Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: What Makes You Feel Young?

Episode Date: August 15, 2022

Today on the Jono and Ben podcast, we put the question out asking what makes you feel young and a 40 year old backflipping lady calls through... Megan Papas joins us to chat about what is good to watch and Peter Andre joins us on the show! Follow us on IG/FB "thehitsbreakfast" to see all of our social media content.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's with the Jono and Ben podcast. Kia ora, welcome 16th of August 2022. Ben, you were sharing a story about how you re-gifted a book to a friend of yours and your friend then came up to you and said, I'm actually halfway through this book, can I get the receipt for the book? So I can then purchase myself another book in exchange. But it was a re-gifted book that I didn't pay for, so it was an awkward situation. I'm like, yeah, no worries, I'll get the receipt.

And I don't know what to do now. I feel I need to go purchase the book to get the receipt. Well, I said another option was, does anyone work in a Whitcalls Paper Plus, text us in 4487, can we manufacture up a fraudulent receipt for you then to give your friend? And a lot of people,

they're trying to come up with solutions here, Ben. We're trying to get you out of a hole. Okay, yeah, what have we got on the text machine? 4487. This is quite a good solution. Someone's saying just come clean. Now, the issue is coming clean is that you haven't come clean from the get-go. You should have gone.

I know, yeah, I had that opportunity to come clean where they went, hey, can I get the receipt? I could have gone, oh, there's no receipt because this is yeah but i thought you'd want yeah so this is what the the text message reads um ben why don't you try coming clean saying i saw this at work yes yes i got it from work yes yes but i thought of you and the thought was That way, smoke screening the fact that you've lied to their face and said you were going to go receipt hunting, and then them going, oh, isn't it nice they were thinking of me in that situation.

But then what if they go, oh, it's lovely you thought of me, but how about the fact that you lied about the receipt? Well, in that instance, your friendship's over. I just feel like it's probably one of those occasions where you go, yeah, yeah, I'll get that receipt to you, and you don't. Here's another one saying three options. Three options? Three options.

Number one, come clean. Right. Don't hire that one. Number two, say you can't find the receipt. Great. Love that. Someone check that out. Yeah, that's good.

That's good. Number three, suggest that he keep it and re-gift it check that out. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Number three, suggest that he keep it and re-gift it to someone else. Oh, yeah. So those last two options are not bad. Continue on the web of lies.

That's what he's smiling at. That's what he's looking like. I love the fact that they end up giving it to someone else. Just go, oh, hey, I lost the receipt. How about you re-give it to someone else? And then they go.

They get into a re-gifting hole they might have the same thing happen later where someone goes oh can I get that receipt you're like oh what have you started here I like it it's the re-gifting you know I've re-gifted I've given someone the gift so I'm cancelling out come clean that's not

even an option I've got no backbone so yeah absolutely so those are very helpful suggestions on 4487, the text there. A lot of fun. Yeah, today on the show, Peter Andre. Now, he's fast become a bit of a friend of the show. We've talked to him a while back, and he seemed to enjoy it. He started following us on the Hits Breakfast on Instagram.

He can follow if you want to check it out. Now, Joel, Producer Joel, you help run the Hits Instagram account, the Hits breakfast. Don't put it all on me. Come on, man. He only works with the content he's given. Yeah. And we don't give you great content.

Yeah. But what would you like to say to people to follow the account? What would be a good hook? Well, seriously, if Peter Andre likes it, he's a well-credited man. He's got over 2 million followers. He follows it. He comments on all the posts. So why would you not? It's a well credited man he's got over 2 million followers he follows it he comments on all the posts so why would you not

you know it's a good laugh it's something to distract you from your everyday life and yeah just go like the video and he doesn't even get half the jokes

I would imagine because there's a lot of like New Zealand sort of based content he's doing laughing emojis yeah I know if it's good enough for Peter Andre

then it's good enough for whoever you are hey the people that listen to the podcast appreciate it Peter Andre then it's good enough for whoever you are hey the people that listen to the podcast are appreciate it but they're not

as great as Peter Andre yeah okay there's a pecking order in life Ben we're not as great as Peter Andre no I know that

we'll never be as great as Peter Andre I get that okay so that's on the podcast Peter Andre surprise we surprise you

with Peter Andre it's actually pretty cool a bit of a great moment that'll be in all it's video form on the hits breakfast today on Instagram

give it a follow give it a like Joel exactly and if you have any feedback what more could the audience be doing exactly give us some feedback

at the hits breakfast and we might even read out some of the DM's tomorrow on the podcast with feedback that you guys want to see from the podcast Instagram maybe not the radio show. Okay, all right, that's good.

There we go. At Hits Breakfast, you go and have a wonderful Tuesday. We'll catch you tomorrow. A-grade celebrity chat with C-grade celebrity hosts, Jono and Ben on the hits. We're looking for the best song ever, and Mysterious Girl, this great jam from Peter Andre bundled out of the competition. One of our favourite songs gone

from the competition in round one so we're on a mission to get it back in involving Jono today putting on a performance shirtless like Peter Andre in the video in his jeans for the whole office and just before the show this morning we came in to rehearse to do some practice ahead of the performance

and I had a wee surprise for Jono over FaceTime. It was Peter Andre himself joining us. Peter Andre. I am fantastic. It's good morning for you guys, but it's night here. It's nearly 11 at night. Because you've just, at the moment, you're in the middle of performing the musical Grease,

so you've just finished that for another night. Have you heading home? Yeah, so we just finished that um and uh yeah heading home now so it's it kind of finishes about 10 10 15 and now obviously with the sad news of the living john passing we're dedicating the show every night to her so we do a little tribute thing at the end and uh it's it's really emotional you You don't realise how loved she really was. Now, you met her a couple of times, I understand. Yes, I met her in Australia in 1992, I think it was, and we were doing a Spina Bifida concert.

It was to raise money for Spina Bifida and she was so lovely and then years later I was in Los Angeles recording with a guy called Steve Kipner and apparently Steve Kipner wrote physical for her. And he said, look, she lives down the road. She's one of my good friends. He goes, I'll tell her you're here. And she came down and sat in the studio for an hour with me and just sat there and just talked to us. She was beautiful.

She was such a nice lady, such a nice lady. That's lovely. All you're hearing is lovely things about her. Yeah. such a nice lady that's love all you all you're hearing is lovely things about her yeah i mean and i can understand that because you know when they say you know when they say things like i don't ever meet your idols or don't ever meet people in the industry because you can get really disappointed but when you occasionally meet someone and they're exactly what you think they're going to be like and that's what she was like. Whenever I met her, she was always no airs and graces, no. It was just really nice and down to earth.

Because it made you feel like that was exactly what you were hoping she would be like. That's how you pictured it, you know? Oh, you've said some lovely words there, Peter, about her. Now on to far less important matters. Well, no, they're important to us. They're important to us. We're doing the best song ever at the moment on the hits, and Mysterious Girl, your 94 smash hit, it was eliminated in round one by Pink.

I can take the elimination, but round one. It wasn't like every song in the world got through. The best songs got through. So it's one of the best songs, but it didn't make it past round one, and we're gutted. In that case, I'm buzzing. Yeah, yeah.

I'll take that. We felt a duty to our friendship with you, Pete, to get you back in and we've gone to some pretty extreme lengths and the boss has said yes, he can go back in if you do a performance of Mysterious Girl in front of the entire office. We're talking

150, 200 people. That's happening today at midday and we thought we'd just run it past you first. Yes. Are you going to seriously do it? Well, I'm dressed for the occasion, Bubby. I've got full baggy denim jeans. Let's see the abs, bro.

Hopefully there's an app where we can CGI some abdominals onto me. I don't remember Peter Andre having a ship tattoo on his stomach in the video. It's any consolation, mine are hibernating at the moment. They're just taking a bit of a chill. Tell us about the song Mysterious Girl. How did it come about? Did you write it? What went on?

Yeah, honestly, when I tell this story, people are like, what? So I'll tell you what happened. So I was in the studio in England, and Molly Meldrum, who was musical guru in Australia, he said to me, look, you can go to England and record your second album for Oz, but it's got to be for Australia. And I was like, oh, you know, can I release it in England? And he's like, look, I don't think, you know, you're going to work in the UK, but I think we should just go out there and just record for Australia. So when I was in the studio in England, there was a song called Mystery Man, a chorus, just a chorus called Mystery Man, right?

So I flipped it on its head and then we wrote the verses and the pre-choruses and all that. So it was originally called Mystery Man. Oh, really? You changed the whole storyline? Yeah, because it was meant to be girls singing the chorus, but it just didn't work and so then i rang molly and i said you need to please get over here and hear this song

and he goes just send it to me and i said molly please so anyway two weeks later he came to england and came to the studio he heard the song he turned around to me and he went this changes the game that was his exact word word. Wow. The iconic video. Where was that film? Was it in an island somewhere? Yeah, it looks like it's Jamaica, but it was actually in Thailand. It was a place called Pee Pee Island. And do you know,

I only found this out years later, but 10 years after the video, they filmed the movie The Beach in the same location. It was literally, I've never been back. I've never been since. Okay.

Can I just say water safety wasn't paramount in the video you're swimming with jeans on it's a drowning hazard yeah but you know what mate and i and honestly i don't know what i was thinking i don't know why i'm wearing jeans in the water like what i'm doing now back then i advised the guy that was filming said to me oh look we've got to find different locations. And I was in my jeans and I said, oh, let me go up this little waterfall area and see if it's good lighting up there.

Got up there and the guy goes, let's just film it. And then no one said to me, why are you wearing jeans? But the rest of the video is jeans. You're like, okay, this is my thing To Hollywood producers on the search for future stars Keep searching, there's nothing here Jono and Ben on the hits And then you surprised me, you had Peter Andre on FaceTime

And so there I was, standing in big blue baggy jeans With a big baggy denim shirt on, unbuttoned of course Looking like Peter Andre in the music video I had some baby oil and we had Peter Andre baggy jeans with a big baggy denim shirt on unbuttoned of course looking like peter andre in the music video i had some baby oil and we had peter andre uh not knowing what the heck was about it's a recipe for a good time mate i'm wondering what's going on here the shirt's open the abs are out what's happening well thank you for you know going abs plural but there's there's only there's only one there's only one and uh i feel like this is probably a low point for your career and ours

right now it's listen let's have this low point together okay so I think in the video you did have an open shirt but the most iconic look

was obviously shirtless so I think shirtless and I presume baby oil I mean how much baby oil am I putting on him you know

you gotta you gotta plan for that stuff now Peter I feel like there's a fine line between perfect amount of baby in baby oil i mean how much baby oil am i putting on them you know you gotta you gotta plan that stuff now peter i feel like there's a fine line uh between perfect amount of baby oil and overdosing on baby oil like you just tell us when we're in the right zone you're doing good mate you're doing good i'm not quite sure where this is going but you're doing good this kind of looks like not a family show all right can i just say i don't don't look, you know, oiled up and sexy. I'm probably just sweaty.

Like a sweaty man. Okay. All right. Well, now you're going to perform for Peter Andre. He's going to decide if it's good enough, if he's happy to put his backing behind you to go out and perform in the office, get him back in the countdown. I'll hand it over to you.

Okay. Jono Pryor singing Mysterious Girl. Baby girl I said tonight is your lucky night Peter Andre with Bob-O-Mag is on the mic I stop and stare at you

walking to the shore I try to concentrate, my mind wants to explore The tropical scent of you picks me up above And girl, when I look at you, oh, I fall in love Oh, I know that you look so fine Oh, girl, I wanna make you mine

Oh, I want to be with a woman just like you Ho-ho And no doubt I'm the only man Ho-ho Who can love you like I can Ho-ho So just let me be with a woman that I love Baby girl!

And when were you planning on performing that? Ah, that's today at midday. At lunchtime. Okay, listen. Honestly, like, just me, just being a mate, like, because I reckon we can talk like that. I wouldn't do it. I'm glad he said that, because I was watching old guy,

I wouldn't do it either. Glad we've got that relationship now, now Peter where you can tell it to us straight you know there's no pussy putting round I was dying inside watching it in the corner I don't know how Peter Andre felt but I was like god please don't make him do it I mean listen I've had some low points but I mean

come on. Peter, listen, I'm sorry we've wasted up a lot of your data. Thank you for being honest, and I guess we'll just cancel the gig and we'll spend the rest of the day very greasy. I hope we can be mates. No, we appreciate your honesty. We're going to go, like, you're quite waterproof now, aren't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Peter, Andre, thank you very much You can catch the video of Jono performing to Peter Andre this afternoon It'll be on the hits breakfast on Instagram later on today Now my daughter Indy wants a text from me this morning

because she came to me last night. She asked me something, and I was like, one of those things where I was like, ask your mum. And it was to do with the weather and what she was allowed to wear, and then she was going to ask your mum. So I was like, hey, I'll record. Champagne dad palming off. Yeah, and I'll record her.

Here was her talking to Amanda. Okay, so what are you on a pitch? I wasn't that cold today at all, okay? So I was just like comfortably warm, okay? So this is the weather today. Looking at your computer. This is the weather tomorrow. So the weather today was what?

A high of 16 degrees. Tomorrow? And a low of 16 degrees? Tomorrow? And a low of 12. What's the question? So can I please wear shorts tomorrow? Please. Why do you want to wear shorts so bad? Because it'll be hot.

Why don't you wear your trackies and take your shorts? Why don't you wear your shorts over the top of your trackies? No. Why don't you wear your undies over top of your shorts? What are you, a Southland farmer? You can't wear your shorts. Too cold. Sorry, babe.

So this is the decision I set. I texted you today because I'm getting up earlier than, is it shorts weather today? No. Well, that's what I think, but I feel like I'm going to disappoint her if I. Why is she so passionate about wearing shorts? I'm looking at my weather app now.

You've got a high of 16 today. Yeah. Currently sitting at 14. She's like, it's meant to be warmer than yesterday. I'm like, granted, but we're still winter, right? 90% chance of rain. I mean, there'll be people right now listening, though, that will be wearing shorts and wear shorts all the way around.

Joel, Producer Joel. Yeah, yeah. Now, you pretty much... I don't think I've ever seen you in jeans, producer Joel, or anything like that. I was wearing jeans yesterday. Okay, well, I wasn't looking at your bottom half. You need to look at his legs more, like I do. He's got great legs.

Okay, let's do a text poll. Who's wearing shorts right now, or shorts dress or skirt, and the temperature you're currently sitting in? Yeah. See if we can get the coldest temperature, but with your legs dress or skirt. Yeah. And the temperature you're currently sitting in. Yeah. See if we can get the coldest temperature, but with your legs on display. All right. Okay.

Text poll. Early morning text poll. Four, four, eight, seven. $100,000 up for grabs. Well, I don't have $100,000, but I can also pass that on to my daughter this morning. You'll help me out. So that's just as good.

That's as good as $100,000. Experts in giving out inexpert advice. Jono and Ben on the hits. We're at a high of 16 where we currently are low of 14 not short weather in my in my opinion a lot of people on the text agreeing not short weather in those conditions but we did throw it out there who is wearing shorts or skirts or dress or have their legs on display today and then matching that with the temperature that you're currently sitting in. And I don't want to say this is the most popular thing we've ever done on the radio. At 6, what's the time? 6.14am.

But it is. It's blowing up, mate. It's blowing up with the test machine. And this is why we love the 6amers. Yeah. We should start a little gang. A little 6am club. Yeah, we'll get leather vests. Yeah.

Yeah, print some patches. Well, people that are up early getting a good jump start on the day. It's kind of nice to have them involved. Well, okay, so we'll rattle through. We'll start with Val. Welcome. You're in Waihi, Val. You're in shorts today.

Yes, I am. Oh, what is the temp in Waihi Beach this morning? Eight degrees. Woo! Eight degrees. Okay, so are you like a shorts person all year round? Yes, I am. Every day.

Every day. You got good legs, Val? I don't ask you. I have. They're tattooed. Tattooed, good tattooed legs. Yeah, John has got good tattooed legs too. Well defined.

So do you think I should let my daughter wear shorts today? It's fine to wear shorts? Yes, it is. Okay. You get acclimatised to it. You do, right. And so do you own a pair of trousers, Val? Not trousers

Jeans, I do Do you wear them? Sometimes But shorts for the majority of the time I'm a courier driver in Tauranga So yeah, shorts all day And I've always said the courier industry Best legs, best professional legs

There we go Great to have you listening this morning. Thank you very much. Have a good day. Great. Now, just rattling through the text machine here, my 12-year-old wears shorts all year round. He doesn't even own long pants.

We just saw a picture of a producer, Behump, showed us, down in Fairleigh, of his nephew in the snow out there in the shorts. He won't put pants on. In the snow. This text goes on to say, currently minus one here today. In the weekend, he went ice skating in zero degrees in shorts and a singlet. In a singlet. Shorts and a singlet.

But we have the winner. It just says, shorts, all year, full stop, currently minus two. Minus two degrees. We've got someone wearing shorts right now. All right, then. That's the winner. I'll text my daughter. I said I wore this morning.

Shorts are allowed. The hits audience have said it's okay. I'm a pussy. You read these texts and I've become climatized to the studio we're sitting in. Don't we have it good? I won't even wear shorts in this well-temperatured studio. This is sitting 21, 22. I know.

What are we complaining about? That's what I said. Every time we're going to complain about the weather, we can't here in Auckland. Too good. Yeah, too. You're essential listening for non-essential banter. Jono and Ben on the hits.

We're talking about infomercials. They play on the telly still. There's been many, many iconic ones over the years. Blue Boccas was one we were talking about yesterday the sunglasses and they had the rapping guy with my blue blockers yeah it was the slow we looked back at that ad just before and it was the slowest rap but we were all so it was like this guy's rapping on the spot this is incredible and he's like one two three to the well he was coming up with it on the spot. That's how I imagined it would be. I was impressed. I mean, he did well.

But you're right. We moved on. We had an Ab Circle Pro. Remember we had an Ab Circle Pro in our household? And it was meant to sort of swing your abs into submission. Are your abdominals professional now or not? No, still amateur. Haven't had the big legs just yet.

But you'd kneel on it and you'd swing back and forth. Yeah, I remember the one. Yeah, and my abs made no gains and the only thing that gained was dust under our bed, the Ab Circle Pro. We've got Nigel. Welcome. You bought something off TV, Nig? No, it was my foster dad.

He'd fall asleep in the lounge watching TV and then in the middle of the night he'd wake up watching to the infomercials and he'd just buy something because he'd seen it and then he'd go back to sleep and forget about it and then it'd get delivered and then he'd blame my foster mum for going shopping and buying stuff off the airspeed on TV

because they're too bloody expensive. So what was he buying in the middle of the night? What turned up at the door? On one occasion it was one of those fitness board things that you stand on and they vibrate and then there was a torch and yeah, all sorts. I love it.

I love it. I love the effort he's gone to. Wake it up, they're gone. I'm going to need to buy that and then forgetting all about it. Sleep purchases. Yeah, and then he'd blame my foster mum for going shopping when it wasn't actually her. That's great, Nigel. Hey, appreciate your call. Thanks for listening, mate.

All good. You're going to have a great day. Dana on 0800THEHITS. Welcome to New Zealand's Breakfast. How's it going? Not too bad today. In the Hawke's Bay. Hawke's Bay, lovely.

What memories have you got of the Hawke's Bay? Ben, you share those with me. I remember going to cricket tournaments in the Hawke's Bay, staying at River, is it like River Bend. There's like a camp or something there. With a wild water slide back in the day. Oh yeah, not Osh approved nowadays. Yeah, I'm sure they've sort of tightened things

up now, but it was very wild back in the day into the river. Those are the days where you didn't have netting around your trampoline, remember? No padding, just raw, rusty springs. It was like that. Yeah, now Dana, we're just talking about products that you purchased off TV. On a whim, what was it for you? I bought it off the internet.

I got sucked in. I got a Shakti mat. Oh, yeah. Geez, they had a meteoric rise, didn't they, the Shakti mats, sort of a couple of years ago? Yeah, yeah, it was a couple of years ago. It's still in my cupboard in its courier bag. Hang on, so these are the mats that you sort of lie down on

and they've got, it's almost like acupuncture, but not quite, you know, but it's got little spiky things. You lie on it and it's meant to help with your muscles and relaxing, right? Yeah, yeah, really spiky. Yeah, really spiky. It's for those that like lying on beds of nails.

Yeah, it's meant to be good. People love it. But you didn't get yours out of the bag from the courier. It's for those that like lying on beds of nails. Yeah, it's meant to be good. People love it. But you didn't get yours out of the bag from the courier. I tried it a couple of times, and it was too spiky the first time. So I tried it again with a thicker T-shirt, and then it wasn't spiky enough. And it turns out I don't actually like lying still for 20 or 30 minutes either. So back in the club it went.

Do you know what? I'm in your camp as well. We have a Shark D mat that literally just sits under the bed. Yeah. I have a friend that loves it, but not me. Yeah. You kind of forget about it. I used it a couple of times, thought this is good, and then I put it away and then I forgot about it.

So that's probably the problem. You need to keep it out. But you don't seem like a guy who wants to relax. No. I don't want 20 minutes of lag still at any stage, no matter what it's on. Hey, well, that's a really good purchase there. You can sell it on Trade Me.

I imagine there's a few going on there. Probably just need to give it away. I don't even know if you can sell them anymore. Well, she'll give it away now. Oh, then I have to send it. That's why it's still on my card. No one wants to do that. Yeah, they have been from your end.

You might as well just go outside and give it to someone rather than sending it back to last. Then I have to post it to someone. You know what? You're right. This show, it's going to be with you until you die. I think so. Good on you, Dan.

I really appreciate your time this morning. No problem. Thank you. See you, mate. They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now really appreciate your time this morning. No problem. Thank you. See you, mate. They've got pranks. They've got puns. Now they just need some actual listeners. Jono and Ben on the hits.

One of the joys about doing this job is you sort of get home, you know, 12, 31 o'clock and I spend sort of 20 minutes turning on television, but there's a lot of infomercials playing at that time of day. And I get, I find myself just watching them, You know, they just kind of play and you get engrossed and they do a really good job of going, if you don't have this frying pan that cooks rocks in your life, your life is not going to be fulfilled. You do get sucked into it.

You're like, oh my God, I need this product. And they always, and there's a popular montage on the internet, isn't it, of just white people who can't do the most basic of things, like shut a cupboard door. Have you seen that? Yeah. Someone's edited together and they're always in black and white and they always look disheveled and they're like,

oh, this door. Are you sick and tired of such and such? You're like, oh, I'm an idiot. I can't sit on a couch. Yeah. So what they do is they do a wonderful job of setting up a problem and then going, here's the solution. Yeah.

To the problem. So these sunglasses, I hadn't actually seen this in commercial, but you're like, these things are wild. Yeah, these TAC glasses. Now, they're military precision, US military, you know, so you imagine someone in the, you know, Afghanistan wearing these glasses and definitely a person who voted for Donald Trump would wear these glasses. And have a listen to the tack glasses.

This is Tactical Glasses. Everybody has sunglasses, but most sunglasses make things darker and are useless when it comes to blinding glare. Useless. Not these. Nick Fulton here with the latest from Bell & Howell. We call them...

Tack Glasses. Inspired by the sunglasses worn by our heroes in uniform, tack glasses can do things no ordinary sunglasses can do. God bless America. Oh, honestly, like an eagle. Yeah, this is wild. And it also says, you know, they're great for when enemies attack. You can see your enemies because the lens is so clear. And you never know when you're walking through a Westfield mall when someone's going to be attacked at any moment.

I've seen some scary stories over the last couple of days, actually. Yeah, there you go. So, tack glasses, I nearly purchased them. I nearly purchased them off the As Seen on TV website. And so just before the show today, we're called As Seen on TV. 24 hours a day you can call this line and buy

something. Thank you for calling the TV shop. Your call is important to us and an operator will be with you very soon. Please note that your call may be recorded for quality and training purposes. Thank you for holding. Why don't you sound more like that guy? He sounds good. Hello, thank you for calling the TV shop. We're experiencing high

volume of calls and are severely short-staffed due to COVID. For the inconvenience caused, thank you for your patience. We'll give you a free gift today. Can you help me with your first name? Hello. Yes, hello. Oh, hello. How are you? It's just Jono and Ben here. Okay, hi.

Can you just spell out your first name for me, please? Oh, it's just Jono and Ben. We used to have a TV show, so we were as seen on TV. Okay, well, that's nice. Yeah. His name is Jono. That is J-O-H-n-o uh j just j-o-n-o j-o-n-o ben on the radio and tv but anyway you don't have to worry about the spelling of my name so much uh-huh we were just calling up about all of the fantastic products you have at the tv shop

so we have quite a lot of items like you know heaters vacuum cleaners massage chair massage beds and things like that. Oh, the massage chair. I have seen the massage chair. Uh-huh. How much is the... Can you help me with your phone number, please? Oh, the phone number.

0800 the hits. Okay, Joe. Well, okay, I'll just lock you into the office for the T-Bone massage chair and have someone call you back and they'll help you with the pricing for the item, okay? Have I just bought a massage chair? I think so. That's how it works. Is that how it works? Okay, well, Joe, thank you for your call. You have a good just bought a massage chair? I think so. That's how it works. Is it? What? Okay, well done.

Thank you for your call. Have a good day. I think I've just bought a massage chair. Hold on. Call back. We'll get it sorted. Yeah, you got it. That's your chair.

I phoned for a pair of tack glasses and now I've got a massage chair. That's right. It'll be great. I want to use it. I'll borrow it. All right, I went under the hits.

4487, what have you bought? What infomercial has suckered you in and you bought it? And maybe you've gone, this is the greatest product ever. We'd love to hear from you this morning. We're always getting listener compliments. You happy to be on the radio with your hero? So yes, yes.

Jono and Ben on The Hits. We get Megan Puppers from the 3pm Pickup every week to tell us what shows we should be watching. She joins us now. Megan, good morning. Hello. Had a baby yet, mate? No. I wish. Now here's a question. Now I don't mean to

intrude. Yes. Would you consider doing it live on air with us? Would you be surprised if I said that's not the first offer I've had? Oh, really? You realise I'm serious, though. Those other offers, they weren't serious.

You know the ins and outs of that, eh? Yeah, no, look, hey, it's your thing. It's you and I. But, Megan, you're across everything at the moment that we should be streaming or illegally downloading. Choice is yours. What is it at the moment, mate? Midwich Cuckoos is the one I want to talk about,

which is actually based on a book from the 50s, but it stars Keely Hawes. Now, you might not know her name, but she is from Line of Duty and The Bodyguard. So if you're into your British cop drama situations, you'll know her face. But this is based in a small English village called Midwich, and everyone blacks out for a day.

And when they wake up, heaps of the women in the village are pregnant. Now, this is one of those TV shows that when you try and explain it to people, they're like, okay, that sounds weird. explain it to people they're like okay that sounds weird to be honest I am going that sounds weird but hey this is coming from

the guy that just asked someone to give birth in the radio studio so hey not in the radio studio we would broadcast all the cameras

are set up here and the microphones I thought that's what you meant no we would take cameras into the birthing suite just so you know but anyway.

I mean, if we can accept stranger things, we can accept this. Yeah. It sounds stupid when you explain it, and it does have supernatural elements, but I wouldn't say it takes it too far, you know? Okay.

It's only seven eps as well, because I know it was too much of a commitment. And there's only one season. The good thing about this is at the end of the season, it kind of just wraps up. Where can we watch that one? What streaming platform? That's on Neon.

Neon. How did they all get pregnant? Well, I can't tell you that. You've got to get involved. Save me the time, Megan. Tell me how they all got pregnant. Oh, look, I'm sure if you Googled it, you could actually look at it. But don't ruin it for anyone that wants to see the show.

What else are you binging, Megan? Victoria's Secret, Angels and Demons. This is a three-part docu-series. Oh. I just found out how they got pregnant. Don't ruin it. Don't ruin it. I found out how they got pregnant, Megan.

Carry on. See what I have to work with, Megan. Carry on. This is 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. And we all know Victoria's Secret. We all love to get a cute G-string or two when we're traveling. Amen. Yeah.

We got our cute lingerie, but we don't know much about the owner, Liz. And it turns out that he was hanging out a lot with Jeffrey Epstein. And I won't go into it, but I think we all know the escapades of... Yeah, a lot of backlash, I guess, over the last couple of years. Well, they've changed the way they've run their runway shows with more body positivity and more diversity and all that sort of stuff. So I guess things have probably changed in that industry a lot. Yeah.

So, I mean, back in the day, all we saw was those runway shows, the biggest models in the world, Justin Bieber ogling the goodies of the models on the runway. And it turns out that this one man built up this, like, knicker empire that appealed to millions of women. But underneath it all, it's quite seedy. Because I'm looking here he also owned

Abercrombie and Fitch. Oh really? Who also have a documentary on Netflix. Yeah right. Yeah I watched that one. Can I chuck one in there? Actually a show that I watched

the other night a movie I watched the other night 13 Lives which is on Amazon Prime which is about the boys that got rescued. Remember they got stuck in the cave, the soccer team in Thailand? In Thailand, yeah. They've made a movie.

Ron Howard's directed it. It's a very, very good movie as well. So that was one I watched on Amazon Prime. It's worth a look. Because I saw that and I was like, is this one that we should avoid? Is there a better blockbuster coming out or is it good? Well, yeah, it's good. I mean, the story is probably out there, everyone knows the story,

but it's pretty incredible, you know, the lengths they go to to save these kids. It's amazing. I tell you what's pretty incredible, the amount of content we've got. It's not TMZ, it's TMZ. Too much content. Isn't it? And you remember, you as well, Megan, will remember this,

Squid Games. we went bonkers like bonkers for Squid Games right we would just be on the radio blah blah blah something Squid Games made no sense

just as long as Tiger King as well but it moves on so quickly doesn't it and we dined out on it for about four weeks and it just disappears things that

the content nowadays it's got the shelf life of an avocado isn't it it's in quickly high impact and then it just goes. Yeah, you're right. Crazy, and that's why we have Megan on every week,

what to watch. Hey, Megan, you go and have a great week. You can just have a think about that live broadcast too. Yeah, okay, I will. The reason call screening was invented. Jono and Ben on the hits. A lot of articles around how long people are waiting on hold these days, which I understand.

There's busy phone operators out there, but it can be very frustrating for people waiting hours and hours and hours to talk to someone. Yeah, there was an article yesterday. A guy was on the hold for six hours. Six hours. I mean, what do you do? I guess you just put it on speaker and go about your day.

I'm quite good at it. I put the phone in sometimes next to the kids when they're doing something. I'm like, hey, if anyone jumps on here, let me know. Then I go about my other stuff. So you burn in your, like, this is your issue.

And you're like, hey kids, you've got it. I did that yesterday. Then I, dad, dad, this is it.

Sorry, I'll just get my, you know, then they, they sort of act as mice that are child labouring. Yeah, that's right.

Well, I got sick of the same, the loop of the same music yesterday. Yes, you thought you'd burn in your children with it? Just keep an eye on it. She didn't know how long it was going to be. Just keep an eye on this.

If anyone answers, come tell me. Come get it. Yeah. That's a good girl. There was also stories on News Hub recently, on the project, on the AM show, about a wild rumor that when they answer and they say, oh, I'll just put you on hold,

that they can hear you when you put on hold. Now, if the phone community, the phone helping, the phone service community, have been keeping this hidden from us this whole time, that's a hell of a bombshell to drop now. All the things

people have been saying. We're just recovering from COVID. Have you known what's gone on for the last two weeks? Now you drop this on us, that you've heard us talking about you behind your backs. When we thought we were in the safety of listening to Golden Horse, maybe tomorrow, this, you know, you can... Because it's always that thing where they pop your back on hold and you're like, oh, I've just been on hold.

That's what you're saying. But you're not saying it to them, because you're saying it in the privacy of your own house. The abuse is meant to be between me and the person that I'm slagging you off to. So we want to ring our helpline now and test out if that's the case. I think we're actually on hold right now. Please note that this call may be recorded for quality assurance and training purposes. Thank you for calling.

This is Ruth. How can I help you? Ruth! Yes, that's right. Hi, Ruth. How are you? It's Jono and Ben here. I'm doing great.

How can I help you today? Yeah, no, we're wanting to do a little test. You're on a phone line, obviously. Mm-hmm. Can you put us on hold? And if you put us on hold, can you hear what we're saying? All right, then. Okay, stay on the line.

And then you come back to us okay okay sure okay here we go give me a moment ruth is possibly one of the top 10 telephone operators i've ever spoken to in my telephone i mean who take it oh hello you came back you surprised me did you hear any of that i didn't hear any words you didn't't hear it? Yeah. We said lovely things about you, Ruth. We were saying Ruth is one of the best telephone operators we've ever spoken to. Thank you. But with regards to our product, do you have any concerns?

No, no concerns at all. No, you were great. We're just John Owen Bain. We're calling from the radio station. We just heard that maybe you could hear, people could hear us when we were put on hold. But obviously you can't. Okay, all right. Now, why don't you do a customer satisfaction survey with us?

You ask us how satisfied we are as customers. All right, can I ask how satisfied you are as a consumer when you come back as off in New Zealand first? Fully satisfied. 10 out of 10. Couldn't be more satisfied. The most satisfying call we've ever had. Okay, that's great.

That's good to hear. You've satisfied us, Ruth. Are you in New Zealand, are you, Ruth? No, you're called and shouted here in Manila, Philippines. Oh, we're the Philippines. Oh, hey. Nice to talk to you. We're from New Zealand.

We're from a radio station in New Zealand. That's good to hear. Yeah, that's lovely. Now, can you settle a question I've always had about Manila in the Philippines? Were you the creators of the Manila folder? No. Or not Ruth. Or not Ruth personally.

But just the folder. You know the cardboard folder that you put documents in? Yes. The Manila folder. It's nothing to do with you. It originates from Manila hemp. Apparently there's paper, there's envelopes, and there's also folders. Oh, there you go.

Hey, Ruth, we've solved the problem. These satisfied customers will let you get on with your day in the Philippines. All right. Thank you so much, Nick. Thank you for calling. No worries. Thank you for talking to us. All right.

Bye. There we go. Solved a couple of problems there, didn't we? I did. Yeah, it was great. We apologize in advance. Jeez, sorry. Sorry about that.

Sorry you got roped into this. Jono and Ben. Sorry. On the hits. You know when you realize you're a fully grown adult, but you're not that cool? You're just not that cool. And I know that I'm not cool, but I was even trying something for me that wasn't particularly hard,

but didn't turn out so well. My kids, when they go to their bedroom sometimes, like Andy will read a book, sometimes I walk past the door, the open door, and for me that's like a little stage area. You're like, she's sitting there. I can do a little performance. I can do some embarrassing dad dancing just to get an eye roll or something. It's the only audience that'll engage with them.

Yeah, only momentarily. But then yesterday I was like, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll walk away and then I'll slide back on my socks past the door and it'll look cool as I slide past her from her view

sitting in her bedroom. Did that. For some reason, my socks gripped. Next thing you know, bang, smack. And I had no way to brace myself for that fall.

And he sort of comes out, you're right, you're right. I'm like, yep, yep, meant to do that. Definitely meant to do that. Didn't, didn comes out, you're right, you're right. I'm like, yep, yep, meant to do that. Definitely meant to do that. Didn't, didn't. When you're a bit embarrassed and hurt by something. That was the only time you got a laugh out of it.

Yeah, yeah. You sort of walk it off and you're like, I'm fine. So I was like, jeez, I'm not. You could do that back in the day, couldn't you? You could slide all over the household. There was no issues. You could get five to 10 meters with one slide. You could come hooning into the kitchen.

I know. I don't know why I did wrong, but I did it wrong. and i realized i'm a fully grown adult and i don't have an adult flex i don't have anything i'm like oh that's he can do that he's cool because you were saying there's a mum at the school your kids go to that does what skateboards she's 41 41 years old skateboards still can drop in on ramps goes to the skate park with all the bloody vaping kids. That's cool. Yeah. Because I think her child skates as well, obviously. And so she just looks like a mum taking her son to the skate park.

But then she hops out there, mate. She's bloody kick-flipping a storm up. 360 gooch slides. You name it. No matter what's going on. See, I can't even slide past on socks from a bedroom, like a metre. But she's out there doing all that.

I think the problem is, too, that the older you get, you start to, A, become more uncoordinated, but B, also, consequences become a thing. You know, like if I'm wanting to drop in on a skateboard ramp, I'm inside my head going, well, I'm off to Middlemore. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to be limping around the office for weeks. Everyone's going to go, what's wrong? You're like, oh, I've got to Middlemore. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to be limping around the office for weeks. Everyone's going to go, what's wrong?

You're like, oh, I've got to do some work stuff. You think about the impact it will have on your life if you do make a decision like that. Back in the day, started in radio. I wanted to do radio, just talking to a microphone. Somehow I got shunted into a life of stunt work, amateur stunt work on the rock radio station. And it was a time where I was set alight,

I was pushed on a skateboard through some flames, through some bins, I would jump through panes of glass, jump over cars. These are all true stories, and a lot of it wasn't really documented other than on the radio. The internet wasn't, you know, videos,

social videos, they weren't a thing. It was just like, I, take your word for it. And we could have faked the whole thing. And we did it. We went through it. But I couldn't do that now. I mean, you strapped me to the wing of a plane. And I don't know how comfortable I would feel about that nowadays.

Yeah, it was wing walking. It was wild. Even that, I was like, oh, my God, this is wild at the time. And that was probably 10 years ago. The most dangerous thing I do now is sometimes I ride the trolley at a pack and say, you know when you get a little bit of a run up and you push your arms up and you can kind of... Momentarily though. Yeah, not too long.

Don't go wild. So I went under the hits, 4, 4, 8, 7. Let's find out today, people listening, you're a fully grown adult, but have you got a flex? Have you got something that you can do that everyone's like, wow, that's impressive. You're still doing the hair. Yeah, young at heart. Maybe it's like the splits. Maybe you can do that everyone's like, wow, that's impressive. You're still doing the hair. Yeah. Young at heart. Maybe it's like the splits. Maybe you can do the splits.

Or maybe you can actually slide past the doorway in your socks. I mean, the bar is set very low on this show. If you're here for advice on life, you're in big trouble. Jono and Ben on the hits. You're a fully grown adult that can do something that we call fully flex. Something that's impressive that would impress other adults and kids out there. You're still doing something maybe you could do 20 years ago. My 25-year-old me would look at 40-year-old me and go,

oh, you used to be cool. Then my 40-year-old me would look at 25-year-old me and go, you should probably shave your head about now. It's starting to look a little wispy. Gina joins us on the phone Welcome to the show Thanks Now, how old are you Gina?

If you don't mind us asking We've just reached that awesome mark of 40 At the beginning of the year I'm the same as you Has your body checked out like mine? I feel like my body's gone I've worked hard for 40 years mate Now I'm retiring

I'll tell you what now I'm retiring. I'll tell you what, I'm pretty lucky. It has checked out five times, but I've managed to get it back in the end. Oh, right. Oh, you mean you've given birth five times? Yeah. Oh, wow. Five boys have kind of put me over the limit a couple of times.

That is prolific. I know, isn't it? I stop now. Yeah, yeah. You're retired. I'm out of the game. That is prolific. I know, isn't it? I stop now. Yeah, yeah. You're retired. I'm out of the game. Out of the game. Okay, so you have five kids,

but what's your fully adult flex? Now, what can you do? Let's say I can still do a backward flip. Wow, that's impressive. Now, obviously you were a gymnast back in the day, were you? I was. Well, I'd like to think I was. I did do gym for a gymnast back in the day, were you? I was. Well, I'd like to think I was.

I did do gym for a few years. Could you do the splits now? One thing I used to be able to do was splits, but I'm honestly too scared I might split in half if I do now. Now, how often do you bust out the backflip? Because I imagine it's probably something when you tell people, maybe at a social function, everyone's like, oh, you've got to do it. You imagine correctly. It's normally one of those, you get a few drinks and stuff,

and it's always out there. But after every kid was my goal, I want to do a backflip. Not directly afterwards at the hospital. Definitely not. Definitely not. My baby, I've got my youngest who's just gone one. So, yeah, and I'm doing backflips. Well, let's do one now.

Do one now on the radio. Are you sure? No, you don't need to do a backflip now. We're taking this radio. Backflip. Backflip. I think I'll have to swipe myself into it. Yeah, exactly.

We'll count you down. Hang on. I might just clear my area. Hang on. You don't have to do a backflip. We can't even see that. There's no point in you doing this because this is a backflip. Tell us when you want us to count you down.

Don't have to do it. It's all the heart pumping, I tell you. Three, two, one. Backflip. Yes. You nailed it. Well done. Are you okay

I didn't quite nail that one what happened what happened you're right are you okay are you seriously are you okay no

um yeah I'm just gonna lay on the floor for a bit guys yeah oh my goodness you see this was not a good idea to make no I'm just going to lay on the floor for a bit, guys. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. See, this was not a good idea to make someone do a backflip. No, well, you know what, Ben? Producer Humphrey and me.

Have you got it? Is this acting? Are you acting right now? Yeah, no, I'm good, guys. Well done. Why would I get in a backflip on the radio? Oh, I know you. You would do that.

That's something you would do. Oh, but very impressive. 40 years old, five boys, still backflipping. When do you think you'll stop backflipping? Probably when my bone's completely given. I would say that won't be too far away. I'm getting there. Yeah, no, well, you keep on doing it.

You keep backflipping, and thank you so much for your call this morning. That was incredible. No worries, guys. Have a great day. You too, mate. Looking for a pair of below-average husbands? Ta-da! It's Jono and Ben on the hits.

I don't know about you, Jono, but I love a red gift. Like, if I get given something, and it's not, maybe it's not for me, then I love putting it away and finding it more, someone that it's more appropriate it's not for me then i love putting it away and finding it more someone that was it's it's more appropriate for you know spreading the love yeah helping out the environment sometimes i feel like you use this radio show as a platform to seek reassurance for

your tight ass actions like you want us to go don't worry it's okay to re-gift things well yeah like but i had a wee incident in the weekend where I'm now starting to question it because a mate had some birthday drinks in the weekend invited people over and it's not, it wasn't a significant birthday

so it probably wasn't an occasion that you would be expected to bring presents. Oh, so it wasn't a 16th, why would you be friends with a 16 year old which would be weird

but it wasn't 21st, 40th year. No, you know, so it was just a Sox dad a birthday, come over for some drinks so it wasn't an occasion that you know, it was just a Sox dad at birthday, come over for some drinks. So it wasn't an occasion I felt like I needed to give a present. But then I remembered I had a book that I had got through work a few weeks ago.

And I was like, oh, this is perfect. This is in his wheelhouse, shall I say. This will be a perfect thing to bring along and say, hey, I got you this, because I know that they will enjoy this book. What was the book about? So, well, I don't want to get into too many details. I don't want to get into too many details. Why don't you?

Well, because I don't want the person, when I got the book from someone, to go, oh, he re-gifted that. So this is one. Yeah, I don't want to get into too many details. So this is one I got free. He still wants free books. So if you're listening, please keep sending books. Yeah, so it's like a book that, you know. He loves them all.

It looks like a great book, but I thought this is more for my mate he would love this yeah bring this along uh at the party and i was like hey i got your present he said oh you didn't have to do that i'm like no i didn't have to do that knowing full well that this was a re-gifted thing but still a new book keeps sending books though this is great uh yeah he opened it up everyone's like oh that's great this is awesome i thought it was yeah i thought it was, yeah, I thought it was all done there. I thought it was great. And then he sort of went, oh, hey. And I was like, oh, yeah. He's like, look, this book is awesome,

but I'm three quarters of the way reading it. I've already got this book. Do you mind if I get the receipt off you so I can exchange it for another book? Web of re-gifting lies now. Did you have to come clean? Well, no. I just went, yeah, yeah, yeah, no worries. I'll get that sorted for you.

No worries. So you're in the midst of trying to fabricate a receipt. What do I do now? I've bought myself some time. I'll drop that around in the next week or so. Well, this reminds me of when the tax department was investigating you. And we had to spit ball.

We got some solutions, didn't we? We got some receipts drawn up from some friends. The problem I find with regifting is is as you're handing it over you've got a look of fear in your eyes and the gift receiver they know they know when they've been re-gifted you reckon yeah you know you'd be a lot more relaxed about the whole present transaction if it wasn't a re-gifter well i'm definitely not relaxed now so now i feel like i need to go buy the book to get a receipt and then i'll end up with two copies of this book here is my solution 4487 do you work in a bookstore can you print out a receipt uh we'll get you just text through your details this is like the tax

situation they ended up with the IOD in court yeah but we've got the receipts we've got the evidence so that's okay so you text us can you print out a receipt a fraudulent receipt

that Ben can then hand over to this guy to exchange a book to exchange a book oh jeez it's just getting messy 53 Jonas Internet Wormhole yes Internet Wormhole

do get lost on the internet every now and then Jonas Internet Wormhole this is actually inspired by a conversation do get lost on the internet every now and then. This is actually inspired by a conversation we're having on the podcast intro. And you catch the podcast on iHeartRadio every day as well. Your mum likes to binge it when she's driving. Yeah, catches up on all the stuff. She loves to drive.

She does a drive and then turning up at people's houses, she vaguely knows to stay the night. Yeah, to burn, to burn to burn to burn they're like oh we've kind of got some stuff actually I'll take that back because you'll hear this on the podcast

in about two weeks time well that's you can't like how are you taking it back I don't know this bit out for the podcast if mum doesn't hear it and John

in Portland Oregon who listens he's caught up with all the podcasts as well anyway we had talked about the podcast you say

producer Joel very tall that's one of the things we know joel and you were saying one of the things is at uh six foot what are you uh six we don't factor in walking through doors which uh on average sitting about what two meters so yeah about six foot seven so you're just scraping through the average but if you run yeah bang boom Yeah. Yeah, so Joel's had many incidents of walking into doors. And the majority of us, we don't even have to worry about that in our day. No. He's got to factor it in.

And so I got lost in an internet hole of the heights of celebrities. You know, these celebs, they've reached the dizzying heights of fame. But can they reach the frying pan stored on the top shelf in the kitchen? Because you don't think about how tall they are because you never see them. No, you never see them in real life, don't you? So you never have any idea. Korni Kardashian, five foot. It's the smallest of all the Kardashians.

I think the Kardashians are all, yeah. Relatively short, apart from Kendall Jenner, who's six. Oh, really? Six foot, yeah, professional model. Jenner, who's six. Oh, really? Six foot, yeah, professional model. But yeah, Kourtney Kardashian, I'll tell you what she's not short of, is vigorous tongue wrestling on the red carpet with Travis Barker. Geez, they love a public pass, those two. But how tall is he, though?

I reckon he's about six foot, Barker. So is he standing like five feet away, and maybe they're not even kissing, they're just doing it through camera trickery. Lady Gaga. She's coming in at just five foot one. Lady Gaga. See, this is the thing. If you wanted to poke her face, you'd have to duck down to do it.

As a kid, I was talking about this on the door the other day. Heights, for some reason, it seems important as a kid, but it doesn't matter at all. No, it doesn't. You don't wear an outfit? No. Some people get mocked for their height. No, we shouldn't. We weren't mocking them, but it doesn't matter at all. No, it doesn't. No. No one, well, some people get mocked for their height. No, we shouldn't.

We're talking about, we weren't mocking them, but you know, it becomes a point of conversation. If you're very tall or incredibly short. Yeah, but it shouldn't matter. Kim Kardashian, five foot two. She was with Chris Humphries, professional basketball player, who was six foot nine. Six foot, like, how is that even? Yeah. Logistically, there's a lot going on there

Miley Cyrus she's 5 foot 4 She's got about a 6 foot tongue though Doesn't she Miley Yeah a lot of tongue going on there Beyonce 5 foot 6 Body's too bootylicious And too tall for Miley as well Rihanna she's 5 foot 8

36 foot high though On her pile of giant billion dollars that she owns yeah that's very right Bieber nearly 6 foot he's 5'9 ok yeah Biebs

Leonardo DiCaprio 5 foot 11 ok he's getting higher than his character on Wolf of Wall Street Taylor Swift 5'11

oh ok I wouldn't have I wouldn't have yeah but you don't know you don't you know you don't have her standing next to a

height chart at any stage. Your former hero, Will Smith. Yeah. Six foot two inches. Oh, yeah. And do you know he's been... You don't really react to Will now, do you?

You're kind of a bit scared of him. Oh, no, I don't know. You've just put away all of your Will Smith merch in a box. We'll see. We'll see what happens. But he's been six foot two since he was 13. Really? So his adult height, he's been that since.

That's what happens sometimes. You get that growth spurt early and you just stay there. And your hero, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Forget The Rock. He's the size of a canyon, this man. Six foot five. Hey. Dwayne Johnson.

And just wide and muscular as well. Just the specimen. So there you go. That's the heights of celebrities. Mildly interesting content. Some of it, some of it you could have edited out. We'll edit out a few more of the bits. What could I have lost? Well, so there's the bit about my mum staying at random people's houses,

and that's edited out. A few of the middle ones, you know, like, oh, they're 5'11", or whatever, you're like, oh, okay. Yeah, you know, that's it. Oh, did you just want me to go short and tall, maybe? Well, I don't know, maybe. Okay, all right. We'll talk about this in the meeting.

Well, less than average is a career highlight. Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, Ben, I know last week that there was a discrepancy with your zipper. And I had noticed, looking at your crotch, that your zipper was down in a meeting. I didn't raise it to your attention in the meeting. I didn't want to bring it up in front of others. But then. I didn't raise it to your attention in the meeting. I didn't want to bring it up in front of others. But then I also forgot to raise it to your attention after the meeting. And therefore, you ran around all day.

I turned up at my daughter's Ripper rugby game. And I went, oh, geez, how long has that been? You know, that's not an occasion you want to be there on the sideline. You had to Ripper the zipper back up. Yeah, I did. And I feel like what happened to me yesterday is payback from you, maybe. Right. Because producer Humphrey during the show yesterday, he's like,

oh, there's a medal in here for you, Jono. And the medal was something that we had done almost a year ago and had obviously just been sitting around the office. You've been given a medal? I said, thank you. so I put it around my neck the medal. Not many people wear their medals around their neck do they so I put this medal around my neck

and I'd forgotten that it was there and so for the entire day until 3 o'clock in the afternoon when I was at the school gate I could notice some sideways glances and a parent came up to me and said, oh, did you win an award today? And I was like, dear God,

I've been wandering around with a medal on my neck all day. Not even the Commonwealth Games athletes do that. No, I look like I'm fresh off the podium from the Commonwealth Games. And you could have told me, hey, you've still got that medal on. Well, I thought you'd done it. Because I had it on for comedy purposes. I know, but you did say when you put it on I'm going to wear this all day

that's what you said but that was a joke too it was like okay cool if you want to wear your medal all day wear your medal all day then obviously you left and you're on your own time after that very embarrassing when you're caught with a medal because then you're like well everyone else must have been

walking past going who does this guy think he is he's not a war veteran but people don't wear their medals after they've been awarded do they generally not really

no you're right maybe we should maybe we should because it's a good conversation starter I guess it's amazing we have talked to

you know athletes like the Everswindale Twins remember that and one of them you know one of their kids didn't even know

that they were supreme athletes and had medals until they learned about it at school. They're hiding their medals away because they're so modest about their achievements. Let's get our medals out. Look at yours. What's that? Player of the Day 1997? It's a good little chat piece, like a name badge, isn't it? Yeah. But you don't get a lot of medals, though, to be honest. Who? No, we don't. Normally it would be though to be honest like well no we don't

like normally it would be a certificate i can't say i've been given many medals throughout my life yeah it's always a certificate yeah well maybe you turn your certificate into a necklace i wonder around what's that all certificate of merit well done go well done at work that's like that because my dog goes to he loves it he goes to like a daycare some a couple days a week and they do class photos or individual photos at the end of the year. And they put a medal around the dogs for the photos, which looks great. He's smiling away. But I'm like, he didn't win a medal.

He never won a medal for anything. But he looks great. He looks like he's having a great time. Oh, so it's only like a show medal. It's a show medal. He never brought that medal home. But he looks happy. I'm like, what medal did your dog win?

People see the photo. I'm like, I don't know. They just put it on for the photo. Well, let's have a designated day. We'll have a day where we can all wear our medals. You know, it's dating back to primary school, preschool. We'll take medals because, like you say, you don't get many medals once you've gone through puberty. Unless you're an athlete.

And we'll do it. We can all wear them. Who's got the most amount of bling? A medal day. Look like Migos or something. What's going on, mate? with it. Who's got the most amount of bling? A middle day. Look like Migos or something. Scrolling through your feed. What's going on, mate? Well, this week a Hawke's Bay mum has given birth to New Zealand's first quadruplets

in four years. So it's been four years since the last four babies were born by the same mum. 2018, Brett and Joanne in the Hawke's Bay have got a set of quadruplets. Esther, Lucy, Jonathan and Oliver, all born in Wellington over a 15-minute period.

No complications. They were slightly premature, so they're on ventilators, but all doing well. Oh, that's congratulations to Brett and Joanne from Gisborne. And congratulations on not... Hawke's Bay, yeah. Hawke's Bay, sorry. And congratulations on not sleeping for the next five years.

Well, this is the thing, yeah, because the dad, Brett, they've got one 20-month-old, and then obviously they were wanting to have a second baby, and he was like, well, I'll be a stay-at-home dad because, you know, Joanne's got to go to work. And then he was like, oh, geez, okay, four, four. Oh, he had made the call before he knew.

He made the call before, and now he's got his hands full. He might want to have a conversation with Joanne and go, maybe it's better if I do get back out into the workforce. Just get back out there. Yeah. Long days, all late meeting. Late meeting. Won't be home till eight or nine.

Five kids to juggle. That's pretty awesome. That is, well, that's congratulations. But gee whiz. That's a lot. That's a lot to manage. Even with twins. You see people with twins, you're like, woo.

Yeah, but yeah. So, you know, one or two have got to just relinquish, don't they? In terms of just fending for let's just see how they go yeah and adele was opened up about why she made the tough decision to cancel her las vegas residency you remember that at short notice she was she was going to do a series of shows uh january to april this year at caesar's palace and then she was like no she put out that tearful sort of apology video all the people had arrived people had flown over there to see her. From the UK, all over the world. Yeah.

It was right at the last minute. Why wasn't she happy? Well, she just said, look, the stage wasn't right. I was very disconnected between me and the audience and my band. I was trying hard to make it an amazing show. I know I didn't feel like I could put on an amazing show. So she's proud of herself for making the bold decision. But she said it was really hard.

The confidence afterwards was very low. She didn't want to step out in public because she felt embarrassed that she had to make this decision because you'd feel guilty

upsetting the people that had flown over there and all that sort of stuff and making that decision and everyone was like oh come on Adele get out there and do your thing.

Is that what people were saying? I guess they were like oh come on Adele get out there and do your thing. And you can understand why they were saying that. I can imagine people were like was I on, Adele, get out there and do the thing. And you can understand why they were saying that. I can imagine people were like,

was I there? No, I wasn't. But if you'd paid for flights and tickets, come on, Adele, that's what those people would have been saying. Not all you need is a microphone, right?

Yeah. Get out there, mate. Yeah, well, that's what we were saying, but she wasn't happy, she wasn't comfortable. But you do, you find people complain. Remember when Elton John

had walking pneumonia in New Zealand? COVID. And he battled through, he battled through, battled through, and everyone went, oh, you didn't do the last four songs or something, you know? And they got their money back and stuff. That's right, because that was our friend. I'm on my deathbed.

He's on his, yeah. Our friend just figured it out what he was owed, didn't he? From the whole concert experience, and he got that refund back. Yeah. He got that refund back. Elton John didn't do enough for me. He's like, mate, he was down. He didn't do Crocodile Rock.

I'll get my, you know, $22 back or something like that. And he did. He got it back. Yeah. He got that refund back. Elton John didn't do enough for me. He's like, mate, he was down. He didn't do Crocodile Rock. I'll get my, you know, $22 back or something like that. And he did. He got it back. Can I just go back to, I've always consistently said

my messaging has never changed that Elton John brought COVID to New Zealand. Oh, he did. When have you ever heard of walking? I haven't though.

That's for sure. Have you heard of it again? No. Was that the first time you'd heard of it? Yeah, okay. Oh,

I don't know. And it's not, hey, it was going to come One way or the other But what I'm saying is New Zealand We were treated

To a celebrity variant Of COVID That was the first That was the John variant That was the John variant That's what first Hit our shores And we should be honoured

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