Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Where did Jono get asked to leave?

Episode Date: June 29, 2022

We play an all new game of 5 Words for $5,000. Ben's daughters finally think he's cool after blowing up on TikTok. Jono had an awkward encounter at school pick up and we catch up with 7 Days Host Jeremy Corbett Shaun Johnson ahead of the Warriors first game at home in yonks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben Podcast Welcome, podcast, g'day there. It's the 30th of June. Last day of June. Wow. That's wild. Yeah. It's over halfway now. Seventh month. Midwinter Christmas. My son discovered that, thanks to some sort of warehouse commercial,

that he learned about midwinter Christmas. He's like, what's midwinter Christmas? Is it the same as normal Christmas? I was like, no. It's the commercial industry trying to... Trying to go, come on, guys, make it the same as Christmas. Oh, we'd love it to be that. You know, buy presents, give presents to your loved ones. Annie Pryor, huge Midwinter Christmas fan. I always remember she'd have the neighbours round and...

It's a nice idea, though. Yeah, and she'd have a big Midwinter Christmas party, pull their crackers, et cetera, et cetera. It's probably the ideal conditions for the sort of food that you often eat around Christmas time is in the wintertime, you know, because it's we're so tired. We're having big roasts.

We're all ploughing our way through hot ham on like a 29 degree day. We're the opposite of, you know, so it's probably ideal to have those sort of, you know, your big roast meal ideal to have those sort of, you know, your big roast meal and stuff. Yeah, sounds like a great idea.

I never eat turkey on any other day of the year apart from that day. And a turkey is the dry, it saps every bit of moisture out of your mouth. Cranberry sauce though, the cranberry. Yeah, it's lovely. Don't get me wrong, love it. Love it. But yeah, we should be having our Christmas wheels.

Maybe I should get behind the warehouse and their campaign to turn into a thing. Something we need to address on the show. You said something that we all thought was very controversial. It offended Jeremy Corbett. Yeah, so you'll hear him on the podcast today. He said he'd like to,

sometimes he spends a few hours doing something and then you went, oh, what, four hours? And he said, I didn't say four hours, I said a few. So we got into a bit of a debate after the show, off air. How long is a few? I always thought a few. So we got into a bit of a debate after the show, off air. How long is a few? I always thought a few was four. And maybe it's only because you got the few four.

So that mentally is probably my tie in. Yeah, right, Belle. Yeah, three, right? A few, because a couple is two. A few is three. Yeah, so I kind of did a bit of digging into it. What would you say a few was? I would have thought, yeah, a few would have been, I would have said three. I would have locked in three. But it's kind of Did a bit of digging into it What would you have said a few was? I would have thought Yeah a few would have been

I would have said three I would have locked in three But it's kind of in there I'll be there in a few minutes It's one of those things It buys you time When you say a few minutes That's ten minutes

I'll be there in a couple of We'll say ten minutes then Yeah I know But people don't Especially me I like to think I like to leave people With false hope

He'll be here soon He'll be soon So yeah, of course, according to the dictionary, you heard of the dictionary? Yeah. Do you know I heard a funny, can I just,

sorry before you end it, funny joke the other day. In the dictionary under idiot is a picture of you and then you come back with, well,

at least my dictionary doesn't have pictures in. You know? That's your comeback. Your clapback. So I was playing two roles there so you said to me so ben you say to me yeah in my dictionary there's a picture of you under the word idiot under the word idiot it's a picture of you in my dictionary yeah well in

my dictionary there's no pitches at all who's the real idiot oh you got a you got a dictionary with pictures yeah i see what you're saying. Yeah, it's a good comeback. But anyway, sorry. It's a nice comeback. So many would say the dictionary definition for few is not many, but more than one is technically what they said. But then a lot of other people read down saying a couple is two, as you say, Bell. So normally they're going around the three is the general consensus, but it can be three, four, five. It can be, yeah.

Like if it reaches five and you're having to say five? Yeah. So, yeah. So I think everyone five and you're having to say five? Yeah. So, yeah. So I think everyone's, it's one of those ones. What's a jiffy? I'll be back in a jiffy. Like quickly. Just in a jiffy, you know?

Would you say that's within a minute? Two minutes? Three minutes? It'd probably be a little bit longer. I'd say a jiffy's ten. Buys you ten. Yeah. The thing is when it gets into minutes is fine.

But then if I said, okay, well, I'll pick you up in a few hours, and you were waiting for me, would you want it to be four hours then? I'll get there in a few hours. You're like, oh, great, Jono's on the way, or Ben's on the way. I'd expect you to turn up in four hours. Yeah, that's it. I wouldn't like it. Don't get me wrong. But that's what I'd be expecting.

I'd be thinking more three. So if I ever say to you, I'll pick you up in a few hours, you can rest assured I've gone around three. It's a real bugbear for kids, too, you're like they're like can you come and do this because i'll be with you in a couple of seconds one two they start counting you're like don't don't count yeah you know you're only going to be disappointed yeah the kids they really they take it literally and maybe we all should take it a bit more literally exactly and the other thing i you probably do the same where they'll ask me something,

and I don't have jurisdiction to make this decision, so I'll go, hey, I'll talk to mum about it. And they're like, why do you always have to, like having to go at me, why do you always have to talk to mum about it? And it also buys you time as a parent too. Why do I have to talk to mum? Because it makes her look like the bad guy.

If she says no. Why do you always have to talk to mum? Why can't you just make the decision? Because if daddy says yes now, he'll be in trouble with Mum. Exactly. Well, enjoy the podcast. It's a fun one today. We're about to go.

We're preparing for our $20 tour. It's happening. If you want us to come visit you as we make our way down the country, head to The Hits Breakfast on Instagram or Facebook and tell us why we should be seeing you and why you deserve $20. The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. John Owen Behan on the hits. Now, we haven't done as much TV for a while as of late.

And so last night we were on the TV show Give Us a Clue. We were talking about it yesterday. It's the charade show. Hilary Barry's on there. Former MP Paula Bennett, a Tom Sainsbury actor as well. And it's just a whole lot of people playing charades. And, you know, it's fun. It was really fun.

That should be the byline for the show. Give us a clue. It's just a whole lot of people playing charades. It was a fun game to play, however. I got quite competitive. We got quite involved, quite tense. It was a lot of fun. Yeah, the problem, though, I vaguely remember filming the show.

It felt like it was filmed halfway through last year, but it was October or something last year. Yeah, I think it was actually November last year. I looked into it last night because we couldn't remember, but we were in the Auckland 100-day lockdown and nothing was open. They ploughed ahead and we had to take 29 rat tests to get in. There were clear screens between us all as you were filming.

It's a protocol, high, high protocol. But you don't factor that in when you're watching it now. We're over all that now. It's months later. COVID's gone. I haven't heard about COVID lately. No, no, it's gone, mate. It's gone.

Not a thing now. But you're right. It's not such a big thing. And so people watching it, particularly watching us, would not know that we're in the middle of lockdown. I couldn't go to the barber. I got my kids to cut a mullet on my hairstyle. At the time, I was like, oh, maybe that was cool.

Looking at last night, oh, my God. Your big mistake was when you started with, I got my kids to cut. That's where you let yourself down. You looked like a porcupine biker. It was terrible. We got a text from a friend of ours going, I don't often watch network tv but when i do i don't expect to see whatever the f is sitting on your heads because

you had kind of long hair your hair was messy but all over the place it was it was because i my clippers had broken so i couldn't shave my head during this period couldn't go to the shop to buy more clippers and uh i walked on oh, I was kind of very wispy, sort of like a 1980s stockbroker. You know how they didn't used to shave their heads back in the day? Yeah. And I actually felt really bad. Can I play a bit?

This is on the show. I'm mocking you for your hairstyle. Oh, it's terrible, but have a listen. Can you give us a clue as to what that hairstyle is? And then I'm looking at my hair, I'm like, stones, glass, houses, buddy. Oh, mine was terrible. a friend of ours honestly thought that i got like a rug like i got like a toupee on my hair he's like whoever sold you that rug so yeah yeah and i was like well no it wasn't and you had to explain that it was done months ago and they're like oh you haven't just let yourself go because

that's what it looks like it looks like john and ben what are they doing it's gone to the pack yeah did you think we look like we's gone to the pack yeah did you think we looked like we'd gone to the pack Bill yeah a little bit I couldn't watch it I was just like

I can't watch this the kids keep going and going it looks good I like it and I'm like don't don't well of course

they're going to say it they did the haircut they're going to defend their work yeah so if you see anyone in the office today and they're like oh my god

did you see give us a clue last night those two guys they've really gone down their rabbit hole haven't they you know now you know

the back story yeah just go hey it was filmed during a lockdown there was no access to hair accessories There was a clue last night. Those two guys, they've really gone down their rabbit hole, haven't they? You know, now you know the backstory. Yeah. Just go, hey, it was filmed during a lockdown. There was no access to hair accessories. That's why we're doing weird elbow high fives and stuff like that. You're right that no one does these days. Spread the good word, people. Yeah, help us out this morning.

Scrolling through your feed. All right, let's pretend we know what we're talking about for three minutes. What's going on, Ben? Well, there's a lot of famous Chris's in Hollywood. You've got Chris Hemsworth, of course, plays Thor, Chris Pine, Chris Evans, Chris Pratt as well. And Chris Pratt, who's on Guardians of the Galaxy and the Jurassic World movies,

he revealed yesterday that no one really calls him Chris. Please don't say they call him Pratt. Oh, yeah. They call him Pratt? He finds it's really awkward. He says it's really awkward and weird when people call him Chris. They either call him CP or Pratt is the two things.

He said the other day he was golfing with a friend, and his friend's like, no one calls you Chris. I'm going to start calling you Chris. And he called him for the whole round of golf. He's like, this just feels weird. Even though he's like, I like my name. I don't mind my name. He's just no one ever calls him Chris.

Yeah, if I was to choose between the front end and the back end of the name, I'd be leaning more towards the front. Yeah. People go, hey, Pratt. Yeah. Pratt, you're late, you Pratt. Yeah. I mean, I get called a Pratt a lot.

I know how I feel about it. I found it very, very unusual. He seems like a fun guy. He does, actually. He seems pretty cool. Now, he broke up with his wonderful... Anna Faris, wasn't it? Anna Faris, wasn't it? Anna Faris.

And they've got one of those relationships post-divorce where he's got a new partner, she's got a new partner, and they're all together and they're all happy and they're all chill. Amazing adults. Yeah. You know, better adults than I am. Yeah. I don't know if, you know, they're all co-parenting

and walking the kid down the road at the park. Which is great. But then maybe he gets wound up in things that he shouldn't get wound up in, like people calling him Chris. Yeah. So maybe that's the problem. Direct more anger towards your ex. Yeah.

And there was a lot of talk yesterday about Air New Zealand's changes to the Dreamliners. They're big planes that's going to be happening in a couple of years. There's seven new different cabin classes, including a six-person bunk room for economy, which I still haven't, I can't get my head around how that works. No, you were saying yesterday, what if one person's sleeping and they go off to the toilet and then you swoop in and take their bed? Yeah.

Is that going to cause angst, media angst, flight rage? There's only six bunks, which is not cool, in this one little room, and they haven't really announced how that's going to work. I'm just like, how is that going to work? Spreadsheet. Spreadsheet. They'll start a spreadsheet and you just log your interest on a spreadsheet. All I'm thinking is bed bugs.

How about you just book it and pay for it when you book your seats? Yeah, that seems like the way to do it. That seems pretty simple, and it's a good business money-making scheme. Yeah, I'm with you on that one, Bell. How many people fit on the plane? Hundreds. Hundreds, yeah. Hundreds battling it out for six beds.

Well, yeah, if you pay a bit extra. Maybe it's a fight to the death with the plastic cutlery. But there's another unusual thing happening in aviation. They've put out the designs. It's for a hotel that's going to be on a plane. The flying hotel is going to have a gym, a swimming pool, and it's set to carry 5,000 passengers in this model, and unparalleled luxury.

So this is what they reckon is going to happen in the future. The plane never lands. And so basically people get flown up to the hotel, which stays in the air with a swimming pool, with a gym, beds, everything like that. Oh my God, this is like the Jetsons. It's like a... When is this happening?

But I don't know. They haven't exactly said what's happening. And the worrying thing is it's just, it's powered by 20 engines, powered by a nuclear fusion. So it's nuclear powered. That's all right. Some of the cleanest energy nuclear stuff. I don't know why we turned off it. Well, yeah. So a nuclear fusion. So it's nuclear powered. That's all right. Some of the cleanest energy nuclear stuff.

I don't know why we turned off it. Well, yeah. So a huge aeroplane. Some people said it's going to have huge issues taking off because it's so heavy. It's not going to be aerodynamic. And some say also it's powered by nuclear reactors. So if it lands, crash lands, it could destroy whole cities.

I'm no engineer, but if you've got a floating hotel that houses 5,000 people, I want more than 20 engines on it. Well, yeah. Yeah, triple them. 60 engines. They look pretty incredible. They reckon that maybe one of them need to have pilots as well.

The technology's going to be amazing. This, and your return from holiday. How was your holiday? Well, jet lagged, actually. I just spent the entire time in there. Oh, God, look at it. Yeah, it's a design At the moment

So it just looks If you imagine like A cruise ship with wings That's never going to work Put it in the sky I'm looking at that picture I'm like how Is that

In what world Is that going to float Or fly It's not going to float Yeah fly as well And that is what's making Mind you you look at The bloody

A380 You're like how does That take off the ground? Yeah, man. That thing is enormous. So, hey, maybe that crazy world hotel plane will be a thing. With a long and extinguished career. Jono and Ben on the hit.

Now, we're on a $20 tour next week. $20 Karen. We've explained this a few times. If you don't know, she became a viral superstar when she left a message wanting a $20 back that she was a hoed for the pokies at the Soaks Valley Bar. It's an infamous phone call. And we ended up owing her $20 as well. So we've now gone on a mission to go down and see her because she told us to come down and see her.

Yeah, it's the $20 tour. I suggest you come and give it to me. So that's what we're going to do. When Karen suggests, she means you better come and give it to me. So that's what we're going to do. When Karen suggests, she means you better come and give it to me. And it's going to begin next week. But on the way, we thought, you know, we can't just drop one person $20. We want to drop $20 to as many people as we can. And so the $20 tour kicks off, and we could be coming to your town.

You just need to tell us why we should come to your town. And if so, we'll be there with a whole bunch of $20 notes to hand out to people if they spin our wheel beans added in a wheel just as a bit of insurance so we're not having to you know oh barry at the petrol station you said you'd give me $20 sort of thing yeah because i'm worried that we're going to get to christchurch because we've got to travel from auckland all the way to christchurch and we're not going to have the $20 for karen and we need to give karen the $20 for Karen and we need to give Karen the $20. We're just paying off listeners

as we go down the country. This is what it is. It's bribing people as we drive to Christchurch. So go to the Hits Breakfast on Instagram or Facebook and suggest what we could be doing, where we should stop off

on the way. Ollie, a good friend of the show, Ollie says we need to stop off in Parliament to see Old Man Mallard's lawn, the new lawn from Trevor Mallard. Well, you saw them last week.

You said the grass is luscious. The grass is greener in Parliament, that's for sure. Chelsea says come to New Plymouth. Otherwise, I'll give you 1,000 whacks. So, yeah, that's on our message as well. Hayden, I like this one from Hayden, said come to Stratford and Taranaki. Play a game of dodge the potholes on the way in. then stop off at the Southern Bakery for a nice salty chips, then spend 20 minutes trying to back out of your parking spot.

There's a mountain, but it'll probably be covered in clouds. Oh, he sold Harwood a beautiful. James in Rotorua, he phoned through yesterday with some state-of-the-art technology that they're running at Cobb & Co. Cobb & Co. Rotorua. Serve you with little robots. As the waiter? As the waiter, mate, yeah. They've got two of them, yeah. They scoot around

and deliver your food. Wow! I do want to see this. I mean, a different Terminator, if this is what the robots were doing, you know, than when the other one with Arnie. Unless the action-packed one is the robot delivers you spaghetti bolognese, though. Yeah.

Yeah, not quite the Arnie, more the RTD2. Yeah. Well, you know how you order a feed, and if it might not be up to par, you don't have to lie to the waiter. Then you can tell the robot straight to his face. Just turn the robot around and send it back to the kitchen? Send it back. I love that.

A robot waiter. These are the hidden little – this is why New back to the kitchen? Send it back. I love that. A robot waiter. These are the hidden little... This is why New Zealand is the greatest country in the world. Hidden little gems like this. So 4487, you can text. Why should we come to your town with a whole bunch of $20 notes? Jodie says, Masterton. Give you a guided tour of Masterton.

It's my hometown. We go to Masterton. You give Jodie a guided tour of Masterton. And Phil Potter says, I still owe Jono five bucks he lent me for lunch when I did Work Experience of the Rock back in 2014. Wonderful, he wants that back as well. Did I lend a guy five bucks? Yeah, so he said, come at me, Jono, come at me.

What a generous man. And Jono made me read that. I might have been drunk. And Jono definitely made me read that one out too, so a lot more generous. Spy, know what's up. Spy.co.nz And John O definitely made me read that one out too, so it looked more generous. Don't trust a word of what comes out of our mouth. We don't know if this is true, but we'll talk about it anyway. What's going on, Spell?

Spy, Belle? Don't worry, I have fact-checked. That's why she's the best in the game. Fact-checked this stuff as much as possible. So you may have heard yesterday, Travis Barker rushed to hospital. He even tweeted, God save me. Everyone was going, oh God, what's happening? Literally.

And he already got married to Kourtney Kardashian a month ago and he... He's like, please release me from this hell family. No, he's probably stoked that it's revitalising his career and his relevance again. But he had pancreatitis, so it's from... It would have been super painful, wouldn't it?

He would have been in so much pain. He was rushed there, you know, they were treating him, finding out what was going on because he was in intense pain. And it's all because he had a colonoscopy procedure recently and it's happened after that. So he's going to be okay. Post-op sort of situation. He's had a wild

ride, poor Travis Barker. He was in a very serious plane accident, wasn't he, with his friend who died. Yes. The DJ. And so for him to be able to fly to Italy to get married, that's a really big thing. Yeah, I don't think he was flying, understandably,

for many years. Because, I mean, why would you want to go back after that? Yeah, so it looks like he's going to be okay, thankfully. Just a lot of drama. Yeah, well, that's good. Don't you enjoy those people who are like, they'll do like a selfie in the reception

of the A&E and they're looking all forlorn and they're like wish me well and you're like what are you what's going on

like everyone's like whoa what's happening are you okay you're like oh no just getting my bunions fixed or something you know I feel like I've done

that before a little bit of tension seeking I don't think of this case it's not in Travis Sparks case no I mean he's gone a bit more of a serious.

Because he's gone, please God, help me. I've got pancreatitis. Like, that's serious. Yeah, you're right. He's not getting his bunions. So my bunion one was not okay. Just saying. I was worried for you, and then when you revealed it was bunions.

You know, kind of. Yeah, okay. Speaking of the Kardashians, it was Khloe's 38th birthday this week. She looks so beautiful in like a pink latex Barbie outfit. And Kris Jenner, she is a vibe. She was quite drunk. She said it herself at the birthday and she decided to give a drunk mom speech. I know I'm a little wasted, but what I want to say is how much I am so f***ing in love with you. Thank you. You are a rock star in my eyes.

You are the queen of our family. You are the person who is always looking out for me. Okay, Mum. Okay, Mum. She just ends by laughing, like, just drunk hysteria. It's fine. All right. Okay. Thanks, Mum.

Time to wrap it up. Thanks, Mum. Yeah, appreciate it so that was about Chloe yeah oh what a lovely speech Chloe seems like the more even

of the whole family if I were to say yeah would you reckon I don't know am I just saying stuff probably yeah I don't know

I don't know I haven't done the personality test on all of them but obviously Jono has and we've been talking about this behind the scenes and I wanted to bring this up.

Obviously, he's like studied their psychology but no, I like that you're interested. Yeah, well, I'm just saying stuff.

I've done no research. Alright, have you seen the photos of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling filming the Barbie movie? Oh, they look so good.

It looks incredible. The outfits look amazing. They've got the rollerblading ones that were going nuts online yesterday with the sort of bright pink fluoro and yellow and stuff. It's an 80s dream. You're going to love it. It looks so cool.

Yeah, they do look a treat. There's another shot of them in tasseled cowboy outfits as well, pink and blue ones with your cowboy hats on and stuff too. Is it being filmed in public? Why are all these photos being released? So there's heaps of it all online on TikTok, and I'm just so excited to see all the outfits. But they're just filming it outside while they're rollerblading,

I guess because they've got to be outside for heaps of the movie. Yeah, well, hey, Barbie, coming soon. Yeah, I wonder if it's going to be out. Maybe next year? Don't know the production schedule, mate. Yeah, they haven't seen it. She's been analysing the Kardashians. Running psychology tests on the Kardashians.

That hurts. This is the Jono and Ben podcast. running psychology tests on the Kardashians Elvis, a big movie out right now Tom Hanks is in it, Austin Butler you went and saw it the other night Belle yeah I was so excited to see it and I loved it I think Austin did a really good job of playing Elvis what has Austin done previously? he was actually here filming in New Zealand some years ago.

The Chronicles of Sharnia was a big show he was in as well. It was filmed in New Zealand. That's pretty cool. Apparently very committed to the role. Three years of his life he pretended he was Elvis, didn't talk to his family, ignored his family. He went full Elvis. And then he was hospitalized afterwards,

much like the real Elvis. He was not too good after playing Elvis. Elvis Presley was. As I say, I learned quite a lot about the movie I'm sorry I look quite a lot about the movie a little quite a lot about Elvis are watching the movie yeah things like he never toured overseas which I found just mind-blowing and they reckon it had a lot to do with Colonel Parker was his manager that was trying to keep him in America because he was a little illegal alien yeah as far as that guy. So I found that interesting. Is that the only thing you found interesting in the movie?

Because that's the only one you keep saying. There were a few things. We don't want to spoil the whole movie. People won't want to see it. He felt very sorry for Elvis in this portrayal of everyone sort of leeching off him trying to get money off him and stuff. They all hopped on, as they say, they all hop on the limo, don't they, when it's

travelling? One thing I will say is you just pash random people. Yeah, that was. I found that very weird. Yeah, me too. In front of his wife. There was that scene that he would sort of go along, he was performing in Vegas and then he would just sort of go along and just sort of kiss a whole lot of people in the crowd. And they were all, you know.

Pre-COVID, obviously. Yeah, pre-COVID. They were talking there. I found it a little bit uncomfortable to watch. Was his missus there? Yeah, yeah. Watching it all. Yeah.

And she was just meant to be okay Like obviously he's Elvis But it just seemed I was like He shouldn't be doing that On the lips Yeah Like pashing

Not like a pig Open mouth Yeah Full pash Elvis You're right Pre-COVID Wild times

But the song Because I've been listening to a little bit of Elvis Since then And always on my mind I was like Oh that's a romantic song When you think of it You're like

Oh that's such a romantic song But it starts off You know and always on my mind I was like, oh, that's a romantic song. When you think of it, you're like, oh, that's such a romantic song. You wrote it on my mind. But it starts off, you know. Maybe I didn't treat you. So he didn't treat you. Quite as good as I should have. So he didn't treat someone as good as he should. He was off passion.

Passion randoms in front of the wife. Yeah, so you're like, surely that gets better. You know, surely he did these things, he didn't treat you as good, so surely it gets better. It carries on. Maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have. So again, he's not great.

Not great boyfriend. Hasn't been treating you well. No. Hasn't been loving you well. But. Hasn't been loving you well. But surely he can redeem himself as he gets towards the chorus. Carry on. Little things I should have said and done. I just never took the time.

Okay, so he's never taken the time. So again, he's really throwing himself into it. He's like, all these things I've done badly. It's like, focus on your positives, Elvis. Yeah, yeah. Well, this is where I was like, well, maybe in the chorus, this is where throwing himself into it. He's like, all these things I've done badly. It's like, focus on your positives, Elvis. Yeah, well, this is where I was like, well, maybe in the chorus, this is where he brings things back. He's done all these things, hasn't treated someone well. He's done all these other things.

What's his redeeming feature? You were always on my mind. The whole thing. You were on my mind. I was treating you like a sack. But when I was doing all that bad crap, I was thinking about you. I was thinking about you. I was thinking about you when I was kissing all those women in concert.

I was thinking about you. Even though you're on my mind, I still did it anyway. That's the thing. I know that really. Because I was like, this is a romantic song. And I'm like, maybe it's not quite as romantic. Listen listen elvis saying i was on your mind is no consolation mate spilling the tea on hollywood's a-listers guardians i have met every single one exposing scandals because she's not a good person but either is he digging the dirt is she a diva

yes and finding out what's going on behind the scenes. Yelling at cast members? Yes. It was a script. Nah. His identity is a secret. But his stories have been proven right time and time again. This is Ante. You see more of Hollywood than that sign in the hills. Looking down on Tinseltown. How are you

Ante? Oh look at you rhyming today. I love it. Listen that looking down on Tinseltown, it just came. That was really good, actually. I'll wrap it up there. It's not going to get any better than this. How are you, Andy? Hey, I'm good.

What's the best way to get famous? What is the best? If we're going to go get famous, I'm not talking about us personally, but a hypothetical person wants to be famous, what's the easiest, quickest route? Well, I think if the two of you, what you do is just have a sex date between the two of you, and I think all of a sudden you guys are the same. Well, we've put it out there.

It's not working. You know, I guess the easiest possible way would probably be to get on a reality show and then just try and milk it and hope that you can do something. The other, but I'll give an example of something that happened recently. Look at Julia Fox, a very unknown actress or whatever. And, you know, on New Year's Eve, she flew down from New York to Miami to meet with Kanye to audition to be his girlfriend. You know, but she had the contacts where somebody reached out to her and she made the most of that. She, you know, continues to make the most of it.

She's front, you know, she'll get, you know, the paparazzi get her every single day. Of course, it's her own paparazzi, but her pictures do get sold. They do get picked up. She made herself famous. But to do that, you have to work at it constantly. You have to put yourself out there. You have to come up with a new scenario. It's just over and over and over again.

But a reality star becomes super famous, or if you have your own love island or anything like that do people then all of a sudden in new zealand everybody's like i know them i know them i know them are they more famous than you know than lord yeah well listen to be honest in new zealand we have a wonderful a wonderful system of building people up and then ripping them down so okay that's here you know that you can make you can make a living at it. You go from one show to the next show to the next show. But that also becomes work because how do you keep up that reality show income? Because basically, once you've committed to that lifestyle and you've been doing it for four or five years, club appearances, and that's how you really supplement your income. You know, you can become famous for a bit, and then you go to clubs, and you try and pull in a couple of thousand dollars a night, and you do that all across the country. You know, you can make money like that. It is tough, though.

It is really, really tough to, you know, make yourself famous. It's a lot of hard work. Final question I want to chuck your way this morning, NT from Hollywood. I just read yesterday, and Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban celebrated 16 years together, which is lovely, but best couple in Hollywood. Who would you say is the best of all the couples?

Let's go back to Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have been together a really long time. Shocking and Elvis, though, wasn't he? You guys haven't seen it. I know. You haven't seen it. He was not good. He was not good.

No, clearly you haven't seen it. He was not good. You haven't seen it. All right. Best. He was not good. No, clearly you haven't seen it. He was not good. You haven't seen it. All right. Best couple. Let's focus on a good thing. Yeah, I think that that's a good couple. I think a couple that exemplifies kind of where people can look is maybe like a Kristen Bell,

Dax Shepard, where they're always talking about how they're going to therapy constantly and just how it appears that it's a struggle for their marriage, but somehow they keep, you know, hanging on and keep hanging on. And their fights are basically bubbling beneath social media just barely. Yeah, it's good to see real couples like that just bickering away, isn't it? It's like Ben and me. You just bicker away. They're like us.

You're right. Yeah, you can tell that they bicker a lot and that they probably have a lot of big fights. And they're very open about, you know, the fact that it's hard. I'm just trying to think of some other. But I think that those, you know, kind of exemplify a couple of different couples that you. Well, Nicole and Keith, yeah. They've kind of gone under the radar. And especially if you think about the messiness that came from the Tom Cruise divorce,

and then she was with Lenny Kravitz for a little bit. So just to have that kind of stability. And also, you know, Keith Urban, he was having some issues himself before he got on the call, and those seemed to kind of straighten themselves out. The other great couple too, I think, Pete Davidson, Kim Kardashian, that we didn't... Oh, hey, they seem to be good at the moment.

They're great. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I don't know what you said. We're all sort of... Anyway, that we didn't... Oh, hey, they seem to be good at the moment. They're great. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I don't know what you said. It was a real sort of... Anyway, that's fine. NT agrees. I think that they're an interesting couple, yeah.

NT, let's just all agree, Tom Hanks is an absolute stinker in Elvis. Aye, aye, aye. And thank you. Thank you for your... He'll get an Oscar. He'll probably get an Oscar. He'll love your work, you do. He will not get an Oscar. He'll probably get an Oscar. He'll love your work. He will not get an Oscar.

He will not get an Oscar. No, no way. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? When are the both of you? Jono and Ben on the hits. Now, we're going on tour next week. We're calling it the $20 tour.

Much like the Irish rugby side there in the country, they're going on tour. We're going on tour as well, but instead of playing rugby matches. With a green thing as well. They're all in green, Ben. We've got green $20 notes. You're looking confused there saying, what green stuff's he bringing along? I was like, well, don't put that on the tour. It's not a lads on the

road tour, mate. Pull it back. The purpose of our tour is to head from Auckland to Christchurch to give $20 Karen her $20 back. Now, we ended up owing Karen $20. The ironic thing is that she became famous with a viral message where someone owed her $20. Well, now we owe her $20, and she left a message on our phone

saying that we needed to pay her back. Hello, this is Karen, and John O and Ben think they can hide from me for the $20 they owe me. So it's even more frightening when you think that that message came through at 12.11am. Like, you start wondering. She had the whole day to make that phone call. The whole day. She waited till after the stroke of midnight, which makes it all that more intimidating.

So we're going to give Karen her $20 back She's in Christchurch So we're going to head from Auckland to Christchurch And we want to know on our $20 tour Because we've managed to get a whole lot more $20 notes To give away to people And give people the chance to win those on the way Where should we go? What attractions?

What places? Or who should we visit on our tour? Yeah, well we can't visit Hamilton now You bypass Hamilton, don't you? There's a motorway that goes straight past. No Hamilton now. Well, you can still go to Hamilton.

No, it just keeps going. It just keeps going. We could go have Hamilton Gardens. I love the Hamilton Gardens. That came through on the text. Well, forget about those,

mate, because you're bypassing. There's no way you can get into Hamilton now. There is a way you can get into Hamilton. Where James suggests to go to the Rotorua

robot waiter. There's a robot that actually gives you the food at the common coast so i think we might have to lock that in one night uh and do you know what producer b humps has just said what he's hiring a camper van we're going in a camper van a sign written he's getting it so unwritten enough it's going to be we're going to be that annoying camper van on the road yeah that all the other motorists are like, oh, this thing is travelling at 70 k's an hour

up the hill. That's going to be us. That's going to be us. That's going to be us. But we'll pay everyone off with $20 notes out the window. Yeah. Make good.

That hits. All right, let's get out of the fudge. What's in Hotka Tikka, James? That entirely depends on what sort of things you like to do. We are a small town,

so we don't really have like the city nightlife sort of stuff. Yeah, right. It's not a... That's all right't really have like the city nightlife sort of stuff. Yeah right. That's alright. Get your big city ideas out of it. We're going during the week so that's fine. That's not of interest. Plus we're 40.

So now the next question becomes how fit are you? How fit? F45? What are you trying to make us do here? Well, I mean, we're on the West Coast, so we've got all the lovely wilderness. What if walking's not my thing?

I'm not much of a walker. Like, I appreciate, okay, well, there's a bush. And once you've walked through a bush for five minutes, you've seen the bush. How? Have you got a McDonald's? No. That would be in Greymouth half an hour. We have a Subway. Oh, you got a mcdonald's no that would be in grey mouth half an hour we have a subway there's also a really really good pizza place oh like pizza yeah i've always said if i could

only eat one food the rest of my life would be would be pizza. Oh, there you go. They've got a good pizza place. I would assume you've gone and seen glowworms in the more public places you can do it. I've never seen a glowworm. You've never? Really? Have you got glowworms? It's literally a full-on glowworm grotto. You go through a small tunnel to get in there, and then you are just surrounded by them.

And on a clear night, you look up, and it's like, where did the glowworms the glowworms stop oh wait those are stars why didn't you lead with the glowworms always tired just like we're getting there you know hey well there's a good sell on hokey we'll put that on the list mari uh welcome it has in brackets here mari rural residents welcome yeah oh well thank you very much uh we're heading down the country where Where do we need to swing in by? What's your local attraction? Oh, well, so it is the Pocono Ice Cream Shop, actually. You know, it's Pocono. But Pocono, as you know, it's well known for Pocono bacon. And then, of course, there's the ice cream shop.

So everyone goes there now. They do a massive, like, 18, like, scoop cone or something crazy like that. I remember we had one and we stupidly posed for a photo before licking it. And then the whole thing collapsed. We made a bad choice, but it made for quite a funny little video. Yes, yes. Oh, no, that's a good place to do something like that. It was an obscene amount of ice cream.

18 scoops on top of each other. If you're going to do it, do it well. Do it well. That's what I'm saying. You couldn't think of better ice cream conditions at this time of year as well? Well, I mean, isn't it funny? It doesn't seem to matter what time of the year it is. That place is always packed. They're lovely people who ran the

shop too. We should try and swing in past Pocono. We can do that. Yeah, we can do that. I think that would be a great idea and I'm sure, especially if you're there at the right time, there'd be plenty of people to greet you, for sure. I think it'd be really neat if you would come by there. It'd be awesome.

Love your suggestion, Murray. You go and have a great day. You can keep your suggestions coming through where we need to head on our $20 tour. It's all happening next week. We can win plenty of $20 cash. $20 cash, is that real English? I don't know. It is the hit.

She got Jono in bed. Scrolling through your feed. Time for us to check out the size of Ben's bulletin. What have you got, big one today? What's happening? Well, the Prime Minister, she's off in Europe right now. She's going around. She's being followed by a whole lot of local journalists from New Zealand

that head over there with her. She's probably like, I'm trying to escape you guys. Follow me over here. Now the News Hub reporter, the European correspondent Lizette Rehmer, she was involved in a bit of a hilarious exchange yesterday because Jacinda comes out. She's in Spain and she realised that the dress the Prime Minister was wearing was exactly the same as the one the News Hub reporter was wearing.

And Jacinda sort of did a whispery. She said, oh, this is awkward while the mics are on. Don't talk about it. I've got a jacket over the top. Do we need to confer for the rest of the trip? Yeah. Same dress. She said, oh, maybe we need to text each other.

Maybe we need to let each other know because maybe you don't want to be turning up in the same dress. Bella, is that the worst nightmare when you turn up to an event and someone else is wearing the same dress? It is a little bit awkward, like when you go to a wedding and someone's wearing the exact same dress. I love it. I love seeing it. It's a bit, yeah, I've had it happen to me before.

Have you? It's why I kind of, I'm not really a major print person, but like if you avoid prints, it's less likely to happen. But yeah, it's not great. Because I imagine, you know, if you're like getting a dress for a fancy event, there's only so many dresses out there in the market. It's a big event. You know, it's like a shop that's not, you know,

it's not like they only make five of them. It's like they make a lot of them. Yeah, I understand. They need to turn a profit. And so, but Jacinda did the good thing. And I'm going, oh, I'll cover up mine with the jacket. Well, she had a jacket on. She was like, I'll do a jacket.

And so the reporter was like, well, did she shame me? Did she shame me a little bit when she was talking to Ryan Bridge on the AM show with the jacket. Well, she had a jacket on. She was like, I'll do a jacket. And so the reporter was like, well, did she shame me? Did she shame me a little bit when she was talking to Ryan Bridge on the AM show about the jacket? Yeah, and then she shamed me for not wearing a jacket. Like I wasn't formal enough. It was so hot here. Yeah, but you were at NATO. It was so hot here. Yeah, but you were at NATO.

I got hot at the best of times. No, Lisette, you were at NATO. You've got to cover those arms. Yeah, so yeah. Why do you have to cover your arms at NATO? They don't like seeing too much sexiness. Can I just take a moment, too, and pay tribute to the Spanish president? Oh, he's a good-looking guy.

He's a dish, isn't he? He looks like he'd be in a Hugh Grant movie or something. Yeah. Hola. They exchanged football tops. That's the only word I know. Football tops. Yeah.

Jacinda and him yesterday She must have so much Just memorabilia from that stuff I was thinking about that She's got a Spanish football top That's got You know her Jacinda A That's got printed on the back

You know So she can't put it on Trade me or whatever Because everyone's going to know Jacinda's Oh you're hocking off Her bloody Spanish gift So what's she doing

I bet we never see her Wear that again You know I think She's not going to turn up To parliament wearing The Spanish football She must just have So what's she doing? I bet we never see her wear that again. You know? I think. Well, she's not going to turn up to Parliament wearing the Spanish football. She must just have a storage container just with junk she's been gifted over the years. And today's the day, guys.

Guess what? The government are going to decide if we change alert level settings, traffic light settings today. That's all we had. Who knows what we are. Do you remember what traffic light setting we were on? All go, baby. No. We're on orange. We're on orange. We're on orange.

We haven't gone to green. And today they're going to decide if we go to green. I can't even remember what orange means. Can you? I don't care. I've gone back to normal. Yeah. Have you?

We're not green light yet. Well, gee, I've been operating it for the last 12 months. I think everyone has. It's so weird, eh? You're like, today? What? Okay. I used to know exactly what everything means.

I was like, we can do this. We're not allowed to do this. We can't pick that? We can pick that? Yep, I can do this. Now I'm like, I have no idea. I know. We've really loosened the belt now, haven't we?

I know. Next time we'll be wearing dresses without jackets. I mean, that's how loose we'll be. Not at NATO. Not at NATO. The Hats. This is the Jono and Ben podcast.

Now, the New Zealand Warriors played their first rugby league game at home in New Zealand this Sunday after over a thousand days. Two and a half years they've been playing

across the Tasman and haven't come home. It's an amazing commitment they've done for their side. And one of them joins us right now in the studio. Sean Johnson from the Warriors.

Great to see you again. Yeah. Yeah, thanks. It's actually, it's really good to be here in the flesh so uh never thought i would have enjoyed seeing two familiar faces so much yeah i mean last time we saw you would have been over two or three years ago we were doing something with you since then you've had a baby you've been trapped over in aussie yeah sort of done a little bit of growing up since then so we haven't by the way Well I'm looking at you two and I'm like hmm I've just got more wrinkly and older I've withered a little bit myself so yeah I feel you on that

But yeah sort of, well I moved away in 2018 And obviously all that stuff happened in between then and now But yeah, like you said I'm a dad Which has probably been the coolest part of it The silver lining in it all Is it emotional coming back to New Zealand as a team? You know, for being away for so long But yeah, like you said, I'm a dad, which has probably been the coolest part of it, the silver lining in it all. Is it emotional coming back to New Zealand as a team, you know, for being away for so long? And then I saw yesterday, you know, the big welcome and everything was awesome.

Yeah, it's been really special. It's hard because you sort of get disconnected from the fan base over here when you're based in Australia. And I know we called Redcliffe our home and we did our best to sort of make that work. But man, even me being back for the week, realising sort of the support and the passion is still there has been pretty cool. So it must be awesome this weekend to have PAX Stadium, Mount Smart, be home. I mean, you wouldn't have been home much over the last couple of years, right? I came home a little bit here and there sort of when I was at Cronulla. But this year, sort of with us being based over there, just couldn't really find too many windows to get back.

And I don't know, if you're New Zealand, you're listening, your flights are through the roof and are ridiculous at the moment, so it's pretty hard to get back. Yeah, so I got back for a couple of days a couple of months ago, but other than that, no, I haven't been back. And some of the boys that have played for the Warriors over the last little while wouldn't have been to the actual home ground at Mount Smart and seen the changing rooms.

Pretty crazy to think of that. Yeah, it is, bro. Like, we got a tour through there yesterday, and even just the changes they've made since I was last there. And, like, we've got mates in the team that have played 50 games. Wade Eddington's played, what, 50-odd games, eh, for the club? Yeah. And he hasn't played at Mount Smart yet,

but he's played 50 games for the Warriors. He doesn't even know how to get to Mount Smart. Nah. Nah. When you park. Yeah. played at Mount Smart yet, but he's played 50 games for the Warriors. He doesn't even know how to get to Mount Smart. When you park. Yeah. So it's pretty special for just a wide range of reasons, you know? Yeah.

Now, Sean, you're married to Kayla Cullen, Kayla Johnson now, netballer, and she's back in the Silver Ferns. Yeah. She's on, eh? Yeah. No, we're stoked. It was just like that. It was really cool. A couple of years ago, we were sitting in Sydney

and she was sort of a bit disappointed, pretty upset with just missing out on, you know, what she does, having her purpose and had the baby over there. Obviously COVID had hit, so we didn't have much support. Well, we had no support over there. So I remember her telling me like we were watching her old team to start, well, her team, the Stars playing. And she was like, I want to get back there

and I want to like pencil in calm games and I was like this was like a couple years ago and then when she got the call the other day she was just crying like we

couldn't it was just like it was a real cool moment to share with her so yeah so proud of her and it means I get to take Miller back to Aussie with me so I'm sort

of like cheering as well. You get to be running dead for a bit. So this weekend we can't wait to have you guys back home game now you're

coming you're going now you're coming we got invited through work which is great But I was thinking how many games have you been to How many have you watched of the Warriors I'm aware of the Warriors You're aware of the Warriors So I've just written Jono's Rugby League quiz

And I think if he doesn't get one or two of these correct You don't get to go to the corporate box I'll just go to the first one. Jono's Rugby League quiz. The Warriors' first home game in Auckland was in 1995. Exactly how many fans attended? How many fans? So Mount Smart, it would have been 40,000.

He's overshot the mark, isn't he? Yeah, you've just got a little too far. It's not quite as big. It's better than you saying, oh, 10,000. The correct answer is 29,220. I do remember that. I saw the first game. It was amazing.

That's where the last one is. Watch. We'll go one more. What's a 40-20? Oh, a 40-20. I know a 40-20. Yeah, good. It's when you kick from behind the 40-meter line

and your ball lands within the 20-meter line of the other end of the field. Yes. It goes out. What happens when it goes out? And then you get the ball back. Yes. It's a guy.

He gets the guy. Jono's Rugby League credits. Sean Johnson, so nice to see you. It's great to have the Warriors back in New Zealand. Can't wait for Sunday. Full house, Mount Smart Stadium. It is, so nice to see you. It's great to have the Warriors back in New Zealand. Can't wait for Sunday. Full house, Mount Smart Stadium. It is the hits. 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. Yeah, five words. We like to play it at 7.45 each day of the show. Match all five words, you win $5,000. But now we've got a new twist.

It's easier to win money along the way. It's a new format. We've given a bit of a nip and a tuck, a tighten and a suck a bit, boys. And it's the all-new five words. So just quickly explain how it's going to work. Well, for each word you get correct, you win cash. But you get one wrong and you lose all the cash. So it's up to you to see how far you want to play.

And, of course, you've matched all five words. You still win $5,000, but there's cash incentives, little cash bonuses along the way. And you can stop at any stage. Yeah, I'm looking forward to playing this. It's new. It's improved. I'm still old and deteriorating, but we're here. Hayley and you're on from Hamilton.

How's it going? Oh, my gosh. I'm so excited to play. I love the new rules. We all like the new rules. Ben's excited. I'm excited. All right, Hayley.

Now, you need to decide who you want to send into the soundproof booth to try and match up all five words with you. Maybe Jono, please. All right. Okay. I'm heading in. Okay, Hayley. So, yeah.

So, what we do, we just play it like normal. You'll get your answers. And then, of course, we'll get Jono back out, and then we'll decide how far you want to take it to try and win you a whole lot of cash. He's in there now. First word this morning is moro. Never really know that one, but yeah, that seems like the obvious one. Dad.

Dad is word number two. Oh, I want to go dad joke, but maybe mum. Dad and mum. Monopoly is word number three, Hayley. Monopoly. Game. Game. Clothes.

C-L-O-T-H-E-S. Clothes. Isn't clothing, but clothes. Pants. Pants. Okay. And salad is word number four this morning. Sorry. And salad is word number four this morning. Sorry, and salad is the final word this morning.

Yeah, sorry, keep me on my toes there, Hayley. Salad dressing. Salad dressing. All right, those are your five words. Let's get Jono out of the soundproof booth, and we'll see how much money we can win you on the way. Booth's happy in there. He's like, mate, I love the new format.

It's a booth talking thing. Oh, the booth's telling you. Yeah, I don't know if I was just talking to voices in my head or the booth okay we're gonna play word number one there's no point not not playing that one because otherwise there's no money up for grabs now word number one is worth this word one twenty five dollars okay this is twenty five dollars you match this one uh hayley gets 25 bucks jono first word we said to hayley was morrow bar oh there you go 25 dollars now you need to decide, Hayley, if you want to play to the next word,

which goes up to $50, or do you want to take your $25 and leave? Remember, if you get one wrong, if you don't match up, you get nothing. I'll play, please. Word two, $50. This is for $50. Did you get this right?

She gets $50. If not, she walks away with nothing. What would you buy with $50, Hayley? Ooh, petrol. I know that's sad. That'll get you at least 500 metres down the road. Dad is word number two for $50, Dad. I'll go the opposite, Mum.

Oh, well done. $50, Hayley. All right, it's back on you again. We're going to go to word number three for $100. Do you want to go there or do you want to take your $50 and leave? Bearing in mind, you know what the word is. Yeah, you know what the word is. It was monopoly.

Monopoly was the word. Now, what did you... I want to play, please. You want to play for $100, okay? Word three, $100. Jono, you know the word. I said it before, monopoly. What did Hayley say?

You match up, she gets $100. If not, she gets nothing. Game? Oh, yes. No! Hayley! Hayley, Monopoly. What did Hayley say? You match up, she gets $100. And if not, she gets nothing. Game? Oh, yes. No, Hayley. Hayley, $100. Now things ramp up with the final two words. We've got a $500 word.

Then we've got the $5,000 final word. Do you want to play for $500 or do you want to take your $100 and leave? Do you know what? I feel more confident about the fifth word than the fourth word. I agree. I agree. And you can't change the order, eh? No, I can't change the order in this new one. He's just changed the entire format and now he's saying no, no, no.

No, that's the one thing I won't change. Now he gets all high and mighty. Hayley, I'm going to go with the word number four. So yeah, what do you want to do? You want to take your $100? Yes, I want to take my $100 and leave proudly. Thank you. Well done, Hayley.

You've got $100. Let's see how you would have gone with word number four. Now, this was for $500, Jono. Word number four was clothes. I would have gone clothes hanger. Oh, you made the smart choice, Hayley. You dipped at the right time You got $100 What would you have done for the fifth one?

Salad Dressing Oh Ben if you'd only been able to flip the words Which you said you couldn't do I couldn't It's a brand new five words Thanks so much for being the first to play that one Hayley $100 coming your way

Thank you guys have a good day Lots of fun the new five words will be back tomorrow. Much easier for you to win cash. How far can you go? You can still get to $5,000. It is the hits. You got Jono and Ben. Warning.

This show contains Jono and or Ben. Jono and Ben on the hits. I was picking up my son from school yesterday and I was a bit early, about half an hour early. It's your sleep time, right? It is. Well, it wasn't. It's nap time.

I wanted to nap because sometimes i'm a little bit earlier and ben you know this as well you like to knock off some stuff on the laptop but when i'm working on the laptop it is also my sleep time where he starts going like rocking back and forth but anyway i held it together yesterday but i was so early that i didn't want to sit directly outside the school. Growing man, laptop, car, school, not a great ingredient list, is it? For suspicions being raised. So I parked two or three streets away, just a random suburban street. And I'm sitting on my laptop just clearing some stuff, doing some stuff, just stuff on the laptop, all of our board stuff.

I don't know why I'm making it sound so suspicious. And I noticed there is an older lady who sort of peers her head out of her gate. You know, it's the, not the boomer generation, the generation before the boomer generation, which I've since discovered was called the silent generation. You know why? Why? Because as children, they were to be seen and not heard. Oh.

So they would be silent. But also, I would say the nosy generation. And also the get some more stuff to do with your day generation. Or nowadays. Yeah, I know that sort of. So were you parked outside her house? I was parked outside her house. And so she's peering in.

And I think the first reason she put her head out the gate was she was waiting for someone to arrive. But I've caught her eye. Again, grown man, laptop car, suspicious situation. And then she goes back in. She pops her head out again. And I can tell... You can feel eyes staring at you.

And I can tell she wasn't fully okay with the situation. Fair enough. You do, for some reason, get unusually defensive about people outside your house. What's this character doing? Even when you say someone pulls into your driveway just to reverse back out. What's going on? Oh, yeah. That's the output of the footpath, mate.

Yeah. So then I get on the window Because I've been focused on Doing stuff on my Just the stuff on my laptop The stuff you're doing on the laptop And I look up and it's I'm gathering a carer of hers Right

Had popped out Had been sent out of the house Did they think you'd wandered away from the Do you need to go back to the Ryman mate? Are you okay? We're here to collect you You know you can't drive anymore. And she's like, oh, what are you doing?

I was like, I'm just doing some work. But our school's up the road. Rowdy, rowdy, row. I rattled off my reason. She's like, would you be able to move? You're making her uncomfortable. I was like, how far do you need me to move? Can you go 200 metres down the road?

You're making her uncomfortable. Do I make people uncomfortable? Potentially, I guess in that situation, you make me feel a little... Yeah, I guess so. Belle, would you be a little uncomfortable? No, I think... I understand that she might, you know,

they get nervous and things, and that's okay. I'm just sitting in a car. What's he doing? What's he doing? How close to the house? Like, just on the street. Like, it's a little bit precious.

I was directly outside of her gate. I wasn't blocking anything. No, you're making me uncomfortable. Tell the story. Just go further. I don't know. You still haven't said what's on your laptop, too, so you're making me feel very uncomfortable.

Maybe she could see the reflection in my window. So I'm like, very uncomfortable story. After 8 o'clock, unless you didn't do what Ben Affleck's son did, in a Lamborghini. Well, in none of those scenarios would I ever be in that situation. I'm not Ben Affleck's son,

and I'd never be in a Lamborghini. He wasn't driving either. He was just thinking of his car. Was he on his laptop? I don't know. He caused a lot of damage. That's five minutes away. We'll tell you more.

It is the hits. Morning. Contains dodgy parenting advice. Shono and Ben on the hits. contained dodgy parenting advice shono and ben on the hits my mum always used to say no no no sports balls inside no balls inside and it's been you know like something that my wife is like you can't chuck around the balls with the kids you know but she wasn't there uh last night to be fair your wife shouldn't have to tell you no balls my kids are getting into netball these days we We've got a netball that, you know,

lies around the house. It's fun to pass a netball around the house. I watched netball last night. That is a battle of sport. They were like, no, tournament's still going ahead. It was raining. It was probably two degrees.

They're still out there netballing, mate. Running around. What a sport. They don't stop. So we were playing around with it. My wife's out, and the kids and I were playing around with the netball, and it was a lot of fun. It feel a little naughty you're like but this

is fun this is fun why aren't there not more more balls inside more games like this and then one of you should start a campaign balls inside balls inside why don't you do that well well then one of the kids threw a slightly wayward pass hit a frame frame came down and then it was kind of panic stations then it went from a fun idea to a bad then it was kind of panic stations then it went from a fun idea to a bad idea I was like oh jeez

what do you do this must be what Amanda meant is that what you were thinking yeah so I thought and I thought maybe I could cover up my tracks well you've got a dog you've got the perfect culprit

I should have actually a dog is like well the dog clearly jumped up and knocked the frame down the dog doesn't know it's been blamed he can't say anything

no one's going to get too angry at a dog it's expected of you know those those people sorry i sounded like i was being racist but what i didn't i should have done that what i did was a panic trip to kmart to buy a frame similar frame put the picture back in put it up on the wall thought it was great got rid of the other frame in the bin but i didn't realise that when my wife came home first thing she got to had some rubbish from her car

that she went straight to the bin and I hadn't covered up my tracks you've got to hide it like underneath other stuff I know I'm never going to trust

you to dispose of a body where did you put the body oh it's in the recycling bin what it's just outside your house the recycling bin that's where I'm staying on Thursday

you'll be right so not great. So the kids, I guess, you know, caused a bit of damage and caused a bit of friction at home. And that's what happens. We were talking about Ben Affleck's son yesterday, about how he got into a Lamborghini. What happened, Bill?

So they were at a very, very expensive car yard, looking at cars. And Samuel, a 10-year-old. Well, I don't think Ben Affleck's going to two cheap autos or anything like that. Two cheap cars. Trying to set the scene for you. He's a 10-year-old Samuel sitting in the car and he puts it into reverse and crashes into another very expensive sports car in a Lamborghini.

So he jumped into a Lamborghini. Like, where was the adult supervision in this whole exercise? They've let a 10-year-old jump into a Lamborghini, figure out how to release the handbrake, and rolled into, was it another, was it a Lamborghini into a Lamborghini? Yeah, in the car yard. You know how they all park in the car, but they're all open so you can sit inside.

Just sit inside to feel how it feels. Doesn't that feel nice? The blow-by-blow photo coverage from the paparazzi is priceless. Like, he might be worldwide movie star Ben Affleck, but in that moment, he is crapping his pants parent. He's like, oh, my God. Well, you said the Lambo's $14,000 a day just to rent.

Yeah, and it's $250,000 US to buy. So that's like basically $500,000. So what we want to know off the back of this and off the back of what happened at home, what damage did you cause as a kid or did your kids cause? Or have your kids caused? Kid chaos. Yeah.

The hits. The Juno and Ben podcast available on iHeartRadio. We're talking kid chaos this morning. Did you cause damage as a kid or has your kids caused damage? Yeah. Now, these can be even kids causing damage to your relationship as well. We'll take those calls too on 0800THEHITS. Belle, you were just saying you cleared an entire supermarket.

Yeah. I didn't think it was that bad, but it's kind of bad. You cleared this entire supermarket? Yeah, so it was shopping day, and a lot of families, we seemed to go at the same time. So us kids would all play tag and hide and go seek, and I pushed something, and it happened to be this door, like an emergency door that was an alarm.

Huge alarms going throughout this whole supermarket and they had to clear the whole thing on a busy afternoon. So then mum made me go apologise to the lady and I was crying. I felt so bad and I was like, I'm so sorry. What part of that story did you not think was a big deal? Like the whole thing to me is amazing. It's a huge deal. Jane, you're on from Walkworth.

Welcome to the show. Kid Chaos, what damage did they cause, mate? Oh, you're there, Jane? You're welcome to the show, Jane. Oh, hi. So I went to the pet store with the kids, and they were mucking around while I was trying to decide what flea shampoo to get for the dog.

Then I heard this crash and gush of water around my feet, and I was like, oh, God, please don't let it be my kids, turned around, and they'd knocked over a whole fish tank filled with goldfish. Oh! That is... Yeah. What do you...

Like, do you have to pay for it? The staff were really good. Like, they kind of took them away and cleaned it up. I even bought one to kind of, you know, to kind of gauge if they were going to be okay. And it's still alive. And I called back like a week later and the other fish were okay. But I'm not too sure. Was it one of those situations where they're like, it's all right, it's all right, and it's not all right?

As they're picking up fish flopping all over the shop floor. It happens all the time. It doesn't happen all the time. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely not in their job description. I think, yeah, it was a very talkable day in the office for them. That was beautiful. Thank you. Get Brittany on, shall we, from Wellington.

Welcome to the show, Britt. Kid Chaos, what happened? Yeah, so I'm one of six kids, and when we were growing up, McDonald's was really only a road trip treat. And we stopped into McDonald's, and I loved Maricel. I was about seven, and we were sitting in one of those into McDonald's and I loved tomato sauce, did as a kid I was about seven and we were sitting in one of those old McDonald's booths where you're back to back with people

I was trying to rip open a tomato sauce packet and I finally got it open with my teeth and then I remember looking at my dad because his mouth suddenly fell open because the tomato sauce had poured all the way back behind me and i turned around and there's this man with a beautiful white business suit on covered with tomato sauce

yeah and my it's an offer to buy it um like pay for a new shirt it was like who wears a white business it was a colonel sand Sanders eating lunch at McDonald's. Just to check out what the opposition are doing. A white business suit. I put on my white, all white business suit. Hey, your Backstreet Boys pulled it off. You don't believe me, they did. That would have been a nightmare at McDonald's behind you.

Do you know what? I had a similar, well, not similar, but a tomato sauce-based incident in our lounge. Now, Annie Pryor, there was a wonderful period in home decor. Creams and whites. They're back in. Are they back in? Majorly. Everything was bloody cream and white in our house. And then I walked in with a bottle of watties. Gonna have my pie. And I like to shake it up. You know, you don't want that residue on the

top. Shook it up. Some monster hadn't tightened the lid. And it just sprayed everywhere. All over your white suit. All over your white suit. All over my white suit. Colonel Sanders was there. It would look like a bloodbath. It was terrifying.

And we'll take one more, shall we? Michelle, you're on. Kid Chaos, what did they cause? What damage? I pulled out my son's jukebox because he doesn't play with it anymore, but while it was out, he decided to make a tomahawk. And he was swinging it around and a piece fell off and smacked right into the middle of our new 65-inch TV and smashed it. That's going to happen with a tomahawk.

Like, the first thing your son's like, get my jukebox out. I want to build me a tomahawk. I love it. Oh, that is terrifying. Hold the line. We'll send you out something. Love that call. She's gone, mate.

She just doesn't want to hear from you. She's got to go fix her TV. 65 inches. It's still not going. Coffee breath. Jono and Ben on the hits. The final episode of the very funny show on TV3, 7.30, is called Seven Days, and the host joins us right now, Jeremy Corbett.

JC himself, welcome. Yeah, B and B and J and yeah. Oh, no, I got him into a little. Oh, no, you shouldn't have started with that. I'm in the acronym hole now. The A-H. The A-H is what I like to call it. It's N-G, no good, mate. Yeah. So Seven Days. How's T-H going? How's T-H. The A-H is what I like to call it. The old A-H. It's N-G, no good, mate.

Yeah. So seven days. How's T-H going? How's T-H going? The hits, I guess it's the hits. Is that what you're saying? It's going all right. It's going fun.

How about... Good catch up. See you guys. Yeah, we call it. There we go. Last episode of seven days on tonight. Full of chat. Full of chat.

Last episode tonight for the year. So if you didn't have the project, does that mean you're knocking off for Christmas? Yeah, pretty much. Actually, it feels a little bit like that because we've been doing

the Seven Days Live tour as well. And that finishes like sort of tomorrow. And then we're done. And then it's like, yeah, it's just the project. And well,

you guys have done the project. You know how hard that is. Everyone else does the work. You just get the glory. Now, Jeremy, can I admit something to you? Oh, boy. Yeah, that I see you most days from sitting in the comfort of my vehicle. Oh.

This isn't like I'm not sitting inside your house or anything. No, I was wondering who that guy was parked in the garden. I imagine. Do you walk to work? I do. I used to walk to work. I do a lot of walking. I do the old 10,000 steps scenario.

So I walk my daughter to school and then walk home and then I'll walk to work. Yeah, I do a lot of walking. It still sounds creepy, even though you're trying to explain it. Because generally, I'm sitting in a car waiting to pick my son up from school and you're walking past. And I'm like, I must go out and say hi but then you never want to interrupt anyone in the middle of a walk like you've got somewhere to be yeah

particularly with you I would to be honest I've seen you uh I'm just head down get past you every time a little bit of a victory when I get that get past you and I'm like oh thank god I love it you should jump out next time and now thank God. I love it. You should. Jump out next time. And now Jeremy Corbyn, at the risk of sounding like this is a performance appraiser, which it's not. But what are your seven days? You're on seven days. But what are your actual seven days like?

You know, what do you do on an average week? Average week? Well, it's like it's project four days of the week. And then I take a day off to go and record seven days. And then on the weekends, I do nothing. I like my kids are like, Dad, can we get out of bed? I'm like, no. It's lunchtime.

I'm not moving. So I play a few video games. Are you a video game guy, are you? Because I read you're into your science podcast as well. So these are things we didn't know about you. Yeah, I love a bit of science, love a bit of sci-fi, love a bit of video game. I try not to get too deep because

I don't know about you, but if I do get deep into a video game, I tend to disappear. How many hours could you dedicate playing a video game for? If I'm deep into one, certainly a few hours a day. Four hours a day? Wow. Yeah. I said a few hours a day. You've turned it into few hours a day. Four hours a day? Wow. Yeah.

I said a few hours a day. You've turned it into four hours a day, which sounds worse. You never know what a few is. I imagine it's four hours. That's why I said it. It's a non-definite number. Do you recall about the final episode

of Seven Days Back Tonight? I wanted to know just quickly, have you been keeping up with the news over the last seven days? Now, I went on to online. The New Zealand Herald do a daily quiz. Here's a couple of questions. I'll throw you away and see how you go. Which team won the 2022 NBA Finals this year? Was it Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, or Boston Celtics?

Warriors won it. Well done. What G names for a sauce that uses the juices from meats often thickened with flour or cornstarch? Gravy. Yeah, gravy. Oh, gravy. Yeah.

I don't know why that had to do with the... Pretty big news. Pretty big news in the last seven days, the whole gravy thing. What does BMW stand for? Is it Barbarian Motorwork? Barbarian Motorwork. Oh, it is. Don't even read out your multi-choice.

Okay. Don't need it, mate. Don't need it. He's too good. By what other name is Carlos Erwin Estevez a far better known for? Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, or Martin Sheen? Charlie Sheen.

Yeah, well done. Yeah. Because his brother's Emilio Estevez, isn't it? Yeah. I didn't know that. I don't know how he sees news from the last seven days. It's kind of... I didn't write these questions, but you're right. Charlie She how he says news from the last seven days. It's kind of... I didn't write these questions, but you're right.

Charlie Sheen. Big news over the last seven days. Big in the news. This is a topical quiz. Here we go. The final of seven days for 2022 is on tonight. Jeremy Corbett, you're a champion, and I'll harass you next time I see you walking past the school.

Please do. And thank you to anyone who has watched Seven Days. It's been a lovely year, a great year. It's going to be a good final. Jono and Ben, just like family. The family members you're ashamed of. Jono and Ben on the hits. Jono, you're probably the same as me.

I don't think we've ever really been cool. As far as thinking you might have been cool in your teenage years, never really, never really been cool. your teenage years Never really Never really been cool No, sometimes you look back on what you did And you die a little bit inside, don't you? Watching us on, guess who's What was the show we were on? Give Us A Clue

Give Us A Clue, yeah Our haircuts last night That was even just only six or seven months ago we filmed that That was in lockdown That was embarrassing And we were dying a little bit inside, yeah Now TikTok, obviously I'll be trying to get into that a little bit more. I got into it early

you mocked me. I did. I ridiculed you off the platform to the point where I was like, well and to be fair to me, at the time you engaged yourself in TikTok, all I knew about it was 11 year olds dancing along like bloody Charlie D'Amelio.

And then I was like, Ben, this is not for you. It's not for you. Fast forward nine months. Yeah, then you're like, we need to get on TikTok. We need to get on TikTok. So we got a John Obey TikTok account, and I've got my own TikTok account. And basically, it just seems like we post some videos

that we've done in the past and pranks and stuff when we had a TV show and stuff and put them up there. I love TikTok. It's like the mulleted bogan of social media, isn't it? It's got all the great stuff on there, TikTok. But my daughter, Sienna, she's 12 years old, and she desperately wants her own TikTok. We haven't let her have one,

but she does like getting on my phone from time to time and watching it. Well, and Sienna's probably like, I should be on TikTok, not you. Is that her argument? Yeah, pretty much. What are you doing on there? So in her world, you know, like, and it is in the world as well, TikTok is massive.

Now I put a clip that we'd done, an old clip where we played a prank on Guy Williams, the comedian. We bought every ticket to his comedy show

and he turned up for the comedy show and it was just us two in the audience. I don't know if the joke was really on us because we paid for all the tickets.

He had a sellout crowd and he only did two minutes of comedy. But I put this one up. I put it on the John O'Benn one and I put it up a couple days ago on on my one and then joel who works in the office was like hey your clip's going great and i was like oh really i didn't even look at that and it was like up to a million a million people had seen it i was like oh i'll show this to my daughter sienna yeah and she was impressed you could say i've never had this look

before and i she was like oh my god this is dad's cool had this look before in her eyes. She was like, oh my God, this is, Dad's cool. What's it up to now? Well, yeah, it's up to, well, yeah, I get a text from Sienna. Well, firstly, Sienna's like, Indy, Indy, come in the other door. Come in here. Dad's gone viral. Dad has put a clip on TikTok and it has gone viral. One million people have seen it. That's the only time you want to hear that.

Yeah. Mom, like Amanda got home. She's like, Mom, guess what? Dad's gone viral it's up to 1.4 million then i get a text from sienna yesterday like she's very invested she sends a screenshot 1.6 million now it's up to 2.6 million 2.6 million views when did you put it up like about two or three days ago mate even shania twain who she wasn't impressed by someone who was a rocket scientist. Brad Pitt.

Even Shania Twain. That would impress her much. Well, yeah, but I don't know what to do with it. For me, I'm like, oh, yeah, I guess that's good. Just keep posting. It's good. Keep riding the train. What you should do to keep your family impressed, because this is the core issue.

You want to look cool. Oh, yeah. I never had that look before from my daughter going, oh, my, that's cool. Just doctor all of your videos. Doctor all your videos. Doctor all of your videos. Get a graphic designer to put 9.8 million on them and then just have them screenshotted. Just keep sending it to her.

This one's going nuts. And we're banging. Or hire a whole bunch of those saucy, sexy bots that just like your videos. You can employ them. David Seymour got attacked by those. He went through the roof. That's right.

Just to keep it up there. All right, that's my plan. That's impressive, though. 2 That's right Just to keep it up there Alright that's my plan That's impressive though 2.6 Just to try and stay cool It's a weird feeling For someone to think I'm cool It won't last

Already I'm Ride the wave Ride the wave Yeah but there you go No but this is why You're talking yourself down already You're up on 2.6 Why are you already

Hating on yourself mate It's the internet mate No one else has been seen By 2.6 million people this week Someone's got to, mate? It's the internet, mate. No one else has been seen by 2.6 million people this week. Someone's got to hate on someone. It's the internet. The Hits. For more podcasts from The Hits Network,

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