Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL SHOW: Will megan find her engagement ring?!

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

ON THE SHOW TODAY: Does this hotel have the missing sock? Why did Ben send his daughter out in last nights storm? Running a race, cycling a triathlon... In heels! The Rainbow's End pirate ship is back and we wanna be the first on it! Craziest lost and found stories This is a tech hack! Facebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono and Ben Instagram: THEHITSBREAKFASTSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Now look, I've lost a sock. I don't know where I've lost it over the last couple of months. It's been, the other one, the one that I do still have, is sitting above the washing machine at home and we're searching for it. You guys have put a lot of effort into putting some posters out there,

putting some coverage on social media as well, trying to get my other sock back, the lucky sock with the four-leaf clover. Well, you know, it's this moment in the campaign where I'm like, have we dedicated too much of your time to a missing sock? But no, we're here now. Put up some prize money if you've got the sock or something that, well, a matching pair for that,

$100 and some washing powder as well. But we just say to you, why don't you just retrace where you've been over the last month or so? Yeah. So we went away for work, the three of us in Christchurch. And then I went away, you know, in Tauranga as well. So I was like, well, maybe we should call some of these hotels.

Hotel 115, what am I speaking? Oh, hi there. It's Ben from Jono, Ben and Megan on the Hats radio station. How are you doing? Good. How are you? Good. Well, look, we stayed in your hotel. It's Ben from Jono, Ben and Megan on the Hits radio station. How are you doing? Good. How are you? Good. Well, look, we stayed in your hotel.

It was wonderful. A few weeks ago, I'm just retracing my steps because I've lost a sock. And I just wondered if it had been handed in or found by anyone. Let me check real quick. Okay. Can you repeat your name? Can you spell your name, please? Boyce.

B-O-Y-C-E. B-O-Y-C-E. B-O-Y... C-E. It's a black sock. It's got a lucky four-leaf clover on it, a green clover. Just retracing my steps. Have you received any email regarding a lost and found item? Okay.

Normally, did you? Because usually when we find something Whoever found it The colleague would send an email Right away If you haven't received any email Probably we didn't find it That was a long shot He's looking for

The missing sock He really killed the vibes Thanks for coming in sock? You've already killed the vibes, haven't you, mate? Thanks for coming in. We're having a nice chat but thanks for you coming in, mate. Sorry I killed the vibes there. Well, maybe it's clearly not at your establishment. Thank you.

Hey, no worries. She's like, what do you want? A sock Yeah That fella when you're at a party And two people are talking And you come up To try and join in The conversation

You do that a lot We're all like Oh Oh he's here I've just finished my drink I'm just going to get another drink Anyone want one There's another hotel

I should call I went to Tauranga For the Ames Games Maybe I should call that hotel Tauranga Good morning Daniela speaking. Maybe I should call their hotel. Tauranga, good morning. Daniela speaking. How can I help you? Is that the quest? It's the quest in Tauranga. Have I got a quest for you?

That's funny. It's early in the morning. Sorry about the weird start from me. No, it was good because it's fall raining in Tauranga and you made my dinner. We were wondering if you were... How many people on the phone? There's three of us.

We're on a radio show. Oh, good morning. Good morning. It's Jono, Ben and Megan from the Hits radio station. Oh, that's the best start to my day. Tell you what, I've stayed in your hotel. I came down and saw my daughter play Ames games. It was great.

I had a wonderful time at the Quest. Did you have the pleasure to meet me? I don't think I had the pleasure to meet you no shame because i came i arrived after hours so i had to like get the key from the lockbox you missed the crazy italian manager oh yeah well hey just wondering i'm missing a sock my lucky sock and i just trying to retrace my steps i don't know if it's going to be at your hotel but i was wondering if someone could have a look in the room I was staying in. That's funny. If I find the socks, I will call you straight away.

I took a photo of my room key. It was 215. I will have a double look, but I'm honest with you. When something happens like that, we call the customer straight away. Can you do us a favor? Of course I can. Can you say, Mamma Mia? Of course I can Can you say Mamma Mia? Of course I can, Mamma Mia Mamma Mia

And the second favour was someone have a look for the sock 215 around the brown chair He's really connected to the sock It's a lucky sock, I feel Anyway, it's probably not going to happen But you've been lovely to talk to Poor guy If you come back, I promise you I'll buy you one

And I'll give you one I need tiny of brown socks this is a lucky one this is a black sock it's got a green four leaf clover on it what's your name again? my name is Ben

we're Jono, Ben and Megan from the Hits radio station I was just kidding you sorry I love you Mamma Mia Jon, Ben and everybody

make me crazy this morning Arrivederci. Ciao, ciao, ciao. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. My daughter Sienna. You know, those kids do. Later in the evening, sort of go to you, hey, by tomorrow I need this done.

And this was a situation where she was like, the chocolates for the netball fundraiser, I need to sell all those chocolates by tomorrow. How long had the chocolates been in her possession? Well, I would say a week or two. She had sold them. In her defense, she had sold some. I'd bought some.

She'd sold them to other places. She had sold some, but she still had quite a bit left. She got rid of some stock. Yeah, she was like, Dad, do you want to buy the rest of the chocolates? This is a good play from her because she's like, it's last minute. I literally can't do anything else about it. Save me, Dad. What time at night are we talking? I reckon it was about 5 30 5 30 at night normally i would go yeah and i went you know this time i

said no i said no you know what i said how much i was like i'm not going to spend 90 dollars on peanut slabs i've already bought five you know and they're sitting there and you're not much of a chocolate guy and they're great don't get me wrong peanut sl. Pallet Sabs, you know, Whittaker's great. But I was like, no, this occasion, I'm not going to buy the whole thing. And she's like, well, can I go around the neighborhood now and try and sell them? I'm like, yeah, okay. And so she roped in her sister and they went out and I was like, take your phones with you. Take around the neighborhood.

Get to keep in touch. So off she went. She'd been gone a little bit. This was half an hour. It's getting after six. I'm like, oh, it's starting to get a little bit dark give her a call you can i just say two stormy conditions last night it was actually two nights ago so it wasn't it wasn't but it wasn't great it was yeah it was a bunch of out and about i was like this is good character building stuff that my parents would

make me do back in the day i'm like oh good so i gave her a call and she's like well no we're fine we're just going to a couple more streets we're gonna uh you know we'll just carry on looking a bit longer then it got quite dark about 25 30 minutes later i'm like oh oh oh and my wife arrived so she's like where are the kids they're out making some sales like they're out making sales because i'm teaching them you know that they need to get out there as well. And I'm like, I just called them. They're fine. They're all good. It's dark.

The weather's not great. And I'm like, they're all good. They're fine. And then they come in like, ah, inside, running into the house. Don't scream. Oh, God. They're like, someone open the door in a horse mask. Up the road.

That is a good tactic because you can't, scientifically it's been proven, you can't slam a door in a child's face fundraising. However, if you've got a horse mask on, you can't pin that on anyone. That's a great tactic. It's dark. Anyone outside the door in any kind of mask,

you're like, what? I was like, was it a kid? Was it out there? No, no, it was just someone in a horse mask. And so they ran home. So I was like, apparently that's not responsible. Apparently. Until that time of night. I was like apparently that's not responsible in the neighborhood apparently I was just doing

what my parents would have done for me they also didn't make us put on sunscreen or put on seatbelts either exactly some shabby parenting the hits

the Jono and Ben podcast now you came to the show with some content pre-show that rocked Megan to her her core yeah

Mariah Carey let me get some Mariah Carey while you're talking about that. Love it. Great singer. But what she did, she's about to perform in Beijing at the moment. Now, she walked not the entire Great Wall of China, but quite a lot of distance. And high heels.

Which is cobbled. You know, like it's bricks. Yeah, a dress and high heels is what she wore along the Great Wall of China. She's walking the Great Wall of China in full glam in six-inch platform. That American lady said it better than you, if I just thought. You're right, six-inch. I couldn't say it like that. It's pretty incredible.

That is insane. Like, how long is the Great Wall of China? 21 Ks. Just over 21 Ks. She's not doing the whole thing of China. 21 Ks. Just over 21 Ks. She's not doing the whole thing though. No, but she still had some photos

of her like at some sort of level like along the ground and then up a lot higher so she obviously walks some distance

in them. She doesn't own sneakers. Doesn't own a pair of sneakers apparently. She just goes slippers or high heels. I'm not a big I've only just recently

gone into wearing some sneakers. I would always wear heels. But I wouldn't walk that because your heels get stuck in the cracks. I mean, I imagine all the Chinese were like, she's a mad, she's mad, this Western woman coming over here doing the Great Wall in high heels.

She put it on her social media. She said someone should have warned me about heels, but not that I would have listened, is what Mariah Carey said as well. So under the hats, 4487, we want to know this morning, what have you done in heels, in high heels? I have parked an 18-wheeler truck and trailer, parallel parked in heels. 18 wheels?

Heels and wheels? Were the heels a part of the challenge or that's what you were wearing at the time? No, I think it was part of the challenge because I always claim

there isn't anything I can't do in heels. Technically I could walk in the Great Wall of China. Now we're going to be sending you over to China. My grandma, she did everything in heels.

She'd go out in the garden. She'd even play tennis in heels as well. Wow. That seems like a very risky sport to be. Yeah, she rolled her ankle. I do remember one time her rolling her ankle and having to, like, sort of hobble her way and, like, almost, like,

crawl her way back home, like, at Amberley Beach in North Canterbury. That would have been the least surprising news to the family. Yeah, well, we told you. She's finally done it. We told you. We want to know. Oh, and it's 4 you. She's finally done it. We told you. We want to know, oh, it's 4 for 8, so we've got a Cadbury price pack, valued at $30 to give away.

Thanks, our friends at Cadbury. You could be seeing the All Blacks on the Northern Tour as well right now when you buy some Cadbury products. What have you done in High Heels? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. High Heels. Mariah Carey just walked the Great Wall of China in High Heels.

Now, there was a bit of misinformation that was spread out on the show previous. I'll let you correct that, Megan. Yeah, it wasn't Jono for once. I said it was 21Ks. It's 21,000. Kilometers. Yeah, I did see the number.

Just wasn't good at reading it out loud. She didn't walk the entire. No, she just did a section of it. Just a little promo walk. All she wants for Christmas is you, but maybe a pair of sneakers would be nice as some active wear. Doesn't even own sneakers, she said. No, just slippers at home, and then when she's out and about, she

wears high heels, so she always looks fancy in a dress. Never spend much time with them, apart from sort of comical sketches over the years, the high heels as well, but I kind of felt a bit more taller, felt a bit more powerful, but also very unstable, like a newborn, like a giraffe, you know,

learning to figure out how the legs work. Wonderful things for your calf muscles, though. I know, I have great calves, very strong calves. Don't they look great? My ankles are rock solid. I don't spend a lot of time out of heels because I'm quite short, and every time I do, people are like, whoa, where did you go? Yeah, first time you took your heels off in here. I was like, whoa.

He did that. He was like, whoa, who's this little child? Hello. Are you lost? Are you lost, little girl? No, full credit to you, though. And the high heel wearers out there in the community, because it would be like driving a car with no brakes for me.

It's like, I know where I'm going, but I can't stop in a hurry. So, 800 the Hits, what have you managed to do in high heels? Should we go to Delta and get you on? Welcome. Hello. Good to have you on. Morena Atamaria, Delta. How are you?

We're doing well. What did you do in high heels, mate? Back in my year nine, I made it to inter-schools, and I forgot my shoes, and I had heels in in dad's car so i went and got them and ran the inter-schools in heels away was it this like cross-country or what was it yeah no cross-country it was around a whole like show ground field no wow surely they'd be sticking into like the yeah did you dig into the grass they were a thicker hill and the grass was quite hard, but I'm short as well, so I tend to live in hills.

How many inches are we talking these hills? They weren't like kitten hills, though. They were like hill hills. Yeah, no, they weren't kid hills. I was out of kid shoes, so I think they might have been about two, three inches. Well, there you go, Running across country in high heels. And bare feet wasn't an option?

I don't like the feeling of grass. It feels like it was the better option. You're right, Jono. I don't know. We're going to hook you up with a Cadbury prize pack. Thanks so much. You're cool. High heels, cross country. I wouldn't do that.

Juanita, good morning to you. Morena koutou. Morena to you, Juanita. Lovely to have you on. We're doing ka pai this morning. Now, tell us, what do you do in high heels? Well, I went on a night out with a couple of girlfriends, and the following day I sat at her friend's house,

and the following day she was doing a triathlon, but she actually injured her ankle. And so I went to go and tautoko to go and support her. And I had my heels on and my Batman gears on as well. And they needed a cyclist. And so this was back in the 90s. And because I used to do triathlons back in the day. And so I was like, oh, how am I going to do this?

Okay, let's just give it a go. It was secondary schools competition back in Gisborne. And I jumped on the bike, but I couldn't take my heels off because in those days, the pedals, they had spikes in them. Yeah, I know the ones. Yeah, so I did try putting the heel bit into the spikes, but it was quite uncomfortable. So what I did is I pulled it out

and I slipped it, so it ended up being a stopper. Oh, so that was slid through the pedal, and you did the triathlon in high heels on the bike? Yes, on the bike. So it was about a six-case cycle. You pretty much turned the heels into clips like you were doing a proper cycling.

Yeah, something like that. But I would say that I don't have strong calves like you, Megan, but I'm getting there. That's impressive. Well, one day, let's hope you get those Megan calves we're all yearning for. We all dream of. Well-defined calf muscles.

That's what that boy said about this show. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I'm back. Rainbow's End announced this morning that the iconic pirate ship, which was around for almost 40 years, is coming back. A new version. We're going to touch the blue sky this way and go. All the colors that we fly.

Oh, no. Don't just leave me to sing by myself, mate. Take it away, Ben. Hi. I'm very pitchy. We can be much closer. Yeah, so the pirate ship, a new version of the pirate ship coming back. thing by myself, mate. Take it away, Ben. I'm very pitchy. So the pirate ship, a new version of the pirate ship coming back after 40 years. It was an

iconic bit of the park and very excited about a new pirate ship. Next year it'll be in Rainbow's End. And Megan, I think you on the final day, and we did when we had our TV show, we all went. We were all there trying to ride it for the final time. We had a final ride, yeah. We all came in with our angles, didn't we?

How long were you on there for? Ages. A long time. Too long. Now, what I didn't factor in was my severe motion sickness. Like, honestly, I'm the worst. Sometimes I'm even driving my car home. I'm the driver's seat and I'm getting motion sickness.

Yeah, so here was the thing. Our idea, which he was all part of, we all talked it through. We're like, the final day, we're going to get in first people to get on the ride and we're going to ride it the entire day from start to finish. It's the final day of the pirate ship, the iconic Rambo's End pirate ship. You're like, yeah, all good. And then we must have done it like once or twice and you're like, I can't do this anymore.

And I was like, it's 9.05. We'd planned to be there till 5 o'clock in the evening. We did, yeah. And this was only about 15 minutes in. Oh, hey, Pryor, keep it together. Keep it together, Pryor. End scene. I couldn't keep it together.

Did you actually spare? Now, I sound like a complete... I won't fill that up. It wouldn't be very 2024 to say what I was going to call myself. Idiot. Idiot. Loser. Showp myself. Idiot. Idiot. Loser. Show pony.

Ponker. Idiot. Weakling. Should we continue? Keep going. Keep going. The fact you've just read out, though. Here we go.

I did see in the press release that, you know, while it's loved by Kiwi kids, but it also had the dubious distinction, the pirate ship, of being the most thrown up on ride in rainbow's end oh keep it together but that was only it says here only after you wrote it no one else had actually bothered before that that's a very exciting very exciting i reckon we should we should try and be the first people on we were the last ones on the ride i don't know john o'spiel maybe the new all new one has been built in Germany. Maybe this is great.

Maybe we need to get on there next year. First ride, take some hits listeners with us. I think we just put Jono on it. For an entire day. Maybe that could be the, I'm willing to put my motion sickness on the line here. Maybe it's like, how long can you ride it until you get sick?

You have a sweet steak. That could work. How many swings? Who's got dibs on 903? Three minutes after that. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. We have embarked on a journey to find something that's missing from Ben's life.

And we need closure. The nation needs closure. It's a missing sock of his. We've got wanted street posters out there. There's a reward, $100, a bit of washing powder. It's his lucky sock, Jono. I put a poster up at the supermarket. You said on the community notice board.

Oh, that's good. But then as I was doing the video, it fell down and it fell into the Goodwill sort of bucket. So then you had to rummage around in the Goodwill. Well, that's what I was like. I was like, oh, you know, underneath where people donate goods to other people. And then I was like, oh, God, I've got to get this poster out of there. And then people are looking at me like I'm holding it up up going, just getting a poster, just getting a poster. You know that guy Ben who used to be on TV?

I saw him rummaging around in the Goodwill at the supermarket. Yeah, so it was a really unfortunate thing to happen. But anyway, it's a bad omen, but hopefully it's not a bad omen. If you had your lucky socks on, that Goodwill incident would not have happened. Would not have happened, you're right. So yeah, we're on that little mission which we'll get to very shortly but this morning you had your own lost and found issue, Megan. So I

get up at 3.50 in the morning and I try my best not to wake anyone up. I've got everything prepared for myself, get my clothes out, everything and get dressed, do my makeup, put my engagement ring on and it's always in the same spot and it was not there and for the life of me i could not

remember what i had done with it so then i was like okay i'm gonna have a quick look around so i put my phone torch on rummaged around in my bedroom looking for it could not find it but did wake my husband and he's like what are you doing less than satisfied at that time of the imagine 10 to 4 wake up yeah now you don't want to rummage Yeah, and he wasn't impressed about being woken up And he was less impressed when I said I don't know where my engagement ring is Because he often, where I leave it beside the base

And he's like, don't leave it there Because you're going to lose it Oh, so it was, I told you 4 o'clock in the morning, I told you so Yeah, so I did actually leave home without it, and I didn't know where it was. You'll be pleased to know I did get a semi-passag text before the show started being like, I found your ring beside your bed on the floor, so stop panicking. I was like, okay.

And was this the text that he'd edited? Yeah, he edited the text. I don't know what it is. I want to know the original, I don't know what it is. I want to know the original. I need to know the original script. He'd probably come in real hot. And then was like, no. Can we call Andy P?

Is it a call him live on the radio scenario? Honestly, don't know. Okay, well, let's take a risk. Let's take a gamble. Thrilling. What's his number? Cracks in the perfect relationship. I love it.

Oh, God. He's probably actually pretty foul about it, to be honest. Good, good. This is what we want. Perfect for radio. Ben wants cracks in the perfect marriage. I do. Every day you're like, oh, there's cracks. You guys did an argument. You know what everyone else will feel better about? Their miserable relationships.

Also, he's like dealing with two kids, so loves a live call. We'll just go, what was the original message you sent and then you decided, no, for the longevity and health of my relationship. Tell him real early he's live on the radio. Probably answer a call though, he might be stupid.

Or dealing with toddlers. Does he listen around the house in the morning? No, he never listens to me. He's in the trenches. My whole time on radio. This is dangerous. No. We need to get to the bottom of this.

Yeah, we will. He's salty. But right now, 0800 the hits, 4487. Megan, you found something that you thought was lost? Thank God. Yeah, we want your miracle finds. And we're hoping for a miracle find when it comes to Ben's lucky sock as well, so he doesn't have to rummage through the Goodwill bin at the supermarket.

It's not in there, that's for sure. Have you lost something and then it's just miraculously turned up years later? Yeah, these are the stories of hope that I need to find this sock

somewhere in New Zealand. Someone's calling the hotline. Is that Andy P? Oh, is it me? Live on the radio, Andy. He called back. Hello? Sorry, he got the missed call.

Mate, we're hearing about the bloody ring debacle that Megan caused this morning. What a shambles. Oh, well, how stressful is that? Yeah. And you found it. I did.

I actually, because our son woke up when Megan left. And so I was up and I was like, oh, well, I'm awake now. So I checked on the floor next to her bed and it was just there. Yeah, right. You can hear the exasperation in his voice. Now, we understand there was a text message sent saying, hey, I've found your ring, but then that message was edited. What was the original script you had written?

Draft one. You're live on the radio. Megan woke up, and she was so like, she woke me up, and she was like, I've lost my ring. And she was all like she woke me up and she was like I've lost my ring and she was all like and I was like which ring is it the engagement ring

or the wedding ring and she was like it's the engagement ring and I was like why are you saying it like I meant to know I've just woken up give me a breather

and he's doing a great job of dancing around what the original text was and good on him good play I don't know if the original text is good for live radio. That's for sure.

The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Your stories. Your great stories of lost and found when you thought something was lost and then it turned up because I have lost a sock. I was saying it's my lucky sock and I feel like it needs to come back. I've got the single one. Single sock.

My wife wants to throw it out. I'm like, no, just give it another week. How long have you held on to it? Well, I don't really know how long it's been missing for. And then it's that moment where as soon as you throw it out, you're going to find the other one. Exactly. So we keep it in a little container on top of the washing machine

with all the other discarded socks. Just holding out hope. The orphanage of socks in the boys' household. We've got a Cadbury pack. Cheers to Cadbury. Cheer on tour. You can buy Cadbury products right now. And you could go see the All Blacks on their northern tour games in Ireland and France. We've got a pack to give away on the 100th of the Huts. And you thought Lord of the Rings was the greatest ring-based saga we produced in this country.

But Megan, you had a beautiful one this morning. Lost the engagement. Yeah, I take it off every night. And then when I went to put it on this morning, it wasn't there. Turns out it was beside me. I don't know how it got beside my bed. Maybe I took it off every night, and then when I went to put it on this morning, it wasn't there. Turns out it was beside, I don't know how it got beside my bed. Maybe I took it off in my sleep. Peter, watch out.

Peter Jackson will turn that into a three-part trilogy of movies. Text through on 4487. I was about six years old in England. I lost my favorite doll. Just moved house. Assumed I'd be left behind. Fast forward 14 years later, unpacking boxes in New Zealand, opening a box of random things, and there it was. No idea how it managed to travel across the world.

Great lost and found story. Here's another great text, 4487. I lost my wife and kids in a bitter divorce. Okay. Still to retrieve them. Let's go to the phones this morning. Courtney, you're on the air. Morena.

Morena, how are you? Yeah, lovely to have you on. What did you lose? What did you find? Was it a miracle? Oh, the bloody miracle. I decided that it'd be a good idea to put my watch down on a surface and forget where it was.

And I've lost my Apple Watch for three months. And I was going through my room and moving drawers and I happened to find it two seconds later. I had only just bought a brand new one. So three months you've been without it? Yeah, three months. Surely there's some sort of

tracking system, isn't there? Oh, it was an older one so the battery didn't last that long. That is, wow. Now, you've got one for each wrist now, assuming you have both arms, do you? Yeah. Yeah, good, good, good. You can never

be sure if you're talking to someone with one arm or not. I don't know if she needs an Apple Watch on both of them, though. We can wear two together, you know, like on the same arm. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, good on you, Courtney. Hey, thanks so much for your call appreciate you listening you have a great day let's go to the uh maria i don't know i've said maria like you're uh are you italian maria uh no i'm not no you're in hokutika so i imagine

not nah but lovely to have you on what was you what did you lose? What did you find? Years ago, my father came to visit me. She lost reception. Then we got it back again. I'll just start. Years ago, my father came over to visit me when I looked abroad. Lost again. And my sister. And I've had it all these years.

And then simply the way last year, I couldn't find it anywhere. We've consistently... We need the end of the story. Maria, we're losing you during pivotal parts of your story. I know. We'll come back to you. I don't know.

Every bone in my semi-professional radio body is like, don't persist with it. Don't. You know? We'll hear about this in a meeting lateressional radio body is like, don't piss us with it. Don't. You know? We'll hear about this in a meeting later on. We're all like, why did you keep her on? We couldn't. But it was a locket, wasn't it?

It was a locket. I did get that. I tell you what, we'll piece the story together off here. Carl, should we take one more? Well, yeah. I feel like every bone in my semi-professional body says no because we've gone to four minutes. So no, okay?

No. I know you want to go on a good outside, Carl, mate. No. Carl, sorry, bro. You've been benched by Ben. We'll get Carl on maybe next. He's coming through. I'll wait under the hits. We'll get to the locket tobacco as well. The Hits, the Jono and Ben

podcast. Stories of lost and found. We're looking for my sock. Nationwide hunt for the sock around the country. Great text here. This is one for you, Megan, after losing your engagement ring this morning. I lost my engagement ring at Hagley Park, Megan. I looked for ages.

A month later, I bumped into a friend who I hadn't seen for about half a year, started chatting with her, and she said, you'll never guess what I found at Hagley Park a month ago. And she held it up, and it was a diamond platinum engagement ring. Her ring? It was her ring. And it was her friend? Her friend. And she saw it a month later?

A month later. Wow. She'd be like, oh, damn it. I was going to keep that. What a show. That is an incredible story. That is a great lost and found. Now we're going to go back to Hokitika.

Maria, you left us on a knife's edge, darling. Darling? God. Another sexism scandal. Maria? Hello. Great to have you on. Now, okay, so you lost what?

I lost a locket. Okay. That my father bought me years ago when he came to visit. And I couldn't find it. And sadly, he passed last year. And so I went and bought a necklace. And it was a couple of months later that I was cleaning up the back room and I found it. Oh, amazing.

It was. I mean, the new necklace is nice, but it's not going to replace the locket. Did you keep the receipt for the new necklace? No, no. No, she kept both. Oh, okay, got both. Anyway, Maria, that is a beautiful story. Thank you so much for holding on and telling that to us.

Appreciate it. You're welcome. You have a lovely day. Carl, with us on 0800 The Hits, what are you up to? I'm on my way out to whitebait stand so I can't hang around too long. He's whitebaiting, Carl. He's out to whitebait and he's made a quick call to the show. It's lovely to have you on. What did you lose? What did you find, Carl?

My wife and I got charged. We're looking after our neighbour's place, feeding their pot plants and feeding their cats while they're away on a cruise for five weeks. And we had the keys to their house. My wife's done it for sort of the first week, and I got charged with doing it one morning.

So I went over there, done the business, came home, and when my wife went to do it the next day, feed the cats, she said, where's the keys? And I said, I don't know. They're on the bench, came home, and when my wife went to do it the next day, feed the cats, she said, where's the keys? And I said, I don't know, they're on the bench, aren't they? Yeah, no, they weren't on the bench. I was too high and low. Too high and low, every cupboard, the furniture, down every nook and cranny in the house.

They didn't turn up. And a couple of years later, I decided to clean our little chest freezer out. You know, everybody's got a freezer. The stuff at the bottom ends up there, and you don't know what's there. So I decided to clean it out. Along with a few old bags of sausages and frozen peas, there was a set of keys. In the freezer? In the bottom of the wee chest freezer.

So you tell me how they got there, and we'll both know. Your poor neighbours, they haven't been into their house for over two years. Well, we had to feed them. The cat's all right, because we had to feed them through the cat door, but the pot plants were a wee bit

wilted when they got home. Oh, God, such a great story. We've got to hook you up with the Cadbury Prize back. We appreciate it. Oh, brother, that's great. Cheers for that. Good luck whitebaiting.

Have a great day. OK, mate. Cheers. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Brennan Mars, well, it's great. Cheers for that. Good luck whitebaiting. Have a great day. Okay, mate. Cheers. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, Bruno Mars, well, it's a bit of clickbait saying he's suing Miley Cyrus for her song, Flowers. I can buy myself flowers. But it's actually, no, the portion of the rights that he sold away to another part owner

of the song, they're suing Miley for a comparison. Most artists do that. So Bruno suing Miley for a comparison. Most artists do that. So Brita's not involved in it, yeah. They sell the, is it the publishing rights, which is the written works of the song arrangement? Yeah, ownership rights. Yeah, so I think he still owns some of it, but whoever owns some, a little bit of a chunk,

wants to sue Miley Cyrus, her song Flowers, which sounds similar to When I Was Your Man, but she's always said it was a response song to that. It was inspired by it. Have a listen to the two songs that emerged together. She always said she was responding to basically... Well, obviously the owner is like, hey, well, that's nice,

but still you've paid me and I own the talk. So that's great. You can respond all you want. This is how we'll respond to the lawsuit. All right, it's time for the Riddler. The Riddler. So we like to do this once a week. Thanks to our friends at Dilmar.

Trying to make the world a bit of tea. Do try it. We've got a riddle for the room and one for you under that. One week, maybe next week, because you do me a great honour. Yeah. You are the riddler. Yeah. We do the riddler on the roof, and you go to the roof of this building.

Oh, yeah. Five levels up. Can we actually get on the roof here? We've been on the roof before, remember? Oh, yeah, we have. We can access the roof. And you do riddler on the roof. Every week we do riddler, and you broadcast live from up there hey guys okay it's

a riddle okay we'll do that for me rain or shine rain or shine the riddler will be on the roof okay first one for the room all right now and then the second one oh under the hits you can win hundred dollars and a dilma tea hot and cold tea price pack okay guys repeat after me. One, two, three. One. What is the number after four? Oh, what? Repeat after me. One, two, three. What is the number after four? Five.

No, I knew it wasn't going to be there. I just said to try my luck. One, two, three. What is the number? What is the number after 4? Not what? No. What?

Repeat after me. 1, 2, 3 what is the number after 4? It's annoying. It's annoying. I'll tell you. It's not what? No, you just have to repeat after me.

So you just say exactly what I just said. Just say repeat after me. 1, 2, 3 I started to. Oh no, you did. I thought you cracked it and then you lost confidence. One, two, three. I started to. I know you did. I thought you'd cracked it and then you lost confidence. You're right.

One, two, three. What is the number after four? Correct. There we go. Well done. It's frustrating. Okay. The Riddler is in full swing this morning.

He has scoured the internet for the world's greatest riddles and can you nail this one? Here's one for you. Fords, I am heavy. Fords, I am heavy. Fords, I am heavy. Backwards, I am not. What am I?

Fords, I am heavy. Backwards, I am not. If you know, 0800 the hits. Not a... 4487. Not a rugby team? Heavy forwards and heavy... Oh, that's a good thought.

Good thought, but no. Oh, good on you, sister. If you think you know, I'm under that. It's 4487. Fords, I am heavy. Backwards, I am not. Kirsten, good morning to you. It's lovely to have you on a Wednesday morning.

Morena. Kia ora. Thank you, Morena. Morena. So I got the first one, I think, but I don't know about that second one. I didn't quite hear it. Ah, Fords, I am heavy. Backwards, I am not.

No, I didn't hear that one. Oh, sorry about that. Okay, we're going to have to move on. Sorry, forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. No, I didn't hear that one. Oh, sorry about that. Okay, we're going to have to move on. Sorry, Kirsten. We have a full board. Let's go there. How are you? Welcome to The Hits, Emma. Hi. How's life? Yes. Life is yes.

Life is yes. You were right. That's a great answer. Do you know the answer to the riddle? What is the answer? Oh, yeah, It's what? No. No. Is it? No. I think we're still stuck on the first one, but no, we've moved on.

Okay. We've got riddle confusion here. Okay. Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. Okay. G'day, Esther. How's Tauranga this morning? Tauranga is beautiful.

That's a maria to you. Now tell me, the riddle answer, what forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not? A tonne. Yeah, a tonne. Because backwards, a tonne is not. I was doing heavy backwards.

And then suddenly I was like, no, it's not backwards. Forwards I am heavy, backwards I am not. A tonne, T-O-N. Very clever. Yeah, there we go. You got the prize pack. You got a $100 voucher there and a Dilmar tea prize pack. I am heavy, backwards I am not. A tonne, T-O-N. Very clever. Yeah, there we go. Well done. You got the prize pack. You got a $100 voucher there and a Dilmar tea prize pack. It's a wonderful range of teas, Dilmar, don't they?

You got the nice iced tea as well too. Yeah. Yeah. The peach iced tea is very, very good. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, what we should be doing is giving back to the community right now and finding out what these buttons on remote controls do. There was, yeah, there's about 16 on my remote that I honestly have zero idea what they do.

I've never had to use them. You know, the remote, the TV, everything just works fine with the small amount of buttons I know. But then you've got ones with squiggly lines. You've got ones with, like, satellites. And there was a row of colourful buttons, which I brought up yesterday. I want to know. You go along the middle patch there, there's just colors. Red, green.

I don't know what the colors are. And then they've got letters on top of them. R, G, Y, B. What is this? It's to do with teletext apparently. We've got a lot of text coming in afterwards. If you've got a teletext running on your TV system, apparently it's still running on some things. Is it still a thing?

You would have thought with the internet and everything else. Teletext is still battling all good on them. I mean, Teletext is probably the radio of text web pages, isn't it? I thought it was so flashy when we had that back in the day, Teletext. You'd get updates and stuff, yeah. I miss the graphics too, the font, the Teletext font. I had a little look at the stocks, even though it didn't mean anything to me. Look who was racing in Trentham as well.

Race 4 in Trentham. I'm like, oh, yeah. You know, just surf away around there. It was like a news web page, wasn't it? Yeah. Headline news, headline sports, you know, a little bit of racing, a little bit of, yeah. Teletext. Maybe horoscopes might have been in there too.

But then what do the colours represent on the buttons on the Teletext page? Maybe it's just to jump through to different Oh, you want to go to the races? I'm guessing. Anyway, we wanted to get into hidden tech features that you know about. So 0800 the hits. We've got a wonderful Cadbury

price pack up for grabs valued at $30 for the best call or text this morning on 4487 is the text number. Just stuff that you know. Little hacks. Could be to do with phones, computers, whatever. I'm scared to say any because I'm scared people will be like, duh, everyone knows that.

You know, like little things. Tell the one about that wild website where you can just surf anything and nothing tracks you. Oh, what did I say it was? Duck, duck, go. Yeah, not duck, duck, goose. Duck, duck, go. No, duck, duck, go is supposed to be.

Great game. I think they also have an app so that you can just peruse the internet and it doesn't save anything. It's not trackable. I think it's supposed to be so no one takes your private information, credit card details, all that kind of stuff. But obviously it gets used for nefarious purposes. Yeah, the ultimate incognito mode. Now I was looking into incognito mode, which, you know, you're like,

oh, just for pets. Yeah, this is a story about why I was, why you got this thing? I was looking into it for radio. This is a justification right now. See, and I've just mentioned incognito. How did you get from a remote to incognito remote? Because we're bouncing off DuckDuckDeuce over here.

When do you use incognito mode? I've never even used incognito mode. I'm an open book on the internetose over here. When do you use incognito mode? I've never even used incognito mode. I'm an open book on the internet. Is that what you look like when you lie? Okay. Not it. He's an open book

so he happily can go through his thing right now. You can. You can look through my history. But no, the incognito was actually designed not for looking at stuff that, you know,

sleazy pests would look at. But just so you don't get, like, you know, how all your information gets taken from your computer, the cookies. So many websites now when you go onto it, it's like, do you let us accept all cookies? Yeah, that's what I wonder about, though, if you've got that. Can you jump around that, though? I don't know, but you're like, yes.

I want to read this article on Mariah Carey, then I'm going to have to accept the cookies, you know? Yeah. And they make it sound so nice. Yeah. Like, I love a cookie. What on earth are cookies? Does anyone know?

They're just blindly going, yes, accept all. Take all my cookies. Okay, tech support this morning. Help us out. 0800 The Hits, 4487. What are some tech things that we need to know? Phones, computers, and we've got that Cadbury price pack worth $30 that we're giving you

next at 6.33 on the Hits. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Talking about the little technology tips that we all need to know. The new Apple upgrade released this week is going to have a private folder. You can put stuff away that has extra security on

your phone as well. Private to you, but not to all the employees at Apple. Yeah, they can peruse through your private folder uh so that's a little something people are fearing that it's going to um end relationships potentially because people can private folders have been available for ages like i have a private folder app that you have to put a password in this is essentially what this is on the um on the upgrade for apple yeah all your asos orders in it, does it? Those things. Sure.

What's in your private folder, Rit? She probably doesn't want to talk about it. Should I just say that me and my husband did long distance for seven months when he lived in America. Oh, wow. There's correspondence in that folder. Okay, yeah. Private folder, Rit. Have you got yourself a private folder app, Kevin?

I haven't got a private folder. The future is here. This is Futuristic Music, and we present hidden features of technology. Some great text coming through, actually, 4487. You can make your speakers louder on your phone. Did you realise that? You go to Settings and select Late Night as an option.

Oh. On Settings, and it'll make your speakers considerably louder. Okay. If you're wanting to annoy people late night, I don't know what late night is. Surely it'd be turn it down late night. Keep that bloody record down. Yeah, you're late night, you're right. Okay.

You showed me a great one with the space bar on the text there. Yeah, what's the space bar? If you're typing a message and you make a mistake and you only realise at the end. On your what? This is on my iPhone. Okay. So I'm unsure about Android. But, so there's somewhere you want to go back to.

Okay. How would you go back to correct a message? Like correct a word? Up until a couple of weeks ago, I would have just gone back, back, push the delete, you know? I could just put my finger on hover and then drag my finger back. Which is not always that accurate. Hold down space bar. Hold it down, Ben. And you can just put my finger on, hover it, and then drag my finger back. Which is not always that accurate. Hold down spacebar. Hold it down, Ben.

And you can slide back and forth. Maneuver your little cursor anywhere you want to go. Or hold your finger down. No, but it can go, it's much more accurate. It is.

It goes all around and around and around and around. Okay, that's cool. Hey, it doesn't seem that, I was more impressed with that one. I thought that was, where was that on the level of excitement for you there?

Oh, well, I'm just strolling between my hands, like if I do it there, I, well, I'm just strolling between my hands. Like, if I do it there, I'll do that. No, but that's not accurate. Sliding along the space bar. And takes ages. Well, anyway, I was happy with my sister, but thank you.

Okay, okay. He's not going to change. Well, no, you can keep that, Boomer. That's fine. He's stuck in his ways. Great text here, 4487. Guys, voice typing in Google Documents. I haven't used my fingers to type a word since January.

Just click the voice typing function. I don't think we've quite nailed voice typing. You always have to go through and change that. In the New Zealand accent, really. My remote on my TV has a voice function, and it never nails it. And everyone always pranks us at home. When we watch a movie, we're like, Top Gun movie,

and someone will yell out, you know, something, and we're like, shut up. Shut up, this is not what it's designed for.

And then it's like, tip, gone. No, no, not quite right. Great text again here, 4487 as well. Do you guys want to edit a text that you've sent?

You can, so you've sent something to Megan, Ben Boyce. Yeah. Maybe Megan, no, I'll tell you what's happened in this scenario, Megan's accidentally sent you something from her secret folder. She's gone uh-oh, Ben Boyce doesn't need to see this content. And so what then Megan would do is she can hold down the message she sent you and it'll come up with options where you can suck it back but you've only got a short period of time to suck it. Okay maybe that's happening

in the video, I don't know.