Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: The Top 10 Things We Miss As Parents...

Episode Date: February 7, 2023

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Welcome! Kia ora! Thanks to Challenge Petrol Service Stations, this is the Jono and Ben podcast. We're here today for another day and Joel, you were just saying, sitting at 91 on the... Switzerland podcast comedy charts, but high drama, we've actually dropped down to 130 overnight. How could we be at 91 and then axe back to 130? It's a Swiss content, I told you. It's a popular market, the old Swiss comedy market as well. They probably also don't understand a word of English that we're saying. I like it.

That's good. You know, I put all our success in Switzerland down to you, Ben Boyce, for sitting on the fence. Being neutral. Being neutral. That's what they like. And our love of Toblerone. We met a lady lady remember when we

were traveling around the country for bunnings and she was uh she came to new zealand on exchange and she decided to listen to a radio uh podcast beforehand she went from germany and then she just started listening to us to get to know how you knew new zealanders would speak the sort of lingo and then she's continued to listen to us so started in germany and then continued to listen to us which is incredible so she's kind of got a grasp on the english language because i mean we're certainly not the best teachers by any stretch of the imagination there was also that lady on the traffic light tour i was at the same one you're talking about that we ran into an orcan cbd as well who said she loved your tv show and she's from germany oh yeah maybe let's check those german podcasts and the German stats as well.

The German charts. Not top 1,000. Now, you brought in a quiz, the sports quiz, little cards into the studio, Producer Joel, and you're like, ask me questions. But I feel like there's only about 12 cards. I feel like you've memorized every one of them. There's 50 cards with 100 questions.

But have you? You have memorized the answer to every question. Not all of them. No, not all of them. Most of them I just knew anyway. Why don't you forward a question to Joel? Okay.

What is the highest possible break in snooker? Oh, that's actually hard. Is it 100 and... Something, yes. 65? Oh, close. 63?

No, 55. 55. Oh, yeah, got there. Okay. And you'll edit the podcast intro so you can just edit this to be the right answers.

Oh, AFL. You play AFL? Yeah. Not many people do. Okay. What does the term drop punt mean? Oh, is it when you drop the ball and punt it, like a drop kick?

When it hits the ball before you... You drop the ball and kick it before it hits the ground. Test Jono Pryor. So it's kind of like a drop kick. This is a very achievable quiz so far. I like it. Okay, Jono Pryor. It ups the stakes a little bit. Okay, well, don't cry. Ups the stakes a little bit.

Okay, well, this is one, even though you like nicknames, so you're not so big on sports, but you like nicknames. What was the popular name of the Australian tennis duo Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodfoot? What were their nicknames? Woodbridge and... The Woodies. The Woodies, yes.

The Woodies. Yeah, I remember the Woodies. Yeah, they were the Woodies. They were a powerful tennis doubles team, weren't they? You don't have to, Ben, you don't have to do pity cards. You just ask me the next card. He's looking through a card. Okay, okay.

And bowls, what is the target ball called? Jack. Yeah, well, I can't answer that for Jono, but all right. Even when Joel was like, hey, ask them to Jono. You've memorized that one, haven't you? All right. Keep going. Another one for me, Ben? Yeah, yeah,o. You've memorized that one, haven't you? All right. Keep going. Another one for me, then?

Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, that last one was for you as well. Just trying to get some interesting ones here. I don't see Bradley Walsh doing this in the chase, do you? Fumbling through his cards? No, no. Okay. What country invented volleyball, Jono?

I'd say Brazil. USA? Oh, I don't know Oh Joel I remember It's hard to take on a guy Who's remembered every answer To the quiz

Okay And let's go One more Before we finish I would love you to host A game show Where it's just Like 20 minutes

Of it's just you Panicking for time Oh okay Okay Here's one we've been Talking about You know Off air

That's probably going to give you a clue so the first one to get this correct is for both of you which MMA fighter did Floyd Mayweather box

there you go there you go that one was just for Joel I'll have to bring in my trivia book tomorrow she's just sitting

over how many times you read that some great facts in there some serious we can make a new segment called Get Fact Thursday. It's already a thing, isn't it?

Or is that already a thing? Yeah, I think it's already a thing. Hey, we had Dr. Libby on the show today. She came in and every time she comes in here, I always feel guilty about my health. But then she walks out and I forget about it. Well, she's lovely. And she does worry about people's health as does she's genuinely consistent she looks you in

the eyes and how are you yeah how are you and some people when they go how are you they don't care like me i don't care when i ask and we both went no yeah we're fine and then she goes no how are you serious and i felt like we gave the answer that you give to a lot of people when you take it for me like no we're all good but i think if we really boiled down to it she would be probably like oh you, you what? You do this? You know? I lie to her the same way

I lie to my doctor when they're like, how much alcohol are you intaking? I mean, you know, she's horrified for the fact that you don't eat lunch. She's horrified by that.

You know, you're still not doing that. So she, you know, we didn't get into that. We're like, let's ignore that because I know that's just going to wind Libby up.

You know what horrified me is what she was talking about plant-based meat. And the. Oh, surely it can't all be like that though, I'd say. Oh, really? You know. It's roomy. Everything's, everything's just, yeah.

I mean, that's the thing. Everything's bad for you. Yeah. You know, you name a thing. Okay. Microphones. Terrible. This room we're sitting in now.

I know. Yeah. Anything you think about, it's all going to lead, the roads are going to lead to us getting some sort of. You used to have a. Oh, yeah. You knew I was going to bring this up. Yeah, I did.

He used to have a device, Joel, which measured the nuclear waves of the rooms he was in. Yeah, measured all the readings and stuff. We'd go around. I'd like, I'd put it away. I don't even know where it is because I stopped myself. I was in. Yeah, measured all the readings and stuff. I'd go around. I'd put it away. I don't even know where it is because I stopped myself. I was like, no, this is... He'd bring it into the radio studio and be like...

And he'd hold it up to plugs and TV. You'd go around the house. That was the thing. I'd go around the house and you'd just look at these electro waves that would come out. You're like, whoa, look at that. Oh, there. And then I'd put it...

The day I started walking around the neighborhood and the house and the neighborhood, in the house, in the neighborhood, I was like, okay, okay. But you would walk, you just walk across, and you walk under power lines, and this thing would just go off the chart. Did you buy this online? I can't remember.

Someone gave it to me, because I talked to some other conspiracy theorists as well, and they were like, you've got this thing, I'll drop it around. They didn't, they dropped it around. And then I, which was lovely, but I had to put it away. I haven't gone, you know. It just exists, you can't avoid.

I mean, you can avoid some of it, but. If you'd get that going, you would have been down at Wellington protesting in a tinfoil hat. You probably, yeah. You'd pull a pin on it. But I didn't, and I got vaccinated, so there you go. Did it put you off? Does it make you think about being in a room like this

with all this electrical equipment? Yeah, I try not. Yeah. Sleeping. Sleeping's a big one for me. You're spending how many hours a night, you know, while you're sleeping next to me. I don't sleep next to my cell phone, you know,

because I'm like, well, what's that going to do? What alarm wakes you up? My cell phone, but it's in another. And that helpful. It's in, like, it's in a little room off to the side, so I kind of have to walk to get it. Does it wake anyone else in your family up? No, they're pretty good, actually.

They're pretty good. No one really wakes up. Everyone's just like, eh. So yeah, it goes off and I'm quick. They had to turn it off and then I'm up. You know, I don't feel sorry for them because I keep doing it every morning. My neighbours.

You know when you start your car up and you're like, shh, it's early in the morning. It's early morning for like a garage. I'm like, brrng. Car's starting up. They must hate me yeah every morning true yeah and i dropped them i was taking the rubbish out this morning dropped bottles all over the ground ting ting ting just there that'd be a nightmare living next to a radio announcer tonight at that

time of the morning so yeah there you go try a flat of teenagers with a radio producer in there as well what how do your flatmates Like you getting up First thing in the morning They all sleep I think they all sleep through it But there was one On the public holiday

They all So they were all out On a Sunday night We had to work Monday Because of Auckland anniversary And I got up at four And they were still awake In the lounge

Like partying And I was like Okay this is I was in the shower I was like Went to go to the shower Someone's in the toilet I was like Oh far out It was dark see you guys I'm off to have to work

yeah they're like no you're not I've literally have work today sorry guys oh but yeah that's when you you do appreciate when you move out of a flat isn't it moments like those it's fine living with other people for a period yeah but yeah I couldn't go back to flatting. You guys have got a flat together. I can see that working out. A Bert and Ernie. Like a content house. You know, they have like the Jake Paul content houses.

Just filming content the whole time. Love it. Okay, we'll finish the podcast intro with one more question. This is both of you. How many hoops are used in a game of croquet? Six. Oh, there you go. Well memorized.

There you go. Jono, we'll play with you again. Tomorrow, Joel will bring in another trivia. I'll bring one. I actually have another one. It's 80s and 90s questions. That could be more up your guys' alley. All right.

Have you read it? I haven't read it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Summer. Well, it's been not much of a summer. Officially, the wet is one of the wettest summers. In fact, the wettest summer since the turn of the century

for the North Island. And there's a cyclone on the way Tuesday, they reckon. Tuesday. Yeah, I was talking to Rob,

the butcher I go to. Shout out to Rob. He listens to the hits. Hey, Rob. He was saying yesterday, because he talks to a lot of customers that come in, obviously,

apparently the Tongan volcano that erupted has had some effect on weather patterns because it's raised the temperature of the seas around the pacific right by even one degree and it throws out the uh the hoo-ha beam you sounded so knowledgeable then you kind of lost it as soon as i checked in the hoo-ha yeah i lost it but apparently that's got something i don't know know, science. Yeah. Science stuff.

A meteorologist can probably tell. I think Philip Duncan was kind of trying to tell us that the other day, but we weren't quite listening to him, wasn't he? Yeah, we're like, all right, Phil, mate, what's going on? You know, you're kind of just trying to get your gags out with Phil, but I think he was actually trying to get some information out. Ed Sheeran, he's in the country at the moment. Feels like he's been hidden away here for about a month.

Yeah, he's been in Wellington. I think he's been making his way up the country at the moment. Feels like he's been hidden away here for about a month. Yeah, he's been in Wellington. I think he's been making his way up the country in Hamilton Gardens on Waitangi Day as well with his family. Just wandering around. It's a great place, Hamilton Gardens. I rave about it. It's free. It's incredible. It's great just to wander around.

Yeah, you're a big backer of Hamilton Gardens. I was. I was blown away by it. You were. Every time we talk about Hamilton, it brings a smile to that little boy's face, those Hamilton gardens. But a lot of British artists here at the moment. Fat Boy Slimsk. Yeah, that's right. Mooching around the country, aren't they?

They're over here. Oh, we'll get a good New Zealand summer in. Well, well, well. Haven't we provided for them? It's something to do with the hoo-ha from the... The old Tongan hoo-ha. But yeah, Ed Sheeran, he's here. And Mum phoned me

annie prior who uh she watched the video with little boy grace and we sent along to ask one question to ed sheeran at the press conference yeah and he was like you know what advice would you give a seven-year-old who wants to be like you and ed sheeran came out with the most beautiful eloquent piece of life advice which was don't be basically don't be trying to be like me be like yourself if you're a bit different different embrace it and it was great advice that was awesome yeah and he was like you need to hold on to that advice and play it to your kids uh when they're older i was like oh i can play it to them now whatever we want but she's like ed sheeran lovely gentleman but he always looks very grubby very. And he thinks he looks consistently like he hasn't showered.

Right. It's probably the messy hair. It's probably, yeah. What do you think of you, though? I'm no disrespect to you. No, you're just disrespecting me, though. But I agree. You never look like you come in with a collared shirt and sort of tan pants or anything like that.

You know, like you're always a bit disheveled. I've never worn a collared shirt and tan pants. No, that's what I mean. Yeah, no. And that's what I said to her. I was like, I look consistently dirty as well. She was like, Scott Robertson too, the Crusaders coach. And he does.

He looks like the type of guy, if you went out with him, you'd always be tucking his collar down, wouldn't you? Come on, Scott. Probably he's straightening his tie and things like that. But yeah, so she thinks Ed Sheeran just looks... I reckon he would probably smell like a thousand virgins, wouldn't he, Ed Sheeran? He probably smells like a million dollars. It's just his hair.

He's gone to the same hairdresser in the UK as Boris Johnson. Yeah, well, maybe. Maybe that's where he goes. They kind of ruffle up the hair and go, that'll do, get out there. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, producer Bee Humps was accosted yesterday in the park. Yeah, it was a park you were vented to

it was a lovely day so we went out for a walk took my 18 month old daughter to the park and she loves walking on her own but it's a slow slow walk you know she's all over the show she's not taking the direct route. Yeah and she's not trying

to beat her time from the day before or anything. No. So anyway, we're walking along, and I hear this ring of a bike. So I pulled her across to the side of the footpath. And anyway, the gentleman stopped and had a bit of a yarn. And anyway, then he said to me, oh, where are you heading? And I was like, oh, we're just heading up to the park. He's like, oh, do you mind if I join you?

Oh. Well, that's what I was thinking. Oh, hell me, guys. But the thing is, you look, because you come from a rural background, fairly, and farmers, I think 80% of farming is just leaning against the fence posts and complaining about labour, isn't it? So you look like a guy who I could approach and have a conversation. You know? Yeah, yeah.

He looks like a talkable guy. Yeah. Maybe too much. Anyway, so he dismounts his bike and proceeds to walk with me. And he's just, you know, talking about the weather and the flooding events that Auckland's had. And he was actually involved in a flooding event in 1997. Oh, geez, he's gone now.

And so it brought back a lot of memories for him. But anyway, you know, we walked for about 10 minutes. And then he just, just honestly it looked like a way to come off his shoulders and he just said to me thanks so much i just needed to vent to someone and he didn't have the opportunity he had no one he didn't he lived alone so he didn't have anyone to talk to and even though at the start i was like oh god i'm in for a punishing here but afterwards i did feel like oh well you had been punished but you'd done a nice thing

but yeah and anyway he biked off into the sunset and yeah it was a lovely thing oh that's lovely isn't it

yeah next time you can give him Newstalk ZB's number yeah exactly you can go hey there's a whole radio station for people

just non-stop just keep going that's a good point. That was lovely. I love it. That was lovely though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Hits.

The Jono and Ben podcast. I got talking yesterday about where your ring ended up. A lot of calls coming through after a story of a US man whose partner lost her ring and he went to the dump. Took his mates to the dump and they searched through the dump all day. Good friends. There was a phone call that the friends, and they searched through the dump all day. Good friends. There was a phone call that the friends answered and then couldn't think of a reason why they couldn't help him out.

It wasn't a text like, hey, could you help me do this? It would have been like, what are you up to? Oh, not much. Oh, great. And then you'd be like, uh-oh. It would definitely be halfway through the conversation, like, hang on, hang on, hang on, and then hang up, turn your phone off. That would have been my option.

To their credit, they dug in. I don't care about her ring. It's like, use insurance. But anyway, they did it. They found it. And it was an amazing story to tell on the radio. It was. We wouldn't have been talking about it if they didn't find it.

So many calls yesterday coming through of people who lost their rings and found them. When I was younger, mum lost her engagement ring. Couldn't find it anywhere. Searched the house high and low. As kids, we had those little piggy banks from TSP 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? Had an argument with my husband. He was at the pub when he shouldn't have been. Threw it at him and I went down the drain. My husband lost his ring on our honeymoon playing beach volleyball. Yeah, beach volleyball. Playing with the babes.

Taking off the beach volleyball ring. You never want to play beach volleyball with your wedding ring on. No, no. That's what they say. Yeah. That's what they say. Overnight, Daniel's actually reached out to us with where a ring ended up. What happened?

So my wife lost her engagement ring, couldn't find it, thought it had been put in her tissue and chucked in the bin. So started going through it and I said, hey, look, I'll take over. And she was a bit upset about it. So I was going through the bin. It was full of maggots. It was absolutely disgusting. I went right down to the bottom of the bin a bit upset about it. So I was going through the bin. It was full of maggots. It was absolutely disgusting. I went right down to the bottom of the bin.

Couldn't find it. And then I hear her call out, hey, I found it. And it was actually in her jewellery drawer. My daughter. Oh, no. And she pushed it down and it got hidden. And, yeah. That's where you show you've shown your love there, haven't you?

I know. I got heaps of kudos from that. Yeah, I bet you did. I bet you did. Someone's where you show you've shown your love there haven't you? I know. I got heaps of kudos from that. Yeah I bet you did. I bet you did. Someone's just texted in here a ring fell off when I was on the water slide

at Tarapa two slides later I felt it halfway down and grabbed it sliding down. No way. Nice. Remarkable. Still not as good

as your maggot story. No. Hey well you have a great day Dan appreciate it. Excellent. You too, guys. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Imagine a bit more traffic again on the

roads this morning, closer to school time with all the kids back yesterday. A lot of people driving. Now, the game show that's got everyone guessing before 7 o'clock in the morning, it's like an early edition of The Chase, isn't it? Yeah. Where every answer is wrong. Not one person is right. No no you're right as soon

as someone gets it right it's done it's over what is the mystery item that i brought back from the usa so oh andrew that's the phone number uh it was a clue on our hits breakfast instagram on the story yesterday as well okay can i ask some questions before we get to the guesses today? Is the competition gathering steam? Is it gathering steam or gathering dust? Where do you feel it? I like to think it's getting closer. Has anyone come close in your opinion?

Look, I haven't seen all the texts that have come through or the messages on social media, but I imagine people are getting pretty close. I mean, it's definitely getting close on air, on 800 The Hits. Yeah, we know it's a Mickey Mouse something. My other question is, are you charging Mickey Mouse or Disney

for this airtime? This advertising space. Oh, damn it, I should be. Priceless advertising space. No, it's not gifted. It's not sponsored. It's just fully paid for by me. Can I wear it?

No. But you said it was in the clothing realm yeah yeah you can't wear it yeah that's a good that's a good question have i got one i don't know i don't know i've been to your house before i haven't seen it at your house but that's not to say that i think you might have one but but you might not. Kelly, you're on. Hey, guys. What's going on, baby? Just on my way to work. How's Tauranga this morning?

All right? Yeah, it's a lovely morning. I can still see the moon, but there's hardly a cloud in the sky, so it's going to be a great day with lots of it. Good to hear. What do you reckon's in Ben's bag there, Kelly? Well, my guess, I'm not sure on it now after what Ben just said about you can't wear it, but I was thinking a fanny pack or a bum bag, whatever you want. Oh, like a Mickey Mouse fanny pack.

Yeah. Again, love it, love it, but not correct. Love to have one, would wear one, would happily wear one. Would you wear it across your chest? I'd totally wear one. I'd wear a Mickey Mouse bum bag, absolutely. Would you wear it diagonally across your chest or round the waist? The options.

It's versatile. Old school wasters. Depending on what I was doing to where I would wear it. Good on you, Kelly. Great guess. You go and have a fantastic day in Tauranga, okay? Great to have you on. Lani, you're on from Taupo.

Lani, again, having another step back again. Can't get enough of it. What's in Ben's bag? Is it a lint roller? A lint roller. Is it a Mickey Mouse lint roller? It is! It is a Mickey Mouse lint roller!

It is a lint roller! It is! I can open it up. It is the most random thing. Oh my God! A Mickey Mouse lint roller. Now it's got Mickey Mouse's feet and body. The torso is the bottom of the lint roller. And then the head, where the head would be, is where the lint roller is.

It is a Mickey Mouse lint roller and it comes with a spare one as well with Mickey Mouse printed on it. So you've got this, the random Mickey Mouse lint roller and you've got $100 American dollars. Well done. Oh, that was random. I'm not on Instagram

and I just heard you say something about rolling. I'm like, what is with the lint roller? Yeah, well done. There you go. And the real prize here is you've ended this competition. I'm like, I love the lint roller. Yeah, well done. There you go. And the real prize here is you've ended this competition. Yeah, congratulations. Good guess.

Thank you. A lint roller. It felt like every bit of merch you could imagine they've done and they've gone, what is one thing we haven't tapped into?

The lint roller business. Yeah, we'll take a photo of that. We'll post it on our social media, on Instagram as well. But well done. If you're like, hey, I've been to Disneyland or I bought you back something, it's a lint roller. I don't want to say I'd be a little disappointed. You're like, oh, okay.

Oh, hey, it's great for me. I've got a white fluffy dog, so it would be very handy. But I'm giving it to you as well as $100 American dollars. Well done. Thank you very much. Have you got lint? Have you got lint that you need to deal with, Lani? Oh, I've got a bit.

She's got some lint. She's got some lint that she needs to deal with. There's always lint. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I went to the comedy last night. I talked to Eliza, a U.S. comedian who we spoke to on the radio the other day. She's very, very funny. It was actually really awesome to see.

Good show? It was actually, yeah. Yeah, she's really, really good like she's naturally funny isn't she yeah yeah which is always a great trait for a comedian and what i like we're going to a comedian and they're like oh they're not that funny we're like well their job is to be funny because we're always like coming up on the show we've got a very funny comedian well that's that's part and parcel for the job really there's a lot of expectation a lot of pressure on her to be funny but no she was actually really incredible and what i liked um as well is because you know a lot of comedians come here and they do say new

zealand references and jeez we love a new zealand reference but she was very good at weaving those into into what she was saying or at least going hey i've googled it you know like talking about a guy getting naked and having his pineapple lumps on display you know she's like yeah i googled it i googled it you know lovely yeah going through new zealand we appreciate the effort don't we i started with a kia ora you know which was great it mentioned hokey pokey mentioned you know went to the fact that we're celsius and all the the metric you know like kind of went into and i was just like oh well done went into the matrix even just was just like, oh, well done. Even went into the metric system? Even Jacinda Ardern. She's like, I don't know how you guys feel about it.

I think it might be a little mixed, but I think she's cool. You know, like as well, I was like, oh, she is reading the room. Local politics. Who came here and they went to Sylvia Park Mall? Oh, that was Jack Harlow, the rapper. We love that. We're like, he went to the ball. He made it happen.

We do love it. Don't we? Nightmare for a car player though, Jack. It's making you get very busy. I found it like interesting. I haven't been to a live comedy for a while. Cause obviously it hasn't been happening as much since COVID and stuff.

But I found for the first time, I was like, am I laughing too loud? Am I laughing? You know, like when you, you know, when you start gauging the people around you because I was

enjoying it, my wife was enjoying it, we were having a great time but you're like oh and then when you laugh at that you're like oh next to your wife you're like should I be laughing at this particular Only you would start to get anxious about when and when you can't laugh. Well yeah because Eliza was talking about marriage and I found this bit of audio that

she did this joke last night, this was from her special as well, and I thought it was quite fitting anyone in a relationship or is married. Have a listen. Marriage is every morning for the rest of your life, waking up next to someone and having to hear a full report of how that person slept. I don't record that

from the show, by the way. It sounds like you definitely did. That was from TikTok. Don't blame TikTok, mate. Don't blame the Chinese government on this one. I didn't record that from the show.

Producer Joel, it sounds like he recorded it from the show. You're an audio expert. I think he might have been in the toilet of the show. Sounded quite live. Well, that was very true.

Having to listen to the full report. And she's like, hey, if you're thinking, huh? What, really? Well, you're the one giving the report. Yeah. And it's always like, have you ever woken up and they're like, you've cheated on me in my dreams. Oh, yeah. You deal with that.

But I haven't. I know. But it was real. But it wasn't real. But it felt so real. Yeah, but I know. But it wasn't real. Yeah, but it was real. But yeah, but it felt so real. Yeah, but I know, but it wasn't real. It was a dream. Yeah.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Beyonce never won the Grammy for Best Album as well. A little bit of controversy around whether Harry Styles or Beyonce should have got it yesterday. Both amazing, amazing artists and both amazing albums. Well, you would go if you look back at the last 12 months. Here comes music reviewer Jono Pny prior yeah what album have we heard more commercially speaking yeah yeah but then beyonce very very extreme and he's been battling around the world he's what we played 900 shows at medicine square garden too i've had two i haven't heard too much from beyon Beyonce's oh no a lot of buzz

a lot of buzz for people that know what they're talking about yeah so with what about the people who don't know what they're talking about

oh that was just you you just said nothing do they sort of end up saying Harry Styles no but both amazing albums and it is hard to compare

when you're both like oh Beyonce's incredible and Harry Styles is incredible it's all gravy in the navy as I like to say and that's becoming the show's slogan quickly.

Not intentionally either. No, it wasn't intentional. It just happened a couple of times on the show. Like gravy, it's rich and slowly gathering momentum. Because we phoned a mobile station, I think it was a petrol station, and when they were being flooded, And we said, how are you? How are you? And he said, it's all gravy in the Navy.

Yeah. 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. And since then, just people have been saying it off their own bat, Ben.

Yeah. And we thought, is this our first ever slogan? Never had a slogan. No, no. Never had a catchphrase. Yeah. Something that we could embrace, something that you could say, something that would capture the imagination of the nation.

It's not forced, which I like too. Not like when I tried to get the office to call me J-Dog. No one really picked up on J-Dog, did they? And that's the reason why we want to throw it out to you. Is this something that we should continue on with? I thought it was great, but then yesterday straight away, bang, on 4487, and if you want to give us a call right now, you can on 0800THEHITS.

We've got some Magic Mike Last Dance tickets to give away too. It wasn't universally loved. No, a lot of people going, it's a crappy catchphrase. It's not going to catch on. It was actually used by the naval sailors that had already been around from years gone by. The naval sailors in America always used to say, it's all gravy in the Navy.

Saying, don't worry about what's going on here. Everything's just fine. Yeah. Look somewhere else. It's all gravy in the Navy. Don't investigate us. It's like, can I use it when the IOD come to talk about it? It's all gravyve the Navy.

Look somewhere else. So we're happy to chuck it out there. We've just never had the influence or stickability to launch a catchphrase. But it's over to you now. And do we continue it on? Malachi, welcome. You're on from Johnsonville. Yeah, hi.

Hi. How old are we talking here, mate? I nine nine years old well nice to have you on now back to school how was school uh it was really good i made i made a couple of new friends now this is quite quite timely that the youth have phoned up because they're the ones who are going to take this through the generations yes oh. Oh, the old timers like me, we don't matter. But you, you can carry this torch. Do you like it's all gravy in the Navy, Malachi? Yeah, it's good.

Are you going to get it out in the schoolyards? Probably, yeah. Okay, let's do a bit of a role play thing. I'll be one of your new mates. Hey, Malachi, how's it going? Well, good. I was on the radio doing gravy in the Navy. Oh, were you?

What's this gravy in the Navy business you speak of? Just say it's the new catchphrase. Everyone's saying it. Yeah. No, but why do I know that? Anyway. I was going to say this wrong place. Not going great. Sorry, it was

still in rehearsals. Hey Malachi, you have a great day at school. We'll send you out some hell pizza. All gravy in the Navy, mate. It would have been a great time to chuck it in there, Malachi. Nicola, are you on board? So to speak, the naval ship. The all gravy in the navy man it would have been a great time to check it in there uh nicola are you on board so to speak the naval ship the uh all gravy in the navy naval ship yeah it's a pretty strong no from me boys no okay you said you sounded like you were gonna say yeah i love it why why

are you not liking it oh it's there's just no gravy there's no navy it's just not happening to me okay it feels like you're trying a bit hard with that one. This is the thing. We're not the ones who came up with it. Yeah, but no, you're probably right. We are trying to make it something. Yeah. Maybe we should have just left it.

We should. Maybe we will. Well, it's in the hands of the people now, Nicola. Yeah. And guess what? You're going to be happy, Nicola. Why is that? I have been in contact behind your back, Ben,

with producer Ben Humphrey, and we are in the process, and now I might be regretting it, of ordering hundreds. No, don't say no. Hundreds of It's All Gravy in the Navy gravy boat dispensers. For the show. We've got some on the way. Weensers. For the show.

I hope not. We've got some on the way. We've got some on the way. Fiona who works at the Navy. Surely you're on board with this. I'm totally on board with it. It's all gravy in the Navy. All you and your boat.

Oh hey, what a pick. Whatever floats your boat. And on this occasion it's the gravy. Good on you Fiona. No worries. Have a good day. You have a good day. Well maybe it's, maybe it's the gravy. Good on you, Fiona. No worries. You have a good day. Well, maybe it'll stick around. Maybe it won't.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Breaking news happening in the kitchen here at the Hits radio station. Celia, welcome in from your work out in the office. Yes. And you've come in traumatised. What happened? Oh, gosh. So this morning, you know, I went about my usual make a hot drink.

I usually have a cup of tea, but today I decided, I was like, let's just have some sugar. So I made myself a Milo. Oh, okay. Branching out. Okay, yeah. A little treat. Put heaps in because I was like, you know.

Treat yourself. Treat yourself. Sat back down at my desk and then as I was drinking it, I felt something kind of weird in my mouth. A weird texture. Yeah. Like kind of like. Oh no.

Slippery, slimy. Was it moving? No. No, it wasn't moving, but I spat a little maggot out of my mouth. Oh God. No, in the work. What? I don't even know how many were in my drink.

I just, I don't even know if I'd swallowed them as well more before that realizing was this your first sip no no it's like halfway through that's a fingers down the throat scenario isn't it the more you think about it the more you're gonna be like oh my god i have been feeling really queasy ever since what did it taste like oh it's quite sweet actually yeah and how did you know it was a you know how did you know it was a maggot though when i when i pulled it out like when it came out of my mouth then i saw it and i was horrified because i thought maybe just a bit of plastic or something because i wasn't really sure what it could have been i didn't think it would be that it was a bit of plastic yeah just pretend yeah that's do you know the worst thing is christopher luck's a national

leader he's coming in here for – Have we made him a Milo? We've made him – he drinks Milo. No. We've made him multiple. I've been off for the same. We've made him three or four Milos. No, surely we can't have given him –

Do we call Luxon and tell him? No, we don't. We don't tell anyone if that's the case. Oh, my God. I had the same thing happen as a kid. Well, a similar thing happened as a kid with a box of raisins, I remember it, when I was in primary school. And eating it and going, that tastes a bit weird. I opened my mouth and it as a kid. Well, a similar thing happened as a kid with a box of raisins. I remember it when I was in primary school. And eating it and going, that tastes a bit weird.

And I opened my mouth and it was a whole lot of ants. And I'd been eating half the packets as well. Just a mouthful of like, oh, this is, you know. I'd love to say that your story makes Celia feel better, but she's just had a maggot in her mouth. I was just trying to sympathise. Ants and maggots. They're not even on the same playing field.

I always feel that the workplace kitchen is a bloody gamble. It's a gamble. You've got Gen Zers out there cooking steaks on a toasted sandwich maker. Yeah, yeah. Producer Joel's there reheating fish. You've reheated fish in like an air fryer. Yeah. It's certainly not passing its food grading, that kitchen.

Well, good luck for the rest of the day. Thank you. Let's just see if there's any advice on the internet what to do if you be some sort of advice here oh hey they can be fried and eaten in places where eating bugs is commonplace so you know that's and you probably like it might smell like a soup with it i guess in some way so you're with the hot water spoiling water so and overall it's not too bad it says diarrhea only lasts for three days. So it's not too bad. What will you never have again?

I feel sorry for Milo because Milo's delicious and it's not their fault. It's the work kitchen. Yeah, we're not blaming Milo. No, but I can understand now after that experience, she won't have it again. We're blaming our haphazard hygiene standards here in the office. What would you never have again? I can never have kimchi again. Right.

Oh, yes. I know. Yeah. He knows my kimchi story. Yeah. And shall I share the kimchi story? Yeah. I can share it next.

Do it next. Something happened with me and kimchi. It's changed you. It's changed me as well because I know the story. He's heard the story multiple times. It's a great story. Oh, 800 The Hits. What will you never eat again?

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Breaking news in the work kitchen. Poor Celia just having a cup of hot chocolate and accidentally a baby fly ended up in her mouth. Yeah. A maggot. And, you know, a spare thought for the maggot too. It didn't even have the chance to grow up into a beautiful fly and be swatted at and sprayed at with cans of Raid and things.

So we're just talking about what you'll never eat again or drink again, whether it be hot chocolate. Is there anything for you? No. Are you off anything? You're quite adventurous with your food, aren't you? Yeah, yeah. Nothing that comes to mind.

Would you eat street possum? Oh, well, no. Street vendor possum. No, I wouldn't. No, no. There's a line. Yeah, there is. to mind. Would you eat street possum? Oh, well, no. Street vendor possum. No, no, I wouldn't. No, no. There's a line. Yeah, there is. There definitely is a line, yes.

It's kimchi for me, which is a traditional Korean dish, fermented cabbage usually, but vegetables. And I was a child and I went to a friend's place, Kevin, who's Korean, and his family were cooking kimchi. I tried it, and for, Kevin, who's Korean, and his family were cooking kimchi. I tried it, and for whatever reason, it was delicious, but my body didn't agree with it. And so I ended up in a situation, panicked situation, in the lavatory of Kevin's house. And more panic set in when I realized something had gone wrong with the flushing system and what was there wasn't flushing.

So I was like, uh-oh, what do I do now? So I scooped and threw it out the window. Annie, my mum, I sat in. I was like, I've got to go now. I panicked and I ran down back home. And bless her, Annie Pryor. I told her what I'd done. She was mortified

she was like right, she stepped into action mode went to the garden shed, grabbed a spade and we went back up to Kevin's house on a reconnaissance mission snuck in there and removed what we had to remove and we've never spoken of it again it was a dark, dark day

so that's why I'll never have kimchi again but yeah, what you'll never eat again. Sarah, welcome. How are you? I'm good, thank you. How are you? Great to have you on. Yeah, horrific incident for Celia in the work kitchen.

What's happened to you? We had some chocolate chip cookies in the fridge and for some reason someone put them in the fridge, which went after some ants to detect them, and I didn't realise. And so then the ants went in with their chocolate chips, and they were. Were they crunchy like chocolate chips? They were a little bit crunchy, but I realised pretty quickly, yeah. And there's nothing like you try and go,

but there's nothing that really puts your mind at ease after you've had something like that in your mouth. No, no. I can't say. I don't think I know too many people that have actually eaten ants. Not even Ant-Man. No, not even Ant-Man. Well, that would kind of be cannibalism then.

That's right. He's friends with the ants, yeah. Do you know my wife, her only superpower is smelling ants. Oh, I've heard some people can do that. Yeah. You know, my cousin can actually do that as well. Yeah. Like smelling the rain.

It's quite a strange thing. I mean, it's not much of a superpower. You're like, there's some ants around here. You're right. They're in there with the food. Hey, good on you, mate. You go and have a lovely day. Yeah, yeah.

Cheers, guys. Bye. See you. Bye. Joe, we're talking about what you'll never eat again. What are you never going to put in your mouth? Not in my mouth. In my husband's mouth.

Toenails. Toenails? Oh, what? Is he eating his toenails to pick them off? Yeah, he picks them off and then eats them. Oh, Joe. Oh, so he's not putting his mouth directly to the feet like a Cirque du Soleil sort of acrobatic performer, so he's not that skilled.

But he's putting them in afterwards. Yeah. Is it like digesting them? Um, yeah. But he does eat them. His toes are gross too. Do you know what? Jono apparently

was on holiday at a resort and someone phoned up afterwards saying Jono was cutting his toenails next to the pool in front of everyone. What do you think about that? Nah, that's not right. That's what we thought too. But hold on. That's not right.

But you'll happily sit by and watch your husband eat toenails. It makes me feel a little uneasy, to be honest, Jo. Yeah, it's like, ugh. Did you know this about him before you married? No. I mean, at what stage in your relationship do you relax so much that you're willing to eat your toenails in front of him? Oh, probably about the six-month mark.

It's like, hmm, that's a bad habit you've got there, mate. Yeah, you're right. That's a bad habit. Well, he must have a Yeah, you're right. That's a bad habit. Well, he must have a heart of gold, Jo. Oh, he does, yeah. Heart of gold and a belly full of toenails. Thank you very much. Okay, then.

Cheers. Bye. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Dr. Libby, she's about to launch her latest project, Shake Off Sugar. It's a six-week program designed to help people get rid of the sweet stuff. And she joins us in the studio right now. Dr. Libby, good to have you here.

Oh, it's a joy to be here with you. You do portray you look very healthy. Well, she kind of needs to. Imagine if you came in here like eating potato chips in her track pants or something. You'd be like, oh. Well, to be fair, you boys do too. Oh, that's good. So there's something good happening here.

Well, Dr. Libby said, how's your health? And you said, I don't know. And she said, well, you're looking good. So who knows what's going on underneath there, Ben? Well, yeah, because the whole six-week program you're about to launch is all about shaking off sugar, right? It is, yeah. It's one of the biggest challenges, I think, for so many people. And it's almost like this silent assassin.

People don't realize how much they're having. And then before you know it, they're diagnosed with things like insulin resistance or they've got lots of fat on their belly and they don't understand why it won't shift even though they make lots of effort so i want to help them shake it off so you say they are you talking about me yeah it's an intervention now you didn't know we're just we're launching it right now because i was reading um from your facts you've seen through that it was six teaspoons a day is what you know what you should have right right? Yeah. In New Zealand at the moment, we're having 37 teaspoons on average every day. And we're told six is okay. So people are having 37.

That's 124 grams of extra sugar per day, which is 45 kilos of sugar per person per year. I don't add up the annual. As soon as they chuck annual into the mix, it's, oh, you're having 28 kgs. What food is it in that you wouldn't even think about? It can be in savoury food. I mean, it's obvious that it's in fizzy drink and juice, of course. But I don't think people realise, you know, they'll think, oh, it's just a muffin. It's just one muffin.

Even in a pasta sauce, salt masks sweetness in processed food. So even though a lot of processed food might not be sweet, it's savoury. There can be a lot of sugar in there. So it's helping people become aware of where the sugar is and let's get it out of there and let's get back to essentially nourishing ourselves with whole real food you can still have sweetness no problem with a piece of fruit we've been doing that forever can you undo what's been done yes you can yeah okay so get a load of this we have about between half a kilo and four kilos of bacteria living in our gut. That's a pleasant thought, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. Let's not take that further. So some of those bugs make a particular substance that regulate how we absorb fat. And sugar, when we eat too much of it, it actually kills the bacteria that helps to regulate that fat metabolism but research shows that if we get rid of the sugar those bugs grow back and we can actually start to regulate fat metabolism again i'll ask a question i don't know if i want to know the answers of this but i'm going to ask anyway so something's sugar free is it is it sugar free can you tell from the way i'm contorting my face yeah i know it's not going to be a good answer so we artificial sweeteners were

originally introduced to try to help people manage blood glucose and get it lower and get the insulin response lower and reduce calories. We now understand that most of them don't do that. They mess with blood glucose. They still drive that insulin response. And some of them, sadly, after 20 years of them being in the food supply, we now know that they actually have carcinogenic properties. So often we don't learn about things until they've been in the food supply for a long time. So how can they say it's sugar-free? Because it doesn't have actual sugar in it, natural refined sugar in it. So they'll say it's sugar-free. Oh yeah. We've got some other

cancerous stuff though. You'll love that. You'll love that. What's in those, you know, the burgers, if you go to any of the big burger chains, a lot of them are doing sort of meat-free options now. Oh, the plant-based ones. Yeah, impossible. What on earth is, what's going on there, mate? So the whole idea of plant-based used to have really sort of positive health connotations because it meant that it was really high in vegetables. But now plant-based has sort of moved into this synthetic arena.

Oh, Dr. Lovey, geez. That concerns a human like me. Am I ruining everything right now? Yeah, everything right now. But now plant-based has sort of moved into this synthetic arena. Oh, Dr. Levy, geez. That concerns a human like me. Am I ruining everything right now? Everything right now. Synthetic. Yeah. So for me, when it comes to food, nature gets it right.

And our human structure, I call it an earth suit. The earth suit knows what to do with what nature creates. We do not know, often until decades down the track, how the earth suit handles or doesn't handle synthetic things that are made in a lab. So I'm a big fan of eating bucket loads of vegetables and eating whole real food. What on earth is that meat patty grown in a laboratory? They make it sound good for you, don't they?

That's the joy of it. That's the thrill of it. La, la, la, la, la. Six-week program. It's called Shake Off Sugar. Where can people find out more if they want to sign up? So it's at drlibby.com. Now, we wanted to take it one step further,

because I know you're liking, to reduce sugar from our diet. So we thought we could look at the Hits radio station and reduce some sugar from the Hits songs, songs that we play, Dr. Libby, like Harry Styles. Never go alone. Watermelon. Watermelon.

So we're taking the sugar out of Harry Styles' watermelon sugar. So now it's just a watermelon. Are we okay with that? That brings me immense joy. That's good sugar. Okay, that's fine. Def Leppard. Def Leppard. So no longer were you all poured sugar on Def Leppard.

We can't do that anymore. I used to roller skate to that song. Come on. When you beep out sugar, it sounds like you're pouring something else on Def Leppard. We can't do that anymore. I used to roller skate to that song. Come on. When you beep out sugar, it sounds like you're pouring something else on Def Leppard. Somehow you've made those songs more sinister. That wasn't what I was meant to do. I was just reducing sugar from the hits playlist

to you approve, Dr Libby. I'm super excited, except for the Def Leppard one. That was a roller skating favourite of mine. Well, always lovely to see you. You too. You keep safe, and thank you very much for your time, Dr Libby. Thanks for the joy you spread. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Brand new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins off in Australia and meeting the Australian Prime Minister, Albo, as they like to call him. Albanese. And he looks so adorable, Chris Hipkins. You just wanted to take him to bloody movie world over there, eh? That's where he really wanted to go. I hope he got a nice little koala toy or something.

Some Toblerone at the airport on the way back through. A hat with corks on it? He would look adorable with a cork hat. Busy job, you know. I mean, it goes without saying, doesn't it? But being Prime Minister must be such a relentless schedule. And we were kind of thinking, well, Jacinda Ardern's gone from that every day with all the things going on, whether you like her or don't like her.

All those things were going on. And now probably it's like, oh, I can breathe again again the weight of the world off her shoulders you can walk down the street not get abused that's always a bonus too yeah local emp for mount albert just says to deal with people oh my bins haven't been collected or the merry-go-round's broken at the playground all the things that jacinda ardern could do now that she's not Prime Minister, including doing a Miley Cyrus parody song. Have a listen. You can be your own kind of leader. One that knows when it's time to go.

I am no longer in power. Got nothing in the tank. Can't fish with Clark for hours. No more conspiracy theorists Can drop Neville for dancing And I can even sleep in Yeah, I can finally work at the U.N. I'm at the U.N. I am at the U.N.

Clarky, I'm at the U.N. I am at the U.N. It is Jacinda Ardern Feet Miley Cyrus You can see the video for that It's actually really funny Check it out The Hits Breakfast Instagram or Facebook Give it a like as well

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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. Let's rip into it. Our game of word association we do every day about this time on The Hits. You can match all five words if you want to play that far and get $5,000.

We'll head to Ototahi Christchurch. Jenny, welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. Kia ora. Kia ora to you. You're an admin, receptionist, the backbone of whatever business you work for, I'm sure. The dog's body. Yeah, just, you know, the people who are front of house, the reception, they've just, without them, the business is ruined.

Yeah, without the smiley face and the warm welcome. Yeah, exactly. What's the most annoying thing that we do as customers to receptionists? You tell us. Call and be rude. Oh, yeah. That's one of my favourite things, though. Because if I'm having a bad day I can dump it on you

Do you get to shred important documents and stuff When they're like Yeah I do actually Oh that's exciting Got a paper shredder And it's not just one document at a time It's usually a bunch of them So I can be sitting there doing it for five minutes in a row

It's pretty cool And they're always in a rush They're always like Quick get it done before the authorities get in here hey jenny all right five words let's win you five thousand dollars who do you want to chuck into the soundproof booth this morning um ben please all right boys this is what gets him out of bed in the morning is the chance to win you some money oh this is why he doesn't bring it on that's the door shut and we are ready to play. Jenny from Christchurch.

First word you think of when I say macaroni. Cheese. Macaroni cheese. All right. Forecast is the second word this morning. Weather. Duvet. Cover. Do you know replacing duvet covers over duvets has to be the worst form of torture a human being can put themselves through?

No, not if you have the trick. Have you got a trick, have you? Yep. We must talk to you after this, Jenny. Sit is the fourth word. Down. And salad the fourth word. Down. And salad. Dressing.

Salad, dressing. What a solid game from a solid receptionist. Ben Boyce is out of the booth. I said, this is what gets you up in the morning. The chance to win strangers' money, Ben. That and a very obnoxious alarm wakes you up in the morning. Yeah. All right. Jenny's locked in her five words.

You feel confident, Jenbo? I am. It's all gravy in the Navy. Hey, the show's saying that it may or may not continue. We don't know. It's up to you. You tell me I'm pushing it too hard, though. Well, you haven't pushed it this time.

We haven't seen it. The people are doing it. I've ordered gravy boats. Oh, yeah. Now you've pushed it way too hard. All right, Jenny, let's do this. Word one, $25. What do you think of when I say macaroni, Ben?

Cheese. 25 bangers there, Jen. Are we going up to 50? Yep. Word two, $50. Now, don't forget you can lose it all if you don't match words. Forecast is the second word this morning, Ben. Forecast.

Weather. $50 in your pocket there, Jen. Are we going to the $100 round? Absolutely. Word three, $100. Duvet. Duvet. Duvet.

Cover. Three for three. Do they? Do they? Do they? Cover? Three for three. Now, Jenny also has a trick to change duvet covers, which she's going to share with us off Airbnb too. Obviously, it doesn't excite you as it excites me. Sorry, I'm just getting a bit caught up in the game. Sorry, you're saying some words. I zoned out for a bit there.

All right, let's go. Are we going to the next round, Jen? Yeah, sure. Let's do it. Word four, $500. $500. Let's say the word sit to you, Ben. Sit.

Stand. Sit down. Sit up. Sit up is another option. Chair. Oh, Jenny. I'm sorry. Oh, no.

You'll be telling, you'll need to tell Ben to go and sit on something right now. Sit down on the chair in the corner. That's right, in the naughty corner. You played a solid game though, Jen. You should walk away with your head held high. Thank you, that's awesome. But just with no money in the corner. That's right, in the naughty corner. You played a solid game though, Jen. You should walk away with your head held high. Thank you, that's awesome. But just with no money in your pocket. Yeah, I'm sorry.

At least your head's held high. I've been trying for months, so that's enough for me. Oh, good on you. Lovely to hear from you. Thank you so much for listening. We appreciate it. Thanks, Heath. I saw an article and I got clickbaited. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. I saw an article.

I got click baited. It was like Adele storms out of Grammy ceremony after Harry Styles wins album of the year. And then I read the article and it was basically lady leaves ceremony. She was sitting at when the ceremony finished. So she didn't really storm out. She's left. Left with other people. Okay.

Are we all wrapped here? Congratulations, Harry. I'll just go and get an Uber. It was a storm out. It was left with other people. Okay, are we all wrapped here? Congratulations, Harry. I'll just go and get an Uber. It was a storm out. It was a walk out, was it? Now, parents, you know, Jono, yourself and I were parents. And, you know, I love it. Love our kids.

You wouldn't change the fact you've had kids. It's awesome. You know, usually when people start with this, they're about to sort of go into things as to why the kids are a burden and a pain? Oh, well, yeah, okay. Well, there's just a list that's been released. Just remember kids, he said he loved you first. Yeah, the list of things that parents miss since having kids. And I kind of got into this the other day

when my wife and I were out at a cafe with the kids just getting some coffee and she was like, remember when we used to just sit in the cafe on a weekend and you could read the paper or you read your phone and you're not getting not be interrupted by anything you remember that i was like oh yeah i remember that and you know that changes it changes with kids you know what is that on the list of no it's not it's not it's not on the list it was a very specific yeah i'm adding your way i'm not even off i think it's a 50 and i know they're reading the paper at a cafe. It's not even one of them. So Ben's like, you've got to try and figure out what the top 10 things are on this list that parents miss from before they had children.

Can I chuck one out there? And it's one I love doing. Swearing. Like, I still swear a lot. Don't get me wrong. But none of the fun words. None of the words that bring you joy. I don't know if that's on.

Swearing? Isn't it on the list? I can't see What about Other things Including being able to swear Whenever they want it Yeah that's on the list

Geez I used to say some Geez I chucked out some words 39 39 on the list of 50 So not top 10 But 39 You're on the list Joel

You mentioned something the other day And I want to chuck this out there Just doing stuff on the fly. You know, Joel came in, producer Joel, he's 22 and he was like, oh, my mate said there's a DJ playing in this bar

and we were at the beach and we were like, oh, bro, let's go get our party shirts on and let's go to the DJ. And it was just like all on a fly. It all just sort of happened. No pre-planning, no babysitters,

no organisation, let's just go get the party shirts. That was exactly what I said, exactly what happened. We pre-planning, no babysitters, no organisation. Let's just go get the party shirts. That was exactly what I said, exactly what happened. We turned down the DJ and wasn't playing and we just don't matter, mate. Mate, for us to do that, we have to start a Facebook group two months earlier. You're right. Is that doing stuff on the fly? On a whim?

Yeah, being adventurous on the spot. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, well done. You enjoy that, Joel. All right. 0800. Just got to try and guess what these top 10 things are on the list. So being adventurous is on the list.

Ben's very specific brunch reference is not. Not on the list. So the 10 things on the list of 50 that parents miss the most. Can you guess them? We've got some Magic Mike tickets to give away. Hayley. You can book that for next February if you want to go see give away. Hayley, you can book that for next February if you want to go see that movie. Hayley,

you're on. What do you think is on the top 10 list? I think for sure, Showering Independently. Yes. Number six on the list, having a shower or a bath without being disturbed is number six on the list. And what about Sex? Surely that's up there.

Yes, it is, but it's at 20. It's 20 on the list. Really slipping down the priority list. According to this list that I found in the internet, we're going to send you out some tickets to Magic Mike Last Dance. Thank you. All right, thank you very much, Hayley. 0800, the hit telephone number.

Get in touch with us. What is on this list of the top 10 things? Ben's mystery internet list you can't just google it for yourself i haven't told you where it's from it's next on the hits the hits the jonathan ben podcast i found a list of the things that parents miss the most since having kids so we thought i know 100 the hits can you guess the top 10 things that parents miss yeah so far we have off the list of showering where by yourself yeah showering or bath by yourself that's number six on the list and uh producer joel like you

know leaving the house at a moment's notice and not having to worry about organization babysitter that's number four on the list just doing stuff when you want to do can i check a couple more out there yeah um just getting into the car and not having to negotiate Who's in the front seat Well silence is number 18 So silence is kind of going on So you used to just get in the car and go No negotiation We'll go to the phone

Stacey you're on from Auckland Welcome to 0800 The Hits What do you think's on Ben's mystery top I found a list of the things That parents miss the most Since having kids So we thought on 0800 The Hits Can you guess the top 10 things that parents miss?

Yeah, so far we have off the list is showering by yourself. Yeah, showering or bath by yourself. That's number six on the list. And producer Joel, like, you know, leaving the house at a moment's notice and not having to worry about the organisation babysitter. That's number four on the list. Just doing stuff when you want to do.

Can I chuck a couple more out there? Just getting into the car and not having to negotiate who's in the front seat. Silence is number 18. So silence is kind of going on. So you used to just get in the car and go.

No negotiation. We'll go to the phone. Stacey, you're on from Auckland. Welcome to 0800 The Hits. What do you think is on Ben's mystery top 10 list

of things parents miss? I think I'd just be travelling, like just being able to go and not have to organise anything for the kids. Not having to take an 18-wheeler truck's worth of cargo with you. Yes, that is on the list. Just outside the top 10, but that is on the list, yeah. Remember when you go away,

you just take a bloody handheld sports bag and a good attitude. Yeah. Thanks, Stace. Appreciate it. Kendall, you're on from Taranaki. What's on this top ten list? Hi.

Missing some quality time to myself, like reading a book or watching a movie without being interrupted. Yeah, well, watching television in complete peace is number three on the list of things that parents miss the most. Well done. Well done, Kendall. Kendall, we're going to send you off to see a movie magic mike the last dance oh thanks so much i'm sure loves that mike's mike's clearly seen the writing on the wall at the strip club he's like they're trying to shift me out i'll do

my last hurrah so go and enjoy that movie okay kendall thanks so much i appreciate it welcome let's go to kyla. What's on this list? Kids chucking stuff in the toilet. Clean house. Yeah, clean house is number two. A clean and tidy house is apparently number two. Do they drill down on specifics of kids chucking stuff in the toilet? Well, no. Is that what your son does? Yes, he definitely does. He chucks his toothbrush in the toilet. Oh, to young minds, it does look like the ultimate rubbish bin, doesn't it?

You can chuck anything in there, you push the button and it disappears. Pretty much, and he tries to do the cell phone too. Oh, the cell phone. He hasn't got that far, but come on. Although it's always that thing of like, I wonder what could flush once you put it down the toilet. Didn't you have a segment on radio called Would It Flush? Yeah, I think we had to stop that at the other business that we were in. For obvious reasons. Because something didn't flush and they had to get a plumber out.

We did Would It Bounce after that, which wasn't quite as good. So there we go. Your son's playing that on a daily basis by the sounds of it. Oh, yeah, pretty much. Yeah, well, there you go. Hey, well done, Kyla. Tidy House is on the list. You've nailed it. Hayley,

what's on this list? Those kids have got an internal alarm as soon as my butt hits that toilet, they know. Oh, you think going to the bathroom without the kids coming in. It is number eight on the list. Yes. Oh, really? Yeah. What I love about the toilet to children is it's just

another room. Like if you're on it, where are you? On the toilet? Oh, no worries. Open the door. Yeah. Yep, sit down on the floor, you know, wait. is it's just another room. Like if you're on it, where are you? On the toilet? Oh no worries, open the door. Yeah, sit down on the floor you know, wait. Like it's the office or something. Yeah. Normally asking you something that is not as important as what you're doing, but they want to know right there, like have you seen my

socks or something? You're like, well no, and I can't look for them right now. But then they always open the door and go, are you in here? Is that opening the door? Yeah, they sure do. I love it. Alright, are you in here? As they're opening the door. Yeah, they sure do. I love it. All right. Well, you definitely got nailed one on the list. Richard, we're trying to figure out Ben's mysterious list

of the top 10 things parents miss before they had kids. Now, what do you think's on this list, Richo? Oh, missing your sleep-ins. Oh, it is number one on the list. Yeah, that's the definitely miss those, don't you? When was the last time you did sleep in and what time was it till? Actually, it was on the weekend. What do you mean you're missing them?

You just had a good one. Just a couple of days ago. First in a long time. You know, there's all those Instagram videos of like, the house might be a mess now, but one day they'll be gone. I watched one of those the other day and I got a bit emotional. Yeah, I know, and you do get emotional, but you're like, well, I want the house to be tidy now.

And then they can go too. They can do both. Just wait until they turn into teenagers and then you can never get them to clean up. Yeah, and then you get your sleep-ins because they're sleeping all day. Yeah, but one day they won't beins because they're sleeping all day. Yeah, but one day they won't be in the house to wake you up early. Well, here's

hoping. When can you check them out? Is it 18 still? Hang on, you're rich and having a good one. Hey, no worries. Cheers, guys. Alright, we're up to the top 10 list. If you want to know about parents miss the most having kids. Number 10. Getting a full night's sleep. Number 10.

Number 9. Holidays. Having holidays out of term time. Number 8. Going to the bathroom without being disturbed. Number 7. Date nights. 6.

Having a shower or bath without being disturbed. 5. Spending money guilt free. For 4. Leaving the house at a moment's notice without having to plan anything Babysitter all that Three Watching anything In complete peace

Two A clean and tidy house One And the thing that parents Miss the most in seven kids Is a Saturday morning lion So according to this list I found on the internet

We'll chuck it up On the hits breakfast On the story as well Yeah well thank you Thank you Thanks for participating as well And thank you to The HuffingtonPoster.com

For their fun list Thank you for that We've got a lot of radio you to the HuffingtonPoster.com for their fun list. Thank you for that. We've got a lot of radio after that. It is a hit. See you on Jono and Ben. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. On the Hits, it's official. The weather sucks at the moment.

It's been one of the wettest summers since the turn of the century for most of the North Islands. How's that in over 100 years? And as I was saying before, I got into quite a deep science conversation about the Tongan eruption, the volcano there, Ben Boyce. Really changing the climate of the ocean. That's what they reckon. Yeah, and they reckon potentially a tropical cyclone could be moving its way across New Zealand early next week. So that's more great news to look forward to.

And then when I said it, I ended it on, oh, you know, it's all that hoo-ha. And you said you'd lost it when you said hoo-ha. Yeah. Doesn't explain it very well. Been watching Married at First Sight, aka hot people try and get 100,000 Instagram followers. Yeah.

Good show. Is it just as wild as the previous series, Married at First Sight Australia? To be honest, I've been watching pockets of it. When I say, I mean,

who is watching, who is watching network TV at the moment, mate? You tell me. But I watch, I catch little pockets of it. Yeah. And it's, yeah, yeah it's good they do a very good job of building up the drama every time they're up to season 10 i'm like no one has no one has come on here with genuine

aspirations of does anyone stay together on that show i don't think there's anyone in australia in the australian version i know the new ze version, we did one, and one of the couples stood together. They had kids and stuff. So, you know, it seemed like they had genuine intentions. Oh, that was Brenton Angel. Yeah. Yeah. And that was the problem with New Zealand.

It was too lovely. Yeah, we're too nice. For the format design of the show, you know. You need your monsters. And we spoke to Dr. John Aiken, who's the relationship expert on the show. We spoke to him on Friday, and I could tell he's like, season 10, another season with all these munters

who I have to pretend to care about. He didn't say that. No, that's me saying that. But I could read between the lines if he's like, I know why they're coming on the show. But his take on it now is a good take. Hopefully they learn something about themselves and how they do approach relationships,

or maybe if you're watching, how you approach relationships. um something happened last night with a brand new couple which i don't know if this would annoy you but this is all day well they're on their honeymoon and this kicked off have a listen jesse told his new wife to shush jesse actually shushed me a couple of times today. I did not like being shushed. And he was like, shh. Like, one day in, shh. All I can say is just, like, shushing. If you're already shushing me, you are going to have a hard time ahead of you, buddy boy.

He's kicked off the marriage with a shush. Shushing? Jeez, do you like to be shushed? Oh, no. Well, it doesn't wind me up as much as that, but I can see how it would wind people up. Well, we're shushing babies all the time. No wonder the babies are so wound up and fidgety.

Fidget, you just be like, shh, shh, shh. Oh, I can see. You don't like being called. I know what does push your buttons is champ. How are you, champ? You don't like being called champ. It sounds really cool. I just feel like when you say it to me, I'm not a champ.

I'm not a champion at anything. Look at me. And it's like, hey, champ, how's it going? I'm not a champ. It feels very condescending. Maybe you're just taking it the wrong way. No one's giving me a trophy for anything. And it's like, all right champ champ you know

it's not like you just finished the week mix kiwi kids triathlon yeah yeah producer joel you got called champ yesterday yeah yeah by one of the execs i got champ and then about five minutes later sport oh that's a that's a rough one yeah the other thing the other thing i love to do and it depends what sort of mood i'm in and i can just be a terrible person at times is when things are getting a little tense calm down just throw a little bit of gasoline on the phone no one likes a calm down I don't even think in the history of anyone being told to calm down has anyone calmed down if anything it rings up another 10 levels Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ed Sheeran in the country this week, of course. Played Wellington last weekend, Auckland a couple of epic shows this weekend, Eden Park, even went to Hamilton Gardens on his way up north as well.

Which you're so happy for because you love Hamilton Gardens. I do. We were just having a conversation, where do we reckon Ed Sheeran's staying? Oh, yeah. We didn't know. We have no idea. We have no idea. The jet park, money's on the jet park. Oh, yeah. Refurbished jet park out by the airport. Brand new car, yeah. We didn't know. We have no idea. We have no idea. The jet park,

money's on the jet park. Oh, yeah. Refurbished jet park out by the airport. Brand new car, everything brand new. Yeah, it'd be a nice place for you to cheer it up,

wouldn't it? Tell you what, one of the things, we're just talking about things that annoy you, what other people do, but something that annoys me in the home

and probably affects you from time to time when the smoke alarms, battery starts running out and it does that little beep, intermittent sort of beep that sort of goes and then you sort of wait for it and it seems like just when you think it's going to stop and it's finished it does it again it's like it sets itself to prank mode yeah doesn't it and there's no it doesn't feel like there's a consistent period of time between each beep it's just long enough for you to get, okay, well that's stopped, and try and go back to what you're doing,

and then just as you're about to go back to what you're doing, beep, it fires off again. We're talking about periods not being able to get sleep-ins anymore as well on the show this morning, and you know, on the weekend, you're getting up early for this job, I was like, Saturday morning, you know what, I'm going to see if I can sleep in a little bit longer than I normally would. Now sleep-in these days, when you get up at like 4 o'clock

in the morning, sleep-'s not, you know, it's a lot earlier than it was maybe when we were producing Joel's age. But I was like, hey, I'll get a sleep in for a little bit. And then woke up around about, you know, sort of 5-ish and that noise, that noise of that alarm just going off. And you're just zeroing on it. Yeah. And you're like, maybe if I ignore it, someone else will sort it out.

No one else in the house. It was just above the bed in the bedroom as well. So I was like, oh, this is going to drive me nuts as well. So I just got up there, stood on my wardrobe and my dresser and just grabbed it and chucked it out the window. And I was like, I'll deal with it later. I'll put it out in the front lawn. That's the safe, wise thing to do.

Just deal with it later. But then I could just hear it out there on the lawn. I to do just deal with it later but then i could just hear it out there on the lawn i'll burden the neighborhood with it you know and you know when you're like you're listening but you try not to listen to something and that's the noise that's the noise yeah i know what you're saying but you can't get it out of your head and then i've got to go outside as well then i was like hey you know what i'll do because it went outside as well we've got a spade which we used to you know pick up the dogs bits and pieces as well on the lawn I was like, hey, you know what I'll do? Because I went outside as well. We've got a spade, which we used to, you know, pick up the dogs, bits and pieces as well on the lawn. I was like, well, now I'm going to have to bury it.

So just to get rid of it. So I was at the front of the property, just digging in, you know, a couple of spades in my pyjamas, putting this thing in. And just as it was just starting to get light, just as someone sort of running down the street as well. So I'm like, morning, looking up at them. I'm like, this must look like a really weird thing to do

just as it's still dark. Were they like, why don't you just take the battery out? Well, they weren't, no, they had no idea

it had anything to do with a smoke alarm. They just saw this weird guy in his pyjamas with a spade. Digging a hole. Potentially digging a hole in his property.

Like, I imagine the authorities could have been called. I don't know. It's a very compromising position to be in. No, they're always like,

fire alarms save lives, but they ruin them as well. Yeah. They should have that in brackets. Ruin them if you don't change the bets in time. Well, this one, you couldn't even change the battery for some reason.

Like, it's like you had to replace the... That's that... Oh. It's starting to wind me up again.