Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Grinds Your Gears?!!

Episode Date: February 8, 2023

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welcome to the podcast this is jono and ben thanks to challenge petrol service stations just texting i can't do two things at once i can't text and talk can you do both oh yeah i kind of can but sometimes i yeah sometimes i'll be texting or something and then be like trying to listen to something else as well now or having a conversation and try and listen to someone else you know when you're like oh there's a a conversation I really should be hearing over there, but not. That's a fun little thing to do. One suffers, doesn't it? Either the conversation or the text.

Like right then, I'll be honest with you. I had no idea what you were saying to me as I was finishing this text. There you go. You were saying something about. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So you're right. Sometimes you're very distracted and someone's going to know.

Tech does just, it really has sucked the life out of socialising and human-to-human interaction. It's got a lot of benefits for humans contacting other humans, but in a room, you could have three of us just sitting in silence for an hour just looking at our phones, typing, emailing. Yeah. They did a social experiment on, I think it was two children, and they were on their iPads on the couch and the dead seed

Alright, I'm going out they ignored him and they set the timer He wasn't leading leave the property right they set the timer as to how long it would take them to notice There were no parents in there couple of hours Probably like getting hungry or something. And when they did realise, oh, I want lunch. They're like, oh, where's everyone gone? It's a good year. Hey, well done to me today. Can I just say, because LeBron James, my favourite player,

all-time scoring record in the NBA. I didn't mention it once on the show. But you're mentioning it now. I wanted to. Under the show umbrella. It's because of the demographic, mate, that we're targeting. Oh, no, it's big news, though. It's all over the news. It was all over the news last night in New Zealand as well.

So in the news this morning. Keep it for your little basketball podcast, mate. Don't passionise me. Your little basketball. I'm just saying. It was amazing. No, it was amazing. How many points did he get?

It was 38,000 and something, right? 38,390. So that's the all-time highest scoring NBA player. It's him scoring over 20 years. He scored 38,000. In regular season games as well. In playoffs, he's got the most. Oh, so does he count playoff games?

Just the regular season games, but that's still 82 games a season. Wow. Yeah. He's played like 570 games or something. It was so unusual, though, because he got this amazing record, which is so cool, in the middle of the game, which everyone was paid thousands and thousands for, and then they stopped the game.

There was 10 seconds to go in the third quarter.'s still another quarter to go they stopped the game he you know people came and congratulated him that microphone came out kareem this is the middle of the game so it's not half time yeah the thunder who they're playing against like we're up by a few people okay well i guess we'll just wait out at the moment and that you know and what they have to do just sort of sit on the sidelines. Big celebrations, big speeches, all sorts. Speeches? Yeah. It was ridiculous.

LeBron had a speech. Kareem, who had the record before him, came out, presented him with a ball. They hugged. It was like thanking people, people everywhere. A guy fought. Oh, it was just like, and then back into the game, guys. Ten seconds to go in the third quarter. And then who has to, like, someone just blow a whistle and go, all right, well,

everyone said what they wanted to say. Everyone's hugged everyone. Yeah, all Jay-Z's there. Everyone's, you know, like, amazing amount of celebrities and people there. But just so unusual that happened. Wrapping that up would be, that would be an interesting moment. Yeah. Because, like, how long is this going for, guys?

Like, we're still. Back into the game. Yeah. And the other players might have had things to do after the game as well. Yeah, they'd be like, oh, are we still, you know, I thought we were going to get back into the game. But, I mean, it was well-deserved. But unusual that to do after the game as well yeah they'll be like oh are we we still you know i thought we're going to get back into the game but i mean it was well well deserved but unusual that happened during the game but in new zealand it would be after the game yeah and it would be summed up in two or three words it would be yeah yeah proud of the team

proud of the boys yeah yeah yeah hold up there hold up and it'd be done in a club room we wouldn't even televise it. We don't like to televise celebrations here. We'll get on you, LeBron James. Does that make him the greatest basketballer of your time? Do they love to? In your opinion? Oh, look, he's up there. They talk about the Mount Rushmore,

which I think is a nicer way of doing it, with the full face of the icon. Can I try and pick who's on there? Mount Rushmore, so you've got LeBron. Jordan. Yeah, that's always the debate. Jordan or LeBron seemed like the big debate but then there's obviously, you know, well I'm not going to say. Okay, so there's two others

that are on there. Well, I don't know. I mean, it's everyone. Are they old? Thomas Abercrombie? Out with the breakers? He's good. He'd be on our Mount Rushmore. He'd be on our Mount Eden. Are they old players are they well I guess

yeah I guess it depends on who you're talking about Kobe yeah well Kobe is he in there he'd be in the top 10 of players of all time

wouldn't he yeah it's hard to know producer Joel yeah yeah yeah yeah really diving deep into the basketball podcast yeah I could save this

for my little basketball podcast yeah save that for your little basketball Kareem would be up there Will Chamberlain you know like there's a lot so that's another debate as well but I don't you know I don't know why we always have to say I could save this for my little basketball podcast. Kareem would be up there with Shane Moons. There's a lot. So that's another debate as well.

But I don't know why we always have to say someone's better than that. Why can't they just say Jordan was really good and LeBron James was really good as well? Why do we have to go who's better? Because this is why you're not in competitive sport. Why can't everyone win? Okay, you say Jordan is a legend and LeBron's a legend as well. They are. Who would you say the legend of radio is?

Who are we stopping mid-show to congratulate? Yeah, okay, so someone's just completed, you know, the most radio shows ever in New Zealand history. Would you give it to Hosking? Well, Hosking's, as far as ratings and performance, legendary, yeah, legendary broadcaster. Paul Holmes is a legendary broadcaster. May he rest in peace. Kevin Black, a legendary broadcaster as well.

Do you know this is... Kerry Woodham's great. Do you know Kevin Black, Joel? Yeah, Blackie. Yeah, Blackie. Do you know when I first started in the radio, I panelled for Blackie? Really? That's how old I am.

Did you? Yeah, I started... We'll stop mid-podcast with Jono Price. How old were you back then? 38,000 hours of broadcasting, mate. He's done it, guys. Yeah, I started This would be me in like 20 years black guys, you know, you guys know John Cuz you left to explain who we are to the people. Yeah, I had a TV show for a while. One bald guy. Oh, Fletcher Ford.

No, no, no. Oh. That were two sort of, yeah, anyway. Yeah. But yeah, I was doing what you were doing now for Blackie, a wonderful guy. And two things I remember about him is he stole a lot of my cigarettes. Were they? Well, he asked for them.

Yeah, right. And I handed him a lot of cigarettes. But you would have been like a lowly paid intern then, wouldn't you? Yeah. Have you got a gasper? That's what he'd say. So I'd give him gaspers. And then he'd always, when you're traveling to work on the motorway, there's a clock there which gives you the time and temperature.

And it's on the side of a building. Oh, yeah. I know the one, yeah. And he'd say, every every morning 19 degrees this morning 23 degrees this morning give me the temperature of oh so when he'd come

into the studio what was on the side of the clock oh okay yeah but that's really cool those are my fond memories of him

and we did some prank calls did you did he teach you the art of the prank call he used to blame for those ones yeah

he taught me the art of the prank call he He's to blame for those ones, isn't he? Yeah, he taught me the art of the prank call. He's a legend. He had a book. Someone bought me a black joke book or some jokes from his prep and stuff like that. He did some champagne pranks back in the day. No, back in the day when you didn't have Gen Zers like Joel questioning everything.

Oh, fuck. He would do pranks, which my mother-in-law, Kathy, still talks about, where he phoned up a guy and he'd just got a garage door remote. And the guy didn't quite know how to work his garage door remote. And he's like, oh, your garage door remote is actually, it's controlling planes in the air. And this guy was like, how? He's like, oh, the radio electromagnetic waves are coming in the air. And this guy was, he was like, how? He's like, oh, the radio electromagnetic waves

are coming to the planes. You're like, you don't know it now, but you're actually landing planes at Auckland Airport. And this guy was like, hawk-lighted sinker. Hawk-lighted. I was like, like nowadays, looking through the lens of now, you're like, you idiot.

But you're right, back in the day, you're like, I don't know what this thing is. And now it's controlling the plates. Yeah, well. So, you know, he was the king of the prank calls, wasn't he? He was. Did you work with any legends like that, Ben, back in the day? Yeah. I did work with, there was a guy, very legendary,

because I started off writing ads. And they used to call him Cowboy. And he was like the legendary writer as far as writing ads were. He was based in Wellington. Many, many of the ads you would have heard on the radio over the years he would have written before. They used to write with another guy, J.D. J.D. and Cowboy, he'd come up and give us.

J.D. and Cowboy. And they weren't even on air. They were just like writers. They were amazing writers yeah and he would come up yes have you ever heard those ads they're very iconic and crisis like out here and uh we don't have it it's like for a rungy aura you know we don't have a sky that's how he talks he was like yeah and um he was a legend and we would often get to go to um to like meetings with him as a little up and coming radio sort of writer. And we'd go to meet clients and we'd get to see him in action.

And what, what everyone else would do in those situations is normally you get all the information. Then you'd go away and think about an ad for a week or so and go, Oh geez, what am I going to come up? But he'd come up with an ad on the spot. That was his thing.

The cowboy. It was always like back, back. Here's your, here's your concept. And it was like, wow. And it always,

but then one day he was like started cause it was like a technical thing to do with computers and he started just going on a whiteboard so you got a box here and you got another box here and i was like it was really lost me and lost it it was like okay i don't know where the concept is your concept and then it got to the end of the meeting the client left he's like all right and he talked to me and the other guy he goes all alright boys have you ever seen me writing boxes I've got no fucking idea what the client's got to do and I'm lost

so please help me out on those occasions I'm sorry mate you're a legend I just thought you were coming up with a concept for an ad was the client impressed

though with the boxes everyone was a little confused by what the ad was there's the cowboy he's a legendary writer he knows his stuff mate never question the cowboy I was's a legendary rider. He knows his stuff, mate. Never questioned the cowboy. I was like, I don't know where he's going with this.

And now he clearly didn't know where he was going with this. But it's the only time he didn't know where he was going. Every other time, he was amazing. Amazing. Did he have a hat? No, I never saw him in a cowboy hat. Where's the cowboy hat from? I don't know where the cowboy came from. Maybe it was like his approach to riding ears.

He was like, I don't know where the cowboy came from. Maybe it was like his approach to writing ads was big cowboy-ish. He's like, I just do them in the corner. Make them up on the spot. On the spot. They were always amazing concepts. Sometimes I don't know what I'm saying. We end up making an ad. He was a legend.

So there you go. That was another legend from radio. How did we get here? Here we go. Here's the podcast. Enjoy. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Ed Anderson, our music man who does uh pretty extensive research on all the songs that they play on the hits because we want to guarantee that every song is

a hit yeah it's in the name i thought about calling it the duds you know but everyone was like you don't want to play duds songs you know you'll play hits it was just the macarena on repeat and tub thumping uh but you know he's saying that's the most popular song he's ever seen in his illustrious programming career. Off the charts. Off the charts, mate. Sorry, I'm on dog leg here. You know how you're saying the hits, we play hits. The other day you were having a debate with your daughter about Just Cuts

and she wanted to dye her hair at Just Cuts and all they do is Just Cuts. Well, that's why. Yeah, I was like, it's in the name, right? I wore just jeans yesterday. They're doing more than jeans, baby. You're right. Shirts, skirts. Yeah, they're doing a great job.

Shorts. Yeah, that's true. So it's not always in the name. They're not living up to their name. No. Anyway, sorry, that just popped into my head. No, it's what we do. It's first thing in the morning.

We're waking up. We're waking up with you. This break's always a bit of a loose one, isn't it? We cover a lot of ground. 8 o'clock this morning, though, Pink joining us, which is pretty cool. So, yeah. So very, very excited this morning. 8 o'clock, Pink, international pop star Pink joining us on the show.

Yesterday, we, I don't know if you noticed this awkward conversation because I didn't bring it up afterwards, but we were walking out of the building and bumped in to someone that we work with, a fellow announcer, and just said hello to that fellow announcer, good morning, hope you had a wonderful broadcast this morning. The usual banter that we all have amongst

each other. Then another radio announcer came in. Oh yeah, okay, I know where you're going. It was Sam Wallace. Sam Wallace, and I said, jeez, because Sam Wallace is looking magnificent at the moment. Muscly, taut, and I said, wow, Sam

Wallace, you're looking good at the moment. He said, thanks. Doing a bit of dieting. He's going hard. He's been taking off his top in many Instagram posts. But then in a twist of fate Looks great In a twist of fate

The person that we saw initially The radio announcer They overheard this They were right there And they were like What am I? Shopped liver And I was like

Well mate you know Yeah What do you say You kind of You gave a really big compliment to Sam Next to someone else Who you didn't give a compliment to. But he had his bloody lips, you know, wrapped around, sucking on a vape.

But still, he'd be like, hey, mate, you're looking good. Look at this guy. Look how amazing he is. Who was looking better in your opinion? Well, let's not get, well. Who was the other guy? Yeah. I know that's what you're thinking.

Yeah. Listen, it was the wonderful Andrew Dickens. And I love Andrew Dickens. Great guy. And he was well within his rights to go, well, what am I, a chopped liver? Because many times I've said to people, hey, you're looking fantastic. And you're waiting for the, yeah. Sam Wallace didn't say anything back to me.

No, he didn't. No, he didn't. My feelings were hurt as well. Because, I mean, if you give, if I say. No, but you don't give a compliment just to get one back. I launched a compliment grenade Sam Wallace's way and got nothing back. And in one foul swoop also managed to offend Andrew Dickens too. So the problem is you don't tell anyone they're looking fantastic.

And you don't tell Ben Boyce he's looking tired. He takes that as a dig, don't you? I do. I don't think any good comes from that. Ed Sheeran in the country right now. We love celebrities in the country and we do love Ed Sheeran. He just seems like the most genuine, wonderful person. And yesterday he did something pretty incredible. He had a day off in between touring and all the things he needed to do and this is how he chose to spend it,

by going around some schools in New Zealand and playing some surprise concerts. So I'm on a day off in Auckland and I thought we'd come to some schools and give some kids a surprise with Free Kick. So this was a teacher getting up on stage and singing with him as well. Two from one of the schools. How incredible would that be? It was definitely one of my favourite days on tour. I loved singing with the teacher at the end as well and um yeah bloody love new zealand oh that was bloody love you ed sheeran we do bloody love you and i bloody love all those

kids singing i'm in love with your body that was a touching moment how cool was that that was so incredible and then he gave them like gave away a thousand tickets or something? I think so, yeah. Like to the kids at the school saying you can come along to the concert. So, yeah. Now, if those kids already had tickets, can they then get a refund for the tickets? I don't know. Do you reckon he'd share deals with all those T's and C's? I reckon he'd be across it all yesterday.

I drove past the venue yesterday and they were putting up, because the stage has really high sort of suspension towers, doesn't it? There's a guy up there in a fluoro vest. I was like, bloody Sharon, he's up there putting together the rig. He's across everything. Yeah, of course he is. He is probably across everything. I don't know if he's actually up there.

Putting up the scaffolding. I need a Phillips head. I don't think he's up the top there doing that. But, you know. And also, he's doing something for the Auckland. Like, if you didn't love him enough. I do. I do love him. Do you want to love him even more? Oh the Auckland like if you didn't love him enough I do I do love him

do you want to love him even more I don't think I could love him anymore because he's in love with your body so are all those kids too he's doing something

with Whittaker's because we've been mentioning that he said you know New Zealand chocolate in the past previously on Ed Sheeran

that's when I wasn't sure if I loved him enough but now I do he basically said you know New Zealand chocolate is okay but it's not the best he's had and then we got our backs up

and bullied him into liking our chocolate and now he's done a special limited edition edition like the pun with Whittaker's and they're auctioning five packets on Trade Me

to raise money for the floods yeah people affected by the floods no I ain't just raising money for Barry from Whittaker's. No. What's a bender? No, it's for the floods. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast.

I ain't worried about it. It's Wonder Republic. I ain't worried. That song, of course, from the new Top Gun. Great scene where they're playing shirtless American football on the beach in their sunglasses and they aren't worried about their sunglasses breaking aren't they Tom Cruise and the gang I kept thinking why wear their sunglasses

if it's tackle yeah no they'll come off they could smash in their eyes oh yeah you lose anyway but they weren't worried

about that my favourite's the chubby guy who doesn't take his t-shirt off that'd be me oh I don't take my shirt off of course oh mate we're all

both shirts versus skins and you're like oh especially with you know the old magnificent bodies yeah everyone Oh, I don't take my shirt off, of course. God, mate, we're all wearing shirts versus skins. You're like, oh. Especially with their magnificent bodies. Yeah, everyone looks incredible. Doing my guts out there.

Ruining the scene. Joining jobs. Joining jobs is what we like to do from time to time. You give us a call on our Android Hits, and then we see if we can find someone very quickly right around the country who does the same job as you or works in the same industry and you'll both win a prize. It's like job Tinder. Yeah.

Yeah, we match you up with someone who does a similar vocation and then we say, hey, why don't you have some natural free-flowing banter? You do. It's always a bit awkward. Why don't we let them talk shop for a little bit? Yeah. It's always a bit stilted and enjoyable. But Gloria, lovely to have you on the show, Gloria.

Yeah, lovely to get through. Now, Gloria, a glorious name, firstly, to begin with. And secondly, what do you do for a job? So I'm in the filming industry. I'm a runner. So I run around getting everything for, you know, whatever they need. For TV shows, for movies, that sort of thing?

Yeah, movies. Wow. What movies have you worked on? I'm not allowed to say at the moment. Oh, okay. What about ones in the past? One in the past actually is coming up soon. I've seen the trailers on TV as Far North. Oh, yes, yes.

I've seen that one. That was about all the myth that they tried to sneak in on the beach and they got caught. Yeah, yeah. Have you seen that? No, I just... He was part of the police investigation. You've seen the live evidence.

He knows a lot about the case. I think he's back in court on Tuesday. I've got name suppression. I'm sorry I was able to say that. An unnamed radio host. I'm all across those deets, Gloria. Don't worry about that, mate. So looking forward to see how you portray my story.

All right. So I under the hits. Let's take the entertainment industry, media, anyone listening right now in the media industry and entertainment, we'll take any form of entertainment, 0800 The Hits, and see if we can match up Gloria with someone else and they can both win a prize, some hell pizza this morning. Now, Gloria, you say you're a runner, you have to run around getting things

for the production team, for the actors and things like that. What is the strangest thing you've had to run around and grab? Oh, God. Well, it wasn't actually strange, but I did. I was flowing to Napier with all the camera gear at once, and it was just a day trip flying in and flying out, and I stopped off and caught up with someone and then missed my flight back to Auckland.

Oh, you were lugging camera gear around the place. Well, all this expensive camera gear. Gloria. Yes. Not a mare of a carry-on luggage situation, but someone has called through. Izzy. Izzy.

Hello. Welcome to Joining Jobs. We said work in media. That was the... Yeah, entertainment. What do you do? Yeah, I'm a runner too. Oh, an excellent job.

Oh, there you go. Listen, I wasn't holding much hope. No, that's why I widened the scope, but hey. How many film runners have we got listening to this program? We should get some of these stats on that. Izzy, do you know Gloria? No, I don't. Oh, okay.

Time for some... Let's talk for some let's talk shop. Let's talk shop. What's going on? Where are you based, Izzy? I'm in Auckland, but I do a lot of the commercial stuff. Oh, okay. You're in commercial. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was actually good bad. It's busy out there in that traffic, isn't it? It is. It's hard work. I that traffic, isn't it? It is. It's hard work. I used to think there should be a show called Run Awards and you'd have different runners compete against each other. That is a great reality show.

Yeah. And they're all stressing out about having to pick something up and get it back to set in time. Well, listen, both of you, congratulations. Thank you. We're going to send you some hell pizza, and thank you so much for listening to the show. Oh, you guys are great, I listen to you every morning

have a great day, thank you so much the hits, the Jono and Ben podcast he's more lost than a 45 year old at Rhythm and Vine got lost on the internet again now actually producer Joel, you helped me with this one thank you very much I opened the computer on the internet again. Now, actually, Producer Joel, you helped me with this one.

Thank you very much. No worries. Open the computer. I'm producing jobs. Yeah, and it's the most streamed artist on Spotify at the moment. Okay. And the list is interesting. But all time, just before we get into it,

the most streamed artist all time, most followed artist is Ed Sheeran. Okay. On Spotify. He's got so many hits. I mean, we've talked about Ed Sheeran in the country right now, and you were saying that the other day, actually, how many hits Ed Sheeran's got, just hit after hit.

There's so many songs he has that are lost in albums as well that he could just release now and they would be, that'd be number one. We'd be playing them on the hits all day. How many songs has Ed Sheeran got? I'll just do a little side. Has Ed Sheeran got? 65 singles.

65 singles? Singles. So that'seran got? 65 singles. 65 singles? Singles. So that's not even all the album tracks. Yeah, wow. That's great. Holy hell, he's releasing a song every 12 minutes, that guy. But yeah, the most followed female artist, Ariana Grande. Drake, the most streamed artist of all time.

And Taylor Swift, the most streamed female artist. So you've got the most followed and the most streamed. Gotcha, okay. But these are the most popular Spotify artists most streamed. Gotcha, okay. But these are the most popular Spotify artists at the moment, okay? Number 10. He looks devastatingly awkward in music videos,

but looks very comfortable at 10th position on this list. David Guetta. I love David Guetta on a music video. Yeah, yeah. It's not really his happy place, it seems like, right? He's probably like,

please don't put that camera in me. I just like making music that people Yeah. Yeah. It's not really his happy place, it seems like, right? He's probably like, please, please don't put that camera in me. I just like making music that people take pills to. Yeah, yeah. Behind the decks at some sort of rave in Ibiza. At number nine,

you don't want to run with them and you certainly don't want to hand them over the incorrect way. Scissor. Scissor. Number nine. But this is right,

currently right now Yeah not of all time Yeah okay alright He's Toosie slid himself Into eighth place You know who I'm talking about No

No From what Toosie slide Oh Sorry You slid I was like who slid Drake

Sorry I missed your reference. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. You know, I hate it when I go, you know what I'm talking about. You look at me like, no, I don't. I missed the reference at the start. I'm sorry. I'm gathering this is due to the fact that she's doing the Super Bowl halftime show. Rihanna is next on the list and also halfway down this list.

He's in the country at the moment. And I haven't just put him here because he might be listening to us right now. Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran. He's at number six. Her hips don't lie, but her tax returns did. Shakira. Oh, she's nice. She's got new music out at the moment.

Yeah, she's all outing her ex and stuff like that. Yeah, got court cases going on. She's got new music out at the moment. Yeah, she's all outing her ex and stuff like that. Yeah, got court cases going on. She's pretty popular. She's rooting for the anti-hero, and we've been rooting for her in third place, Taylor Swift. And she can buy herself flowers, and maybe even ones not from the petrol station with the success

of her latest song Miley Cyrus at number two the biggest song in the world as we mentioned earlier this morning the song right now

at number one then who's that well he can't feel his face when he's with you but he can certainly feel the extra bucks popping into his

bank account the weekend the weekend this song is one of the biggest stream songs songs of all time, right? Isn't it? The biggest. The biggest.

There we go. You know, one of the most streamed songs on Spotify. It made at least $2 to $3 in royalties off that. So congratulations. Do you use Spotify or Apple Music? I'm on Apple Music just because it works easier with my phone. But Spotify seems like the one that, you know, most people are into. There's a lot of controversy around Spotify, though, isn't there?

And how they do pay artists. Right. And, uh... Yeah, I read about it. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I haven't seen it. I keep asking them to send through the accounts, but they won't send them to me.

Right. Right. Right. Right. And that's won't send them to me. Right. Right. Right. And that's all I've got to say on that. We've been talking so much about the weather, and the only good thing about the weather is the fact that it has provided easy banter, you know.

That was the good thing about COVID, too, is you've got some easy banter going on. Oh, have you had COVID? Oh, you haven't had it. Oh, you've had some easy banter going on Oh have you had COVID? Oh you haven't had it Oh you've had it You know Ready for round two That sort of thing

And it was easy five minutes conversation Yeah it was Because then you could get into the government You could really spiral down that rabbit hole Depending on how much you wanted to deep dive Yeah I'm still going around on the internet Some of the deep dive

People still Anyway What about COVID? oh also the government's you know oh listen it was planted they controlled us

we've got chips in our system let's just all be happy with it but the weather has been a nasty of late and it seems like there's a tropical cyclone Gabriel that's happening

and it could be heading our way from the South Pacific they reckon Sunday onwards top of the North at the moment it is looking like could be heading our way from the South Pacific. They reckon Sunday onwards, top of the north at the moment, it is looking like it's heading our way. The next few days is going to be really nice, but they reckon Sunday for a few days there could be a lot of rain and a whole lot more coming.

So we'll keep you up to date with that as more news comes to hand about the cyclone that is sort of bearing down on New Zealand from Sunday onwards. I asked the office meteorologist yesterday, hey, what about the office meteorologist yesterday, hey, what about the cyclone? And that was a huge mistake because then you end up getting a full, quite a detailed weather report.

But what I did cherry pick out of it, Ben, is that because it's a cyclone, it's on the move, as opposed to what happened a week or so ago where it just sat on top. Yeah, right. So it'll bring some noise, it'll bring a laugh or two, but it'll move on. It'll move quite quickly, right. It's not just going to sit there over a long period of time, which is...

Okay. There we go. But there was also another 15 minutes of stuff, if you want me to get into that. No, no, that was all right. Just paraphrase it. That's all I needed to know. That was perfect.

All right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Don't you love it when you go to a shop Or somewhere offering a service And they give you a little treat Doesn't that make you feel so much better about this? Well you mean some sort of like a Like candy or something

Or a chocolate or lollies That sort of thing Like I take my car to a mechanic I think Bee Humps takes his car to the same mechanic as well Have you taken your car there too? Yeah I know the one you're talking about, yeah. And they always, as they're handing you over a bill, give you a little Freddo chocolate.

Yeah. You know Freddo? A couple of chocolates. I think a couple of chocolates. And it's amazing. You probably end up paying hundreds of dollars, but at the same time you're like, oh, that's lovely. They've given it.

It really does smokescreen the $258 plus GST bill you've also been. It comes along with the Freddo, but it makes you feel a little bit better about it, doesn't it? It is a good thing. Even I find there's a place now and again you'll get dry cleaning done if you need to dry clean a suit or something like that. And the kids love it because they will get like a lollipop if they'll go into this place.

And they're like, we need to take more dry cleaning. It's almost like the kids are working for the dry dry cleaners to get you know it does work doesn't i mean the butchers were thriving off at handing out raw sausage meat yeah the cheerios till the yeah the food safety people till the lefties got hold of it mate pc madness can't hand out raw meat to kids nowadays what's going on but producer Behemz you were saying you got calendars from the same place

oh really now a choice of two calendars now one was mountains and rivers oh yeah so one was nature one was nature

and then the other was scantily clad models holding swords what was that now what did you choose? What calendar did you choose? You can come through here producer So this is

You must have spent a lot of money To get offered two calendars Because I guess you're A bit concerned about Who's around And what calendar you're picking Yeah I got really flustered I can imagine

It's quite Mountains or rivers Or scantily clad models What did you go? In the heat of the moment I I opted for the mountains and rivers. Good, good. Not the ones on the chest. The ones nature provided.

Yeah, no, I love seeing those calendars. And it's not for pervy reasons. It's just because I'm like, well, there was clearly no health and safety officer here. This person, this person is holding a giant wrench in a bikini. Oh, jeez. If Osh walked in here, they'd have a field day. The overalls are tied around their waist. They're meant to be fully over their shoulders.

No safety goggles, no hard hats. No nothing, you're right. No steel-capped boots. Some of them are sprawled across vehicles holding like a power drill. And I'm like, if I walked in and I was like, excuse me, what are you doing on the bonnet of my car? You're meant to be changing my oil. So, yeah, that's my issue with those calendars.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, relationships, anyone that's in a relationship, there will be some things that potentially grind your gears. Now, they normally happen over time, but I've married First Sight Australia, which is on TV right now. It's happening straight away with my couple. Well, it did happen over time, over a 24-hour period.

Yeah, but normally it's years before you build up that hatred. I mean that dislike, but you know, things that may irk you a little bit. Well, we did play this audio yesterday, and it really touched the hearts and struck a chord with the people of New Zealand, Ben. It did. Yeah, and it was this couple, and the wife was shushed.

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. Yeah, like I say, they might be the first married at first sight couple not to make it, Ben. Oh, really? I don't know. They last in the distance but shushing is one of those things that would if it was your thing it would grind your gears i generally like to do my shushing under the cover of darkness in a movie theater

people opening packets of something but no one knows where it's coming from you can safely it's a safe shushing zone get your shushing out of the way but there are things and that's what we wanted to know this morning and oh 800 the hits or 4487 what are those things in your relationship just the little things that maybe grind your gears or in real life oh true they can't you don't have to be relationship based you're right oh it's gonna say people with clipboards people who approach me in public with clipboards, really, would you like to buy 456 games of paintball? It's like, mate, no. Come on, special deal here.

I'll just get you. And before you know it, you're signing up to a bloody iPad, buying a lifetime's worth of paintball games. One's enough for my lifetime. Hurts, the paintball pellet. It does, it does. Very sore. And then, oh, we'll give you,

why don't you sign up to direct debit the, you know, the rare white-skinned dolphins. Mate. Yeah. Yeah,

clipboards. That's me. My wife, it's something I do, like, from time to time, I love, I'm a cruncher of ice.

Like, if I have a drink with ice in it, and then I'll just spend the next, I really enjoy the crunching of the ice, but I can see when you're sitting next to someone and they've had a drink with ice in it, and then I'll just spend the next, I'll really enjoy the crunching of the ice. But I can see when you're sitting next to someone and they've had a drink

and they're just sitting there going, crunch, crunch, crunch. Crunching all, I can see how that would wind people up, and that's something I do. But it's also very satisfying to crunch the ice. That's it, that's why I do it. And also just getting that final little morsel of liquid out of the bottom of the glass. Again, it's enjoyable for you.

Everyone else at the table drives them bonkers. So what grinds your gears? This is what we're going to open up this morning. 0800 the hits, telephone number 4487 if you'd like to text us as well. We've got some tickets to Magic Mike Last Dance to give away as well. Magic Mike will be grinding something. Grinding, yes, you're right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

New Zealand waiting on the tropical cyclone that seems to be heading our way Sunday onwards for the top of the North Island. We'll keep you up to date throughout the week on The Hits. Talking about grinding and winding your gears this morning on 0800 The Hits. You can text 24487. Let's go to Tanya in Whangarei. Welcome, Tanya. Hi, how's it going?

Good. Clearing things off your chest, mate. What's going on? What winds and grinds your gears? Oh, I just hate it when you go into a shop or something like that and there's a lady that serves you or something, and then you go, thanks very much. Oh, no problem.

Thanks, hon. You don't even know me. You don't like a hon. Yeah. Do you like a champ? Because champ winds me up if someone calls me champ. Yeah. It's like, hang on, you call your husband hon or something like that.

You don't call the person that you serve around the counter hon. Yeah. That's a good point. It's playing for the same condescending team as champ, isn't it? Yeah, it sure is. Yeah, it feels like someone's really spat in your face when they call you a hun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just not the dumb thing. A lot of people who sell beauty products online, hey, hun, I've just been taking this for a month, you know. Hey, hun, how are you? Thanks, hun. Yeah, I don't actually know you, but thanks. We're going to send you off to Magic Mike, The Last Dance, a double pass to that.

Enjoy. Cool, thanks very much. Watch Mike grinding his gears up against you. There we go. Let's go to Marge in Auckland. What's winding and grinding you, Marge? Pen clicking and just general loud chewers. It drives me absolutely insane.

Pen clicking? Oh, yeah. Pen clicking winds people up. You know, there's not so many pens out there in the market as there nowadays. Well, in my office, apparently, there is. But you're right. Johnny, if you've got the pen, that's the fun thing to do with it. But I understand if you haven't got the pen, it's the annoying thing listening do with it. But I understand if you haven't got the pen,

it's the annoying thing listening to a pen. Yeah, Joel's got one now. There you go. Yeah, that's your turn. Once you zero in on it, I mean, you wouldn't, I guess, the new age version is typing on a keyboard, and Ben Boyce, very aggressive, frantic typer. Loud typer.

Give it, type something now. Put your mic to it. This is just an average day's typing. Type how you'd normally type. It's quite loud when you put the mic out, isn't it? No, I can hear it. We've got the easy touch ones, so they're not too loud. Maybe you guys need to get some of them.

He'd wear out the easy touch, mate. Don't you worry about that. Thank you for your call, Marge. We'll send you off to Magic Mike, all right? Oh, awesome. Thank you. Oh, it's our friend Nicole. How are you?

Hi, good. Thanks, and you? Good. I was about to say our old friend Nicole, but then I'm like, oh, that was... You don't want to make it sound like you're saying she's old. Anyway, I know what you're saying. That might grind someone's gears. Exactly, yeah.

Now, Nicole, what's grinding and winding? One thing I hate, and especially when you take your kids to a bakery or something, is paying for the sauce. I wish they just included in the price of the item, because at the end of it, you buy everything you need, you walk out and suddenly the kids start whinging, they want tomato sauce or they want some sauce on it, and now you have to go back and pay for the sauce. You just think it generally comes in a big

bottle, supply a bottle of it on the side that you can use. Hates paying for sauce. I hear you. Once you say it like that, you're right. Yes, especially with your teriyaki sauce on your sushi and it's such a pain afterwards or to buy the sashay when they can just

sweat it over the sushi and you're paying for the sushi anyway. It doesn't cost them an extra dollar to put it on. What's the alternative? I walk around with a bottle of soy sauce in my pocket ready to put like a holster. That may be a solution but I don't think it would last very long. Well the soy sauce would be okay

but your tomato sauce and mayo and stuff doesn't do very well out the fridge for long. Imagine if you had a belt with all of the sauces. Like a condiment belt. That just wandered around. A sauce for any occasion. You name a sauce. Yeah.

Does it annoy you when people take, like one of the kids will say, can you take this out of a burger? Take three things out of a burger, but they still charge you the same, and then you want to add one thing back in, and suddenly that's $3. You're like, oh, hang on.

I've taken three things out. Surely we can, you know. Remove the mustard, remove the pickles, but now suddenly paying extra for the pickles. Yeah, get rid of the lettuce and tomato, but we'll put avo in, or that'll be $3 extra. But hang on, I've saved you some. Well, for something that started out as therapy for you, Nicole, it's kind of turned into a bit of a session for Ben, too.

Yeah, sorry, sorry. Well, you go and have a great day, Nicole. Lovely to hear from you thank you nice to chat to you too next Tuesday Valentine's Day love is in the air

everywhere I look around yeah Valentine's Day some people are really into it others not as much you're not much of a V-Day guy I kind of feel like it's very commercial. My wife and I, before

kids, and you used to go out a lot more, we used to do something either the night before or the night after. So if you went out for dinner, you weren't going out to dinner and going, oh, here's everyone on their billet, you know? I know that you do like to pull out the commercialism card. In reality, was it cheaper to go the night before or the night after?

Normally that too, yeah. But mainly commercial. You know, love is not commercial, is it? You don't want to give in to that. No. And that's why we want to do Valentine's Day at a Valentine's restaurant. We don't want it to be commercial. No, it's been a dream of ours to have Valentine's Day at Valentine's.

Yeah. You know, Valentine's restaurant. And we thought, well, wouldn't it be amazing to do lunch at have Valentine's Day at Valentine's. Yeah. You know, Valentine's, and we thought, well, wouldn't it be amazing to do lunch at one Valentine's and then dinner at another Valentine's at two different parts of the country? Yeah. Shouting, couples, amorous couples, hand-feeding them oysters, really getting the mood going in the middle of the... Well, we can leave you to it, but you're right.

We will shout some couples if we do this idea as well for lunch, and we'll also shout some other couples for dinner. What says I love you more than a three-course meal at an all-you-can-eat buffet? Yeah. Filling your hearts and melting hearts. Because maybe you're into Valentine's Day and you've got something planned,

or maybe you're like, well, hey, this sounds like a fun way to do something. I'm just looking at the menu, because we have talked about doing Valentine's at Valentine's for, it feels like, five years. We've wanted to do it every February and it just hasn't come off. It seems like the ideal place to be on Valentine's Day is Valentine's. I wouldn't be surprised if we see some babies being conceived on top of the seafood buffet. Don't know. Health and food safety, no, That's not going to happen.

I won't stop it. Who are we to jump in the middle of love? So this is what we want to do because we need to know if there's actually any interest. Obviously we'll sort the meals. Yeah, we'll pay for that. We'll sort that. Just text maybe Valentine's. Can we do that? Valentine's to 4487.

We just want to gauge some interest from the market. If you'd like to sit in a restaurant with other couples and to... Yeah, you don't have to sit. You can sit with your own partner and stuff. Have your own chat. Yeah, you don't have to.

Two yappy radio announcers. We'll probably come round and go, G'day! We'll definitely be recording you on a phone. Everything right with the meal and that sort of thing, yeah. If that's the environment for you. Yeah, it sounds fun.

I'm on board. that's how i i miss my dream of valentine's now this was actually a very long place so ben could take his wife out on valentine's day and not have to pay for anything as well it's an elaborate plan yeah all right so four four eight seven you can text valentine's to four four eight seven is this a good idea or not Are you keen to come and join us on this? Looking at the menu, it's fantastic. You've got your fish goujons, shaved champagne ham, the Indian curry of the week. Oh, wow. What is it this week?

I don't know. What is it next week? It's going to be magnificent. If we can pull this off. If you don't want to do it, hey, we won't do it. Okay. Yeah. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Let's go. Jono and Ben with five words for 5K. Stop any time to keep the cash. Thank you. Or play on to win more. It's our Game of Word Association. You should know how it works by now. We tell you five words.

You tell us what pops into your head. If they all match up with ours, you win $5,000. Anna, let's get you on from Hamilton. How are you? We're good, thank you. You got the kids, Cooper and Paige, with you on the way to school? Yep, we sure do. You'll be stopping the schoolyard to listen to Pink at 8 o'clock, won't you?

No, they'll be gone by then. No, you just say... Yeah, I know. But Pink is right. 8 o'clock won't you no they'll be gone by then no you just say yeah i know yeah but pink is you're right eight o'clock pink's joining us it's very exciting you'll be stopping and listening though won't you anna yeah sure yeah good on you thank you now five grand uh all you need to do is suck five words out of your gob and hopefully match those five words with our five words and we'll give you the cash. What would you spend it on? Well, we actually need to pay off the lawnmower we just bought. Sorry, your phone cut out. Something to do with a lawnmower.

Yeah, we just bought a ride on for our massive section, so it would be so good to have some money towards that. Oh, stop bragging about your massive section. Section's so big, your section's making my section feel inferior. All right, well, let's try and win you some money for your massive section to get that right on lawnmower. Who do you want to send into the soundproof booth? My son chose Jono.

All right, all headed. He's headed away. He's in there now. Here we go. What pops into your head when I say exclamation? Mark. Yep. Roll on is the second word.

Roll on. Deodorant. Do you guys reckon? Deodorant. All right. Good team game going on there. Thirsty. Thirsty is word number three.

Poop. Can we come back to that one? Yeah, come back to thirsty. No worries. Phone is word number four. Phone. Oh, no. Oh, gosh.

Someone's saying oh, no in the background. Oh, no. Options are plenty for phone. Apple phone. What iPhone? Oh, let's go iPhone. Okay. options are plenty for phone apple phone oh let's go iphone okay let's hope john has got an iphone oh he does i think he does have an iphone so hopefully they'll be thinking that uh smoothie is word number five smoothie Smoothie, fruit smoothie. Tough, tough when you're on the spot there. Oh, tough words.

Yeah, tough words. What are you going to lock in? What do you reckon, Paige? Fire away, girl. I don't know. Kids are like, oh, it's dropped me off at school now. Fruit or bowl? Bowl.

Bowl. The kids are saying bowl. Okay, and quickly, thirsty was the third word. I know you've had no time to think about it, but we're going back to that one. Drink. Yeah, drink. Is it liquor? Liquor.

From the kids. I've got to grab an answer. Let's just go water. Water. All right, we'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth. It was tough, tough, tough. Tough words there, Jono, I'm sorry to say. If you win the $5,000 too, we'll put this in the T's and C's.

You're forever indebted to us, okay? If we need a lift to the airport, you need to take us. If Ben passes away, you need to destroy his computer and get rid of all the evidence, all right? All right. All right, let's get into it. Word one, $25. Exclamation is word number one.

Mark. Yeah, well done, $25. Santa, do you want to risk it all for $50? Could say, yep. Okay. Word two, $50. Roll on. Deodorant.

Hey, well done. Yeah, Jono. Quick game, good game. I like it. $50 is yours. Do you want to put it on the line for $100? Yep. Okay, here we go.

Word three, $100. Thirsty. Drink. Oh, no. I think it might have been one of the options they were talking about but water was what we looked at

oh another good option that was a tough one I'm so sorry Anna alrighty that's cool oh you can hear that kids

are you still talking to me no the hits the Jono and Ben podcast it's the hits Jono and Ben on your Thursday morning very excited to announce No. Pink is on Zoom right now. This is very exciting. How are you doing? Hi, how are you doing? We're doing all right. Do you know we currently play 27 of your songs on our radio station, including your new single as well. So please never stop making music.

Otherwise, we're out of a job. Wow, 27 songs. I made that many songs. You have. If you stop making music, I have to go out there and sell my body to make money. It's not a pretty body, mate. There's not much market for this body, Pink. The album's called Trustful.

Ironically, you probably don't want to trust us with the album, but you've done that and it's awesome. We loved hearing it and we can't wait for the fact that you've got the new album, but you're coming back to New Zealand. That's very exciting. I know. It's a long ways away, but I'll be very well seasoned in my tricks by then i'm stoked i this is one of my favorite albums i've ever made and i'm super excited to hear resonate with people and coming back to new zealand as well you said that we were

the nicest people in the world which i think you know is an amazing the nicest thing anyone's ever said about new zealand obviously you hadn't met us but that's that's awesome you must love coming to new zealand i do and carrie loves too. It's very hard to get my husband to, to want to go on tour at this point because he has his shop here where he builds motorcycles. Carrie loves it, which makes it fun for me and the kids love it. And you and you and the Canadians are actually the nicest people in the world. Us and the Canadians? Well, I tell you what, if we have to kneecap the Canadians for first spot, we'll do it, mate. Last time you were here,

Kerry went to some very small rural motocross event, didn't he? He did. He loved it. I drove up on a dirt bike barefoot. I was like, yep, that sounds right. Well, that's what we wanted to know. We wanted to know what does Pink think? And there were some of the things. So yeah, we wanted to hold up some

pictures. Carrie Hart, obviously doing motocross in New Zealand. What did you think about that mid-tour when he was like, hey, I'm going to go do motocross, miss your concert? It's a wonderful break for both of us. That's married life right there, right? I like him happy.

He likes when I'm happy. I like when he's happy. And you're happier when you're not together. Okay. What does Pink think of our former prime minister, Jacinda Ardern? You know what I think of Jacinda. I love Jacinda and I've spent time with Jacinda and she's one of the kindest people in the world. And I love her.

You sent a lovely message after she resigned. It was lovely. Yeah yeah it was kind the response was not as kind but i was being kind yeah well people mean what mean to you yes oh really what were they saying oh that they want me to die slowly you know just things like that oh yeah i'm sorry about that i didn't think you'd read it hey uh pink i'm gonna share something with you ben he's a little anxious about asking you this next question now the backstory is he went to the mall and he spent 26 on this item it's it's pun based and i just want you to know i just want you to decide whether it was worth the $26 I've lost confidence and I was shopping with my daughter and I I saw this in the shop and I went I could say this to pink and she rolled her eyes and he rolled her eyes and now I've lost confidence in doing it so just bear in

mind it was this worth $26 now I'll hand it over yeah pink okay here you go you have so many you know fans around the world, particularly in New Zealand. But what do you want to say to this pink fan that I have in the studio? It's a pink fan. It's literally a fan blowing air on us. It should not have cost $26. I know, that's what I thought. How old is your daughter?

I've got one 11, one 13. Yeah, the 11-year-old went, ugh. And I went, and I still bought it, and I did it, and I regret everything about doing that to you, Pink. I'm so sorry. It's okay. Pink's going to stick around. We're going to throw some more questions to her next.

Jono, you want to know what's her favorite song to perform, and what's the one song she's like, I've had enough of it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Now, you know obviously you you have kids taking kids on tour is it a nightmare oh absolutely it's a bad idea i love it though do they get their own room backstage um my daughter actually works quick change for the dancers oh really and we were just actually discussing minimum wage this morning and my son

like i used to have like whiskey in my dressing room and now i have ball pits it's things have changed it must be hard to balance you know touring life and and being a mom it's impossible but i love it i love i love it and and i like having a touring family and days off are great and we get to see the world and they're good kids. And yeah, we have fun. We're goofy. We just roller skate in the house and it's fun. And it's great when Carrie goes to South Canterbury and does motocross. Yes. Do you, do you have your kids still, do they still think you're cool?

My six-year-old said to my best friend the other day, he goes, do you know that my mom is the best singer in the whole world and she goes i do and he goes do you know that she performs to a hundred people we're gonna work on that math hopefully you get more tickets when you go to new zealand sold what's the craziest thing that's ever happened as a pink concert because i read someone gave birth oh i'm sure tons of people have given birth. I had to break up a fight between two moms because the four year old was screaming and crying on the ground. Oh, really?

At the show? At the show. Yep. I had this poor girl sitting on my lap until the moms could get it together and wipe up the blood. I told the crowd, I told Philly, I'm like, and you guys wonder why I'm like this. This is where I'm from. My wife, Amanda, she dines out on the fact that when you came to New Zealand, she loves you.

It got quiet at one moment. She yelled out, I love you, Pink. And you said, I love you too. And now every time we hear a song, she's like, Pink, she loves me. She tells the story all the time. I'm like, mate, she doesn't even know who you are. It felt like an obligation from you where you had to say, I love you back, doesn't it? Because you've done over 70 songs, and I imagine they're like children, but also like children.

Everyone's got a favorite and a least favorite. Do you have one favorite song out of the whole catalog? The whole thing? Yeah. Big question. No, I can't. I don't know. What did i even write

i will always love get the party started it's not my favorite but i will always love it i never get sick of it is there one you do get sick of oh yeah don't let me get me you and your hand raise your glass oh that's a lot most you bet catalog so Pink very enthusiastic about these upcoming shows no Pink you are you are so awesome as we said before we love

we love you here in New Zealand we can't wait for you to come back we love the new album Trustful and the singles as well so hopefully we'll hang out do some motocross or something

when you're in New Zealand do it barefoot moto let's do it see you mate see ya how cool is she she's awesome eh

yeah bloody good yeah no good we'll go double pass it might be weird to say something bad about her right now we're going to double pass to Pink

she's coming to New Zealand for the Summer Carnival World Tour March next year and we want to give this away to someone who's like New Zealand's biggest Pink fan

yeah mega fan so how hard does your fandom go for Pink like do we have to get a restraining order well yeah we're looking at that sort of stuff.

Yeah, like, well, what does Pink mean to you? Maybe a song that you're wearing? Whatever. 4487, New Zealand's biggest Pink fan, and we will give that away over the next couple of days. A double pass, one of the first double passes to Pink's world tour coming to New Zealand next year on The Hits. Jono and Ben,

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could be hit by some wild weather for a couple of days it'll be nice to see I don't need to come clean about a lie that I've been peddling throughout the kids

school careers right ever since they started school is your humble backbone of Aotearoa school bake sale right you know

baked goods yeah fundraising they love them love them at the schools don't they for a worthy cause yeah school bake sale. Right. You know? Baked goods. Yeah. Fundraising. They love them at the schools, don't they? For a worthy cause. Yeah. Now,

for most of those bake sales, they're always stipulating home baked goods. Home baked goods, yeah. Bring your home baked goods. Must be baked in the home. Well,

they say home baked goods, but yeah. Home baked goods. And I have never once bought home-baked goods. You've never baked? I've never. I've baked. But I've never baked for the fundraiser.

I've been baked. But never for the purpose of the fundraiser. Like I do sometimes get a bit sloppy and just chuck a pack of Tim Tams on top of the pile. But generally, I will go and I'll say where it is. Pack and safe. Right. Okay. And they've got a lovely slice there with little chocolate chips on top and i cut it up into little squares put it in like a plastic chinese takeaway container with a napkin over the top screams home baked make it look but it's not baked in the home well the beautiful thing now that we're the

kids at the age of minor, they love doing it themselves. You don't even have to, you know. They're doing their own home baking. They're doing their own baking. They love it. Yeah. So your kids will be fine now. I should get them out baking.

Yeah. But the hole I've fallen into is people try them, and they're like, these are delicious. Where are you getting these from? I must get the recipe from you. And I'm like, I must also get the recipe from Parkinson. Because I know. It's from the stick man. i'll ask the stick man where he gets it from i'm honestly yeah i'm waiting for the day that i'm going to be severely called out or maybe they're just talking behind

my back saying we know he's buying them from the supermarket no one say anything we could have jonah and ben's fake sale where everyone turns up with what they're trying to pretend are home baked goods but have all been purchased at like Baker's Delight or Brumby's or all the supermarkets. That's pretty much, you're right. You've just described like going to the bakery or something. No one's baited but the people there. Yeah, the fake sale.

It's coming. I love it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Oh, I've said something to me yesterday that I've never actually thought of, and I don't know if other people think the same out there listening right now. So she's getting an item. She wanted to get this item

for there's a function on this weekend and she's wanted to get this. She's been doing the research on what she wanted to get. And you know what it's like as a parent, you don't actually buy that much stuff for yourself anymore. It's kind of like once you've got kids, money seems to go to the kids and you're like, I'll just make do. But there was a dress that she really wanted and it's kind of like once you're a kid once you've got kids that money seems to go to the kids and you're like i'll just make do but there was a address that she really wanted and it's not

ridiculously priced she was like i'd love to have this for this function in the weekend and it seemed like a good thing um but she's running out of time to get get it before the function so i'm like just we'll just buy it online she's like well yeah i could do that i'm like or or i'll go in and pick it up she's like yeah i could do that but she's like you don, yeah, I could do that. Or I'll go in and pick it up. She's like, yeah, I could do that. But she's like, you don't get the same satisfaction buying it online as you do in person. And she doesn't buy much stuff for herself. So she wants to have that satisfaction of going to the store, trying it on, taking it to the counter.

She's like, even getting the bag, have someone handing over a bag. You don't get that satisfaction online. I've never thought of that before. You don't get someone awkwardly knocking on the door. How are you going in there? Are you all right there? How am I going in there?

I always wonder, is that question related to the pants I'm trying on or the fact I've got them around my head? Just in general. You're like, things aren't good at work. But I hadn't actually thought of that before. There's something about going in person and you get that feeling of like, oh, I'll purchase this rather than online where it's just a click of a mouse. Far harder to shoplift online too, I find.

Yes, yeah, true. A lot easier in person and in real life as well. And also I find online everything just looks magnificent on the models. Yeah. I mean, I ended up buying a shirt the other month. We have flames with pink flamingos on it. And I was like, this just looks so good on that. Young, brooding, emotionless, washboard-air model. And I'm wearing it.

I'm like, what did you come dressed as? What's this theme? What's this theme party? You know, you do take a gamble online. You purchased your suits. Wedding outfits, yeah, for myself and the groomsmen. Full linen, full beach. It's full tan linen.

Again, they look so good on the people on the beach online. I'm like, yeah, these are the ones. They arrived and they weren't the ones. And I was so embarrassed. You and the groomsmen look like malnourished backstreet boys. Those big baggy linen suits.

Put them in a clothing bin and we never spoke of it. Well, actually we speak of it lots on the radio, but my wife and I have never spoken about it again. So there's someone out there wandering around in these linen suits. Oh, yeah, four people.

Four people. Take him with them. Looking good. Looking amazing. It's a bit of a gamble online, isn't it? Yeah, online versus shopping in person.