Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Sugar Daddy Dillema!

Episode Date: February 6, 2023

Anon listener calls up and asks for advice about a sugar daddy situation Gerard Johnstone the Kiwi who directed M3gan All Gravy in The Navy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yeah, this is Challenge Petrol Service Stations bringing you the Jono and Ben podcast, proudly in association with, oh no, what did I do? I screwed that up. So we've gone Challenge, proudly in association, fluffed it. It's all great in the Navy, mate. It's all great in the Navy. Slowly getting a show catchphrase off the ground. Didn't think we were the catchphrase type of show there are shows out there that can pull it off and they do pull it off successfully but this one came through uh just a caller that we uh we phoned during the flooding uh and he said the flooding was all gravy in the navy we didn't know what it meant whether it was good bad so we just we've put it to you guys to see if we can keep us alive is this going to be the show slogan the show catchphrase what i do do like about it, if it does take off, that we've got a show joke and a show catchphrase.

Both involve the Navy. They do too. It's keeping with the theme. For about a year and a half ago, we were like, we need a joke because we can never remember a joke. The joke that we decided on was Navy based. You're quite good at remembering it. I do love it.

Why do the Norwegian naval ships have QR codes on them? So... Back in Scandinavian. Scandinavian. It's all great in the Navy, mate. Very nautical naval themed program.

It's almost like the Navy has sponsored this. Get the Navy in there more. You've got friends in the Navy, Producer Joel. Yeah, a couple of my good mates in the Navy. Is there all gravy in the Navy? All gravy, they said. Sailing back from Waitangi as we speak. Okay.

Oh, they had the ship in the harbour, didn't they? They had a flyover of the Air Force plane too, didn't they? I think, yeah, that sounds about right. What do they do? On the Navy boat? Yeah. He travels around the world, but he is a marine technician. So I think it's sort of like an engineering.

They sort of studied to become an engineer, so to speak. But in the meantime, he pretty much just has to do damage control, like fix things in the ship. So if a pipe bursts open, got to go clean the toilets up. Yeah, I think fixing up the boat a little bit is what he's running at the moment. Yeah, right. That would be a tough job. It'd be a very tough job.

Very stressful too when they're like, the boat's got a a hole in it and you're in the middle of the ocean that that would yeah you'd really come into your grave in the navy there no no he was telling me about the sleeping situation and it's like a three a triple bunk in the same space as almost smaller than a two one so it's very compact sleeping triple bunk a triple bunk system where would you go on the triple bunk? Would you go bottom, middle, top? I don't know. Like I always, as a kid, I'd get worried. Typical me to overthink things out.

But if I was in the bottom bunk, at some stage the top bunk was going to collapse. I mean, you're really, you're gone, eh? But then at the top bunk as a kid, you don't want to fall off that. So you're in a conundrum there, aren't you? But then you'd feel quite claustrophobic being the meat in the middle of that bunk sandwich.

The middle one, yeah. You kind of not got the benefits of the top or the bottom, would you? Bunks, when you're a child, jeez, you're all about the bunks. You love the kids. You've got to get some bunk beds. When you're an adult, though, you couldn't find a more inconvenient piece of bedding, could you? Than the bunks. So that's what they did.

Now, do they rescue people? He's pretty brief of could you? In the bank. So that's what, now, do they rescue people? He's pretty, he's pretty like brief of what he says they do. I don't think he's ever rescued someone. I'm not sure, but I think there's

a whole different spectrum of what people do in the Navy and stuff. Yeah, right. It's all gravy. All gravy. Well, maybe not all gravy if you're sleeping

in the middle of the bunk, but yeah. Yeah, there you go. Well, that's interesting. The Navy. Yeah, I imagine they I imagine they'd go they'd go to war wouldn't they

if we had to send them send them to war yeah probably go and help out other nations as well yeah I don't know there's some sweeping

generalised statements that people don't know what we're talking about I imagine if there was like you know a cyclone that ravaged a small island the Navy would come up with supplies

yeah oh they'd be busy don't you worry about them Don't you worry about them. Don't you worry about them. Now, Producer Joel, if I can throw it back to you as well. Yeah. We're sitting...

91st in the Switzerland comedy podcast. 91st in Switzerland. Oh, that's good. And there's no other New Zealand or Australian podcast in that top 90 as well. So... What do you put that down to?

I actually have no idea. Maybe just someone... Ben, you kind of look Swiss Maybe they're like Oh he's a Have you got some sort of Swiss Swiss origins I don't think I do

But I've got all sorts of All sorts of stuff French don't you? Yeah I think Yeah there's some French Yeah there's a whole lot of stuff In there And going on

And then the Boyce Jones combo Boyce Jones Yeah Just firing it all over Europe Laying it out all over Europe laying it out all over Europe France but no you've got a French look to you

like if I saw you in a beret with a baguette on a bicycle oh you think I could pull it off running through some sort of south of France rural town

I'd go yeah no he's French I can put it off the Navy they do humanitarian aid disaster relief, border patrols as well, support for government agencies. They do a lot. There you go.

That's what the Navy does. Sorry. How many naval ships have we got? Nine modern and versatile ships and over 2,500 personnel. So there you go. Jeez. So that's quite a lot of people. Yeah.

Join the grave in the Navy yeah join the grave in the navy they've got cannons on there too they'd fire off cannons wouldn't they nine versatile they don't sound too versatile with the bug modern and versatile beating situation yeah that sounds tight okay if you were gonna go air force navy army i'll chuck police in there i wouldn't be good in any of those situations. Okay, I know, I know. You've got to pick one. Okay, what have I got?

I just watched Top Gun, so the Air Force looked quite... Has this anything like Top Gun? When do we play naked football on the beach? Yeah, that looked quite... You'd be good at this, shirtless football on the beach. Yeah, I'd like to play. That would be fun. I'd be into that.

What would you do, Producer Joel? I would probably go to Navy just because they, I'm not sure what they actually do. Oh, sorry. I know what they do. I'm not discreet in the Navy. Do you need me to read out

what they do? I just read out what they do. One thing they do do is they go to a lot of different ports and they dock their ship in all these different ports and then you go and see amazing parts of the world

because you have a couple days off in Las Vegas, Hawaii, America, Canada. And yeah, so you can get like a lot of travel up. And I'm sure all of them, but I'd say- I like the days off part. Yeah, the days off, joining the Navy. Why does our naval ship have to go up to Las Vegas? Guys, this humanitarian thing we've got to do in Las Vegas.

Really? Las Vegas in a desert? Well, no, I think maybe they docked at a place and they had three days off and they went to Las Vegas. Oh, we're going to dock in Vegas again, boys. I'm pretty sure America is pretty good with their defense, folks.

We're going to get out there and sort it all out, guys. Well, we're here. We better go to Vegas. Yeah, well, my mate in the Navy went to Vegas. I think it's landlocked

over there, so maybe they didn't dock the ship there. Well, the Navy sounds like the fun one. It does. What about you, John? You joined the Navy?

Oh, well, I did. It was Air Force, was it? It was Air Force, yeah. Yeah, so that was the rich prior, you does. What about you, John? You join in that thing? Oh, what I did was Air Force, was it? It was Air Force, yeah. Yeah, so that was the rich prior, you know, history.

He was a squadron leader. Yeah. Yeah, but no, I wouldn't, I actually had a shocker, bloody shocker, because my uncle's in the Air Force as well.

Rich Air Force family. Yeah, there you go. And when I first started in radio, this guy whose brother was in the Air Force, he was like, oh, I can't emcee this thing. Can you go out and emcee this event? Oh, so you're like sort of host up there on stage? But they got me wildly intoxicated to the point that I wasn't allowed.

The emcee, me, I wasn't allowed back on the stage. Oh, really? Really. I was about 19. And then I ran into the. Who? I got to the MC, got sent home. Not with the MC sending people home.

I thought you had to send the MC home. Who came up to you and had that conversation? The stage manager. Mate, you can't get back up there. Johnny, who I've run into many times since. What were you doing up there? I don't know. I didn't think I was too bad.

But I tell you what It wasn't all gravy in the Navy That day mate The only time it hasn't been All gravy in the Navy They didn't show you That bit on Top Gun He was up there

I was saying Hello Yeah You're like What's this guy This Tom Cruise Is really sweary The Christmas

Oh they were family And friends there So's this guy? Bruce is really sweary. The Christmas... Oh, there were family and friends there. So maybe it's... Oh, who knows what was going on. You get a little sweary, don't you? Yeah, I do. I do. So maybe it was... For a guy who talks on microphones all day and doesn't swear.

I know. Public setting, microphone. We all do, though. You just don't notice it. Like, radio's a shocker for it. Yeah. But you don't when they're on the radio. I know.

That's the thing. Like, John Campbell. Yeah. So the respect of John Campbell, who's... You know, you wouldn't when they're on the radio. I know. That's the thing. Like John Campbell. The respected John Campbell who's you wouldn't expect a bad... Oh mate. He's worse than a Navy sailor. Like a sailor. He'd fit in on the naval ships. Anyway.

Had a fun show this morning didn't we? We were joined by Gerard Johnson who's a Kiwi who directed Megan. Yeah. The new horror movie, which is... Sorry to interrupt there, but I've just been amazed how well that movie... It's just everywhere. Because as we talked to him about, we saw him about six months ago,

and we were hanging out with him, and he told us what he was doing. And then since then, you've just seen this movie everywhere. Oh, my goodness. This has taken the world by storm. Yeah. It's pretty incredible. He's doing some great stuff. And it was all filmed here in New Zealand as well,

with New Zealand crew, New Zealand people acting in it. Kiwi made. Yeah. Love it. Hey, well, have a great day. Enjoy the potty, and we'll catch you tomorrow. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Back after a long weekend.

Today is expected to be a little bit busy on the roads with all the schools back, and particularly if you're in areas affected by floods, be prepared for longer journey times this morning. More people on the roads. The weather's going to be good for the first few days. And then there's talk of a cyclone. Great.

Oh, that's good. Potentially later in the week. You come off a long weekend and it gives you a false economy for the coming weeks. So next week is going to feel longer than an Avatar movie, isn't it? Yeah, you're probably right. I suggest we do a little wean-off program, like nicotine patches. What, like half a day? Half a day, then you slowly work a couple of hours off,

and then you're back to the full day. You know, do that over a month-long period or something. Did you have a fun weekend? I did, I did. Although yesterday, like all weekend, my wife Amanda, because she's on Facebook, you know, so I'm not on Facebook. Friends of ours who are both having a significant birthday.

She's like, we've got birthday drinks on Monday in the evening. We're all going along. And I kept going all weekend. Why is it on a Monday? Why is it on a Monday? That's a fair question. And she was like, I don't know. It's a holiday.

And I was like, but why is it on a Monday? It's a three-day weekend. They could have had a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Let's leave it to the finish line. And I kept mumbling around the house yesterday. I kept going around, and it was still bugging me. I said, why is it on a Monday? She's just like, I don't know.

It's on a Monday. Just get over it. I'm like, all right, fine. And then the whole— What an inconvenience for you. Yeah, I mean, it's not. It was earlier in the evening, you know, on a Monday, but I was still like, it is a Monday.

Everyone's got work the next day. School's starting for many. Exactly. Then we turned up at this place, and the place was shut. The place that the drinks and I looked at Amanda. She looked at me, and she held up her finger like, just wait. She looked at her phone and goes, yeah, yeah, it's actually next weekend on Friday, which is a perfect day.

I don't know, but it was one of those things where you didn't want to keep pressing the conversation. So I'm like, I'll leave it at that. But at the same time, I was like, I just, I kept saying all weekend.

Why is it on a Monday? Jeez, it's always good when you chalk up a window, isn't it? Didn't that feel like a million bucks? You must've been wandering around like the cat that got the cream last night. Yeah, I was like,

hey, hey, hey. Hey, Monday. Why would it be Monday? I don't know, because I keep asking that question, and you keep palming me off. But there we go.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ed Sheeran in the country right now. He's been in the country for a little while. Played Wellington last week, playing Auckland, a couple of huge concerts this weekend, and a lot of talk about Ed Sheeran when he comes to the country about whether he likes our chocolate or not.

Last time he was like, it's not as good as I thought it was going to be. Which is not the worst, you know. In terms of hey, here's some feedback for your country. Your chocolate's not as good as I thought it was going to be. Yeah, he's like, it's alright, but it's not the best. But boy, we did get our back up though, didn't we? Yeah. Every interview

that he did, I think last time he was here, they forced him to eat chocolate. They're like, what about this one? Try this one. Try this one. He's like, yeah. All he should have done is given it and gone, you know what? That's great.

Then the madness would have stopped. I think he's kind of done that now because he's kind of gone, hey, your chocolate. I like your chocolate. And everyone's like, oh, great. And now Whittaker's have even sent him some chocolate with his face on the cover. A special ad block as well. And they're like're like hey we should bring some of these out to help raise money for people affected by the floods and Ed Sheeran liked the chocolate but he

wasn't so sure this time about his face on the front of the packaging and the picture they put on there. Also in your letter you said shall we make some blocks for the Auckland flood relief, I think that is a fantastic idea so we'll be in touch and these blocks will hopefully be seen soon and eaten soon and enjoyed with a different picture, please. Thank you. Thank you so much. All is forgiven.

I love the chocolate bar. Not sure on the picture, let's be honest. Now we're going to get our back up about, he doesn't like the picture that we chose. So we thought we'd use Ed for some motivation. At the beginning of the week, usually do Motivational Monday. Today it's Turn It Up Tuesday. And this is actually from a press conference he did last week.

We sent along a little seven-year-old, Grayson, to ask him a question. One question he was allowed. And he was like, you know, what would you say to a seven-year-old who wants to be like you? And I'm still getting over the fact Ed just ad-libbed this feedback on the spot. Have a listen. I think that no one can be you better than you. If you try and be like someone else, you'll always be sort of like half as good as they can be, whereas you're the best person that you can be, if that makes sense. So when I found, when I started making music I was

trying to sound like all these other artists that I loved and then that slowly forms your own sound and you just become your own person and then that's so yeah I'd say embrace your individuality if there's something weird and quirky about you that's actually something that's that's good you know when you're in school and people think that you're different like it's good to be different all the all the best people in the world have had success are all different from each other people will always try and emulate what has become successful beforehand but i don't know yeah when i was trying to get signed everyone was like you you're not what we're looking for and then i got big and then suddenly i am what people are looking for so don't follow the trend

she's really good answer isn't it my wife who's a teacher she was like i played her there on friday and she's like i'll take that to school on the first week back and just play it to the kids because it is such an inspiring thing to say really is i mean and if you are a little bit different there'll be a couple of shaky years there'll be a bit of fun fun bullying in the schoolyard fight through that you know and then get through the other side and you'll be hugely successful and if you're not hugely successful

just be the best version of yourself even if it isn't being Ed Sheeran The Grammy Awards were on yesterday in Los Angeles celebrating the best

of music over the last year Harry Styles won album of the year He beat Adele Yeah it was a pretty incredible win for Harryari Stiles.

Beyonce's now won more Grammys than any other artist in the history of the Grammys, but she missed her first award. She was late. We'll find out the reason why she was late with a Hollywood insider entee before 7 o'clock. It feels like an easily resolved issue. I know a lot of people are going to be dealing with the same exact issue today with school going back to many. Traffic's going to be busy on the roads.

You should have factored it in. But anyway, we'll get to that before seven. But something else pretty huge happened at the Grammys yesterday. Now, it's no secret I'm a big fan of Dwayne The Rock Johnson. But Adele, Adele is like a huge fan of Dwayne The Rock Johnson as well. She has said that she has never met The Rock and she always wanted to meet The Rock. It's never happened, even though they both live in the same city and it happened yesterday

live at the Grammy Awards when host Trevor Noah introduced the two. And now no, I don't have Dwayne Johnson here tonight but I do have someone called The Rock. Adele meet The Rock The Rock meet Adele First time ever Alright you two get acquainted We're going to keep the show moving

Yeah apparently she was buzzing Brothing Yeah buzzing She said previously she would cry If she ever met Dwayne Johnson With her tears I described them Yeah a few tears

A few happy tears Described them as amazing She was the biggest wrestling fan when she was younger. That's where her love for The Rock originally came from as well. Well, would she get a tattoo and a love heart

of Dwayne The Rock Johnson on her left butt cheek? That's the only way you can really show your love towards Dwayne The Rock Johnson. But he did send her flowers when he couldn't go to a concert last year

and she was like blown away by the fact that he knew who she was and sent flowers. how cool was that I mean Adele was just just one of the world's uh you know most popular artists and then she gets excited for another celebrity well you and Adele have something in common I never would have said that like if you had said two weeks ago guess what I've got in common with Adele yeah I. I wouldn't, yeah. Can't sing? No. Okay, you can't sing. No. What's the... English accent? No.

No. Okay. No. No, there's nothing. Nothing. But then this, your shared love of The Rock. Yeah.

Well, I reckon we need to show Adele your photo of your bottom. Send her a slide into the DMs. I don't think Adele's going to, you know, I'm not even on Adele's radar.

But if she's, well, she thought she wasn't on The Rock's radar, mate. Yeah, true. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, it was a while ago. I went to a family Christmas in the USA and brought back a random item.

I'm just going to keep talking over that intro now. And you've got to guess the random item that I've got in a suitcase. It's a Mickey Mouse something. If you can guess it on 0800THETS, you stop the madness of this competition, you also win the item in $100 American dollars. Three weeks ago, when you conceptualised this, when did you think it was going to wrap?

When was the ideal time for this to wrap up in your head? Well, in all honesty, I know it's quite an obscure Mickey Mouse item, so I did think it was going to last a few days. Maybe not as long as it has. Does Mickey Mouse, in your opinion, have any place being on this product? That's not a, no, well, yeah, but it's not a natural conclusion.

You wouldn't go, jeez, we could really make a Mickey Mouse one of those. But they have. Is it his resignation letter? He has been busting his chops for Walt Disney for years now. Maybe, maybe. Never had a holiday, has he? When everyone else is on holiday, he's working his chops off.

So it's not his resignation letter? No. We literally had a call last week from Kelly who said she was in Waitara. Said it was a G-Banger. Oh, Mickey Mouse G-Banger. Was it a? It's not a Mickey Mouse G-Banger. It makes a lot of noise.

It would have to be quite a metallic. So it'll give you like it's almost like a chastity belt or something. And it's not that either. There's definitely a shop in Waitara called G-Bangers, but it ends with three Zs. Yes, yes. So I'm 800, that's the telephone number. What is in Ben's bag?

You win $100 US and the item inside the bag as well. Is it one of those suitcases with a pin on it? And do you still remember the pin? No, you can just open it. The item's not hugely expensive. That's another clue. It's not hugely expensive. We'll go to Pai to it. James, how's the L&P bottle? Yeah, hi.

Good to hear. Great banter there from me. What do you reckon, James? I reckon it might be a scarf. A scarf? Oh, no, not a Mickey Mouse scarf. But it's clothing related, so I can see why you came to that conclusion. Has someone said a belt?

Oh, I don't know. Is it a Mickey Mouse belt? No, it's not. It's not a Mickey Mouse belt. That'd be quite cool with a sort of Mickey Mouse buckle. Oh, how cool would you look? I'd be one of those. You'd mock me for it,? I'd be one of those.

You'd mock me for it, but I'd be one of those. The good thing is you can hide it with a T-shirt. Rhys, we'll get you on from Taranaki this morning. How are you, mate? Have a nice long weekend. Hey, hey, the boys. The boys, the lads, eh? Up and at them.

What are you doing, Rhys? Yeah, good, brother, good. What do you reckon's in there, buddy? Some suspenders. I reckon Ben would look good in some Mickey Mouse, good, brother, good. What do you reckon's in there, buddy? Some suspenders. I reckon Ben would look good in some Mickey Mouse suspenders. Oh, again. I would love to put on a pair of suspenders, but it's not what the item is.

I'm sorry, buddy. You did bring back a hat from America, like a cheese cutter. I did. So cheese cutter suspenders. Yeah. Oh, look out. Take him down to the cobbler. We'll go to Taupo. Lani, you're on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. How are you? Good, look out. Take him down to the cobbler. We'll go to Taupo. Lani, you're on New Zealand's breakfast this morning.

How are you? Good, thank you. Good to have you on. Jeez, you sound muffled. Are we talking to you inside a duvet? What's going on? No, no, I'm all good. You're all good?

As long as you're safe. What do you reckon's in the bag, Lani? Well, I did get the one that man just said, so I'll go iron. An iron? Mickey Mouse iron. You lugged that back from an area. Hey, it would be a very random clothing-related thing.

Again, I can see how you got there, but it's not an iron. Can we have another clue? Let's have another clue. Oh, look, I'll put one. Look, I'll think of a good one. I'll talk to Producer B Humps because he knows what it is,

and we'll put it up on the Hits Breakfast Instagram this morning as a story, all right? I just hope I don't die before this competition ends. It's a good chance. It's a good chance. I haven't got long to live, buddy. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. A lot of traffic out there on the roads already this morning,

and we'll be at schools. All the schools are back as they sort of drip fed the kids back into school over the last week. Those holidays dragged on, didn't they? Felt like they, about eight or nine weeks for some kids. Hell of a sabbatical. Now, Ben, you just said before

that you had a wonderful story you wanted to regale the tales of. Yeah, well, Prince Harry, obviously he brought out his wonderful story, his book. He regaled a lot of tales. Bull well, Prince Harry. Obviously, he brought out his wonderful story, his book, Spear. He regaled a lot of tales. Bald shamed his brother, didn't he? Yeah, he did. He said he was bald.

He got into a lot of detail about his frozen member, shall we say. His penis was oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatised. He makes a frozen willy sound very sophisticated. Maybe that's his nickname for his brother. But he regaled the story in his book about losing his virginity behind the back of a pub with an older woman.

And the lady has now outed herself. Now, after reading all about it, I actually feel really sorry for her. Now, she said as soon as Harry told the story, and it was in the book, her phones just started pinging with messages like that because it was a small group of people at the time, a small people known, and she just felt like all of a sudden the privacy walls were just, you know,

it was only a matter of time before she was going to turn up home and there was going to be paparazzi, there was going to be press. And she's in some way, she's like, why did Harry have to go into all this detail? Look, I'm a mum. I've got kids.

I'm his working mum. I don't want this attention. But she has now come out and said, yes, it was me just to kind of front foot it and be in front of the whole story, but not wanting anything out of it. Just like, thanks a lot, Harry. Thanks for that.

How did people piece it together though? Well, I guess there was a very small horse community at the time. A small horse community. Yeah, and they talk. They were like, though? Well, I guess there was a very small horse community at the time. A small horse community, yeah. And as soon as that, they were like, oh, hey, that person. And people was that you? And she just kind of felt like it was a matter of time before someone was going to find out. Although he did say older woman, much older woman.

She's two years older than him. So maybe he was trying to throw people off a little bit with that. I'm not sure. That's all perspectives. 24 months is a long time yeah there's a lot of age between them uh yeah but she's kind of going yeah why did he have to go into so much detail like what detail did he go into well he went into you know like spanking and all sorts of stuff and it was a quick it was quick it was short and sharp it was all yeah it High passion. The stallion wasn't the only one riding in the... You know, like...

Yeah, so anyway. You can see why she was like, oh, hey, you know? And we could have kept this out of the book. My husband, my kids, all that sort of stuff as well. So I felt really sorry for her. Mind you, he could have kept the old oscillating body part out of the book as well.

He could have left a lot out of there, but he decided to put it all in the book. And then he's like, and I've got more for more books. People will be like, oh dear God. What else? Did he not unload everything in one book? What else has he got,

Cara? The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Spilling the tea on Hollywood's A-listers. Kardashians. I have met every single one. Exposing scandals. Because she's not a good person,

but either is he. Digging the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the dirt. Is she a diva? Yes. And finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members. Yes. It was a script.

No. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is NT. His gossip is filthy, but he's clean as... That's a good one. I like that one. I like that one.

You're assuming that I've showered this early in the morning, though. You give off quite a sanitized vibe. You sound clean, Auntie. How are you, mate? I'm good. How are you guys? Yeah, we're doing all right. Now, Grammy Awards, we want to get stuck into that because that was happening yesterday.

Los Angeles, Beyonce has won more Grammys now than anyone else But she turned up late due to traffic And even missed her first award Yeah, you know, she did turn up late I think that Beyonce Despite having the record She gets screwed over pretty much every time she wins And I think that everybody kind of focuses on The fact that she's got the record

But she never wins Album of the Year She never wins Record of the Year And those are the big ones You know, Harry Styles, she never wins Album of the Year. She never wins Record of the Year. And those are the big ones. You know, Harry Styles, did he deserve Album of the Year? Probably.

But just every single year is a huge disappointment. I think Beyonce thought that this was finally the year that she was going to get the big ones. And she didn't.

How come she didn't factor in traffic? Like, this is concerning. Surely there's someone there on her team, like, hey, Beyonce, we're running 20 late. Even though I know about LA traffic's bad. Yeah, but if you're Beyonce, aren't you expecting the Grammys to hold up for you? Yeah, true.

But you're kind of expecting the traffic to part for you, I think. If you're Beyonce. Yes. Jennifer Lopez was there. She looked happy, but she was with Ben Affleck, and he looked kind of miserable. There's been a few memes floating around about Ben Affleck, and he looked kind of miserable. There's been a few memes floating around about Ben Affleck. Did he not want to be there?

I don't think Ben ever wants to be there. My favorite memes are the Ben Affleck looked miserable memes. I think that Jennifer Lopez kicks him out of bed every day, maybe allows him one beer and one cigarette a day, and then for every paparazzi run you make with me, I'll give you another beer and another cigarette. So he's trying to get at least half a dozen, half a dozen pep shots in a day. Yes.

I always said the speeches always take too long for me because as soon as someone starts thanking this person, that person, then the next person goes, well, I better thank this person, just like them. And that creates more and more, I guess, longer speeches. It does, but then you get in trouble. And what was it at the Golden Globes?

Somebody started talking and they cut him off after 10 seconds. And so then you get to the extreme of that. And so then they're like, wait a second, I finally won a Golden Globe and you're not letting me thank anybody. I know, Ben. If Ben was running that that music he'd be giving them five seconds tops you'd be like thank you bang music kicks off and he's and they're off stage auntie with us here he joins us from hollywood very exciting about the chinese spy balloon getting shot down i mean it's not very often that an entire country gets to watch a slow moving balloon go across the country and say and then debate whether or not you want to shoot it down and you know i mean it gave it

was something to do over the weekend should we shoot it down should we not shoot it down and then we started thinking about the boy in the balloon do you guys remember that story that was a u.s kind of thing you guys probably don't remember but like everybody said there's a boy in a balloon and he's traveling across the country and we need to rescue him. Or shoot him down. I feel like the Chinese, they're on their game. They're not just spying on you with a balloon. They're doing some other stuff on the ground that you don't know about.

Maybe it's a decoy. Maybe it's a diversion. Well, let me tell you, if you guys turn on TikTok, that's more of the Chinese balloon. All right. I mean, come on. You guys have TikTok? That's China spying on you in your house. Yeah, that's right. Have you read the T's and C's of TikTok? They've got access to everything. I know. So, I mean, TikTok is, look, TikTok's never going to go anywhere. But honestly, the U.S. government has debated whether or not to just get rid of TikTok because of the fact that

it is basically owned by the Chinese government. But what are the alternatives? Well, Mark Zuckerberg would say, hey, I have this great little program and I want you guys to have that. So is it better that we just have Mark Zuckerberg spying on everybody? Or is it better that we have the Chinese spying on everybody? I don't know. I like TikTok. So if they want to come see what I'm doing in my house let the Chinese look The Chinese must be laughing at us, they're like look at these idiots, we're making them dance for 15

seconds, synchronized routines they're lapping it up, they're giving us all their information, NT listen thank you so much, you give it to us straight every week, sometimes too straight for our legal team but that's why we keep you around this cloud of defamation. It's

thrilling. You're going to have a great weekend, T. Back after a long weekend today. Expected to be a busy day on the roads. All the schools are back as of today, and particularly in the areas affected by floods. Prepare yourself for longer journey times this morning.

A lot more people on the roads. And guess what? And there's a tropical cyclone that may be coming down too, which is another... Not today, though. The weather's pretty settled around the country today, but it might be here later in the week. It's thrilling stuff, isn't it?

Never know what's coming next. Keep us on the edge of our seats. Now, Ben, wedding rings. You don't wear a wedding ring. No, I've got one it's it's not something i i like it because it makes you seem available even though i know he's taking it i'm always like oh there's a slither of a chance i could if i play my cards right yeah you know that's all my wife says you're always like no one you know because i have got i got my wedding date

tattooed on i've got a wedding ring but i kind of going into it said i'm not really a big jewelry person i'll give it a go but it wasn't wasn't really for me the ring and so amanda was okay with it but now every now and again she's like you know i'm surprised i haven't lost mine i lose my car keys about three times a day yeah it's probably quite good because my the older i get the chubby of my fingers get so you can't take it off the harder harder it is to remove we want to know this morning where did your ring end up because i was reading in the in the weekend uh so a couple there they live on a farm uh in the usa and it's quite a busy farm and uh you know obviously get your hands dirty working on the farm and and the wife had she'd cleaned her hands as you put a wedding ring next to a paper towel on the

sink and they had a lot of people working on the farm. And at some stage, they worked out. They were like, when they went back, going, where's the ring? Someone must have put it into the rubbish. And it got taken. The rubbish had been collected. It got taken down to the refuge center, to the dump. And they're like, oh, that might be the ring.

And most people in that situation, you're like, well, the ring is gone. But the guy was like, no, no, I'm going to go down and ask if i can go through the dump through the dump and got mates needle in a haystack of friends i was like imagine that cool i mean we're good mates imagine if i called you go hey bro i'm just gonna go down to the refuge center and look for amanda's wedding ring you'd be like okay cool good luck with that i mean that's one step further than can you help me move house and they looked all day going through bags of stuff the dump let them do this they went through and they were just about to give up and then went oh we'll look up here how long so i would have given up five minutes and i'm like oh you're never gonna find it let's go down to michael hill last day and they went through the bag and then we're all this bag looks

like could be our rubbish bag open it up went through it found and then went, oh, this bag looks like it could be our rubbish bag. Opened it up, went through it, found the wedding ring after looking all day at the dump. How incredible is that? In the meantime, she ran off with another guy. Because she looked available.

She looked available in those brief seconds. Okay, 0800 the hits telephone number. You can text 24487 on New Zealand's breakfast. When did your ring end up?

A lot of people. We place a lot of faith in average Munters to look after a very precious item. I'm kind of like Gollum with mine, aren't I? Very obsessed with not losing this ring or not able to take it off. I'm trying to pull it off now. You can't actually get it off, can you? I would have to amputate my finger. Well, it's probably a good thing.

That's why you haven't lost it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Wonderful to have you with us. It really is. Thanks for joining us back on The Hits. Now, Ben, we're just talking about where your wedding ring ended up, where any wedding ring ended up, basically. We're desperate.

We'll take any ring-based calls. Just give us a ring. Literally give us a ring. On 0800, The Hits, this morning, I was looking into it. You know the fourth finger, which traditionally you put your wedding ring on? This dates back to ancient Rome, where it believes that a vein in that finger ran directly to the heart.

Isn't that wonderful? Do you like those photos that couples get when they get married and they put their ring finger up, but it kind of looks like, almost looks naughty like they're giving their finger, but it's the wedding finger? Is that the intention of the photo? I think so.

It's comedy. Yeah, it's a's comedy thing i didn't know about that when we got married otherwise i would have been oh boy i would have been doing some comedy that's what you want on your wedding day some comedy pictures that's what the ladies love she's on my cat show you know you know what this wedding photo could do with a bit of a laugh mate should i turn my pants down let's get some Instagram likes on this thing, all right? Let's go to the phones on 0800. Where did your ring end up, Amelia? It was quite funny, actually.

When I was younger, Mum lost her engagement ring. Couldn't find it anywhere. Searched the house high and low. It was insured and all that sort of stuff. So they thought they'd claim insurance for it and went to the police and all that sort of stuff. So they thought they'd claim insurance for it and went to the police and all that sort of stuff. And anyway, sometime later, as kids, we had those little piggy banks from Tiesby Bank.

And they take it in to get it filled, I mean, to get it emptied. And they got a phone call a couple of days later from the lady at the bank and said, by any chance are you missing an engagement ring? And Mum was like, yeah, how do you know? She said, oh, we found it in Amelia's piggy bank. And it was like, how on earth did that get there? I have no recollection of this.

Well, I do. You put it in there, clearly. Apparently I put it in there. Maybe I wanted to claim for it or something. If it's in your piggy bank, you definitely put it in there. Maybe I wanted to claim for it or something. If it's in your piggy bank, you'd definitely put it in there. Yeah, I'm trying to get more for the money, you know? Yeah, well, good play, though. Yeah, he tried to sell it to the bank.

But they had claimed insurance, and they sort of didn't want two rings because Mum had had a replacement. And so they rang the insurance company and explained the situation, and they didn't want to borrow it. Really? Yeah, they said, no, we don't want to know about it

and then they called their broker or whatever and the broker said, no, just take it back and say we don't want it and hand it back over. So they did and kept the original one. Wow. Wow, so the insurance company was almost encouraging fraud Yeah, very unusual Clearly, clearly they didn't want to borrow this

Too much paperwork, I understand And I get it I said to mum the other day, I said, oh you should have kept it, you could have had two Yeah Sometimes These two engagement rings Sometimes you do succeed off people who can't be arsed doing admin Totally

When you get your supermarket shopping delivered and they give you something, you know, someone extra's bag, you're like, oh, this is in my bag. They're like, just keep it. Just keep it. Yeah, totally. They don't do anything with it. It's like, well, you try to be honest and then they don't want to borrow it. They're like, you're doing us a favour if you just take all the stuff that you didn't order.

But if you decide that without getting the okay for someone, then you're in a lot of trouble. Just keep the two rings. Why not? Yeah, hey,'re in a lot of trouble. Just keep the two rings. Why not? Yeah, hey, you have a great week anyway. You have a lovely day. Yep, same to you. Let's go to Angela in the Waikato.

Morena, Angela, the ring, where did it end up? It ended up down the drain in the street. Oh, no. Whatever, you sound dead inside. What's going on, Ange? Had an argument with my husband. He was at the pub when he shouldn't have been. Threw it at him and it went down the drain.

Champagne stuff. Did you get it back or it was gone? It went. I wasn't going to go and try and even look for it. I heard it go down there and I heard it go into the water and I was like, oh, well, there's my wedding ring. It's gone now. Jeez, that would have been a frosty

wake up on Saturday morning there. How did you guys work through that the next day? He just didn't buy me another ring. Oh, he didn't? Okay. There we go. Well, Angela caught a man at the pub when he shouldn't have been there. Got a ring thrown at him down the drain. Thank you very much. We'll go to Tanya. Welcome from

Auckland. Where'd your ring end up? Good morning. My husband lost his ring on our honeymoon playing beach volleyball. Great sport. Great sport. Isn't it? It is a great sport.

I do like beach volleyball. Fun sport. You don't play beach volleyball enough, do you? Now, I do have a question, Tanya. Was he playing beach volleyball with bikini babes, and did the ring fall off? I don't know whether they were babes or otherwise

there, because I'd wandered off to a beach market, and then I came back, and here are these people all madly scrambling around in the sand looking. I said, you've lost your ring, haven't you? Because you've been fiddling with it the whole time since we'd gotten married. Yeah.

And they spent a couple of hours combing, literally, the beach looking for this thing, and we were just about to give up and go, oh, well, you know, it is what it is. And the guy that was there playing volleyball with everyone else, he got down on his hands and knees, he kind of ran his fingers through the sand, and next minute he came up and the wedding ring

was on his hand. Oh, what a hero. Change! Change in life! Oh, that's a wonderful story, Tanya. In fact, Producer Joel, your dad lost his ring on his honeymoon too. I think it was his honeymoon year. On a banana boat in Turkey, just went off

and it was all gone in the water. Never to be found again. Whenever you start a story with he was on a banana boat in Turkey. It's never going to end well. It's a wild story. Turkish banana boats. Hey, thanks for your calls and texts. Appreciate it.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's one of the biggest movies in the world right now. It's Megan about a lifelike toy doll that turns into a killer. I designed Megan to protect Katie from feeling lonely. She will recognize you as her primary user. And when you do that, you're going to pair with her. Crazy.

It's insane, right? Yeah, the movie is everywhere. It's done extremely well in cinema so far. It's all over TikTok with a viral dance. It was filmed in New Zealand with a lot of Kiwis in front of the screen and behind it, including director Gerard Johnson, who's with us in the studio.

Good to have you here, buddy. Thanks for having me. Hey, nice to have you here. Congratulations on the movie. I mean, it's awesome. It's scary. It's funny. And it's huge worldwide.

It must be just blown away by how amazingly big it's got. It's an overused phrase, but it's very surreal. Because we saw you in typical Kiwi fashion. You kind of downplay it. You're like, I'm working on this little, you know, this quirky little horror movie with a toy that sort of comes to life, a robot toy, and we'll see how it goes.

And now it's everywhere. It's huge. Yeah, it's nuts. And, you know, we went to the SoFi Stadium and then to see um a bunch of dancing megans there the marketing campaign for the movie was was nuts and I don't want to talk down your success because you're a very talented man but when you were telling us about this I was like well good luck with your little porno or whatever you're feeling you know and it kind of we forgot about it Ben and then it popped up and you're like

this Gerard's movie but that is that is filmmaking though in New Zealand like whenever someone says what do you do and I say I'm a director

are you anything we'd know no no but you do alright do you make enough just make enough to get by have you done a

Briscoe's commercial yeah you know but so that's what's great about this it's like what have you done that I might have seen? Megan, bitch. And it's all over.

TikTok as well, the dance that was your idea to add to it is just blowing up. Even saw Drew Barrymore the other day on her chat show dressed as the main character, Megan. It's surreal. Yeah, there's so many pinch myself moments. There was an SNL sketch, my favourite show, other than this. It's breakfast.

SNL hits breakfast. I think Snoop Dogg did a face mash where he put his face on Megan's face. But I think maybe the loveliest thing, a scene in the film where Megan plays Toy Soldiers by Martika on piano and Martika got in touch and would like to send me some free merch and that was a big deal free merch from up in a drink bottle

because it was filmed in New Zealand what's the back story as to how this project ended up being made here COVID happened, the pandemic happened and New Zealand was COVID free for a long time and one of the most desirable places to make a movie. So every man and his dog was trying to get to New Zealand to make a movie there.

I thought Hollywood, here I come, but everyone just wanted to come and shoot movies here because of the tax incentives. So that was really funny. I kind of couldn't believe it. I want to be over there. Could I come to you? No, no, we'll come to you. It'll be great.

Because you've made New Zealand look like America. It was cool watching, too, from a New Zealand point of view as well, seeing New Zealand actors as well, seeing the little places go, oh, I forget that was filmed in Newmarket or wherever it was. And AUT. It's like, you know, the AUT was the big, like, toy company kind of campus. Because that was filmed, you know, like,

I don't want to break down the sensitive budget uh budget uh of the movie but it's but it's well reported online it was made for about 12 million which seems like a lot for i imagine people listening but it's not you know as far as movies go well they keep the costs down so that they can spend all that money on taylor swift when the trailer comes out so we may still be in the red there's hundreds of millions of dollars it's made worldwide. So it's a huge, and people are talking sequel. That must be just again,

surreal and incredible. It is because it was such a hard film to make. And, you know, because Megan is an animatronic puppet and so often it's just like, you know, you feel like you're making the Terminator with Kermit the Frog.

It doesn't work. And I was really worried that this film was going to end my career, not launch my career. So the idea that we're now talking about a sequel, that's one of the craziest things because I was, you know, after this film was done, I was like, thank God I just got out of this alive. Yeah. And so I'm going back in.

I wanted to pitch you some ideas for the sequel. Here we go. I knew this was coming. This is a pitch session. This is not an interview, Gerard. sequel. Here we go. Here we go. I knew this was coming. All right, here we go. This is not an interview, Gerard. This is a pitch session. Now, you've got to look at it. I was thinking you've got to look at a new sort of toy, an iconic toy.

It comes to life. It's evil, that sort of thing. Yep. Okay. This horror movie doesn't hurt. It stings. Find out what all the buzz is about when the killer bee comes to life. It's Buzzy Bee, the movie.

What do you think? I mean, I can see Film Commission just getting a right behind this one. Iconic Kiwi toy. Yes, absolutely. So think about that one. Okay, the next one. He may look cute, but he'll tickle you to death. This Muppet is killing Muppets like you in Tickle Me Elmo, the movie.

The darker side Side Sesame Street. Yeah. I can see there being some rights issues. Okay, rights issue. Okay, we'll move on from that one. Okay. Okay, this one needs a beep. You better do whatever the f*** Simon says.

Simon says you're next. The movie coming soon. That's probably my favourite. That's your favourite. Okay, Simon says. Yeah. Okay, Simon says, you know, that's yours. You can take that.

Gerard, congratulations on the success. Bloody well done mate thank you thank you guys and go see megan if you haven't seen it it is awesome it's funny it's scary it's all those things and more uh so go check it out it's in cinemas right now the hits the jonathan ben podcast back after a long weekend short week which is a good feeling but the traffic out there today is meant to be pretty busy on the roads. Says two guys who get to sit in a room all morning and avoid traffic. Yeah, take care out there. Of course, all the kids are back at school now, so it's going to create a bit more traffic around the country.

Now, Sienna, she started at a college on Friday. Yeah, high school. I was driving back into work, and I saw all the students walking out of the school, and I was thinking of her. How was her first day? Yeah, it was good. It was good. She had a good, really good first day. She was a little nervous as you would be going into a new high school. Both my daughters starting new schools this year. So they're very excited, but also anxious. Well, cause

you look at the older kids, the year thirteens. And as I go pick my son Oscar up from school, I was like, geez, they've got more facial hair than I'll ever have. I just wish I had a slither of the moustache that they're walking out of the school grounds with. But one thing I thought was pretty cool. Now, we give social media a bagging. You know, there's a lot of bad things about social media. Name one.

Well, you know, there's people get bullied all the time. Fun. That's fun. People get eyes. Trolling. Celebrities. People make comments. Copping off my diet pills.

That's fun. Yeah, that's, yeah. But I actually created a really lovely moment before her first day of school now uh her and her friends she's only got a few friends that are going to this new school but they started a bit of a group chat and then they sort of added people that they knew and other people knew to this sort of group chat before the school started so there became a whole lot of people on this sort of group chat uh the night before school and when they found out their form classes, none of her friends were in it,

but someone else who she didn't know was on the group chat. And they started messaging, hi, I'm such and such. Hi, how are you? Where are you from? Hey, let's hang out tomorrow. I'll meet you at the such and such. She's like walked out going,

hey, I've got a friend. I've got a friend. The first day of school is in my form class. I've just got to meet her at the such and such. Where is the such and such? Oh yeah, yeah. Which to be honest, she probably doesn't know where the such and such is either

first day of school. But I thought it was a really cool thing. A good way of social media connecting people that didn't know through other people. Yeah.

It was a lovely little thing. And then after that, we had a funny moment heading into school, which Sienna will be a bit embarrassed about me sharing, but hey, I'm here now.

That's the only joy you have as a dad now, mate. You get too embarrassed. And you know, they're on tenderhooks through their teenage years. We have got them. You know, when you don't really think about what a name of something is, you don't really give it much thought. Well, this happened to Sienna before school

because she got a message from the school saying all the things you had to do before the first day of school. And one of them was like, if you've dyed your hair at any stage, you need to return it to its natural color and a couple of years ago during lockdown we'd we'd dyed sienna's hair and it was only the ends that were blonde but she's like i need to get it she's by the book she doesn't want to get in trouble in the new school she's like i need to dye it back to my original color can we get it sorted i'm like all right if it's going to make you feel better we can get it sorted and we're walking through the mall. We walk past a place called Just Cuts.

And she's like, hey, Just Cuts, can I get my hair dyed there? I was like, well, no. And she's like, what? What's wrong with Just Cuts? I'm like, nothing's wrong with Just Cuts, but it's Just Cuts. And she's like, yeah, so what's wrong with Just Cuts? I'm like, nothing. We've been there before.

It's fine, but it's Just Cuts. That's all they're dealing with. That's all. And I kept saying, the more I said Just Cuts, the less it was sinking into exactly what she was meaning. She was like, why won't you take me to just cuts? Because it's just cuts. And then it dawned on her, she's like, oh, I get it.

It's just cuts. Do they do dyeing with just cuts? Well, maybe they do, actually. Text us if you work at just cuts. Do you also branch out into hair dyeing as well? Because I've now gone, no, they just do just cuts. He's like mocked his daughter on the radio. He's made fun of her

at the mall. Please say you don't do that. Please say you just do Cuts. Please say you don't. It would make me very, you know, I walk past those things as like a,

just a lonely chihuahua just looking at it. One of those ugly, hairless Mexican dogs just looking and going. You'd like to go in there, wouldn't you? It's like the hits.

We don't play not hits, do we? You know, we only play the hits. So that's what I'd like to think Just Cuts. I should have researched this actually now before mocking everyone. Just Cuts.

Text us 4487. Are you at Just Cuts? There you go. So yeah, I like her. So I wouldn't know what to do in a hair salon. I'd be like if I had to get back out into the dating game now. Just sort of standing weirdly in the corner of some nightclub. Is that guy with strange ball men in the dark just staring at us wanting to dance?

Oh God. So there we go. 0800 the hits 4487 just cut. So you're doing more than just cutting. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5k. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It is our game of

word association. We play it every morning at this time on the hits. If you play the game well, you can win $5,000. Andy, let's welcome you into the show. Morena from Auckland. How's things? All gravy in the Navy here.

All gravy in the Navy. It's really gathering some steam, all gravy in the Navy, isn't it? Yeah. We phoned someone at a petrol station to give us an update on the floods and they said they were

all gravy in the Navy. I like it. It's gaining a in the Navy. I like it. It's gaining a lot of momentum. I like it. Anyway, Andy, I'm glad you're all gravy in the Navy. $5,000, what would this cash go towards? I'm going to do an OE later this year, so it'll go towards that. Where are you leaving us?

You didn't tell us you were going to leave us. Where are you going? Off to England and then zip around. Nice. And once you're there, it's so close to go to these exotic locations. That's the very cool thing about it. So that would be amazing. All right, well, $5,000, that could definitely get you over to the UK.

Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth to face their crippling fear of claustrophobia? We'll go Ben, please. All right, Ben's going to head in there, lock himself in the booth. We'll try and get five words out of your mouth and the same five words out of Ben's mouth to win you this money this morning, Andy. The first one is Celine.

Dion. Celine Dion. Lippy. Stick? Stick, you going to say? Or should I say lipstick? I'll go lipstick. All right, Grammy.

They were on yesterday. Harry Styles winning album of the year. Beyonce winning the most amount of Grammys out of anyone in history. What would you say for Grammy? I'll go award. Awards. Bin, B-I-N, is word number four this morning, Ando. Rubbish.

Rubbish. And the fifth and final one is dance. Dance. I'm looking to my husband for some help. He says party. We'll go there. Dance, party. Do you know I matched four out of the five words with you just then?

Let's get Bin out of the booth. Do you know someone's just texted in too on a complete dog leg here about Just Cuts. You were having a debate with your daughter whether they did dying at Just Cuts and you're like, no they do Just Cuts. Someone's texted in saying, I work at Just Cuts. We do shampooing, scalp massaging, drying of hair, blow waves

but no dying. Oh, that's good. I was right. Justified mocking, Vic. Nothing better than being justified in your mocking. Let's get back to five words. Andy played a great game. Wants to use this cash to get to the UK. Bit of an OE on the horizon.

Let's get into it. Word one, $25. Celine Dion. That'll buy you a pint of warm beer down at the Rovers return in the UK there, Andy. I'll keep going, please. Keep going. Word two, $50. Lippy.

Lipstick. There's $50 in the bank, Andy. What are we doing? Yep, one more. Word three, $100. Everyone loves to just keep pushing it, don't they? Yeah, just go on more. They were on yesterday, Grammy. Award?

Yes. Blow me down. $100 is yours, now what do you want to do? You want to risk it from $500 or What? $100 is yours. Now, what do you want to do? You want to risk it from $500 or take the $100? I'll risk it, please. Word four, $500. As I live and breathe, she's taking a gamble. Bin.

B-I-N. Now, I know when you travel overseas, they call you Bin. They do. Because they can't understand your... Yeah, but I don't think she's going to go with bin is the word. What would Andy have said with bin? There's a couple of obvious ones

that I feel like I'm torn between. The first one that popped into my head was wheelie. That was the wrong one. Was it rubbish? Was it rubbish? Rubbish, Andy. We would have been a rubbish bin. For dance

Fifth and final word What would you have said For dance Floor No it was dance party Andy You played a great game I didn't

Thanks Oh I'm sorry You played a good game too Don't be down on your game You played a game Okay everyone's Done well today We'll send you out

Some hell pizzas Shall we Andy Awesome thanks guys You have a safe trip overseas when you head over there. Now we had an anonymous message sent through to the show, Ben Boyce, and you know

the backbone of the show is we're here to help. And we also love messages. We do, we do. We're desperate for messages. The more messages you can send us on 4487 the better because it means the less content we have to come up with. But someone on 0800 HITS right now wants some help. Now, we're going to keep this person anonymous. We're even going to change their voice.

It's going to sound like you've gone through puberty about three times. Hello, on 0800 HITS, our anonymous friend. How are you? Good. How are you doing? Doing well. You sound very deep and husky. Nice.

What is the situation that you're currently in? So I met a guy online on a sugar dating website. And we've seen him for quite a while, like six months or so. There's the sugar daddy, sugar babe situation. What is that? Can I ask what is that? What is it? It was honestly just company.

It was nothing like sexual or anything like that. It was just like going out on, I guess, like dates and going away places and just company mostly, yeah. Is it a financial transaction between him and you yes yeah so you're paying to hang you paid to hang out with some kind of like they pay me at work to hang out with jonah yeah i wouldn't do it otherwise yeah yeah he's paying you can i ask if i can pry even further how much do we have what are we talking here are we talking hundreds are we talking thousands depending on what it? It honestly depends on what it is.

Like if it's just a dinner or something, then maybe like $500. What? Wow. That's good money. Can I place myself on the platter for these sugar? I've gone to dinner with a lot of people for $500. Yeah, yeah. Men or women, doesn't matter.

Okay, so you're with this sugar daddy. Continue on. And I had a really good friend whose mum had just started dating a new man after being single for, like, over 10 years. And we went over there one night, and there he was with my best friend's mum. Oh, and so he's seen you. Yes, yep. You've seen him.

Do you introduce yourselves to each other? Yes, yep, yep, yep. He's sweating the big ones, isn't he? I guess technically he's done. He's done nothing wrong. What do you do now? I mean, what do you want to know? I don't know what to do

do I tell her, do I not, do I just leave it and see if they break up or if he talks to me about it I have no idea I always find in this situation the best thing is leave those skeletons in the closet

and just pray they never get out. Just be like, surely the universe, I'm pretty much a good person. Just help me out on this one. That's what I would do. It's a gamble because, you know, if it does come out, then you look like an absolute monster for not saying it. Yeah, true. Is that good advice?

Well, it's one option, isn't it? It's one monster for not saying it. Yeah, true. Yep. Is that good advice? Well, it's one option, isn't it? It's one option, not saying anything. The other option is you could say something, because, I mean, maybe nothing's happening now. Maybe he's not being a sugar daddy now. Maybe those days are past. Are you still seeing him? Yes.

Okay. Okay, so, yeah, right. We should ask that. So it's still going on? Yes. Okay. No. Okay. So, yeah, right. We should ask that. So it's still going on? Yes. The plot for him, yeah. Okay. Well, now we need, okay, that changes things slightly.

So have you had the discussion with him about this whole scenario? He just doesn't want to talk about it. He just ignores it or changes the subject and isn't keen, and I'm just there to make money. Fair for a 500 dinners i like that yeah we would too and i mean maybe that's what you could come out with i was just there to make money mate and i guess if he's paying you in some sort of way do you have a right to go yeah this is what i think you should do in the situation or do you have to just be chill with it? That's another conversation, I guess.

That's it, and I guess it's like confidentiality as well. And it's companionship. It's probably different from the relationship he has with your friend's mum, but at the same time... A little bit weird, yeah. What do you do with your clients, Ben? Is it

quite a discretion guaranteed? Yeah, normally I end up talking about it on the radio, you know? So that's why, you know? Well, that's a very interesting scenario. What is your gut saying? I honestly couldn't tell you. I think I should tell her, but I don't want to deal with the aftermath. Yeah, but also your gut's like, oh man, it's nice and full from this great dinner.

Giving paid for, yep. man, it's nice and full from these great dicks. It's giving me pain, sir. Yep. Okay, 0800 the hits. What should we do in this scenario? You can text 24487 is the number on the text. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Back after a long weekend. It is a short week, but today expected to be very busy. It already is very busy out there on the roads,

and particularly the areas affected by floods prepare for longer journeys this morning. And guess what? Even though the weather settled today, more bad weather could be on the way later in the week. Cyclone, baby! Woohoo! Hopefully it avoids New Zealand. It feels like that's the last thing we need. High drama. That's

what we've got this morning. High drama and a high sugar intake this morning. With an anonymous person who's reached out to the show. Have a listen to their conundrum. So I met a guy online on a sugar dating website and was seeing him for quite a while, like six months or so. There's the sugar daddy, sugar babe situation. situation what is that can i ask what is that what is it um it was honestly just company it was nothing like sexual or anything like that it was

just like going out on i guess like dates and going away places and just company. So there you go, $500 a date. But we're great cash. What are we doing here? Ben, I reckon I could get some top dollar for you out there. I'll start a website. But where it gets complicated is our dear friend has gone to her best mate's house. The mum is now dating this guy. They haven't said anything.

They pretended they don't know each other. Which I get, I get. But the thing is, they are continuing their sort of relationship on the side. I thought, well, maybe he's found a potential new partner and this friend's mum. So I thought, oh, that's fine. They're carrying on this new relationship. But it's continuing behind this lady's back. Yeah.

Financially, I'm saying continue on morally I'm saying you should probably call time on it and tell the mother but what do you think she should do on 0800

the hits text on 4487 leave it it's nothing sexual just companionship I don't know if that was the tone oh so what

leave it leave it don't say anything continue on what you're doing you're just hanging out as friends. I guess you are, but the fact that you know the person, the friend's mum, you feel a little bit like,

even though it's not nothing, you know, it still feels like a little dodgy. I don't know what you get up to outside of these hours, though, do I? No, you don't. You could be hanging out with anyone. Do all sorts of radio shows on the side, don't I? Just for companionship with other people. We've got Laura on 0800 The Hits.

What happens here? Does she tell the mum or not? I reckon she just leaves it. I reckon, you know, it's just companionship. No foul play. It's all going to be okay. No, that's what we just had through on the text as well. It seems to be the popular opinion.

I thought you guys had some decent morals on you. These people from the hits, Ben. I take it all back. 0800 the hits is the telephone number 4487 if you want to get in touch with us. How would she feel though? How do you reckon she would feel if the mum saw them out together? What's going on? Does it feel like

that sort of situation? Well then I guess she has to go, well I'm being paid $500 to be here. And the mum's not getting paid anything to hang out with her. Maybe she'd be fired up if she knew she could actually get a competitive hourly rate. So on the text, too, flowing through, just leave it. Don't say anything. There's no point. There's no point in ruffling feathers.

Walk away, says another text, but just stop transacting. So don't say anything, but just stop seeing him. Gotcha, yeah. $500 though. You've got to stop. You've really fixed that on the $500, haven't you? Yeah. We've got another caller here on 0800.

That's Louise. You're on. Welcome. Hi. I think he should tell her because I would want to know. I really would. I'd feel stupid if I found out later. Yeah, that would want to know. I really would. I'd feel stupid if I found out later. Yeah, that's a very good point.

You would. You'd feel a little embarrassed if you found out later, right? Yeah, and I'd want to know what he was up to when he's not with me. He's paying some young girl $500 to go to dinner with her. I know. I know, right? Plus dinner on top, too. You're looking a bit of a $600, $700 night. Would that be the end of the relationship for know, right? Plus dinner on top, too. You're looking a bit of, you know, $600, $700 a night.

Would that be the end of the relationship for you, Louise? Well, yeah, unless you wanted to give me that money, you know? Yeah. Well, thank you for your call, mate. Thank you for all your calls and texts. At this stage, it's favouring not saying anything but walking away from dating. Okay.

Okay. Let sleeping dogs lie. All right. Your chance to... Plus, Ben Boyce available. $600 a night. I'll pimp him out. He'll do anything.

He'll try anything. Okay. Food-wise. Food-wise. Oh, yeah, yeah. Very adventurous with my palate. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast.

Now, we've noticed something, as we mentioned. It's been happening over the last seven days or so, and it's happened three or four times over that course. We phoned a petrol station early in the morning, like 6 o'clock in the morning, to just check on the flooding situation,

and we got hold of this gentleman in West Auckland. This was this time last week. Good morning. Hello, it's Jono and Ben from The Hits. Yeah, how's it going? We're just checking in on you. Yeah, no, we're all gravy in the Navy. All gravy in the Navy.

No, I hadn't heard that before. I hadn't heard that term. And it seems all gravy in the Navy is gathering some momentum on the programme. Not forced in any way by us, but just callers phoning through just moments ago, about half an hour ago. Andy, let's welcome you into the show. Morena from Auckland. How's things?

All gravy in the Navy here. All gravy in the Navy. I love it because we haven't shoved it down people's throats. No. But could this be the show's catchphrase? Oh, do you want a catchphrase for the show? Well, I never really thought we were a catchphrase type of show. You know what I mean?

We couldn't really come up with a cool catchphrase to catch on. But we haven't come up with this. This has just all happened organically. People are just catching on to it. Does it become the show's catchphrase? It makes you smile, doesn't it? All gravy in the Navy. Although, when you think about it,

I don't like no disrespect to the Navy seems great, but is it all gravy? Like is gravy the right term? Seems like they'd be under attack quite a lot. A lot of stress. You don't see your family for extended periods. You're stuck in a boat in the middle of the ocean. But maybe it's all gravy in the Navy.

Maybe we're wrong. So yeah, 4487 on the text. Just a poll. Do we start shoving it down throats because we haven't yet no people are just saying

it off their own accord and maybe that's why it's working maybe it's because two idiots like us aren't going every time you call up you've got to say

all gravy in the navy that's right but you're right maybe it's better if we don't say it but you say it I don't want and I can't

I love it because it makes no sense on any level yeah I mean the only connection I was thinking over the weekend was is there like a the Navy had boats

gravy boats all the gravies and the oh the gravy boats the dispenser yeah will you commit to this though

maybe they're eating a lot of gravy based meals I mean I've never eaten on a naval boat but maybe it's a lot of gravy everything's doused in gravy. Yeah, maybe. All gravy in the Navy.

Okay, so what do you want? Oh, 100, the hit's 4487? Well, the phones are already gone. Oh, okay, let's get into it. Yeah, let's go to the phones. All gravy in the Navy. Are we going to stick with all gravy in the Navy as the show's catchphrase?

What do you think? Hello? Is it all gravy in the Navy? Well, clearly not, because they just hung up. There's no part of me regretting doing that live. I want that on record. I just want that on record, okay? Okay.

And the post-show meeting when everyone goes, hey, now what are you thinking about going live with that call? You tell management, I didn't regret it. It might be all gravy in the Navy, but it's not all gravy on this show. 4487, though, if you want us to continue this on, then we will. Someone's actually just text in going, it's an old slang from the American naval days,

because all gravy means good. And then when they're in the Navy, the seamen, the sailors would go, oh, it's all gravy in the Navy. Everything's all fine here. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. I like it.

The boats are floating. Do you want to take another live call? No, I don't. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. I like it. The boats are floating. Do you want to take another live call? No, I don't. I definitely don't.