Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Pee Pants Pryor

Episode Date: March 25, 2024

Show Highlights: Megan the meal prepper. Bens's wife doesn't know about 24-hour handball! Did you hear about the Prezzy card scam? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with the Jono and Ben podcast. Cheers to Dilma, making the world a better tea. Of course, short week this week, a good Friday happening on Friday. And something you mentioned yesterday that I didn't know about, Jono, was Easter Tuesday for the kids. Yeah. It's a thing. Our kids, I was like, yeah, Tuesday off of the year.

Easter Tuesday. You do not know. No, it's a day's annual leave for the kids, Easter Tuesday. Now, I suppose when you look at the actual reason for Easter, Jesus, he disappeared, didn't he? Then miraculously turned back up on the Monday. I suppose when you think about it, you'd probably need a day after that to just download everything that had happened.

So maybe Easter Tuesday is quite good. Like a mental health day. Yeah, but it's just for the kids, though. The adults don't need time to think about it. Easter Tuesday. Do we get Tuesday off? No. Why don't we pitch it to the boss and say Easter Tuesday's a thing?

We just need a little bit to get our head around it. Sounds like someone's taking the piss with Easter Tuesday. It does. Easter Tuesday. They already get the Friday and the Monday off, but anyway, Easter Tuesday. Producer Taylor, you've had a rough Tuesday, speaking of. Yeah. Rough start.

What happened? I overslept my alarm, and I'm upset because I woke up at 5.05, and I wish I'd just slept right through. You, like, made it here in a record time, though. Yeah. How fast were you? No, no, don't answer that. I don't live too far, so.

19 minutes from receiving your text message to you turning up here. That's a good effort. Yeah, because I made my breakfast the night before. So what do you have to do? Just put clothes on? Yeah, wash my teeth, wash my face

and that's it. I give the dog a pat. So what are you doing most mornings when you get up at a normal time? You know what, that's so true actually

because I never put makeup on so maybe I'll just start waking up that time every day. Yeah, you could. You guys are okay with that? Well, you could put some makeup on. I know. Dole yourself up for a minute. That wasn't what I meant.

But you could. That's so good you. Yeah, I could actually. Definitely could. We could all make ourselves look a little more respectable, let's be honest. Wouldn't it be nice to have a full thing of makeup out there to come through every morning? I could do your makeup. I'll do it for you, Ben. I'd love it. I'd love to,

to be honest. Now, because Megan, you were only second or third weekend and you slept through an alarm, remember that? Oh, it was like a month, wasn't it?

Yeah, I slept through and took me ages. But your first time in your career, you did breakfast for years. Yeah. Didn't I ask you if I could still do my makeup

before I came in? Yeah, that's fine. We made a whole hour out of it for the radio, so it was great. Yeah, it took me ages to get to work. out of it for the radio, so it was great. It gave us something to talk about. It took me ages to get to work. You did it in a blistering pace.

Ben doesn't mind how late you are as long as you've got your makeup on. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Jack Black surprised me over the weekend and came on the show. We're going to play a little bit of some of our favourite bits for you in about the next 10 minutes

if you miss Jack Black. Hilarious. He was great, wasn't he? Everything you'd hoped he'd be. A lot of energy. A lot of energy. He lights up a room, doesn't he, Jack Black? He does.

Although I was surprised because you had me in what I didn't realise was wearing a panda mask over the top of an eye mask and some headphones on. I was listening to just a song on my phone. Beyonce, I was. Beyonce at Texas Hold'em. And then as he came in and he surprised me, after he surprised me, he was like, what are you listening hear what... Beyonce, yeah, Texas Hold'em. And then as he came in and he surprised me,

after he surprised me, he was like, what are you listening to? And I said, Beyonce, Texas Hold'em. He's like, Beyonce's got a song called Texas Hold'em.

Like Jack, where have you been? He's been in New Zealand. That's the problem, I think. He's off the grid. He said he worked 15, 16 hour days on the film set so he's probably not listening to Texas Hold'em.

No, but it's interesting that, you know, because he's a big fan of, you know, pop music. He was like, that's my favorite poker game. We see that it's country. He was blown away. So if he does a cover of Texas Hold'em.

You can think. That's us. We introduced Jack Black to Texas Hold'em. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. But something else that you came up with too late. Now, we gave him a Warriors top. We thought it'd be kind of cool to give him a Warriors top.

Producer Taylor sussed it out, thanks to Dynasty. And he put it on and he said this. Yo, what's up? I'm Jack Black and I'm here to say Up the Waz! Up the Waz. Now that's gone viral. That's gone everywhere, which is very cool. It's almost half a mil views on that. And he was here to promote

Kung Fu Panda 4. In it, he's called the Dragon Warrior. The Dragon Warrior. Mr. Trick there. Oh no, he's called the Dragon Warrior. The Dragon Warrior. That's a trick there. Oh, no. Megan said afterwards, oh, we should have put Dragon Warrior on the back.

No, I didn't know about this because it was a surprise of me. So this is on YouTube, guys. The tie-in was there. You're Dragon Warrior. You're the Dragon Warrior. Now you're also the warrior. The warrior.

Dragon Wah. He could be in the movie. Oh, the Dragon Wah. Up so Dragon Wah. Too late now, eh? It's too late. I mean, we could be in the movie. Oh, the Dragon Wah. Absolute Dragon Wah. Too late now, eh? It's too late. I mean, we could go back and we say, hey, give us that thing back. We'll reprint it.

And then let's tie it in a little better in the interview. Dragon Warrior. Oh. Yeah. It was low-hanging fruit. I know. It was there, wasn't it? Right in front of us.

Anyway, it was nice. You just came at it from a we've got a gift, here it is, from New Zealand up the wahs sort of thing. Yeah. But there was a tie into the movie. It would have been good. Country Band of Four. Yeah.

Yep. Oh, well. You live and you learn. I mean, John, I fell asleep in part of that movie. Oh, yeah. That's every movie. Every single movie you'll ever go to in life, you'll fall asleep. It's a very funny movie.

It would be a surprise if he stayed awake during one movie. I reckon I have. I would have. You know, I have an I reckon you would have. You know, I have an arcalypsy in movies but I was really honoured to know

because I went to a movie on a Sunday morning and Sonny Bill Williams was there with his family and he's got a big family and he was passed out unconscious for the entire length

of the movie. I was like, well if Sonny Bill Williams can be unconscious, rendered unconscious, so can I. It's a really good movie, Can't Be Banned 4. I've, so can I. It's a really good movie. Can't be bad at four.

I've seen the whole thing. It's really good. The hits. The Jono and Ben podcast. Jono's internet wormhole. Uh-oh, lost again. Someone called Missing Persons got lost in a hole on the internet. And actually, we played some of this audio in the Wild Wild Web podcast,

which we do on iHeartRadio every day, where we go to the deep, dark depths of the internet and explore that. But I thought we should bring this to mainstream media, the fake news media of Linear Radio, Ben. And this is a former, I don't know what he does now, but he used to be a former motivational speaker, Tony Robbins. Remember Tony Robbins? Big tall guy, eh?

Yeah. Great teeth. Yeah, great smile. He's got a big smile. Yeah. And he used to do like Minds. He used to sell infomercial products, didn't he? Yeah.

Was that Mega Memory? Was that him? No, there was another bloke. But he was a motivational thing. He'd write advertorials. He'd pop up in movies and TV shows and stuff as well. He's got a great voice. Yeah, so Is. He'd pop up in movies and TV shows and stuff as well. He's got a great voice.

Yeah, so I don't know what he's now diversified into, but for some reason he's a financial advisor. And have a listen to this crazy fact about the iPhone. If you bought every iPhone since the first one in 2007, you spent $20,600. That's the amount you've put out of pocket over that time period. Now, if you bought the stock, hear me now, you took the same amount of money you spent at that time for the iPhone,

and I went back and made a chart so people could see it, and bought the stock, today all that adds up to $206 million. So it's like, yes, that's the real number. Crazy. Far out. So if you're an iPhone-obsessed person, and a lot of people like to flex, don't they,

when they buy the new iPhone, if you bought every, I'm just going to mansplain and copy everything you just said, but if you did all that, you'd have $206 million if you put all that money instead of buying the phone into stocks, the Apple stocks. Yeah. Crap. No one will be able to get a hold of you, but you do have a hold of money. Can I just buy Apple stocks now? Well, you probably can.

But they're probably a bit more expensive than they were. We looked up yesterday and I did, like, I kind of got lost a little bit last night, actually, looking into the guy, Ronald Wayne, who was one of the founders of Apple. And we talked about him, how he sold his shares in Apple back in the day because he was for $800. And now. He's like, this company's going nowhere. Millions and millions.

But yeah, because we were like, what a decision that he'd probably live to regret. What an idiot. But reading articles, he's like, no, I don't regret it because I made the choice based on, I would make that same decision again today based on the information I knew at the time. That's all you can do.

Which is quite a good way. He was into slot machines. That was his passion. He was making slot machines and stuff like the technology behind that and so he was like and he'd already lost a whole lot of money in doing his thing and so he's like i don't want to go on with these inexperienced guys and this thing is going to cost us so much money to get started it just seems too risky i'm already you know what i'm going to stick with the slot machine that feels like a rock solid industry yeah Yeah, so apparently he made some good money out of slot machines.

So he had a comfortable life. Not Apple money, though, but yeah, but as well. But interesting to know that that's, yeah. We were wondering if Ronald's family still talks with him now. He's in his 90s, isn't he? He is in his 90s as well, but he sold a lot of his, well, all his shares at Apple for $800, and that would have been worth millions.

But it's nice to know at least he goes based on the decisions. know did he say what kind of phone he has he's definitely samsung the hits the jonathan ben podcast jack black uh kung fu panda 4 he's the voice of poe the panda again and i didn't realize that you guys had organized a big surprise for me because i'd taken i'd seen him a few months ago out and about and I thought no one's going to believe that I saw Jack Black. So I took a creepy photo from behind, didn't post it or anything, just to show people that I saw Jack Black in town. And you told him about this when he came in.

Yeah, and we said we've got a surprise for you Sunday morning. So we blindfolded you and then unbeknownst to you, we put a panda head over your head and you were listening in your ears to Beyonce's Texas Hold'em. And then Jack Black turned up and removed your mask. Yeah! Oh! Jack Black! Does this look familiar?

Oh my goodness. Holy. What was happening? You were kind of stalking me, following me down the street. Look, can I tell you the story? Just the night before, I'd watched School of Rock because my daughter's in School of Rock. And we watched the movie. And we're walking behind these people.

Looked like tourists. Loud clothing. Frisbee around their necks. It was me. And my wife's like, who are these people? I'm like, that's Jack Black. She went, no, he's not in New Zealand. It's just because I watched School of Rock.

He turned around. It was you. And I went, love your work. You did a lovely bow. And then thank you very much.. And I went, love your work. You did a lovely bow. And then thank you very much. And then I went, no one's going to believe me. I've got to take a creepy photo, which I didn't post. You could have tapped me on the shoulder.

I would have turned around and given you the full frontal. Well, yeah. We call this photo Jack Beck. Well, Jack, grab a seat over here. I was listening to Beyonce. It was nice. What were you listening to? Texas Hold'em. It was nice. Oh, I didn't even know that was a seat over here. I was listening to Beyonce. It was nice. What were you listening to? Texas Hold'em.

It was nice? Oh, I didn't even know that was a song of hers. Yeah, she's got a country song now. She's got a country song called Texas Hold'em. I'm going to download that immediately. I was thinking I should do a little cover because now that I'm known for doing covers of kick-ass pop hits, I might hit some Beyonce next.

You're sitting all over the place. Baby, I can see your halo. I hope you don't fail. You're my halo. Hey, Jack, you've been here for a while. Obviously, Ben's been taking sneaky back photos of you. I live here. Yeah, what have you been doing?

Dude, working on a little movie called Minecraft with Jason Momoa. And it's been really fun and really crazy. It's been an amazing experience all around just living here in New Zealand. It's not my first time. You lived in Wellington before? Exactly. About 20 years ago, I was in King Kong. Peter Jackson.

Sorry, I dropped something. Clang! I'll pick up that name for you. I had an amazing life-changing experience on that one too, so I have only, you know, great, great feelings about this land. Oh, that's good. Well, we're here to talk to you today about Kung Fu Panda. Don't forget the four.

Four. Would you rather be trapped inside a panda head like me or trapped in New Zealand like you are right now? Oh, trapped in New Zealand. You can't say trapped though. It's paradise. I understand why Jason Momoa has made this home base. Yeah. I get it. Are your family here with you? They will be. They're coming for spring break for Easter weekend. Oh, nice. They're in school right now, but they're coming soon. So what will you show them in school right now, but they're coming soon.

So what will you show them in New Zealand when they're here for a very quick trip? You know, I want to tell you, but then I don't want it to blow up and become a thing.

That's where we'll find them. We'll corner them there. Because there's people that will take creepy photos behind of you. My family don't like photos. They don't like it when I stop for selfies and stuff.

So I try to fly under the radar. But we're going to see some things. Don't worry. We're going to see some sweet, sweet things. What do your kids think about their dad being Kung Fu Panda? They love Kung Fu Panda. But in truth, they're like 15 and 17 years old now. And they kind of just are over me and want to be as far away from me as possible.

They like when we walk together to be about 100 meters ahead or behind. But you're Jack Black. It's so good to hear. We are dads and we embarrass our kids. So it's so good to hear that from you. You know that's the way it is. It's nature. It's the way it's supposed to be.

It's their way of saying, we've We gotta get out of this nest And fly You've got your great catchphrase In Kung Fu Panda Skadoosh We've got a catchphrase Here in New Zealand It's up da waz I don't know if you've heard

Of up da waz I have heard Up the wazoo I guess the waz Is short for that Yeah up the waz So we've got a sport Rugby league team

They're called The New Zealand Warriors Oh wow You've got a top The catchphrase is Up da waz And we'd love to give you A Warriors top Are you kidding me Is that okay That is so sweet rugby league team. They're called the New Zealand Warriors. Oh, wow. You've got a top. The catchphrase is up da wars and we'd love to give you a Warriors top.

Are you kidding me? Is that okay? That is so sweet. Were you saying with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters, they play, that's their home ground there at Go Media Stadium,

Mount Smart. Dude. You know, when the Foo Fighters came to town, I jumped up on stage with them. Did you see that? We did.

It was awesome. And then we followed you guys around having dinner in town, you and Dave Grohl as well. That became news. Well, he didn't give me much notice. He was just like, get up on stage and sing Big Balls with me tonight. I was like, I don't know all the lyrics.

It doesn't matter. The drum tech knows the lyrics. You just sing the chorus. So I got my butt up there and had a little thrill ride. That's a big crowd, you know. When the Foo Fighters play, you get a little adrenaline rush. Did I read somewhere that you get a bit nervous in front of crowds? You still get nervous in front of crowds.

I do. It's a natural. And, you know, I think everyone does. No one is fearless when it comes to getting up in front of a big crowd. But I'm such a ham, and I love attention so much, it overpowers my fear. Get my butt out there. Jack, this has been an absolute honor.

Always wanted to meet you, and you have not disappointed. You've been incredible. It's been so cool. Great to be here. You guys are awesome. This is the best surprise. You know what?

I was on my way here. I was like, Sunday morning, coming to work. What is this surprise going to be? It couldn't have been better. Jack Black, thank you very much. Much love. He is awesome. You can catch him in Kung Fu Panda 4,

which will be out just in time for the school holiday. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Rebel Wilson, Australian actor, comedian, been in movies such as Pitch Perfect and many others. She's very funny. And the Fiji Tourism ads. She was in those, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right.

She's got a memoir coming out called Rebel Rising. Good name for a book. Yeah, April 2nd, I think. So she teased that there was tea about a celebrity in one of the chapters. And I don't know what happens, but the person involved, the actor that she was talking about, got the lawyers, the PR people in to threaten her. To try and stop it being released, right?

That part of the book. Do they have to go to this person and say you're in the book and whatnot? I assume so. I have never written a book and I've never written a defamatory chapter about any celebrity, but I assume that you would need to alert them that they were going to feature in a book. So, yeah, I guess that's what's happened here. Legally.

And so she has come out and said i will not be bullied or silenced by high-priced lawyers or pr crisis managers the arsehole that i'm talking about in one chapter of my book is sasha baron cohen oh wow so she's named him so which really like borat borat yeah leg really wow what's happened because they were in a movie together right the brothers grimsby is the movie that they were in together, and she said he was a bully, amongst other things. She's given a very detailed account of one time when he wanted to add something into the script.

He thought it would be funny if she put her finger in one of his orifices. Okay. It's pretty funny. It's pretty funny. It's pretty funny. She was like, that's not in the script. No, if you don't want to do that. No. And she didn't.

Obviously, he's refuted these claims as well, right? So there's more. We need to balance it out with that as well. Yeah. So she goes into detail about it, how he got her into a room and he keeps saying, you should do this, you should do this. Trying to get her to go naked or something,

she's claiming as well too for a scene. And that a lot of the guys on set got out their phones and were laughing and trying to film it. So I imagine there's going to be more in the book. But yes, Sacha Baron Cohen has said, while we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous

or something documents. Nailed it. No one knows what that means anyway. No, this statement has like massive words in it to just try and confuse you. Film footage and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby. So he's denying the claims,

but it sounds like the details are going to come out in the book regardless. Yeah, we'll find out. Just so you know, Megan, Ben and myself, we've got some pretty heavy lawyers and some crisis PR team people on our side. So don't you be writing any defamatory chapters. No, I did say to Ben, I was like, you know, I'll do a lot for a radio skit, but I don't think I'll be doing that. We won't even feature in your book.

Yeah. We won't even feature. Oh, you mean the other thing? The finger in the... Yeah, it's not very nice. Okay, before... That was beautiful. That was stunning.

Can we please chop that bit of audio up? No, that's not. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We've got our Dilma teaser. The Riddler. With The Riddler, producer Taylor likes to test us with a riddle each week. If you can be the first to answer it on 0800THEHITS, you'll win our weekly teaser prize pack, $100 cash,

and a Dilma hot and cold prize pack as well. So thanks very much for Dilma for supporting this. Do try it. I'm not going to be negative today. I'm going to be positive about it. Thank you. I appreciate that. We all get it.

We'll put our hands up. We all get a bit unnecessarily angry when we find out the answer. Last week was a really good one. I think we were all quite impressed with that one. So let's see what today's riddle is. Okay. A man is looking at someone else's photograph. His friend asks him who the person in the photograph is.

The man replies, Brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father is my father's son. Tell us who it is in the photograph. She's done too many details again. You're going to have to relay. Relay and slow. Yeah, because then

we focus on something else that's not correct. We've done this before. Distraction. Already people calling through.

Yeah. A man is looking at someone else's photograph. He's trying to ask him, hey, who's that person in the photograph?

The man replies, brothers and sisters, I have none, but that man's father is my father's son Shut up, mate. Shut up, you doctor's. That's why no one hangs out with you. Brothers and sisters, I have none. That man's father is my father's son. Well, that would be like a stepbrother.

He's his father. It's hurting my brain. It's too early in the morning. It's him. It's him. It's not. It's not him. Okay, let's go to the phones. Look at the phone lines lighting up. We's go to the phones. There's lots.

Look at the phone lines lighting up. We'll go to Brett. We'll go to Brett in Taranaki this morning. How are you, Brett? All right? Yeah, not too bad. Oh, you know the answer to this, obviously. Yeah, my son. Correct.

It's his son. See how easy that was? Yeah, he could have just gone, that's my son. But he said, okay, so brothers and sisters, that man's father is my father's son. Is my father. I don't know. Oh, that man's father is my father's son.

Don't get angry. Don't get angry. I need some ancestry.com to work this one out. Well done, Brett. Have you heard that one before? You're just really smart. No, I've heard that one before. You could have lied,

and we would have respected you a lot more, Brett. You got $100 and a Dilmar hot and cold tea pack. Congratulations. Okay, cheers, guys. Have a great weekend in New Plymouth. Well, that was the Riddler and the Dilmar teaser for another week. Well done, Taylor. Thank you.

The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We want you to be the hero, Paramas. Jono and Ben's mascot race. We did this last year, and it's becoming an annual thing. We're going to do it again. Halftime at the Warriors, we get some of this country's best mascots to race against our mascot, the Hits, hit-o-potamus, the hippo costume. And we'll see who's the fastest.

The race has doubled in length, and 20 mascots have signed up this Sunday. I was just looking at the line up at the moment Pretty cool, we've got the Polar Bear Big Al From Snow Planet We've got Oscar the Cat from Purina We've got Roly from Purex Goldie the Kiwi from the New Zealand Olympics I love with mascots too

We have a name and then we stipulate What animal they are Goldie the Kiwi Oscar the Cat. Three Lots of Fruit. Penelope Pineapple. Yeah, that's a hard one. Peter Piper Picno.

Polly Pawpaw and Bobby Banana, all from Dolls as well. Bobby Banana! Yeah, there's 20 mascots taking part, and our mascot is as well. Last year we won it, and we felt a little bad because we put a former warrior in the mascot costume. Yeah, so we had a very unfair advantage, let's be honest. So you wanted to even the playing field. Well, I just feel like we're doing it again. We can't just turn up every year and go, here, race us.

I was happy to blitz the field again, but you wanted to even it up. So you wanted to bestow the ultimate honour upon any Hits listener, getting them to don the Hittopotamus mascot costume. To be honest, honest don't know what the cleaning schedule of the costume has been over the last 12 months

since the last race I know a lot of sweaty young promotional bodies have been inside the zip's broken at the back too which needs to

I keep going it needs to get fixed before and they're like yeah we'll try I'm like okay we'll see over the weekend

because it's quite gaping at the back but anyway there's a big gaping hole we'll sew you into it we did some filming with it yesterday at Go Media Stadium the whole time I think it's quite gaping at the back. But anyway, we'll sew you into it. We did some filming with it yesterday at Go Media Stadium. The whole time, Ben, I think it's six to ten times.

Make sure we get that zip fixed. Let's get Claire on because thank you so much for all putting your names forward to run in the Hidipotamus costume. But Claire! Good morning! We have pulled your name out of the mascot head and you're doing it.

Yeah, you're doing it. Oh, I'm stoked. It's going to be so much fun. As a former mascot from back in the day, I'm going to love it. It's going to be brilliant. Just a quick recap of your mascot credentials too there, Claire. Yeah, so I used to work at Rainbow's End quite a few years ago now.

So I used to jump in the old Ray and Bo, the big inflatable ones, and do all the other mascots as well. And it used to be so much fun. Were you Ray or Bo? I was one or the other. We alternated. We alternated. But it was really fun.

I used to love getting into character. So I'm definitely going to love this. And my kids are actually fully stoked for me. They're real stoked that I'm doing it. Well, they're big league fans too, I remember you saying last week. Yeah, one of my boys started playing league when he was three and a half, so he's been a big league fan, and they're really excited for the league.

And their mum, take the field. You also get a signed Warriors top as well, signed by the team this year. So that's pretty cool for your kids. Yeah. I don't know who's going to get to wear that out of all of us, but I'm sure I will take that. It'll be good. It'll be awesome.

Just be careful because Ben once got his underpants signed by Dan Carter and then his mum put them in the wash with Nappy Sand. Jenny washed them. Yeah, she's like, I've got to rid of the stain, whatever it has, the ink. And I was like, oh, mum. Dang hard to sign, mate. And he signed them when he was wearing them too. Yeah, I should say the same.

Got rid of the stains. Made it even hotter. Well, Claire, you've got to stretch up the hamstrings, raise the calf strings and limber up the limb strings, my friend. Sunday, Easter Sunday, you are in the Hidipotamus taking on 19 other mascots in the halftime mascot race. I'm stoked. Thank you so much for choosing me. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast.

Last night was the first eclipse of the year, apparently. You call it like a worm moon or something? Yeah, worm moon. What does that mean? I don't know. It was an eclipse for a real short minute. Yeah, but yeah, they love them. But I always feel like I read about them the day after.

Yeah, you're like... Oh, last night? Oh, well, I couldn't see that. Would you have actually, like, gone outside and looked at it? No, probably not, to be honest. Probably not. If I was driving somewhere or, you know, outside and I would have gone, oh, there it is, but I wouldn't have made an effort to go out to see it.

I do appreciate people who take photos of their cell phones. And they never look good. No, never. It's like fireworks. You can never take a good photo of fireworks. No. Or a digital billboard. Yeah. Try No. No. Or a digital billboard. Yeah.

Try and take a photo of a digital billboard. Yeah. Try and do it today. You won't be able to do it. Now, I did something yesterday that I hadn't done in many, many years. I said 21 years, but I may have overshot the mark with that. When was the last time you took a drive back through your old neighbourhood? Oh, it's been a while.

Been a while. I tell you what, I did it yesterday only because my son was at basketball training near where I grew up. And I thought, you know what? Going to go down memory lane. Oh, nice. Oh, did you do that thing where you like narrated it for him? Did you do it with him or not? Because this is the thing.

On the way there, on the way to drop him at basketball, I was like, oh, had a mate who lived there. Mate lived there. Oh, we used to hang out there grew up just down the road there and I could tell it was just washing over him because your memories are not their memories. No, no Don't take people on a trip down memory lane, they don't care

I think we were doing the $20 Karen tour or something, we drove through Masterton, because I don't go to Masterton much these days where I grow up and we were driving driving through we didn't detour or anything just passed that i went to jono and ben humphries who was our producer at the time but she spent also oh there's a school where you used to live and they just went oh yeah i was like okay cool yeah yeah i don't know we were mildly interested it was kind of a oh yeah a situation it's just a building yeah yeah so that's where we lived.

Yeah, I grew up and lived there. But anyway. Then I ended up driving around like taking photos of my friends' old houses and sending them to them and going, memories. And they'd send back good memories. It's not creepy at all for the people living in the house now? What was it inside the property? I'm wondering why you're slowly driving past taking photos.

Imagine if you were at your house right now and someone was crawling past your house in a car taking photos. You'd be like, what's this guy doing? What's anybody doing? I had my face pressed against the lounge window. The rat slider just snapping pics, breathing on it. Good memories. Good memories.

But then we just kept saying memories back and forth, which made me believe none of us can remember what those memories were. Not all good memories, to be honest. A couple of arrests, crashed cars. Good Lord. How are we still here? But no, that would be my suggestion to you, is if you get the chance, go for it by yourself.

Yeah, by yourself. Down memory lane. It's great. And then you're going, where has life gone? You know? Flies, mate. Twenties disappear then all of a sudden you're a 40-year-old man talking about taking a trip down memory lane, Megan. Yeah.

I don't know what you want me to say. You're nearly 40, mate. Nearly 40. 12 months. Thank you. The John O'Wen Ben Podcast. The weather looking not the greatest around the country for the long Easter weekend. As we said earlier, there's an Easter Tuesday that parents, if I was blindsided by it, John O's been blindsided as well, that the kids get Tuesday off.

I still maintain we need to ask our boss if we can have Easter Tuesday. It seems to be a thing. It's a thing for kids. I don't think anyone's ever heard of Easter Tuesday. It's great to extend out Easter another day, though. Like I said, the miracle of old mate disappearing and turning back up on the Monday. He didn't

disappear. We knew where he was. But then he came back to life. They looked for him and he was gone. It was like a bloody dynamo magician. Anyway, I think if that had happened, we'd all be like, hey, well let's take a day off to just process what's happened here.

Mental health day. Mando, our boss, says Easter Tuesday is fake news. Thanks, Mando. We'll tell that to the New Zealand Education System. Yeah, the teachers have put that one through, so there you go. Well done to them. I need to talk about, just I'll preface this by saying I am being supportive. I spent two hours yesterday afternoon meal prepping for my husband.

He has decided, he's always gymmed, but he's decided to take on like a full-on gym program where it goes like six days a week, and he now needs to measure out everything that he eats. Oh, so he's getting them gains, is he? Yeah. I mean, great for him. Great for him. But I would definitely draw the line at cooking for two hours.

So this is the thing. He doesn't have time to do it himself. Mate, you need to go buy those packaged meal things. Marcello, doesn't he have those? Producer Taylor's husband? Gets the packaged meals. Packaged already made. Well, while Andrew's getting gains,

you've gained a whole bunch of meals you get to make. Because he's got no time. He's working. He has no time to prep them. So that lovely chore falls upon me. So, yeah, I spent two hours. The thing is, some nights, because I have a three-year-old and a one-year-old, we know how picky they are, some nights I'll end up cooking four different meals or I'll cook three different meals and I have the dregs of whatever's left over.

He's like, what are you having? I'm like, I don't know, whatever everyone else doesn't eat. You are a machine. Thank you.

Not much of a machine as Andrew though because he's looking magnificent. I look at him, I feel guilty about my life decisions. Is that what it takes? You've got to have

a strict diet and... I'm like weighing rice and weighing chicken and chickpeas and like, oh, honestly it's just the worst. I don't have that sort of discipline in my life to do that. Neither does he, I do it. Yeah, yeah.

I'm just happy with my Joe Biden body and I'll live this out for the rest of my days, you know, just slightly saggy, bit off, but hey, it's me. You have a faster gate than joe biden though you walk a bit faster it's a big hobby though it's a big hobby that's impeding on the household it is 100 i imagine there's a lot of people around listening right now that their partners hobbies really got carried away or maybe even when you're living you know with living with

your parents your parents they sometimes they get into crazy hobbies, right? Yeah. I can, why do I just think of like, you know, train enthusiasts, like model trains. They're like take over the whole, is it? We visited someone just in the Wairarapa and that, yeah,

he'd, he'd let, wow. Yeah. Yeah. He, we, the lovely sweet couple who sort of diversified and honey,

honey was the business and also a train. Yeah. So she sort of did the Honey and he did the train. And both of them just really loved their hobbies. They did. It was quite impressive, the setup. He had an entire shed full of trains. A whole city of trains.

That's good it's in the shed, though. John, I kept going, can I touch these? No. Can I? No. I just wanted to touch these. And then I could see it was pushing his button, so I just kept asking it.

Can I touch that? No, no, no. He worked really hard on that. It looked impressive. It was impeccable. What's the point if he can't play with it? Well, he was playing with it. I just wanted to poke and prod things.

The hobby that your partner's into that they love, but maybe you're starting to go, well, let's take it over our life quite a bit i'm much like my costumes in the garage uh you know i got into collecting costumes from tv shows and various things over the years we've done and my wife has never been able to park her car in the garage sounds like there's like hundreds it's very messy down there and i keep going i need to tidy it up but it's kind of out of sight out of mind but the other day she went and got some costumes for something and i was like oh well you're down there it needs a bit of a cleaner last person's

down there gotta clean it up she's like don't you put this on me how would you organize them into categories if you were to like how would you in your ideal word how would your hundreds of costumes be arranged oh it would be nice to put it you'd have your animal animal ones the sporting ones you'd have all sorts of how many costumes do you you have? There's lots, but they're all in those sort of big boxes. Like hundreds? Maybe hundreds. Oh, there would have been. At one stage, yes,

but I have kind of tried to downsize over the years. And your Funko Pop toy collection as well? Yeah, I could let that get away with me, but I'm just sort of holding back on that one. What about Disney? You're a Disney fan. Okay, all right. Enough about me.

It's about other people right now. He's reliving his youth. He's like our less little problematic Michael Jackson. Yeah. We love him. We love him. He comes without the scandal. Yeah.

All right. Hayley, welcome. Welcome. Thanks. Welcome. Welcome to you. Welcome to you, Ben, Megan. Welcome to everybody.

Now, Hayley, this is your dad that's got a hobby that's taken over his life. What is it? It's motorbikes. Oh, okay. Motorbikes. So a hobby that's taken over his life. What is it? It's motorbikes. Oh, okay, motorbikes. So what is he riding them, buying them? What's happening? All of the above. Okay.

You can only ride one bike at a time. How many does he need? Well, in theory, you only ride one at a time, but quite often he'll have, I don't know, I think most he's had maybe five. Yeah, he's had maybe five. Yeah, he's got a container. He's got a container? It's a sort of it.

Okay, is this a secret container? Does the rest of the family know about this? Yeah, it's all out in the open now. Yeah, right. How long did he keep his motorbike hobby hidden? Or contained? I think he always kept one at home, but in the past he used to stash one in a friend's house. I'd just go to Auckland and do something

and then secretly come back with a motorbike. It's a tough one to keep hidden, too. It'd be easier to keep an affair hidden. Yeah, they're quite noisy, aren't they, your motorbike? I'm just trying to hide my online shopping. Like little parcels. He's got a full motorbike. lord did it cause arguments um yeah there's a little bit of tension yeah a little bit between your mom and you how much are you gonna spend on it would you

hate to guess uh i'd i'd hate to guess yeah well i'm glad we could reopen that wound for them this morning it's probably not as bad as the time he got a tattoo and then tell her and took it six Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we could reopen that wound for them this morning. It's probably not as bad as the time he got a tattoo in an Intelli and took him six months to find out. Oh, six months. Dare I ask where it was? He fell on the back of his shoulder blade. Oh, right. Why did it take six months to find out?

I don't know. Was the tattoo of a motorbike or was it something else? No, it was an eagle. Oh, I love it. Love an eagle. Hey, well, that's fantastic. Well, you go and have a great day and thank you so much for sharing. Yeah, no worries.

Thanks, Hayley. Megan, great text on 4487. Someone said hunting. My God, the build-up to it. Packing, getting food sorted, then they bugger off for days on end. Obviously can't communicate. Then they come home, you've got to unpack, wash all the cooking stuff, all the clothes, and then before you know it, they're bloody off again. Just go to the bloody supermarket.

Get a steak from the supermarket. Much easier. Lisa, the hobby that's taken over your household. What is it, mate? Lisa? Oh, hi, sorry. Hi, that's right. My husband actually went to a friend's house,

and his friend showed him his brew kit that he has. So then my husband decided, because he's never really had a hobby, I'm going to get one of those. So six months to a year now we've had it. We have lots of kegs that sit empty on the side of the fridge. We have a lot of alcohol in the fridge in the kegs because we have one, two, three kegs in a little fridge. We have the one that's brewing at the same time. And now I've decided

I need to lose weight because I've drunk too much. He's feeding you cider and beer lying around in kegs. So every night I'll get home and he goes, Oh, do you want a drink? Do you want a drink? No, no, I'm trying to be good.

So I'll have a drink. And he goes, you sure you don't want a beer? Oh, okay, then I'll have one with you. And I've just decided, yeah, no, we're just doing too much. Yeah, he's added kegs on multiple levels. Thank you so much. Yeah, he does. So he's trying to get rid of them.

I said, yeah, you've got too many sitting around. We need to get rid of those. Yeah, well, you have a great day and enjoy a drink this morning. All right, Lisa? Yeah, you've got too many sitting around. We need to get rid of those. Yeah, well, you have a great day, and enjoy a drink this morning. All right, Lisa? Yeah, thank you. It's a busy, busy bit of time. A lot of people, you know, running around, particularly parents with kids and all sorts of stuff.

So busy we're going to have Easter Tuesday. Yeah, that's what we're pushing for, Easter Tuesday. The kids get Easter Tuesday off. But I'm kind of at this stage because my wife, you know, working full time, I'm working, you know, with the kids and all sorts of stuff. We have conversations where I'm like, I'm pretty sure I told you that. And she's like, I'm pretty sure you didn't.

And she hears things from other people. Like yesterday, she was like, you didn't tell me you were doing 24 hours of handball. I'm like, well, firstly we've been talking about it for weeks on the radio show. She obviously doesn't listen. Like if she wants to keep up to date with extracurricular activities, listen to the radio show. And I feel like that was quite a big thing.

I was like, I'm pretty sure I mentioned that, but she's like, I'm pretty sure you did it. She's like, I had to hear it from another teacher at school going, oh, your husband's doing 24 hours a handball to raise money. We're doing it for a couple of weeks. Does she not listen to us in the morning? Well, she does, but pockets. So, you know, like she doesn't just get up at six until nine. What do you mean?

Were you like, yeah, I'm only doing 24 hours of handball, God's work, raising money for the kids out there in the trenches. And she hasn't digested this information. But to be fair, you do a lot of 24 hour things where you're away. Does she get annoyed?

It's kind of the worn off you know the novelty of you know those I mean she's obviously great that we're doing it for a great cause because sometimes we've done these things

for no cause so I was like why are you doing this just shameless publicity why do you always want to be away from me for 24 hours does she know about

our 12 month sabbatical on the deep sea fishing vessel no I haven't told her about that one or if I have I think I have but you have that

conversation we're like pretty sure I've told you she's like pretty. I haven't done that. Or if I have, I think I have. But you have that conversation where you're like, pretty sure I've told you. She's like, pretty sure you haven't. And then what are you doing? Because it's not like, do you record every conversation? I have those all the time. We're like, you didn't tell me about this. I did.

No, we didn't. All the time. What you do is you say, your wife is probably right. You probably didn't tell her. I feel like I did. But anyway. Who wins in that side? I haven't told her where Hot John's coming up. That's going to be a big surprise for her. It's like I did. But anyway. Who wins in that style? I haven't told her where Hot John's coming

up. That's the big surprise for us. It's like the who's more tired combo. No one's got any scientific proof to prove it. No, you're right. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. It's a short week and next week we're rolling around pretty quickly. We're going to be playing the schoolyard game of handball or four

square, depending on what you called it when you were at school. we're going to be playing that for 24 hours uh to raise money for kids can a wonderful organization that help out so many kiwi kids who really need a little help right now with things like breakfast at school some food some clothing jackets especially getting into winter as well yeah so we really need people to help us out if you can right now go to kidscanball.org.nz, kidscanball.org.nz, and just give something. It can be as little as $5 or anything else you can give.

It would really help and make a big difference to a lot of Kiwi kids. I'm a little bit anxious being voiced about us setting a figure of 350 grand. Yeah, someone set that figure. Yeah. And you're like, how are we going to get to that figure? Well, you look like you failed in your attempt to do it. No, you'll never fail because you've raised money for kids who need it. Regardless.

But we obviously set a figure that's going to make a huge amount of money. Because someone wanted you to look like you'd failed. That's why we set a figure. Yeah, so I really hope that people can get to kidscampbell.org.nz. What's that address? Yeah, I just keep telling it. I keep saying it. Head there.

I refresh it quite a lot during the day. And he mentioned 30 minutes ago his wife didn't even know he was doing this as well. Yeah. So it doesn't bode well for our $350,000 there, Ben. Now, going back to hanging out with school kids, a little bit of PTSD, schoolyard nicknames. We all had them. Although you said you didn't have one, Megan.

No, I don't think I did. Megan. It doesn't, like, rhyme with anything. You see, like, a low-hanging fruit for kids is just the rhyming situation. I was pee pants prior. Now, you can connect your dots on that one. Well, you probably peed your pants though, right? You've connected the dots.

Okay. It was an unfortunate urine-based incident. And it lived with me. And that was when I was 18 years old. And I wrote it out through my university years. But no, the other one was prior to the crier. I remember we'd go on the bus to school

and they'd be like, you're going to cry, you're going to cry. Probably made you want to cry, wouldn't it? Yeah, and inevitably they had some wind. Yeah.

It's just, yeah, Ben Hen, Ben Hen. Oh, I feel like there's lots that can rhyme with Ben. Boyce and Berry as well. I like Boyce and Berry. That's cute. Yeah.

But it wasn't, yeah, lots of rhyming with Ben. Your dream is to team up with one New Zealand warrior, Rocco Berry, because he's from the Wairarapa too, and you both retire. Boyce and Berry. Boyce and Berry. Yeah, that's great. He liked it. And have a Boystonberry Orchard

Yeah exactly It's a great dream Now Taylor Montoya Before you were Montoya You were knee Lombardi

Lombardi As Lombardi So yeah in the School grounds I'm four years Younger than my Brother So he was

Getting bullied On the school Grounds And they'll call Him Lombardi Lombardi And I said Pushed him I pushed my own brother

and said, stand up for yourself. You know, they're going hard at us. Were you even kicking off back then? Yeah, yeah. And I stepped in and stepped the bullies out. Did you? I did. You took some names.

Yep, yep. Lomfati's kind of funny though, isn't it? Mate, prior to cry, shut up. Pee your pants prior. I think I just did a little bit then when she was staring me down in the eyes. So this is what we want. You know, it's a fine line between a schoolyard nickname and bullying, isn't it? Yeah, it is.

I mean, it's creative. If you feel comfortable sharing it, then you can share it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. Next week, we're raising money for Kids Can to help out a whole lot of Kiwi kids. One in six Kiwi kids need help right now. And I know it's tough times, but if you can give something, just as little as a couple of dollars, head to kidscanball.org.nz.

And it's just reminded us of our schoolyard nicknames. And we'd love to hear yours this morning, 0800 the hits 4487 is the text number. We're going to get Holly on. Hello, Holly. Your schoolyard nickname. Does it bring back This morning, 0800-THE-HITS-4487 is the text number. We're going to get Holly on. Hello. Hello, Holly.

Your schoolyard nickname. Does it bring back any trauma? Are we triggering anything here? Jolly Holly. It did. Yes, it did. It was Bulldozer. Oh, Bulldozer.

Okay. It wasn't a very kind name, but the person who would say it to me, eventually I got so sick of it, I'm like, this dude had lots of freckles on his face so I said, shut up fly poo face but in a mean way, and he stopped it was great. Oh, you clapped back

I didn't want to be mean, but you know he was being mean to me, so I just had to stand up for myself, and it worked. What's the right thing to do there? I'm all good with that, if it's mean to me, so I just had to stand up for myself. And it worked. What's the right thing to do there? Because I'm all good with that. If it's going to shut him up, he deserves it. Anyway, yeah, the whole thing is just be nice.

Just be nice to people. No, but she was being nice, and it didn't work. He was being a dick. What if someone was bullying Bastion, your little boy? Would you go and grab some? We know that's happened before because I was in a playground. I gave them a stern word. That's right.

Yeah, you went in and had a quiet word, didn't you? Yeah. Hold me back. Kicked them in the shins. Whisper threat. We know it's looking. Yeah. Holly, you go and have a wonderful day.

And bulldozer, once you left school, it left? Pardon? You retired bulldozer as soon as you left school? Oh, yes, yes. The bulldozer was no longer in running. Good on you, Holly. Appreciate it. Shelley, you're on.

Your traumatic schoolyard nickname. Hi, guys. Both. Two. I had two at high school, chicken legs and stick legs. They really pick on anything, eh? I had very skinny legs, and to be honest, mostly it was the boys. Yeah, classic.

But I do feel deep down that it was a bit of an affectionate nickname. Oh, that's good. But yeah, I ended up having the last laugh because I actually these stick legs or chicken legs took me to a New Zealand secondary

school's 400 metres record. So I hit the mass mark on those guys. Record breaking legs. Hot legs. I had a kid call me Wednesday legs because Wednesday going to snap off. That's so creative. Because mine are so skinny. I don't get what Wednesday was at first.

I was like, it's not even Wednesday. But yeah, it's a nice long runway to that one. Can we teach our boys too, there's a better way to flirt with a girl when you like them. It's just to be nice rather than... Pull their hair and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. It feels like a lot of nicknames too. You just sort of zero in on something that someone might be self-conscious about and then make a nickname out of that.

Yeah. It's almost like building an entire career of making fun out of someone who's lost their hair. Who would do that? Who would do that? Who would do that? I didn't feel self-conscious. I didn't feel self-conscious. It didn't make me feel bad. Like I say, I think it was a bit of an affectionate nickname,

so it was all good. Well, those legs took your places. Karen, appreciate it. Sorry, Shelley, appreciate it. Karen, you're on. Your nickname at school? Hi. My nickname was Yogi.

Yogi? Oh, Yogi. Isn't like Yogi Bear. No. Yoga? Short for yogurt because I used to eat, what were they called? Dairy milk chocolate yogurt every day. Oh, so they were like, we'll call you Yogi.

I feel like everyone had a bottle of yogurt in their lunch though, right? Yeah, but I'd have like two. You're like, I did love my yoghurt. I lived up to that nickname. I still like the yoghurt. We'll still call you yoghurt then, Karen. It obviously works well. We had a friend called Savloy, didn't we?

Oh, yes. They really like Savloys. Yeah, they do. We used to have Savloys, didn't we? Oh, yeah. They really like Savloys. Yeah, they do. She used to have Savloys for lunch and then that was, yeah. As a kid, yeah, you feel like, oh, I feel sorry for a lot of people. No one wants to be named after a sausage. No. It's usually like a cheap meat.

Thank you for sharing this morning. Appreciate it. The Hits, the Jono and Ben podcast. We've been watching it at home. My son's obsessed with, he just likes Out of the Woods. Oh, yeah, yeah. He just is like, Taylor Woods all the time. That's good.

It's an amazing, amazing concert. Yeah. You're not Out of the Woods with that song. You're deep in the woods. Yeah, over and over and over again. And being scammed. Yeah, so this is a scam that I didn't know about. You guys haven't heard about it either.

But it's happened to a lot of people, so much so that now prezi cards and other gift cards are being put behind the counter at uh shops so you could go along to like the supermarket and there were shelves of them right but then you had to take them up to activate them on the way out right yeah so here was the scam um apparently they were putting uh fake barcodes over top of the barcodes. So like a little sticker that you wouldn't even notice. So when you scan it at the checkout, the money comes off the Prezi card or whatever card it is

and goes to the scammers. And your card, instead of activating it, is now worthless. So you think you've activated it, but you've activated it to someone else. Bloody genius. That's quite clever. Bloody genius. Well done. The scammers, they deserve it.

Well done on that one. Yeah, I mean, you don't want to give credit to the scammers, they deserve a well done on that one. I don't want to give credit to the scammers, but that's quite smart. That's a good one, yeah. If you were going to shops and trying to use your card and they were telling you there was nothing on it, that's what has happened. And it happened to so many people. Do you know about a ring, a car

thieving ring? And this was genius as well. So simple. They just had a tow truck so they go around tow cars in clear daylight and steal them because no one ever looks twice at a tow truck with a car on the back and the alarms go yeah true hand it to them as well well done that's a win to the scammers on that one i tried to buy a gift card from a place the other day and they're like we're not even doing them anymore we've had so many problems with that it's all online and then because then yet people get them stolen and then we don't have the record you know it's all that stuff that comes into it as well so yeah

because they were behind the counter at countdown and they said recently they had to get rid of all of their gift cards because they found that heaps of them had the stickers on the back of them who's not looking at someone who's standing in the shop putting stickers on the back of gift cards I guess there's so much going on in the supermarket You'd be like, look at this People are going to look at this Yeah, you're probably looking at this gift card

Or this gift card You look at 12 different of the same gift card Stay there for an hour That takes a level of performance You have to pull off a convincing performance I got a scam last night, scam email I'm Kobing Seng from Bank of China. Have a deal.

$65.5 million. I'm ready to share 50-50 of this with you. So that's a good split. 32.5. He's been very open about it. He's like, however, I have some bad news for you. Your grandson's been arrested in Mexico

on drugs charges. Oh, and you've got a grandson. Wow. A lot to download. A lot to download. So he's like, if you deposit some money, I can help out your grandson, then we'll help out.

Then for some reason he's so generous. He'll give you all the money. But you're like, hey, you've got money. Why don't you back roll this thing to start off with? But then he's freeing my grandson as well. Yeah, perfect.