Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Age Does School Actually Matter??

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, Jono reveals what age he thinks school actually matters, we chat to Dee who has a dilemma with her parents illness and dating and we are joined by legendary New Zealand cricketer Ross Taylor to chat about the release of his brand new book!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, it's the 11th of August, Legs 11, as they would say in a game of bingo. I played bingo over the holiday, it was fun. Yeah, did they say Legs 11? No, they didn't actually, they didn't, and they played it in a sort of, it was fun, but they played it in an odd sort of, now we're just going for the person who gets one line down this thing, and it wasn't just like fill up your board sort of sit show, but hey, it was still hey, it was still fun. It was still fun.

Never played a game of bingo. Is that Howsy? Is Howsy bingo? I think so. I played it at the bar. We were on holiday. We were at the same time when we went to visit some friends there. They had bingo at the bar.

Yeah, the bar. It was kind of fun. Won a cocktail. It was great. Oh, did you? Yeah. It was actually quite fun while you're sitting at the bar. It was a fun thing to do.

You see why the elderly love it, don't they? They are huge backers of the bingo game. Now, Joel, Producer Joel, has been sent a list of questions from you, Ben. This is from Cosmopolitan, guys. Give full respect to Cosmopolitan. These are funny questions to ask. They had an article. They reckon that a date, if you're going on a date, Producer Joel, if you're going on

a date at any stage. Why did this come up on your searches? Yeah, well, yeah. I knew you guys were going to gonna say that and why are we giving full respect to cosmopolitan they came up with this list now this is a backstory which you guys were while we're looking up what to talk about on a date was because we've got the people from heartbreak island joining us on the show so i was like oh maybe there's some a bit of research looking at some interesting things around dating this came up and they reckon according to this about 40 minutes into a date, it's usually a low on conversation where you've got through a lot of the initial,

oh, yeah, COVID, oh, yeah, too. Oh, yeah, what's your job? Yeah, yeah. Where do you live? These were questions that they suggested that you could ask during a date. So I thought, Joel, you can pick up one at random, and maybe from time to time on the podcast, you can ask us one, and we'll see what we would have said.

We're not trying to win anyone over they're just topic conversations okay well let's pretend you and me are on a date okay we'll start off with the questions and you you fire it at us job okay sweet so the first one i thought you both you're both pretty much like comedians so i'd want to say off the top of your head what is your best dad joke oh oh well we've got the show joke yeah don't we which is we go with go with that one together. Yeah, which, you know, why do the... It's not a great start. So it's to do with the Navy from Sweden. Yeah, why do the Swedish Navy ships have QR codes on them?

Yeah, barcodes on the skates. Barcodes, yeah. So you can Scandinavian. Scandinavian. Scandinavian, yeah. You said that last week and I thought... That's the only joke we've got. Do you have another joke?

Is there an individual joke you have? I'm terrible at remembering jokes. Yeah, there's really something I need to get better. This is why we came up with that joke. We got that joke suggested to us from listeners because we're like... Up until then, I only had the oh yeah okay well tell me

William Shatner you know him no famous actor William Shatner no no you don't know him I don't but just carry on

William Shatner Google him Google William Shatner you might recognise his face okay so Star Trek do you know the movie franchise Star Trek it was the original

Captain Kirk I've never watched it Boston Legal you know so he has no idea who William Shatner is so the original Captain Kirk. Ah, yeah, I've never watched it. Boston Legal, you know, actors. So everybody has no idea who William Shatner is. So the guy you don't know about. Yeah, William Shatner, he was married, you must

know Stevie Nicks. Yeah, Fleetwood Mac. Yeah, Fleetwood Mac. Maybe William Shatner needs a song to go viral on TikTok or something. So William Shatner and Stevie Nicks, they actually secretly got married in the 1970s. No secret, no one even knew who William Shatner and Stevie Nicks, they actually secretly got married in the 1970s. No secret.

No one even knew who William Shatner was. For a while there, she was known as Stevie Shatner Nicks. Yeah. Hold on. I think I actually have something. I actually got a couple of sound effects. Oh, I was going to say, let's bring some sound effects into this. Oh, no.

I don't know. What have you got? Oh, no sound effects. Your scoffing was enough sound effects. No Oh no I don't What have you got Oh no sound effects Your scoffing was enough Sound effects No that was good That was good Well that was a fun game

That won't ever be back again I actually bought I came up here And I bought two jokes For you guys That you can use And so For you Jono

What do you call A line of men Waiting to get a haircut I like it already That's good I don't know A barbecue Oh that is good Yeah it's good isn't it It a haircut. I like it already. That's good. I don't know. A barbecue. Oh, that is good.

Yeah, it's good, isn't it? It's a barbecue. I like it. And then for Ben, what are the pronouns of a chocolate bar? I don't know. Her, she. Brilliant. There you go.

Those are brilliant. Clever wordplay. are brilliant Clever wordplay Now I can Yeah I'll leave William Shatner Shatner can sit Where he's You know

Where he belongs Shatner needs to get Some you know A bit more stuff out there We flew him to space Yeah Brilliant Yeah Bezos

Flew Shatner to space Yeah he's a pretty Pretty big deal He's still kicking mate Yeah 91 I know Look he's incredible

For 91 Yeah Doesn't he God I'm referencing A 91 year old I've got to that stage Enjoy the podcast 91 I know look it's incredible for 91 yeah isn't it oh god I'm referencing a 91 year old I've got to that stage enjoy the podcast

I'm referencing a 91 year old yesterday I had to google something I told you what I googled yeah

and I was very embarrassed Poppy my daughter she was doing she likes doing these online it's basically like an online

pub quiz Buzzfeed had them and stuff like that too sometimes yeah that website they're quite fun from time to time yeah and she's like what are all the continents of the world pub quiz. BuzzFeed had them and stuff like that too. Sometimes they have that website. They're quite fun

from time to time. And she's like, what are all the continents of the world? Just sporadically, random questions would be, name 22 US presidents, things like this.

Jeez, it was hard. Joe Biden probably couldn't even do that, could he? I think he was the first one, wasn't he? He's come back for round two. He was around when,

I think he actually, he ran against Abraham Lincoln back in the day. A hell of a contest. Wonderful debates. But yeah, so she's throwing out these questions, and then she'll be like, how many letters in the alphabet yesterday?

And I was like, well, this is one I should be able to answer. Yeah, you'd think so. The continents, the presidents, not me, but simple base level question, how many letters in the alphabet? And then I'm like, oh dear God, how many letters are in the alphabet? And I had, you know, to my credit, two options in my head. Yeah.

I had 23 or 26. Right. And I didn't know which was which. So then I had to type into Google how many letters in the alphabet. And as I'm writing this question to Google I'm like well this is a low for my internet career this is I think probably the most embarrassing question I've had to ask as a fully grown 40 year old man had to ask Google yeah you know but I think you've been saying it recently I mean Google knows a lot oh yeah one day google is going to unload on all of

us it knows all of our deepest darkest secrets it knows our pins it knows our fears it knows our fantasies it knows everything i was actually just looking uh before because i knew you're going to talk about this things you shouldn't google these are some of the things you shouldn't google according to googling things you shouldn't google um turns out by the way 26 liters in the alphabet sorry if you're wondering i didn alphabet. Sorry, if you're wondering. I didn't solve the problem for everyone. If anyone's wondering, I don't know if anyone was.

But yeah. So these are things you shouldn't Google. There's an NBA player, Evan Fournier, and his nickname is Never Google because his last name is linked to a medical condition.

Should I say that? So apparently, Never Google, that's his nickname in the NBA because you shouldn't Google his last name because it's a medical condition. What's his surname, sorry? Fournier.

What is Fournier? Is it something you can... Let's just say it's a medical condition. We can talk a little bit more about that. Or you can Google it if you want to. Would he have been bullied at school when he was growing up? I hope not, but hey. Your favourite food, apparently you shouldn't Google that

because you're only going to make yourself hungry. Never Google Google because it just leads into a loop of Google and wastes your time if you keep Googling Google. Never Google your email address, apparently, because then you can find out what your email address has been linked to. Oh, for scams. All sorts of things. That can kind of get you to think, oh, my email's on this, my email's on that. So they say don't do that. But then it makes you curious about wanting to do that.

And medical conditions, obviously, they say don't Google it because. Well, you've always got cancer. I've got a headache, cancer. It leads back to that, doesn't it? I think I broke my leg. It'll be cancer. Yeah, so that's some of the things that Google says, don't Google. Well, then, yeah, I've tried to make myself feel better going,

has anyone asked any more embarrassing questions on the internet? And someone says, worst question I asked was, what smells worse, dog, cat, or human urine? Oh, okay. Yeah, but it's got me intrigued. Well, that's the thing. I'm picking the cats.

Really stings the nostrils. Yeah, it's quite pungent. They're all cats. I mean, you would know. Yeah. Yeah, it's very very strong yeah i'll go with that one and the other question was i i want i want to ask google can cow saliva cure baldness now this one has got me if i go to a paddock today and let a cow lick my head could

i come in with a luscious head of hair tomorrow morning listener friend of the show i got in touch with us and a really interesting uh thing that's going on at the moment and needs some help. So we want to welcome along Dee to New Zealand's Breakfast. Good morning, Dee. Thanks for joining us. How are you? Yeah, good.

How are you going? I'm actually a little confused. Yeah. Okay. Bit of a message that we got a hold of. A little bit of primal content, they call us in the game, Ben Boyce. Right. This is something I think everyone will have an opinion on.

Even you. Even me. His bottom is firmly, one cheek on one side of the fence and one cheek on the other. I don't like sitting on the fence. I don't like offending anyone. You will have an opinion on this. So, Dee, what's your situation going on? It's actually quite a sad situation and very confusing.

So, our mum, she had a stroke and it was quite serious about a year ago and it actually led to some brain injury that just for the past year she's had to be in a full care facility so in a way we've kind of lost her but we do visit her lots and we do try and support

her but she can't really respond and it's very sad. It's very sad. I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah. No, it's been really tough. But just recently we found out dad has been dating actual other women. This is the conundrum.

Because your mum is still around. Yeah. So, sorry, when was your mum diagnosed? Just over a year ago so we've actually had a year of like poor dad it's he's taken it really tough like they were they were best friends and suddenly she's not in his life but you know we're like well mum is still alive and yeah dad's like well actually i need a bit of companionship in my age you know know, he's pressing on 70. How do you feel about it? I imagine it's a bit unsettling for you.

Oh, totally. Like, initially, I was quite angry. You know, I've only just found out, but I was really angry. I was like, how can you do this? But he explained that he just needs companionship. And I mean, I guess they would, they probably never had a conversation about what,

you know, because I don't imagine it's something you do in most relationships. You say, i if you know if i'm still around but i'm not sadly not the same as i used to be you're welcome to go see other i think we should have that conversation probably do i think yeah while you've while you're uh you know of mind so ben uh if anything happens to either of us will i be able to move on with someone else? Like a radio sense? You mean like a friendship? Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

No, I'm meaning on a deeper level. You've made this odd, haven't you? Yes or no, just tell me. Of course, if you thought something was... Just so you know, I'm not cool with you moving on. Right. Because what would happen if you had that conversation? One says, yeah, no, you can move on. The other one's like, well, I don't want you to move on.

Where do you sit on? So Dee, could your mum come back from where she is at the moment? At this stage, they're saying unlikely. And if she did, she's sort of a different person. Her abilities aren't there. It would be, yeah. So obviously your father still loves her and cares for her? Oh, absolutely. And, you know, up until just recently, he's been there every day. Yeah. Huge call.

So, yeah, so this has really thrown us. I don't know. I think she may support it. But like you said, we don't have that kind of basis. You don't know for sure, but yeah. But I guess you just. If she's got the, well, so Producer Behub's actually brought this up. If the part of her mind, that part of her mind is still going,

he's dating someone else now. Would she know that? Would she know that? Well, that's something we don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's really sad. It's a tough one.

You understand, yeah, in a lot of ways. Morally, I don't think I could do it. My other hurdle is I don't think anyone else would want to be with me, Ben. That would be the other part. But I don't know. I couldn't do it. You? No, but I can see.

Again, I'm not at the risk of saying it. I can see both sides of the story. I can see how that would be heartbreaking for the kids to go, hey, your dad's off when mum's still around. But at the same time, if you're feeling lonely and your relationship has kind of felt like it's ended without actually ended, and companionship at that stage of your life, it's, I don't know, I think we need to throw it out there, 0800THEHATS. Are you torn on this, Dee?

I'm very torn. I'd love some help. Yeah, okay. Do you want the advice from people that you don't know? Sure. Actually, we would take any advice right now. Okay, yeah, right. Well, Dee, we will 0800THTHE-HITS-4487.

Help Dee out today. And maybe this has happened to you. Yeah. Maybe you've had the conversation with your partner going, if anything happens to either of us, I'm happy for you to move on. Yeah. Well, yeah. Okay, 0800-THE-HITS-4487.

We'll get those calls and texts on. Thanks so much for sharing that with us, Dee, and all the best. Really, really tricky one this one. A load of texts coming through on 4487 as well. Dave, welcome. You fully support the dad, Dave-o? Yeah, no worries whatsoever. Yeah, been through something similar.

And what do you expect your old man to do? Do you want him to go home every night, sit there by himself, twiddle his thumbs, nothing to get up for in the morning. He's got to get out and enjoy himself. He's got to live a life. You're dead right, Dave. You've got a lot of sentiments, a lot of people agreeing with your sentiments on the text 4487.

Other option is you can bring your new girlfriend on a date. Maybe. I can't say from the cat point of view It's a tricky situation Because they want their dad to be happy And sadly their mum's not quite the same as she was But it's still a bit weird when mum Is around in a lot of people's eyes I imagine there's some initial weirdness

But you get over that Yeah true I've got three other brothers And three of us didn't have a problem But one did. So everyone's not the same. Everyone's got a different opinion. But, yeah, it's pretty hard.

Imagine yourself sitting at home, getting up every morning, nobody there. You've been with them for 40 or 50 or 60 years, and nobody at home. What do you do? Fair point. So did this happen with your dad? Yeah, yeah. So mum got dementia and we had the struggle of putting her in a home

and what have you. So yeah, it was 12, 18 months later. Good on you. Yeah, and he ran into an old friend and something's blossomed from there and yeah, they've done alright. Mum's now passed away so a little bit changed, different. Well, good on you for being supportive as well, Dave. done all right. Mum's now passed away, so a little bit changed, different.

Yeah. Well, good on you for being supportive as well, Dave. Good on you. What a wonderful man. Appreciate your time. Kate, you're on. You on the side of the dad here or not? Yeah, I am.

I fully support it. And I think the key word is companionship. He just wants to not be lonely. Yeah. And life is short, you know, and these sort of things that sadly do happen sort of put those things into perspective as well. Have you had the conversation with your partner, Kate?

Yes, I have. And we've decided that, yes, we would move on if that situation happened. I imagine because we had to fill out wills the other day and a lot of it was like if you are incapacitated, you know, you're not in the ability of what happens. Not to detail of like can such and such hook up with such and such on those occasions.

I'd make a list of people that Jen would be able to, and they'd all be uglier than me. Just a short list. Oh, you bet me too then. That was good. Get Kate off the phone. Kate, best call I've had all week. Hold on, Kate, we're going to see you out. That was good. Okay, get Kate off the phone. Kate, best call I've had all week. Hold on, Kate.

We're going to see you out. That was wonderful, Kate. Beautiful comic timing there. Josh, we'll get you on. Josh, actually, you have talked about this with your partner as well, Josh. Yes, I have. Where do you settle on? So, well, we just want the other person to be happy. So, like, if anything happens, like, I would fully support my partner, like, reaching out and getting some companionship from somewhere else.

So, yeah, I fully support that. I think it's wonderful that Dee's dad has found someone to really connect with and, I guess guess share some experiences with now that Dee's mum can't anymore. Yeah, no, good point. And I imagine a lot of people might go home tonight and have this weird conversation.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Maybe it's good to have because you don't know at any stage. It's not just when you're old. I mean, things can happen. Yeah.

And especially if it's been previously agreed on and the family go, oh, we had this conversation. Yeah. The other person wanted to be the other person happy. I want you to be miserable when I go, Ben. I want you to be mourning. I'm going to taxi-do me of you in the corner of the room.

Thumbs up. Constant reminder of him. Maybe doing a shaka or something. Just there, like, oh, he's still with me. Just watching over. Thanks for your calls and texts. Really appreciate it. And hopefully that's helped Dee out.

Make her feel at ease with the decision. That's right. Hey, I had a bit of a shocker with one of my heroes a few weeks ago. I told you about it. And now one of my heroes is joining us in the studio next. Hopefully they've forgotten about it. But I don't think so. It may be awkward, but we'll get through this together in five minutes on the hits.

Let's go. That hits. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. He's one of our greatest ever cricketers and he's got an explosive new book, Black and White, out today. Ross Taylor, great to have you here. Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's exciting. It's been a long process to get here. I guess it was a long career and it was nice to put my words onto paper. Now, Jono, I told you a few weeks ago that I punished Ross after a flight. Now, Ross, I want to get your, because I've heard his side of the story.

Look, I was supposed to put my hand up and say I punished him. He's ambushed you at the airport. You're trying to go on holiday. He's got, can you sign my shirt? Can you do this? Can you do that? Yeah, I did actually. I did.

On a scale of one to 10, how punishing was it? Oh, at least maybe seven. But yeah, because he came over, he gave me the shirt and then I handed the book over, sort of like a simultaneous swap. And he was like, oh, thanks, mate.

And I said, no, no, no. That's my only copy. I was like, oh, how do I? And your wife was there. I was a bit embarrassed for her. So you handed over the book, but this is the demo of the book Yeah so you get an advanced copy

And I had it just to see Make sure the pages I wasn't aware of this Not 100% I just went Oh no no man I can't take that I'll pay for a copy

I can't remember Who he knows I was wearing a mask You know It's hard to hear those It's muffled And it was this thing And I was like

Oh do I have I don't have the heart To tell him it was mine But I did I got it back What was it like Looking back on everything I mean pretty amazing stats Most runs Was this something I was like, oh, I don't have the heart to tell him that it was mine. But I did. I got it back. What was it like looking back on everything? I mean, pretty amazing stats.

Most runs, most centuries for New Zealand, most catches as well. I mean, when you first started, do you ever think you'd make all those achievements? No, not at all. I think growing up in the bush, I just wanted to play one game for New Zealand. So to play 450, to achieve what I've achieved, you know, very proud. But yeah, it was a lot of warm ups a lot of sacrifices with the family and yeah as I said it was nice to I guess

leave a legacy and you know hopefully the kids enjoy the read when they're older Speaking of family you do hear that cricketers you're away for 8 to nine months of the year. How hard is it to maintain a family life during those periods? Yeah, I think it's a lot easier now than, you know,

the guys back in the 70s, 80s, 90s. You've got FaceTime, all the other stuff, the technology that you get to actually see your kids grow up. Back then, they wouldn't have had the technology to do that. But, no, they've got to see the world. But, you know, you're playing two days later, so you're not really present. You're in India, you play with them at the pool, and then you've got to go and play.

So your mind's not quite there. It was nice to go to Fiji, relax, see them grow up, and have some mad radio jock come and try and punish you on your holiday. Do you know, because you went to the same school and he's got a bugbear that you're up on the wall of, you know, prestigious alumni. You were only there for a little bit too. Three years.

Was it? Okay. Obviously that wasn't enough. I went all the way through, but anyway, that's fine. And he's not on there once. Ben's not on there once, but you've made it three times. Yeah, it was. You're taking up a lot of wall space and deservedly so.

I mean, one of our greatest cricketers. Okay,'ll i know a few people there i'm sure you do i think maybe we should change that and what about comments because you know we hear the um you sadly the all blacks you know it happens with teams you know they go through some rough patches and i'm sure we're trying to be positive they'll turn things around but cricket have been the same for you guys you had some highs and lows is that that hard to deal with? A hundred percent. I think with the All Blacks, as a public, we're just so used to them winning. What national side can say they've won 86, 87% of their entire team? But even when they win, they don't win enough for us.

I know. I don't know why that is. You should have won by more. Yeah. It's like, oh, you only got four more tries than the opposition. Yeah. So what? Because I know Julian Salvea came out this morning,

and he's like, you know, this stuff I'm reading online, it's sickening. It's sad. It must be hard to separate the opposition. Yeah, yeah. So, because I know Julian Salvea came out this morning and he's like, you know, this stuff I'm reading online is, you know, sickening. It's sad. It must be hard to separate the two. Like, how did you deal with it? Did you block it out?

Did you? But I think, I guess my career spanned 15 years so there was, Twitter was coming along and Instagram. There wasn't a lot

of keyboard warriors. People would bring up Radio Sport and have their say where that's not there anymore so you know it's a lot easier to critique and have an opinion behind a keyboard it's when the majority are doing that you know when you're going to get people who who disagree or dislike you I mean I scored one of the best innings I got 181

against England and there were still people who were pulling me down on that For what? It's just human nature that there's going to be people who say that but it's also in our brain that that's the only thing you go to it's not the other 120 comments that were positive, it's the one or two negatives that are in there that you go, oh, it is what it is and you develop a thick skin and, but I think as a

player you deal with that a lot better, it's the family and friends that probably they don't have the ability to go lot better. It's the family and friends that probably, they don't have the ability to go out and perform. They live it and breathe it probably even more than you do at the time. Now Ben,

Ben Boots is a huge cricketing fan. Now my concern was that we were going to get into an abyss of intellectual cricketing questions, Ben. So what I've done

is I've written here some wide general cricketing questions for you to ask your hero, Ross Taylor. And Ross, you can answer them. And it'll just be some, you know, some broad questions so everyone can understand. Okay.

You've written these. Okay. First one, very broad. Did you enjoy playing cricket? I hated my job. Great question. I'm not asking what's your home address I mean I've only

looked like I was another great question yeah and my final question from Jono here who is your favourite friends character I'm guessing Ross

yeah but the story is that it's getting a lot of media today which is awesome so can't wait to read the full copy black and white

Ross Taylor the book is out today go Go get it. It looks like one heck of a read. Nice to see you, man. We got talking after the show yesterday. Producer Joel actually brought it up. He's like, I wonder what your net worth is tonight. We find out how much Ben Boyce is actually pulling in

during an annual year of but I looked on the internet after Joel brought it up and I googled, you know, Ben Boyce Networth and Jono Pryor Networth. Why would this be even a thing? I don't know. I don't know. But it's an honour that, oh, well, I was honoured that, you know, bots, internet bots would waste gigabytes, gigabytes plucking nuggets of information from various websites and compiling them.

Oh, so you reckon that's how that's happened? I assume so. Right. I assume so, because I'm looking at my bio. At least it's someone who tells a lot from the accountancy department at work. Some loose lips. Yeah, yeah. Number cruncher.

But I was looking, there's a bot who comes with a biography as well. On you. On me. Now, I feel like this is a stitch-up, because if this is a bot, it's labeled me Jonathan Dumb Pryor. Jonathan Dumb. And I was like, oh, maybe this is another Jonathan. Full name. Jonathan Dumb Pryor.

Which then leads me to believe if it's a bot that I've been called dumb so many times on the internet that the bot's blinked it out as my nickname. It's probably true, that part. And you get a bio. So this is the bio, because I was like, surely this isn't me. And then it says, Jonathan Dumprior is a lesser known celebrity and his real name is Jono Pryor. And I'm like, uh-oh, this is me. You don't like your full name, Jonathan Dumprior.

Also, his family and friends call him Jono Pryor. And it's true, demand i demand when i get home that they call me by my first and last name currently he's living in seattle washington you were born in seattle washington right yeah so that's probably where that they got that information from 40 correct yeah uh he belongs to the christian community and he is proud of this this is what the bio says he also worships gods and goddesses and celebrates all of the festivals. All of the festivals. All of the festivals. Rhythm and Vines.

He's there. Jono Price height. He's six foot and he looks tall when standing next to his friends. You'd be about that height though, wouldn't you? Yeah. His weight is around 68 kilograms. Ooh, is it? Pre or post lockdown.

Generous. Very generous. But he's always exercising to maintain that weight It says according to Jono Dumbprior You must have to do exercise regularly to stay fit Is that what you say? I can't remember him saying that He has beautiful black eyes That attract the viewer's attention

Wow This is very unusual And he also has black and blue hair Which enlarges his beauty Oh my god So it also says his girlfriend's name not available Then the next paragraph But we are sure that Jono Pryor is married

And I'm glad she doesn't know about my girlfriend My sweet sweet girlfriend not available Not available Anyway, it gets to the bottom And it says what my net worth is So this is how much they reckon you've got that you're worth. That I'm worth. Do you want to know?

Well, yeah, but it's all been lies so far. Do you want to know how much Jonathan Dunprior is pulling in? He's always exercising and talking about God. Mooching around, smooching around with his girlfriend not available. Yeah. 90, 19 million. 19 million? 19 million.

Uh-uh. USD 19 19 million uh-uh usd 19 million usd 80 000 usd a month i'm making jonathan dumb prior it's also dumb anymore is he rolling in it and then i was like well if i'm making if i'm making 90 million how much is my friend Ben Boyce making? You didn't have a nickname. I didn't have a nickname. Oh, that's good to know. $75,000. What? At least give me like, at least you're going to lie. Someone could lie for a lot.

$75,000. So if you need to borrow some money, come knock into dumb Briar's house, mate. Now, can I share something that is really becoming a burden, a big cloud hanging over me every day, Ben. Right. I found some keys out on the footpath outside my house. Like a set of keys? A set of keys.

It looked like car key, house key, somewhere, you know, you know the keys. Yeah, yeah, it's important stuff. Someone's lost their keys and you're like, oh God. It's got a remote on it, you know. So then generally the first response is, okay, well, I'll put this on a fence post. Yeah, right. Put it on a, you know, make it accessible to eye level in case anyone retraces their steps.

Gotcha. Yeah, because you can't contact anyone because there's no names on keys normally, so yeah. No. So it's kind of like, you know, whoever found Cinderella's shoe back in the day. Who was that? The prince. The prince. I can sympathize.

He didn't know who the shoe belonged to. You're not going around all the doors trying to unlock them and see what works. I'm not as committed as the prince was. So I've just put it on my fence post and I left it there. Now, I did this about three weeks ago. Right. Now, the problem is when you leave a set of keys on your fence post, everyone who comes to visit the house, friends, family, couriers,

they see the keys on the fence post. They bring the keys into me, and they're like, you've left your keys on the fence post. And I'm like, no, and then I have to explain, I found the keys there for the day. Oh, and then I have to go back out and put the keys do you know how many times people have bought keys into me seven times wow

seven times back and forth back and forth oh no and then now it's probably easier just when they bring it to you go oh thanks so much rather than explaining

these keys yeah and they're just trying to do a good thing yeah they are like I was trying to do a good thing but now it's turning into a thing of hatred of going deep sea

to hate for these hate for these keys I feel like you know the person whose keys they are you know they're like it's turning into a thing of hatred. Of going deep-seated hate for these keys. I feel like, you know, the person whose keys they are, you know, they're like, it's gone. Like, after a few weeks now, they're like, oh, they've gone down. Do you reckon I stopped putting them out on the field? Well, I don't know.

I feel like they've gone to Mr. Minute. They've got their things. They've gone through with their hassle. They're not thinking now it's going to turn up. Can you put them in the bowl at your house? I mean, you know, we've got a lot of great bowls around the house, if that's what you mean.

I mean, the fruit bowls often fill with fruit, but you know, I could probably... Do you think you could look after it? Yeah, I could probably look after it and put

it in the bowl. But would it get lost amongst the others? Yeah. The other keys? Oh, yeah. Sometimes I do like

to keep my keys within a bowl situation, but... There are some random ones in there though. Seems like everyone's keys are in there.

All sorts, all sorts going on I don't know why I'm playing along with this So we want to know this morning Lost and found, let's open that up What have you found? Like John has found a set of keys What someone has obviously lost I was talking to a lady a couple of days ago

She lost her bag What? Yeah, she lost her bag She was travelling And she was gutted because she'd just actually bought Well, not gutted because she lost her bag, but she just bought an Apple tag in one of those GPS tags with the idea of putting it in her bag, but she hadn't put it in yet.

Oh, can you do that to trace your luggage? Yeah, a lot of people are doing that these days, apparently putting Apple tags in their luggage so they know that they can try and GPS it if it gets lost. It's a good genius. There must be so much lost luggage out there. Just like floating around the world. Travelling around.

I looked into it yesterday. Do you know they lose one in ten bags? One in ten? I've never lost a piece of luggage. You? Yeah, but it's come back pretty smartly. But yeah, for a while there. The worst thing is when people go away on holiday

and then they lose it for all their, you know, the whole time. Your friend had a debate with someone at the carousel and he picked up a bag and someone said, that's my bag. Yeah. And he was adamant. He said, no, it wasn't. Put it in this car.

He goes, no, it's definitely my bag. And then got all the way home and went, no, it's not my bag. It was identical, my bag, but it wasn't. That's a humbling phone call to have to make. Let's do it. Lost and found. Did you lose or what did you find? We'd love to hear from you this morning on New Zealand's Breakfast.

Just talking lost and found. We've opened it up on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. And Angela, lost and found, what did you lose and or find? I was a flight attendant and we found a bottle of pee left on the seat. Oh, okay. So you're working for the airlines. Obviously a passenger got a bit leaky during the flight and they filled up a bottle.

How big was the bottle? Oh my goodness. It's a drinking bottle, like a 500ml drinking bottle. There are bathrooms on the plane, right? Yes, there are. But who knows? Maybe they didn't want to get off the seat. Well, sometimes when you're in the summers asleep, I've had it happen to me before

where I was asleep in the aisle, and my friend Jono wanted to go to the bathroom and he climbed over the top of me, and I woke up with him straddling me. My crotch was in his face. Yeah, so I understand that's an awkward thing to do. What was your preferred, that or the bottle? Probably your crotch in my face as you

went to the bathroom. Well, many people usually climb out of the seat, so I would rather see people climbing out of the seat than a bottle of pee. What did you do with it? We just left it. It's the poor cleaners who have to take it away. We're not touching that. Oh, that's horrible.

It probably hasn't been touched and it's still flying its way around the world. Confident individual that does that mid-flight. Oh, that's definitely put the probably hasn't been touched and is still flying its way around the world. Confident individual that does that mid-flight. Oh, that's definitely put the blanket over it, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, jeez. But a lot of control, too, because 500 mil is not that much. Did you have an occasion, Joe?

I did, yeah. And I'm speaking from experience here, Angela, and you'll think less of me now, but we're here. So, Angela, I was with my mum annie prior in her fiat now this is back in the 90s and she went into she went into pack and save yep and nature started calling i was in the car i needed to go and my only option was wasn't your only option but it was it was an option it was an empty pump bottle yeah So who did that in the car? Oh, yep.

And it fills up. I didn't leave it on the seat, though, to my credit. Yep, yep, yep, yep. You just cut it yourself, yeah? Yeah, but 500 mils, it fills up very quickly. I mean, anyone who could do it inside a pump mini is... Oh, Angela, we love your call this morning. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Diane joining us on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. Now, Diane, we love your call this morning. Thank you so much. Thank you. Diane joining us on New Zealand's Breakfast this morning. Now, Diane, we understand you were based overseas with the military and your family found you. Where? In Germany, on the news. On the news. Okay, so what happened? What was going on?

Well, our guys had literally was the first horse over to Saudi Arabia when all the stuff was going down with Saddam Hussein. We had the honor of Princess Diana to actually come to visit the wives and see how we were getting on. And there was over a thousand wives in my unit

and I got chosen to meet Princess Diana for high tea. Oh my goodness. Yes, I know. And we just sat there and she came around and she actually spoke to each of us. And she was asking us, you know, how is it and how is it with the children? And, you know, she was very involved

and she was very concerned. She was a beautiful, beautiful woman. And she was very genuine. That's amazing. And so what do you say to Princess Diana Beck? Is it a free-flowing conversation? Well, to start off, it was a bit awkward. You have to stand up and you have to curtsy.

Right. And you have to call her mum. She says, you know, sit down. So, of course, then you sit down with her at the table. And she said things like, you know, so how's it going? Well, of course, you know, me being a gobby Brit, I just rattled on how it was going. She's like, I wish I never asked you that.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah, so it was pretty cool. Were you allowed to, like, take photos? Obviously you couldn't tell anyone about it until your family saw you on the news. Yeah, because I worked for the military, so no one knew until they saw me on the 10 o'clock news in the UK. Yeah, so you were found on the news. And do you actually have tea? Do you actually have a cup of tea?

Yeah, we did. We had tea. We had triangle cucumber sandwiches. Oh, lovely. Yeah, so she actually sat and she had obviously a sip of tea and a, you know, a bite of cake or whatever at each table, because I watch to make sure. Oh, so she had, how many tables were there? She must have been ploughing through the tea. Yeah, well, by by the time she got to me she only had sort of sips but by the time

she got to me she said i'm sure this is a wind-up so i said what she said well you're the full diane she said that i've sat with and of course her name was diana so by the time she got to me she i think it's a wind-up maybe that's why you got selected maybe they only selected diane's to meet diana maybe that was well what would you do one word to describe meeting diana you can use two I think it's a wind-up. Maybe that's why you got selected. Maybe they only selected Diane's to meet Diana. Maybe that was the thing. What would you do? One word to describe meeting Diana. You can use two if you want.

Absolutely amazing. Yeah, good. I knew I'd stubbed you with one. Coming up with two was better. Otherwise you would have just gone absolutely. We're like, what does that mean? We wouldn't have known it was amazing. Well, thank you, Diane.

That was amazing. Cool. Appreciate it. That's lovely. Thank you, guys. And I love your program. I listen to you on the way to work every day. Oh, thank you, Diane. That was amazing. Cool. Appreciate it. That's lovely. Thank you, guys. And I love your program. I listen to you on the way to work every day. Oh, thank you so much.

Really appreciate you listening, Diane. You keep safe. That's all right, darling. Thank you. See you. Have a good day. The Hits. The Jono and Ben Podcast, available on iHeartRadio.

Scrolling through your feed. Ben, you know my body's like an electric car, and it's time for you to plug into me, mate, and fill me up with some... Oh dear, yeah, well that got weird. It did get weird. Hey, now, if you're a pet owner, and John, you are just recently, according to some research, 64% of Kiwi households had pets in 2020,

but that number was boosted during the COVID-19 pandemic, of course, so a lot more now. But there's a pet-friendly website that's just started up, so, you know, Airbnb, you're booking Bookabatch and stuff over summer. Well, now there's a website specifically for people with pets, you know, like for people to put houses up to say, hey, it's pet-friendly. You can bring your pets along if you want to rent this house out at any stage. I have a pet, but I wouldn't have a pet-friendly Airbnb.

I wouldn't be friendly to pets. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Would you want random pets just coming through your house? Well, yeah. I've seen what pets do. I know, I've seen what my pets have done to the house as well. We all know what pets do. Yeah, and that's your own pets. You're like, oh, this couch was a lot better before the cat

clawed it and things like that. Yeah. I mean, you're better off having 22 university students come through. They would do less damage. But it's nice that this does exist right now. I guess if you've got a bat situation and you're not too worried

about the wear and tear of stuff as well, it's pretty cool that this is available. Do you know, I never really cared about having one. A pet.

Right. That is. Now I was indifferent. But then once you get one, oh, fantastic. That's cool. Marvellous stuff. You realise you should have got one earlier.

What you're missing out on, right? Yeah. And Reece Darby, the very, very funny Reece Darby, you'll know him from Fire of the Conchords, Jumanji, Our Flag Meets Death. Well, he was on American game show Family Feud. I love Family Feud. It was Steve Harvey.

Steve Harvey, the host, very inspirational man. Yeah, very funny too. Yeah, but so Rhys Darby's on there, and he went to lock in a word, and he used a very Kiwi term. Have a listen. Passed away is a nice way of saying someone died. Name a not so nice way. I'd like to say cocked it.

You know As in What happened to that guy Oh he's carked it He's carked it He's carked it Wait a minute Carked it Because it's short for carcass

It's got an R in it Carked Carked Carked Carked Jeez there's a lot of New Zealand voices there Confusing the host Yeah You're funny with the accent When he's trying to repeat Steve Harvey's trying to repeat Jeez, there's a lot of New Zealand voices there confusing the host.

Yeah, you're funny with the accent when he's trying to repeat, Steve Harvey's trying to repeat what it sounds like in New Zealand accent. Yeah. It sounds nothing like what we say. I remember once I was interviewing an American band, and they said, what are you doing this weekend? I said, I'm going to go work on my deck. And the Americans, they find that they get a lot of amusement out of that.

We know what we want to say. I know. I've got a lack of my dick. Now, what I love about my daughters is they're very different personalities, which I think is kind of cool. And Indy, my youngest, you've often described her as she's sort of got the mind of a middle-aged lady and sort of a 10-year-old. Yeah, sort of 43, a 43-year-old. I wouldn't be surprised if it'll be a crime on democracy

if she's not running the country by the age of 12 I would imagine. Is she on the PTA? The board of trustees or something for the school? Yeah either that or she's either going to go the other way and be a shocker through her teenage years. Gee she really went off the rails. You know? Sure a lot of course.

Right now I was like, hey. But yeah, I had a conversation with her last night. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this. I mean, there's many, many occasions where I've gone, who is the adult in the relationship? She put herself to bed in those situations when she's tired. She's always, for the last few years, she's like, go to bed, tired. And you're like, okay, that's cool.

You're like, it's Friday. You can stay up. It's a little bit, yeah, I'm tired. I want to go to bed. So she's done things like that. She made a Google Doc for what she wanted for Christmas, just some things, and that bamboozled Santa at the mall. She's like, how do I share you in on my spreadsheet here?

And he was just like, what is a Google Doc? Santa, although to be fair to Santa, he doesn't look like a computer guy, does he? No, no. He's old school Santa, isn't he? Yeah. All the elves, they would have had to learn how to work with the Google Drive and stuff. Yeah, sure, you just swipe this.

He's like, I don't know what this is. Trying to teach him how to swipe the iPad. I like the old fashioned way. You just tell them what they want and I'll deliver it to them. Exactly. Getting all salty. But I had a conversation with Indy yesterday. We've got a family thing coming up and I was like, hey, we'd like, you know, try and go

to this thing. It'd be really cool to go to, but it may mean that you'll need to miss a day off school. Now, as a kid, if my parents had come to me and said, hey, you're going to miss a day off school for something, I would have been just like, yeah, this is awesome. And then she used to look at me like, she's like, I really want to go to this thing.

But she was like, it's school. It's, I miss school. I'm going to get behind. You know, I'm going to have to make it up after hours. And she was like, and I was like, yes, one day. She's like, but dad school. It's almost school. I'm going to get behind. You know I'm going to have to make it up after hours. And she was like, and I was like, yes, one day. She's like, but Dad, school is when I learn. And I was like, oh. I was like, well, who is the adult in this relationship?

That's when you come back and you go, listen, mate, primary school doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All those great things you remember from primary school as well. Just don't bother stressing about primary school. Even intermediate, just take it easy.

You had that same attitude in high school too, didn't you? I did. That's how I ended up a radio announcer. So I'm like, oh, it's one of those occasions where you're like, yeah, I think you're the other. When do you think you really have to start taking school seriously? I reckon about 14. Now, kids, don't listen to me, but I'm reckoning 14.

But I know, I think some of the skills you learn early will help you out later. Yeah, I'm not saying don't listen, but just don't stress about school up until 14. That's John's advice as you say before. How far did you go? When did you leave school?

You didn't stress about school that much after 14, did you? Because you left at like 15 or 16. Ben Ben yes it was Half way yes Yes Yeah You ended up doing nothing for a while Then you get mooching around off your parents

You end up going to radio Oh mum I'm going to the radio But your parents were like Yeah check out mate check out I was not mooching. Well, I went and did a, you know, a gruelling six-month course in radio. You did, but before that, you had a mooching period, didn't you? Between school and the radio?

To be fair, there's a lot of mooching. Between 16 and 20, mooching up a storm. To be honest, probably still mooching. And it's Pink. You're on The Hits. And, of course, we are in the middle of... The Hits. Best.

Song. Ever. We are looking for the best song of all time. The best song ever. We're putting some amazing songs head to head. You guys get to decide which songs make it through. Yesterday, it happens after 9 o'clock each day on The Hits, there was some big battles.

And I'm quite shocked by the other results. You were just telling me this, and the good thing is you listening, the power's in your hands. The bad thing is you listening, the power's in your hands. So let's go. Okay, so Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit, great tune, lost to the Goo Goo Dolls, Iris. Which is, again, another great tune.

It's a chord, but it's not like the impact that Smells Like Teen Spirit had on a generation. And still does. I was surprised. Both of these are amazing songs. Don't get me wrong. Michael Jackson, Black or White, lost a huge loss to Eminem, Lose Yourself. 83% of the votes went to Eminem, Lose Yourself. 83% of the votes went to Eminem, Lose Yourself. Now, they're both great songs.

Were they taking into things that were sort of Cloud Jackson's reputation? And this one was the most surprising one of all for me. Fleetwood Mac, Everywhere, losing out to Lou Bega, number five. I resign. Well, hang on, hang on.

Lou Bega beat Fleetwood Mac. Yeah, so Lou Bega is through to the next round. How many votes are we taking? Well, I don't know. Take more. 55% of the votes. It was a close one. Oh, that's good.

It was close. It shouldn't have even been close. So, yeah, more battles happening after 9 o'clock today. Now, we were gutted a couple of days ago. Warning, if Lou Bega wins this competition, we're never doing it again. Wait, we were gutted a couple of days ago. Warning, if Lou Baker wins this competition, we're never doing it again. Wait, wait, it's all about people voting. You can't change what people vote.

It's a democracy. That's right. That's how people end up in Parliament. Yeah, we're not North Korea here. So, yeah, so a couple of days ago, we were gutted that Peter Andre, who's friend of the show, for some reason he's become our friend.

He's our only celebrity friend. Yeah. And we don't want to lose that relationship. So we thought we should back him in. And he got pounded by Pink. Yeah. He lost. And Jono, you had this to say after Mysterious Girl was bundled out of the best song ever.

I have got no lows that I will not reach to get Peter Andre back in this competition. Would you resign? That's probably... Would you resign? Is that your commitment to Peter Andre, our Instagram friend? You said anything, that's the first thing that popped into my head. But you're saying,

you know, we've never met him face to face. I interviewed him once on the radio and... Oh, so that show, this puts in perspective, everyone listening right now, your commitment. That's fine. I just wanted to know. I'll do anything and then I just said, well, would you resign? Well, I've got a family to think about here. So you won't do anything?

What's that? Sorry, producer Joel? Would you do a live on-air version, a karaoke version on-air of Mysterious Girl by Peter Andre to get him back in? Oh. Well, that's better than resigning. So yes, I would do that. Okay. But what happens, because you said yesterday in karaoke, what if we got the whole office, the building, to come watch you do karaoke?

Like awkward morning tea time where no one's having any drinks and it's really awkward. No one wants to be there. No one wants to be there. Would you do that? Would you do the whole song? You can't. From start to finish, I know being silly,

you have to commit to it. You can't be like, as soon as you're like, oh, he's putting on a silly voice, we start again. It has to be like, fool, I'm trying my best. Do I have to dress like the Mysterious Girl video? Oh yeah. Shirtless?

Yeah. With jeans on? With jeans on. Hey, now we're brainstorming. Here we go. This is where the magic happens. Yeah.

So that was the brainstorming session. Wheels are in motion, mate. It's happening. I know they're in motion because my wife, who also works here in the marketing department,

came home and she's like, are you doing some sort of shirtless Peter Andre performance? People want to see it. Sell tickets, mate. Sell tickets. We want to get Peter Andre back in the competition. If you want to see me, via gogo.

Head to viagogo.com. It's going to be happening. We'll keep you up to speed. And as the hits, you've got Jono and Ben. 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 And you can win a whole lot of cash By matching your words with our words Couldn't think of a better way to start the day Unless someone phoned through right now And were like guys what are you doing working on a Sunday And then we realise it's still the weekend That would be a better way to start the day But Alicia unless someone phoned through right now and were like, guys, what are you doing working on a Sunday? And then we realised it's still the weekend.

That would be a better way to start the day. But Alicia... We've come to work. Anyway, we've come to work on a Sunday. We've wasted a Sunday. If it is Sunday, I'm really regretting being here. I don't think it is. Okay, let's get Alicia on from Tauranga.

How's it going, mate? Hi. Good, thank you. Yeah, second competitor from Tauranga in two days. I don't know what's going there down there in the bloody Tauranga, but you're always getting through for five words, mate. Hi. Good, thank you. Yeah, second competitor from Tauranga in two days. I don't know what's going there down there in the bloody Tauranga, but you're always getting through for five words, Alicia. Always on the phone. Always on the phone. Now, you've got four children.

Yes, I do. Which one do you love the most? The littlest ones. Can't talk back as much. Normally people don't play that game, but you've got that. You're committed committed I like it $5,000 has gone a long way I imagine with four kids

Yes, it could Long, long way One of them's a teenager So they're expensive as Yeah, they are Those bloody teenagers What would you spend the money on? Well, we're getting a fireplace installed

And we're getting some new carpet And doing some home reno So any bit helps towards that Let's zhuzh up your home with 5k who's going to go into the soundproof booth this morning uh we'll send ben yeah you haven't been in for about a week there ben just remember prison rules apply in that booth mate okay don't look anyone in the eye try not to get shanked okay alicia let's play the game with your first word that comes into your head uh that you need to match with Ben Boyce. When I say to you,

hot, cold, pukeko, bird, applause, clapping, watch, time,

and art, painting. You're not going to want to hear this Alicia But I matched Nearly every word with you I didn't say clapping I said clap With applause But you know

That doesn't mean you should change yours I'm just saying But you played a really good game You happy with those words? I think so Hopefully Hopefully he thinks the same Just don't think about it too much

That's the key to five words We'll release Boyce From the soundproof booth. How was it in there, Ben? No prison violence? No. No, great stuff. All right.

Alicia did really well. I was just telling her that I matched four and a half words out of five with her. All right. Let's see if we can get you that brand new carpet in the fireplace, shall we, Alicia? Let's get into it. Cool. Word one, $25. $25.

We'll buy you 30 centimetres squared of carpet. Yes, sir. Ben Boyce, when I say hot, you say? Cold. Yes, sir. Are we forging on to the $50 word there, Alicia? Yep, sure. Word two, $50.

Pool kicker. Bird. Well done. Yep, sure. Word two, $50. Pukeko. Bird. Well done. And I love seeing a pukeko. Aren't they beautiful birds? They're the ones with the big long orange legs, aren't they? Yeah, they sort of do have that. Awkward looking legs.

Yeah, legs like mine. Yeah. Okay, next word is worth $100. Are we going to go to it, Alicia? Yeah, may as well. Word is worth $100. Are we going to go to it, Alicia? Yeah, may as well. Word three, $100. You win $100 for Alicia. Applause.

What would you say if I said applause? Clapping? Woo! Alicia, yeah! Is it getting hot in here, or is that Alicia's fireplace heating up? Hopefully. Now, $500 on the line for the fourth word. Yeah, go for it.

Word four, $500. She gives zero cares, this lady. She's just mowing on. Watch. Watch. Watch. Watch. I've got You've got watch

You've got as in wrist watch Or as in time as well Okay Those are my options I'm thinking of right now Those are words You're not giving me anything Time Yes $500 Didn't lock in the wrist Has Yes, $500.

Didn't lock in the wrist. Has won you $500. Now this is a big decision, Alicia. You can walk out of here, $500 goes towards the Renos and feeding those expensive teenagers. Or we take a gamble. What was the last word again? Art.

A, uh, well, you know how to spell art. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you,

Jono. What are you going to do? I might have to take it because I think he's going to say another word. You're walking away? You're walking away from $5,000. But she's taking $500. You're taking $500.

If we get this next one wrong, you've got nothing. Nothing. Yeah, I'll take the $500. Take the $500. Well done. She's walking away from the troubles in her life. She's got no troubles now. She's got $500.

We'll just go to word five, see what you would have done. Oh, my God. If I said art, you would have said what ben gallery you did the right thing alicia you pulled out at the right moment well done $500 you go and have a great day in tauranga and really appreciate you listening thank you now a lot of talk about bullying at the moment not just in new zealand at schools, past and present, but also, you know, just reading about Pete Davidson, apparently undergoing trauma therapy, a result of months and months of online bullying,

they think, from Kanye West. It is sad. I mean, our relationship is based on bullying, Ben, but it's equal parts bullying. So if you bully me and I bully back, it's banter. Even though I cry in my car on the way home. You keep telling yourself I don't. But we're joined right now by Holly Jean Brooker.

She's from The Parenting Place. And you know what's going on at Parliament at the moment and with Pete Davidson, as you mentioned, Ben, bullying a big topic at the moment, Holly. Yeah, we have. It's such a big topic. And, you know, obviously you mentioned, Ben, bullying a big topic at the moment, Holly. Yeah, we have. It's such a big topic. And, you know, obviously weighted and quite a lot of emotion and trauma for some.

We do have a few articles up on the website at the moment. So, yeah, jump on parentingplace.nz to get more information. But excuse me for my blocked nose. I've got the old cold at the moment. Oh, I thought, listen, I didn't want to point it out. We don't have that sort of relationship. And I wanted to say, Holly, you sound like you've got the old cold at the moment. Oh, I thought, listen, I didn't want to point it out. We don't have that sort of relationship. And I wanted to say, Holly, you sound like you got the vid. I don't have COVID, but, you know,

it wouldn't be a problem if I did. That's right. But, you know, I think our relationship's gone there now. You can call me out when I have a cold. Okay, all right. Well, now I feel we're in a safe zone. Okay, next time, rest assured, if you sound a bit nasally, I will call it out.

Great. So as parents, like I had this conversation with my daughters the other day about when I was, you know, looking back at high school and, you know, it is a tough time for anyone going through high school, but also just going, and my two daughters, you know, they're lovely and they're nice and, you know, but I'm like, it's so easy to get caught up with other people and I like to look back and think I was nice most of the time,

but there are things that everyone says and does, and you're like, oh, man, I shouldn't have done that. And I was like, it still stays with you. It stays with you, and that's just a very minor thing, you know, compared to some what other people go through. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think it's amazing that you're talking with your kids about this sort of stuff.

But I was surprised this week to read that one in 10 kids in New Zealand have been afraid in the last year that someone would hurt them or what's the prevalence of the internet for older kids as well. Back in the old days, we might get picked on on the school bus. I can remember that a little bit. And you'd come home and you're kind of away from it, whereas now you're not so much away from it. So, you know, sometimes there can be a lot of shame or insecurity around it

and they can keep it to themselves. It breaks your heart, doesn't it, to hear what kids are going through. As a parent, all you want to do is you want to go into the schoolyard and shove your fingers up their nose. Now, I know that's frowned upon. Well, no, you can't. I'm not saying do it. There's some saying that I'd love to do it, but you can't.

It's a bad look. And so what can you do? Your kid says, someone's being mean to me. There's a group of kids being mean to me, there's a group of kids being mean to me. What do you say? How do you approach it? I think it's amazing.

I mean, aside from putting your finger up at other kids. Both fingers, both nostrils. Yeah, great. Also the risk of COVID. You know, I think it's amazing for kids to know

that we back them and that we're in their corner and, you know, to show them that we'll fight for them not literally if there's some serious bullying happening, it's great as parents if we can go and talk to the teacher

as an initial point, raise what's happening, find out what's going to be done to deal with it, if nothing is done we step it up, we take it to the dean they might have friends that are being bullied or being picked on, ask them about that. Find out what that looks like, you know, how they can respond to that. Share your stories about, you know, what it was like for you

when you were growing up, if you've had stories like that, because that can help take the shame out of it. Now, Holly, something that's probably not spoken about a lot on a day like today and we rightfully so focus on the people who are being bullied. But as a parent, if I found out my kid was a bully, I'd be mortified. What do you suggest those people do? Because they probably

in many cases haven't come up in a bad household. You know, how do they approach that conversation? Yeah, well, I mean, generally there's something going on. For a kid to be bullying someone else, there's generally something going on. There's some sort of emotional need not being met within themselves. Instead of kind of jumping in and lecturing, which I mean, there's generally something going on. There's some sort of emotional need not being met within themselves. Instead of kind of jumping in and lecturing,

which, I mean, there could be some relevance there, but kids aren't born being bullies, you know. There's something that's going on that's causing them to feel the need to validate themselves by picking on other people. You know, what need isn't being met within them. Yeah. Now, you write a lot of great articles on bullying, which you

do have on the Parenting Place website. Have you got any tips, maybe about a relentless workplace bully constantly making fun of hair loss? Hey! What would your advice be to that, Holly? Hey, hey, hey. Not today. Of all days,

we have a relationship. Well, you know, it doesn't escalate. The slander you say about Hey, hey, hey. Not today. Of all days, we have a relationship. Well, you know, it doesn't be a skill. The slander you say about me on a daily basis. Listen, Holly doesn't need to hear this. No, exactly. Not today. Holly, not today. Of all days.

I'm off the words. I'm off the words. Yeah, Holly Brooker, we'll let you go. You don't need to be part of this awkwardness. From the Parenting Place, wonderful work, and we'll catch up with you shortly. Thank you. Have a good day.

See you, mate. The Hits. The Jono and Ben'll catch up with you shortly. Thank you. Have a good day. See you mate. The John Owen Ben Podcast. So Central City. Waiting at the lights and there was a lady walking a cat through the middle of town on a leash. And I thought, this is a sight you don't see.

And there's some sights on this road. This is one that floored me. And then I was thinking, it's an unusual animal to walk. Generally, they look after walking themselves, don't they, the cats? Yeah. Have you got a leash for your cat? No, I don't have a leash for the cat. The cat just does what he wants to do.

But yeah, I was just thinking, maybe if you're living in an apartment situation. Intuition. Yeah. Like maybe that's an option, you know, where you can't let the cat out because of the roads and stuff like that. But then you feel sorry for the cat that they're living in an apartment. Well, she took it out for a literal catwalk yesterday on a leash, and I was thinking, well, this is an unusual sight,

but clearly not that unusual that someone has marketed cat leashes. You know, they're selling them. They're selling them. They're a thing. It's like when you see a child on a leash. Like, I get it, but everyone... It looks odd. It does look a little bit odd, yeah.

But all kids should be on leashes. We should be leashing them up a storm. I think most adults as well should be on leashes. Did you have a leash for your children? No, I didn't, but no, but... It feels odd putting a leash on a child. But some, I guess, you know, for safety reasons... Well, some kids, yeah.

I don't know, you know, like, yeah. Because you're doing it so they don't run onto the road or... Yeah. There's a good intention behind it, know you know like yeah because you're doing it so they don't run onto the road or yeah there's a good intention behind it but you're like oh you're dragging a kid around yeah on a leash like if you you know yeah um you should put me on a leash we had a friend of ours uh who used to walk a cat around in a pram yeah like it still does uh because you know takes a cat for a walk not that not the cat's getting any cardio, but it gets to just see the sights and take it around, which seems unusual. Yeah, but once you make the cat accustomed to being pushed around on a trolley,

the other cats are like, you know, we can just walk, mate. We're all just walking. We're having a good time out here. Some of us are on leashes. Others aren't. I always wonder, you know, what it's like when you walk around because some people, you know, get very excited by the potential of babies. So they must be like, oh, let's have a look at the cute.

This is a cat in a pram. My daughter Poppy put our dog, my puppy Milo, in a pram and he looked dead inside. He's like, I haven't been around for long, but this is definitely a low point in my six months on earth. You're on the hits, Jono and Ben. We're talking the last couple of days about the cheapest wedding after Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck

apparently only paid $75 for their wedding in Vegas. Yeah, I thought the cheapest wedding would be getting married on Married First Sight Australia. Don't pay a thing. All that costs is your dignity. A little bit of that.

Yeah. And a production crew filming all of the romantic moments. But we had some calls yesterday, some fantastic calls coming through on 0800, the hits about the cheapest wedding. Sam phoned through to the breakfast show. But we had some calls yesterday, some fantastic calls coming through on 0800, the hits about the cheapest wedding. Sam phoned through to the breakfast show.

Probably about $50. $50 for a wedding? Wow. Yes. Basically, it was like the license fee at the court. Right. And for a new passport. Oh.

And we just begged the guy. We're like, please, please, please. We have to leave the country and we need our visas sorted. And then that was it. And that was it? And then he took me for pancakes. Took you for pancakes? Oh, so it might have been a lot of 65 bucks once you got pancakes.

Yeah. A marriage based on love and visa applications. Something like that, yeah. Good on you, Sam. Definitely not for his money. 55, sorry, 50 bucks. Yeah. I love it. Good on you, Sam. Definitely not for his money. $50. Sorry, $50. Yeah.

Not too bad. But joining us right now on 0800, the hits, Denise. You got in touch with us. You actually think you've got the cheapest wedding in New Zealand? Yes. How cheap, mate? Nothing. We actually made money.

Oh, you made money. Well, we got married in 1999. It was the second wedding. Yeah. We actually made money. Oh, you made money. Well, we got married in 1999. It was the second wedding. Yeah. And we went to Auckland the next day for our honeymoon, and we stayed at the casino. And my husband won $2,000 at the casino.

On the pokies. On the pokies. On the pokies. So we came home and we had a fabulous weekend. We were even upgraded into a better room because it was our honeymoon. The honeymoon suite. What happened inside the honeymoon suite, Denise? Well, you know. No, I don't.

Okay, that's not good. That's all right. But you paid. Talk to us, Denise. Denise wants to show us. You paid for your whole wedding. You made money on the you paid. Talk to us, Denise. Denise wants to see what we're on with. You paid for your whole wedding. You made money on the pokies. Don't you smoke screen this.

Denise was about to tell us. Blow by blow account. Denise, what went on? Okay, Denise, you don't have to answer this. So, yes, so it cost us absolutely nothing. We came home with fair money. Don't you love it when you win money at the pokies? This is what keeps you gambling, doesn't it?

You have a few losses. You get in a bit of a hole, but you can pull your way out. I think that's problem gambling, Jono. He always wanted to go back and give it another go, but I said your luck's probably run out. Yeah, that's when the slippery slope starts, Denise, and when you want to go back to them. A friend of mine won the, you know how they've got the car on display

one weekend, one Friday night? Won the car, and then mine won the, you know how they've got the car on display one weekend? Yes. One Friday night. Won the car and then they're like, do you want the car or the money? And I'm like, money or the car? Yeah. And he took the money. And boy, oh boy, what a weekend.

I'll leave that there. Should have made me take in the car. I'll tell you what went on in the honeymoon suite that weekend, Denise. Scrolling through your feed. All right. These overly sanitized hands bring you this overly sanitized news. What's going on? Well, the cost of petrol, you know, obviously cost of living going up,

and the cost of petrol is pretty nuts at the moment. And drivers have been warned about a button that you can use to save yourself. Well, if you don't use the button, you can save yourself about 10% a year. And that's the AC, the AC button. They reckon if you're using that constantly or if you're using use the button, you can save yourself about 10% a year. And that's the AC, the AC button. They reckon if you're using that constantly or if you're using it quite a lot, particularly in summer, you can play 10% more of your prices.

But then the same research goes back to go, well, if you open your window, sometimes that costs you 20% more in fuel prices. In drag. In the drag of the car. So it's kind of like the option from the scientists was like, well, maybe turn your AC on

but don't open the vents. But you're like, well, what use is that going to do in the middle of summer? Well, turn it off or just drive around like a sweaty pig. I used to have this very old car

from 1975 and it had no air con and vinyl seats. And you'd get in on, like I'd sometimes drive to work on a 30 degree day, my thighs were burning like melting to the seat, my skin was

melting to the seat and then I'd get to work like a drippy, sweaty, like I'd been through an FBI interrogation, like I was Donald Trump getting interrogated. No air con at all right? Nothing. Just sticking to the seats. You went in there, it was very Hard to wind down the window as well too, like a lot of work. Yeah, it got stuck and it was, you know, motoring in that car. It was very... Hard to wind down the window as well, too. Like, a lot of work. Yeah.

It got stuck and it was... Yeah, no, it was... You know, motoring had advanced a lot. Yeah. It has. It's really made some big leaps in technology. And if you're a parent and your child is on Snapchat, well, there's a new tool they're rolling out for parents,

which is available in New Zealand. So, basically, it's a new Family Centre feature where it gives parents the visibility to see what their teens, well who their teens are communicating with on Snapchat but not necessarily what they're saying but at least who they have been in contact with and stuff as well. So

you know, because you do want to keep an eye on what's going on. It is tut, look can I say sorry kids growing up in this generation we had no cameras. We had no... No one was riding our ass back in the day. Stuff we were getting up to, mate.

Not even on camera. Yeah, it's a scary world. You're right. You need to be across it, don't you? You get worried about kids heading into the world of the internet. And for the fact that they can take their phone into their room and if there's a bullying situation going on, if Sam Uffendill's bloody reaming them, you know, they can take their phone into their room, and if there's a bullying situation going on, if Sam Uffendill's bloody reaming them,

you know, there's no escaping, is there? Yeah, well, the good news is at least with this new feature, you can get, you know, the parents can at least see who they have been contacting with and not just random strangers on the internet. Have you allowed your kids on? No, because Snapchat's 13, so that's my big argument. 16 plus, so you're like, ah!

And Iroh, to be honest, it's like, there's no need for her for Santa to be on it, in my opinion. Like, there's no need at all. She can contact her friends on WhatsApp and stuff like that as messages. But there's no need, in my opinion, for her to be on it. So I'm like, that's 13, mate. Yeah, roll over 13 for Santa. Yeah. I don't know what your argument is.

I know. Yeah, no, that's where it's at. You're going to be phoning Snapchat. Hey, I think you guys should raise it up to 19. I just raised it up to 24. 24. 24. Raise it up, mate guys should raise it up to 99 24 Raise it up mate Raise the moment up on that sweet spot I'm going can't do it, legally you can't do it mate

Isn't it great when you can pin You don't want to be hated by your kids But you're like this is out of my hands This is the big corporates The corporate man's doing this to me All woman, it's 2022 I wanted to but you can't do that. The Hits.

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