, no, you voiced that incorrectly? Or is there like a...

I like that. So kind of how it works is there's like a performance director a real director making sure that you're saying the words right um but this movie's been super different so before we've always done revoicing or re-dubs of movies that have already come out years ago right because this one is like same day like my phone gets taken off me we have to have printouts of stuff it's got like my name on it so if I ever like

leaked it they know who did it like how long does it take you to voice a movie like Frozen Frozen it took a little longer

I think we had maybe four weeks this time it's taken three weeks to finish the whole movie really interesting do you get free passes to Disneyland

I haven't asked but hopefully you should I should shouldn't I who did you find more whingy Moana or Elsa Interesting. Do you get free passes to Disneyland? I haven't asked, but hopefully. You should. I should, shouldn't I? It's a work perk. Who did you find more whingy, Moana or Elsa? No comment.

Yeah, you want to keep your job nice. Well, lovely hanging out with you and all the best. I'm sure we'll talk to you many times over the years. Thank you. And congratulations on all your success. And congratulations on winning or maybe not winning. Yeah, we don't know. Thank you so much.

Appreciate that. As Jan Randall, good luck to her and The Voice Australia. Pretty awesome to see Kiwis doing it well. You can stream that on TVNZ On Demand if you wish. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. In the next five minutes, but you've had a shocking start to the morning, haven't you? Oh, yeah.

It was a shocking start to yesterday. I was doing some work. Nowadays, parents will understand when you're picking up kids, you often have some time waiting in the car for them to do stuff, their activities, and you're like, well, I'm going to make the most of it, take my laptop, do some work. And you always look suspicious on your laptop and a car. Now I'm rolling with it. I'm like, this is me.

I'm a laptop guy in a car situation. Me too. I'm a laptop and a car guy. Yeah, I look very odd. Sometimes you try and tap into other people's Wi-Fis. It doesn't always work, does it? So yesterday i was doing some work on my laptop uh waiting for my kids and then when they arrived i put my laptop on the back seat thought it was safe there one kid got in the front the other kid got on the back and put their school bag on top of my laptop which i

didn't understand at the time normally that'd be fine but this blooming drink bottle leaked from the school bag champagne out through and all through the laptop. The laptop at first, I was like, oh, maybe it's okay. It was sort of like going and then not going and then it went for a bit. I'm like, great. And then this morning, no, nothing. It's dead.

Nothing. Gone. I'm telling him to do an insurance job on it, but he's saying, well, don't talk about that on the radio. Like, I might try and apply for insurance. That's what happened, but I'm not going to go out. But all I want to do is fix it. What you want,

you want a brand new one. We need to cause some more visible damage. Drink bottles are a nightmare. They're actually the bane of your life at the moment and the bane of my life

at home. Do you have an excessive amount of drink bottles? Oh yeah. So much landfill but that's the thing we don't throw them away. Honestly I would say

20 plus drink bottles. You do get over a lot of drink bottles you drink it over yeah a lot of drink bottles as well but then people leave them my wife's a shocker for leaving them

leaving them somewhere so you need the backups yeah and there's always like a bank for some reason has decided to put you know get some promotional

drink bottles we've got so many ASB bank BNZ drink bottles I'm like where have you guys got all these and then they want more oh there's a new drink bottle we're going to get

need to wash them need to wash them out properly that's what Nano Girl said on the podcast with my daughter as well and don't she reckons way more hygienic

to get a stainless steel one wash it out than get one with a straw she said anyone with a straw particularly there's some flash ones that all the kids want as well

she's like they're not actually that hygienic because it's really hard to clean inside. Yeah. So you're basically drinking mould around the top

of some of them, you know. Oh, really? You can do if you don't clean them out properly. My issue, just you've got one mouth, one mouth,

one drink bottle. That's all your mouth needs. One mouth, and then once that one's done, you replace the next one. The drink bottle industry is starting to have a laugh, aren't they, and then once that one's done, you replace the next one. The drink bottle industry is starting to have a laugh, aren't they, too?

Oh, there's this new 20-litre tub. Yeah, some people have big ones, eh? You walk around with like a water cooler in your backpack. That feels like

it's a conversation start when someone walks around with one of those things, like a keg of water. You're like, yeah, I try to drink one of these a day, try to get through that.

You're like, are you? And then how much time are you spending in the bathroom? If you're having to strap a seatbelt on your drink bottle in the car as you're taking it to work, sign us. It's too big. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. This week, we got to do something actually pretty cool. We were hosting something for Foodstuffs.

Yeah. And that was awesome. They had some inspirational speeches speeches some in the room speakers are in the room others over zoom and they're all incredible and they're all one of those things you're just like yes yeah and it's hard like our job was just to basically introduce one inspirational speaker to the next you know and then once you've come off a bloody inspiration you know 30 minutes of inspiration we're like we're back on and yeah we've got we've got nothing we've got nothing here's the next person who's better than what we are.

Yeah, anyway. I always feel so motivated after seeing the stuff on Instagram, all those people. Let's just go say that. You're like, I'm going to change my life for the better. I read the quote and I'm like, yes, yes, you're right. Each day is a gift and we've all been given the same 24 hours and then you're like, nah.

Ten minutes later I'm like, kids, you're buying another time. Appreciate every moment with your family, because one day they'll be gone, and you're like, you're right. Yeah. Ten minutes later, like, shut up, you bloody kids. Whose drink bottle leaked in my laptop? It's totally ruined. You know, that sort of stuff.

It's hard to be mindful. Yeah, but there was an amazing speaker we had. Mark Matthews was his name. He's a big wave surfer from Australia. Now, if you get to book a speaker for anything, you should try and book him because he was over Zoom as well. And I know we don't want to take his whole story as well. He had a lot more to say, but he is incredible.

So you definitely try and book him. But he's a big wave surfer. And long story short, he really, really badly injured his leg. The nerve damage. He showed a photo. You couldn't watch the photo. I couldn't, no. But he did give a

thankfully, I loved the disclaimer because he's like, if you have a queasy stomach then don't look at this photo. And I watched it and it's changed me. There were bones and all sorts of sick areas. His leg was a mess. Because he got slammed into a reef by a massive wave. Nerve damage

to his leg and basically his leg is never the same again. It got to a stage where they almost had to amputate his leg, even after going through hospital and emergency surgery. So he was saying he was at a real low point in his life, which is understandable. I mean, the guy's surfing dreams and careers all over. He just got big sponsorship. He's in hospital. He doesn't think he'll be ever able to surf again.

He's at a real low point. And then this kid who was a fan of his messages to him saying, hey, I'm a huge fan. I'm actually coincidentally in the same hospital. Could we meet up? And he was at such a low point, he didn't even reply back to the kid. But his wife saw the message open, replied back to the kid and said, hey, his 19-year-old, 20-year-old kid, he's like, why don't you come down?

We could sneak some beers in. It'd be good. Well, I thought it'd be good for him to have some company. And so this 20-year-old guy sort of shows up later, and he was a quadriplegic. He'd had a snowboarding accident. And when he sort of went to shake his hand and to embrace this guy, it was like his whole life changed.

He just went, oh, my goodness, why am I sitting here in this self-pity and stuff when this guy is, you know. Can not move 95% of his body. So yeah, and they became best friends. I did, yeah. And we won't ruin the ending to the story. It's a wonderful, wonderful story where it all ends up. But it just was such a gratefulness and all that stuff.

And he was talking about, you know, sending texts to people and being grateful and that was his big thing he's like if you want and then science has proved this if you want to make yourself feel better you send a friendly text to someone in your life colleague friend family member whatever hey i really love you really appreciate everything you do for me i might not send that to my boss you know that might be more of a family member text. Oh, you don't appreciate the boss? I've sent three of those already today. And some nudes.

But he said the function in your body when you send... Yeah, almost like endorphins and stuff. Even when you've sent the text, they already raise. And then when you receive a text, so then you receive a text back and then you feel great. And then the person who receives the text feels great. Oh, this is great apparently, yeah. And that creates a ripple effect amongst your community.

And I was like, it's such a nice thing to do and I was like, I'm going to do that. Then I remembered when I tried because I was on Twitter or X for all, you know, it was Twitter at the time and I got really like upset about Twitter and how negative it was. The negative sewer of the internet.

And I'm like, every day I'm going to put out a positive tweet. I'm going to hashtag in someone that I admire and say publicly, I was like, geez, I love you, what you do. You're KJ Harper, you're a great actor, and I love, and I do all these things. And then people started bullying me. What's with your dumb things about positive? Oh, mate, look at this guy.

And I was like, oh, and I had to like, I've now deleted my account. He was only a month and a half in. Yeah. Taika, I love your work, buddy. It was this guy. And then he got mocked off Twitter for trying to be kind. Yeah. So maybe I should have brought that up with Mark.

Oh, you're endorphins then. They're at an all-time low, that's for sure. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. To a long weekend To Labour weekend Monday holiday For a lot of country Which is great

Another day for you To do activities though Ben Yeah Activities guy You love being busy don't you No I know Do you know one of the Most enjoyable

Things I discovered Last week on the tour We toured through the country For the never have you ever tour Yeah which I've still got my nails done From that I've never done my nails done from that. I've never done my nails.

I was at a work function last night. You know, like Megan got my nails done for the first time. I don't mind that. But the hot pink nails, again, I don't mind. But at the same time, it's like you can't take them off. They're gels. No. And then you tried to paint over them.

Can't do that. Yeah, so they're all, yeah. But anyway, that's me now. Yeah. How do, like if you wanted to, could you get like a jackhammer or something to chip them off? I think you can go into, I keep meaning to go into the mall and see the people there and get, but it's like, okay. At Professionale or Nail Diamond or something. It's Diamond Nail, but they should have been Nail Diamond, I think.

That irks you, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. Nail Diamond would have been great now. Yeah. But yeah, one of the things we discovered on the Never Have You Ever Tour, because you talk to a lot of people along the way and a lot of business owners too. We're broadcasting out of a few cafes. One of the greatest questions you can ask

in a light banter conversation is, you've been busy. Oh, yeah. You've been busy, question mark. And boy, people love it. They love it. Because, you know, it's kind of, everyone wants to tell you how busy they've been.

No, you know, that's a badge of honour. Yeah, you're right. Oh, I'm flat out. It was a bit quiet with COVID, but, you know, we've made it back. You know, there's so many different little sort of webs you can go down. It buys you 90 seconds of great, solid, light banter. You've been busy. Have you been busy?

Yeah, well, because it probably is good. Yeah, because normally I'd like to tell people I'm busy, you know. Like I tell my wife comes over and goes, oh, I've been busy. And she doesn't even ask if I'm busy. I'm just like, oh, today I've been running around doing this and doing that. And she's like, I don't care, mate. But, you know. But people just, they need to get it off their chest about how busy they are.

Yeah. And sometimes, sometimes you get the, oh, we're not busy enough. And you're like, oh, then you have to pull down the sympathetic thing. Yeah. Your claw back survived to 25. That's a good one. You can pull out that cliche. So, yeah. Well, actually, then you have to pull down the sympathetic thing here. Your clawback survived to 25. That's a good one. You can pull out that cliche. So, yeah, well, actually, speaking of long weekend,

we wanted to know who's got the busiest thing going on. What's on your agenda this weekend? How busy? How busy are you? How many activities are you doing? You list yours and see if you can beat Ben. Yeah, well, actually, we're going away to a friend's place this weekend, but then I'm also worried.

I'm like, to my wife, I'm like, I'm going to bring my laptop. I'm going to bring my laptop. Because they take me away from, because I'm around home. I'll be like, all right, I'm going to, so this is out of my comfort zone. This is out of my territory of organization. I'm like, I don't know what activities

I can drag the group away for. I'm like, I'm going to write a script for an MC thing. I'm like, when am I going to fit that in? I don't want to be the weird one where everyone's all having fun. I'm like, just writing a script over an MC thing. I'm like, when am I going to fit that in? You know, I don't want to be the weird one where everyone's all having fun. I'm like, just writing a script down here, guys. But I've got things I need to do. The busy weekend does not stop.

It's because we're hanging out and staying away in a friend's batch for a few days. Are you taking your laptop? Damn, why am I taking my laptop? First question, what's the Wi-Fi password? Do they have Wi-Fi at the batch? I don't know. A lot of big questions that I need answered at some stage.

Oh, that is hilarious. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Great high last week, you know. And now we're back to, you know, the reality. But again, have a great weekend of sport, guys. And we are talking about who's the busiest this weekend. It's a busy weekend of sport, though. Three, yeah, three days.

Three days under your sleeve. Ben Boyce, really anxious. He's the busiest this weekend. It's a busy weekend of sport, though. Yeah, three days. Three days under your sleeve. Ben Boyce, really anxious. He's going away to a batch. He's not sure of the Wi-Fi situation, and he wants to get work done on his laptop. Not the whole time, but it's just some stuff, some key things I need to do. Where are you going to sit and do your laptop work at the batch?

I don't know. I don't know. You don't know the layout? Don't know the layout. You don't want to be rude going away and go, guys, I'm just going to, you know, like there's a lot of questions I have. You know what I'd do?

What's that? I'd get up early. Yeah. Get up early, do it in darkness, get it done before the main crowd comes out.

That's what you're going to have to do. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, that's what's making him anxious. Out of going away

this weekend for three days to a batch, he's not sure if he can use his laptop. Brendan, why are you busy

this weekend? Hey, guys. Yeah, no, just got a lot of social events on over the weekend. Overcommitted myself, pretty much. Overcommitted? So what have you got? Are you doubling up on some nights, days?

Yeah, so I was having two people around for dinner tomorrow night, and now I ended up being 10. Wow, that's an upgrade. What are you putting on the table there, Brendan? What are we whipping up? Well, I had this stupid idea to have an Argentinian themed, because we're going to see Evita, like a musical thing out in West Auckland. Oh, nice.

So, yeah, so I've oversubscribed on that. Yeah, right. So a lot of meat. Argentinians have a heavily meat-based diet, so you're going to supply that. Yep, exactly. And then on Sunday, I've got a comedy show to go to and then helping a friend uh pack a whole lollies he's got like a lolly drop uh company that he um

delivers lollies and packages over halloween and then i've also got a i'm studying so i've got an assignment due on tuesday so somehow i've got to put that in. Jeez, I'm exhausted listening to you. Pack and lollies, musicals, meet dinner parties. It's all go. Well, good luck. We'll spare a thought for you this weekend, Brendan. Busiest weekend, Samantha, what's on the cards? Hi, I've got, I'm trying to get my house ready to put on the market and put an offer on another one.

So cleaning the house, decluttering, as well as general life admin. You know when you're having to have your house on display and everything has to be, don't move that, don't touch that. Yeah, and especially when you've got two children and two dogs and they muck. And it's like, I'm going to be constantly vacuuming. But hey, that's what we've got to do. We spoke to someone a couple of weeks ago who said they had an open home and they had no bed

in the spare bedroom so they thought they'd do a makeshift one and they put cardboard boxes and then put like a sheet

over the cardboard boxes in the shape of a bed and a sweet elderly lady had come through the house and she went to sit on

the bed and collapsed into the heap of cardboard boxes so yeah that's one tip to avoid yeah no cardboard boxes in the bed no that's good So, yeah, that's one tip to avoid. Yeah, no cardboard boxes, yes.

No, that's not. Well, good luck with that. I hope your house sells. Waza. Busiest weekend, Waza, what's happening? He's so busy, he can't talk. Don't blame you. We'll get Kimbo.

Kimbo on the phone. How are you? Good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, good. We're talking busiest weekend. Kim, what's going on the phone. How are you? Good, thank you. How are you? Yeah, good. We're talking busy this weekend. Kim, what's going on? Well, I'm a community support worker.

So tomorrow I have 18 clients and Sunday I have 19 clients and Monday I have eight. So it's a quiet day Monday. That's a busy, 19 clients. Is that like a usual day or is that quite a lot of clients in one day? Oh, no. It's my normal, I work every second weekend. So normally I have 15, 16 a day on a normal weekend, but others are away, so covering a few extra shifts.

18 people tomorrow. And so what is the main role of a community support worker? Oh, we come in, we help them get dressed or shower or make them breakfast, lunch and dinner and all those things, you know, make sure they're okay, give them medicine and, yeah. Well, that sounds bloody good to me. You can put 19 on your list. You can come round and visit me tomorrow, okay? Another sweet elderly person.

You can help them into some pants.