Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Why Is Ben Bringing A Hot Iron In His Car?

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY Megan has outed a certain young producer to Matty for changing his Christmas countdown to ...69 I impulsively brought a house and got a strippers signature tattooed! Ben was a weird kid... Would you let someone file their nails in your bed? What are your thoughts on our Night Before Christmas? This Christchurch school has gone world famous again! We catch up with our Italian friend Daniella. Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFAST See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, that's us. Brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. Welcome to the podcast on a Wednesday morning, Megan. I know we're going to start with something that I shared and now I regret maybe sharing it. Don't regret it. I love this about you. It made me very happy this morning. Very unusual. You're an interesting guy. You know, it's interesting you do this job because you talk you talk you talk about so much of what you do yeah in your life and what your things and you're like like before you start to do this job you're like no I'm you know I'm kind of similar to a lot of other people and the more you talk about stuff you do you're like no I'm not you know and that's that's fine but your quirks are what

make you fun yeah I just and you end up sharing so much of yourself you share something and you don't think about it sometimes till afterwards. It's like, why did I tell everyone that? Yeah, that's an unusual thing. And so maybe it is good to embrace your quirks. You're right. Yeah, and this is definitely one of your quirks. Shit, it made me laugh.

Very unusual. Enjoy it as much as Megan did right now. Yesterday I was running around doing bits and pieces. I'm going to say this, what I did, and I know that producer Ellie, she's very good at analyzing us. You know, she'll be like, oh, this will be something that we'll have a chat with after the show. And you're like, you do this because of this reason. She's, yeah, studying psychology.

And I did something weirdly yesterday as well. Because I do sometimes for my own peace of mind, if I'm like, did I turn that thing off? Did I do the thing? I'll often take a photo of stuff. So I'm like, cool, like cool I've got you know I've had an incident with the handbrake I thought I put it on it didn't yeah I maybe I didn't put it on the car rolled down and rolled into a fence so since then sometimes if I leave my car for a little while I'm worried sometimes I'll take a photo of the handbrake just you know I'm like cool done that you know and yesterday for

some reason I went an extra step further than that okay there's another step with the iron I didn't think there could be another step I was like you know because I was I did some ironing quickly I was rushing around I went out the door and I was like I was going to take a photo of the iron I've unplugged the iron and then I'll go no I'll take one step further I'll take the iron with me so I took the iron for a wee drive to my next thing, which at the same time was probably, as I was driving, I was like, this maybe is more of a fire hazard, putting it next to me in the car. Was the photo not enough?

Yeah, I don't know. I just grabbed it. My daughter got in the car. She's like, why is the eye in it? I'm like, long story. It's not really a long story. It's just me. It's very short.

I just sound weird. I just sound weird. I don't want to get into this right now. But anyway. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. long story. It's just me. That's very short. I just sound weird. I just sound weird. I don't want to get into this right now. But anyway. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Matty McLean from The Afternoon Show, Matty and PJ. He is very competitive.

He's easy going on the outside, but he gets very frustrated quite easily. I get it. There's things that wind everyone up. And, you know, Matty, for me, for a long time, it was me not logging out of our joint computer. I've now since seen a daily reminder on my phone to log out of the computer to, you know, ease that for him. Yeah. Ease that 30 seconds that he has to do to log me out or switch users.

But anyway. That's it. We all heard what happened when Tash got him out for the Mariah Carey game. And he has brought in a countdown to Christmas. It's a little like Christmas house. It's got blocks that you change the numbers for. Now, someone has been changing it every day to 69. Right.

I don't know why that's funny. It's just a number. Yeah, exactly. Just a number. But someone is... Now, I thought it was like staying on that number. But apparently it's been changed back in the afternoons to the actual sleeps till Christmas.

And then in the mornings mornings it was changed again. Now, he accused Jono first from The Breakfast Show. Which is, everyone would go to Jono first. Understandable. But then I was accused second. Out of everyone on the show, everyone knows I love Christmas. I was accused second. And I got a phone call from Maddie McLean.

Do you have anything you would like to admit to Megan Pappas? Maddie McLean, you know I fizz and ooze Christmas. Whilst I know what you're talking about, that's absolutely not me. It's not you? No. No. It annoys me too

and I know who's doing it but I can't sub in my team. Can you give us something? Like give us a little pebble, a little crumb towards who it may be. You're on the right track when you said juvenile. Okay. Okay. Are you picking up what I'm putting down?

I think I'm picking up. Well, who's the youngest member of their team Oh Okay So I Kind of did implicate someone You did you kind of because I guess I was naturally The next person that they may have come for

Even PJ there was like Ben but Then your clue did kind of I didn't mean juvenile as in like Immature I mean juvenile as in the youngest, which would be producer Grace. When I heard juvenile, I was like, wait, that's mean. Megan had to explain it to me. She was like, she was salty at me the whole day because she thought I was calling it immature.

Also did kind of throw you under the bus. Yeah, totally. We had a pep talk and we're like, team, no one's going to say anything. And then Megan. The problem is that everyone said that, although people so far said it's not them, so it does eliminate them from the thing. Yeah, that's actually true.

So it narrows it down to yourself, me, and producer Ali. I'm not saying anything. Are you still changing it to 69 every morning? I left it right beside Maddie's screen just to annoy them. I don't think he was here yesterday. He wasn't here yesterday, so you've got to wait until this afternoon. I mean, whoever did it is going to wait until this afternoon. Yeah, whoever did it.

Yes, thank you, Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Hot and sticky for the next couple of days around the country. It's a muggy end to the week. No one really wants to be sticky, right, Megan? Hot and sticky. It's better than saying moist. Yeah, true.

A little bit of rain, though, floating around, but it is going to be hot over the next couple of days. We have Larissa, who is from our office, my friend Larissa, not yours, Ben, because she did something impulsive. Colleague, we're colleagues. Larissa, just want to make that clear. You had a couple of drinks, and you did something impulsive for the very first time, and it blew me away.

I always see these things advertised. And I'm like, who would do that? Yeah. Larissa would do that. My colleague Larissa would do that. Not my friend. My colleague. Your friend.

So what did you do? So you were at like a social event. Yes, I was at like a work function. Sorry, you weren't invited, Ben, because we're not friends. That's right. It's only for friends only. And there was a few drinks some nice food and then free tattoos which is interesting because you're right you do see those

from time to time and there's only usually idiots like me that would get you know tattoos yeah on the night or a stamp pad yeah um whatever you know now but you actually did it you followed yeah i got my first tattoo actually i don't know what made me want to do it. I just thought they were free. The margaritas? Yeah, maybe the margaritas. They were free and I thought, you know, YOLO, if we still say that. That's the tattoo actually, YOLO.

No, no, it's not. Yeah, so because you showed it, it's cool. It's a cool tattoo. It is really cool. A little one just in behind your ear. But I was surprised it was your first tattoo and that's how you did it. Yeah, well, my mum has very much always been like, don't get a tattoo, I hate them.

So I was very scared. But someone had to be the first one in the family to get one. Oh, you're the first family. Are you the trailblazer for tattoos? Yes, I am. Yeah, that was me as well. But the other thing is they had at this function like a sheet of tattoos that you could get.

So it wasn't as if loris has like thought about this one and then got that right she picked one off the piece of paper your friend got a chili on her body as well like there was a few of them how was your mom's reaction when you told her so i wanted to make it dramatic as per, and I set up a camera and I basically just said, you know how much I love you and you still love me, but I got a tattoo. And she was like, what? Where?

Where? She was like looking around thinking it was going to be somewhere like huge and crazy. And I showed her and she goes, is that it? Oh, there you go. That's good. So I was like, phew. She's like, don't get more.

Very impulsive. Is that part of your sort of personality trait? Would you say were you quite impulsive or was it just after maybe a couple of drinks? I think I was just like, should I get one? Ha ha, funny, funny. And then was like, put my name down. And then they got the text being like, you're up. And I was like, okay, I have to do it now.

And the margies. Yeah. Okay. So I went under that. It's 4487. We wanted to know, like Larissa, my colleague Larissa, what you've done impulsively. Megan, you signed up for a sport impulsively.

Because I went to the movie back in the day, Whip It, which was all about roller derby. And I went and I was like, this is cool. This looks like me. I'm a wimp though, so I don't know why I thought I could do it. But then literally like the next day, I went and signed up and played for like two years. Good on you for doing that. I was terrible at it but I did it. Yeah impulsively signed up on something. Yeah I wanted to like play a sport and roller skates and

fishnets and it was fun. I took the hits the Jono and Ben podcast. Larissa from The Office she is pretty impulsive she had a couple of margaritas and got her first tattoo behind her ear. It's very cute, but it was a spare of the moment decision and she picked the tattoo off a sheet of paper. So we're wondering what you've done impulsively. What big thing have you just decided to do off the cuff?

I remember watching a game as a kid, a rugby game, and John Olomou, I love John Olomou, and he had his eyebrows, you know, he had their number 11. And I was like, let's do that impulsively while the game was on. And I got my friend Bevan to do it. And for some reason, he put three lines in it. So it looked like an emergency, one, one, one.

Took out quite a lot of my eyebrow. But anyway, that was impulsively. Let's do our eyebrows. And then after mine was done, everyone went, oh, let's just leave Jonah to do it. So I was the John Olomu fan for a while. You have a history of copying cool people you idolise. I know. Your LL Cool J keychain. And not looking as cool as the actual person, you know?

I'm glad you've moved on from that. Thank you, yeah. But let's go to the phones. 0800 The Hits. Good morning, Michelle. What did you do impulsively? So I was living in London and I met a guy and we were together for about three weeks and he left to come back to New Zealand.

Yeah. And three weeks later I followed him and that was 27 years ago and we've been married 21 years and we have a 20-year-old and 18-year-old. Oh, wow. So pretty much three weeks, you were saying. Three weeks. And now you're together over 20-something years. That's incredible.

Did you just know he was the one? I think I did, but I always laugh. It's like, oh, it's coming into winter. I don't want to spend another winter in the UK. New Zealand looks nice. I'll go there. I'll give it a go. He's there too.

How bad can it be? Oh, awesome. That is impressive. Oh, there we go. That's exactly what we want. Very impulsive, but hey, it's worked out well. And Kirsty, what did you do impulsively? Well, I was working as a receptionist,

and I decided that I was a bit bored one day, and I was like, oh, what can I do? So I went down to the chemist and got a helix piercing in my lunch break, and they popped out the piercing gun and wham, and I was like, that's pretty painful. And 20 years on, it's still been a bit problematic. And I've considered taking it out a few times. But because it caused me so much pain,

it's a real reflection of something stupid that I did. Just in your lunch break. So that's the one through the kind of corner of your ear, the top corner of your ear, right? Yeah, I've got one of those too and I've had exactly the same experience as you. Oh really? It hurts and it doesn't heal properly

and you bump it and you're like Yeah. Yeah, mine did heal properly, it just got bumped, like you say. And now my daughter wants one. She wants me to take her on a Friday and get one. And she says that it won't hurt as much because they do it with a needle these days. So, yeah.

Take her when she's been bad and then she can tell you the consequences. No, thanks for that, Kirstie. Next time we could just have a lunch, but that's a good impulsive decision. This is huge though. John, good morning. Hi there.

You did something amazingly in the spirit of the moment. What did you do? We went along and had a look at an open home. Yeah. And we found out it was actually the auction was after the open home. And 45 minutes later later we owned it. No way. So you went along to it,

you thought you were just going to check out the place and then? We were just going to look at it, yeah. And then 45 minutes later you're like, well, that's now our house. Yeah, it was sort of an odd drive back to the other house. What did we just do? What just happened? We really got carried away at that auction, didn't we? Any regrets?

Did it work out okay? Oh, it worked out fine. It was a bit stressful getting into the other one. We had to sell this house. Had a lot of stress, didn't you, T-Soul? But hey, very impressive. We are talking about the most impulsive thing you've ever done. And I 100% saw 4487.

A lot of people have done some stuff really impulsively, Megan, you know? Yeah, really my John Alomu eyebrow story. Yeah, the pals in comparison right now joining us, I think we have Kylie. Kylie, what did you do impulsively? I went to a strip show called Magic Men a couple of years ago.

And the lookalike Channing Tatum, Will Parfitt, tattooed my boob. What? Not tattooed, autographed my boob. And I'd had a few to drink. And I joked with my friend to say, oh, I'm going to go get this tattooed. The next day, I actually ended up getting it tattooed on my breast. It's still there to this day. Really?

So what name was his name? Was it just like a normal name like Kevin? It's his initials. Oh, right. WP. So not Magic Mike or anything like that? No. Any regrets?

No, because I go back every year, and last year I showed him that I got it actually tattooed, and he put it on his Facebook story and Instagram story. Wow. There you go. You'd be like, what? This lady followed through. That's impressive.

Why? You sound like fun, though. I'll give you that. It sounds like a good one. It was fun. It's my only night a year without my kids. Yeah, nice. Push the boat out.

I love it. They're very impulsive. So thanks so much for sharing that with us. Yeah. Thanks, Kylie. It's pretty, yeah, that's next level, Megan. I would do that, but I'm happy for her. I'm happy she doesn't regret it. We've got

Gabby on the phone. Oh 800 the hits. Hi Gabby. What did you do impulsively? Hi guys. I actually ended up in Bali for a month with a girl that I met like two weeks before at a party. So we were just clubbing

and you know those friendships that you make when you're actually, like, on the line waiting for your turn in the toilet. Yeah. And then we were both, like, recently single and stuff. And she was like, yeah, I'm going to Bali in two weeks for, like, a month. Like an e-pray love. Can I come with?

And she's like, yeah, sure. So I bought the tickets and went. Wow. So you just met. And did it work out? Was it fun? It was the best trip of my life. Oh.

Good friends 15 years later. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah. We ended up meeting in Bali again 10 years after that. So it was pretty awesome. That's a way to test if any kind of relationship is to go on holiday with them. Because it's either going to work out or it's going to turn sour. Wow. That's really impulsive.

Thank you so much for sharing that with us. And one more just quickly, Megan. Alicia, good morning. Good morning. Now, what did you do impulsively? Well, it wasn't me. It was one of my best friends, and I got a message from her, and she was in a hotel in Melbourne.

And I said to her, like, what are you doing in Melbourne? And she goes, oh, well well I was at work this morning and and someone someone made me so angry that I went home, grabbed a bag of stuff and just went to Melbourne Just for a holiday, just like left the country. We've all felt like that

She actually followed through Some days I'm like Ben is too much That is incredible Wow Alright thank you so much The most impulsive things People are really impulsive Megan I want to be like that

I'm just not Where's Megan? She sounds like my hero She's in Melbourne That's weird Had enough The hits The Jono and Ben podcast

Now I know It probably shouldn't surprise me That I used to do this as a kid because, you know, that I do love, I love costumes and everything seems to stem back from your childhood, doesn't it?

Ben's got a garage full of costumes. Yes. My wife can't, she can't park the car in there because there's costumes and every time, even in the weekend, we did the magic trick with Cosentino

and we had top hats and everyone's like, what's going to happen to those? I'm like, I'll take them home and put them in the garage. Put them in the garage. But you also, every time we film something, you're like, I think I've got a costume for that. No doubt.

I do. Pretty much a costume shop. And I was talking to my dad about Christmas and when we were little and stuff like that the other day, and he was saying, do you know that you used to dress up as Santa? And I was like, no, I didn't. And he said, you were about five or six. You had a Santa costume. Now, he was like, you were I didn't. And he said, you were about five or six. You had a Santa costume.

Now he was like, you were aware you weren't the real Santa. Obviously I'm not, but what you would do, the family would be there, the cousins and all that and my Nana and Grandpa and you would excuse yourself from the room at one stage and just sneak out and then get changed and then come back in and put on a performance and everyone would go along with it.

And then afterwards, I'd leave again, apparently, and then come back out again. And everyone would go, oh, where did you go? You're like, oh, I was just, oh, you missed Santa was here. And to their credit, apparently, the whole family would go along with the charade that I was Santa for that moment. Tiny little squeaky Santa. Yeah.

Please. Yeah, it's kind of cool. It's cool. I was like, well, that's cool that the family kind of went along with that. Maybe then they could have in some way stopped the costuming on Kais. They could have nipped it in the bud back then. Yeah, but they encouraged it then. Did you ever like a voice?

Like what did the performance entail? I'm guessing it was. Does your dad have a video? I would love that. I should ask him. I would love that. I imagine I would have been trying to do the voice, the whole character. But you know me. I'm guessing it was. Does your dad have a video? I would love that. I should ask him. I would love that. I imagine I would have been trying to do the voice, the whole character. But you know me, I'm terrible.

Hoo, hoo, hoo. Hoo, hoo, hoo. Probably more like hoo, hoo, hoo, because that's my laugh as well. I do remember. Yeah, it's cool when you're family. I mean, you probably find that as well as a parent. You know, like you've got to encourage. You know, you can't.

Yeah. My daughter sings a lot now. She barely talks talks but she's just started singing let it go oh yeah it's awful like my son's pretty good but my daughter's like and i'm like oh it's so beautiful honey do you should we stop now i had um and a petticoat i used to take to bed it was my nana's petticoat it was my it was my comforter i remember this i do remember this one and and i used to take it to bed i used to like the feel of it it was my nana's petticoat. It was my comforter. I remember this. I do remember this one and I used to take it to bed

and I used to like the feel of it. It was my feeling petticoat. Weird kid I was. And I'd take that to bed. And I do remember asking my uncle, I was like, oh, because we're playing cowboys. And I was like,

oh, do cowboys have feeling petticoats? And I remember he looked at me and now I know what that look was. And he was like, oh yeah, definitely. They all do. Oh, bless. But yeah, he could have shattered a lot of illusions for me in that moment.

So yeah. Do you still go to bed with a petticoat? No, I don't. Your wife's? No, I don't. Maybe I should bring that back. Lingerie? Very weird, isn't it?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I did something last night that annoyed my husband so much so that he said something. Ooh. Cracks in the perfect relationship. I knew you'd enjoy this. something last night that annoyed my husband so much so that he said something oh um cracks the perfect relationship i knew you'd enjoy this um he doesn't we don't usually like have a go at each other but there was a little passive aggressive comment i've got the popcorn out i'm ready i'm ready to and i wanted to know if you i don't think you would be on board with this either. But I have been doing something all morning. Have you noticed?

I've been... Oh, you've been filing your nails. Filing my nails. Now you've said it. Yeah, yeah. Are you one of those guys that don't like that sound? I don't know. It's not something that grates me.

Is it in a way that kind of like fingers down a sort of chalkboard sort of situation? Is it kind of that grating for him? I think so. Not for him. So I'm doing it in the studio today because I wasn't allowed to do it in bed last night. Oh, no, but not in bed though. Why? I don't know.

Bed doesn't seem like, no, I'm like, you can, you can file your nails all you want, but I'm not, I don't know if it's a bed. Cause he, a couple of times he was like, are we doing this in bed? He was like, what about all that stuff coming off? But I brushed it off. But it's not a bed thing. It's like little sand and I just brushed it off. So he doesn't mind that if you're sitting next to each other, say somewhere else in the house.

Wouldn't mind. He'd be okay with that. So it's in bed. It's in bed. But also like, full disclaimer, these are press-on fake nails because no one's got any money at this time of the year. So what I'm filing off is not my actual nail. It's like plastic.

Yeah, but there's still – It's not like gross. Jono got grief because he was cutting his toenails next to a pool at a resort. That's in a public place, and that's his grotty toenails. That's what I'm saying. This is just plastic that I'm filing off. But he was like,

can we not do this in the bedroom? I feel like, because I have that debate with my wife about, you know, she loves a cup of tea at night, so do I.

I had a cup of tea while I was filing. But not in bed. I'm like, let's not be the couple that takes cups of tea to bed. You know, let's wait until we're 75 years old

and we're complaining about something we heard on CB. You watch TV in bed. We do. I know, but just it feels like we heard on CB. You watch TV in bed. We do. I know, but just it feels like. But then you don't eat snacks in bed. There's a lot of rules in your bedroom.

Is there more? Yes, okay, so who won that one last night? I did. Well, no, you didn't because you come in this morning to follow your nails. You definitely didn't win that one. You've been following your nails all morning. Yeah, no. The hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. On the countdown to Christmas, just what, 15 days to go? Something like that? 14. 14 now. Okay, sorry. Megan's definitely on the countdown. I'm on a vague sort of countdown.

It's the 11th. To Christmas. Good maths. We're getting there pretty soon. And we have decided this week we wanted to rewrite The Night Before Christmas and get your help. So every day we set it up with one line and then you rhyme it. And we get closer and closer to creating a Kiwi version of the story. Yeah, the original one's very snowy and northern hemisphere.

So we wanted to Kiwi-fy it. Yeah. So far, do we want to recap what we've got? Yeah, let's start it. So we started with our first line, which was? It was The Night Before Christmas and all through the land. And then we had Wendy. We decided, so many texts came through, we decided we'd choose Wendy's,

and this was her rhyme to that. Daydive and we're starting to warm up the band. Good. Then we needed a second line. Now, we started with creams on the pav. Change that. Controversial. Yeah.

Because people said you wouldn't cream the pav the night before. So we've changed it to pavs in the oven. We're prepping the pav. Change that. Controversial. Yeah. Because people said you wouldn't cream the pav the night before. So we've changed it to pavs in the oven. We're prepping the kai. And then another Wendy came through with this. Or not. Or my computer saying no. Doing a manu from up really high. Okay.

So we've got that. A night before Christmas all through the land, Dave Dobbin was starting to warm up the band. Pavs in the oven. We're prepping the kai, doing a manu from really up high. So it's going well so far. Yeah, so now we need another line. We were racking our brains yesterday.

We need to write the next line and then you need to rhyme with it. Yeah, you came up with this one. I like this one. Dad's gone to the shops in a mad Christmas dash. Because that's what my dad does. Christmas Eve does all his Christmas shopping. So that's the line. It's very stressful.

If you can rhyme with Dad's gone to the shops in a mad Christmas Dash, you know, it could be something like, well, he's out, Mum and the neighbour pash. Oh, Mum's grabbed Santa for a pash. Yeah. Or forgot to get gifts, so I'll just get out some cash. You know, those are some options. Peeling the spuds to make the mash.

Make the mash. Yeah. So we've got some options. You know, those are some options. Peeling the spuds to make the mash. Make the mash, yeah. So we've got some options now. 4487 on the text. If you can complete that line. Now, let's set it up one more time for them. It was the night before Christmas, and all through the land,

Dave Dobbin was starting to warm up the band. Paves in the oven were prepping the kai, doing a manu from up really high. Dad's gone to the shops in a mad Christmas dash. What is the next line? 4487 on the text, and it is the season for dazzling Christmas deals at the warehouse, so we're going to give you a $50 The Warehouse voucher up for grabs each day for our favorite line next. We're unboxing a new deal each day at the warehouse until December the 20th, and today's

daily deal is 50% off Christmas tree decorations. Excludes lights, clearance, and already discounted items, but it's in store only, and it's an amazing deal. So get in that. Get that deal before closing time today at the warehouse. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Riding the night before Christmas, and thanks to the warehouse,

is 24 days of dazzling deals right now. You can get yourself 50% off Christmas tree decorations, excludes lights, clearance, and already discounted. In-store only as well, but we've got a $50 voucher for the warehouse to give away. If you can give us the next line of the night before Christmas. The line you need to rhyme with is, Dad's gone to the shops in a mad Christmas dash. We've had stash, bash, there's rash. My favorite was Sis's home from uni with a rash.

Sis's home from uni sporting a rash. He's pulled out his wallet and spent all his cash. Mum decorates the house for our annual Christmas bash. He's got to get mum's present otherwise he'll get the bash. It's got to get mum's present, otherwise he'll get the bash. It's quite hard because there's so many texts coming through and we have to pick one line to tag on. There are some really good ones. So we're just throwing it over to producer Ellie. We're like, would Stephen get someone on to complete?

Because they're all really good and they're all worthy of winning that $50 from the warehouse. Mum's hanging the outdoor lights and they look flash. That's good. The Christmas stocking looks flash. There was one about grandma having a crash, which I didn't think fit the vibe. I think we're going with Dylan. Good morning, Dylan.

Morning. How's it going this morning? Yeah, good, thanks. This is exciting because we don't know exactly what your line is out of all the texts we've got. So we'll just get Megan to read from the start our Kiwi version of The Night Before Christmas and then you come in with your last line, okay? Yeah, sweet as pie.

Okay, here we go. It was the night before Christmas and all through the land, Dave Dobbin was starting to warm up the band. Pav's in the oven, we're prepping the kai, doing a manu from up really high. Dad's gone to the shops in a mad Christmas dash. Pav's in the oven, we're prepping the kai, doing a manu from up really high. Dad's gone to the shops in a mad Christmas dash. I sure hope the cops don't find my stash.

I like it. It's Kiwi. You can't argue that it's not Kiwi. Dylan, we're going to hook you up with $50 to spend at the warehouse, all right? Awesome. Thank you very much. Have a Merry Christmas. Here you go, he's added it. He's added the line. We've taken a turn somewhere along the way. We're definitely not as child friendly as the original you know, night before Christmas, but I love it.

Alright, tomorrow we'll be back with another line as we complete the story. It's good. Is that dad or one of the kids at home? Whose point of view was that? Who's hiding the stash? It was a mum. Who's hiding the stash?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. St Andrew's College in Christchurch. Now, last year they went viral at the end of the year in the prize giving. They had about 70, 80 students on stage, and they had this epic performance of Stairway to Heaven from Led Zeppelin. So many moving parts, different instruments and stuff with the choir as well, and it went viral on the internet. It's very, very cool.

I remember it from last year. It's one of those iconic moments. And then you imagine, like I'd forgotten about it, but you imagine the school, like pressure's on, pressure's on. How do you follow that up? I actually, I remember this, but I forgot that it was a Kiwi school because it went worldwide. Yeah, that's right. It was huge.

And this year, they backed it up again. End of year, they had, again, about 70 to 80 students. They had singers. They had a whole lot of instruments, flute, violin, guitar, drums, all sorts. And they performed Coldplay's Viva La Vida. Very cool. Like, the whole thing's about seven, eight minutes long. And it's just epic.

Like, it just builds. We'll put a link on the Hits Breakfast Instagram story. That's amazing very cool guys are so talented even the harmonies it's blown up again on the internet oh my god yeah it's very cool hey like pressure pressure on the music teacher pressure on the school and the students that deliver but they really delivered so that's that's incredible you guys are so talented. You know, like school performances.

You were saying just as we were talking while that song was playing, Mary J. Blige, that you were involved. Well, you tried to get involved. Well, I was always in school productions, but more in the choir. But we did Wizard of Oz and I auditioned for Dorothy. And I got a call back and I was like,

this is my moment. And then they were like, oh, can you audition for Glinda? And I was like, oh, okay, cool, cool. Oh, yeah, more of a Glinda guy. I mean, great role of Wiccan at the moment. Yeah. So I did.

And yeah, I ended up in the chorus. They were like, nah. It's cutthroat, isn't it, that industry? It is, really. You know, you're putting yourself out there. Yeah. Got to get a lot of no's until you get the yes, but I'm glad you didn't give up. Yeah, that's it.

Glad you didn't give up on your musical theatre career. Next time will be my time. It is like performing in front of the whole school as well. Yeah, it's a nerve-wracking thing. Did you do? No, I didn't. I think I told you about having to do an individual dance before, and I decided because they had a Michael Jackson mask at home.

I don't know why. I had a costume at home. Well, you know why I had a costume at home, because I like costumes. But then I came out because I thought it would hide the embarrassment on my face. Michael Jackson's a great dancer. Why did they make us do individual dancers as well? Why did you choose Michael Jackson? It was before we kind of –

You're a little white dude. Yeah, and so I tried to bring a lot of razzmatazz to my performance and I had a smoke – like a fire extinguisher from home. I remember telling you about this. I like sprayed it out. So I'd bring a mist to everything, which just left like talcum powder everywhere. Like what looked like talcum powder was a huge cleanup.

And then I lit some fireworks at home on the gym floor as well. It's a very stupid thing to do and got into a lot of trouble. I can imagine. My performance was cut short. I didn't get to the seven, eight minutes like that Coldplay school. The teacher's like, no, Ben, no. And in the end, I had to blow out the firecrackers and then do special detention for a week.

And then in your career, they moved on and the police went, no, Ben, no. It's like, yeah, there's a trajectory. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Greyhound Racing set to be outlawed in New Zealand announced yesterday. Gradually over the next 20 months, didn't realize we're only one of five countries where it's still being practiced. Who would have thought that Winston would pull that through? Yeah, so it's gradually happening as they rehome the estimated 3,000,

around 3,000 dogs. Do you know they sleep for about 18 hours a day, greyhounds? Do they? There's articles written this morning, they call them the cats of the dog world. Which, to me, I thought they'd have to get big walks. Yeah, because obviously they can sprint. They're kind of like, I'm not going to say Noah Lyles is lazy or anything.

Cheaters. But someone who goes out there and just runs and can run really fast, but then doesn't have to run fast all the time. Is that like cheaters though? They like go really fast and then they sleep. Oh, maybe.

Yeah. Maybe it's like that. So they sleep for a long time. I thought, I was saying to you. I just realised we've gone into a deep dive into greyhound. Yeah, that's not really

the time to do this. Let's get into the New Zealand Herald Daily Quiz. Hello. Yes, I'm here. Patiently waiting. No, it's okay. I'm very happy about the uh grey

hounder band uh racing it's awesome all right new zealand herald daily quiz again i haven't done it so i'm blind okay i'll play it with you essentially now yes you can't you can't look at my face because i don't know okay question number one alex honnold starred in what 2018 Oscar-winning documentary? Was it Free Solo, Icarus? Icarus? Icarus? That one? Or My Octopus Teacher? Oh, I don't know this one.

Oh, My Octopus Teacher was like, what was the, was it Oscar winner? It's Alex Honnold starred in what 2018 Oscar-winning doco? Yeah. Do you remember My Octopus Teacher? No. I watched it. I watched it. I just don't know if that's his name.

I can't remember But that would have won right? It was pretty cool But then Icarus I feel like It sounds like it's a made up Sort of like My octopus teacher

Like Adam Sandler Will be starring in something like that You know It's a bit of a laugh But it was actually Serious documentary You should watch it It made me cry

Really? It's so wholesome It sounds so weird It does He makes friends with an octopus. Genuinely, he dives down each day and genuinely this octopus

interacts with him and loves him. It's really cute. They're really smart. Ben's looking at us like, what are you guys on? Okay, do you want

to lock in the octopus teacher then? What's his name? Alex. Alex Honnold. I don't know. Do you know anything about Icarus

or whatever it's called? Icarus? Nah. Was that a talk about Russia or something? Why is that coming to my head? Look, I don't know. Do you know anything about Icarus or whatever it's called? Icarus? Nah. Was that a talk about Russia or something? Why is that coming to my head? Look, I haven't watched enough documentaries. I haven't heard of any of these. Okay.

Do we just go on and just try? Go on. Octopus Teacher. Let's do it. Oh, God. That was free solo. I didn't know what that is. Anyway, my Octopus Teacher, if you haven't watched it,

very touching, sounds stupid, it's great. So a guy like falls, he falls in love with him or he's just like, oh, Ben,

I don't know why you've gone that far. No, it's not sexy. Sorry to disappoint. I mean, I'm sure you can find that somewhere else.

That's what you're into. I don't want to yuck your yum. Yeah. Because I definitely have not fallen in love with any octopuses. 100%, no.

No. No, there's, I mean, they have a, like a, Because I definitely have not fallen in love with any octopuses 100% no No No, I mean they have a A friendship That's good, that's what I want I don't want none of that sexy stuff between octopuses No, that's not what I'm after Hey, before 7 o'clock we're going to get into a big battle The boys is what you need to watch

If you've seen that you know what I'm talking about The hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. 15 days. Oh, it's two weeks. Oh, yeah. Two weeks today until Christmas and we thought it was time to catch up with our,

we call her our Italian correspondent. Good morning, Daniella. Ciao. Ciao, Megan. Come stai? I'm good. That means how are you? I'm good.

Yeah, I'm good. Christian Mark. My friend Ben is there. Oh, I'm here as well. How are you this week? Ciao, Ben. Ciao. I'm amazing. Where is Jono friend Ben is there. I'm here as well. How are you this week? I'm amazing. Where is Jono? Did you sold for the better offer?

It's a hair transplant in Turkey. He's on his way over there. Good on him. He's getting his boobs done at the same time. So when it comes back, we've all got to pretend nothing. It's just the same. We're not going to make any comments about it. It's a two for one.

I want to see the result when he's back, okay? Now, do you get holidays? Because of busy time, I imagine, in the hotel game. No, me at 24th, 25th, 26th, 31st, 1st, and go on and on. Oh, jeez. Is Christmas a big thing in Italy? Like, is it, you know, like in here or in, say, America and things like that? Yeah, yeah, it's big and everybody. Because I think, you know, with the cold or in, say, America and things like that? Yeah, yeah, it's big and everybody.

Because I think, you know, with the cold weather also, you know, you're thinking, I don't know. For me, when I think about the Christmas, you know, it's cold, it's snowing, you know. Then I think in Italy, it's big things. Yeah, very big things. And do you have, like, Christmas pizza? No, no, no, not such a thing, guys. Sorry, no.

It's not like turkey and cranberry and stuffing pizza? No, people eat like pigs and they eat so much and they're doing something like 25 quarts is main meal. Like, oh yeah, it's huge. You don't even want to eat. But it's winter again. You eat a little bit more winter, do you? Yeah, that's true.

What's the most surprising thing that you've found about New Zealand being here for the time you have? Is there anything that we do totally different to what, or many things? Oh, yeah. Do you want me to say the most hilarious thing

that we will not do in Italy? You guys burp all the time with no respect. Oh, no, that's awful. Oh, really? Are we a burping nation, are we? No, you guys think it's okay because it's okay in a way, but, you know, it's like you go to the restaurant and you turn around and someone is burping nation, are we? You guys think it's okay because it's okay in a way.

But, you know, it's like you go to the restaurant and you turn around and someone is burping. You are on the queue and someone is burping. And they look at you like, what's wrong? And I'm thinking, oh, no, you're not for real. Oh, yeah, we're not all like that. I didn't know we were a gassy culture. No, no, no, you're not all like that. But that's what surprised me because in Italy we'll be so disrespectful, you know.

Yeah. But here you guys go away with a nice laugh. Oh, sorry. You know? Oh, I didn't. Okay. Also, like, what about bare feet? Because the times I've been in Italy, like, just people would never wear bare feet out in public.

No. Then, now that you mention that, I make you laugh. My mom and dad came for the first time in Australia when I lived there. That was back 2014 to visit me. And we did it with the Lord. So we go and pick them up at the airport to bed, fit me a mask. But, man, she looked at us and she said, did you not have some money to buy new shoes?

She believed that, you know, there was something wrong with me, actually. I said, no, mom, look around. A lot of people without shoes. You guys live in a poor country. No, it's just the way we're relaxed, relaxed Australia,

New Zealand, aren't we? Maybe too relaxed. Rocking bare feet. Burping around you, all sorts of stuff. Jeez. And that's what I think

I like to do at the same time. You guys are relaxed and I become a more relaxed person also. Oh, that's good. Thank you guys.

Thank you. Now, we usually talk about the lost and found, but we haven't connected any items, have we, from the lost and found? No, they've been hopeless. I'm sorry. Our job is not great.

What's in there this week? I got a belt. Oh, it's a little bit yucky and old. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. It's not yuck. What is the most unusual item that's been left behind? Can you say?

Can you say? Not really. I need to be Can you say? Not really. I need to be honest with you. Not unusual. Normal things that you leave behind. Charger, ear pods, belts, clothes, shoes. What was the one that goes in your ears? Sorry.

The ear pods. Hey, there you go. There you go. You tricked me, Megan. I like the ear pods. They're good. They're hearing. They're good.

The ear pods are great. How do you call them? Just ear pods. Yeah, but ear pods because they're hearing. They're good. The ear pods are great. How do you call them? Just ear pods. Yeah, but ear pods is great. That makes sense. But I like, yeah, I like the way you say it. You cute, aren't you? You love me.

I can see that. I do. Well, take care. And you too, guys. Yeah. Lovely chatting. We'll talk to you next week.