Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Hidden Voice Memos: Stealing Mike Hosking's Car!

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

In Hidden Voice Memos, we dive deep into the vault of our cringiest and most awkward voice recordings.  On this edition of our Summer podcast, the boys take a trip down memory lane to 2020, when they first joined The Hits—and decided to steal Mike Hosking's car... for THREE DAYS! Jono shares his encounter with a man who has an unusual number of first names, and you won't believe which celebrity Megan got to record a special birthday message for her husband!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. You're the voice memo. It's our voice memo segment that we've liked to do for a podcast where we're just clearing some voice memos on our phone. We seem to have been backed up a lot of the memory taken by recording a whole lot of random stuff over the years, so we get to play one for the final time and then delete it.

Speaking of all things voices, recording and phones, Megan, I notice you quite a lot employ the audio text reply. You're a big fan of it. I've never done it. Never done it. I know people, you know, say, hey, mate, how you going?

I find a lot of meandering in those. Yeah, but that's all right because sometimes, like, I'm not in a position to sit down and concentrate on typing, whereas if I'm, like, in the throes of something else. See, that works well for you, but if I'm a receiver of that, I've got so many people will send them to me, like, DMs saying, I don't even listen.

I'm like, eh, meh. I'll come back to that now, but conditions have got to be right. I don't want to listen to other people. I don't know what they're saying and stuff. No, but you can put it on so you just put it up to your ear. Or you can put it on speaker. It makes you look more like a boomer when you hold your phone up to the ear as well. No, you can listen to it like a normal phone.

Yeah, I'm like. Like a phone call. I don't know. You don't have to put the speaker up to your ear. You just listen to it like a phone call. I'm not into it. I thought you'd be into it because I can listen to it while I'm doing stuff. Cooking dinner or whatever.

But then I find people like, oh, how you going? Oh, yeah, just been doing it. You know, straight to the point with the text message, isn't it? There's got to be a point. You're not just like, eh, it's not just a waffle message. Some word economy is required. Well, I'm either into it or you're not. Yeah, you like it.

It's good. I think the youths are into it, you know? Yeah. I like the oldies Yeah, not for us oldies Old technology Now, what I also appreciate too Is people who have conversations in public

On speakerphone Oh no, that sucks You know, wandering around the supermarket That's rude I saw someone yesterday I was like, that is That's pretty gangster You've got to have a lot of confidence

To run a speaker combo In the freezer department of Pack and Save. You don't care about your conversation. Can you put it on, like, hold it up to your ear? I like the portable speakers too, you know? The loud portable speakers too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, you've got to have confidence in your song choice.

You're the DJ for the community in that scenario. So, listen, I've pulled one out here. This is a vintage 2023 piece of audio from My Voice. It's not that vintage. It's not that vintage, is it? Last year. Now, I think from memory, it was a gentleman who we stumbled across who had two names. Oh, okay.

No, sorry, four names. I was like, we all have two names. Four first names. Have a listen to this. Your name's Xavier, but you've got how many names? Four first names, yes. Four first names? Yes.

Yes, four. Xavier, Rocky, William, Gerald. Yes. And a surname. And a surname. So do you get to choose which one you use? Yeah, you know, sometimes I like to go into other places, you know, like test something out.

They're like, oh, what's your name? Xavier, go back in there again, change it up, you know. And it must be a nightmare when you fill out, you know, those little squares on the passport. Oh, don't get me started. Bring out forms, you'll be like, oh, I can't fit everything in there. They have to, like, add an extra piece of paper on it. Four first names.

Yeah. Really impressive. I've forgotten what they already were. Me too, actually. Xavier. Xavier was in there, yeah. Rocky. Rocky. Yeah. Let's they already were. Yeah, me too, actually. Xavier. Xavier was in there, yeah. Rocky. Yeah.

Let's have a listen. Balboa. Xavier, Rocky, William, Gerald. Yes. Anderson. Xavier, Rocky, William, Gerald. His parents just couldn't choose, eh? Yeah.

I'll chuck them all in there, yeah. Middle name's an interesting thing, eh? I was like, what? I mean, some people don't have them, and that fine i think it's fine you know you're pissed off with your ross aren't you oh yeah i wasn't like i'd be honest i'd rather not have it yeah yeah like i'm you know ross is your name that's fine um but you know for me uh the first time you've been pissed off at a ross no it's not yeah this is a funny character of friends ross tato a legendary cricketer So you know Those are both nice

They are good names I love you Ross I don't know The thing that annoys me About it It's not the name and such It's just there was no There's no meaning behind it

Ross Like there's not You know sometimes people Are like Oh there's a meaning Behind the family connection Or whatever it is It's got a purpose

And dad got given it For him thing For no reason And then he gave it to me For no reason Well no You've it to me for no reason. Well no, you've got your dad's middle name. It's passed down.

Now you're starting something. I'll give it to the girls and be like, yeah, Sienna. Sienna Ross. It almost sounds like an onomatopoeia,

like a noise you make. Ross. Like a dog. Ross. I don't mind BRB. BRB's my initials. That's be right back. I think Ross is nice.

You can start this tradition You had your chance I had my chance I didn't continue it on What's your middle name? Megan Louise That was the very 90s heavy Everyone had the middle name Louise

Sarah Louise Gemma Louise Yeah right Everyone had it That's nice I love the I do love the trends of names Don't you?

Really time stamps Yeah The old school names Are coming back, like the real old school names. Yeah. Are coming back, like Gertrude and things like that. I don't know if anyone's named their baby Gertrude recently. The names like that have been coming back recently. So there we go.

That was from my voice memo. Do you want to plug the dongle in there, Ben? What have you got today? What vintage is this? I don't know. Is it an aged cheddar? I'm trying to work out what I want to do here. Too many options.

Well, no, just once. I'll go do this one. This is from actually when we started on the hits in 2020. Question. Yeah? All your voice memos are labelled, aren't they? No, some are, some aren't. Yeah, I did have some.

As I said, I went through a period where I deleted. It basically starts, there's ones that go way back to like 2015 and then there's a big gap where I've obviously just decided to clear a whole lot as well. But I'm going back to 2020 where we started at the Hits and something we did was steal Mike Hosking's car. Remember that? Oh, yes.

And we actually had his car for a couple of days. We did. What car was it? It was a Jag. Oh, Jesus. And I went out there and I had it. And I was very nervous about driving it because, you know me, I'm not a great driver. And I took my daughter out and I thought it would be funny to get ice creams and just eat it in the car.

And my daughter was a bit younger. This is Indy. And she kept screwing up his name. So here you go. Indy, whose car are we in? Mount Hosking. Mount Hosking. Well, it's actually Mike Hosking, but I like Mount Hosking.

That's good. And what are we having? Ice cream. Yeah, so we took it out and we had ice cream. It was a Mike Hosking car. Mount Hosking. What did he say about that? He wasn't super stoked about it.

No, but he played the game for a bit. Yeah. He did. He gave us, we replaced his car with a shitty old, he was like from the 90s, wasn't it? Yeah. Red car and we put labor signage all over it and then we had his actual car where he drove it around but i think you took it did you take it drags yeah yeah yeah the dragway and he took his actual car which is quite um yeah quite quite a fast car yeah drags as well so and it was look very i won't lie very out of place and amongst the singleted hairy bogans out at the dragway as well. And it was, I won't lie, very out of place and amongst the singleted

hairy bogans out at the dragway. I can't believe he didn't... Well, you know, we have been to his place, you know. We have dined with him

before at his place. He's invited us over, mate. Oh, okay. You know he invited us over when we weren't at the company. Yeah. Do you know that? Did we tell you this story?

No. Yeah, so we got a call from him. He's like, you must come over for Sunday lunch. And we're like, oh, okay. So we brought our families over to from him. He's like, you must come over for Sunday lunch. And we're like, oh, okay.

So we brought our families over to his house. It was like a barbecue-y sort of situation. Also, we've got a host gang, but you won't accept my brunch. We'll come to your... No? No? Is it because I don't have a jag? Yeah. And we went along.

It was lovely. Kate and stuff and talked about stuff, but we'd never been invited back since it was obviously like a good way I think he'd been put up to it from the company I don't think it was

by choice he'd gone jeez I really should get Jono and Ben around they look like my sort of people he's like I'm earning my salary here

I mean they were very lovely lovely people it was we had a lovely time because we actually ended up saying no that time and then the next I mean, they were very lovely, lovely people. It was. We had a lovely time. Because we actually ended up saying no that time. And then the next time.

Not to the lunch. We actually went to lunch dinner. We went around there and it was fine. Next time around, all I got was a voicemail from him going, no lunch this time. You know the drill. If you want to come, come. If you don't, don't.

I'm just doing my bit. So obviously we've made to call us again. So, you know, never been back from Barbie. No, no. Maybe it's our turn to host him. And maybe that's it, you know. Maybe that's our great thing we do in summer. Repay the favor.

Okay, what's your voice memo, Mae? All right, mine's very vintage. This is from 2013. I sound like I'm just like name dropping, but a lot of mine involve celebrities because I've recorded them on my phone We're loving it because you've had Rihanna on the series Oh this is not Rihanna level The moment you met your husband

Yeah So this one was Because we work in radio and we do get Talked to a lot of famous people This was Olly Murs I don't know if you remember Olly Murs I know the name Olly Murs British singer Yeah

Was it like X Factor Britain's Got Talent Or something like that Yeah And for some reason My husband Big fan of Olly Murs Loves his voice and everything

So when I had Olly Murs Back in 2013 I got him to record A birthday message From my husband Oh Hi Andrew It's Olly Murs

Just wanted to wish you A happy birthday Have a great day And I hope you Misses And Megan takes you Somewhere really Hi, Andrew. It's Olly Moose. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. We have a great day. And I hope you miss it. And Megan takes you somewhere really, really nice. And somewhere really swanky for it. And have a good time.

Drink lots of beer. And much love. Oh, that's lovely of Olly Moose. Yeah. I love how he's like, and you miss us, Megan. Then he nailed your name. What does it say on this piece of paper? Was he coming through like a phone line or something? We were just doing a phone interview and he was so lovely.

Yeah, he does seem like a lovely chap, doesn't he? And really accommodating and stuff, yeah. What's the best thing you've got off a celebrity? The best thing you've got. Shall I go last? Oh, have you got a biggie? I can't think of one, so you have to go first. Well, my little diamond necklace off Rihanna from my trip.

Oh, wow. Did she give you an actual diamond necklace? And headphones. We had the most incredible goodie bag. What? That's pretty impressive. We can hear you, but we can't see you, the famous quote, because you were sick of not seeing Rihanna on the plane trip around the world.

We can't hear you, Matt, can't see you. That's on another previous one of these, my guys. We can't hear you, Matt, we can't see you. She's like, mate, I'm giving you diamond headphones. Champagne. I know. Have you ever had one of those Ace of Spades like gold champagnes? I have. From Rihanna.

Have you held on to it? Not impressive. No, just a glass. Christ, I didn't get the whole bottle. Just got a little cup full. All I can think of, I had Justin Bieber's water bottle briefly. Remember I took his water bottle? When we were at the Edge, we took his hat. Remember his iconic purple hat? Yeah, you guys took it.

This was something he left. It was just basically like a plastic sort of bottle that he'd been drinking. It wasn't like he brought it along. It was just whatever. He'd had a couple of sips out of it. And then afterwards I was tidying up the studio as we would do. And then I was like, oh, this is Bieber's bottle. And I brought it back and put it on the desk.

And then a couple of days later I'm like, why am I keeping this? Bieber's bottle. Why do I need his DNA? And then I put it in the recycling. But I was like, yeah, it was a weird. So, yeah. We held his hat to ransom. He just left it in the studio and we thought it would be funny.

And it was the purple hat. Oh, the iconic Bieber. This is the teen Bieber, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. Which it was just meant to be a joke. We were like, oh, you know, like, ha ha. We're all posing photos with it.

We were like, come and get your hat. But then we got a stern word from his record label. They were like, give it back. Give the hat back? Oh, okay. And they were like, stop posting photos it back. Give the hat back. Oh, okay. They were like, stop posting photos. Just give it back. Oh, okay.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. You think if anyone could, you know. Get another hat. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe not in New Zealand, but still, you're right. He bought plenty of hats. I reckon, because it was his purple era, wasn't it?

Yeah. I reckon they might have had a few backup hats. Yeah, probably. Yeah. But anyway, he gave it back Yeah But anyway We gave it back We gave it back Well that's What did you get

From a celebrity Jeez Nothing Nothing My only You probably don't even Know who this is Do you know the song

Here I go again Getting on my own So that was a band Called Whitesnake I know Whitesnake And David Coverdale Was the singer of Whitesnake. I know Whitesnake. And David Coverdale was the singer of Whitesnake. Now you're losing it now.

Did you see me glaze over? I was trying so hard. Yeah, I know. And I saw you go and then suddenly, oh. Sorry to David Coverdale. Coverdale? Anyway, I was at the hotel and he came and sat

at my table and had breakfast with me. Did he know you were there? Like, why? I'm a little bit more impressed. I had bacon and eggs with David, the guy that sings Here I Go Again. Was it like a big table and were you at either ends? No, just a small table. Did he ask to sit with you?

I had interviewed him the day previous. Oh, I see. So I disrespected that. But remember, Pierce Brosnan sat down next to us. It's true. Oh, shut up. I love Pierce Brosnan. He's my favourite Bond.

He did and he started eating parfaits, didn't he? That was right because we were like doing one of those interviews. You know, you go away and you interview stars from movies and we were like staying

with a whole lot of the media. It was in America, wasn't it? Black Adam, the movie with The Rock. And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Pierce Brosnan just walks into the room. Handsome, charismatic Pierce Brosnan.

And you're like, what's he doing in here? Hello, gentlemen. And then it was like everyone was looking over. And then he grabbed something from like a dessert place. They had some food. And then he said, can I have a glass? He goes, do you mind if I sit here? And we're like, we're not going to say no.

And then he sat next to us. We had a chat to him about chickens and New Zealand and all sorts. Yeah, it was really random. He lives in Hawaii, he was saying. Really weird that he sat next to us We had a chat About chickens And New Zealand And all sorts Yeah it was really random He lives in Hawaii He was saying Yeah Really weird They sat next to us

Chris Brosnan sat with you And you chose the topic Of chickens Oh no He raises his own chickens Right I don't know how we got into that Were you having eggs

Or like Yeah I can't even No No he was just eating dessert Wasn't he And then The whole It's one of those conversations where you're like,

God, I wish I was filming this. Yeah. Seeing everyone else in the media thing go, why has he chosen those guys as the next guy? And even I was like, God, I wish I was recording this. And you can't just pause and start recording. No. Didn't even ask for a photo at the end,

thought that might be a bit naff. We're just three chill guys hanging out together, you know? As we know, Piers, like we do, you know, that's what he wanted. You know, he wouldn't want to be bugged for a photo, you know. We can get that next time. Yes. You sat and ate with Piers Brodsley. That's cool.

He's a very delicate eater too. He was. You can imagine. Handsome guy though. Very handsome guy. So, yeah. So, there you go. Well, that was.

And the guy from Whitesnake. I was there for that. I didn't even get to finish My Whitesnake story Oh yeah what happened What's his name David Carvedale Don't stop Some keep asking me

And as soon as I start Telling the story You're like Do you want any more Because if you do I'm going to go So you sat down And you guys had eggs

No don't worry Don't worry Cool Back tomorrow Cool story